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Engage with leaders in your industry or specialist field.
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Know what's happening now in your network.
Use tools such as Twitter to get instant updates on business news and events. Remember to Tweet while at networking events, conferences or tradeshows using the relevant #hashtag to raise your profile with those businesses.
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Join relevant industry or specialism groups on LinkedIn or Communities on Google+ to connect with industry leaders and keep updated with business news. This is also a great please to find job opportunities.
Research your interviewer before the meeting.
Check all of their profiles to see work history, associated groups and interests; use this info to make a personal connection and strong impression in your interview.

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Corona Centennial, ranked No. 3 by The Times, received strong games from Sedrick Barefield and Deontae North to defeat No. 2 Redondo, 67-60, on Saturday at the Nike Extravaganza at Mater Dei.
With the score tied, 57-57, Barefield made a jump shot with 1:14 left, and the Huskies (19-2) pulled away after that. Barfield finished with 17 points and North had 19 points and 10 rebounds.
"Sedrick made a big shot, and we got a stop and fast-break basket after that," Coach Josh Giles said. "It was obviously the key, crucial part of the game."
Ian Fox had 17 points and Leland Green added 14 for Redondo (18-4).
"They wanted it more," Redondo Coach Reggie Morris Jr. said.
In the first game of the day, Los Alamitos defeated Colony, 57-42. Eyassu Worku had 16 points and Jack Kaub contributed 14 points and 14 rebounds. Derrick Bruce scored 17 for Colony.
Gardena Serra continued its dominating play, defeating Upland, 81-50. Tavrion Dawson made eight of 11 shots and finished with 21 points. It was Serra's ninth consecutive victory.
Alemany rallied for a 54-52 overtime win against Fairfax. Sophomore Daron Henson made three consecutive three-pointers in the fourth quarter for the Warriors and finished with 16 points. Brandon Boyd also had 16 points. Sage Woodruff had 11 points and Lorne Currie and Pierson Ro added 10 apiece for Fairfax.
"Once the first one went in, it gave me confidence," Henson said.
Orange Lutheran defeated Foothill, 60-54. Rogers Printup had 17 points and junior football standout Keisean Lucier-South had 14 points and 14 rebounds.
Bishop Gorman defeated JSerra, 68-53. Johnnie Vassar had 21 points for JSerra. Chase Jeter led Bishop Gorman with 19 points and 11 rebounds. Noah Robotham had 17.


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Japan Goes From Dynamic to Disheartened
Updated on Sunday, October 17, 2010 at 4:28PM by Fernando Arias
OSAKA, Japan — Like many members of Japan's middle class, Masato Y. enjoyed a level of affluence two decades ago that was the envy of the world. Masato, a small-business owner, bought a $500,000 condominium, vacationed in Hawaii and drove a late-model Mercedes.
But his living standards slowly crumbled along with Japan's overall economy. First, he was forced to reduce trips abroad and then eliminate them. Then he traded the Mercedes for a cheaper domestic model. Last year, he sold his condo — for a third of what he paid for it, and for less than what he still owed on the mortgage he took out 17 years ago.


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Woodstock. Coachella. The Good Life Festival! Festival season is officially upon us with music and culture fans coming out of the woodwork to buy up tickets. The Good Life festival was founded in 2011 as a way for residents of San Tan Valley to relax and enjoy music from across the country.
In its sixth year, the festival has grown to service 5,000 fans with food, music and wine tastings. This year, events will feature performances from two pop music powerhouses, Heart and The Band Perry.
Founded in 1974 by sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, Heart has over three decades experience serving up hard rock anthems like "Barracuda" and somber ballads like "What About Love". The band was inducted to the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 and showed that women can truly rock!
The sisters will be performing on April 16th, 2016! Buy your tickets today.
The Band Perry
Siblings appears to be the theme of this year's events with The Band Perry performing in March! The Band Perry is comprised of siblings Kim, Reid and Neil Perry from Mobile, Alabama. The Band Perry has seen great success of the last couple of years for their unique brand of country inspired pop.
The Band Perry will be performing on March 5th at the Encanterra Country Club in San Tan Valley.
More than a Music Festival
In addition to the marquee artists, the Good Life Festival provides a different experience from your standard music festival fare. At the Good Life Festival, attendants aren't resigned to drinking a $9 Coors Light. The Good Life Festival offers a wide variety of craft brews and wines from America's best vineyards.
You're going to need some food to go with that wine! Luckily, GLF features a stable of Arizona's top chefs serving gourmet dishes and teaching you how to do it at home!
Additionally, GLF is an excellent place to get some shopping done, with local vendors peddling their wares. Whether you are looking for a funky new piece of jewelry or some vintage antiques you can find it all in San Tan Valley.


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Hundreds of people are expected to take part tomorrow in a public protest over plans to introduce car parking charges in Steyning.
Residents will be out in force in the High Street at 2.30pm demonstrating against the proposals put forward by Horsham District Council.
Resident Sheree Grindell said: "The thing that makes Steyning such a special place is its community spirit. We would rather pay a little bit more to make sure we continue to have a High Street full of independent shops than see them close because people don't want to pay for parking."
Horsham Council says it can no longer afford to offer free parking in the rural towns. But Steyning Parish Council says it could keep parking free by raising additional funds via a 'small increase' in parish council tax.
Nick Hempleman, owner of The Sussex Produce Company, said: "Free parking is absolutely vital in a small town like Steyning. Without it you will see more businesses close - we've just lost our two bank branches - and once businesses start to close, more follow. You see that in high streets across the country."


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English: Milk
tamil: Paal
malayalam: Paal
kannada: Hallu
hindi: Doodh
Gujarati: Dudh
Konkani: Doodh
Marathi: Doodh
for more details, click the name of the ingredient
English: Cornflour
tamil: Chola Maavu / Makka Cholam
malayalam: Cholapodi
telugu: Mokkajonnalu Pindi
kannada: Musukinajolada Hittu
hindi: Makai Ka Atta
Bengali: Bhoottar Maida
Gujarati: Makai No Lot
Marathi: Makai Chi Peet
Oriya: Makka Atta / Makaa Chunaa / Makaa Gunda
Punjabi: Makai Ka Atta
English: Salt
tamil: Uppu
malayalam: Uppu
telugu: Uppu
kannada: Uppu
hindi: Namak
Bengali: Laban / Noone
Gujarati: Meethu
Konkani: Meet
Marathi: Mith
English: oil
tamil: Ennai
malayalam: enna
telugu: camuru
kannada: taila
hindi: tela
Punjabi: moyen
English: Water
tamil: Thanner
malayalam: vellam
telugu: niru
kannada: niru
hindi: paani
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Confucius Institute at the Ateneo de Manila University Teaches Chinese Culture on Philippine Television
The Philippines has always had a dynamic and thriving Chinese-Filipino community, and their presence and friendship with fellow Filipinos have contributed significantly to the economic and cultural development of the nation. A way of showcasing these positive contributions to society is through a unique television program called Chinoy TV.
Chinoy is a combination of the words Chinese and "Pinoy" a popular nickname Filipinos call themselves. Chinese-Filipinos call themselves Chinoys as a way to express that they are both comfortable and proud of being Filipinos with a rich Chinese heritage.
Since 2011, Chinoy TV has been featuring personalities, events, leisure, fashion, food, and sports that highlight the many colorful aspects of Chinese-Filipino lifestyle. This 60-minute magazine program, which airs every Sunday at 10:30am and re-airs Tuesdays at 11:00pm and Saturdays 10:30am on Net 25, also features short Mandarin language lessons and Chinese cultural segments to provide viewers a richer understanding of Chinese life.
And who is behind these cultural segments show every Sunday morning? The Confucius Institute at the Ateneo de Manila University of course!
Chinoy TV has been shooting its cultural segments at The Confucius Institute at the Ateneo de Manila University headquarters at Makati City, where it features the various culture courses the Institute. Every week, Mainland Chinese teachers from the Confucius Institute-AdMU appeared on the show with the presenters and taught them how to practice Taichi, paint Chinese paintings, tie Chinese knots, create elaborate paper-cuts, paint Chinese opera masks, and play the guzheng.
The taichi class of Mr. Zhou Baofa, was aired last June3,2012.
Chinese knot tying and paper-cutting classes. Aired last June,2012.
Ms. Deng Yun, volunteer teacher at CI-AdMU, teaching Chinese opera mask drawing, last July 6,2012.
Ms. Zhou Shiyu, volunteer teacher at CI-AdMU, teaching how to play the guzheng last July 6,2012.
Apart from these, Chinoy TV has also served at the Confucius Institute's television partner. Cultural events of the Confucius Institute at the Ateneo de Manila University such as the 2011 Mid-Autumn Festival at Shangri-la Mall, the 2012 Spring Film Festival, and the 2012 Confucius Institute Spring Festival Gala featuring Shandong Normal University were covered by Chinoy TV and appeared in their own segments in the television program.
With more upcoming events and increasing interest for Mandarin Chinese language and culture education at the Confucius Institute at the Ateneo de Manila University, Chinoy TV shall continue to work with the Institute to create more exciting content for the program. Building stronger ties among people, whether they may be Chinese, Filipino, or Chinese-Filipino, is one of the primary goals of Chinoy TV, and it sees the Confucius Institute as one of the most important hubs of cultural exchange between Chinese and Filipinos. Together, through the medium of television, they will continue to healthily promote communication and mutual understanding between the two nations.
Contributed by CI-AdMU Coordinator Cris Gilbert Garcia


text: After flying into Germany (from Finland) we spent our first evening in a cute little hotel just outside Munich and had dinner and drinks at Weihenstephan, the oldest brewery in the world. Greg and I have plans to make it back in 2040 for their 1000 year anniversary. Crazy! The next morning we set out into the Alps, stopping in Innsbruck, Austria for lunch and then making it on to Triesenberg, Liechtenstein for the night. The drive was gorgeous and Liechtenstein seemed both bigger and more nestled into the mountains than we had expected. Our hotel was near the top of a hill that couldn't be accessed by cars in the winter and had bobsleds available instead to bring you back to the car park in the snow. The next morning we started our day at the Leichtenstein stamp museum (it's seriously a thing and related to why Lichtenstein is an independent country) and then became international mini-golfers. Maybe the best course we've ever played, complete with a "driving hole" where a real golf swing was required to get the ball 30 meters or so across a green. From Liechtenstein we drove on to Italy. We were planning to stop in Milan before spending the night in Torino, but the traffic was terrible and we decided it wasn't going to work out. Our hotel in Torino wasn't in the best part of town so we settled for a nice meal at the Pizzeria across the street and decided to cut our losses for the day. The next morning we set out for Switzerland and the two days we planned to spend near the Matterhorn. I've learned on this trip that I'm really not a fan of driving along mountain roads, especially with steep cliffs, so was a bit nervous about this part of the drive. Super impressed by the Swiss, however, as every time we reached a steep or narrow part of the road there was a tunnel or avalanche shelter. Well done Switzerland, well done. The Matterhorn was great and totally worth the trip. We took the train from our hotel in Täsch to Zermatt, hung out there for awhile and then up to Gornergrat. It was a bit chilly for me (a few degrees lower than the arctic circle had been), but perfect for Greg and absolutely beautiful. From the Matterhorn we went on to Geneva (with an unfortunate detour back to Italy where I'd left our toiletry bag). It did mean we got to stop for the best gelato I've ever had. Greg's experience with a rapidly melting cone and a beard was less than ideal (though hilarious for me). We had just a quick day in Geneva, but still enough time for me to geek out on a tour of the U.N., before heading to Zurich. Another brief evening, breakfast in the city center, and then back into Germany. We spent the next two days in Kaiserslautern staying with Greg's friend Gunnar and his family. This was a total highlight of the trip so far. Gunnar, Sonja and their two daughters, Mina and Lotta were so much fun and such wonderful hosts. It was really nice to spend some time in an actual apartment (not just a hotel or hostel) and our visit was topped off by a morning with them at the pool followed by a delicious German lunch. We also took a quick morning trip to Frankfurt (only about an hour away) to meet up with someone I had worked with at Apple in Albany. Hayley happened to have just moved to Germany and was getting married on the day we could pass through so she invited us to the wedding. Besides being international mini-golfers we've decided this now means we can be called international wedding crashers too. It was a really sweet ceremony at the Frankfurt town hall and we had a good time meeting her other guests (including a good part of the Genius team from the local Apple store). Thanks Hayley for inviting us!!! From Kaiserslautern we made our way back to Munich for one last evening. Unfortunately the temperature had risen by about ten degrees since our first visit and staying in a hotel without a fan or AC (and with mosquitos swarming in through the open window) was rather unpleasant. It's hard to complain about anything on this trip though and after at least a few hours of sleep we were off to Spain.


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The issue arises from the need to return values from need to return a single-row result set that will be used for a web service.
For example, if I have a select statement which currently returns a result set with 3 columns and 1 row, is there a way to "append" a value to it in its own column? The new value could be the result of any arbitrary select which returns exactly one row.
select a, b, c from d where a = 'id' gives
col1 col2 col3
a b c
The new select should give:
col1 col2 col3 col4
a b c *NEW*
Arbitrary in this case is used to mean not necessarily related to any of the values or tables in the original select statement.
I want to know how to do this in Oracle, but hopefully there is a solution which uses standard SQL features so most databases will handle it.
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NEW I don't mean the string literal 'NEW', but I mean the result of the new select statement that I want to "append".
If you want a new select statement, you can do that in two ways. One is a
select within a
select col1, col2, col3,
(select 'NEW' from d limit 1) as col4
from d
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cross join:
select d.col1, d.col2, d.col3, const.col4
from d cross join
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I am using a simple subquery just as an example. I assume your subquery is a bit more complicated.
this type of structure will work. note you will get a cross join when there are more than one row.
select a,b,c,d
from ( select a,b,c from dual )
, (select d from dual )
a, b, c,
(select smth from table2 limit 1) as col4 as col4
from d where a = 'id'
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My mother and I always go to the Arkansas Flower & Garden Show together for her birthday. It's a fun time to plan and dream about gardens we want to build in the spring. This year however we won't be able to go because my daughter is participating in the Youth America Gran Prix (ballet competition) and I'll be out of town. (Ironically the theme for this year's show is "That's Entertainment!")
So, you know I was overjoyed when my friends at Arkansas Women Bloggers asked if I would come to a preview party for the show! Meaning I wouldn't miss everything, and would get to visit with some lovely people! (By the way, if you are a blogger getting with a group like ARWB is something you WANT to do. I've made some great friends, learned so much, and been able to participate in things I would never have known about otherwise!)
The hosts, Clark Trim and Chef Hendrik Thostrup, are the owners of Colonial Wine & Spirits. They had wine/food pairings which were very educational and delicious (even if I couldn't partake of everything in my quite pregnant state.) I took notes so I know what to buy for my next party!
|Beautiful Table!
|Centerpiece Idea with a Shallow Bowl and Cut Flowers
Chris Olsen, of Botanica Gardens, gave a great presentation on tablescaping with hints out of his book "Five Seasons".
|How to Arrange a Coffee Table Display
|Gorgeous Quartz Bowl (You can Make) with Succulents
The Arkansas Flower & Garden Show is a non-profit organization that's mission is to promote gardening and beautification of Arkansas, promote local horticultural businesses, and educate the public about gardening, landscaping, and floral design. The proceeds from the show go to support college scholarships in horticultural related fields in Arkansas and to fund "The Greening of Arkansas" grant program which gives communities throughout Arkansas funds for beautification.
Along with the fun night we got some great swag (and what blogger doesn't love some swag?) So a big thanks to all the great folks who donated to that cause- Colonial Wine & Spirits, Antique Brick Outdoors, River Valley Horticultural Products, Inc., The Good Earth Garden Center, Tammy Sue's Critters, Ghidotti Communications, and anyone else I missed!)
For the most fun of all I was given tickets to give you for the show!
If you'd like to go please leave a comment below. Make sure to tell me how many you'd like.
I have several to give away and will go down the list of winners until they are gone!
*If you can't wait to see if you've won you can pre-buy tickets HERE.
Adults are $8
Seniors $6
3 day pass is $12
Kids under 16 are FREE!
Also free parking at Dickey Stephens Park in NLR. Walk or take the shuttle for $1!
Disclosure- the Arkansas Flower & Garden show did give me tickets but all opinions are strictly my own.


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PUBDET Results 2016 information will be available very soon. All the students who appeared in the exam of PUBDET can check its official link to get more relevant information.
Presidency University PUBDET Result 2016 | Expected Cut Off | Check Online
The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board before the few months back also conducted its exam for the PUBDET. This PUBDET exam is for the admission exam for the graduation courses in BA and BSc honors and also for post graduate courses like MA, MSc etc. After conducted this exam from this education board for the help of all these appeared students here was publish this exam result. But after publish this exam result here was few students was also get supplementary in these exam in various number of different subjects. After conducted this examination result there are now all the students want to check them these Presidency University PUBDET Result 2016. So for all these students here will be soon after this West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board here will be also publish this result online. After publishing this result here you also can be check it from its official result link at http://wbjeeb.in/.
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The West Bengal government here was developed its West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board that is also termed as the name WBJEE to provide and control on the schooling education. From this board here are also have to complete its many number of university exams for number of students. As per the other exams from this education board here was also conducted its PUBDET exam. For all these exam from this board have to publish its exam result. After that here will be you all students also can be check it's all detailed exam result from here this board official website link at wbjeeb.in.


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Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine. Today we are waiting for The Possible by Tara Altebrando!
Brand new YA novel, just published yesterday so there's no actual waiting.
Publication date: June 6th, 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
What if...no one knows the truth about you?
It's been thirteen years since Kaylee's infamous birth mother, Crystal, received a life sentence for killing Kaylee's little brother in a fit of rage. Once the center of a cult-following for her apparent telekinetic powers, nowadays nobody's heard of Crystal. Until now, when a reporter shows up at Kaylee's house and turns her life upside down, offering Kaylee the chance to be part of a high-profile podcast investigating claims that Crystal truly did have supernatural mind powers. But these questions lead to disturbing answers as Kaylee is forced to examine her own increasingly strange life, and make sense of certain dark and troubling coincidences...
Unusual and gripping, The Possible will twist the reader round and round as it hurtles towards a sensational climax. For lovers of We Were Liars, Patrick Ness and Derren Brown.
I haven't read We Were Liars (yet) but I've read a couple books by Patrick Ness and they're okay. What do you think about this book? Is it your type of YA? I do like superpower stuff :)
Are you excited about The Possible?


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Surviving the Roller Coaster
Riding the Rollercoaster
Rev. Anthony David
August 19, 2012
Listen to this poem, by Thomas R. Smith, entitled "Trust":
It's like so many other things in life
to which you must say no or yes.
So you take your car to the new mechanic.
Sometimes the best thing to do is trust.
The package left with the disreputable-looking
clerk, the check gulped by the night deposit,
the envelope passed by dozens of strangers—
all show up at their intended destinations.
The theft that could have happened doesn't.
Wind finally gets where it was going
through the snowy trees, and the river, even
when frozen, arrives at the right place.
And sometimes you sense how faithfully your life
is delivered, even though you can't read the address.
That's the poem. So many "things in life to which you must say no or yes," and with each one, there is a possibility of theft. Something precious taken. In the case of the poem, it's things. A car, a package, money. You put them out there, you hand them over, and bad things might happen.
Same thing goes for the less materialistic and even more important things we put out there. Our time, our energy, our sense of self-esteem and meaning. We put them out there, and, given the risks of living, we can always wonder if they will be conserved and valued…. It makes us impatient.
Think of being stuck in traffic for what feels like an eternity. (It always feels like an eternity stuck in traffic, right?) It's deeply threatening—it triggers a core fear—because otherwise how to explain the overreaction of frustration? The irritation? The eruption of rage? A voice inside us that bellows, "Who dares interrupt my schedule?? I've got places to go, things to do, people to see, and my time is far too valuable to be wasted like this!!" It's impatience—and it stems from a perception of precious time being stolen from us while we watch helplessly.
Imagine this situation (some of you won't need to—you live it everyday). You are a parent of a four-year-old. He's helping you fold laundry. Here's how he does that. He takes a shirt, balls it up in his fist, and then places it carefully in the laundry basket. He takes a pair of shorts, balls it up in his fist, then places it carefully beside the shirt he's just "folded." He goes on to the next item, and the next. He wants to help! He's your young and eager assistant! And it takes you three times longer to fold the laundry than if you just did it yourself. How patient could you be in this situation? You have a couple other kids who will be home from school in a few hours, you have a list of chores yet to do, and you are bone-tired. Imagine yourself in this situation… How patient could you be? Not at all, such that you might slap his hands away in irritation and order him elsewhere? Or somewhat patient, but of the unsteady I'm-holding-on-for-dear-life variety, as when you smile through gritted teeth and speak in tones of exaggerated kindness? Or fully and truly patient, as when you feel genuine wonder and delight and gentle amusement at your son's determined (though clumsy) efforts to be of use?
Patience. We're talking about patience today. We know it's important. "Just about every mistake I have ever made and every unkind word I have ever spoken might have been avoided if I had been more patient," says Allan Lokos in his excellent book, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living. "If there is to be peace in the world," says the Taoist sage Lao-Tse, "there must be peace in the nations, peace in the cities, peace between neighbors, peace in the home, and peace in the heart." Peace comes from patience. Patience is important.
People, this is yet another one of those sermons that I desperately need to hear myself. Just like all of you, just like everyone alive, I have traffic jams inside my heart, and I can feel stuck, I can feel something precious being stolen away, and I get impatient with myself. I'm forty-five but there are situations where I feel like I'm that four-year-old trying to fold laundry and the only way I know how to do it is by balling it up in my fist.
Let me tell you, when you are planning to write a sermon on patience, in the days preceding it, you naturally find yourself paying especially close attention to your moments of impatience. I won't bore you with my endless list … but I will say that recently I took up tennis and I love it—I love the rhythm and grace and speed of it, I love the friendships you can build through it, I am looking for more people to play with HINT HINT—but I can get impatient with myself as I'm learning. As when I hit a couple forehand shots and they are beautiful and then, randomly, I hit one and it's like a baseball home run. What the….?? Wrong sport. And don't get me started on my serve. Sometimes it's great. Sometimes it's all over the place. Argh!! Can you relate? You have a vision for yourself, a timetable for when you ought to be doing things a certain way, but your body has its own timetable and its own vision? LIFE has its own timetable and vision?
Brings to mind a poem by Methodist minister Ted Loder:
I am not a patient person.
I have only so much time to strive,
to accomplish what I have to do,
to right some wrongs, to make amends,
to create some beauty, help the poor,
welcome the outcast gays,
clear the ghettos, repair the city,
only so much time — I'm not God, you know.
Maybe that's the dis-ease
for which impatience is the symptom,
I'm not God and I forget it
act compulsively as though I know
what needs doing and when,
as though I am you.
a faithless confusion, I realize.
But, damn it, God, I don't have eternity.
That's Ted Loder. "I'm not God and I forget it." To what degree does our impatience stem from that? Doesn't matter whether you believe an actual God exists or not. Doesn't matter if you are the most hard-core atheist around. You can still find yourself boiling with impatience because, at some level, you think you are in control, you think YOU are God, but life shatters that illusion every time. With every tennis ball that soars high and beyond the fence. With every serve that goes astray.
Now don't get me wrong. In criticizing impatience, I am not wanting to suggest that we take up passivity or inertia or paralysis or terminal postponement. I am not suggesting we stop caring. I am not saying to the parent of the four-year-old that you have to drop everything to cater to your kid. There are just some things that are important enough to feel urgent about. Righting wrongs, making amends, creating some beauty, helping the poor, welcoming the outcast gays, clearing the ghettos, repairing the city—absolutely! When in the past several weeks we have had shootings at a movie theater in Colorado, a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin, and on a college campus in Texas (the very same college I went to, by the way), you better believe we need some urgency around gun control in this country….
I am not encouraging passivity. I am encouraging balance. Sanity. Effectiveness, as we ride the rollercoaster of life. Marianne Williamson, in her amazing book A Return to Love, speaks to this when she says, "We don't have to be struggling all the time. […] In fact, ambitious tension actually limits our ability to succeed because it keeps us in a state of contraction, emotionally and physically. It seems to give us energy but doesn't really, like the white sugar of mental health; there's a short high, followed by a crash." Then she says this: "The cultivation of mental rest … is like eating healthy food. It doesn't give us an immediate rush, but over time it provides a lot more energy."
That's the point. What's going to give us energy over the long haul—of making the world a better place, making this congregation the best it can be, braving the wilds of Atlanta traffic, braving the wilds of parenting, even learning how to play a decent game of tennis. Not white sugar, but something better, healthier. Patience. [Remember today's video? It's the difference between making the knot even worse, and untying it]. Said the great Irish orator Edmund Burke, "Our patience will achieve more than our force."
"It's like so many other things in life / to which you must say no or yes." So how do we say yes to patience?
Well, lemme tell you, listening to this sermon (for which I thank you!) can only be a start. Says nineteenth century clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, "There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. [OK, get ready for three more hours of sermonating J]" Henry Ward Beecher goes on to say: "No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurly-burly world, and talking life just as it blows." In other words: we say yes to patience by being in the hurly-burly world and practicing patience. Practice practice practice. And every time we practice—every time we succeed in our patience when it could have been otherwise, no matter how small the success seems—our patience muscle gets stronger and stronger.
Here's what that practice looks like. Three steps. This comes from spiritual teacher Joan Borysenko.
Step number one: recognize impatience. Recognize when irritation floods your system because you feel like the hurly-burly world is wasting your time or things are not happening fast enough or they are unfair or they are screwing with your best laid plans or you don't have enough information and it's bugging the crap out of you … recognize that crap as it emerges. Just acknowledge it. See it as emotional weather. Rain doesn't have to justify itself, and neither should your impatience have to justify itself to you. It just is. You are not the God of your emotional weather system. So just name it nonjudgmentally. "OK, there's impatience. There it is."
Step number two: Pause, and find the gap between the experience of your impatience and your response to your impatience. Patience is born right there—in that gap. Physically, one of the best ways to do this is to breathe deeply. Deep breathing helps the energy shift and not stay stuck in intensity. Now, if you happen to be in the middle of a stunningly irritating conversation with someone, going straight into deep breathing might make you look like you are hyperventilating… Might be better to say words like this: "Can we take a break now? Let's start again in five (or ten, or fifteen) minutes." Use that time to find the gap. Use that time to shift the energy. Do something like this especially if, when disciplining your child, you find yourself wanting to spank them. Get away. Wait several hours to make sure that the spanking is indeed in the child's best interest, and that it is about the child's behavior and not your anger.
Step number three: Move into a place of curiosity about what is actually happening in the moment. "I have no special talents," said Albert Einstein. "I am only passionately curious." What if we were to turn on this kind of Einstein genius in our emotional lives? What then? Is there an analogue to E=MC2 waiting to be discovered, even in the middle of dreaded Atlanta traffic? At the very least, aren't there interesting things to look at in the cars next door? The guy to your right, singing like a wanna be rockstar? The lady to your left, primping while she's talking on the cell phone?
When we take a curiosity stance, we are invincibly patient. Everything life throws at us, we can absorb, digest, use. We are immune to theft of time and energy and meaning. We are immune! But (and this is the last thing I'll say today) getting to curiosity in a full sense requires nothing less than faith—faith that there is more going on than meets the eye. Faith that there is more going on behind the scenes. Otherwise, why keep looking? Why stay attentive? Curiosity requires trust that there is a deep design to my life—either existing or potential—that is far more beautiful and inspiring than the one my ego could ever manufacture. My life and yours. My ego and yours. Curiosity insists that even when appearances suggest waste of time and lack of value, reality is otherwise. It's the poem again:
Wind finally gets where it was going
through the snowy trees, and the river, even
when frozen, arrives at the right place.
And sometimes you sense how faithfully your life
is delivered, even though you can't read the address.
Are we any less important than the wind, or the frozen river? They are delivered, and so are we. Patience….


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Al-Arabi manager Gianfranco Zola has responded to recent rumours over his potential interest in signing John Terry, stating his belief that there is a "chance" that a deal for the long-serving Chelsea captain could be struck in future. While he remains an influential figure at Stamford Bridge, the 34-year-old defender has suffered a notable regression in form this season as the defending Premier League champions have opened their title defence with a poor showing of five defeats from their opening 10 fixtures.
Although Mourinho's return to Stamford Bridge in 2013 significantly helped Terry to recover from a difficult period during which he was marginalised by interim boss Rafael Benitez, he has certainly not been immune to criticism during that difficult run. Sent off at West Brom and dropped in favour of Kurt Zouma for the victory over Arsenal in September, he was also left on the bench for the 2-2 draw at Newcastle and the Champions League defeat in Porto before being restored for the club's last five outings in all competitions.
With the former England skipper traditionally only offered annual one-year extensions, he is currently contracted to Chelsea until June 2016 and earlier this week the Mirror carried a report claiming that Zola, who played with Terry during the latter's formative years in Chelsea's first team more than a decade ago, was pondering an offer for his services next summer. His recent comments will do nothing to cool that speculation either, with the Italian speaking positively of the pair's enduring relationship.
"John Terry is a big player and Al Arabi is interested in big players so we will see what happens," he told the same publication. "There is a chance because it is one of the places where people want to go. The quality of life is very high here.
"There are clubs that pay well for the players to come so I wouldn't be surprised if I see John Terry playing in this country maybe next year, maybe in two years, I don't know exactly when. The connection is easy – John and I played together and have a very high opinion of each other so it comes quite natural to do that."
Although Zola refused to rule out the possibility of taking Terry to Qatar at the end of the player's current deal, he stressed that there has so far been no contact whatsoever over the possibility with the domestic campaign having only recently begun.
He added: "I cannot say that it is impossible because you never know. I can tell you there are no contacts right now, that's for sure. We will see because right now we are just month and a half into the season and I am very happy that I am coaching so I didn't even think about changing anybody. But in the future we will see. It could be one possibility."


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This article first appeared in Oxfordshire Local History Journal, vol 7, no 5 (January 2006).
Watercolourist, book-illustrator and stained-glass artist
by NIGEL HAMMOND
LOUIS DAVIS was born and grew up in the shadow of St Helen's church at the river end of East St Helen Street in Abingdon. During the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries Davis became known as a talented watercolourist, a playwright, book illustrator and above all a distinguished glass artist, continuing his work in the tradition of the Arts and Crafts movement. When referring to the splendidly translucent, glowing colours Davis loved so much, as evidenced in his windows at Cheltenham College chapel, Nikolaus Pevsner identified him as the last of the Pre-Raphaelites, a title others used. The Oxford Mail, for instance, reviewing a Louis Davis exhibition in London (1935), reminds its readers: 'Mr Davis, who was born at Abingdon, is one of the last remaining pre-Raphaelites. He knew Burne-Jones, William Morris, Rossetti and others.'
The obituary of Davis in the Abingdon Parish Magazine (November 1941), noted that he often spoke of the beauty of St Helen's, the Almshouses and the river. 'His colour and design satisfy the sense of beauty, and the actual craftsmanship will always be a wonder to those who understand the art of glass-making.'
The Times obituary (23 October 1941) dwells on his watercolour painting, noting such works such as Cresswell Farm, Study of Gourds, The Heron Pool at Westwick and October Showers. The newspaper commented: 'Mr Davis may be said to have inherited the side of the pre-Raphaelite movement which was concerned with medieval glamour and Celtic twilight rather than with the method of fidelity to nature… Davis was so thoroughly imbued with the spirit of his school that he used all its devices and mannerisms with an easy, natural skill, and the sentiment of his pictures never seemed forced or affected…'
Early life
Davis in back row, third from right
Born in May 1860, Louis was the son of Gabriel Davis, an Abingdon merchant and manufacturer. His mother, Gabriel's second wife, was Marianne (or Mary Ann), who came from Ewelme in Oxfordshire. Abingdon School entry register records Louis Davis joining the school as a day-boy in May 1870. Clearly recognised by the Revd Edgar Summers (headmaster 1870-83) as artistically talented, Louis was awarded a foundation scholarship in the following year. As a youngster Louis lived at the East St Helen Street family home with his father and three brothers, recorded in the 1871 census as Arthur (19), David (13) and Oliver (6).
Louis' father was an Abingdon hop, wine and spirits, coal and corn merchant (with a branch of the business at Watlington). The family also became involved in the Davis Engineering and Launch Building Company located in St Helen's works at the junction of the river Thames and the Wilts & Berks canal. The business built and repaired canal and river barges, steam launches, pleasure boats and manufactured for export, stern-paddle-wheeled vessels used on the Nile.
We know nothing of Davis's career after he left Abingdon until 1891 when he became one of the earliest pupils of the glass artist, Christopher Whall (1849-1924). It seems certain that in the intervening years he must have undergone some training. It is possible to speculate that he trained with Edward Burne-Jones (1833-98), which would have brought him under the influence of William Morris (1834-96), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) and other Pre-Raphaelites. Their influences are manifest in his subsequent life's work.
Initially Davis lodging and lived more or less as one of the family, at Whall's home in Dorking, which was also his studio. Davis worked with Lowndes & Drury (founded in 1897) at their small premises in Park Walk, Chelsea; this was in the late 1890's and early 1900's where Mary Lowndes (1857-1927), an enthusiastic disciple of Christopher Whall, later established the Glass House at Lettice Street in Fulham (1906) with A J Drury her foreman. It was a purpose-built workshop for glass artists which enabled independent glass-designers to carry out commissions. At Dorking and Chelsea Louis Davis became a central member of Christopher Whall's coterie of glass artists and painters that included his daughter Veronica Whall (1887-1970), Karl Parsons (1884-1934), Paul Woodroffe (1875-1954), painter, book designer and illustrator, and possibly Leonard Walker (1877-1964), principal of St John's Wood School of Art. Whall gave Davis a sound and encouraging start in glasswork. In 1891 and 1893, when Christopher Whall was commissioned to design windows at St Mary's Church, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Whall and Davis completed the second window jointly.
Early artistic career
At first, Davis turned to watercolour painting and book illustration. From 1886 onwards he was a prolific illustrator, especially for The English Illustrated Magazine. Davis produced stylised birds; topographical work and drawings described as 'delightful period pieces', mostly vignettes and chapter headings but sometimes full-page designs and topographical subjects. There are at least three ink sketches of Abingdon by Davis, one showing Thames Street and Abbey mill, the other of the old schoolroom at Abingdon. It appears that the National Gallery never acquired, as had been intended, Louis Davis's painting Nisi Dominus Frustra, (Psalm 127: 'without God everything is in vain…'), a painting of that title being sold by Christie's in 1991.
It was as a watercolourist that Davis attracted controversy when he showed a design for glass as a watercolour at an exhibition of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours. His contribution, excellent though it may have been, did not go down well. Glass artistry and water-colour painting, as artistic genres, did not mix and Louis Davis had dared to breach that convention. Davis consequently resigned as a member of the watercolourists (probably around the end of 1910 or early 1911) and concentrated on stained-glass work, which is the field in which he made his distinguished reputation and impact in the world of art.
Davis tried his hand at writing a single fairy play in three acts including his own illustrations. The Goose Girl at the Well (1906) was an adaptation from a version of the stories of the brothers Grimm. Davis had illustrated Good Night (1895), a collection of verses by the radical poet, Dollie Radford (1858-1920). She in turn contributed songs to The Goose Girl at the Well and in her collection, Songs and other Verses (1895), included a poem in two verses entitled, For Windows by L D, describing vividly a pair of stained-glass panels Louis Davis had designed in 1894 for a house in Eltham.
About 1895 Louis Davis was in touch with the Revd Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924), rector of Lew Trenchard, Devon, composer of the hymn 'Onward Christian Soldiers', and a distinguished author and collector of folk songs. While on Humberside Davis had conversed with German sailors and obtained a background to the carol, 'I saw three ships go sailing by', which he communicated to Baring-Gould. Might Louis Davis have been visiting his old Abingdon schoolmaster on south Humberside, the Revd Edmund Harper (1825-1923) and his family? Harper taught at Abingdon (1855-71) and was vicar of Luddington near Goole (1871-1923). His wife was an Abingdon solicitor's daughter, whose family also lived in East St Helen Street.
Home life and later career
Christopher Whall and Davis became close friends, so much so that Whall named his youngest son Louis, after Davis, who also may have acted as godfather to the child. Davis's wife Edith was substantially younger than he – they met whilst Louis was on a countryside sketching expedition in East Anglia. Edith was the daughter of an agriculturist and when Louis called at a cottage asking for water, the young Edith Webster who answered impressed him. It may have been love at first sight. Louis offered to educate the girl and married her in the mid-1890s. Louis and Edith set up home at Pinner, having a house and studio built, naming their new home after his mother's birthplace, Ewelme Cottage, (now 62 Paine's Lane at Pinner). It is probable that Davis initially engaged Edith, in true Pre-Raphaelite form, to act as his model: the faces of many of Davis's figures in glass strongly resemble a surviving photograph of Edith.
Edith Davis was an accomplished embroiderer; among her works, a banner, 'St George and the Dragon', signed 'E D Pinner 1907', was worked for presentation to Lord Grey, governor-general of Canada (1904-11). The banner is kept at the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Coincidentally, Grey was nephew of Harriet, Lady Wantage of Lockinge, herself a benefactor of Abingdon School and to whom Davis may have been known.
For some time Louis' sister-in-law, Ethel Webster lived with them as housekeeper and companion and the two sisters were well known in Pinner for their picturesque appearance. Locals called them 'the Gainsborough ladies' because of their large hats. Edith's childless marriage ended with Louis' death in 1941; subsequently she sold Ewelme Cottage and returned to her home area. She died near Lowestoft in the late 1970s.
Before the First World War Davis had become a full-time glass artist, with abundant work. He usually completed commissions himself, from design to finished product, having no pupils. He employed one craftsman to help. By 1900, because of the sheer volume of work, his glass was being made up by James Powell & Sons of Whitefriars in the City of London. Louis Davis also found time to teach at the Central School of Arts & Crafts.
Among Louis Davis's more important work was a scheme for glazing the choir windows at Dunblane Abbey (1913), several windows in the chapel of the Order of the Thistle at St Giles's Cathedral, Edinburgh (designed by Robert Lorimer 1909-11) and glasswork at Westminster Abbey, Gloucester Cathedral, Colmonell Church in Ayrshire, Wemyss Castle, St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin and Welbeck Abbey. He also decorated the private chapels of the Marquess of Londonderry at Wynyard Park, County Durham and the Duchess of Bedford at Woburn. Davis exhibited with the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Societyand was a member of the Art Workers' Guild (1891-1906). As a painter he exhibited at the New Gallery, the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours(Associate, 1898) and elsewhere.
From 1910 Davis worked with Karl Parsons, with thoughts of the two glass artists entering partnership. Karl Parsons had started out in 1899 at the age of fifteen as Christopher Whall's pupil-apprentice and became his principal assistant. Parsons with Edward Woore (another of Whall's younger apprentice-pupils) helped illustrate Whall's book, Stained Glass Work (1905) and photographs of Davis's stained glass were used as illustrations at the end of the book. But the Parsons-Davis partnership did not come to fruition, possibly as a result of a domestic accident at Pinner in 1915 when Louis and Edith were overcome by fumes from a gas fire. He suffered severe damage that robbed him of the power of speech. Edith Davis recovered completely but oxygen starvation gave Louis all the symptoms of a stroke requiring the occasional need for a wheelchair.
From 1915 onwards Davis completed less original work, concentrating instead on using copies of previous cartoons and designs. In effect his individual production of fresh work slowed, and after 1917-18 Thomas Cowell (1870-1949) played a significant part in re-working or adapting earlier designs. Cowell was for many years the principal glass-painter for James Powell & Sons who translated Davis's designs and cartoons into stained glass. Nevertheless Davis produced a number of outstanding designs after 1918, including a distinctive east window in St Mary's Church at Rockbeare in Devon (1928), showing the Virgin and Child together with two angels treading a delicate carpet of daffodils and snowdrops. At St Silas's Church, Kentish Town, a single light shows Hope tiptoeing through daffodils: it is likely that Faith and Charity were never made. At Cheltenham College (1924), two superbly detailed, intellectually satisfying, and gloriously colourful First World War memorial windows shed a warm poppy-red glow on the body of the chapel.
Davis also produced a splendid portfolio of ten drawings, mostly cartoons for glasswork (1907). These include a Study of the head of Beryl;Summer and hermonths, a study prepared for Welbeck Abbey; Virgin and child with butterflies; Angel of the Christmas tree and Angel of the Rose, three drawings made for decoration in the oratory of Adeline, Duchess of Bedford; a Study of Drapery - The dream of St Martin; The Island of the Hart, a drawing for decoration in the Marquis of Londonderry's private chapel at Wynyard Park, County Durham; Child Angel with Dove, a study for a window at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin; The dream of St Anselm and Weeping Angel, the latter desiged for a painting on the decorated panels above the back of the altar, at the former church of All Hallows in Southwark.
Local glass by Louis Davis
There are two examples of Davis's stained glass in Oxfordshire. At the community church of St Mary & St Nicholas, Littlemore, planned by the Revd John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman, Thomas Willement's glass installed in the 1840s was removed in 1900. In its place a new east window by Davis was inserted: a particularly uplifting, beautifully crafted and thoroughly imaginative work perhaps seen at its best by the light of a sunlit summer morning.
At Abingdon School chapel, as a memorial to her late husband, Edith Davis presented a panel (1952) showing St Nicholas: it is the artist's copy of his panel, coloured in a cold dark blue, but relieved by some gold, and brown, appropriately called the North Wind. It came from Davis's series of great choir windows in the Lady Chapel of Dunblane Abbey illustrating the Benedicite. The Abingdon panel is likely to have been Davis's copy of the Dunblane window which he made for the 1924 British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. Further to remember this local artist, Abingdon School currently awards Louis Davis art exhibitions and scholarships.
A little further away, at St Giles' Church, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, are two windows designed by Davis (1899) and produced by James Powell & Sons. Just north of Bicester, Barton Hartshorn church, Buckinghamshire, holds a two-light window of excellent detail and intricacy. It stands as a memorial to Archibald Trotter (1892-1914), Coldstream Guards. He was the son of Colonel Trotter, owner of neighbouring Barton Hartshorn manor which Sir Robert Lorimer (1864-1929), Scottish architect and garden designer, had earlier been engaged to restore. Lorimer and Davis had previously worked on several joint projects in Scotland, particularly the Thistle Chapel at St Giles' cathedral in Edinburgh. It is likely that Davis obtained the commission for this window through Lorimer.
|St Giles' Church, Stoke Poges
In the church at West Lavington, Wiltshire, hangs a much under-valued 'Virgin and Child' (1910), a tall, oblong, ill-lit, narrow painting. At Foxley, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, a memorial window to Walter Cecil Luce (1873-1901) has meticulous designs in green, purple and silver, illustrating the local landscape.
Glass at Pinner and Hatch End
In the church of St John the Baptist at Pinner, two windows show the bold, impressionistic, Pre-Raphaelite figures of 'Faith' and 'Hope' (1900). But close by at St Anselm's church, Hatch End, where Louis and Ethel Davis were members of the congregation, the windows are filled with a kaleidoscope of imaginative, symbolistic, theologically imbued and colourful glass (1903-32). Davis was perhaps best admired because of a desire to move away from the crude colouring of the Victorian period and for his insistence that any window coloured or otherwise should admit light. The Hatch End windows show Davis's talent as a glass artist in all its distinctive glory. If Louis Davis needs a memorial to his work: circumspice.
The east window illustrates the 'Nativity'(1903). The principal light of the 'Virgin and Child' shows the star of Bethlehem shining down. The light then changes to a shaft of lightning as it strikes the serpent of evil coiled at their feet. The further eight lights show scenes from the life of St Anselm. The other Davis windows date from 1905, 1910, 1915, 1927 and 1932.
The three lights of the baptistry window show the young Christ as a warrior. The poignant centre light holding a fragment of clear ruby glass brought from the shattered windows of Ypres Cathedral by Michael Hill, a chorister and cross-bearer at St Anselm's who had been baptised at the church and whom Davis had known. Davis inserted the fragment, later inscribing it, Michael Hill, Ypres 1915 - Hill having been killed in France ten days before the window was dedicated.
- The English Illustrated Magazine, ed. J Comyns Carr, 1886-92.
- Stained Glass Work, Christopher Whall, London 1905.
- The Goose Girl at the Well, Louis Davis, London 1906.
- A Portfolio of Ten Drawings, Louis Davis, Pinner 1907.
- The Parish Church of St Anselm, Hatch End, Pamela Davies, Hatch End 1998.
- Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists, 1800-1914 and Dictionary of British Artists, working 1900-50 , both by Grant Walters.
- Newspaper articles: Manchester Guardian 18 November 1901, Sunday Times 12 April 1908, Nottingham Guardian 25 January 1911, Carlisle Journal 2 October 1928, Glasgow Herald, Oxford Mail 3 April 1935, The Times 6 April 1935 and 2 March 1941.
- Local publications: The Abingdonian, Abingdon School magazine 1941 and 1952; Abingdon Parish Magazine (1941).
- Also conversation and correspondence with Peter Cormack, FSA, Keeper of the William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, an expert on Whall and Davis. Remaining detail in this article comes from personal research and viewing Davis's work. There is as yet no published record of Louis Davis's achievements as illustrator, watercolourist or glass-artist. Like most of his contemporaries in stained glass, he is now only beginning to receive the recognition his work merits.
With thanks to Duncan and Mandy Ball and to St Silas Church for permission to use their photographs.


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The Morpeth Neighbourhood Plan was granted final approval this morning after the threat of legal challenge forced a deferral last month.
At today's meeting of Northumberland County Council's decision-making cabinet, members agreed to 'make' formally the neighbourhood plan – one of the first in Northumberland to get to this stage.
At the April meeting, members were expecting to give the final sign-off with the plan having passed independent examination in September last year followed by a referendum in February in which 93.4 per cent of those voting supported the plan, based on a turnout of 29.5 per cent.
However, members were shocked to hear that the local authority had received notice of a possible judicial review just five days before the meeting. The grounds of the challenge, which was made by Mitford Estate and described by one councillor as 'a pretty despicable act', had only been received earlier that day.
Recommending that the cabinet deferred its decision to this month's meeting, senior planning manager Mark Ketley said: "We feel we would probably be able to put up a robust defence, but we do need some time to consider this and take some legal advice."
This proved to be the case as a report to today's meeting stated: 'Officers are now satisfied that the external legal advice obtained adequately supports the conclusion that the draft Morpeth Neighbourhood Plan may properly be made and, consistently, that a challenge by way of judicial review on the proposed grounds advanced by the third party could properly be defended'.
Coun Ian Swithenbank said: "The sooner this is approved, the better for Morpeth frankly." Coun Jeff Reid added: "Let's just get on with it."
Coun Peter Jackson described it as 'great news for Morpeth', adding: "We have had a delay for one month for legal advice. In the long term, it was worth doing that and it will show that this council has been very diligent on its part in the way it's running things.
"We must be trailblazers in the country because most of our towns and parishes are creating one (a neighbourhood plan). People up and down the county are crying out for some protection (from developers)."


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Friday, May 6, 2011
Table Top Tuesday Highlights
Shelia @ Note Songs created this beautiful vignette. I love that she painted the chickenwire cloche white and showcases such a beautiful little bird inside. The nest and plant are perfect finishing touches.
I love everything about this. The table, mirror and the entire vignette. Gorgeous. You can always find something inspiring at No Minimalist Here.
Summerland Cottage Studio created this fabulous vignette and she gives a tutorial for the fabulous rose planter that she made. She's also a fairly newby blogger and you really do want to visit and see more of her creativity.
Wouldn't you love to be at this wonderful Garden Party setting created by Paint or Dig. Love this.
My Domestic Bliss is so creative with her vignettes. Love the tablerunner, clock, frames, books and plant, then she tucks a cup and saucer in for an added twist and it is fabulous.
Every week there are so many fabulous vignettes that it is hard to pick just a few. If you missed any of them, you really need to go back and take a look, they were all stunning.
If you were featured, I would love for you to grab my button on the sidebar. I can't wait to see what all you have to show next week.
24 comments:
Doesn't it just make you smile to see so many wonderful and creative women out there! Lovely features!ReplyDelete
Great features, Marty. I hope you have a wonderful weekend and mother's day.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing these wonderfully creative tablescapes. How inspiring! Happy Mother's Day!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much Marty for featuring me! I'm so honored! Have a wonderful Mother's Day!ReplyDelete
Be a sweetie,
Shelia ;)
I love to visit every one on Table top Tuesday,,, I glean so many wonderful ideas from all the talented ladies.... like yourself...ReplyDelete
Happy Mothers Day
Marty, I enjoyed all the highlights...eacg is a "winner". I hope you have a great weekend and a lovely Mother's Day.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing these highlights. Each one is full of inspiration. Happy Mother's Day to you, Marty. ~ SarahReplyDelete
They are all great and so much inspriration too!ReplyDelete
Happy Mother's Day Marty!
Marty, Thank you for visiting my home. Getting a thumbs from TTT is an honor. I always admire the things you can put together on a tabletop. You are so talented.ReplyDelete
Please come by to visit any time.
I just got my cast off a couple of days ago. After I get the cleaning done, six weeks late, I will joining up again. Thanks for hosting.
Happy Mother's Day, Ginger :)
I would definitely love to have a party on this beautiful garden! Every detail is just fascinating. Look at that Statue vase! Isn't it wonderful with that plant on its head that seems to be its hair?ReplyDelete
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OMGoodness Marty, what great features this week. Hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day.ReplyDelete
Very pretty. I love the Garden Party setting Paint or Dig showed from a Garden Show she went to. Lovely!ReplyDelete
Hi! Such a lovely place to stay!ReplyDelete
Greetings from Rome.
Hi Marty Sweetie...ReplyDelete
What a beautiful share today. I loved seeing all the contributions and the women's talents displayed. I love Sheila's little bird cloche painted white. It is perfect. Sure does pop with color.
I love the vignette with the beautiful sunflowers on the tray. It sure does scream SUMMER. Believe it or not, and ready or not, I think it is here for us. So HOT already. We knew it was coming.
I will have to visit some of the others you shared. Thank you for honoring each of them, it allows us the opportunity to visit some we might not otherwise meet.
Have a beautiful Mother's Day Marty. I am always so tickled to stop by and enjoy. Many hugs and much love, Sherry
I want to copycat that Summerland Cottage Studio one!ReplyDelete
Hello ~it was such a pleasure catching up with you.ReplyDelete
I always enjoy seeing what you've got to share. We've got such delightfully talented sisters in blogland. They, like you, are so generous to bring such beauty into our lives. Thanks for sharing.
I hope your weekend is filled with a splendid surprise.
Sweet wishes,
Great inspirational photos, Marty. You picked the prettiest ones. Come sign up for my giveaway if you have a chance...ChristineReplyDelete
Great inspiration photos, Marty!ReplyDelete
Love all your decorating!!!
Love that inspiration too!!!
Have a wonderful Mothers day Marty. Great features btw. Love that outdoor one with the green chair.ReplyDelete
Wow what a lovey post. So much talent!Happy Mothers Day! Big Hugs!!ReplyDelete
Happy Mother's Day Marty ...ReplyDelete
what beautiful and creative bunch of blogger you gathered... I am going to check all of them but mostly I love Shelia
I am sure you will be glad if you come to me at
Hi Marty, you showcased some great pics! I LOVE the mirror on No Minimalist! Happy Mother's Day to you! LindaReplyDelete
Gosh Marty,ReplyDelete
I have been out of the loop
and crazy busy with work.
I just discovered your Tuesday Highlights post and am so honored to be included.
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I now know why none of the projects in Indygo Junction's Needle Felting caught my eye: I need to work small, miniscule, tiny. The book's projects are full-scale craftiness. When you don't know what the heck you're doing, a large project is scary.
Flush from success needle-felting a bunny using a Clover felting mold, I pulled out my small heart and flower cookie cutters to use as molds, and stab stab stabbity stab later...
I'm discovering that focusing on one crafty endeavor a week is really helping my creativity. There is no other reason that I would stitch French knots over my purple bunny. French knots and I generally do not get along.
I put a pin back on the blue rose to wear on my blue pea coat. I'm going to pop the flatter felts onto cards for Easter. Can you see the heart shapes in the rose petals?


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Norma Sklarek: Pioneer in Architecture
By: Melody Richardson
This week we wanted to honor the work of the late, great Norma Sklarek. Hailed as the Rosa Parks of architecture, her vision and passion are an inspiration to us all. Not only was she an incredible influence on the world of architecture, she has been a pioneer for women and people of color in the design industry. Despite going unrecognized for many her works, Sklarek still persevered.
Sklarek gained her education from Columbia University and was still turned down 19 times before getting a job. She overcame many obstacles while working due to her gender and ethnicity, and still was known as one of the nicest and most hardworking people in the business. Her career spanned through 5 companies and 38 years. Most notably were her contributions to Gruen Associates in Los Angeles, where she collaborated with César Pelli. Together they built the United States Embassy in Tokyo, the Pacific Design Center, San Bernardino City Hall, Terminal 1 at LAX, and Fox Plaza in San Fransisco. Of those notable works, only the United States Embassy in Tokyo recognizes her for her contributions.
Norma Sklarek is truly an inspiration because despite the push back she received throughout her career on countless occasions she never allowed it to break her spirit. She always mentored young people in similar positions, and gave them ways to cope with the discrimination they would face. She was the first black woman to become a licensed architect and the first black woman to be elected into the Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA), and in 1985 she started an all female architecture firm with Margot Siegel and Katherine Diamond.
Sklarek is a personal inspiration because, as a woman of color, I myself have faced discrimination in my life in one form or another. To be able to witness the accomplishments and admire someone who overcame so much, I know I can achieve my goals in the design world. She strived to make things better, whether it was through her designs or in her relationships with others in her industry. She didn't mind paving the way and being a role model for others, even though she had none of her own.
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All money from the sale of this CD will go to the Special Care Baby Unit, Raigmore Hospital, Inverness. Enough money has now been raised for a deposit for Dawn's wheelchair adapted vehicle. Sincere thanks to everyone for their support.
Sincere thanks to Harry Brown and Robertson Construction for their very generous donations.
Thanks to everyone that took part in the Songs For Dawn Charity night in Fort William on 6/11/15 - £780 was raised.
Our total raised so far is a whopping £8,698.15!!!
Our CDs are still for sale below — please spread the word and help us reach our £9,000 target.
A very special mention for Steve (Mick Ronson) Brown. Without his technical and musical wizardry, we could not have had a charity at all… Once again, many thanks Robert, Maryann & Dawn…
As you can all see by the letter the Sick Kids Friends Foundation rely on donations, it was our pleasure to hand them this money… We spent 5 weeks in Edinburgh Sick Kids Hospital with Dawn, we were distraught, and didn't know if she would be okay—But, because of the Friends Foundation we had one less thing to stress about… We were looked after and cared for… Accommodation just 2 minutes from Ward 1 and Dawn.
Again we thank you all, Robert & Maryann.
Dawn, Robert & Maryann went to Inverness today to Raigmore hospital to the SCBU (Special Care Baby Unit) and delivered £2,930 worth of baby goodies… Loads of cellular blankets, baby shawls, feeding bottles, baby wipes, Lovenest head support pillows, muslin cloths, nipple shields, DVD player & kids DVDs, 2 XLamps, colouring books, crayons & pens, mittens, baby clothes (babygro & vest) sizes—premature, tiny baby, new born & 0–3 months… Yes pink & blue in everything…
If anyone is wondering this is a list of essentials that are always wanted & needed all the time in SCBU… Don't just hand money in go out and buy them something… That's what Songs for Dawn did…
Dawns mum & Dad would like to thank everybody in the maternity ward & SCBU who watched over Dawn in her first few days of life, she is with us today because of Dr. Alan Webb and his team… Thank you.
All premature baby clothes Prem 0 to Prem 3… Prem 0 size up to 1.5lb/0.7kg tiny eh… As my Auntie said when she saw the prem clothes you read in the papers how mothers can hold a new born in one hand, the telly remote is to give people the same idea…
All CDs have now been sold and we have raised a staggering £9,000!
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Songs for Dawn is a CD recorded by Arisaig chef Robert "Bodie" Bowman and musician Steve Brown. All proceeds from the sale of this CD will be split between the 3 hospitals that have kept Bodie's 2 year old daughter, Dawn, alive.
Baby Dawn was born with meningitis and a cleft palate and thanks to Inverness, Edinburgh and Aberdeen Infirmaries she is making great progress. Every penny from the sale of this CD will be sent to Inverness, Aberdeen and Edinburgh Hospitals' sick kids' units.
Robert is a fantastic singer and the CD shows his love of Bowie and Morrissey — his Bowie covers are scarily close to the real thing!
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Thanks to everyone that made this possible and for donating all services for free.


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Battle Hymn of the Republic
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For Chorus of Men's Voices with Piano. Composed by William Steffe (1830-1890). Arranged by Peter Wilhousky. Peter J. Wilhousky Choral Series. Choral. Piano reduction/vocal score. With Standard notation. 11 pages. Duration 4 minutes, 15 seconds. Carl Fischer #CM06778. Published by Carl Fischer (CF.CM6778).
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Since the beggining of time one thing has remained painfully obvious. Guys are better than gals in everything. We dominate in all the sports that truly matter. We have the best jobs, the fastest cars, and the finest women… real lesbians are icky. We are stronger, faster, smarter, and our penises are always bigger. We wear pants they wear skirts. I decided to create a national holiday today since August is so devoid of them, and I settled on Man Day. A day where all men will drink beer as one, grill brats as one, cheer on their favorite team as one, and watch porn as… well that's still going to be an individual event. To honor the first ever Man Day, I came out with a list of things we are better at than women. This will henceforth be known as the Man Day Decree.
On this, being the sixth day of August. One David Willis set forth upon a great gender a list of sexual inequalities. Purpose being to perpetrate the truth of true men, and the myth of a great women. So in as much as a downtrodden man can find hope in these following words, in the form of 25 points.
1. Women cannot stand and pee. Men enjoy this freedom it is truly gods gift to us.
2. Women must carry in the womb a child, not to exceed nine months. Men must sit idly by and laugh as the woman gains weight.
3. Men have protruding reproductive organs. If for no other reason than to measure them against fellow-men to see who is more manly.
4. Burping is a mans thing, women shall be scorned for attempting such a feat.
5. Farting to.
6. When having intercourse, men have the ability to complete the act long before the women-folk. It's a race… we win.
7. Higher IQs: Newton, Einstein, Edison, Tesla, all the presidents, Dr. Seuss, Twain, and Eminem. Need I say more?
8. War… no body does it better.
9. For a whole week out of the month our emotions stay the same, and we don't bleed from our kit and caboodle. Can you say the same thing?
10. Rational thinking is exclusive to men. A woman takes as much time picking out shoes as we do picking out perspective mates. Actually I can't tell who gets the short end of that stick.
11. Badass people in history. We have Leonidas, Caesar, Napoleon, King Arthur, King Kong, Wolverine, and Audie Murphy. You have Joan of Arc.
12. Muscles make us look hot, muscles make you look scary.
13. Million Dollar Baby. What happens when a woman tries to take over a mans sport? She gets paralyzed.
14. Crying. You do it, we end it.
15. Shopping. When we make money we save it, she gets those boots with the fur just so the clubs looks at her.
16. Blonde hair. When we have it, it makes us look good. When you have it jokes are made.
17. Brunette hair. You may be smarter than blondes, but your still a woman.
18. Choice of mates. You always seem to fuck this one up. Why are there no nice guys out there. Cuz your having sex with every Charlie Sheen you can find.
19. We are way better drivers than you are. Thats why every manly car comes with a manual transmission, and a prius comes in automatic.
20. Age treats us much better than it does you. Robert Deniro, Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Clint Eastwood, and George Clooney all still have their jobs. Yes that Golden Girl hosting SNL was a cute gimmick, but that's all it was.
21. Before going out all we have to do is shower and put on a clean shirt. You have to sit in front of a mirror and treat your face like Van Gogh's canvas, except when he painted something it never made him late for dinner.
22. The ability to skip numbers 23-25 if we please. And I damn well please.


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What will I learn?
Hands-on, case-based learning
Our undergraduate medical education provides an experience that gives you hands-on learning starting in your first year. Students at Dalhousie Medical School have many opportunities to get real-life hospital experience early on, through the clinical skills components or by choosing an elective that offers additional hands-on learning.
The program is divided into three key sections, Med 1 and Med 2, followed by Clerkship. The first two years, Med 1 and Med 2, give you a basic foundation in medicine, including the anatomy and systems of the human body, while considering other important aspects of health care, from the philosophical and ethical to the practical.
Clerkship, consisting of two phases completed over two academic years (Med 3 and Med 4), gives you even more opportunity to apply your learning in a range of situations and fields. The Clerkship Review Committee reviewed the Med 3 and Med 4 curiculum in 2012 and proposed several recommendations. In response, four periods of teaching time (each 2 to 4 weeks in length) will be developed to help students transition from Med 2 to Med 3, and through the clerkship from Med 3 to Med 4, and subsequently, from Med 4 into residency. These sessions will incorporate Introduction to Clerkship and Critical Review and Mastery (CRAM).
Classes in our medical program do not have the typical academic structure; rather, you will take a variety of theme- and case-based units that focus on a particular area of medical training.
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We all know that dark object absorb heat while white one reflect them. This presents an issue when it comes to a roof on a house. But what if you could have you cake and eat it too? This new material will change color, from white to black and back again, depending on the temperature. You can have a white roof during the summer and a black one during the winter! This could do wonders for your heating and cooling costs.
When the polymer phase separates from the gel, the solution becomes a mixture of polymer and solvent and because the polymer and solvent have different refractive indices the mixture becomes strongly scattering (white colored). When the mixture cools below the transition temperature the polymer re-dissolves in the liquid and the solution is clear and colorless. The pictures below illustrate the change in color when the tile is subjected to hot and cold temperatures.
This technology recently took first place in a competition, the school that won? MIT. Check the full story here