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Cotton Linen Slim Fit Plain White Shirt – Button Cuff
Collar Size
Sleeve Length
Adjust your sleeve length + £8.00Alterations will add 3 working days to standard delivery time
Additional Information
Product Details
This plain white shirt is a timeless piece of British tailoring. A mix of cotton and linen provides enhanced breathability, helping you stay cool when the days warm up.
The classic collar and button cuffs feature a subtle blue trim lining, which adds an extra touch of style.
The fabric is easy to iron, saving you precious moments in the morning. The close fitting cut of the shirt creates a streamlined look. Pair with smart slim fit suit trousers for a refined outfit.
About the fit
Slim fit
This customer favourite is a flattering fit for the average build. Gentle tapering at the waist creates a smooth and neat effect when the shirt is tucked in.
About the fabric
Cotton linen
This fabric blend combines all the comfort and breathability of cotton with the coolness of linen. The result is a softer linen shirt that is easier to iron.
About the collar
The classic collar is smart, timeless and suits everyone, with or without a tie.
Additional Information
- 71% cotton, 29% linen
- Easy to iron and breathable
- Classic collar
- Button cuff
- Machine washable
- Catalogue Number - 59524
- All accessories sold separately
Delivery Options
Free Click & Collect - Collect from a T.M. Lewin store in just 1-3 working days and receive £5 to spend in-store. £5 voucher to be redeemed in-store on any purchase over £10 on the day of collection.
Standard - Delivery in 2-5 days - £4.95
Guaranteed Next Day - Order by 2pm - £8.95
Saturday - Order by 2pm Friday - £9.95
International - from £8.00
We hope your purchases meet your discerning standards, but if you wish to return an item and live in the UK, you can send it to us completely free of charge using the free returns label. We recommend you get a Proof of Delivery from the Post Office.
All items must be returned with a receipt or delivery note, in saleable condition, in the original packaging and with all labels attached. Returns exclude altered shirts, underwear, footwear, gift voucher purchases and delivery charges. Faulty items that include altered items, may be returned within six months of purchase.
Please note that hemmed trousers cannot be returned for a refund or exchange unless faulty. If you are unsure of your sizing, we recommend choosing unfinished (36") and visit your local TM Lewin store for your adjustments with proof of purchase. The standard charge for alterations will be £9.75.


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Sulit Tips for EK First Timers
Enchanted Kingdom has been bringing magic to Filipino families for almost 22 years and until now, we are committed in spreading this magic and happiness to everyone. And if you are one of those who haven't visited the most magical place in the Philippines yet, let Eldar's apprentices give you sulit tips on how to enjoy a whole day at the park.
Check out and remember the locations of our numerous drinking fountains scattered around the park
Walking around the park and enjoying all the rides can leave you thirsty more often than normal – especially with all the shouting from the EKstremely thrilling rides. We have predicted and prepared for this. To make sure you don't get dehydrated and continue having fun, several drinking stations are located around the park. Drink water to your heart's content- it's FREE! And if you want to drink something cold and more flavorful, you can choose from a wide array of refreshing drinks at any of the EK food outlets in the park.
Buy the Regular Package ticket
You get to enjoy an all day pass to all the attractions at the park (except gated attractions) and a quick but amazing flight around the Philippines via the AGILA; the EKsperience, and you can even save 200 pesos!* Enjoy unlimited use of all rides. So that's so sulit!
*(compared to buying a separate single ride AGILA ticket and a regular park ticket)
Take time to stroll around the park in search of the most delicious and most sulit food at the park
Bringing in of outside food disrupts the magic at the park, but you don't need to worry about going hungry. There are many food choices around the park and you don't need to burn a hole through your pockets to satisfy your hunger. Arm yourself with a map and even before you go hungry, walk around the park to look for the perfect food for your budget. Or you can check out THIS LINK before your visit.
Keep an eye out and take advantage of EK's seasonal promos
Eldar and his apprentices often feel generous to first time park goers and regularly offer promos to make the park even more accessible and affordable to the public. Get huge savings on park tickets, that also come with surprise freebies, especially if you visit with your friends or family. Bookmark THIS PAGE for updates.
EKsperience the Magic Card
The EKsperience the Magic Card is EK's loyalty card that allows guests to enjoy a whole year of unlimited park admission. It comes with a membership kit, EKsclusive treats, discounts and more! Know more about this offer HERE!
This offer is so sulit because based on our experience, a day is not enough to enjoy all the attractions at Enchanted Kingdom. This is especially good for first timers, because no matter how many times you screamed at the Space Shuttle, or how many times you left your heart at the top of EKstreme Tower, or how many times you get splashed on at the Rio Grande Rapids, or how many times you felt like you will be thrown away by the Disk-O-Magic only to be pulled back suddenly, each ride leaves you coming back for more. Instead of buying regular package tickets every time you visit, just EKsperience the Magic Card.
Have a magical birthday at EK!
Did you know that you can enter the park for free on your birthday? And not just enter the park, you get to enjoy all the rides of course. What can be more sulit than that? Let your first time at EK be the most memorable one. Go with your friends and they get to enjoy the park with you at a 10% discount. That's what's more sulit! Celebrate your special day with Eldar but remember the magic lasts only within 6 days of your birthday. So plan your birthday right and let the magic stay with you until your next birthday!

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Street View is the best available vantage point looking, if possible, towards the location of the building. In some locations, Street View may not give a view of the actual building, or may not be available at all. Where it is not available, the satellite view is shown instead.
Latitude: 50.8703 / 50°52'13"N
Longitude: -0.7844 / 0°47'3"W
OS Eastings: 485631
OS Northings: 108570
OS Grid: SU856085
Mapcode National: GBR DGD.6J8
Mapcode Global: FRA 967S.XXZ
Entry Name: 56 and 57 Chichester Road
Listing Date: 28 January 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1026299
English Heritage Legacy ID: 300953
Location: Lavant, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18
County: West Sussex
District: Chichester
Civil Parish: Lavant
Built-Up Area: Mid Lavant
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Sussex
Church of England Parish: Lavant St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
38/355 No's 56 & 57 Mid Lavant
Goodwood Estate numbers. One building of the type known locally as the Dukery style. Half H-plan. Mid C19. Two storeys. Four windows. Coursed flints with red brick dressings, quoins and dripstones over the windows. Tiled roof. Casement windows. The outer window-bays project with gables over.
Listing NGR: SU8563108570
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
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We're less than a month away from our HD Americas conference and expo in Miami. By the time September 16th rolls around, the Miami Beach Convention Center will be home to some of the top product companies in the hospitality world. And what better place than Miami to dig into the Latin American hotel boom.
It seems that not an issue of Hospitality Design magazine is published that we're not discussing new hotels in Miami in some way or another. According to hotel data firm STR (and reported by Skift), Miami has 2,709 rooms under construction, third only behind New York City and Houston. The Art Deco style and vibrant culture, as well as the city's proximity to many Latin American and Caribbean countries makes Miami a town that's on fire. We understand what Will Smith was talking about.
During site visits at HD Americas this year, attendees will be able to visit two of those properties that are transforming Miami:
The Redbury South Beach, one of sbe's newest hotels, offers a unique aesthetic. Designed by photographer and director Matthew Rolston in collaboration with California-based Avenue Interior Design (featured in our July issue as a startup to watch), the hotel relies on Miami's past to inform its design. Calling upon the spirit of the 1950s Rat Pack and the Art Deco design elements pervasive throughout the city, the 69-guestroom boutique hotel is all about old Hollywood glamour. Design highlights include: historic Fillmore Theater posters adorning walls throughout the hotel; archival images of Miami Beach; old record players; red velvet opera curtains in the lobby; and bold, bright colors throughout the guestrooms.
The Metropolitan by COMO offers a more calming presence, with a tranquil color scheme of gray, green, and blue hues throughout. Our July cover girl, Paolo Navone designed the 1930s Art Deco building, a conversion of the Traymore Hotel, and notes in our interview that historic preservation rules constrained some of her design: "I thought we should work with what was there," including the existing terrazzo floors, "so I picked out the light green color. I see it as fresh, and it reminds me of the sea," she explained.


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Second EP From this Copenhagen Denmark Band, Amdi Petersen's Arme. Named after an elusive Danish cult leader (the Jim Jones of Denmark?) this EP follow their first 7" on Kick and Punch Records. APA play trashy aggressive hardcore in the early 80's US style. The first 7" sounded very much like early Dischord singles such as Youth Brigade, SOA and Teen Idles. This second 7" continues in the same vein but has a bit more of a Nervous Breakdown/Jealous Again era Black Flag feel. Catchy songs, Amdi Petersen's Arme toured the USA in the summer of 2002. Then broke up. Members also later played in Young Wasteners , Uro Gorilla Angreb and No Hope for the Kids.
Havoc records. New distro copy. Black vinyl with Insert.


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Explore our seriously comprehensive array of benefits, perks and amenities. There's a lot to love when you join Expedia Group.
Benefits may vary by country
At Expedia Group, careers have no borders. As a global platform, we are here to help knock down the barriers to travel for people around the world, making it more enjoyable, more attainable and more accessible. In doing so, we aim to bring the world within reach. We believe our success can make the world a better place. We offer the unique opportunity to work across multiple global travel brands, all while building the most advanced technology in the industry. Come and explore our openings.
At Expedia, we never stand still. Now we're expanding our Lodging Partner Services division –LPS for short. Right now we're investing in LPS, taking on new people in our Global Market Management and Partner Account Management teams. We're the people that find, sign up, onboard, market, and support the hundreds of thousands of hotels across the world on which our business relies. Without us, there'd be no Expedia.
With famous brands from trivago to Hotels.com, and 20,000 smart, talented people, we're already known for revolutionizing travel through the power of technology. Join us, and together, we'll make it even easier for millions of customers all over the globe to step out of their homes and into their perfect holiday.
There is simply nowhere better to learn about what makes the world's most innovative online travel company around tick, so get involved and join us on our adventure!
You'll help us find hotels of every type and size to join the Expedia family. In this varied role you'll be facilitating leads, preparing market visits and liaising with prospective hotel partners. Then you'll onboard the hotels. Using market insights and data provided by our bespoke technology, you'll optimize content, drive promotions and make sure our new partners know just how to make the most of our self-service tools. It's a role with huge potential for growth, and the chance to build a career in over 30 countries across the globe.
A results-focused, goal-orientated approach and lots of determination;
An ambitious, hungry attitude and the ability to learn fast;
Strong English skills, both written and spoken;
A desire to challenge the status quo and an entrepreneurial spirit.
You'll build a portfolio of hotel partners all across your region or city, attracting properties of every type and size to join the Expedia family. By explaining exactly how our bespoke online tools and global network of online travel brands can help them attract more guests than ever, you'll help hotel partners understand Expedia's value proposition and get excited about joining the Expedia family.
A hungry, entrepreneurial approach where you'll constantly be looking for ways to attract new business, win back old business, improve processes, and deliver more for the hotel you work with;
Strong business acumen and a drive for results;
Experience of dealing directly with customers;
A laser focus on meeting targets and goals;
The ability to deliver data-driven, practical solutions that work;
An ability to build strong B2B relationships, gaining trust and buy-in quickly from hotel partners
Strong written and verbal English.
This is a key role, where you'll be at the heart of our big push for growth in Europe, building our profile all across your territory. Leading a smart, talented team, you'll create a diverse portfolio of hotels that will allow millions of customers to get exactly the holiday they want. You'll make sure all of our hotel partners, from huge global chains, to family-run boutiques, get the most from our innovative technology, our unique breadth of global customers, and the data-based marketing solutions we can offer every single one of them.
An ability to win market share by innovating;
Considerable experience of meeting ambitious targets, and turning strategic objectives into reality on the ground;
A 'never give up' attitude and great communication skills, that allow you to build strong, productive relationships quickly with your customers;
A love of inventive technology, and the ability to use the data it provides to create insightful analysis that results in meaningful action plans;
Strong written and spoken English;
A current driving license.
This is a key strategic role - and you'll be at the heart of our big push for growth in Europe, building our profile all across your region. Leading a team of up to 12 people, you'll help hotel partners understand Expedia's value proposition to ensure our millions of customers worldwide can always find their dream hotel. Whether you're leading market research, visiting fairs and events to raise Expedia's profile in your region, or attending key client visits to develop and inspire your team, it will be your strategic vision that ensures success. It's success that you'll share regularly with Senior Directors as you report on your territory at key regional meetings.
Proven experience as a manager, leading a team to achieve ambitious targets;
A keen analytical mind that can turn data into a business development action plan that works on the ground;
A hunger for success, coupled with a desire to challenge the status quo and innovate;
Relationship-building skills that allow you to transmit your enthusiasm both to your team and potential hotel partners;
Strong English skills.
You'll be the voice of Expedia for our hotel partners. As you onboard new hotels, you'll find out everything from location to pool size, star ratings to number of rooms. Then you'll upload all that information onto websites seen by millions across the globe. You'll make sure it's 100% accurate of course – but also that it's attractive to customers and competitive in the market, with the right rate plans, promotions and seasonal deals. You'll build a strong relationship with the hotels you work with, making sure they get the very most from being on our websites, and giving them training on how to use our innovative Expedia tools to help catch the customer's eye.
Strong verbal and written skills in English;
A real talent for building rapport with people, particularly over the phone;
An efficient, accurate approach, combining an eye for detail with analytical skills;
A strong results–focus mindset – with a talent for making sure we get all the information we need from our hotel partners quickly, so we can get their properties online fast;
Strong IT literacy with the ability to learn new technical skills fast after training;
Experience in Sharepoint, Salesforce, and content management tools would be a real plus, but is not essential.
Our hotel partners are at the heart of our business. You'll provide them with an exceptional support over both phone and email. Whether you're helping train a small, family run Pensione to use our innovative tools to update their offering online, checking with a big hotel chain about rates and availability or helping a ski chalet contact a party about arrival times, you'll help keep everything running like clockwork. Not least in your career. There are 4 levels in these roles, and countless ways to then develop further in a company with 20,000 people based in 30 countries.
You'll join us in our Prague contact centre – a buzzing, cosmopolitan place, where 27 languages are spoken, travel's in the blood and new ideas are always welcome.
Strong verbal and written skills in English and one of the following: Italian, French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Swedish, Dutch, Icelandic or Portuguese;
Experience of providing brilliant customer service. Whatever the query, you'll find an answer. Whatever the issue, you can develop a solution;
The ability to build strong relationships with the hotels you work with, delivering real value for their business and ours;
IT literacy and the ability to learn how to use our technology platforms quickly.
We want you for you. Not the future you, or the after training you. We want the passionate and ambitious you of today, what you can bring to the table right now. And of course, we can't wait to meet the future you too. Once you're here, you'll discover a world of passionate people who work as One Team and use technology to improve the travel experience for millions of travelers across the world.
Walk through any of our offices around the world and you'll see an organization that embraces the future and potential of all people. You'll find women in leadership in every division and equity in our pay across genders.
We're a team of talented and diverse people from all over the world. We love solving problems and creating ideas — we learn, grow and succeed this way.
We are the world's travel platform. Our purpose is to bring the world within reach. We are among the largest technology companies in the world, and our work is solely dedicated to one of the most socially and economically important activities on the planet – travel. Our travel brands represent the world's most comprehensive selection of travel offerings. From personal to business, last minute to expenses, we've got it. These options are backed by industry leading technology and a worldwide team of passionate employees whose focus is creating the best travel experience.
For travelers, by travelers
Working together is a powerful thing
Enabling our affiliates to leverage Expedia Group inventory
Connecting business travelers to the world
Creating unforgettable travel experiences together
Empowering our travelers to find their ideal hotel
Helping people take
more trips
Managing global business travel expenses
On one hand, Expedia is an online travel company. On the other, we're a partner in countless stories; honeymoons, million-dollar business deals, a child's first trip to the beach…we make these things happen. We love travel and we want to make it easier for everyone to share our passion. Travel lets us find beauty in the unexpected places of the world, in crowded marketplaces or in the eerie morning fog of the countryside. Share the joy of travel with the world and you'll find that the greatest voyage of your career might be with us. We're looking for people who are just as enthusiastic as we are when it comes to travel. People who get giddy while planning a trip. People who have lists of places they want visit. And people who can't stand making lists. We want people who recognize that technology is how we're going to make travel simpler and more accessible. People who understand that travel isn't about Point A and Point B. It's about everything in between. Similarly, this company isn't just about the end result. We need to be happy, stimulated and fulfilled. If that's what you want too, we would love to hear from you.
— Sharon, Marketing StrategySearch Openings
Right now, as you read this, thousands of people are enjoying the rooms they booked at Hotels.com. That's a thought that makes us smile. It's reason enough to come in to work every day. But luckily for us, it isn't the only reason. Hotels.com is a global company with the spirit of a start-up. Our people are experts in their fields but there are no big egos here. Collaboration is in. Red tape and politics are out. Let your guard down. Relax. Have fun. You're in good hands now.
At Hotels.com we're fast and flexible, leaning on each other for ideas, inspiration and support. Teamwork is essential, it's how we forge our paths and careers. Together we make travel planning easier, intuitive and fun. We like rolling up our sleeves and diving into the thick of things. Put your talents to the test with us and you'll be rewarded with an exhilarating future. And of course, you can expect all the benefits that come with a Hotels.com career.
— Torq, Director of TechnologySearch Openings
It's common sense, really. People grow by helping each other. Why should it be any different for companies? Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN) provides hundreds of partners worldwide with the tools and technology that help millions of travelers find the perfect hotels for their next trips.
Here at EAN, we provide our partners access to world class supply through optimized technology and a range of solutions. Our focus is always on our partners and sharing our expertise in the travel industry with them. We support them in reaching their business goals every step of the way. Because when they are successful, so are we!
Our partners range from the world's largest airlines and travel
agents, to loyalty and corporate travel companies. If you'd like to
help them succeed, you'll fit right in with us (we also have a lot of
fun along the way).
At Egencia, we work hard to make our travelers' lives easy. We are innovators, disruptors, problem-solvers and collaborators. Our ever-growing team of Account Managers, Software Engineers, Travel Agents and Creatives work together to take the busyness out of business travel.
For a career at Egencia, you will bring with you a desire to change the world. We look for people who combine a real passion for technology with the professionalism of the service industry, to ensure that more
than 10,000 clients in over 60 countries receive a delightful end-to-end travel experience.
We're growing, fast. From being a small start-up, to becoming the fifth largest corporate travel management company in the world. But this is just the beginning, we aim to double in size by 2020.
We're going on an incredible journey; would you like to join us?
— Cassie, Sales OperationsSearch Openings
HomeAway® is revolutionizing the way people the world over spend their precious vacation time. Our global team of professionals is at the forefront of the vacation rental space—leading the industry through innovation in everything we do, from advancements in technology to our authentic and welcoming corporate culture.
We're committed to helping families and friends of all kinds find the perfect places for unforgettable travel experiences and lifetime memories together. To that end, we foster that same collective spirit in all of our offices by making them friendly, cutting-edge, and accommodating environments for all our employees.
HomeAway team members come to work with exceptional individual expertise, and they find an incredibly creative, diverse, and dynamic workplace. We celebrate our successes together and believe in whole vacations for everyone. We offer generous vacation time and a range
of benefits.
What are you waiting for? Start checking off your career bucket list today.
— Sara, Sr. Manager, User Experience InsightsSearch Openings
Life at trivago isn't exactly conventional— our cultural backgrounds are different, our skills sets are different, we speak different languages, and yet we are all cohesively working together in one global family toward one common goal.
We celebrate our failures along with our successes, because it brings us one step closer to a solution. We are collectively a group of unique individuals who love what we do, who stand behind what we do and who are constantly, passionately, learning more to better what we do. We would rather inspire, empower and nurture others to be authentic and pursue their dreams, rather than control them. This philosophy has created a unique, balanced atmosphere at trivago, which we believe is as organic as it is refreshing.
Inspire your soul and feed your mind.
— Amanda, AnalystSearch Openings
Our roots are in San Francisco, but we also have offices in Seattle along with an important and fast-growing product and technology presence in Gurgaon, India. Hotwire has the energy and pace of a startup, plus the stability and backing of the incredible Expedia Group. Our culture centers around delivering value to customers and supply partners by being passionate about building great products with the latest and greatest technologies available. We pride ourselves on our organizational transparency, a bias for action and a customer centric approach to everything we do.
We're currently making substantial investments in our technology platform and our brand marketing strategy to enable our next stage of high growth. To make these endeavors possible, we're on the hunt for people who are passionate about solving tough problems and are excited about the opportunity take on highly visible roles that will have an immediate impact on our business.
If you thrive in environments that are dynamic, action oriented, data driven and relish in conquering diverse challenges every single day, joining Hotwire is likely to be the most rewarding opportunity of your career. So-- what are you waiting for? Come join a household name brand that lives at the exciting intersection of technology and travel.
— Amanda, AnalystSearch Openings
We are looking for dynamic, hardworking and passionate individuals to help take our business to the next level. Our goal: to be the leading provider of end-to-end Travel and Expense solutions, globally.
We believe in working as a team and Innovation is at our core. Continually looking to improve the customer experience through new technologies is what drives us.
With the emergence of new technology, new entrants and the convergence of leisure and business travel, it's an exciting time to join the corporate travel industry and to help shape the future of travel and expense management.
Inspired? Then we need your talent! Whether you are a young graduate or experienced manager hungry for success and looking for your next challenge – get in touch!
— Hervé, Traveldoo, Project ManagementSearch Openings
Comprehensive doesn't begin to cover all the benefits and amenities we offer at Expedia. Our mission is to make people's lives better through the magic of travel and that inspires us to provide our people with the very best to make that happen.
Benefits may vary by country
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Vision Insurance
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Life Insurance
Supplemental Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
Occupational Accident Insurance
Health Care On-Site
Mental Health Care
Retiree Health & Medical
Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
Pension Plan
401K Plan
Retirement Plan
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Performance Bonus
Stock Options
Equity Incentive Plan
Supplemental Workers' Compensation
Charitable Gift Matching
Maternity & Paternity Leave
Work From Home
Fertility Assistance
Dependent Care
Adoption Assistance
Reduced or Flexible Hours
Military Leave
Family Medical Leave
Unpaid Extended Leave
Vacation & Time Off
Vacation & Paid Time Off
Sick Days
Paid Holidays
Volunteer Time Off
Bereavement Leave
Employee Discount
Employee Assistance Program
Gym Membership
Mobile Phone Discount
Company Social Events
Travel Discounts
Legal Assistance
Professional Support
Diversity Program
Job Training
Professional Development
Apprenticeship Program
Tuition Assistance


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Dan Somogyi –Team Leader
Dan is currently the lead contact for Wave. Dan cut his teeth at jazz and world music development agency, Jazzeast, before moving to Bournemouth in 2002 to set up the multi-award winning SoundStorm Music Education Agency, which he still oversees. Dan took over responsibility for Wave in autumn 2015 and is helping the agency develop a sustainable model for the future.
Michael Armstrong – Interim Wave Co-Manager
Michael joined Wave/SoundStorm in September 2014; having worked across various health care settings for 15 years, Michael decided to pursue his love of the arts full time in 2011. He's since curated music events, established cabaret nights, led community arts festivals and spent time developing the education offer for South London's leading theatre The Albany.
Claire White – Senior Business Support Officer
Claire is an essential part of our team and makes sure our organisation runs smoothly, from managing our financial procedures to arranging training events. Claire also finds time to work part time as a Youth Support Worker for Poole Youth Service.
Claire Butler – Senior Business Support Officer
Job sharing with Claire White, Claire B is one of the longest supporting team members, having supported Wave since 2010. Claire has recently returned from maternity leave and helps with tasks across the business.
Helen James – Arts Marketing Officer
Helen fled Shropshire's countryside to study at the Arts University Bournemouth and graduated with a (BA) Hons in Illustration. She currently supports the team with creative marketing and graphic design. Helen is developing her skills range and hopes to start delivering workshops for Wave directly from the autumn of 2016 onwards.
To find out how to contact the wave team visit our Contact Us page


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Art Deco Wedding in the Hollywood Hills
Dream Bridal just posted this wedding I did in the Hollywood Hills. Shot by Laura Grier of Beautiful Day Photography. Loved working with Stacy and Marty.
I'm very excited, because I'm featuring one stunning party all week long. It's going to be served up like a gourmet meal, one delicious course at a time.
This event was planned by Ryan Larson of Savoir Flair Weddings, the event planning maven to stylish Angelenos and beyond. Her weddings have been featured in Modern Bride, Inside Weddings, Elegant Bride, and The Knot Wedding Pages, as well as a celebrity tabloid that shall remain nameless! Ugh, I want the scoop on that as I've been known to enjoy a rag or two during my weekends…but I digress.
Ryan has stopped by this week to share the wedding she planned for Stacy and Marty last summer. The details for this wedding are perfection, and this couple just looks so happy to tie the knot. But don't let me get ahead of myself here. Remember, just one course at a time. Today appetizers are served, and we get to meet the beautiful bride. Join us for the second course tomorrow, when bride and groom meet. Enjoy!
Bride & Groom: Stacy & Marty
Wedding date: July 19, 2009
Wedding venue: Bride & Groom's home in the Hollywood Hills
Colors: A natural palette of the peacock; a gradation of blues, greens, browns
Inspirations: Old Hollywood, art deco, al fresco dining under the stars
I like to get to know the couples first before we do any design. I ask things like, "What do you do for fun?" and "What kind of decorating style do you have in your home?" Then the big question: "What kind of feelings do you want conveyed that night?" This to me is extremely important, especially because so much can come out of the feelings….colors, style, food, music type…etc.
About Savoir Fair Weddings: For Ryan, no two weddings could ever be alike because the design is inspired by the couple themselves. Ryan meets with the couple to really get to know them before she can even think about design. She feels there is nothing worse than a "canned wedding." Ryan believes the key to a truly memorable wedding celebration lies in making it personal and unique. She has a reputation for dreaming up distinctive, one of a kind weddings that speak to the couple's style and personality.
Photography & Photobooth: Beautiful Day Photography / Cake: Hansen's Bakery / Florist: Fiore Designs / Caterer: Easy Entertaining


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Aleister Seiflein
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Cultural Identity: Irish, German, & Italian
Studied: Ballet, Capoeira, Taekwondo (Purple Belt), & Hip-Hop
Favorite Dance Step: Écarté Devant
Alyce Finwall
Birthplace: St. Paul, MN
Cultural Identity: Norwegian, Swedish, English, German,
& French
Studied: Ballet, modern, contemporary, tap, & jazz
Favorite Dance Step: The body wave!
Anandha Moon Ray
Birthplace: Russellville, KY
Cultural Identity: Native American, Scottish, African American
Studied: Modern, Ballet, Sufi spinning, tribal fusion, bellydance, dance therapy
Favorite Dance Step: Every single one!
Anat Shamash
Birthplace: Israel
Cultural Identity:
Israeli & American
Studied: Flamenco,
Israeli folk dancing, the Hustle, Brazilian samba,
Afro-Brazilian, & salsa
Favorite Dance Step: Loves to turn in any dance
Annie Jacobsen
Cultural Identity: Ashkenazi, Middle Eastern, Italian, French, German, Balkan, Scandinavian, Southern European, East Asian
Studied: Ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, modern, israeli folk & belly dance
Favorite Dance Step: Any gyrating hip swing
with attitude!
Ariana Cisneros
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Cultural Identity: Nicaraguan, Austrian, Jewish
Studied: Ballet, modern, contact improv, & aerial dance
Favorite Dance Step: Ankle Hang
Atessa Gholamy
Birthplace: Palo Alto, CA
Cultural Identity:
Studied: Ballet, gymnastics
Favorite Dance Step: Chasse
Audrey Douglas
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Cultural Identity: Lithuanian, Swedish, German, Portuguese, French-Canadian, & Irish
Studied: Ballet, contemporary, hip-hop, & aerial
Favorite Dance Move: Rebecca Split on aerial silk
Carolina Saboya
Birthplace: San Diego, CA
Cultural Identity:
Brazilian American
Studied: Hip-hop &
contact improv dancing
Favorite Dance Step: Loves the freedom of experimentation while dancing
Colleen "Kalina" Su
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Cultural Identity: Asian Mixture— Balinese, Chinese, & Hawaiian
Studied: Ballet, tap, jazz, modern, ballroom, bachata, salsa, tango, flamenco, Afro- Haitian, Dunham, Bollywood and hula Kuhiko and Auana. Kung-fu, Tai-chi, Eskrima, & Shaolin Wushu.
Favorite Dance Move: Flying side kicks
Erica Lingrell
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Cultural Identity:
Mexican & European
Studied: tribal and cabaret belly dance, Persian, Odessi, & West African
Favorite Dance Step: Whirling!
Farima Berenji
Birthplace: Iran
Cultural Identity: Iranian-American & Azerbaijani
Studied: Persian, Central Asian, Sufi, belly dance, North African, & ballet
Favorite Dance Step: (Love them all honestly)
Any lyrical Persian and Central Asian dance moves come first
Georgia Badenhope
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Cultural Identity:
Studied: Ballet
Favorite Dance Move: Grand Jete
Hui Hui Hutchinson
Birthplace: Wuhan, Hubei, China
Cultural Identity:
Chinese & Jewish
Favorite Dance Move:
The Electric Slide
Ismael Acosta
Birthplace: Sonora, Mexico
Cultural Identity: Mexican
Studied: Jazz, ballet, Graham, high impact, & modern
Favorite Dance Step: Falling
James Duggan
Birthplace: Garden City Long Island, NY
Cultural Identity: Irish-American
Studied: Ballet and modern in high school and modern dance in college
Favorite Dance Step: "Anything you do" ("You" as in Jamielyn, his daughter)
Jamielyn Duggan
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Cultural Identity: American,
Irish, Czechoslovakian
Studied: Ballet (classical
and contemporary), modern, jazz, hip-hop,
Middle Eastern, & Gaga
Favorite Dance Step: Anything that includes revolving through space
Jason Hutchinson
Birthplace: Virginia
Cultural Identity: Jewish
Favorite Dance Step: Tango, Lifts
Jenevieve Francisco
Birthplace: Daly City, CA
Cultural Identity:
Studied: Jazz, Afro-Cuban, rueda/casino, hula, & Tahitian
Favorite Dance Step: Any casino move that involves twisting and going underneath someone's arms, while doing three turns in a row. You know...something easy
Jessiah Zure
Birthplace: Vancouver, BC
Cultural Identity: Hungarian, Romanian, Irish, & Scottish
Studied: Middle Eastern dance, Balkan, Roma, & other African diaspora dances
Favorite Dance Step: The ones that fit into the
music perfectly
JulieT B
Birthplace: Massachusetts
Cultural Identity:
Studied: ballet, tap, jazz,
modern, teeny bit of Afro-Caribbean and Bollywood
Favorite Dance Step: Anything where I can jump
Karen Oakley
Birthplace: San Pablo, CA
Cultural Identity: African-American
Studied: Russian Character, Dunham technique, ballet, USGF elite gymnastics, Broadway jazz dance, dances of the American classical jazz era, Jewish Klezmer folk dances, and many folk dances from various regions of Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Palestine, Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Mexico, Brazil, and Cuba
Favorite Dance Step: Salsa
Kevin Greek
Birthplace: Tacoma, WA
Cultural Identity:
American Caucasian
Studied: Folkloric dances from
all over the globe
Favorite Dance Step: Closing bow to an audience
or hug to a partner
Kiana Gholamy
Birthplace: Palo Alto, CA
Cultural Identity:
Studied: Ballet, Hip-Hop, Theater, gymnastics
Favorite Dance Step: Coupe
Laura Rae Bernasconi
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Cultural Identity:
Italian American
Studied: Ballet, modern, contemporary, tribal fusion, Odissi (classical
Indian temple dance), contact improvisation, tango,
& acro-yoga
Favorite Dance Step: Waltz
Lin Lin Hutchinson
Birthplace: Shenzhen,
Guangdong, China
Cultural Identity: Chinese
& Jewish
Favorite Dance Step: The Electric Slide
Lourdes Sunray
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Studied: Middle Eastern dance, flamenco, African dance,
hip-hop, & modern
Favorite Dance Step: Serpentine arms
Marlena Elizabeth Zahm
Birthplace: Springfield, MA
Cultural Identity: Polish, German, & English
Studied: Jazz, tap, modern,
hip-hop, ballet, & gymnastics
Favorite Dance Step: Shuffle pick-ups
Monica Justice
Birthplace: Salisbury, MD
Cultural Identity: American
Studied: West African, modern, jazz, tap, ballet, & ballroom
Favorite Dance Step: Anything West African
Muñeca DeNaro
Birthplace: Berkeley, CA
Cultural Identity: African American, Italian, Jamaican, Gypsy, Native American Indian
Studied: Flamenco, Afro-Cuban, belly dance, jazz,
hip-hop, Caribbean, salsa, samba, West African, Afro- Peruvian, Afro-Haitian, ballroom, & musical theatre
Favorite Dance Move: Anything dramatic that moves like water
Never Navarro
Birthplace: Lima, Peru.
Cultural Identity: Peruvian-Gay American
Studied: Peruvian folklore dance, ballet, modern, jazz & contemporary
Favorite Dance Move: Pirouette passé
en dedans
Paul Gallo
Birthplace: Jersey City, NJ
Cultural Identity: Gay American Male
Studied: Fashion Design at F.I.T. in NYC
Favorite Dance Move: Love to Salsa!
Rachel Yamahiro
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Cultural Identity: Japanese, Danish, German, & Scotch-Irish
Studied: Ballet, jazz, Bhangra, West African, & Balkan
Favorite Dance Step: Halay from Mardin, Turkey
Rebecca Siegel
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Cultural Identity: Romanian, Russian, Greek
Studied: Modern, Flamenco, Ballet
Favorite Dance Step: Quebrada turns
Rou Rou Hutchinson
Birthplace: Yangxin County, Hubei, China
Cultural Identity:
Chinese & Jewish
Studied: Russian classical ballet & tap
Favorite Dance Move: Pirouette
Shelly Manber
Birthplace: Madison, WI
Cultural Identity: Israeli
Studied: Ballet, modern, Israeli folk dance, contact improv,
aerial dance, Indian, & Turkish
Favorite Dance Step: Any lift
Solveig Libicki
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Cultural Identity: Lithuanian, Polish, Czechoslovakian, Norwegian, Swedish, English, German, & French
Studied: Ballet & creative movement
Favorite Dance Step: Everything!
Tina Braganza
Birthplace: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Cultural Identity: Filipino
Studied: Tap, Jazz, Ballet, & Modern, ballroom & Filipino folk dancing
Favorite Dance Step: double wing step in Tap, because who doesn't like to fly? ;)
Zakai DiMaggio DeNaro
Birthplace: Berkeley, CA
Cultural Identity:
African American, Italian, Jamaican, Polish, Irish,
Native American Indian
Studied: Contemporary, hip-hop
Favorite Dance Move:The Moonwalk
Zarina Dixon
Birthplace: Berkeley, CA
Cultural Identity: Russian Jewish, El Salvadorian, & Costa Rican
Studied: Afro-Brazilian & hip-hop
Favorite Dance Step: Samba spin


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INTERESTING, but What was our original name "GENE???"
The following was taken from Vol. XVI and New Series Vol. II, Part 2 of COLONIAL & REVOLUTIONARY FAMILIES OF PENNSYLVANIA, pages 555 & 556:
The name Alwein is of great antiquity in the Netherlands where it was found spelled as Alewijn or Halewijn. The meaning is, literally, "ale-wine," and the original bearers were probably the owners of large vineyards or vintners, a profession highly esteemed in old and modern times. Bearers of the name held positions in the courts of the Holland nobility. Gerrit Alewijn was in charge of munitions under Willem III, Count of Holland, in 1332, and was appointed to the same post in 1342 under Willem IV. Jan Alewijn was a schepen, or magistrate, in Amsterdam in 1405 and another of the same name was a councillor in 1469 under Karl the Bold. Diedrick "de Halevin alias Alewijn" was made a knight by the French King, Francis I, at Pavia, in 1525. His grandson, of the same name, who was born in 1574, and died in Amsterdam in 1637, received a large estate in Beemster, thirteen miles north of Amsterdam. Many persons of the name served as burgomasters in their localities. Mr. William Alewijn of Amsterdam, born 1769, died 1835, was granted a coat of arms in 1815.
Jacob Alewijn was mint-master in Zutphen, in the province of Gelderland, near Arnhern, and died in Harder, a locality about thiry miles east of Amsterdam, May 26, 1606. His name indicates that he may have been the progenitor of the family whose records follow:
(J.B. Rietstap: "Wapenboek van den Nederlandischen Adel," Vol I, pp 6, 7. A.A. Vorsterman Van Oyen: "Stamen-Wapenboek van Aanzienlijke Nederlandischen Familien," Vol 1, p 7.)
Hans Jacob Alwein, or Alwine as the name appears in early Pennsylvania records, was probably a descendant of Jacob Alewijn, a mint-master in Zutphen, as above mentioned. Hans Jacob Alwein was born about 1719 and died in Berks County, Pennsylvania; at an unknown date, he emigrated to Pennsylvania in the ship "St. Andrew" sailing from Rotterdam, and took the oath of allegiance required of foreigners in Philadelphia, October 2, 1741, being then twenty-two years old.
I don't have any proof or authentic verification of a connection
but I have the gut feeling that in the distant past many variations in the spelling of the "ALEWIJN" family name have occured and trickled in many different directions, including "ALEWINE".
Something to think about anyway!


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Serving Hobbyists for Over 50 Years
When Ford began using the two tooth sector in 1929 this was the wheel that was installed on those steering boxes. NOTE: All U.S.A. steering wheels are unfinished and require trimming of the molding seam.
A thin nut for holding on the steering wheel.
Our puller contains 2 pulling plates, one for the 1928-29 steering wheel and the other for the 1930-31.


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Educational Consequences of the End of Court-Ordered Desegregation
- Rucker Johnson, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
- Goldman School of Public Policy Working Paper (March 2012)
The present paper combines this comprehensive data on the timing of court releases from desegregation
plans of more than 200 school districts that occurred since 1990 (obtained from Reardon et al.) with nationally-representative longitudinal micro data of children born since 1980 followed through 2009. Inparticular, I use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and its Child Development Supplement (PSIDCDS) matched to children's school and neighborhood characteristics and school desegregation policyvariables. Using an event study framework and difference-in-difference model, I examine the impacts of the termination of mandated desegregation plans on academic achievement outcomes, including cognitive test scores, high school graduation rates, educational attainment, and non-cognitive behavioral outcomes, separately by race. Preliminary results show that the increased allocation of school resources to those in high poverty, minority neighborhoods following the release of continued court oversight actually served to mitigate the potential negative impacts of resegregation on black student achievement (at least in the short-run).
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Real Truth Matters
Hi everyone. I just wanted to let you all know about a great website to check out, Real Truth Matters. It is full of sermon downloads, manuscripts and regularly updated blogs from some really gifted people.
Please take the time to check it out and if you have a blog or web page of your own please put a link to it yourself. The weekly sermons are awesome. Pastor Michael Durham speaks the truth as revcealed in scripture and does not compromise.
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In January 2016, Oculus will be releasing the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality device that is as impressive as the name indicates. Recently they also released the Oculus VR by Samsung. A $99 device that transforms your cell phone into an amazing VR headset. There are also many other virtual reality devices heading our way. Google has done an inexpensive Google Cardboard implementation that brings 360º views to everybody for pennies. Soon the market will be flooded with headsets, glasses and other virtual viewing devices that will shape our entertainment.
Now imagine this. 30 students in a classroom getting instruction about the human cell from an excellent teacher. The teacher is explaining the cell and mentioning what activities they will be doing together in groups and as individuals.
A switch is flipped.
None of these students were in the same classroom in real life. These 30 students are from around the world. The teacher is one of the finest subject matter experts, and her lesson plan is flawless. And while the teaching is happening, and the switch is flipped, something very unexpected takes place. All of the students are suddenly immersed inside a virtual human cell.
They are in a classroom without walls and boundaries. As the cell starts up the process of protein synthesis the teacher pauses for a moment to point out the chemicals that are about to come into contact with one another. Suddenly all of the students get it. They lived it. They watched it happen in a world so engaging they can't escape its glory.
This is what I think Virtual Reality can do for education. History class is now an everyday virtual field trip to the places and times where events happened. The understanding of these events comes from learners of all types experiencing the content in several different ways. Combine the virtual reality with other forms of technology and you have yourself a spicy learning sandwich. And at a price we won't be able to refuse.
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
How Microsoft's Continuum Might Impact Educational Technology
Every teacher knows the frustration of texting in class. Idle tech does the devils work. The day of the cell phone basket, the place where students put their phones before entering class, might be a thing of the past. It is possible that teachers soon will be saying "everybody, get out your cell phones, time to work!".
With the release of the Lumia 950 and 950xl, Microsoft shared with the world a new vision for being productive with your cell phone. Continuum is the system they have created to allow a Windows 10 enabled cell phone to work as a full blown PC when hooked up to a small dock. Now instead of a laptop, you carry around your cell phone, which acts just like a cell is supposed to, but also works as a desktop computer. At that moment when you need to be increasingly productive you simply plug it in to a full size monitor and instantly boost your options for getting work done. Pair that with the cell phones ability to boost to an optional two terabytes of storage, and you can take your entire office with you everywhere you go. As technology shrinks and becomes more powerful, it doesn't seem crazy that most phones will eventually work like this. If other cell phone manufactures follow the lead, every student will be carrying around a full size computer in their pocket. All the school will need to supply is a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
While it might be a few years for an idea like this to catch on, I think it could be a great one for BYOD programs.
With the release of the Lumia 950 and 950xl, Microsoft shared with the world a new vision for being productive with your cell phone. Continuum is the system they have created to allow a Windows 10 enabled cell phone to work as a full blown PC when hooked up to a small dock. Now instead of a laptop, you carry around your cell phone, which acts just like a cell is supposed to, but also works as a desktop computer. At that moment when you need to be increasingly productive you simply plug it in to a full size monitor and instantly boost your options for getting work done. Pair that with the cell phones ability to boost to an optional two terabytes of storage, and you can take your entire office with you everywhere you go. As technology shrinks and becomes more powerful, it doesn't seem crazy that most phones will eventually work like this. If other cell phone manufactures follow the lead, every student will be carrying around a full size computer in their pocket. All the school will need to supply is a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
While it might be a few years for an idea like this to catch on, I think it could be a great one for BYOD programs.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Difficult Conversations at School
Last night I had the opportunity to join Oscar Cielos Staton and Dr. Greg Goins on a conversation about difficult conversations. It was a great opportunity to look at some of the ways in which we approach those times at school where we are faced with tough talks. Please watch the video and support Oscar at http://www.teachcow.com.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Use Kahoot in PE Class!
Kahoot is a game-based classroom response system. This easy to use application can be used on just about any browser enabled device. Most of the time Kahoot is used to perform interactive quizzes in classrooms. What you might not know is that it can be a great tool to use in gym class as well. Here is how:
First learn how to Kahoot at http://www.kytelearning.com/courses/kahoot/. Next it is time to organize your gym class activity. You will need the following:
At least two devices that run Kahoot, although this activity can be expanded to as many devices as you would like. Kahoot works with almost any device, so it could be a cell phone, laptop or tablet.
Projector, or TV hooked up to the host computer (You could probably just use a laptop if you are creative). This will display the questions that the teams will be seeing before they race to answer the questions.
Set up the projector at one end of the gym where both teams can read the questions on the floor. Divide your students into two or more relay teams. Place the answering devices at the other end of the gym, or at the end of an obstacle course.
Your Kahoot questions will be displayed on the screen. When the first student in the relay knows the answer they can take off running. They will race to the other device that will allow them to answer the question.
Now, Kahoot keeps score. The score is based on getting the answer correct and how quickly the responses are entered. The next relay member will start as soon as the teacher is ready. This allows the teacher to keep a great pace to the lesson, check for knowledge of content, while also grading physical performance of the teams. You won't be able to win if you get the questions wrong, and you have a better chance of winning if you are able to race to the answering device as quick as possible. It is the perfect balance of mind and body.
Enjoy this awesome Kahoot activity after completing your Kyte Learning Course!
-Jason Cross-
Thursday, October 1, 2015
The League of Legends World Championships Start Today
Watch live video from Riot Games on www.twitch.tv
Video games continue to grow into something beyond a simple game. They have reached sport status and this week the League of Legends World Championships begin in France. League of Legends is the most popular video game in the world with 67 million players. It is a popular game because of it's five player match ups that allow for both strategy and skill.
The World Championship is comprised of 16 teams that had to qualify from events in many different countries. These teams are from the US, Europe, Korea, China and Twain. Just like with most sports, it takes a bit of knowledge to make the connection as to what is happening. When you make the connection however, it is just as exciting as any current sport offering. If you have never seen an eSport live, this is a good opportunity to check it out!
The video above is a live stream. When the event is live you will be able to watch video, but when the event is over you will no longer see any video.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
E-Sports is on the rise, and schools all over the country are beginning to adopt this new cultural establishment into their future plans. Games like League of Legends, Dota 2 and Heroes of the Storm are drawing huge crowds but they all suffer from the same problem. Online harassment.
These games are competitive, and combined with the perceived anonymity of the web, you have a recipe for poor behavior. Game companies like Blizzard and Riot are working hard to ban violators who are repeatedly reported for vulgarity and harassment. While those involved in E-Sports directly are doing their part to bring sportsmanship into the 21st century, schools will soon also have a role to play.
Schools, please embrace E-Sports.
As these E-Sports are brought into schools, there is a really valuable opportunity to teach digital citizenship to students in a meaningful way. The perception of digital citizenship has always been tied to students harassing people over twitter. It is so much more than this. Through a successful E-Sports program in your school, you can bring sportsmanship to the forefront of your school culture. You can engage in conversations with students about the complexities of living in a digital age, while learning from what is happening in the sport. And finally you can teach them to make wise decisions with their money, time and energy.
Here are some potential opportunities to utilize E-Sports in your classroom to help bring along the discussion of digital citizenship using the Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship as a guide:
1. Digital Access - Teachers can utilize the discussion of E-Sports to talk about what it means to participate in an electronic world. The discussion can be opened up about what access to digital materials really means to our society and why it is important that all people have equal access to information. Without access, E-Sports don't happen.
2. Digital Commerce – Many video games these days are Free to Play. This means that you can download the video game and play for free. Just because they are Free to Play doesn't mean they don't cost money however. There are lots of great items for purchase and we need to be responsible in those decisions. It is an opportunity to talk about the business of gaming and why game companies have adopted the Free to Play model. You can talk about economies of scale and what it means financially to the end user.
3. Digital Communication – E-Sports is doing a great job of bringing people together, online and off. There are lots of great communication tools out there, but many students to not realize that they are engaged in communication when they are playing these games. They have a responsibility to handle those communications in an appropriate manor. It is essential that students are taught about how to communicate effectively, (even network) while in game. It should be taught that games are not a place for harassment, but opportunity.
4. Digital Literacy – While playing a game might not seem like it is teaching digital literacy, it really is. E-Sport games are increasingly complex. Gamers need to know about frame rates, bandwidth and latency. They have to understand the relationship of how games are processed through CPU and GPU processors for maximum performance. As a teacher you can speak to dozens of IT related topics like storage capacity, server locations and even the process by which gamers login to games. The key is to be adaptable, and in my opinion, gamers are very adaptable to new technologies.
5. Digital Etiquette – Since digital communication is a part of E-Sports, Digital Etiquette one of the more difficult issues to address in gaming today. This is the part of the game that most gaming companies are battling constantly in order to keep gamers from being inappropriate and ruining others fun. In school this used to be called Sportsmanship, but in the digital age it has been clumped in with Digital Citizenship. But really the same rules that apply to sports could also be applied to Digital Etiquette. Teachers we could teach the following sportsmanship guidelines in relation to the games they play. (These rules are from the article Be a Good Sport, a Guide to Sportsmanship.)
- Being a team player, and getting the whole team involved. Gamers sometimes exclude others, and it is important to teach how to be inclusive.
- Staying positive when things don't go your way. When a member of your team is not performing very well, making them feel bad about it isn't the answer. Use that opportunity to help lift them up and help that player perform better the next time they compete.
- Trash talking is not as acceptable as people think, and it can go too far quickly. Pop culture has glorified trash talk as a part of sports culture, but the facts are that this type of behavior usually escalates quickly into harassment. Combine trash talking with the perceived anonymity of electronic communication and you sometimes get very harassing behavior.
- Lose with grace. Teach students how to lose. Teach them that losing is acceptable and part of life. We have moments where we just don't win. And we have to learn to lose with grace and style.
- Win with class. Winning is easy, and being classy about it should also not be difficult. Demonstrating to students the proper way to win should be an important part of your E-Sports program, as well as something that will be easy for your students to replicate if they are victorious. They just need to see what it looks like.
6. Digital Law – E-Sports are a great way to present digital law to your students. By simply showing them the agreement that they all agree to before they create an account with a game, you will introduce your students dozens of valuable topics and potential lessons about digital rights and contracts. It is also important to talk with all of your students about digital theft. Much like Digital Etiquette, the anonymity of the computer sometimes can be a perceived safe area to make poor choices. But it really isn't. This is also a great place to jump into business topics and discuss why digital laws are important to business.
7. Digital Rights and Responsibilities – Various games provide the users with various rights. And those rights sometimes don't always line up with what gamers believe that their rights are. For instance, playing many games in a way that they were not intended to be played can be a violation of the agreement made between the gamer and the game company. Just because the game has a glitch doesn't give a person a free pass to exploit it. I believe that this rule could also be very valuable when communicating with students about life. Just because you can, doesn't always mean that you should.
8. Digital Health and Wellness – Games are fun. And sometimes games can be addictive. It is important for all participants of games to look at their health and wellness and find balance with their lives. This can be a difficult subject to teach, but something that is a real opportunity for educators to help students learn responsibility and build confidence in how they manage their own lives.
9. Digital Security – Sometimes bad people do bad things on the internet. Games are a huge business and this has attracted a wide variety of illegal activity that can impact lives in and out of game. This is a springboard for educators to talk about protecting their valuables with passwords, keeping information private and making good smart decisions with in-game and out of game money. And for those of you who are wondering about that last statement, yes, there are people that want to steal your in-game money as badly as your out of game real world money.
I am confident that E-Sports are going to be a large part of the public and private school education. I suspect that they will become one of the few co-ed opportunities that will compete with some of the large sports for participation and acceptance in the future. E-Sports represent one of the best opportunities for educators to teach students about how to become good digital citizens. By embracing E-Sports in your school, you are actually providing an opportunity to many students to participate in a learning opportunity that will carry with them for years to come.
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Urban Pub and Restaurant in Hua Hin
Urban Pub and Restaurant in Hua Hin is located just opposite of the Police Station Hua Hin next to the Post Office of Hua Hin.
This Irish Pub is a great place to Chill out and have a lot of events on different day's like:
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Don't miss all other days as well…
Come in and find out Urban Fuzion Pub with Irish Beer!
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But Celebuzz spoke with Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" co-writer Siedah Garrett for some insights about the process of assembling Bad that even the filmmakers didn't reveal.
In particular, Garrett explained that her collaboration with the iconic singer was remarkably reciprocal given his post-Thriller status as possibly the world's biggest pop star.
"When he worked with you, he treated you like he had as much to learn from you as you did from him," Garrett remembered. "That's not a common personality trait. I just found it so refreshing. He was just so cool!"
"He could have been this pompous idiot, because he was the King of Pop," she continued. "But he was mellow and cool and sincere – and just a creative ball of energy. And you will see part of his creative process in this documentary."
Garrett was a recording artist in her own right, albeit one with decidedly a lower profile than Jackson, by the time producer Quincy Jones recruited her to contribute a song to Bad. She said she was shocked to discover that after submitting "Man in the Mirror" for consideration, Jackson had as much enthusiasm about meeting her as she did him.
"I just knew I wanted to come up with something that would have Michael say something really important to the world, because he had the whole world as his audience," she said. "And also, I wanted to meet him. I don't know how I even had the audacity to think I would meet him at this level."
"But not only did he want to meet me, because of my voice, but when he found out I wrote that song, I think he just wanted to meet this person."
In addition to its network broadcast last week, Bad 25 is currently being shown in limited theatrical release, with a DVD release planned for 2013. Watch the film's trailer below.


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This sounds like a good thing to me too. Rick Guillaume Nodet wrote: > In ServiceMix we have rewritten the JAXB specs jars (2.0 and 2.1) > because we needed to be able to do some modifications for OSGi. > We'd like to move them to the Geronimo Specs subproject as it would be > more consistent and would allow them to pass the TCK. > The code base are available at: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/servicemix/smx4/specs/trunk/jaxb-api-2.0/ > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/servicemix/smx4/specs/trunk/jaxb-api-2.1/ > > I'm quite confident that passing the TCK should not be a major problem > because they check the compliance with the Sun jars using a maven > plugin that use introspection to detect signature changes between two > jars. Anyway, feedback welcome. > >
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2003,-by virtue of the "kite-chasing people" in one fell swoop into Guan literary arena can not be neglected writers, and 2007 Hosani again by virtue of "A Thousand Splendid Suns" again to shake people's hearts. In "A Thousand Splendid Suns", Hosani with superb literary attainments and strokes depicts the story of the pursuit of happiness and hope can sacrifice themselves, with the power of love to make themselves become stronger and overcome fear. The work not only depicts the environment to the female personality and personality of the destruction, but also highlights the brilliance of human nature. This paper analyzes and interprets the feminism in the works, combines the regional characteristics and the discovery of the times, and probes into the importance of feminism to the maintenance and social development of the world women's rights in the A Thousand Splendid Suns.
In the story of "A Thousand Splendid Suns", the protagonist is the two women who suffer from the sufferings and hardships of war, but both of them have gained a sense of life and are hopeful to pursue a new life with the continuous development of the storyline. The article in the narrative technique has the distinct characteristic, will soon the story protagonist's growth process generation person to the story development. From the different growth process can be seen in the plight of feminism in the environment, through the continuous enrichment of ideological sublimation, leading women to new growth and hope.
In the study of the existing literatures, most of them describe the narrative angle or characterization of the article, but the feminist interpretation of the article is not much. Therefore, the interpretation of "A Thousand Splendid Suns" will be analyzed from many aspects, which enriches the feminist study of the literary works to the greatest extent.
In the Afghan region, male domination is an absolute authority. In the era of advocating equality between men and women, it is inconceivable that the mental and physical devastation suffered by Afghan women. For the people of Afghanistan, many people are suffering from the ravages of war, and for Afghan women, they are not only to avoid the harassment of wars, but also to bear the life under the domination of men. Women as a accessory to men, many of the power in life and growth is limited. They cannot accept formal education and are not allowed to go out to work. In daily life, they are not allowed to go out alone, if need to travel must be accompanied by men and need to wrap "cloth card", can not show. Due to the perennial body in the "cloth card", can only reveal the eyes, so many women in the process of growth will be plagued by disease. And more women, in order to seek the basic guarantee of life, can only listen to parents arranged to marry. The family doesn't think about who she really likes. Many of the girls who are to be married have never met each other until the wedding, and many women are married to men with multiple wives, compared to twice or even three times times their age. In Afghanistan, the status of women is low. If married husband marries second or more wife, the original also can only swallow, because in that environment, the woman's personal happiness lawsuit is not to be considered. All these phenomena are unimaginable to the people of modern society.
Mariam in the text is a pure lively young girl, but her birth is a little surprising. She is a maid and a rich young master's illegitimate daughter, that is, "Harami." As a private woman, she was ridiculed and labeled as a scorned person after her birth. But for the girl Mariam, the most admired man is the father, even if he is a "harami", can not stop Mariam worship and admiration of his father. But for Mariam's father, Mariam appears not so important, but he is a hypocritical and cowardly man. As Mariam grew, her longing for her father's love was more fervent. On her 15 birthday, she decided to go alone to meet her father. But the story suddenly turned around here, and she waited not only for her father, but also for her mother, who had hanged herself for despair. Since then, Mariam with the simple life of a great change, she was forced to marry, and Kabul, a more than 40-year-old shoemaker married. Her married life is not happy, not only a number of abortions, but also because of physical reasons for the loss of fertility, the last can only long-term in the husband's oppression and violence in survival.
The story turns 18 years later, and another heroine, Lila, is on the scene. Unlike Mariam, Lila's origins are family, and when Lila was small, she not only received a good education, but also had a lover who loved her, and the love of her parents and the perfect relationship did not prevent the war from happening. In the war, Lila's family and home were ruthlessly destroyed. In her desperate moment of desperation, the Mariam couple adopted her. I didn't think it would bring Lara a bigger disaster. Lila was forced to marry his adoptive father, Mariam's husband, Shoemaker Rashid.
The story has come to a climax, and the contradictions between Lila and Mariam have intensified, Mariam hates Lila and thinks her presence has alienated her husband. But Lila is unable to break free in the difficult situation, the war between them is more and more intense. But as the two of them continue to understand and communicate, they find themselves with similar experiences and misfortunes. So two people in the soul together, from the fierce fighting into a similar friend and mother-daughter emotional intertwined. In the description of the growth of Mariam and Lila, we can see that tens of thousands of Afghan women have more or less a similar tragic fate, under their cards, hidden in the epitome of the plight of Afghan women.
The ideological School of feminism, which rebelled against patriarchy and oppression of men, began to rise in the 1970 's, and Maliam and Lila's encounters were the representatives of female life oppressed by male power. Maliam 15-year-old married a more than 20-year-old man, and the most distressing is that the marriage was arranged by her biological father. It is not difficult to see from the description that after marrying Rashid, Mariam's life was completely destroyed. She was no longer an independent woman with her own personality, she was forced to wear a cloth card every day, unable to communicate with anyone, and had to be accompanied by her husband. In this suffocating spirit shackles not only can not pursue freedom, but also serve the interests of men's rights slaves. And the husband learned that Mariam can not reproduce the situation, brought her more from the male power of oppression and violence. In patriarchy, they define women as tools for reproduction, while women's presence is merely helping men to reproduce and nurture their children. Women, like toys, have become a tool without thought in this process. As a tool, if it does not have the use value, it will not be paid attention to, and this is incompatible with human relationship and personality establishment. Maliam the victim of male power under oppression. Lila's forced marrying and forced-birth boy are also strong evidence of the persecution of male rights. In the description of "mullahs" can also be seen in the patriarchal society of corruption. In addition, they were subjected to violent oppression from society against women. Act, who is in control of men's rights, brings Afghan women into purgatory. The change of character of the protagonist
Mariam in the text is a typical of the traditional Afghan women, life difficult hardships, but docile good, so can only in life silently bear the violence. There is an important description in the book "Over the years, Mariam has learned to cross the mind, endure his scorn and scolding, his mockery and rebuke." But after Lila's appearance, the independence of Lila gradually changed her. Lila is rebellious and courageous, and this is Mariam from the mother who has the greatest influence on herself. From Leilanari Mariam gradually found the value of their own existence, not only to build up the self-confidence of life, but also let her in the face of her husband's violence dare to resist. Unlike her previous obedience and cowardice, she gradually found a way of thinking independently.
In the face of another family violence, Mariam to protect Lila and the children, she raised weapons, killed Rashid. From here we can see that Mariam's outlook on life and values has changed completely, she is no longer the obedient housewife, but a woman with independent thoughts and judgments. Mariam finally chose self-sacrifice, a sacrifice that was based on the protection of Lila and her children, so Mariam made a transition in the process of self-sacrifice. She is no longer afraid of the weak, but the responsibility to face death. Although the outcome of the Mariam is sorrowful, but her final fate of choice is her own master, completed the life course.
In the eyes of Mariam, Lila is a woman of independent thought. Influenced by his own upbringing, her character was independent and courageous, and she did not give up the idea of escaping even after she married and Rashid. However, with the change of the day and violence, her sense of self resistance was also constantly eliminated, slowly became the victim of the shadow of home violence, and became a slave under male domination.
But when her old sweetheart appeared again, her hopes for life were kindled. Both the illusion of new life and the desire for freedom have risen to new heights. The pursuit of new life also affects the Mariam values. Mariam's consciousness and ideas have changed enormously, and the transformation has finally helped them to complete their salvation and salvation in the process of choosing to destroy.
At the end of the article, Lila was freed again, and with the help of her lover, she finally fled the bondage of the patriarchal tradition of the society, with his children's wish to go away with the loved one. At the end of the article, Lila ended up living with an independent and free female state. This is a warning to us that women need to be identified and established as "people" in society in order to constantly improve their self-esteem and personality, only in order to ensure the integrity and independence of the personality. Therefore, women themselves must not give up on the cultivation of personal personality and dignity, in life to find their own value and the meaning of life in order to ensure equality and independence on the basis of the same status as men.
In the external evaluation of "A Thousand Splendid Suns", it can be found that this section of the story of friendship and sadness between Mariam and Lila is almost invariably praised and pitied. In the tragic times described in "A Thousand Splendid Suns", the tragic life of the protagonist has been produced. And in this among the budding of friendship and can not be given back love. is not only the sad story of the helpless times, but also the war of hope in the sad times. In "This unforgivable age", with seemingly impossible friendship, wrote the indestructible Love, composing a song from the Lost to the Awakening and Revolt of the female hymn. Fortunately, the novel gave the protagonist the most appropriate outcome, Mariam in the repeated inner struggle, finally bravely counterattack, against violence, even if the final end is shot, but for Mariam, Liberation is also the pursuit of happiness better outcome. and left to the reader's reflection is tragic and helpless desolate song. Lyra's future, the author also gave the best answer, that is, to find their own happiness, live a life of hope. For Afghan women, the road to a future of equality and independence is hard and full of misery, but the thorns of the road do not affect the hope of the people. As long as there is hope and thought, the future will meet them one day is the path of equality and independence.


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Part of a complete breakfast : family, morality, and health in children's cereal commercials
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Rachel George
Food is deeply intertwined with culture, from the ways in which it is produced to the ways it is understood. Food advertisements are a particularly salient piece of food culture that transmit and reflect values about food. Cereal commercials, in particular, feature culturally salient portrayals of normative food values. Specific values of family, morality, and health are analyzed in cereal commercials beginning in the 1950s and going through present day. These values can be analyzed as part of larger cultural phenomena surrounding ideas about food consumption. Furthermore, these cultural phenomena are implicated in a discourse around obesity in both adults and children. The cereal commercials analyzed in this thesis participate in a discourse of health and obesity as part of the production of knowledge of what is healthy and what is moral when it comes to food and its relationship to the body. Through studying the ways in which knowledge about health is produced, we gain an understanding of the underlying contributors to obesity and health problems and how these issues are understood.
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Prepared cereals, Advertising and children, Food -- Cultural aspects, Food habits -- United States -- History -- 21st century, Social norms -- American families, Breakfast cereals --Marketing, Whitman College -- Dissertation collection 2017 -- Anthropology Department
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The model is suing a skincare company called Cutera for $10milion with claims that they used her face and name to advertise their Laser acne treatment taking without her permission.
The advert in question features a photo of Kendall and claims their products and treatments improved her skin. The ad reads – "Acne "completely ruined" Kendall Jenner's self esteem"
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Using increasingly automated attacks and re-tooling strategies such as anti-malware come-ons, phishers are bombarding the Web with mail campaigns, continue to co-opt known and trusted brands, and are sprouting malware Web sites at stunning rates. According to APWG, malware sites jumped 827 percent, from 3332 in January 2008 to 31,173 in December, within spitting distance of a 1,000 percent increase in twelve months. The largest increase was December; in fact, with the number of sites bearing malware and password-stealing tools skyrocketing from November's 11,834 to 31,173. While APWG notes that the December pop was a result of "some large attacks that were using huge amounts of random websites for phishing campaigns that were spoofing classmates' websites," the organization undoubtedly also knows that this sort of increase is unlikely to remain an aberration.
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Farmers nationwide united on Twitter yesterday to make their voices heard on the importance of NAFTA to agriculture. The grassroots advocacy campaign included farmers of all backgrounds, legislators and multiple ag and business organizations proclaiming the economic impact of the free-trade agreement using the #Farmers4NAFTA hashtag.
Farmers were encouraged to tweet positive messages about NAFTA and the benefits it has brought to American farms. Participants cited statistics that show the growth of exports to Canada and Mexico under NAFTA,


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Thursday, 7 September 2017
Uncertainty reigns over financial aid for flood victims
FARMERS across County Tyrone whose lands were decimated two weeks ago by the devastating flooding have been "left in limbo" with calls for the introduction of a special hardship fund so far going unanswered, it has been claimed.
Across the county, in particular within the Glenelly Valley, farmers had thousands of pounds worth of farmland and livestock washed away when floodwater and huge landslides deposited large volumes of silt, rock and debris.
Fencing, gates, posts, round bales, sheep and cattle were all washed away while some of the most fertile agricultural land in the area was also badly damaged and turned to sludge. Farming families now face months of work to begin to repair the damage with the bill expected to be substantial.
Concerns have also been expressed over financial aid and the effect of lost land on entitlements such as the Single Farm Payment (SFP).
Farmers had appealed for help to clear the land and the rotten carcasses of animals which drowned in the deluge of floodwater. In some instances, carcasses of stock washed away in the torrents have yet to be located.
Some say they are facing an uncertain future with the full financial impact of the clean-up yet to become apparent while others say its difficult to see their farms being restored to how they were.
On Friday, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) confirmed it is to assist farmers with the disposal of dead animals lost but for many within the farming community it is not enough. It is one of a number of measures DAERA says it has put in place to support farmers affected by the serious flooding.
The department said too that in the wake of the extreme conditions it is adopting a "flexible approach" to late notification of animal losses from affected premises adding that officials have been on the ground in recent days providing support and assistance.
Despite increasing political pressure for a hardship relief scheme however, no announcement or measure has been forthcoming. A Sinn Féin delegation met last week with the permanent secretary of DAERA and senior officials to press the case.
The party's agriculture spokesperson and West Tyrone MLA., Declan McAleer, said the grouping stressed the importance of financial support for those affected.
"Whilst the department is seeking to work flexibly within current schemes, the delegation insisted that this would not be sufficient. Additional financial and technical support will be needed to address what has become a disaster for those affected.
"Sinn Féin will continue to press the department, and we will also raise the issue with the interim head of the Civil Service to seek to ensure that the necessary resources are put in place to address the difficulties faced by many within the rural community," he said.
The Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) has also been in Plumbridge over the last week. President, Barclay Bell, says the union's immediate priority is to ensure that much needed practical help is available in the wake of the flood.
"We are currently working to quantify the impact of the flood but clearly it is a very serious situation for those affected and many of these farm businesses will have a long and difficult road ahead of them. Fields and sheds have been destroyed or seriously damaged from landslides. Livestock and crops have been lost. Crucial access roads and bridges have been washed away. The result is that many of those affected are facing severe uncertainty about the future of their farm businesses.
"The UFU has already started holding clinics along with DAERA, CAFRE and Rivers Agency staff for farmers in these affected areas to provide assistance. We clearly recognise that each individual case will be different, so it can't be a 'one-size fits all' approach when it comes to offering guidance and support," he said.
Mr Bell said the UFU is also investigating all possible options for financial aid for those affected. He added: "We are acutely aware of the financial pressure facing these farm businesses. Much of the damage will not be covered by insurance. Currently, we are reviewing previous financial aid schemes that could possibly also be applied to this situation.
This ranges from the extension of the existing emergency financial assistance scheme for domestic properties to non-domestic businesses, such as farms, which we managed to secure during the extensive flooding in both Fermanagh and around Lough Neagh in 2015. To the more substantive Farming Recovery Fund that was available to farmers in England for the widespread flooding that occurred there a few years ago.
"We also believe that these circumstances justify an increase from the 50 per cent advance already promised by DAERA to 70 per cent in the level of the Basic Payment Scheme due to be released in October. Cash flow will be a critical issue for these businesses and we have already been talking to government officials and politicians at both local and EU levels about these options."
Farmer Bert Wilson, who is also a member of Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, says farmers are still trying to come to terms with the scale of the devastation.
"It is a disaster," the UUP man said. "I've been farming for over 60 years and I've never seen anything like it. A huge part of the problem is that the farmers and even us politicians are in limbo. There is no Assembly, no Direct Rule, there's nowhere to turn and no-one to speak to to get emergency funds."
Mr Wilson said he has arranged for party colleague, Jim Nicholson MEP., to meet with affected farmers across the area tomorrow (Thursday). "He is a farmer himself and I'll be taking him around as many farming communities as possible to see the devastation. There is a possibility of accessing the EU disaster fund but that's far down the line. Farmers need money now, not in six months. Fields have been washed away, acres of land and hill ground has been destroyed and the fencing as well so farmers who have managed to save stock, can't let them out on the fields."
The councillor says he has been fielding calls from distressed farmers and spoke of the shared "frustration" among the farming community at what many perceive to be a lack of action from the authorities.
"Everyone is at their wits end. They don't know where to go. The councils are the only working elected authorities but they are limited in what they can do. It is finances that is needed and it is needed now. Farmers across Donemana, Glenelly, Gortin and Sixemilecross had been severely affected. It is unprecedented and there must be an emergency fund set up - something similar to the emergency funds made available for the flooding in Fermanagh a few years ago. The farming industry has been severely hit in the last number of years. It was on its knees but was building back up. This is now happened and it could take years to recover."
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Worship Leader/PastorPosted by: John Weller
Posted date: May-26-2015
Location: Hollywood, Florida
JOB DESCRIPTION – Worship Pastor
Pastor John Weller, firstname.lastname@example.com or call the church office 954.983.6181
Our Mission:
- Mission: To lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ.
- Core Values: 1. Christian People 2. Holiness People 3. Missional People.
- Practical Values: We are called by God to extend grace to others, love everyone, forgive everyone, - and we are unable to change the past.
- Hollywood is a city in Broward County, Florida that is between Fort Lauderdale and Miami. The average temperature is between 83 and 68 degrees. As of 2013 Hollywood has a population of 146,526. Founded in 1925, the city grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, and is now the twelfth largest city in Florida. Hollywood is a principal city of the Miami Metropolitan Area, which was home to 5,564,635 people at the 2010 census.
- The church is located 6 miles from Hollywood Beach, Florida.
- Join our new team! We are looking for a Worship Leader who can lead our congregation in worship through a mixture of contemporary and traditional music.
- Must be able to work well with others and love God most of all.
- You will work with the following: Planning Center Online, SongSelect, ProPresenter, Mac computers, etc. Lead worship with piano, keyboard or guitar skills.
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