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I Am A Piano
I Am A Piano
So much I've seen
I Am a shell though
Of what once I'd been
I have no keys
So much is true
But melody
Is still within,
You know?
To hear my notes
You must begin
To strike with stick
Across you go
My sound can still be heard,
Far away, throughout the land
Loud like thunder, or
High it vibrates
What fun
Can still be had
By children
With stick in hand.
I Am a shell of what once I'd been
But I Am still a piano
And I Am Grand!
I have a piano, it sits in my garden and I play it whenever I go out there just for fun. Goodness knows what the neighbours think, because believe me it is loud! It can send chills up your spine, it is such a wonderful vibrating noise 🙂
It doesn't matter how old we become, how wrinkly, how broken or bent over or how frail, we can still project our true self. Just like my piano, with no functional keys left, its wood peeling, it is still a piano. And the sound is so there, so real and so powerful! I just love it.
Who has a granny that can still pack a punch, bust a move or two and still has heads turn when she walks past? Try telling her she's old, wrinkly or of no use to anyone!
Kids get it, they come here and get lost in the space created for them. They look at the piano, yell 'its broken' then pick up the sticks and off they go totally accepting a new way to play a grand old piano.
As I grow older I find I am ok with it, are you? It's not easy for many of us though I know, the world can be harsh and unforgiving on those who don't move to the contemporary groove (fast).
But we can be like the piano, we can accept the way we are now and make ourselves seen and heard. Go on, make a fuss, make a scene and enjoy life to the full, you are so beautiful and worthy! Now try loud as well 🙂
Till we chat again dear friends, enjoy your day, lots of love! xx WendyJoy xx

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The majority of individuals that are injured and unable to work due to their injury, disability, or impairment are unaware if they are entitled to a workers' compensation settlement or Social Security Disability Insurance. Even if you understand the difference, it is essential to have a qualified Florida personal injury attorney on your side that understands the complexities of your case, or you risk having your claims denied.
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In order to be eligible for workers' compensation, a medical professional must recognize you as disabled due to a work-related injury and/or disease.
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Additionally, you are not paid for the first seven days of disability; however, if you are out of work for over 21 days due to your disability, payment for the first seven days will be received.
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Social Security Disability Insurance is a federally funded program of the Social Security Administration.
This program provides financial benefits to disabled or impaired workers. Unlike workers' compensation, it does not matter if the injury/disease was work related. However, specific guidelines and criteria exist that outline what is considered a disability. Furthermore, your disability must either be terminal or make you unable to engage in gainful activity for over a year.
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TITANIC-TITANIC.com | Titanic's Bridge And Wheelhouse
Despite the highly-luxurious interiors that the Olympic-class liners were famed for, there was still at least one area of Titanic that was almost a throwback to the days of sail - the navigating bridge, although to be fair, things were improving all the time.
Titanic had been designed and built by Harland and Wolff for one job, and one job only - crossing the notoriously rough North Atlantic, so it might come as somewhat of a surprise to find that the bridge was still of the 'open' variety, that is to say, the sides were open to let the elements in at all times, not the best form of protection to the officers manning the bridge.
Also surprising to many is the fact that the ship's wheel was not in the main bridge area, it was actually in a tiny room immediately behind the bridge, separated by windows. This room, called the Wheelhouse, usually had a quartermaster (QM) on duty who would operate the helm via the wheel.
The bridge contained all of the usual equipment for a ship of the day. The main items of interest were the three polished ships telegraphs, which showed the direction and speed and sent the orders to the engine room. There was a compass binnacle that stood immediately in front of the wheelhouse, so that it could be clearly seen by the helmsman. The watertight door switches were also housed on the bridge, as were the controls for the automatic fog warning equipment, a device for automating the timing of whistle blasts in fog and poor visibility. There were also four telephones, each of which had a light to indicate which one of them was ringing.
The photograph here on the left is the only known picture of Captain Edward Smith on Titanic's bridge, and was probably taken at Southampton, England. You can just make out the starboard wing-bridge in the distance, and the open sides of the bridge are clear to see too. Looking to the left of Smith through the window, you can just make-out the handles of one of the three ships telegraphs pointing upwards in the 'All Stop' position, suggesting that the ship is probably stationary.
Even though some descriptions of the sinking describe Captain Smith being seen later elsewhere on the ship, these have usually been unsubstantiated, and it's quite likely that he died at his post - on Titanic's bridge.
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Lillian Wittschen may be pushing seventy and hooked up to an oxygen tank, but she's always on the lookout for a thrill. She thinks you should be, too. "Why don't you go take a look at the biggest thing to come down the pike?" she suggests. "It's an angel's trumpet plant, and you never seen anything to beat it."
You never smelled anything to beat it, either. Its foot-long, bell-shaped blossoms hang overhead, emanating the heady, thick fragrance of the tropics--which could hardly be further away. "Sure, it's Cheyenne," says Lillian, "but I like it here. I came up here a couple years ago, and they begged me to go back to New Orleans, but I don't think so. I enjoy aggravating all these people too much to leave."
Like most of the people she enjoys aggravating, Lillian arrived at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens with no more than a garden-variety knowledge of horticulture. "We always had regular old gardens," she recalls. "First thing I remember is picking my daddy's beans, butter beans, and eating those wonderful beans and onions. And, of course, I always liked flowers." She has come to the right place. Located in the middle of Cheyenne's high, lonesome plain--an area where not a single tree grew until the 1890s--these gardens feature eight acres of now-frozen perennials. In the middle of them stands a three-room, passive solar greenhouse that keeps winter at bay. Here bananas ripen under three layers of hail-proof plastic, as do papayas, coffee beans, tea leaves and ginger. Sweet peas and regular old eating peas climb toward the rafters. Beets, lettuce, turnips and broccoli are ready to pick. If you work here, you get to take some home--the most tangible benefit of this highly unsalaried job.
"Our labor force is made up of the major groups society likes to reject--seniors, the handicapped and kids working off their drunk-driving court fines," says gardens director Shane Smith. "And we don't do make-work projects. Everyone who works takes home food, and they earn it. It's a lot different than being given a food stamp." You may not want to get into a food stamp discussion with Shane, let alone a chat about welfare or government handouts. As for American society in general--don't get him started.
"Well, it's weird," he insists. "The generations are all boxed up seperate from each other. The mentally handicapped are put so far away from us that we get scared of them. All these talented seniors are playing bridge in Arizona, which is fine if they want to. But what if they don't?"
Well, they could always join up with Shane's rejects--and achieve a bit of nationwide notoriety in the process. "We aren't the only 100-percent-passive solar greenhouse in the country," he says, "but we are the only one with social service as our primary purpose."
"Some of the people who hang around here are half dead," Lillian adds, "but that doesn't stop them. My doctor says, `Don't you dare give it up, Lillian.' I do think we have just enough fun here to keep us alive." And make the vegetation thrive.
Shane Smith has been cultivating this symbiotic relationship for nearly half of his forty years. Out of this year's $80,000 budget--the most extravagant so far for the Botanic Gardens--Shane will squeeze not just his salary and that of his assistant, but all materials, down to the last blade of grass. In return, Cheyenne will get enough bedding plants to supply all of its parks. Not a week goes by without a call or visit from an out-of-state altruist who wants to duplicate this program. "Especially those Boulder people," Shane sighs. "They always say how far out it is, how perfect for Boulder, and how did something this hip ever happen in Wyoming? But they never do seem to get started, because they get all mixed up with foundations and boards and committees. In Wyoming we don't. Democracy works a lot easier here."
It's currently working in the Gathering Room, where all the volunteers but Lillian, who's manning the front desk, are taking a mid-morning break.
"God, these cookies are stale, Joyce," says Don Mason, a retired Spanish teacher who looks cool and tan in an almost teenage way.
"Quit eating them, then," says Joyce Schreck, who is working here as part of the federal Green Thumb Project, designed to retrain seniors for a second career in the greenhouse trade. "I like it here, because it's something to do and it pays," she explains. "We don't get too terribly profound." "Don't tell me you're eating again, Don," Lillian yells from the front office.
"Yes, I am, and when I get done, I'm coming in there and slap you off that stool."
"Why don't you try?" Lillian screams.
"Hey," Don yells back, "you still love me?"
"Crazy about him," Lillian says. "I like this whole town. I'm even mixed up in politics. I know it's crooked, but I love it. I love to get into arguments with a couple of those old Republicans."
Neither Lillian's enlarged heart nor her recent bout with pneumonia have weakened that desire. Shane, even though he's more Republican than anything else, is impressed: The way he sees it, Lillian is a brilliant example of horticultural therapy in action.
Shane remembers the exact moment he fell for gardening. He was six, and his mother sent him out to weed the strawberry patch in their southeast Denver garden. "I weeded it, all right," he says, "but I also ate all the strawberries."
The fascination was still going strong by the time he entered George Washington High School, where he was introduced to the world of "race riots and violence. It was like too many mice in a box," Shane recalls. "It helped me understand the principle of a mass mind of violence. I would watch people fighting and get this uncontrollable urge to hit someone."
He controlled the urge, which wouldn't have served him very well in his chosen profession as a Western Slope fruit farmer, anyway. But neither did two years at Colorado Mountain College, where Shane says he did little but go white-water rafting and be "rebellious and arty." In an attempt to sample the real world, Shane enrolled at Colorado State University, where he told his advisor his career goal was to have fun. That landed him in the horticulture department, where classes took up little of his time. Instead Shane poured all his energy into raising chickens and goats in the yard of the house he rented in Fort Collins. "And you know goats," he says. "They were dancing on the hoods of cars in that neighborhood, and they tried to stop us, but we said, hey, show us the statute."
The neighbors managed to banish the chickens, but the goats stayed, and Shane soon found himself hosting tours of elementary-school children. "That really was the beginning," he recalls. "I liked telling kids about goats. I still thought I wanted an orchard of my own, but what I ended up farming was people."
First, though, Shane took a job measuring the sugar content of potato chips. His teachers, who'd discouraged his interest in greenhouse growing, suggested he try for a career breeding carrots for a seed company--or perhaps enter a master's program in potato-chip technology. But Shane was unenthused. Between chip checks, he drove to Cheyenne to visit the site of a solar greenhouse being built by Community Action of Cheyenne, a federally supported project. "It was supposed to raise food for senior citizens, and that interested me," Shane remembers. "I was 23, and before long, I was a paid consultant." The job paid only $400 a month, small potatoes compared to what he'd been making. Rather than commute from Fort Collins, he moved into a tiny trailer on the site of the greenhouse, which was going up slowly and erratically thanks to any volunteer help that was available. "We hired two real construction guys," he says, "but they weren't brave enough to go out on the scaffolding. A 14-year-old girl did that. We had a 57-year-old female plumber from Russia. We got a bunch of shingles donated and nailed them up in a crazy pattern after we drank some beer. But we got it built, and amazingly enough, the plants made it through the winter."
That was enough to earn Shane the position of greenhouse director--and a $100-a-month raise. The group got a lot for its money. Shane expanded the greenhouse's activities until monthly potlucks, a weekly farmer's market and a spring bedding-plant sale were Cheyenne fixtures. He began making regular appearances on local radio, sometimes as a call-in gardening consultant, sometimes as the producer of short horticultural commentaries that occasionally made it to National Public Radio.
"And I didn't always concentrate on science, either," he says. "I invented a fictional seed company called Harley's Hot-to-Trot Hybrids, and I had old Harley on the show to promote things like a leek that actually leaks and a special strain of zucchini that explodes at a certain point so you don't have to deal with it." The nonexistent Harley received several serious inquiries from gardeners. "The defense department was interested, too," Shane adds.
Schoolchildren began coming to the greenhouse by the busload, Shane remembers, "and most of them had no idea where carrots come from." He told them, repeating his greenhouse-growing spiel so often that he eventually wrote a book (The Bountiful Solar Greenhouse), did some out-of-town consulting and became "a member in not very good standing because their dues are too expensive" of the American Horticultural Therapy Association. The more he left town, though, the more attached Shane became to Cheyenne. "It's the bastard child of the Front Range, and that's how I like it," he says.
He also liked the loyal band of otherwise unwanted folks who'd become his crack volunteer staff. Shane's projects attracted everyone from senior citizens to a squad of handicapped workers. Debby, who has Down's syndrome, has now been greeting greenhouse visitors for more than a decade.
By 1986, when it became evident that the original greenhouse was suffering from the lethal combination of high humidity and poor construction, Shane and his crew were well known around Cheyenne--so well known that when the mayor tried to transfer the greenhouse's federal funds to the Downtown Association, all hell broke loose. "Poor guy," recalls Shane, "he ended up on a task force instead." After a summer's worth of the sort of meetings that no self-respecting Wyomingite wanted anything to do with, the task force decided to make the gardens part of the Cheyenne Department of Parks and Recreation. Shane secured a $350,000 community development grant to build a fancy new greenhouse, which would serve not just as a social services/food-for-lower-income/bedding-plant center, but also as a tourist attraction--the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens.
"See, I turned out to be just like all social services people everywhere," Shane admits. "I disapprove of all government programs except my own."
It is a typical wintry morning in Cheyenne. Last night the temperature fell to four degrees, but it isn't just the cold that gets to people. "It's the wind," Shane explains. "We're the eighth windiest city in the nation. If you'll notice, every single tree in town has a lean. People learn to open their car doors here very carefully."
Inside the greenhouse, though, the air is still and humid. Lettuce and snow peas are thriving--enough so that any volunteers who show up today will eat a home-grown salad tonight. Shane moves around restlessly, trying out various benches, drinking in the flowery air and postponing another grant proposal. "I hate sitting in front of the computer," he says. "I need to get my hands dirtier."
At the potting bench, Claus Johnson, the gardens' only other paid employee, reviews his plan for the morning. Magic City, a local sheltered workshop, is sending over Manny, a retarded man in his mid-thirties, for some horticultural therapy. Claus consults his notes from Manny's last visit. "Planted paperwhite narcissus," they read. "Manny will work on remembering names of things."
Manny arrives and begins, as if on auto-pilot, to plant more paperwhite bulbs.
"Good," Claus tells him. "And what are those bulbs called?"
Manny thinks, then shrugs.
"Well, the blossoms feel like...?"
"Right. And the color is...?"
"White," Manny says, more definitely.
"So they're...?"
"Paperwhite narcissus, but you only have to remember the first part," Claus tells him. "Hey, look, the seeds you planted are germinating."
"Hey!" says Manny, delighted. He heads off to open some windows and weaves his way back through the plants a few minutes later, carrying a tall ladder with Don and another older man who introduces himself as an "ex-Navy swab jockey." The three discuss pick-up truck cab styles, the mediocrity of Cheyenne restaurants and life on a fixed income. Finally, they get around to deciding who should climb to the top of the water containers to apply algicide. "What about you?" the swab jockey asks Don. "Are you too old, or what?"
Before those become fighting words, Claus scampers up the ladder and does the job. The swab jockey and Manny busy themselves with fertilizing. Don disappears into the Gathering Room. "It's socialization," Claus explains. "I can't think of a single one of our clients who doesn't look forward to it."
Striking a balance between socialization and actual work is part of Claus's job, which he describes as "anything Shane doesn't feel like doing. I didn't have that much experience with this kind of thing before I came here," he admits. "I had gardened some, but mainly I worked in parks and rec."
In fact, Claus was hardly the best qualified applicant for his job. "I had guys with degrees from Cornell, which has one of the best horticulture schools around, but they didn't have the right personality," explains Shane. "You can't teach someone to like people. Claus is more of a gardening coach than administrator. He's like, okay team, get in there and garden!"
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Claus came by way of Wheatland, a small Wyoming town that could afford recreation programs during the energy boom. In the mid-Eighties, though, the money dried up, and Claus ventured down to Cheyenne to undergo Shane's grueling interview process. "Even after I got the job," Claus recalls, "I wasn't sure if I was fortunate or not. As far as horticulture went, I was lost. I went through a lot of soul-searching and head-scratching. But I loved the volunteers, especially the seniors. They're real open and honest."
"Yes, and Claus is the nut of the bunch," Lillian interjects.
"They can also get a little difficult," Claus says. He is thinking about the recent massacre of forty expensive koi fish that once swam languidly in the waterfall. "One of the school kids or a mental patient poured bleach on them, because they heard it killed algae," he sighs. "It also killed the fish."
Fortunately, Claus understands the philosophy of the motto Don has just posted in the Gathering Room: "Most Folks Are Like Barbed Wire. They Have Their Good Points."
One of Don's is that he follows instructions. "I only do what I am told to do," he says. "That way there is absolutely no stress. None at all. I'm not the hobby type. I don't tie flies. I don't play golf. I volunteered for a while at the state archives, but I found myself looking out the window all the time." Here Don is outside the window looking in--and grateful enough for the experience that he donated a sundial for the outside grounds. It is engraved with the words: "The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."
"Oh, I didn't write that or anything," Don says, a touch embarrassed. "It just came with the sundial."
"Don't get the idea we're too articulate," echoes Green Thumb worker Joyce. "We are all also insane, or hadn't you noticed? Like Lillian--listen to her singing to that frog. She sings and whistles and sweetie-pies that frog to death."
In fact, the frog--an entirely white albino with red eyes, which could not survive in the wild but weathered the bleach incident--seems to be enjoying the concert. It may not be part of a normal frog-raising program, but around here, it works.


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The strangest thing happened to me a week ago. I turned 50 years old. I don't know how it could be possible. There's no way I could be 50. I don't feel it. I don't look it. I don't act like it. I'm sillier than my teenage daughters! So where did the years go? How …
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The Marc Boutin Architectural Collective: Wrap House, Calgary
Boutin has designed this home for a single male, and with this in mind, the spaces within are flexible in nature to adapt to changes in lifestyle over time. The plan is 'eroded' along the south elevation to create an interior-exterior courtyard space that becomes the main feature of the home. Light floods the interior spaces from the courtyard, which also creates a spatially complex interconnectivity between spaces on a very compact footprint.
Superkül Inc: The Junior Academy, Toronto
Squeezed into this tight urban site, The Junior Academy – a new elementary school – features a gymnasium that has been sunk 7.6 m into the ground. Supported by steel trusses that span the width of the gym, the building appears to hover over the clerestory windows that light the semi-buried space. The red brick façade is in-keeping with neighbouring residential properties but stack-bonded brickwork and seemingly random windows create a playful architectural spectacle.
Paul Raff Studio: Cascade House, Toronto
Cascade House is a playful design with strong environmental credentials. Perched on a gently sloping site, the house is oriented on a strict Cartesian axis, designed to maximize its potential for natural light. The home combines a high-performance building envelope with passive solar design. However, the vertical stacked glass screen at the front of the house is designed for its beauty rather than performance, looking like a cascading waterfall from within.
Photography by Ben Rahn/A-Frame Inc www.aframestudio.com
Nature Humaine: St Hubert Residence, Montreal
The client's wish to enlarge this Montreal bungalow by adding a second floor proved impossible due to poor ground conditions. Instead, Nature Humaine developed an imaginative solution that extended the home into the backyard. The architect reorganised internal spaces on numerous split-levels, brought in more natural light and created a stunning double height dining room. The project is modest but exciting at the same time; an example of what can be achieved on a relatively small budget.
Moriyama & Teshima: Waterloo Regional Museum, Kitchener
Recent recipients of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Moriyama & Teshima has built extensively in Canada, predominantly in the educational and cultural sectors. This museum in southern Ontario takes reference from the Mennonite heritage of the area, including such contemporary quirks as the coloured 'quilt' façade and using timbers from razed barns as interior wall finishes.
Gow Hastings Architects: Humber College, Centre for Justice Leadership, Toronto
The renovation of a 1980s car showroom, transforming it into a venue to teach crime scene investigation techniques, prompted Gow Hastings to propose a bold reworking of the façade. The result is a perforated aluminium mesh cloak that wraps the building reducing views inside from the street while retaining good natural light ingress. Planting behind the façade will grow up and through the mesh to further disguise the original building.
gh3: Photographer's studio over a boat house, Stoney Lake
Transparent, to afford an uninterrupted flow of natural light into the space, this photographer's studio is the epitome of the Modernist glass box. It is indicative of gh3's designs and a refreshing departure from the more traditional stone and wood palette of its neighbours. The studio sits at the water's edge on a granite plinth. The granite's thermal mass exploits the abundant sunshine, eliminating the need for active heating systems on fine winter days, while the lakefront site also allows the use of a deep-water heat exchange system to warm and cool the building.
Photography: Larry Williams
Dubbeldam Design Architects: 411 Offset: A Room at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
Collaborating with Tania Ursomarzo, Heather Dubbeldam has created an installation that takes the form of two wrapping architectural expressions, which formalize the elements of a hotel room. Skeletal timber fins echo the structural framework of the room and create a vertical plane wrapping around the space, supporting the bed, side tables and desk. Another plane wraps horizontally around the walls replacing a solid portion of the window wall with a continuous strip of light. Combined, these two wraps form a 'room within a room' floating within the existing Victorian shell.
Photography: Heather Dubbeldam, Tom Arban
Donald Chong Studio: Galley House, Toronto
At just 3.65 m wide, Galley House is probably Canada's slimmest home. Chong has reinvigorated a derelict and difficult urban site to create a home that is potentially more desirable than its larger neighbours. Every aspect of the design is first and foremost about maximising space – from the wrap around staircase with specially made space-saving brackets to a double height kitchen with a glazed façade that opens onto an outdoor 'dining room'.
Cindy Rendely Architexture: Beth Torah Congregation Synagogue, Toronto
This renovation and expansion of a 1960s synagogue responds both to Jewish law and contemporary architectural values. Rendely has distilled the design down to pure geometries, natural materials, careful manipulation of light and space, with detailing to encourage the thoughts, activities and emotions of users within. One long wall extends from the front all the way through the building, creating a generous passageway that strings together the chapel, the sanctuary and the social hall.
Bing Thom Architects: SAIT Polytechnic Parkade, Calgary
Sunk into the sloping site and covered with a sports field, this 35,400 sqm parking garage is almost completely invisible from the north side. Conversely, the exposed southern elevation has been treated as a canvas. Working with an artist, BTA has created a giant mural of cloudscape and prairie sky that seems to move as the sun plays across the punched metal screen.
Photography Nic Lehoux, Courtesy of Bing Thom Architects
Photography Nic Lehoux, Courtesy of Bing Thom Architects
ArchitectsAlliance with Behnisch Architekten: Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, Toronto
Designed and built for the University of Toronto, the TDCCBR is an advanced research facility aimed at finding links between genes and disease. The transparent design of the building promotes collaborative research within flexible, loft-style laboratories. A planted multi-story atrium connects the centre to an adjacent heritage campus building. Above, winter gardens and staff lounges punctuate a system of open corridors and stairwells between lab floors, encouraging informal, interdisciplinary contact as scientists move around the building.
Levitt Goodman Architects: Evergreen Brickworks Welcome Hut, Toronto
Far smaller than the majority of Levitt Goodman's work, the Evergreen Brickworks Welcome Hut is a temporary structure for this community environmental centre in Toronto. It is built primarily from refuse materials: a derelict shipping container embellished with salvage from the historic brickyards including a graffiti door that now leads to a deck, sheets of slate used as chalkboards and an electrical panel and factory lamps that hang from the ceiling as an artful light fixture.
AgaThom Co: Molly's Cabin, Georgian Bay
Set on an island, in the windswept environs of Georgian Bay, Molly's Cabin is a contemporary take on the traditional Canadian vacation cottage. Used as a holiday home, the cabin is built entirely of timber, much of which has been rescued from dilapidated barns in the area. AgaThom's clever use of the over-sailing roof shades the interior while presenting a striking architectural presence on this exposed location.
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BOYNTON BEACH — When city officials gave the OK for the Boynton Commercenter in 1982, they envisioned an industrial warehouse development that would create jobs, generate high-tech business and further economic development in the city.
Instead, they have heard requests from a gymnastics school, a church and a bakery, which usually are located in commerical or residential zones, who want to locate there.
``Real estate agents are getting rather creative in what can be done with that property because it is not leasing as fast as hoped,`` City Manager Peter Cheney told the City Council during a recent meeting.
As vacancy rates in the buildings remain relatively high, the city is facing requests to change zoning requirements specifically enacted for Planned Industrial Developments, the city`s first being the Commercenter.
Since the Commercenter began leasing its space about 18 months ago, several businesses not traditionally found in industrial warehouse developments have approached leasing representatives, according to Peter J. Applefield, leasing director for Gedi Properties, developers of the Commercenter.
With between 60 and 65 percent of the Commercenter`s 375,000 square feet of office and industrial space still vacant, Applefield would like to attract more tenants.
But he said he doesn`t encourage every interested business to pursue city approval that would allow them to move into the Commercenter.
``Boynton Beach is very, very strict and doesn`t make many exceptions, for good reason,`` said Applefield. ``So, I don`t encourage all businesses to pursue it.``


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NEW ORLEANS —Drivers should prepare for a series of street closures Sunday for the 2013 Rock 'N' Roll Marathon and Half Marathon.
The first race begins at 7 a.m. in the Central Business District at Poydras and Camp streets. It will continue up Poydras to Rampart Street, turning at Howard Avenue, rounding Lee Circle and continuing down St. Charles Avenue to Audubon Park.
The route will travel back down St. Charles Avenue, where it will turn on Melpomene Street and continue into the French Quarter on Decatur Street and Esplanade Avenue.
The second half of the course will use Marconi and Lakeshore drives. The race will end at City Park.
Parking will be prohibited along the race route, and restrictions will begin late Saturday night. RTA services, including streetcar lines and bus service, will be interrupted along the course. Route change details are available at www.norta.com.
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The criminal charges involve the WPP Group advertising agency's work for the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), which is in the executive office of the president of the U.S. The government hired Ogilvy & Mather in 1998 to run a nationwide anti-drug advertising campaign.
Seifert and Early
In opening statements outlining their case in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, prosecutors said Thomas Early and Shona Seifert attempted to make up for an anticipated revenue shortfall by having Ogilvy staffers pad the timesheets intended to reflect the hours worked on the account.
Ms. Seifert, a former senior partner and executive group director at Ogilvy, and Mr. Early, its former chief financial officer, pleaded not guilty to an 11-count indictment that accuses them of conspiracy in making false claims against the federal government.
"Scores of employees were asked to revise hundreds of timesheets," assistant U.S. attorney Kim Berger told the courthouse in lower Manhattan. She acknowledged that the defendants didn't come right out and tell employees to falsify timesheets. Instead, "they chose their words very carefully. Employees were told to bill to target percentages no matter how much they were actually working on [the ONDCP] account."
Defense team
The defense team, meanwhile, characterized the problems with timesheets as a botched effort by novices to comply with dense federal regulations governing contracts.
Laurence Urgenson, representing Mr. Early, said the defendant's role as financial director was simply "to report and monitor the results and operations of the company." When he realized that an accounting system was supposed to be in place upon landing the government contract, Mr. Early hired Al DiOrio, who had government contract experience, Mr. Urgenson maintained.
Mr. DiOrio died shortly after he left Ogilvy in 2000.
Gregory Craig, representing Ms. Seifert, called the laws governing federal contracts "complicated" and "voluminous." The ONDCP contract, he said, was the first government contract the New York office of Ogilvy had won, and the first that Ms. Seifert had worked on.
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Mr. Craig, too, turned his attention to Mr. DiOrio. "It was his job to make sure Ogilvy did not break the rules," Mr. Craig said. At the least, the "evidence will show that Ogilvy was not organized to handle timesheets," he continued. "Creative people do not want to be troubled with timesheets."
As its first witness, the government called Ogilvy employee Johanna Shapira, who works as a managing director of the discovery group, which is part of planning and research. In 1999, however, she was working on the ONDCP account with Ms. Seifert.
Ms. Shapira testified that following a routine status meeting, Ms. Seifert approached her about billing hours worked on other accounts to the ONDCP. Ms. Shapira said she reported that encounter to Ogilvy's lawyers in 2001 or 2002 after an internal investigation on timekeeping began.
'Close to $700 million'
Since 1997, Ms. Berger said, the "federal government has spent over $1 billion to get [its anti-drug message] out to American families." Over a five-year period, she maintained, Ogilvy & Mather's contract had an estimated value "close to $700 million." The two people responsible for the account, Ms. Berger said, were Mr. Early and Ms. Seifert.
The quality of Ogilvy's work was not at issue, Ms. Berger conceded. "I expect you will hear the ONDCP was extremely impressed by the quality of work" Ogilvy did, she told the jury. However, after billing projections from the contract were "about $3 million" off, the defendants embarked on their scheme to make up the shortfall by having employees pad their timesheets, she said.
Co-conspirators' testimony
Ms. Berger told jurors they would hear testimony from Bob Zach and Peter Chrisanthopoulos, who worked in Ogilvy's media department. Each man pleaded guilty in the conspiracy and is "hoping for a reduced sentence" by testifying at the trial of Mr. Early and Ms. Seifert, Ms. Berger said.
Seated at the defense table, the two defendants and one-time colleagues barely looked at one another. While Mr. Early appeared glum to at least one observer, Ms. Seifert, now president of Omnicom Group's TBWA/Chiat/Day, New York, was lively and engaged and often looked at prospective jurors.
Judge Richard Berman said the trial will last approximately two weeks. He said he hopes the jury will begin deliberating by Valentine's Day.


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Not to be confused with Leon: The Professional, this film stars Jean-Paul Belmundo as Josselin Beaumont, a hitman betrayed by his own government. At times, Beaumont almost seems to be framed as the French Rambo, which is rather silly considering that Belmundo was, by this point, 48 years old. Worse, the film itself is meandering, dull and repulsively sexist.
The film has a few interesting aspects that are not well followed-through. The plot begins as a reasonable commentary on France's post-colonial international meddling: Beaumont's target is an African president whose political standing with France has little to do with how tyrannically he rules his country. The film also attempts to create in Beaumont a world-weary figure who, having lost his ideals, has no reason to live other than revenge (and getting laid a few last times).
Beaumont is difficult to sympathise with. His insistence on visiting his wife, Jeanne (Elisabeth Margoni), brings her to the attention of Inspector Rosen (Robert Hossein), who Beaumont knows full well will treat her brutally. Elisabeth faces some physical violence and is almost raped by a WPC (a shameless excuse to get the actress naked, and to use lesbianism in a pandering way). Beaumont exacts revenge on her behalf, but the fact remains that she only had those experiences because of him. As he proceeds towards his goal, the film still pretends that Beaumont's likeable, but guilt doesn't seem to be reason enough for old and new friends to help him.
Visually, The Professional looks lacklustre, barely above a TV production. This carries through in the action scenes, which are almost all clumsy. The comedic touch they often receive detracts from any sense of tension or from the bleak outlook the film attempts to portray. Beaumont's original jail break is so poorly staged that it's complete nonsense. A car chase in which some quite good stunt drivers tear through Paris streets, even below the Eiffel Tower, is the one bit of decent action in the film.
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Rollei Pissarro DPF-82 White
- Resolution 1280 x 768 pixel
- Slideshow with 9 different transitions and adjustable speed
- With photo, calendar and clock
- Supports SD and SDHC memory cards
- Adjustable start-up mode: photo, video or calendar
- Digital Photo Frame with 8.0" (20,3 cm) TFT-LED HD Panel
- Incl. remote control
Rollei Pissarro DPF-82
A Digital Photo Frame (DPF) does not simply just replace the "traditional" analog photo frame, but offers you the possibility of presenting all your photographic memories of a trip or a special event with suitable transitions. Even the incorporation of scenery which changes according to the season is possible with the Rollei Pissarro DPF-82 Digital Photo Frame, which you can pass round as a digital photo album within a circle of relatives or friends, or use commercially as a product information system.
High definition and brilliant colours in a 16:9 aspect ratio
You can insert your SD-/SDHC memory card straight from your camera into the Digital Photo Frame, select the appropriate transitions and create an atmospheric slide show. The display, with its 1280 x 768 pixel definition and a contrast range of 800:1 can directly show both JPGs (JPEGs) and BMPs. DPFs offer some of the most attention-grabbing ways of presenting photos, graphics, or even specially laid-out corporate messages. Or have you NEVER viewed the contents of a Digital Photo Frame?
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I'm trying to find out how long you can live with stage 4 stomach cancer?
My father was 52 years old when he died from this tumor. I was a child at the time, but am now of similar age to him and have also been diagnosed with stage four disease.
I was told the diagnosis in the spring after investigations by my doctor. At the time I was offered chemotherapy.
After careful consideration I declined this as I didn't think it was right for me.
What I don't know is how long I am going to live and none of the doctors have given me any idea of this either.
I would really like at least a ball park figure and hope that you might be able to give me some help with this? Thank you. Kay, USA
What can I say? I am so sorry to hear of your terminal illness. You are very brave in deciding not to have treatment and to allow the disease to take its natural course.
At the age of 52 years, you are quite young to have this condition and it does raise the possibility that you may have an inherited form, particularly as you father was of similar age.
That been said, if you have any children, I would strongly advise that you are checked for the CDH1 or cadherin gene mutation.
If you have this, they will know that they are at potential risk and could be tested for the gene too.
It would then allow them to be put into a surveillance program or to even consider 'prophylactic gastrectomy' to prevent the tumor occurring.
As for your specific question, most doctors don't give you an answer to this because there are so many different variables that can determine life span, even when you don't have chemotherapy.
First, some people do survive the disease – there is a 5 year survival of approximately 4%, although I suspect most of these are in individuals who have had treatment.
A 1 year survival is approximately 25% or a 1 in 4 chance of reaching the 12 months.
Because you are young and presumably otherwise fit it may be even longer than this figure.
If you have any other illnesses these may also have a bearing on life span as well as how nourished you are and how much spread there has been to date.
For example, you can be stage 4 and only have one metastasis or secondary tumor in another organ and equally you have multiple secondary tumors which are likely to hasten things.
What you should always consider is this, no one really knows how long they have to live and in my experience, this is something that shouldn't be of primary concern as it is the manner in which you live your life that matters whether you have the condition or not.
I am often asked by relatives the 'how long question' so they can try to have quality months with their loved one, but in reality, shouldn't this be happening anyway regardless of the illness?
Hopefully I have given you some insight in to your question about how long you can live with stage 4 stomach cancer and wish you well in the difficult times ahead.
I'm so sorry you are going through this illness. I write to you with tears in my eyes because my mom went through the same thing. She was also diagnosed with late gastric malignancy.
Doctors don't say how long you are going to live because they don't know but what they do know is that it's a terminal illness and the prognosis is poor. My mother may rest her soul had it.
However she chose to do the chemo and total gastrectomy and still suffered. Both prolonged her life for 2 months however she suffered and I suffered.
I'm very sad and I cry every day my mom is no longer with me. All I can say to you is please be strong. I feel for you and I will pray for you and all that have the same illness. I love you all and wish you strength just like I did for my mom when she was still with me. Fatima


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ReBirth Kickin' it Live!
ReBirth is the hottest young brass band in New Orleans today. This live album captures them at work during Mardi Gras, 1990, at The Glass House, the tiny, ultrafunky midcity bar that's the unofficial capitol of the whole new brass band movement. Trumpeter Kermit Ruffins and the rhythm team of brothers Philip and Keith Frazier on tuba and bass drum are at the core of a band that's sometimes as big as ten pieces, with plenty of guest percussionists joining them from the street.


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Reviews | Written by Ed Fortune 07/07/2016
Tie-in card games usually go one of two ways. They are either fun card games with a license slapped on as an after-thought or they attempt to become a simulation of the thing they're connected to. The problem with the former is that once you strip away the fresh art and theme, you're not really left with anything new. It doesn't really feel like the thing it's meant to tie-in to, making it just a differently labelled version of a popular game.
The other approach also has its own flaws. It's taken multiple editions of a Game of Thrones card game to get the right balance of atmosphere and gameplay, and movie makers and storytellers don't tend to write characters and plotlines with game balance in mind.
Cubicle 7's Doctor Who: The Card Game doesn't fall into either category, instead finding a balance between the two approaches whilst maintaining the feel of the TV show. Doctor Who: The Card Game – Classic Doctors Edition is filled with artwork from the old show and still has that mild peril tea-time vibe that has made the show so endearing over the years.
The mechanics are pretty straightforward; each player has a hand of special cards. These cards can be support, defender, enemy or location cards. Locations are played face up, and each location is worth time points and victory points. Time points let you do stuff in the game, victory points let you win the game at the end of play. Locations can be anywhere from Telos to Skaro, or even Perivale in 1989. You play enemy cards on your opponent's locations and defend against your opponent's enemy cards with defenders. Defend or attack enough locations simultaneously and you'll win the game, though typically it all ends when an 'end of the game' card gets drawn and everyone counts up victory points.
Of course, The Doctor is the best defender card to have, but if you have enough companions and they're clever enough then they can carry the day without his help. Adric may be annoying but blimey is he handy (especially if you need a sacrifice) and the Brigadier is amazing in a tight spot. Daleks tend to turn up in big forces and cause the player to have to use every trick in the book to stop them. The theme stays constant in this very, very pleasant game.
Doctor Who: The Card Game – Classic Doctors Edition is a fun game that all Who fans will be delighted to get in to. It also mixes in nicely with The Twelfth Doctor Expansion One, which adds a fifth player and some appropriately Capaldi-themed shenanigans (and pairs up especially well with the Tom Baker cards, strangely enough).


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HIGHTSTOWN — Hightstown High School defensive end Jude Brenya said yesterday he has made an oral commitment to Old Dominion University where he will continue his football career.
Brenya, a 6-foot-3, 235-pound, cat-like defensive end, is the third Mercer County player to make an early commitment to a college program. Pennington's two-way tackle Jordan Gray (6-5, 290) and Steinert defensive tackle Enoch Asante (6-1, 260) both made oral commitments to the University of Massachusetts.
"All the schools that offered me were great, but Old Dominion was the right fit,'' Brenya said.
"It had the academic program I wanted, the football program and the atmosphere.''
Brenya, who also received offers from Lehigh, UMass, James Madison, Colgate and Fordham, wants to major in criminal justice.
Brenya has a 3.65 grade point average according to the Virginian-Pilot.
"I'd like to become a federal agent, maybe the CIA, FBI or Secret Service,'' Brenya said.
Brenya will join an ODU program that announced it would join Conference USA in May.
It also moved its program up in stature to the Football Bowl Subdivision in July according to the school website. Brenya is the fourth player from New Jersey to commit to ODU.
"He's either going to play with his hand on the ground or he will play up and in space,'' said Hightstown head coach Pete Brescia. "What ODU liked about Jude was that he is very long, with long arms.''
Brenya, who came to the United States from Ghana went he was 12 years old, is in only his third year of organized football.
Steinert's Asante also came to the U.S. from Ghana.
"ODU sees me as a defensive end, and I wanted to get this decision out of the way so I could concentrate on my senior season,'' Brenya said. "I don't want this season to be as crazy as it was last year with college coaches.''
Hightstown was 2-8 last year, but has aspirations of being a playoff qualifier this fall.
Brenya will also play offensive tackle for the first time when Hightstown opens its season Sept. 8 at Nottingham.
While Brenya can continue to be recruited by other schools, he can sign a National Letter of Intent on Feb. 6.


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Genealogical information concerning my line of the surname Orcutt is the main reason for establishing this site. There is a bibliography of printed sources for the first few generations of my line of Orcutt. There is also a list of a few general genealogical resources, including some links that I find useful or interesting.
William Orcutt to Bruce Call Orcutt
|William Orcutt
Mary/Martha Lane
|England; Marshfield, Bridgewater, MA
|John Orcutt
Mary Beal (2nd wife)
|Bridgewater, Hingham, MA
|Ebenezer Orcutt
Deliverance Kingman
|Hingham, MA
|Ebenezer Orcutt, Jr.
Jane Pratt
|Hingham/Cohasset, Chesterfield, MA
|William Orcutt
Martha Keith
|Cohasset, Chesterfield, MA; Swanton, VT
|Moses Orcutt
Mary McKay/McCay
|Swanton, VT; Almond, NY; Concord, Alberta Twp, MN
|Walter Samuel Orcutt
Harriet Elizabeth Lincoln
|Angelica, Elmira, NY; Coudersport, PA
|Roy Lincoln Orcutt
Lida Gertrude Galusha
|Angelica, NY; Coudersport, PA; Libertyville, IL
|Howard Sidney Orcutt
|Bruce Call Orcutt
No record that positively identifies William Orcutt has ever been found in England or Scotland despite numerous attempts by researchers.
Early Orcutt historians wrote that William was descended from the Urquhart family of Scotland. They wrote that his ancestors left Scotland because of the religious unrest and settled in or near Fillongley, Warwickshire, England where the name became Anglicized to Orcutt. This family tradition is often repeated today. One encounters statements that William was born Dec 1618 in Fillongley, that his father was William Orcutt, that he was brother to Susannah who married Samuel Edson, and so on. Many researchers, including professional certified genealogists, have searched for records to provide evidence to support this tradition, but none have been found. However, records in the parish registers of Warwickshire do exist that strongly suggest a different origin for William.
Edson researchers were aware, in the early-mid 1990s, that no record showing the marriage of Samuel Edson to a Susannah Orcutt could be found in Warwickshire. What did exist was a record of the marriage of Samuel Edson to Susannah Bickley, of Whitacre, on 1 March 1638 at Holy Trinity Church in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire. This information has been reported in several issues of The Edsonian, the quarterly journal of the Edson Genealogical Association.
Orcutt researcher, Joel Thomas Orcutt, has been doing research for about 25 years. Recent research, either conducted by him or commissioned by him, into the parish registers of Warwickshire is reported in his book Our Orcutt Family, Published by the Author, June 2001. He has also published it, with additions and corrections, on his web site. It shows:
- John Awcotte of Mancetter, Warwickshire, had a son William Awcotte who was baptized 23 March 1604/05 at Mancetter.
- William Awcotte of Mancetter, son of John, married Margaret Bickley, sister of Susannah Bickley, 17 Apr 1636 at Over Whitacre.
- William and Margaret had a son, William Awcotte, baptized 29 Oct 1639 at Mancetter.
Joel presents a strong case that this William Awcotte, baptized in 1639, is the William Orcutt that appeared 1663/4 in America and that William was not the sister of Susannah (Bickley) Edson, but Susannah's nephew.
Sutton Coldfield, Over Whitacre, and Mancetter are in Warwickshire, all within about 10 miles or less of Fillongley.
Clan Urquhart has a web site. Originally, Orcutts were accepted as members of the Clan. Recently the Clan has offered a DNA test to determine if one is related to Urquhart. Since then references to Orcutt have been removed from the web site. I assume this is because several Orcutts were tested and were determined to be unrelated to the Urquharts. Joel Orcutt has taken a DNA test and it shows he is unrelated to the Urquharts. The test results are given on his web site.
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I've been making comics ever since I can remember.
They started off as doodles in the margins of my homework in school, became small short stories featuring my friends on inane adventures, and eventually evolved into an emotional and creative outlet for me when times got especially tough. Like when I first moved away from home. That time I got Hodgkin's. That one bad break up. When I dropped a piece of toast that one time and it fell butter side down.
In spite of all of my life's ups, downs, drastic changes, and irreversible dilemmas, the one thing that has stood unwavering for the last decade is this strange, incessant, inexplicable want -- no, need -- to draw jokes, tell stories, and share them with people. The internet seemed to be the perfect platform for me to satisfy this addiction. So when I was 15, I said goodbye to Xanga, got my first domain name, and I built my first website using Microsoft Frontpage. It was terrible, and embarrassing, and contained way more animated GIFs than what was socially acceptable even in 2003. But it was mine.
I went on to go to school for web development, and would eventually get a job at a marketing agency in Vancouver. I learned an incredible amount, and made some lifelong friends along the way, but that itch, man. It was still there. I was still making comics on the side, don't get me wrong, but I could never dedicate as much time to it as I wanted to. For the next few years, I saved. And I saved. I stopped buying LEGO. I stopped going out. I even stopped going to my favourite geriatric strip clubs. Until, finally, I could afford -- to put it eloquently -- my big-ass drawing tablet. I also saved so I could purchase many of the other materials and supplies I figured I would need if I ever decided to do comics full-time. I've been full-time for two years now.
This year, great new things have been happening. I started working on my passion project, Dungeon Construction Co. I started working on my book. I made friends who would gladly draw themselves and me into a comic where their character takes a bullet for my character. And I'd finally reached this point in my art & writing style where I don't hate it two seconds after I publish it. I'd never been in a better place in my life. And this is all before I even started writing the Kickstarter campaign.
Why am I telling you all this?
Since I was young, I've always had a general outline in my mind of how I wanted my life to play out. I knew I wanted to do comics, I knew I wanted to code, I knew I wanted to make a book one day, I knew I would own my own private jet with a built-in hot tub, arcade, and kickball field. (Okay that last one hasn't happened. Yet.)
I'm telling you this because I want to emphasize just how much this means to me, and how grateful I am to you all for providing me with the means to make it happen. And we're so over the Kickstarter goal that you haven't just funded a book. You've funded an entire dream. Thank you.
Love, Enzo
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I offer counselling and Supervision in Bristol (BS15 8DB) and Stroud. (www.sycamorehousebristol.co.uk)
Why come to counselling?
There are many and varied reasons why people come to counselling. You may have feelings of anxiety or stress, relationship issues or come to a point in your life when you feel you may need a little more support? You may feel as if you need to speak with someone, someone who is not from within your friendship group, family or colleague and speaking with me you will be heard in a confidential, empathetic and non-judgmental environment?
Taking the first steps towards counselling can be challenging and I aim to make the first steps as reassuring as possible.
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My therapeutic experience has been gathered over many years, through my private practice, working within an educational setting, and volunteering for charities, plus my own personal therapy and personal development. I believe that this experience has enabled me to have a good solid understanding of the many and varied challenges that life can hold.
Having the time and space to focus on your needs, life decisions and concerns may be an opportunity to find some of the answers or resolutions of how to move forward. Sometimes family, friends or colleagues are not the people we can turn to and an independent time and space could enable you to focus on your concerns and issues.
What counselling can offer is a time and opportunity for you to explore your concerns in a safe, non-judgmental and confidential setting –a time for you.
Finding the right counsellor for you is important and it can be difficult to take the first steps. Initially I suggest we meet for half hour to see what has brought you to counselling and what it is you are wanting and hoping to explore. Alternatively you may prefer a complimentary telephone consultation. An initial meeting or consultation is also an opportunity for you to meet me and for you to gain an idea if I am the counsellor for you. I am able to offer counselling short term, up to 6 to 12 weeks or longer.
Why not give me a ring on 07422504578 or email me at firstname.lastname@example.com to find out more about coming to counselling.
Therapeutic supervision is fundamental when working within the therapeutic field. Not only as a requirement by regulatory bodies such as BACP or UKCP, but also as a means to support you as the therapist.
I believe that supervision offers a place for reflection of you and your work, where you can feel heard and supported. My aim is to hold and cultivate, with you, a space where we can develop a working alliance between yourself and me; where you feel comfortable and supported so you are able to bring all of your clinical work; the work that you are proud of and the work where you feel there has been a level of challenge and curiosity; nurturing an environment where there is the potential for growth and inquiry. I aim to actively listen and engage in your therapeutic development and growth while remaining and encouraging a place of stability and consistency.
To find out more information please contact me on 07422504578 or email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
The list below illustrates some of the areas in which I have experienced and worked with, however it does not represent the limits of what can be brought to and explored in counselling.
Anxiety and Stress
Relationship Issues
Mental Health Issues
Phases of life/Life stages
Ageing process
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Self worth, Self confidence
Developing a sense of achieving your full potential, aiming for and realising goals in life
Opening/initial face-to-face meeting lasting approximately 30 mins - £20
Or a complimentary telephone consultation lasting approximately 15-20 mins.
Subsequent sessions for individuals £45.
You are able to contact me any day of the week. If you would like me to ring you back when it is convenient for you then please do leave a message or text me and I will get back to you at the first opportunity.
I do have a limited number of concession rate appointments for counsellors in training, students and those on low income.
Supervision - £50 per hour
I do offer a few concessionary rates for student counsellors or newly qualified counsellors.
I work integratively, which means that I have an understanding of different models of counselling and will work with you to tailor which approaches would benefit you the most. This may be solution focused or more explorative, focusing on issues that are presently in your life situation or issues from your past.
It is also possible to use creative techniques if this is felt to be right for you. For instance painting, drawing and sand sculpture.
I will endeavour to hold a space for you where you can speak confidentially and feel safe, respected, heard and without judgment.
I offer counselling from the Bristol, BS15 8DB
I offer counselling from Bisley Road, Stroud.
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I offer supervision in Bristol, BS15 8DB
I offer supervision from Bisley Road, Stroud.
I am a fully qualified Integrative Counsellor and a Registered Member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (Reg. MBACP) I work and adhere to their Ethical Framework (www.bacp.co.uk).
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Winter 2009 Newsletter - Page 4
Harbor House, WASAC selected for national teen dating violence prevention initiative
Wichita has been selected as one of eleven national sites to participate in a new teen dating violence and abuse prevention initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ). Chosen from more than 500 applicants, the "Wichita Building Healthy Teen Relationships" project will receive up to $1 million dollars over the next four years to implement its program. In addition, project coordinators will receive intensive technical assistance and training from the Family Violence Prevention Fund and the RWJ Foundation.
"This [grant] is the next logical step to the work we have been doing with our DELTA-funded "Choose Respect" campaign in our schools. This grant will allow us to add staff within the schools to help shape policy and provide training on curriculum that we hope will become part of the standard educational experience for all middle school students in the Wichita Public Schools," said Nancy Carroll, Catholic Charities - Harbor House violence prevention coordinator.
The "Wichita Building Healthy Teen Relationships" project is designed to reach 7,750 teens through community activities focusing on forming healthy relationships and ending intimate partner violence. Wichita's project will specifically engage teens and those who influence teens at schools, at after-school sites, and through ally organizations, such as Youth United for Positive Action (YUPA).
This new initiative will also expand the existing local violence prevention education programs that provide outreach to students, school staff, and parents in Wichita — the Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancements and Leadership through Alliances (DELTA) and Sexual Violence Prevention and Education (SVPE) projects.
"The addition of the RWJ initiative in Wichita is a tremendous opportunity to build upon existing innovative sexual and domestic violence prevention initiatives in Kansas," said Deborah Zelli, Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence's prevention projects team leader. "Being able to expand upon existing information on best practices for primary prevention will assist us in our shared goal of ending sexual and domestic violence."
The Wichita project is a collaborative partnership among Catholic Charities Harbor House, Wichita Area Sexual Assault Center, Wichita/Sedgwick County Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalition, Wichita Public School District, and the Wichita State University Department of Sociology and Center for Community Support and Research.


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