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25 Sep 2014
All over for 2014
Well Festival 2014 went well - we all had a great deal of fun and very great thank you to all who took part - do check back for information on 2015 but in the meantime click on the link below for some great coverage of this year.
Very best from
The Organisers of
Tetbury Food and Drink Festival
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11 Sep 2014
Vegetarian Evening at Cafe 53 in association with Pink Cab
The Pink Cab
and Café 53
in association with
Tetbury Food & Drink Festival 2014
dining night Thursday 18
7 for 7.30pm
£20 per person
* to start
pea & mint soup
creamy hummus & crudités
shepherdess pie with 'buttered' green beans
stacked veggie burger with chips & shredded slaw
gooseberry fool
ginger pudding with toffee sauce
Join us and see just how
Café 53
has grown
denotes vegan &
denotes vegetarian
book directly via
the pink cab
079 6003 6003
*dishes subject to change according to ingredient availability
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23 Aug 2014
Latest News from Authentic Adventures - 2015 Holidays
Highlights in 2015 include….
Puglia, Southern Italy
Authentic Puglian cooking set in an elegant, rural converted masseria (farmhouse)
– total immersion in the food and culture of this unspoilt region of Italy. Plenty of hands on cooking, make orecchiette 'ear shaped' pasta regional to Puglia. Learn how to taste olive oil 'the Italian way' in an area that produces 70% of the total oil production in Italy.
Atlas mountains and Marrakech, Morocco
An exotic Moroccan cooking holiday starting in the village of Imlil in the Atlas mountains and ending, by way of contrast, in the bustling and colourful markets of Marrakech where we enjoy two cooking sessions in Riad Monceau. A truly authentic experience – discover the food culture that is so intertwined with every day life, for example, the boulangerie and the hammam in Imlil share the same building and wood fired stove!
A Roman gastronomic experience in Frascati, Rome
On our gastronomic tour of Castelli Romani, just beyond Rome, we stay in the pretty town of Frascati (name sake of the sparkling wines) where we are treated to an exclusive Roman culinary adventure, with our very own Roman resident guide Stefano Spinetti. Markets, restaurants, wine and food tastings, authentic pizza making, and lakeside Roman picnics…..
Classic Wine Tour of Piemonte, Northern Italy
Enjoy a wine tour of Piemonte during truffle season – a beautiful region bursting with delicious wines including Barolo and Barbresco. We guide you to some of the most famous, and unusual wineries in the area, including subterranean cathedrals – how mysterious! Taste, learn, walk the vines, mooch around Alba, taste the truffles, learn about abbinamento – the art of pairing food and wine.
If you travel alone, you might like to know that over two thirds of our guests are single travellers too. So far in 2014, 60% of our guests have travelled with us before.
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31 Jul 2014
Special Offer from OOO
It's not too late...
...to win a whole year's supply of our gourmet quality 100% extra virgin olive oil, direct from the farm in Cyprus.
That's 12 x 500ml bottles of the most exciting new brand in the industry for you to use on salad, as a bread dipper or for your everyday frying, baking and roasting. And as our bottles look so good, you can even give some away to friends as birthday, housewarming or dinner party gifts.
PS If you are near Cambridgeshire you can avoid P&P charges by collecting from us here at Olive Tree Cottage. Just choose 'Aland Islands' as your country code and you won't be charged for shipping. But don't forget to come and collect!
Have your cake and eat it!
FVL are making a cake for the Tetbury Food Festival in the shape of a car which will be raffled to a winner! To celebrate they are offering a special tasty discount on the admin fee for one of their swanky new cars.
Car leasing deal
- visit FVL's website and quote TETBURYFVL2015 when ordering.
Just order any item online with us before midnight on Thursday 31st July and you'll be automatically entered in the draw on August 1st.
This is available to all our Tetbury foodies.
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Snooty Fox Hotel - Food and Drink Festival Special
Food & Drink Festival 17th - 21st September
Join us for a 4 day celebration of fine food and drink.
Special 4 Course Taste of Tetbury Menu available every evening throughout the festival
£32.50 per person. (Saturday SOLD OUT!)
Friday 19th - Heritage Wines are hosting a wine tasting event with up to 10 wines to test your tastebuds. In addition we will be matching 5 beers to 5 local food items.
The wine tasting is complimentary for diners and £10.00 per person for non diners.
Telephone: 01666 502436
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28 Jul 2014
Fabulous Baker Brothers at Highgrove 18th September 2014
The Orchard Restaurant at Highgrove is opening its doors once again for this year's Tetbury Food Festival, working in partnership with the Fabulous Baker Brothers of Hobbs House on Thursday 18th September 2014 at 6pm
We would like to invite you to this special evening, starting with a 90 minute tour of the Highgrove Gardens.
Over thirty years in the making, Highgrove is one of the most creatively inspired gardens anywhere in the world. A series of interlinked areas, each with their own character and purpose, weave around the house, reflecting the gardening ideals and organic principles of HRH The Prince of Wales.
Your tour, led by one of our experienced garden guides will be followed by a Champagne and Canapé reception on the Orchard Restaurant terrace.
Guests will have the opportunity to visit the Highgrove Estate shop
We will then serve a 2 course Supper, using local produce from across Gloucestershire, and a selection of Hobbs House Breads. Supper will include a glass of Highgrove Organic wine.
Following your supper, Tom and Henry Herbert of the "Fabulous Baker Brothers" will give a give an entertaining 30 minute talk on their passion for food and the importance of supporting local producers whilst you enjoy a selection of Hobbs House sweets and pastries with coffee or tea .
Tickets are £75 per person. Places are limited so we recommend booking early to avoid disappointment.
To book, call 0333 222 4555. Lines are open Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. Calls cost up to 5p a minute from UK landlines. Calls from mobiles may cost considerably more.
All profits from Highgrove Garden Tours and products are donated to HRH The Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation.
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14 Jul 2014
Cotswold Life Food and Drink Award Winners
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Over 500 highly esteemed guests, finalists and sponsors joined Cotswold Life to celebrate the 12th Cotswold Life Food & Drink Awards at Cheltenham Racecourse on Monday, July 7. Hosted by Adam Henson, the awards celebrated the good and the great from the regions food and drink industry.
Editor, Mike Lowe commented: "The food and drink industry in this region is an economic powerhouse. We grow the finest crops, we make brilliant cheese, the meat we farm is second to none, we have excellent breweries and vineyards and waiting to take advantage of this Cotswold bounty are some of the finest chefs and cooks in the country. The results can be seen at our farmers' markets, in our shops and in our superb pubs, hotels and restaurants. We are so very lucky to be in this position and at Cotswold Life we celebrate the success and excellence of our region's food professionals."
and the winners are...
Toast the Cotswolds
Bourton-on the-Water
Michael Hart & Son
Aunt Martha's Tea Room
Horsley Community Shop
Over Farm Market
Severn Cider
Tewkesbury Farmers' Market
Classic Steak and Ale Pie
The Cotswold Traiteur,
Pliny the Elderflower
Corinium Ales, Cirencester
Relish the Taste
The Crown and Sceptre
The Village Pub
The Priory Inn
Gareth Fulford
Purslane, Cheltenham
Dormy House Hotel
Emily Watkins
The Kingham Plough, Kingham
Photos and a full write up of the event will be in the August issue of Cotswold Life. To order
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29 Jun 2014
Cookery Holiday with Authentic Adventures
Cooking Holidays in Puglia, Italy with Authentic Adventures
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Many more exciting adventures in 2015 including cooking holidays in India and Morocco.
Written by Cooking tutor, Ylenia Sambati
Puglia, in the south of Italy is a delight to explore because it has all the right ingredients for a first class culinary holiday. There are a few elements that will capture your heart and inspire your imagination: among these, food, wine and lifestyle.
Puglia has a very laid back pace of life. Its vivid colors and unique architecture, quiet country roads, olive groves and farmlands will inspire and delight you. You will be amazed by todays local culture of first class food, particularly olive oil, farm fresh vegetables, wine and healthy Mediterranean food.
Prepare yourself for sensory overload in Puglia: Greek influenced towns, the musicality of the Italian language, the smell of the sea, the light of the Leccese stone, the variety of wines, the warm locals and the sensational tastes of Puglia cuisine.
Every day will be filled with memorable experiences that will make you want to stay forever.
Pugliese cuisine relies heavily on its local vegetables and wild greens, extra virgin olive oil, wine, and wheat production. The region also provides much of the durum wheat for the dried pasta in the South. Pane Pugliese and Pane di Altamura are both breads famed in Italy and beyond. Puglia has a noted antipasto culture. Restaurants usually parade six or more at the start of a meal. Other places only serve antipasti: lots of fried dishes of course, but also many interesting pickled items, and a number of antipasti that just emphasize the local vegetables. Some of the most famous dishes of the region: orecchiette pasta topped with bitter greens and also fried peppers and lampascioni, a bitter bulb that is typically pickled, pasticciotto, ciceri & tria pasta, fava bean purea and chicories.
Puglia is also famous for its bread and focacce, and for the "taralli" and "friselle", flavored with the local herbs and spices.
Puglia was always a prolific producer of wine and has often been referred to as the "wine cellar of Italy". Until a few decades ago this very stout and strong wine was exported to the northern regions and to France to be used as "cutting" wine. The results are spectacular, and wines such as Primitivo, Salice Salentino, Negroamaro, Squinzano, Verdeca are now appreciated by the best sommeliers.
And Puglia is also famous for its cheeses: the burrata, so creamy that it melts in your mouth just like whipped butter, ricotta, giuncata, primo sale, Caciocavallo Canestrato Pugliese, pecorino fresco, stracciatella and many more.
Puglia is packed with whitewashed villages, diverse art and architecture, white sandy beaches and a fascinating history of people interconnected with the land and the sea. The land is host to olive trees and vineyards. The area sees blue sky days all year round and typically has mild wet winters and hot dry summers.
Puglia is one of the world's largest producers of olive oil contributing around 70 percent of Italy's production and close to 15% of the worlds. They produce in fact some of the best known extra virgin of great quality.
Under the expert guidance of our friendly chef, you will learn how to prepare traditional Puglian dishes, which vary according to the fresh ingredients available each season. At the end of each session all participants eat what they have prepared together, tasting great food and wine. Every day you will be guided through different aspects of the Puglia cuisine: ingredients, techniques and traditions, discovering their secrets and tasting new flavours.
Each day you will explore a complete menu from appetizers to desserts. You will learn how to prepare fresh pasta and the art of making sauces, tasty second dishes and desserts.
For more information contact Authentic Adventures on 01453 823328.
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8 Jun 2014
Cotswold Life Food and Drink Awards 2014
The Cotswold Life Food & Drink Awards is undoubtedly one of the biggest events in the Cotswold calendar. The awards are designed to champion, highlight and offer a showcase to the good and the great from the regions food & drink industry including local producers & suppliers, small farming businesses, chefs, restaurants, pubs and hoteliers, and people who care about the countryside and the future of our local environment.
The black-tie awards ceremony will take place on Monday July 7 in the Centaur at Cheltenham Racecourse from 6.30pm to midnight.
Tickets to the awards ceremony are available for £60 +VAT per person or £600 +VAT for a table of 10. Tickets include a champagne reception with canapés, superb goody bags filled with local produce, local wines and soft drinks and a three course locally sourced meal with coffee followed by a fantastic Cotswold cheeseboard. After dinner Adam Henson from BBC Countryfile will host the award ceremony and announce the winners of this year's highly coveted awards.
This is great opportunity to network with the great and the good from the Cotswold business community.
To buy tickets to the event call 01242 211076 or email
with the subject line CLFDA Tickets.
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4 Apr 2014
"MasterChef" Koj confirmed for this years festival - Here is His latest news
The hungry gap
Longer days, daffodils, tree blossom, lambs, sunshine, happier people... but as a chef, I'm not yet satisfied. We are in the hungry gap. There is an Organic Wagon at the end of my road (it used to be the Veg Shed but is now a colourful old cart run on an honesty box basis). I stop there, if not to buy something for supper, then to seek inspiration in the abundance of colours and shapes. At the beginning of the month, I collected a beautiful purple sprouting cauliflower but since then there has been little more on offer than potatoes, cauliflowers and kale, diminishing daily. That is set to change: spring has sprung and although there is a frustrating gap, I am excited that tomorrow I am going to collect fistfuls of wild garlic leaves. In a few weeks, they will produce white flowers, with a spicy allium scent, that will daintify any salad or soup.
MasterChef 10th anniversary series
Last autumn, the BBC came to film me cooking at home and at Westonbirt. They were revisiting the finalists from the last ten years (pictured above) to find out how their careers and lives have changed since MasterChef. I was also invited back to the studio to taste some of the new contestants' food - it brought back memories and although the quality was very mixed, it did remind me how far I have come in two years.
My appearance will be screened in Episode 7, at 8pm on Wednesday 9th April 2014.
Special occasions
I was recently asked to cater for an 80th birthday dinner. I have already cooked for 21st, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, 70th and 80th birthday dinners! If you're turning 90 or 100, please get in touch.
I'm currently designing a Japanese street food banquet for an investment management company offsite. There's a range of ideas to involve food and cooking in your teambuilding events. Visit
I have had a lot of requests recently for lunch, often Sundays but mid-week as well. If you fancy entertaining your friends, but don't fancy the time in the kitchen that comes with it,
visit my website
. Menus start from £45 per person for weekday lunches and include nibbles, three courses and petits fours. Here are some of my favourite lunch dishes this year.
Beetroots, Vulscombe goats cheese, Parma ham, endive, pear and lime chutney
Braised pork shoulder, tenderloin, crackling, onion mash and crispy sage
Rhubarb and mango, toasted almond crumble, creme fraiche sorbet
Shipton Moyne Cookery Club
At long last, in follow up to a series of village hall cookery demonstrations that I have held over the past year, I am pleased to announce the launch of Shipton Moyne Cookery Club. If yoga, pilates or male voice choirs aren't your thing, I'll be running a 5 week course of cooking classes on Tuesdays beginning on 29th April and running until 27th May. The course will cost £99 for 5 sessions, which includes the tuition and ingredients to create a meal for two people.
For more details, visit
Private chef
Perfect for holiday cottages, or in other words, self-catering holidays where you don't really want to cater yourself. I cook breakfast, lunch and dinner for your entire party. If the weather turns bad, join me in the kitchen for a cooking lesson.
Private tuition gift vouchers
If you're stuck for ideas for someone's birthday, have a look at some of the private cookery classes that I offer.
Food Festivals and demonstrations
The Food Festival season kicks off in May. First up, Marlborough Food Festival on Sunday 11 May, followed two weeks later by Foodies Festival at Marble Hill (a new venue).
For a full list of demonstrations, visit
Supper Clubs
Koj cooks at Humble by Nature
A menu inspired by 1970s memories
Friday 9th May -
click here to book
Koj cooks at York House
Chef's table experience with wines paired by David Almeida of The Oxford Wine Company
Thursday 12th June
This spring...
I shall mostly be cooking:
Cabbages, leeks and cauliflowers
Jersey Royal new potatoes
Purple sprouting broccoli
Hop Shoots and asparagus
Nettles and wild garlic
St Georges and Morel Mushrooms
Woodpigeon and lamb
Guest chef at Lucknam Park Cookery School
I'm honoured to be chosen as the first guest chef at Lucknam Park Cookery School. Head Chef Kesh moved from the restaurants at Lucknam Park just over a year ago and in that short time has built a first class cookery school, with a wide array of courses on virtually every single day of the week. Now, they and some of their regulars are ready to take on Japanese.
On Thursday 22 May, I will lead a day course in Japanese cookery, introducing the ingredients and showing how simple it is, once you have a few basic building blocks under your belt.
To book a place, please visit:
I am now working with Celia Duplock, a macrobiotic chef, consultant and cookery teacher. There is already a strong overlap in the Japanese cooking that I offer, but with her advice, I can now produce delicious food that not only satisfies the gastronomic hedonist in you, but that is also exceptionally good for your health and wellbeing in the longer term.
For more details, visit:
Looking for part time staff
I am looking for part time staff, both to work front of house and in the kitchen with me. Experience preferred for front of house but not necessary for kitchen - all I need is someone who is quick to learn, enthusiastic about cooking, hard working and fun to work with. The role is broad and versatile - don't apply if you're afraid of a bit of washing up - that happens in a kitchen.
To apply and for more details,
email me
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Photo Apps are always popular and Sony Digital Network Applications or SDNA for short has put out some nice ones over the past few years. Motiongraph is the latest and greatest from the developers at SDNA and if you're looking for an Android app to "Wow" your friends Motiongraph might just be the thing for you.
Motiongraph is an app that creates unusual pictures that move like a video. The pics it makes are similar to those animated gif's you see all over the web, but much, much cooler. Using Motiongraph is simple as well and the app will have you making killer moving pictures in a few easy steps. When you find the magic you want to capture you just hit a button to take a quick 2-second video before going to the editing room where you'll be able to fine tune your masterpiece. You can adjust settings like playback speed, and focus. You can also reduce "jitter" in the photo; very handy if you've got unsteady hands like mine.
Another cool feature is the ability to view others creations which are broken down into categories like Artistic, Surprise, Soothing, and Creepy. Some users have really done a bang up job with their creations, and there are some very cool ones that utilize mirrors so keep an eye out for those. Others… are not so hot, but pretty funny as a couple of folks made themselves look like Spongemonkey the Quizno's mascot. Last but not least, you can share your creations with others that use the app or through the usual means of Facebook, Twitter, etc..
Motiongraph is a slick little app that does exactly as advertised. It does take a minute to get the swing of things, but before long you'll be able to do some crazy (or creepy) stuff with your pics. I thought it was interesting to see other people's creations as well; it gives you some great ideas and you'll definitely get a few laughs out of it. The app ran like a champ on my phone, but I did feel like the whole loading/sharing video thing was a little 'overdone' and tends to slow things down more than is necessary. Still a fun app though and it does a great job at making trippy pictures once you figure out what it can and can't do. There's no demo version of the app at this time, but the full version of Sony digital network Applications Motiongraph is a deal at only $0.99 on Google Play.


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2000 Byers' Choice Retired Wintertime Specialty Caroler - 'Young Girl with Skates'
Such a sweet little girl, bundled up for the cold and ready to skate!
A beautiful Byers' Choice Caroler, now retired, from 2000. My Byers' Choice Carolers are "New Old Stock" [NOS], dating from my Maryland general store days - stock from my shop, unsold and never displayed.
The sweet young girl has her blonde hair tucked into a gold-trimmed gray caplet, accented with a holly berry sprig and then tied sweetly with a satin bow at her neck. She has on her Red Riding Hood-bright red jacket and her ice skates are at the ready ... and she's looking for a friend to skate who will skate with her!
This listing includes the young girl holding her pair of skates, hanging from their leather straps. She stands approximately 10" (25.4 cm) and will be a perfect gift for the Christmas holidays!
Lovely to celebrate your Winter curio cabinet display, wonderful to include in your holiday feast centerpiece, ideal to gift to that Byers' Choice Caroler collector you love this Christmas!
Byers' Choice Carolers are finely crafted in varied stylings - each one is one-of-kind piece; each one hand-crafted in the USA.
I use USPS 1st Class Parcel for all my shipping, both Domestic and International. Lower US destinations will be shipped with USPS Insurance and all US destinations will be shipped with USPS Delivery Confirmation.
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The city called São Paulo is in the Southeastern part of Brazil which is not far from the magnificent city of Rio de Janeiro. There are lots of varieties of broadleaf vegetation that are evergreen with some species that are non native. The climate is very friendly which makes the city to be beautiful all year long. There are wildlife animals you would love to see. The place has become what a lot of tourists would not be able to do without because of the non ending tourist attraction activities in the city. Even in the night, there is also an activity that takes you to the next day.
Coming to Brazil can be fun for so many people due to the natural vegetation and tourist attraction centers that are scattered all over the place like the ones in Brazil. The airport that would take care of your flight need is Sao Paulo Airport that has car hire services that makes it easier for you to move around with ease. With the best tourism trained scouts who are all over the airport you can the best from tourism in the country. There are book stands, malls, saloons and so many facilities that would be able to handle your personal need when you are in this country.
Sao Paulo would leave one thing with you, smile on your face with the efficient and effective services they have to offer you. And with the car hire service that would give you a ride like a queen or king, what else are you looking for again in Brazil? Everything about tourism and business has been taken care for you to walk into them and have your fun. It might be you are new; there is no need to get confused due to the available directions and books that would easily put you through immediately you come here.
There are lots of activities and events that take place in it making a tourist haven. Lots of tourists visit Brazil just for one major purpose and that is to enjoy its amazing cuisines and wonderful dishes. You have what you want when it comes to food. There is no reason why you would not be able to eat when you are in Brazil. The exotic meals cannot be missed by a tourist who visits this city. When you are here, you have so much to get yourself engaged in. You are definitely going to have a swell time in Brazil when you visit this part of the country.
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"Social media for lawyers wouldn't work – my clients aren't looking there!" It's an all too familiar argument in law firms around the country when asked to invest in a social media strategy. While 5 years ago it may have had some merit, times have changed.
As of June this year, 17 million Australians are active users of Facebook, 5 million are regularly tweeting and 8 million are showcasing their professional expertise on LinkedIn. Your customers are on social media.
Why are Lawyers on Social Media?
Professional services are blossoming online and social media for lawyers has become an effective marketing tool. But why? Here's a breakdown of why leading law firms have invested in social platforms:
- Your audience. As we mentioned, Australians of all ages are on social media – the size of your audience and the hours of usage are unparalleled in the media landscape today.
- The biggest political and social conversations are happening over social media. Simply look at the political leaders of today. Admittedly there are lessons to be learnt from some, but the voice is being heard.
- There is huge cultural shift in B2B. More businesses are connecting online and through social media as the norm.
- Customers want to deal with lawyers they trust. Honesty and integrity are all as important as experience for the average Australian when it comes to legal advice and your social media pages are the best way to showcase the personality and faces behind the firm.
- Potential clients take notice of and ask for recommendations the same way they might do so in real life. Building goodwill and social proof is a powerful lead generator on social media.
- It's an opportunity to build your reputation as thought leaders. Sharing or commenting on the latest news in your area of expertise will help highlight your competency and knowledge.
7 Tips on Social Media For Lawyers
So, you've convinced your partners, but where do you start?
Here's 7 tips on getting your social media off the ground.
- Focus on content. Ensure your content is relevant, timely and interesting. According to 2017 Sensis study, the number 1 reason social media users unfollow businesses is irrelevant or unappealing content.
- Write for your Audience. Social media is not the place to be using heavy, technical legal jargon. Conveying your knowledge succinctly and in an accessible manner will help your audience engage with the content.
- Keeping your followers abreast of your services and skills should be a key element of your messaging, however, overselling yourself will likely lead to a drop in followers and engagement. Remember it's social media so lead with informative, engaging content.
- Reach out to local businesses on social. The power of referrals is real and there is a strong likelihood that businesses in your area, especially those catering to high volume, will be likely to refer you once trusted.
- Associate with reputable associations. Use your law firms accounts to comment, share, like and post on reputable industry bodies such as the NSW Law Society. Not only does the power of association help your brand, but you may get noticed and your content may in turn be shared to a much larger audience.
- Each social platform is skewed towards different content so consider the platform before you post. Instagram is great to show off your firm's personality, twitter is ideal for conversing on important topics of the day and Facebook should be a conduit for the majority of your content and engagement efforts.
- While social media for lawyers is often leveraged as a business development tool, it can also be a very effective means of attracting professional talent. Lawyers, like other professionals, use social media in their downtime. A strong social presence is a great way to get in front of potential new hires.


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Simply drive up to the hotel car park and inform Reception of your travel plans when you check in.
Hotel Details:
The stylish four-star rated Menzies Chequers Gatwick Hotel boasts 104 spacious rooms that are all facilitated with modern conveniences, and is located approximately 2 miles from Gatwick Airport.
Check In/Out Details:
Earliest check-in time is at 14:00, with earlier times available on request. Latest check-out time is at 11:00.
Hotel Facilities:
- 104 en-suite bedrooms including executive rooms, suites and studios
- 8 function suites, all with air-conditioning and natural daylight
- The Brasserie restaurant
- A traditional English pub
- FREE WiFi access in all bedrooms and conference rooms
- Ample on-site car parking
- Data projector and screen, complimentary stationary, FREE WiFi, unlimited tea and coffee, and snacks and beverages throughout the day for conference guests
Room Facilities:
Room amenities include radio, satellite TV, in-room movies, trouser press, direct dial telephone, Internet access, double-glazed windows, en-suite bathroom, tea and coffee maker and hair dryer. There is also FREE WiFi access available in all bedrooms.
Restaurant Details:
The Menzies Chequers Hotel London Gatwick believe food should be one of the great pleasures of any stay at their hotel. So the head chef has developed a mouth-watering menu of dishes, using the finest ingredients and seasonal produce. Dishes are served in the newly refurbished, contemporary, Brasserie restaurant. Or for casual dining, the hotel has the Chequers pub which is a traditional English pub serving quality, classic dishes.
The on-site restaurant serves full English breakfasts (£12.50 per person) every morning, which is available from 06:30 until 09:30. Children under the age of five can eat free of charge.
Room Service:
There is 24-hour room service.
Children younger than 12 years can stay at this hotel free of charge when using the existing bedding. All toddlers younger than two years can stay at the hotel free of charge using the cots.
Disabled Facilities:
The hotel is equipped with a range of designated amenities for physically handicapped guests. Disabled accessible guest rooms are available on request.
The hotel is located two miles from the airport.
Parking is included for 8 or 15 days with Maple Manor. This includes a secured meet and greet parking service. Overnight parking and extra days' parking at the hotel costs £7 per day.
Please note: It is the responsibility of the vehicle owner to ensure that the vehicle is roadworthy, holds a valid MOT certificate and displays a valid road tax license. Should Maple Manor be unable to move the car off-site for any of these reasons, the hotel reserves the right to charge their daily car parking rate for each day the car is left in their car park.
The 2 mile airport taxi transfer is at a time convenient to you at a pre-arranged price of £6.00 per journey. Reception will provide you with a number to call on your return journey. A maximum of four people are allowed per taxi.
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Sunday, February 23, 2014
A young girl in the blog once asked me ...... 'what can you tell me about writing?'
She apparently loves to write, as one could easily see in her blog. Big talent with writing, that I could see and so did others who came to view her blog. But she wanted more. And she was feeling downhearted as she hoped for bigger attention in the blog.
I said....
There isn't much I could say that you don't already know and perhaps may even know more than I do on some stuff. But if you must ask then allow me to humbly share a few things which I have learned though the writing years.
1. Write from the heart --- When the heart is in the writing it comes out real and true. Let your heart speak. Sometimes the mind puts in a lot of things into the writing, things which you don't necessarily have to or need. Shed the ego. When the heart speaks, the thoughts come clearer.
2. Make it simple --- Simplicity is beauty. No need to gild the lily, so to speak. Simplicity stands on its own strength and beauty. Write that even a seven-year old kid can understand you. No unnecessary frills. No big words to boggle the mind. If there is a simpler way to say it, then use it.
3. Write because you love to write --- Whether you get dozens of readers in your blog or fewer, don't let that influence your writing. The writing must continue because you just love doing it.
4. Write about what you know --- How can you write about roses when you haven't stepped foot in a rose garden at all? Welcome experience. Read books. Talk to people. Make regular deposits to your knowledge bank. Learn... and keep learning. Make mistakes but learn some more.
5. Writing is a gift --- Just like other gifts which a wonderful God has so generously bestowed on everyone. Appreciate it; thank God for it. Nurture it. Build dreams with it. Breathe life into it.
These aren't all. I still have much to learn... to grow... to write more. And I intend to do that until my fingers drop. :-)
To encourage her further, I found these lovely inspiring images on the internet and thought to post it here along with this piece. Keep at it, girl; just keep writing because you LOVE to write. God bless you!
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Labels: life, faith, hope gift, let your heart do the writing, talent, writing is a passion
Friday, February 21, 2014
Here are beautiful lines read from a lovely book written by Pamela Steinke -- "Good Morning... God". This book is a permanent among others more of best loved books gathered through the years of reading. It has bravely survived the many efforts of sorting out stuff for donation to worthy groups. It will be around for a longer time still as it continues to work its magic to my mind heart and soul.
Allow me to quote ................
Matthew 10:39
"Do not allow yourself to get wrapped up in self. Instead, let yourself be wrapped up in ME, in your involvement with others. It is a rich world to those who seek to reach out beyond the bounce of their own existence. It is a world filled with wonder, filled with the splendor of sharing and reaping! Reach out to others, give of your time, your talents, your riches. Reach up and reach out and your life will be filled with treasure. Reach out in my NAME and be free."
A friend to whom I shared this with had this to say to that.... "Oh that's easy for one who has most everything in life. Having no bills to pay, no tuition to think about, no rent to worry about, no family squabbles that get on one's nerves, no messed up relationships, no uncertain future, no fear of losing a job, no illness draining one's energy and resources." And so much more she had on her list of burdens.
But I guess she didn't realize that those burdens are not her monopoly because we have them too, some or maybe all. And if it's not on that list, it could be something else of great or greater concern too, as far as we each are concerned. Of such is life. We know that, don't we?
Allow me to share my thoughts......
Certainly life is more than just our worries and woes, of burdens and strife. That it's not only the individual 'us' who live on this planet. To put it straight... life can't be just all about you or me.
As a person and individual, I operate in my own little corner of the world, true. And I try to work it the best way I can. But there also exists a bigger circle around me of family and friends, and a much bigger circle around that of neighborhood and community, and an even a huge circle winding round everything of country and the world.
Life is certainly not all about me. The years have taught me that we all stand connected in ways big and small. But sadly we seem to try to ignore that one simple truth. Instead we keep on building walls, fences, ideologies, philosophies, religions that serve the idea of the self.
The opposite is true... life has taught me that we thrive better if we all work together.... are joined with a common cause of wanting a blessed life. Thus we can move forward faster, dreams better realized, civilizations develop faster, generations improve one after the other, even mother nature revitalizes, and all living creatures live content in their unique original niche as Divinely designed.
God says 'Reach out' ... life is not just all about you or me or them. HE says we all stand connected. With that life can be far more richer.
God bless you all!
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Thursday, February 20, 2014
When I saw this in my inbox this morning, I couldn't let it go. It's such a beautiful prayer. Such blessed comfort. Had to bring it here because I know that somebody somewhere today needs to see this too. Blessings to you all!
God teach me to be patient, teach me to go slow,
Teach me how to wait on You when my way I do not know.
Teach me sweet forbearance when things do not go right
So I remain unruffled when others grow uptight.
Teach me how to quiet my racing, rising heart
So I might hear the answer You are trying to impart.
Teach me to let go, dear God, and pray undisturbed until
My heart is filled with inner peace and I learn to know Your will
By Helen Steiner
(Thanks, Mr. Quote Man; it's appreciated. And thanks to the internet for such apt images.)
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Labels: life, faith, hope forbearance, God of love, inner peace, patience, prayer makes you see things differently
Monday, February 17, 2014
I was sitting there enjoying my green tea frappe... yes, Starbucks... where else?! :-) While waiting for my daughter who went to National Book Store on an errand I overheard this conversation from the next table not far from mine. In a group of middle-aged women, one matronly-looking woman spoke.... "Ay naku, pera-pera lang yan. Tingnan mo lang kung gaano kabilis ang solusyon kapag nabigyan mo na." -- In essence that meant ... "It's all about money. Money buys everything."
That got me to thinking. Back in the house as I sat at my desk the thoughts came tumbling out and I wrote...........
There's nothing else I know. There's no supernatural formula I could easily summon up to solve problems with. There's no wise guru to teach me some special mantra to erase worrisome cares and woes. There's no big fat bank account to ease my way through the rough and tumble grind of earthly struggle and strife. There's no magic potion on my shelf which I could conveniently pluck out and slip into a mean person's coffee to bring about a change of heart or mind.
But I know this.....
I travel through life's journey with this special thing packed tightly inside my backpack. It's a small thing lest you think it's a grand magnificent piece of heavy treasure stacked in there alongside other stuff. But it is a treasure indeed and it glows albeit often small, sometimes strangely, at times falteringly, even faintly, neglected at some point, at odd moments I don't feel it and yet its flame won't snuff out nor disappear into thin air as you think it easily might. It glows steadily and amazingly considering it's just the size of a mustard seed. It's there regardless of how I feel.
I have my share of tough times too just like we all do and those things don't and won't stop because that is just what life is made of. I'm just a weak puny human being trying to make it in this crazy world. Yet I can say this much that it's like I always land on a bean-bag each time. Faith is like a soft self-inflating bean- bag which catches you every time you fall. Oh maybe you'll get some bumps and bruises here and there but who wouldn't with a fall no matter its size. And yes you will feel depressed, lonely, disappointed, angry, afraid, sad and everything else miserable in the book of life. All of life is about feelings, too.
But it doesn't kill you. In fact, it's like warm comforting arms wrapping around you in a big glorious divine hug. It simply makes you feel so good that you always want to cry so much relieved. It's like something or SOMEONE tells you ... 'It's okay, don't be afraid; I'M here.'
It's just wonderfully there. I, with blessed joy, thank God for this gift and treasure.
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Saturday, February 15, 2014
A very positive and optimistic point of view on life which I honestly don't get to hear often. But we do know by experience that life is everything but a grand ball. And yet, it can be the grand party you may wish it to be if you so choose it. Just a matter of attitude and a huge dose of positive thinking. That's what it said in a book I had recently read.
Life is tough as we hear it often said and as often as we have been told about it. Consequently we get to experience it ourselves as we get down to the real thing in our respective lives. While many would groan and whine going through the fire, there are some amazingly who would simply dance through the flames. And what may be the difference there? Yes, you're right, it's attitude... a positive attitude towards life.
And as I have learned, a positive attitude springs from a positive mind. But how does one describe a positive mind? I think it's one that believes in possibilities, in potential, in hope, in faith, and in believing that there is ONE up there who cares what happens to you down here. So if HE CARES, what could hold you or us back from anything good?!
An ounce of positivity is a pound of _________. So you fill in the blanks according to what positivity did for you. Maybe somebody out there needs to hear it. :-) Pass the positivity around. It's a winner any way you look at it.
(Thanks, Mr. Quote Man, for the quote. And thanks to the internet for the wonderful images.)
Blessings, everyone!
Posted by Ellen at 9:56 PM 4 comments:
Labels: life, faith, hope attitude, believer, optimism, positive mind, positive thinking, positivity, possibilities, potential, winner
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
And the writing continues because the thinking cranks up to high gear. Now the typing picks up speed trying its best not to miss every word every thought. Then again another pause... something akin to vigorously running a long mile and coming to losing your wind and so you stop. But does the thinking stop too?
It does not. I may want to walk away from my desk with a new intent to grab a nice cup of coffee and too decide to sit back and relax enjoying it but my thoughts would still keep on tossing and turning ideas in my mind. It does not care about the coffee but it does care about my experience of it. Yes, more food for the thought and for the writing.
My mom, bless her soul, summed it up long ago with this...... 'You think ... therefore you write.'
This post is also meant to encourage others out there who love to write to ....... connect with your thoughts and W-R-I-T-E !!
Blessings, everyone!
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It's just about to happen! A Wedding Invitation, my fourth stand-alone contemporary novel, is going to be released by Bethany House this October! In honor of its publication, I thought this was a good time to talk about weddings.
Do you like attending weddings? How many do you get invited to each year? Did you watch Will and Kate marry this past April? What did you like best about viewing a telecasted wedding as opposed to physically being there?
Comment below about weddings----the wonderful, the bizarre, the quaint, and the sweet.
I invite you also to talk about wedding invitations you've received. And, of course, I invite you to read A Wedding Invitation.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Just Around the Corner
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
And we have a winner!
Thanks to all who played the Hiding Food Contest at the Alice J. Wisler Facebook Fan Club Page. My daughter, Elizabeth, just turned 14, and since she has the birthday this week, I let her pick the name from the names of all who LIKED the fan club page and wrote a post about hiding food from yourself or other family members. (I do this all the time, and so does a character in my novel.) Elizabeth drew Faye McCord of Mississippi's name!
Congratulations, Faye! An autographed copy of my latest novel, Hatteras Girl, will be sent to you soon!
Thanks, everyone, for playing!
Congratulations, Faye! An autographed copy of my latest novel, Hatteras Girl, will be sent to you soon!
Thanks, everyone, for playing!
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About the Animal Center LI
At the Animal Center LI, our caring staff treats your animals like our own. The Animal Center LI is located in Suffolk County, NY, right off of Route 110. The Animal Center LI is usually open seven days per week, and with both morning and evening hours to best provide the best available appointments to our clients.
We offer a broad range of veterinary services including yearly wellness exams, puppy/kitten exams, vaccinations, de-wormings, dental scaling and polishing, microchipping, and surgery.
Our mission is to promote a state of optimum health on the physical, emotional and mental planes, for your puppy or kitten, and the adult pet he/she will become. Achieving a healthy state is not the same a fighting disease. It is the prevention of disease, whenever possible.
Please call today or login with Rapport below to schedule your pet's next appointment, we will be waiting to help. Thank you for trusting us with your pets.
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Welcome to St. Helen's Youth Ministry! We're glad you are here!
We invite all current 6th-8th grade youth to be involved with EDGE and all 9th-12th-grade teens to get involved in Life Teen!
Youth Ministry at St. Helen exists to assist parents in teaching their children about our AWESOME Catholic faith. Jr. High youth and High school-aged teens are given the opportunity to encounter Jesus Christ at every event.
Through EDGE & Life Teen, the St. Helen Youth Ministry team aim to raise young growing disciples in love with Christ and His Church, transforming their homes, schools, and communities by lives lived in and for the love of God.
Please take a look around our site – the menu is at the top of the page,and please contact Deepa Kingry, our Youth & Young Adult Coordinator, to register your youth & teens in youth ministry or to ask for more information about joining CORE here at St. Helen Catholic Parish.
Welcome to St. Helen's Youth Ministry! We're glad you are here!


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Heart pumping, adrenaline driving fun. The Ultimate School Tour activity. Leap into the Atlantic swells, explore the intertidal zone and challenge yourselves on all our features including "The Widow Maker" – 6m jump.
Kayaking on the wild Atlantic Way is a great way to spend time with your friends, learn a new skill, soak up the scenery and some salt water!!! Spilt into teams and do battle with each other or tackle some waves on board our sit on top kayaks. Not as scary as coasteering, but every bit as enjoyable!
Explore what lies beneath, challenge yourselves to reach the sea bed…witness a whole host of marine wildlife in their natural habitat. Quiet a thrill for everyone and certainly a great group activity and loved by all who try it!
Surf's up!!! One of Ireland's most exciting ways to enjoy the Ocean and we have the perfect sites for all levels, we will suit you up and take you out to the beach and show you how to catch a wave. Ideal group activity and great for School Trips!


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I saw in the site stats a few days ago that someone was here looking for information on satchels for holding Roman wax tables. It's a little late now, but here's one I prepared earlier, back in 1995 for a leatherworking competition at a re-enactmentconference.
Waxed tabula were used as note-books and for medium term document storage, and were usually bound into books of two or three leaves, however tabulae with up to five leaves were not uncommon. In the military context, they seem to have been used by officers for writing orders and jotting down notes. A rectangle tucked in a fold of the tunic behind the belt on some first century grave stones was identified as a tabula cerata by K. Korber in 1927 1. To protect these tabula bearing important information — possibly for transferral onto bronze or stone, satchels such as those from Barr Hill 2 or Vechten were used.
Drawing from van Driel, C., Leatherwork in the Roman Army Part 1
The case is copied from the one found at Vechten, which was flattened by the weight of the strata above it, so the reconstruction is based on the shape of the leather and the positioning of the stitch holes. Most commentators suggest that the leather would have been waxed or oiled to improve strength and moisture protection.
This Recreation:
Tab. Pomp. 15 was used as the model, as this tabula has three leaves and the available wood was about the right size. The thickness (11mm) was taken from fragments found in the hoard at Roman Corbridge, (AD80-163) as this attribute was omitted from the Pompeii catalogue.
The pine was thinned and hollowed with all the finishing done by hand. The binding holes were drilled, and the sealing groove was filed. The exposed surfaces were treated with olive oil, and the bees' wax was melted and poured in to the recesses. The leaves were bound with 3mm leather thong.
The flat end of the stylus was forged from a rod of 6mmf brass and the point filed, the whole article then was tinned using the technique of lead-wiping. The stylus length was chosen by comparing the length of the stylus with the length of the tabulae of both the "Girl with pen and wax writing tablet" 3 wall painting from Pompeii and the London Procurator's Office Tabula 4 and applying that relation to the tabula at hand. It seems likely that the stylus was the same length as the spine of the tabula, so the stylus could be pushed in to the ties for storage, without overhanging the ends and damaging either the stylus or case. This relation holds true in both examples.
The case was made from vegetable tanned leather from the top split of the hide (next to the skin). It was sewn using black dyed linen thread which had been rubbed with bees' wax. The type of stitch used is the same as used on leather shield covers (tegimen), leather "envelopes", and tents (papillio) of the period. The label was cut and attached — it may have been used to address the document. The leather envelopes from Vindolanda are known to have had the address and seal sewn on 5, and the tabula found at Roman Corbridge were associated with small scraps of papyrus 6 which may have carried addresses. The case was finally treated with olive oil for moisture-proofing.
[1] K. Korber, Mainzer Zeitschrift 2, 1907, p26: 11. 1916, p.57. Quoted in van Driel, C., Leatherwork in the Roman Army Part 1, Exercitus: Vol 2 No1 (Winter 1986)
[2] Robertson, A., Scott, M., & Keppie, L., Barr Hill, A Roman Fort and its Finds BAR 16. 1975 fig28 no 39.
[3] Williams, Rosemary 1983 Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Abridged and Illustrated, Bison Books, 1983
[4] Scullard, H.H., Roman Britain — Outpost of the Empire, Thames & Hudson, 1991, p87
[5] Bowman A.K. & Thomas J.D., Vindolanda: the Latin writing tablets, Britannia Monograph Series no 4 1983
[6] Allason-Jones, L., & Bishop, M.C., Excavations at Roman Corbridge — The Hoard, English Heritage 1988, p86 & 87, Object 298 (Fig 103 — AMLab Photo )


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Using events in another time period to advance your plotline adds interest and color to your story. Generally you achieve this with either time-travel, which is moving your present-day protagonist physically to the location, flashbacks to another time within the protagonists lifetime, or reincarnation, where they emerge as another person. Your readers really don't care how you get there; they simply want to be there. Research carefully, find interesting tidbits about your time period, like the food, the clothing. Your reader wants to be a tourist along with having an adventure.
Travelling in time is only theory and not something you can look up in Wikipedia, but research into the possible theories, learning new things, investigating new places adds a whole new dimension to writing that makes the job of committing some 70,000 words to paper exciting. I learned more than I ever wanted to know about whaling in 1865 when I wrote Love Out of Time, and discovered a fascinating event in the Civil War called The Stone Fleet Incident. You didn't want to know how they did laundry on a boat, but I told you anyhow.
The wildly popular, romantic "Highlander" series by Diana Gabaldon has brought back interest in this genre. She uses Scotland and the Battle of Culloden in 1746, as her historical period. Her female character passes through an energy force to get there, and back again. Her romantic interest is hauntingly memorable.
In my novel, The Haunting of Aaron House, I use flashbacks of the ghost inhabiting Samantha's body. The main secret to this writing is a strong sense of place. Your reader wants to be there with your protagonist, so you must put yourself there to observe small details, like clothing, speech, and manners—reacting to the scene so your readers hear the sounds, smell the odors around them. Garbage? Food? Blood? In The Haunting of Aaron House, Amalie, the ghost in Samantha, is having a flashback to the Battle of Gettysburg. She's in the middle of Pickett's Charge.
"Amos! Amos, my beloved, where are you?" She stopped, holding her mouth, coughing. "I can't breathe. The smoke from the guns is choking me. Too much noise. Cannons exploding, and men crying, horses screaming in pain." She ran farther, her hands over her ears, staggering to avoid soldiers, and fell to the ground, crying for Amos.
Love Out of Time uses time-travel, complicated by shifts to parallel universes. We go to 1865, and a whaling village in Massachusetts called New Kensington. My main character, Sara Burkhart, rents a beach house in present day New Kensington that is haunted by a sea captain, leader of a group of time travellers from the old town. Sara's ghost, Caleb, sends her back in time to i865 New Kensington. In this brief excerpt of Sara's first visit, she wakes in the middle of the night.
Cautiously she opened one eye at a time, afraid of what she'd find, peering through the mist. It was night. She was outdoors. The smell of salt water indicated an ocean nearby. Roughly clad male bodies shoved past her, ignoring her presence. Judging by the shadows of tall-masted sailing ships in the distance, the sounds of bells and creaking timber, and the odors of rotten fish, unwashed bodies, and wet wool, she was somewhere far removed from her time.
Looking up. She saw a sign hanging overhead, the words "Sounder Inn" painted in coarse letters around a spouting whale—a tavern. …….Cautiously, she ventured inside. A strange mix of men of all races and nationalities…..some nearly naked and covered with tattoos.
You get the idea. Try it and go places you'll never be.
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I have not written anything lately, because I find everything in the Bible fits together; like a jigsaw puzzle. When I start explaining something I believe God has given me, I find myself going off the subject because I begin to explain how I view another piece of the puzzle: because one has to understand the second piece before one can understand the first piece.
Well, this is too important piece of understanding to give up on. So please bear with me and I will try to stay on the subject.
I am going to try to explain the differences between Islam and Christianity. I am commanded by God to speak the truth as I understand it: because I am a Christian. I am charged with this simple rule no matter who I am speaking to, so I will speak the truth to both Christians and Muslims.
Both religions have a book from which they gain understanding from. Christians use the Bible and Muslims the Koran. Some confusion results when the gods spoken of in the two books are viewed as the same god. With only a little comparison, it is clear that the god of Islam is the mortal enemy of the God of the Bible.
Both gods claim that they do not change. The God of the Bible says that He has a son. The god of Islam says he has no son. If the God of the Bible says that He has a Son and then says he does not then He would have changed. So the two are not one.
The most important message of the Bible is that we all fall short of the glory of God, that we all need a Savior, and that Savior is Jesus. This work was completed with the death of Jesus and all that was written about it completed within 100 years after his death.
Then about 500 years later the Koran was dictated to Mohammed by an angel. An angel is only a messenger. An angel can be a messenger of Satan or a messenger of God. The message reveals whether it comes from God or Satin. If God sent His son to bear the punishment for the sins of the world and someone, or something denies that claim, then that someone or something would be an antichrist. They would be an enemy of the God of the Bible. The Words of the Bible warn of the coming of an antichrist 500 years before he or it came!
I will admit that one book is true and one is a counterfeit. Can a counterfeit be created before the original?
The God of the Bible gave man a golden rule and that is "Do to others what you would have them do to you". If everyone obeyed that rule there would be world peace. There would be no murder, theft, lies, or any other offense against anyone. There would be no police, government, or rulers of any kind, as there would be no need for them. You would not want to rule over another, because you do not want to be ruled over. There would be no Islam; because Islam demands submission and submission would not be necessary if everyone followed the second royal law.
The God of the Bible does not violate His own rules. He does not demand submission to Himself. Everyone has the power to do anything he or she wants. No one is forced to glorify the God of the Bible, but those who think about it will do so from their heart. Those are the ones who will live with God and be happy forever. They are the friends of God and when this is all over, God will throw His enemies out of His kingdom, just as any one would. Who wants to live forever with their enemies?
As a Christian, I understand that every Muslim is the enemy of the God of the Bible, an antichrist, but as a Christian, I am commanded to love my enemies! That is not to say hug and kiss them, but to "do to them as I would have them do to me", so if you follow Islam, let me warn you. You will indeed spend eternity with your god. When Allah is thrown out of the presence of God, you will also be thrown out! You will spend eternity with a god that commanded his followers to kill and lie in order to further his cause and his cause is to have everyone declare him God! If Allah wants you to lie to others, in order to further his cause, is he lying to you?
Whether you are Christian or Muslim, think about what I have said. The God of the Bible will not stop you; because He has nothing to fear, but Allah would and he will even have you killed for it!


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Mtn. View HS breaks Xavier's 4-year reign in girls' tennis
The biggest headline this year in big-school tennis has to belong to the Mesa Mountain View High School girls, who picked themselves up from a loss in the Division I state finals last year to knock off the team that kept them from that 2015 title – and at the same time broke Xavier Prep's four-year reign.
Throughout this season, Mountain View couldn't be beaten, winning 17 straight matches. As expected, they jumped out to three straight singles' wins in the state tourney title match and then, after Xavier rallied with a couple of singles wins of their own, clinched the 5-2 win over the Gators when the state doubles champions, Anya and Madeline Lamoreaux, won the first doubles match.
Ironically, when Xavier won the state team title in 2012 with a dominating 5-0 victory over Scottsdale's Chaparral High School, they were able to break the Firebirds' string of three straight championships. Now, Mountain View has become the giant-killer and will look to begin its quest for multiple titles.
After that 2012 championship, Xavier and Chaparral would play three more times in the title match, with the Gators winning all three in five straight sets. But this year Mountain View crashed the party and showed why they have been favored all season long to break the Xavier-Chaparral lock on title play.
However, on the boys' side, there was no stopping last year's champions from repeating in either Division I or Division II.
Scottsdale's Desert Mountain High School won its second straight D-I title by rolling over Chaparral, 5-0, at Paseo Racquet Club in Glendale. The Wolves blew through the tourney undefeated and then won all five singles matches to earn the title without needing help in the doubles. Chase Victor won the opening singles match by beating Ryan Bear, 6-1, 6-0, and Cameron Krimbill closed the door with the final singles victory, winning 6-4, 6-2, over Tripp Dillon.
In D-II, Catalina Foothills High School in Tucson notched its third straight championship by taking down Pusch Ridge High, 5-1. But Pusch Ridge didn't make it easy for the Falcons.
Catalina's Michael Lee got things started with a tightly-contested 6-4, 7-5 victory over Shawn Parks, and Connor Oseran claimed the final singles win to seal the title, but had to go three sets before defeating Camron Vick, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5.
That win was supposed to be the first part of a 1-2 punch that would have mirrored the school's performance in 2014, when the Falcons took both the boys' and girls' team titles.
But Notre Dame Prep had other ideas on the girls' side. The Scottsdale school was intent on returning to the top of the mountain, where it was in 2011 after winning five straight state titles.
The Saints looked like they were on the way after winning the first singles match when Alexa Cooke won over Abby Watson, 7-5, 6-4. But Halle Zodro tied it up by beating Alyssa Heid, 6-2, 6-1.
As it turned out, it was Heid that rebounded from that loss to secure the win in the closing match of the day. The scores see-sawed after the first couple of singles matches and worked into a tie when Catalina's Peris Lopez and Talya Rezetko used a three-set doubles victory to tie the match at 4-4.
But Heid joined with Alexandra Lehman to win the final doubles match in a 9-8 tiebreaker to secure the 5-4 win.


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From thanking sponsors to crowning professionals Rak-Su the winners… how X Factor has lost its edge
Simon Cowell's Watford boyband were announced as this year's champions despite having already been working in the music industry
A TELLING moment at the end of Sunday's X Factor final as Simon Cowell acknowledged those who really "made it all possible".
Not the contestants, the judges, Dermot O'Leary, the viewers or even Nicole Scherzinger's local off-licence. No, the people he most wanted to thank were . . . "Just Eat", the Eamonn Holmes Post-it note who "paid for all this".
So, yeah, thanks guys and, erm, well sponsored.
Everyone at Just Eat must be thrilled with the final of X Factor 2017, which, on the plus side, got the winner most people wanted and predicted, Rak-Su.
On the down side, however, it did seem to confirm the show's over and devoid of all the fun, spontaneity, eccentricity, annual parade-of-the crazies and everything else that made it fun to watch in the first place.
Probably due to pressure from The Voice, you see, The X Factor now takes itself ridiculously seriously. In fact, it's less a television show these days, more a marketing process, meaning there was a rigid no-risk structure to everything that happened over the weekend.
Rak-Su, Grace Davies and the French bloke they desperately wanted to come third would say how much it meant to have their family with them, or duet with Naughty Boy/Paloma Faith/someone else.
Their song would be followed by a compulsory standing ovation, one of the judges would then order everyone to "pick up their phones", while Dermot insisted, "It's the public calling the shots, this year", without somehow curling up into a little ball of embarrassment and screaming: "What has become of my life?"
'Cos you can see for yourself the public really isn't calling the shots on The X Factor. It's the Ryanair of talent shows, all but tipping its customers upside down for their spare loose change as it takes them somewhere they really don't need to go.
All of Simon's usual cash cows were joining in on Saturday and Sunday, of course. James Arthur, Little Mix, Louis Tomlinson and George Shelley from Union J, among others.
And if any element of the show wasn't contributing to Syco's funds directly then, I'm guessing, like the Watford top Rak-Su gave Simon, it was up on eBay fairly sharpish.
The most important parts of the product, though, were undoubtedly Rak-Su and Grace, who were identified as the preferred two finalists months ago, hence the reason they weren't allowed to compete against each other until the live shows reached the semi-final stage and it was unavoidable.
They're both admirably talented, obviously. What they weren't, however, were the wide-eyed newcomers The X Factor used to claim it wanted to transform into stars.
Rak-Su were recording professionally before the series started and Grace was first talent-scouted by Simon's Syco label as long ago as 2014.
It makes a mockery of all those poor, innocent fools who queued up alongside them at the auditions in good faith, obviously.
But if you're wondering why they took no chances this year, you must have missed the news about Matt Terry, last year's winner, whose new album has just ram-raided the charts at No29, eight places below Anton Du Beke's debut, From The Top.
If Matt's struggling, then God knows what's happening to 5 After Midnight.
It doesn't look good, though.
As we learned on Saturday, Simon's got a new boyband, who are the apple of his eye, for the next 15 minutes.
They're called Pretty Much and they've got a new single called . . . called. Oh sod it, Simon couldn't remember what it was called. Buy it anyway, folks. The man's gotta eat.
- Passive-aggressive Kezia Dugdale stereotyping Stanley Johnson as, "Old, white, male, pale and stale", after boring the nation rigid on I'm A Celeb.
- Tamara "Like" Ecclestone upping this week's "like" count to an astonishing 79 in one ITVBe hour.
- The BBC compliance unit lumbering Have I Got News For You with someone called Desiree Burch. All those hundreds of useless, state-approved comedians, like Adam Hills, who think it's their duty to be political rather than funny.
- And radioactively smug Glaswegian stand-up Larry Dean opening his BBC2 Live At The Apollo set with: "If you're trying to place my accent . . . it's from The EU." As in, eeh, you tosser.
'Borg to tears of sex bots
THE week's most startling documentary was always going to be The Sex Robots Are Coming on Channel 4, which, sure enough, went off like a cross between Deliverance and the worst episode of Doctor Who you've never seen.
It also involved the almost compulsory journey to California, where an artificial intelligence company, Realbotix, is attempting to market the world's first talking bonk-droid, called Harmony, who's been programmed to have "realistic sex" and, to my slight astonishment, do it with a Scottish accent.
I dunno if this involves her barking, "Get aff, yer pished," at about two in the morning but, apparently, you can change Harmony's settings to your favoured "disposition".
So she can be "talkative and moody" (standard Glaswegian), or "silently bloody furious", the deluxe Dundonian version, I'm imagining.
If you were wondering what sort of socially inadequate misfit would actually spend £8,000 for the pleasure, though, Channel 4 had the answer.
And, I need hardly tell you, he was to be found in America's Deep South.
Meet Georgian James, 58, who had a long-suffering wife, Tine, three sex dolls and a disclaimer: "Obviously, I'll never be a Brad Pitt."
His brother, Cess, maybe, but not Brad.
After an opening bombshell, however, where he admitted one of his dolls, Roxanne, was second-hand, there was only one place dark enough left for Sex Robots to go.
James met Harmony, Harmony met James. There was a discreet burst of Etta James' At Last and a message from the "proud sponsor".
Mitsubishi Mirage. Making you long for nuclear Armageddon, with documentaries on Four.
- Lee Mack's stuffed mouse fib on Would I Lie To You?.
- Prince Harry dodging fog-horning asteroid Alison Hammond live on This Morning.
- ITV's Australian Wilderness with Ray Mears continuing to be television's most beautifully relaxing half-hour of the week.
- Bushra's toe-curling food box pitch on The Apprentice.
- And another unforgettable episode of Michael McIntyre's Big Show, where the preamble to Celebrity Send-To-All found the host scrolling through page after page of alarm calls on Alan Shearer's mobile.
"Alan. Are you a narcoleptic?"
Piers is no Prince
GOOD Morning Britain, Tuesday, Meghan Markle's "friend" Piers Morgan asks: "What's Prince Harry got that I haven't?"
The public's affection, a certain sense of humility, a distinguished military record, a degree of charisma, a body mass index lower than his age, the regulation number of chins, an unrestricted view of his genitals and a mouth that doesn't twitch like Watership Down's sphincter during a myxomatosis outbreak whenever someone else talks.
Among other things.
- Sent in by Iain Milne, via email. Picture research: Alfie Snelling.
JP's here to help Phil time
THERE was the best pound-for-pound for soap substitution ever last week on EastEnders, which has started to show vague signs of life after a couple of years of dull storylines and sermonising.
Outgoing? Lee Ryan, from Blue, who couldn't have fitted his character's name any more perfectly. Woody.
Incoming? It's only Hollywood star Patrick Bergin, who was playing Julia Roberts' husband 26 years ago but is now Phil Mitchell's old Irish cellmate, JP, and finds himself being offered "a sausage sandwich" by Gillian "Kathy" Taylforth (in the cafe, rather than an A1 slip road).
You'd hope it doesn't put him off, though. JP's a welcome distraction from EastEnders' evils-of-capitalism yarn about Willmott-Brown's plan to flatten the Square and hopefully a criminal outlet for the dangerously under-employed Phil Mitchell, who's just been given this franchise-ending ultimatum by Sharon.
"They're doing 20 per cent off back, sack and crack today. You need to open yourself up to all possibilities."
Which is all very well for her to say.
But doing them WHERE exactly, Sharon? 'Cos unless it's Chimpnasium at Whipsnade, he's going with plan B. We all pray.
THIS week's quiz show bone domes are all supplied by The Chase.
- Bradley Walsh: "The name of what bird also means to lower the head quickly?"
Suzanne: "Ostrich."
- "What word goes before squib in a term for something less impressive than expected."
Dannielle: "Ball."
- "Traditionally, what team does Feyenoord play in Dutch football's Klassieker?"
Tom: "Striker."
- "What's the minimum number of card players needed to play the game snap?"
Paige: "Six."
Oww, Alison
WORST noise of the year? The sonic boom at Meghan Markle's royal walkabout in Nottingham coming from This Morning's Alison Hammond, who promised us: "She's talking to a person, so I won't be rude." Then began screaming:
Five minutes of that din later, This Morning's idea of respite came in the form of Rylan Clark-Neal.
"You've got to love Alison Hammond, haven't you?" No. You really haven't.
Great Sporting Insights
- Charlie Nicholas: "It was a challenge on so-called Scott Sinclair."
- Sam Allardyce: "Brighton are halfway up the league in the top half."
- Paul Merson: "When Hazard got the ball, United rustled his feathers."
- And Roy Keane: "Without taking anything away from Spurs, Madrid didn't look themselves."
(Compiled by Graham Wray)
Who said the following on ITVBe last month: "I'm worried she won't be able to wipe her poo. She's not ready for that yet."
A) Kindergarten-bound Tamara Ecclestone on her daughter, Fifi?
B) Kindergarten-bound Fifi on Tamara Ecclestone?


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Though many of us were dying to share our experiences from the retreat, we opened with a silent sitting meditation. As you can imagine, several folks felt the moments of silence was torture, while others experienced peace and comfort. A dear friend of mine in class described his experience in the retreat and in class as being like a moat. The moat is filled with thoughts and he used the breath as a vehicle to go deeper and pass over the water. Others described their thoughts throughout the day as nats. For me, it was quite peaceful. But I must admit, other people's restlessness kept me alert. I did feel empathy for them especially as my own foot started to fall asleep, but I breathed through it. Practicing Loving-Kindness meditations we learned on the retreat helped, too.
A reminded us that this is a life-long practice and that it doesn't just end with next week's class. It's too easy to forget, but we must pick up and start again. She then guided us into a quick reflection on the retreat before we moved into pairs to discuss and practice "committed listening."


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The big day is growing near and royal wedding news is being churned out almost daily at this point. A lot of it is just noise – designers, fashion commentators, florists and bakers offering up their predictions on royal this-and-that. Call me sentimental (mental being the key word, my husband would say) but there's something about children being able to cash in that just tears away any judgment I harbor for the others.
Though it's been announced that the couple have chosen traditional hymns, choral arrangements and newly commissioned works for their wedding, we've also heard that "children from Bucklebury Church of England Primary School in the Berkshire parish where the bride-to-be grew up have written and recorded their own song…and they are planning to send a copy to the couple as a gift."
All I got from my ring bearer was a refusal to walk down the aisle after he kicked the ring pillow. This is a cute idea for couples with a lot of children in the families –as long as they're semi-cooperative and semi-on-key.
If you have a live band and want to involve the kiddies, see if they can join in for a fun number late enough that it's party time, but early enough that the kids aren't wired or zombies. Think fun, pop culture songs that are of course G-rated or go old school and play a round of "farmer and the dell" or "the hokey pokey."
Let's just hope these Bucklebury kids don't choose London Bridge for their musical gift!