Had a great conversation in which my explanation of the Brexit negotiations (The first call for the EU negotiations is to preserve the interests of the member states and those who live and conduct business in it) was met with: "But don't they know who we are?"
Today saw the final funeral of the month, preparations for the second ADCM of the year, the last home Communion of the week (been a good week - managed to get round to eight households), a generally strange Kid's Club (for reasons I can't quite put a finger on) and a bit of the old spiritual warfare - or as we have it in the vicaring business: "A pretty ordinary day!"
The UK, having decided it is no longer playing in Europe, is expected to resolve a number of issues before the European nations start talking about trade. Now I can't see what this is any surprise as I'd want to know whether I want you in my house before I start to talk about working with you, so why should U.K. / EU relationships be any different?
As the pawns begin to be moved I notice that there is a hint of attitude that says that Europe could do very nicely without the UK's participation in security and defence matters, which means,"Don't threaten to take your toys away, because we'll merely say "Not a problem, bye!" and move on!"
I am saddened by this whole thing and don't expect this, like any divorce, to be a joyous and positive experience for either of the parties, but the stance, "Do you know who we are - you can't live without us," is weak and destined to see tears before bedtime. This is not the opportunity for us to 'become great again' but the opportunity to go it alone is terms of trade whilst adhering to EU rules and regulations (if we want to trade in the EU that is) without having any say in their creation. This is not a regaining of independence and the days when the world was painted red on the maps. This is an opportunity for a different UK (should that be England and Wales?) where the disenfranchised, the poor, homeless and unemployed can be dealt with properly - but all I hear is immigration.
Today has been a day where God's call on this nation to seek Justice, exhibit mercy and live as a nation who, rather than ask,"Don't why know who we are?" instead lives humbly because we know who we are.
God calls us to welcome those who are strangers in our midst and we have the instruction to treat them as if they were nationals: To treat them as we'd wish to be treated. A grain of corn first has to die before it can bring forth a harvest. Perhaps there is something about our nation that needs to die before we can become something that flourishes and is fruitful too?
Lord, for the encounters today: I praise You.
For the places Your light has shone because I have carried Your light, I give you thanks.
For a nation which seeks to leave and yet retain all the benefits of membership, I pray for an awakening and an awareness of what we have begun and pray for the relationships with those outside our nation and for the relationships within it.
Lord, graciously hear us and take not Your Holy Spirit from us.
From the sound of my groaning my bones cleave fast to my skin. I am become like a vulture in the wilderness, like an owl that haunts the ruins. I keep watch and am become like a sparrow solitary upon the housetop. My enemies revile me all the day long, and those who rage at me have sworn together against me. I have eaten ashes for bread and mingled my drink with weeping, Because of your indignation and wrath, for you have taken me up and cast me down. My days fade away like a shadow, and I am withered like grass. But you, O Lord, shall endure for ever and your name through all generations. You will arise and have pity on Zion; it is time to have mercy upon her; surely the time has come. For your servants love her very stones and feel compassion for her dust. Then shall the nations fear your name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth your glory, When the Lord has built up Zion and shown himself in glory; When he has turned to the prayer of the destitute and has not despised their plea.
I'm actually looking forward to a week where there are no funerals to be conducted. As much as I enjoy them immensely and regard them as one of the best bits of the ministerial role, this last month has effectively seen a funeral for every working day; many of those I did the service for being people I knew.
Today though has been a day where bread and wine were to the fore and I managed to fit in an early Communion service at St Francis' before heading off out to enjoy visiting friends. It's odd, but after all these years it still doesn't feel like work when I'm out visiting - and I hope it never does get to feel like that. The evening saw me engaged with cadets, always a joy.
It's been a day when the benefits system of our land has been to the fore as well as I have been exposed to the challenges faced by others as they find benefits stopped, suspended and changed. The problem is that the mechanisms in place are inadequate and unable to manage to stop one benefit and start the other so that the outcome is something consistent and contiguous: And that means pain and fear and frustration for the claimant as they deal with the situation before them.
Some struggle so much that they become frozen in time, like a rabbit in the headlights, and this is not helped by the often low quality provision before them!
Lord, help us to stand with the marginalised and the poor, the disposed and the damaged people before us. You call us to act in their behalf and to make things work for them in terms of equity and justice. Mobilise your church we pray.
I thank You for the work of foodbanks and the charities with offer friendship, counsel and support - strengthen the arms of those who work with them and the consciences of those who might give aid to support them.
Labels: benefits, home communion, homeless, homelessness, JOurnal, living the Gospel, mental health, pastoral role, reflection, who is my brother?!
O that Israel's salvation would come out of Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people then will Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.
As Christians we talk a lot about hope, but what is it? Seems to me that if we can't speak about hope - if we can't communicate it with others - then there's little hope for the Church!
If our hope is eternity sitting on a cloud playing a blessed harp then I think I might opt for something a little more attractive: I've always fancied halls filled with real ale, well-endowed women and a bit of carousing myself. But it isn't either of those things, this hope stuff, it's about something very different indeed.
Our hope stems from the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, the Christ.
Our hope finds its fulifillment in a full-on, engaged and worshipping life as the people of God now and in the New Jerusalem, that holy city where we will commune with Him, and worship before Him for eternity.
Heaven is eternity in God's presence and hell is separation from God. It's a bit like living in the sun or in a cave!
Hope in Jesus begins with us singing 'O come, o come, Emmanuel' as people looking to be 'right with God' and to know His healing and life giving presence and ends with us looking to the east, as the new day is heralded in and the darkness is dispelled, with the words 'Come Lord Jesus, come!'.
Last night I was quite taken up with an analogy of the Christian life in which coming to faith is like passing our driving test. Having done so we get into the car that is our earthly life and set off for home (which is heaven, our eternity with God): The challenge is for us to get there with as few collisions, scrapes and ditches driven into as possible and to have broken as few people as possible on the way.
But we are not a people of fear. For too long we have peddled the Christ as some cosmic 'get out of hell free' card and have cudgelled people into living rightly with the threat of hell and damnation. So much for a God of love! But He is and He, seeing our sins, calls us to take remedial driving lessons as the car is pulled out of the ditch and the cyclist we've hit is rescued from the tree, but he doesn't take away the car or put up a 'road closed' sign. He doesn't tot up the penalty points to take away our licence, but looks to restoration and better driving skills - using others to restore us gently (Gal 6) so that they don't end up with road rage because of our errors.
And we make our journey by means of the Holy Spirit - who navigates and keeps our tanks full - and our Highway Code - the Bible - ensures that we keep to the limits and avoid crossing the wrong lines.
This, surely is our hope!
You sweep them away like a dream; they fade away suddenly like the grass. In the morning it is green and flourishes; in the evening it is dried up and withered. For we consume away in your displeasure; we are afraid at your wrathful indignation. You have set our misdeeds before you and our secret sins in the light of your countenance. When you are angry, all our days are gone; our years come to an end like a sigh.
Does the snow of Lebanon leave the crags of Sirion?
and have gone into bypaths, not the highway, making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at for ever. All who pass by it are horrified and shake their heads. Like the wind from the east, I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, on the day of their calamity.
Give heed to me, O Lord, and listen to what my adversaries say! Is evil a recompense for good? Yet they have dug a pit for my life.
Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them. Therefore give their children over to famine; hurl them out to the power of the sword, let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be slain by the sword in battle. May a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring the marauder suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to catch me, and laid snares for my feet. Yet you, O Lord, know all their plotting to kill me. Do not forgive their iniquity, do not blot out their sin from your sight.Let them be tripped up before you; deal with them while you are angry.
and turn us back to you again; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Journal: Films make you mad!
In an effort to separate myself from work I have been taking some time off during the day each week to watch a film at the local cinema. It takes me out of communication with the world and hides me away in a dark place for a couple of hours. I even get to have a brew and take it in with me - how good is that?
So I might not be getting around to a day off (I've promised to 'tell all' truth next week at quarter's end) but I'm having some time off: and it's been a most annoying and madness inducing experience.
Viceroy's House: About the partition of India and the stitch-up the British government engaged in with Mountbattens. Showed something extremely uncomfortable about this nation of ours in terms of arrogance, deceit and distastefulness.
I, Daniel Blake: A most uncomfortable watch indeed. It took me back to my time working in the wonderful world of the Employment Agency with those looking for work and the poor Employment Advisors who worked in the Jobcentres. An American contracting company providing a less than able provision with the goal of minimising payments and providing less than adequate services to the jobless population - and all in MY name! I was ready to learn the 'red flag' and head for Westminster by the time this fly on the wall offering was done. GRrrrr!
United Kingdom: My father used to say that Winston Churchill was a dictator who was needed to fight another dictator and that I should be in no doubt that he was never anyone's 'real' hero. Stiff words coming from a bloke who thought Margaret Thatcher was a bit of a lefty politician!
This film added another notch to my slowly emerging dislike of the man as he promised one thing if elected and delivered something very different once he was. But that's politics, isn't it?
But the arrogance of the British government and the colonial machinery takes your breath away and makes one disgusted at the heritage that being English lays upon us.
"Oxford teaches - film educates". Those were the words I was handed in a tutorial many years ago. "We can offer you books and anecdotes and the stillness to assimilate them but the silver screen makes them flesh; but not always truthfully!" my tutor continued. Books may be written with poor scholarship and equally poor language and you will see through this, but a well crafted film will send barbs into your flesh and make you aware just as Eve became aware as she ate the apple.
Sin lies in the action, not the object. Did the apple posses any power other than attract? Surely the act of taking from the tree brought an awareness of what sin was because it caused the separation between man and God. The focus of our desires is always present and before us, but it is the action that is sin.
This is true regardless of what is placed under the glass cover and beheld with desire: Things sexual, monetary, physical and intellectual - all of them qualify. It isn't what the object is, but the way we deal with us wanting it and the lines we are willing to cross to make it ours, or should I say 'possess us'?
Lord, help me to see the lines and never cross them such that I become sinful and damage self or others. Help me to see the best in people and to love wholeheartedly, and yet never lose sight of the ability of each of us to place on a pedestal that thing which causes us to lose our soul (as did the ring bring both physical and spiritual death in Gollum's tale of woe).
Lord have mercy upon us for our past - and as Brexit is made real today - in our future as we consign ourselves into a very different reality.
Pour out your wrath upon the nations that have not known you, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon your name. For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his dwelling place.
Let vengeance for your servants' blood that is shed be known among the nations in our sight. Let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before you, and by your mighty arm preserve those who are condemned to die. May the taunts with which our neighbours taunted you, Lord, return sevenfold into their bosom. But we that are your people and the sheep of your pasture will give you thanks for ever, and tell of your praise from generation to generation.
One of the greatest funeral challenges comes in the shape of the unsaid eulogy. Now usually I make sure that I have sufficient notes to do something regardless of whoever it is that is doing the eulogy, but the temptation to scrimp on a person's history is always with us and when a eulogy turns into a poem, you can find yourself on thin ice! Just saying.
Yesterday was an action packed event with a church service, a couple of crem' visits (with a Warden's meeting in the space between), kid's club and a dinner to speak at. Add to this a garnish of administration (which, like the poor will always be with us) and you have yourself a fairly rammed sixteen hours of vicaring.
Reflecting in the day I found myself ticking 'hoped for' many boxes.
Gospel preached - every opportunity I had.
Pastorally engaged - pretty much, although wilted a bit by the afternoon with my engagement and wasn't as sparkly and whatever as I could have been.
Prayer - felt a bit of a 'cat's lick and a promise' day once daily office was squared away.
Abrasiveness - kept being smiley and suffered fools (and there were a few yesterday) pretty well: Must be growing up a bit!
Worship - loads of it.
So Lord, we've come through another day together and survived.
O God, make speed to save me; O Lord, make haste to help me. Let those who seek my life be put to shame and confusion; let them be turned back and disgraced who wish me evil. Let those who mock and deride me turn back because of their shame.
But let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; let those who love your salvation say always, 'Great is the Lord!' As for me, I am poor and needy; come to me quickly, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O Lord, do not delay.
my soul refuses comfort. I think upon God and I groan; I ponder, and my spirit faints. You will not let my eyelids close; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
I consider the days of old; I remember the years long past; I commune with my heart in the night; my spirit searches for understanding.
Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay, so are all who amass wealth unjustly; in mid-life it will leave them, and at their end they will prove to be fools.
O glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, shrine of our sanctuary! O hope of Israel! O Lord!
All who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be recorded in the underworld, for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, the Lord.
But I have not run away from being a shepherd in your service, nor have I desired the fatal day. You know what came from my lips; it was before your face. Do not become a terror to me; you are my refuge on the day of disaster; Let my persecutors be shamed, but do not let me be shamed; let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction!
Journal: Do we have enough Steel?
What a day! One of those slightly challenging, just a tad depressing, and more than a little interesting days you hope other people get!
When I first started out I had this naive view that said, "If you build it they will come and the. They will get stuck in and do it with you." I later realised that this needed to be modified to: "They will watch and suggest other things you could do too!" I had mistakenly assumed excitement and challenge were all we needed but, as a colleague at the time told me, "You cNt lead them, you have to get behind and drive them, like a sheltered!"
Well I noticed that the shepherds I'd seen in Israel seemed to walk on and the sheep followed him. Surely this should be the case. 'The sheep know my voice' and all that sort of thing. Recently I've been 'blessed' by the number of well-meaning people who are worried about how much I do. Many of them tell me to do less but that on a parallel with telling the chap who used to row you across the Thames near to where I grew up that he needed to do less and so should only row halfway each time. It gets nobody no where; well not unless someone is willing to row the rest of the way that is.
Ssitting in a boat (figuratively speaking) stuck in the middle of the stream with no one rowing is not the time to berate people for their inactivity. Neither is it a time to reach for a sketch pad and begin to lay out some strategic planning for when the vessel finds terra firma or launch into a tirade about those who could have rowed had they bothered to get onboard. But this is the place so many churches and their congregations find themselves.
"I might just as well tell them to vote labour," said a colleague in a twee and trendy posh place as they spoke of the congregations response to evangelism. Oddly, another in a posh university tow was saying something similar about his university town and his cap and gowned intellectuals (but this time the party was Comservative) on the same issue.
During my apprenticeship I found myself turning components on a lathe. It was a precise job and took concentration and a bit of skill, which is why we apprentices had to do it. One day, having made a few I went to the metal store and found we had no stock left. Bill Stroud, the bloke teaching me, asked me how much there had been before I started. Of course I hadn't checked!
"How were you expecting to finish without having enough stock?" He asked. "Unless you make sure you have enough in, or order to be in when you need it, you'll be no use to anyone, will you?" He continued. I muttered a few things and looked at my feet. "Right he said, " leading me to another store with the metal I needed - lesson learned?"
It was, and later Bill taught me to turn down locomotive wheels and make steam engines and more besides. But the 'how much have you got - what do you need to get the job done - if not get it' rule never left me; and that's why I realise that we haven't got enough to do the job now!
Given half a dozen committed and on fire people I could do loads of stuff, but it takes all the people we can get to carry the church and make sure we have enough to get the job done.
Lord, help me to motivate and mobilise the Church in the right way to take up their own cross and follow You.
Help them to understand what this Jesus thing is all about and to share it because the excitement of it bubbles up out of them rather than merely give them a job.
Help me when those around me do little and yet see that little as something so very big. Give all of us perspective and let that be the case in the shadow of the cross to nail it home.
Lord, give me the stock to get the job done.
Journal: Did someone say 'red feathers'?
The exit music at a funeral today associated them with a hooly-hooly skirt - what a super track to leave by, does it get any better than that? Today has been more of the same, and there's been as many funerals for me this month that I usually get in three months in an average year; so I guess it looks like funerals is all I do. But it isn't and in fact today was rammed to the gunwales with stuff, including Home Communions and pastoral stuff too.
One of the challenges is to deal with the absurdities of life that cross our parh without getting warped and bitter, blaisé, cynical or cruel. The madness that causes conflict and confusion can often tread on our toes and cause us to lose clarity of focus and the reds mists rise - but Jesus calls us to turn the other cheek and to step back from throwing the pebble in our hand before it all becomes too late. But we aren't allowed to ignore the situation because that would really mean that we are permitting whatever is happening it is to continue.
Lord help me to live and to give without counting the cost and Judging the lost.
But it is you that took me out of the womb and laid me safe upon my mother's breast. On you was I cast ever since I was born; you are my God even from my mother's womb. Be not far from me, for trouble is near at hand and there is none to help.
neither has he hidden his face from them; but when they cried to him he heard them.
shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall bow before him. For the kingdom is the Lord's and he rules over the nations.
Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory. I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn for ever.
O Lord, you know; remember me and visit me, and bring down retribution for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance do not take me away; know that on your account I suffer insult. Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart; for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts. I did not sit in the company of merrymakers, nor did I rejoice; under the weight of your hand I sat alone, for you had filled me with indignation. Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Truly, you are to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail.
If you turn back, I will take you back, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall serve as my mouth. It is they who will turn to you, not you who will turn to them. And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, says the Lord.
what a stunning day! It was another long one but it totally rocked as we did a back-to-back services with Communion and then a funeral for one of our lovely ladies. Add to this some home Communions and a bit of admin (which like the poor, will always be with us) and that's a day nicely discharged.
The Crem' was nicely balanced and ticked all the right boxes too and the gathering afterwards was a joy to behold. Oddly, though I don't usually go to the wake thing I've found myself at two this week and enjoyed them and the interaction. Perhaps I should impose myself more?
Another high spot came in the delivery of a Royal Signals flag for a funeral I have next week. Having asked around, no one seems to have one and so the only answer was to add to my collection of the things. This is a real value-added element and something that makes the service for some people.
Now planning to scatter ashes on the spot in the country where a young courting couple spent their romantic evenings fifty years before - a nice touch and something I've only done once before (found out later it was the place where the plans for their first child were laid down - which made for red faces for some, including the first child!!!!). Ever been sorry you asked about the significance of a place or something?
Home Communions are just so very cool and it's nice to see faces light up because you've arrived rather than because you're leaving (and I know a few that applies to) which is the view some have of clergy.
Mental health is a big issue and it's getting bigger by the day. One is so interesting that having mentioned it to some people who deal with that sort of thing, they've decided to make it a problem shared, which is unusual - but welcome. If only there were more support workers, crisis team staff, mental health units and enthusiasm for this area. So the prayer continues (as does the standing in the gap).
Lord, for all I have seen and been and done today, help me to be a blessing and to learn from all that has been. May tomorrow with its funerals, visits and unexpected be filled with You and Your presence.
And thank you for today.
Lord, in a day where wicked hands have acted to take life, we look to you whose desire is for healing, peace, unity and concord in our world.
We commend to you the lives of those taken and pray for those who have suffered loss.
We bring before you those who have been injured in body, mind, and spirit.
We pray for those who, perhaps far off, fear for their loved ones caught up in this violence.
We pray for our Police and others who run towards danger to serve and protect others.
We pray for our nation, and for the world, that it might know your peace and love.
Shine your light in the darkness and give us hope through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
and will fall into it themselves.
My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready; I will sing and give you praise. Awake, my soul; awake, harp and lyre, that I may awaken the dawn. I will give you thanks, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praise to you among the nations. For your loving-kindness is as high as the heavens, and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and your glory over all the earth.
Judah mourns and her gates languish; they lie in gloom on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up. Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns, they find no water, they return with their vessels empty. They are ashamed and dismayed and cover their heads, because the ground is cracked. Because there has been no rain on the land the farmers are dismayed; they cover their heads. Even the doe in the field forsakes her newborn fawn because there is no grass. The wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no herbage.
Although our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name's sake; our apostasies indeed are many, and we have sinned against you. O hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveller turning aside for the night? Why should you be like someone confused, like a mighty warrior who cannot give help? Yet you, O Lord, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; do not forsake us!
Thus says the Lord concerning this people: Truly they have loved to wander, they have not restrained their feet; therefore the Lord does not accept them, now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.
The Lord said to me: Do not pray for the welfare of this people. Although they fast, I do not hear their cry, and although they offer burnt-offering and grain-offering, I do not accept them; but by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence I consume them.
Then I said: 'Ah, Lord God! Here are the prophets saying to them, "You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you true peace in this place." ' And the Lord said to me: The prophets are prophesying lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds. Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name though I did not send them, and who say, 'Sword and famine shall not come on this land': By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed. And the people to whom they prophesy shall be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword. There shall be no one to bury them—themselves, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their wickedness upon them.
You shall say to them this word: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter—my people—is struck down with a crushing blow, with a very grievous wound. If I go out into the field, look—those killed by the sword!
And if I enter the city, look—those sick with famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade throughout the land, and have no knowledge.
Why have you struck us down so that there is no healing for us?
We look for peace, but find no good; for a time of healing, but there is terror instead. We acknowledge our wickedness, O Lord, the iniquity of our ancestors, for we have sinned against you. Do not spurn us, for your name's sake; do not dishonour your glorious throne; remember and do not break your covenant with us. Can any idols of the nations bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for it is you who do all this.
Journal: where did that day go to?
I knew it was going to be busy but . . . That has to be the label for today!
Started early and ended in the next day as funeral preparation, a funeral, a sneakily added home Communion, music practice, bishops certificate (I'm sure that should have an apostrophe) and then a tidy up of the church building for a funeral and more admin were found to be in the box marked 'today'.
A nice funeral - not sure why we went in so late but the person in front wasn't going to rush even though they could see it was drifting away from them. But we made a good fist of it and clawed five minutes back for the next persona and did it all with the star of the day taking their bow. The Gospel was preached and the dead honoured: Doesn't get much better than that really.
That said, there appears to be an increasing trend, a return to the early days when I started doing funerals, to plaster saint those who have gone; not sure I'd be comfortable saying what the person in front of me said. The day is coming when the hearts of all will be revealed and the deeds done in the darkness witless be exposed to the light, so we need to check that the things we are and do accordingly - and one of the ways of doing this is the examen; an action much like this.
1. Lord, for the opportunity realised and taken to bring bread and wine into the day of one person, I give You thanks. To be able to stand as friend and priest is the ultimate joy for me and to minister You in word and sacrament, and proclaim your love, is a privilege and joy beyond measure.
2. For the. opportunity to minister your grace and proclaim your gift of life realised as we pay our respects to a departed loved one, my gratitude for the role and the access to things it receives knows no bounds. As I think of those who have gone before and those left behind, commending them to Your grace, love and mercy, and holding those who remain in Your love and my prayers, I offer You my hands and heart.
3. I thank You for the opportunity to correct error. Help me always to study Your word that I may neither preach, nor live, in error. Take my mind and discipline me to be true and authentically Yours. may I revel in the label 'born again' and may I never be captured by the disease of numbers and the lure of the clink of coins.
4. For the places today where my careless word or thoughtless action has wounded, I lay this and those I may have wounded before You. Create in me a clean heart and a willing mind to minister Your Grace to all. Those who have been blessed by our encounters I can but credit to You and give You thanks.
Lord, You know my needs and my very thoughts are known to You before a word leaves my lips.
You know my needs and my wants and deal with them accordingly.
You provide my daily bread and prepare a way before me that I might follow Jesus, the Christ.
Forgive me my sins as a model for the way I should forgive others, minister to me as You would have me minister to others that I might learn and be made whole in, and for, and through, You.
For You are my hope, my health, my love and my life.
Rebuke me not, O Lord, in your anger, neither chasten me in your heavy displeasure. For your arrows have stuck fast in me and your hand presses hard upon me. There is no health in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no peace in my bones because of my sin. For my iniquities have gone over my head; their weight is a burden too heavy to bear.
My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness. I am utterly bowed down and brought very low; I go about mourning all the day long. My loins are filled with searing pain; there is no health in my flesh. I am feeble and utterly crushed; I roar aloud because of the disquiet of my heart.
O Lord, you know all my desires and my sighing is not hidden from you. My heart is pounding, my strength has failed me; the light of my eyes is gone from me. My friends and companions stand apart from my affliction; my neighbours stand afar off. Those who seek after my life lay snares for me; and those who would harm me whisper evil and mutter slander all the day long.
Truly, I am on the verge of falling and my pain is ever with me. I will confess my iniquity and be sorry for my sin. Those that are my enemies without any cause are mighty, and those who hate me wrongfully are many in number. Those who repay evil for good are against me, because the good is what I seek.
Thus said the Lord to me, 'Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth, and put it on your loins, but do not dip it in water.' So I bought a loincloth according to the word of the Lord, and put it on my loins. And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, 'Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go now to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.' So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me. And after many days the Lord said to me, 'Go now to the Euphrates, and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.' Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. But now the loincloth was ruined; it was good for nothing.
They said to him, 'Who are you?' Jesus said to them, 'Why do I speak to you at all? I have much to say about you and much to condemn; but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.' They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.
So Jesus said, 'When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me. And the one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.' As he was saying these things, many believed in him.
Well, a third of a day off anyway!
Before the world starts the, "You have to take your day off," tirade, I had to square away some of the funerals in terms of getting the CDs burnt, the service paperwork done, a regimental flag found (ended up buying one from ebay), and other arrangements made. The next seven days have as many funerals (and there's none on the weekend) so it's a bit of a marathon. In fact with nineteen, which was not only the average age of the US soldier in Vietnam, is now but the high water mark of my monthly funeral service tally. A new record - can't be bad can it?
The day started with the usual daily Office (usually done between 04:30 and 06:00 depending on what's ahead - the busier I am, the earlier it gets done) and soon found itself taken up by funeral stuff. By 07:30 I'd had a brew and was well into the first set of stuff.
It's odd but I have come to realise that the world at large assumes that service just happen. If only this were true, but the reality is that to get liturgy and content in the right place, to do the right stuff about people, get names right, make sure the tensions in the service (any service, every service) are created and resolved: This takes work. Thankfully there are colleagues who work at providing quite poor liturgy as a spur for me to keep in working at it!
So notes written up, myriad numbers of telephone calls made (seems I spoke to one FD nine times during the course of the morning), service and other related sheets put together, printed and put in their relevant envelopes - I found myself done such that lunch and a film became ours a little before half one. A great day thus far, and for that, time with the other half was my reward and joy for the second part of the day.
We went to the wrinkly film club. It so unlike my earlieat film club experiences where I'd buy a ticket (3p) and head to the toilet to let my mates in through the fire exit before we sang the rousing 'We are the boys and girls well known as, the minors of the ABC . . . '.
Today's extravaganza coat £3 and came with a brew (Tea, the nectar of the gods - unless it's the stuff most churches dish up after the service). The film was 'I, Daniel Blake' and it didn't take long to see why they'd checked for concealed weapons before we entered, after all the Job Centre is only across the road from the cinema! This is a must see for people and I think it's a film we need to show to Church sometime. The film is about a man and his dealings with the benefits and employment related processes in the U.K. It made me angry, reduced me to tears and brought back so many memories of when I worked in that sector. Church was seen in it as perhaps one of the only true moments of hope.
Film finished, we left ready to have a fight - the adrenaline was flowing - with the shops as I purchased more comestibles to feed my heavy administrative appetite before heading home. Got home and then (without a brew) went and did a food shop and saw no one I knew; which is so very odd it made me stop and think for a moment. A trip out without encountering a single soul:; had the apocalypse begun?
Home again (without any sense of a bit of 'jiddedy jig' or a fat pig in eveidence) a bit more funeral admin before an episode of 'The Undertaker' (I kid you not) - my TV of choice at the moment and then a snuggle in the settee with a good wife (left the book elsewhere) and a chick flick on Netflix. Bliss.
Early to bed tonight (before midnight) and now all is quiet in the house and the breathing next to me is regular as a little hushed it's time to reflect on where me and God have been today. It's now that I realise how many opportunities for engagement I've had today thanks to the telephone - something we clergy (and the world) seem to have forgotten as we text and email our way through the day.
Lord, for the opportunities to enter the homes of others through a bit of copper I can but thank You. For the difference a call has made - the making of a virtual incarnacy theirs - I give You praise. Not as good as a simple touch and a real presence, but today I will give You thanks because as I was in one place, You, and another person were standing with me in the work of being Church as they visited someone in hospital.
Lord, help me to raise up born again believers who give without counting the cost. Help me to walk I Your footsteps and experience the security and life-changing reality that this brings and may others walk in those footsteps behind me - for aren't we called 'leaders' as well as followers.
Father for the daily bread, the forgiveness of my sins, the fact that today I do not think I have out You to the test but walked as friends in partnership as family: I love You so very much. Bless all I am and do tomorrow - may my encounters speak of You and my life show Your love and the work of Your hand.
Let's do this again tomorrow, eh?
Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak; Lord, heal me, for my bones are racked. My soul also shakes with terror; how long, O Lord, how long? Turn again, O Lord, and deliver my soul; save me for your loving mercy's sake. For in death no one remembers you; and who can give you thanks in the grave?
When my enemies are driven back, they stumble and perish at your presence. For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat on your throne giving righteous judgement. You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever. The enemy was utterly laid waste. You uprooted their cities; their very memory has perished. But the Lord shall endure for ever; he has made fast his throne for judgement.
For he shall rule the world with righteousness and govern the peoples with equity. Then will the Lord be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in the time of trouble. And those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Lord, have never failed those who seek you. Sing praises to the Lord who dwells in Zion; declare among the peoples the things he has done. The avenger of blood has remembered them; he did not forget the cry of the oppressed.
Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider the trouble I suffer from those who hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death; That I may tell all your praises in the gates of the city of Zion and rejoice in your salvation.
The nations shall sink into the pit of their making and in the snare which they set will their own foot be taken. The Lord makes himself known by his acts of justice; the wicked are snared in the works of their own hands. They shall return to the land of darkness, all the nations that forget God. For the needy shall not always be forgotten and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever. Arise, O Lord, and let not mortals have the upper hand; let the nations be judged before your face. Put them in fear, O Lord, that the nations may know themselves to be but mortal.
It was the Lord who made it known to me, and I knew; then you showed me their evil deeds. But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. And I did not know it was against me that they devised schemes, saying, 'Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered!' But you, O Lord of hosts, who judge righteously, who try the heart and the mind, let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have committed my cause.
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the people of Anathoth, who seek your life, and say, 'You shall not prophesy in the name of the Lord, or you will die by our hand'—therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: I am going to punish them; the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine; and not even a remnant shall be left of them. For I will bring disaster upon the people of Anathoth, the year of their punishment.
If you have raced with foot-runners and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses? And if in a safe land you fall down, how will you fare in the thickets of the Jordan? For even your kinsfolk and your own family, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you.
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"What you need is a meeting!"
Well that's what so many who call themselves Church seem to think!
"Oi, you lot. Stop it with all those sacrifices— they mean nothing to me. I'm up to here with them- pack it in!
And your offerings - they're just stuff - and you think you make a pleasant smell in my nostrils? Stop the stink, it's worse than the Arsenal on Boxing Day with the awful aftershaves and cheap cigars!
All those services - I hate with all my being - they're not a blessing, they're a burden to me; I am sick and tired of them. And when you pray: I have to stick my fingers in my ears and sing Ed Sheeran to avoid listening I'm so sick of it all!"
It was at this point that I was drawn back to the day I'd had yesterday. God seemed to be shouting at me so much last night (how rude some might say) and I was getting excited (quietly, so as not to distract from the decisions and discussions). What a super day: Got to, and through, Birmingham in record time such that we were forty-five minutes early for the first appointment and managed to fit in an extra hospital visit elsewhere for my passenger and return home before the Archers (gave up listening a few years back!) contaminated Radio Four again. This was what we are called to be: engaged and taking His light and life into the world. This is where we are called to be (no, not Birmingham, please try to keep up Clarence (thank you Joyce Grenfell) - rejoicing I. The presence of others i the presence of a God. Celebrating God made visible in the person before you and in the love of the mega-visible God that is Jesus, the Christ.
Back home there was time for beans on toast before the telephone rang and I found myself off to enjoy an encounter with madness. I'm beginning to think that there must be a leak in the local factory as there's so much of it around at the moment - will, it makes a change from the chaos that occurs when the hormone factory has the same problem I guess!
Madness comes in many shapes and sizes and (band excepted) it's never pleasant. Sometimes it comes out of the blue and we as Church need to step up and provide care, protection and the sort of Prayer God loves to listen to as we stand in the gap and offer protection and love. Sometimes, when the corners are laid out and the image before you starts to take shape, you realise that there is something quite damaging emerging and this is where the tension begins.
Sometime we see something which, if we act, cause people to think we might be a bit bonkers ourselves and this is usually enough to cause us to hold back. BUT, when that issue manifests itself as something difficult (or even tragic) later on, everyone asks the question, "Why didn't you do something about it?" Too often I have faced the problem of being a time waster when challenging things only to be told (occasionally at the funeral) how right I was.
My job is to seek healing for the mentally ill and protection for those who encounter it in others. This is the business of Church God is interested in and unstop His ears, focuses His eyes and speaks His healing into. As we bandy around the 1:4 mental health statistic and talk of how 'everyone' has, or will be, affected by the fallout from mental health issues, God calls us to be aware but look to the one person before us and be Church to them.
And then came kid's club and it was a mixed feast: Clashes, fed-up kids as school and them clash and pronouncements are made over them, chocolate cake, pool, chess and some food conversations. This is such a blessing - amazed we don't have to turn volunteers away.
Then, almost immediately following on we had the PCC meeting. Some good stuff done and a chance to look at the end of year figures and stuff in preparation for the annual meeting. But I've done this bit to death and so look to the important stuff.
We love numbers and planning meetings and name badges and titles and stuff. God loves people and engaging with them and having names that speak of what He is and does. Tonight I look to Jehovah Jireh, the God who 'sees to it' and pray for the intervention of Jehovah Rapha, the God who heals.
Lord, we are poor and weak and fragile. Our knees grow weak at times and our minds become places of chaos and despair. We see what has never been and fear what will never be. Touch those broken in heart, mind and spirit. Bring Your healing and Your presence to bind up the broken-hearted and make Church the family it should be.
For paperwork signed tonight and for wrongs righted and hope made ours in Jesus, I praise You. Give us rest that we might rise tomorrow and engage the enemy once again in spirit and in truth.
Praise Your holy and life-giving name.
Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions, but think on me in your goodness, O Lord, according to your steadfast love. Gracious and upright is the Lord; therefore shall he teach sinners in the way. He will guide the humble in doing right and teach his way to the lowly. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth to those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.
The Lord builds up Jerusalem and gathers together the outcasts of Israel. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up all their wounds. He counts the number of the stars and calls them all by their names. Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his wisdom is beyond all telling.
A shoot shall come out from the stock of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. The spirit of the Lord shall rest on himt he spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. His delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
in faithful obedience to your commands; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Journal: it's the wrong film Gromit!
Journal: Can clergy be too passionate?


Deliberate mistake: The top of the Tipton Hotel is animated. You can tell because in the opening of any episode showing the top of the hotel, there should be 3 visible peaks. You can see 2 peaks and if you look where the middle peak should be, you can see through the top of the hotel to the sky on the other side.
Deliberate mistake: Jesse is looking for his keys and thinks Michelle took them. Near the end, Joey comes home and finds the keys in the door, hands them to Jesse, who puts them in his pocket. A few seconds later Danny comes home, takes Michelle into the kitchen. Joey and Jesse exchange a couple lines and go into the kitchen, where Michelle is sitting in a booster chair at the table. The 3 guys chat for a few minutes, then Jesse is going to leave, but can't find his keys again. It turns out Michelle has them. But how did Michelle get them? She was in the booster seat the entire time Jesse was in the kitchen and Jesse never went to that end of the room, so there's no way she could have gotten them.
Deliberate mistake: In the very first episode, the kids are fighting and arguing all throughout the house. Claire then asks Cliff, "Why did we have 4 kids?", referring to Denise, Theo, Rudy, and Vanessa. In all of the following episodes, they actually have 5 kids. I guess they decided to add Sandra (the oldest Huxtable) later down the road.
Deliberate mistake: When Jill turns off the light to Randy's room, she uses the same switch that Al used to activate the reverse laundry chute.
Deliberate mistake: Throughout Thunderbirds, when the script required objects to be manipulated, there were cutways to close up 'insert' shots of real human hands - usually of the puppeteers/crew. However in this episode, Alan's close-up (i.e. live action) hand is remarkably hairy with very dark hair. Yet Alan Tracey is supposed to be 21 and blond haired (including the hair on the back of his hands).
Deliberate mistake: Phil Spector is credited as having played "Steve Davis", but that name is never used in the episode; he is instead addressed by his real name.


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Katie Class (born March 24, 1963) is an American speed skater. She competed in two events at the 1984 Winter Olympics and three events at the 1988 Winter Olympics. She later became a director for USA Speedskating.

Biography
Class was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1963, and was the youngest of seven. She began skating when she was five years old. Class went to Morehead State University. She skated on the US national team for most of the 1980s, winning five medals at the World Cup and a bronze at the 1987 World Championships.

Class took part at two editions of the Winter Olympics. At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Class took part in the women's 500 metres and women's 1,000 metres events, with her best result of tenth place in the 500 metres. Four years later, at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, she took part in the 500 metres, 1,000 metres and the 1,500 metres. Her best finish was eighth in 1,000 metres.

Class retired from competitions in 1988, and also graduated from the University of Minnesota. Following her career as a speedskater, Class became the Executive Director of USA Speedskating, spending 16 years in the role. She was inducted into the US Speedskating Hall of Fame in April 2009. The following year, she was also inducted into the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame.

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Living people
American female speed skaters
Olympic speed skaters of the United States
Speed skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters from Saint Paul, Minnesota
21st-century American women

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Mr. L. Phillips and former club captain Mr. R. A. Petrie were added to the roll of life-members in recognition of their services to the club. It the interests of putting the club in a more sound financial position and to address the problem of the non-payment of subscriptions, the committee decide to forgo attending most regattas this season. This did achieve the desired goal but at a dire cost to the club's win tally.
Ballarat Regatta was held on the 23rd of February 1902: "The weather was perfect, the Lake almost full and with good fields for each race-left nothing to be desired."(Star newspaper, Feb.24th 1902)
The club had a great regatta with crews entered in most of the Maiden and Junior events and also a Senior pair. The Junior pair of A. A. O'Dea and Graham Coulter with Reg Cooper, cox, won their race and also secured the Massey-Harms Cup-a perpetual cup attached to that race. The Annual 'Smoke Night' was held in May and the occasion used to present the Massey-Harms Cup to stroke of the winning pair Mr Andrew Alipius O'Dea.The club then competed at Barwon Regatta in March but again despite some very close and gruelling racing were unable to score a win.
The State Sculling Championship was held on the 25th October 1902 and C. E. Suffren representing the Ballarat Rowing Club, having transferred from City, raced finishing third.
The club was represented at the VRA Regatta and at the BRA Novice Regatta in December. After the Novice Regatta the committee expressed their dissatisfaction about the inequality of boats used and suggested that in future only one crew from each club race and that they all row in racing boats to put the three clubs on equal footing.
Three lots of Trial pairs were raced this season with great interest evinced and the majority of members availing themselves of the opportunity to race. The trophies were won by A. A. O'Dea and H. Rolfe, W. Hawthorne and S. Symonds and the third round by H. F. Herbert and J. Buchanan. A medal was presented to Master Oswald McPhail as most successful cox having steered 12 crews to victory while Master Reg Cooper came second having steered 9 winning crews.
Two new sculling boats were purchased at a cost of 26 pounds and a set of four Aylings racing oars were also purchased. Membership increased but again the non-payment of subscriptions was still a perennial problem for the club.

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The stretch of the Mississippi River in Louisiana from north Baton Rouge to New Orleans has been plagued with so many industrial accidents and chemical spills that it's developed an unfortunate nickname: Cancer Alley. Today, journalist David Hanson takes takes us to the Standard Heights neighborhood of Baton Rouge, where the residents and a small army of advocates explain what it's like to live with house-rattling refinery explosions, salt domes collapsing in barge-eating sinkholes and mysterious flakes falling from the sky.
Fluid movement after 9 a.m. this morning. LA12 shows it.
One of the major themes I've been writing about frequently in the last year is the rising environmental movement in Louisiana. To be clear, my home state already boasted some fierce fighters for environmental justice, like Marylee Orr and her Louisiana Environmental Action Network, or the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, doing battle with dirty chemical plants. But the shock of recent events such as the BP oil spill and the Bayou Corne sinkhole has caused a lot more people to wake up, and they've rallied behind movements like Gen. Russel Honore's "Green Army." . . .
Texas Brine put out a fact sheet about how they plug wells.
New Orleans Times-Picayune – Bayou Corne sinkhole: Texas Brine seeks permit to discharge wastewater at site, residents speak out < that paper has huge readership!
We will watch the weather next week as some big storms west of Florida may come across to the Gulf coast. There will be live updates on the right sidebar in the NOAA's RSS feed.
STANDBY – Parish Blog has a scary update … (see above ↑ ).
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Crews were working through the night after a barge carrying nearly a million gallons of especially thick, sticky oil collided with a ship in Galveston Bay, leaking an unknown amount of the fuel into the popular bird habitat as the peak of the migratory shorebird season was approaching. . . .
'Old' news getting recycled about Bayou Corne for some reason. NSA pranking the web?
NASA could predict sinkholes < same info we had in Dec. 2013.
Some news outlets are reporting this >LOUISIANA'S GIANT SINKHOLE SWALLOWED AN ACCESS RAMP TO A …< … but it is from 2013.
1 P.M. fluid movement at lake FUBAR. It shows up at the LA10 bottom borehole.
Time: 9 AM 10 A.M.
The lawsuit against the state resulted from Coastal Management (CM) granting the permit to dredge contingent on Injection & Mining Division granting the final permit making. We dispute that Coastal Management did not do due diligence by granting the permit.
Try and show up if you can even if just for a short time.
FLUID MOVEMENT UNDER LAKE FUBAR AT 8 P.M. – on the helicorders. It lasted about 2 hours! It was probably set off by this mega-quake in Indonesia. M6.4 at 7:24 CST.
Texas Brine put out a fact sheet on all the good they doing in Bayou Corne, dated 11-27.
A reader says, "Jefferson Island Storage & Hub, LLC is a Limited Liability Company and claims to be an Intrastate company, not an Interstate company. Who is their insurer? Shouldn't the LA Dept. of Natural Resources make sure that these companies can cover any damage that they cause before issuing permits?
The Department of Natural Resources, Office of Coastal Management, has already issued one permit to expand and add 2 natural gas storage caverns to Jefferson Island Storage & Hub under Lake Peigneur in Vermilion/Iberia parishes without an Environmental Impact Statement, Federal standard, no seismic studies, bubbling in the lake, Chicot aquifer problems and already one horrific disaster there.
All they want to do is profit off the state and the people of Louisiana and not be responsible for their actions and the people they hurt." – and we agree!
The helicorders are still going crazy. Instead of posting that every day we will put up a big headline when it stops. Scroll down for more on them and maps of where they are etc.
HUGHESVILLE (AP) — A 30-inch natural gas pipeline ruptured in a rural area in western Missouri, causing an explosion and fire that could be seen for several miles. No injuries were reported, authorities said today. . . .
BATON ROUGE, La. | At least 12 salt-dome caverns in Louisiana are as close to the edge of their supporting underground formations as the one that collapsed last year and caused a huge sinkhole in Assumption Parish. . . .
That TV Show on Bayou Corne is on TONIGHT!
and Class III Solution Mining Injection Wells .
"At least a dozen salt-dome caverns in Louisiana are as close to the edge of their supporting underground formations as the one that collapsed last year and caused the yawning sinkhole in Assumption Parish.
The helicorders are showing static today plus work start up this morning.
Stuart Smith – BP's digusting, dirty war on its online critics < more stories on this creepy, criminal behavior by BP is on the Real Coastal Warriors' face book page this weekend.


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Rehab Formal Awards
Every year the Rehab Therapy Society Council presents 3 awards at the Rehab Formal. A call for nominations for award recipients is now open for the Rehab classes of 2013 . Check your emails for award descriptions and the nomination ballot form. Deadline for nomination submission is Sunday, January 20th. All Rehab 2013 students are eligible to makes nominations. Please submit nominations to the Rehab Therapy Society Council at 1cnd@queensu.ca.
#1 - The Rehabilitation Therapy Society Award
The Rehabilitation Therapy Society Award is the highest honour that can be paid for valuable and distinguished service to the School of Rehabilitation Therapy in extracurricular activities (excluding varsity sports). A maximum of two awards will be presented (one from each discipline). Who do you think has gone above and beyond?
#2 – The Blue Star Award
The Blue Star Award shall be presented to one professor/instructor from the Occupational Therapy program and one professor/instructor from the Physical Therapy program in recognition of excellence in teaching. Anyone who has taught a course or a major component of a course is eligible for nomination and selection of this award. Who has made exceptional, positive contributions to your learning here in the past 2 years?
#3 – Helen Chan Award of Merit
The Helen Chan Award of Merit (HCAM) shall be presented to any student(s) who has/have demonstrated outstanding involvement in intramurals for the past academic year. A maximum of two students will be presented with the award annually (one from each discipline). Who do we always see on the field/ in the pool/ on the court!?
Rehab Assist London link
The Rehab Group is an independent international group of charities and commercial companies which provides training, employment, health and social care,
Updates to this section of the website will be added by the Communications Officer


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It's really a pity I missed the talk only for few days. I saw the slideshare, and is really interesting. No mentions about Android. I was wondering about your opinion of the role of Android in this disruptive innovation in smartphones market. I hope we will have the opportunity to meet and chat today here at UFM in Guatemala.
Great to meet you today, and thanks for a good comment. It is pretty clear why Nokia was not able to come up with smartphones. It is, however, less obvious why they did not adopt Android quickly. Had they done so they could have been in Samsung's position as a fast follower. Internal rigidities and a culture of complacency are potential explanations that the reviewed material below hint at.


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 Юдинская волость (Гдовский уезд) — в составе Санкт-Петербургской губернии
 Юдинская волость (Каинский уезд) — в составе Томской губернии
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Best Luxury Cars for 2020
By Julie Blackley
Best New and Used Luxury Cars
Luxury cars attract buyers thanks to their high-end finishes, comfortable ride quality, and advanced technology. There's also the prestige that comes with owning a car with a luxury nameplate. As a result, they come with a heftier price tag than their non-luxury counterparts. But is the extra price worth it? Or should you save money by buying a used luxury car?
We determined the best luxury cars based on reliability to help you decide which premium vehicles are most worth the cost. Because these vehicles are often leased, we also looked at the average price of 3-year-old versions of these vehicles for buyers who want a luxury car without paying luxury prices. This guide examines sedans and sports cars, and those looking for the best luxury SUVs can look at our list of the most reliable luxury cars across all vehicle segments.
Not all luxury cars are created equal. To find the best luxury cars, iSeeCars analyzed over 13.8 million used cars to determine the cars with the best long-term reliability based on their ability to reach 200,000 miles. Of the longest-lasting cars, these are the most reliable luxury sedans.
Best Luxury Cars - iSeeCars
Rank Luxury Car % 200,000 Miles Average New Car Price Average 3-Year-Old Used Price
1 Lexus IS 300 0.8% $43,455 $27,061
2 Audi S8 0.6% $144,342 $67,337
3 Mercedes Benz S-Class 0.6% $123,581 $62,491
4 Mercedes-Benz E-Class 0.5% $67,537 $31,587
5 Buick LaCrosse 0.5% $36,742 $22,947
6 Volvo S60 0.5% $43,200 $21,704
7 BMW 5 Series 0.4% $65,900 $36,699
9 Cadillac CTS 0.4% $51,979 $27,395
10 Lexus IS 350 0.4% $48,518 $32,385
Luxury Car Average 0.6%
Lexus Luxury Cars: IS 300 and IS 350
Earning top honors for the best used luxury cars for sale is the compact Lexus IS 300. Along with its proven longevity that's typical of Toyota's luxury extension, the compact IS 300 is known for its premium materials and comfortable ride. It also has a perfect 5-star safety rating. It's sportier sibling, the Lexus IS 350 earns the tenth spot on the list. The IS 300 base engine is a turbo four-cylinder, while all-wheel drive (AWD) variants have a V6. The Lexus IS 350 features a more powerful, 311-horsepower V6 engine. While these vehicles are among the least expensive new cars on the list, used Lexus IS vehicles provide tremendous value. A lightly-used Lexus IS 300 for sale can be found for an average price of $27,061 while a used IS 350 is $32,385.
Ranked second is the Audi S8, which earns the super luxury distinction as the performance variant of the Audi A8. It comes with a twin-turbo V8 with 563-horsepower and has features including standard wireless charging, a head-up display, and massaging front sport seats. Performance and opulence don't come cheap, as shown by its average new car price of $144,342. The car's steep depreciation makes it a relative bargain for used car buyers. You can find a 3-year used Audi S8 for sale for half of its new car price at $67,337.
Mercedes Luxury Cars: E-Class and S-Class
Two Mercedes make the list: the third-ranked Mercedes-Benz S-Class and the fourth-ranked Mercedes-Benz E-Class. The S-Class super luxury car is dripping with high-end finishes and is one of the fanciest cars on the market. It includes 16-way power-adjustable front seats, a high-tech 12.3-inch digital infotainment system, a panoramic sunroof, and proximity keyless entry. Its entry trim includes a 469 horsepower twin-turbocharged V6 engine. You can find the midsize Mercedes E-Class for sale as a sedan, coupe, convertible or wagon and has an upscale interior and a smooth ride. It features a COMAND infotainment system, a 12.3-inch display, and safety features like rain-sensing wipers, brake assist, crosswind assist, and a pre-collision passenger protection system. While both of these cars are expensive for their respective vehicle segments, their rapid depreciation makes them attractive vehicles to purchase lightly used. An off-lease used Mercedes E-Class is $31,587, while a used Mercedes S-Class is $62,491. That's more than half the price of their new car versions.
Ranked fifth is the Buick LaCrosse full-size sedan, which is the lowest-priced vehicle on the list. It has a perfect crash test safety rating, spacious seating and above-average fuel economy though it lacks the sophistication and luxury feel that is offered by its competitors. Because it was discontinued after the 2019 model year, new versions are hard to come by. However, you can find a three-year-old used Buick LaCrosse for sale for an average of $22,947.
The compact Volvo S60 earns the sixth spot. It has a sophisticated cabin and a suite of standard and tech features. It is also available as a plug-in hybrid for those who want a more fuel efficient driving experience. It's standard features include a moonroof, AppleCarPlay, Android Auto, and dual-zone automatic climate control. A used Volvo S60 is the most affordable car on the list with an average three-year-old used car price of $21,704.
BMW Luxury Cars: 5-Series and 3-Series
Two BMW models make the list: the seventh-ranked midsize 5-Series and the eighth-ranked compact 3-Series. The 5-Series is among the best cars in its class thanks to its powerful engine, impressive fuel economy, and its smooth ride. It also comes loaded with standard safety and entertainment features. The 3-Series is among the top performing cars in its luxury small car class, and its sporty handling and comfortable seating make it a popular choice for those entering the luxury car market. It also comes with three powertrain options. The 5 Series carries an above average price for its class at $65,900, but a used BMW 5 Series can be found for a more reasonable price of $36,699. Meanwhile, you can find a lightly-used BMW 3 Series for sale for an average price of $22,921.
Rounding out the list is the ninth-ranked Cadillac CTS midsize sedan. It's known for its comfortable drive quality, spacious front and rear seats, powerful engine options and standard equipment like its CUE infotainment system, an 8-inch touch screen, a Wi-Fi hot spot, and a Teen Driver safety setting. Like the other American luxury car on the list, it was discontinued after the 2019 model year. A 3-year-old used Cadillac CTS can be found for $27,395.
Luxury Sports Cars
If performance is as important to you as high-end finishes, a luxury used sports car might be the vehicle for you. While these vehicles aren't often used as daily drivers and aren't known for their longevity, we picked the longest-lasting ones should reliability be a foremost concern.
Best Luxury Sports Cars - iSeeCars
Rank Luxury Sports Car % 200 Miles Horsepower Torque Average New Car Price Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price
1 Audi S8 0.8% 563 590 $144,342 $67,337
2 Audi TT 0.6% 219 258 $55,726 $34,237
3 BMW M5 0.4% 584.2 532.6 $120,189
4 BMW i8 0.3% 369 420 $168,888
5 Mercedes-Benz AMG GT 0.2% 545.3 546 $140,565
Audi Luxury Sports Cars: S8 and TT
Audi earns the top two spots with the first-ranked Audi S8, which we examined above, and the second-ranked Audi TT. The Audi TT is reasonably priced for its class and offers the sporty driving dynamics that make Audi a popular choice for those looking for a fun-to-drive sports car. Its base trim comes with a 228-horsepower turbo 2.0 liter four-cylinder engine, while the top trim tops out with a 2.5-liter turbocharged 394-horsepower five-cylinder engine with 354 pound-feet of torque. A new version cost an average of $55,726, while a 3-year-old used Audi TT for sale costs an average of $34,237.
BMW Luxury Sports Cars: M5 and i8
Two performance-oriented BMWs make the list: the third-ranked BMW M5 and the fourth-ranked i8. The M5 is the performance variant of the BMW 5 Series and includes a V8 engine that produces 600 horsepower and comes standard with AWD. The BMW i8 is the only plug-in hybrid sports car available, which earns it a spot on the list. Sadly, it was discontinued after the 2020 model year. A new BMW M5 costs well into the six-figure range, but a used BMW M5 for sale can be found for half the price of a new version.
Earning the fifth spot on the list is the Mercedes-Benz AMG GT. The base trim comes with a 3.0-liter turbocharged inline-six that produces 429-horsepower. Other trims feature a V8 that goes up to 630 horsepower. It's highest performance model can do zero to 60 mph in under four seconds. This powerful vehicle also made our best muscle cars list. A new AMG GT costs an average of $140,565, but a three-year-old used Mercedes AMG GT can be found for half the price.
The Tesla Model S has not been around long enough to display long-term reliability, but it deserves recognition based on its performance. While it may not have the high-end cabin of its luxury counterparts, it makes up for it with its performance and tech. Used models were once scarce, but you can now commonly find a deal on a three-year-old used Tesla Model S for an average price of $61,985.
Used Luxury Cars for Sale
Luxury cars have many selling points, but they are also not known as cars that hold their value. As such, they depreciate about as quickly as they accelerate. While we outlined the used car price of three-year-old versions of these vehicles. Even older models can present even bigger bargains.
Best Used Luxury Cars Under $15,000
Used Luxury Cars Under $15,000
Luxury Car Average Used Car Price
2013 Volvo S60 $10,724
2011 Buick LaCrosse $12,212
2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class $12,634
2011 Mercedes-Benz S-Class $13,494
2013 BMW M5 $16,394
2011 Audi S8 $16,390
2013 Cadillac CTS $16,728
2015 BMW 5 Series $17,648
If you enjoy the finer things in life, you may be willing to pay the extra price for a luxury vehicle. Or, you can consider a more budget-friendly used model that can provide you with all the features and comforts at a fraction of the price. Whichever you choose, a reliable luxury vehicle will allow you to get the most out of your purchase.
If you're interested in a new or used luxury car, be sure to check out iSeeCars' award-winning car search engine. It uses advanced algorithms to help shoppers find the best car deals and provides key insights and valuable resources, like the iSeeCars VIN check report. Filter by make, model, and special features to find your next luxury vehicle.
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Jason Tartick Slams 'Nasty Comments' Critiquing Kaitlyn Bristowe's Appearance: 'It's Grotesque'
By Miranda Siwak
Clapping back. Jason Tartick is standing up for his fiancée, Kaitlyn Bristowe, and speaking out after all the negative comments regarding her looks.
Kaitlyn Bristowe and Jason Tartick's Relationship Timeline
Following his appearance on the Monday, July 12, episode of The Bachelorette, Tartick, 32, joined the "Click Bait With Bachelor Nation" podcast hosts on Thursday to chat about his cameo on Katie Thurston's season. The New York native also spoke out about the hate that the "Off the Vine" podcast host, 35, has received from online trolls.
"I don't know why people think it's OK to say the s–t they do on Twitter," he shared. "There's so many things in this world we can control, and there's so many things we can't control. Our looks and things like that are most of the things we can't control. And the way that people make comments, nasty comments, about people's appearances — and obviously, specifically, I'm referring to Kaitlyn — it's grotesque. It's a joke."
Bachelor Nation Reacts to Jason Tartick and Kaitlyn Bristowe's Engagement
During the conversation, the "Trading Secrets" podcast host recalled his lack of understanding about why trolls are so mean and the gender inequities of such comments.
Jason Tartick and Kaitlyn Bristowe AFF-USA/Shutterstock
"I don't see why people have to do that," he continued. "And the other thing is, the fact that it's usually women putting other women down is just insane. When Chris Harrison was up there, were people talking about Chris Harrison's looks? Or when a guy's up there? It's absolutely ridiculous and I don't get why people think it's OK."
The former investment banker explained that such mean-spirited comments have taken a toll on the former Dancing With the Stars winner during her recent tenure as cohost of the ABC reality series.
"People see it, people hear it and they feel it, and whether they show it or not, it's gotta end. It's insane," Tartick said.
While the former reality star acknowledged the opportunities that both he and his partner have received since their appearances on the franchise, it's not a reason for such negativity.
"I'm not playing the victim card for her, and like you said, what a great opportunity all of us have been blessed to come on this show and these things have happened," the former Bachelorette contestant said. "So with the bad comes good, but when you see some of the bad, and you're just like, 'Oh, she's aged.' Well, yeah, we all f–king age? What do you want to do about that?'"
Kaitlyn Bristowe and Jason Tartick Courtesy of Jason Tartick/Instagram
He added, "Kaitlyn would put people on blast, which is something I've always said, 'I don't know why you do it,' but then the more I see her do it … you're like, 'S–t, maybe you should put people on blast.'"
'Bachelorette' Baby Fever! Kaitlyn Bristowe's Quotes About Having Kids
Last month, the Dewed It designer clapped back at the online haters who questioned why she looked so "different" since her first appearance on Chris Soules' season of The Bachelor.
At the time, a Twitter user "couldn't put [their] finger on" what changed about Bristowe. She replied via Twitter, "[Six] years since I was on the show, Brow lift, brow micro blading, got my teeth bonded, some filler In my lips, aging, darker hair, and I finally learned how to contour. Oh and I put on some weight."
When another troll added that they weren't pleased with seeing her "busted" appearance, she retorted, "So sick of women commenting on my face. Jesus."
Bristowe's supporters also came to her defense, with one writing at the time: "Don't forget that you met the love of your life, opened multiple companies, and won DWTS. That joy leaves a mark."


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What To Do If A Ransomware Incident Means Your Business Cannot Avoid Paying Ransom: OFAC Weighs In
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While ransomware was already a growing global issue before the pandemic, COVID-19 has thrown jet-fuel on that fire. As a result, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an advisory statement on October 1, 2020. The advisory specifically details the risk of sanctions related to paying a ransom and reflects the greater reality that as new wrinkles in attacks become common, including exfiltration of data for later extortion or deletion back up files, more businesses than ever are considering ransom payment. OFAC wants your business to remember that paying ransom to certain groups is a sanctionable event.
Beckage is very familiar with many ways to avoid paying ransom, but we remain informed of all the regulations and advisory guidance related to ransom payment.
A high-level review of a ransomware event can provide perspective on what role OFAC and its advisory mean to your business:
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that infiltrates computer networks, locking and blocking access unless a ransom is paid. When your business encounters ransomware, your Incident Response Plan (IRP) should direct leadership to immediately initiate contact with previously identified parties whose work is focused on just this sort of matter, including counsel such as Beckage, and your cybersecurity insurance carrier.
In the first minutes and hours after ransomware is detected, we hear common questions, such as: Is paying ransom a viable path forward? Is it allowed? And if there are no other options for remediation and restoring from backups, how is it done?
The Response to Ransom Demands
Depending on the situation, ransoms are sometimes paid. This is not a default position, but can be the necessary and most logical step in response to a ransomware incident. Your business does not suddenly have to figure out how to pay an unknown party the ransom; your tech lawyers will be familiar with third parties that specialize in incident response, including investigating the background of the threat actor and exploring payment. Such a third-party will take steps to secure cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin, for paying a ransom, work with counsel to understand how anti-money laundering laws apply to a transaction, and gauge whether the actor behind the ransomware is a sanctioned group or tied to a sanctioned group.
OFAC's Impact
The OFAC advisory reminds us that the U.S. Government does not qualify ransom payment as illegal, but ransom payments are not favored resolutions. The advisory serves as a reminder of existing practices and policies:
Fines can follow any violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA), Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List) or embargoes with jurisdictions such as Iran, North Korea, and Syria. Your counsel, insurers and third parties involved in ransom. payment should all be familiar with the requirements therein.
Businesses are encouraged to implement and maintain a compliance program to avoid sanction-related violations, which can help mitigate civil monetary penalties in the event of a sanctions-related violation.
Businesses should routinely review with their insurers and brokers if and how the ransom payment process is impacted by this and any future advisory.
Sharing ransomware incident information with relevant government agencies, including OFAC and the FBI, is highly encouraged but not required. Cooperation is critical to not only threat actor identification efforts, but, like a formal compliance program, can mitigate penalty in the event of an enforcement action for a sanctions-related violation.
OFAC's advisory continues an established narrative of best practices for any company affected by ransomware, and those are the practices of our firm. If your company finds itself under attack, look to experienced incident response lawyers, like Beckage, to help. As noted in the advisory, "there was a 37 percent annual increase in reported ransomware cases [from 2018 to 2019] and a 147 percent annual increase in associated losses from 2018 to 2019," and these numbers are expected to continue to rise. By looking to experienced tech lawyers in incident response, you help your business mitigate risks associated with ransomware, including business interruption, reputational harm, and non-compliance with government standards for ransom payment.
Have your technology and incident response lawyers help establish, formalize, and update your corporate Information Security Practices and Incident Response Plan, to address legal requirements and changes in the law and to help your business avoid ransomware, or at least be fully prepared to respond to an incident.


Fred moved into a three-bedroom apartment at the end of February 2014.
Fred had lived at Harrington Hall for over a year, and for the last several months worked full time at a warehouse leaving the shelter by 5am to get to work on time.
Fred has had some substance abuse history, stopped using cocaine/crack in 2006 but has struggled with alcohol ever since. He has had years of sobriety at one time but more recently, relapses every few months or so which often jeopardizes his employment.
Fred relapsed on alcohol soon after he moved into housing. Fred moved into his apartment first and didn't have roommates for about a month or so. He reported that he "missed the shelter" and struggled with those feelings because he thought they were silly. He said even though he didn't speak to many people there he knew people were still around and it was comforting.
Fred detoxed himself and got back on track and was able to talk his employer into keeping him. Fred felt since this detox was so difficult, that would keep him away from relapsing again. Fred was not interested in counseling or seeing a doctor and felt he could keep himself sober based on how horrible he felt while detoxing.
Fred reported feeling better, he got roommates and they seemed to get along pretty well. After about six weeks, Fred relapsed again for about 1 week. This time, Fred wasn't so lucky had his employer let him go.
His two roommates, very concerned about his well being, asked to speak to him about everything that was going on. The three men sat around their kitchen table for 3 hours discussing different issues that they are dealing with in the past and present. After that conversation, Fred stopped drinking the next morning. He again detoxed himself and with support from his roommates and his case manager decided this time he would go see a psychiatrist and take his advice on treatment because he feels something is not right mentally.
Fred took some time to examine the last 20 years or so. He said he has had 16 jobs, the first two being for 5 years and 7 years but the rest for less than a year each. He realized that he now has stable housing, support from House of Hope and his roommates had a job that he loved yet he still cannot stop himself from relapsing. He said "My way isn't working anymore" and agreed to take some time and see a psychiatrist before he tries to get employment again.
Through the ACCESS to HOPE collaboration with MHA/ACCESS-RI, we were able to get Fred an appointment with their psychiatrist for this week. He is going tomorrow and he is going to start his treatment and hopefully his understanding to what is going on with him.
This may seem to be a step backward because Fred lost his full time job once entering housing, but that is not the case. Fred has finally realized that he needs mental health treatment and because of the support of his roommates and supportive services through House of Hope, he is going to be able to address the issues that have ended his employment for at least the last 20 years. Fred has no problem obtaining employment, it is the retaining his employment that needs to be examined and starting this week, the underlying issues will begin to be addressed.


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SEBI bars NDTV's Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy from securities markets for two years
They are facing allegations of violating insider trading regulations.
Nov 28, 2020 · 06:02 pm
A file photo of NDTV co-founder Prannoy Roy. | IANS
The Securities Exchange Board of India has barred NDTV promoters Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy from accessing the securities market for two years for alleged violation of insider trading regulations, PTI reported on Saturday.
SEBI also directed the NDTV promoters to relinquish illegal gains worth over Rs 16 crore for their in involvement in insider trading.
NDTV, meanwhile, said in a statement that its promoters will immediately file an appeal against the order. The news network said that SEBI's order was based on an "inaccurate assessment of facts" and will not withstand scrutiny in appeal.
NDTV also said that SEBI had fined its three former senior executives, including the former chief executive officer and the chief financial officer.
SEBI had in 2019 also barred Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy from the market for a period of two years. It has also stopped them from holding any managerial posts in the news network.
The markets regulator had initiated an investigation after an NDTV shareholder claimed that Prannoy Roy, Radhika Roy and RRPR Holdings (another promoter of the news channel) had not disclosed information about loan agreements they entered into with a company known as Vishvapradhan Commercial. ICICI Bank was also part of this agreement. The SEBI investigated the period from October 14, 2008, to November 22, 2017, to make its assessment.
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SEBI bars NDTV's Prannoy Roy, Radhika Roy from securities markets for two years


Today is international women's day. Women must be celebrated and honored. But how in this precarious time, where our civil and political rights are in constant danger, do we commemorate this symbolic day? In the past few months, many lives were taken – women and children included, caught int he crossfire of the unrelenting drug war.
Many of our children are left without their mothers, sisters, aunts and grandmothers. they were traumatized and continue to suffer the feeling of wanting and longing for their loved ones.
As we grieve with the children who have lost the women figure in their lives, we, at Children's Legal Rights and Development Center (CLRDC), likewise stand in solidarity with all the women who have lost their loved ones, especially their children.
We remain steadfast in protecting children's rights; we resist any vilification of women and children; we condemn the further killings.
We call for a fair and just society where the human dignity of everyone are respected, especially the rights of those who are the most vulnerable among us.


The Hidden Liverpool Conversaton series launches on the 27th November with 'Reusing our Heritage; Communities Leading the Way'. The event explores how local people have led or are leading fantastic schemes that have resulted in empty buildings being brought back into use.
The first in the three part conversaion series offers an opportunity to engage with discussions about reusing empty buildings, the opportunities and benefits for the city and the challenges faced by those leading on their restoration.
The event will showcase three examples of local projects that have seen hidden gems brought back into use for local communtities. The panel will comprise of guest speakers from Homebaked, Anfield, The Florrie, Toxteth and Everton Library 'Jewel on the Hill' Project. Speakers will talk about their approaches to bringing buildings back into use, sharing their ideas and experience. There will also be opportunity for questions from the floor to the panel, for further discussion on the presentations and opportunity for the audience to share their own experiences.
The event will be held in the Florrie, itself a wonderful building brought back to life in a campaign led by local people. The Florrie has limited parking and there is free parking on nearby streets.
Registration is at 3.45pm, with speakers and discussion from 4.00pm-6.00pm. There will be opportunity for networking and further informal discussion from 6.00pm-7.30pm. Tea and coffee will be provided before and after the speakers and discussion.
The venue address is 337 Mill Street, Liverpool, L8 4RF.
Anfield lost its independent bakery in 2010. Mitchell's was an Anfield institution for a hundred years – a local landmark, and a family business with a strong sense of social responsibility. Homebaked is an independent Community Land Trust and Bakery established through 2Up 2Down, a Liverpool Biennial project, with support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Arts Council England and Liverpool City Council. Home baked is a community bakery project, re-opening the historic Mitchells bakery, opposite Liverpool football club. More than just a bakery business, Homebaked will offer training and job opportunities for people from the area, Homebaked will house a production and training kitchen, a traditional bakery shop front, a couple of tables to sit and have a coffee with your cake, and a hatch to serve food straight onto the street on match days.
Since the Florrie was first established in 1889 it was to play a vital role in many people's lives as the first known purpose built boys club in the country. The Florrie was built in memorial to Bernard Hall's (founder) daughter Florence who died at the untimely age of 22 in Paris. As Bernard was a former Mayor of Liverpool and Magistrate he knew the hardship faced within this tough south dock side area. In particular his focus was to provide a place of recreation and instruction to the poor and working lads of the area.
The Florrie was identified as a Building at Risk and was featured in the Liverpool Echo's successful Stop The Rot Campaign. It was in 2005 that The Florence Institute Trust was formed. The Trust embarked on the daunting task of restoring The Florrie with strength and dedication and has been able to witness the rewards of their efforts as a stunningly restored Florrie opened her doors once again on 1st April 2012.
Heritage Works Buildings Preservation Trust in partnership with Hope Street Ltd and Liverpool City Council has received initial support including £284,400 development funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the 'Jewel on the Hill' project, to help progress detailed plans towards the application for a full grant.
This funding will allow a development stage to run from July 2012 until Autumn 2013 when the full grant application will be submitted and other matched funding sought towards what will be a £5 million project. If all is successful the building will be fully back in use by Autumn 2016.