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Ten years have passed since young nurse Sophie Lee was accused of murdering her wealthy patient, Audrey Star. Georgia attorney Mikala Aulani believed her innocenceand Adam Star's guiltbut the prosecution convinced a jury otherwise. Sophie was convicted on a Tuesdaythe day on which every significant event in her life, good or bad, seems to happen. Now, on the verge of his death, Adam exonerates Sophie and also leaves her a huge fortune in atonement.
Sophie retreats to Kala's house and tries to evade the media frenzy that surrounds her. Kala is determined to help her client make her way back into the world. Yet for both, there are still revelations in storeabout the nature of redemption, the strange workings of fate, and the power of forgiveness. And most of all, about the secrets that hide in every hearteven those we think we know best. . .
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Hometown:Summerville, South Carolina
Place of Birth:Hastings, Pennsylvania
Education:High School
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Tuesday's Child
By FERN MICHAELS
KENSINGTON PUBLISHING CORP.Copyright © 2012 MRK Productions
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Dunwoody, Georgia Ten years later
Mikala Aulani looked around her office for the last time. Now that her thirty-five-year professional life was packed up in boxes, and the pictures, diplomas, and photographs were off the wall, her personal space looked huge. Jay would have to paint the walls to cover up the telltale signs of where all the plaques had been hung. She eyed her old leather chair, which swiveled and rocked. She really had meant to have the crack in the leather repaired; it had been on her to-do list for years and years. She wondered now why it was she'd never taken the time to do it. But, then, she found herself wondering about a lot of things lately, not that it made a difference.
Jay Brighton and Linda Carpenter, husband and wife and newly minted senior partners, carried the packed and taped boxes out to the reception area. At some point later that day, someone would come and take them to a storage unit Kala had rented a month ago. All except for the single box that sat on top of her desk. That box was going with her. She was personally going to carry it down to the underground garage and personally put it on the passenger seat of her car, then drive it to her home, where she would put it in a closet in her bedroom. Sophie Lee deserved a closet rather than a storage unit, where her records would never again see the light of day.
Jay Brighton stood in the doorway. "That about does it, Kala. Told you we'd have this locked down in time for you to make your retirement luncheon."
Kala looked up at her former partner and grimaced. "I decided I'm not going. Call Ben and tell him I have a bellyache."
Ben was Judge Benjamin Jefferson, Kala's significant other of twenty-five years. Ben had retired two weeks earlier, and Kala had thrown a surprise luncheon, inviting all of his peers. For no other reason except retaliation, Ben had decided to do the same for her. His theory was, if he'd had to suffer through the shitty food, the boring speeches, and the overblown testimonials, then so should she.
Newly retired judge Ben Jefferson loved Kala Aulani heart and soul. Everyone said they were a match made in heaven. Sometimes, Kala believed it, and other times, she didn't.
Stepping into the office, Jay replied, "Oh, no, I'm not calling him! You're on your own, Kala. Hey, you aren't my boss anymore, so don't you dare look at me with those puppy dog eyes. No! You sold Linda and me the firm, and I absolutely do not have to take orders anymore. Not showing up at your very own retirement luncheon would be a pretty crappy thing to do," Jay said vehemently.
Kala grinned as she stared up at her old partner. Six-foot-seven, probably the tallest lawyer ever to grace a courtroom. An imposing giant of a man, with his flaming red hair, which he hated, and his freckles, which, if anything, he hated even more. Juries loved him and his folksy manner. They likened him to themselves, just plain old ordinary people. They were wrong, of course, because there was nothing in the least ordinary about Jay Brighton, Attorney at Law. Jay had graduated at the top of his law class, had a photographic memory that did double time acting as a steel trap. He was almost as good a lawyer as she was, Kala thought. She'd trained him well, and he'd listened to every pearl of wisdom that came out of her mouth, soaking it all up like a sponge. Yes, one of the best things she'd ever done in her career was to hire him the minute he applied for the job. She'd never been sorry, either, and she knew he'd never regretted joining her rinky-dink law firm back in the day.
"Listen, Jay, I just want to go home and be alone. Surely you can understand that. You didn't give me a going-away present, now that I think about it. How tacky is that? So, calling Ben and canceling my luncheon will serve nicely as my going-away gift. C'mon, Jay, one last favor. I have so much to do; we leave tomorrow, and I'm not even packed. Do you have any idea how many suitcases I have to fill to go away for six whole months? Well, do you?" Kala bellowed at the top of her lungs.
Linda Carpenter, a string bean of a young woman with corkscrew curls that poked up from her head, took Jay's former position in the doorway, and bellowed in return, "I'll do it!"
Kala looked Jay in the eye, and admonished, "You do not deserve that young woman, and I'm sorry I paid for your wedding."
"Stuff it, Kala!" Jay blustered. Long years of familiarity allowed him to talk this way to his old boss. "Why do you find it so hard to accept a few well-meaning accolades? Don't give me any crap here. The reason you don't want to go to that luncheon is some asshole told you that Ryan Spenser is going to show up. With a gift. You're a bigger person than he is. Why can't you go and stare the bastard down?"
"Because I can't. This is the end of it, Jay. I'm not going. Period."
"Okay," Jay said agreeably.
Kala eyed him suspiciously, waiting for the other shoe to drop. When it didn't, Kala gathered up her laptop, her purse, her suit jacket, and dumped them on top of the Sophie Lee box. "Where's the dolly?"
"In the reception room. I'll get it."
"And I don't want or need a parade following me down to the garage," Kala shouted to Jay's retreating back.
"Like that's going to happen," Jay snorted, his eyes burning. Damn, he never thought saying good-bye was going to be so hard. He eyed his wife, who had returned to the reception area and seemed to be having the same problem he was having. The filters probably needed to be changed in the AC unit. Dust particles could really play hell with your tear ducts.
Linda grabbed her husband's arm and dragged him down the hall into the kitchen just as the door to the reception room opened. They didn't bother to look over their shoulders to see if it was a client or the mailman.
"What?" Jay blurted.
"I can't stop crying, that's what!" Linda said, burying her face in the crook of her husband's neck. "What are we going to do without her?
She's the rock. She's the glue that made this law firm work. I don't think either one of us is ready to step into her shoes. What if Kala's clients don't want us?"
"Then it's their loss, Linda. We have our own clients. This is a thriving law firm. We have five junior partners. We have five paralegals, an office manager, and a secretary who is not only as old as God but knows how to sweet-talk people who walk in the door. We can make it work. We really can."
Linda sniffled. "Well, don't expect me to give you wake-up calls if I have to leave the house before you, and don't expect me to remind you to take your umbrella, pick up your cleaning, and get a haircut. That was Kala's job."
"Yeah, okay, I won't expect you to do that. I'll flounder around on my own," Jay said, his voice choked with emotion.
Their eyeballs popped when they heard their names being screamed at the top of Kala's lungs. They almost killed one another racing to her office. Both of them pulled up short when they saw a man with two canes lower himself to the chair opposite Kala's desk. Underneath her summer tan, Kala's face looked white. She was shaking so badly, Jay and Linda thought she was having a seizure. "What's wrong?" they both shouted in unison.
To say the man with the two canes looked like death warmed over would have been too kind a statement. He was cadaver thin, his eyes sunken, his skin sallow. It was doubtful he weighed a hundred pounds. In the thirty-odd years Jay had worked for and known Mikala Aulani, he didn't think he'd ever seen her as agitated as she was at that very moment. He didn't know what to do, so he waited, his eyes not on the man but on Kala.
"Linda, Jay, this is ... this is Adam Star. He ... he came here to ... he came here to ..."
The voice was raspy, the words almost unintelligible, but the trio understood them nonetheless.
"What Ms. Aulani is trying to say is, I came here to tell you that ten years ago, I killed my wife, Audrey. Sophie Lee is innocent. As you can see, I'm dying, and I want to make things right." One skeletal hand reached inside his jacket to withdraw a DVD. His hand shook violently when he tried to slide it across the desk toward Kala. "My lawyer has a copy of this. It shows me confessing to the murder, along with all the details. My lawyer will be turning it over to the court when I ... am no longer here."
Three jaws dropped as three sets of eyes stared with unblinking intensity at the man.
Jay spoke first. "I guess my question would be, how much longer will it be before you are no longer here?" Jay didn't give a damn if he sounded heartless and cruel. What this man had done to Sophie Lee earned him a fat zero in consideration in Jay's opinion.
"You son of a bitch! You let that young girl go to prison for life! What kind of a monster are you?" Kala shrieked. "I knew it was you! I always knew! Now, when you're dying, you want to make it right! I hope you burn in hell!" Kala shrieked again.
Adam Star turned his head on its scrawny neck to Jay, and said, "I'm already on borrowed time, but I assume you want me to be more specific."
"Yeah, that would help," Jay drawled.
"Well, I'm already on borrowed time, as I just said, so I think it's safe to say I doubt I'll be here this time next week." He turned his head again to look at Kala, and replied to her question, "The kind of man who didn't have the stomach to be tied down to a paralyzed woman twenty-four/seven. I was never cut out to be the dutiful sort. The doctors said Audrey could live into her nineties with proper care. I didn't have the guts for that. Audrey demanded my constant presence, even during the night hours. I was tied to her. I couldn't breathe; she was smothering me. And yes, Ms. Aulani, I'm sure I will burn in hell." Star leaned back, the constant flow of words exhausting him.
"Why did you come here?" Kala whispered, her shrieking over.
"I owed you and your client a face-to-face. You can show her the DVD when you think it's time. She was an exceptional nurse. She actually cared about Audrey, which is more than I can say I did. Because of that, I want to give you this." The skeletal hand reached into the inside pocket of his cashmere jacket and withdrew a folded set of papers. "My last will and testament. I'm leaving everything I own, which is substantial, beyond substantial actually, to Sophie Lee. I have appointed you, Ms. Aulani, as my personal representative to see that my will is carried out the way I want it to be."
"You can't inherit if you kill someone," Jay said through clenched teeth.
"I didn't inherit a single dime when she died. Almost immediately after we were married, she put everything in my name. She said it was a wedding gift. We were very much in love. We had our whole lives ahead of us. We were 'as one,' was how she put it. She trusted me to handle her fortune for the both of us. The Star fortune already belonged to me at her death and had for some time. Therefore, I can leave it to whomever I choose, and I choose to leave it to Sophie Lee to make up for what I've done. I know Audrey would approve."
"Ryan Spenser?"
"I always suspected he knew I killed Audrey, but he was never able to prove it. On more than one occasion, he said the media would love the other-woman part of it, as they would never believe that Sophie and I were not having an affair. More meat, more fodder for the nightly news. He was right, and it was the trial of the century.
"Ryan Spenser became the golden boy. He rolled along, winning every case he tried after that one. I never saw him after the trial, but about six months ago I got a personal letter from him asking me if I would consider backing him in his run for governor next year. He, of course, didn't know I was ill, and I've been housebound since. If what you're asking me specifically is if he knew he was prosecuting an innocent woman, I would say yes. But that is just my opinion. He had the facts going for him. It was either her or me, and like I said, he couldn't prove I did it. That left only Sophie Lee, and he convinced a jury of seven men and five women that she did it."
This time the words did exhaust Adam Star. Before he closed his eyes, he pressed a button on his watch. Two male nurses barreled into the room, took one look at their patient, and scooped him up. They were out the door in thirty seconds, their patient in their arms, leaving behind three stupefied lawyers.
Kala was the first to speak, her eyes wide with wonder as she stared at the box on the top of her desk labeled SOPHIE LEE in permanent black marker. "My mind isn't working right now, so will someone please tell me what day today is?"
"Your retirement day, Kala," Linda said.
Jay knew exactly what Kala meant. His voice was pitched so low, Kala had to strain to hear the words. "It's Tuesday, Kala."
Kala lowered herself into the leather chair with the crack running down the middle. Gradually, she was able to focus. She reached for the stiff blue paper that covered Adam Star's last will and testament. She had to clear her throat twice before she could get the words out past her tongue. "Set up the DVD. I want to see what's on it. But first I want to read this will. If that bastard lied to us, I will kill him myself."
It took no time for Kala to read through the short, simple will. Everything appeared to be in order. She sifted through the legalese. Two persons had signed, attesting to having witnessed Adam Star's signature. It was in order and dated exactly one week prior. Everything Adam Star owned, compliments of his dead wife, Audrey Star, now belonged to Sophie Lee. Or would belong to Sophie Lee one moment after Adam Star's passing. Everything he owned amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks, bonds, real estate, and, of course, 51 percent of Star Enterprises, whatever that happened to be. Somewhere there was a yacht moored, a corporate Learjet parked somewhere else, a helicopter grounded on some helicopter pad God only knew where, two cigarette boats worth $100,000 each, berthed in Key Biscayne, Florida, and a fleet of high-end cars to the tune of $5 million. Among the listed real estate were the mansion Audrey Star had died in, a ski resort in Aspen, Colorado, and a mountaintop estate in Hawaii, overlooking the Pacific. And that was just the tip of the iceberg. The real-estate holdings ran to six pages and represented so many zeros, Kala felt light-headed.
The joke was feeble at best and didn't even draw a smile from Kala, when Jay said, "Guess Sophie can pay our bill now if this is on the upand-up."
Kala shook her head. "We took the case pro bono, and that's the way it stays. My God, how do we tell this to Sophie?"
"Well, I don't think we should say anything at all to her until ... until they shovel the last bit of dirt on that bastard's coffin. I'm not sure I'm buying all of this," Jay said.
"What part aren't you buying, Jay?" Kala asked.
Jay threw his hands high in the air. "The whole damn thing. Guys like Adam Star don't have a conscience. They take crap like this to their graves. The man didn't give two shits that a young girl got sent to prison for life. For life, Kala! Now, because he's dying, he wants to make nice. Be forgiven! Like Sophie is going to forgive him for taking ten years of her life, leaving her with no hope for a future? She has to hate his guts. How could she not hate that bastard? I don't think the word forgiveness is in her vocabulary these days."
Kala leaned back and steepled her fingers. "I think you're wrong. Sophie's bitch is going to be with Ryan Spenser, not with Adam Star. She knew just the way we knew that Adam was guilty. All three of us tried to convince Spenser of that, and he turned a deaf ear. Sophie will take the position that Adam tried to make it right in the end, mark my words. When Spenser finds out, if he doesn't already know, he's going to blow a gasket. And you can take that one to the bank. I think now that this has happened, it's why he was planning on attending my retirement luncheon. To see if I knew about it."
"Boy, what a shame that you're leaving for that six-month retirement vacation tomorrow," Jay said slyly as he winked at his wife. Linda did her best not to laugh out loud at Kala's expression. "Okay, let's view this cinematic masterpiece." Jay pressed a button, and Adam Star's face filled the screen.
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I can guarantee two things for any visit to New York … 1) a Yellow Cab will photo-bomb pretty much every photo you take and 2) you will experience a unique, somewhat overpowering smell (good or bad) on every block corner.
I am not sure whether it is the heat, but the smells you experience in New York are unlike any city I have visited. Some good eg. Middle Eastern food carts, huge Pretzels, Hot Dogs; and some really awful eg. cigarettes, sweat, garbage and whatever is flowing under that exposed grate when you cross the street.
On a more positive note, you do quickly get used to it. Just like the many thousands of New Yorkers who briskly walk the streets and avenues of Manhatten do. It's part of the Big Apple experience and my word… what an experience!
Accommodation in New York
On this visit to New York, I stayed in two locations: the Crowne Plaza in Times Square and the Hilton Garden Inn on West 35th St. I did not enjoy staying in Times Square. Times Square is one of those places – like Venice Boulevard – that you experience once then avoid at all costs. There are a LOT of people in Times Square. In the evening you cannot move for the crowds and the Crowne Plaza was right in the centre of it all. Don't get me wrong, some may find this quite exciting. As it was my second visit, I did not. The other thing that I did not like about the Crowne Plaza was that there was no fridge in my room. Add to that a broken ice machine on the floor and you find yourself drinking warm beer when you get in from your walk. Luckily there are many drinking establishments in the area to quench ones well earned thirst!
My stay at the Hilton Garden Inn was very enjoyable. The room was spacious (and included a fridge), the wi-fi was fast, the staff were very friendly and nothing was too hard for them. I loved the location also. You only needed to walk minutes to be at Madison Square or experience the Empire State Building or the prestige shopping Fifth Avenue offers.
What to do in New York
Explore on foot
I love walking in New York. Many of my days were spent walking endless miles with no plan, just picking a direction and exploring. A walk from the Hilton to the Financial District – home of the stunning Freedom Tower and Wall St – was very doable. Once you get your head around how Aves and Streets work in New York, navigation becomes easy. I really do recommend an evening walk from the Financial District north through Chinatown, Little Italy, Noho, Soho and finishing in Madison Square to get a burger from the incredibly popular Shake Shack. The sights, sounds and smells you encounter are unforgettable. Such a diverse collection of cultures in a relatively small area. If you do get too far from home, the Yellow Cabs are great. I did not have the best experience with Uber this time – maybe this will improve in time.
Walk the Highline
The Highline is a real highlight of any visit to NY. The High Line is a public park built on a historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan's West Side. It runs from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to West 34th Street, between 10th and 12th Avenues (see Friends of the Highline for more about the history of it).
There are many pleasant locations to stop and take in the surrounding NY architecture along the way. If you get hungry and/or thirsty, there is a small food hall in one of the tunnels about halfway along. Being a photographer in my spare time, I loved this activity. It is a very popular destination so the people watching is superb.
Take in a Museum or Art Gallery
The upper Westside is home to many famous Museums and Art Galleries including the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Guggenheim, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the elegant Neue Galerie which is home to Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. It was a real treat to see Adele in real life.
Another museum I visited was the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Showing while I was there was an exhibition of How Posters Work which was well worth the visit. The Cooper Hewitt Museum is a very interactive experience for all ages.
Experience the 9/11 Memorial
The new Freedom Tower is simply spectacular. Like a needle piercing the skyline, it is hugely prominent when you fly into NY. My advice for photographers is to take a wide lens! I stood at the base of the tower looking up for quite a while, watching as the setting sun changed the hues of the thousands of reflecting window panes.
This was my second visit to the 9/11 Memorial. The two memorials built over the Twin Tower footprints are beautiful. Water cascades down into what appears to be an endless hole in the earth. Names of those who lost their lives that day are etched in the surrounding marble. You cannot help but shed a tear. It is a moving place.
Take a tour of an actual Aircraft Carrier
This is every boy's dream am I right? Well it was for me.
You can now board and take a tour of an actual decommissioned Aircraft Carrier from the Second World War – the USS Intrepid. It gets better … the Intrepid Museum not only features such iconic aircraft such as the F14 Tomcat, F4 Phantom, F16 Falcon, Mig 21, Lockheed A-12 Blackbird and Concord, but also … wait for it… the actual Space Shuttle Enterprise.
If I was Tim "the Toolman" Taylor I would be grunting right now!

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Jim Hesch enters his fourth year as the head women's soccer coach for the D'Youville women's soccer program.
The Spartans earned the third seed in the AMCC playoffs in 2018 as one of the best teams in the conference. D'Youville went 5-2-2 in conference play. D'Youville had an outstanding defensive record as they recorded six shutouts during the season and allowed two goals or less to every conference opponent but one. Hesch coached the team to the playoffs for the third consecutive season and coached five all-conference players - including the AMCC Defensive Player of the Year. With his outstanding season, Jim was named the AMCC Coach of the Year. The women advanced to the AMCC semi-finals for the second consecutive season.
In his second season as head coach in 2017, Hesch led the women's program to the second round of the AMCC playoffs as the fourth overall seed. The team finished with an 8-7-4 overall record and 5-3-1 conference record. The team went 5-2 in their last seven regular season games, including six shutouts. The team went on to win their first round matchup 2-1 over La Roche and went to a shootout against the eventual champion Penn State-Behrend Lions after a 0-0 double overtime tie. The team had four all-conference players and the AMCC newcomer of the year.
To begin his first season as head coach with the Spartans, Hesch led the team to the SUNY Potsdam Tournament title in with back-to-back 2-0 victories. The women would go on to record shutouts in the first four games and five of six, allowing just one goal in those six games.
Hesch has spent the the past 20-plus years coaching and almost every level. As well as Directing Black Watch NY West and Amherst/Williamsville Soccer Club, Hesch recently spent time working with the Professional Indoor Soccer Team the Rochester Lancers of the Major Indoor Soccer League. The first year was spent as an assistant coach then was promoted to Head Coach for the 2012-13 Season.
Hesch spent 10 years as the head coach at Canisius, becoming the school's all-time wins leader in 2007. Hesch has also spent time on staff with the University at Buffalo Men's Soccer Team, Fredonia State Men's Soccer, FC Buffalo and NYSW ODP.
As a collegiate player, Hesch won a national championship with Southern Connecticut University in 1990 before transferring to Cortland State, where he played from 1991-93 and was named a first-team All-America. He earned his bachelor's degree in physical education in 1994.
A Central New York native, Hesch played in the National Professional Indoor Soccer League from 1995-2002, which included a stint with the Buffalo Blizzard from 1999-2000. In 2000, Hesch played in 38 games and tallied 21 goals with 14 assists. He played with the Harrisburg Heat from 1996-99 and was named an NPSL All-Star in the 1997-98 season after posting 119 points, the eighth-best single-season total in Heat history. In 2002, Hesch captured a Major Indoor Soccer League championship as a member of the Philadelphia Kixx, tallying 36 points in 28 games.
Hesch currently holds his USSF National "A" Coaching License as well as USSF National "Youth" Coaching License. Hesch currently resides in Amherst with his wife Linda, daughter Ryan (13) and son Connor (11).


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Children´s Tickets
Special discounts apply to children under the age of 14: For all performances other than premières, 31 December, Wagner's Ring cycle performances and children's opera performances at the opera house, between 25 and 100 tickets are allocated for children. These tickets can be purchased at a flat-rate price of € 15, regardless of the price category selected.
You can order children's tickets in advance or book them at the ticket offices, on the Internet or via telephone. Please note, however, that, without exception, the actual ticket can only be picked up at the evening box office no later than 20 minutes before curtain on the day of the performance, always provided that the child attends the performance. Advance ticket sales start two months before the date of the performance.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to have children sitting on the lap of an accompanying person. Please understand that booster seats are not allowed for security reasons.


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HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Solomon Star, Dec. 8) – Solomon Islands Prime Minister Sir Allan Kemakeza has presented to the National Parliament copies of 2004 Departmental Annual Reports.
The 2004 Annual Reports are the first ones to be put together after the practice of producing them has fallen away in recent years - although government departments are required to produce them under the General Orders.
But Sir Allan says the new Annual Reports represent an important step taken by the Government because they pave the way to improved accountability for the expenditure of public money, transparency, and good governance.
And he adds they also present an important step towards better engagement with the communities.
Sir Allan says since the disappearance of Annual Reports, most departments have relied on their corporate plans, strategic plans, departmental work programs or similar documents - adding there are many examples of excellent departmental plans in the Public Service.
But Sir Allan says it is important for people to see the work being undertaken by the Government through its public sector agencies, because they will be better able to participate in public debates about the direction of public policy.
In recognizing the importance of Annual Reports, the Cabinet earlier this year set in place a procedure, which will ensure that all annual reports will be produced and presented to it prior to tabling in Parliament in the year following the financial year being reported on.
Sir Allan says in the first quarter of the year, departments will prepare their Annual Reports for the previous year and during the second quarter of the year, they will prepare corporate plans for the next three years.
They will be in accordance with agreed minimum standards, which are submitted to Cabinet for approval.
In the third quarter of the year, departments will prepare and negotiate their budget submissions for the next year, and in the final quarter, they will prepare work plans for the next year.
Sir Allan says throughout the year, departments will continue to implement their budgets in accordance with their corporate plans.
He says parliamentarians will be interested to know that it is also now the role of Cabinet to approve, each year, the first year of a three year rolling departmental corporate plan; and for departments to report to Cabinet at the end of each year on their successes in achieving the objectives of the plans.
December 9, 2005
Solomon Star: http://www.solomonstarnews.com


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Anyhow hope all is well with all of you . Stay safe and warm!
Welcome to Fern Valley
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Up and away, and kisses for my Arse!
Anyhow hope all is well with all of you . Stay safe and warm!
7 comments:
- aurora said...
You always come up with the best blog titles! Sorry to hear about Arse, he will be in good hands ~ wishing him a full recovery! Wow, Cat is a good lookin' well-built girl!!
- November 07, 2012 5:52 am
- Jeni said...
It all works out doesn't it =)
I LOVE Cat too!!! She is GORGEOUS!
- November 07, 2012 8:38 am
- Crystal said...
Good Comet. I found to that when I led mine inside and in stalls and out it seemed that trailer loading was also a non issue, sure is nice that way. Glad he made it home and they will love him!!!
Poor Arse, but nice to have him back for a bit and perfect opportunity for you and Cat as well.
- November 07, 2012 10:39 am
- GoLightly said...
Hooray for Comet and his cleverness, thanks to the FV School of Being a Good Boy. Excellent!!
I wish I'd had an aunt like YOU growing up, man, oh man. Need a horse to ride? Sure hon! (sigh)
Sorry to hear about Your Arse, but at least he is guaranteed the best of everything:)
It'll be great for Cat to have a job!
- November 07, 2012 4:33 pm
- Janice said...
It always amazes me and reminds me how something so big and powerful can be injured ....sometimes quite easily.He will certainly be in capable hands. Glad Comet made it to his new home hassle free...no suprise here that he was a good fellow.... I would have been suprised if he wasn't...all comes from excellent upbringing.
- November 08, 2012 8:28 am
- Margaret said...
Your Apps are really some of the most beautiful I have ever seen.
- November 08, 2012 10:42 am
- Sherry Sikstrom said...
Thanks all,I am very proud of my gang of good minded ponies,and I thik they are beautiful too. Thanks also Aurora, I try to pick a catchy line to title the blog, I don't always get it,but this one was fun and easy
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This unit provides the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct clinical assessment and management for child and adult clients with speech motor and motor programming disorders such as stuttering, dysarthria and apraxia. Students will learn to describe, evaluate, conduct and justify interventions for these populations. A focus on case problem solving will be emphasised to achieve integration of theory and practical skills.
2-hr lecture/week and 1-hr tutorial/week for 13 weeks.
In-class practical assessment: adult treatment skills (0% entry level barrier task), in-class practical assessment: pre-school treatment skills (0% entry level barrier task), 2-hour case-based exam (50%), 1 x 1.5-hr short answer case-based exam (50%)
Onslow, M (2016). Stuttering and its treatment: Eleven lectures. Retrieved from http://sydney.edu.au/health-sciences/asrc/docs/eleven_lectures.pdf Duffy, J. (2012). Motor Speech Disorders. Substrates, Differential Diagnosis, and Management. (3rd Ed) Elsevier. St Louis: Missouri.
Additional information
This unit is a pre-requisite for CSCD5070 Clinic Practice 3
Assumed knowledge
Anatomy and neurology of the speech system including head, neck, nervous system and speech motor control
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After an eight-year stint heading up Stokehouse and a few years in Western Australia, Head Chef Ollie Gould has returned to Melbourne to man the kitchen at the new Argentinian steakhouse Palermo. Palermo has an exciting ambience, with bursts of flames from the chargrill, opulent leather booths, large steak knives and shelves full of Argentinian malbecs. The sharing-style menu starts with traditional appetisers such as empanadas, or you could try the fried bites of broccoli covered in a shaved pecorino cheese or the elegant heirloom tomato salad with basil, ricotta, crunchy toasted buckwheat and an aged balsamic. Cooked on the charcoal grill, calamar is a unique dish of cuttlefish, pickled mussels and a green sauce with subtle potato and watercress. For mains, the pasture-fed lamb rump is cooked to perfection and sublimely matched with condiments of house-made chimichurri and salsa. Solomillo – a 500g O'Connor dry-aged pasture-fed strip loin – is cut into slices to fight over! PSST! Get on their mailing list to receive updates on their upcoming events, like an Argentinian fire show with Head Chef Ollie Gould.Reviewed for the 2019 Guide


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What would you do if you were looking for a cottage and all you could find was a good location but a house that was far from being the cottage of your dreams? Would you go through a major renovation just so you could be in the place you want to spend your summers, or would you keep looking? This couple along with their four children took the challenge, but only because they knew they could have the knowledge and talent of architect Robert Dean and interior designer Anne Miller.
The result is absolutely stunning and I hope you feel inspired by their work in the following pictures.
Curb Appeal
You feel welcome the moment you see this cottage.
Everything was redone to perfection in this cottage.
Living Room
The living room has a posh feeling, but the rest of the cottage feels more relaxed.
I love the soft and comfortable pallet of the living room.
Little Corner
The shelves are painted a beautiful blue. This color is used in many of the rooms on the main floor. Don't you also love the rug?
Family Room
This family room resembles the beautiful outdoors.
I love this kitchen! Note the size. Even if you don't have space to have a kitchen with a huge island, this shows you can still have a pretty and very usable kitchen using a small square footage. And yes, of course, we cannot forget that g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s range!
Eating Area
Tailored looking.
Oh, this is so beautiful and summery.
This has a true cottage-y feel to it. Outdoors! That's the main reason to go to a cottage.
Master Bedroom
The master bedroom feels feminine but not too precious.
Purple Princesses
This is probably my daughter's dream bedroom. She already has a purple bedroom, but I think she'd love this one also.
The Boys' Room
This is the ultimate shared bedroom!
The Lake
And this is the reason they had to have this place!
What are your thoughts on this cottage? I usually prefer more relaxed cottages with more items you know were found at a flea market. Where you don't really have to worry abut anything, a simpler place to spend fun days during the summer. Having said that, I cannot say I don't also love this more tailored look. It's really pretty and really inviting. Anyone can feel really welcomed in this place. But what about you? Do you prefer more relaxed cottages or more elegant? I'd love to know!
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this is a wonderful cottage, Luciane, with a true cottage-y feel to it. I agree with you about the outdoors! That's the main reason to go to a cottage 🙂 Virtual hugs
LOVE this Luciane!! Soooooo pretty…..could move in there tomorrow:) And you can be my first guest! Our posts could be partners today in all these heavenly blues!! Really beautiful home.
Lu, mas que casa mais fantástica, principalmente por causa do Azul em quase todos os ambientes, amei!
PS: vi sua nova foto do seu perfil do Blogger e que linda que você é!!!!!
Luciane, this is such a beautiful cottage! I am drooling over the range in the kitchen, so great! I really love all of the details they put into this cottage. Such a wonderful retreat! xo
the range! the range! and that kids' guest room is just to die for. oooooooh, great pick, L.
hope you're doing well and expanding as you should…think about posting a pic or at least remember to have your family take plenty of you. you will never regret it, and little matthew will appreciate it someday.
a casa é linda e aconchegante, parabéns pelas imagens.
Lucianne, You find the best cottages and homes. the use of blue in this home is absolutely wonderful. Just so well done. Lot's of great inspiration here. Thanks.
This cottage in amazing! i love every thing about it, and am saving this whole post. Thank you!
In this post I love the porch and the outdoor area with the fire pit. Beautifully designed areas and so much comfort!
I'm with you in liking a more relaxed cottage but I think this would be a fantastic vacation home!! 🙂 It would be fun place to have a girls week away. Love it!!
Inspired doesn't even begin to cut it! This home is spectacular!!! You always find the best home tours!
Ohh I like this cottage. The porch, the purple room… I think that is pretty so. Is charming.
I like elegant and comfortable cottage.
Wow, the interior of this cottage is beautiful. We adore the pops of blue. The boys shared bedroom is so fun!
Angela and Renee
What a great get a way! You cant think "cottage" without thinking "blue and white" and I just love how they used it.
PERFECTION!! I did a post called Beach Elegance and this amazing Lake cottage would be perfect for the elegant beach look I love so much. I had to pin a few of these wonderful images to my Pinterest boards!! Great post Lucianne, thankyou!!
Sooooo beautiful! I love the front exterior the most – that gorgeous timber porch and welcoming blue front door are pure perfection!
I found this house so beautiful, inviting and unpretentious! My favorites were the blue living room, the shared room with four twin beds and that gorgeous table setting…very nice!
You always find the most amazing houses. Though it's not my design style, if someone handed me the keys to this house I'd take it. I always try to find ideas that I'd love to try in my home. I like the wire coffee table and the fuzzy white ottoman on w/tall legs. Thanks for another great post.
I can't even make one picky comment – its perfect exactly as it is. I would love to have a vacation home with that shared room, too, how neat would it be for kids?
Hi, Luciane,
I love the look of this cottage. Blue and white is so right for many environments, but none more than a summer cottage. I have alway coveted the gold wood place mats featured in the table setting. Unfortunately, they are very pricey. Hope you are doing well.
This house is absolutely amazing! It's warm, livable and comfortable looking. The porch is to die for! This is my idea of a dream house.


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Dittmann moves into pole position to become inaugural F3 Cup champion
Chris Dittmann is in pole position to become the inaugural F3 Cup champion after two class wins at Silverstone GP last weekend (21/22 September)
26/09/12 - Chris Dittmann is in pole position to become the inaugural F3 Cup champion after two class wins at Silverstone GP last weekend (21/22 September) gave him the championship lead ahead of the final round next month.
Guest drivers Kourosh Khani and Jay Bridger were the stars of the meeting with Khani picking up his third and fourth wins of the season whilst former British F3 National Class champion Bridger claimed two second place finishes on debut. While the pair dominated, the championship battle took another twist with Dittmann coming to the fore in his rebuilt Trophy Class Dallara to take a 25.5 point lead from Tristan Cliffe in the standings.
New championship leader Dittmann said: "The team did a fantastic job to get the car back out again after the engine troubles last time out at Anglesey, so I'm really pleased to be in the lead of the championship. I've got to keep pushing so I can't sit back too quickly yet I still need to bag some good points. The Teams Championship is still up for grabs too and Prajesh (Shah) is doing brilliantly on that front bringing home a good haul of points regularly."
With the 20 strong F3 Cup grid joined by the Monoposto Championship cars, Friday's qualifying session proved to be full of intrigue resulting in a thrilling climax. Silverstone National race winner Louis Hamilton-Smith and Dittmann set the initial pace in the early stages but it soon developed into a battle between Bridger and Khani. The former British F3 star struck first lighting up the timing screens in his Omicron Motorsport Dallara. It didn't take long for Khani to respond and the halfway point his became the first drive to post a lap in the two minute window. It seemed as though he would claim pole position only for a last gasp effort from Bridger saw him snatch pole by 0.181 seconds. Hamilton-Smith was third ahead of title challengers Gino Ussi, Dittmann and Tristan Cliffe.
Khani managed to get the jump on Bridger at the start and he led the field as they streamed around Copse for the first time. Hamilton-Smith slotted in behind in third with Ussi fourth. Dittmann dropped behind the fast starting Chris Needham in fifth but he soon recovered the lost ground. However, a misfire plagued Cliffe's race which started poorly by falling to 12th from sixth on the grid. Cliffe managed to recover to finish ninth, but nobody could catch Khani at the front as he took the chequered flag from Bridger, Hamilton-Smith and Ussi. Dittmann's fifth pace was enough to secure the Trophy Class win and pushed him into the championship lead. Needham just held off a hard charging Shah for sixth while Nick Robinson came home in eighth.
Saturday's second race saw Bridger avenge his start to race one to overcome pole sitter Khani at Copse. Despite Bridger's wealth of F3 experience he was unable to keep Khani behind and the Lanan Racing driver came through to lead the opening lap. Hamilton-Smith held third with Ussi fourth and Dittmann sixth, while Stuart Wiltshire made an impressive start to pass Cliffe moving into sixth. But Wiltshire was unable to maintain the momentum as a mistake saw him fall down the order allowing Cliffe back into sixth. At the front Bridger continued to apply pressure on Khani and he managed to close the gap down to just eight tenths of a second through the traffic. Unperturbed by the mounting pressure, Khani kept pushing and went on to claim his fourth win of the season, followed home by Bridger and Hamilton-Smith. Ussi was fourth ahead of Cliffe, who passed Dittmann in the dying moments for fifth.
While Khani took the top honours, Silverstone's results elevated Dittmann into the championship lead with a 25.5 point lead from Cliffe. Ussi is still in with a shout of claiming the crown four points further back. With 50 points still up for grabs the quest to become the first F3 Cup champion will go down to the wire at the final meeting of the year at Snetterton 300 on 27/28 October.
F3 Cup Silverstone GP Race 1 Top 10
1. Kourosh Khani Cup Lanan Racing 10 laps
2. Jay Bridger Cup Omicron Motorsport, +12.659s
3. Louis Hamilton-Smith Cup +15.350s
4. Gino Ussi Cup Grays Motorsport, +27.853s
5. Chris Dittmann Trophy Chris Dittmann Racing, +31.785s
6. Chris Needham Cup DST Group Ltd, +43.033s
7. Prajesh Shah Cup Chris Dittmann Racing, +43.257s
8. Nick Robinson Cup Mark Bailey Racing, +46.717s
9. Tristan Cliffe Cup Omicron Motorsport, +46.880s
10. Mark Harrison, Cup, Magic Motorsport, +53.108s
F3 Cup Silverstone GP Race 2 Top 10
1. Kourosh Khani Cup Lanan Racing 10 laps
2. Jay Bridger Cup Omicron Motorsport, +4.761s
3. Louis Hamilton-Smith Cup +11.275s
4. Gino Ussi Cup Grays Motorsport, +12.685s
5. Tristan Cliffe Cup Omicron Motorsport, +19.930s
6. Chris Dittmann Trophy Chris Dittmann Racing, +24.759s
7. Prajesh Shah Cup Chris Dittmann Racing, +37.488s
8. Chris Needham Cup DST Group Ltd, +51.897s
9. Mark Harrison, Cup, Magic Motorsport, +1.01.735s
10. Nick Robinson Cup Mark Bailey Racing, +1.03.631s


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2007 September 18th-20th. Edge Hill University, UK. 3rd International Conference: "ANTI-CAPITALISM: MOVEMENT OF MOVEMENTS?"
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The radical movement politics of the 21st century has
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around democracy, peace, ecology, anti-imperialism and
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Below, you can see the stores we went through, as well as the boys already having these pancake wraps in their hands!
Not much further down, we came upon a shop with skewers! Of course, we had to have that, too, so we got a skewer of chicken, one of beef, and one of squid (Kel's fav).
After that, we crossed the road to QiPu Road and roamed the local shops. We didn't have much luck seeing things we were interested in bargaining for. Our first attempt came when Kel came upon a pair of jeans. The tag was set at $268RMB and we've been told the max to ever pay for anything was 50%, (which would put it at $134RMB,) and if you're real good, you should be able to talk them down to 30%. So we figured we'd start at $100RMB and set a max of $150RMB... what we didn't realize was that, the tag was the retail price and this was a distributor building?! The shop owner started his price at $120RMB, which we couldn't help but show a funny look...so we lost that battle and just paid the $120RMB... We had better luck later on, scoring a messenger bag for Sunny. We were able to talk the girl down from $380RMB to $170RMB, so we were happy with that. (Did we pass Jas? :) We got wary of looking through the shops after a while, and went back outside to hit the street food. We gave the chinese version of tacoyaki balls a try, which weren't that great.. it was just gooey in the middle with nothing but dough. And to top it off, they put ketchup on it as a dressing! We ended up throwing the rest of it out. Next, we tried a bowl of sour and spicy noodles, which weren't bad. :)
After that, we decided to hit the Chenghuang Miao (Temple of the Town Gods), but before we started walking, Sunny said he could use a snack... so they boys got the two flavours of wings at McDs and I tried their red bean pie.
The trek to the temple was slightly confusing as it was surrounded by more shops and street food. We actually located another Starbucks, Dairy Queen, and Haagen Dazs, before finding the temple.
And inside... you can see Sunny tried to take a picture with one of the "monks" (for lack of a better word)..
And here we have Sunny pointing to a statue inside the temple (I find that he likes to do that.. :P) and Kel hiding under the bell.. (I was sure we'd get kicked out soon..)
After that, what did we do? More street food! These crabs caught our eye... We thought they'd be similar to soft shell crabs being on a stick and all, but no. The shells were quite hard, so we ended up giving up on them after a bit.
After wandering around a bit, we found the gardens Jas' dad recommended to us and we ventured into the Yuyuan Gardens. It was actually a pretty nicely structured garden and well worth the $40RMB/person admission. Below are a few pictures from there. And of course, we'll start off with one of Sunny sneaking into the displays and posing on the chairs.
After that, we headed to XinTianDi for.. another Starbucks and tried to get our bearings, before deciding to go locate the massage place to book an appointment for later that night, and then went for peking duck for dinner. We had time to spare between dinner and our massage appointments, so we headed back to XinTianDi to look around. We found the Haagen Dazs Jas noted there :) and wow, that one served wine, too! We each had a scoop of ice cream, but that wasn't enough for Sunny! He had a slice of cheesecake, too! We dropped by the DR Bar that Jas' dad recommended as well for drinks, before heading for our massages.


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Al-Kuds (ألقدس)– Jerusalem
I spent the first three days of my Eid trip in Jerusalem, which is known to its Arab population and all Arabic speakers in general as Al-Kuds. I was traveling with my friend Kirsten who I went to high school with and is also studying in Jordan this semester. Both Kirsten and I had more fun than we had expected to have! I hope that I can find the words to describe this magical city, but I realize expressing lack of words really does nothing to help you understand how being in this holy city felt, so I will do my best to describe the experience and allow my pictures to help where words fail.
I'll be honest, going into this trip I knew next to nothing about Jerusalem as a holy city. I knew the politics of Jerusalem and the role it has played in the conflict. I was aware that while Israel claims Jerusalem as its capital, no country recognizes it as such, including the US. This is why all the foreign Embassies are located in Tel Aviv. I also knew that under the proposed Two State Solution plan, Jerusalem would be an international city not belonging to either country. But, as a relatively unreligious person, I could never fully grasp why Al-Kuds had such a drastic role in the conflict until I visited. In order to enjoy the city, you need not to be spiritual yourself, but have the ability to appreciate the beauty of pure devotion and spirituality in others.
We spent almost our entire time in the old city, which is the most historical part of Jerusalem. We had some small excursions into West and East Jerusalem, but the old city is the heart of Al Kuds and we really found little reason to venture outside its walls. Entirely surrounded by stone walls dating back from the 1500s and surrounded by steep drop offs on three sides, the city was built as a fortress. In its most recent conflict, the wall sustained bullet holes during the Six Day War, the 1967 war between Israel and its Arab neighbors, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. Now days, the wall does little to keep armies out. What I find more interesting is what the walls hold in. Israel has fought most of its battle for land by expanding into Palestinian territories and in that way, the "Israeli State" as it sees itself is constantly changing shape, with the most conservative politicians hoping to one day posses all of Palestine. Being strictly defined by its walls, the Old City does not have this flexibility. While the inhabitants may change slightly, the cultural diversity, buildings, and other dynamics remain stagnant within the walls. This creates a sense of permanence that I have not found anywhere else in the area. Everything changes accept for the Old City. Of Course this hasn't always been true. Following the 6 day War Israel did large amounts of renovations to fix parts of the Jewish area that were destroyed, but in the end of the day there have been Jewish, Muslim, and Christian populations living in the Old City for hundreds of years, and they have continued to coexist regardless of the hostilities felt outside these walls. Again, not to say that there are not hostilities within the city, but as long as the inhabitants want to continue to reside in the city, they must coexist. Within the city there are four quarters, Armenian, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim. While they are called quarters, the divide is in no way even. Muslims, for example are found living in all parts of the city and make up 70% of the inhabitants. The Armenian Quarter is the smallest of the four and Armenians make up the smallest percentage of the city. But, enough with the history lesson, on to the life lessons.
Like I said, I loved the city, so much though that X and I decided to return for a night later in the week. I'm just going to make this in the form of small vignettes. So here it goes.
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher:
It was Friday in the late evening and Kirsten and I were wandering almost aimlessly through the city as had become our way of traveling. With small twisty roads and alleyways that might lead nowhere and anywhere, it really is more fun to just explore and not try to follow the map that the tourist center had provided us with. I was also a tad bit resentful toward that map because it didn't label Al-Aqsa Mosque, and showed only grass in the section where East Jerusalem is, but what do you expect from an Israeli issued map? So, we were wondering. All the sudden we found ourselves on Via Delarosa walking against a crowd of about 300 people, foreigners, locals, Armenian Christians, orthodox. The most diverse group walking in what first appeared to be an unorganized mob until they all began to recite words in Latin that it doesn't take a Christian to recognize as verses from the Bible. Kirsten and I stepped out-of-the-way and watched without saying a word completely lost in the moment until the pilgrimage had passed. The event that had gathered Christians of all denominations was the weekly trip following the path Jesus walked carrying the cross leading to his crucifixion. While small groups perform this ritual several times a week, the Friday gathering was both the first and the largest walk that we witnessed. Men at the front of the line carry a large cross, and a man leads the group on the megaphone, explaining the events that took place at the 13 points labeled by plaques along the way. The trip ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which is believed to be the place where Jesus was crucified.
While all denominations may join the traditional walk in peace, the possession of the Church has not been as tame a process. 5 different churches share possession of the holy site, and moving anything within the church or doing any renovation requires approval from all five churches. (There have been fights started by priests moving their chairs out of the sun!) Two Muslim families are in charge of the upkeep for the front entrance and unlocking and locking the doors everyday in order to avoid more conflict. While I would hope a place so spiritual would exist in peace, being inside it is easy to understand that it is worth fighting over.
Kirsten and I went to the church at night, which while unintentional, was the best decision we made. Throughout the Church there are large brass lights. The walls are decorated with large murals that were enhanced by the absence of sunlight and the glow from the hanging lanterns. Within the church there are different sections assigned to each of the denominations that own the church. In one part there was a very long line of people waiting to get communion. We were immediately accosted by 3 or 4 tour guides wanting to charge us to show us around. We declined and began wondering on our own. At one point we found ourselves talking to one of the tour guides. I have been on many tours over the past 3 months, but also during my time in Europe and the states as well. I have never met a tour guide with as much passion as this man. He explained that he had lived in the Old City his whole life, was a Christian, and could speak Arabic, Hebrew, and English. He led us to murals that we would have likely never saw, and explained the scene depicted as if he were sharing the information for the first time. His religious enthusiasm spilled out into his description. You could tell he was so engrained in his faith that his love had embraced the church in its entirety. As he spoke he was telling us about something he loved so dearly, that we couldn't help but to start feeling that love as well. I wish every tour guide was like him.
Shops, Shops, and more Shops: AKA we make friends.
Walls of the main roads in the old city are covered with hundreds of small shops, most, catering to the tourists, selling a bunch of exotic looking items imported from India and China and branded with a made in Israel tag. Hundreds of scarves line the walls of each small cubical ranging from 5 Shekel ($1.25) to 80 Shekel ($21.00). The men working at each store lure the mostly European tourists into their shops with enticing calls. "This way to paradise!" "I give discount for beautiful girl!" "All store, 100% off!" Overcome by confusing conversion rates, aggressive sales techniques, and vacation bliss, the people buy all sorts of knick knacks that they probably never wanted. The only end to the stream of shops that look like they have been filled with the props from an Aladdin movie is in the Muslim quarter where the shops cater more to the local population, selling meat, clothes, house supplies, etc. As two girls wandering through the streets we were constantly prey to their sweet talk. Assuming that we couldn't speak any Arabic, as is true of most tourists there; we had the privilege of hearing all the interesting things they were saying about us. An Arabic response caught each one off-guard. More than once we were invited in for tea and spent hours talking. One evening we headed to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher around 4, (what should have been a 10 minute walk) and didn't get there until after 7 because we were constantly distracted by shop owners. Many of these people became good friends of ours, and I made a point of seeing them again when I returned to the city with X.
Other Holy Sites:
I would have loved to go and see Al Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock, but because of the Eid, the visiting hours were very restricted, and we were unable to get there during an open hour. I did get many good pictures from a distance.
Just outside of the old city is several more holy sites. While Kirsten and I only saw many of them in passing, X and I got to do some additional exploring. We went to the Mount of Olives, which has been used as burial ground by the Jews for centuries. On the Mount of Olives is the Tomb of Mary, the Church of Mary Magdalene, and an amazing viewpoint of the entire old city. Though this was quite the trek uphill, the view was magnificent!
I also got to see the Wailing Wall, known in the City as the Western Wall. Holy to the cities Jewish inhabitants, the wall is believed to be a direct connection to god where people will come to pray and slip notes into the walls cracks.
A free tour:
Up earlier than planned the first morning, Kirsten and I began searching for a good cup of coffee and instead found the Tourist Information Center. Hoping to find a city map, we entered, and instead found out about a free tour. Unable to turn down free, we found the tour guide, and along with about 30 others began our walk through the Old City. The theory behind the free tours is awesome. It turns out it is funded by an organization that offers free tours in many European cities as well because they believe that tourists should be shown the places they visit by a knowledgeable local regardless of their monetary situation. The flaw in this tour is that in order to give tours in Jerusalem, you must have a tour guide visa from the Israeli government: AKA you need to be fluent in the Israeli version of history and give tours how they want you to. In this way Israel controls much of the information accessed by visitors to the region.
The bias was so blatant, that it was almost funny. Instead of insulting or degrading the Muslims in the city, the tour guide simply ignored their existence. He didn't mention Al Aqsa Mosque except when specifically mentioning it was "convenient" that the Muslims chose to make their holy place in the same place as the Jews. While we spent a long time in each of the other three quarters and received in-depth descriptions of what we were seeing, we arrived in the Muslim quarter (remember, this is by far the largest quarter) to hear "We are now in the Muslim Quarter, we don't have time to stop and talk, so just keep your eyes open as we walk." He, purposely I'm sure, stopped us to have lunch in the relatively small Jewish Quarter, and took us very close to the Wailing Wall for a long time in comparison to the time of the overall tour.
The perspective of history presented was also very interesting. He divided the history of Jerusalem into periods where it was under Jewish rule, and times where it was under foreign rule, concluding that it had always been a Jewish city.
The power dynamics in the Old City is interesting. Israel controls the information, as seen by this tour, but the Muslims control most of the Holy sites. The key to the Church is possessed by a Muslim Family; the Muslims have control of both the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa mosque. And while Israel controls a small portion of the Western wall, it is the entire Western wall that is holy to the Jewish people, but the Muslim quarter is built along much of the Western wall, restricting access to only a small portion of the entire wall.


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Moon phase on 2 April 2011 Saturday is Waning Crescent, 28 days old Moon is in Aries.Share this page: twitter facebook linkedin
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 1% and getting smaller. The 28 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 26 March 2011 at 12:07.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 8.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1919".
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2011 after 15 days on 18 April 2011 at 02:44.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
The Moon is 28 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 138 of Meeus index or 1091 from Brown series.
Length of current 138 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 46 minutes. It is 1 hour and 28 minutes longer than next lunation 139 length.
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 2 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 1 minute shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠167°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠190.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 09:00, this is 13 days after last perigee on 19 March 2011 at 19:09 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 14 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 17 April 2011 at 05:59 in ♎ Libra.
This apogee Moon is 406 656 km (252 684 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2011. It is 1 248 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 53 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
7 days after its ascending node on 25 March 2011 at 21:09 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 9 April 2011 at 12:48 in ♊ Gemini.
7 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
8 days after previous South standstill on 25 March 2011 at 05:02 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-23.716°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠23.569° in the next northern standstill on 8 April 2011 at 22:55 in ♊ Gemini.
After 1 day on 3 April 2011 at 14:32 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.


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Fear is something that everyone deals with at some point in life. In fact, it's a spiritual reality buried deep within our human nature. You can track it all the way back to Adam and Eve who hid from God in Fear after they sinned in the Garden of Eden. Fear is a powerful, crippling spirit that is operating with full force today. We have become afraid of violence, acceptance, failure, not being good enough, and so much more. But I present this generation with good news: there is a cure.
The Holy Spirit.
Jesus said, "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things all things that I said to you. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." John 14:26-27 NKJV
The World offers Fear, but Jesus Christ offers Peace beyond understanding.
Paul (the older generation) wrote to Timothy (the younger generation) to warn him about Fear. He deemed it necessary to remind Timothy of what God did not instill in him as well as what God did.
"For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control." II Timothy 1:7 ESV
And in the same manner, I would like to write to this younger generation today. Let me tell you that God has not given you a spirit of fear. God has given you peace, power, love, and self-control (*a sound mind).
You have what it takes to overcome fear. In fact, I believe that you have what it takes to share what you have learned with your generation.
What would happen if a generation arose that knew no fear?
We began to wonder what a generation like that could create, change, conquer, transform, and accomplish if fear was no longer the roadblock to purpose.
I would like to introduce you to RUSH.
RUSH is a student conference with a long history of lives changed, dreams realized, miracles, and milestones. It's for the Christ-followers and the misfits, the well-known and lesser known.
I invite every Student, Student Leader, and Student Pastor to join us on November 9th and 10th in Lancaster, Ohio. We are going to see what happens when an entire generation claims a new name: The Fearless Generation.
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Katipunan Foodtrip: Katsu Cafe
Dinner time it is, we checked on the internet what is highly recommended restaurant near us. Its a Sunday, some stores were closed.
Katsu Cafe is a japanese restaurant. Ramen, Katsudon, Gyoza are some of the foods offered here. Nick and I ordered the Katsu while Jayson and Vijay ordered ramen. Vijay loved it! All of us enjoyed their food.
Food trip will not be complete without our Photo Op. Haha!
Of course, dessert up next!
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PTI to 'closely monitor' progress of newly appointed NAB chief, says Imran
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday said he expects that the newly appointed chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) would dispense justice and across the board accountability.
He, however, warned of agitation if anyone attempted to provide a safe passage to any VIP. "We will closely monitor the progress of the newly appointed NAB chairman," Khan said while addressing a press conference at Dera Ismael Khan.
The entire nation is looking forward to retired Justice Jawed Iqbal for carrying out unbiased accountability, reported DawnNews.
Those who stole billions of rupees have been enjoying a "VIP accountability", Khan added.
We were not contacted in connection with the appointment of the NAB head, although we had proposed three names for the post, he said.
Earlier on Monday, the top brass of the party had a meeting at Bani Gala to review the development. "We have to see the performance of the new NAB chairman before issuing any statement about him," a PTI spokesperson said while giving details of the meeting.
"The party will see whether the new chairman follows the path of his predecessor by covering up cases against ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family or sets a new example of fair play and across-the-board accountability," he added.
Under the National Accountability Ordinance 1999, the government appoints NAB chairman in consultation with the leader of the opposition. The name of Justice Iqbal was chosen by both Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Shah from 12 people nominated for the post.
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Biggers to conduct Chamber Winds recital
Biggers to conduct Chamber Winds recital
Biggers to conduct Chamber Winds recital
Carter Biggers
Carter Biggers, Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in band conducting in the University of Iowa School of Music, will present a free Chamber Winds recital at 4 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 4, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.
Biggers will conduct the ensemble through Wiener Philharmoniker Fanfare by Richard Strauss, Serenade No. 12 in C minor, K. 388/384a by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Little Threepenny Music by Kurt Weill.
Biggers is a student of Mark Heidel, director of bands in the UI School of Music. Prior to coming to the UI, he taught high school and junior-high school band for seven years in Texas, where his students and ensembles consistently received top ratings at local and state contests.
The School of Music is part of the Division of Performing Arts in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. For accommodations at the concert contact the School of Music at 319-335-1603. For a UI arts calendar and details about upcoming events visit the new Arts Iowa website.


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