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It will not be wrong to say that a mother-daughter relationship is the most beautiful in the entire world. They fight & cry together, irritate each other, share crazy-happy moments and simply can't live without the other. When it comes to the most important day of the daughter's life, her confidant and forever BFF is by her side through each moment.
So don't you think, mother a.k.a the SUPERWOMAN deserves nothing but the best for your wedding functions? Hence to help you out, we have curated a list of nine gorgeous AF outfits which will be a perfect choice of wedding wear for your mother. And do you know the best part? The list has an outfit for all the possible wedding functions.
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This style of embroidery from the land of royalty aka Rajasthan will make your mum shine at pre-wedding functions like chaak-bhaat. The gold zari work which is combined to make elaborate floral and twig designs looks alluring. Both the options of saree and lehenga are available in gotta-patti embroidery. Simply pick your choice.
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Who said that only girls love heavily embellished Anarkali lehengas? This one-piece dress is a hot pick for the wedding season 2019. This floor length dress will make your mother look like a royal queen from the land of enchantment. It will make a quintessential choice for your ladies sangeet function, as she will be able to dance easily without any hassle of managing a pallu or dupatta.
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Heavy zardozi work on rich velvet fabric is the wedding outfit of the season. Remember Nita Ambani & Isha Ambani in purple, maroon Sabyasachi lehenga? The mother-daughter duo set some serious relationship goals in those gorgeous lehengas. And its for sure, that your mother will look more beautiful than you at the wedding or reception function.
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For your wedding reception or ladies sangeet, a toned down yet a graceful choice of wedding outfit is a Swarovski crystal studded saree. Depending upon the season, you can choose the colors from a plethora of options available in the market. Leading actresses like Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan & Kajol prefer Swarovski sarees for such informal functions.
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If your mother is an ardent fan of traditions, then patola style lehenga choli will resonate with her personality the most. This outfit is best suited for small pre-wedding festivities like Haldi Function, Ganesh poojan, in which Lord Ganesha is formally invited to the wedding. The best part of patola style outfit is the comfort and light weight of the fabric used.
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Okay! So this apparel is the epitome of luxury and royalty. A lehenga with real gold-plated taari work is a dream outfit for every lady. So, if money is not an issue, then we highly recommend dressing your mother in a gold threadwork lehenga for the main wedding function.
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Gone are the days when only young brides and ladies preferred wearing western style ball gowns to their functions. Now, even the bride's mothers are stepping up their fashion by game by opting for Indian design inspired gowns. Such outfits are best suited for pre-wedding functions like ladies sangeet.
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Another ideal choice for Ganesh pooja is a Rekha style, kanjiveram silk saree. This is more luxurious and grand as compared to a patola outfit.
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If you want something unique for your mum, then a kurta gharara is a perfect choice. As this outfit has a half-sleeves kurta and lehenga style skirt, it is best for mehndi functions as it will aid in the easy application of henna. You can also twin with the mother by wearing similar kurta-gharara. Guests will surely go awwww on seeing both of you wearing similar outfits.
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Square Enix has released "The Forge," the first of seven new DLC expansions for the hit RPG "Shadow of the Tomb Raider". The new DLC is available now, a free download to all Season Pass holders, and sold separately for PS4, PC, and Xbox One users.
In "The Forge," Lara must brave the lava-flooded Forge of the fallen gods to uncover the secrets of Kuwaq Yaku. Throughout her journey, Lara will uncover details about a friend's ancient legacy, and overcome a danger long thought to be lost in flame. "The Forge" delivers a brand-new challenge tomb, playable in both solo and co-op. Players who complete the challenge tomb will be rewarded with the Grenadier skill, Brocken outfit, and Umbrage 3-80 weapon. A completely new adventure, "The Forge" is the first of seven monthly DLC adventures available through the Season Pass, providing players with an abundance of new content, challenge tombs, co-op experiences, weapons and outfits, gameplay modes, and new narrative side missions.
If you own Shadow of the Tomb Raider and you purchase the DLC content, you can invite a friend who also owns Shadow of the Tomb Raider to join your play session for co-op tomb raiding. Players can look forward to the second DLC release, "The Pillar," arriving this December. More information on that DLC will be announced at a later date.
Additionally, two tombs from the main game, "Court of Death" and "Gate of Xibalba," will be playable in Score Attack and Time Attack. "Court of Death" will be playable in those modes starting on November 13th, and "Gate of Xibalba" will be playable on November 27th, giving you some extra challenges over Thanksgiving break.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider is available now worldwide on Xbox One, PlayStation®4, and Windows PC/Steam. The Season Pass is available for $29.99 or "The Forge" can be purchased as a standalone for $4.99.
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Organization: Adeso - African Development Solutions
Position title: Capacity-Building/Training Coordinator – REGAL -IR
Reporting to: Chief of Party – REGAL – IR
Working with: All REGAL-IR teams
Duration: One Year with possibility of extension
Starting date: Immediate
Organizational Context:
Adeso, formerly known as Horn Relief, is an expanding and vibrant African based international development and humanitarian organization. At Adeso, we work with African communities who are yet to realize their full potential; working inside these communities to create environments in which Africans can thrive.
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For the past 20 years we have strengthened rural livelihoods through environmental awareness, training, technology transfer and innovative humanitarian projects in pursuit of a peaceful, self-reliant, and greener future.
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This position is part of the Resilience and Economic Growth in Arid Lands-Improving Resilience (REGAL-IR) project, and is based in Isiolo with frequent travel to other counties in Northern Kenya. REGAL-IR is a five year program sponsored by USAID as part of their Feed the Future strategy for Kenya.
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Palms sweating, hands gripping tightly to the seat and feet stomping an imaginary brake – oh, the horror of teaching your teen to drive. This adolescent rite of passage can strike terror in the heart of many an otherwise fearless parent. However, unless you see your future as one endless chauffeuring gig, it's inevitable your child will eventually need to learn to take the wheel.
In Iowa, teenagers aged 14 and older can obtain a "Learner Permit", allowing them to drive with a licensed driver 21 years of age or older, if they are enrolled in a driver's education course and can pass both a vision test and a written exam.
So, what are the driving education options in Des Moines? A public-school driver's education course, a commercial driving school, or a parent taught program are three possible routes.
Public-School Driver's Education
Unlike the "old" days when a driver's education course was part of the free, routine curriculum of the public-school system, very few high schools still offer the classes. Locally, Dallas Center – Grimes Community School District still offers a driver's education course, but its not free. Students can sign up for a Fall, Winter, Spring or Summer session. The cost is currently $325 for each session for DC-G students. The fee for out-of-district students is $375, and enrollment is limited. Information on the DC-G courses can be found at https://dcgschools.com/drivers-education/.
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There are a couple of commercial driving schools in town. Ankeny Community School District, Des Moines Public Schools, Indianola Community School District, Southeast Polk Community School District, West Des Moines Community School District and Waukee Community School District all offer their driver's education courses, with Street Smarts Drivers Education as the program provider for their districts. Session dates and course prices vary by school district. An additional option for a commercial driving school is Drive With Cops, which is located in Urbandale, but serves the entire Metro.
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After turning 14 years 6 months, teen drivers who have driven under an instruction permit for at least six months may apply for a minor school license (MSL). An MSL allows a holder to drive unsupervised to and from school and select school-related activities between the hours of 5:00 am and 10:00 pm. Applicants must live at least one mile from school and submit an application signed by an authorized school official and a parent or guardian.
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After turning 17, your teen may apply for a full license as long as the teen has driven conviction-free for at least 12 months. A parent or guardian must sign the application and certify that the applicant has completed the minimum requirements for practice driving.
Is your teen ready to take the wheel? And, the real question, are YOU ready for them to take it???


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'Running Man' and Kook Jeon So-min is a glutinous rice cake ppomnaetda Chemie. On Sunday, SBS "Good Sunday - Running Man" was featured in 'Case No. 444' and searched for the sign of Cho Syon A who had been dying of doubt. On this day, the members who escaped the war..... by HyonJoo.Kim
Girl Group Momo Land (MOMOLAND, hyebin yeonwoo Jane Daeji Ahn Ji Nancy) will be back in March. Momoland is determined to release his new album in March and is preparing for a comeback. In the busy schedule of going between Korea and Japan, it is a backdoor that is s..... by TaekYon.Kim
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The grandfather of MOMOLAND's Jane has passed away on December 22.MLD Entertainment said on July 23, "MOMOLAND's member Jane's progeny has been a joke on the 22nd." She said, "At present, Jane is sharing deep sorrow with her family and friends." Jane is quietly carr..... by TaekYon.Kim
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For some reason, the first time I saw this, it was shelved alongside YA paranormal romance. The subtle cover caught my eye, as it was completely different. I really enjoyed this book. The characters were easy to connect with, mostly likeable and believable. I like the originality, as Haig portrays the vampire in a completely different light to what we are used to. The writing was descriptive and well written, interspersed with black humour, my absolute favourite being when discussing what to do about Clara's killing, Helen says "I've brought the spade". The clever subplots underneath the main story all intertwine neatly with eachother and the general plot,which I really like. What the Radleys does fal down on is not being aimed at a certain audience. I know it was published in two seperate editions, but the opening read as a YA novel, whilst some content was, at some points, unsuitable for younger readers. And while I enjoy all the subplots, they slightly detract from the stories of Rowan and Clara, which I think were intended to be the main characters.
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Three Great Locally Made Gifts for You and Yours
Over the past several weeks, we've given you some guided ideas for holiday shopping. But surely you can't be done yet—we're just getting started stuffing stockings and wrapping boxes! We thought we'd give you some more ideas, inspired by local retailers and producers. Everybody loves receiving locally made gifts, and your business helps the community you live in. So what are your options?
Stop by Okie Dokie Mercantile & Co. to see their selection of specialty gifts; their premade gift baskets are considerate of last-minute shoppers, with a fun selection of sauces and pickles. You can also find mixes from Shawnee Mills.
Not to be stopped at kitchen supplies, Okie Dokie carries a selection of art, jewelry and more.
For some truly unique gifts made by the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, the gift shop at the CPN Cultural Heritage Center carries goods made by locals, as well as tribe members from abroad. Take a look at their selection of vibrant, beaded hair accessories and jewelry.
You can also shop for dreamcatchers, small containers made from porcupine quills and sweetgrass, walking sticks and art, all created to be uniquely beautiful.
What about the sort of stuff you could find at the farmer's market? Crow's Market on Main carries a wide variety of local goods, especially for the kitchen. Check out the variety of local honeys, peanut butter, jams, jellies and more.
You will also find an accommodating selection of coffees and teas, spices and candies, and much more at Crow's. Do some looking, and you'll find some truly exotic things on their shelves!
The search for the perfect gift is never over, but hopefully this gives you a great place to start. And of course, there are many other places to shop here in Shawnee—head on over to the shopping section of our website to begin discovering more.


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Set for release on March 31st is legendary Yes frontman Jon Anderson's long-in-the works solo album, 1000 Hands, along with a just-announced 24-date tour in support of the set. Best Classic Bands posted that Anderson kicks off the jaunt on March 11th and at Orlando, Florida's Disney Epcot and will criss-cross the U.S. until May 12th when he wraps the tour up in Arlington, Texas at Kaaboo Texas at AT&T Stadium.
The new set has a long history, with the first sessions for the album taking place back in 1990, and featuring Anderson's past and present Yes bandmates -- including late-co-founding bassist Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Alan White, Rick Wakeman, and Trevor Rabin. Other high-profile guest on the set are Anderson's longtime collaborator Jean Luc Ponty, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, Journey's Jonathan Cain, jazz greats Chick Corea and Billy Cobham, along with Pat Travers and Rick Derringer. 1000 Hands marks Anderson's first solo set since 2011's Survival & Other Stories.
Jon Anderson told us that even after all these years on the road, he still gets off on the physicality of performing live: "I love performing. It's amazing -- it's an extraordinary experience. It's like, if I was a sports person, and, and I could actually get so fit to play soccer or football, or to actually do that performance, and get out there and do it -- it's exhilarating."
Anderson told us that over the decades, he's always jumped at the chance to further his creative explorations: "Yeah, y'know, in some ways, you reinvent yourself every day -- or every minute, some people say. But I know that over my career, I was always willing to Vangelis, or Kitaro, or Bob Fripp. Y'know, when Bob Fripp asked me to sing a song on the second (King) Crimson album, I said, 'Yes! Please!' And I think that's what life is all about. You have to be adventurous. So, I don't feel any weight at all having to prove anything ever. I've never actually wanted to have to prove anything. I'm still busy trying to create the better music."
JUST ANNOUNCED: Jon Anderson tour dates (subject to change):March 11, 12 - Orlando, FL - Disney Epcot
March 29 - Lynn, MA - Lynn
March 31 - Northfield, OH - Hard Rock Rocksino
April 1 - Annapolis, MD - Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts
April 3 - Ridgefield, CT - Ridgefield Playhouse
April 4 - Englewood, NJ - Bergen PAC
April 6 - Collingswood, NJ - Scottish Rite Auditorium
April 7 - Derry, NH - Tupelo Hall
April 11 - St. Charles, IL - Arcada Theatre
April 12 - Waukegan, IL - Genesee Theatre
April 14 - Milwaukee, WI - TBD
April 19 - TBD, OK - TBD
April 20 - New Orleans, LA - TBD
April 24 - Phoenix, AZ - The Orpheum
April 26 - Los Angeles, CA - Saban Theater
April 27 - Las Vegas, NV - Cannery Hotel and Casino
May 1 - Austin, TX - TBD
May 3 - TBD
May 4 - TBD
May 6 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
May 8 - Clearwater, FL - Capitol Theate
May 11 - Biloxi, MS - Beau Rivage Theatre
May 12 - Arlington, TX - Kaaboo Texas at AT&T Stadium AUDIO: JON ANDERSON ON BEING MUSICALLY ADVENTUROUS


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Todd Fuller's newest animation, 'Unite project', is a participatory artwork surveying a range of responses to marriage equality. Fuller supplied members of the public with black + white stills from the film depicting two men engaged in a passionate kiss. The participants were encouraged to respond to the image by colouring in the figures with the resulting images complied into a hand drawn animation.
'This work extends my collaboration with Amy Hill (2008), which investigated the consequences of language on a young queer community, as well as more recent work that has subtly raised sexual-political issues.'
You can still contribute to the 'Unite Project' by dropping in to the Gallery for a colouring-in session for adults on Saturday 5 March from 12-2pm, as part of Art Month Sydney. Visitors are invited to sit and respond to the work through drawing, colouring, writing or collage. To date, over 300 people have completed their own frames which have been scanned and inserted into the 'Unite Project - 1st Generation'.
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You Are Not Alone : Stories from the front lines of womanhood
October 7, 2014
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On May 24, 2014, Twitter exploded with stories of women's experiences of harassment and assault in their daily lives using the hashtag #YesAllWomen. With the Twitter conversation as inspiration, 10 women came together to share their stories with each other and the world. They dug within themselves to find wisdom…but they also revealed their own inner conflict about their experiences and their views of the world. They were willing to be vulnerable and admit not only how they have been hurt, but also how they have hurt others. Through telling our stories – and hearing the stories of others – we learn that there is much more that unites us than divides us. That is the purpose of this book. To remind you: You are not alone. I hope that you will hear those words repeating in your head as you read this book and realize how true they are: YOU ARE NOT ALONE


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There was an update to that study. And there were a number of others that are more recent, but I didn't want to get, as the Moderator said, too far into the weeds.
I wasn't trying to "support" Lane. As I said, just food for thought as this subject of cheating comes up here a lot. Case closed, I've said all I meant to about cheating.
OP, you said what I was thinking. His communication style makes this unworkable. Every additional story you tell is proof you did the right thing. I know this hurts you, I hope you will be able to move past this quickly.
Ok…I was just providing a perspective based on my personal experiences, understanding of human biology, and having honest talks and discussions with men. You are free to agree or disagree.
OP, he's not a good man. The one thing I will say is all we really have is 'our word' and if one's words cannot be trusted, then you are building a foundation on sand, and sand sinks. IMO, you did the right thing based on the other issues you've had as well. I don't think LDR is for you, and when you've properly gotten over this schmuck, I hope you find one that you can feel safe with and trust. Like they say "onward and upward!" :o)
Thanks Lane.
It hurts just now, but once I am over it – i'll know what to avoid next time round.
Only way is up huh. On the positive I landed a new job with better pay today :) YEY!
Sweet! Happy something good came your way! There's a better man out there for you too…you just haven't crossed paths yet :o)
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New community space for IdeaLab on ConnectEdit
Hi folks. If you're receiving this message, you've contributed to IdeaLab or an Inspire Campaign this year. Thanks for participating to develop ideas and review ones from other Wikimedians.
We are preparing some changes to IdeaLab and Inspire Campaigns. One of these changes is a new community space on Connect, where Wikimedians can find each other based on common activities or skills, and ask questions about the space. You are invited to join this community space for IdeaLab, especially if you would ever consider needing to find contributors with certain skills (like design or project management) or would like to offer your skills to others in our movement. To join, please proceed to Connect/IdeaLab and click on the "Add yourself" button on the right. Thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 19:53, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
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Do you have an idea about how to measure the health of your community? Do you want to review ideas that others have submitted? Through August 10th, we are inviting ideas on how to capture the well-being of Wikimedia communities, in terms of matters like conflict resolution, effective content creation, and being able to contribute in a collaborative environment. Ideas can be focused on either quantitative techniques, such as gathering raw data, or qualitative techniques, like surveying contributors. If you are submitting an idea, guidance is available for how to move your idea into implementation, such as through a grant or starting a Phabricator task to engage with developers.
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Thank You for joining. Eligibility confirmed for round 1. You can keep a watch on grant and the talk page. Wikilover90 (talk) 17:08, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
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Thank you for your precious time with us and also for creating & submitting a participation report. Have a wonderful time ahead here in the Wikimedia movement. Stay in touch for upcoming event. Cheers, Bunch of thanks! for making the event a grand success. Kind regards, — TBhagat (contribs | talk) sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:51, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Wikiloves loves wikipedian contestEdit
Hi Sharma, I am pulling out the results for the Wiki loves love 2019 wikipedian contest, where your project participated see here : Wiki Loves Love 2019/Project Page. I cannot read your language, and therefore connot diffenrenciate the articles produced in the scope of the wiki loves love contest, and the bios of women. To succeed I need the articles to be presented like the Punjabi Project here : https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/ৱিকিপিডিয়া:ৱিকি_লাভ্%E2%80%8Cছ_ৱুমেন_২০১৯ or here : https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ:ਵਿਕੀ_ਲਵਸ_ਵੁਮੈਨ_2019
Or ideally to have the leaders of the project publish themselves the list of priduced articles here : Wiki Loves Love 2019/List of Articles.
Without your help, I will not be able to sent out the promised prizes…. Poke @Wikilover90: who knows about all this! Nattes à chat (talk) 05:26, 4 April 2019 (UTC)


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Tulip 'Rococo,' 2007
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Dell announced recently that it's going to be replacing those styrofoam packing blocks in its computer packaging with compostable, mushroom-based packing material. (Source)
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Early symptoms. Symptoms of cystic fibrosis in a baby or young child may include: A blocked small intestine at birth. Unusual bowel movements. The child may have diarrhea that doesn't go away, large and greasy stools, very smelly stools, or constipation. If the . The most common bowel symptom related to cystic fibrosis is diarrhea. Stools also commonly appear greasy, bulky and foul-smelling. Stools may also appear pale and clay-colored [source: PubMed Health]. Another common symptom is blockage of the intestines, which leads to excessive gas, constipation and stomach pain.Author: Howstuffworks.Com Contributors.
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Not long ago, in the Changing banking for good (see Vol I and Vol II) report, the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards (PCBS), a body established in the wake of the LIBOR scandal, was horrified by shocking and widespread malpractice in the banking sector. It concluded that, in addition to bankers, governments and regulators have contributed to the degeneration of standards. The PCBS recommended wide-ranging changes relating to making senior bankers personally responsible and reforming bank governance by creating better functioning and more diverse markets. It also recommended reinforcing the powers of regulators to make sure that bankers do their job. Putting prolonged and blatant misconduct (which had been evident for a number of years) at the heart of the problem, the PCBS was of the view that its input would alleviate the industry's woes – it said that the "challenge for government is to follow through on the commitment to far-reaching reform." Update: an April 2016 sequel to this article dealing with the Panama Papers and Lord King's new book The End of Alchemy (see my blogpost here) can be read on SSRN as Changing Banking for Good: Counting the Costs of Market Misconduct. In his book, Lord King calls banks "the Achilles heel of Capitalism."
Almost two years on, unconvinced that the deficit of trust has been bridged, Dame Colette Bowe, of the Banking Standards Board (BSB) issued a general warning that the "banking industry must raise its game" because "trust in the system has been badly damaged and it's no surprise that the public expects change after everything that has happened". On the other hand, diminishing the weight of their own argument, they also offered a general concession to the industry:
Banks recognise the urgent need to raise their game and build the necessary momentum for change. It won't happen overnight and it will be an uncomfortable journey but the time has come to win back trust.
In May 2014, a report was published in which it was recommended that a Banking Standards Review Council (BSRC) should be established and it should act independently to champion improved banking standards in the UK. Moreover, BSRC sought to protect the interests of customers and stakeholders with a view to preserving the integrity of the British banking system – an industry employing half a million workers domestically. But all that that was a long time before the BSB began to couch its existence in the language of uncertainty, i.e. "it won't happen overnight." From the point of view of the reasonable person, time can't stand still for the banks, if they were acting deceptively and intended to criminally defraud people, then corporate criminals should not be let off the hook and must face criminal charges.
In 2013, to correct the ills prevalent in the industry, the PCBS recommended a fivefold mechanism which turned on making individual responsibility in banking a reality, especially at the most senior levels; reforming governance within banks to reinforce each bank's responsibility for its own safety and soundness and for the maintenance of standards; creating better functioning and more diverse banking markets in order to empower consumers and provide greater discipline on banks to raise standards; reinforcing the responsibilities of regulators in the exercise of judgement in deploying their current and proposed new powers; and specifying the responsibilities of the government and of future governments and parliaments.
Criminal sanctions for misconduct in relation to the LIBOR fixing were incorporated into the statute book. Further benchmarks have entered into the regulatory perimeter to widen the net of criminal liability (see here, the benchmarks are WM/Reuters 4pm London Fix, Sterling Overnight Index Average (SONIA), Repurchase Overnight Index Average (RONIA), ICE Swap Rate, LMBA Gold Price, LMBA Silver Price; and, ICE, Brent index). The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and HM Treasury are eager to expand safeguards to have a tighter regulatory framework which they see as a natural consequence of the reforms driven by in the Wheatley Review of LIBOR 2012, the blueprint for reform as regards bank misconduct.
On the other hand, the banks are routinely able to buy their way out of trouble. On the civil side, the so-called "Guardian Homes" case (see here, here, here, here and here) about mis-selling and fraud in relation to LIBOR was settled out of court and Barclays appears to have gotten off the hook. Moreover, even the FCA's penalties' system offers attractive discounts to offending banks and, despite the new criminal powers it now enjoys under the Financial Services Act 2012 (see here) as a result of the Wheatley Review, the authority is still content to fine persons who – like David Caplin and Jeremy Kraft – destroy the integrity of the financial markets. As wisely observed a couple of years ago by Professor Bainbridge in Reforming LIBOR, "the Wheatley regime is not perfect" and its success depends on "ongoing inputs from monetary policymakers."
As we have repeatedly seen, the banks are unable, or perhaps unwilling, to keep out of trouble and the big scandals of a couple of years ago – that gave birth to hefty promises about better behaviour – are old news these days. Like its rival Barclays, HSBC, which is the largest British bank, has found it impossible to keep out trouble.
In 2012, US regulators hit HSBC with £1.2bn fine for allowing drug traffickers to launder billions of dollars. These days in the UK, HSBC's collusion with rich clients to help them dodge hundreds of millions of pounds in taxes seems to have intensified interest in cheating in the banking sector as a political issue (albeit it inexplicably lags behind the comparatively benign issue of immigration). Somewhat weirdly, HSBC faces criminal charges in a whole host of countries but not in the British capital London where it is headquartered. Instead, we have learnt that the bank accepts past failure but it maintains that its sins have been atoned because of fundamental changes and co-operation with the authorities.
As established by Panorama: The Bank of Tax Cheats, HSBC's Swiss accounts involved 106,000 clients in 203 countries. Almost 7,000 clients were UK based and 1,100 of them had not paid their taxes. Of the $118 billion total assets held in Swiss accounts 7,000 clients from the UK accounted for $21.7 billion. But there was no justice because only one tax evader was prosecuted notwithstanding the fact that evidence of wrongdoing had been in the public domain since 2007. On the other hand, rich individuals hiding their assets in Switzerland paid £135m in tax, interest and penalties. Strong arguments can be made about the rich being let off the hook for tax dodging and indeed Margaret Hodge MP attacked the bankers for their impropriety. For her, HMRC was also failing in its role as the UK's tax authority.
Yet, not everyone agreed with Hodge's aggression. Although a stern critic of the banks, mindful of criminal procedure and the right to a fair trial under the common law and the Human Rights Convention, in Seven Deadly Sins the pioneer and director of the Conduct Costs Project, Roger McCormick, expressed profound concern about Hodge by observing that:
The atmosphere was kangaroo court-like. The bankers were on trial before a group of politicians that had somehow morphed from being a Parliamentary Committee into a "Tribunal of the Proletariat", where the usual rules of criminal trials just did not apply.
Interestingly, it is also true that Lin Homer, the bureaucrat in-charge of HMRC, has previously been accused of "catastrophic leadership failure" by the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee for her 2008-2011 stint as the Chief Executive of the disgraced UK Border Agency (an organisation that was abolished for its incompetence). Hence, unsavoury Home Office history may well be repeating itself at HMRC and question marks also hang over why Osborne and David Cameron appointed HSBC chair Stephen Green trade minister and gave him a Tory peerage?
HSBC deliberately broke the law and colluded with its clients to aid their tax dodges. Rather than taking tax owed from undeclared accounts and paying it to the authorities, HSBC advised them to frustrate the purpose of Council Directive 2003/48/EC (subsequently amended by Council Directive 2014/48/EU of 24 March 2014) by finding loopholes in the law to sidestep tax liability.
Against this grim picture, Dame Colette Bowe and Lord McFall, the chairman and deputy chairman of the BSB are oddly optimistic in their assessment as regards changing the system. For them, banking is "not a unique special case." Arguing that "spring is always a time of great promise", they consider their organisation to be:
A new catalyst for positive change across the banking industry.
They emphasise that they are not regulators and "are not here to draw up league tables or to name and shame." They constrict their grounds of inquiry to "competence, culture and patterns of behaviour" in which headline news can play no part. The BSB, moreover, advocates "lasting change right across the whole industry." However, the critical error in their approach is that it gives refuge and surrogate protection to the crooked. It is very hard to isolate the criminality of those perpetrating fraud in the banking sector from the blame game. The regulators are clear that accountability, which is unachievable without banks accepting responsibility, is the need of the hour and a fudged and opaque system is doomed to fail the public trust. The BSB's rejection of the yardstick (or "metric", see here and here) of transparency offered by league tables (and naming and shaming wrongdoers) have been met with some criticism by Roger McCormick, who lamented that:
At some point, this organisation is going to have to move from telling us what it is going to do to actually doing something. One thing is clear, they will not be publishing tables relating to bank conduct performance that will enable the public to compare one bank with another. So that's good news for banks that might feel embarrassed about such information being available. What they don't do is tell us why they reject this approach (when others, such as the B of E and the FCA, seem to like it). Make of it what you will.
Only recently in late October 2014, in its consultation on the fixed income, currency and commodities markets, the Fair and Effective Markets Review (a tripartite mission involving the FCA, HM Treasury and the Bank of England that seeks to restore trust in the markets, see here) took the view that the approach developed by Roger McCormick:
could provide a framework for further development in relation to industry-wide performance measures relating to conduct.
Despite their enthusiasm for reform as regards misconduct in the banking sector, if we apply BSB's approach to other criminals such as sex offenders or terrorists then we would be doing away with the sex offender register or terrorist watch lists. Not a great idea by any stretch of the imagination!
Whirlwind fines in late 2014 by the FCA, US CFTC and Swiss FINMA totalling $3.3bn for misconduct in FX markets – subsequent to the fines imposed earlier for interest rate benchmark abuse – prompted Mark Carney to emphasise that changes in "institutional culture" are imperative and he concluded that:
The repeated nature of these fines demonstrates that financial penalties alone are not sufficient to address the issues raised.
In his November 2014 speech entitled The Future of Financial Reform, Mr Carney, who is the Governor of the Bank of England, also used the research of the Conduct Costs Project (at the CCP Research Foundation) as a barometer to gauge the penalties imposed on a sample of ten banks by authorities in the United States, the United Kingdom and the wider European Union.
Empowering consumers and imposing greater discipline on banks to raise standards is a stated aim of the five curative ingredients suggested by the PCBS. Because counter-measures such as criminal liability and financial sanctions have their limitations in relation to engendering cultural change, it is convenient for the public to know where they stand with the banks. Indeed, whilst there is no "cure" to the controversies of the banking world, on proper analysis comparing one bank with another is crucially important for selecting who we want to enter into business with.
In these turbulent times, this information forms the spine of the contractual relationship between depositor and bank. In other words, to enhance our ability to make suitable choices, as members of the public we are clearly entitled to this vital information. After all, it has been reported (by accountants KPMG) that since 2011 the UK's big banks have paid 60 per cent of their profits in fines and repayments to customers – the fines alone amounted to £150 billion the the five years ending November 2013. It is therefore a small wonder that HSBC proposes to "put compliance and tax transparency ahead of profitability."
In reality, a league table for banks is the same thing as having a corruption index for the world such as the one maintained by Transparency International; which whilst not perfect nonetheless adds to the learning on the level of corruption and helps us choose our options. Since none of the banks report their misconduct to us and would prefer that we remain oblivious to their widespread wrongdoing, someone has to undertake the task of reporting the aggregate of misconduct and, if anything, Roger McCormick deserves to be applauded for quantifying the data that delivers the true picture to us. There will be no quick fixes for the banking world but greater knowledge and learning will empower us to filter the offending banks out of our daily lives.
One thing is for sure: hoping that the spring time will wash all the ills of the banking world away is not the cure envisaged by the PCBS in its Changing banking for good report. Equally, insofar as the notion that the BSB is the "new catalyst" for positive change across the banking industry is concerned, the point is completely stifled by the (delaying) caveat that change:
… won't happen overnight.
So, properly understood, the BSB's rhetoric is strewn with internal contradictions that undermine its official statements to the public about being a catalyst. (In scientific terms, something that increases the rate of change without itself undergoing any permanent change.) After all, banks must not be emboldened in respect of their longstanding misconduct and the PCBS was entirely unambiguous that dilatory policies are "a risk which the UK, as a medium-sized economy hosting one of the world's two most important financial centres, cannot afford." Just to answer my own question again, there is no cure for bank misconduct and, although attractive, sweeping legislative and rule based reform has not changed the culture of corruption in financial institutions. We can only hope that superior knowledge about bank behaviour will result in power being diverted into the hands of the public. Therefore, a league table is a handy formula to evaluate the credibility of banks and learn who the foremost offenders are.


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The 56th UXSG Meetup was held on Thursday, 16 May 2019 from 7pm at 111 Middle Road, National Design Centre Level 2, Auditorium & Training studio rooms 1-5.
This month we continued our second run of the Lunch Buddy and Reading Club experiments. Additionally, we revisited a familiar format – a modified Lean Coffee session.
#1 – Lunch Buddy
Lunch Buddy is an experiment to see how we can encourage meaningful relationships beyond the meetup event. At the start of the event, attendees dropped their contact details in a paper bag and collected a new one at the end of the evening. It is then up to individual attendees to get in touch with and meet their Lunch Buddy for a chat.
#2 – Reading Club
The Reading Club runs in parallel to the Lean Coffee session. We are experimenting with how a Reading Club can result in more diverse and engaging conversations centred around books of interest.
This month, we discussed the book Hooked: How To Build Habit Forming Products by Nir Eyal. As shared in the Reading Club WhatsApp group: "If you're interested in the psychological aspect of design and ethics of product development, this seems like a good book to read."
#3 – Lean Coffee
At UXSG, Lean Coffee starts with a 30 minute, 1-1 conversation between attendees. We do this so everyone gets to know one another. It also helps us build a safe space for deeper conversations in the latter part of the session.
Following that, we generated and voted on discussion topics, of which number were carryovers from the previous meetup on "Designing Experiments". We then broke in four groups for self-driven conversations.
Thank you to all the attendees for the delightful conversations. We hope you left with good learnings and new relationship. See you again for the next meetup!


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"They had fixed the grass on the soccer field in Hjorthagen with a dark patch."
A part of the exhibition series "Inge' mer". Has been on exhibition at Sven Harrys Art Museum, Stockholm. Si Paris, MARMOE Festival Montreuil, Paris.
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After deciding to close his La Crosse Olive Oil Co. store at 515 Main St., Randy Goyette has transformed the business into a vendor in The Craft & Vendor Marketplace at 511 Main St. in downtown La Crosse.
Goyette had decided to close the business after his wife, Patti, died Dec. 6 after battling cancer. The Goyettes had opened their store in 2011, selling olive oil, vinegar, rubs, seasonings and spices.
"A lot of people didn't want to see it leave," Goyette said of his store, which closed in mid-January. Becoming a vendor in the nearby marketplace was "the best thing I could come up with without running a store," he said.
As a vendor, Goyette said La Crosse Olive Oil will sell imported olive oils and imported balsamic vinegars, and he will give occasional cooking demonstrations.
Goyette said his products should be in stock at the marketplace by early next week.
Hours at The Craft & Vendor Marketplace are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, and will expand in April. For more information, visit La Crosse Olive Oil's Facebook page.
Look for construction to start soon on the shell of a four-unit retail/restaurant building at the former Old Country Buffet restaurant site at 9417 State Road 16 in Onalaska.
A building permit for the shell was issued last week by the city of Onalaska, but none of the documents submitted with the permit application list prospective tenants. Officials with MBA Architects have said the building is expected to have two restaurant spaces, one on each end, with two retail spaces in the middle. But they haven't released any tenant names.
Chili Shabani, a local businessman listed in documents as a contact person for the project, didn't respond to my telephone and email inquiries last week.
According to building permit documents, the 9,125-square-foot building's shell is expected to cost about $800,000. According to the project's site plan, a second building is planned for some time in the future.
Mike Nighbor-State Farm Agency is the new name of the State Farm Insurance agency in Suite 101 at 1288 Rudy St. in Onalaska.
It previously was known as the Kerri Bandell-State Farm Agency office, which was headed by the late Kerri Bandell.
"I have been with State Farm for four years," said Nighbor, who has a bachelor's degree in statistics from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
His agency offers a full line of insurance and financial services. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and by appointment on evenings and Saturdays.
For more information, call the office at 608-783-3999 or visit www.goodnighbor.com or the agency's Facebook page.
Marty Myers and Sara Pfaff opened a CBD American Shaman store in mid-December in Suite 6 at 201 Helen Walton Drive, in the Heartland Cranberry Mall on the far north side of Tomah.
Myers and Pfaff, who both live in Mauston, bought a franchise from the CBD American Shaman company, based in Kansas City, Mo. They also plan to open a store in the La Crosse area in six to eight months.
The new Tomah store sells products containing CBD (cannabidol) oil from industrial hemp plants, Myers said. The products are used to mitigate such problems as pain, anxiety and insomnia.
Some of the main products the store sells include cloud formula tincture, a topical anti-inflammatory cream, products for cats and dogs, and beauty products such as under-eye serum, Pfaff said.
The Tomah store's hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. For more information, call the store at 608-567-2014 or visit www.americanshamantomah.com or the store's Facebook page.
Steve Cahalan can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 608-791-8441. Meghan Flynn of the Tomah Journal contributed to this column.
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This joiners mallet ended up being more like Thor's Hammer! I'm calling this my first actual "fine woodworking" project. I've been making things with limited tools for 15 years, but they've all been rough, or I didn't have the tools I need to really start honing my craft well. I recently picked up a table saw, a ~25 year old Powermatic 63 in great shape, and decided I was going to make all of our Christmas gifts this year so I could get some more experience and try some new techniques. There was a lot of new-to-me going on in this project.
It's made entirely out of scraps from some of my previous projects – hard maple and red oak. It was intended to be a joiners mallet for my dad for assembling or chisel work, but it ended up being a giant hunk for the next time he erects a pole barn (which he doesn't do). The dimensions got away from me a bit. Oh well, I branded it #1 and I can't wait to talk to him about my techniques and process.
Firsts for me:
1. Cutting a block lamination down from scraps. Turning junk from my shop floor into a precise, square brick was really satisfying. I cut the angle of the mortise into the middle chunks so I didn't have to chisel it out. Everything moved a bit during glue-up so I had to mark the mortise after everything was dry, then figure out how to cut it all square to that. I used CA glue to put a wedge on one side that gave me the right angle and pushed it through the table saw. Table saw wasn't high enough to make it in one pass so I flipped it over to do it again, and the block I glued on for the angle was above the fence! So I had to rig up a piece of plywood with some clamps to make a taller fence and it worked then. Then removed it all, used the new cut face to reference and made the other cuts. I used the miter saw once the top and bottom were parallel to cross cut the ends.
Bonus learning – had to find a spot inside to do a glue-up when it was too cold in the garage!
Nice and clean.
2. Resawing. I did a one-pass resaw on the oak for the mallet head (~2.5-3" thick) which burned a bit and I ended up having to sand them flat quite a bit. Tried the random orbital which turned out pretty uneven, so I clamped my belt sander upside down on my workbench and flattened them a bit that way. Ended up ok, but with a slight tilt to the surface. Good enough for a glue-up though. The next resaw I did was for the handle – I did 2 passes here and it worked much better. Just a quick pass over the belt sander was all that was needed for a glue surface and it worked much better. I also resawed the maple strips for the outside of the handle and glued them up in a bookmatched fashion which was kind of fun. These did not glue-up flat, so I had to do quite a bit of belt sanding on these to get them flat for a glue joint.
3. First tenon. I made a tenon jig for my table saw which worked great, but I needed the tenon to be about 5 inches long – longer than I could make on the table saw! So I cut it as deep as I could with the blade all the way up and finished it in a dado-style laying flat on the table. Problem is my blade height lock isn't great and the blade moves slightly so it wasn't as precise, and I don't have a dado stack or a flat grind blade so it was pretty rough towards the base of the tenon. Luckily I left some room to sand it all down to fit in the mortise and it wasn't a big deal. Definitely want a band saw if I'm doing this any more often…
4. First mortise and tenon joint. That feeling when after a long time sanding for the perfect fit and it drops right in with a soft tap… I won't forget that for a while. So awesome.
5. First wedged tenon. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to make a little wedge safely with a table saw or miter saw so I just cut it by hand with a cheap hand saw I had around. Worked fine, but some unexpected problem solving on this one. After the tenon was fitted to the mortise, pounding it in to lock the joint was also pretty satisfying and it was nice and solid after.
6. First time shaping on the belt sander. I cut out the shape of the handle on my jigsaw because I didn't have a band saw. I don't have a bench vice so I had to hold the piece while cutting with the jigsaw which was kind of sketchy. I cut half the curve, flipped the piece, and finished the other half of the line from the other direction. My saw kerf lined up perfectly but the offcut was still attached! I flipped it over and the blade had wandered in opposite directions by maybe 3/16". Ugh. So I cut it off and brought it to the belt sander to shape the curve after. It was… imprecise. I could use a lot more practice with getting the feel right between surface sanding and material removal without digging in.
7. First time with a chamfer bit on the router. Was a little sketchy without a bench vice, but small cut so not bad.
8. First time with a chisel, ever. I cleaned up the inside of the mortise. I thought about chopping it all out, but opted to just leave the gap during glue up. It went fine. After chamfering the edges with the router I thought it would be cool to leave the tenon proud of the top of the mallet head and chamfer that too, but I couldn't get the router bit in there so I had to chisel these to shape too. I learned a lot about the feel of chiseling with and across the grain. Chisel slipped once across the grain and I left a huge gouge in the top. Oh well… it's supposed to be used and beat up right? Lesson learned.
9. First time finishing with BLO. I've always used water based poly in the past. Learned a lot about how to cut it down and thin it out AFTER I had applied straight from the can. I was surprised it was a lot like something like olive oil or similar… maybe even thicker. I soaked everything good until it wouldn't soak up any more, let it sit for a half hour, wiped off excess, came back for a second coat in an hour or so, let it sit, wiped off excess, and let it dry. Yikes, it's been a week and some edges are still drying. Looks really cool though. It brings out the chatoyance in the maple a lot more than the water poly I used – you can see the desk in the first picture that this maple is scrap from and the color and depth is way different between the two. I like them both.
10. "branding" with printer toner and acetone trick. I printed a mirror image of my initials for one side of the mallet, and project number "#1" for the other side. I put the print over the mallet where I wanted it and rubbed it with acetone. It kind of worked… the #1 came out better than my initials on the other side but it was still pretty light. I'll have to read up on this a bit more for the next one. I found rubbing harder helped, but I don't know if I wasn't giving it enough time or what.
Very fun project. Lots of new techniques and lessons learned. Turned out great except for my misjudging handle dimensions – I need some work on my designs, haha. I'm hooked. New bandsaw is on its way and I have about 6 more projects in the hopper!
Comments and critiques welcome. I appreciate the wealth of knowledge on this site!
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#1 posted 11-27-2017 04:28 PM
Sounds a bit like my adventure. I loved making mine. I made one, and it turned out more square then a "mallet" then made a second one and took lessons learned and applied to the second one. It was a fun project. I want to make one that is a lot bigger to use for more "bigger" pounding. Keep it up, now that you have the itch.
-- Justin
#2 posted 11-28-2017 12:52 PM
Good job. You made a tool and learned a ton in the process! Pretty satisfying, isn't it?
-- Dave - Santa Fe
#3 posted 11-28-2017 05:47 PM
Nice adventure, and well done.
-- Thor and Odin are still the greatest of Gods.
#4 posted 11-30-2017 11:39 AM
You made a proper addition to the wackers and smackers set.
#5 posted 11-30-2017 06:53 PM
Nice job.. You were more ambitious for your first mallet than I was. Did mine out of red oak flooring a couple of months ago. its a fun project.
-- Lalen, Texas. "If it looks straight, it is straight" Jimmy Diresta
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Evening All 🏵 Young lady wants to make sure I've got her best angle and who am I to complain 😍 #peony #bowlofbeauty #summer
😍 just gorgeous
Fabulous collage Jason .
Whose a clever fellow then ! beautiful 🌸💖
Well quite so! And she's beautiful whichever way you look at her 💕
Wow Stunning Jason @Jasonsparkes1 💕😍👌😘
Thank you all very much 🏵 Quite taken with this one 😍 @cyndi @Diane76 @wagsmomthompsonbtinternetcom @johninbrighton @rosiebug @rachelbrooks @jadojado29 @nej
Very beautiful- bit of a show stopper
Morning All 🏵 So impressed with this little one, been dug up and repotted twice since Jan and still she lives and gives me a beautiful flower 😍 (And also not a deformed flower like last year!!) Not the 'Sarah Bernhardt' that I bought, but at least now I can see that she is definitely 'Bowl of Beauty'. Have a fabulous weekend ☉☇☈ #peony #bowlofbeauty #summer
Morning Jason. I have this one ....the blooms are truly beautiful. Yours has done so well being moved twice!! Enjoy your weekend 👋😮👌
She's very pretty and apparently tough too!
She's beautiful! 💖
What a beauty. Would you like us to feature this in our email newsletter? 😀
Gorgeous Jason certainly lives up to its name 🌸💖😍
Morning Pauline ☉ The container she was in rotted away and collapsed over winter, damaged all the roots, can't believe she's such a tough little thing 😁 @flof1952
Thanks Katy ☉ Just can't believe she kept going through everything. She'll get a big pot and a well deserved prime spot when we move @gjones
Thanks very much Ash ☉ A £2 Mozzers cheapie 😁 @daisyrozanne
That would be lovely 🏵 Thank you @ukgardentags
Morning June☉ Thank you very much @rosiebug
Afternoon 🌸 So, the big container this Peony was in collapsed after winter, I dug her out (accidentally damaging her roots quite badly) and as we were having to move put her in a small pot to see what happened. She sprouted, and we haven't moved, so dug her out and put her in a bit bigger pot, she carried on growing and now has 4 buds!! Have I just got an unfussy Peony??🤔
Looks like it Hun 🤣🤣👍
Lucky you Jason, I had to dig one of mine up for the 3rd time and pot it, I've obviously peed it off as it's not grown since 😤
Yep or you have an amazing talent for peony looking after, can't wait to see it bloom
Maybe everything they tell us is a lie! Either that or you're just a jammy git! 😉🤣
😀 Bonus @juliesgarden
I'm so surprised this one has, was it's 1st flower last year and it wasn't the Peony it was supposed to be, I wasn't over fussed by it, so wasn't bothered too much if it didn't make it, but now I sort of feel she's earn her place by default 😂 @sieveheadsarah
Definitely no amazing talent here!! 😂😂 @carolgs
It must be all lies then cos jammy I ain't...much more Marmite 😉 @rachelbrooks
Don't do yourself an injustice you created an amazing garden and will continue too to😊
She's obviously a keeper then Jason 👍🏼😀
A mighty fine bud considering 😁
Please be aware that this plant is growing under many different alias' and may be rooting in your area!! Sleep well and dont have plantmares.
🙄😂😂 very good.
😂😂😂 brilliant Jase 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Well, this Bowl of Beauty definitely ain't no Sarah Bernhardt 💖 Very pretty, but she has the most prized spot in the garden, sunniest and most sheltered, and Mum would love this donated to her garden, and I could get a more floriferous plant in her place? #peony
Hmmm...don't think it's bowl of beauty either, now it's opened! 😆😆 it's very lovely though...bit too Mrs Slocumbe for you Jase..? 😜🌸💕
Lovely 😊
What a stunner! 💗
Well feck it then, it can be nameless!! 😂 And a little bit, reminds me if too many of my old dresses 😉😆 @rachelbrooks
Thank you very much 🌸 @Williamson @AlisaJ
Not bowl of beauty but not sure what it is
Ha ha, neither am I Angie, I think it's called a 'Gonner' Peony 😉😂 @ada31514
Ohhhhh, chuck it my way, I love it 💗💗💗
I love that!
I'm undecided Jane, a bit too frilly for me 😂 @pelly
Morning Everyone, Sarah Bernhardt (or maybe not??) opening up her first and only bloom 🏵 #peony
Morning Jason, I suppose one is better than none and she's going to be fabulous 🌸🌸
Morning and that's very lovely 💕 but looks more like Bowl of Beauty 🤔 at the moment
Morning Jane, ones fine, was a new plant last year, so hadn't expected it to flower 1st year @pelly
F***ing typical Mozzers!! 😂😂 I did think last night as it was starting to open that it didn't look quite like what I was expecting, and a lot more hot pink 🤔😕 @rachelbrooks
You've done well then, my white one was in its third season before it flowered 👍👍
Morning Jason. A beauty whoever she is 👋😊👌
I have this one I got it from gardeners world magazine and it's hot pink like yours mine hasn't even got the lighter pink but in the middle. I bought 3 different ones from there and they all look identical (I posted a pic a few days ago) I think they are having us in and just give the same plant a different name to get us to spend more 😂
Morning Jason I've only got one on my peonies this year too had 9 last year, time to move it I think doesnt flower long enough to have it under window border for me so it's one on list to get moved in autumn 😮
Morning Pauline ☕ Thank you, as usual I think Rachel's right on the money 😉😁 @flof1952
Definitely a conspiracy Angie!! 😂 Yours do look very similar 🤔 @angiecrazycatlady
Morning Keely ☕ Mines in a big container with a Clematis, as I didn't know if would survive in the ground up here. Very pretty but I'm not sure if they flower enough to get the space, I could have 'For your eyes only' there instead @Keely
It's breaking apart 💔 Can't wait to see this 🙂
Woohoo neither can I 💕💕
Giving birth 😬
Certainly looks like it an egg pod !!! 💚💕💚
Wish they'd bloody hurry up though! 😬🙄 I do mean mine as well! 😂
They surely do take their time 😬 @rachelbrooks
Can someone correct me before I possibly pee myself with excitement...is this a bud on my peony...I only planted it last year??? 🤔😰
Wohooo definitely a bud Hun 🙆🏼♀🙆🏼♀
Yes definitely a bud. 😊
You see? Your interest in the garden is perking up again!
Oh it certainly is 👏👏👏💕
Woohoo, thanks Girls 😄 @nessas @gjones @Keely
And a few pills and some sun was all it took Leslie 😆🌞 @lesliecole49
Yep! Jammy git! 😜😂😂
Definitely didn't expect this!! 😲 @rachelbrooks
Yay! You got your jam back👏😜. You have a bud bub!!! @Jasonsparkes1
So excited to see this one Kim 😁 And thank you 😉 @kimguy
Welcome, Jason😎💜 @Jasonsparkes1
Woohoo...Sarah Bernhardt is back, so glad she survived the winter 🌱🌸 #peony
Wohooo go Sarah 🙆🏼♀🙆🏼♀
Good girl Sarah 😍😍
I just bought one yesterday 😆😆😆 Did you have to wait long for flowers?
What a happy sight, Jason. Go Sarah! 💃💃
Thank you 😁 @nessas @pelly @riakat
I was surprised this one has, everything is usually late up here!! Fingers crossed for yours @sylvietee
I only bought it last Spring/Summer Urszula so not had buds or flowers or nothing yet. I read it could take a few years!! 😲 @ublaszko
Yes, they take a while to flower but so worth it! I'm going to plant mine today so it will happen eventually 👍
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A beauty 🌸 but like her namesake, a bit of a Diva!!
She sounds fun 😉 Another one I read wrong...I thought it was Sandra Bernhard, different woman altogether 😂 @rachelbrooks
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Monday, February 19, 2007
Worshiping the Lord in Zanzibar
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
This past Sunday, the Primates of the Anglican Communion went on a pilgrimmage to the island of Zanzibar. A High Mass was celebrated by the Archbishop of Tanzania in Christ Church Cathedral (pictured above and below). The cathedral was built on the grounds of a former slave market when it closed in 1873. It has the shape of a Basilica with a blend of vernacular Gothic and Arabic styles. It was constructed with reinforced concrete mixed with crusted coral stone. The external walls are covered by crenellations and recesses ending in tri-foil arches. The clock on the tower was a gift from Sultan Seyyid Barghash (1880).
Romans 8:20-21
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
A slave chamber is preserved next to the cathedral. The interior of the church is full of reminders of the slave trade. Dr. David Livingstone, the explorer, doctor, anti-slave activist, is commemorated in a stained glass window. There is also a crucifix made of the wood of the tree under which Livingstone's heart was buried. It was his explicit wish that his heart should remain in Africa. Next to the altar, the place set apart for the "continual recalling of the sacrifice of [God's] Son" (BCP, p 574), is a red circle marking the spot of a whipping post. Slaves were tied to it, then whipped to test their strength and resilience before being sold.
Galatians 5:1
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
1 Corinthians 7:21
Were you a slave when you were called? Don't let it trouble you—although if you can gain your freedom, do so.
Fr George Congar described the Mass in his report for the Living Church :
. . . the primates sailed two hours by boat to Zanzibar to celebrate a solemn Eucharist at the Cathedral Church of Christ, also known as the Universities Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) Cathedral. Considered the most "Catholic" of the traditional mission societies, the UMCA heritage was evident in the color, music and liturgy of the Holy Communion service drawn from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.
Over 600 worshippers packed the Cathedral, built in 1878 on the site of Zanzibar's former slave market in Stone Town. Archbishop Williams served as preacher, Archbishop Donald Mtetemela of Tanzania served as celebrant and the bishops of Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam served as deacon and sub-deacon in the elaborate Anglo-Catholic service which was conducted in both English and Swahili.
In high ritual style, Archbishop Mtetemela sung the liturgy, as clouds of incense arose from a censer held by the former Archbishop of Zanzibar, John Rahamdhani. The altar service reflected an ecclesial style seldom seen in The Episcopal Church, with copes, maniples, zucchettos and other finery. Yellow roses covered the front of the altar and much of the cathedral in honor of Quinquagesima Sunday.
Following a processional choir of 40 down the aisle to the hymn "Jesus Shall Reign," the primates proceeded down the aisle under a barrage of klieg lights and flashbulbs from the press, with 12 of the 14 new primates seated in canon's stalls around the high altar and the remaining primates seated in the stalls.
At the close of the service Canon Matthew Mhagama offered thanks to the Catholic missionary societies of the Church of England for planting the faith in Central Africa, and to the British Royal Navy for crushing the slave trade. "Whatever their shortcomings," the missionaries of the UMCA were "heroes." Their graves surrounding the cathedral were a testament to the power of the gospel and to their sacrifices for the "Catholic faith," he said.
The sermon was given by the Archbishop of Canterbury. As Bob Williams of the Episcopal News Service reported:
From its carved pulpit, Williams preached a homily based upon scripture lessons addressing Genesis's account of the rainbow after Noah's flood; the 'patient, kind' attributes of love as expressed in I Corinthians 13; and Luke's gospel account of Jesus restoring the sight of the blind man on the road to Jericho.
'Today it is very appropriate to think how God makes us see,' Williams said. 'One thing we might reflect upon today is what thing are we blind to - who is it now whose suffering we cannot see, we cannot understand. 'In some societies it may be women, the elderly, or children,' he said. In others, 'it may be minorities of one kind or another.... It is the case in our wealthy countries that we don't see the realities of suffering in other parts of the world.'
These international connections were underscored at the service's conclusion when the Archbishop installed Ugandan-born Hellen Wangusa as Anglican Observer at the United Nations.
God's love helps believers see 'who we really are' ... and 'truly because of that we see others in new ways. ... So we begin to be able to set about the task of setting others free ... the chains, the shackles of our own fears fall away.'
Williams cited the conclusion of hymn writer-priest John Wesley, who said near the end of his life, 'I remember two things: that I am a great sinner, and Jesus is a great Savior.' The congregation had earlier sung Wesley's classic 'Amazing Grace' as part of its 'Act of Commemoration, Reparation, Hope' repenting the evils of slavery.
Hymns and prayers alternated between Swahili and English during the liturgy, with loudspeaker calls to prayer from the neighboring mosque occasionally overheard between organ strains.
Most Zanzibaris are Muslim, dating from when the island was colonized and under the rule of Oman's Sultan before becoming a British Protectorate. In 1964, Zanzibar and the mainland Tanganyika were joined into the united nation of Tanzania.
. . . 'This church is seen as God's intervention in human affairs through men and women of good will,' notes diocesan secretary Nuhu J. Sallanya, writing about the cathedral. 'The place of horror and despair has been transformed' into an 'area of worship and praise.'
Unfortunately, the event also highlighted the unhappy divisions in the Anglican Communion. Somehow, it seems fitting that our wounds of communion would be most visible in a place which has known so much wounding like Zanzibar. The hosting province had previously declared its communion with the Episcopal Church (minus the faithful remnant) to be "severely impaired." It was also reported that the primates were in widely divergent dress, from business suits to cassocks to choir dress to eucharistic vesture. Six primates attended, but would not receive Holy Communion on that occasion. The customary group photo was canceled. It was also reported that the pilgrimage received a hostile reaction from a Sheikh who wrote in the local newspaper that the visit would promote sexual immorality and cause scandal in the community.
To see more and larger pictures from the event, please visit Scott Gunn's collection at Flickr.com.
3 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Uh, not to nitpick, but John Newton wrote "Amazing Grace," not John Wesley...
- Fr Timothy Matkin said...
I noticed that too, but I thought I should just leave the quote untouched.
- Bill said...
I don't think it's accurate to report on this gathering without mentioning the discord in the Anglican ranks over being forced to sit in the presence of a mere woman.
From telling-secrets:
"At a gathering of the Primates of the World-wide Anglican Communion in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, seven of the 35 Primates present refused to have Eucharist with the Primate and Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, the Most Rev'd Katharine Jefferts Schori. They said they could neither accept her ordination as a woman, nor her theology, which is accepting of LGBT people." Without pointing this fact out, we would all have been guilty of a sin of ommision.