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Nairn Dunbar golf course
|Address and contact:
|Nairn Dunbar Golf Club, Lochloy Road, Nairn, IV12 5AE
tel:(01667) 452741
fax:(01667) 456897Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: http://www.nairndunbar.com
|Situated on the shores of the Moray Firth, the Nairn Dunbar golf course, founded in 1899, is a highly rated Scottish links championship course representing a formidable challenge with its gorse and whin lined fairways.The club enjoys a growing reputation for high quality competition golf. Renowned for its excellent condition and friendly reception to visitors, it was the chosen venue in 1999 for the Northern Open Professional Championship, the Scottish Ladies Amateur Stroke Play and the Scottish Boys Stroke Play. In 2001 the club hosted the Scottish Amateur Stroke Play Championship (qualifying rounds) and in 2002 the Seniors Home Internationals and the Scottish Open Amateur Mixed Tournaments.
An outstanding new clubhouse was officially opened in May 1998 by Sir Michael Bonallack OBE. Facilities include comfortable lounge bars, dining room, extensive locker room facilities with visitors room and showers.
Loch Ness Castle Heather golf course
|Address and contact:
|Castle Heather
IV2 6AATelephone: 01463 713335
Pro Shop: 01463 713334
Fax: 01463 712695
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.golflochness.com
|Loch Ness Golf Course was opened in June of 1996 and has gained a reputation as an excellent test of golf for players of all abilities. With generous fairways and large greens you may be fooled into thinking that the course was easy but the putting surfaces are some of the best in the Highlands and have developed both subtle and obvious borrows that mean you have to place your ball in the correct position on the fairway to attack the flags.Under the expert guidance of Head Greenkeeper Raymond Houston, who also built the course, small improvements have been made each year so that the course moves on at a pace that guarantees the its excellent condition as well as providing new challenges.
The signature hole is the 14 th and is only 76 yards long, but there is nothing between the green and the tee except a deep gully with a burn at the bottom so it is not for the faint hearted!
The 2nd hole is the longest at over 550 yards from the medal tees and is a true 3 shotter as you also have several ditches and burns to contend with. The course has a mixture of short and long par 4's, reachable par 5's and testing par 3's offering something for everyone, and even if the golf is not up to scratch the views are of Inverness, the Moray Firth and the surrounding hills are truly outstanding.
Kingussie Golf Course
|Address and contact:
|Kingussie Golf Club
Gynack Road
Tel: 01540 661374
Fax: 01540 662066
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web: www.kingussie-golf.co.uk
|11 miles from Laggan on the A86, this eighteen hole course is also open all year weather permitting, again booking essential. Cost Mon.- Fri. £23 per round/£30 per day, Sat. and Sun. £26 per round/£32 per day. Club and trolley hire available.
The course lying above Kingussie offers extensive scenic views over the Cairngorms and surrounding mountains – so even if your golf is not as you wish, the environment and scenic splendour offers a degree of comfort.
At the end of the round members and visitors are provided with an excellent catering service with a range of meals at affordable prices. The Golf Club has recently upgraded the caravan park and all 57 residential caravans now have full services – there is also a pitch for touring caravans. See Kingussiecaravan for details of self catering luxury caravan hire
Grantown on Spey golf course
|Address and contact:
|Grantown-on-Spey Golf Club
Golf Course Road
Tel: 01479 872079
Fax: 01479 873725
E-Mail: email@example.com
Web: www.grantownonspeygolfclub.co.uk
|Established in 1890, Grantown-on-Spey Golf Club welcomes individual players and societies. The 5710 yard course has a par of 70 (SSS68) and was progressively developed over the early part of the century by A.C. Brown, Willie Park and James Braid.
The Spey Valley is a majour tourist area and when not golfing, the visitor can explore the Malt Whisky Trail, view the ospreys at nearby Loch Garten, fish in the River Spey or simply go walking in the hills or through the abundant pine forests.
Located in the beautiful Spey Valley, the course is a mixture of parkland and woodland with many magnificent views towards the Cairngorm range and the Cromdale Hills. Walking is relatively easy and the course presents a fair challenge for every calibre of golfer.
Perhaps the most scenic hole is Murdie's View, the 275 yard 9th, a short downhill par 4 with the spectacular backdrop of the Cromdale Hills. When the heather is in bloom it is incomparable.
Fortrose golf course
|Address and contact:
|Ness Road East, Fortrose,
Scotland, IV108SETel: +44 (0)1381 620529
Email: email@example.com
|Course architect James Braid's remarkable achievement in designing 18 challenging holes within the narrow Chanonry peninsula isinstantly obvious and admired by first time visitors.
Modern day golf writers enthuse over the course layout and condition, with accolades such as 'a gem of a course by the sea'
– 'the smallest but perhaps the brightest jewel in the Highlands golfing crown'
– 'one of the most pleasant rounds of golf in the north'
– 'a unique course with a special character to be found nowhere else'.
What Fortrose and Rosemarkie may lack in yardage is more than compensated by its small deceptive greens and strategically placed bunkers – challenges which are multiplied in the mind of the player by a public road dissecting the course, the proximity of the sea to eight of the holes and the dense island of gorse that awaits the wayward shot at numerous others.
Playing to one's handicap, therefore, is never easy, especially on a windy day. Par is 71 but the standard scratch score is 69.
Fort Augustus golf course
|Address and contact:
|Karen Callow
Fort Augustus Golf Club
Market Hill
Fort Augustus
PH32 4DSTel: 01320 366660
Mobile:07824 785003
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
|One of Scotlands hidden gems Fort Augustus was laid out in 1924 by Harry Shapland Colt on the banks of the Caledonian Canal near Loch Ness.
Information by Fort Augustus golf club.
Although some changes have been made over the years the layout of the course remains basically as Harry Colt designed it. It is a nine hole course with mostly natural hazards. In a letter to the club in 1924 Colt says. "I do not want to see any artificiality about the course, except at the 7th hole (a very challenging par 3). The natural ridges and mounds will provide plenty of amusing shots, and your little course should be almost unique among golf courses in this way."
It's a traditional heathland course and is widely regarded as the most challenging 9 hole course in Scotland.
There are dual tee positions giving the course a true 18 hole feel.
The dense gorse and heather that line the long narrow fairways demand accurate driving. The scenery never loses it's breathtaking appeal to those who have played here in the past or are visiting for the first time.
Our clubhouse is small and cosy which allows us to offer a personal welcome to all who play here and our licenced bar makes it the perfect place to have that much needed drink to relax and discuss the highs and lows of your round.
"We guarantee you'll feel as though you've always been here and will want to come back"
Cawdor Castle golf course
|Address and contact:
|Cawdor Castle Ltd
Cawdor Castle
IV12 5RDTel: (01667) 404401
Fax: (01667) 404674
Web: www.cawdorcastle.com
Email: email@example.com
|Cawdor Castle was built in 1370 at a time when clubs were in constant use in Scotland, but not for sporting reasons. Things have subsequently been refined so that now people enjoy picking on small white balls rather than each other, and they have done so at Cawdor with much delight and occasional oath since 1976.
The course covers 25 acres of mature parkland. Its 1429 yards (par 32) offer a variety of challenges that will amuse the seasoned player and welcome the beginner. The course record is 27.
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Bonar Bridge golf course
|Address and contact:
|Bonar Bridge, Sutherland
Tel: 01863 766199
|A nine-hole blend of heath and moorland, Bonar Bridge is generally considered one of the most beautiful courses in the Highlands. The narrow tree-lined fairways require straight driving, while the small, hard-to-read greens will confuse even the most gifted of players.The surrounding heather-laden terrain provides a wonderful backdrop to this easy-walking course. The par three third is the signature hole. Although not terribly hard, it has to be one of the most enjoyable par threes in the Highlands as views down to Loch Migdale, with the hills in the background, are unforgettable
Boat of Garten golf course
|Address and contact:
|Boat of Garten
PH24 3BQTelephone 01479 831282
Fax 01479 831523
Website http://www.boatgolf.com/
|Established in 1898 and designed by one of the grand-masters of golf course architecture – James Braid, "The Boat" is not only a demanding test of sporting skill but also a magnificent setting for the game.The view from the clubhouse, over the 1st and 2nd fairways and beyond, to the Cairngorm mountains – with such distinctive features as the Lairig Ghru and the northern corries of Braeriach – is incomparable, certainly within the realms of Scottish golf.
This Highland grandeur, depending on the day, can inspire high achievement or, in the more common event of disappointing performance, affords the comfort and consolation of communing with nature in uniquely attractive surroundings.


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The Buzz about Buzz
On October the 20th folk enjoyed a shared feast at the Lockleaze Banquet
On October the 20th folk enjoyed a shared feast at the Lockleaze Banquet, hosted by Buzz as part of this year's Healthy City Week. Everyone enjoyed a variety of free delicious healthy meals and many brought along a dish to share with their neighbours.
Thank you to everyone who enjoyed the celebration, it was a great evening!
This feast was the first of many to be hosted by Buzz; there will be a series of six shared lunches on the first Saturday of every month, kicking off on the 5th November at lunchtime (see the next flyer for details). Again all are welcome to bring a dish or simply come along and enjoy free delicious food. Buzz intends to hold this event every month to provide an opportunity to get together and share a meal.
Also during Healthy City Week Buzz hosted a range of events from needle felting to dance workshops. If you wish to organise a community event and would like Buzz to host you, then please email firstname.lastname@example.com for more details.
In other news, chainsaw sculptor and wood carving expert Andy O'Neill lovingly hand crafted two Buzz bees from UK native oak wood. Both bees have certainly found a happy home at Buzz in the café and garden; Please feel free to come and appreciate the artist's work!
The Buzz garden now has five new raised beds! They were built and installed by the team from ABC electrification who very kindly donated their time and efforts on Friday 14th October. Their valuable work was continued by young volunteers from the Prince's Trust, so a BIG thank you to everyone, including our resident Buzz gardening team for helping to establish a beautiful garden that will flourish from the Spring of 2017.
Anyone who is interested in joining the gardening team, please pop into Buzz or call the Buzz team on 0117 2690006, alternatively you can email firstname.lastname@example.com
Finally, to combat those cold and dark winter mornings, the Buzz café will be opening their doors to provide wholesome breakfasts. There will be a delicious new breakfast and lunch menu as of 1st November and the new opening times will be Tuesday – Friday: 8:30am –5:30pm (not forgetting the first Saturday of every month for a shared lunch!)
The Buzz team look forward to welcoming you for some tasty treats in the near future.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Virgin Atlantic has extended its suspension of daily operations to Shanghai until March 28 due to the outbreak of coronavirus and increased travel restrictions to mainland China.
It had previously suspended the flights from London Heathrow to Shanghai for two weeks from Feb. 2. On Tuesday, Britain advised that its citizens in China should leave the country if they could.
"Given this new FCO advice, the increasing entry restrictions on recent visitors to mainland China, and our rigorous focus on safety, Virgin Atlantic has opted to extend the suspension of Heathrow-Shanghai operations until March 28," the airline said in a statement
Reporting by Alistair Smout; editing by Guy Faulconbridge


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The New York Times' Matt Bai on Steve Jobs yesterday:
After all, if you wanted to really get a picture of how the national culture has evolved in the last few decades, particularly in the urban areas that drive economic growth, you could do a lot worse than to study Apple's string of innovations. Mr. Jobs understood, intuitively, that Americans were breaking away from the last era's large institutions and centralized decision-making, that technology would free them from traditional workplaces and the limits of a physical marketplace.
This was the underlying point of "think different" — that our choices were no longer dictated by the whims of huge companies or the offerings at the local mall. This was the point of a computer that enabled you to customize virtually every setting, no matter how inconsequential, so that no two users had the exact same experience. This was the essential insight behind devices driven by a universe of new apps, downloaded in seconds depending on your lifestyle and interests.
Storyteller Mike Daisey in a New York Times op-ed yesterday:
Mr. Jobs leaves behind a dominant Apple, fulfilling his original promise to save the company from the brink when he returned in 1997. Because of its enormous strength in both music sales and mobile devices, Apple has more power than at any time in its history, and it is using that power to make the computing experience of its users less free, more locked down and more tightly regulated than ever before. All of Apple's iDevices — the iPod, iPhone and iPad — use operating systems that deny the user access to their workings. Users cannot install programs themselves; they are downloaded from Apple's servers, which Apple controls and curates, choosing at its whim what can and can't be distributed, and where anything can be censored with little or no explanation.
As suggested by their opposite understandings of how Apple actually operates, the rest of Mike Daisey's piece is worth reading while Bai's is not.


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How is love presented in Twelfth Night? Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is in essence a romantic comedy. The theme of love is implemented into both the main and sub plots throughout the endurance of the play; doing so from different perspectives and an array of forms. The other themes in Shakespeare's play, such as madness and humour, all coincidentally have an inextricable link with one another. The emphasis of love in Shakespeare's plots have been built upon the foundations of disguise and deceit; and as a result, enhances the humour and entertainment of the overall play. Shakespeare typically ends Twelfth Night like all his other romantic comedies, with love prevailing in the end with a marriage; or in this case, a series of marriages. The most glaringly obviously form of love in the play is romantic love, which interestingly enough is never taken from a realistic perspective from any of the leading characters contributing to the theme. For example, the play opens with a speech by the most powerful man in the play, Duke Orsino, who starts by saying "If music be the food of love, play on". ...read more.
Orsino's self-indulgent love and fantasy like observation of love are confirmed through his arrogance. Although Orsino is an amiable character within the play, he stills holds up a stigma of arrogance, maintaining the confidence that has the ability to do anything he pleases. "To pay this debt of love but to a brother"; upon hearing that Olivia wished to be with no man for 7 years, Orsino finds optimism within the news. Instead of giving up on love that is unrequited by Olivia, he carried on his pursuit of her heart. There are no reservations, in his mind, that she will fall in love with him in the end. In light of all this insight into Orsino's character, it would not be an astonishment to learn that Orsino was not actually in love with Olivia but in love with the idea of being in love; and being of such high status in society, Orsino felt that he could never fall victim to defeat in anything, including love. Although Olivia does not return Orsino's love, she is also a target of self-love. Olivia persistently talks of her beauty throughout the endurance of the play. ...read more.
Viola's love for Orsino entails the same humour, but the humour intensified by the fact that Viola continuously drops hints to Orsino that Cesario is a woman, in the hope he may recognise her riddles, "I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brother's too". The most obvious case of self-love in Twelfth Night came in the form of Malvolio, the dislikeable character of the play. Olivia describes Malvolio of being "sick of self-love". Malvolio is a condescending, self-righteous, puritan type, character. Malvolio is immediately mesmerised with the idea of becoming "Count Orsino" and immediately believes Olivia loves him. However, the driving force behind his feelings for Olivia are clearly for his promotion up the ranks and lust. Malvolio becomes obsessed with the idea of sex when he completely abandons his beliefs as a puritan and aims sexual connotations towards Olivia, "To bed? Ay sweetheart, and I'll come to thee". The whole scheme behind the gulling of Malvolio brings out humour and entertainment; whose self-love brought him down. The romantic love ...read more.
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By Matthew E. Milliken
Jan. 10, 2014
Let me tell you about a Martin Scorsese movie that I recently saw. The protagonist is an unscrupulous young white man who aspires to wealth and luxury. By associating himself with a gang of other similarly avaricious, unprincipled young men, the ambitious outsider achieves wild levels of success. The rewards include free-flowing money, drugs, sex and power. Those outside his circle sometimes pay a heavy price for the protagonist's triumphs. After the group attracts the scrutiny of the authorities, they're cleaved by internal divisions. Ultimately, the leading character is humbled, but he does not attain humility.
If this sounds familiar, there's good reason for that. Squint at Scorsese's late 2013 release, The Wolf of Wall Street, and one might easily mistake it for his 1990 mafia classic, Goodfellas. In a broader sense, it also matches the outsider-makes-good-before-getting-his-comeuppance template that Goodfellas shares with Scorsese's 1995 drama, Casino, wherein a Philadelphia oddsmaker becomes a top Las Vegas power broker but is undone by greed, drugs, lust and politics. In all three films, the protagonist's success is threatened by a profligate right-hand man.
Both Goodfellas and Casino are based on nonfiction books by Nicholas Pileggi. This time around, the source material is a memoir by arriviste financier Jordan Belfort; thugs, guns and violence are de-emphasized in favor of opulence and sex, but the parallels with Scorsese's early works are unmistakable.
And the similarities don't end with the story lines. As Belfort, Leonardo DiCaprio seems to be channeling Ray Liotta's Henry Hill from Goodfellas. Moreover, both The Wolf of Wall Street and Casino clock in at three hours. (Goodfellas is a relatively svelte two hours and 26 minutes.)
Wolf's actual plot doesn't require much description. Matthew McConaughey has a short but memorable early turn as a stockbroker at an established Wall Street firm who inculcates Belfort in the free-wheeling, unscrupulous ethos one needs to succeed in finance. (The character's advice boils down to three items: Masturbate multiple times a day to relieve stress, use drugs to stay sharp and tell clients whatever helps to pad your paycheck.)
When the 1987 stock market crash devastates the financial markets, Belfort and his (first) wife, Teresa, contemplate selling her engagement ring. Financial salvation, and a gateway to turpitude, appears when Belfort finds a job selling penny stocks, a largely unregulated financial backwater affording brokers 50 percent commissions. Belfort's genius for sales, plus his willingness to lie to naïve retirees, soon have him earning $72,000 a month.
In rapid order, Belfort acquires an acolyte — Donnie Azoff (Jonah Hill), filling the role of the greedy, reckless sidekick that Joe Pesci played in Goodfellas and Casino — and launches his own brokerage. The new firm, Stratton Oakmont, is staffed by a core group of drug dealers who share Belfort's sales acumen and his lack of concern for the finer points of ethics and financial regulations. It is, of course, enormously successful.
The firm attracts the scrutiny of Patrick Denham (Kyle Chandler), an FBI agent, who meticulously assembles a case against Belfort and his peers over several years. Before Denham can spring his trap, however, Belfort and Azoff have more immediate issues: How to launder their ill-gotten gains and how to limit the fallout from their ever-escalating indulgence in women, drugs and general hedonism.
There are some amazing set pieces here, starting with a corporate orgy highlighted by a naked marching band and a swarm of strippers. (Subsequent scenes in which Belfort rallies his employees aren't quite as bacchanalian, but they are arguably at least as powerful.) A chunk of the movie's middle and end stages document the rogue traders' scheme to funnel cash to a discreet Swiss banking firm. These machinations very memorably begin to disintegrate along with an enormous luxury yacht that Belfort sails into a violent storm.
The Wolf of Wall Street's pièce de résistance, however, precedes that marine catastrophe. After Azoff goads the hot-tempered Brad (Jon Bernthal), a key figure in the money-laundering process, Belfort and Azoff get hopelessly stoned on vintage quaaludes. Belfort takes a late-night excursion in his sports car but then realizes that at at that very moment, Azoff's lack of discretion is endangering the livelihoods and lives of Stratton Oakmont's principals.
The sequence climaxes with Belfort (the eponymous wolf of Wall Street, natch) crawling and then racing home to tangle, literally, with his old friend. There may well be other film episodes that so thoroughly limn the depravity of America's nouveau riche, but I'm not aware of them. This might — nearly — be enough to convince a few strivers that being poor but honest is in fact preferable to rich and corrupt.
Almost as harrowing as this is the part of the movie in which Belfort fights with his second wife. (Margot Robbie infuses Naomi, her physically glamorous but spiritually empty mistress cum trophy wife cum mother, with a tincture of likeability.) The scenario begins with a moody boudoir conversation, transforms into what many will view as marital rape and ends with a physical confrontation that degrades both spouses and endangers their eldest child.
Here's another thing that Wolf shares with the two Scorsese-helmed forerunners that I mentioned above: I found myself admiring and respecting their craftsmanship more than I actually enjoyed watching them. For all the acclaim heaped on Goodfellas, it left me a bit cold. Belfort is at least as contemptuous of the public at large as Hill; both men view most Americans as dupes and chumps. There is no redeeming either man, even if one doesn't necessarily relish the inevitable downfall.
Robert DeNiro's Sam "Ace" Rothstein in Casino isn't quite as corrupt or violent as his peers. Although Rothstein can be ruthless and underhanded, he has more humility and a stronger sense of right and wrong than either Hill or Belfort. One key to Rothstein's downfall, in fact, is his decision to boot a politician's hopelessly incompetent and/or thieving relative from the casino payroll, a fundamentally correct but politically reckless move that has dire consequences.
Rothstein's germ of integrity renders the character more sympathetic than Hill or Belfort, which I think makes Casino arguably the most enjoyable entry in the troika. So, too, does the fact that Rothstein's violent sidekick is punished, while Rothstein himself more or less winds up with a happy ending.
The Wolf of Wall Street's conclusion is open to interpretation. (Warning: Mild spoilers follow.) By the film's end, Belfort has been disgraced, divorced, impoverished and imprisoned, but his confidence has barely been dinged.
In the final scene, the former broker is leading a sales seminar packed with worshipful would-be disciples. But the loquacious Wolf barely talks. Instead, he restlessly shifts his focus from one pupil to another, transferring his gaze mid-sentence as a sequence of students try to demonstrate their sales acumen. What is Belfort thinking? He might be proud of the admiration he's inspired; he might be hungry to replicate his earlier successes; he might be bored by the subject matter he's supposed to be teaching. Or maybe he's just contemptuously counting up the dough handed over by his hapless students.
One thing is clear, however: That the corrupt former stockbroker can be idolized by a room full of people after everything we've seen stands as an indictment of contemporary society.
Is the moral of this movie too simplistic, or possibly too preachy? Well — maybe. In the end, I'm convinced that The Wolf of Wall Street is an important movie, a chronicle of the rot at the heart of our mammon-obsessed culture. It's certainly a memorable film, at least in stretches.
What I can't decide is whether this is a great movie, although I suspect the critical verdict of history will be kind. But I think the bottom line of my review comes down to this: Any one person's reaction to The Wolf of Wall Street probably says more about that person than about the film itself.


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There are several Coaching and Training Sessions available for BGCC members to take part in.
As these are all organised by the coaches and instructors on a voluntary basis, you are advised to contact those in charge of each session to make sure there have been no changes to the session times and/or that this week's session will be going ahead. Most of these sessions are held from Molonglo Reach, either on the Molonglo River or out onto Lake Burley Griffin.
Participation in training sessions is only permitted for club members with the exception of the "Taste of Paddling" Sessions.
Taste of Paddling Sessions
Taste of Paddling sessions for non-club members are conducted on a number weekends, for instruction in boat selection and use, basic paddling stroke. Also refining paddling strokes, trying less stable boats. These sessions must be booked through Patricia Ashton. For detail, see under Coaching
Session Dates
- 2020 dates: TBA in October, November, December
Beginner Paddlers - New Club Members
Join the Burley Griffin Canoe Club - New Members' Inductions will generally be held on the first Sunday of each month, over the warmer months. We then offer beginner sessions at various times during the week, or, if you're more advanced, there are training sessions with coaches which are more race-orientated.
Beginner paddlers are welcome and catered for between October and April, from then on water and air temperatures steadily drop and many of us train and travel for the winter race season, or hibernate totally.
However, if, during the colder months you are super keen, transferring from another club, or you are an experienced paddler, please let us know and we'll try to set you up in a training group. Patricia.
All new club members using club boats (except canoe polo), are expected to attend an Induction Session. These will cover club rules regarding the shed, boats and safety. You will learn which boats are available for use (depending on your paddling capabilities), how to use these boats - carrying them, adjusting them and how to get in and out of them. You will learn some basic paddling skills on the water. Sessions take about 2 hours.
Once you have attended your Induction, there are various options open to you. If you have had some experience paddling you may wish to join one of the paddling groups listed below. If you are new to paddling and wish to gain skills, confidence and paddling fitness in a non-threatening, somewhat more gentle session, the following times are ideal.
[Please remember to get to the shed at least 5 minutes before time, to be ready to paddle. The longer it takes to get on the water, the shorter your paddle will be. Coaches lock the shed doors before getting on the water, so if you are late you will miss out]
Session Times:
Thursday 5:30 p.m. with Patricia - technique, basic skills, building up fitness and strength - 1 hour contact Patricia (During Daylight Savings Times)
Saturdays at 1:30 p.m. (on non-race weekends only!) – with Helen. Please contact Helen before 11 a.m. at: Helen or she will not be there. Be at the Club Shed before 1:30 p.m. to take out boats. Beginners will be accompanied with general beginner coaching as appropriate. More competent (faster) paddlers are welcome to attend at this time and paddle at their own pace - appropriate to their abilities.
Sunday: 9.00 a.m. These sessions will be lead by coaches, trainee coaches or experienced paddlers on a roster basis. Depending on participants this could be a gentle paddle to the wetlands, carillon or Kingston, or short races up and down the river.
Tuesdays - 7:00 a.m. David & Russell's Session. 1 hour; some interval training and technique instruction. Contact David Gordon or Russell Murphy
Wednesday's: from 5:45 p.m. We run our club time trials - you can use these to increase your paddling fitness or you can take out a boat and go for a paddle yourself. Shed Is open from about 4:30 till 7:30 p.m. (During Daylight Savings Times)
Gary – Intermediate /Advanced Paddlers
This intermediate/advanced group includes regular interval sessions and drills/technique sessions.
Interval sessions sound scary, but they are not. Anyone wishing to get fitter and faster is welcome.
Intervals are structured as 'out-and-back' so the group gets back together regularly regardless of various speeds through the group. Excellent for time trial and Marathon series racing. A stopwatch or GPS on the deck of the boat for each paddler is helpful but not mandatory.
If the coach is unavailable for any session (this is pretty rare!), programs will be set in advance and there are almost always other paddlers in attendance.
6:00 a.m. Tuesday & Thursday (all year) - Interval session. Off water by 7:15-7:30.
6:30 a.m. Saturday Interval session of about 90min on Saturday.
7:00 a.m. Sunday - Long paddle of about 2hrs on Sunday.
Margi – Intermediate/Advanced Paddlers Training for Competition. Be the best you can be.
Anyone who seeks to improve their racing performance are welcome to attend these sessions.
TrainSmart integrates information on paddle and boat physics, physical and fitness attributes and biomechanics towards personalised training to prepare paddlers to be the best they can be. Sessions are structured to keep group cohesivity through the session so it does not matter if you are a fast Open MK1 paddler or an older masters paddler. The common ingredient for participants in this group is a desire to improve their racing performances. Participants in the program are encouraged to attend the Wednesday Night BGCC Paddle and Time Trial.
Sessions are usually 60-75 minutes during the week and longer on Saturdays. Sessions follow a 2-week microcycle pattern within a block periodisation format designed around key races. The program includes on-water and off-water sessions (gym, run, portage, cycle). If Margi is not around to run a session, details are sent to you in advance and the group trains at the usual times.
Training Times are:
· 4:00 p.m. Monday, Friday.
· 9:30 a.m. Saturday
Members of this squad are mostly training for State and National Championships, PNSW Winter Series races and Masters Games. Some paddlers get selected onto National Teams and compete at the World Marathon and World Masters Marathon Championships. The program follows similar training philosophies to those of successful paddlers and nations in marathon kayak.
Paddlers are regularly tested so that the training program can be adjusted to facilitate sustained improvement. There is a small cost to cover consumables when we do testing. Testing follows similar protocols to that used nationally and by successful marathon coaches around the world. If available, Mick Leverett gets involved in these testing weekends to help prepare you for the myriad of strategies and skills needed to be successful.
Overseas Tours: Members of the squad try to travel to South Africa or to the World Marathon Cup in May-June of each year to get some international experience, socialise and race with some of the top names in our sport, work with some really good coaches and have a bit of a change of scenery. Preliminary plans (all cancelled because of the Corvid-19 pandemic) for 2020 were to go to Pitesti in Romania (location for the 2021 World Championships) for the Marathon World Cup over 22-24 May with a 10-day camp in either Portugal or Denmark preceding competition. The World and Masters World Marathon Championships are in Baerum, Norway over 25-30 August, 2020 so we may make a side trip to Norway to check out the course.
Canoe Polo holds training on Monday, Wednesdays and Sundays, at the river over the summer months, and Wednesday and Sundays at Tuggeranong pool through winter. Contact our Canoe Polo convener, Laura Kleinrahm: Laura


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On March 25, 1945, on the Feast of the Annunciation, Our Lady appeared to a simple woman, Ida Peerdeman (†1996), who lived with her sisters in Amsterdam. This was the first of 56 apparitions, which took place between 1945 and 1959. On May 31, 2002, the local bishop came to the conclusion that the messages of Amsterdam are of supernatural origin. Our Lady appears under the new title, "The Lady of All Nations" or "The Mother of All Nations". In this time she wants to be made known and loved by everyone under this title. In a prophetic way, she gives, above all, an impressive insight about the situation in the Church and in the world during the second half of the 20th century. In the messages, Mary then gradually reveals the plan with which God wants to save the world through the Mother. Thus, she gives the peoples and the nations an image and a prayer.
The Image
The image shows the Lady of All Nations standing on the globe, permeated by God's light before the Cross of her Son with whom she is inseparably united. From Mary's hands stream forth three rays of grace, redemption and peace, which she may grant to everyone who invokes her as Advocate. The flock of sheep represents the nations of the whole world, who will not be at rest until they look up at the Cross, the center of the world.
Explanation of the Image
The messages of Amsterdam are unique in the history of Marian apparitions because Our Lady gives detailed descriptions of her image in six messages. Mary appears here as the COREDEMPTRIX in three ways:
|• She stands, penetrated by God's light, before the Cross of her Son, with whom she is inseparably united.
|• She has a cloth wrapped around her, about which she explains, "Listen carefully to what this means. This is as the Loincloth of the Son. For I stand as the Lady before the Cross of the Son" (April 15, 1951).
|• Her hands have radiant Wounds. Thereby Mary describes in an image the suffering of body and soul which she bore in union with her divine Son for the redemption of mankind.
Again the Lady directs Ida's look to her hands and thereby reveals to her that she is MEDIATRIX OF ALL GRACE: "Now look at my hands and describe what you see." Now it is as if there, in the middle of her hands, had been a wound. From there, from each hand, three rays of light are coming forth, shining upon the sheep. The Lady smiles and says, "These are three rays, the rays of Grace, Redemption and Peace" (May 31, 1951). Grace from the Father, Redemption from the Son, and Peace from the Holy Spirit.
|"I have firmly placed my feet upon the globe, for in this time the Father and the Son wants to bring me into this world as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate" (May 31, 1951). "This time is our time" (July 2, 1951).
In a biblical representation, Mary shows the visionary sheep around the globe which symbolize all the nations and races of the earth. Then she says that they will not find true rest "until they lie down and in tranquility look up at the Cross, the center of this world" (May 31, 1951). Again and again, Mary directs our look to the Cross, the center of the world. Mary asks us therefore to spread this image throughout the world because "It is the interpretation and illustration of the new dogma" (December 8, 1952). For this reason, Mary emphasizes several times that this image must precede the dogma. "This image will precede … will precede a dogma, a new dogma" (April 15, 1951).
Considerations on the Image
When looking for the first time at the image of the Lady of All Nations you may be surprised to see Mary standing before the Redeemer's Cross without Jesus. "Does she not block the Cross?" one might ask critically. It seems almost as if the Mother standing in front of the dark cross wants to encourage us through this unusual image to ask questions and challenge us to meditate deeper about her vocation and place in the divine plan of redemption. Naturally, Mary could stand aside and point to the Redeemer on the Cross. Many artists, in fact, throughout the centuries have depicted the suffering of Jesus and Mary on Calvary like this or in a similar way. Yet heaven does not try in the image of Amsterdam to describe the vocation of the Redeemer and his redemptive sufferings, rather "they will use this image for the Coredemptrix" (April 29, 1951) as it is written in the messages. Yes, this image is meant to describe the vocation of the co-redeeming Mother without ever casting a shadow on the Redeemer. For Jesus is already risen and has returned to the Father in the splendor of heaven. Thus, He is no longer on the Cross. It stands in the radiant light of the resurrection from which Mary is enveloped. Our Lady, centered before the Cross, helps us to understand that Mother and Son are inseparably united in their mission. Where the Son is, there is also the Mother. The divine Son himself has called her into the center as Coredemptrix. From there we can joyfully realize that she, as the Mother of all nations, transmits the jointly suffered graces of redemption, intercedes and defends us.
The Original Image of the Lady of All Nations
The image of the Lady of All Nations was painted in 1951 by German painter Heinrich Repke and placed in a chapel on an estate in Germany, where it remained until the end of 1953. The painting was then transferred to the Netherlands and provisionally placed in the rectory of the Dominican Church of St. Thomas on Rijn Street in Amsterdam. At the end of 1954, the pastor of this church received permission from the local ordinary of Haarlem-Amsterdam, Bishop Huibers, to place the painting in the church's Chapel of Our Lady. The solemn installation took place on December 19, 1954. On May 31, 1955, the visionary Ida Peerdeman received her 51st message from the Lady of All Nations in the Chapel of Our Lady in the crowded St. Thomas Church. Negative reactions arrived at the diocesan office. Some people feared that the church might develop into a place of pilgrimage—something they wanted to avoid at all cost. On June 10, 1955, the bishop withdrew his permission, and the parish priest had to remove the painting. The bishop stated as his reason that public devotion could not be permitted pending inquiry into the authenticity of the apparitions. Everything connected with the devotion was removed from the church. The painting was relegated to the rectory—first placed in the library and then in the cellar. It remained there until 1966. The painting next found a welcome in the little parish church in Ville d'Avray near Paris (1966-1967). Then It returned to the Netherlands—first to The Hague, in the monastery of the Holy Sacrament Fathers (1967-1969), then to their monastery in Oegstgeest (1969-1970), and finally to the house on Diepenbrock Street in Amsterdam. The cellar of this house was transformed into a provisional chapel, and the painting was brought there on June 16, 1970. On August 15, 1976, the present-day chapel was consecrated. The image, having wandered for twenty-five years, had now arrived at its second-to-last destination. Its future and final destination was foretold by the Lady herself in her 52nd message: "a separate chapel" in the "house of the Lord Jesus Christ," that is, the future Lady of All Nations Church to be built at the Europaplein in Amsterdam.
The Prayer
The prayer of the Lady of All Nations, together with her image, forms the core of the messages. The Lady of All Nations calls us to pray this short but powerful prayer at least once a day.
"You will go through a great deal yet, in this century. You, nations of this time, know that you are under the protection of the Lady of All Nations. Invoke her as Advocate; ask her to stave off all disasters. Ask her to banish degeneration from this world. From degeneration comes disaster. From degeneration comes war. Through my prayer you shall ask that this be staved off from the world. You do not know how great and how important this prayer is before God. He will hear His Mother, as she wants to be your Advocate" (May 31, 1955).
The Lady of All Nations Says this Prayer Aloud for the First Time
Already in the very first message on March 25, 1945, Our Lady speaks about her PRAYER as if it was already known. "The prayer must be spread," she desires. Yet it is only six years later, on the feast of Lourdes February 11, 1951, during a visit to Germany that the visionary hears the touching prayer from the mouth of Our Lady. This happens while the visionary is having a prophetic vision of the Second Vatican Council. This fact alone is a clear sign of the universal importance of this Trinitarian prayer. In the message Mary first of all insists, "Let everyone come back to the Cross; only then can there be peace and tranquility" (Feb. 11, 1951). Then Ida writes, "While I was still standing with the Lady before the Cross, she said, 'Repeat after me.' To me this was a little bit strange. I thought to myself, 'But I already repeat everything she says!' But suddenly I saw the Lady become even more beautiful than she already was. The light which had always surrounded her became much brighter and brilliant, such that I could hardly bear to look into it. She then raised and joined her hands, which she otherwise always held down. Her face became so heavenly, so sublime; you simply cannot express it in words. Her figure grew even more translucent and so beautiful that I looked at it enraptured and thought 'What will come now?' Then the Lady said, 'Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father…' But the way she said it! It goes right through you. I have not yet heard anyone in the world pray it as she did. 'Send now Your Spirit' with the emphasis on NOW, and 'Let the Holy Spirit live in the hearts of All Nations' especially stressing the word ALL. She also pronounces the word 'Amen' so beautifully and solemnly. As I repeated everything word for word, I was unaware what all this was actually suppose to be that she was reciting to me. However, when the Lady said 'Amen' everything was written in large letters before me, Only then did I realize that it was a prayer. The strange thing is that when the message was finished, I never again needed to read this prayer. It was impressed upon my memory. I knew it and always prayed it. Each time, I heard the tone in which she said everything. Of course I cannot repeat it that way. No one can say it the way she did, so beautiful and impressive." Then the Lady continues her message, "Child, this is so simple and short that everyone can say it in one's own language, before one's own crucifix; and those who have no crucifix say it to themselves. This is the message which I want to give this very day, for I am now coming to say that I want to save souls" (Feb. 11, 1951).
Who Once Was Mary
On July 2, 1951, in a clear, short, and simple way, Our Lady explains the prayer, "'Who once was Mary' means: many people have known Mary as Mary. Now, however, in this new era which is about to begin, I wish to be the Lady of All Nations. Everyone understands this." "Many people", actually the majority of people from then and from now really only "have known Mary", the mother of Jesus "as Mary" (July 2, 1951) and have called her thus. This has to be admitted. (Do not to forget, only one-sixth of all humanity is Christian!) Now, however, "in this new era which is about to begin"God wants all people to call Mary, not only by an unassociated name, but to accept and to learn to love her as their personal mother. They should, therefore, no longer call her just Mary but rather 'my mother', 'our mother' as she already said in the first message of Amsterdam, "They will call me 'the Lady', 'Mother'" (March 25, 1945). However, when I say not only "Mary" but "Mother", then something decisive changes through it in my personal relationship with her. Nevertheless, not everyone is satisfied with this simple explanation. Mary therefore describes in her 41st message, on the basis of Holy Scripture, how this 'change' from 'Mary' to the title 'LADY OF ALL NATIONS' came about. This reference to the gospel should be especially helpful for the theologians. (John 19:26 uses the word 'Woman'. The Lady quotes it in explaining when she became 'the Lady'. In Dutch the word'Vrouwe' means both 'Woman' and 'Lady'.)
"Tell the following to the theologians: at the sacrifice of the Cross came 'the Lady'. The Son said to His Mother, 'Woman, behold your son.' Thus the change came about at the sacrifice of the Cross. The Lord and Creator chose Miriam, or Mary, from among all women to become the Mother of His Divine Son. At the sacrifice of the Cross she became 'the Lady,' the Coredemptrix and Mediatrix. This was announced by the Son while He was returning to the Father. That is why I am bringing these new words in this time, and saying: I am the Lady of All Nations, who once was Mary. Tell this to your theologians. This is what these words mean for the theologians" (April 6, 1952).
Are You Not Always Mary?
Nearly every one who hears or says this prayer for the first time stops for a moment in surprise and wonders, as did the visionary and her spiritual director, "But you have always been Mary, the same Mary now as you were then, and not anyone else!" Of course, we can always address Mary as "Mary", like we repeat many times in the Hail Mary when we pray the Rosary. The LADY OF ALL NATIONS, however, wants to express in this wording that even her vocation wonderfully evolved. So we are always dealing with the same person, Mary. Now though, in Amsterdam, she "who once was Mary" has the desire, at the height of her coredeeming vocation, to be called 'THE LADY, MOTHER OF ALL NATIONS'. For Mary too became in the course of her life something that she had not yet previously been.
Through her FIAT she—the Immaculate Conception, the completely unknown and simple girl from Nazareth—became the Mother of the Divine Son. Through her suffering, united with the Redeemer, the Mother of Jesus also became the Lady, the Mother of All Nations and she wishes now in our time to be recognized and to be loved as such by all mankind. Everything depended on correspondence and faithful cooperation, even in Mary's case! At this point it may be helpful to show with specific examples how someone, by collaborating with God's grace and through suffering, matures into that what God has called him:
"May the father and patron of the Church, who once was Joseph, be our intercessor!" It may be applied to a holy pope:"May Pope Pius X, who once was Giuseppe Sarto, intercede for us in heaven!"
When the visionary herself understood better, she also made comparisons like the following to help others understand. Just as the little, playful girl Beatrix already had the vocation to one day become the Queen of the Netherlands, so too, Mary, who once lived as a hidden, simple little girl in the unknown town of Nazareth, became the Mother, the Lady of All Nations.
The Power of the Prayer
"You will go through a great deal yet, in this century" (May 31, 1955), Mary says. She promises, though, that if we pray her prayer, "degeneration, disaster and war may be staved off" (Oct. 11, 1953) and spiritual confusion may be conquered. She has been sent directly in our time as the Lady of All Nations so that "through this prayer, she may deliver the world from a great world catastrophe" (May 10, 1953). What great power this prayer has!
Our Lady clearly describes the spiritual condition of our time, "Satan is still the prince of this world. He holds on to everything he can. … The Lady had to bring her prayer now over this satanic world. For the Holy Spirit is still to come over the peoples" (April 4, 1954). As the Lady of All Nations she is now sent "in order to expel Satan. … You, however, shall pray my prayer which I gave to the world"(May 31, 1955). This prayer is therefore a decisive weapon in the fight against Satan. Since you concretely pray that the Holy Spirit come now at this moment, Satan consequently must vanish here and now. We are not praying "vanish Satan!" like an exorcism or Pope Leo XIII's prayer to St. Michael the Archangel: "…through the divine power of God, cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits…"Much more, the prayer of Amsterdam incites us to pray with all our heart, "Come Holy Spirit!" For our mother knows that where the Holy Spirit, who is Love, can be found, there is no place for demons, and she who "…stands as Advocate now in this anxious time" (cf. Dec. 31, 1951), "…will be allowed to bring peace to the world" (Oct. 11, 1953).
The Spreading
Like a missionary who wants to save all souls, Our Lady tells us already in her first apparition about her heart's desire, "The prayer must be spread" (March 31, 1945). For she knows the divine plan of redemption for humanity, "This prayer has been given for the redemption of the world. This prayer has been given for the conversion of the world" (Dec. 31, 1951), and therefore she asks us, "Then spread my prayer, the prayer of the Lord" (May 31, 1957).
She wants to give strength and power to all those who contribute to the spreading of the prayer, and she assures, "I shall help them" (Nov. 15, 1951). Ida is the first one charged with this task, "Do your work, and see to the outspreading" (Dec. 31, 1951). "Work for this alone, and give spiritual and bodily help by saying the prayer of the Lady of All Nations" (Feb. 17, 1952).
Once again, Our Lady uses an image of snowflakes to teach the visionary that this prayer should be prayed everywhere. "I see the globe rotating under her feet, and snowflakes are falling thickly everywhere. Then the Lady says, 'Did you see this? The Lady of All Nations will be brought throughout the world in the same way, from town to town, from country to country. This simple prayer will create one community'" (Feb. 17, 1952). "I want this to be [prayed] in many languages"(March 4, 1951) and the prayer brought also "to those countries where faith has declined" (April 15, 1951), because "The Lady of All Nations is not destined for one country, for one place, but is destined for the world, the peoples" (Oct. 11, 1951). "They all have a right to it" (April 29, 1951). Thus the explicit desire of the Mother of All Nations is understandable, that this prayer "will have to be prayed in all churches" (Dec. 8, 1952). "This prayer shall be spread in churches and by modern means" (Dec. 31, 1951). Yes, the Christians "shall pray my prayer against degeneration, disaster and war, and bring it among all nations" (Oct. 11, 1953). Not least of all, the Lady of All Nations expects that those who spread the prayer do it rapidly, very seriously, and with great zeal, because after all they work"for this cause, which the Son wants to be realized" (April 29, 1951).
Testimony about the Prayer
At the Third International Day of Prayer for Pentecost 1999, His Excellency Sooza Pakiam, Bishop of Trivandrum, India made an impressive speech. This nice example is an excerpt taken from it. "Today, the devotion to the Lady of All Nations is spreading in different parts of my diocese. I wonder how I myself came into this movement? What attracted me most was the prayer taught by Our Lady. It is a meaningful, short and profound prayer. It is essentially an invocation of the Holy Spirit. "Now it has been ten years since I was ordained a bishop. During these past ten years, I initiated a number of activities and introduced a series of renewal programs in my diocese. As a result of all these, we now have a beautiful structure appreciated by all. But today what I realize is this: the greatest need of today is not structures and buildings, not methods and techniques, not machinery and blue prints. All these, without the Holy Spirit, are nothing but dead bodies without a soul. That is why in her prayer the Lady of All Nations teaches us to invoke the Holy Spirit so that the Spirit of God may come upon and live in the hearts of all nations, that they may be preserved from degeneration, disaster and war. "For this reason, I wrote a pastoral letter and asked all my priests to learn this beautiful prayer by heart and to teach it to all their parishioners. I myself recite this prayer several times a day, because what we need today is not mainly new legislation, new theologies and new liturgies, but above all a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit, so that the Spirit may take our hearts of stone and give us a heart of flesh. (Cf. Ezek 36:26-27)… "May the veneration of Mary as the Lady of All Nations inspire each and every one of us and all of humanity to imitate the example of Mary's total surrender to God who "casts the mighty from the throne and exalts the lowly …"(Lk 1:52)
The Title Mother and Lady of All Nations
"Under this title she will save the world."
In the apparitions of Amsterdam, Our Lady wished to be called by the title "THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS". In 1996, the bishop of Haarlem, Mgr. H. Bomers, together with his auxiliary bishop and later successor, Mgr. J. M. Punt, issued a decree in which they permitted the public veneration of Mary under this title. , in dem er die öffentliche Verehrung Mariens unter diesem Titel erlaubte.
Already in the first message Mary announces, "They will call me 'The Lady', 'Mother'" (March 25, 1945), but that was not yet the complete title. Only after Pius XII solemnly proclaimed the dogma of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven on November 1, 1950, Our Lady presents herself immediately in the next message with her new title, "Child, I am standing upon this globe, because I want to be called the Lady of All Nations" (Nov. 16, 1950).
When attentively reading the messages it becomes apparent that the new title is actually a summery of Mary's coredemptive , mediatory and intercessory vocation. In order to make this clear to us, Mary uses her title, her new name THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS often in direct connection with Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate.
"The Lady of All Nations stands in the middle of the world before the Cross. She comes under this name as the Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate, in this time" (Dec. 31, 1951). "I have firmly placed my feet upon the globe, for in this time the Father and the Son want to bring me into this world as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate" (May 31, 1951). Further on in the same message she states, "The Father and the Son wish to send Mary, the Lady of All Nations, in this time as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate."
A Biblical Title
(It is important to note that in various languages the same word may be used for both 'lady' and 'woman' as is the case with the Dutch 'Vrouwe' Biblical references in English use only 'woman' as in John 19:26 which Our Lady quotes as being when she became 'the Lady'.)
- Already in the first pages of the Bible, in the book Genesis, Mary is described as the woman (or Lady) who, united with her Son, will crush the head of the serpent. God said to Satan, who had led Adam and Eve into pride and disobedience, "I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your offspring and hers." (Gn 3:15)
- At the wedding in Cana, Jesus addressed His Mother for the first time as woman, in order to remind her of her vocation to become the Lady of all Nations. As Mediatrix and Advocate she implores and obtains the miracle.
- On Calvary, our dying Redeemer turns to His Mother with His last strength, and as a personal testament says only four decisive words, "Woman, behold, your son!" With these divine words, Mary as Coredemptrix was made the Lady of all Nations. The message of April 6, 1952 confirms this, "At the sacrifice of the Cross, she became the 'Lady ('Woman'), the Coredemptrix and Mediatrix. This was announced by the Son while He was returning to the Father."
- The last of the four Scripture passages is found in the Book of Revelation. There, at the climax of the history of salvation, the woman again appears, clothed with the sun. She lays in pain, in the birth pangs for the new birth of humanity. (cf. Rv 12:1 ff.) A huge and red dragon appears and pursues the woman, who has borne a son.
The promised WOMAN in Genesis, who, united with her Son, crushes the head of the serpent; the WOMAN at Cana; the WOMAN on Calvary; and the WOMAN of the Apocalypse is the LADY OF ALL NATIONS, because, united with the Redeemer, she suffered for all nations, mediates the life of grace to all nations, and intercedes for all nations.
Mother for Everyone
As a true mother, she assures her children, whether believers or not, black or white, educated or not,"No matter who or what you are, I may be for you: the Mother, the Lady of All Nations" (May 31, 1954). And she promises everyone, "I will give consolation. Nations, your Mother knows life, your Mother knows sorrow, your Mother knows the Cross. Everything you go through in this life is a passage that your Mother, the Lady of All Nations, went before you. She went this road before you"(May 31, 1955)."The Lady of All Nations will come throughout the whole world. And in those countries which have rejected me, I shall return as the Lady of All Nations, standing on the globe before the Cross, surrounded by the flock of Christ. This is how I wish to come and will come. I will answer––according to the Son's will––those who call upon me this way, as the Lady of All Nations"(Sept. 20, 1951).
She Defeats Satan
In an age where in many ways Satan is the prince of the world, Our Lady promises her triumph, "The powers of hell will break loose. They will not, however, defeat the Lady of All Nations" (Dec. 3, 1953). "Satan is not yet expelled. The Lady of All Nations may now come in order to expel Satan. She comes to announce the Holy Spirit" (May 31, 1955). "How strongly Satan is ruling, God alone knows. He now sends His Mother, the Lady of All Nations, to you, to all nations. She will defeat Satan, as has been foretold. She will place her feet upon Satan's head" (May 31, 1955).
Peace and Salvation
Love urges Mary to even give us proof that she is truly the Lady of All Nations. She therefore prophesizes, "The sign of the Lady of All Nations will later on be seen throughout the entire world. Let them understand this well. False powers will fall…Once again I say: the Lady of All Nations can and will bring Grace, Redemption and Peace" (Feb. 17, 1952). And again about a year later, "In order to prove that I am the Lady of All Nations, I said: great powers will fall; politico-economic struggle will arise; watch out for the false prophets; pay attention to the meteors; there will be disasters; there will be natural disasters; we are facing great decisions; we are facing heavy pressure…she will save the world" (March 20, 1952). "I will and may bestow Grace, Redemption and Peace upon all who ask me. I promise this today!" (Aug. 15, 1951)."The Lady of All Nations will be allowed to bring peace to the world" (Oct. 11, 1953). Indeed, the Lady of All Nations is sent by her Lord and Creator so that "under this title and through this prayer, she may deliver the world from a great world catastrophe" (May 10, 1953). Until then though, the churches and the nations must in firm unity"invoke Mary under her new title and pray her prayer so that degeneration, disaster and war may be staved off from this world" (Oct. 11, 1953) and that the road is made free for the decisive final Marian dogma which is summarized in the title LADY OF ALL NATIONS and which will be proclaimed under this title.
His Excellency John B. Thakur, a Jesuit bishop from India, made a nice testimony about the title 'Lady of All Nations' during the Third International Day of Prayer in honor of the Lady of All Nations in 1999, excerpts of which follow."… The Church is known for her contribution of good education in our country. People flock to our institutions for admission. The Christian population in our country is about 2.5 percent. Hence 92 to 98 percent of the students attending most of our schools are Hindus, Muslims, Parsees, etc. The children in our institutions respect our religion. They feel free to go and say prayers in the chapel, if there is one in our school facility; and, naturally, they go to the statue of Our Lady, which is always in a prominent place. A nice example from one of our students: A group of young Hindu girls was kneeling and praying respectfully at the statue of Our Lady in one of our schools. After prayer, they looked with surprise at what was inscribed at the pedestal of the statue. It was written, "Mary, Mother of Christians, pray for us." They did not understand why it was written that way. They went to the principal and inquired why is it inscribed, "Mary, Mother of Christians, pray for us"? They said, "Mary is Mother not only to the Christians, but Mother of us all. We love her, respect her and pray to her." So there you are. "Mother of All Nations", declared the mouths of innocent children.
Introduction to the Messages
The messages may be viewed as three groups:
1) The first twenty-five messages, 1945-1950: These messages are more general in topic. Mary, the Lady, presents images, warnings and prophecies which clearly predict the political and spiritual turbulence to come in the second half of the twentieth century.
The first twenty-five messages, given between 1945 and 1950, are not always easy to understand. Initially the meaning of many images and words remained obscure. In a time in which no one could foresee the heavy storms to break out over the Church and the world, the Lady warned of forthcoming degeneration, disaster, and war. Now, fifty years later, this is all the more remarkable, for many of the images have become familiar to us, and many of the prophecies have been fulfilled: the founding of the Jewish state of Israel (message 2), the Cold War (message 23), economic warfare, boycotting, currency crises (message 14), the first landing on the moon (message 7), the Balkan war (message 17), the downfall of communism (message 5), chemical warfare (message 17), and many more. It is with good reason that the Lady says, "It will come true through the years" (message 19) and "The signs are in my words" (message 49). Again and again the Lady points to Christ, to the Cross, "First back to Him, only then will there be true peace" (message 9). There will be no peace on earth until the Cross is truly planted in the midst of the world and everyone looks up to it as the center of creation. The Lady promises to help the world, and she announces the coming of a new Spirit, a white Dove Who will send forth His rays. "I place my foot on the world. I will help them and lead them to the goal, but they must listen …" (message 5).
2) The next twenty-four messages, 1951-1954: Following the proclamation of the dogma of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven on November 1, 1950, the messages take on a new direction. The great plan by which the Lady wishes to save the world gradually unfolds. She dictates a prayer which, together with her image, is to be spread throughout the whole world, and she states that this-her 'worldwide action'-is the direct preparation for the final Marian dogma: Mary Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate. In numerous messages she explicates the meaning and importance of this prayer, image, and dogma, and she promises that the dogma will bring about a completely new outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
On November 15, 1950, fifteen days following the proclamation of the dogma of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, the Lady appeared standing on the globe, and for the first time she mentioned her new title: 'The Lady of All Nations'. In the following year, 1951, the Lady dictated her short and simple prayer, directed to the Lord Jesus Christ, requesting the sending of the Holy Spirit. She gave instructions for the painting of her image and started to speak about the final Marian dogma: Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate.The first and greatest commandment: In many messages the Lady speaks to the Church and to all Christians. Time and again she stresses the importance of the great commandment: Love. Thus she says: "The first and greatest commandment for humanity is Love. One who possesses love will honor one's Lord and Master in His creation, that is to say, see the greatness of His creation, including the Sacrifice. One who possesses love will do to other people everything one would like done to oneself. Love is the first and the greatest commandment which Christ gave" (message 35). The Lady admonishes Christians, telling them to be broad-minded and open-hearted; she continually calls for unity. Love alone can help this shattered world.
3) The last seven messages, 1954-1959: From May 31, 1954, onward, the Lady appears on May 31st every year. In grand visions she addresses the nations of the world, showing them the way to go, the way leading to the daily Miracle, the Eucharist.
Of the final seven messages, given between 1954 and 1959, six of them were given on the 31st of May. In these messages we see the Lady in her heavenly glory. She speaks to the nations of the world, urgently admonishing them, and she shows humanity the way it must go. The series of messages ends with a heavenly vision of the glorified Lady and the Lord in His divine majesty.
The Church, the Community: When referring to the Church, the Lady often calls it 'the Community', into which she wants to gather all people, "no matter who or what they are" (message 38). Amsterdam takes on particular significance. It is there that the Lady wants a special church to be built, and from there that her action shall spread throughout the world. She shows the exact place where the Lady of All Nations church is to be built, even giving detailed directions for its construction (message 52).
The Eucharist: The way humanity has to go is towards the great mystery of the Eucharist, the daily Miracle. In her final messages the Lady points with ever greater emphasis towards the Eucharist, the real presence of the Lord under the appearance of bread and wine (message 56). In the heavenly vision of May 31, 1959, the figure of the Lord Himself in all of His grandeur and majesty, emerges from a Host of white fire, and the words resound, "Whoever eats and drinks Me acquires eternal life and receives the True Spirit."
The Dogma: Mary Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Avdocate
Why a New Dogma? From the brochure Origin Messages Significance, 2002 The Lady of All Nations Foundation. Apart from spreading the new Marian title 'the Lady or Mother of All Nations' and a new prayer, the devotion also encompasses the building of an international church in Amsterdam and the dogmatic proclamation of Mary's role in Gods redemptive plan as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate. It is important to understand this well. The term 'Coredemptrix' never intends to take away the uniqueness and universality of Christ's Mediation, but refers to it and rather shows the strength of it.
The term 'Coredemptrix' has a long-standing tradition in the Church. The idea is to be found among Church Fathers, saints and popes. Edith Stein, Maximilian Kolbe, Padre Pio, Mother Teresa and Sr. Lucia from Fatima have strongly advocated it in our times. John Paul II used the term several times. It is interesting that it were the Dutch bishops who in 1943 when entrusting the Dutch people to the protection of Mary, highlighted the title 'Coredemptrix' and theologically elaborated on it. The bishops emphasized that only Christ is the Mediator between God and the human being (Cf. 1 Tim 2:5). Everything Mary gives, comes from Him. She is Mediatrix and guardian of her Son's graces. She intercedes for us with her Son. She is, however, also Coredemptrix because she was instrumental in his work of redemption and participated in it (Cf. Lk 1:38).
Mary's role, John Paul II says, has its origin in the triune God Himself, "who wanted to bring about and accomplish the great mysteries of the history of salvation by means of the responsible and faithful cooperation of the humble handmaid of Nazareth." (Pope John Paul II, in an address to the International Colloquium on Mariology, Rome, October 13, 2002) In this way Mary is the image of the Church. In this cooperation a special dimension of the redemption becomes visible that has a direct bearing on us, namely our own participation in the redemption, our own answer to it.
Mgr. J. M. Punt, bishop of Haarlem expressed it as follows: "In essence every human being is called upon to cooperate in the redemption through Christ, in order – as St. Paul writes – 'to make up in our own body all the sufferings that still have to be undergone by Christ'. All our prayers, sufferings and works become redemptive in as far as the human being is united with Christ, in faith and life (Cf. Salvifici Doloris nr. 25, Pope John Paul II). Mary takes up an unique position in this: her divine motherhood unites her in a supreme way with Him, from the time before his birth till after his death. Conceived without sin, she was created in the original fullness and freedom as God had intended for the human race. That was why she could respond in free surrender to Gods love and redemption on behalf of the human race. As 'Associate of the Redeemer' she was predestined to go along the same way as Christ, persevering unto the Cross (Cf. Jn 19:26,27).
Her sorrows merged with his sorrows. Her sacrifice with his sacrifice (Cf. Lumen Gentium 58). Inseparable then, inseparable now. Therefore, as the Church teaches us, she has been taken up to heaven with soul and body. Therefore she is also glorified. This deep union and coredemptive suffering underlie her universal, mediating motherly role."
The first four marian dogmas focus on Mary's life and assumption into heaven. The fifth dogma wants to formulate her universal role in God's redemptive plan now. "Taken up to heaven", the Vatican Council states, "she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us gifts of eternal salvation." (Cf. Lumen Gentium 62)
This coredemptive, mediating role of Mary is not a human invention, it is a divine plan, deeply willed by the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. By solemnly proclaiming this dogma, the Church gives her free consent to the Redemption and glorifies God Himself in fully recognizing his plan of salvation. This solemn proclamation enables Mary to fully unfold the preeminence of her titles and universal motherhood and to bestow 'grace, redemption and peace' to humanity and the world. It is the road to a new 'Cana', enabling Mary to touch her Son's heart and bring about a unique outpouring of the Holy Spirit in our dramatic times. It is the gate to a new evangelization and to true ecumenism in the Third Millennium.
The truth about the Coronavirus
May 1, 2020 - God the Father says: "Today, I invite you to realize that this virus - the coronavirus - is no ordinary disease. It has been created from human ingenuity to specifically target the elderly and physically challenged. This is the plan of future generations to purify the human race around the world. It was released into the general population ahead of schedule - by accident. Those in charge were waiting for less capable government officials in your country (USA) to be in office. Nevertheless, proposed harm is being unleashed on the whole human race."
"I tell you these things to help you to realize the underlying evil at work and hidden in hearts these days. You cannot be confounded by any turn of events. Over all situations, I am in Dominion. No one will be given power over you that is more powerful than your Eternal Father. Therefore, be emboldened with this knowledge. If you persevere in Truth, you have loaded your weapons against what seems to be and discharged them with Truth." (Source: Holy Love)


text: Quiptech at Medical Technology Ireland Posted on October 2, 2019 by editor Quiptech launch the Nordson Dage Explorer ONE at Medical Technology Ireland http://www.quiptech.com/europe/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/VID_20190925_104133.mp4 Quiptech hosted the Official Irish Launch of the High Resolution Compact 2D X-ray System, the Nordson Dage Explorer ONE, at this year's Medical Technology Ireland Exhibition and Conference. The event ran over two days, Wednesday the 25th – Thursday the 26th of September at Galway Racecourse. The launch took place with Russel Byrne from Nordson Dage officially unveiling the Explorer ONE to the Irish market. Quiptech is a leading distributor of capital equipment to the medical device industry in Ireland. It is also the exclusive distributor of Nordson Dage products to this market. The Nordson Dage Explorer ONE is a high resolution, super compact X-ray system. It can identify defects as small as 2 µm with QuadraNT¬ X-ray tube technology. While powerful automated inspection routines save significant time for batches of boards, program a routine once, then simply click to go. Quiptech would like to thank everyone who called by our booth at Medical Technology Ireland, it was great to see you all. I hope you enjoyed the Quiptech cupcakes!


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Natural Skin Care with Moody Sisters
Thursday, April 6, 2017
When it comes to skin care and beauty products, obsessed is an understatement but I have to be careful with what products I use because I have sensitive skin. I used to think that the only hypo-allergenic, natural ingredient based products on the market were the ones that made the think of my great grandma. Not that I didn't adore her because I totally did, I just don't want to smell like her (not that she smelled bad but hopefully you get the point). I won't name names because this post isn't about them, it's about one of my new favorite lines, called Moody Sisters.
Moody Sisters was founded by two sisters, Jess and Whitney, who wanted organic skin care for their own families. Their products are all natural; made from oils and other plant derived ingredients.
When I came across an ad for Moody Sisters on Facebook curiosity got the best of me and I'm so glad it did. When I saw they offer 4 free samples for new customers, I jumped on it and haven't looked back since. Their products not only work wonders, they smell fabulous and the packaging is so charming, too. They are a far cry from great grandma's plain ol' skin care products but I still think she's approve.
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Nourishing Eye Cream
Raise your hand if you suffer form tired, puffy eyes and dark circles. My hand is raised high! I've had super dark circles under my eyes as long as I can remember from allergies. It's always been one of my beauty "flaws" in my opinion but short of covering them with concealer, I didn't know what to do. I hadn't found a product that actually corrects the problem until this beauty came into my life.
*Back Story* A couple months before my wedding in September 2015 I started having major flare ups under my eyes, to the point where they almost swelled shut a couple times. I was panicked because a) I didn't want it to affect my vision b) I had no idea what the cause was and c) it was two months until my wedding. Vanity reasons? Yes but show me any bride who wants swollen puffy eyes. I wish I had known about this product then. When I found them I truly questioned putting any product near my eyes that I had never heard of before but after seeing that their products were all natural, I felt pretty confident that this product was okay and I was sure glad that I did.
Now that i've tried the Nourishing Eye Cream, I can say that it's a dream come true and it's all because of it's all natural ingredients. Not only does it not irritate my eyes, it also has done wonders to reduce the dark circles under my eyes. I should have taken before and after pictures to show y'all because the results have been that incredible. I've only been using this product for about a month but it'll always have a place in my beauty arsenal and regimen. I apply it daily, after I shower, under my make up and nightly, after I clean my face and it truly is making my skin glow. It even smells amazing, which is another must for me when it comes to beauty products. I've been known to throw products away because they smell awful. This smells so fresh and clean with it's natural ingredients such as sweet orange oil, lemon oil and mango butter.
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Ultra Rich Face Cream
Another staple in my beauty arsenal is the Ultra Rich Face Cream. It is made with Aloe Vera and Apricot Kernel Oil. When I was having all the sensitivity problems with my eyes swelling, I started breaking leaves off my aloe plant and using the gel to soothe and calm the irritation then a friend of mine told me about apricot kernel oil so I started alternating that with the aloe. When I saw that this product combined the two I was sold. I was looking for a moisturizer to wear under my make up that was lightweight, too. This product basically took 3 things I was using and combined them into one product and it smells really good.
I use it everyday under my make up because it absorbs into my skin really fast and leaves my feeling hydrated and my skin is glowing. You can apply make up with in minutes of putting it on. It's the perfect product for transitioning from dry, dull winter skin to bright, glowing, refreshed skin for spring. Make this part of your daily routine, you won't be sorry. I promise.
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Rejuvenating Facial Scrub {Blueberry Lime}
Umm, hello new love of mine. This product makes me excited to clean my face every night. At least every night that I use it. I try to keep the scrubs to a minimal because they can be a bit abrasive if used too much so I try to do mine every three nights but I really could use this one every night. It smells like blueberry muffins, y'all. I think that's what makes it my number one favorite product. The benefits are still equally as awesome as the other products but that smell of blueberry and limes makes it a dream. I really want to run to the kitchen and bake a fresh batch of muffins all the time. Even on the days I don't use this product, I still pick it up and smell it. Maybe that's weird to say about a beauty product but you'll just have to trust me, at least until your very own shows up on your doorstep.
Aside from the smell it has amazing ingredients; organic coconut oil, olive oil, sunflower seed oil and blueberry fruit fibers and it brightens and rejuvenates that tired, dry, dull skin too.
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Pore Refining Facial Scrub {Cucumber Mint}
Pores are my nemesis. Anyone else? I feel like the pores on my face are huge. They probably aren't as bad as I think they are but I definitely feel that way and i'm always looking for products that will help with that. Enter my dream product. I'll admit that this one doesn't get used as much as the blueberry one because blueberries but this one truly is amazing with improving my skin's texture and tone. It tightens it up and makes my skin feel so refreshed. Goodbye pores. Hello beautiful, youthful skin.
Again, the all natural ingredients make this an amazing product. Made with Vitamin E, Witch Hazel Extract, and Peppermint, Rosemary, Tangerine and Sweet Orange oils. This cleansing and exfoliating scrub doesn't disappoint.
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If you love all natural, great smelling beauty products then Moody Sisters has you covered. Run to their site and take advantage of the free samples. While you're at it treat yourself to the Hydrating Blueberry Muffin Facial Scrub and a blueberry muffin.
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Heroin compassion clubs - A cooperative model to reduce opioid overdose deaths & disrupt organized crime's role in fentanyl, money laundering & housing unaffordability
By the B.C. Centre on Substance Use
In British Columbia, the fabric of society is fraying. The morgues are full of community members who have died of opioid overdoses as a result of fentanyl poisoning of the illicit drug supply. For the first time in recent history, the life expectancy in British Columbia is decreasing due to extreme rates of overdose deaths. Behind this public health crisis are powerful organized crime groups reaping billions from the illegal fentanyl trade and targeting the local real estate market to launder drug profits, contributing to the housing affordability crisis. The causal relationship between drug prohibition and transnational organized crime's growth is well known and has been clearly articulated, while all available evidence indicates that efforts to curtail the fentanyl supply through drug law enforcement have failed. Instead, prohibition has enriched organized crime groups to the point where recent reports suggest as much as $5 billion annually in drug and organized crime profits is laundered through Vancouver-area real estate in recent years.
In the face of this reality, this report describes a model that has the immediate potential to address the underlying structural basis that has led to unprecedented levels of organized crime profits, unaffordable housing and opioid poisonings. This model is inspired by cannabis compassion clubs and buyers clubs, both of which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s in response to the AIDS epidemic—the last public health emergency our province faced. Then as now, compassion clubs functioned to provide a safe place for people to access medical cannabis and connect with a range of health services, while buyers clubs procured lifesaving treatment for patients living with HIV and AIDS when government inaction limited access to these medicines. Similar small user-driven underground initiatives to ensure access to heroin exist today, but they are risky, illegal and without a secure supply of fentanylunadulterated heroin. This severely limits access and sustainability.
This report proposes evaluating an updated model to these patient-led responses: a cooperative approach through which heroin could be restricted to members and legally obtained from a pharmaceutical manufacturer and securely stored in much the same way as it is already obtained and stored for heroin prescription programs, while also undertaking scientific evaluation to assess impacts. A cooperative could undermine the illegal market wherever it is set up. It could be initiated at little to no operating cost to the public, with the potential to reduce fentanyl-related opioid poisonings and decrease the spread of opioid addiction in the province.
In a public health emergency, urgency is required. It is proposed that this model be rapidly implemented and rigorously evaluated to understand how this model for regulation and control of the heroin market might reduce fentanyl overdose deaths while undermining organized crime profits and improving public health and safety in British Columbia.
British Columbia is in the midst of a drugrelated public health crisis. In recent years, thousands of British Columbians have lost their lives to overdose and other drug-related harms. While the recent spike in overdose deaths has been primarily driven by organized crime through the introduction of illicitly manufactured fentanyl analogues in street opioids (e.g., "heroin"), other harms stem from the contaminated illicit drug supply, including brain injuries from non-fatal overdoses, also contribute to major morbidity, mortality and health care cost.
From an evidence-based public policy perspective, fentanyl adulteration in the illicit drug supply is a predictable unintended consequence of drug prohibition. Specifically, the same forces that pushed the market away from relatively bulky opium towards heroin, a more concentrated opioid that was easier to transport clandestinely, have continued to push the opioid market to increasingly potent synthetic opioids, including a range of fentanyl analogues. At the same time, the prohibition of drugs continues to contribute to a range of health and social consequences and, via the criminalization of people struggling with illicit drug addiction, perpetuates stigma towards people who use drugs (see page 8).
British Columbia's longstanding drug-related organized crime concerns have also recently reached a crisis level stemming from the province's growing unregulated illegal drug market. The profits enriching organized crime groups have recently generated increasing public interest, given high profile investigations of how the province's casinos have been used to launder the proceeds of organized crime. However, less attention among the public has been paid to acknowledging the links between money laundering schemes and the source of organized crime profits: the illegal drug trade. Similarly, while many in the public view drug market violence as resulting from the effects of drugs (e.g., drug-induced psychosis), and high-level violence in drug markets has been used to stigmatize people who use drugs, criminology and law enforcement research demonstrates the clear links between the profits afforded to organized crime groups as a result of prohibition and drug market violence.9,10 Drug prohibition and the criminalization of people who use drugs contributes to a host of other harms to drug users and society at large (see page 8).
While addiction treatment and harm reduction interventions are a critical component of the public health response to substance use, addiction and related harms, these interventions do not address the structural factors that have given rise to the poisoning of the drug supply (e.g., organized crime profit motives) and related public health and safety concerns. Similarly, harm reduction, addiction treatment and recovery services, even when sufficiently brought to scale, will have a limited impact in addressing direct unintended effects of drug prohibition that are driven by organized crime profits in the illegal market.
In this context, this report describes a membership-based cooperative model that has the immediate potential to reduce the public health consequences stemming from the poisoning of the illicit drug supply while also disrupting organized crime concerns, including the financial driver of the fentanyl– money laundering–real estate cycle. This model is inspired by cannabis compassion clubs and buyers clubs, both of which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s in response to the AIDS epidemic, providing safe access to medicines. Given that the number of British Columbians with opioid addiction is currently estimated to exceed 120,000 in part as a result of unsafe physician prescribing and the proliferation of the fentanyl market under heroin prohibition, this model does not undermine efforts to promote cultural changes in the demand for drugs and, in fact, may actually reduce interest in opioids among high-risk populations.
It is proposed that an evaluation of this model be urgently undertaken with an initial trial site or sites to be established in neighbourhoods with high overdose morbidity and mortality, such as Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.


text: The 15 stories in the book deal with the contradictions, paradoxes and ironies of Indian life. The combination of setting, memorable characters, clear writing, and themes suggest a vision of an expansive and vast country of wonder. Among the stories, "Hawana of the East" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2012. "Sunday with Mary" was part of the list for Best of the Net 2013 Prize.


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What are the most meaningful factors in the topic of fashion that are recommended to be analyzed in order to assure ourselves good look?
Posted On 12th October 2018
Improving percentage of people these days tend to be interested in looking good. It is indicated by the fact that caring about our look is a good way to guarantee ourselves being successful in our job as well as in our private life. It is related to the fact that looking appropriate is an attractive chance to impress others and show that we are attractive people, who look well as well as care about this field.
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Therefore, it is mostly observed that people, who don't care about how do they look like that they find it substantially harder to become successful in various areas. As a result, being keen on fashion is a good hint that can help them implement some meaningful improvements regards what type of clothes do they use in order to look well. Furthermore, we can learn some important hints regards what to wear in order to look good.
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Another crucial fact in terms of fashion is that currently we have a lot of different sources to take inspirations from. Above all, we may find plenty diverse blogs as well as topical websites, which offer us broad range of attractive advices regards new products on the market that might support us underscore our style and support us look better and more interesting. What is more, we should also remember that in order to make a proper decision, the more we read and improve our knowledge concerning assortment of different corporations, the more we are likely to pick well and provide ourselves satisfaction.
To conclude, we should keep in mind that looking well is the best way to develop our chances on the labor market as well as in other fields. Therefore, including fashion and analyzing our chances in the previously presented field we are pretty likely to make ourselves look really attractive as well as increasing the probability that for example we will find an attractive job opportunity.


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If you're wanting to throw an Alice in Wonderland birthday party, there are tons of adorable ideas and free printables here!
Hot Wheels Birthday Party
Throw the coolest Hot Wheels Birthday Party full of racing themed-activities, food and decor! Get the free printable decor pack to make it easy too!
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Making your own pinata doesn't need paper mache, especially when it comes to this Minecraft Creeper Pinata! Make your own for cheap with this tutorial!
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Throwing a birthday party with a Paw Patrol Party Theme soon? Print all these free printables and check out my party for ideas! This post may contain affiliate links. See our full disclosure policy HERE. I always go way overboard when it comes to my kids' birthday parties! I don't like buying the stuff for the parties, but enjoy making the decor… Read More


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Editor's note: This post examines two cases the Supreme Court will review at its next Term: Evenwel v. Abbott, and Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. This post will be followed this week by a symposium on Evenwel.
In a rare meeting with reporters in early July 1968, Chief Justice Earl Warren answered readily when asked which of the Court's decisions in his momentous years on the Supreme Court were most important. The series of rulings, he said, that created the constitutional idea of "one person, one vote." That is a basic theory of democratic representation: no individual's vote may be weighted more heavily than any other's. Election districts, for Congress and state legislatures, must be drawn as close to equal in population as can practically be done.
The clearest expression of that idea came in the 1964 decision in Reynolds v. Sims. Now, a half-century later, the Court has assigned itself the task of deciding — remarkably, for the first time — how to get to that goal. What, it will answer in one case, population measure should be used: total people in a district, total citizens, total citizens of voting age, total numbers of registered voters? And, in a second case, the Court will answer whether it violates the equality principle if districts are drawn in a way that favors one party's candidates.
Both cases involve cross-currents of political theory, and both have the potential to directly change election outcomes and the election fortunes of the two major political parties. There is considerable complexity here, so let's try to make this simple.