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Can you blame this church for calling a spade, a spade. Or better yet, the Church, a haven for a bunch of self-righteous jerks? Not me.
And apparently neither can Christ Covenant Church in Beaumont, Texas – the transparent refuge for a bunch of tools. Well, watch the video. You'll understand:
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Yes. WAY!
For centuries, the Church (yours, mine, just about everyone's) has been under the collective microscope of every person outside of salvation. And why? The answer is as simple, as it is complex.
Think "The Great Commission." Maybe you've heard of it?
Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age." (Matthew 28:16-20 ESV)
The problem with this – and Jesus knew it when he put it into motion – is that evangelism is a sales job. We are promoting a better life with Christ Almighty. And the only the runaway sheep can find the shepherd is to follow him… and like-minded sheep.
Remember, sheep follow. And since they can't physically see Christ, they have to go with the next best thing: Christ followers.
So, what happens if said Christ followers are – shall we say – "a bunch of jerks"? My guess is atheism will go through the roof… oh, would you look at that? It is! And it's all our fault.
Yes, when Jesus said "Go therefore", he knew very well what it was there for, only he wanted us to get out of the way. We didn't, and that's why thought-provoking churches like this one in Beaumont, Texas are calling us all out.
"Jerks." Well, we've been called a lot worse. Now, we need to fix it and the church's lead minister has a nice idea.
"How do we tell this community that we want to be different? This is like our mea culpa. We know we've failed," said Chris Beard, the church's lead minister.
I know. I know. Some of you are too sanctimonious to have this junior-section, Affliction-wearing t-shirt guy speak for you, but unless the lost realize the fraudulent televangelists, the hypocritical pastors, the two-faced Christians out there (and you know who you are) do not speak for us, then evangelism will continue to be a difficult proposition these days.
After all, what is the number one cause for atheism and cynicism these days? Christians. Well, the jerks.


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Manchester is a town in Bennington county, Vermont. It was formed in 1761 in N.H., though the following competing claims for its origins are N.Y. 1765. The probate district for Manchester is Manchester, while the court district is Bennington. For more information, contact the town at 6039 Main St., P.O. Box 830, Manchester Center 05255. On the attached map, Manchester is shown as 6 in Bennington county.
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Sacha Baron Cohen & Isla Fisher's Baby Due in Winter
Friends congratulate the couple at the MTV Awards as a source confirms her pregnancy
Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen and his longtime girlfriend, Australian actress Isla Fisher, are expecting a baby this winter, a source close to the couple confirms.
The couple, who have been together for about five years, attended Sunday's MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles, with Fischer showing off her figure in a cream-colored dress – and often rubbing her belly.
Backstage, the couple smooched and greeted a steady stream of friends, one of whom one loudly exclaimed, "congratulations on the baby!" Cohen excitedly answered: "Thank you!"
Both Cohen, 35, and Fisher, 31, began their careers overseas. Cohen, who was born in England and educated at Cambridge, rose to fame in the late 1990s as the wannabe rapper Ali G on British television, and became familiar to U.S. audiences in 2003 when Da Ali G Show began airing on HBO. He became even more popular with the success of last year's comedy, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
Fisher, who was raised in Australia, got her acting career rolling in the mid-'90s on the Aussie soap opera Home and Away, but is best known in the United States as Vince Vaughn's hyperactive love interest in Wedding Crashers.
She told a British newspaper in 2005: "Sacha makes me laugh more than anyone."
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The core of any punter's arsenal is the dutching calculator, which is indeed a very influential tool. Dutching (as reputedly named after Al Capone's accountant who liked to use this method to back horses) is an excellent way of wagering more than one horse in a race such that if either of them win then the return is the same no matter who wins.Dutching techniques are used when one analyses a race to find two, or more, powerful horses in the race. One then has a variety of options. The first, and simplest, is to leave the race alone. The next is to try to work out which amongst these candidates is the one to back or, thirdly, one can 'Dutch' them up that if any of these horses win then a profit can be made. This is where the dutching calculator comes into play.Dutching is the process used to back more than one horse in a race and by mathematically placing the correct bet on each horse so that whichever horse wins the same amount of money is returned assuming, of course, that one of the backed horses actually does win.Dutching calculator is a very powerful betting device and is reputedly named after Al Capone's accountant who used this to great effect when backing horses. This calculator for dutching tells you how much to stake on each selection to ensure an equal profit no matter which one wins. Simply enter the price for each of your fancied selections in decimal format and your maximum total stake below.In particular, this dutching calculator allows one to bet with a preset stake or to get educated how much one should wager to return a fixed profit, it at all possible. In addition this calculator for dutching allows the user to enter either the traditional fractional odds or the 'American' decimal odds as used on the betting exchanges.Enter in the Stake box the figure that you wish to stake in total or enter in the Profit box the revenue you are looking to make with a successful Dutch. Then add in each of the boxes place the odds of the horses which you wish to back.This Dutching calculator, despite its simple interface, has a variety of features. First, the prices can be entered to either the decimal format (as seen on the exchanges) or in partial format (as used by bookmakers). If the price entered has a '/' (e.g. 100/30) then the Decimal format is unspecified.Second, with calculator for dutching, one the user can select the answer required. The user can choose between the "I have a £100 to place on this race, how do I divide it up?" option and the "I would like to win £100 on this race.Third, it figures out the revenue (on a successful bet, of course) and the ROI% (Return on Investment) so that the user can work out if this Dutching bet is will be profitable, as no one wants a negative profit, and worth the risk.In big fields, no matter what the sport, more often than not, you'll fancy more than two probabilities. Rather than pick one and kick yourself when the one you neglected compels, it's rational to 'Dutch' and back them all - and you can get surprisingly first class returns as long as the prices are big enough. With the use of dutching calculator, all of these possibilities can turn into a reality.
Betting on US SportsWhy A Betting Exchange Can Offer You The Key To Successful Gambling Introduction Too many gamblers are still living in the dark ages and will only ever place a bet with a traditional bookmaker. They either cant be bothered to learn how the exchanges work or simply dont realise the features and value that can be had when betting within an exchange environment. Believe me, using a betting exchange is very easy, and if you are not already using at least one exchange you should join one immediately after reading this article I'm not saying that a betting exchange should be used for all your betting. There will still be occasions when a traditional bookmaker will offer more desirable odds than those that are available on the exchanges. However, in the majority of cases you will find better value on the exchanges and additionally there are other VERY IMPORTANT features that only the betting exchanges offer. More on this later So What Is A Betting Exchange? 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You still have to find good value winning bets yourself or via a professional tipster but its the effect of getting a better return on your winning bets that will boost your betting bank and protect you during losing streaks. Most people use the betting exchanges on the internet, but you can also place bets on the telephone. Betting Exchange Advantages As well as regularly finding better prices when backing a selection, exchanges also give the gambler some other very important advantages over traditional bookmakers. Some of the key advantages are: 1) The ability to LAY a selection if you think it will not win. 2) The ability to BACK or LAY a selection to be PLACED. (This is very different to the well know Each Way bet offered by bookies and can be very powerful). 3) Betting IN RUNNING on many events INCLUDING HORSE RACING. 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I like to keep my lay bets at odds below 4.0 (3/1) but that's just my own personal choice but it gives you something to go on. Flexible Odds / Placing an Order The odds you offer obviously need to be realistic in order to be matched, but if you are not happy with the current price being requested by other punters you can simply place an 'order' in the exchange at your odds and hope that somebody eventually accepts your offer. (eg you may feel that the current price of 3.0 (2/1) is too high a price to lay a certain selection, so offer a lay bet at 2.75 (7/4) instead). If your lucky the price may well be matched. If the event starts without your lay bet being matched, your bet is simply cancelled so you gain/lose nothing. Summary Lay Betting might sound very confusing to the exchange newbie, but believe me it soon becomes very straightforward and you will find yourself laying selections much more frequently than you think. Let's be honest, it must be easier to pick a horse you feel will definitely lose in a average 12 runner race, than find the single winner! Well that's it for part 1 of my betting exchange articles. In part 2, I will be explaining the Betting Exchange Place markets and how you can benefit from them.


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For every woman, there comes a time in life when she needs to consult a gynecologist. The need to see a gynecologist arises due to many reasons. Some of the reasons are:
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Specialized gynecologists are qualified to carry out advanced diagnostic and surgical procedures.
A reliable gynecologist is fully trained to perform various procedures related to late pregnancies, sexual dysfunction, and reproductive tract infections. She/he must have the skills to handle critical conditions and provide the best solutions in terms of medicines, advises and therapies.
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Apart from the factors mentioned above, one should look for attributes such as certifications, background, reputation, and excellent communications skills to make the best choice.
The cost for a general physical examination of gynaecology conditions is very reasonable but the cost may rise in advanced cases, where the patient may require advanced diagnosis and surgeries. The cost may also include individual tests conducted on the patient, doctor's fees and medications. The reputation of the clinic or hospital, which a gynecologist is associated with, can also bring a difference in the charges. Moreover, the doctor's qualification and experience is the key factor that defines the cost of treatment.
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I'm sitting on the couch in Redondo Beach, tired but happy. Laura and I just got through our third RV trip. This was another learning and shakedown trip. It was our longest to date – four days. I wish it could have been longer.
We tried out a couple of new facets of the RV lifestyle.
First, we decided to take our cat with us, as I mentioned in the last article. The Cat's First Camping Trip
And second, we tried out our new membership in Passport America to get our nightly cost down to something a little more affordable.
This was not a "destination" trip, meaning that we didn't go to a place that had lots of great sights and activities. We went instead to a Passport America park that had reasonable rates and was not unbearably hot in June.
The place we chose was Lake Park RV Resort and Lodge, which was one of two places that Passport America had listed on Lake Elsinore. We got two of our four nights for half price. The entire four nights cost just $105.
About the Lake
Lake Elsinore is in the Inland Empire, close to Temecula. It is the largest natural lake in Southern California. What does "natural" mean? Not man made. We didn't build a dam and let water back up here. Lake Elsinore is in a natural basin. Water flows in from the San Jacinto River. Some work has been done over the years to keep the level of the lake stable via an outflow mechanism, but it basically remains a natural lake today.
My only prior experience at this lake was as a child, on an early boating trip with my family. I remember two things about this trip. Yards and yards of mud along the shore, and a mishap at the launching ramp that could have been a disaster. I don't know what caused all the mud to be there, and there was no mud on this trip. The launching ramp incident was scary. My Mom was backing the boat down the launching ramp when the brakes in our '64 Chrysler Newport gave out. The emergency brake was the only thing that stopped our car from rolling all the way into the water.
I remember reading about Lake Elsinore as a Jr High kid, mainly because of the famous dirt bike race that was held there from the mid 60s to the mid 70s. This race drew famous participants like Steve McQueen and Malcolm Smith. Honda named it's first line of competition dirt bikes after this race….The CR250M Elsinore. In the mid-70s, violent outlaw bikers stared showing up to this event, causing so many problems that the City of Lake Elsinore had no choice but to shut it down. The event was brought back in 1996 and continues today, on a provisional basis.
Steve McQueen racing in the Lake Elsinore Grand Prix
About the RV Park
The campground turned out to be nice, but I would not call it a "Resort". It's a pretty large facility, and it does have some nice features.
There were the usual full hookup facilities for RVs on wide gravel spaces, with a mixture of 50 amp and 30 amp outlets that appeared to be randomly placed. There was sewer, water, and cable TV. Note long term "full timer" stuff next to us….storage lockers/sheds.
The Olympic sized swimming pool was nice. We used it a couple of times.
There are BBQ facilities by the pool with a large gazebo and tables. With all of the trees, it was fairly cool in here even during the heat of the day.
Two gazebos are next to the lake with tables and BBQs. This is a charming feature, but I didn't see anybody using them. There was work being done in this area….note the bulldozer. They are spreading gravel on a large flat area towards the rear of this photo. Apparently this new area will be for RVs, but with no hookups.
There is a large grassy area across the road from the Pool, with rental "cabins" to the right.
Our dog enjoyed the grassy area.
The best spaces in the park overlook the lake, but all of those spaces contain park model trailers. Park models appear to be short single wide mobile homes. You can see one of them in the background of this shot.
It's between 300 and 400 yards of walking to get from the regular RV area we were in to the lakeside.
There is no sandy beach……it's basically dried dirt with rocks. Branches stick out of the water.
Next to the Lake Park is a launching ramp and parking lot belonging to another facility. It was busy on Sunday but deserted during the week days.
This facility has many full time residents. I saw a lot of Class A motor homes and 5th Wheel trailers that didn't look like they had been moved for many months. There was a bus conversion next to us, which had flat rear tires and bricks around the edges.
There are three main "streets" that have RV spaces on either side. Here is a typical view. There were quite a few open spaces available.
I would say there were 30-40 RVs at the park while we were there, but only about 10 of these appeared to be short term guests.
The spaces here are very good sized, with ample room to park a TOAD, leaving plenty of outside space to sit with a group of people. No fires are allowed in the spaces, though.
The lake itself was larger than I expected. The water is like I remembered it from my earlier trip….brownish green. It looks a little muddy. I had planned to so some fishing, but never got around to it.
Free wireless internet was available, and worked well most of the time. There were a couple of short periods where we couldn't connect, but speed was good enough to upload pictures for the last article on this blog.
The people here are friendly. Almost everybody waves to you as they walk by, and we had a couple of short conversations with fellow dog walkers (dogs are such a great ice breaker).
This was the first trip where the coach was situated at the right angle to use the awning. This provided shade in the middle of the day….mid morning to early afternoon. From about 3:00 to about 5:00 the shade goes away, and the sun is too hot to be outside. After 5:00 it got really nice, because one of the many trees in the park shaded most of the passenger side of our coach. This was perfect….sitting outside in the gentle breeze, having some beer and listening to music. Very relaxing.
The experiment with our cat Milhouse was a success. He was nervous at first, but by the end of the second day, he was into the swing of things. He liked sitting in the bedroom, on the little counter that has a window, watching the world go by. We will take him on our future trips.
We put the cat box in the shower, with a white plastic trash bag under it to insure no litter gets into the grey tank. It worked out really well, but you have to keep it scooped out all the time! The quarters are too close for a smelly cat box.
Laura and I spent a lot of time on writing projects during this trip, as we have on our other trips. I spent much of my time editing the first draft of a novel. Laura was working on writing exercises and blog posts. This is one of the things I like best about RVing so far. Being able to write in various locations is very appealing to me, and has been working out well so far.
Overall, I'm pleased with this trip, and would visit this RV Park again. It had a nice laid-back vibe. There wasn't any loud partying going on, and the people were nice. Facilities were good. There are a couple of mini-markets and an ice cream place that are walking distance from the park, but they are across Hwy 74 (the Ortega Hwy), so you have to be careful crossing. There is a Jack in the Box next to the park that doesn't require crossing the Hwy, which is nice.
Our coach is now at the dealer's service department. We are getting the damage repaired that happened during the recent break-ins at our storage facility. We are also getting a couple of warranty fixes done. Our black tank drain valve is leaking a little bit, and the housing for our water filter is stuck so tight that I can't get it off. So Curious George will be laid up for a couple of weeks.
Can't wait to get her back, and go on another adventure!


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I was in Washington DC last week for the National Corn Growers Corn Congress. I extended my stay to do some sightseeing with my grown son, so I ended up spending 6 days in DC, which is way too long. I've been smiling nonstop since I returned home, just happy to be here, somewhere normal! It's not my first trip to DC, but I did accumulate a lot of random observations.
- I spent most of my time with farmers from Kansas and many other states. Words that describe my farmer friends include the following: kind, intelligent, polite, funny, sophisticated, outspoken, focused, professional, friendly, well-rounded, honest, informed. Our farmers sat through long committee meetings, two delegate sessions and visited every member of our Congressional Delegation. All the while, they were also using their smart phones and tablets to keep track of the markets, check email, and kept in contact with their families at home who were running the farm in their absence.
- There were many farewell speeches at Corn Congress this year with NCGA Exec Rick Tolman retiring, as well as Nebraska Corn's Don Hutchens, Monsanto's Marsha Stanton and John Deere's Don Borgman. Our own Jere White was honored at the March Corn Congress session for his retirement. New leaders will rise to take their places, but those are some big shoes to fill.
- Speaking of leaders, I was so impressed with the members of the DuPont New Leaders Program offered through NCGA. Farm couples are encouraged to go through the program together. This cultivated two new leaders from Kansas: Tom and Sandy Tibbits of Minneapolis. The program's final session was held around the Corn Congress event. We were happy to have them along on our Hill Visits and Tom was able to help Kansas Corn by serving as a delegate. Tom is already on the KCGA board and we have plans to use make use of Sandy's skills as well as an advocate for agriculture.
- Speaking of Hill Visits, many of the Congressional offices have offered Russell Stover candies to their visitors for years. With the new Mars candy factory in Topeka, many of our offices have candy bowls with Peanut M&Ms and Snickers bars as well! And Cheezits. Did you know all Cheezits are made in Kansas?
- I serve on the Corn Farmers Coalition steering committee, an image program that aims to educate and inform Washington DC decision makers about corn farmers. This year's campaign has just begun and I sawourfull page ad in The Hill newspaper, as well as ads online and intheMetro trains. This year's ads have an innovation and technology theme because the focus groups we used when planning this year's campaign were fascinated by the use of technology on our farms. I remember one focus group participant saying, "It's kind of neat to think that those farmers are using the same iPad as me." It is not always easy to overcome the stereotypes about farmers that many people have. On one hand, they are surprised to learn that 98 percent of all corn farms are family farms–many folks think that our farms are owned by big corporations. On the other hand, they think farmers look and work on the farms just like they did 50 years ago. When we talk to these people about GPS guidance and mapping, precision agriculture, they get really excited.
- There is some corn planted in front of USDA. And the US Botanic Gardens is featuring a wheat display called Amber Waves of Grain.
- I saw a lot of advertising in DC. I saw an excellent ad in a Metro train placed by Humane Watch. It explained that HSUS, the Humane Society of the United States, only gives 1 percent of its funding to local humane shelters and encourages people to donate to local humane society shelters instead.
- On the Metro, we sat next to a woman holding a takeout bag from Chipotle. Over the years, I've discouraged my kids from eating at Chipotle for various reasons (primarily because it's danged expensive!), but also because of how the corporate burrito company bashes farmers who grow the food. Sitting next to my son, who is a devout capitalist, I pointed to the bag in the woman's lap and told him to read it. This quote is from Chipotle's "Cultivating Thought" Author Series.
I'm all for love and peace, but just sitting around feeling love for one another might get a little boring after a while. More importantly, Chipotle, if no one works, where will all that free food come from? Who will make the burritos? I'm for free speech and an open exchange of ideas, and I enjoyed reading the bag that held a nine dollar burrito. But I do have the right to disagree. My capitalist son, who in the past has been disturbed by Chipotle's anti-farmer statements but still ate the corporate burritos, was even more disturbed by that quote.
- We saw the new statue of Norman Borlaug, the Father of the Green Revolution, during our tour of the Capitol. That an Iowa plant breeder is honored in this way Statuary Hall in the Capitol is significant. His work which created a high-yielding, disease resistant wheat is credited for saving a billion lives. Borlaug was a strong supporter of the promise of biotechnology and urged people to stand up to the anti-science crowd.
- I couldn't help but wonder if anyone has ever counted up the number of Greek columns in DC? It made me remember the Architecture Appreciation class I took at K-State where we learned about Doric, Corinthian and Ionic columns. Speaking of art and architecture, if you are a corn grower, look around in DC–there are many depictions of corn in the Capitol and many other places. In fact, the photo here shows a corn capital in the Capitol. A capital is the top of a column. According to the Architect of the Capitol: Carved by Giuseppe Franzoni from Aquia Creek sandstone, these columns were installed in the Hall of Columns of the U.S. Capitol in 1809. The fluting of a conventional shaft was recalled by bundled corn stalks. On the capital, husks were folded back to reveal the cob and kernels of corn.
- I was struck by the friendliness of the people in DC on this trip. I think this was influenced by the unusually cool weather. One cab driver told us that the cooler weather was a disaster for cabbies because everyone wanted to walk instead of taking a cab. He joked that he would have to charge us double. Judging by his meandering route to our destination, I don't think he was kidding.


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I'm back, finally! So here's the story on my cable/internet… yesterday early afternoon my wife sees a Comcast van drive by the house a couple of times slowly and the driver is staring in the window at her as he passes. Shortly there after the cable dies!
We look around the block and could see the neighbors still had cable, only ours was out. So I called Comcast and they said the earliest they could make it out was Saturday! I said no way and managed to get a guy out this afternoon and he found out that they had disconnected our cable at the junction, because they were finally getting around to terminating the service of the people who moved out two weeks before, AFTER connecting our new service! MORONS! They blamed it on a known computer glitch, which they have yet to fix. Why did the guy who saw my wife not knock on the door and ask? Did I mention MORONS?
Anyway, I'm back and I have just a couple of charts to share to give you a feel for where we are…
Here's the big picture chart of percentages since this bear market began:
Obviously oil and commodities have been taking a very big hit and deservedly so as demand is WAY down and inventories are WAY up. Oil is back below $60 a barrel, here is a weekly chart:
And here is the oil P&F chart showing a bearish target for oil of $44:
Here's a weekly chart of the SPX… fourth down week in a row now, the SPX is down 8% from its high, the DOW is off 8.2%. Again, the Head & Shoulders top has now been confirmed and the neckline at 888 has held as overhead resistance – the target on that pattern is 810ish. Volume this week was considerably higher than the shortened week last week. The weekly stochastic fast has now reached the mid-point:
The SPX daily produced its third doji candle in a row today, and you can see that prices are following the 200dma (red line) downwards. The daily stochastic and RSI are oversold:
The 10 minute chart shows that the down channel – let's call that wave 1 – was broken and now we are either making wave 4 of 1 or wave 2. The short term stochastics are all in the middle range up to the 60 minute timeframe:
Did you see that California has now missed a huge quarterly payment to its schools ($4 billion)? They claim they will make the payment on July 30th… yet another huge I.O.U. Hey, welcome to the Hotel California!
Eagles - Hotel California (good intro):
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Six singletons are going to be introduced at the altar and immediately married off on TV in an attempt to find the formula for the perfect relationship.
The couples will take part in an experiment to find out if science can produce a stable marriage.
The Channel 4 show, which has a w orking title of Married At First Sight, is based on a hit Danish show and will see a pool of 200 people reduced to six singles willing to say "I do" without having met.
The couples will be matched up by a panel of experts and cameras will follow their first six weeks together. At the end of filming, they will be asked if they want to stay together or go their separate ways.
The broadcaster's chief creative officer Jay Hunt said t he show was "a celebration of marriage".
She said: "I t says marriage is important because of social cohesion. We don't have a great track record in that area.
"What if we take a slightly different approach and at its heart is the idea that we make the biggest decision of our life based on gut instinct and w hat if you got an array of experts to help inform that decision and you would be more likely to make the right choice?
"And what's interesting about it is in the countries where it's already played out, the feedback has been very positive and celebratory and the people involved in it have come back with a very different perspective on what they need from a relationship."
The channel is also planning documentaries looking at the treatment of dementia and newly-elected police commissioners.
Ms Hunt said she wanted to build on successful shows including Benefits Street and the coverage of the Winter Paralympics.
She said: "We're taking on Britain's reputation as the divorce capital of Europe in Married At First Sight and in Dementiaville we are exploring innovative research on the treatment of dementia."


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Norwich 1 Stoke 1
Ten-man Norwich were denied a first Premier League win when Kenwyne Jones headed in a stoppage-time equaliser for Stoke at Carrow Road.
Ritchie de Laet had scored against his old club to put the Canaries in front at the break.
After Jon Walters saw his penalty saved following Leon Barnett's red card on the hour, it looked as if Norwich would hold on – only for Stoke's pressure eventually to tell with Jones nodding in from close range.
Carrow Road last hosted top-flight football in May 2005, when Nigel Worthington's men failed to make their stay more than a flying visit.
Despite the partisan atmosphere in the 27,000-strong crowd, it was Stoke - coming on the back of their midweek Europa League tie, who made the early running, as Walters got in on the overlap to fire an angled shot at John Ruddy.
Anthony Pilkington – one of half a dozen changes by Canaries boss Paul Lambert from the side which drew 1-1 at Wigan – shaped to shoot from 25 yards, but could only blast the ball straight at Robert Huth.
Canaries captain Grant Holt was coming in for some rough treatment from the Stoke backline, who continued to give away needless fouls.
After 20 minutes, Elliott Bennett, a £1million signing from Brighton, got clear down the right, but his chip through the six-yard box was headed clear.
Holt nodded Naughton's sweeping crossfield ball to the far post back into the path of Pilkington, and only a flying block from Huth stopped the winger from firing Norwich ahead.
Stoke countered quickly after 28 minutes, working the ball out to Matthew Etherington on the left, who cut inside Barnett and fired an angled drive which Ruddy beat away.
The visitors were forced into a change on the half-hour when Jermaine Pennant, struggling with what looked like a calf problem, was replaced by Danny Pugh.
Jonathan Woodgate went into the book after 36 minutes for upending Bennett out on the far touchline.
From the resulting free-kick Norwich took the lead when former Stoke defender De Laet, on loan from Manchester United, glanced Bradley Johnson's curling delivery into the far corner.
The visitors were rattled, with Woodgate almost diverting a low cross into his own net which Asmir Begovic pushed around the post.
Norwich striker Chris Martin got the wrong side of Woodgate and into the Stoke box, but lacked support as eventually the danger was cleared.
Stoke emerged with some purpose for the start of the second half, with Walters drilling wide from a tight angle after breaking into the right side of the Norwich box.
At the other end, Martin – making a first appearance since February – saw his 20-yard drive pushed away by Begovic.
After 57 minutes, Holt was penalised for pushing over Glenn Whelan to concede a free-kick in a dangerous central position, some 25 yards out. Etherington beat the wall, but Ruddy flicked the ball over the crossbar.
Disaster struck for the home side on 63 minutes when Walters got ahead of Barnett and into the Norwich box, before tumbling.
Referee Neil Swarbrick ruled Barnett the last man, awarding a penalty and then sending the Norwich defender off. Walters took the spot-kick himself, but Ruddy guessed correctly to make a fine save – as the Carrow Road faithful erupted.
After 65 minutes, Lambert made a tactical change, replacing lively winger Pilkington with Daniel Ayala, who joined from Liverpool earlier this week.
Stoke, though, continued to press, as Norwich defended too deep.
Ruddy had to tip away a swirling cross from Ryan Shotton, which looked like it might loop in, the corner then flying through the six-yard box.
Jones blasted over from close range, but the visitors' pressure finally told in the third minute of added time when the striker headed in Whelan's cross.


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Second in a six-part series. Vancouver Sun columnist Daphne Bramham explores the science of happiness through the lives of people who have made dramatic changes in their quest for meaning and contentment. What has it meant for them? For others? See all of their stories here.
On a January night in 2004, MaryAnne Connor sat chilled in her little cottage in White Rock, haunted by the thought of homeless people shivering out on the snowy streets.
Over the previous year, she'd spent some Sundays at the Gentle Shepherd Church in Whalley — Surrey's toughest and poorest neighbourhood.
The following morning, she went to the pastor and told him he had to open the church that night to shelter the homeless. He reached into his pocket, pulled out the keys and said he would on one condition: she would be in charge. And then he dropped the keys in her hand.
"I was terrified. I couldn't back down and I couldn't say I was terrified. . . so I cried," says Connor, who is founder and president of NightShift Ministries, which runs a thrift shop, a mobile soup kitchen and provides counselling services, street-level nursing and soon, basic dental care.
It's not like Connor didn't have anything else to do. She ran a successful real-estate marketing company and was supposed to be preparing for a big presentation at the International Homebuilders Association convention the following week in Las Vegas.
But she went home, called up everyone she knew and asked for everything she thought she needed — blankets, pillows, socks, coats, boots, coffee, bread and peanut butter for sandwiches.
When she opened the door that night, donors started arriving with the stuff and homeless people shuffled in — wet, cold and sick.
"I met 35 people who were struggling in various states of poverty, addiction and mental health and for a week I stayed up with them as they slept on the floor. . .
"I saw women curled up on the floor like babies with their teddy bears and what I saw on their faces was contentment and that broke my heart because I realized it could have been me or it could have been any one of my girls. And I realized I wasn't any different. It caused a shift in my heart."
Connor — who has two daughters, a son and three grandchildren — barely slept the following few days; she was too busy scrounging for things during the day and making coffee and sandwiches and praying over the sleeping people at night.
She cancelled her presentation, even though it was the opportunity of a lifetime to boost her career and her company's reputation. Connor told the organizers that she no longer had anything to say about selling or marketing real estate. The only message she had for the corporate leaders is that they ought to be giving more back to the community.
A few weeks later, Connor shut down her company even though she had only modest savings — RSPs that she blew through in the next three years as NightShift got established.
"I was impacted by the pain I was experiencing in my own life. Having my eyes opened to other people struggling with pain similar to what I had experienced, I realized I had to do something to bridge that gap. And as I reached out, our hearts connected and then my heart broke and then compassion moved me forward."
Connor's father died when she was 14, leaving her mother to raise five kids alone in Halifax. Two years after her father died, Connor was pregnant and married.
A decade later, after three months in hospital, Connor lost a third child in her seventh month of pregnancy. Exactly a year later in 1978, her husband, Andy, was murdered in Grand Cache, Alta. on a fishing trip with two friends.
He was killed by a stranger — another fisherman who had camped nearby and shot Andy twice after having accused the trio of stealing his cooler.
"He was my first love and I'm still in love with him," says Connor, who was at home in Nova Scotia with their eight-year-old daughter and year-old son. "I was 6,000 kilometres away. I'd never been out of Nova Scotia. I had two babies, no money and (Andy had) no life insurance."
Connor started a modelling and talent agency and married again a few years later. She had another daughter. She struggled with an addiction to drugs prescribed to cope with migraines. With the marriage deteriorating, her husband moved to Vancouver and asked Connor to come for a 10-day visit in 1986 to see if they couldn't patch things up. They didn't.
But on that visit, she went to church and, she says, God entered her life.
Connor went back to Nova Scotia, sold the house, packed up the kids and moved.
She got her real-estate license and got to work. She married again. That marriage foundered in 1999.
Searching for some sort of peace, Connor rented a series of run-down, ocean-view cottages in White Rock. On Sundays, she tried out different churches hoping to hear a message that soothed her.
Gentle Shepherd Church did the opposite. The people there repelled and frightened her. She didn't want to touch them they seemed so different from her. When she finally did hold the hand of a homeless person, Connor says, "It was like holding a pineapple, but I also somehow thought that maybe that's what it might be like to hold the hand of an angel."
"I struggled all my life with my fear of not having enough . . . That was the basis of how I lived my life and I always thought that I had to strive to make money, which I did exceptionally well. And when I shifted from my business into ministry, it wasn't about the money. It was the freedom attached with letting go of that fear and that drive to make money."
Connor is what Brene Brown calls a "whole-hearted" person. Brown, a research professor in the University of Houston's school of social work, has spent years trying to figure out what makes happy people different from others. What she's concluded is that they are not only "willing to let go of who they should be to be who they are," they have found a way to live with vulnerability. And, as importantly, she says, they are willing to give to others with no guarantee that gratitude will be returned.
Nine years on, NightShift has grown. From its mobile kitchen, it serves between 75 and 150 meals every night. It collects and distributes clothing, runs a thrift shop, offers counselling and has nearly 400 active and trained volunteers.
Connor has also grown. She's now an ordained minister in the Four Square Church and a licensed counsellor.
Connor admits her all-or-nothing quest for meaning isn't for everyone. But for people thinking about taking the leap, her advice is simple. "Stop navel gazing. Stop focusing on 'It's about me' or 'It's about my pain' or 'It's about my life.' Look beyond yourself to see what other need is out there."
But she says you can also find happiness simply by being nicer, by smiling at strangers or talking to someone in a bank line-up. It's advice that's been tested and found true by academics who measured people's happiness levels and then challenged them to talk to strangers in elevators for a week. By week's end, their happiness score was up substantially.
Of course, happiness doesn't mean bliss 24/7.
"It's not that I don't have stress. The stress is way beyond what I had before because in business if I needed $50,000 I could make it. But I've had to let that go and let God take care of things," says Connor.
"But I'm more than happy. I'm content. I'm at peace."


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Stemen, Henry (1775-1855)
Henry Stemen (Stehmann), (1775-1855), one of the first Mennonite settlers to move from Rockingham County, Virginia, to the Rush Creek region in Richland Township, Fairfield County, Ohio, was ordained preacher there in 1809 and bishop in 1820. Christian Stehmann, Henry's father, had moved to Rockingham County from Pennsylvania. Before leaving Rockingham County, Henry Sternen had married Mary Beery, whose brothers were among the charter members of the Dunkard congregation organized in Fairfield County in 1809. Henry and Mary Stemen followed the usual route traveled by Virginia settlers "going West"—up the Potomac and into Pennsylvania along "Braddock's trail," and after stopping for a year or two in Greene County, Pennsylvania, arrived in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1803. The county grew rapidly; the first actual settlers arrived in 1798, and in 1806 the county listed 1,551 taxpayers. In 1841 Stemen moved to Allen County, Ohio, where a Mennonite congregation had been organized several years earlier. For a number of years he seems to have been the only Mennonite bishop in the central, western, and northwestern sections of the state. His ministry was noted for his earnest and expressive sermons. In a very real sense he became an itinerant preacher. Saddling one of his well-kept horses, he would ride through wilderness, mud, and storm from settlement to settlement in Wyandot, Wood, Seneca, Williams, Clark, Logan, Fairfield, and Franklin counties. On these tiring pastoral trips he preached, baptized, and held communion services either with an outlying congregation or with a single family living far from a congregation of their own faith. He preached funeral sermons over the graves of those who had been quietly laid away months before because no minister could be called in time for the burial. He ordained bishops, preachers, and deacons and organized congregations on the frontier. In 1843-1844 he attended a church conference in the Chester meetinghouse, in Wayne County. On at least one occasion he rode horseback to the Ohio Mennonite Conference in Mahoning County. He made numerous trips to Fairfield County until he ordained John M. Brenneman bishop in Franklin County. In 1853 he ordained George Brenneman bishop as his successor, but shortly before his death in 1855 he persuaded John M. Brenneman to move to Allen County and formally installed him as his successor. Most of Henry Stemen's descendants, impatient with the conservative policies of the "unlearned" John M. Brenneman, united with other denominations and rose to prominent positions in the professions in Allen and Van Wert counties. His son Nicholas Stemen (1802-78), however, was a deacon in the Fairfield County Mennonite church.
History of the Stemen Family. Fort Wayne, 1881.
Umble, John. "The Fairfield County, Ohio, Background of the Allen County, Ohio, Mennonite Settlement." Mennonite Quarterly Review VI (1932): 5-29.
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Umble, John S. "Stemen, Henry (1775-1855)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 4 Dec 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Stemen,_Henry_(1775-1855)&oldid=143755.
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Umble, John S. (1959). Stemen, Henry (1775-1855). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 4 December 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Stemen,_Henry_(1775-1855)&oldid=143755.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, pp. 628-629. All rights reserved.
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Those looking for greater insight into their Facebook networks will now find enhanced analytics from Wolfram Alpha.
The organization yesterday announced a wide array of updates to a Facebook analytics tool it launched in August. That launch allowed users to see daily posting activity and friend statistics, ranging from location to age ranges. In the new update posted yesterday, Wolfram Alpha has added a new categorization feature that arranges a person's friends, family, and acquaintances into several groups:
- Social Insider: A person with many friends in common with you.
- Social Outsider: A person with few or no mutual friends.
- Social Gateway: A person with many friends outside of your network.
- Social Neighbor: A person with few, if any, friends outside of your network.
- Social Connector: A person who connects you with other groups.
Aside from the new categories, Wolfram Alpha's update includes a host of visualization improvements, including the ability to easily see how many married people are in the user's network and who has the most friends at a particular college. Ultimately, Wolfram Alpha wants to use its computing abilities to shed far more light on a person's Facebook network, and has promised more updates in the future.
To try out the Facebook analytics feature, users should type "Facebook report" into Wolfram Alpha's search box. After verifying their account, users will have the information on their network delivered.


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Back in May, Jens Pulver was out to prove his best days weren't behind him.
The former UFC great and recent WEC fighter had flirted with retirement, lost six straight fights, and picked up just a single win from 2006 to 2010.
However, after a bit of a resurgence, the fan favorite headlined May's Titan Fighting Championships 18 event against Brian Davidson and attempted his third consecutive victory.
Each week HDNet and MMAjunkie.com release a new and exclusive fight from
the ever-growing HDNet Fights video library. Stunning knockouts, slick
submissions, shocking finishes and legendary brawls are the norm for
this weekly feature.
Pulver vs. Davidson is no exception.
Pulver (24-14-1 at the time), of course, initially was slated to fight Mike Powell at Titan Fighting 18, which took place May 27 at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kan. However, soon before the fight, Davidson (6-3), a former Strikeforce and Bellator fighter, stepped in as a replacement. While known for a solid ground game and polished striking skills, Pulver met his match in Davidson, an accomplished Muay Thai and taekwondo fighter.
So who would reign supreme: the grizzled veteran or the hungry challenger?
Check out the embedded clip for the answer.
Each week MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) and HDNet Fights (www.hdnetfights.com) team up for "HDNet Fights Vault," which offer a new and unique video from the organization's ever-growing fight library. The weekly feature is a continuation of a long-standing partnership between MMAjunkie.com and HDNet. For more information on HDNet, which broadcasts more MMA events than any other TV


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By Bob Dinsmore
That's right, I'm talking about the Jalapeño Popper. When you talk about breaded and deep fried cheese, most people think of the mozzarella stick. Well, most people are idiots because the Jalapeño Popper blows the mozzarella stick right off the appetizer sampler plate… On the outside they appear to be the same, although the mozzarella stick is a bit more phallic. On the inside however, they are worlds apart. What is in inside a mozzarella stick? Mozzarella of course… in fact, nothing but mozzarella. Read the rest of this entry »


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FBI and Capitol Police Investigating Ted Cruz Twitter Threats
Social media user encouraged "take down" of senator at his home.
Oct. 19, 2013 -- The FBI today confirmed it is helping Capitol Police to investigate possible Twitter threats made against Sen. Ted Cruz.
An FBI official told ABC News authorities have already interviewed the person who posted the initial tweets and are now keeping an eye out for anyone else who might try to take action based on the information posted Friday.
The official did not say whether authorities believe there is a credible threat to Cruz, the Texas Republican who has been widely blamed for triggering the crisis that led to the government shutdown.
Federal officials often investigate such online posts out of an abundance of caution -- they often turn out to pose no credible threat.
The tweets in question were written by Troy Gilmore Jr., who identified himself as an Army and Navy veteran who served during the Vietnam era.
"Take down Ted Cruz, at his home" and "What goes around comes around CRUZ!!" Gilmore tweeted under the handle @ArmyVet54. The New Jersey grandfather also listed Cruz's purported Houston home address several times and used expletive language to criticize the Republicans and Tea Party more widely.
Cruz has been criticized by Democrats and some Republicans for spearheading a strategy of tying government funding in an effort to defund or delay President Obama's health care law.
The government shutdown ended on Wednesday night, but on the same day the Twitter threats were posted, Cruz indicated in an interview with ABC News' Jonathan Karl that he would not rule out forcing another government shutdown in his effort to "stop the train wreck that is Obamacare."
Gilmore's Linkedin page reveals he was a former prison chef and says that his objective is to get a degree in "Homeland Security and Security Global Management."
"I am trying to obtain now to make this world and my country a better and safe secure place for everyone especially my family and grand children who will still have to live in this world long after I and my generation are gone," he wrote.
ABC News' Mike Levine, Jack Date, Pierre Thomas and Jack Cloherty contributed to this report.


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By the time Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc. sought bankruptcy protection Dec. 28, the once-high-flying drug treatment and mental health clinic had been showing signs of financial trouble for two years.
But even as the private nonprofit's debts mounted, members of the family that long oversaw the West Pratt Street clinic continued to be well paid, recently released tax records show.
In 2011, five family members received $1.1 million in salary and contract payments, according to records filed with the Internal Revenue Service in September. That's 19 percent of the clinic's $5.9 million in total revenue.
(One relative, Morris Hill, disputed the filing. In an email he said BBH paid $123,304 to Sandy Hill Associates, the management firm led by him and his wife Sandra Hill — not the $636,000 BBH reported to the IRS.)
In addition, two other family members, Nicholas and Susan Scotto, received $70,000 in loans from BBH for an unspecified "advance," the tax records show, half of it still unpaid at year's end. The Scottos could not be reached for comment. Hill said he did not know why that was on the tax form.
During 2011, BBH made headlines for these reasons: The clinic failed to meet payroll. Bank of America alleged it defaulted on up to $2.5 million in loans. The U.S. Labor Department sued it for access to records while investigating employees' claims about missing pension money.
None of the family members still work at BBH, which was established in 1997 and became one of the city's largest drug treatment providers. A 2010 investigation by The Baltimore Sun documented unusually high Medicaid billings and six-figure salaries paid to the family members who controlled its board.
State regulators forced a shake-up of the board. With the state curtailing some kinds of Medicaid payments for mental health care, reimbursements to BBH fell and the clinic went through layoffs. A fifth family member, William K. Hathaway, CEO until last May, did not respond to messages.
In its bankruptcy filing, BBH lists creditor claims of $5.5 million and estimates assets of less than $500,000. Among the creditors is Sandy Hill Associates. In August the firm sued BBH in Baltimore Circuit Court, claiming to be owed around $840,000 in unpaid loans and consulting fees.
Current CEO Terry T. Brown, a longtime BBH executive who is not part of the family, called the lawsuit "ridiculous." He said he hoped the bankruptcy and new management would lead to sounder footing for the clinic, now a fraction of its former size. "The accounting system was nothing I would take to the bank," he said.
Brown acknowledged hiring his sister as his administrative assistant, a move he defended by saying she is qualified and that he needed someone he could trust.
And Brown, too, took issue with something in the 2011 tax filing — an entry showing he received an $8,000 advance. He said BBH actually owed him that money. "When I saw that," he said, "I was livid."


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With Samba, when I share inside my home folder, I only need to right click the folder I want to share (Let's assume it is on the Desktop) and select Sharing Options, then just select the options I want to share it as and that's it, the user, be it in Windows or Linux will be able to see, copy, paste and basically have the correct access that I selected for the share without too much hassle. This is specially true if I allow the guest option when sharing.
If Samba is not installed, it will prompt me to install it and configure it in 2 or 3 clicks when I try to share a folder. After login out and in, I can share any folder inside my Home and be done with it. The user from Windows or Ubuntu can see my PC and the sharing resources with no problems at all. There is no additional steps to configure permissions aside from the 2 or 3 Samba Share options when selecting the Sharing Options in the context menu.
The problems arise when I try to share something outside of my HOME. For example, a mountable unit. Doing it the same way I mentioned before does not work. The external user either can not access the shared resource or can not see it. I have checked to see the permissions and ownership of the mountable unit (They are exactly the same as my home folder), but still Samba does not share anything outside of HOME as easy as something inside of it.
What is the difference then, between sharing something inside and outside of HOME assuming both resources have the same owner and permissions.


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is it as cool as I hoped?
is there a reason you'd buy the Mega still?
I don't have one but I can tell you that I'll never buy one either. I recently got an STM32F4 Discovery for 12 dollars and it seems to be better in almost all ways. It's far cheaper, it has 192k of RAM, same amount of ROM, it runs at double the clock speed of the Due and the board has various things on it (a DAC, a mic, an accelerometor, and a usb host port). Every single pin on microcontroll er is broken out into male header pins. The only thing I can complain about is that the pins are broken out in a random order (they're not grouped into ports).
@KeithRBHow are your experiences with the development SW of the STM32F4 Discovery?
I personally love the STM32F4 and I cant see me ever going back to an Arduino
"pro" ($2.6K, but uncrippled) version of Atollic?


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September 2020 Agenda
Railside continues to rock. The Hear Grand Island concert series returns in 2017.
Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer recently completed a $7 million dollar restoration of the Edward Durell Stone building that anchors their property.
The people of Grand Island represent the true make up the community. Meet some of the characters of the city in these interviews.


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YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — A man who authorities say had been hallucinating and talking about zombies was fatally shot over the weekend after he allegedly broke into an Orange County home.
A homeowner shot and killed Paul Bracamontes, 22, of Fullerton early Sunday in Yorba Linda, sheriff's investigators said. A couple awoke to hear Bracamontes screaming in their backyard and the wife called 911 as her husband confronted him.
Bracamontes threatened the couple and broke into their home by shattering a rear sliding glass door, authorities said. The husband then fatally shot Bracamontes. Authorities didn't say how many shots were fired.
Family members told investigators that Bracamontes had attended a party and was hallucinating earlier that night. He made references about zombies and wanting a gun, authorities said.
The homeowners said they did not know Bracamontes. They were interviewed and later released.
Authorities said the shooting appears to be justified because of Bracamontes' bizarre behavior. The case will be turned over to the Orange County district attorney's office for review.
An autopsy is planned Tuesday and toxicology tests, expected in two to three months, will reveal if Bracamontes was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Court records show that Bracamontes was charged with public intoxication in January, but the case was dismissed a few months later.


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Working week: minimum of 37.5 hours per week + overtimes paid at premium rate
Location: Southampton
Working week:37.5 hours week Mon-Fri Wk 1 0800 -1625 & Wk 2 0945hrs -1800
Salary: £15.79 PAYE or £21.00 lomited
We are now seeing to recruit a Commercial Technician , ideally looking for someone with van experience to work for a dynamic leader in providing safe, reliable and cost-effective repair workshop service to commercial vehicles and vans.
The main responsibilities in this role will be the maintenance and repair of a wide range of fleet of van vehicles.
You'll be expected to be proficient in a number of areas including: electrical, mechanical and hydraulic fault diagnosis, basic welding and metal working, if authorized. Setting and operating of machine tools and equipment, if authorized vehicle testing duties, when suitably qualified
Essential Skills include:
Mechanical or electrical qualifications
A minimum of one year's commercial experience working as a Vehicle Technician
Full driving licence with no drink-driving convictions within the past 5 years
Experience of working on a wide range of cars and commercial vehicles
Repair and maintenance of a fleet of vehicles
Performs work as outlined on repair order with efficiency and accuracy
Adjust, repair or replace parts and components of automotive systems
Test and adjust repaired systems to manufacturer's specifications
Diagnose faults and malfunctions
Repair and maintenance of: electrical systems, alignments, steering and suspension, hydraulic systems, cooling and heating systems and drive train components
Perform scheduled maintenance services
Communicate with parts department to obtain needed parts
Road tests vehicles when required
Keeps shop area neat and clean after each repair
Operates all tools and equipment in a safe manner
Must be willing and able to work various shifts
Must be willing and able to work overtime when required
If you think that you are appropriate candidate for this position, please do not hesitate to contact or Marta Kosno on (phone number removed) or email .
Omega Resource Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.


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