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The next generation of UK wind turbine engineers are being trained in the North East

A group of top-flight offshore training companies are leading the charge to upskill nearly 70,000 workers over the next decade

AIS' Dave Bowyer welcomes guests at the launch of the firm's new Renewable Energy Centre
AIS' Dave Bowyer welcomes guests at the launch of the firm's new Renewable Energy Centre

Offshore wind power is set to play a key role in the Government’s ambitions to cut carbon emissions by at least 80% by 2050. The number of direct jobs in offshore wind more than doubled between 2010 and 2013, from around 3,000 to 6,800. Together with wave and tidal power projects, wind is expected to create another 70,000 jobs over the next decade.

Consequently the sector is hungry for skills, and a collection of North East training providers are cultivating the region as the go-to place to acquire them.

“The North East has the inherent skills base and infrastructure which makes it ideally suited to the needs of offshore wind.

“Our job is to make sure we can put our skilled workers in front of a windfarm operator who can be confident of their technical and safety competency,” says Stuart Cameron, managing director of North Shields-based Maersk Training – the 40-strong training arm of Denmark’s AP Moller-Maersk Group.

The division launched in 1978 on the back of a major “blowout” on Maersk’s Explorer drilling operations in the North Sea.

Human error was to blame for the accident – the crew had all the right safety certificates, but lacked the competencies, Mr Cameron explains.

Stuart Cameron, managing director of Maersk Training
Stuart Cameron, managing director of Maersk Training

Together with the likes of AIS, Falck Safety Services and South Tyneside College, Maersk Training is part of a flourishing microcosm of offshore training providers in the region.

“In the North East, we’re sandwiched between two major offshore wind projects: the Moray Firth and Dogger Bank. It’s fantastic that we can provide skills from the North East to feed these developments,” explains Dave Bowyer, director training and education at North Shields-based AIS.

It is estimated that by the time of the upcoming general election, over 4GW of offshore wind will be in operation.

By 2030 that could increase to 40GW. Hundreds will need to be equipped with specialist safety and skills-based competencies if these targets are to be met.

Forecasting demand and skills requirements is one of the key challenges for the North East’s training providers.

Industry body RenewableUK’s General Election Manifesto is the focal point around which most of their courses and qualifications are geared.

The document sets out the ambitions and requirements of some 560 companies operating in the UK’s wind, wave and tidal industry.

Dave Bowyer explains: “We work very closely with Narec, the National Renewable Energy Centre in Blyth, to develop our strategy and where skills are needed.

“We also work with the LEPs and government, using the RenewableUK General Election Manifesto, to make sure our courses are in line with the future of the industry.

Jonny Chung, one of Maersk Training's graduates who is now a wind turbine technician
Jonny Chung, one of Maersk Training's graduates who is now a wind turbine technician

“There is a need for many, many more skilled employees to enter the industry in the next few years. The need ranges from technicians through to support staff in roles like catering and hotel management.

“They will all need safety training, and many will need the technical skills.

“Our clients include established industry operators, but also companies looking to get involved by providing other services.”

Maersk’s Stuart Cameron says his firm works with the technology companies to make sure their technical training keeps pace with the latest turbines being deployed.

“On the safety side, there is a constant renewal of skills and on the technical side we have to consider the evolution of the turbines and make sure we equip our trainees well into the future.”

Those heading into technical roles will need a solid background in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) – and the industry faces a challenge in the lack of STEM graduates in the UK.

AIS is on the cusp of launching a careers and advice service, which will help guide people who may be thinking about taking up a career in the offshore renewables sector. Meanwhile, Maersk has a team dedicated to bridging the gap between learners, learning institutions and employers.

“The pathways into the offshore renewable sector are still relatively immature in the UK,” Stuart Cameron explains.

“There is a long way to go before the industry is ready to be self-sufficient.”

For trainees, entry to the courses may be via their employer, or on a privately paid-for basis. Courses across the industry do not come cheap, although Maersk has developed a series of bursaries available to access its 12-week, level 2 diploma course.

Funding for the diploma may be available to people who are unemployed, providing they have been a UK resident for the past three years and are aged 19 years or over. Subsidised places are available for those who don’t qualify.

Trainees can expect to learn about the challenges of working in confined spaces, and complete modules on electrical awareness, working at height, manual handling, sea survival, first aid and fire awareness. Until last year it was fairly unusual to see private individuals, says Stuart Cameron.

“It’s in the industry’s interest, and our own interest, to be sustainable and responsible with the number of people we put through the training.”

Dave Bowyer plays down the potential impact of the recent oil glut on the renewables industry. There has been speculation that cheap oil could suddenly knock the commercial viability of renewables projects, but he says: “We’ve seen a prolonged period of low oil price, but it’s recently risen again.

“This goes to show just how fluid the energy market is, and investment in renewables will continue regardless.

“Couple with that the need to renew technical and safety skillsand you can see there will plentyof demand for our services.”

Jonny Chung, a Maersk Training graduate who has become a wind turbine technician
Jonny Chung, a Maersk Training graduate who has become a wind turbine technician

Jonny Chung is one of Maersk Training’s success stories. Mr Chung sold his car and invested his savings to fund himself through the diploma. It was a gamble that paid off as he is now a wind turbine technician at Boston Energy, a management agency that supplies technicians to industry leaders such as Siemens.

He said “Prior to completing the Maersk Diploma I was working at rope access painter Blaster. The need to acquire a more stable career choice became essential in order to support myself financially. I chose the Renewable Energy industry as this suited my will to remain physically active at work. I understood it was a fast-growing industry with potential to progress as my career developed.”

The industry must also look at workforce diversity, which Maersk’s Stuart Cameron says is fundamental to achieving the breadth of skills needed over the next decade. Trainee instructor Victoria Redhead joined Maersk Training in 2014 having previously worked as a firefighter for Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service and a call handler dealing with emergency and non-emergency calls.

As part of her role, Victoria delivers GWO (Global Wind Organisation) First Aid training, including the use of AEDs, and assists in instructing GWO Fire Awareness, Manual Handling & Working at Height. She is currently working towards achieving accreditation in a range of areas such as fire awareness, confined space training, manual handling and working at height.

Victoria said: “The opportunities at Maersk Training really appealed to me. As a trainee instructor you are learning and enhancing your skill set all the time. The hours are flexible, catered to an instructor’s individual needs. This is ideal for me as I work as a freelancer combining my role as trainee instructor alongside my position as a retained firefighter.”

George Rafferty, chief executive of energy NOF Energy, the organisation representing companies in the energy supply chain, says the North East has carved a strong niche for itself in the offshore training sector.

Referencing AIS’s newly-completed Renewable Energy Centre in North Shields, he said: “The expertise of companies in training people for the harsh North Sea environments for the oil and gas industry is directly transferable to the offshore renewables sector and ensures technicians working in those conditions are competentand safe.”

Helen Armstrong, a programme manager at the Blyth-based Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, says many of the skills needed for offshore wind are already here inthe North East. She added: “Offshore wind is beginning to be seen as a flagship industry for this area, and rightly so. People have realisedthere is a wealth of skills among the oil and gas workforce which just need transferring. There’s a strong cluster of training providers here now, and they’re helping people to make that transition.”

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FT: Ebbsfleet United 3    0 Tamworth

24 January 2012

With injuries piling up and a suspension for Richard Tait there were changes required to the Lambs side as they travelled to face Ebbsfleet United. Their hosts were only ahead of The Lambs in the league table on goal difference but had only lost twice in their last nine outings, while Marcus Law's side were desperately looking for their first league win after six run outs in the competition since the end of November and had let two leads slip at the weekend.

Law had moved quickly after the 3-2 reversal to Barrow to bring in a couple of new faces into the squad in Luke Hubbins and Harvey Headley and so there were five changes to the starting eleven that had lost to the Bluebirds at the weekend including the return of Jonathon Hedge in goal.

Decked out in white and black Tamworth kicked off towards the covered end behind the goal and on the slippy surface after a day of rain, the ball skipped around quickly in the opening exchanges.
2: Hubbins, playing in front of Courtney sends a fine cross from the right wing after showing a burst of pace to get past the covering defender but Shariff's header from a central position goes high off target.
4: A foul on the far side by Hubbins allows the home side a free kick from the left hand corner of the box and Hedge is forced to grab the ball out of the air from the fiercely struck free kick from Enver-Marum.
5: Tamworth counter and dangerous right sided cross is put behind for a corner but it comes to nothing.
7: Pinney makes space on the right of the Lambs box to get a low ball into the danger area but every attempt by the home side to strike for goal fails and Tamworth clear with a collective ‘phew' from the small band of visiting Lambs.
9: Liam Daish is forced to make a very early change with Marwa unable to continue
11: Another zippy run by Pinney down the right sees him pull the ball back into the box once again, and this time West is able to trap the ball and spin and shoot low but thankfully for Hedge and his teammates he misses the far post by a matter of inches.
18: Ebbsfleet are enjoying more of the ball going forward but The Lambs were defending strongly and calmly and have not been threatened too much.
20: A long ball forward is flicked on by Willock and is dealt with effectively by Francis as West look to turn on the ball on the edge of the area.
23: An Ebbsfleet cross from the left is missed by everyone until Hedge is forced into a low save to his right as West hits a right footed shot low from the right of the box.
25: Hubbins shows more trickery to get a right footed cross in from the right wing forcing Edwards to come and punch the ball clear and in the next move Patterson closes down on the home keeper who just manages to clear his lines in time.
27: Enver-Marum tries his luck with a right footed shot but it takes a deflection and Hedge collects as Ebbsfleet force Tamworth to work hard to keep possession and make it very hard for them to get into the final third. They manage it with a long ball forward from Green, but Edwards is first to the ball with Patterson closing down.
34: Hedge is forced out to take the ball from off the forward run of Willock twice within a minute but there's no real threat of a goal other than that from goalkeeper error.
36: At the other end, Ebbsfleet defend strongly to prevent a Lambs chance coming to fruition.
38: Patterson makes a surging run into the box and pulls it back for Sharrif who sees his shot saved by the feet of Edwards, but the referee had already spotted a foul on Patterson and awards a penalty.
39: However, Edwards guesses correctly and the ball comes out and the chance is gone when play is stopped for handball against Isaac.
44: Willock pulls the ball across the face of goal but no one is able to get a touch and a corner is conceded past the far post and two minutes added time is shown.
45: Gudger tries his luck from 25 yards, but only manages to hit the top of the massive stand behind the goal and raise a cheer from the home fans.

HT: Ebbsfleet United 0    0 Tamworth

Ebbsfleet get the second half underway and The Lambs are now attacking the open terrace populated by six of the Lambs fans who have travelled to the game, the rest of the two dozen or so are disappointed to see Hubbins drag the ball wide of the mark following a strong run at goal. His shot from 20 yards goes wide of the left hand post and fails to test Edwards.
50: Although not actually raining, there is a high level of moisture in the air making fast close control difficult so Pinney goes for a long range effort and hedge is relieved to see his shot from the right hand touch line fall on top of the goal net.
53: Patterson makes headway into the area but sees his shot come back off Edwards and Shariff is unable to get a shot away before Willock can steal in and force a corner.
54: Ebbsfleet break from the corner and West feeds Enver-Marum who sprints onto his through ball and makes no mistake with a low shot from the edge of the area under and past the despairing dive of Hedge. (0-1, 54 mins)
60: Tamworth were definitely not going down without a fight and pushed forwards constantly from the restart going close again from Hubbins right wing cross but once again Ebbsfleet broke and this time Pinney slid the ball home from the edge of the area to make it 2-0.
63: Hubbins limps off the field straight into the changing rooms followed by the physio and is replaced by Thomas.
65: Ebbsfleet win a corner on the right and Willock glances his header just wide of the far post.
69: Enver-Marum turns Green on the half way line and sprints through down the right only to find his way blocked by Francis. No card is shown despite the shouts for a sending off from the home fans and West fires the freekick from the right channel into the side netting.
72: Ten Lambs are required to sit behind the ball in the final third to halt the progress of the home side, but they still manage to get through down the left side of the box and Francis is lucky with his touch which deflects straight back to Hedge rather than past him.
78: After a brief respite in play where Willock receives treatment in the centre circle, he is deemed unable to continue and is replaced by Azeez.
80: The Lambs second debutant of the night takes his place on the field, replacing Patterson.
82: Green is booked for a foul on Enver-KMarum as the striker tries to go past him midway into the Lambs half and with only Francis left to beat.
83: Pinney takes the ball to the left of the box and pulls it back for Phipp, but his shot is poor and goes nowhere near the target.
84: The Lambs win a corner on the right but Stone heads it clear and the referee pulls play back for a push on the same player.
88: Pinney makes space for himself on the left and cuts back in before hitting a hopeful shot from the edge of the box, which bounces in front of Hedge and into the net unhindered. (0-3, 88 mins)
90: Three minutes added time are shown and McDonald tries a shot from distance, but it's straight at Edwards.
90: Enver-Marum makes headway down the left and into the box before squaring for Azeez who, with just Hedge to beat somehow rolls his shot past the left hand upright from 12 yards out and spares further Lambs blushes before the final whistle blows.

Tamworth Team:

Hedge, Courtney, Francis, McDonald, Patterson (Headley 80), Green, Gudger, Osaac, Shariff, McKoy, Hubbins (Thomas 63)
Subs: Oji, Reynolds, Collister

Yellow Cards: Green 82

Ebbsfleet United Team:

Edwards, Stone, Lorraine, West (Adams 90), Marwa (Barrett 10), Willock (Azeez 78), Phipp, Howe, Enver-Marum, Pinney
Subs: McNeil, Stavrinou

Attendance: 746

Referee: Mr. D. Sheldrake

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Guest Post-Leslie from AndGeeks

Empowering Your Mobile Employee’s Productivity

Four efficiency tips for female entrepreneurs

As a woman who owns her own small writing business, I’m often dependent on mobile technology to keep me attuned to my day-to-day business. For instance, I often work from cafes on my laptop between client meetings, I use my smart phone to connect with remote staff and potential business partners on a daily basis, and I use my tablet to touch base via email, Skype, and to share knowledge in cloud-computing type programs.

In this current mobile business environment, we don’t need to be in the office every day. In fact, most days myself and my staff don’t need to be in the office at all! I depend on the following mobile tools and processes to wire me into the day-to-day office stuff. This way, I’m confident that I can hire and source work on a remote basis, and know that I’m working with those with the best experience, and not hindered by location.

Here are four tips that I use as a female entrepreneur to empower the productivity of my mobile employees…

1. Develop a sense of community spirit

The more and more remote workers that I added to my staff; the more I realized how important it was to develop a sense of community—from a distance. Remote employees will typically feel a sense of isolation if they constantly work alone. I find the most efficient means to keep them productive and communicating with me and each other is via engagement. And I use tools like Linkedin, Facebook, and even Liquidspace for weekly check-ins, virtual meet-ups, show and tells, and Q&A’s to increase the remote community at my company.

2. Trust the security of the cloud

Cloud-based programs are great if you’re looking for a secure, accessible program to keep all of your business files. I use tools like Google Drive and DropBox, where my team of remote workers can access the files, images, and tools they need to do their jobs at a distance. These cloud sync storage programs allow me to share a project with a team and a client and manage all types of files—such as word documents, photos, spreadsheets, video, slide share, etc. Cloud storages offers the most efficient and secure way to collaborate and access documents from anywhere, from any device.

3. Supporting staff from a distance

Affirmation is absolutely necessary—even for remote employees. Not only does it ensure your remote staff feels valued; it also increases productivity and urges them to surpass deadlines, project specs, quotas, and knowledge sharing between workers. I find that rewarding remote staff for their accomplishments—with employee of the month or a monthly gift card for the best producer—keeps my staff invested in my company and its success!

4. Urge collaboration with communication

Working remotely can tend to weight on business communication. However, just because staff is cut off physically from each other, doesn’t mean they can’t use tools on laptops and tablets to bridge communication from a distance. I use Skype for instant text and video messaging throughout the work day to facilitate quick chats, team conference calls, and project meetings. It’s the regular communication that keeps my employees sharing knowledge, pushing the creativity envelope, and supporting each other from a distance.

About The Author

Leslie is one of the bloggers at AndGeeks who specializes in all things mobile and electronic. She’s an avid gadget geek and can often be found playing with the newest apps or testing Lenovo laptops and other electronic gadgets.

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Saturday, November 14, 2015

Text Set: Books that Celebrate Diversity of/within Families

I will be presenting at a roundtable session at next week's NCTE on Saturday morning (G.40 Equity, Social Justice, and Advocacy for Literacy, 211AB). My session is called "Reading Another Culture: Teaching Diversity without Reinforcing Stereotypes," and there are 10 other great presenters as part of the session.

As part of that session, I am putting together various text sets of picture books that teachers and parents can use to help introduce children to diverse characters and children around the world. The complete handouts from the talk will be available here.

This is the first in a series of posts that provides more details about each of the featured text sets. These are books that celebrate diversity of families and family structures, as well as books that feature diverse and/or multicultural families. Upcoming text sets include books to reinforce the idea that Africa is not a country and books that explore alternative points of view on exploration and colonization.

Books that Celebrate Diversity of/within Families

One Family (2015) by George Shannon and Blanca Gómez. This charming counting book is so much more. One is not just one, when it is a pair of shoes or a hand of cards. And one can be any number when it comes to "one family." This picture book is a celebration of families, in all their quirky uniqueness. The illustrated families include grandparents, mixed race couples, twins, single parents, young boys in Sikh turbans, gay couples, and so much more. This would be a great mentor text for a getting-to-know you activity, where each child could illustrate a page representing whatever number describes their "one family."

Stella Brings the Family (2015) by Miriam B. Schiffer and illustrated by Holly Clifton-Brown. Stella faces a dilemma: who can she invite to her school's Mother's Day outing when she doesn't have a mother? Papa, Daddy, and her classmates help her realize what really matters in a family and how to celebrate all the types of families there are.

My Family Tree and Me (2015) by Dušan Petričić. This is a great concept book on genealogy and the family tree. The book reads from both sides, with one side, front-to-middle, telling the story of the boy's father's family, while the other side, back-to-middle, telling the story of the boy's mother's family. There is also a clever conceit of each pair of parents having a picture hanging up of the previous generation. The text itself is completely generic (with the exception of the fact that the boy has aunts and uncles on both sides) and could be used with kids to put together their own versions. I also appreciate how this book celebrates multiracial and diverse families.

The Case for Loving: the fight for interracial marriage (2015) by Selina Alko and illustrated by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko. This book represents a collaboration between the husband-and-wife team of Selina Alko and Sean Qualls. The story of Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter and their fight for interracial marriage is presented very much from today's point-of-view but also offers children background about how this fight came to be. The author's note draws the natural connection between the history of this fight and the current battle for recognition of same sex marriages and also shares some of the authors' backstory as an interracial couple.

Heather Has Two Mommies (2015 ed.) by Lesléa Newman and illustrated by Laura Cornell. Heather's favorite number is two, and the book uses her love of 2s to structure a story about her life and first day of school. This book is a great one for helping all students understand and embrace the broad range of what the term "family" truly means, and this new updated illustrations make the story more accessible to today's readers.

Children Just Like Me series (1995) by Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley. Children Just Like Me
 is the first book in a growing series of books by husband-and-wife photographers-and-writers Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley. In cooperation with UNICEF, they have traveled around the world interviewing and photographing children and their families. This book features one or two page spreads about individual children from different countries, including information about their hobbies, families, favorite foods, schools, hopes for the future, and much more. My students love learning about the kids and seeing a glimpse of their lives.

The Kindersleys have since branched out and created a whole series of books. Children Just Like Me: Celebrations! features holidays and celebrations around the world, organized seasonally. Again, information about each holiday is shared through the eyes of an individual child. Children Just Like Me: Our Favorite Stories is a collection of folktales from around the world. There are also continent specific versions of the books available, including Children of EuropeChildren of Africa and Neighboring Countries, and Children of the Americas.

Everybody Cooks Rice (1991) by Norah Dooley. My favorite first day of school read focuses on the people and cultures in one small neighborhood, highlighting the commonalities in the rice-based meals being prepared. There is also some socio-economic diversity highlighted, as the parents work a variety of jobs including long hours. This is part of a series of similarly-themed books by the author.

Do you have a favorite book that features a diversity of families? Please share in the comments below! For more text sets on diverse topics, please click here.

  1. I have read that third book. I will have to read the others too.
    I have pinned your post.
    Thanks for hosting KLBH!

  2. I LOVE Everybody Cooks Rice! I would love to get my hands on that Children Just Like Me Series. Good luck with your presentation. I'm sure your audience will appreciate this topic!

  3. What a great session! I wish I were going to NCTE and could hear it. I love The Case for Loving and Everybody Cooks Rice.

  4. Congrats on your presentation! A great selection of books.

  5. Congrats on going to NCTE. This is a fabulous selection of books. Thanks so much for sharing them.

  6. Such a lovely set of books! I would have liked to hear your presentation - I hope it went well. (Via #KLBH)

  7. Great diversity book list! Thanks for sharing at the #DiverseKid Lit linky!

  8. Lets you work, compose and make, specifically in Word, as you hear your writing read so anyone can hear by character, word or text to speech

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Woking Crematorium – Memorials

The Garden of  Remembrance

There is little formality about the gardens at Woking Crematorium. For the most part, nature has been allowed to take its course, and the developed areas have been carefully designed so that the shrub beds and the natural woodland are complementary one to the other. Undulating lawns, woodland walks, winding paths, a lake, wild flowers, rose beds – all this in an atmosphere of quiet serenity which you sense as soon as you enter the gates.

Each Spring the gardens burst forth anew in a pageant of fresh colour. First the snowdrops, crocuses and daffodils, and then the beautifully coloured spring flowering shrubs such as rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias. Each season brings its own touch of beauty to comfort and encourage.

Woking The Garden of Remembrance

Ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Roses

Woking Ornamental Trees Shrubs and Roses 2Memorial shrubs are available for dedication in many parts of the garden and include azalea, rhododendron, berberis, pieris, potentilla and acer, to name but a few. One of these may be dedicated as a memorial, whether the ashes are to be interred at its foot (not in a container) or have been scattered elsewhere in the garden, marking the final resting place.

Various kinds of ornamental trees and flowering shrubs have been selected to flower at different seasons of the year or have been chosen for their attractive leaf colour or berries to add interest, particularly at the time of a special anniversary

There are a number of rose beds in the more formal part of the garden and an individual floribunda or hybrid tea rose, or perhaps a standard or climbing rose, which will flower year after year, may be your choice as a memorial.

Woking Ornamental Trees Shrubs and Roses

Woking The Dell Garden

Memorial Cards or Books

Your individual entry can be reproduced exactly as written in the Book of Remembrance in an individual Memorial Card or Book.

Woking Memorial Cards or Books

Leather panels

These are panels of dark blue leather with an inscription of up to seventy letters tooled in gold lettering.

Woking Leather Panels and Floral Dispay

Floral Display

Special floral displays can be ordered for show in the Main Chapel on the date nominated. The floral artist can include flowers of your choice and a card bearing the name of the deceased will be displayed beside the arrangement. If preferred a floral display can be provided and placed near the Books of Remembrance to commemorate an anniversary or special occasion.

Commemoration Vases

Flowers are the perfect expression of remembrance, and a floral scheme in the Chapel or Shrine of Remembrance allows visitors to memorialise their own posy vase. Each holds up to six stems and has a small plaque bearing the name and a short message.

The Lake

Our naturally formed lake is an idyllic place for quiet contemplation. It is home to many species of fish and wild fowl and provides a spectacular backdrop to Tennyson Lake Garden and The Dell.

Lakeside memorials include carefully selected, natural stone boulders and hardwood benches.

Woking The Lake

Boulder Memorials

Woking Boulder MemorialsThis popular memorial is made from natural stone, shaped by hand and includes a beautiful tablet made from green Westmorland slate. The inscription is craft finished with gilded lettering.

Benches and Seats

You can select and dedicate a bench or seat, to be located by agreement. Made of solid teak and maintained by our staff, this most durable of woods will give you years of pleasure.

Woking Benches and Seats

The Children’s Garden

An area of the remembrance garden has been designed specifically for babies and children.

Sympathetically landscaped, it provides for a range of suitable memorials including dedicated plaques on the feature statue, vase blocks, benches and rose bushes. Full details are contained in our seperate children’s brochure available from the office.

Children’s Book of Remembrance

A special Book of Remembrance devoted solely to babies and children is situated in the Shrine of Remembrance.

Keepsake Jewellery

The tradition of keepsake jewellery goes back to the Middle Ages when ‘remember me’ jewellery was most often created by encasing a lock of hair in gold and silver pendants.

To be able to wear an elegant piece of jewellery containing a concealed token of your loved one’s cremated remains is a wholly appropriate, yet extremely discreet way of keeping your loved one close to you always. Beautifully designed along traditional lines and manufactured from solid 14-carat gold or sterling silver, keepsake jewellery is both fashionable and timeless.

Memorial Advisor

The choice of a memorial is an intensely personal matter. Our Memorial Advisor is available to help those involved make such decisions. At a private appointment you can talk through the range of possibilities that are available and can discuss personal requests for memorials and options that are not covered in this brochure.

Service of Remembrance

Our annual Service of Remembrance is held each Summer in the gardens. All are welcome to attend the service, which is held on the first Sunday in July, commencing at 3pm.


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Thursday, April 17, 2008

A matter of substance

Dear Honorable Representative Chappelle-Nedal,

I recently read in the FirstRead blog at MSNBC's website the following:

She said she's still undecided, but had some critical words for Obama. She found Obama's criticism of former President Jimmy Carter for meeting with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal "hypocritical" given his earlier stance that he would meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And, Chappelle-Nadal said, she finds herself frustrated that Obama's speeches lack detail.

Firstly, allow me to direct your attention to Here you will find all the detail you need.

Secondly, Hamas leader Khaled Meshal can be considered a terrorist since he is a leader of an organization designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, whereas Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - while a bit of a lunatic - is not a terrorist. In spite of the Iranian Republican Guard being designated a terrorist organization by the US, the IRG - also known as the Quds Force - reports directly to the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Never has Barack Obama claimed that he would be willing to meet with leaders of terrorist organizations, in fact he has said the exact opposite.

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Great news out of the State of Colorado. The bill to lift the ban on automatic and “gravity knives” has passed the Colorado House by a wide margin and is headed to Governor Hickenlooper. Knife Rights is asking folks to please contact the Governor’s office and ask him to please sign the bill. Cordially, of course.

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Colorado Switchblade/Gravity Knife Ban Repeal Passes

The bipartisan bill to repeal Colorado’s Switchblade and Gravity Knife ban SB 17-008, overwhelmingly passed the House 59-6.The bill legalizes the possession, carry and sale of a gravity knife or switchblade by removing such knives from the definition of “illegal weapon.” It will now be sent to Governor Hickenlooper for action.

If you live, work or travel in Colorado, please call or email the Governor and politely ask him to please sign SB 17-008. That’s all you need to do, just keep it very simple, “please sign SB 17-008” and thank him.

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We congratulate sponsors Sen. Owen Hill and Rep. Steve Lebsock for their effective leadership in moving this bipartisan bill thorough the legislature. We’d like to thank the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Colorado and County Sheriffs Of Colorado for supporting this important criminal justice reform bill.

Knife Rights is rewriting knife law in America™. Knife Rights passed the nation’s first repeal of a switchblade (automatic) knife ban in 2010 in New Hampshire and has since passed repeal of switchblade bans (and repealed other knife restrictions) in Alaska, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.

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Here is a letter of encouragement. Here is a reminder to step away from the computer every once in a while. Thrombosis and warfarin will still be there when you get back, I promise. Here is a reminder that the people that you meet now are special and you will appreciate them even more once you leave school, because you will have gone through hell together. Here is a reminder that friends are (generally) forever and that college guys come and go. Unless they stay. So don’t hesitate to go out with your friends. Guys will still be there and they will be more intrigued when you tell them NO. SORRY. BUSY. and hang out with your friends. Guys are wonderful and predictable, and it’s easy to get their interest by being busy. Luckily, school keeps you busy so you are half way there.

If you work little by little, it is 100% easier than a last minute all night studying, although God knows I have done that too.

Here is a letter of encouragement that you are perfect just the way that you are, but it is never a bad thing to improve as long as you are gentle on yourselves. That is the highest task and the hardest. It is really hard to be both easy on yourself and try to be better than you were yesterday, but you must try.

Here is a letter of encouragement that it does get easier.

Here is a quiet plea to be careful and watch your drink when you go out, because there are lots of sketchy dudes and you do not deserve to have your drink spiked. And if your drink ever DOES get spiked it’s not your fault. Let’s just look out for each other.

Here is a reminder that every chance you have to go out for a walk or take a trip, even if for the day, do it. Work will always be there, but some sad day Gina and Susannah will not be living together and you will absolutely miss walking with each other through the snow and then drinking hot cocoa.

Do the dishes always. Ahead of time. Even if you’re tired. Nothing drives apart roomies faster than a dirty house. We are all tired. Rise above the mess.

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Just to let you know that Jeff has spent the past week travelling around Australia and New Zealand (and now South Africa) promoting the album for Sony BMG. Highlights of the trip have been:

* being presented with Platinum discs representing the 23 times Platinum that the album has gone between Australia and New Zealand,

* being presented with a birthday cake in Sydney on his birthday, 1st July, with a digitised image of the Thunder Child painting, on the cake,

* attending a signing at HMV in Sydney to be greeted by a line of hundreds of fans, and

* arriving in Johannesburg today and, when driving to the hotel, passing the Planetarium where the launch will take place tomorrow, to see a large inflatable Martian Fighting Machine visible from the motorway.

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Reflection on Daniel Eltons Dissertation on Water

Beyond the boundaries of established science an avalanche of exotic ideas compete for our attention. Experts tell us that these ideas should not be permitted to take up the time of working scientists, and for the most part they are surely correct. But what about the gems in the rubble pile? By what ground-rules might we bring extraordinary new possibilities to light?

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webolife wrote:By the way, what is absurd about a 300 mph differential in relative wind speed [ie. the average speed of the jet stream with respect to the earth's surface from which it is gauged] due to the sphericity of the earth's surface?

It's surreal how gratuitously you misquote me.

webolife wrote:For a reader's reminder, the equatorial earth surface rotates eastward at 1600+ kph, while the mid to upper latitudes rotate eastward at around in the ranges of 700 - 1100 kph, a difference middling around 700 kph to a stationary observer at those latitudes. So a polarward moving parcel of air originating near the equator will start out at a high eastward speed and "overtake" the slower rotating earth as it moves toward the poles, ie. moving eastward at a faster rate than the rotating earth at the higher latitudes. Likewise winds originating in the higher latitudes lag behind the earth's rotation as they head toward the equator. This is a basic description of the Coriolis effect, commonly stated thus: Currents [wind and water] in the Northern Hemisphere veer to the right [and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere]. This is an almost entirely exigent consequence of simple inertia, oh... and simple convection. It explains the anticyclonic movement in air masses [ie. clockwise in the N Hem}, as well as the cyclonic movement at low pressure frontal systems as considered in the context of convection.

What I am seeing here is an intellectual disconnect with reality. You didn't explain how a 300 mph wind is sustained along the tropopause or why it exists there. You brought up a few facts that are tangential to the issue. Yes the earth spins. Yes, there is a Coriolis effect. Yes, cyclonic movement is opposite in different hemisphere. Everybody knows all of this.

Even though I am sure it is inadvertent, by all appearances you are attempting to obfuscate the issue. All you are doing is stringing together observations that are related. You don't have a relevant point or an honest argument as far as I can tell.

The real issue here involves the question/mystery as to how this 300 mph flow maintains its coherence. Why/how does it avoid the friction that normally would spread this energy and reduce the flow to chaos?

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A river that has no banks is not a river, it is a flood. Might the same be true for jet streams? If so, might this suggest an undiscovered plasma that facilitates the structural integrity that, like the banks of a river, makes the focused flow of jet streams possible? Your article on jet streams, entitled How Sick is the Jet Stream? February 2015, goes a long way to opening people's mind to the possibility that there is more to the atmosphere than just wind and water. On my own website,, I attempt to breath some life into these questions by drawing parallels between jet streams and tornadoes, even going so far as to suggest that the plainly observable cone or vortex of a tornado is evidence that substantiates the existence of this theoretical plasma. In my book entitled, Vortex Phase: The Discovery of the Spin That Underlies the Twist, I take it even further suggesting a simple solution to large, violent tornadoes. Thank you for providing graphic evidence that jet streams play a much greater role in our everyday lives than previously was even imagined.

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Re: Reflection on Daniel Eltons Dissertation on Water

Unread postby jimmcginn » Sat Feb 18, 2017 8:14 am

webolife wrote:The only thing that frustrates me in this conversation is your continuing rant that the established science is "superstition".

Surreal. If convection was "established" then you would have no reason to evade my analysis.

The real reason water is involved with storms isn't simple. Convection is one of those notions that people want to believe because it seems simple. It's actually impossible. And there are no simple alternatives.

Understanding water's *correct* role in the atmosphere is the most important concept for understanding storms and atmospheric flow, including jet streams. Water's role in the atmosphere has to do with its surface tension, not convection.
webolife wrote:Kuhn would not approve.

LOL. You remind me of those AGW nitwits that claim that anybody that doesn't believe what they believe must be a scientific heretic.
webolife wrote:You're welcome to believe that of course, but others who study the standard model and find it to [occasionally or often] be satisfactory for making predictions are still trying to do good science, and your ad hominem epithets do little to advance the science you are claiming to be trying to address.

More whining. More hiding behind the mantle of science. More pretending to understand what you only believe.
webolife wrote:I'm trying very hard to appreciate, understand and apply your work on gaseous water vapor vs. liquid microdroplets, and to visualize what appears to be quite a conceptual leap to your conclusion that moist air is heavier than dry air, buoyed up by solar wind driven plasma currents. If I wasn't patient with you, I'd have given up for good long ago. As it is, I'm thinking you may someday appreciate me being on your side.

People fight to maintain belief in an impossible explanation as long as it seems plausible. The real reason H2O is involved in storms and atmospheric flow seems implausible. Surface tension is not a simple concept.

The spinning of microdroplets along wind shear boundaries is what maximizes the surface area of H2O in the atmosphere. This only occurs when one body of air is moist and the other is dry, when they are moving in different directions, and when the boundary is relatively flat and distinct. And it only occurs just along this boundary.

When you eliminate what is impossible your mind opens to consider what is implausible. When you maximize the surface area of H2O you maximize the surface tension. The ensuing plasma-like qualities that form are what comprise the the vortices that entail and inner slick surface that isolates and accelerates the moist air that flows up through them, causing storms.

All storms involve vortices that are themselves connected to the jet stream, itself a vortice and itself located along a moist/dry wind shear boundary, the tropopause. Normally these vortices are unseen. Sometimes, however, when conditions dictate (tornado alley), boundary layers extend all the way to the ground (this is a consequence of turbulence of air moving over the rockies). When they do vortices can extend all the way to the ground, observable as a tornado.

People want to believe what is simple. When simple beliefs are shown to be false people experience cognitive dissonance. That makes them act like children who need their diapers changed.

Stop acting like a child and directly address the substance of my argument. Stop whining and get rigorous.

Water's role in the atmosphere has to do with its surface tension, not convection. This explains why storms are wet. And it explains why people that believe in convection are so desperate to politically ostracize anybody exposes this pseudo scientific notion.

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Happy New Year

I hope that 2011 will be just the best (not that 2010 didn't treat me well, I just fell out with it a bit at the end).

My SIL is American (from South Carolina) and so today she is cooking 'hoppin' Johns and collar'd greens'. Eating it on new years day is supposed to bring you luck for the whole year. I did ask what this meal consists of and apparently it is black eyed peas and rice (the part that bring you luck) and the collard greens bring in money.

We are too late to do this this year but she is sending me the recipe for next year as I think that's a really fun tradition :)

I actually went to bed at 10.30 last night! (half an hour longer than I thought haha). Maybe next year I will make it to 12, who knows what this year will bring.

So without a hangover I thought today would be pretty productive...but no I woke up in a big thick mood instead..I just couldn't shake it. I am used to feeling sad now, and Tom is used to seeing me sad and comforting me. My emotions have been very up and down as expected, what I didn't expect was to feel cross. Usually I am a pretty much calm person I think and I'm not 100% what it is I am cross about really, but today I woke up grumpy and cross and it only really left me this evening..what a waste of a day!

Anyways, to make up for it I managed to put together two new tote bags this evening!

I will take proper pictures when I've finished them all as I have another eight to do! The tote bags are made from organic cotton and I used fabric paint to hand paint them :) That was fun!

I dont usually do new years resolutions, and I dont really have one now..maybe to be more productive? Tom says Rockie and Maddie have to have one. Rockie's is to lose weight..I know! He is a very big cat though, he eats his dinner, then Maddie's dinner and then sleeps..all day! So there maybe is something in trying to get him to a be a bit more active/eat less.

Maddie's resolution is to stop shedding hair on all my clothes..right Maddie?

I also thought I might partake in the 365 project that I saw on the dainty squid's blog. I will try my best to take a picture everyday, I think its such a fun idea! Here is my first for 01.01.11

Rockie the cat enjoying the new chair.

Hope you all had a good new years days, did you make any resolutions? xoxo

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I love the bags! So nice that they're hand painted too :)

I often feel moody/cross/sad without really knowing why. It's even worse when the boyfriend asks what's wrong and I can't give an answer. So very frustrating!

Also, love that the cats have resolutions! :) they're so adorable, I hope they keep to them ;) i'm going to try and get fit aha! hmm we'll see how that one goes!! xx

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In interview with PA TV, diplomat details possible risks to the Palestinians of their joining the International Criminal Court

The Palestinian representative to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva said that every rocket and mortar fired from Gaza toward Israel is a “crime against humanity.”

Speaking on July 9 to Palestinian Authority TV on the possible risks involved if Palestinians leaders ask to join the International Criminal Court — as they have threatened to do in order to push for measures against Israel — Ambassador Ibrahim Kraishi said the “Palestinian weakness” in terms of international law is the indiscriminate firing of rockets at Israel.

“The missiles that are now being launched against Israel, each and every missile constitutes a crime against humanity, whether it hits or misses, because it is directed at civilian targets,” said Kraishi during the interview, translated by MEMRI.

The ambassador said that, by contrast, Israel’s actions follows legal procedures, because the IDF warns Gazan civilians to leave sites and areas before they are bombed.

“Many of our people in Gaza appeared on TV and said that the Israelis warned them to evacuate their homes before the bombardment. In such a case, if someone is killed, the law considers it a mistake rather than an intentional killing because [the Israelis] followed the legal procedures.”

“As for the missiles launched from our side, we never warn anyone about where these missiles are about to fall or about the operations we carry out,” he says.

Kraishi also said the “settlements [in the West Bank], the Judaization [of Jerusalem], the checkpoints, the arrests, and so on” were also considered “war crimes” under the Fourth Geneva Convention.

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Top Priority

Trakehner Gelding

Name: Top Priority

Foaled: May 30th 1983

Sire: Pregelstrand

Dam: Mascoutah

Top Priority’s History

Top Priority, lovingly known as Topper was bred by Dressage trainer Leslie Webb in California. He was then sold to a lady by the name of Janet Cole who took very good care of him and taught him lots of fun tricks like bowing for carrots and tag with humans. Unfortunately while Janet had him he fractured his hip against a tree while in pasture. Lucky for him Janet took very good care of him with daily walks and lots of chiropractic visits. The chiropractors did a good job with him but he would never be the same, you could see where the injury had been and created what looked like a hunters bump on his hind end.

After years Janet had started to have her own family and didn’t have time for Topper. He was sold to Deborah in Malibu, California. Her daughter wasn’t riding him either and I think he was a little too spunky of a horse for Deborah. So luckily one day when my trainer was looking through a horse trader magazine for me she came across Deborah’s ad for him. At the time I was 15 and hadn’t developed a favorite breed yet and had been riding Warmbloods, Quarter Horses, Arabians and Thoroughbreds. I had a huge desire to do jumping at the time even though my trainer was primarily teaching Dressage.

So we went to Malibu and saw him. He was full of spunk but a good boy and his back was very sore. So we took him home and I worked on his back with massages and chiropractic. I was soon jumping him but much to my dismay he would buck after every jump! After one close call with my head and the metal arena fence I thought I better quit the jumping for a while even though he was great at it. I was asked by my other friend and trainer if I would like to join her Quadrille team.

Pretty soon I was trailering twice a week to the barn to practice with my team and I became the captain of The Riding Company. I also became addicted to Dressage and never jumped again. Between 1998 and 2003 I was showing consistently and winning! We did very well at Intro Level Dressage and even won $100 at a championship show in Moorpark, CA. We were also doing very well at the Quadrille and showing almost every month during the show seasons. Unfortunately the judges weren’t as educated on Quadrille so we would educate them before we would ride our tests, we told them that they needed to look at our synchrony, spacing and alignment and not so much at our individual dressage skills.

In 2002 we were doing so well we decided to go to the Quadrille Championships in Paso Robles where were judged by Elizabeth Searle who brought Quadrille to the United States. We did so well we received every possible award at our level not to mention several scores in the 80% range. We received a fun perpetual trophy, ribbons, medals and even a bucket and tool box. It was definitely the highlight of my career with Topper and for many of the girls on my team as we all went our seperate ways after that year and two of them stopped riding altogether. We are still featured on the California Quadrille Website and we are on the front of the What Is Quadrille brochure. Our trainer Michele Purpora-Tardi is now the president of the California Quadrille Association as she is such a wonderful and knowledgable trainer in Quadrille.

We reached 1st level and we were doing pretty well but you could tell he wasn’t going to go much beyond that due to his injury. In 2003 I decided to follow my Mom to Montana where I could have open pastures to ride, play and retire Topper on. He absolutely loved the open pasture and as soon as I let him and my mare Ogellee out of the trailer he ran and ran, you could tell was having fun. After two weeks of being in Montana I was hit with the biggest grief of my life I went out to see him in the pasture only to find him with a broken knee. We quickly called the vet out but it was irrepairable especially since he was already 20 so I was forced with the decision to put him down. That was when I decided to call my farm Top Priority Trakehners, after my first beloved Trakehner. He was an excellent first horse to learn everything on, he had a great mind and a kind heart and because of him I will be forever bound to the Trakehner breed.

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Align with business goals

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SHARJAH, May 16, 2018

Eagle Hills Sharjah, a leading real estate investment and development company, has launched Sapphire Beach Residence, the second residential building of the flagship Maryam Island project in Sharjah.

The joint venture between Eagle Hills, an Abu Dhabi-based private real estate investment and development company, and Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) is working on a trio of major developments that will set new standards of residential living, hospitality, retail and lifestyle communities in Sharjah.

Besides Maryam Island, it is also developing Kalba Waterfront and Palace Al Khan projects which are set to become flagship destinations for locals and visitors, energising and diversifying the local economy, creating jobs and attracting local and international investments.
The Sapphire Beach Residence launch comes following its success with the first residential building, Azure Beach Residence, last month.

Sapphire Beach Residence features 190 units ranging from studios to three-bedroom apartments, all of which are complemented by 20 retail and F&B (food and beverage) units, a shared community pool and gym, a pool and a playground for children. Residents will also benefit from a strategic location a few minutes’ walk away from the beach.

Eagle Hills CEO Low Ping said: "We are delighted to have witnessed such a high level of interest in Azure Beach Residence among both domestic and foreign investors, particularly so soon after the launch of sales. This is a promising sign as it demonstrates that Maryam Island is achieving what we hoped it would — supporting Sharjah’s growing reputation as a premier lifestyle destination, setting new benchmarks for fully integrated communities in the emirate, and attracting a new audience of investors."

"By releasing a fresh wave of units in Sapphire Beach Residence, we hope to sustain this momentum, thereby driving sustainable growth in Sharjah," she stated.

Sapphire Beach Residence is situated at the heart of Sharjah’s most impressive waterfront destination - Maryam Island - which will offer world-class urban planning design and unparalleled views of both the Arabian Sea and the city’s downtown skyline.

Maryam Island residents will benefit from exceptional privacy and serenity, as well as access to the development’s relaxing waterfront promenade and a Souq that reflects Sharjah’s rich heritage.

The centrally located 458,000-sq-m plot is within easy reach of the city’s residential and commercial hubs, and is also home to five- and four-star hotels that offer a total of approximately 600 keys, giving residents the opportunity to enjoy a wealth of upscale amenities.-TradeArabia News Service

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Peggy graduated from Paron High School in 1949.

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Reclaiming Liberalism

Third in a sermon series  Rev. Brian J. Kiely   November 25, 2018 READINGS “Trump’s mood takes a foul turn”  November 15, 2018 By several CNN reporters Washington (CNN) A political clobbering, bickering aides and now a public grenade launched across the White House by the first lady have placed President Donald Trump in a position he loathes: backed into a corner. A week after standing in the East Room and declaring victory in the midterm elections, the President is isolated […]

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The Threat to Liberalism

 Part two in a three part series   Rev. Brian J. Kiely, November 18, 2018 Reading:   Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative viewpoints by actively suppressing dissenting viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences. Groupthink requires individuals to […]

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Unitarians and the Liberal Tradition

Part one of a three part sermon series  Rev. Brian J. Kiely, November 11, 2018 READING (From a United KingdomA level philosophy course study guide)  The logical starting-point towards understanding any ideology concerns its view of human nature. In straight-forward terms, liberals share an optimistic attitude towards human nature. This is based upon an assumption that our behaviour is determined by rational interest rather than irrational emotions and prejudice. We are therefore governed by reason and should be entrusted with […]

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Ingathering- Our Principles

“Ingathering – Our Principles” a sermon by Rev. Brian J. Kiely  Unitarian Church of Edmonton September 2, 2018 I begin with a quotation from liberal theologian Anthony Padovano: Being human is the most difficult and the most religious of all our undertakings, for being human means accepting the sacredness and fragility of one’s own life.  It means living every moment with tragedy at hand and grace close by.  Being human means forever trying to settle oneself into the unsettling situations […]

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Promises to Community

”Promises to Community” third of a series of sermons on Promises. Rev. Brian J. Kiely    September 17, 2017 In the first two sermons in this series I looked at the promises we make to ourselves and then the promises we make to other people in our lives.  This week and next Sunday in a youth led service we will talk about the promises we make together as people in community.  Whenever people gather, it is natural to have a set […]

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“Promises to Others”  Second of a Series of sermons Sermon by Rev. Brian J. Kiely     September 10, 2017 Reading A Promise is a Promise  Frank Sonnenberg Do you think before you make a promise to someone? What if you can’t deliver on your word? Does it really matter? The world isn’t going to come to an end, is it? Well, actually no, but have you considered . . . Many people are pretty casual about making promises. As […]

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Promises to Self

Promise to Self a sermon by Rev. Brian J. Kiely Unitarian Church of Edmonton, September 1, 2017 Reading “Promise is a big word.  It either makes something or breaks something. “ Lianne Martha Maiquez Laroya 1. “I promise to myself that I will accept my strengths as well as my flaws.” 2. “I will speak lovingly to myself.” 3. “I will always keep in mind that I cannot control everything.” 4. “I will choose my battles wisely.” 5. “I will […]

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Islam: Fanatics, Reality and a Hopeful Future

Second in a two part series A sermon by Rev. Brian J. Kiely  Unitarian Church of Edmonton  February 26, 2017 Prayer In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful. Praise be to the Lord of the Universe who has created us and made us into tribes and nations, that we may know each other, not that we may despise each other. If the enemy incline towards peace, do thou also incline towards peace, and trust in God, for the Lord […]

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Islam: The Religion of Peace

First of a two part series Rev. Brian J. Kiely, Unitarian Church of Edmonton, February 19, 2017 Last Fall I planned to do this series on Islam because some people were asking me to take a look a look at world religions now and then, to explore the meanings of some of the banners hanging around the room.  When we first planned this month on Islam I had no idea it would be so relevant to current events.  I chose […]

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“Actively Engaged: a sermon on the CUC Vision Statement”  Rev. Brian J. Kiely The service began with a video clip from a presentation by Henry Rollins.  Punk musician, writer and raconteur, Rollins is a dedicated liberal and calls ‘em as he sees ‘em.  He walks out on stage in his black pants and tee shirt and simply starts talking and goes for two hours without a break for even a sip of water.  And he is riveting.  He is funny, […]

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