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Tipping the attendant is a accepted practice, abnormally in big cities. Tips are a acceptable way of adage acknowledge you for the acceptable account accustomed throughout the year, as able-bodied as ensuring that the akin of account will abide aerial during the advancing year. There are a cardinal of factors to booty into application back chief how abundant you should tip. Some bodies accept to

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Providing a tip to the attendant is a accepted action that is a accepted accident all throughout the year for the account they accommodate the resident. However, there are assertive issues activity on how abundant attendant should receive, abnormally during the anniversary season. The bulk of tips to be accustomed to the attendant depends on a cardinal of factors. The admeasurement of the

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Living in a attendant accommodation may not be a alarm to some. But, accepting a attendant can be beneficial, abnormally if you amount assurance and aegis in your home. With added assurance and security, doormen can additionally accommodate affably acceptable casework who can advice in accustomed tasks. Because doormen act as the sentries in an accommodation or abode complex, they will be able

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The accessories bare by a aegis bouncer is, usually, the exact aforementioned that a badge administrator will advance during duty. It is basic that anniversary bouncer has the appropriate accessory in adjustment to assure themselves and the bodies about them. The aboriginal affair that is an complete charge accept for an administrator is a Baton. I am abiding anybody has apparent a appearance of

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Many accommodation and address citizenry will accept to tip the doormen at their residence, generally to actuate the doormen to abide accouterment the best account in the accessible year. Conversely, there are consistently bodies who accept not to tip, because it unnecessary. This agitation has existed for abounding years and absolutely will abide for as connected as there are doormen. There are

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One acumen to tip your doormen during the anniversary division is to accomplish abiding he will be motivated abundant in the year to appear and he will abide to do the aforementioned abundant job. Others anticipate about this action as absolutely accidental and artlessly debris to do it. Who is appropriate and who is wrong, there's still a agitation activity on. But you can apprehend actuality

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Providing a tip for doormen is a actual affectionate and aboveboard gesture; however, there is absolutely a bit of agitation about how to do this calmly during the anniversary season. Some will go advanced and accommodate doormen with adequate tips, while added debris to do so. Many individuals will accede that the added tip they are giving their doormen are not for the account throughout the

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The affair of how abundant to tip doormen is usually brought up back the anniversary division is about the corner. A majority of accommodation tenants go through with the motions and accord a tip while others catechism the practice, adage that doormen already get tips as they accomplish their duties throughout the year. The convenance continues as bodies rationalize that it's not so abundant as

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Oftentimes, a attendant is one of the abundant things about assertive accommodation buildings. Nonetheless, these places generally amount added in hire than those after doormen. You may acquisition it a adamantine accommodation to assignment out whether it is absolutely amount for money in the end. One of the key bonuses of accepting a attendant is that it is convenient. A attendant can assurance

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Welcome to Doorman in the City Blog

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Be for me a stronghold to which I may ever resort; send out to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the evildoer and the oppressor.(Ps 71)Says it all really.

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Sorry to continue with this theme. If you think it's too self indulgent just skip it. For me it's good therapy.On reflection, a lot of the tension arose out of my sense that the Yorkshire Ministry Course was providing me with what the church needed and the church’s sense that it was not but without engaging with the college authorities to see whether the modules I was sitting could have a more

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Below are my reflections of an event that happened two years ago. I mention it now because my cyber-friend Robert, an American Episcopalian Priest, warned me of the stages of bereavement. He was right: this has crept up on me of late and when I think and write about it I feel emotional and I feel sick in my stomach. I don't usually see myself as a victim and that description doesn't sit easily

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One busy Saturday night, we've got quite a few groups in from out of town, stag do's and hen do's mixing in with the locals. There's a little friction inside and we fly in to find a customer on his backside, a little splattered after being smacked up side the head. The DJ tells us that the violent gent we're after is conveniently dressed as spiderman. This allows the team to split, some with the

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Hundreds of people come through the door on a normal night. Some venues I've worked at could do 3-4k punter turnover in 4 hours with only half a dozen staff. Most of these will be fine, they'll buy drinks, not steal them, they'll dance and chat and help build a good atmosphere, not lurk, leer and poison a good atmosphere. Depending upon the venue, therewill be a mix of the good and the bad. The

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Well folks, I'm going to step back from writing a weekly update. It seems from my stats that this blogs readership is tapering off. The numbers are dropping and I can only imagine the day of the moderate, text only, everyman blog has passed, in favour of fast to digest tweets and more content rich material which I don't have the time to assemble on a weekly basis. I imagine I have some loyal

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If you do a public facing job, over time you'll slowly grow to despise them. You might move to intolerance of them, but slowly they'll get under your skin and you'll hate them. There will always be nice ones, ones that make you smile and have hope there are still decent corners of humanity left out there. Unfortunately these are the rare islands of sanity in a world of self absorbed, self centred

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I am still amazed by the ability of folks, most often men it has to be said, who in drink appear to become invincible. With a sufficient number of over-strength lagers inside them, they can seemingly do amazing feats of strength, stupidity and self abuse which would leave most sober folks, exhausted, broken or befuddled. I have seen grown men piggy back two others, at the same time, up a steep

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Standing in the doorway, refusing entry to a family gaggle of chav, I really just wish they'd accept reality. That reality being, the entire group, cousins, sisters, uncles and aunts are not coming in. Too much bad hair dye, very visible brands and sparkly things on both boys and girls.What they do, is make a lot of noise. Some of it is aimed at me and my colleagues, for being unreasonable, '

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I'm not an academic expert in the price elasticity of demand for over strength alcohol in those with alcohol related problems. I'm not publishing papers in the Lancet. I do however deal with a large number of people who have problems with alcohol and an even larger number of people who don't. In the course of my work I've encountered some people who's relationship with alcohol has led to their

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With the elf filled fun of christmas and the frankly violently drunken new years out of the way we find ourselves in the cold, quiet nights of January. The tightness of wallets after the excesses of presents, food and festivities leaves very few having big nights out. The few we do get heading our way are often those on weekly pay or benefits and are not big fans of prudence. The nights are cold,

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At the end of a shift the hot fast food options are limited. I'm not gonna be bothered with a pot noodle at 5am and it's just a little too early for the greasy spoon by the bus depot to have the hot plate frying. This leaves me with a few select takeaways to indulge my hunger. Pizza's, chicken, kebabs and burgers. I have sampled all of their various delights and I feel I should relate a couple of

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Doorman-Priest is no more. He has served his purpose. (No sexual or financial impropriety.) Do feel free to e-mail me: e-mail details on "My Profile"

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Here we are in the depths of the big freeze - what would we Brits do if we couldn't moan about the weather? - and some of my American friends are still confusing weather with climate. In today's Guardian I came across  That snow outside is what global warming looks like"Unusually cold winters may make you think scientists have got it all wrong. But the data reveals a chilling truth."Thought

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This time of year, any day of the week, you get people out drinking and socialising who don't usually do this. They don't regularly come into town and work their way around the bars and clubs of town. They don't regularly start drinking at lunchtime and try to keep playing 'til 4am. They don't interact with other drunk people, bar staff or doorstaff. These folk can end up getting into rows in

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Last night was the Lord Mayor's Carol Concerts in Leeds Town Hall. This is an annual two-shift gig for the Leeds Philharmonic Chorus and it sort of marks the start of Christmas for me (although this year that siginificant event was last Saturday's Messiah concert - my first as a Tenor).In the run up to the Carol Concert our Chorus Master told me that the Committee had been approached to see if

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When at work, I don't feel the need to give out my name to everyone I encounter. Quite often this is just to retain a little distance, sometimes it is to pretend to be more amiable than you actually want to be when dealing with horrors. Sometimes it's just to get a serious wind up going. I'm typically Bob, sometimes Max, or Frank. There's little need for consistency as the typical customer

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It’s Saturday morning, which means I have to shoot off to the school Christmas bazaar: how better to give something back to the school than to exchange all your unwanted rubbish in that relaxed period in the run-up to Christmas when no one has anything very pressing to do? This is good, because in addition to my two daughters I have my two teenage nephews to entertain.Business is slow, though it

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Now doormen have a very bad reputation when it comes to their monogamy and their morality. The phrase 'round these parts being door whores, which is also how their dance partners are known. For some ladies a musclebound gent with a modicum of self control, a wage and little free time is a winner. For a large number of doormen, this is enough of a reason to practice the most essential bodily

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Jim and Tammy: Prophets of our time?Our Gospel this morning presents the raw, rustic personality of John the Baptist, the striking forerunner of Jesus the Messiah. John serves as the principal preparer for the coming of a new age where God’s will reigns in the lives of those who are his followers.I quite fancy being John the Baptist. Well, not the lack of hygiene, the diet of locusts or the camel

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(The M62 on Wednesday)Autumn lasted about twenty minutes. We are in the depths of an early Winter. When I set off for school on Monday I was convinced this was a foolhardy thing to do as I made my way through a blizzard: surely the place would be shut? Not so. The area around the Knowledge College only had a light dusting of snow but the phones were ringing off their hooks as the hopeful rang in.

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                                  In spite of having contributed so much to our civilization and providing its foundation, the Christian Faith is in danger of being stealthily and subtly brushed aside. The evidence has been mounting in recent years. Teachers and council employees are suspended for offering to ‘say a prayer’. A devoted nurse is banned from wearing a cross, a British Airways worker

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This'll be my lot in the Town Hall on Dec 11th: Christmas begins then and not before!

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We are knee deep in snow and ice but we are in the North of England where Real Men roam - in T-shirts or vests. As a refugee from the South it has often struck me - as I wear my overcoat, gloves, scarf and hat - that men are made from a different mold here: or so they would have us believe.For a while I believed it was a simple reaction to less frequent sunlight. "I need more vitamin D. I know,

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Yes, it's cold.No you can't have my coat, my hat, my gloves, my boots.Yes, it's cold out.No, I had noticed, I've been standing in it for two, three maybe four hours.Yes, it's icy.No, they haven't gritted it, they might be gritting bus routes and thoroughfares.Yes, it's slippy.I've been watching folk fall over all night.Yes, it's cold.It's bloody winter, you'd be stunned if it wasn't at 3 in the

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So, allegedly we are due an OFSTED inspection in the near future. You can tell by the clues: Senior Managers suddenly demanding the update of policies; panicky requests that you update your departmental profile on the website. "Have you done your departmental marking audit yet?" and so on.No I'm too busy actually teaching.And now we have Pupil Voice. There's a strong chance I may not be on

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"Ryan! Stop waving your wee in my face" isn't an admonishment a teacher hears too often in his career and so I zoned in fairly swiftly from my autopilot reverie.Eh?Sir. Tell him!Tell him what?He's waving his wee in my face.Ryan. Apparently you're waving your wee in her face. Will that do Shona?No. Tell him to stop. It's not nice.To cut a long story short I explored the situation further.

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Some encounters you have, you know fairly bloody quickly you've not got the firepower.When you've got a lad with you who's pulled his back, another inside, working straight through after a 12 hour static site shift and 3 hours sleep preceding and a new lad, keeping the smoking area tidy at about the extreme of his capability and skill keeping the smokers outside and the drinks in.When a large

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(This isn't us at the Police College: God forbid!)Back to the Wakefield Police College for another session on Mission with Dr. Matthew Guest of Durham University. The seats on the back row of the lecture theatre have more leg room so Hilda, Monica and I staked our claim while Stuart and Dr. Bob ("I'm suffering from a dreadful cold. I'm as deaf as a post") opted for the cheap seats further forward

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The day after our wonderful Remembrance Day assembly one of my pupils asked:Sir. Did you hear about what Muslims did?Now primed by having listened to the Today programme I already knew what she was referring to. A small group of Muslims had burned a large poppy in a demonstration about the British military presence in Afghanistan and chanted slogans like "British soldiers burn in Hell." Well, yes

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There doesn't seem to be as much in the media about this as I would have expected. In today's Guardian, however, there are a couple of excellent articles."The irony of Bush's Iraq invasion is that it may have wiped out his faith where other conquests have failed"TEXT HERE"I am terrified to live in this society. We are being slaughtered like sheep. Yet this is our country."TEXT HERE"They called me

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It was a significant day at school today: Yrs 10 & 11 had an important science exam and were on study leave this morning and today is Remembrance Day. That left the 600+ youngsters in Lower School to have their own Remembrance Assembly. "Bring them down to the Sports Hall at 10.45" we were told.I had a lovely Yr 9 class and we were making good headway with Religious Myth as a bone fide literary

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Despite the conservatives, churchgoers are inspired by Gene Robinson. Though the gay bishop is retiring early, some day the Anglican church hierarchy will see homophobia as an evil.Read Text Here

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There are some people who always bring a drama with them. They've normally got an overactive gob and are always blameless for any of the activity. There will have been insults, slights, historic misbehaviour, outfit choices, venue choices and of course potential partner choices all joining the list of affronts. Never in the wrong, always in my ear. Not going to win me round by the more you talk,

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This is what happens when politicians tell lies about their opponents hereThe second Video - (Dept .Leader of Labour Party) - is also very telling in terms of political integrity.

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The Democrats are to the Right of our Right wing Party, the Conservatives. Our Left Wing party, the Labour Party, is Socialist. To any American readers please be aware that European Socialism is not the same as Stalin's Gulags or Kim Il Jong's worker's paradise. Some of you would get along just fine here: democracy, free and pretty objective press, a fairly civilised political landscape ... oh no

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One of the Pastoral Staff collared me today:Ah I'm glad to see you. Melissa's asked if she can be moved out of your R.S. group.Why?She says you're always on her case and you make her sit on her own.That's teenspeak for "He moved me because I'm always talking to people around me and distracting them and not getting on with my work."Unreasonable man. She also said you picked on her.That's teenspeak

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Dear God, on this festival day we thank you especially for your servant Martin Luther. We praise you for your mercy which raised him up as a zealous reformer. You brought again to light through him the gospel which declares salvation by grace through faith and we thank you for preserving your word in all its truth for us today. You reached out to us and sent your Holy Spirit into our hearts and

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Not in a politically correct Jeremy Clarkson apology way, there really are a lot of very special people out there. Some are made special by consuming alcohol, others by consuming drugs. Some however are just normally missing a few cards in their pack. They all provide the business with custom, their money is the same as everyone else's, their problems also seem to be everyone else's.As doorstaff

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Following on from Tuesday's post I give you John Bell of the Iona Community delivering Thought for The Day on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday. Follow the link and read or listen. If you are a sucker for a Scots accent, I'd listen first.It looks now as if politics is following the same promotional path... at least in the USA where the Democrat and Republican causes are being championed by media

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Are you upset at me?I've been sworn at, swung at, spat at, lied about and threatened. I get paid to stand on a door to a place that advertises itself as luxurious, sexual, laden with promise and a state to be desired. I get to tell people that this is not for them, by dint of life's many varied journeys, their personal journey doesn't include the inside of the venue. I get to see the

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An excellent article: well worth a readAlongside Stewart will be his Comedy Central colleague, Stephen Colbert, whose own nightly show parodies the the fear-mongering FOX news and its presenters, who perpetuate the myth that much of America is still frontier country whose people only need a gun and Barak Obama's Socialist government off their backs.

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An excellent post. Well ranted Doxy: Read here

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(As preached to the London Eritrean Lutheran Congregation)Jeremiah 14. 7-10 &; 19-21Psalm 84.1-72 Timothy 4.6-8 & 16-18Luke 18. 9-14Jesus told them a story: "Two men went up to the temple to pray. One of them was a Pharisee. The other was a tax collector."  Beyond that what do we know about the two men? The original audience would have identified them both immediately and understood their

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To be fair to Paladino, he doesn't hate gays. He loves 'em! The lady gays anyway, judging from the emails he forwarded to colleagues over the last few years featuring lesbian porn. An inspired piece of writing by British Based American Hadley Freeman. Read full Article Here

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My beloved and I were in the kitchen bickering companionably about my perceived shortcomings in the culinary area. She was preparing a sweet. There are some fabulous Autumn fruits about and I have been poaching pears and plums in mulled wine and honey. Today it was to be plums with cinnamon: I watched my beloved liberally sprinkling the cinnamon.First course over it is time for the plums. I am

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A dull Monday afternoon and I have Yr 7. Year 7b. We are looking at Christian art and symbolism.It seemed like a good idea at the time. We have done Chi-Rho and Alpha and Omega with a little lesson about the Greek alphabet on the side. We have done YHWH and discussed Hebrew writing. We have had fun with Ichthus and now we have got to the Dove.Sir, Sir, Why did God send lightning on Jesus?Sorry

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.... or just plain tired but seem not to have the words right now. Too much going on.So here's a picture I like.

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It seems the doormans bane the SIA, the Security Industry Authority, is on the big list of QUANGO's listed for a "phased transition into a new regulatory regime".Will this mean higher efficiency?Will this mean higher data security, not un-vetted un-documented migrants doing data entry and handling ID, credit card & bank details?Will it mean higher quality of service, not process times so long

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Some people have a Spiritual Home: perhaps York Minster or St. Paul's; maybe a local parish church or some special place they happened on once abroad on a significant holiday.Mine is the Wakefield Police College.It was there, during my training for ordination that much of my ministerial formation took place and where I had some wonderful social and significant spiritual experiences.The Wakefield

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Some nights you're full of cold, carrying a niggling muscle injury or sprain, not had enough of the right sleep or otherwise off colour. Doing my job, there are not a lot of options for ducking out of a shift and when you're there and signed in there really shouldn't be any way to shirk off the heavy stuff. You can't sit around when a fights kicked off, people are being restrained and emotions

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... and meet the Tesco checkout girl from Dublin.

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I was working one night in a dirty little chav hole of a venue. It was midweek and we only had a limited number of customers hanging on into the end of the night. There were a few stragglers from a girlie birthday party, mini skirts, hair badly extended, hoop earrings and tits, midriff, arse and legs out. One group they interacted with was 3 dodgy looking lads in horizontal stripes and variously

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I’m quite a fan of the Lectionary: I often imagine erudite and pious men and women thoughtfully matching passages that go well together as a service to us to make sense of the whole word of God. Today, though, perhaps those people overestimated us. The reading from Luke begins with the apostles crying, "Increase our faith!" but we don't know why. Now possibly you could remember what happened in

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We have a new leader of the opposition, Edward Miliband. He is secretly Jewish.Oh, no. Hang on a minute, that's not right. He CLAIMS to be Jewish but he is in fact a SECRET MUSLIM. Yeah. That's right. That's what I heard on the INTERNET anyway.He has two brothers: David Miliband and Glen Miller Band

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Luke 16.19-31Three friends die in a car crash, and they find themselves at the Gates of Heaven. Before entering, they are each asked a question by St. Peter himself :"When the funeral service is taking place and your friends and families are talking about you, what would you like to hear them say about you?" asks St. Peter to each in turn. The first man says, "I would like to hear them say that I

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I've been privy to a number of opening nights over the years. They all have their own charms, from super clubs where you're in a team of 20+ to the relaunch of a flagging pub in the charmless end of town. There are a couple of things they all have in common though. There will inevitably be jobs not done. The timescale of a launch is planned well in advance and all of the contractors are assigned

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(Irish dancers Suzanne Cleary and Peter Harding)It brings a smile to my face every time.Thanks to Strelizia

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I just happened to catch a glimpse of today's Daily Express headline "Pope's plea to save Christmas from the P.C. brigade" as I meandered through the supermarket with my beloved. I didn't pick it up, of course, what with it being toxic and therefore dangerous: all that bile spills out. I couldn't help reading Pope Benedict XVI yesterday made an impassioned plea for Britain to return to its

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I am a great fan of the Guardian writer Polly Toynbee. Even if I don't agree with her, which is rare, I always find her articles pertinent and challenging. No great fan - indeed often a cynic - when it comes to institutional religion I found her recent article "Sex and Death lie at the poisoned heart of religion" worth more than one read.As Ben Goldacre pointed out in this paper on Saturday,

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....even though there was a Muslim prayer room on the 17th floor of the South Tower before it was destroyed. That is the true Ground Zero Mosque surely? How has that truly significant piece of news been kept from the public? That throws the "This is sacred ground which can't be tarnished by Islam because it dishonours the victims" argument right out of the window. And what about the Muslim

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"And I should like to assure you, my Islamic friends, that under the American Constitution, under American tradition, and in American hearts, this Center, this place of worship, is just as welcome as could be a similar edifice of any other religion. Indeed, America would fight with her whole strength for your right to have here your own church and worship according to your own conscience.This

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The recently proposed minimum prices on a unit of alcohol will only have a positive effect on our trade.The minimum price is inevitably so low only the most ludicrous drinks offer will be affected. The trebles for singles and drink all you can nights. These will not impact in a bad way on our trade. No club, bar or pub will be suffering. We may see a few more, folks coming in, we may see a lot

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This evil green poison makes for some very messed up folks.An afternoon of sipping the green fairy can lead to such entertaining adventures as setting fire to your sleeves on a candle. This can happen to anyone leaning over the table to pour the wine or retrieve a distant condiment. Normally sniffing, screaming, flapping, flailing and agitation ensue with some patting blowing and general

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This has been all over the media here. Pastor Terry Jones from the Dove World Outreach Centre Church in Florida has threatened to burn multiple copies of the Quran on Sept 11th as a protest against....well, all sorts of things really.The Dove World Outreach Centre Church? You sort of know what's coming don't you? This is no mainstream denomination. It is a pentecostal-style set-up with a

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Good Grief: Stephen Hawking has been all over the media because of his new book, The Grand Design which, in tabloid-speak, said that there is no God - or at least if there is, he didn't design the universe. I still find it odd that in a largely secularised society the media is willing to devote so many splash headlines and column inches to issues of religion marginal to most of their readers. As

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It's been all over the papers. The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has been discovered to have been sharing a room with one of his staff. Or to put it in Tabloid-speak, with a young, male aid.Ergo, he must be gay and cheating on his wife.What is it with our newspapers and perhaps with our prurient appetite for sleaze - or alleged sleaze?So, if you share a room with someone of the same sex you

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up side the head.Our lovely students fill the place with their drunken cheer. They're enticed in with all sorts of cheap drink related frivolity. One historic favourite was the tequila line. The DJ would wait until the dancers were flagging a little and the bars were lulled before they all switched to water. He would summon the dj's assistant to get the two tequila bottles with speedpours. The

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I woke up this morning to hear Nick Lowles of Hope Not Hate on the radio discussing free speech in relation to today's demonstration by the English Defence League in Bradford City Centre.Given that the Home Secretary, Theresa May, had already ruled that a proposed march through the predominantly Muslim part of the city was an act of gross provocation and would not take place, I was surprised that

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Find video link HEREIt is hard to imagine a more provocative act. Prayers for the people of Bradford please.I shall go and make my quiet Christian protest.

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My usual routine of building up muscle and training it down is coming to an end.I've reached an age where I've realised the image of an oversize, lump of muscle is neither positive or of benefit to me. I am after a visit to the doctor judged by the blind scale of BMI to be clinically obese. I've always been active, I'm on my feet and walking, running upstairs, wrestling people all of the time I'm

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“Give us our daily bread today.” Q. What does this mean?A. Truly, God gives daily bread to evil people, even without our prayer. But we pray in this request that He will help us realize this and receive our daily bread with thanksgiving.Q. What does “Daily Bread” mean?A. Everything that nourishes our body and meets its needs, such as: Food, drink, clothing, shoes, house, yard, fields, cattle,

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The UK is in DEEP trouble... The population of this country is approximately 60 million. 32 million are retired. That leaves 28 million to do the work.. There are 17 million in school or at Universities. Which leaves 11 million to do the work.. Of this there are 8 million employed by the UK government. Leaving 3 million to do the work.. 1.2 million are in the armed forces fighting in Afghanistan

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(The view from our roof terrace.)Was it only a fortnight ago?* One of the first sights I remember on alighting the train: a young man with a t-shirt baring the legend "I only support two teams - Scotland and whoever England is playing." Welcoming, I thought.* Fond as I am of all things tartan, the presence of pipers every few hundred yards could lead me to pipericide.* Every kilt-and-heather

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On a student night a good while ago, the place was rammed, the drinks were on offer and heading down fast. The whole place was full, the aircon was wheezing it's best but still not doing much against the heaving mass of sweaty folks dancing. I had battled my way through the floor, moving step by step, watching and listening. Also getting in as many photos as possible. Even the most crowded

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I have a couple of friends who send me stuff from the INTERNET that they receive from other friends. I usually pass them on too. Many of them are very funny, showing the infinite stupidity of humanity; others are very clever and creative and some, Dear Reader, are a bit rude. It is rare for me to delete without sending on but there are categories I won't be party to distributing. Here is one (he

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Some weeks ago I tried to explain to an American blogger the hierarchy of the British press in terms of political leaning, bias and reliability. I don't particularly have a problem with political bias, after all there is more than one perspective on party politics and so, armed with the knowledge of the editorial stance of these papers, I would have no problem reading The Times, The Telegraph,

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On Wednesday I was drowsing in the bliss of the out-of-term lie in when I heard, through the fog, from the radio the words "Thought for the Day with the Revd. Dr. Giles Fraser". Now, what with me actually aspiring to be Giles Fraser in my next life, I sat up and listened. (Well, I didn't actually sit up so much as snuggle down, but at least I was wide awake.) Read or listen here It was a strong

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Allowing interracial marriages “necessarily involves the degradation” of conventional marriage, an institution that “deserves admiration rather than execration.”(Source: A U.S. representative from Georgia quoted in Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune, May 19, 1996) Isn't history revealing?Following on from the last post - and if you've not read it do take a peek - we hear that Prop 8 has fallen. For those

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(Daughter2 on the left making new friends.)Today I went to my beloved's church. Her congregation has long designated the first Sunday in August as LGBT Liberation Sunday. It also happens to be the day on which Leeds Pride falls.The sermon was delivered by the Revd. Colin Coward, Director of Changing Attitude and as it was taped You can hear it here. Colin took St. Paul and "There is neither Jew

akehprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16590930360382262244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6952927453827696133.post-75619855604589228822010-07-30T12:00:00.000-07:002011-12-23T08:41:19.750-08:00

No-one enjoys the gents toilets in nightclubs. I've worked in attendant toilets and they're cleaner, fresher and almost tolerable but still not a place to spend your evening. Most places, most of the time they're grotty. The smell of cleaning fluid fades fast once the sweaty pissing masses start to trickle through the door and trickle over the floor. It is the unfortunate soul who, while mixing

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The school holidays have descended upon this little town again. The impact upon the drinking age folks is limited. The last day for A-level students has been and gone and they won't emerge in force 'til results day in a few weeks. The 13-17yr olds that aren't yet old enough to legally drink still enjoy the few venues that don't notice or care. They all seeem to think that getting into a nightclub

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At Iona we give thanks for gay and lesbian people who have made a positive influence on our lives. LISTEN HERE Friday 23 July. Presenter: John Bell

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The bishop of Hamburg - the world's first female Lutheran bishop - has resigned amid criticism of her handling of a sex abuse case.READ FULL STORY HEREAnd earlier: The head of Germany's Protestant Church has resigned, four days after being caught drink-driving.READ FULL STORY HERESad news for all concerned but did you spot the difference in the response of these two women to the allegations

akehprhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16590930360382262244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6952927453827696133.post-78103801319943735162010-07-19T13:03:00.000-07:002011-12-23T08:41:19.751-08:00

This post is not, you'll be relieved to read, a reference to the sometimes breathtaking faith larger bodied ladies have in their minimal underwear.No this a post about the route shit takes to get to me. When a customer has a shit day and decides to meet his mates for a drink, the stress, poorly understood emotions and poorly expressed anger come my way. underlings, who pass it out to the bar

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Luke 10.38 – 42At the last Parish meal I volunteered to cook. I went home and said to my beloved something like “Do you think you’d be able to help me cook for the parish meal.” A clergy child herself, she tends to take these sorts of things in her stride and, ever practical, enquired “How many people?”“Up to twenty.”She paused for a moment and, having reflected, began to suggest menus.Those of

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"Don't forget us" say Zimbabwean ChristiansAs I left the Anglican church in a suburb of Harare, my Zimbabwean host said: "Don't forget us." Yet the persecution of Anglicans in the diocese of Harare, which is spreading, is being seen and remembered by few Christian communities across the world. My hosts do not worship in the fine building that was built by the Anglicans themselves – some told me

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Every once in a while I see the British Tabloids cited on a blog as a source of information. This usually makes me wince, particularly if the blog is hosted by an American. It also makes me resolve to be very careful about the sources I, in my turn, find on google. It is a timely reminder, as if one were needed, that just because something is on the INTERNET, does not mean that it is either true

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