Thursday 22 January 2015

Art exhibition coming soon on Saturday morning 31/01/2015

Saturday morning in Lymington on 31/01/2015 coincident with Lymington market day marks the return of the Art exhibition. The event  is coincident with the SVP cooked lunch in Joseph' s place at Our Lady and St Joseph hospitality centre.
If you have an interest in fine art come along and meet local artists from as far as Waterside Art group. Art pieces are for sale and artists are willing to accept commissions for original art.
If you have a photo of a favourite pet or loved one, what could be better than to see them depicted in paint, pastel and water colour.
Entry is free and event open from 10am to 2pm

below are examples of art work and previous event...




















Monday 19 January 2015

post office scandal mp's show lack of confidence to post office managers

To be accused of dishonesty is quite a shocking thing especially when you believe you are innocent. In the recent past, the post office subpostmasters had to use a software system known as Horizon for accountancy. The accountancy system has been admitted to have a glitch. That is computerese for a mistake. The subpostmasters accused maintain that the discrepancies discovered  some amounting to around £20,000, are due to software faults. Postmasters were then prosecuted for fraud and forced to plead guilty to avoid a bigger sentence.
Putting the accusation to oneside one must question the method adopted by the post office management. EACH accused postmater was told they were the only person who had the problem with the horizon software However that was found to be a lie since several hundred post masters were accused and prosecuted of the same crime. Most of those accused now have a criminal record and fine or prison sentence. This as voiced by a group of mp's has to be a massive injustice and national disgrace. Some mp's are asking for the management of the post office to be replaced. If you feel strongly about this issue write to your m p at
writetothem.Co.uk

see article below for details...

As reported by ComputerWeekly.com

MPs debated subpostmaster IT injustice claims

Karl FlindersTuesday 16 December 2014 15:23

A debate about the Post Office scheme to redress the grievances of subpostmasters, who have been fined and even imprisoned as a result of alleged problems with the accounting system they use, will be held on 17 December in Westminster Hall.

A 90-minute adjournment debate at 2.30pm will be held after James Arbuthnot, MP for Hampshire North East, applied successfully for a debate on the subject to be held in Parliament.

Last week, 140 MPs, led by Arbuthnot,removed their support for the Post Office investigation and mediation process for subpostmasters. This followed a loss of faith in the process.

In 2009, Computer Weekly revealed the stories of subpostmasters who had received heavy fines and even jail termsfor alleged false accounting, which they blamed on the Horizon accounting system provided by the Post Office.

Arbuthnot told Computer Weekly he hopes the debate will give his campaign the opportunity to “stop the Post Office acting as its own prosecutor” by bringing the cases to the government’s attention.

He also hopes the debate will ensure he can prevent any evidence collected in the investigation from being destroyed in the future and try to prevent the Post Office using the time passed since claims were made as a reason for not hearing them under the statute of limitations.

He will also call for a government review. Arbuthnot said: “I have been leading a group of over 140 MPs all of whom have constituents who have been subpostmasters affected by shortfalls which have mysteriously appeared during the course of their business and for which they have been made liable by the Post Office.

"This has led to enormous distress for the subpostmasters, who have lost their businesses and often their houses and had their reputations tarnished. I have been the coordinator of MPs who have for years been fighting for some form of redress to be available to those who have not committed any wrongdoing.”

“In recent months MPs have discovered that the Post Office was using the procedures of Mediation Scheme to argue that most of the cases giving rise to concern should not, despite what was agreed with MPs, be permitted to go through mediation.  This was done without the Post Office’s telling MPs they were doing it,” he added.

Last week Arbuthnot announced he no longer supported the Post Office investigation.

“I will be continuing my campaign for justice in other ways.”

Although a fault has never been found with the Horizon software, there are questions over the processes that surround its use, including systems that interface with it and training.

Watch the debate live here at 2.30pm on Wednesday 17 December.

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 Post Office theft case deferred over IT questions

 Post Office faces legal action over alleged accounting system failures

 85 subpostmasters seek legal support in claims against Post Office computer system

 Post Office launches external review of system at centre of legal disputes

 Post Office admits that Horizon system needs more investigation

 Post Office announces amnesty for Horizon evidence

 Post Office wants to get to bottom of IT system allegations

 Investigation into Post Office accounting system to drill down on strongest cases

 Post Office Horizon system investigation reveals concerns

 End in sight for subpostmaster claims against Post Office's Horizon accounting system

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 150 subpostmasters file claims over 'faulty' Horizon accounting system

 Fresh questions raised over Post Office IT system's role in fraud cases

 MPs blast Post Office over IT system investigation and remove backing

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Sunday 18 January 2015

children's liturgy 18/01/2015 lamb of God

Today the children explored the concept of sacrifice as in the ancient religions dating back to the first testament.  It seems abhor ant to us now but in the past the ancients would offer human sacrifice to the gods in thanks for life itself. In the time of Jesus this was altered to sacrificing  young animals such as Lambs.
It is ironic that Christ was crucified on the cross and  offered to god as a sacrificial lamb.

see below for pictures





















Friday 16 January 2015

Charlie Hebdo-Do two wrongs make a right ?

The recent Muslim extremist attack on the satirical magazine in France was a complete abomination and evil act as was the attack and murder of Lee Rigby the soldier who was beheaded in the name of God.
Recently Pope Francis spoke out on his visit to  phillipines. He warned that respect for religions should be a matter of course and to mock religion in any format was abusing the right to free speech. No one of sane mind would support the murderous attack on the staff of Charlie hebdo but at the same time one cannot stand back and accept full scale insults and disrespect against religious beliefs of all religions. The magazine has indeed previously insulted the Christian and Catholic church and Pope Francis has indicted this in his recent speech.
He who has not sinned cast the first stone but let's just stop throwing stones around glass buildings ...

Pope Francis

 Pope Francis: 'one cannot make fun of faith' -

Pope Francis tells journalists there are limits to freedom of expression and that following the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris 'one cannot make fun of faith'. On a plane from Sri Lanka to the Philippines, the largest Catholic majority country in Asia, the pope says freedom of speech is a fundamental human right but 'every religion has its dignity'

Source: Reuters

Thursday 15 January 2015 16.52 GMT

Pope Francis Religion Charlie Hebdo attack
 Muslims and the UK media: 'It's not just the Charlie Hebdo cartoons'

Pope Francis: freedom of expression has limits

Pope Francis greeted by Catholic devotees in Philippines -

Jewish schools in Belgium shut after terror warning

Queues in UK as Charlie Hebdo goes on sale –



http://www.macleans.ca/authors/martin-patriquin/charlie-hebdo-harsher-christianity-islam/

Should the Nigerian government save the school girls ?






http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/10947211/Missing-Nigerian-girls-whatever-happened-to-Bringbackourgirls.html

Missing Nigerian girls: 11 parents of abducted girls die from stress and attacks

In just three months, seven fathers have been killed by insurgents and at least four more parents have died of heart failure

In the three months since Islamic extremists kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, 11 of their parents have died, town residents say.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibok_schoolgirls_kidnapping

The town where the girls were kidnapped, Chibok, is cut off by militants, who have been attacking villages in the region.

Seven fathers of kidnapped girls were among 51 bodies brought to the Chibok hospital after an attack on the nearby village of Kautakari this month, said a health worker who insisted on anonymity for fear of reprisals by the extremists.

At least four more parents have died of heart failure, high blood pressure and other illnesses that the community blames on trauma due to the mass abduction 100 days ago, said community leader Pogu Bitrus, who provided their names.

"One father of two of the girls kidnapped just went into a kind of coma and kept repeating the names of his daughters."

President Goodluck Jonathan met Tuesday with parents of the 219 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls and some classmates who managed to escape from Islamic extremists. Jonathan pledged to continue working to see the girls "are brought out alive," said his spokesman of the meeting which press were not permitted to attend.

Chibok, the town where the girls were kidnapped, is cut off because of frequent attacks on the roads that are studded with burned out vehicles. Commercial flights no longer go into the troubled area and the government has halted charter flights

Boko Haram is closing in on Chibok, attacking villages ever closer to the town. Villagers who survive the assaults are swarming into the town, swelling its population and straining resources. A food crisis looms, along with shortages of money and fuel, said community leader Bitrus.

On the bright side, some of the young women who escaped are recovering, said a health worker, who insisted on anonymity because he feared reprisals from Boko Haram. Girls who had first refused to discuss their experience, now are talking about it and taking part in therapeutic singing and drawing - a few drew homes, some painted flowers and one young woman drew a picture of a soldier with a gun last week.

Girls who said they would never go back to school now are thinking about how to continue their education, he said.

Counseling is being offered to families of those abducted and to some of the 57 students who managed to escape in the first few days, said the health worker. He is among 36 newly trained in grief and rape counseling, under a program funded by USAID.

All the escapees remain deeply concerned about their schoolmates who did not get away.

A presidential committee investigating the kidnappings said 219 girls still are missing. But the community says there are more because some parents refused to give the committee their daughters' names, fearing the stigma involved.

Boko Haram filmed a video in which they threatened to sell the students into slavery and as child brides. It also showed a couple of the girls describing their "conversion" from Christianity to Islam.

At least two have died of snake bites, a mediator who was liaising with Boko Haram told AP two months ago. At that time he said at least 20 of the girls were ill - not surprising given that they are probably being held in an area infested with malarial mosquitoes, poisonous snakes and spiders, and relying on unclean water from rivers.

Most of the schoolgirls are still believed to be held in the Sambisa Forest - a wildlife reserve that includes almost impenetrably thick jungle as well as more open savannah. The forest borders on sand dunes marking the edge of the Sahara Desert. Sightings of the girls and their captors have been reported in neighboring Cameroon and Chad.

In Chibok, the town's population is under stress.

"There are families that are putting up four and five other families," local leader Bitrus said, adding that food stocks are depleted. Livestock has been looted by Boko Haram so villagers are arriving empty handed. Worst of all, no one is planting though it is the rainy season, he said.

"There is a famine looming," he warned.

Chibok and nearby villages are targets because they are enclaves of staunch Christians in predominantly Muslim north Nigeria.

The number of soldiers guarding Chibok has increased from 15 to about 200 since the kidnapping but they have done little to increase security in Chibok, said Bitrus. The soldiers often refuse to deploy to villages under attack though there is advance warning 90 percent of the time, he said.

Last month the extremists took control and raised their black flags over two villages within 30 kilometers (18 miles) of Chibok. Last week they ordered residents of another village just 10 miles away to clear out, Bitrus said. Every village in the neighboring Damboa area has been attacked and sacked, and all the villages bordering Cameroon have been burned and are deserted, Bitrus said, quoting residents who fle

The attacks continue despite the fact the military placed the area under a state of emergency in May 2013.

Residents feel so abandoned that they appealed this month for the United Nations to send troops to protect them. The U.N. has repeatedly urged Nigeria's government to live up to its international responsibility to protect citizens.

President Goodluck Jonathan insists his government and military are doing everything possible to ensure the girls' release. The Defense Ministry says it knows where they are but fears any military campaign could lead to their deaths.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau in a new video released this week repeated his demands that Jonathan release detained extremists in exchange for the girls - an offer Jonathan has so far refused.

After three months, few Chibok residents believe all the schoolgirls will ever return home.

Nigeria: is it the next Rwanda?

The Christian school girls captured by the Muslim extremists for some 100 days now are still being abused and slaughtered by Muslim extremists who believe all Christians are not fit to live and should be murdered.
It appears the predominantly muslim northern Nigeria have small enclaves of devoted Christians who are persecuted for following Christ. The Nigeria government claims they are aware of were the school girls are being held but believes they do not want to rescue the girls for fear the captors will slaughter them. The local population effected feel abandoned by the Nigerian government and have asked the UN to send troops to rescue the girls and stop the growing violence that their own government appear unwilling to stop even when notified in advance.
This act of terror of murdering people in the name of the profit is on a level with the recent Charlie Hebdo slaughter of 12

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-nigeria-schoolgirls/boko-haram-appears-be-using-abducted-girls-suicide-bombers-experts-n284456

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/10984769/Missing-Nigerian-girls-11-parents-of-abducted-girls-die-from-stress-and-attacks.html


Wednesday 14 January 2015

Peggy - a life in the day

It's been a short while now since we last heard Peggy's exalted tones in Our Ladies Lymington Sunday mass along with her distinctive hats she was indeed quite a character and much loved.She will be remembered for her high soprano voice and her exotic pink hat complete with feathers.
on a sunny day her funeral took place and she went to her final resting place in Lyndhurst.
God rest Peggy x