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Isle of Man News, Articles and InformationIoM trip will bring benefitsMENTAL-HEALTH specialists have been given a valuable chance to learn from the first-rate levels of service available in the Isle of Man. Nine key members of Guernseys Community Mental Health Service visited the Isleof Man thanks to the Insurance Corporation healthcare bursary. The trip was very informative for everyone and it gave us a lot of useful ideas for streamlining the Guernsey service, said community mental health team manager and bursary winner Monica Mitchell. Creating a strong and effective network between ourselves and other island communities helps us to draw upon their practical experience and highlight best practice for the good of our patients in Guernsey. In this way, the bursary could bring about some real, tangible benefits locally. In recent years, the team has faced the challenge of ever-increasing referrals. Pastor paid 'slave wages' to illegal migrant buildersThe leader of a newly-formed evangelist church was preparing to face his congregation last night to explain why he illegally shipped a group of African workers into Britain so that they could help build his house on "slave wages". Pieter van Rooyen, 46, founder of the Life Church in Douglas, Isle of Man, helped get the men through Customs on the pretext that they were embarking on a business training course. Once they were on the island their employer, who boasts on his website that "the light that shines the farthest shines the brightest at home", paid them as little as £1.36 an hour for what was sometimes a 72-hour week, renovating the luxury home in Onchan. Yesterday Van Rooyen, who when not preaching was working as a senior manager with Barclays Bank, appeared at a Manx court with another South African, Jacobus Visser, 43, the owner of a building company and himself an illegal immigrant.South West Four - Latest NewsFollowing the success of last years official South West Four after party we are proud to announce that the promoters have secured the very same venue; the legendary Carling Brixton Academy for the second year running to offer 4,500 hardcore party people the chance to dance on through until sunrise to one of the best DJs on the planet (as voted in the DJ Magazine Top 100 DJ Poll) the Dutch destroyer that is Armin Van Buuren. Having spent the last three years holding firm at No.3 in this prestigious poll, Armin has successfully made the transition from fast rising star to one of the leading lights in the upper echelons of trance – and beyond. From releasing the massive ‘Blue Fear' at the age of 19 which was widely hailed by many as the blueprint for trance as we know it today through to winning ‘Best Radio Show' and ‘Best Compilation Album' at last year's Miami Winter Music Conference Awards as well as dropping his stunning second artist album ‘Shivers', the follow up his critically acclaimed 2004 debut ‘76' all this alongside setting up his own music empire-in-the-making ‘Armada Music' set up to release and promote alongside managing artists, Armin is truly one of the leading lights in dance music today.
Monday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International ...The Irish Independent reports that the runaway property market is finally beginning to cool and some homes are even seeing a drop in prices for the first time in more than a decade.Estate agents said yesterday they had seen the first evidence of a "soft landing" after years of astounding growth. But the Irish Auctioneers and Valuers Institute insisted there was no prospect of a property crash. Its chief executive Alan Cooke said: "The soft landing seems to be happening. It won't happen across the entire market in one fell swoop and it won't hit geographically at the same time." He said it would affect a range of mortgage holders across different sectors first. "But it's only a question of time until it levels out." Fintan McNamara, chief executive of the Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers said a number of members had reported a significant drop in interest in property.
RICHARD MORRISON at Coliseum, WC2WHAT A witty, whimsical, mesmerising and meltingly beautiful entertainment the American choreographer Mark Morris has made of Henry Purcells semi-opera. Its a village fête, a seaside show and a surreal pageant of British eccentrics from all eras and many mythologies, rolled into one and done with winning grace.And how audaciously Morris has refurbished this bizarre Baroque hybrid for our impatient century. Try staging King Arthur as it was done in 1691 a sprawling historical play by Dryden, intermittently spiced with Purcells music and you would end up with a four-hour show, involving parallel casts of actors and singers, costing millions (just what Covent Garden did in the 1990s). .
Memorial donations aid county Humane SocietyMoney donated to the Worcester County Humane Society in response to a tragic death in the area last year has eased the life of many canines.Twelve new dog kennels were made possible because of checks sent to the society in memory of Freda Wright-Sorce, wife of Michael Sorce, better known as Don Geronimo on The Don and Mike Show based in the Washington, D.C. area. Wright-Sorce was killed on July 10, 2005, on Route 90 when a 22-year-old man swerved to avoid stopped cars at the traffic signal on Isle of Wight. He hit Wright-Sorce's Lexus head-on. Because Wright-Sorce's family had been longtime supporters of the humane society, family members asked mourners to donate money to the nonprofit rather than send flowers in her memory. The checks poured in in amounts ranging from small to large, and when all were tallied, the humane society had received about $21,000, said Kenille Davies, the society's director.
Where to Eat NowChichén Itzá. Chichén Itzá, a small counter restaurant in a communal mercado south of downtown, is the most serious Yucatecan restaurant in town at the moment, its menu a living, habanero chile–intensive thesaurus of the panuchos and codzitos, sopa de lima and papadzules, banana-leaf tamales and shark casseroles that make up one of Mexico's most thrilling cuisines. From the delicious banana leaf–baked pork called cochinito pibil to the cinnamon-scented bread pudding called caballeros pobres, Chichén Itzá, named for the vast temple complex north of Cancún, is as fresh as a marketplace restaurant in Mérida. In Mercado La Paloma, 3655 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, (213) 741-1075. Breakfast, lunch and dinner Sun.–Wed. 8 a.m.–6:30 p.m., Thurs.–Sat. 8 a.m.–9 p.m. No alcohol. Takeout. Lot parking. AE, MC, V.Midday UpdateThe Midday Update offers a quick glance at breaking news. It runs Monday-Friday on StandardNET.
At a Glance
Weber County officials respond to mock earthquake emergency
MARRIOTT-SLATERVILLE -- The city council and mayor convened an "emergency" meeting Tuesday morning to respond to a mock earthquake.
While city and county leaders discussed how to respond to a 7.3-magnitude earthquake in Weber County, dozens of volunteer victims were outside the city offices with everything from fake bruises to fake disembowelments.
Emergency responders used a Utah Transit Authority bus and several Army Humvees to take the wounded to the Army Reserve's 328th Combat Support Hospital, currently set up for training in Business Depot Ogden.
Is England Fictitious? [John Derbyshire]"Ignoring Wales for a moment, and ignoring non-territorial ethnic minorities like Jews, Pakistanis, etc., and ignoring really tiny places like the Falklands and Gibraltar, if Scotland went independent and Ireland were unified, England would become an ethnostate like, say, Denmark. When was the last time this was true? That is to say: when was the last time England was an independent country ruling only the English? I think the answer is: from 924 to 1014. 924 is when the various Saxon kingdoms of England were unified, right? And 1014 is when much of England was conquered by the Danes, after which England was pretty much continuously conjoined to non-English territories, either in Scandinavia (beginning with King Cnut) or France (beginning with William the Conqueror), or Ireland, or Scotland, or India, or whatever." [Derb] I don't have time to dig around on this, but it doesn't look right. A 10th-century Englishman's image of his country would have regarded the northeastern Danelaw as "foreign" to some degree (though admittedly it was (a) being Anglo-Saxonized throught the period, and (b) the base stock was probably still largely A-S). The Cornish-speaking "Western men" were another complicating factor, as were the pre-Danelaw Norse settlement in the northwest and Isle of Man. "There'll always be an England," no doubt...
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