News that Southampton FC have nominated Mary’s Meals as their official international charity partner is a genuine great football story, and a significant landmark for the Scottish-based charity which now feeds over a millions children per day.
Mary’s Meals were in touch on Friday with news and photographs from the fourth school kitchen paid for by Celtic Quick News readers, in Chibwata, Malawi. Since the kitchen was built, school enrolment has increased by 34% to 1226 pupils. Each day over 4,000 pupils are fed in school kitchens built by CQN readers.
The school role has increased because of the availability of a daily meal, but as well as being better fed and healthier, hundreds of pupils are now getting an education who previously missed out. Benefits are not limited to food today, there are lifetime benefits of getting a primary education, which will help the pupils and the nation as a whole for decades.
Those of you who have put the occasional £1 into Appeal alongside the Magners’ competitions we run, or who have put significantly more than this on occasion, should be enormously proud of what you’ve achieved. It is a stunning testament to the Celtic support. Thanks for all your help.
Celtic have done enormous work with Mary’s Meals in the past through the Foundation but let’s hope this break into English football opens up many more opportunities for the charity.
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Many thanks for all the advice lads and especially to Johann Murdoch who text me an idiot’s guide. I’ve moved to laptop while phone updates and then I’ll download Crystal ad blocker.
I’ve turned off Javascript is that still necessary if I download Crystal?
Off topic request – Could anyone tell me where I can find some sheet music to enable me to try and play “The Celtic Song” on a tin whistle or similar 2 octave wind instrument? Thanks
Awe_naw did you go to the game yesterday?
I downloaded Crystal meths now I’ve got more pop-ups than ever ;-)
LENNYBHOY on 7TH DECEMBER 2015 5:41 PM
I went to settings>Block pop-ups but I still get some bloody Adidas Trainers advert.
Do I also need to disable JavaScript?
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Lennybhoy, you need to download Le petit merde blocker to stop that advert :-)
Call_of_J…,
Plenty of apps for sheet music
CALL_OF_JUAREZ on 7TH DECEMBER 2015 5:46 PM
Off topic request – Could anyone tell me where I can find some sheet music to enable me to try and play “The Celtic Song” on a tin whistle or similar 2 octave wind instrument? Thanks
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Unfortunately not, but there are plenty of guys in Govan who could teach how to play “the Sash” using the wind from their arse.
Towards more harmonious communication…… No 2
For five to seven years in the 90s I was responsible for managing an online MSN Community called Divorce Care Support. 99% of contributors were hurting resident of the USA. You don’t get an environment less amicable to harmony than that. The wrongly interpreted word could be like salt on a open wound, intended or not.
Over time guidelines were developed and this one about dialogue helped set a better tone. Oh folk still got emotional OK but after a while, when feelings subsided, healing came back on stream. I like to think this item on dialogue helped.
THE DIALOGUE DECALOGUE
Ground Rules for Dialogue
While the “Dialogue Decalogue” revised by Leonard Swidler on which this is based was originally written primarily to further inter-religious dialogue, it has been adapted here to help people to overcome difficulties arising from the diverse perspectives and value systems they bring with them into any exchanges of views. Its aim is to help build bridges and find common ground on which a healthy outcome might be achieved.
The Dialogue Decalogue
Dialogue is a conversation on a common subject between two or more persons with differing views, the primary purpose of which is for each participant to learn from the other so that s/he can change and grow. This very definition of dialogue embodies the first commandment of dialogue.
If we approach another party to either defeat them or to learn about them so as to deal more effectively with her or him, or at best to negotiate with him or her. If we face each other at all in confrontation–sometimes more openly polemically, sometimes more subtly so, but always with the ultimate goal of defeating the other, because we are convinced that we alone have the absolute truth we are indulging in debate and not dialogue.
But dialogue is not debate. In dialogue each party must listen to the other as openly and sympathetically as s/he can in an attempt to understand the other’s position as precisely and, as it were, as much from within, as possible. Such an attitude automatically includes the assumption that at any point we might find the other party’s position so persuasive that, if we would act with integrity, we would have to change, and change can be disturbing.
All parties must be prepared to come to the dialogue as persons ready to put aside their own needs and wants, at least for a time. They must be ready to listen, without judgement, to the thoughts and feelings as expressed by the other person in the exchange. This is difficult to do on blogs/forums in the absence of body language and clarification often needs to be sought. The parties must be prepared to accept that reaching agreement may not be achieved, although that might occur, but dialogue will lead to both parties, through a better understanding of the others’ needs and wants, to being able to live amicably with their differences.
How, then, can we effectively engage in a meaningful dialogue? The following are some basic ground rules, or “commandments,” of dialogue that must be observed if it is actually to take place. These are not theoretical rules, or commandments given from “on high,” but ones that have been learned from hard experience.
There are ten “Commandments that I might post individually if there is any interest but you get the drift from above.
Call of jaurez,
Just type in ‘hail Hail the gangs all here sheet music’ into Google images.
Prolly have to transpose it up a bit though.
HH
Are any of the current Sevco first team Newcastle loanees?
JJ
Call of Juarez
Ive got it sonwhere but cant find it. I know my brother has it in one of his notebookes, its judt the letters tho not actual sheet music. Ill post it when I get a hold of him if I dont come across it myself.
Anyway heres a link you might like http://www.irish-folk-songs.com/sheet-music-and-tin-whistle-notes.html
JJ,
I don’t think so.
1 from Gooners and a couple from spurs though.
HH
An online community in the 90’s?
I think yer pullin ma chain auldhied :-)
Geordie,
Thanks. I looked after having asked and came to the same answer as you have offered,
JJ
Any word on what players we are taking over to Turkey ?
JJ
Thanks everyone for the help with my music request.
Curious Journey — The 1916 Easter Rising
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx98bt5KNoo
Careful With That Tax, Moonbeams, account suspended. Email me if you wish to discuss.
Herbo, account suspended. Email me if you wish to discuss.
Canamalar, political discussion is allowed on the blog, but it is not acceptable use of the blog to copy/paste screeds of political dialogue to the extent that it looks like an OCD obsession. Please refrain in future.
To All Readers:
I’m particularly snowed under at work these days and have little time to monitor comments, so rely on email updates for anything unacceptable. Please email me a link to anything you find inappropriate, celticquicknews@gmail.com
No one should be abused on CQN. If we need a purge of the belligerent we’ll have it.
Thanks for your help.
Oh dear
Canman
That’s what I thought :-)
HH
Call_of_Jaurez,
I was seriously looking to find the sheet music but was unsuccessful. However, during my search I came across this, has anybody heard of/know the Bollock Brothers
http://mp3indirse.com/151150413_309635297/the-bollock-brothers-king-tim-james-o-donnell.html
2 red cards & 1 yellow, was it a stramash in the box ?
Eddie Kirkmichael
Heres may thinking?:-)
that green and whyte maybe deferring now to next year in the courts.
All part of the ’16 celebrations hehe. :-))).
HH
Herbo on 7th December 2015 6:08 pm
An online community in the 90’s?
I think yer pullin ma chain auldhied :-)
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Yer right I was about 8 years too early. MSN Groups, as in make your own, came in in 1999 but I was involved in the predecessor to which was on subject list lines.
I remember wondering if we should migrate over to the new more graphic MSN offering in 1999.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Groups
In fact the MSN DCS was created by a lovely Florida lady who then asked me to look after it whilst she became a mother, but I was left holding the baby for a couple of years!
I subsequently met her with her new family on Daytona beach in 2001. Its an amazing world.
JJ,
Big Mike says he’s loaned them enough :)
HH
Auldheid,
I too am a veteran of online discourse and can trace back my first postings to 1994. In that time I have been a member, contributor, moderator, or owner of more than a dozen types of “Online Community”. Some, I have started and continue to maintain, others I have joined at various stages of their popularity.
There are three things that always, always happen. Groups and allegiances form. Groups and allegiances change. Groups and allegiances fall apart.
The latter is where the collateral damage occurs. If the community is not strong enough, it will be destroyed.
It is testament to this place and its residents that it has existed so long without the need for any specific code of conduct. I’m not really sure that it even requires it at this stage, but I for one would be most interested in those commandments you have there.
:)
TC
Hope the recent interventions help bring CQN back to its best.
Parkheadcumsalford,
Best ?
How far back are you going ?
2 reds and a yellow? Surely the Scottish Government will call for a debate. If so, the cards would all be rescinded and CQN fined and bound over to keep the peace. Which is a silly term.
Auldheid TRTC old dos lists in different drives ha.
:-)
longforgottenbasic Csc:-)
HH
Page 4 will now be known as the ‘Shame Page’
There how does that look
Stewart Regans calls for winter shut down and season adjustment to be ‘put on the table’
rules of governance?financing of member clubs?transparency?registration can be found down the back of couch,under the floorboards,toilet and in behind the meter!
always deferring to dignity,thats why our game is a mess.they have the cheek to comment on FiFa and the way its run,lookin at the SFA its a template for failure.wi gaurunteed entitlement.
HH
who said whit, so i dont need to scroll back.
Good stuff. Affirmative Action
Claiming back the blog CSC
A couple of weeks ago Mrs. TT and I went tae see the movie “Spotlight”, now I’m sure most of you know about this and the newspaper articles that spawned it.
For those that don’t, it’s about the investigation of child abuse by RC priests in Massachusetts and the ongoing cover-up by the Boston Archdiocese.
I’m not going to delve too much into it as it’s an excellent movie and I have no doubt oscars will be handed out for the participants involved in it.
At the same time I was reading Ian Rankin’s latest “Even Dogs in the Wild”. I had gone off him for a while but this piece touches on an unsavoury situation involving a children’s home, similar to what Big Nan talks about in his blog.
Again I don’t want to delve too much into this either as it’s really worth a read.
The similarity between the movie and the book is obvious; the result is not and indicates how cover ups did and still do occur with the rich and powerful.
Back to Spotlight, the newspaper involved in this story the Boston Globe were a bit wary of publishing it due mainly to their readership being predominately RC.
In fact it seems they had been given the information a few years before and hid it in the “Metro” section of the paper.
All of the journalist involved were raised Catholic and came from the Boston area except the new editor Marty Baron who was originally from Florida and was Jewish.
The reporters were keen to write about it but had been pushed back by the previous administration, which were of Boston and Catholic pedigree, which had highlighted falling sales and the locale of the paper. They eventually broke rank and won a Pulitzer Prize.
Now here we are in the best wee bigoted country in the world, where a compliant meeja scared tae upset their readership are sitting on an explosive story. Are there any out there with the testicles to break rank and prove their worth.
Is bader a more powerful person than Cardinal Law, who IMHO was not trying to cover up the clergy, but who also was failing the children, in protecting the Catholic Church by moving clergy from parish to parish, no different than Big Jock allegedly kicking a low life out the door at Celtic Park rather than bringing the police in, he IMHO was trying to protect Celtic Football Club and was also indicative of how this situation was dealt with back in the 60/70/80s and even earlier.
At the end of the movie prior to the credits on the screen it highlights the parishes and cities throughout not just the US but worldwide that have no reacted to this distasteful situation.
Right now we have the FBI investigating the on goings in FIFA, no one no matter what secret organisations they are members of are being spared.
The Boston Globe did NOT lose its readership; in fact it grew due to the honesty involved in it’s portrayal of decency and the truth
And yet we have a potential explosive money making story that nobody wants to tell. Just think of the “lost” readership to any paper willing to run with this.
We in Scotland look in disdain at the actions of Franco concerning his relationship with Real Madrid, his favoured side; he even engineered the transfer of the legendary Alfredo Di Stefano to Real instead of Barca where he was originally destined for.
Also there was the case of Ceaușescu and his support of Steau Bucharest who during his reign became the most successful club in the world.
Both these clubs won the Big Cup. No matter how much they cheated that durty, thievin, lyin, cheatin scum of a club that no longer exists ever did.
There is no way that the ludge is bigger than the RC Church so why the cover up, does steptoe have some incriminating pictures. Will this story eventually be told or will it be forever hidden like the children’s homes and other such infamous institutions.
Incredible effort Paul and the CQN faithful on helping feed and educate so many more kids.
St Stives,
Looks like someone really really objected to CQN being exposed to Assad’s version of events.
And I’ve got an OCD obsession.
Kelvinbhoy,
prayers for you and your family on the loss of your Dad,
Voguepunter/Gordon64
Prayers and Thanks for your friend Brian Comerfords eulogy.may he rip
Celtic
HH