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Every once in awhile I review previous posts and find that I've touched on a topic, but I haven't provided much background. I must have done a poor job in my prior reviews because I missed the fact that several of my previous posts talk about the relationship of Principles, Systems and Tools without actually explaining it. Let me start off with a few definitions:
Principle – a statement of value or fact that can be applied to virtually every situation and is usually generic in nature
Tool – a specific application of one or more principles in a way that produces a desired outcome.
System – a complex application of multiple tools that all work together to provide a desired outcome. Changing or removing one of the tools may not cause the system to fail, but it may cause the system to not be as productive or effective.
Two common principles are momentum and the wedge. Momentum is the product of the mass and velocity of an object. The heavier and/or faster an object is the more force will be transferred when it strikes another object. We may often see the application of momentum through a tool like a hammer. There is a certain amount of weight at the end of a stick which, when swung against another object, strikes with the force of it's momentum.
A wedge is really two inclined planes where the narrower the wedge, the less force will be required to drive it into or between other objects. A simple application of the wedge is the nail. It starts to spread apart two objects with a very narrow point and then widens. Because of friction (another principle), the nail, or wedge, also takes effort to remove. Friction enables the nail to hold two different objects together.
By using two different tools, the hammer and the nail, we can create a system where multiple tools work together to build a structure like a house. In this system the hammer strikes the nail through multiple pieces of wood and the resulting friction between the nail and the surrounding wood provides sufficient force to hold them together. There are many different types of nails as well as many different types of hammers. Using the proper combination of tools in the system will result in the greatest efficiency and/or effectiveness. Imagine using a sledgehammer to place a nail in the wall for a picture hanger. You may well be able to effectively hang the picture, but you may also end up with multiple holes in the wall and the sledge is really heavy as well… not very efficient.
A regular side-effect of altering or avoiding tools prior to understanding is the elephant effect:
Five blind men were brought up to different parts of an elephant and asked to describe it. One, who touched his ears, said the elephant is like a sail. The one who touched the trunk said an elephant is like a hose. The one who touched the foot said an elephant is like a tree trunk. The one who felt the tusk said an elephant is like a hard smooth stick. The one who touched the tail said–like a rope.
The novice carpenter, in a similar situation, may only witness a portion of the work and assume that a hammer striking a piece of metal on wood results in one piece becoming attached to another… completely missing the difference between the nail and the screw.
Unfortunately, the larger the system, the more difficult it is can be to understand its fundamental principles. This is certainly true with Lean and Agile as we can see from the early American adoption of Lean Manufacturing when many companies sent representatives to Toyota in Japan to learn from their production system. These representatives would return with excellent tools which they thought would drastically improve their own company's productivity. Without a full understanding the the accompanying systems and principles these companies realized varying degrees of success. In fact, it took many organizations decades to approach the levels of productivity that they had initially seen
These companies learned the hard way that it is easier to understand a tool, more difficult to understand a system, and it can take lifetimes to fully understand a principle. The same is true for most organizations that seek to be Agile. They apply some pieces (like user stories) of a whole system (like Scrum) and then wonder why they don't see the levels of success they anticipated. Others mistake the tool for a principle and attempt to hit everything with the same hammer, assuming the because it worked in one situation is will work in all situations.
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To read the day-by-day story of the challenge, click here!
In summer 2016, we undertook our most recent major Extreme Cello challenge, PIER PRESSURE. Over the course of 14 days, we travelled around the coast of Great Britain (including the Isle of Wight), playing on all 58 surviving piers.
Between 20 July and 4 August, we spent 14 days covering the country in a clockwise direction, travelling approximately 2800 miles, raising money for two fantastic charities:
CHICKS (Country Holidays for Inner-City Kids)
A national children's charity providing free respite breaks to disadvantaged children from all over the UK at their three retreat locations. They hope to give up to 1,200 children a respite break in 2016. Click here to read more about CHICKS, or see the video below.
To donate, click on the button to the right, or you can text ECPP55 and the amount you want to donate (e.g. "ECPP55 £10") to 70070.
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To donate, click on the button to the right, or you can text ECPP66 and the amount you want to donate (e.g. "ECPP66 £10") to 70070.
Our schedule saw us start in Scotland on Wednesday 20 July, and tour the country in a clockwise direction, finishing in Blackpool on Thursday 4 August. The 58 piers are those on the British mainland (including the Isle of Wight) that are recognised by the National Piers Society. The piers we visited on each day were:
- Wednesday 20 July: Dunoon, Rothesay
- Saturday 23 July: Saltburn, Cleethorpes, Skegness
- Sunday 24 July: Cromer, Great Yarmouth Britannia, Great Yarmouth Wellington, Lowestoft South, Lowestoft Claremont
- Monday 25 July: Southwold, Felixstowe, Harwich, Walton-on-the-Naze, Clacton
- Tuesday 26 July: Southend, Gravesend Town, Herne Bay, Folkestone Harbour Arm, Deal
- Wednesday 27 July: Hastings, Eastbourne, Brighton Palace, Worthing, Bognor Regis
- Thursday 28 July: Ryde, Sandown Culver, Totland Bay, Yarmouth
- Friday 29 July: Southsea South Parade, Southsea Clarence, Southampton Royal, Hythe
- Saturday 30 July: Boscombe, Bournemouth, Swanage, Weymouth Bandstand, Weymouth Pleasure
- Sunday 31 July: Falmouth, Paignton, Torquay Princess, Teignmouth Grand
- Monday 1 August: Burnham-on-Sea, Weston-Super-Mare Grand, Weston-Super-Mare Birnbeck, Clevedon
- Tuesday 2 August: Penarth, Mumbles, Aberystwyth Royal
- Wednesday 3 August: Bangor Garth, Beaumaris, Llandudno, Colwyn Bay Victoria
- Thursday 4 August: Southport, St Annes, Blackpool South, Blackpool Central, Blackpool North
In addition, we did evening concerts along the way at St Edmund's Church, Southwold; St Margaret's at Cliffe, Kent; and St Michael's Church, Aberystwyth.
To read the day-by-day story of the challenge, click here! Some video clips of us playing on piers can be found here.
We are also hugely grateful to our corporate sponsors for the tour. In particular we would like to draw attention to Allianz Musical Insurance, who are supporting the whole tour, and two companies who have supplied their products for us to use: The Jolly Design, makers of fine innovative cello & music stands (all in one - see the picture to the right), and Jargar Strings, whose Superior Cello strings we'll be using. Also many thanks to our other corporate sponsors Captain Fawcett, Henderson's Relish, and Thornbridge Brewery.

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August 20 – September 28, 2011
About the Exhibition
Discover the glamour, luxury and artistry of cinematic fashion. Delight in the sumptuous fabrics, the lavish lace, skilled embroidery and unparalleled craftsmanship and creativity. Bask in the ambiance of big-screen cinema and the allure of famous film stars. An experience like no other awaits visitors to CUT! Costume and the Cinema.
On view for the first time in Canada, this exhibition reveals the integral role of costume design in creating unforgettable screen characters. "When actors put on those clothes that is when the character comes alive," says Nancy Lawson exhibition co-curator. More than 30 actors are represented from some 25 films which depict five centuries of history, drama and comedy. Some of the films represented include a refreshing take on the classic Cinderella fairy tale (Angela Houston Ever After); seventeenth century Virginia (Colin Farrell, The New World); the eighteenth-century England of the aristocracy (Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes, The Duchess); the first voyage in the Pirates adventure trilogy (Johnny Depp, The Pirates of the Caribbean; Curse of the Black Pearl); the fantastic and opulent nineteenth-century Paris (Emmy Rossum, The Phantom of the Opera) the story of Peter Pan (Kate Winslet, Finding Neverland) and the new adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law Sherlock Holmes).
Go ahead and squeal — these costumes have touched the very skin of stars such as Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman. In fact, the exhibition reads like a textile-based "who's who" of Hollywood — lanky Nicole Kidman next to tiny Renee Zellweger next to curvy Scarlett Johansson.
Cut! also allows the viewer to appreciate the fine details of costumes that often only appear fleetingly in the final film. The attention to detail in the research, design and creation of these film costumes crosses the line from craft to couture.
Fashion and film become fine art in this exciting exhibition. All 43 costumes were made by the renowned British costumer, Cosprop Ltd., and many have won major film awards for costume design, including the coveted Oscar™.
After visiting the exhibition, check out some of the programs we're offering that further explore the content featured in Cut! Costume and the Cinema:
In Conversation: Celebrity Worship Syndrome:
Tuesday September 20
Art for the Senses: Behind the Curtain
Saturday September 24
Daily activities for all ages in the Discovery Room!
http://www.glenbow.org/programs/family/discovery.cfm )
Glenbow Shop
A selection of books currently available in the Glenbow Shop from feature exhibition: Cut! Costume and the Cinema.
Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design
"Academy Award-nominated costume designer Deborah N. Landis showcases one hundred years of Hollywood's most tantalizing costumes and the characters they helped bring to life."
592 pages. Full-colour and b&w photographs throughout.
By Deborah N. Landis.
Costume Design in the Movies
" An Illustrated Guide to the Work of 157 Great Designers"
"Fascinating, comprehensive reference work provides biographical/career data for major American, British and French designers since 1909."
Soft cover.
176 pages. 177 illustrations.
By Elizabeth Leese.
Published by Dover.
100 Dresses: The Costume Institute
"An irresistible look into more than 300 years of fashion through an exquisite collection of designer dresses. Here, for the first time ever, are 100 fabulous gowns from the permanent collection of the renowned Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, each of which is a reminder of the ways fashion reflects the broader culture that created it."
232 pages. 153 colour and 28 b&w illustrations.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.


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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- CeeLo Green has apologized for his controversial remarks on rape.
The 39-year-old singer and producer returned to Twitter and tweeted an apology Tuesday evening.
"I truly and deeply apologize for the comments attributed to me on Twitter," he wrote. "Those comments were idiotic, untrue and not what I believe."
Green came under heavy fire over the weekend after he compared rape to a home burglary and implied women can only be raped if they are conscious when it happens. He later deleted the tweets and his Twitter temporarily.
"When someone brakes on a home there is broken glass," he wrote. "Where is your plausible proof anyone was raped?"
"Women who have really been raped REMEMBER!!!" he declared. "If someone is passed out they're not even WITH you consciously! so WITH implies consent."
Many found the comments particularly offensive because the singer recently pleaded no contest to slipping ecstasy into a woman's drink. Green was sentenced to three years of probation and 360 hours of community service on Friday after being charged with one felony count of furnishing a controlled substance.
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And it is about jazz in the record with pop and folk influences, which is immediately apparent when hearing the embroidered aerial arrangements by musicians: Nir Felder and Gilad Hekselman on guitars, Ziv Ravitz on drums and Or Baraket on bass.
Dazzling, energetic and truly refreshing. Here are the first adjectives that come to our minds when listening to Qui Danse, the first album of Marine Futin, singer, guitarist, composer - or rather singer-songwriter.
And it is about jazz in the record with pop and folk influences, which is immediately apparent when hearing the embroidered aerial arrangements by musicians: Nir Felder and Gilad Hekselman on guitars, Ziv Ravitz on drums and Or Baraket on bass.
Sometimes it's simply in the blood. Despite a detached upbringing in the tropics of Hawaii, Will Weston's adherence to music runs deeper, the son of two accomplished touring and session musicians and grandson of 1950's Hollywood icons Jo Stafford & Paul Weston. Now ten years relocated to San Francisco, Weston's independent releases have refined a composite style of equally funky & soul driven rock songs, with a truest affection for melody. A lengthy residency at SF's iconic Boom Boom Room in 2015 forged both a loyal support base and core group of players behind him, earning Weston a seat at the table backed by session musicians responsible for some of the top recordings to emerge from the Bay Area. Teaming with East Bay funk-addict Nino Moschella at his own Bird & Egg Studios in 2016, Weston locked in ten ambitious new tracks due out this fall, comprising his third full-length, Meridian.
The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra is a 17 piece big band based in San Francisco that plays music composed and arranged by its members. Led by trumpeter Erik Jekabson, the band currently has a residency every Sunday night at Doc's Lab in San Francisco. Their debut CD "Cheap Rent" was released on the OA2 record label, and has been getting radio play and recognition around the country, including a four and a half star review in Downbeat magazine. They're currently working on their next CD.


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Canon Andrew White, vicar of St. George's Anglican Church in Baghdad, and his organization, the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East, have been on the front lines of helping displaced Iraqis who survive in the midst of the Islamic State's violent assault on the region.
White recently told an international news agency that, the conditions on the ground in Iraq are "absolutely horrendous," noting that 250,000 Christians have been displaced from their homes in Mosul, Nineveh and other locations; this figure, doesn't include Yazidis or other minority group.
He said, "They are sheltering in the north and the mountains. They have nothing. They have lost their homes, they have lost their future. We are providing them with as much food as we can, as much help as we can."


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revealed it was on the way, and today TiVo came through by releasing a version of its remote app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. v1.5 does more than just get the existing iPad interface ready for smaller screens, it also increases compatibility by adding "limited compatibility" (search, browse and schedule recordings, plus the virtual remote) with older TiVo Series3, TiVo HD and TiVo HD XL DVRs, as well as TiVo Premieres supplied by cable providers RCN and Suddenlink. Still waiting in the wings is the promised Android version -- unless you're in the UK. Check out the press release after the break or just click the iTunes link below and give it a download yourself, especially since even the TiVo-less can browse its wares thanks to a new guest mode.
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On your marks 2011
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Harvard Business School's Professor Michael Porter on Creating Shared Value
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James Timpson was with us at On Your Marks
BBC's Richard Addy on his first day at Connect
James Timpson talks about Timpson as a Retail service Business
James Timpson is Managing Director of Timpson, one of the UK's largest retailers. Timpson has over 900 stores across the UK and Ireland. James is a straight talking, no nonsense individual. In this video James gives us an insight into Timpson, his leadership style and their upside down management structure. Alongside this, hear how Timpson use the Mr Men Model in recruitment and the importance of recruiting for personality.


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I had runny nose the whole of yesterday at work, and it was a situation that was almost second nature to me as I have had such occurrences quite often since young. But after work, I got home and it felt quite terrible, so I decided to go to bed right after my bath.
9pm: I started sleeping.
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Time is our most precious resource (okay, water's up there too). So I consider where to spend my time very carefully. Of course, we all have obligations: work, home, family, friends. But the spaces in between those obligations? This is what defines me as a human being.
So what kind of person do I want to be? Like many, I selfishly want what I want. And therein lies the battle. Can I put someone else's needs before my own? Especially in my limited free time? Sometimes.
I know fully well that I've been lucky in life. I've got a roof over my head, food on my table, clothes on my back and fresh, clean water coming out the tap. I also realize that this is not the case for many, many people in this world.
Forge54 gives me the chance to use my skills for deserving non-profit clients. It's a huge opportunity to give back. Yes, it's a whole weekend of my time, away from my kids. But the impact we have from these two and a half days is immeasurable. Because the clients we serve provide such important services, our work is that much sweeter. I'm willing to make this small sacrifice of my time (and some money) so the people our clients serve can benefit in a huge way.
Take Wells of Life, for example. They build water wells in Ugandan villages so the people there can have sustainable access to safe, clean drinking water. And this saves their lives from waterborne illness. It's a huge deal and literally life-changing for them. Doing my small part to help them feels great. That's the bottom line. I help others and that helps me.
I guess I am still selfish. But at least I get to feel better about it every time I volunteer, especially with Forge54. So I'll keep forging on.
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I am extremely excited to be able to share with you the newest video "Barton Hollow" from The Civil Wars... I had the wonderful priviledge of styling and assisting for the shoot and am so happy with how it turned out. Joy is wearing a vintage lace camisole from Troubadour Vintage [similar ones will be in the store this week] and my great grandmother's stunning mink. She's also wearing a beautiful knife skirt courtesy of Billy Reid. John Paul is decked out in head-to-toe Billy Reid and looks pretty darn good! Mr. Reid sure knows how to dress a man.
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I recently have problems when trying to log in to my MSN account from OS X Leopard. I tried to add my account to Adium, where it worked the 1st time and then on the following boots it just keeps trying to connect without any success. So I installed Messenger:mac in hope it would work better, but the same issue. The 1st time it worked and now, when I wanted to launch it again, it gives me the error message:
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- Tried to access with different Windows Live accounts (no success while they work on Windows)
- Completely disabled the Firewall
- Tried to access web messenger (at people.live.com) which worked just fine (also services like Meebo work).
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Earlier this year I found myself lured from the secure theological fastnesses of north London to a consultation on one of the hot topics of our day. One delegate listened to the contributions about what relevant biblical passages meant and then commented that s/he still did not know what the passages meant and the explanations offered just didn't do it for him/her. The passages were unclear. I was surprised in one way, because I thought the explanations had been nothing if not clear. Unwelcome very possibly, but not unclear. The response, though, was not a disagreement in the sense of offering an alternative explanation which should be preferred for better reasons. This was not direct disagreement but something much more oblique. It was a disagreement that took the form of declaring that the passages were not clear.
Of course, in another way this is no longer a surprising response to attempts to explain passages from the Bible or synthesise them—over the years one has heard it in regard to God's knowledge of the future, predestination, God changing his mind, same-sex marriage, the role of women, etc. The Bible is unclear, it is said, and so we must be content not to know. We must be ignorant. In that sense I think we are observing an argumentative move that is perhaps increasingly common.
In this article I want to argue that the claim to be ignorant on the grounds that something is unclear is actually quite ambitious. More than that, it can be an imperious claim that exercises power over others without, at times, the inconvenience of reasoned argument. No wonder it is so popular.
Please note, I am not suggesting this is always the case and that every claim of unclarity is manipulative and power-driven, but it is worth thinking through how such claims can be.
By way of illustration, take the pro-Arian Creed announced at Sirmium in 357, which marked a new phase in the Arian controversy as Arian opposition to Nicene trinitarian theology became more overt. For our purposes the relevant part of the Creed comes just after it outlines a prohibition on using the terms homoousios (one and the same substance) or homoiousios (of a similar substance). The Creed states:
Nor ought any exposition to be made of them [sc. the terms homoousios and homoiousios] for the reason and consideration that they are not contained in the divine Scriptures, and that they are above man's understanding, nor can any man declare the birth of the Son, of whom it is written, Who shall declare His generation? For it is plain that only the Father knows how He begot the Son, and the Son how He was begotten of the Father.1
Does this not sound very pious and indeed very evangelical to avoid using terms that are not in the Bible and remember that the generation of the Son is too wonderful to declare (enarrare) so no-one should declare (enarrare) it? In other words, it is not clear and we do not know, so we should not speak of the generation of the Son. How would you have reacted to this if I had not already primed you that Sirmium 357 was 'pro-Arian'? I suspect that many of us would be struck by what could be a humble, pious caution in speaking of God.
Yet Hilary of Poitiers, Athanasius of Alexandria, and other supporters of the view that the Son is truly a son hit the roof over Sirmium 357. Hilary describes it as Blasphemia, blasphemy. Why does a profession of ignorance generate such an extreme reaction? Amongst other reasons, in Hilary's case, precisely because of the claim of ignorance.
Hilary decodes the claims of Sirmium 357 for us. First, there was the element of compulsion. For him this was an ignorantiae decretum—a law of ignorance, aptly translated 'Compulsory Ignorance Act'.2 The language repays attention: decretum implies serious binding decision, that is to say, not just a confession of one's own lack of knowledge but a decision that others do not know either. The term has legislative connotations. To that extent the framers of Sirmium 357 were not just saying they did not know about the Son's generation, they were saying no other human being could either. What initially sounds like a pious caution emerges as coercive.
Secondly, Hilary notes an absurdity in the idea that one tries to compel people not to know something. He comments scathingly of the decretum: 'just as if it could be commanded or decreed that a man should know what in future he is to be ignorant of, or be ignorant of what he already knows.'3
The absurdity here is in attempting to legislate the internal knowledge of others. It is one thing to demand silence, but quite another to demand ignorance.
Thirdly, Hilary sees that the law of ignorance actually stops a particular proposition being made. Because we are bound to be ignorant about the Son's generation, we cannot declare that the Son is 'of God',4 and if we cannot speak at all of the Son's generation, then how do we say the Son really and truly is a son, since generation is inherent to the relation of fathers and sons. At root, by preventing us speaking of the Son's generation, the framers of Sirmium are preventing us from speaking of the Son as truly son. Coercive ignorance masks a positive theological position—that one does not have to say the Son is truly a son. This, of course, opens the door to admitting Arianism with its view that the Second Person is a creature rather than truly Son as being just as orthodox as Nicene theology which insists the Son is truly son. A little ignorance can go a long way.
Two things emerge quite painfully from Hilary's observations on the Compulsory Ignorance Act of Sirmium 357. First, the coercive nature of the claims to ignorance or unclarity. There is something strongly unilateral about the claims of Sirmium 357: why should something that is, allegedly, subjectively unclear to me be judged by me as unclear for you too? Secondly, there is the way those coercive claims were far from value-neutral but actually carried strong agendas of their own.
However, there are other elements in play in the declaration of ignorance or unclarity that make it an extraordinarily attractive move in today's debates. Naturally it plays well with a postmodern mood that tends to value scepticism, but more than that it can offer the attraction of not needing to have a reason for my position. At its worst, I can declare something unclear and then pursue my own line without needing to provide reasons for it—after all the issue is unclear. Declaring something unclear can maximise my freedom of action because it tends to remove an issue from the field of common debate. In its way, it is strongly individualist.
More than that, some of the claims about unclarity or ignorance leave unspecified what counts as being clear enough for actions to proceed or decisions to be made. It is sometimes quite revealing to ask 'how clear do things need to be?' or 'What would make things clearer for you?' But without knowing what counts as 'clear enough' or what considerations would clarify, the task of discussing something with someone claiming ignorance or lack of clarity becomes remarkably thankless. Again, the tendency here is to remove an issue from discussion.
Yet most attractive of all is that the claim of lack of clarity or ignorance allows one to pursue one's own position quite dogmatically while appearing to be very undogmatic. After all, the claim of ignorance looks as though it advances no position, but vitally it tacitly asserts that one's opponent's position cannot be decisively asserted—it is forever only a possibility, not a certainty on which one could base action or decision. There is something very rewarding in being a closet dogmatist while appearing to be the reverse.
This in turn raises two questions, one more philosophical, the other more theological. Philosophically, how do I move from my observation about my own understanding that I find something unclear (fundamentally subjective) to the proposition that something is unclear for everyone else too (something universal)? After all, I frequently have the experience that a text from my children is subjectively unclear to me, but laughably clear to others versed in the texting argot of today's youth. Of course it can be a mark of genuine epistemic humility to recognise one does not know something or that something is unclear to one. But it can be an important mark of epistemic humility too to concede that others may have understood something that I have not, rather than insist that if I do not see something no-one else has or even could either.
Theologically, however, even more is at stake. Thus the claim of John 1:18 is that God has been made known by the incarnate Son and Word. This looks very like a claim that God has actually made himself known and at least at the objective level revealed himself. Given this, what should I make of the claim that knowledge of God is unclear and uncertain? After all, for the uncertainty claim to work here, I have to tread very close to the proposition that God did not successfully reveal himself. Do I think God tried to reveal himself and failed? Or do I think God never revealed himself? Here again the claims of ignorance seem extraordinarily imperious—after all the kind of knowledge I would need to support the claim that God has failed to reveal himself or that God never revealed himself seems to be that I have an independent non-revealed knowledge of God and therefore can weigh the claims of revelation. This, of course, was one reason why Hilary and Athanasius thought the Arian claims of 'ignorance' they encountered were in fact simply arrogant. Perhaps I should be more ready to adapt another of Hilary's thoughts, that when faced with God's revelation in the Bible, I should point less to a defect in the text (lack of clarity) but more to a defect in my understanding (subjective limits). Perhaps we should be less certain that parts of Scripture are 'uncertain'.


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You've won! An all-expenses paid getaway to HWIDG Island! Enjoy the tropical beaches, where the sand is filled with broken glass and used needles, and the water is definitely not infested with mutant sharks. Rest in one of our many resort hotels, complete with scummy pools and even scummier sheets. Savor the local cuisine, including such dishes as:
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Let me tell you about minimalism. Minimalism is about maximizing the usage of your space to be the most boring affluent person possible. These minimalists think that less is more, and they're right. The less you have, the more boring you are. I've lived in small rooms and small houses and guess what, it's not fun or cute, it sucks, and these people want to pay out the ass to do so. Screw you.
The coveted Mon-Fri 9 to 5 job. It has created the 40 hour work week, and with it the office drone. All the actual work is done, you want to go home, but there's 4 hours left and you "have" to be there. Why? You're tired, bored, and not actually working. Salaried workers leave the second they hit 40 hours, and hourly workers are trying every trick in the book to get whatever time they can over 40. Seems to me things would be a lot better if you just let the people work what they want.
Speaking of working when you want, why I gotta wake up at the crack of dawn to do non-time sensitive work? Why does the whole store have to open so early? Most people are AT THEIR JOBS, WE CAN'T SELL THEM ANYTHING. You're a pizza place, why the hell are you closing at 8? Let your workers sleep in, no one's ordering pizza before 11. You know what, it's all old people's fault. They're up before dawn and asleep by 7 or 8, and they're the ones that run everything.
What is 2+2? If you answered "I don't know, 7?" congratulations! You're ready to be inducted into an elite group of people known as MASK, or Modern American School Kids. Apparently math is now subjective and filled with guesswork. My guess is that it's a ploy by big business to screw you out of more money because you can't figure out how much you should be making on your own. Either that or they're cautiously optimistic about aliens visiting us and giving us technology that changes our perspective of all laws of science as we know them. Both sound equally probable.
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Ben Stirling
Ben has been designing and producing award winning interactive media since 2000. Working independently and leading teams of creatives designers and front end developers. It's the variety of interactive platforms that excites Ben, working on flash websites, microsites, social networking portals, webcasts and live events, games, viral campaigns, webTV and content management driven websites, for clients such as Volkswagen, SEAT, Audi, BBC, The European Parliament, The Science Museum and HBO.
Nigel Smith
Nigel Smith is an accomplished engineer and commercial Director, who has successfully implemented and delivered major broadcast, security , communications and business projects for world-wide clients.
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After more than 3 years as a Director of one of the UK's leading TV companies, Twofour, Phil founded Jukwa in 2011 – a consultancy company that focusses on the technology and business of delivering video in a multi-platform world. Ideally, Phil would spend his time somewhere between an African orphanage and an Alpine ski resort, armed with a variety of gadgets trying to invent solutions to technology projects. Jukwa is about as close to that as Phil can get! After 2 decades of broadcast and digital engineering experience coupled with business development, he's as comfortable with HD-SDI as EBITDA or MPEG-DASH, and would be delighted if you pressed the TALK TO US button, just up there on the right.


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What a wonderful opportunity it is to share in God's grace and fellowship with others. Life is full of crazy moments and it seems to be going by faster than we realize! It is important to slow down once in a while and take a breath of fresh air, LIGHTen up and have a good time! LIGHT group is exactly that, we are a very unique group, connecting young families and young adults with each other through fellowship, outreach and volunteering. We gather once a month for various activities, some are family friendly and others are more geared towards the adults. We would love to have you join LIGHT group, come and see how God is at work in all of our lives and in every stage of our lives. You can see contact information and upcoming events below.
LIGHT group was formed in early 2013 when we noticed many young adults and young families within our congregation. An important part of being a member at St. Matthew is having a sense of belonging. We want you to feel like this is your home away from home, your spiritual getaway from the hectic hustle and bustle of today's society. God has blessed St. Matthew in so many ways and part of his blessing is the fellowship and discipleship of it's Members.
Our next activity will be on Friday, February 13th at 7:00 pm.
Place: Tracks Lounge
What: We will be celebrating Valentine's Day a day early with dinner and drinks
Host: Carl and Birgitte Hays
Past Events:
Night at Wenninghoff Farm – Bonfire and Hayrack Ride
Assembling Thanksgiving Meals for Food Pantry
Jazz on the Green
Progressive Dinner
Boo's, Brew's and BBQ
BBQ and Football


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Missing Nine [K-Drama] (2017)
Summary : What would 9 survivors of an unexpected plane crash endure to remain alive till the end?
This drama takes place in a deserted island and cover all the things that happen when a plane crash lands there, inside carrying a fallen boy band member dealing with a plagiarism scandal, a girl group, an actor, a bodyguard, an entertainment reporter, and a flight attendant. (1eader, pre2ident, mana3er, supersta4, trou5lemaker, prin6ess, secre7ary, 8utsider, e9ewitness)
The story will deal with how they survive in the wild, and through the adventure and adversity learn the meaning of love.
Seo Joon Ho (Jung Kyung Ho) is an unsuccessful top star who went through hard times. He was once a leader of a popular idol band, but his public image was ruined, and he is now reduced to being a D-list fringe celebrity. Meanwhile, Ra Bong Hee (Baek Jin Hee) is Joon Ho's new stylist. She left her home to pursue her dreams in Seoul. Her first day working ends up with a plane crash and landing on a uninhabited island.
Genre : Mystery, Thriller, Melodrama
Episodes : 20 + 1 Special (To Be Confirmed)
Format : mkv
Resolution : 540p (x264) + 720p (x265)
Subtitle : English
Episode 00 – 04 : https://www.keeplinks.eu/p79/5978b04d8dc4c
Episode 05 – 08 : https://www.keeplinks.eu/p79/5978b09a25552
Episode 09 – 12 : https://www.keeplinks.eu/p79/5978b0e2d5219
Episode 13 – 16 : https://www.keeplinks.eu/p79/5978b139b8f63
Episode 00 – 04 : https://www.keeplinks.eu/p79/5978b86402273
Episode 05 – 08 : https://www.keeplinks.eu/p79/5978b8fe5b62e
Episode 09 – 12 : https://www.keeplinks.eu/p79/5978b9378cf30
Episode 13 – 16 : https://www.keeplinks.eu/p79/5978b972e9929


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South of France - The insider's guide
Whether you want to play tennis or a round of golf, go sailing or scuba diving, visit historical landmarks or be pampered at a spa retreat, the Côte d'Azur has more than enough to keep you occupied when not relaxing by the pool.
Destination guide: Provence & the Côte d'Azur
Provence and the Côte d'Azur cannot fail to enchant, with its rich natural beauty, rolling hills of lavender, forests of deep scented pine, hilltops dotted with ancient towns and dazzling beaches.
Activities in the Côte d'Azur
If you fancy doing something a bit more active than relaxing by the pool then there's no shortage of activities on offer in the Côte d'Azur - tennis, sailing, horse riding, go-karting, watersports and more.
Eating out in the Côte d'Azur
The superb fresh fish and seafood from the Mediterranean dominate the local cuisine. As well as restaurants serving traditional Mediterranean food, there are numerous restaurants serving cuisine from across the world.
A guide to markets in the South of France
Wherever you're staying in the South of France, you'll not be far from a local market. And whether they're daily or weekly, in Nice or Antibes or a small hilltop village, they're brimming with wonderfully fresh, seasonal produce and are the hub of local life.


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Philomela's Story:Tapestry Poem 3
Time was shattered that day. My memory shot to pieces.
An ordered life thrown into chaos, changed forever.
My head's full of 'if onlys'. I see myself in a distant past;
days of innocence before betrayal. He was my sister's husband
and he came like a brother, but he ground my life to dust.
Can I blame myself because I took safety for granted?
We were travelling to my sister but he broke the journey
with his invasion of my body, his murder of my soul.
When he was done, he accused my beauty for the crime
as if the way a woman looks can drive a man to violence?
Shamed though I was, I found my voice, swore I'd find a way
to tell but he took a knife to my tongue and left me speechless.
I thought I was lost, that my story was unspeakable but there's
a certain kind of listening that heals, even in a cavern of silence.
© Seni Seneviratne
Click to see photos of the live performance.
Lady of Situations is a collaboration with digital artist Shirley Harris, funded by the Arts Council, which took place over a period of eight months. It culminated in an exhibition and immersive performance which combined my poetry with theatre, digital art and music. Drawing on the classical stories of Philomela and Tiresias, the piece explored timeless themes of power, gender, exile, and survival. I began to write the poetic voices of Philomela and Tiresias after a series of collaborative photo-shoots from which the story had developed. West Yorkshire based Theatre Director, Amanda Huxtable, worked with us on preparing the script for a sixty minute live performance piece. The production, which also featured commissioned artworks, was launched as part of Sheffield's Off the Shelf Festival in October 2016.
Live Performance
The performance begins with Philomela alone and exiled in a forest. Half-woman, half-bird, she is confined to a large nest on the forest floor trapped in the endless present of her recent trauma and unable to speak. Tiresias, the narrator, acts as witness to the impact of Philomela's trauma and becomes an ally in her process of recovery and healing. Images of Philomela's previous life are presented to the audience, combined with a soundtrack that echoes her sadness and chimes with the playing of live cello. Philomela, though tongueless, finds ways to speak the unspeakable, including the creation of a tapestry in which she weaves her own story with others like hers.
Philomela's Story – Audio from performance
Extracts from the script:
Tiresias: Opening lines
They say I'm a good listener. And these stone-blind eyes have blessed me with a second sight. Though some days it feels like more of a curse than a blessing – it's hard to keep my balance on this tightrope above a faltering world. When you can read the sky's omens and know how to follow the wisdom of birds, it makes for a precarious path between vision and madness.
But I'm used to walking through fire and ruin and there's more than two sides to any story. I should know, I've tasted both sides of a gendered life and didn't rest easy in either place. There's comfort in a certain kind of metamorphosis.
This woman's story is a hall of mirrors. There are many versions. Betrayal is at the heart of all of them. In this one you find her in a riven place where lichen clots the bark of trees. Black slate erupts like ancient standing stones. Old voices in the wind play tricks. And nature seems to be without mercy. It may look like a harsh place to enter but don't be afraid. Come with me. I've been burned by my own monsters and survived to tell the truth of it.
© Seni Seneviratne
Tiresias: Calling for Tiresias (Scene 2)
Listen to her strange cries, her distracted rage. Listen again for the whirr of her silenced words on a wingbeat. Listen. Not as bystanders but as witnesses. From her tongueless cavern, she will begin to throw shafts of light on unspeakable things. Be assured of this. Truth, like water, will out beyond silence. A trickle or a deluge, it matters not.
© Seni Seneviratne
Philomela: Remembering (Scene 4)
In those days, I needed the necessary rituals
of solitude. I was a woman who craved time
and space, long hours of lingering, before
blank canvas, before the naming of colours.
Accountable only to my palette and brushes,
I set loose an abundance of colour – viridian,
vermilion, raw umber, cobalt, yellow ochre,
burnt sienna, titanium, lamp black, lead white.
I abandoned myself to the detail of a ram's skull
the petal of a rose, the curve of a pomegranate,
the outline of a crow's beak. Nothing too small
for my attention, as I tracked the movement of light.
Art was my passion. It was never easy. I stepped
into the uneasy, the unknown. The time it takes
to begin, the faith it takes to continue, to reach
an uncertain destination. That's the beauty of it.
I had fears too, that my art would consume me,
make me unloved, unloveable. Women, after all
are not meant to put our work above all else –
so many calls on our time, people to attend to.
As if what we create is not a way of paying attention:
painting a flame in the darkness, bringing the petal
of a dead rose to life again, reimagining our reflections
in this compassionate capturing of transient beauty.
© Seni Seneviratne
Look in the mirror. Do you see yourself holding back like me in that place of uncertainty? You want to help but you don't know when or how to step forward. In any case what's true about a reflection? Mirrors often play tricks. One minute you exist. The next you're gone.
It's easy enough to disappear like that from a life. One minute you're living it, the next you're forced to vanish. You run away, you're chased away, you're taken away from everything you took for granted. The remnants of an ordinary life disappear in the distance. You join a multitude of migrants, all carrying a story, looking for somewhere safe to set it down and build a life again.
You walk a tightrope between hope and despair. You memorise the uses of forgiveness. Someone shows you your face in the mirror and you don't recognize yourself. You are judged for your journey, suspected for your silence.
© Seni Seneviratne
Philomela: Kinship (Scene5)
I gave up on humanity,
looked for succour in the language of birds,
in their comings and goings to a nest in the trees.
I watched how they gathered
the smallest things. How their weaving made circles.
I began to see how one stem could fit with another,
each fibre a memory in its proper place
and this damaged self learned how to build, learned
the uses of a beak. I was a creature among creatures
beginning to know the stillness of forest ways.
No judgement, no shame and water, like a sanctuary
was always running, always knew where it was going.
I gathered birchwood branches,
like time in no particular order, from the chaos
of bark, tied each one piece by piece. It took patience.
This easing of curved bark, this tying
and retying, over and over is how
I loved myself again, reordering the tricks
of time, conjuring survival. Some days,
I was tempted to make fire, burn everything
and disappear forever, surrendering
to a stolen future. But hope was another kind
of flame. In daylight, I considered the uses
of vengeance. At night, I fell exhausted
into nightmares but my own feathered nest
was waiting each morning, just as I had left it,
something to take hold of, another use for my knife.
© Seni Seneviratne
The Lady of the Forest begins to weave her own story with others like hers. When one woman speaks out a crack appears in the wall of silence. So many more stories are chipping away at the mortar. They begin to break through, like water through a crumbling dam, weakening the walls, bringing the possibility of its downfall closer.
© Seni Seneviratne
Philomela: Tapestry (Scene 6)
It occurs to me, I could be trapped here forever,
inside this magnitude of silence unless someone
knows how to listen. I've no use for old comforts.
Here, moss and fleece soothe the chill in my bones
as I lie under the moon's milky light. I may become
an oak tree, gather warp and weft in the tapestry
of my branches, to make new cloth. When weaving
begins, could the truth become a kind of vengeance?
© Seni Seneviratne
Tapestry Poem 1
Slave Lodge
She is the woman who, after disappearing in the curse
of a ship, finds herself newly arrived under the mountain.
They call her no name, then a new name in another language,
they write her name on page 472, Slave Lodge Census 1714.
Maria of Ceylon, counted, accounted for in the roll call,
in a pebbled courtyard where she counts stones,
digs at the dirt in cracks between the stones, marks hours
until the hour when the doors are opened for the pleasure
of free men. No, in any language, should be understood,
but she is the silenced goods and worth three inches of tobacco
to the man who's trading her. When men with strange voices
fall on her in turn, she is the woman with numbers rattling
behind her teeth – eka, deka, tuna, hatara, paha, haya, hata,
ata, navaya, dahaya – counting stones, counting shapes
in the red of her eyelids, who is unravelling threads of herself.
She pulls them out, lays them warp and weft, on the stone floor,
reweaves the fabric of her flesh. She is the woman who is waiting
for the rain, waiting for the Yala Monsoon to uproot her silence.
© Seni Seneviratne
Tapestry Poem 2
A Girl in the Woods
I make myself clean in the forest,
I brush my arms over the ferns.
It's better when it rains and
the forest is sighing with damp.
It holds water like a sacrifice.
I give it blood. It holds blood.
The trees give me their silence.
Always there, under the moon,
I walk in the forest until my lungs ache.
I walk fast, up bouldered paths. I lose
the way. It's better like that, losing
your way. No hope of being found.
There's nothing to lie in the dark
waiting for, biting your lip. Nothing
to wait for and want, so it's over and
done with. Nothing to be blamed for.
You don't have to be clean, or worry
how you look. You can get clean there.
You can lean against the bark of a tree
and make yourself clean. No-one sees.
Muddy girl in the woods, painting it red.
And leaves make good bandages.
You fix them like a bracelet. Fix them.
Fix everything. No-one ever needs to know.
© Seni Seneviratne
Tapestry Poem 4
She takes diazepam to numb the shape
of those lip-read messages she collides
with in the attic where the coronation tin
is full of Uncle Harry's medals.
She could spit on them or make up any story
amongst the bric-a-brac. It was easy to pluck
one red leaf and squeeze it between the pages
of old books until it resembled parchment.
And no matter what she did, no-one else
did their best. He may have died a hero
but his bones are quieter than she needs.
It was never her nerves and it could have
been otherwise if only someone had netted
the butterflies and let them speak.
© Seni Seneviratne
Philomela: Leaving the Forest (Scene7)
I thought I was silenced forever, but
nature brings its small mercies and
I have conjured the means of survival
inside this endless present. New wings
can grow from the smallest beginnings
of courage. This kinship has brought me
a new kind of listening. It breeds hope
not vengeance. I mark her out now
as my witness. My enemies will be called
to account. I will return the gaze. I will
have my wild justice. This lady of the forest
is awake and my wings mean to fly.
© Seni Seneviratne
Photos: S Harris
Feedback on live performance:
"Beautifully remarkable. Remarkably beautiful. A poignant mixture of sensuous experiences: intriguing, emotional and inspirational. You took me on a journey to a special place – one that is freeing and evocative; thoughtful and spiritual. Beauty in essence and form. Props were masterful and sound resonant of all levels of feelings. Poised movements and intoned words shed light on our own personal stories and our troubled world."
"It is a joy – and very healing to watch something when you can feel that every detail has been thought about and polished to shine the deep meanings without laboring them."
"Yes, it's all locked in my mind with fleeting, haunting imagery and the rich tapestry of music, voice and text. I was struck by Tiresias' blighted visionary sight and Philomela's searching and penetrating look as the means by which they work together to enable Philomela's flight to freedom."
"Beautifully performed and executed. Lovely set and words to remember."
"Very powerful and evocative – a fully engaging, thought provoking piece. Fabulous."
"Last night on my way home with my hand on my heart looking forward to thinking about this work for days to come. Thank you."
….Yet if the gods
Are watching, if heaven's power means anything,
Unless my ruins shared by all the world,
You'll pay my score one day. I'll shed my shame
And shout what you have done. If I've the chance,
I'll walk among the crowds: or if I'm held
Locked in the woods, my voice shall fill the woods
And move the rocks to pity…
(From Ovid's Metamorphosis, Book VI )
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The day after the surgery, all was well until the vet suddenly called. Uh-oh. We knew it wasn't good news. But luckily, it wasn't tooo bad. It was just that the vet told us that Angel was refusing all the different kinds of food when they tried to tempt her & so the vet told us to bring Angel her fav food.
We brought banana, treats & her dinner. Well, she would only have a few sticks of her treat. She was so happy to see us. By then, she was already wide awake. The vet said that Angel was a different dog. All the dogs there would eat their food but only Angel wouldn't. The vet also said that Angel would not give them kisses when they opened her cage. She was worried about Angel being nt active and told us she would like Angel to stay in the hospital till Sunday instead. However, she changed her mind when she saw Angel with us. Hahha . She was wriggling like a worm :D
Remember I once told you guys about the way Angel loves sticking out her tongue ?
yep, the vet asked us if Angel always stick out her tongue like that. They even tried to push her tongue back in but it would just roll out again. ^^
She is home last night with her E collar and she doesn't seem to mind it being put on. When I bring her E collar towards her to put it on for her, she would come towards me and let me put it on. O.o weird.
There she is with her E collar :)


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Year 12 Geography Field Trip to Morcambe
The year 12 Geographers met up with Hornby and Cottingham students and went to Morecambe to study the coastal defences and the effect they have. Along with assessing value of coastal properties and flood risk they got hands on with equipment to measure the beach profile. The sun shone and overall a very successful day.


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September 13, 1989, Section C, Page 14Buy Reprints
FOR the last six years the plum torte column, written in response to repeated demands for the recipe, has heralded the end of summer.
It is beyond understanding why fans of the recipe do not just save it from year to year, instead of depending on its appearance in this column. Yet, one of this year's requests read, ''Isn't it about time for the plum torte recipe?'' How can readers be certain it will be repeated? One anxious plum torte baker called and said, ''Are you going to print the plum torte recipe?''
When I told her there was some resistance to publishing it a sixth time, she said: ''I can get the 12 people in my office to write in and request it.''
To appease those who have said, ''Enough already!'' I have done some tinkering with the original recipe, reducing the amount of sugar slightly and creating a version that will be good later in the fall and most of the winter, when the plums have disappeared.
The fall-winter version calls for apples and fresh cranberries, and those who have tried it have found it as good as the versions with purple plums or blueberries.
I have been told that other varieties of plums work equally well and that the torte is also superb with peaches. If you use a juicy fruit like peaches, you may want to sprinkle a bit of flour over the fruit before putting the rest of the topping on. This is a very moist torte, different from other tortes and kuchens. The fruit adds moisture, which, because there is so little batter, permeates the torte.
Those who clipped the recipe from the paper last summer, when there was an error in the ingredients, should discard it, laminate this one and, instead of filing it with your other recipes, tack it on the inside of the cupboard where you keep the flour. This could really be the last year the recipe is reprinted. Really!
Hoping to forestall the occasional question by bakers who wonder if something was done incorrectly because the plums sank to the bottom, the answer is: the plums are supposed to sink to the bottom.
If you want to make more than one torte, putting several away for cold, snowy days, and you have only one spring form, there are several alternatives: line the spring form with heavy-duty aluminum foil so the torte can be lifted out when it has cooled; use other baking pans, like an eight-inch-square brownie pan, or if you double the recipe, a pan 10 inches by 15 inches. Line them with aluminum foil so the torte can be removed when it has cooled.
To freeze, double wrap the tortes in foil, place in a plastic bag and seal. Plum Torte (Or Apple-Cranberry Torte) 1/2 cup unsalted butter 3/4 cup sugar 1 cup unbleached flour, sifted 1 teaspoon baking powder Pinch salt (optional) 2 eggs 24 halves pitted purple plums Sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon for topping.
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Cream the sugar and butter in a bowl. Add the flour, baking powder, salt and eggs, and beat well.
3. Spoon the batter into a spring form of eight, nine or 10 inches. Place the plum halves, skin side up on top of the batter. Sprinkle lightly with sugar and lemon joice, depending on the sweetness of the fruit. Sprinkle with about 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, depending on how much you like cinnamon.
4. Bake one hour. Remove and cool; refrigerate or freeze if desired. Or cool to lukewarm and serve plain or with whipped cream.
5. To serve a torte that was frozen, defrost and reheat it briefly at 300 degrees.
Yield: 8 servings.
VARIATION: To make an apple-cranberry torte, follow directions for plum torte but peel, seed, quarter and slice two or three large baking apples. Arrange 1/2 cup of raw cranberries over the batter and top with the apple slices. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon; squeeze 1/2 to 1 tablespoon of lemon juice over the apples. Sprinkle with sugar.