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Garda plan to stop Project X
Last week the Dundalk Democrat revealed how the town could see a repeat of events that took place at 'Project X Cavan', but we can now reveal that a significant number of youths attempted to hold the event recently.
Over thirty youths gathered at the Dundalk Rugby Club on the Mill Road last week with a view to holding the "mayhem party", but now officials at the club fear that over four-hundred people may arrive at the site this Friday for the "12 hour party".
Tommy Campbell at the Rugby Club told the Democrat "About thirty youths arrived here last week, most of them had bags on their backs so we presume it was alcohol. The Gardai were notified and they came and cleared them. We are totally against this and we are not supporting this. It would be mayhem. Some people at the club have commented on Facebook saying that the event will not talk place and it will not.
"We've notified the Gardai and there will be a plan in place, the law will be enforced and anybody hanging around will be moved on. There will be no function on this Friday, so there will be no electricity. We don't want any confrontation and we don't want to cause any disturbance in the area, there is houses and families all around the area."
A spokesperson from the Dundalk Gardai told the Democrat "We are aware of this and we have liaised with the club. The club have indicated that they are totally against this and we will deal with the matter if it arises and we would encourage anybody who see's anything like this going on to contact us immediately".


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After a long flight (and an even longer time between posts, sorry 'bout that), Jebediah has finally arrived at Duna. Now it's finally time for the landing.
In this episode I do something that I don't think I've done before or since and that is to use the quicksave feature. While it worked out in the end I can't help feeling like it was a bit of a cheat and so I don't think I'll be using quicksavce again. Either the mission fails or it succeeds, there are no "do overs"
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Ever since its launch in 1990, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been expanding our cosmic horizons. Hubble has revealed with incredible clarity the beauty, wonder, and complexity of the universe.
On February 1, 2017, the stunning new exhibition "Our Place in Space" will open in Venice, Italy, presenting not only a breathtaking pictorial journey through our solar system and to the edges of the known universe, but also Hubble-inspired works by selected Italian artists.
The new traveling exhibition will be on display through April 17, 2017, in the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, on the banks of the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. By seamlessly integrating perspectives from both artists and astronomers, the exhibition will inspire visitors to think deeply about how humanity fits into the grand scheme of the universe.
The exhibition taps into the fervent imaginations of prominent Italian artists, who have produced pieces inspired by Hubble's observations. A combination of images and artworks enable visitors to experience the different perspectives of astronomers and artists as they grapple with Hubble's evocative images. The fusion of science and art provides a unique symbiosis of our view of the cosmos.
After being on display in Venice, the exhibition will be shown in Chiavenna, Italy, from May 5 to August 31, 2017. It will be hosted at the Palazzo Vertemate and other nearby places. Afterwards, it will be put on display in Garching, Germany, in the ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Center. Further stops in other European countries, the USA, and even Australia are planned.


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Happy Birthday to Pyramid Roofing's James Jernigan
Happy Birthday to Pyramid's first ever Social Media Manager, James Jernigan.
Not afraid to dive right in and learn as he goes, James is leading us into the new world of Social Media. On top of all he does with Social Media, James is also our Customer Care Representative for Pyramid's Newport News,VA branch office. He schedules appointments, relays important job information to the field technicians, handles banking duties, A/R, company ledger and various other tasks around a busy office. James truly does sit in the cockpit and steers the ship from the seat that can sometimes get a bit warm at times! A quick thinker and a calm demeanor, James is just the man for this all important position.
James was born at Ft. Eustis and spent several years living in Germany. He is a graduate of Menchville High School. He is an avid listener of ESPN radio and a genuine sports enthusiast. As a loyal Tar Heel fan he truly bleeds Carolina Blue! James resides in York County and is the proud dad of a teenage daugher and two young sons.
We are super grateful to have such a valuable employee on the Pyramid Team. Happy Birthday James, enjoy your day!


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Should Designers Know How to Code?
September 14, 2011
By Tad Fry
I've seen this topic creep up a lot on Twitter and design forums, and I wanted to formally take a stand on this issue. Yes, I found a dead horse, and I'm about to beat the crap out of it; you have been warned.
The question, "Should designers know how to code?", is the wrong one to ask. Rather, I feel we should be asking, "Why shouldn't designers want to know how to code?" If you're a designer, and your work is going to be on the web, then why would you not want to know how to make your work better?
Your goal as a designer should be to help people. The purpose of design is to assign meaning to objects so people can understand them. So, if we're blessed with a language (HTML) that assigns meaning to our objects, then why do you not want to know that language?
Great job making that awesome website. It looks fantastic! But have you considered that not everyone can see it? Will a screen reader be able to read your work? How portable is your design if it's not properly coded for importing into other services like Instapaper or other readers? Your website isn't the only place where your content can live. But if you don't learn how to code, then your content is dead… and its sole resting place is the cemetery that you call your website.
If you haven't figured it out by now… my answer is yes. Designers, especially those whose work is going online, need to know how to code. Knowing how to write semantic HTML is another tool you can exploit to make more effective work.
A common rebuttal is that you work in a team where you design, and you have a developer who writes the appropriate code. You should still have an understanding of how your design is going to be coded. Sit alongside your developer and ask them what you could do with your design to make it more code-friendly. It will improve your work, and be a tremendous benefit to who you design for in the first place, your users.
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More schools could fail inspections this year because of changes to the system, head teachers are warning.
Tougher standards on teaching brought in last September mean more schools in England have been classed as failing, say the Secondary Heads Association.
The organisation's president, Anne Welsh, said her own school in Newcastle, which was inspected 18 months ago might have failed under the new regime despite the improvements which had been made there.
"It's clear that more schools are failing, and that can't be good," she said at SHA's annual conference in Harrogate.
"We know that the standard expected has been raised and consequently more schools have been classed as failing.
"And that's in spite of all the other evidence that schools are improving.
"I may well have been one of the heads asked to leave my school if I had been Ofsteded a year later."
Deliberate or not?
In the past, schools where 20% of lessons were unsatisfactory, were classed as failing.
Under new rules brought in September, schools can be classed as failing if 10% of teaching is said to be unsatisfactory.
"Last month Ofsted released figures showing there hads been a big jump in the number of struggling schools.
In the autumn term, 90 were told they needed "special measures", compared with 54 in autumn 2002. "
Delegates at the conference asked Schools minister David Miliband about the issue.
Jane Mann, a teacher from The King Edward School in Northumberland said: "Is it a deliberate policy or a by-product of a badly thought-out framework?"
Mr Miliband adopted a wait-and-see attitude.
"David Bell (England's chief inspector of schools) was clear that the national average of satisfactory lessons is 5%."
General Secretary of SHA John Dunford told delegates: "The bar has been raised when we weren't looking."
The organisation is pleased with the proposals for what are becoming known as "lighter-touch" inspections, with more emphasis on schools' own evaluations of how they are doing but wants to see the abolition of some terms used to describe struggling schools.
Labels such as "serious weakness" and "special measures" should be dropped and terms such as "schools causing concern" or "subject to re-visit" should be used instead, he said.
It also says the use of the benchmark of five good GCSEs as a performance indicator should be dropped because the exams will become less relevant in the forthcoming shake-up of education for 14 to 19 year olds.
The organisation is pressing for what it calls "intelligent accountability", where schools are given more control over their targets in a less bureaucratic system.
It says there has been a "substantial move in government thinking in the direction of intelligent accountability", and that the government has adopted many suggestions put forward by its members in the past decade.
General Secretary John Dunford said: "School leaders want to raise standards in a climate that encourages innovation, decentralisation and autonomy.
"They accept the need for accountability, but it must be a much slimmer system than we have now."


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"Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings…"
—-John Magee
I now own a Piper Cherokee PA28-150, a four-seat single engine airplane, built in 1967, which I acquired in 1998, after a rather interesting flying incident occurred , the details of which I shall account at a later time. For now, let me try to convey my feeling for flying to you.
When I was young boy, my father would sometimes take me to Bethany airport to watch the airplanes take-off and land on the grass field. I think the old white hangar still survives at the top of the hill on the New Haven road. The field is long gone, replaced by suburbia. In the 1930's the thought of becoming a pilot made up the dreams of many a lad. But, nobody my father knew was connected to flying, so I watched from afar. And time passed.
As a student at Naval Air Station, Millington, Tennessee, in Aviation Electronic School in 1953, one of our assignments was to fly in the back of a ten-passenger Beech Aircraft looking through a radar scope and taking turns telling the pilot to fly one mile off the east bank of the Mississippi River. When not looking at the scope, I was looking out the window admiring the scenery as we navigated up the river to Hannibal, Missouri, of Mark Twain fame, and then keeping the airplane one mile off the west bank on the way back. I enjoyed it so much that I would often bum rides when not in school just to experience the joy of flight! I was hooked but my time was not yet.
Too many events and things had to transpire before I was able to fly an airplane by myself. There was school to finish, a marriage, a child and a divorce before I was able to fulfill my dream. Finally, at age fifty-four, I soloed an airplane-a Cessna 152- at Joe Tringali's flight school in Oxford, Connecticut on December 14th, 1986. My instructor and I had completed a couple of touch and goes( a maneuver where you land the airplane and immediately take off again, remaining in the pattern). After the second one, he told me to taxi the plane to the ramp. Amazingly, he got out of the plane and said," Give me three good touch and goes." This was it! I was pilot in command and alone in the cockpit. Taxiing carefully out to the runway, I went through all the procedures we had been practicing, did the run-up, checked the sky for traffic and proceeded to the runway, adrenalin charging through my veins. Taking a deep breath, I pushed the throttle in, heard the engine roar, checked the instruments again and within a thousand feet the airplane left the ground and I had 'slipped the surly bonds of earth'. Take-offs are easy. Landings, a bit more exciting. Each landing is different from any other because conditions are never exactly the same because of wind and other factors, but I followed the rules and 'greased' the landing. I had flown an airplane by myself! The next two maneuvers were just as good and I was on my way to becoming a pilot. About six months later, after much more practice, I became a licensed pilot and started looking for my first plane.
I began looking through trade publications and asking at the flight school but then, I came across an advertisement with a telephone number one digit different from mine. I called and after remarking about the coincidence of phone numbers, shortly thereafter, Vinnie found me an airplane-a PA28-160, Piper Cherokee. He also became a friend who flew with me for many years. I put about 160 hours on that plane the first year flying from Oxford to Florida, to Pennsylvania, Vermont and breakfasts all over the New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts area. Vinnie became a full-time aircraft dealer and we went to small and large airports looking at different airplanes to buy. I was in heaven.
Of course, as with most boys, their toys have got to be bigger and faster, so I sold the 160 and bought a 180-a bigger ,faster, more expensive Cherokee. My daughter was living in Vermont, so I could cut the travel time to one and half hours from five by car to visit her. I also was using the airplane to get my Instrument certification-i.e flying through any kind of weather.(However, I never did complete that training; probably waking up to the fact that flying was supposed to be for pleasure. The training served me well in other times when conditions changed quickly and I was forced to use the instruments to get me out of trouble).
I remember one time leaving Johnnycake Airport in Harwinton and describing the flight thusly in my journal:
"The sky was crystal blue. Fair weather clouds to the west and high cirrus above blocked out the sun fleetingly. Sun shadows on the ground delineated the hills and valleys. The autumn colors shone brilliantly in the late afternoon sun. The perspective from the sky sharpened the trees outlining the ridges. The horizon stretched at least fifty miles.
Flying back toward the west I watched the sun sink to the horizon among a myriad of oranges and reds. When I turned south, there on my left was a full moon rising over the eastern hills. Where else can you see such sights except from the cockpit of an airplane? "
RJG Journal 1990
The next aircraft, a Mooney, cruised at about 160 MPH, much faster than the Cherokees which flew about 115 and 130 MPH. I was able to go to my brother's house in York, Pennsylvania, in about an hour and fifteen minutes instead of the six hours by car. Florida was about two hours closer also. The Mooney was a complex airplane, which meant that the gear retracted and the propellor could be changed in flight, much as changing gears in a car. Even though that airplane went fast, cancer caught up with me and so I thought it prudent to sell the Mooney, not needing any more excitement at that time.
After recuperating from the operation, I went searching for another plane. Vin found one in Rhode Island. An older gentleman had a Cessna 172 for sale. The price was right and a quick inspection sealed the deal. But so many negative incidents with the old man came up between the sale and my picking up the airplane that I was not feeling too great about the purchase and almost backed out of the deal. But the purchase was finally completed. However, the Cessna is a high-wing airplane and I had always had low-wing craft. I knew almost immediately that this airplane was not for me. When the old man called me a couple of months later and asked if I wanted to sell the airplane back to him, I reluctantly agreed to do so-in about two seconds!
I had retired from teaching by this time and Vin and I had become semi- partners and we found another 180 in Phoenix. We had a friend look the airplane over and the price being right, we bought the airplane. The owner would bring the airplane to St. Louis and I would go out and bring it back to Oxford. Another adventure-flying half way across the country in an airplane I had no experience with. I jumped at the chance. I flew TWA to St. Louis and took a cab from there to Spirit of St. Louis Airport where my airplane was located. The weather did not cooperate for the next two days and I stayed at a motel a few miles from the airport. Finally, I called weather and they said if I could get about thirty miles to the east, I would have clear skies to Connecticut. I got into the airplane and took off. The ceiling was supposed to be 1500 feet. As I was climbing through 1000 feet, I looked down to check the chart. When I looked up again, I was in the clouds at 1100 feet. Then it started to rain. Since the outside temperature that December day was about thirty degrees, I did 180 degree turn and flew back to Spirit of St. Louis Airport, tied the airplane down, went back to TWA and flew home on one of their airplanes. We hired some airline pilots who do this for fun and profit to pick the airplane up and bring it back to Oxford a couple of days later. Our profit margin on the deal was getting slimmer. But since the airplane liked to fly, I thought it best to fly it as often as possible while trying to sell it. So the plane got a chance to see Florida and South Carolina and Maine until some fellow in Montana finally bought it. I flew it out to Cleveland where our pilot friends flew it the rest of the way. I think we broke even on that deal. But I had great fun and many new experiences.
At Oxford, we had a great bunch of fliers. Usually, on a weekend, we would have ten or twelve airplanes flying someplace for breakfast or lunch. We also had a group who would fly to Sun'n'Fun in Lakeland, Florida, for the airshow every spring. It was at one of these shows that I became interested in my next airplane- a home-built Varieze. One of the group had one and wanted to sell it. It looked just like a Star-ship that you might have seen in the movie, Starwars. I decided to buy it from him. And I got a chance to learn a great deal more about airplanes, especially this one, in the next few months. Most of the time was learning to start it but when we finally figured it out with some help, I flew it around the area mostly learning how to control it. It was easy but it was fast and had some idiosyncrasies that needed to be dealt with. Finally, after some time the incident I mentioned before took place.
I had just returned from Sun'n'Fun in Lakeland where I had seen all kinds of gadgets to enhance my recently purchased Varieze. Shortly before the trip. I had installed a new carburetor and new mags and harness. This April morning beamed as one of those days meant for flying and since I had not flown the airplane in two weeks. I was anxious to try it out. At this time I had about 30 hours in the plane. The preflight was routine except for one difference. During the fuel check, I added TCP to alleviate lead fouling in the plugs. In the Varieze, the sight gages for the fuel are in the bulkhead in the rear passenger seat and are very difficult to see in flight especially when wearing a headset and glasses as I do. Therefore I always checked the gages and also the tanks very carefully before flight. The gas caps are secured with Dzus Fasteners which must be opened by a dime or screw driver which I used. Today I had approximately 16 gallons in the mains and about 4 gallons in the header tank-more than enough for the hour or so I had intended to fly. Since I could not see the gages, I relied on the big timer I had fastened to the panel.
The Varieze must be hand-propped to start. (One item I had purchased at Sun'n'Fun was a lightweight starter.) The engine kicked over on the third blade and I hopped in the cockpit and started down the taxiway. The run-up was strong and all systems seemed go. I taxied to the 36 runway (north-facing) at Oxford. Ct. and took off in less than 2000 feet and the airplane climbed beautifully. Since l had not flown in two weeks. I decided to make a landing so I stayed in the pattern. All the controls responded well and the landing was a greaser. I used the runout to test the brakes and they allowed a turn-off at the first taxiway. I went back to the runway and took off again in a general northeast direction. One of my friends told me later that when I passed over his house, he recognized the distinctive shape of the aircraft and mentioned to his wife how strong the engine sounded.
I proceeded to do some air work toward the northeast. Another friend was following me in his Glassair and we remarked how well each other looked. Then he took off to the east and I continued wending my way northeast doing climbing turns and using different settings on my tachometer to get a better feeling for the aircraft. My first hint of any problem was a slight cough in a descent. I was not concerned but I decided to get some altitude, just in case.
I climbed to about 8500 feet. The engine sounded good so I figured I would return to Oxford to see if there might be a problem that I could solve when I got back. I had been flying for about four minutes since that slight cough with no indication of trouble when I suddenly heard the sound every piston pilot dreads-the sound of silence! A sweep of the instruments and the clock gave no clue as to what was wrong, but now I was flying a glider. With no starter, the restart procedure is to dive to 150 MPH and I switched tanks and did so but quickly realized that altitude was my best ally, so I leveled out some seven or eight hundred feet lower and started looking for a suitable landing spot. I knew I was near Mountain Meadow, a small airport northeast of Oxford. but it must have been just behind me and I could not see it. Ahead, however, was Oxford almost beckoning me to come home. At this point, I trimmed the plane to 60 knots and started concentrating on Oxford rationalizing that I could always land on the interstate if I had to do so.
The airplane handled beautifully. Oxford was right on my nose about eight to ten miles ahead. The descent was about 500 feet a minute. The canard configuration allowed me to keep the plane steady without fear of stalling. Everything looked great. About three miles out, I made the announcement over Unicom radio that I was an experimental airplane with an engine out trying for 18 at Oxford. Another pilot answered and said he would monitor my frequency. He then informed me that 36 was the active. I acknowledged but said I was going for 18.
Less than a mile from the runway I realized that I was not going to make it without the possibility of hitting some houses that would be in my path. I opted for the trees northwest of the runway thinking they would be softer. I remember thinking that if I had not dived, l would probably have had enough altitude to make the runway. My last transmission was that I could not make the field and that I was diverting to the trees, I aimed for what I thought was the smallest bush(later I found out that it was the top of a forty-foot tree). The nose gear caught the branch at an indicated airspeed of 40 knots. The rest of the descent to the ground is not too clear but it looks like I hit another tree which flipped the plane and it slowly ended upside down against a small stand of black birches which probably cushioned the impact. During the fall I tried to open the canopy and managed to do so partially but I was hanging from the harness with my head pinned down on the canopy when I stopped about six inches off the ground, I was able to reach the master electrical switch as I heard the last transmission from the monitoring pilot asking if I was still able to hear him. Not knowing the status of the fuel, I turned off the master switch without answering and spent the next twenty three hours trapped in the plane.
I definitely did not expect that it would take that much time to find me. What I did not realize at the time was that no one was looking for me! It was not until the next morning that my friends started to organize a search and the first person to take off looking for me found me and I was rescued shortly thereafter. Luckily, I was not injured because, during the crash, the harness kept me in the seat preventing any movement. The fiberglass cockpit held together well but I became dehydrated and had to spend some time in the hospital on fluids.
The probable cause of the accident may have been the right gas cap not being tightened which allowed four hours of fuel to siphon out in forty-two minutes. (One of the first rules you are taught as a student is to be especially alert if you vary the pre-flight routine, I had added the TCP.)
Had I told someone where I was going, or, at the least, when I expected to be back; had I carried my hand-held radio or even a cell phone, it would have gotten me out in minutes rather than hours.
Lastly, I will carry a working ELT(Emergency Locator Transmitter). I was lucky. But you can bet that I will not rely on that the next time I fly. Preparation and attention to details are much more reliable and I intend to make sure that my pre-flights are uninterrupted and unchanged from now on.
So much for the fun of flying lt."
(June 6.1998)RJG Journal
|Just a Quarter Mile Short
My present airplane will be my last. I purchased it after some considerable discussions with the Federal Aviation Agency concerning paper work and other consternation. I have had this plane since September, 1998. My friend, Frank Rinaldi, who is now 90, and I and John Pendergast, flew across the country from Oxford to Florida to Corona, California, and back to Oxford in 1999. John was in his Cessna 152, and Frank and I in my airplane. That was a trip which I shall save for another time. Suffice it to say - that was a Great adventure.
I shall close this episode with an observation Frank and I made on one of those clear you-can-see-forever days. We were commenting on the fact of how lucky we were; to be able to fly like an eagle wherever and whenever we wanted in America. We wondered what our parents would think if they could see us now. And then we realized how fortunate we really were. How many people in the history of the world had ever flown an airplane? How many had ever caught their boyhood dreams?
Bob Grady
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Fashion photographer Per Zennstrom uses a glitch generator to digitally distort and "destroy" his images in an experimental and colorful beauty project with hair designed by Carina Finnström and make-up by Fredrik Stambro. When the photographer came across a Glitch Generator, created by Georg Fisher, he immediately knew that he had to try it out on a series of images that had been laying around for a while: 'I really liked the wild and crazy abandon of these images but something was missing – and I couldn't really put my finger on it. These images were pretty and maybe that was the problem. I felt I needed to "destroy" them a bit and that's when I happened to come across this Glitch Generator.
The glitchy distortions (along with some Photoshop work) echo the extravagant hair by Carina Finnström and make-up by Fredrik Stambro. The two beauty artists worked with patterns and materials that took their inspiration from the animal kingdom.


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Refinancing: What's involved?
Interest rates are tumbling, the mortgage market is tight and lenders are hungry for your business. All this adds up to great opportunities to get a better deal by refinancing your home loan. So let's take a look at what's involved.
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John Symond offers some tips for anyone looking to get into the property investment market for the first time.


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In The Spectator Australia's 18 February edition, Mark Latham observed that 'in the modern Labor party, no one serves revenge cold. It is consumed… straight off the hot plate.' Recent events confirm Latham's insight. It was, of course, the foundational theorist of modern statecraft, Niccolò Machiavelli, who first considered that, in politics, revenge was a dish best taken cold. His advice on the politics of leadership, The Prince (1513), subsequently influenced statesmen and political advisers from Francis Bacon to former Clinton spin doctor Dick Morris, whose The New Prince (1999) updated Machiavelli for the modern age of political presentation.
In the context of the present Labor government's decision to press the self-destruct button, it is perhaps salutary to consider how Machiavelli might have advised the Labor leadership in order to avoid its current plight.
First, Machiavelli would have observed that a new Prince, or Princess in Julia's case, had, on assuming office, to secure the political foundations and remove those who might do injury: 'Foundations must be laid well, otherwise it follows of necessity [s]he will go to ruin'. In particular, political necessity demands the elimination of previous leaders. Ideally, following the policy of Cesare Borgia, the hero of The Prince, competitors would be invited to stay at the Lodge, shown to their rooms, and there quietly strangled.
This was probably not an option for Julia, but in Rudd's case Machiavelli would have advised political exclusion rather than appointment to the post of Minister at the Department of Foreign Affairs: 'He who believes that new benefits will cause great personages to forget old injuries is deceived.' Committing this error led to Borgia's 'ultimate ruin' and, it would seem, Julia's too. Moreover, if a prince employs one who thinks 'more of his own interests than of yours and seeking inwardly his own profit rather than yours, such a man will never make a good minister, nor will you ever be able to trust him'.
Given the obscure circumstances under which Gillard attained office, it would also have been wise, in Machiavelli's opinion, to get all your aggression in early, while the people and those around you were still impressed by your rise to power. Politicians who experience 'little trouble in rising have much in keeping atop', Machiavelli observed. The 'usurper', therefore, 'ought to examine closely into all those injuries which it is necessary for him to inflict and to do them all at one stroke so as not to have to repeat them daily'. This Julia failed to do. She preferred to be loved rather than feared. But 'love is preserved by the link of obligation which owing to the baseness of men is broken at every opportunity for their advantage'. It is fear among your followers that induces respect and authority, as 'fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails'. Most of your party, Machiavelli would contend, are 'ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous and, so long as you are successful, are yours utterly'. But they have 'less scruple in offending when they don't fear you'.
Most tellingly, the Gillard government failed to act prudently. Certainly Julia and her closest advisers would accept Machiavelli's view that it is politically expedient not to 'keep faith when such observance may be turned against you and when the reasons that cause you to pledge it exist no longer. If men were entirely good this precept would not hold, but because they are bad and will not keep faith with you, you too are not bound to observe it with them'. Gillard would also recognise that a new leader, especially one whose 'authority is uncertain' cannot observe 'all those things for which men are esteemed, being often forced, in order to maintain the state, to act contrary to fidelity, friendship, humanity and religion'. Where Gillard failed, however, was in not knowing how to 'disguise this characteristic and be a great dissembler and pretender'. 'Everyone should see what you appear to be' but few should 'really know what you are'. The masses 'are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it'.
Ultimately, one is judged 'by the result'. The prudent ruler's judgments, therefore, 'should be irrevocable and should maintain … such a reputation that no one can hope either to deceive him or get round him … he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against'. Conspiracies, like those that have undermined both Rudd and Gillard, occur only when the leader is despised or hated, 'for the difficulties that confront a conspirator are infinite'.
Conspiracies arise then in extremis when a leader is floundering. This is a consequence both of irresolution (who is the real Julia?) and a failure to adapt policies to the times. 'Irresolute leaders, to avoid present dangers, generally follow a neutral path and are generally ruined,' while 'he whose actions do not accord with the times will not be successful.' Prudent government, then, 'consists in knowing how to distinguish the character of troubles and for choice to take the lesser evil'. In this context, Labor's tin-eared pursuit of resources and carbon taxes in a global economic downturn was both irresolute and ignored the spirit of the times, with devastating
political consequences.
Finally, Machiavelli would have noted that Julia failed to confront potential threats when the times were propitious. A wise ruler foresees future difficulties and plans for them. If she who leads cannot 'recognise evils' until they are upon her, she 'is truly not wise'. In the mutable realm of politics, contingencies must be anticipated. 'All prudent princes' ought to prepare not only for present troubles, 'but also future ones, for which they must prepare with every energy, because when foreseen it is easy to remedy them; but if you wait until they approach, the medicine is no longer in time because the malady has become incurable'. Thus to postpone a confrontation in the hope that it will go away is always a mistake. For time brings 'with it good as well as evil, and evil as well as good'. In Julia's case it brought a revived Rudd, who has dissembled himself brilliantly as the true leader betrayed by faceless men.
Unfortunately, without the backing of his party, he would appear to Machiavelli like the prophet unarmed, Savanarola, who although briefly popular in quattrocento Florence, ended up being burned at the stake. Rudd's prospective political immolation, Machiavelli might observe, would merely be a foretaste of his party's ultimate fate.
David Martin Jones is associate professor of political science at the University of Queensland in Brisbane.
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While I'm not a fan of this, I do hope that this means I get more coupons on things I like eating, like yogurt and vegan foods.
Convenience foods are nice when you're lazy/busy, even though they aren't nearly as good as full-on cooking. With my dairy issues, I have long gone without them until realizing that Whole Foods sells them significantly cheaper than other mainstream markets.
The first exhibit is this vegan mushroom soup. It is creamy and would probably be GREAT with potatoes and other veggies. I expect to use this as a casserole or soup base at some point. These retail for about $2.39 a box, which serves 2:
Amy's is a brand I've reviewed before, and here they are again:
Above: I didn't like this tamale pie at all. With only 150 calories, though, it is pretty filling and supplies protein. I just didn't think it tasted like tamale at all. Yes, I write my name on everything I store in my work freezer to prevent theft. Ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do. ;)
Above: I've had this before and thought it was the closest thing to those calorie-bomb meat versions of these. This thing has under 400 calories, perfect for a lunch. Unfortunately, it is supposed to be cooked in an oven, and here I went microwaving it. The shell obviously didn't like me too much for that.
Above: Finally, a brand I've never seen before. Anything that's pesto and vegan catches my attention. While this was creamy, it was too herby for my taste. It is just a bit over 300 calories and chock full of protein and priced reasonably (I think around $4).
Obviously, these things aren't cheap, but better than going out! Yes, I had a long busy period at work last year and accumulated these meals for your viewing pleasure. Many of these lunches were consumed after 2 PM. *blah*
In my case, I actually plan on avoiding these for a while and going for home-cooked or whole food instead. I definitely did not cook much toward the end of 2010 and hope to end that trend now.


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My dear, it is important to understand that sin is a very serious thing. It should never be easy to go to confession as such. Since you already have that "sense" to realize how hard it is to confess, may it also spur you on to avoid sin when occasion presents itself.
Confession demands among three other things (i.e. Repentance, FULL confession, without hiding anything, and restitution, i.e. making up for what you have spoilt with the sinful act) Courage and filial trust in God's forgiveness. Let the parable of the Prodigal Son always remind you of this, you may read it every time before preparing for confession, it might help you.
The Courage with which we approach confession, coupled with the remorse arising from sincere repentance go on to meet the forgiveness of God which is given us through the ministry of the Priest; we receive this Sacrament beautifully and are blessed; our fingers are again bedecked with precious rings, our bodies covered with the Robe of Holiness and our feet with sandals of service.
Once more we are readmitted into the People of God; the Church. We are welcomed once again into the fold; the chosen fold marked with the Seal of the Spirit of Christ, and destined to co-reign with Him for all eternity.
We indeed should not be afraid to tell our sins to the Priest of God, we should be confident that through this millennia-old tradition (which even the Jews practiced) God heals our Souls. So why should we fear?
He is not there as a judge, but represents the loving mercy of God. He is also there with his own faults to keep him from judging us, he is there to be our brother and helper. So why should we be scared of him?
In the Priest, he is there not as judge, but as our healer. He himself had SWORN to forgive us "even if our sins are red as scarlet, he will make us white as wool". Why then should we be scared of the One whose name is LOVE. Yes, he is a Just God, but he IS MERCY AND LOVE ITSELF to those who repent with a good heart.
As is the case in other sacraments, we should be scared of ourselves and our motives; we should be sure we receive in the right way and in the proper disposition. Some people abuse the sacraments and this is a sacrilege. Some go to confession without first repenting from their sins and consequently removing everything associated with that sin from their lives. We keep these instruments of sin and go to confession. The outcome is an insult to the Mercy of God, and we can be sure of a grave sin. Others get scared in the confessional and hide some of their sins or some details to the sins already confessed.
1. Be truly sorry, examine your conscience
2. Be ready to sincerely, willing and radically change.
3. Talk to your priest as you would in your conscience or as you would pray to God directly; opening your mind before him.
4. Do your penance EXACTLY as instructed.
5. Try very hard not to return to your sins.
1. You are still keeping part of what you "gained" through sin, e.g. stolen/ill-gotten goods/money.
2. When you still boast about your past sins
3. When you still nurture an overt or covert intention to commit another sin.
4. When you lie to the Priest or hide some details from him.
5. When you go for confession JUST TO RECEIVE COMMUNION ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS AND NOTHING MORE.
6. When you do not repent sincerely; repentance which spurs you to good works.
Be sure to go to confession as soon as possible.
Relate to us or your priest any impediment you might be having, if we can help you, we gladly would, but if not, we will tell you whom to meet in order to remove this impediment and begin to commune with Christ again.
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'This Is Our Land': Russia Rejects US Criticism Of Weapons Deployment To Crimea
The following is an excerpt from rt.com | July 29, 2016 |
A senior Russian diplomat has dismissed US criticism over deploying weapons and forces to Crimea, saying the Russian Federation is absolutely free to protect its national security by moving forces anywhere on its territory.
"In reality, Russia has the right to base the movement of military forces and weapons on its territory on its own independent decisions," the head of the Foreign Ministry's Department for Security and Disarmament Mikhail Ulyanov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti on Friday.
Ulyanov added that Russia had always chosen more correct formulas when it made public statements about the structure and placement of US military forces.
"We do not attempt to tell Washington which armed forces and in which numbers they can send to any of their states. The fact that they allow themselves to release such recommendation regarding us can be perceived as not quite politically correct, to say the least," he noted.
Ulyanov also said that Russia had to take into consideration the fact that NATO members from outside the Black Sea region were sending their Navy ships to the Black Sea. This situation does not add up to mutual security and has to be included in the Russian military planning, he noted.
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Why We Love This Hotel
- This Georgian hotel is a former coaching inn on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Hay-on-Wye
- The hotel has two AA Rosettes and serves local and seasonal cuisine; even the crockery is from a local craft store
- You can enjoy scenic walks, discover antique treasures and then head back to the hotel and cwtch up in a corner, with your nose in a good book
The Swan at Hay, part of the Interesting Hotels group, is in Hay-on-Wye, famous for its book shops, cafés, antiques and bric-a-brac shops. It is also home to the Hay Festival of Literature & Arts, which this year celebrates its 30th anniversary.
The property, one of the oldest pubs in Hay, is a former coaching inn, built in 1812. Today it combines modern décor with olde-worlde features, having recently undergone a £2-million refurbishment.
The AA awards the hotel two Rosettes, praising the "innovative menu showcasing the talents of the chef and his team". There is a choice of dining options including the 1812 Restaurant, the Market Bar and the Garden Room.
Previous guests who have bedded down here include poet Seamus Heaney, Hollywood star Kathleen Turner and comedian Johnny Vegas.
Hay Castle, a medieval fortification and 17th-century mansion house, is less than five minutes' walk away. The River Wye, which runs through Hay-on-Wye, is great for canoeing and kayaking.
Offa's Dyke Path, Britain's longest ancient monument, is 10 minutes' walk away and follows the border between England and Wales. The route runs along the ridge of the Black Mountains, passes through Hay and continues towards Kington. There are lots of watering holes and tea rooms along the way.
Crickhowell, a picturesque town nestled in the Usk Valley, is approximately 30 minutes' drive away. Abergavenny, a market town in Monmouthshire, is 40 minutes' drive away. This food mecca has an annual autumn food festival as well as regular food and craft markets.
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Hunter College Communication Disorder Center
Brooklyn College Speech & Hearing Center
Graduate Center Hearing Science Laboratory
Partial List of Services Available:
Basic hearing test
Custom hearing protectors
Hearing aid checks, hearing aid counseling
Testing hearing of children
Counseling regarding communication strategies and hearing assistive technologies
For Hunter College Communication Disorders Center:
N133 (North Building)
425 East 25th Street
Call (212) 481-4464
Or visit Hunter College
For Brooklyn College Speech and Hearing Center:
2900 Bedford Avenue
4400 Boylan Hall
Brooklyn, NY
Call (718) 951-5186
Or Visit Brooklyn College
For Graduate Center:
365 Fifth Avenue
Room 7306
New York, New York
Call (212) 817-7980 and ask to make appointment
Post-Bachelor's Track:
Au.D degree is awarded by the Graduate Center, CUNY. Courses are taught throughout the three campuses including The Graduate Center, Brooklyn College, and Hunter College Brookdale Campus with a larger percent of courses taught at The Graduate Center. Clinical practica during the first two years (Spring of first year through Spring of second year) take place at the Speech and Hearing Centers at the Brooklyn and Hunter College clinics and Hearing Science Laboratory at The Graduate Center. Externship placements provide students with opportunities at world-renowned medical centers and clinical facilities in a diverse multicultural, multiethnic population in the New York Metropolitan area.
Each year we admit a relatively small cohort of student, allowing us to ensure an outstanding faculty-to-student ratio. You will work closely with nationally and internationally renowned faculty in audiology which allows for the development of academic and personal relationships.
Post -Masters Track:
The Au.D. degree for ASHA certified or State-Licensed Audiologists is awarded by the Graduate Center, CUNY. Courses are offered in the evening at each of the three campuses including The Graduate Center, Brooklyn College, and Hunter College Brookdale Campus. The program incorporates comprehensive academic training under a nationally and internationally recognized doctoral faculty.
The specific goal of the Masters to Doctoral program for ASHA certified or State-Licensed Audiologists is to offer advanced clinical doctoral education to enhance their clinical knowledge and skills so that:
They can better meet the audiologic needs of the culturally,
linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse population using evidence-based practice.
They can become active contributors to the clinical science that subserves Audiology and commit to the continuing development of the profession
An Au.D. program is a program that leads to the Au.D. degree, a clinical doctoral degree in the practice of audiology.
The field of audiology has moved from a master's degree to a doctoral degree as an entry-level academic requirement. That is, the preferred degree in audiology, according to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, is the Au.D. degree, which is a clinical audiology doctoral degree. In response to this change, the City University of New York (CUNY) has developed an Au.D. Program that is a joint enterprise among the Graduate Center, Brooklyn College, and Hunter College.
The CUNY Au.D. Program is taught by academic and clinical faculty from the CUNY schools. The clinical facilities are located at Brooklyn College (2900 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn) and Hunter College (425 East 25th Street in Manhattan) and The Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street in Manhattan) campuses.
The CUNY Au.D. program began in September, 2005.
The consortial doctoral (Au.D) education program in audiology at City University of New York Graduate Center, Brooklyn College, and Hunter College is accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2200 Research Boulevard #310, Rockville, Maryland 20850, 800-498-2071 or 301-296-5700.
In June, 2004, the council on Academic Accreditation of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (CAA) announced that it will no longer accredit master's degree programs after December 31, 2006. After that time ,the CAA will accredit only those programs that award doctoral level degrees in Audiology. The CUNY Au.D. Program complies with these CAA accreditation mandates.
Audiologists are health professionals who are involved in the diagnosis and management of auditory and balance systems disorders. Audiologists typically:
In addition, audiologists may:
Assess situations in which hearing and balance may be jeopardized and design intervention to hearing loss
Prepare future professionals to practice in colleges, universities, schools, medical clinics and in private practice
Manage agencies, clinics or private practices
Engage in research to enhance knowledge about normal hearing, and the evaluation and treatment of hearing disorders.
Design hearing instruments and testing equipment
Dispense amplification devices (e.g. hearing aids, alerting devices) which promote improved communication and safety
Work as part of a cochlear implant team to assist individuals with severe to profound hearing loss
Audiologists provide services and work in many different types of facilities:
Acute care hospitals
Colleges and Universities
Music Industry
Community hearing and speech centers
Nursing Homes
Community outpatient clinics
Physicians' offices
Educational settings such as public and private schools
Private practice offices
Health departments
Rehabilitation centers
Hearing-aid companies
Research Laboratories
Industry with hearing conservation programs
Specialized schools
Long-term care and residential facilities
State and federal government agencies
Veteran's Administration
Employment of audiologists is expected to grow 34 percent from 2012 to 2022. Because hearing loss is strongly associated with aging, rapid growth in the population age 55 and older will cause the number of persons with hearing impairment to increase markedly. (Excerpted from: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/audiologists.htm#tab-6).
The curriculum is 97 credits, and can be completed over a four year period. This includes a clinical residency during the 4th year. After graduation, each degree candidate will be able to apply for New York State licensure and national certification. The Au.D. Program is a full-time Program - students cannot take courses in the Program as part-time students.
Examples of completed Capstone Projects include the following:
Reliability and Validity of the Hearing Aid Skills Questionnaire
Acoustic Radiation and Bone-Conduction Testing
The Acoustic Change Complex: An Investigation of Stimulus Presentation Rate in Infants
Prevalence of Auditory Neuropathy/Dys-synchrony in Children with Hearing Loss
Hearing Impairment, Cognitive Status, and Quality of Life in the Elderly: A Systematic Literature Review
The Relationship Between the Magnitude of Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions and Acoustic Reflex Thresholds for Broadband Noise for Older Adults
The purpose of the Capstone Project is to provide students with exposure to the process and value of conducting research. The project may take several forms including research-based investigations in clinical or basic science areas; research on evidence-based practice; survey research of best practices; research on the scholarship of the teaching/learning process; efficacy studies; prospective or retrospective studies; critical literature reviews of topics relevant to clinical practice formatted possibly as a viewpoint article; clinical protocols based on a thorough review of published research relevant to the protocol; grant proposal with pilot data and prepared using the format of the granting agency to which they wish to send the proposal; and psychometric studies of measuring instruments to be used in screening or in outcomes research.
Where are the facilities for the CUNY Au.D. Program?
Because of the unique aspects and diverse faculty of this city-wide program, classroom learning takes place in Brooklyn and Manhattan, depending on the specific course offered each semester. Clinical instruction and services take place at the Brooklyn College Speech and Hearing Center and the Hunter College Center for Communication Disorders and the Graduate Center Hearing Science Laboratory. All sites have sound-treated test suites, and behavioral audiologic test equipment, acoustic immittance measurement equipment, and digital amplification technology (including a real-ear probe tube microphone measurement system). The Brooklyn College Speech and Hearing Center has a hearing-aid dispensary, and Hunter College Center for Communication Disorders and the Graduate Center Hearing Science Laboratory have hearing aid laboratories. The Brooklyn College and Hunter College Centers have auditory evoked potentials and otoacoustic emissions systems. Brooklyn College and Hunter College Centers and The Graduate Center Laboratory have assistive listening devices. Auditory processing disorders testing is done at the Hunter College Center.
Please click here for tuition information.
Please Note: All fees and tuition charges are subject to change by action of the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York without prior notice
The online admissions application is available here.
Information regarding the application deadline for admissions for matriculation into the AuD Program for the Fall semester is available here.
Upcoming Information Session
The CUNY Au.D. Program incorporates a 31-credit-hour sequence consisting of a core sequence of three courses, an elective sequence of eight courses and a capstone research project oriented toward the student's clinical or theoretical interests. Students work in close consultation with members of the doctoral faculty to complete this project. It is our hope that the capstone research experience enhances the clinician's capacity both as a critical thinker and as a consumer of audiologic research.
The Au.D. Program replaces the master's degree programs of Brooklyn College and Hunter College. The last master's degree students graduated from these colleges prior to December, 2006, as mandated by ASHA. The transition from master's degree-level for the practice of clinical Audiology to a clinical doctorate is consistent with the new standards for professional education adopted by the CAA, to take effect January 1, 2012.
The program was approved by the New York State Education Dept. in September, 2006. The CUNY Au.D. Program accepted its first class in Spring, 2007 (the application deadline for Fall admission is February 1).
To enhance the clinical knowledge and skills of practitioners so that:
They can better meet the hearing health-care needs of the culturally, linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse population of individuals with hearing impairment and vestibular disorders
They can become active contributors to the clinical science that subserves Audiology and commit to the continuing development of the profession
They can be more competitive with graduates from traditional Au.D. Programs in the current and future job market.
The 31-credit program is designed to be completed on a part-time basis over a four year period. It can be completed over a shorter time period if the student chooses a full-time schedule.
All CUNY Au.D. students with Masters Degrees who are Professionally Certified or Licensed are required to take:
(Although students must enroll in AuD 78000 for each semester that the capstone research project remains incomplete, the course can be counted only once towards the 31-credit requirement).
Note: AuD 71800: Introduction to Research Methods is a prerequisite for AuD 76500 if this or a comparable course was not taken at the masters level.
For the remaining 24 credits, the student can elect (in cosultation with the faculty adviser), any combination of the following courses:
AuD 72000: Multicultural Issues for Audiologists
AuD 72500: Noise Induced Hearing Loss and Hearing Conservation
AuD 74200: Auditory Evoked Responses
AuD 74800: Amplification II
AuD 75000: Counseling
AuD 76000: Medical Audiology
AuD 76300: Vestibular & Tinnitus Evaluation and Management
AuD 77000: Cochlear Implants & Other Sensory Aids
AuD 77200: Auditory Processing Disorders
AuD 77400: Hearing & Aging
AuD 77600: Seminar in Professional Practices – Business Practice
Students must also complete a Capstone research project.
What are the types of clinical research projects?
In the past, student's Capstone projects have included the following:
Reliability and Validity of the Hearing Aid Skills Questionnaire
John P. Preece, Ph.D., CCC-A Executive Officer, Au.D. Program, Graduate Center, CUNY: firstname.lastname@example.com


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C, A Preacher, A Dress And A Little Bit Of Joy
A dear friend of mine got married this past weekend, and though her wedding wasn't extravagant, it was beautiful, joyous, heartwarming and God-honoring. I rememeber thinking, during the worship part of her ceremony, "I'm home. I'm home." In that moment, in that church, with those people, and pouring my heart out to God, the God that loves me as His bride, and the God that brought my friend the bride her beloved husband, I knew that my heart was home, where it belonged. And all this at a wedding!
I'll be planning my own wedding soon, and I hope, beyond hope, that at least one life is touched this way on the day my fiance and I get to share our love with the friends and family we cherish. I know we may disagree on how much worship is too much worship at a wedding, or how preachy should the preacher get. But at the end of the day, if one life can walk away filled with joy, at seeing love incarnate between two people, who have first known love incarnate through their Savior, then we'll have done our jobs. Well, I'll have done my job, because his is basically just Get Us To The Honeymoon!!
We struggle a little bit, he and I, in how to express our faith during this occasion. I come from the FBC tradition of outright evangelism, and strong public expression. C comes from a more reserved, private tradition, wherein your faith is something you share upon invitation, and with a good helping of respect for the diversity of other's beliefs. I worry about this polarization of our beliefs when it comes to the kind of service we will have. I desire a service in which two or three Protestant hymns are sung, and the unity sand is poured, and a blessing is given under a chuppah. Eclectic, yes, but faith inspired. I think C wouldn't mind the five minute "Do you? Yeah I do." version. I know that all I really need is this man, a preacher and a dress, but I sincerely hope we'll find a way to meet in the middle on all the other little details. No matter what we decide, however, when I think about marrying this man who balances me out so well the thought fills my heart with joy. Joy at the thought of watching him watch me walk down the aisle, giving him heart and life publicly and sealing it all with a kiss.
And joy is the one thing I want this day to be about. Yes, it's a celebration, and yes, it's about love, but joy is the manifestation of that love in our hearts, that makes them flutter, and leap and pop, for the emotional outpouring we feel of celebrating all that darned love. When I picture my wedding, I picture looking out from the dance floor, twirling and being spun around (by a quite reluctant dancing groom), and seeing every face in the house grinning. Not just smiling, but grinning. Smiling is what you do when you know the camera is near. Grinning is the look your face makes when your heart just can't hold it all in anymore, a second cousin to laughing if you will.
When I think about things that I have to figure out, like the venue, the decorations, colors (oh, so many colors to think about), the dinner, the dessert, the dancing, the wine, the favors, the kids, the parents, the EVERYTHING, the only thing I keep coming back to is this: what will bring our guests the most joy? What is going to inspire their hearts to recognize the love that this man and I have for each other, because God first loved us, and share in that love so directly that it makes their faces grin? What is going to bring all involved joy? Oh yes, I want to make C proud. And show off my personal style, and DIY abilities. And I want to make sure everyone has fun, we don't spend too much money and all six parents and multiple grandparents are satisfied. But mostly, I think of the faces of my dear friends, and I want to look around and know that they have felt the same way I felt the other day at my dear friends wedding. Joy - it's what a wedding should be about.
So, as I embark on trying to figure out how to take one quarter of the budget of the average American wedding and turn it into something special, I need to remind myself that joy is something we can all have for free. It's the feeling in your heart when you know you are home. It's the feeling in your heart when you see two people so madly in love that they can only grin at each other stupidly, and you know that you love them so much too that you can have nothing but joy for them. In the end, all I really need is this man, a preacher and a dress. But I really hope our wedding can be so much more than that both for us, and the people around us. I hope it can be an occasion of joy, to be remembered for years. Something that brings other's closer to God, more covered in the shadow of His love, and more filled with the joy that they too are loved by Him, and by us.
In the end, that joy is all I really need. And that's my story, and I'm stickin to it.


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Congratulation to Becky and Graeme who got married at St Pauls church in Stockton before moving on to the beautiful Crathorne Hall in Yarm for their reception.
We had lovely sunshine on the day of the rehearsal and everyone joked that we would love to be able to book that kind of weather for the day too but we actually got a lot better than we could have hoped for and I think I even got myself a suntan!
The staff at Crathorne Hall were absolutely amazing and all the guests were entertained by the brilliant Magician Luke Howells. This was a very fun wedding and its days like this that reminds us why we enjoy this job so much.
All the best for the future Becky and Graeme!
Church Venue – St Pauls, Newtown – https://www.achurchnearyou.com/stockton-on-tees-st-paul/
Crathorne Hall – https://www.handpickedhotels.co.uk/crathornehall
Luke Howels Magician – https://www.facebook.com/lukemagician/?fref=ts


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The NHDES Dam Bureau regulates the repair, reconstruction, maintenance, and operation of existing dams, reviews design plans and issues decisions for the construction, operation, and maintenance of new dams. By reviewing applications for constructing and reconstructing dams in New Hampshire, the Dam Bureau serves a pivotal role in balancing the interests of all parties between preservation/protection of the natural resource and stimulation/sustenance of New Hampshire's vibrant economy.
The Dam Bureau is also responsible for regulating the retention and/or release of stored water to support a variety of uses (e.g., hydropower generation, autumn lake drawdowns to make room for spring runoff, flood flow management and mitigation, fisheries and water quality protection) for both public and private purposes. At times these various uses can be in direct conflict with one another.
The Dam Bureau attempts to ensure that the multiple interests using surface waters for boating, fishing, power generation, wastewater assimilation, aesthetics, irrigation, and water supply do not exhaust the availability of the resource or create an imbalance in favor of one use over the others. In addition to supervising certain water resources, the Dam Bureau oversees the development of hydroelectric power generation at state-owned dams. This helps to expand the New Hampshire's clean renewable energy initiative.
NHDES has created a dam removal process that combines the dam safety program with the wetlands program to identify, evaluate, and (when warranted) remove unwanted or unneeded dams along New Hampshire's rivers and streams.
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Have an iPhone 5 that won't seem to charge past 1% or boot up at all anymore after the battery was completely depleted? It seems that you aren't alone. According to UK repair company mendmyi, who has seen an influx of iPhone 5's with this particular issue, the problem is a prime example of why you shouldn't use cheap cables to charge your iPhone.
While we all hear the warnings about using cheap chargers and USB cables, we all know that not everyone will listen. In this particular case, cheap chargers and cables are damaging the U2 IC chip that sits on the logic board of the iPhone 5. This particular chip controls the charge to the battery, the sleep/wake button, and certain USB functions. A damaged U2 IC chip ends up causing the iPhone 5 to not turn back on once it's depleted. A replacement battery brings the iPhone 5 back to life, but once that battery depleted, you'll be stuck in the same position again.
Owner of mendmyi, Riki Baker, has this to say about what is causing the issue -
Charging your iPhone using a third party charger or USB lead that does not regulate well allows for larger variables in voltage and current, this then damages the U2 IC and can leave you with a seemingly dead iPhone 5. Another common reason for this is charging your iPhone 5 from the cigarette lighter of your car. This does not regulate the voltage as well as the original AC adapter as the power is coming from the alternator. If you need to charge our iPhone or any electrical equipment in your car, we would recommend a good quality inverter with your original charger and USB lead.
If you have an iPhone 5 that seems to be dead or won't charge past 1% and you're using a charger that isn't from Apple or certified by them, this is most likely your problem. mendmyi is currently offering repairs to fix the U2 IC chip but if you aren't within the UK, you can check with other local repair companies or an Apple Store to see what your options are.
Hit the link below to read mendmyi's explanation of the problem as well as detailed photos showing a working U2 IC chip and a damaged one.
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Growing up in Toronto, I've seen all kinds of small movie theaters in my time. Even in Alliston they have one. There is something comforting about the small independent theaters. I guess it just bring back the memories of my… Read More ›
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Well I guess the time has come to finally talk about Super Burger located up on hwy 89 in Primrose. When this whole "little" project was announced Super Burger had to be one of the most recommended places to cover… Read More ›
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From The Kitchen To The Table must be the world's best Kitchen gift store, surely? I know that lots of people have favourite kitchen places but I feel pretty lucky that From The Kitchen To The Table mother ship in… Read More ›
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Everyone has home decorating suggestions that are helpful to most of us. We all enjoy living comfortably and around nice things but many folks are unable to decorate the way they would like to because they cannot afford it. We… Read More ›
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The Dufferin Hi Land Bruce Trail Club had it's open house to showcase a parcel of property, known as Split Rock Narrows this past weekend. Currently the Bruce Trail Conservancy is in the midst of acquiring this awesome property and… Read More ›
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Jules Christian has career-based in media and public relations and is now located on the Mediterranean island of Malta.
He has worked on main daytime radio in the UK and Malta over a period of 14 years as well as in marketing, advertising and PR in both countries. His other work has involved lifestyle and motoring journalism.
Jules prime direction is voiceover work. With an experience spanning 25 years and a characteristic UK English vocal, he has successfully been the voice over for literally thousands of scripts, with everything from hard sell to cartoon to narration and corporate read.
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For Radio Stations, there is the service of Voice Tracking. Jules Christian with his broadcasting experience can be your automated answer for a temporary or full time presenter.
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100 Southerners by Lydia Walls. "...Lydia Walls is a native Atlantan artist. Although much of her past creative experience has been working collaboratively, this past year she has been painting independently. Along with painting she has made sewn soft sculpture installations, animations, and upholstered objects. She resides in Grant Park with her dog Annie, as well as her baby brother Alex and his dog Fritz."


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Volunteer Shona MacKenzie with Marie Purves, who was diagnosed with bowel cancer in January.
Shona MacKenzie, a volunteer with Macmillan Cancer Support's Helping Matters service, has been providing emotional support to Marie Purves, who was diagnosed with bowel cancer in January.
When Shona MacKenzie's mother was diagnosed with cancer she and her father struggled to juggle her care with their full-time jobs.
The child-minder, who was just 21 at the time, had to rely on the support of friends to go in and check on her mum during the day.
Now, more than 20 years later, she works as a volunteer with Macmillan Cancer Support's Helping Matters service which provides practical and emotional support to people affected by cancer.
"When my mum was ill there was not the same support as there is today," says Shona, from Livingstone.
"After my experience with my mum I wanted to give something back and to help people who are in the same situation as we were back then."
When Shona heard the Helping Matters service was looking for volunteers in West Lothian, she got in touch with Macmillan.
As part of the service, volunteers are matched with a person or family affected by cancer who they visit for a couple of hours a week for a period of up to 12 weeks.
For the last 18 months, the mother-of-two has kept Tuesday mornings free to devote to her volunteer work.
In that time she has done light housework duties for the family of a young child with cancer and provided emotional support to an elderly man.
Her most recent match was with 77-year-old Marie Purves, from Linlithgow, who was diagnosed with bowel cancer in January.
"She's been a complete inspiration," says Shona. "Her cancer is still there and she doesn't know how long she has got but she feels she's been given a second chance.
"We have been out for walks to help improve her mobility but mostly we just sit and chat."
"It's been lovely having Shona," says Marie. "I can talk to her about things I can't speak to my family about. I am very happy with the help I have been given. I appreciate it very much."
As well as providing support for people affected by cancer, Shona says she has also benefited personally from her volunteer work.
"Volunteering for Macmillan has helped me personally," she says. "It's been healing in a way. It's let me go out and help people as best I can and just be grateful for the time I had with my mum. I am glad I can help others and give something back."
For more information about how to become a volunteer, contact Paula Moncrieff on 0131 260 3720, firstname.lastname@example.com, or visit our website.
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Our Roots by Jonas Liang
If the name Jonas Liang sounds familiar, it's because his Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital project had press coverage in the national Chinese newspaper, Lianhe Zaobao. Jonas is our next GSA graduate, this time from the Interior Design program.
"Our Roots alfresco dining area in Tiong Bahru Hawker Centre invites the community to enjoy and connect with the vast greenery from the central garden and the mangrove forest canopy, which shades and cools users from the local tropical climate. These forms develop collective intersection of spaces, which was inspired by the mangrove forest ecosystem. Our Roots exemplifies the centrality of food in the Singaporean context; it explores the potential of a food scene as an intersection to connect the younger and older generations. Like how food drives an ecosystem, a vibrant food scene with multi-racial roots is the driving force behind this project. I have drawn inspiration from regionalist architect Muzharul Islam who uses intersections to weave basic geometric structures into a holistic space. I used basic lines to form webs of intersection and these symbolise areas of congregation."
Jonas will be showing his work at the GSA Degree show at DECK. The show opens on July 9 and runs until July 15.


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Since Memphis has a record of being dangerous for pedestrians, Halloween and trick-or-treating can be a little risky. Here are a few simple tips for walking safely:
- Go out early. The light will make it easier to see you.
- Put reflective tape on the backs of your costumes and jackets to warn people of your presence. (You can buy this at Home Depot or other hardware stores).
- Carry flashlights to help other people see you and to avoid falls.
- Do not let children run ahead of you. Stay together as a group.
- Use crosswalks and traffic lights. It sets a good example for your children and helps drivers.
- Do not assume that drivers can see you, even with all these precautions. Be an aware lookout for your family – it can help you stay safe in general!
We hope you have a safe and happy Halloween!


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This beautiful ring is made in Ireland from either 10ct or 14ct White Gold and features a Claddagh with Trinity Knot design. The ring measures approx. 7.8mm wide and the front narrowing to 4.5mm at the back, available in UK sizes R through to Z+2.Crafted in Dublin, Ireland by Boru Jewelry and hallmarked at the Assay Office in Dublin Castle.This ring is hand crafted to order in Dublin, Ireland and delivery usually takes around 10-15 working days.
The ring comes in a luxury gift presentation box with care guide.
The traditional Claddagh design features two hands clasping a heart and topped with a crown. The heart represents love, the hands friendship and the crown loyalty. "With my two hands I give you my heart and crown it with my loyalty" or "Let love and friendship reign forever".
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I'm nearly done with my seminary degree (course work is complete and I'm in the final stages of my thesis editing) and so I'm going to finally be getting the reading time I've wanted.
In addition to that I've been pondering something and I'm curious if anyone has feedback. Related to our ecclesiology. Where did we get the notion that our ecclesiology should be about how we govern our local church building's institution rather than the church body in a location?
For example, most modern ecclesiology seems to focus on what it means for an elder to be appointed in the local church (differentiated by a building or a denomination). But what if our ecclesiology was about how we as a church body in a location (city or whatever) should interact with one another?
I ask this because in my brief study of the word "church" every instance I've found refers either to the Church Universal (catholic church), or to the local body (as in the whole body of believers at Corinth, not "the meeting Bob leads at 143 Roman Road").
If you have any thoughts on this please send me an email (rogermugs at gmail dot com). I'm curious to process this a bit before I write and publish something more completely.


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I am looking for a Classy guy who wants to wine and dine a Classy lady. I am not looking for money, just someone honest who wants to enjoy the company of a great lady. And I am not looking for sex on a first date. I want to take it slow and get to know each other then let nature take it's course. I have posted on here before and thought I wrote my ad to say this but I guess I didn't. You guys who just want sex then I am not your girl. I think it is important to get to know one another. I am not interested in getting married, consuming your life or you mine. Just someone to have fun with to get to know each other and see where it goes. I love sporting events, beach, mountains, cooking together, a good glass of wine,movies, dancing and open to new adventures. I am a professional lady who is in great shape. I take pride in working out and taking care of myself. I am usually attracted to younger men. Even though, I have a open mind and a very fun loving person with a positive outlook on life. I am a swf, average weight and height. Those that respond with a pic will get first choice. Sorry, but chemistry is very important. Put Classy in the subject line so I know you are for real. Look forward to hearing from you. Age 52 and older, only respond please.
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