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After 29 years working on a church staff full-time, I have been a volunteer youth worker for the last two years and have come to better appreciate helpful, non-guilt-producing tools that help me better care for/shepherd the guys in my small group.
A friend of mine (who is a great youth worker Savannah Christian Church: Savannah, Georgia) tweeted a photo of a tool she created for her small group leader training. I loved it! I asked to get a copy and she was happy to share it with me and you (Thanks Allison Murray).
Here's what I like about this tool:
1. Her asks are realistic for a semester.
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We come in all hot to drive to the dark streak east of us -- and are sorely disappointed. We had a joint-1 stall in the IDD sequence yesterday. So today turns into a less exciting one; we just have to redo most of yesterday's sequence. But at least it's easy, and it's OK to have an easy one now and then.
Sharon makes time to shadow part of the day again, and delivers her first sequence ever!
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STABILITY has underpinned Hearts' rebirth over the last 19 months. Nowhere has that been more evident than in the manager's chair, where Robbie Neilson now sits as the club's longest-serving coach for more than 11 years.
His 583 days in charge eclipse the 567-day reign of Csaba Laszlo, who held the job longest of all the 11 managers hired by previous owner Vladimir Romanov. The last man to manage Hearts for longer than Neilson is, ironically, Craig Levein. He spent four years in the role between 2000 and 2004 and is now the club's director of football.
Continuity is key to both recent success and future plans at Tynecastle. Owner Ann Budge began rebuilding in May 2014 when she took control and appointed both Neilson and Levein to their current roles. The following month, her £2.5million secured Hearts' exit from administration and a rapid rise back to the upper echelons of Scottish football took off.
Neilson remains a relative novice at the age of 35 but is making a fine fist of his first managerial job. He won the Championship and promotion in his first season and currently has the Edinburgh club sitting third in their first year back in the Premiership.
He has won 42 of 60 competitive games in charge so far – a win ratio of 70 per cent which is bettered only by George Burley in the history books.
The prosperity is the by-product of forward planning; of placing a manager in charge and working with him. Curiously, it is also the result of a steady and sensibly-run football club which is growing for the long term in a way which never seemed possible under Romanov. Neilson wants to lift silverware and steer Hearts into Europe so it is very much a case of 583 days and counting for the head coach. The fact he is the longest-serving Tynecastle manager in more than a decade underlines his qualities as well as the progressive approach of those in charge.
"Robbie was my captain at Hearts. He is a guy with real character and he is very honest," said Laszlo, happy to see one of his former players thriving in management. "What he does, he does with the heart. It's important to love what you do. He was never a star player but he was an honest player and that is why he played for the Scottish national team. He was a good leader.
"To be a manager is another thing. He won the league in his first season and now Hearts are third, so I think he has shown that he has enough to quality to lead the team at this level.
"To lead a team like Hearts, Celtic, Rangers, Aberdeen, Hibs, it's not easy. You must have a lot of qualities and be accepted by the fans and the media. It is not only about the results. Robbie has shown he is in the best place.
"When he was coaching at East Fife [in 2013], I met him and I told him I wanted him to be my coach if I took a job in Scotland again. I saw he had the attention to detail. I think he has more ambition now.
"My advice to Robbie would be to be prepared. Even if you have a nice time and good result now, be prepared for bad times when you don't have the results you want. If you are at the top, everybody loves you, everybody is talking to you. When you stop winning games, then you see who is your friend and who is with you. You must be ready for this."
Neilson endured a hint of such hardship when Hearts went two months without a league victory earlier this season. Yet, he knew throughout that he retained the backing of the club hierarchy. Budge and her board are hell-bent on avoiding the kind of circus which went on around their predecessors.
Laszlo admits he would have loved to work under such stability in Edinburgh.
"This is the difference. If the club is healthy, you have a plan and you actually support the manager, you see that you can go forward. The trust must be there.
"If I look at myself, I could have been longer than 18 months with Romanov. I was not fighting with Romanov because of results. We finished third in the my first season and we were in fifth place and in the League Cup semi-final when he sacked me [in January 2010]. The results were there.
"The problem at the time was Jose Goncalves [who was out of contract in summer 2010]. That was the point why he sacked me. I told him if he gave me time, Jose Goncalves would sign a new contract. Jose could even have become a Portuguese national team player.
"Romanov had different thoughts. He told me: 'Jose Goncalves can come to train but he can't play.' I was completely against this. He got a warning to me: 'You don't have to play with him.' Then we lost against Aberdeen and afterwards the director [Sergejus Fedotovas] told me I had to go because I didn't follow Romanov's interests. My interests were always the team and Hearts. If you have a good player, you don't stop using him just because he hasn't signed a new contract. It was the same with other players. I told Romanov he wouldn't survive because he was making so many wrong decisions.
"I am a manager who accepts advice from an owner but you need the support. This is the difference. Robbie's interest is also Hearts. He and Craig Levein want to make the fans happy and look after the business. I think Craig Levein is good for Robbie as director of football. He knows how important the trust is because he was a manager and he makes Robbie's work easier.
"I think Hearts will stay in third place because I don't see anybody who can get ahead of them. I don't see a huge development at Celtic, especially in Europe. Aberdeen are second but Hearts can be the third team in the table."
Laszlo now enjoys a dual role at the Hungarian club MTK Budapest, where he is both first-team coach and technical director. His assistant at Hearts, Werner Burger, works beside him on the coaching staff. The Hungarian harbours genuine hope of locking horns with Neilson on the European stage.
"We are opening a new stadium in Budapest and our aim is to play regularly in the Europa League and I think it's possible we could meet Hearts there," he said.
"I would be very happy if I can do this with MTK and Robbie can do this with Hearts. It would show both managers are doing good work. I don't want to meet Hearts in the qualification rounds, I want to meet them in the groups.
"I bought a flat in Edinburgh and my family is still there so one time I would love to come back to Scotland."
It is no surprise that Neilson's work is attracting admiring glances from England. His name has been mentioned in connection with managerial vacancies at several clubs, most notably Aston Villa following Tim Sherwood's sacking in October. He was named sixth favourite for the job by bookmaker Skybet.
His short to medium-term future lies in Gorgie, though. He fully intends seeing this project through alongside Levein and Budge and help put a lasting legacy in place at Hearts. That much became clear when he was asked about the Aston Villa link.
"These things happen in football when somebody moves on," he said at the time. "I think it's testament to the club and the players as opposed to myself. The club is doing so well and, at the end of the day, the players do it on the pitch. There is still a long way to go here for me and for the club and I want to be part of it. It's just one of those things and there is no point paying any attention to it. There's a job here for me and that's what I'm focused on. It's just the bookies' odds, it doesn't mean anything. Anyone could put a tenner on and get odds on it.
"These things don't matter. I want to stay here and that is all that matters at the end of the day. It has been great so far but there is still a long way to go with this club."
It is no coincidence that, just two years since Romanov dumped Hearts into administration, they already have a manager who has outlasted anyone he installed.
Gone are the days of Eduard Malofeev and Angel Chervenkov. Hearts have infinitely more substance about them now, and Robbie Neilson is likely to be around town for a while yet.
Here's the duration of time the past 14 Hearts managers spent in the Tynecastle hot-seat . . .
CRAIG LEVEIN: December 2000 to October 2004, 1428 days.
JOHN ROBERTSON: November 2004 to May 2005, 187 days.
GEORGE BURLEY: June 2005 to October 2005, 114 days.
GRAHAM RIX: November 2005 to March 2006, 134 days.
VALDAS IVANAUSKAS: March 2006 to March 2007, 343 days.
EDUARD MALOFEEV (interim manager): October 2006 to November 2006, 23 days.
ANATOLY KOROBOCHKA: March 2007 to December 2007, 304 days.
STEPHEN FRAIL: January 2008 to July 2008, 190 days.
CSABA LASZLO: July 2008 to January 2010, 567 days.
JIM JEFFERIES: January 2010 to August 2011, 548 days.
PAULO SERGIO: August 2011 to June 2012, 310 days.
JOHN McGLYNN: June 2012 to February 2013, 247 days.
GARY LOCKE: March 2013 to May 2014, 437 days.
ROBBIE NEILSON: May 2014 to present, 583 days.


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The Anglican communion has been torn apart, with the traditionalist developing world rising in rebellion against the decadent west. The archbishop of Kenya, Benjamin Nzimbi, expressed most vividly the feelings of Anglicans throughout Africa, Asia and South America when he said, "The devil has clearly entered the church. God will not be mocked."
It used to be Catholics who mostly had to endure such criticism. Protestants would assiduously propagate the idea that the Catholic church was riddled with sinister, immoral and ungodly practices. Often, they played on the popular ignorance and superstition with which the Catholic church was regarded by the Protestant world.
When, early in the 20th century, Oklahoma was granted statehood in the US, its first candidate for Congress campaigned for election by travelling from town to town with a speech that always ended with the same climactic appeal: "I beg you, I pray you, vote for old Jim. For otherwise, mark my words, they'll soon be practising celibacy in the streets of Oklahoma City." Since the good people of Oklahoma did not know what celibacy was, but assumed it to be some kind of papist evil, they elected the congressman by a landslide. Perhaps now Anglicans may start to envy the Catholic church its celibate priesthood. If Anglican clergy were precluded from engaging in sexual activity of any kind, then the dispute about what kind was sinful and what wasn't would not have arisen.
Even so, a crisis of this nature may have been inevitable. Because the Anglican communion is ruled by no central authority, its member churches are free to adapt to local fashion - and homosexuality is now so acceptable in the US that one of the leading candidates to succeed George Bush as president has come to regard his openly lesbian daughter as an electoral asset. Richard Gephardt from Missouri, a Democratic congressman, has turned his daughter Chrissy into a star of his presidential election campaign, despite the fact that she left her husband a couple of years ago to live with a woman. And people seem to like it, for Gephardt has recently been doing better in opinion polls.
So, it would have been surprising if the Episcopal church of the US, the American component of the Anglican communion, had held out for much longer against the spirit of the times. The problem, however, is that a totally different spirit prevails in other parts of the world, and the Anglican communion cannot muster even a semblance of unity in its approach to homosexuality.
I was raised an Anglican and became greatly attached to the traditional music and liturgy of the church of England, but was later alienated by the misguided "modernisation" of the prayer book and by various other stupid attempts to make it more "relevant" to the modern world. It might be worth pointing out that these modernist deviations are not at all new. More than 50 years ago, when I was a child living in a village in Hertfordshire, the vicar was so committed to "relevance" that he would take the large silver cross from the altar and run with it up and down the aisle, shouting to members of the congregation: "What does it mean to you?"
But the difference between then and now is that the pursuit of modernism and "relevance" has moved from the fringes of the church of England right into its centre, with the consequence, as William Hague said a few years ago, that walking in the Yorkshire Dales is generally a more uplifting experience than going to church on Sunday.
Personally, I will not be sad if the Anglican communion falls apart. In its dissolution might lie the best hope for a revival of the church of England as the great national institution that it used to be, a church fashioned to suit the peculiar character of the English and to be of comfort and consolation to them. So let us split. Foreign "Anglicans" will then be able to do whatever they like without upsetting us.


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- User Password and Email ID will be allotted to each of the students. Pl. don't divulge your password to others.
- Don't register e-mail id with mailing lists and use it for mass mailing.
- Access to the Net is based on user authentication. When you start the browser, it will prompt you for user-name/password- just enter your email log-in name and password. Don't save your name/password in the browser. Also, close the browser when you move away from the machine or finish your session. If you don't do this, other users will be able to browse using your account.
- CDS Internet access is meant only for serving you educational goals.
- Disconnecting PCs from the network for using laptop is not at all allowed (laptop users should connect to the network via Wi-Fi)
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Plot Summary:"Based on the supposed true life story, The Summer of the Massacre tells the tale of four teens traveling back from College for Summer. When the gang takes a short cut across the English countryside they stumble upon a small town called Black Wood. They soon encounter legendary serial killer Ed Craven, who is known as Hammer Head by the locals. When Hammer Head learns that the teens are in the area he goes on a murderous rampage which includes killing, eating and hunting humans. His weapon of choice is a hammer. The group soon finds out that some legends do exist but will anyone be left alive to tell the tale?"
Bryn Hammond's ambitious slasher movie may owe a lot to the success of classic genre fare such as TCM and countless other backwoods movies, but he is unashamedly proud of it, and it shows.
The premise sees a group of students run out of petrol on their way home at the end of term, only to encounter a deranged backwoods killer who goes by the name of Hammer Head.
Whilst watching this, I realized that I was having lots of fun with it, as it is a competently executed (for the most part) little movie, that has ensured every genre cliché is present and correct. It never tries to be original, it merely hopes to entertain fans of 70's and 80's horror movies, and that it certainly does.
The cast, who are comprised mainly of young unknown actors, manages to make the audience feel as though we are along for the ride with them as opposed to watching them, which creates a strange vibe, as they appear to be natural even though they all have their off moments.
The aspects which stood out for me were the ambitious make-up effects which were all practical and generally well realized, along with the sense of bravado present from all concerned. Any director who asks his villain to throw an actual pregnant woman around the woods by her hair, whilst prodding her and throttling her means business. In one scene which genuinely had me concerned for the actress's well-being, he even goes so far as to give her a massive bear hug, crushing her stomach in the process.
Making the most of every available location, the film benefits from some nice little set pieces which include an abandoned garage, a burnt out car and a rickety old shack in the woods.
The film would have perhaps benefited from a little more work on the sound (a common problem with low budget films) and I personally would have made a few different choices in terms of shot composition, but it is definitely the work of a horror fan of the 80's.
I haven't seen a British movie like this in a while as it harkens back to the era of Slaughter High and Funny Man. The Summer of the Massacre is a fun film to watch as it has all the things you used to laugh at in it, such as dumb character moves, but it also sees every character attempt to fight back.
If you're looking for a fun little movie that doesn't venture too far off the path of backwoods slasher flicks and massacre pics, you'll probably have a good time with this.


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Trenton teen waived up as adult in Lance Beckett slaying case
On Friday, a 17-year-old was waived up as an adult in connection with the murder of 19-year-old Lance Beckett.
Beckett was shot and killed on September 18, 2016 on East Stuyvesant Avenue in Trenton.
Mada Eoff, 17, appeared via telephone from the Juvenile Detention Center in Middlesex County, at an initial appearance where assistant prosecutor William Fisher advised the court the State has filed for a detention hearing to have him held under the state's new criminal justice reform rules.
Fisher advised the court that by statute there is a presumption of detention in this case.
Eoff was arrested in September of last year along with 18-year-old Quashawn Emanuel, both are Trenton residents.
The teens were pair was charged with murder, possession of a weapon, and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. The teens are part of a trio that allegedly shot Beckett before stomping on his head. Also arrested in the case was 34-year-old Omar Kennedy who is accused of stomping Beckett after he'd been shot down. At an October 27, 2016, assistant prosecutor Tim Ward said that Kennedy stomped on Beckett's head "to ensure he was dead," while he bled out in a wooded area near East Stuyvesant Avenue.
Four shots were fired, but it's not clear who fired the fatal shot, however.
Eoff's hearing is set for April 11 in front of Judge Peter Warshaw.
At Friday's hearing the teen's attorney entered a plea of not guilty, and asked for any and all discovery to adequately defend the teen at his detention hearing.


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In 2010, the 11th International Seminar had reached a new level of internationality. For the first time, the ISEM had not only topically, but also literally moved across geographic and cultural borders and was hosted by Kozminski University in Warsaw, Poland. Rather befitting for this year in which the ISEM embarks upon "a new age" of cooperation, its topic focused on the theoretical constructs of time, the ways in which time is handled across different cultures, and its implications for business and economics.
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Culture-specific handling of time: consequences for individuals, institutions, and business studies
Time is brought to people's awareness through a wide range of qualities:
- as past, present, and future;
- as lifetime, working time, and leisure time;
- as objective, subjective, and socio-cultural time.
It is experienced in the emergence and transience of things and availed of for the social construction of reality.
Since Frank (1938) pointed out the importance of time for human behavior, a wide range and number of disciplines have applied academic means to approach time as a theoretical construct (cf. e.g. Feldman/Hornik 1981; Jacoby et al. 1976). Even though, as a variable, time may be more apt for quantification than many others, it was initially neglected as a subject of the natural sciences and their "objective" studies – whereas the methodologies of anthropology, psychology, and the social sciences allowed for the humanities to show a more profound interest in the phenomenon.
It was not until much later that the classic business studies began to take time into scientific consideration as well, despite the fact that time represents a defining and determining factor in many issues of economic and business behavior:
- in Marketing (e.g.: anti-cyclic advertising, the carry-over effect, product life cycles, customer life cycles, customer retention, quick response strategy, etc.)
- in Research & Development (e.g. terms of copyrights on patents, innovation cycles, etc.)
- in Human Resource Management (e.g. when it comes to career planning, etc.)
- in Production & Logistics (e.g. just-in-time delivery, lead times, simultaneous engineering, etc.)
- in Accounting (e.g. concerning the fiscal year, service life, terms of payment, interest rates, opportunity costs, etc.)
- in Data Processing (e.g. concerning business process modulation, etc.)
- in Management (e.g. in first-to-market/follower strategies, short- vs. long-term planning, transaction costs, time-based competition, etc.)
How time is perceived and appraised is not merely a situational variable (and even as such it is largely disregarded in many models on purchasing behavior and decision making). Rather, time embodies a means of structuring processes of any kind, determined in part by culture and in part by subjectivity. As such, it coordinates as well as influences most of the interaction with one's environment, both on an individual and a collective level.
Time provides the human mind with a sense of order by offering a binding – hence reliable – grid pattern according to which individual behavior may be synchronized (cf. e.g. Zerubavel 1981). Industrialization, for instance, would not have been feasible in its known form without the clock and synchronization.
It is not surprising that culture is found to play a central role when it comes to theories striving to explore and explain the concept of time, since the culture-specific (because culturally determined) perception and awareness of time has grave impacts on how people behave
- as members of a company or an organization (cf. e.g. Usunier 1991),
- as consumers (cf. e.g. Hawes 1980; Jacoby et al. 1976),
- and in private (cf. e.g. Bergadaà 1990).
Life, both physically and intellectually, is in many ways affected by culture-specific understandings of time. While calendars and clocks may evenly divide and structure an "objective time", there is also a subjective "inner time" – a correlate of culturally overlaid, yet individual memories and experiences. Therefore, subjective time is not homogeneous and whether it will pass "faster" or "slower" may differ, both inter- and intra-individually (cf. Fürstenberg 1986, S.28).
Rhythms of life and time-related rules of coexistence (norms and estimations of time) are greatly influenced by culture, too. Each culture will develop its own characteristic conception of time, as well as strategies of how to deal with it in order to coordinate social life – ranging from working processes and family life to recurring festivities. Other examples to be counted among these issues are the culture's stance on punctuality and making old-age provisions.
In Western cultures, time does not merely go by: it is considered a valuable and limited resource and – in keeping with the metaphorical conception that "time is money" – needs to be spent wisely. In consequence, time spent is assigned a value based on the use to which it could have otherwise been put. For business studies in particular, this understanding has made time a central "dimension of economic thinking and behavior" (cf. Kern 1992), for instance in marketing (product life cycle) or in production management (e.g. the critical path method).
It was only in the 1990s, when "Time Based Management" (cf. Stalk/Hout 1992) was recognized as a building block of strategic advantage, that the trailblazing paper on "A Theory of the Allocation of Time" (Becker 1965), and later on the "Economicity of Time," were fully appreciated. Since then, the business world's versions of social-Darwinist creeds have shifted from "survival of the biggest" towards "survival of the fastest." Meanwhile, a countermovement has evolved as well, which has been emphasizing the merits of slowness in return (cf. e.g. Backhaus/Bonus 1998; Reheis 1998; Held/Geißler 1993) and from which amongst others the term of "slobbies" arose: "slower but better working people."
Seminar Paper Topics
- Physiological time rhythms and how they affect individual leadership and management behaviour.
- Social perceptions and handling of time in different cultures.
- Culture-specific handlings of time: consequences for management.
- The acceleration of time through modern information and communication technologies: consequences for business.
- Time measurement in business by modern information and communication technologies.
- Technical enabling and support of the International Seminar 2010.
- Time-management in international business.
- The impacts of time on international logistics.
- Time and its role in strategic management.
- Interim management: effects on role expectations and stakeholder relations in modern organisations.
- From Taylor's scientific management to "speed management": the development of time management approaches in organisations.
- Time and its impact on the individual, society, and business: conceptual backgrounds for the design of an empirical study in different countries.


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The Kansas City Star Reports Class Action in Pizza Hut Wage Dispute Grows
By DIANE STAFFORD
The Kansas City Star
March 29, 2011
Perhaps 20,000 to 30,000 delivery drivers for Pizza Hut's largest franchisee, NPC International Inc., are eligible plaintiffs in a national collective action alleging a minimum-wage violation.
U.S. District Judge John W. Lungstrum in Kansas City, Kan., this week granted conditional certification for the drivers in a case that centers on the franchisee's mileage reimbursement practice.
Rick Paul, an attorney for the plaintiffs at Stueve Siegel Hanson in Kansas City, said the employee drivers were paid at least the prevailing federal or state minimum wages. But, because they were paid at a rate far less than the IRS mileage reimbursement rate for driving their personal vehicles, the unreimbursed cost of operating their vehicles caused their effective pay to fall below minimum wage.
The class certification covers drivers employed at about 1,135 Pizza Hut stores owned by NPC International in 28 states at any time in the three years preceding March 28, 2011.
NPC has 14 days to provide plaintiffs' counsel with the names of employees who are eligible members of the class, and they have 90 days to opt to be included in the lawsuit.
Vonnie Walbert, NPC's vice president of human resources, responded to the lawsuit Tuesday: "We believe this litigation is lawyer-driven and will continue to vigorously defend our position. We value our delivery drivers and believe we reimburse them fairly. We look forward to having the opportunity to prove this once the court evaluates the merits of this case."
Similar cases alleging related violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act have been filed against company-owned Pizza Hut stores, Papa John's and other franchise operations.
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16 AsianAviation | SEPTEMBER 2011 Industry Round-Up FOKKER SERVICES says it experienced a "booming market" for remarketed Fokker aircraft in the first half of 2011."The first half of this year has witnessed a substantial number of Fokker aircraft being placed with new operators," says Peter van Oostrum, Fokker Services' Director of Aircraft Remarketing. A total of 27 Fokker 50, Fokker 70 and Fokker 100 regional aircraft have been transferred to new operators on all five continents, the company says. In Indonesia, three Fokker 50 turboprops were handed over to TransNusa and a similar number to SKY Aviation, as the two carriers expand in response to increasing passenger demand. In the Netherlands Antilles, Insel Air is adding four ex-KLM Fokker 50s to its fleet, while other operators in Africa, Asia and South America have also selected the turboprop and are proceeding to acquire ten of the aircraft. At the same time, five Fokker 70 jets have been placed with Air Panama, SKA International and Australia's Alliance Airlines. Alliance has also added more Fokker 100s to its fleet, as has Skywest Airlines, while Qantas's Network Aviation unit is also taking more of the type. According to Fokker, the Australia- based fleet of Fokker 70s and Fokker 100s will probably expand from 33 to 40 aircraft by the end of this year. AIR EUROPA, Spain's second-largest airline, has chosen AJ Walter Aviation (AJW) to provide power- by-the-hour support for its Airbus A330 Trent engine-component accessories. This five-year agreement for two aircraft is AJW's first contract with Air Europa. The agreement commenced in June and includes the location of a Main Base Kit in Madrid to support the airline's operational efficiency. "It was our speed, flexibility and willingness to invest in specific A330 Rolls Royce Trent engine components for Air Europa as part of AJW's larger A330 investment programme that secured us the contract," says Colin Craig, director of contract services. AJW is the world's largest independent provider of integrated aircraft support solutions for components, engines and consumables with complete flexibility when it comes to operational and commercial decisions. GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE has named company veteran Jamie Fields to the newly created position of director, repair and overhaul services. Fields reports to Barry Russell, vice-president, customer support. In his new role, Fields is responsible for expanding and enhancing Gulfstream's repair and overhaul capabilities worldwide, particularly for components. Fields, a 26-year Gulfstream employee, was most recently senior manager, maintenance, repair and overhaul. 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When the NBC editor finalizing the story on the Lighted Christmas Balls of Greensboro, she asked if we could put her in touch with other communities who had not only embraced the beauty and community aspects of the Lighted Christmas Balls but also focused that effort on the Shine the LIght on Hunger campaign. The folks at West Virginia University immediatedly came to mind. This is an email form the folks in Morgantown WVA to NBC.
We didn't collect money but rather collected specific items for the Backpack Project in Monongalia County. We selected just one of the sites that collects food for the backpacks (Scott's Run Settlement House - http://www.srsh.org/), but there are others in this county. They like items that are easy for kids to fix for themselves and filling.Yesterday, I delivered 647 servings total of fruit cups (168), mac & cheese (140), spag/rav (130), and oatmeal (209) to Scott's Run Settlement House. It was humbling to see their operation and to get a greater understanding of the need in this area. Hopefully, this will become an annual event, and we can collect more. We might even be able to have a competition between the various colleges here on campus next year!We had two workshops in my building and made at least two dozen lighted Christmas balls. Over the past few years, I've done workshops in the county where I live (Harrison) and have collected food for the local food pantries in my area. I don't do anything on the scale that the Smiths do in Greensboro, but maybe someday we can make a larger impact on the food pantries and the backpack programs. I'm fairly certain I have some more photos from other workshops if you need more. I attached one from the second workshop, and the FB post has pictures of lighted Christmas balls and the collected backpack food.At home, I have about a dozen lighted Christmas balls hanging in a tree below our house, and it is a nice conversation starter to make others aware of the dire hunger situation in our county, state, and nation. I think most people in our rural area know, but many times they don't know how they can help. Our church is one of many local churches and other faith-based organizations that support the backpack program. (My husband is originally from Greensboro, and my sister-in-law took me to see the Smith's neighborhood, and I was hooked on how beautiful they are and what they stood for to ShineTheLightOnHunger!)I am happy to help you in any way I can to help spread the word and to help people understand how they can help provide food and support to those in need. Please let me know what else I can do, OK?Thank you so much and I hope you have a great day, Becky


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Thursday, July 05, 2012
hotter than you know what
all i've got to say, it's good to be home. we survived 10 days of vacation together. ;) 7 days at the beach, 1 family reunion and 2 days at grandpa's. we've been on planes, trains and automobiles. ok, no trains but we'll count the shuttles as our trains. we endured 100+ temps in the midwest. i have no clue how i ever lived there. i'm sweating just thinking about it.
wondering where tuesday's post went? yeah, i'm pretty sure the boy wasn't wearing anything due to the wicked heat. we are completely spoiled in the mountains and i love it. today's high in boone: 84, carbondale's high: 106. thanks but no thanks.
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Three lovely pictures! Fashion gone rogue, Garance Doré, Chanel.
Saturday, 2 June 2012
5 comments:
- Frida said...
Med nöje! Hoppas vi får tillfälle att busa snart igen :) KRAM
- 3 June 2012 at 18:07
- Katrine Aastrøm said...
Dejlig smuk blog du har!
- 4 June 2012 at 15:11
- Linnéa - mina finheter said...
Fina bilder :)
Jag har förresten bytt adress :)
Trevlig helg!
- 9 June 2012 at 10:37
- hierbinichdasprinzesschen said...
great composition. the little bird is gorgeous. greetings, ditprinzesschen http://hierbinichdasprinzesschen.blogspot.de/
- 9 June 2012 at 11:26
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i've been staring down vimeo and youtube films on braying paint all over: mono, stencil, screen, stamp, collagraph, ... you name it!
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i've been staring down vimeo and youtube films on braying paint all over: mono, stencil, screen, stamp, collagraph, ... you name it!
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ah yes, your rara avis posting, a good one - as always...ReplyDelete
I imagine you as a person wearing lots of coats and under each one there is a suprise, like a neverending wonder box.
"look what I have here and there and..." and for sure there is a fresh green springtime coat, too!
x Stefanie
Nice post. And of course the first coat ever must have been a leaf:)ReplyDelete
ah, now i remember your coat!ReplyDelete
i like this post:
green my favorite color
you in the garden ;^))
the printing
the outcome!!
hmmm..... NICE!
i'm so into green too at the moment.ReplyDelete
driving along the new fresh green roads makes me so immensely content, a leafy green room, the idea dear Nadine...i notice a little person getting a llttle high in there too :)
sap green, fine and beautiful xx
i missed your rara avis in november,
The art between art and reality.ReplyDelete
Yes, I remember you coat and I still think it would be fun to wear.ReplyDelete
Green, green glorious green! See you later...... you've inspired me to grab some leaves and green paint....... bye. xo
lover-ly pics, lovely prints. lovely petits pied - c'est qui en train de traverser ce champs vert printanier?ReplyDelete
these coats of green make such beautiful prints!ReplyDelete
Til later, Hon. I think I have missed your coat at rara avis... oh , and it is tomorrow already!ReplyDelete
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love this, how creative.ReplyDelete
Yes your older post fits perfect the coat theme and a good one I would say. And short after talking about print making you start over and with what results - very nice those leaf prints. I'm curious what comes next!ReplyDelete
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a coat of color, I can definitely relate to that one (though your coat from 2014 is perfect too). and when it comes in green, I am in! it is the green from my bathroom and guest restroom btw., and it always makes me feel refreshed and safe equally. thank you for sharing the creative process, on top. guess what I will be trying over the next days ;-) xo a.ReplyDelete
Love those prints! It's been ages since I played with printing some nature things. Chloe just did some printing with her children class using gelatin and fern leaves. I must ask her how she did that, such beautiful results. Your prints would make fantastic fabric prints Nadine, for something lovely and spring time. :DReplyDelete
Very clever. It inspired me. Thank you!!!ReplyDelete
i saw somewhere a printing technique called something like "leaf pressing" which looked interesting (I archived it in my memory for far-future use)ReplyDelete
WOWOWOWOW!!!!!!!! I love this!!!!!! What you did makes me so happy. I love this!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
How lovely .... so good to hear form you at my neglected Blog.. warm thanks.ReplyDelete
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The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) consists of astronomical cameras, telescopes and a computing facility that is surveying the sky for moving objects on a continual basis, including accurate astrometry and photometry of already detected objects. By detecting differences from previous observations of the same areas of the sky, it is expected to discover a very large number of new asteroids, comets, variable stars and other celestial objects. Its primary mission is to detect near-Earth objects that threaten impact events and is expected to create a database of all objects visible from Hawaii (three-quarters of the entire sky) down to apparent magnitude 24. Pan-STARRS is funded in large part by the United States Air Force through their Research Labs. Pan-STARRS NEO survey searches all the sky north of declination −47.5.[1]
The first Pan-STARRS telescope (PS1) is located at the summit of Haleakalā on Maui, Hawaii, and went online on December 6, 2008, under the administration of the University of Hawaii.[2][3] PS1 began full-time science observations on May 13, 2010,[4] and the PS1 Science Mission is underway, with operations funded by the PS1 Science Consortium, PS1SC, a consortium including the Max Planck Society in Germany, National Central University in Taiwan, Edinburgh, Durham and Queen's Belfast Universities in the UK, and Johns Hopkins and Harvard Universities in the United States and the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network. Consortium observations for the all sky (as visible from Hawaii) survey were completed in April 2014.
The Pan-STARRS Project is a collaboration between the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Maui High Performance Computing Center and Science Applications International Corporation. Telescope construction is funded by the U.S. Air Force. Having completed PS1, the Pan-STARRS Project is now focusing on building PS2, for which first light was achieved in 2013, with full science operations scheduled for 2014[5] and then the full array of four telescopes, sometimes called PS4. Completing the array of four telescopes is estimated at a total cost of US$100 million for the entire array.[2]
As of mid-2014, PS2 was in the process of being commissioned.[6] In the wake of substantial funding problems[7] no clear timeline existed for additional telescopes beyond the second.
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Pan-STARRS currently (2014) consists of two 1.8 m Ritchey-Chretien telescopes located at Haleakala in Hawaii.
The initial telescope, PS1, saw first light using a low-resolution camera in June 2006. The telescope has a 3° field of view, which is extremely large for telescopes of this size, and is equipped with the largest digital camera ever built, recording almost 1.4 billion pixels per image. The focal plane has 60 separately mounted close packed CCDs arranged in an 8 × 8 array. The corner positions are not populated, because the optics do not illuminate the corners. Each CCD device, called an Orthogonal Transfer Array (OTA), has 4800 × 4800 pixels, separated into 64 cells, each of 600 × 600 pixels. This gigapixel camera or 'GPC' saw first light on August 22, 2007, imaging the Andromeda Galaxy.
After initial technical difficulties that were later mostly solved, PS1 began full operation on May 13, 2010.[8] Nick Kaiser, principal investigator of the Pan-STARRS project, summed it up saying "PS1 has been taking science-quality data for six months, but now we are doing it dusk-to-dawn every night." (quote: June 15, 2010). The PS1 images however remain slightly less sharp than initially planned, which significantly affects some scientific uses of the data.
Each image requires about 2 gigabytes of storage and exposure times will be 30 to 60 seconds (good enough to record objects down to apparent magnitude 22), with an additional minute or so used for computer processing. Since images will be taken on a continuous basis, it is expected that 10 Terabytes of data will be acquired by PS4 every night. Comparing against a database of known unvarying objects compiled from earlier observations will yield objects of interest: anything that has changed brightness and/or position for any reason. As of June 30/10 University of Hawaii in Honolulu received an $8.4 million contract modification under the PanSTARRS multi-year program to develop and deploy a telescope data management system for the project. At this time, all funds have been committed (FA9451-06-2-0338; P00008)
The very large field of view of the telescope and the short exposure times enable approximately 6000 square degrees of sky to be imaged every night. The entire sky is 4π steradians, or 4π × (180/π)² ≈ 41,253.0 square degrees, of which about 30,000 square degrees are visible from Hawaii, which means that the entire sky can be imaged in a period of 40 hours (or about 10 hours per night on four days). Given the need to avoid times when the Moon is bright, this means that an area equivalent to the entire sky will be surveyed four times a month, which is entirely unprecedented. By the end of its initial three-year mission in April 2014, PS1 had imaged the sky 12 times in each of 5 filters (g,r,i,z,y).
Systematically surveying the entire sky on a continuous basis is an unprecedented project and is expected to produce a dramatically larger number of discoveries of various types of celestial objects. For instance, the current leading asteroid discovery survey, the Mount Lemmon Survey,[9][10] goes down to apparent magnitude 21.5 V and concentrates its searches mostly near the ecliptic;[11] Pan-STARRS will go 3 magnitudes fainter and cover the entire sky visible from Hawaii. The ongoing survey will also complement the efforts to map the infrared sky by the NASA WISE orbital telescope, with the results of one survey complementing and extending the other.
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According to Defense Industry Daily[12] there were some significant limitations put on the PS1 survey to avoid recording sensitive objects. Streak detection software (known as "Magic") was used to censor pixels containing information about satellites in the image. Early versions of this software were immature, leaving a filling factor of 68% of the full field of view (which figure includes gaps between the detectors), but by March 2010 this had improved to 76%, a small reduction from the approximately 80% available. At the end of 2011, the USAF completely eliminated the masking requirement (for all images, past and future). Thus, with the exception of a few non-functioning OTA cells, the entire field of view can be used.
Solar System
In addition to the large number of expected discoveries in the asteroid belt, Pan-STARRS is expected to detect at least 100,000 Jupiter trojans (compared to 2900 known as of end-2008); at least 20,000 Kuiper belt objects (compared to 800 known as of mid-2005); thousands of trojan asteroids of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (currently eight Neptune trojans are known,[13] none for Saturn, and one for Uranus[14]); and large numbers of centaurs and comets.
Apart from drastically adding to the number of known Solar System objects, Pan-STARRS will remove or mitigate the observational bias inherent in many current surveys. For instance, among currently known objects there is a bias favoring low orbital inclination, and thus an object such as Makemake escaped detection until recently despite its bright apparent magnitude of 17, which is not much fainter than Pluto. Also, among currently known comets there is a bias favoring those with short perihelion distances. Reducing the effects of this observational bias will enable a more complete picture of Solar System dynamics. For instance it is expected that the number of Jupiter trojans larger than 1 km may in fact roughly match the number of asteroid-belt objects, although the currently known population of the latter is several orders of magnitude larger. Pan-STARRS data will elegantly complement the WISE (infrared) survey. WISE infrared images will permit an estimate of size for asteroids and trojan objects tracked over longer periods of time by Pan-STARRS.
Pan-STARRS may detect interstellar objects passing through the Solar System. During the formation of a planetary system it is thought that a very large number of objects are ejected due to gravitational interactions with planets (as many as 1013 such objects in the case of the Solar System). Objects ejected from planetary systems of other stars might plausibly be throughout the Milky Way and some may pass through the Solar System.
Pan-STARRS may detect collisions involving small asteroids. These are quite rare and none have yet been observed, but with the drastically larger number of asteroids that will be discovered it is expected from statistical considerations that some collision events may be observed.
Beyond the Solar System
It is expected that Pan-STARRS will discover an extremely large number of variable stars, including such stars in other nearby galaxies; in fact, this may lead to the discovery of hitherto unknown dwarf galaxies. In discovering a large number of Cepheid variables and eclipsing binary stars, it will help determine distances to nearby galaxies with greater precision. It is expected to discover a large number of Type Ia supernovae in other galaxies, which are important in studying the effects of dark energy, and also optical afterglows of gamma ray bursts.
Because very young stars (such as T Tauri stars) are usually variable, Pan-STARRS should discover a large number of these and improve our understanding of them. It is also expected that Pan-STARRS may discover a large number of extrasolar planets by observing their transits across their parent stars, as well as gravitational microlensing events.
Pan-STARRS will also measure proper motion and parallax and should thereby discover a large number of brown dwarfs and white dwarfs and other nearby faint objects, and it should be able to conduct a complete census of all stars within 100 parsecs of the Sun. Prior proper motion and parallax surveys often did not detect faint objects such as the recently discovered Teegarden's star, which are too faint for projects such as Hipparcos.
Also, by identifying stars with large parallax but very small proper motion for follow-up radial velocity measurements, Pan-STARRS may even be able to permit the detection of hypothetical Nemesis-type objects if these actually exist.
- 2010 ST3 — this NEA, which at the time of discovery had a very slight possibility of colliding with Earth in 2098, was discovered by Pan-STARRS on 16 September 2010. This is the first NEA to be discovered by the Pan-STARRS program. The object is 30–65 meters across,[16][17] similar to the Tunguska impactor that hit Russia in 1908. It passed within about 6 million kilometers of Earth in mid-October 2010.[18]
- 2012 GX17 — first reported on 14 April 2012, this faint ~22nd-magnitude object is a promising Neptune L5 trojan candidate.[19]
- 2013 ND15 — first reported on 13 July 2013, this object is probably the first known Venus L4 trojan.[20]
- C/2011 L4 — astronomers at the University of Hawaii using the Pan-STARRS Telescope discovered comet C/2011 L4 in June 2011.[21] At the time of discovery it was about 1.2 billion kilometers from the Sun, placing it beyond the orbit of Jupiter. The comet became visible to the naked eye when it was near perihelion in March 2013. It most likely originated in the Oort cloud, a cloud of comet-like objects located in the distant outer Solar System. It was probably gravitationally disturbed by a distant passing star, sending it on a long journey toward the Sun.[21]
- PS1-10afx — a unique hydrogen-deficient superluminous supernova (SLSN) at redshift z = 1.388. Discovered first in MDS imaging on 31.35 August 2010.[22] The overluminosity was later found to be the result of gravitational lensing.[23]
- PS1-10jh — the tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole.[24]
- P/2010 T2 — first reported on 16 October 2010, this faint ~20th-magnitude object is the first comet to be discovered by the Pan-STARRS program. Even at perihelion in the summer of 2011 at 3.73 AU it will only be magnitude 19.5. It has an orbital period of 13.2 years and is a member of the short-period Jupiter family of comets.[25][26]
- P/2012 T1 — a Pan-STARRS discovery, is one of the very few known main-belt comets.[27]
- P/2013 R3 — a Pan-STARRS discovery on 15 September 2013, disintegration observed by the Hubble Space Telescope.[15]
- SN 2008id — (type 1a supernova), confirmed by Keck observatory via redshift.[28]
See also
- ^ https://twitter.com/astrokiwi/status/483572110179459073
- ^ a b "Watching and waiting" (From the print edition).
- ^ Robert Lemos (2008-11-24). "Giant Camera Tracks Asteroids". Technology Review (
- ^ Pan-STARRS 1 Telescope Begins Science Mission
- ^ Current status of Pan-STARRS and beyond
- ^ http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/data/Conferences/SPIEP/80055/91450Y.pdf
- ^ http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/Pan-STARRS_Donation/
- ^ Handwerk, Brian (June 22, 2010). "World's Largest Digital Camera to Watch for Killer Asteroids". National Geographic News. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
- ^ Mt. Lemmon Survey (G96) is a part of Catalina Sky Survey, another two parts are Siding Spring Survey (E12) and Catalina Sky Survey (703) itself.
- ^ Summary of PHA and NEA Discoveries by Discoverers
- ^ "Sky Coverage Plots". IAU Minor Planet Center.
- ^ PanSTARRS: Astronomy & Asteroid Assessment
- ^ List Of Neptune Trojans
- ^ List Of Uranus Trojans
- ^ a b Harrington, J.D.; Villard, Ray (6 March 2014). "RELEASE 14-060 NASA's Hubble Telescope Witnesses Asteroid's Mysterious Disintegration".
- ^ 2010 ST3 at JPL Small Body Database
- ^ Conversion of Absolute Magnitude to Diameter
- ^ 2008 ST3 Close approaches at NEODyS
- ^ de la Fuente Marcos, C.; de la Fuente Marcos, R. (2012). "Four temporary Neptune co-orbitals: (148975) 2001 XA255, (310071) 2010 KR59, (316179) 2010 EN65, and 2012 GX17". Astronomy and Astrophysics 547: L2.
- ^ de la Fuente Marcos, C.; de la Fuente Marcos, R. "Asteroid 2013 ND15: Trojan companion to Venus, PHA to the Earth".
- ^ a b Pan-STARRS Telescope Finds New Distant Comet
- ^ PS1-10afx at z=1.388: Pan-STARRS1 Discovery of a New Type of Superluminous Supernova Chornock, et al., 1,4
- ^ Aileen Donnelly (25 April 2014). "Mystery of 'super-supernova' PS1-10afx solved as researchers discover hidden galaxy that warped space-time". National Post.
- ^ An ultraviolet-optical flare from the tidal disruption of a helium-rich stellar core Gezari, et al.
- ^ "Recent Discoveries – Oct 12 to 18". The Transient Sky – Comets, Asteroids, Meteors.
- ^ Main-Belt Comet P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS)
- ^ Pan-STARRS' first supernova
External links
- Pan-STARRS web site
- PS1 Science Consortium web site
- New telescope will hunt dangerous asteroids
- World's biggest digital camera to join asteroid search
- Is there a Planet X?
- Early warning of dangerous asteroids and comets


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FactCheck.org fills a journalistic void. Major media outlets tend to report on the strategy behind campaign commercials rather than analyzing the content for veracity. Even though Jackson pioneered ad watches for CNN, the cable network let him go last year.
"I've seen the press generally put less emphasis on ad watches and fact-check-type stories," Jackson said. "Political coverage is too much weighed toward covering the sport of politics: who's ahead, who's behind." —Louise Witt —Finding Truth on the Internet (Wired)


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The Coalition will save $3.2bn over the first four years of its costly paid parental leave scheme by refusing to pay tax credits to shareholders of the 3,200 big businesses hit with the 1.5% levy that helps pay for it.
Tony Abbott is refusing to release the detailed costings for his scheme – which offers 26 weeks' paid leave at a mother's full previous wage up to $150,000 – until later in the campaign.
He insists it will not require any other government services to be cut and is "fully funded and fully costed", covered by its proposed 1.5% levy on the biggest businesses, by scrapping the existing Labor parental leave scheme (which offers 18 weeks at the minimum wage), by ending double dipping with state schemes and by "consequential" reductions in government payments of family tax benefits and increases in personal tax paid by women getting the new benefit.
Rough calculations based on this information appear to show a significant cost to the budget.
But updated calculations by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) for the Greens, who proposed a very similar scheme, reveal a hidden saving that might make up the difference.
The costings show that the Coalition's decision not to allow shareholders to claim franking credits, which reduce their income tax bill, on the 1.5% levy reduces the cost of the scheme to the government by $3.2bn over the first four years. The saving amounts to about $1.6bn per year once the scheme is fully up and running.
Some commentators have said this means retirees and those saving for their retirement will in effect foot part of the bill for the Coalition's generous scheme. Among the big companies paying the levy are banks and mining companies popular in retiree share portfolios.
An updated PBO costing of the Greens' scheme, released on Tuesday, shows that their plan would cost the budget $2.1bn over its first four years.
Many of the features of the Greens' scheme are exactly the same as the Coalition's.
Like the Coalition, the Greens propose to hit the biggest companies with the 1.5% levy to pay mothers 26 weeks' parental leave at their normal wage.
Problematically for the Coalition, the PBO says the levy would raise very little over the first two years because companies would "take steps to change the timing of their income in the year prior to the start date in order to benefit from the introduction of the levy".
The Greens would cap the wage replacement at $100,000 annual earnings, compared with the Coalition's cap of $150,000 - a difference that would make it cheaper. But it would also offer fathers an additional two weeks' paid leave, which would be somewhat more expensive.
Shadow assistant treasurer Mathias Cormann confirmed there would be a saving from not offering tax credits for the levy, but refused to quantify it.
"The most important thing retirees need to know is that if the economy grows more strongly that will maximise their returns," Cormann said.
Finance minister Penny Wong said the Coalition's scheme was "in tatters".
The Australian Shareholders Association (ASA) said the decision not to count the levy in the calculation of franking credits was the second "unfair hit" against major public companies and their shareholders as a result of the Coalition's paid parental leave policy.
"The levy should generate franking credits, otherwise it's an additional huge hit on the millions of Australians who own shares in the big public companies," said the ASA's spokesman, Stephen Mayne.
"The first big hit is the fact that the levy means the big companies are already paying a differential tax rate compared with smaller companies."


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Proof that Knaresborough's hugely popular feva festival faces financial challenges in the future has come with news that an important grant application has been turned down.
Organisers say they hadn't been hopeful in the current economic climate of being successful in their bid for £3,000 from Harrogate Borough Council and that the festival itself has enjoyed another fantastic year.
But the authorities rejection is still a blow for the hard-working volunteers and this successful annual arts event run entirely by volunteers.
Sue Holden, feva secretary said: "It is disappointing but not unexpected. The souncil approves grants based on a points system, which we usually meet.
"What has gone against us for the 2017 and 2018 festivals is the frequency with which the Council has provided grants in the past.
"We only expect to receive a grant every third year.
"The figure of £3,000 is very important to feva, as it funds the street entertainment, a major attraction during the ten days of the festival."
It's worth pointing out at this point that this year Harrogate Borough Council has given out £30,000 in total in Small Grants Funding to community groups across the district.
The groups that have benefited are:
£3,000: Asenby Institute, Boroughbridge
£2,907: Charity of William Hardcastle, Pateley Bridge
£1,705: Friends of Follifoot Wildlife Recreation & Play
£3,000: Friends of St Cuthbert's School, Pateley Bridge
£2,000: Harrogate Skills 4 Living Centre
£2,750: High Batts Nature Reserve, Ripon
£1,675: Hookstone and Stonefall Action Group, Harrogate
£3,000: Pannal Sports Junior Football Club, Harrogate
£2,000: Scotton Scorchers Junior Football Club, Knaresborough
£1,500: Sharrow Village Hall and Sports Ground
£1,915: Rossett Local Nature Reserve Group, Harrogate
£2,000: The Rotary Club Harrogate Brigantes
£3,000: Wellspring Therapy & Training
Meanwhile, its failure to secure financial support from Harrogate Borough Council's Small Grants Endorsement list has reinforced feva organisers' belief that the future security of the festival is best placed by seeking business sponsorship rather than public money.
Grants from official bodies have started to dry up in recent years in an era of government austerity.
Sue Holden, said: "The festival costs £26,500 to put on, which is remarkably low given the number of events staged over the 10 days of feva.
"Ticket sales provide an income and we were fortunate this year with the overall popularity of events.
"But the only way that feva gets staged is through the kind assistance of local organisations, the hard work of the feva committee members, and the support of Friends of feva.
"Moving forward we hope to reduce reliance on grants as they are harder to come by, and to replace this by harnessing the support of Knaresborough businesses," Sue said.
A largely free event which has run in one guise or the other since 1996, feva festival attracts large numbers of residents and visitors to the centre of town.
Organisers say they are very grateful for the support they currently receive.
"In the past, HBC provided £1,500 towards this, which was matched by Knaresborough Town Council.
"This year, the local council, which has been very supportive, stepped up to provide the full amount on a one-off basis after it was learned that there would be no Harrogate Borough Council grant.
"We were also sponsored financially by CNG and Knaresborough Lions. The Frazer Theatre, Henshaws, the Tourism Office, W Bowers and others support us in individual events and in running the festival.
And Tony Cerexhe, chairman of feva, said the festival had experiened challenges before and pledged that nothing would stop its continued success.
He said: "The festival is non-profit and any surplus one year is ploughed back into the event to guard against future losses.
"We lost money in 2016, for instance, but through the efforts of the all-volunteer organising committee, the support of the Town Council and our sponsors we hope to have done better this year.
"We do not have the final figures yet but one thing I would like to stress is that feva is a strong and highly popular festival which is one of the best in Yorkshire.
"We will find a way to continue to bring it to the people of Knaresborough even if we have to modify our programme to suit our potential income."


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If i were you I would really consider a pellet smoker. Pellet smokers use wood pellets and you're cooking / smoking your food with real (compressed) wood. You literally dial in the desired cooking temp and the hopper / cooker feeds itself whenever it needs more pellets. Obviously you always have to have pellets on hand to do your smoking / cooking, which may be a PIA to you. Idk. Lowes carries Pit Boss pellet smokers in the $350-600 range. Pellet smokers are also the cleanest burning fire you'll have without tending to it all day.
I never really understood the electric smokers. They are essentially an oven and you add a few wood chips to give off the smokey flavor.
Everyone will have their own thought / opinions. I'm sure you'll like anything you end up with.
I'm actually giving serious thought to getting a pellet smoker myself.
On a side note, if you end up deciding on a pellet smoker make sure you research what pellets you use. Some are made with glues / binders. Get ones that are all wood.


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London & Partners: London is Full of Beans!
Mr Bean lookalikes today (Thursday) descended on central London bringing smiles to the faces of commuters and tourists during the launch of a new mobile game aimed at bringing more UK and international visitors to the city.
A hill of Mr Beans, made famous by comedian Rowan Atkinson and dressed in trademark tweed jacket while each clutching the iconic 'Teddy' bear, travelled on the Underground, went for a ride on the Coca Cola London Eye and took selfies with passers-by in Trafalgar Square.
The Beans were out on the streets to celebrate the launch of a brand new mobile game called Play London with Mr Bean, which helps visitors discover the city's tourist highlights and forms part of a new drive to attract more UK and international visitors to the capital.
VisitLondon.com, Endemol Shine Group and Pointvoucher have worked together to develop the free to play mobile game which sees an animated Mr Bean visit London attractions. By spending time playing the game, players will be able to pick up vouchers which they can then cash in for discounts when they holiday in London, and also find great offers on locations around the city.
Andrew Cooke, Acting CEO at London & Partners, which runs visitlondon.com, said: "Mr Bean's humour transcends language barriers and, as one of the world's best known Londoners, he is the perfect person to help encourage more UK and international visitors to come to the capital. Play London with Mr Bean is a new and innovative way for visitors to discover new experiences and make the most of their time in the city."
Tourism in London is booming with new figures released today (Thursday) showing that London is welcoming record numbers of international travellers.
According to tourism industry analyst Forward Keys, the number of international travel agent bookings to London is up over 8 per cent in 2017 compared to 2016, which was previously a record year. Visits from the USA have grown by 15 per cent year-on-year, while the number of visitors from China coming to London is forecast to increase by 12 per cent year-on-year.[1]
Separate research from VisitLondon.com projects the city will experience a 30 per cent increase in visitor arrivals by 2025, taking visitor numbers to more than 40 million a year. Some of the fastest growing markets for visitors to Londonby 2025 are China (103 per cent growth), India (90 per cent growth), and the UAE (43 per cent).[2]
Mr. Bean, produced by Tiger Aspect, part of Endemol Shine UK, is broadcast in 195 territories with over 25 years in continual distribution. The brand has seen phenomenal digital growth, currently averaging 300 million monthly online views.
Recently overtaking the likes of Taylor Swift and Harry Potter, Mr. Bean is now the number 1 entertainment brand, and Brit, on Facebook with over 75 million fans, growing on average by 200,000 fans per week.
[1] Forward Keys – growth rates are based on a combination of actual arrivals from 1st January 2016 to 14th October 2017vs. same period in previous year. Projections for the remainder of the year based on forward bookings made from 14th October to end of 2017.
[2] Taken from a 'Tourism Vision for London', published Sept 2017.


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I have a '74 hatchback vega. Ladder bar in the rear with a stock front frame. The car has a 12-point roll cage in already. I'm on this site because I am looking to install a round-tube front clip. If you have advice or photos I'd appriciate your input.
-I have heard the strut front end is better suited for a vega, Is this true?
-Which is the best manufacturer to make the purchase? S&W Race Cars, Jegs, and Chris Alston Chassisworks are a few i've been suggested.
Any help is appriciated. Thanks


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Today the kalmstrom.com team has reason to celebrate. We congratulate our developer Jayant Rimza, who has passed the exams for MCTS certification. Jayant is now a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, expert in implementing, building, troubleshooting, and debugging Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Application Development Foundation. He is also a master of Web-Based Client Development.
We were not surprised when Jayant managed these papers with very high scores, because he has shown excellent technical problem-solving skills in the work with our products. Many of you already benefit from them, even though you might not be aware of it! We are happy to have this clever guy in the kalmstrom.com team.


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I went up the top of the mountain the other day and my bf took a photo of me taking a photo.
it made my mum so confused when she saw the photo. she kept saying " how did you do that"
hahahahha so funny.
he was playing around with our ol digi cam while i was trying to look like a real photographer.
TRYING. hehehe
For some reason, in 95% of the photos I'm in, I have my mouth open like this. Maybe I want to catch flies and eat them. Okay no. That would be foul. Once i sneezed and a fly went up my nose and that was traumatic.
Im wearing the same S&B shorts as in the last post. I love wearing demin shorts. I have three pairs that I just rotate over stockings for the winter. I used to be all about the skirts but now I'm all about the shorts. I like to wear a look to death , get sick of it, never do it again.
Whilst we were having breakfast we spotted a massive gecko on the tree. I ran over to take a photo and scared it away. Stupid. Yes I know. For some reason I thought it would be like a fridge magnet and not move.
Anyways, the next day I saw this one on the same tree. It was about half the size as the dinosaur from the day before :(
I took this photo from about 4 metres away so I wouldn't scare the lizard off again.
geckos are so super cute.


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As Glenn noted, geothermal energy is only potentially available in
relatively few areas. Iceland may be able to get much of its energy
needs from it, but not most other countries. Geothermal development
risks disrupting hot springs and geysers, thus disrupting tourist
revenue and unusual biological systems.
Dr. David Campbell
Old Seashells
University of Alabama
Biodiversity & Systematics
Dept. Biological Sciences
Box 870345
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
That is Uncle Joe, taken in the masonic regalia of a Grand Exalted
Periwinkle of the Mystic Order of Whelks-P.G. Wodehouse, Romance at
Droitgate Spa
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Brian has been openly gay/queer for 40 years; coming out as gay in 1978 and self-identifying as queer for almost two decades. He has studied a wide variety of spiritual traditions; nature-based 'pagan' as well as 'major world religions'. He was introduced to the Tarot by his partner in 1980; together with a roommate, they studied cards, astrology, numerology and other divination tools. Brian's early Ministry in Toronto was most visible as a Sister of the Toronto Order of Perpetual Indulgence.
Brian was baptized in the United Church of Canada as an infant and again in The Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto as a young adult. The first is a mainstream Canadian denomination that has a strong track record of acceptance. MCC was founded in 1968 "to provide a Christian sanctuary for LGBT people" and is now "an international denomination committed to radical inclusivity in all areas."
He now identifies as a nontheistic spiritual humanist.
Brian was born in Toronto about 60 years ago- the third of four children. He is at least the third generation of a cross-border family. His Mother was born in the USA (her Mother was from Canada and her father from the US) but moved to Canada to marry her first husband. Dad was born in Canada; his father was from Ireland while his Mom was born in Canada but raised by a relative in upstate New York. Mom's older brother was born in Canada but moved to the USA to join the USAF during WW II – and raised two families (at different times) in the US. Brian's brother (and family) now lives and works in the USA while their two sisters (and families) continue to live in south-western Ontario.
In addition to working various full-time jobs since leaving school, Brian has been producing photographic images for 40 years. His first assignment was for his high school yearbook. He currently offers his photography on apparel & gift items, and as frame-able prints. Brian operates a number of web-sites and on-line shops; his on-line history goes back to CompuServe, Freenets and 2400 baud modems. In fact, his father introduced him to 'puters by letting Brian write code (in 'basic') for the IBM-5150.


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This sculpture is believed to have been comissioned by Anna Maria Luisa de Medici (1667-1743). The story of Judith from the Old Testament Apocrypha was popular in the Baroque period. The image of a victorious woman defeating her male oppressor may have appealed to the artist's patron. A preliminary drawing for the sculpture is also in the Museum's collection.


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House Committee on State & Local Government, March 29, 2018
State Rep. Jerry T. Miller, Chairman of the Standing Committee on State & Local Government of the Kentucky House of Representatives, called his committee together on short notice and introduced for their consideration a single piece of legislation: SB 151, a bill dealing with the delivery of wastewater services, for which Rep. Miller had new language. None of the Democrat members of his committee had seen the House Committee Substitute for SB 151, let alone had time to read it, and they reacted with surprise and anger when they learned SB 151 was to become the vehicle for reviving Senate Bill 1, the pension bill that had been presumed dead since March 9.
House Floor Debate on SB 151 (HCS 1), March 29, 2018
Having been railroaded through the House Committee on State & Local Government with little in the way of discussion or debate, SB 151 (HCS 1) Was introduced on the floor of the House just an hour later.
Senate Floor Debate on SB 151 (HCS 1), March 29, 2018
SB 151 (HCS 1) was approved by the House of Representatives by a vote of 49-46 and then went immediately to the Senate for consideration there.
Senate Bill 1 is 289 pages long. Please read the bill carefully and use the resources below to provide feedback to your legislators. Senate Bill 1 because a committee substitute to SB 151 on 3/29/18.


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I have alot of clients that are looking for love, nobody wants to be alone. But before you are ready to accept love into your life you have to prepare for love to enter.This is what I call the soul mate checklist.
Are you ready?
1) Forgiveness: Have you forgiven yourself for past relationship mistakes? Have your forgiven past lovers?
2) Space: Do you have space in your life and in your heart for another? Do you have space in your home is your closet male or female friendly?
3) Have you placed your order with the universe? God wants you to be happy if you know what you want then ask for it with no doubt that it is coming.
4) Are you what you are looking for: Are you willing to make someone as happy as you want to be? Are you willing to listen and be a best friend?
5) Are you happy being single? You have to be thankful and grateful with your life just as it is now in order to make another happy.
This is just a good starting point, you have to be prepared to accept and be open to the love youe deserve and desire. Start loving yourself now so that when the right one comes into your life you are ready.


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A good grasp of the theory of structures - the theoretical basis by which the strength, stiffness and stability of a building can be understood - is fundamental to structural engineers and architects.
Elements of Theory of Structures
Yet most modern structural analysis and design is carried out by computer, with the user isolated from the process in action. This book, therefore, provides a broad introduction to the mathematics behind a range of structural processes.
The basic structural equations have been known for at least 150 years, but modern plastic theory has opened up a fundamentally new way of advancing structural theory. Paradoxically, the powerful plastic theorems can be used to examine 'classic' elastic design activity, and strong mathematical relationships exist between these two approaches.
Some of the techniques used in this book may be familiar to the reader, and some may be new, but each of the topics examined will give the structural engineer fresh insight into the basis of the subject.
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