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In this post I am honored to have Dr. Jim Garlow share some unique and important insights into pastoral transitions.
Jim and I have been friends for over 20 years and his ministry in the church the community on radio and on television broadcasts have all impacted thousands of lives. His books are among some of the most read books in the Christian Community.
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Dr. Jim Garlow, author, communicator and historian, and Senior Pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego, CA, is heard daily on nearly 800 radio outlets nationwide in his one minute historical commentary called "The Garlow Perspective."
He graduated from Drew University (Ph.D. in historical theology), Princeton Theological Seminary (Master of Theology), Asbury Theological Seminary (Master of Divinity), Southern Nazarene University (B.A. & M.A.), Oklahoma Wesleyan University (A.A.).
Due to the book Cracking Da Vinci's Code (co-authored with Peter Jones, 500,000 copies in print, becoming No.17 on the New York Times Bestsellers List – paperback, nonfiction), Jim has appeared on numerous national TV shows on NBC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC and CNBC.
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Other books include How God Saved Civilization (re-released as God And His People), A Christian's Response to Islam, The Covenant, Partners in Ministry, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Tested by Time and God Still Heals.
Jim's wife Carol is a graduate of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. She serves as Minister of Prayer & Intercession at Skyline Wesleyan Church. Jim and Carol have four children and four grandchildren.
By Dr. Jim Garlow
Transition - (tran-zish'un), n.1. Passage from one place, state, stage of development, type, etc., to another; change; also, the period, place, passage, etc., in which such a change is effected.
"Pastoral transition is like a relay. A relay consists of four runners and a baton. Speed is important but not the most important thing. The transition is critical. Four fast runners who cannot properly hand on the baton will lose. Four good runners who under-stand transition will win. Successful relays are won by those who know how to hand the baton on with precision and accuracy."
"My part of the race at Metroplex Chapel is now ending. The race here is now yours. At this point it matters less how fast we run as how carefully we hand the baton. I pass it on to you now, challenging you to first carefully receive the baton, and only then – when you have it firmly in your grip – to run the race as fast as you can."
- Jim Garlow, outgoing pastor, to Dan Huckins, incoming pastor, at his installation at Metroplex Chapel on
September 25, 1996.
Examples of Biblical Relays –
• Abraham – Isaac – Jacob – Joseph – Genesis 12 – 50; You, your sons, your grandson – Deuteronomy 4:9; You, your sons, their sons, the next generation – Joel 1:3; Paul, Timothy, faithful men, others – II Timothy 2:2. "The family is a perpetual relay of truth." – Edith Schaeffer.
On the following pages you will find six sets of "Ten Commandments." Enclosed are
…a church when losing its pastor,
…a pastor when leaving a church
…a church when getting a new pastor
…a pastor going to a new church
…following a celebrity…the "don'ts"
…following a celebrity…the "do's"
Having gone through a transition in October 1995, I have listed both the "commandments" which I myself followed…along with these that I learned along the way and thus followed…along with some which I wish I would have known so I could have followed. – Jim Garlow
"Trust is the glue that holds a leader and the organization together. When I handed the baton off to Jim, we made a commitment to trust each other. This has given a great sense of security to the congregation. Jim Garlow is my pastor and my very good friend."
- John Maxwell, who preceded Jim Garlow as Senior Pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church
"After transitioning into Metroplex Chapel, I learned three things very quickly. First, I learned Jim Garlow had left a wonderful legacy. I was indeed standing on his shoulders. Second, he had thoroughly prepared the people, especially the leadership, to receive me and my leadership and style with open arms. Following a pastor and leader of his stature, this was critical. Third, after being at Metroplex Chapel for awhile I realized Jim Garlow could be my pastor any time. For if he was, I should be sitting at the feet of a great leader and a godly man. I thank Jim Garlow for transitioning in such a way that I could be a success in the church he founded. That is a great gift."-
-Dan Huckins, who followed Jim Garlow as Senior Pastor of Metroplex Chapel
By Dr. Jim Garlow
- Remember, in life, change is a given. Everything (except God) changes. It is inevitable. So don't waste energy in denial or "fighting it."
- This is not the end of the world; it only feels like it. God really does love you and He will soon prove it by bringing you another wonderful pastor.
- The pastor didn't leave because he doesn't like you…or because he likes some other church better. He is simply trying to obey God.
- If, by chance, you were one of those critics of the pastor, repent. Otherwise there will be curse on the church, and you won't like the consequences. God is not interested in protecting the outgoing pastor as a person, but he is jealous about the office. So, in the event you participated in "pastor bashing" (even if it was in the form of a "prayer request:" "let's pray for our pastor…"), then repent.
- Encourage those around you that God's hand is still on the church.
- If you are not on the governing body which selects the new pastor, then pray for them and encourage them.
- If you are on the governing board, then pray and fast. When you finish that, do it again.
- Never ever, ever, ever "campaign" for your favorite "candidate." Stop being God. Let Him install who He would. Let the church board have full liberty. This is not the Republican or Democratic Convention. If you "campaign," a factious spirit will enter the congregation andyou will be the one who let it in.
- Above all, stand by your church. She stood by you lots of times. This is one of those time your church needs you. Don't leave. If you leave, it reveals things about you that you don't want to hear. Don't be divisive. Don't go down the street and start another church. It will be for wrong reasons and built on a wrong foundation.
- Stay positive! Keep a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Assure others "it will be all right"…because it will.
By Dr. Jim Garlow
- Talk with key lay leadership privately before the public announcement. They've worked with you closely. They deserve some "process time," even if only 24 hours. Yes, it might "leak," but it's worth the risk.
- When you make the announcement, say it in the first sentence, then explain later. Don't "build up to it" slowly, causing unnecessary apprehension.
- Keep explanations simple and straightforward. Complex explanations as to why you're eaving only confuse.
- Don't stay around long. Leave soon…within six weeks…or earlier. You are worth nothing after two or three weeks. In fact, your presence may even hurt.
- Don't promise you'll be there for weddings, funerals, etc. In fact, make it clear you won't be there. Contrary to what you (and they) think, they'll do fine without you.
- Don't "wind down." Keep the preaching positive. Tell them God will see them through this…because He will. This is not the final chapter, only the end to one chapter. The next chapter will be "ever onward and upward."
- Don't publicly mention the church you're going to more than a couple times. They'll tire of it quickly after the third time.
- Don't "stack the deck" for who is to follow you. Leave the church board a long list of suggestions and people to call for leads (they really do need this since you know way more pastors than they do). Then get out of the way.
- Be aware that some of your critics may get very vocal after you leave. Ignore their comments. You left behind a lot of good fruit. Don't sweat the "rotten" fruit. Don't yield to the temptation to "take shots" at them. Remember, vengeance is the Lord's, not yours
- No matter who they pick as your successor, affirm their decision and affirm him/her. This will help him/her succeed. Then rejoice when they do!
By Dr. Jim Garlow
Preached by Dr. Jim Garlow on October 8, 1995 as he was leaving Metroplex Chapel in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, (which he had planted 13 years earlier) to go to Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego, California.
- Let your new pastor dream his dream. Let him have his own vision. Don't tie him to the previous pastor's vision. Let the previous pastor's vision go. Let the previous pastor go. Release him. Embrace the new.
- Let him be himself. He will be different than the previous pastor. If he is hilariously funny, let him be a clown. If he is unusually serious, let him be somber. Appreciate his uniqueness.
- Commit to stand with him through the hard times. The honeymoon will eventually end. Be committed to him for the "long haul". Put a defense around him. He will be attacked. Make sure you're not one of the attackers. Don't make him take the hits. Help protect him from the people with a "Jezebel spirit" who want to control and manipulate him and "till outside their vineyard."
- Let him lead. If you are part of the old staff that remains, give him your loyalty. If you are a board member who remains, give him full allegiance. Be committed to follow him.
- Support him even when he can't publicly explain why he had to make a certain decision. Bear in mind that pastors frequently cannot defend themselves in order to protect the guilty. They have to remain quiet about issues. Often times they have to dismiss a staff member, or remove a lay person from leadership (yes even when they first arrive) and yet they cannot discuss it. Consequently, the pastor receives criticism. If people knew the truth, they would support their pastor. Don't try to be God. Just be quiet and support your pastor.
- Release him from being your "best buddy". He probably won't be. If the church numbers above 100, it is more than he can possibly be close to, socially. Let him love you – and he will – but don't try to spend large amounts of social time with him. He can't physically spread himself around that thin.
- Let his wife be herself. (This is assuming you are calling a male pastor, of course.) If she is hilariously funny and outgoing, let her be that way. If she is unbelievably quiet and shy, don't attack her for not being friendly. If she is incredibly stylish, don't criticize her. If she is non-stylish and looks out of date, it's okay. The church will survive that too. If her skirts appear expensive, that's her business. If her skirts are too short, be quiet and look the other way. Bottom line: Let her be herself. (NOTE: If your pastor is a female…well, you know how to "translate" this.)
- Look for opportunities to encourage and affirm him. Find every opportunity verbally, by written notes, or other ways to encourage your pastor. The church will reap huge rewards.
- Stay focused on the big picture. With the single exception of a pastor denying the reality of Jesus, there has never been a church fight that was really worth it. Don't leave the church over any issue, unless he stops preaching that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, died on the cross for our sins, physically resurrected, and is coming back again. As long as he preaches that, love him and stay with him. Bottom line: chill out! The 11th Commandment says, "Thou shalt not sweat it!" So don't. Two years later, that issue won't matter, but the big picture will – so focus on it.
- Stand by your church. By all means, don't leave the church during this time of transition. Of course it will be a difficult period. Transitions always are. But your church stood with you during your difficult times, so…stand with your church during her difficult times. It needs you. While you are in the transition it feels like it will last forever. But it won't. When it passes, you will be glad you stayed put. If you expect your church to stand with you, then stand with it…no matter what!
By Dr. Jim Garlow
- Enjoy the honeymoon. A honeymoon isn't meant to last forever. And it won't.
- Don't act messianic, because you're not the Messiah. You're just "the next pastor." It's okay not to have lots of answers.
- Never condemn the previous pastor's methods. His were right…for him. Yours will beright…for you.
- Never yield to the temptation of making yourself look good at your predecessor's expense. Avoid the phrase, "When I came… (then describe how bad it was)."
- Acknowledge your predecessor's hard work. Yes, he worked as hard as you are.
- Acknowledge you are "standing on his shoulders," because you are. The building, people, finances, etc., were either brought by him, or at least maintained by him.
- Don't try to be your predecessor. Be yourself.
- Make some changes quickly, others very slowly…and have the sense to know the difference. Take your time in most changes. If you make too many changes quickly, they'll change one more thing – you! Establish your priorities fairly soon…and make them clear. Put your "philosophy of ministry" in print. Otherwise they'll wonder "where is he taking the church?"
- Know that you (your spouse and kids) will experience culture shock in some form. You will wake up some mornings (possibly for as long as the first three years) wondering, "what have I done?" But it will be okay. You obeyed God and He'll see you through.
- Understand that your "learning curve" or "finding your full stride" may take up to three years. So relax. You're in it for the "long haul." Or at least you ought to be..cause He is!
By Dr. Jim Garlow
Prepared for the Beeson Leadership Institute at Asbury Theological Seminary at the request of Dr. Dale Galloway. Jim Garlow is the Senior Pastor at Skyline Wesleyan Church, San Diego, CA., having followed John Maxwell who rose to national prominence during his fourteen year tenure at Skyline.
- Don't try to be him; you'll look stupid. Be yourself. You won't look stupid.
- Don't try to act like you possess his strengths; you don't. But that's okay. (If you're intimidated by following a celebrity, speak openly of it at first, then drop it.)
- Don't speak about your insecurities much. They are not interested in your insecurities. Everybody has them, but there is no need to constantly speak of them.
- Don't lend credence to communications in which people want to tell you the celebrity's weaknesses. All celebrities have super strengths (that's why they're celebrities)…and corresponding weaknesses.
- Don't allow those who are "anti-celebrity" types to bash your predecessor. There will always be some of those. They are usually "small people" who are jealous of the celebrity's success. If you listen to them, it only shows your insecurities, not the superstar's weaknesses.
- Don't try to hang on to all the celebrity's followers. You can't. You won't.
- Don't try to stop the inevitable changes in leadership. His staff/lay leaders will not be your staff/lay leaders.
- Don't overlook the advantages you have as a "down home" type and not a celebrity. Remember, "non-celebrity" status has its advantages too.
- Don't "retreat from the celebrity's presence" through such things as honors,books, tapes, organizations and employees. Flow with it. Rejoice in it. In fact, publicly affirm his ongoing accomplishments.
- Don't become over-enamored with "celebrity status." It's fleeting. It only lasts 15 minutes. Life goes on. Enjoy who you are.
By Dr. Jim Garlow
Prepared for the Beeson Leadership Institute at Asbury Theological Seminary at the request of Dr. Dale Galloway. Jim Garlow is the Senior Pastor at Skyline Wesleyan Church, San Diego, CA., having followed John Maxwell who rose to national prominence during his fourteen year tenure at Skyline.
By Dr. Jim Garlow
Prepared for the Beeson Leadership Institute at Asbury Theological Seminary at the request of Dr. Dale Galloway. Jim Garlow is the Senior Pastor at Skyline Wesleyan Church, San Diego, CA., having followed John Maxwell who rose to national prominence during his fourteen year tenure at Skyline.
- Acknowledge that you're not a celebrity: you aren't, they know you aren't. They need to know that you know you're not. Do it once or twice, then drop it.
- Recognize that the church is not, first and foremost, looking for a celebrity. They've already had oneThey want a pastor. So be one.
- Develop thick skin. Some people will leave. You can either internalize it as "rejection," or acknowledge that it is an inevitable (and even a necessary and good) change.
- If the celebrity you are following was gone a lot (and all of them are) and was inaccessible (every well-known person has to isolate himself some or he'll be smothered), then stay home (don't travel much) and be accessible (they'll love it). Thus, you will establish yourself as a pastor.
· Don't ever mention you're "home" and "not gone." It shows you are insecure (need to "one-up" your predecessor) and it will come back to bite you every time you make an "out-of-town" trip.
· Be accessible but not egalitarian.
· Accessible -you reach out and touch
o hug, shake hands
o be with them
o learn all their names (no matter how hard it is)
· Egalitarian - you do all the counseling, all of everything…and fail to focus on your leaders. It will destroy you. It will destroy you emotionally, physically and "sink the boat."
5. Find your strengths (you must have some pronounced ones or you wouldn't be following a celebrity) and maximize them. What are you good at? Do it a lot. What are you lousy at? Admit it. Then quickly hire an associate who is good at that.
6. Acknowledge that the celebrity brought growth or finances or visibility or maybe even "prestige" to the church, and you are benefiting from some of these.
7. Be patient with those who experience "grief" when the celebrity leaves. Celebrities bring their own ethos, charisma and energy…almost an aura that non-celebrities don't necessarily evidence with near the intensity.
8. If time, geography and temperaments allow it, become a close friend with the celebrity. You will reap great rewards from this.
9. If possible, seek your predecessor's counsel often. You will benefit enormously from this.
10. Allow yourself three years to "settle in," because that's how long it will take.
10. Allow yourself three years to "settle in," because that's how long it will take.
If you found this material helpful visit the Skyline website and leave an encouraging word for Dr. Garlow. Would you also pray for his wonderful wife Carol who is by faith winning her battle with cancer. Here's a blog link to keep to enable you to be an informed warrior of prayer http://www.skylinechurch.org/skyline/?p=420


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Despite some initial reservations about the sessions on offer at this year's Software Craftsmanship conference, I found the day interesting and useful. It was good to see some familiar faces from last year's event as well as some of the leading lights in the dev community such as Gojko Adzic and Sandro Mancuso, convenor of the London Software Craftsmanship Community. There was an interesting mix of sessions and, importantly, session formats, with my day being neatly balanced between coding and discussion sessions. Coding sessions were invariably pair-programmed using some form of TDD methodology.
How Object Oriented Are You Feeling Today? Krzysztof Jelski
This was, I think, my favourite session of the day, and a great way to get into the event as a whole. The session is based around Jeff Bay's Object Calisthenics which proposes the following nine rules for writing better Object-Oriented Code:
- Use only one level of indentation per method
- Don't use the else keyword
- Wrap all primitives and strings
- Use only one dot per line
- Don't abbreviate
- Keep all entities small
- Don't use any classes with more than two instance variables
- Use first-class collections
- Don't use any getters/setters/properties
The rules are quite often extreme, and are certainly artificial, but they are brilliant in small self-contained exercises such as the bank account scenario we worked on during the session. They really do help you get into the mindset of object orientation when procedural code can feel more natural.
Some of the rules are easier to follow than others: rule 6 falls out of some of the others, such as rule 3; rule 5 is simply a rule for good naming that I follow during daily development anyway. Rule 9 was a really tough one to follow, and I think our compliance with it was a bit suspect (working in C#, we used a method called
GetCurrentBalance() in place of a property
CurrentBalance). Rule 3 was not difficult to follow per se, but it did increase the amount of code enormously and made you second-guess just how far you followed it. For example, in the bank account exercise we wrapped the balance, which might normally have been represented as a decimal, into an object
Money; however, this in turn used decimals in its implementation which made me wonder whether we should have wrapped that as well!
Having got into the OO mindset during this session, I found some of the ideas I picked up during it were easily applicable in the CyberDojo session in which I participated towards the end of the day. There is real value in practising these rules in a small exercise, viewing the über-OO code that you get out of it, and following the patterns of implementation you see in the result in your everyday work.
My one "complaint" about this session is that it was too short!
Enhancing Legacy Test Suites Christian Horsdal
This session took me a little by surprise: I found it was a discussion-based session when I was expecting a coding session. That'll teach me to read the session summaries and watch the overview videos beforehand… Anyway, the premise of the session is that even though some code bases can have extensive suites of unit tests, the quality of the tests may be low (this is something I can sympathise with). Christian went through a few pointers of what could be considered a poor-quality test (tests named Test1, assertions that test little or nothing, tests that test the implementation rather than the contract, etc.) and then fired up Visual Studio 2010 and the Nerd Dinner application produced by Scott Hanselman and others as a tutorial for ASP.NET MVC (v1.0, so it's a couple of years old now) and running live at http://www.nerddinner.com/. We then spent the better part of an hour picking apart critiquing the tests in the application. The most interesting thing for me was how obvious it was to people in the room that the tests had been written after the code and not beforehand as an integral part of the development workflow, and the best way to enhance this suite of tests was to re-write tests as you came to them.
Christian's own write-up of his session is here.
CyberDojo Jon Jagger
This was another fun coding session, based around Jon's CyberDojo app which you can try for yourself at http://www.cyber-dojo.com/. The idea behind the app is to practice coding in a test-driven manner on a simple solution. The idea is not to finish the exercise on the first (or subsequent) attempt, but instead to improve your coding skills through deliberate, repeated practice. It was a useful introductory session to the app and to this style of practice, but didn't go much further than this. When running the second iteration in Java (the first iteration was in Ruby and consequently was… difficult), I was able to apply some of the ideas learned in the morning's Object Calisthenics session to improve the OO-ness of the solution.
Personal Codes Of Conduct Matt Williams
Matt's session was one of the more interesting discussions on the software industry I've been in for a while. Matt's idea was to try to take some lessons from medicine and apply them to software, and in the main I think he succeeded. His idea was to take some of the principles of the Code of Conduct set out by the General Medical Council and translate it into something relevant to the software industry; he has more recently been using this as his own personal Code of Conduct, and expects his colleagues and customers to hold him to it. The following discussion session revolved around the usual Craftsmanship topics of quality and process, and knowingly side-stepped that of certification. One area I would have liked to have seen explored in more detail is that of reputation, which was mentioned by one participant but was not really developed for some reason. Considering the analogous situation of cowboy builders, you quickly come to realise that reputation is paramount to securing a good builder: people tend to re-use tradesmen over a large number of years based on previous positive experiences, good personal recommendations, etc. If you pick someone new out of the Yellow Pages each time, or respond to a leaflet through your door, you're guaranteed to have at least one bad experience. Part of the problem appears to be in educating our potential customers in the value of demanding good quality, well-tested, highly-covered code when this quite often falls prey to the requirement of "and I want it yesterday!"
I had a great time at SC2011, and am already looking forward to SC2012. I hope that this summary has convinced you that you should be there too!


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8th May 2016
At this stage of assembly it's all a bit freestyle as there are lots of areas to take care of. I find this part of the build quite enjoyable as I get to flit from one bit to the next. While one part is drying, another can be worked on. So in this update I'm going to post the pictures in the order they were taken which will involve a bit of flitting from one job to the next.
First up is the rear section or "Beaver Tail" as it's know.
Not a lot of drama here, just a case of cleaning up the parts and gluing them together. Again, there are no locating pins for these parts, but they fit together nicely enough so just a matter of getting the parts held in place with some pegs and running some Tamiya Extra Thin glue around the joins.
The beaver tail fits between the engines at the rear of the fuselage.
As you can see below the beaver tail is a little too wide and forces the fuselage to bend a bit, which creates some gaps.
This was easily sorted by sanding a little off the sides of the beaver tail with some sanding sticks.
Just sand a little at a time and dry fit the part often until you're happy with the fit.
Here's the improved fit – the gaps are much smaller now.
Because the fuselage either side of the beaver tail is quite flexible it doesn't sit perfectly. So to get the seams to line up I lined up one part of the join and glued it. When the glue has dried it's a simple matter to move on to the next section, manoeuvre it into place and glue it. Rinse and repeat until all of the joins have been aligned and glued.
Due to the fact that the shape is quite complex here, it's not possible to clamp the beaver tail in place while the glue sets, so for some areas it was a case of holding the part for a few minutes until the glue set enough to hold.
Moving for'ard time to assemble the cockpit halves…
Again I worked along the seams, aligning a section, gluing it, letting it dry and then moving onto the next section.
The main thing here is to take time to get the seam level without a step, and to get the panel lines lined up.
To get the rear of the cockpit to line up, I applied a dab of CA glue, manoeuvred the part into position and hit the CA glue with a blast of activator spray. This immediately cures the CA glue, fixing the part in place.
CA glue can for a brittle join that can crack if flexed, so when using this technique you always need to apply plenty of thin glue (Tamiya Extra Thin for example) to weld the parts together. The CA glue can be thought of like tack welding just to hold the parts in position as they are glued for real.
Here I have fitted the rear shelf. You can also see the damage to the cockpit floor where I had to remove the glued in kit seats when I decided to swap them for resin seats. No worries, the damage will be hidden by the replacement seats.
This part won't be very visible when the canopy is down.
Moving back to the intakes…
Here I have fitted the long insert on the left, the right hand side one is yet to be fitted.
These parts took a bit of working out as to where they were supposed to fit, the instructions not being very clear.
What you're aiming for here is for the right had edge of the insert (highlighted in yellow) to line up with the ridge in the fuselage marked in red. The part will fit sitting on top of the ridge marked in red but this is incorrect.
With the inserts fitted it is time to consider the geometry of the variable position intake ramps.
Here you can see the position of the ramps as standard. This is the configuration for supersonic flight where the ramps are lowered to reduce the amount of air being forced into the engines. I also believe this would be a suitable position for engines off and on the deck judging from the reference photos I have seen.
Here's a front view showing how far the ramps project into the intake.
The configuration I want is for subsonic flight for which the ramps are retracted to allow more air into the engines.
To achieve this I am going to leave out the hydraulic actuator from the long front ramp, and will remove the actuator mounting bracket circled in red using a 2mm Trumpeter chisel.
To retract the inner (shorter) ramp the hydraulic actuator was reduced in length as shown below.
Here's how the intake ramps look in the subsonic position.
For a change of scenery I decided to next work on the engines.
Pretty basic assembly here, the engine body was assembled from two halves glued together. The end piece was then attached taking care to get it concentric with the engine body.
The kit offers two choices of afterburner petals, one where the petals are restricted as shown below, and one where the petals are dilated (fully open).
The fully open position is for when the engines are run at or above 100% when the afterburners kick in. Since I'm building this one in a "hit the brakes" configuration I'll use the restricted petals.
This also allows me to use thinner acrylic rod up the engines to mount the aircraft on.
The engines have a plastic tab to help locate them, but this just gets in the way. I will be cutting the tab off before I attach the engines.
Here you can see a dry fit of the port engine with the tab still on. The panel lines don't quite line up like this.
The engines will be glued in place later after I have modified them to accept a suitable length of acrylic rod.
Ok, back to the intakes…
With the front intake ramps fitted, I sanded them to be flush with the upper front section of the intake and re-scribed the panel line (circled in red). The panel line on the left in the red circle didn't exist so I added this one separately.
This was my first test drive of the Holly 0.15 panel line scribing tool. It certainly creates fine lines but you have to go gently with it as it can distort and go off track quite easily. It's great for getting into tight corners though so will definitely get a lot of use in the future. I might have to get a 0.2 one as well, definitely wouldn't want to go down to the 0.1 scriber, I think this would be too flimsy.
Looking at the inner intake ramps, I noticed that their leading edge is very thick. This will need to be thinned down with some sanding sticks.
Here's the inner ramp with it's leading edge having been thinned somewhat.
Next up I glued the inner ramp actuators in place. These actually fit quite snugly onto the rail they attach to which makes getting them in the right place quite easy.
And before I go any further on the intakes it's time to give them a coat of flat white.
For this I used Tamiya Flat White XF-2 which was sprayed neat. The reason I sprayed it neat was so that it covers nicely – if it was thinned it would take a lot of coats to cover the grey. Also by spraying it neat you need to lay it on wetter than usual which allows the paint to cover over minor blemishes in the intake seams. Kind of like a very fine primer filler.
While I was in painting mode I also gave the pilots a coat of black primer prior to brush painting, and the engine compressor blades also got a coat of flat black.
Note here that (as usual) I CA glued the pilots heads onto cocktail sticks to provide a solid handle to use when painting. It's easy to crack the CA glue joint with a blade once they're done.
Next update: More work on the fuselage and finishing the intakes (at last 😉 ).


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Pattinson made the comments during an interview with MTV News about his new film Water For Elephants with Reese Witherspoon.
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Roger Bannister's feat turns 60
Oxford, England -- Sixty years later, Roger Bannister is busy reliving the four minutes that still endure as a transcendent moment in sports history.
It was on a wet, blustery spring day - May 6, 1954 - that the lanky English medical student became the first runner to break the fabled 4-minute barrier in the mile, a feat that many had thought was humanly impossible.
Helped by two pace runners, the 25-year-old Bannister completed four laps around a cinder track in Oxford in 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds, a milestone that captured the world's fascination and still resonates today.
"It was a target," Bannister, now 85 and fighting Parkinson's disease, said in an interview at his Oxford home, a short distance from the Iffley Road track where he made his name. "University athletes had been trying for years and it just didn't seem to be capable of being broken. There was this magic about four symmetrical laps of one minute each.
"It was just something which caught the public's imagination. I think it still remains something that is of interest and intrigue."
Bannister's record lasted just 46 days, and he considers his victory over Australian rival John Landy a few months later as his greatest running exploit.
Yet, as Tuesday's 60th anniversary attests, Bannister's 3:59.4 remains part of track and field lore, a symbol of boundary-busting endurance that stands the test of time.
It's only a slice of Bannister's life story. He retired from running at the end of 1954 and went on to pursue a long career in neurology that he considers more significant than anything he accomplished on the track.
"Medicine without a doubt," Bannister said when asked about his proudest achievement. "I wouldn't claim to have made any great discoveries, but at any rate I satisfactorily inched forward in our knowledge of a particular aspect of medicine. I'm far more content with that than I am about any of the running I did earlier."
The man knighted Sir Roger in 1975 is slowing down as the years pass. He's coping with the effects of Parkinson's.
Bannister's right ankle was shattered in a car accident in 1975, and he already had been unable to run since then. Now, he walks with crutches inside his home and uses a wheelchair outdoors.
Hundreds of athletes have run the mile in less than 4 minutes since Bannister did it, and the world record has been broken 18 times since then. The current mark of 3:43.13 was set by Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj in 1999.
Bannister and his wife of 58 years, Moyra, will mark Tuesday's anniversary of his run at Oxford University with family and friends - a lunch at Exeter College, where Bannister enrolled in 1946, and a ceremony at Vincent's Club, an elite 150-year-old sports club.
Missing will be Bannister's pace runners, Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway. Brasher, who founded the London Marathon, died in 2003 at the age of 74. Chataway died in January at 82.
"I miss them very much," Bannister said. "We used to meet on the anniversary on May 6 with our wives and sometimes with children and have a kind of party and reflect."


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Chadwick began his career in fashion while working for the prestigious Page Parkes Corporation. Heavily involved with models and their training/development, he found great success marrying his love for all things fashion with his business knowledge. Chadwick moved to Chicago in 1995 and became the director of artists for Aria (now Ford Models). While acting as agent for some of the top hair/makeup artist and wardrobe stylists in Chicago, Chadwick realized his passion for all things hair. Quickly, he began his training to become a master stylist. Chadwick is a graduate of San Jancinto College, where he has since served on the Cosmetology Advisory Board. He acquired advanced training from Vidal Sassoon, Schwartzkopf, Jameson Shaw and Redken, with whom he is a master specialist. Additionally, he had the honor of being the official hair stylist for Miss Houston, Miss Kemah, Miss Bay Area, Miss Northeast Texas and, ultimately, Miss Texas.
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As a lifelong Oak Parker, Valerie attended both Lincoln and Ascension schools. Additionally, she is a graduate of Oak Park & River Forest High School. Valerie found her passion working with children in beauty school. After spending the last three years at Sweet and Sassy in Oak Brook, she is thrilled to work in her hometown. Val specializes in updos, loves braiding and cutting bobs. Valerie is married, has two children and resides in Oak Park.
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- Handover of the Demining certificate for Sveto Brdo project funded by EU funds, CROMAC Director, Mr. Oto Jungwirth and the Head of Lovinac Municipality, Mr. Hrvoje Račić in the presence of Mr. Oskar Benedikt, Head of Operational Section for Social Cohesion, Regional Development and Infrastructure at EC Delegation in Croatia (19.11.2009.)
- Visit of the Head of World Bank Office in Croatia Mr. Andras Horvai to demining site in Gornje Mekušje (10.02.2009.)
- Signing of Mine Action Co-operation Agreement between the Yemen Executive Mine Action Centre and the Croatian Mine Action Centre (11.2.2009.)
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- Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding for German Government Donation for Demining of Croatia, CROMAC Deputy Director Mr. Mirko Ivanušić and the Head of ASB Office for SE Europe in Croatia, Wolfgang Raschka with the presence of Mr. Andreas Haack, Deputy of Ambassador of the FR of Germany to the RoC (20.08.2009.)
- Handover of the Croatian-American Golf Foundation donation cheque for demining operations in Novo Selište, Mr. Vladimir Blašković, chairman of the Foundation and Mr. Oto Jungwirth, Director of CROMAC in the presence of Mr. Petar Ljubičić, Croatian Consul-General to New York (26.08.2009.)
- Uncovering of the donor plaque as a symbol of gratitude to Government of Japan from the Town of Vukovar, Mayor of Vukovar, Mr. Željko Sabo and the Ambassador of Japan in Croatia, H.E. Mr. Yoshio Tamura(23.09.2009.)
- Exposition on Mine Action in the Republic of Croatia in the US Embassy, CROMAC Assistant Director Mr. Miljenko Vahtaria and Mr. Christopher Zimmer, Second Secretary (30.09.2009.)
- CROMAC Director Mr. Oto Jungwirth at the international seminar "Fire Management on Terrain Contaminated by Radioactivity, Unexploded Ordnance and Land Mines" that was in Ukraine (06.10.2009.)
- Handover of a demining certificate for project in Tordinci municipality financed by the Government of the Czech Republic donation, H.E. Mr. Karel Kühnl, the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the Republic of Croatia, Mr. Petr Štepánek, the secretary and CROMAC deputy director Mr. Mirko Ivanušić (3.12.2009.)


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Winner of The Deutscher Memorial Prize 2004. In a completely reworked edition of his classic (1991) volume, Michael A. Lebowitz explores the implications of the book on wage-labour that Marx originally intended to write. Focusing upon critical assumptions in Capital that were to be removed in Wage-Labour and upon Marx's methodology, Lebowitz stresses the one-sidedness of Marx's Capital and argues that the side of the workers, their goals and their struggles in capitalism have been ignored by a monolithic Marxism characterized by determinism, reductionism and a silence on human experience.
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MICHAEL A. LEBOWITZ has taught Marxian Economics and Comparative Economic Systems at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada since 1965 and is currently Professor Emeritus of Economics. In addition to his work on Marx, methodology and crisis theory, he has written extensively on the theory of a socialist economy.
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'Lebowitz's argument about the inadequacy of Marx's formulation of relative surplus value is a major contribution to Marxian thought.' - Tony Smith, Philosophy, Iowa State
'This book offers an outstanding contribution to Marxist theory. It is innovative, clear-sighted and thought-provoking. Lebowitz is one of the most original thinkers of our age. Beyond Capital should be read by all those with an interest in Marx's analysis of capitalism.' - Alfredo Saad-Filho, Political Economy, School of Oriental and Asian Studies, UK
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'...a rigourous, insightful and pleasantly readable book on the theme of class subjectivity, and this should give to any Marxist - especially any Marxist 'political economist' - sufficient reason for reading it.' - Massimo de Angelis, Capital & Class
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'Revised and expanded since the first edition of 1992, this study plays two important roles: it is an excellent introduction to fundamental concepts in Marx, with especially skillful exegesis of Marx's texts and interweaving of quotations, and thus is a significant addition to the corpus of materials for classroom use.' - David Laibman, Editor of Science & Society
'Beyond Capital stands out because it does in fact 'ruthlessly' address the 'durability of capital and the passivity of the working class'. Despite its own limited theorization of working class politics even in this second edition, the book stands an exciting and major contribution to the renewal of Marxism, and the revival of socialist politics. It includes much that is new, but equally important, it takes concepts and ideas that have been loosely applied before and, reminding us why rigour matters, provides them with a more solid foundation, a theoretical home. It touches an impressive number of the issues critical to moving 'beyond capital(ism)' and where it does not fully resolve them, it leaves us with an ambitious and worthy research agenda. Above all, it challenges a new generation to not only escape the fundamentalism that history has deflated, but also free itself of its false opposition, an eclecticism which does not have the theoretical legs to sustain a movement aspiring to take on capital, and go beyond it.' - Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, Bringing the Working Class In: Mike Lebowitz's Beyond Capital
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Why Marx? A Story of Capital
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Why Beyond Capital?
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The Missing Book on Wage-Labour
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"One of New England's most treasured edu- cational and cultural resources." — The Boston Globe
"The United Nations of the Youth Circus World!" — International Children's Festival, Washington, DC
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by Rob Mermin
I ran off to join the circus as a young man, with the goal of learning the trade and someday creating a circus of my own. I founded Circus Smirkus in 1987 to provide a place where kids could follow their own dreams right into the circus ring. Smirkus embodies the capacity of individuals to dream and, with imagination and perseverance, to enact their vision.
An artist lives by pursuing dreams, and these dreams are hungry puppies! I am familiar with the compulsive hands-on work of the entrepreneur who pursues a vision, achieves it, and then in amazement struggles constantly to feed its demanding appetite.
Why circus? There are myths surrounding this subculture; one wonders how the mud of a tent show mixes with the mystery of the ring to make magic. Smirkus was to be a revival of the tradition of small tent circuses—known as mud shows—traveling to small rural towns that the larger shows no longer played. It was to be a place where experienced circus artists worked as colleagues with a younger generation of talented students, in an atmosphere where the discipline, customs, traditions, and lifestyle of the itinerant circus were respected and passed on through the apprentice model of learning. It was to be a show under a one-ring big top which incorporated the artistic style of classical European circus, combined with an exuberant American energy and youthful slapstick spirit.
I dreamed of bringing the best traditions of my European circus background to American kids, and that meant mud, magic, and mystery: the hard life of being on the road mixed with a grand spirit of adventure. What hungry dreams! I wanted Smirkus to have a transformative spirit that would affect all who encountered it.
And all these dreams were realized....
Since its founding, Smirkus has brought together circus folks and youth from 32 countries, with a touring company of 70 people—tent crew, coaches, performers, musicians, cooks, staff, technicians, 25 trucks and caravans—doing 80 shows in 8 weeks in a 750-seat European big top. With 100 seasonal employees, the company also runs an overnight Summer Circus Camp, and year-round Circus Residency programs in New England schools reaching 4,000 kids.
As a company, Circus Smirkus is ruled not by the book, but by the heart.
The Smirkus nonprofit business model, partnering with local nonprofits wherever the company tours, has raised over $2 million for other youth groups.
Want to see the show? Go to circus camp? Get a job at the circus? Check out the www.smirkus.org website for everything about the company!
Find out more by reading Rob's first book: Circus Smirkus: A True Story of High Adventure and Low Comedy (ISBN: 0-9658076-06) written in 1997, and Rob's new (2012) coffee table book Circus Smirkus: 25 years of Running Home to the Circus! -- a comprehensive history of the company full of color photos, stories, anecdotes, interviews and the fun of the circus! Available through the www.Smirkus.org website.
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Sophisticated and stylish, an indulgent escape for adults seeking refuge from the rigors of the outside world. Here, within the resort's sprawling grounds, couples, friends and individuals are welcome to partake in whatever their hearts desire. Attentive service at every turn assures each guest of a harmonious, hassle free vacation filled with gourmet cuisine, expertly poured cocktails and enough memories to last several lifetimes. The resort is just 15 minutes from Sangster's International Airport and 5 minutes from two world-class golf courses.
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- For other items called The Took Offense, see The Took Offense.
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The Took Offense is a Legendary Leg Armor which can be equipped by Hunters. It can also be transferred between characters using the vault. The Took Offense can be dismantled to generate Glimmer.
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Foxtons said it has been hit by falling volumes in central London as stamp duty pressures put off buyers.
The figures
Although revenues grew 4.1 per cent to £149.8m in the year to the end of December, pre-tax profits fell 2.6 per cent to £41m, Foxtons said this morning.
But sales revenue rose 3.4 per cent to £72.2m as the number of units it sold rose 4.4 per cent to 5,558. It's a sign of the times, though, that revenue per sales unit fell one per cent to £12,990.
At its lettings unit, revenue grew 2.3 per cent to £68.9m, with revenue per letting unit rising 4.1 per cent to £3,357 - despite the number of lettings it made falling 1.7 per cent to 20,539.
The company nevertheless managed to hike its total dividend for the year by 13.4 per cent, to 11 pence per share.
Foxtons shares were up 0.16 per cent at 158.5p in early trading.
Why it's interesting
Foxtons' decision to focus on central London's most exclusive areas probably felt like a good idea at the time - but as the chancellor attempts to crack down on ultra-expensive homes, things are looking less certain.
The company has already been hit by a quasi-mansion tax which hit homes worth £1m plus and £2m plus - and now new changes to stamp duty mean from April, those buying second homes will be forced to pay an extra three per cent stamp duty.
And although there's some evidence prime property in London is experiencing something of a dead cat bounce as investors try to squeeze in transactions before the changes are implemented, there has also been suggestion demand for luxury homes will fall further this year - and won't recover until 2018. Add to that uncertainty around Brexit and turmoil in international markets, and it looks like Foxtons' bread and butter is at risk of going a little stale.
The good news is that with London homes out of reach for the majority of would-be buyers, the company is doing a roaring trade in the lettings market. And it's worth pointing out it plans to open seven new branches in 2016 - so it clearly expects this uncertainty to be more of a blip than a permanent state of affairs.
What Foxtons said
Chief executive Nic Budden said:
Looking ahead, the London residential property market continues to be highly attractive both in terms of sales and lettings although it is too early to predict how transaction volumes may be impacted by recent changes to the tax regime and the short term political and economic uncertainty caused by the UK referendum on leaving the European Union. We have entered the new year with an encouraging sales pipeline, a strong lettings book and a clear strategy for further growth through our organic branch expansion.
What other people said
Julie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, said:
Foxtons has delivered a solid performance in a tricky market with London property transactions significantly lower than last year and recent changes to stamp duty having dampened demand for higher value houses.
But the real question for investors is whether it can return to higher levels of growth in the face of global economic turmoil, uncertainty around Britain's future in the EU, the abolition of mortgage interest relief for buy-to-let investors and amid continued headwinds to transaction volumes in the capital or whether the recently announced buy back programme is an admission by management that it needs other routes to deliver shareholder returns.
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Not an easy time to be an estate agent focused on London's more exclusive areas - but Foxtons has done what it can.


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Stones goalkeeper Lee Worgan has been leading the team out since 2015 seasons but manager Jay Saunders feels it's time for an outfield player to take the arm band.
Midfielder Stuart Lewis is going to be the new skipper but Worgan will remain club captain.
The Stones are on a poor run in the National League and are without a victory since early November's narrow success at bottom club Torquay United.
Manager Saunders says it's vital they turn things around quicky and they are looking to build on two cup wins by beating Eastleigh at the Gallagher Stadium this weekend.
They will have a new man going up for the coin toss and Lewis spoke to Kent Online about his new role.
"It was a massive honour to be asked," he said. "I've been here a year and it's gone really well.
"It's good for me and my family because I've had a great time at the club and it's a great achievement and an honour to get that armband.
"It's nearly a year to the day since I joined and it's been a great 12 months, firstly with staying up and then winning the player-of-the-year award, and this is the icing on the cake.
"The affiliation I've got with everyone at the club has been brilliant. I want to kick on now and have a great end to the season."
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Dorset Holiday Cottages: The Area.
These attractive Dorset Holiday Cottages are peacefully situated between the Dorset Downs and the Blackmore Vale in the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Domineys Cottages are tucked away off a 'No through' road leading to farms and footpaths, making them an ideal holiday cottage base from which to explore Dorset's wonderful countryside - with rural landscapes which have retained their tranquil beauty over the centuries.
Dorset is steeped in history, offering castles, abbeys, museums, National Trust properties and other historic houses and gardens to visit, as well as the Jurassic World Heritage Coastline, wildlife parks and bird and nature reserves which may be of interest. Golf, fishing and horse riding are also possible.
The woods and fields here are home to foxes, deer, badgers, buzzards, ravens and herons with the small birds, butterflies and moths in the garden.
The Gaggle of Geese our village pub re-opens for the first 2018 May Bank holiday after a major refurbishment. There will once more be a pub with good food, 4 minutes walk from Domineys Cottages. There are out door play facilities for children. So no need to get in the car for a drink or a meal. However if you want to go further afield, there are also many attractive pubs and restaurants in adjacent villages, a short drive away, at Pulham, Middle Marsh, Cerne Abbas and in the Piddle Valley.
Our Dorset Holiday Cottages are located in Buckland Newton (Hardy's Newland Buckton), about eleven miles from the attractive towns, Sherborne, Dorchester and Sturminster Newton. They are within easy driving distance of Bristol, Bath, Salisbury, Bournemouth, Exeter and the Dorset coast..
Some links to local attractions are listed below:
World Heritage Site, Jurassic Coast
West Dorset Tourist Information
Abbotsbury Swannery and Gardens
Kingston Maurward Gardens and Animal Park
Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton


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It was a wonderful workday when, on Saturday, September 17, twenty-two Rutgers students and their leader came to our church in order to help with our property maintenance. Finally, long delayed projects had a serious chance to be accomplished. The students were part of a work force of 450, all engaged in various service projects in the community.
At the same time, Gary and I used the opportunity of a lunch break to tell the students the story of Rutgers University being founded by our once Dutch denomination. Since the students reflected an incredible scope of ethnic diversity, our presentation felt like coming to the world. It was met with great interest and a lot of questions.
Here is what we accomplished that day:
- Painting of the annex-entrance to the Randolph Room.
- Scraping of a part of the Sexton's House to support Paul Nulton's work there.
- Spraying herbicides around tombstones and covering sprayed areas with mulch.
- Complete painting of the upper parts of the rear stairwell in the education building.
- Hang curtains in much of the education building.
- Repair ceiling tiles in the kitchen.
- Remove two broken storm windows of the education building for repair.
- Prepare the replacement of the broken AC-unit in fellowship hall.
The whole day was a blessing, and I want to thank Gary, Lauren, Rod, Robert and Susan for helping supervise our volunteers. The church is a lot nicer for it.


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Bobby Lopez PGA Pro has been teaching golf since 1970. Bobby Lopez studied the golf swing under some of the most legendary ball strikers of all time – such as Vince Allen, Dick Farley, Chico Miartuz, Bob Toski, "Wild" Bill Melhorn, John Jacobs and Henry Cotton. He's a former European Touring Pro, and a full "Class A" Member of the PGA. He was nominated for Golf Magazine's list of Top 100 Golf Instructors.
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a nail gun....
Since we are doing bits and pieces of our House, ourselves,
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It would be, dandy.
A place for those who have the Love of Holiday Crafting and Creating. We put the Cream in the Cupcake. Not a Holiday? We'll make it One! From PiPe Cleaners and Styrofoam cups to Fused Glass, to House and Yard work, Recipes and Cooking,Movies, bOOks, Music, Vintage Fashion, New Fashion, Beauty, GoDDess Rituals, even Vacation Holidays. All those little things that make an ordinary day, a Holiday. Of course, Lots&Lots&Lots of Glitter... Ooh, Priscilla,schmoke anda paankake?