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A RUN-down Tameside train station could be given a major makeover if a bid from rail operator Arriva is successful.
The company says it will turn Guide Bridge station into a state-of-the-art facility if it is allowed to continue running the Trans-Pennine Express franchise next year.
Guide Bridge is one of five stations across the North West that Arriva plans to upgrade to 'Parkway' status.
A spokeswoman for Arriva said: "Parkway stations are very modern and attractive with CCTV and secure parking facilities.
"Plans are still being drawn up for Guide Bridge, but I know that development work will be carried out to improve the station's appearance, as well as making the platforms well covered and comfortable."
Arriva has pledged an investment of nearly £275m in new trains over the eight year franchise, which is up for renewal. The bid has been submitted to the Strategic Rail Authority, along with three other rival bids.
Mossley train station is also on track for improvements, after transport chiefs agreed to fund a study looking into stepping up security and accessibility.
Members of Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority's policy committee recently voted to pay up to £15,000 for the study.
The investigation will concentrate on ways to improve access to the eastern-bound platform, which can currently only be reached by a steep flight of steps.
Proposals to improve passengers' safety and security in the station and its car park will also be developed.
Cllr Geoff Brierley, a member of the authority, said: "Obviously, the physical constraints of the area in which the station was built mean that there is currently difficulty in providing full access to the eastern bound platform."
The move has been welcomed by Droylsden resident Stuart Eyres - a wheelchair-user and a regular visitor to Mossley.
He has been campaigning for years to have a lift fitted at the station, and said: "Anything that can possibly be done to make the station more accessible has to be welcomed.
"It's not just disabled people who have problems with the steps - I've seen mums with shopping and pushchairs really struggling to get up them."
Cllr Brierley added: "The authority has already funded work at Mossley to improve car parking provision and disabled access to the Manchester-bound platform, and we are very pleased to look into what further improvements can be made."
The SRA has recently allocated £430m for local rail schemes, and Cllr Brierley hopes some of this will be available for improvements at Mossley.


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Truth be told, only 2% of restoring an old house is glitz & glamour. The rest is totally mundane....the kind of stuff you can file under "when will I stop discovering crap like this!" I sometimes hesitate to even post about this kind of stuff for fear of boring the snot out of blog readers.
There has been a quiet rustling in a exterior wall in my living room for a couple of years. It actually was probably there when I moved in; the previous owner was less than truthful in her disclosures, I have discovered.
I've never really been able to tell if it is something outside in the downspout.....or something that has been able to work it's way into the concrete block of the foundation. I never got too alarmed by it because there was never any threat that it would get into my house, there was never any chewing noise, and it always disappeared when I tried to pay attention and figure out where is was coming from. Nevertheless, I have spent quite a few hours caulking the eaves and windows in this area hoping to eliminate this little guest.
I'm not sure exactly why it dawned on me last weekend that I should look down rather than up at the eaves to solve this mystery. The exterior of the house is stucco, the foundation is concrete block with a smooth cement exterior overlay surface. It seemed pretty impenetrable. But, something caught my eye.
The exterior, decorative surface of the foundation had a spot where it had worn through about 4" below the surface in this one corner of the house. I somehow tend to discover crap like this when the temp. is in the mid 90's.
So, Sunday I spent my afternoon in the parching heat patching this hole in the foundation. It's going to be below dirt level, so I went with sturdy rather than pretty. So far, no more noise.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
The Totally Mundane
Truth be told, only 2% of restoring an old house is glitz & glamour. The rest is totally mundane....the kind of stuff you can file under "when will I stop discovering crap like this!" I sometimes hesitate to even post about this kind of stuff for fear of boring the snot out of blog readers.
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Labels: Exterior, foundation
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Better Late Than Never
Tee Hee.
I sorted through today's mail and found a bid for fabricating my copper drip edge. It's a week and few days late, but Company #3 came through for me.
I'm signing the contract and sending it in tomorrow.
Did you hear that huge sigh of relief? Although, I suppose I shouldn't relax and let down my guard until I have that thing installed, right?
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Labels: Drip Edge, Exterior, Fabricator, Overhang
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Plastic Replacements
I'll admit to being a bit of a lawn furniture snob. When I moved into this house, two wood Adirondack chairs came with me. No plastic furniture for my back yard.
Well, those chairs served me faithfully for nearly 15 years. Last week one tragically succumbed to rot.
It occurred to me that I am in no position to be throwing money willy-nilly at lawn furniture that is going to need maintenance. I have bills to pay, and I have also come to the realization that the days of me having time to paint lawn furniture are probably pretty far off.
After all, I have an entire house exterior to scrape & paint. I have 80 yr old windows to restore. I have copper drip edge guys to track down. I have backband to locate. I have a kitchen to restore.
So, when I spotted these chairs at my local hardware store on clearance......and the kind cashier told me she would take two of my Ace Rewards $5 off coupons......I thought to myself......what could be the harm in having a few plastic chairs.
Their warranty is for 3 years.....and that's about the time I should be able to work in a some new wood Adirondacks.
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Labels: Back Yard
Sunday, July 22, 2007
If the Phone Doesn't Ring.....
No, Dick the copper drip edge fabricator did not call with an estimate last Wed. as promised.
Nor did he call on Thurs. or Friday or Sat. or Sun. I now feel a little like Pollyanna for thinking that he would.
Enough said.
I have now called 3 roofers and 5 sheet metal fabricator/roofers. 5 came out to see the overhang, told me they would be happy to do the work, promised to call with an estimate.....and then just vanished. One called with an estimate, got the job and then vanished. Is this how roofers in the Twin Cities operate these days? Really?
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Labels: Drip Edge, Exterior, Fabricator, Overhang
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Casement Windows
Happy Birthday to me. Happy Birthday to me.
I have four banks of inward swinging casement windows. Each bank has three windows. It's hard to find window treatments for these windows. The PO had mini-blinds mounted to the wood trim above each window, so in order to open the window you needed to pull the mini blinds completely open and the wrestle the window inward past the bundle above it. Ugly. If you attach standard curtains to the window itself, then in order to really open the curtains, you need to open the window.
One day in a fabric store I ran across swing curtain rods. The rod rests in hardware that allows it to swing inward. So, you can open the window unencumbered......and you can have the curtain open or closed. A very nice solution. A couple of years ago I bought some for one bank of my living room casements.
Today as a birthday present to myself, I'm ordering more for my sunroom windows. I'm debating which final to choose.....
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Labels: Casement Windows, Curtains, Hardware, Windows
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
My Copper Drip Edge
You came to this post expecting to see a photo of my new copper drip edge.
Yea, that would have been nice.
Wish I had a new copper drip edge to show you. It's not for lack of trying. I assure you.
I've now started to take the "He's Just Not That Into You" approach to home contractors. It spares me the pain of sitting by the phone waiting for their call. Maybe I should write a book. Hmmm.
I thought I had a metal guy all lined up. Steve from Company #1 came out and told me he could do it. He called with an estimate, and I told him immediately to go ahead. Then things got sketchy. He didn't call when he said he would. I asked him if you could do a quick drawing of how the drip edge would look and he balked. Then he just drifted away. Presumably to customers that wanted their whole roof done in shiny copper.
So, Tom from Company #2 came out. I carefully explained to the company before they sent someone out what I was looking for....that this was a small job (under $1k). They assured me it was right up their alley. Tom took a look at my roof and told me this was something he certainly could do. He just needed to send out the roofer to take a look at it and would then send me an estimate. I should have been a bit suspicious when he tried to suggest I needed a whole new section of roof - every other company has told me they can cut this in. I waited 2 weeks. Then, thinking there may have been a mix-up called and left a message. No one even returned my call. I guess they don't want the job, huh?
Last week I finally had Dick from Company #3 come out. I once again explained that this was a small project...I needed a 10' arched, copper drip edge. I have high hopes for this guy. We chatted for a while about restoring old houses, etc. He thought he could have an estimate to me by Wed. of this week. I remain cautiously optimistic.
This has been going on since May and I'm running out of metal fabricators in the city to call....
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Labels: Drip Edge, Exterior, Fabricator, Overhang
Friday, July 13, 2007
The Threshold
Yesterday I finally painted my front door threshold. My motto on this outdoor stuff is "I never ever want to have to do this again...or at least for not for a really long time." To that end, I went to the paint store and asked them to suggest a heavy duty porch floor paint to use on the threshold. The woman suggested a Benjamin Moore (the only brand of paint I use) Porch & Floor Urethane Reinforced Alkyd Enamel.
The only catch was that it comes in high gloss. I wasn't too sure I wanted high gloss anywhere near my front door. I debated for a few minutes and then decided it was such a small strip of horizontal wood, that it wouldn't be very noticable.
Holy cow, this stuff is nasty. It is oil based, so you have all of that.....but on top of that it's just plain goopy. I managed to get two coats on. Amazingly, once it dried it was a smooth coat.
Here's what I like about my neighborhood. I'm out there laying on my front step trying the get paint on the underside of the threshold...and I hear people politely shout out......"It's looking good!".....and "Nice job".....as they walk by on the sidewalk out for their evening stroll :-)
Finally, a little walk down memory lane. What my front door looked like shortly after I moved in (note the lack of side insets and the fine pressure treated step). What it looks like now (sorry for the sun & shade).
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Labels: Exterior, Front Door, Paint, Painting
Sunday, July 08, 2007
The New Chair
I'm not supposed to be shopping for antiques right now. My focus is supposed to be on the exterior of my house.
Oh well. It's been a tough week.
Meet my new chair. It is maple, handmade and according to the antiques guy 100-150 yrs old. Clearly, it needed a good home.
Posted by StuccoHouse at 11:48 PM 4 comments Links to this post
Friday, July 06, 2007
The eternal optimist in me had hoped for better.
Rejuvenation was a big No Go for the back band trim I need. I called their store in Portland. Yes, they have the exact back band profile I need in stock. Yes, it is Douglas Fir. Yes, it is more than 75% less expensive than quotes I have been getting locally for something that only comes close to what I need.
No, they will not send it to me. No, not even if I pay shipping and whatever handling charge/profit they need. No, not even if they are my last option.
They are not equipped to ship.
Really? Cuz they shipped a pretty elaborate dining room lamp to me complete with 5 glass shades, and it arrived in one piece. I could be wrong, but it would seem 5 sticks of wood would be a whole heck of a lot easier.
No, they will not even give me the name of the millwork company that makes the back band for them so I can ask them if they will ship to me.
So, I got off the phone with Portland and contacted Siwek Lumber & Millwork, a local company and my last hope. I asked them if I could fax the profile I need to them and they could check if they have anything close and give me call back. If they had something I'd drive across town to see it. The guy was not thrilled but he said yes. When I hadn't heard from them by the end of the day, I called back. The guy I had spoken to earlier had gone home. No, he didn't check. No, the guy now answering the phone would not check......if the fax was sent to the other guy. No one ever got back to me. Good grief.
I think the thing that makes me so fricken frustrated is that these companies have positioned themselves in the market as a friend to old house owners. All of their marketing proclaims to the world that they understand what it is to work on old houses. They tell warm fuzzy stories about how they helped people restore their homes. Unlike the big box stores, they are all about customer service.
Uh huh.
Posted by StuccoHouse at 2:42 PM 16 comments Links to this post
Labels: Back Band, Exterior, Millwork, Moulding, Restoration, Wood Trim
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Old Hardware
Just a quick photo of a very cool door hardware set I inherited from my uncle. He was a saver of old things. He was also responsible for closing down a number of the old family farms when my relatives passed away over the years. So, I suspect this door set came from one of the old German farm houses built by one of my relatives.
The practical part of me thinks the knobs would look very cute mounted on a board and used as coat hangers. The historical side of me has been telling me that it would be a shame to pull apart perfectly good hardware.
Maybe I can work the intact set into some furniture (kitchen cabinet or armoire) somewhere down the line.
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Labels: Hardware, Influences
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Back Band Hunting
I may come to the realization that this is the going rate, but I sure was in for a surprise yesterday when I stopped into a local millwork shop to price replacement trim for my windows. I knew it was going to be expensive, but I didn't have a clue it could go this high.
I'm looking for back band to replace exterior trim on my house that was either cut away when they installed the aluminum many years ago.....or had just failed on it's own account. As I've been stripping the woodwork around my front windows, I noticed that the back band was in pretty bad condition here too. There is rot, some splitting and chunks of the profile that look like they are just worn off - not to mention that someone along the way thought that using glazing putty on the trim instead of caulk might be a good idea.
So, I decided that I should replace all of the back band around the front windows and then use what I can salvage of the old to do minor replacements in the other spots (1 foot here and there). My goal is to never, ever have to deal with this exterior stuff again once I have it painted, so I want to do it absolutely right the first time.
I haven't been able to find the back band as a stock item (no big surprise). But I knew that there was millwork place nearby that had a profile very close to mine as part of their profile catalog - meaning they had the blade, but make the run to your order. They do not have to create a blade.
I need 21' of back band for the front window - a 10' piece for the top and two 5' pieces for the side. Their price in basic pine - drum roll, please - $205. Any other wood better suited for exterior, say cedar, would run more. When I asked if they had any other option he showed me an overrun from a custom order (see photo for small sample). Again, it was pine and was about .5" wider than mine. He had one 8' and two 7' pieces that he would part with for $5 a foot - $105. I'd have to splice the pieces for the top of the window.
It may be that I have to go back and pay $105 for that trim and be happy to have it. But, because I'm not in a huge hurry I'm going to continue to do some hunting. I can certainly see why one of the previous owners just replaced one side of the front window with a flat profile.
Rejuvenation, out in Portland, has the exact back band profile I need as part of their standard catalog (see photo of their catalog page). The exact one. Next week I'll give them a call and see if they would be willing to ship four 5' 3" sections. We'll see. Maybe if I cry over the phone ;-)
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Labels: Back Band, Exterior, Front Door, Millwork, Moulding, Restoration, Windows, Wood Trim

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Get Youth into IT (GYIT) project partners meeting organized in Kaunas, Lithuania on 18-19 of September, 2017. The partners had a very intensive and fruitful discussions about outcomes and further steps of the project as follows:
Intellectual Outputs:
- The GYIT Carrer Guidance Pack was agreed.
Piloting process:
- The method of piloting of Follow on Pack and Carrer Guidance Pack were disscussed and agreed.
Work Plan September 2017 – December 2017:
- Work plan revised and agreed.


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As the name suggests, a heat pump moves heat from a cooler place to a warmer place, using the same principles as a common air-conditioner or refrigerator. Air-source and ground-source heat pumps can both heat and cool homes, and high performance heat pump systems with variable speed compressors can provide significant comfort benefits compared to conventional systems, as well as reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Fortunately, moving heat as opposed to generating it directly requires substantially less energy, making these system much more efficient than conventional electric or fossil fuel systems. Fossil fuel system efficiency is below 100% since some energy goes up the flue, with typical values of 85% for oil and 90-95% for propane or natural gas. Ignoring losses in electricity generation, efficiency for electric resistance heat is 100%. A heat pump's efficiency relative to electric resistance, called the Coefficient of Performance (COP), is typically a factor of 2.5 to 4 for air-source heat pumps (meaning 250% – 400% efficient), or 4.5 to 6 for ground-source heat pumps. This is substantially higher than fossil fuels even taking into account the losses in electricity generation. Note that efficiency in this case can be above 100% since heat pumps extract heat from the outdoor environment.
Heat pumps for home heating consist of an outdoor compressor and one or more indoor units connected with pipes. Air-source heat pumps (ASHPs), which use the outside air as the source of heat, are more common and come in two basic types, ductless or ducted (taking advantage of existing ductwork). They can be installed to heat and cool just one room, a few rooms or the entire home. Usually, a backup heating system is used to provide heat on the coldest winter days, when the ASHPs heating capacity falls.
Ground-source heat pumps (GSHPs), also referred to as 'geothermal', are the highest efficiency systems available, because they extract heat from the ground which is at a fairly constant temperature. GSHPs are generally whole-home systems, requiring one or more wells near a home from which to extract the heat. This makes them a sizable investment, which is partly offset by Federal 30% tax credits and other rebates.
For more information, please check out our video series which has both technical information and testimonials from several heat pump owners in our towns.
Frequently Asked Questions
Visit the heat pump information page hosted by the Town of Concord Municipal Light Plant.


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Maldives: Fear for safety: Aminath Najeeb (f), human rights defender; editor of newspaper Minivan
Human rights defender Aminath Najeeb is the editor of the newspaper Minivan, which has been critical of the government. The authorities are now preparing to detain her, which would put her at risk of severe ill-treatment. If she is detained for two weeks or more, she will not be legally able to continue as the editor of a national newspaper: the government appears to be attempting to silence one of the few newspapers in the country that dares to criticise it.


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New Creation Church to offer eggs-cellent event
Craig Easter egg hunt features many activities
If you go
What: Easter egg hunt
When: 11 a.m. Saturday
Where: New Creation Church, 520 Westridge Road
Registration for the free event begins at 10 a.m. The egg hunt is open to toddlers through fifth-graders, and all children should be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Extra parking will be available at Ridgeview Elementary School. For more information, call 970-826-0792.
For a third year in a row, New Creation Church will host an Easter egg hunt for families in the community at 11 a.m. Saturday.
With 10,000 eggs prepared, children will have no shortage of the holiday icon as they search for them on the church's property. All are welcome for the free event, which is open to youths in fifth grade and younger.
Registration begins at 10 a.m., and before the egg hunt, kids and their parents can enjoy a variety of activities, such as face-painting, a petting zoo and bounce houses. Children also can enter drawings the church will offer for giveaways of more than a dozen free bicycles.
Organizer Jessica Ashton said the preparation for the event, which last year saw about 300 children and 600 people total, begins in January and involves work and donations from many of the church's parishioners to provide a fun environment the day before Easter.
"We have it Saturday, so everyone can spend Sunday with their families," she said. "We just want to show God's love and generosity to our community."


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Finding lost or forgotten passwords
A lost password can be a nightmare for administrators. Unfortunately it is not an uncommon problem. Our experts often answer questions on how to get into computers with lost passwords. Here are some of their best answers.
Lost passwords are really more of an administrative problem, but passwords have become synonymous with security because so much network security relies on passwords. The stronger you make your passwords, the more chance they will be lost or forgotten. That's where our experts come in.
Over the past year or so they've gotten a number of requests to help solve lost password issues. The experts try to help to a degree, often concerned about the righteousness of the requests. But, alas, the inherant security of passwords is a topic for another day.
Below are some of the more popular answers to the lost password question, with each expert providing their own unique perspective. At the bottom of the page are links to more password quandaries.
Solving login/lost password issues
Question: I recently installed Windows 2003 server and everything is running well. About one week later, I rebooted my server and attempted to log in with my administrator password and the system blocked me from logging in because of an administrator account problem. Now, I don't know what happened to the administrator password. Can you provide me with some information on how to bypass this and fix my problem.
Kevin Beaver's answer: It sounds like you'll need to reset the administrator password. Check out NT Access – it's great for this.
Accessing a laptop without the BIOS password
Question: I have a Sony laptop that shuts down at start up. I need to get into the BIOS, but I don't have the password. Is there a way to bypass it or a backdoor code?
Jonathan Hassell's answer: You might try disabling the battery that powers the BIOS on the mainboard, but even that may not work. Your best bet is to call Sony and explain your problem; they'll have information on how to access the laptop.
How can I retrieve a BIOS password?
Question: I have forgotten the BIOS password, obviously making it difficult for me to log in. I have checked the "always" option as well. How do I go about retrieving this?
Roberta Bragg's answer: You may need to contact the manufacture of your hardware. Some systems may have maintenance backdoors or other ways to regain access. Alternatively, you may be able clear the BIOS password by flipping the appropriate jumper or dipswitch on the motherboard. Again, seek expert help. Computer Hope also has recommendations on common BIOS passwords that you might try.
Question: What tools can I use to crack or replace the passwords on a Windows 2000 machine?
Wes Noonan's answer: There are a number of tools ranging from freeware to commercial software.
- John the Ripper
- L0phtCrack
- Emergency Boot CD: This CD contains a number of utilities, including password recovery and cracking tools.
- Offline NT Password and Registry Editor
- Login Recovery
- Ultimate BootCD
- Knoppix
If you are starting to get the feel that Windows passwords aren't that secure, especially if one manages to get physical access to the box, you are correct.
Also, check out the solutions to these lost password problems:
Managing passwords and passphrases
Resetting the default password policy


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January is finally over. Sadly, winter isn't. Thank goodness February only has 28 days! Spring will be here soon and hopefully more brighter days which will mean more chances to do outdoor fun and activities for the little ones.
Laurence the dad behind the blog Chasing Wilderness, certainly knows about outdoor adventures in nature. Come and have a little read:
Tell us something about yourself and your little ones.
My name is Laurence and I live in Bristol with my wife Adele and my two girls Ophelia who is nearly 1 and Talitha who is 3 and a half.
What was your little ones birth stories like?
Gosh. That could be an essay. Two very different births. One hospital. One at home which went much more smoothly and was more how we wanted it. Suffice to say I now know that if your first birth doesn't go according to plan, there is no reason why the second one can't.
What you wish you knew about being a Dad before becoming one?
It's not all about the birth. I was too focused on that and not enough on the rest of my life after that.
How do you balance your time between work and fatherhood?
I recently became freelance with the aim of not having to work all the time to earn the necessary bacon. We're trying to live on the minimum we need so that I can spend time with the family here and there. Sometimes it's enforced when the work doesn't come in, but I try and stay relaxed and enjoy time with the family.
How do you manage child-free time with your wife? Do you have date-nights?
We go through spurts of doing this for a few weeks, then it falls by the way side. So the answer is no, but we ought to.
Any favourite anecdotes of your little ones?
I'm not great with anecdotes. The almost one-year-old is going through a huge developmental spurt right now and it's amazing how relatable she's becoming. Every morning she shuffles over to the door to wave me goodbye as I leave for work.
What is it about fatherhood you love about?
Discovering new things about these little people I have in my care. Teaching them things. I really want to impart an outdoorsy spirit, love of nature, the land, origins of food, active lifestyle and love seeing them start their journey in this. I love it when the older one wants to re-examince a plant we were looking at even a few weeks back.
If there is anything about fatherhood you dislike about, what would it be?
Not having enough time to do pastimes and sports. I've not been surfing in ages, which is criminal.
If you were given the chance to be a stay-at-home-Dad would you take it?
No way. Far too much like hard work.
Best Advice you've ever received about Fatherhood?
I can't really think of any. I guess I'm trying to enjoy it as much as I can now. Not work too hard and find time to be with the kids. Everyone always says it goes by too fast, it just always seems to coincide with peak moments in people's careers. Balancing work ambition and fatherhood ambitions is what I'd like to try and do.
If you can give yourself advice before becoming a Dad, what would it be?
Don't do it! No, do do it! It's a strange thing… it's such a roller coaster of good things, amazing cuddles and play fights, laughter and joy at seeing first steps etc, coupled with immense frustration at them not sleeping, crying and pouring salt everywhere in cafes while I'm trying to enjoy a coffee.
Thank you so much Laurence!
To read more about this lovely family's outdoor fun and adventure, do head over to Chasing Wilderness. You can also follow him over at twitter here.
Click here, if you've missed January's Chat with a Mum, she also happens to be the wife of February's Chat with a Dad 🙂


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Following our League Of Legends staff announcement last week, we're delighted to welcome our new in-house substitute, Gabriel 'Bwipo' Rau, to the team!
Young and hungry to improve, the Belgian will work directly with the EU LCS roster, notably as well from the most experienced European professional in Paul 'sOAZ' Boyer.
Bwipo joins the roster following stints in multiple regions, first in Turkey's TCL with Dark Passage before moving onto RoX in the CIS region's LCL.
'I'm excited to announce that I'll be participating in FNATIC's League of Legends team as a substitute for the top lane.
Being a substitute, I'll attempt to share knowledge with the team, and learn from the vast experience the players have gathered.
I thank FNATIC for this opportunity, and look forward to proving my own, and the organisations expectations for 2018.' - Gabriel 'Bwipo' Rau (In House Substitute, Top Lane)
We're thrilled to have acquired Bwipo for the 2018 season, both for the added perspective he will bring to our side but also the knowledge and growth he himself will gain from the team.
Welcome! #FNCWIN


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Everyone has their limits. As you know, I reached mine with winter about a month ago. Shortly after, from eating nothing but pasta and living off couch cushion change for weeks, I surpassed my limit with the "between job" lifestyle. Three sentences in, I am already pushing my limit for this blog post, because I'd rather be watching House of Cards. Seriously, am I the only person on earth who didn't watch the second season in a single day? To be fair, there have been a few other things (and a few other shows) on my plate.
When I last Blobbed (I sometimes affectionately refer to this thing you're reading as my Blob), I was sunning in the frozen tundra that is Martha's Vineyard. That is, lying prostrate on a sofa and delighting my older brother with this year's version of My Plans to Change My Life as he administered vodka cranberries into my system via central line. What in the summer is a bustling a tourist community is for all intents and purposes shut down this time of year, although we did hit up a bar on the first night complete with live island jams and some seriously drunk moms and dads. Since I majored in Drunk Senior Citizens in college they are a bit of my expertise, and I felt right at home, closing my eyes and vibing to the serious saxophone tunage. Truthfully, I was just wasted, and a weekend with a bunch of old irrelevant beach strangers was just what I'd needed after being trapped in my house for the whole month of January. That, and unlimited hot baths and sandwiches and sexting and episodes of Forensic Files. And that's exactly what I got, plus six inches of snow, House Hunters on demand, solicited and unsolicited relationship advice, endless shit talk, and 10 hours of sleep a night. We even got a nice hike in there, which for Nate means literally running uphill through the woods. But hey, I had some calories to kill. Plus, winter in the vineyard might be the most beautifully spooky thing I've ever seen.
Venus went direct just in time for Mercury to slide into retrograde, so after I rode the megabus back to New York and successfully repressed the entire experience, I was prepared for things to be a little fucked up. And I was right. My computer was suddenly on the fritz, not holding a charge, shutting off in the middle of things. I was terrified and frantically backing things up when I could, certain that this was the end for my best friend. Meanwhile, servers were down all over the place. I couldn't get burritos on Grubhub when I wanted them. The people at Chipotle were forgetting to add cheese. Okay, so most of my problems were Mexican food related, but I'm sure Susan Miller will tell you it was all fucking Mercury's fault.
The day after I returned, I met up with Reid and a few others for a "night on the town," which according my version of Winter Nightlife meant drinking at my apartment until 1, stumbling and grumbling over snow piles on the way to the bar where I'd nurse a cocktail for 2 hours and do a bunch of poppers, before hopping in a cab home that was clearly out of my budget. On this particular night, I calculated that I would need four 24 ounce Coronas to get the party started, so by the end I was a complete and total mess in the head a la 2011-2012 (without the assaults, arrests or afterhours). I was asleep by 3:30 and spent the rest of the next 24 hours shivering and shitting and feeling sorry for myself. Was nearly 100 ounces of beer, two double gin and tonics and a bottle of poppers suddenly TOO MUCH for me to handle? Had I gone soft in my old age? Or had I simply been putting up with hangovers of this magnitude for the last five-plus years of my life and could no longer choose to accept it? This is why I can really only fuck with Tito's vodka. I don't even think it gets you drunk I mean it's basically Evian. 5 out of 5 doctor's recommend it! Or was that judges and rehab? Gotcha.
In a spectacularly romantic gesture a few weeks prior, my significant other had bought me a plane ticket to come spend Valentine's weekend with him before I started my new job. Because I hadn't quite been sufficiently depressed and sex deprived enough in the frigid weeks since I'd last seen him, mother nature decided to bring another fuckface of a blizzard our way just before my departure. What would I do if this flight was cancelled? I missed him so much. And I thought about it and I'd tried but I just could not masturbate anymore. I called JetBlue to take proactive measures at switching to better flight times, asking all kinds of questions and begging for advice and using words like "tarmac." Ultimately I decided to take a gamble and keep my original flight for the morning after the last day of snow, and somehow managed to depart and arrive on time.
In Chapel Hill I encountered the expected level of collective dismay when my crop of local bff's all realized my time was spoken for by the boy who'd brought me there, and every moment that I was not [insert disgusting sex act here] I felt really bad about not being able to see them. That being said, I also had delicious meals, intimate moments, eye contact and body contact with the person I love, so I wasn't exactly overcome with sadness. That Saturday, in accordance with my NormCore boyfriend's plans, I got to see a side of Chapel Hill I'd never seen before, one that is familiar to almost all of its other students and alumn: Frat Life. I even saw a sport on TV. I won't say they were the highlights of my weekend, but they certainly made me feel one with the people. I was like Frank Underwood at that Civil War reenactment. I wasn't really about it, but I admired their conviction.
By Sunday the bae and I had to say our goodbyes. I was headed back to Brooklyn once again, this time to do actual "work" and make "money" so I could "live." What a total drag. Before my flight my mother met us at the Starbucks in the lobby of the airport to say hello and goodbye to me and be introduced to my new partner for the first time. First we had the pleasure of telling her we met on fucking Twitter. Then she asked him how he was doing handling "all of this," and pointed at me. "She can be kind of a lot." I would have been upset had I not known her for 24 years and thus been absolutely certain she was complimenting me in her own way.
As I walked through security in mismatched socks covered in my boyfriend's roommate's dog's hair, I dreaded going back to New York. I knew I'd miss my boyfriend, but was it more than that? I hadn't wanted to be there for a while, but I didn't know what I was running from either. Responsibility? Chasing the dream? Watching Forensic Files alone?
As I stepped into my snow-stained uggs at the end of the TSA line, I was not a sorority girl, not yet a woman. But I was glad that, at the very least, I had someone to eat burritos with on Skype.


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- 1/2 cup honey
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- 2 Tablespoons soy sauce
- 1/4 cup lime juice, fresh
- 2 medium garlic cloves, smashed
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- 1, 14 oz kielbasa, cut into 1/2 inch thick slices (about 38)
- 1 small yellow onion, 1 inch square slices (38 )
- 38 small bamboo skewers
- In a large bowl mix together the honey, sweet chili sauce, soy, lime juice and garlic clove.
- Add the pineapple, kielbasa and onion to the mixture and marinate for 1 hour or up to overnight.
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The Elephant in the Room
Mental Health and Anti-Social Behaviour
This week is Mental Health Awareness week. As we hear from victims and speak to agencies, it is clear that mental health and anti-social behaviour are closely interlinked.
It is a difficult topic and we would suggest that often in cases of ASB it is the elephant in the room – that is, the obvious problem or risk no one wants to discuss or challenge.
Doubtful? Listen to the account of this victim who completed our online survey:
"I have been accused of being put here by the Housing Association and Council to spy on my neighbour, then he raved for 4 hours about cults making sacrifices and murdering people, that his car had been tampered with by residents, that myself and other residents were all acting together in a cult, watching him with binoculars and using radios to communicate with each other. He says the nurses from nearby home are involved too. He told me that men dressed all in back go into his house when he's not there. Says tenancy officer had been accessing his medical records and that he goes into his house when it's empty. Accused me of putting blue crystals in his water and tampering with his supply."
The upshot of all this, which has caused real distress to the victim, is that the Housing Association has closed his complaint because the person is not violating their tenancy agreement.
The Challenges when Mental Health is involved
There are unique challenges when there is mental health involved. First of all, in a situation like that described above, both perpetrator and victim are victims – one of the anti-social behaviour, the other of what would seem to be mental health leading to delusions. There are also people who report anti-social behaviour who themselves are suffering mental health. This may affect their perception of what is really anti-social, and therefore seem unreasonable in their complaint.
Further complications include:
- some agencies can seem reluctant to get involved in reported ASB or a neighbour dispute when there is mental health involved
- some victims are left to suffer in silence because the agency they report the ASB to is unsure what to do about the perpetrator because of his or her mental health and the vulnerability involved
- because of confidentiality, often the victim cannot even be told that the perpetrator is suffering mental health – it is never mentioned, only suspected
The Community Trigger
We have championed the Community Trigger since its introduction in October 2014. Interestingly, we have been told by agencies that they sometimes recommend the Community Trigger to a victim they are working to help, because "it is the only way to get Mental Health round the table".
This is extremely concerning. An agency like the Council needs to get the victim to activate a formal process like the Community Trigger to get the Mental Health department of the same Council to attend a meeting and contribute their solution to the situation.
We are sure there is a high correlation between mental health and anti-social behaviour, especially given how subjective the definition of anti-social behaviour is, and how dependent on perception it is. Dealing effectively with anti-social behaviour involves good partnership working. It also involves individuals and communities being reasonable and tolerant but seeing action taken when behaviour is unacceptable.
If mental health is hidden and unspoken, proper partnership and communication is impossible and victims will continue to be fobbed off and unsupported, and those suffering the debilitating effects of mental health will not receive the support they so desperately need. So let's get the elephant out of the room and be more mental health aware.


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Water vapor, or humidity, is the biggest source of crawl space problems. As the water evaporates it rises, going through your crawl space insulation, floor joists, subflooring and the rest of your home, creating a path of destruction. If the source of the crawl space humidity is left unchecked, your home will start to have more problems like mold on your baseboards, squeaky floors and high electric bills.
Your crawl space doesn't need to have puddles to have a water problem. Crawl space humidity is caused by:
Moisture from the ground:
A hot, dry summer or period of drought can create problems for your home's foundation. When soil dries, it contracts, pulling away from your foundation. The shrinking soil creates a gap next to your foundation which allows it to shift and settle.
Moisture from the air:
If your home has a vented crawl space then you're letting in water vapor, creating crawl space humidity. Warm air can hold more water than cold air, so venting your crawl space in the summer is only letting in more moisture.
House Settling:
Poor Pier Column Spacing:
When your home was built, pier columns were installed in the crawl space to support the weight of the floors above the columns. If the columns weren't spaced properly then the floor joists, or beams, will begin to sag. Your home will have sagging floors or uneven floors where the floor joist is over spanned.
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Cheryl Cole has said that it is time that people forgave Chris Brown for assaulting his then-girlfriend Rihanna.
Brown attacked Rihanna on the evening of the 2009 Grammy Awards and was subsequently sentenced to five years of probation and six months of community labour. Earlier this year, a US court rejected his plea to end his probation term.
Speaking on The Hits radio station, Cole said that she thought it was time Brown was forgiven by everyone and that she respected Rihanna for doing so herself.
Asked about what she thought of the Chris Brown and Rihanna situation, Cole said: "I think it's really kind of Rihanna actually. She's come out and publicly forgiven him really. I think it's about time we all did if I'm completely honest, if you want my opinion."
Asked why, she added: "I work with people all the time with my charity that are transformed characters. They've done things when they were young that they regret, they've been to prison and they're now upstanding members of the public and help our community and are amazing people."
Then speaking about why she believed people were still hostile towards Brown and what she thought of him, she said: "I think because he's in the limelight. He hasn't had the chance to be forgiven or to forgive himself because we haven't let him. Now that she's come out and embraced him again, I think it's time we all moved on. That guy is talented as hell."
Cheryl Cole will release 'A Million Lights' on June 18. The record will be the singer's third studio album and is the follow-up to her 2010 effort 'Messy Little Raindrops'.
'A Million Lights' will be the first album that the singer releases under the name of 'Cheryl'. Last month, it was revealed that she was ditching her surname for her recording career, as she is eager to distance herself from her former marriage to Premiership footballer Ashley Cole, who she divorced in 2010 following several high-profile claims that he had cheated on her.


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Finding A Balance
by Jo Abbess
10th April 2008
Today is the second time I have started to read James Hansen's report "Target Atmospheric CO2 : Where Should Humanity Aim ?" :-
From the Abstract alone, I can tell that this is report is going to be very hard for some people to comprehend.
"Decreasing CO2 was the main cause of a cooling trend that began 50 million years ago, large scale glaciation occuring when CO2 fell to 425+/-75 ppm..."
CO2 = Carbon Dioxide; ppm = parts per million
Now I know exactly what the Climate Obstructionists (Deniers, Skeptics, Sceptics, Warmistas, Delayers) will say.
"Oh look ! When the CO2 levels were at 450 ppm, give or take a bit, the Earth entered an Ice Age ! So that level of CO2 is responsible for Global Cooling, then, not Global Warming !"
It's sad, but that is exactly what they will say. They will try to sneak up on it and jump it, and try to beat it into submission, and yet they will have failed to understand.
One of the great principles of the appliance of heat is that there are a number of mechanisms for the take up of the heat by the heated object.
There's convection. There's conduction. There's radiation and re-radiation and reflection. But there's an underlying principle that has to always be considered : time lag.
If I light a fire under your seat, which I won't, because I'm a pacifist, it will take some time for you to experience the heating effect and jump up and start stamping the flames, and throwing your expensive wool jacket on the conflagration to keep the oxygen out.
Same is true of the Earth's warming response to the Global Warming signal from a change in Greenhouse Gases. There is a time lag between cause and effect.
There is always a delay before the heat of the sun's rays focussed on the shard of glass in the forest litter causes the grass underneath to reach Fahrenheit 451 or whatever exact temperature, and start the burn that will wipe out the trees.
And there's the impact of the speediness of the heating. If I'm cooking, and I turn up the electric dial to 11, then the pan really fries fast. If I have the dial on 5, it takes longer.
Increasing atmospheric Carbon Dioxide causes what is known in the Climate trade as "radiative forcing".
It ensures that more heat from the Sun is trapped within the Earth atmosphere, by not allowing the rays to bounce back out again as easily as before. There is a net heating-up effect.
And, logically, if you decrease the atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, you create a cooling-down effect.
And it takes time for these effects to make their mark on the Earth system temperature.
Plus, over time, there is a "levelling out" process, where the Earth moves to a stable configuration, appropriate to the given level of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere.
So, if you rapidly increase Carbon Dioxide for a hundred or two hundred years, you will see a warming effect that will build up, after a time lag, to its peak warming, and then after that point the warming effect will diminish until the system is stable again, albeit at a higher average global temperature.
Let me try to explain it this way : you're riding a bicycle, and trailing behind you you have a box on wheels, attached to the bike by a rope that's a couple of metres long. You might have a large quantity of stinking manure in the trailer box, and that's why you want to keep it far away behind you.
So, you need to turn a corner, so you turn the handlebars in the new direction, and the bike moves round. But the trailer takes time to change its course. After all, it's not had something to push its wheels around.
And think of this : a line of rollerskaters, all linking arms, and some at one end of the line start to change direction. At first the line does not respond as one, and when it does start to change direction, it can swing wide and wild, before settling into the new direction.
There is what you might call "Climate Inertia", and "Climate Momentum". If something is heating or cooling the Earth, it will take some time to work up to getting hotter or colder. And when it does start heating or chilling, and the forcing effect is halted, it will take some time to stop changing.
And the correction after the swing may even take the temperatures in the opposite direction, because regaining balance depends on the exact levels of Greenhouse Gases up there.
This is what James Hansen is talking about : the Carbon Dioxide levels in the atmosphere were very high before about 50 million years ago, and then they started to decrease, and the effect of decreasing Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere was Global Cooling of such an intense nature that it kicked off glaciation.
But it would not have ended there. The Global Cooling was an overshoot. If the CO2 levels had remained the same after their fast reduction to 450 (give or take) ppm, then after the necessary time lags, the Earth would have readjusted from that violent cooling swing to the relevant average heat for that CO2 level. And that would have been high. Higher than today.
James Hansen is saying that if you look at the change in the levels of CO2 roughly 50 million years ago, and looking at the temperature swing that the sharp dip in CO2 caused, then you can use that to work out the the temperature swing out for the sharp rise in CO2 we are now experiencing.
He says that this historical data can be used to calculate what happens at the end of the swing, as well.
Here's what he says (with his colleagues) :-
"Equilibrium sensitivity, including slower [...] feedbacks, is [of the order of] 6 degrees C for doubled CO2..."
Equilibrium, that point at which the time lags are over and the swing is finished and come back to a balanced point, appropriate to the level of CO2 in the sky.
Sensitivity, that total change of global temperature in response to the CO2 signal.
Six degrees is a very high number in Climate terms.
Increasing the levels of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere causes the Earth to heat up. About that there is no longer any doubt, scream and rant though you may.
The speed of the increase in temperature, the wildness of the temperature swing and the eventual temperature equilibrium were thought to be hard to decide upon.
However, James Hansen and his colleagues have sought to indicate what this could be by looking at periods in the dim and distant past where they could establish the data : six degrees Centigrade higher than today.
For those North Americans who have read this far : that's over 40 extra degrees of Fahrenheit.
That, my British friends, is the difference between average Spring and Summer temperatures in England.
Basically, with an extra six degrees, Spring will be like Summer is now, and you can expect double Summer heating. Very little will survive this.
My advice is, you better start understanding this and reacting to it.
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Markus Scheja serves as vice president, head of project management Germany. His responsibilities include setting up project parameters for new developments and infrastructural works, as well as budgeting for tenant fit-out requirements. His role also includes coordination and knowledge transfer for project management within Germany and Northern Europe.
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Lilly and Alzheimer's
Lilly has been a global leader in the fight against Alzheimer's disease for nearly 30 years. Today, Lilly has molecules and diagnostics in various stages of clinical development, including seven investigational compounds to treat Alzheimer's and two diagnostics to help better diagnose it.
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- For his appearance in the Timeless Isle, see Niuzao (tactics).
Niuzao is the great Black Ox (sometimes called "The Black Yak"), ruler of Niuzao temple and a member of the August Celestials. He can be seen in Townlong Steppes on an island with a number of Pandaren sentinels protecting the temple against the Mantid whom are swarming Townlong because of their spawn coming 100 years earlier then expected.
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Niuzao and other three Celestials opened the gate to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.
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He also granted his powers to the Golden Lotus warriors when the mogu invaded the vale after the death of Zhi the Harmonious.
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Niuzao and other Celestials chose to hold a trial involving the members of the Alliance and Horde rather than sentence Garrosh Hellscream among themselves. During the trial, Niuzao took the form of a strong, muscular tauren male as a show of respect to the gathered races.
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Student Speaks Out After He Says He Was Attacked For Being Gay
A teen spoke out on Monday after he said he was beaten for being gay.
A video of the attack showing him being beaten by another student in front of an audience of classmates went viral in October, 10TV's Glenn McEntyre reported.
The 15-year-old, Zach, who requested his last name be withheld, will be represented by the Americans Civil Liberties Union and wants more done to protect students.
Zach said based on a comment his attacker posted on Facebook the night before, he believes he was beaten because he is gay. The teen said he had been a target for bullies for years.
Zach said that the taunting turned increasingly violent.
"I got hit in the face a couple of times," the teen said. "I tried to ignore it like three times."
The teen and his mother said their repeated complaints to school administrators fell on deaf ears.
"He basically said 'There's a few gay kids in school and you're the only one they have problems with. So, what can you do to tone yourself down?'" said Zach.
"I was like, 'Wait a minute, you want my son to change, but you don't want this bully to change?"said Becky Collins, the teen's mother.
The ACLU of Ohio announced that they were representing the teen in possible legal action against the district.
"The school district should have protected (the teen) and they failed," James Hardiman, ACLU of Ohio Legal Director said.
Zach and his mother said they will no longer turn the other cheek.
"I won't be silenced," said Collins. "It's not an option right now."
The student who attacked the teen was punished. School officials would not tell 10TV what the punishment was because of privacy reasons.
The Ross County Sheriff's Office charged the attacker with assault.
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Announcement from Duke Memorial UMC
Summer update for Bishop Willimon
Announcement from Duke Memorial UMC
Summer update for Bishop Willimon
Craig Kocher, who has endured much mentoring by me, came across a Thoreau quote that sounded as if it had been said by me:
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, and probably cannot tell me anything to the purpose of life.
When he interviewed me for the job of Dean of Duke Chapel, the first question Terry Sanford asked was, "Who are your mentors?" It's a revealing question to put to a pastor. We get our word mentor from Homer's Odyssey, in which old Mentor led young Telemachus into life. The Greeks knew that most of us journey no further than our mentors are able to take us.
As Bishop I met regularly with my new and young pastors, asking them how I could support their leadership. Their most frequent request: give us more mentors. Their request made me feel old. As a young pastor in the late 60s, I would never have asked some old guy to mentor me. If our parents were wrong about Viet Nam and Civil Rights, there was a good chance they were wrong on everything. So our generation's plea was, Get out of the way and let us take over!
Through the years I have been privileged, as a theology professor and as Bishop, to mentor dozens of developing pastoral leaders. Many of the skills required to be a good mentor are the same required to be a good coach. One must know well the young person being mentored, when criticize and when to praise, and a host of other skills including the ability not to come across as an insufferable old bore when talking to callow youth.
Being back at Duke Divinity School has again given me the opportunity to cultivate my love of mentoring. It's quite a rush to have some young supplicant to ask, "Have you got time to give me some advice?"
Yet I've also been reminded of the challenge developing clergy face in being mentored by old guys like me.
Hegel said that history is our best teacher and that we move forward by learning from the past. Trouble is, Hegel also noted that current, unexpected events keep disrupting history and invalidating what we thought we knew from past experience, rendering history useless. Therein is the problem faced by those who would submit to mentoring.
Mainline Protestantism is not doing well. Have you noticed? The present age presents us with new challenges. I am unclear about the precise directions the church ought to take, but I know enough to know that our churches must be led differently if we are to have a different future than the rather diminished one to which many feel we are fated.
Thus I began my Introduction to Christian Leadership class by admitting to the students that it was going to be tough for me to get through all of this material on ordained leadership in one semester. Then I told the students that their job was more difficult than mine. They had not only to soak up any insights gained from my experience, inculcate my best practices, and to profit from any wisdom I had to offer, at the same time they had to keep telling themselves, "This old guy did ministry the way he knew how, in the way he was most comfortable, given his limitations. I've got to serve the church in a world other than that in which he served. Furthermore, we work for a living, sovereign God, not an easily managed idol. Lord, give me the wisdom to know what of this professor's wisdom must be tossed if I am faithfully to lead your church into your future."
In our appointment of clergy, my church tends to privilege experience, years served, and seniority, even though no seniority system is mentioned in the United Methodist Book of Discipline. The sad results of this boring approach to clergy deployment are all around us. We choke to death o the geriatric virtues of maturity, balance, and careful procedure when what our moribund system needs are more clergy who are young, brash, reckless, and stupid. That is new pastoral leaders who will give God enough room to get in this staid old church and do the sort of resurrection that this God does so well.
So go ahead. Humor me. Listen to my war stories (including the ones about how I rescued Alabama Methodism with my bare hands). Write down my knock down, absolutely effective principles for good ecclesiastical leadership. But promise me that you will then silently pray, "Lord, please help me to get past this old guy's advice. You have called me to set right the stuff he messed up. Forgive him Lord. He's never been in the church that you, Lord want me to lead. Amen."
All you young new clergy listen to me. Write this down. I have lots of experience and wisdom. I know what I'm talking about. Write this down.
Will Willimon
What Willimon's Mission Class Did to Me
By Zack Christy
May 2013
I am currently a rising third year student at Duke Divinity School. This past spring semester I had the opportunity to take a class taught by Dr. Willimon called, "Local Church in Mission." I feel that God has called me to ministry in the rural church and I believed that I had a good grasp on how to engage the church in missional activities, so naturally I believed that taking Dr. Willimon's class would just be a refresher in what I already knew. However, God has a funny way of putting us in situations that are uncomfortable, and He always has a way of knocking us down a peg when we believe that we are on top. Such was my experience in Willimon's mission class; I can tell you now that I have never been more frustrated, terrified, challenged, excited and humbled before by one class, or experience.
I had never heard Dr. Willimon speak before this class. I did know that he had previously been a Bishop in Alabama, but that was about all I knew of him. I am the son of a United Methodist minister and I don't know why I believed that gave me an understanding of how to lead a church in mission, but I thought that it did. Coming into the class I had in my mind that if I was really nice to my congregation, and if I took really good care of them first, the mission would follow. From my untrained observation of my father, this is how I saw mission beginning. Though, through this class I was able to interview my father, and was somewhat astonished that this was not the case, even though Willimon had been practically yelling it for the better part of a month.
This class frustrated me because it confronted me with the truth; if the church is not in mission then it is not the church. I don't know why this struck me so, it seems like common sense, but I really needed to hear this truth. Somehow I had gotten in my mind that my first and foremost responsibility as pastor was to take care of my congregation. However, as was stressed to me over and over and over again in Willimon's mission class, this is not what it means to be the body of Christ. Mission is never something that is easy, it is mostly messy. Mission is not something that is at the periphery of Christian life, a missional life is Christian life. Mission is the result of well-trained Christians, and is done out of recognition of baptismal vocation.
I was terrified by this class because it made me realize that God has called me to help train these Christians. This class stressed to me that God has called me to be one of the ones that reminds these people of their baptismal vocation. I am still terrified, because ministry would be so much easier if we were not called to work for the kingdom of God. Ministry would be so much easier if we were called to maintain status-quo. However, Willimon reminded me that God will not let anyone off this easy. I can't tell you how many times I heard Willimon state that he didn't know how most clergy don't just die of boredom from being congregational caregivers.
As much as I was terrified by this class I was excited by it as well. How amazing is it that we don't worship a dead God? How amazing is it that through participating in the Christian life we are never allowed to be bored? Coming into this class I fear that I was dangerously close to falling into a belief that I was entering the clergy profession. I believe that this is easy to do when we are constantly within the walls of the academic kingdom that is Duke Divinity. We begin to believe that when we get out of school that we will have some special tools to give congregations that we have and they need. But as was stressed to me over and over again in Willimon's mission class, we are not called to be professionals; we are people called and willed by God, we are people sent on a mission.
I am thankful for the ways in which this class challenged me. I am grateful for the ways in which I have been called in this through this class. More than any of this though I am glad for the ways in which this class reoriented my view of the ministry. I feel that I was very close to walking towards being a congregational caregiver, and while that is a part of the ministry, it is not the only part. I hope that my colleagues felt the same call in their lives.
A version of this article appeared earlier this year in The Christian Century. Hope you enjoy!
Ministry As Difficult As It Ought to Be
"See our big buildings?" asked the Medical School Dean as he swept his hand across the panorama of the Duke Medical Center. "Their purpose is production of a handful of doctors who can be trusted to be alone with a naked patient. Takes us four years."
I repositioned the Dean so that he faced the less impressive neogothic Divinity School. "That's where we teach our seminarians to be in awkward situations with naked, vulnerable parishioners. It only takes us three years."
After two quadrennia as a church bureaucrat, slogging in the muck and mire of ecclesiastical trenches — sending pastors to remote, unappealing locations where Jesus insists on working — I'm again teaching in that amazing countercultural phenomenon called a seminary.
I was honored to serve with eight hundred fellow clergy who risked United Methodism in Alabama, though I leave behind a subpoena and three law suits; don't tell Governor Bentley that I've now fled the state.
Being bishop gave me a front row seat to observe ministry in the Protestant mainline that is being rapidly sidelined. Pastoral leadership of a mainline congregation is no picnic. My admiration is unbounded for clergy who persist in proclaiming the gospel in the face of the resistance that the world throws at them. Now, as a seminary professor, I'm eager to do my bit in the classroom to prepare new clergy for the most demanding of vocations.
Consumer Corrupted Clergy
From what I saw, too many contemporary clergy limit themselves to ministries of congregational care-giving – soothing the fears of the anxiously affluent. One of my pastors led a self-study of her congregation. Eighty percent responded that their chief expectation of their pastor was, "Care for me and my family."
I left seminary in the heady Sixties, eager to be on the front line in the struggle for a renaissance of the church as countercultural work of God. By a happy confluence of events, the church was again being given the opportunity to be salt and light to the world rather than sweet syrup to enable the world's solutions to go down easier.
Four decades later as bishop I saw too many of my fellow clergy allow congregational-caregiving and maintenance to trump other more important acts of ministry like truth-telling and mission leadership. Lacking the theological resources to resist the relentless cloying of self-centered congregations, these tired pastors breathlessly dashed about offering their parishioners undisciplined compassion rather than sharp biblical truth.
North American parishes are in a bad neighborhood for care-giving. Most of our people (at least those we are willing to include in mainline churches) solve biblically legitimate need (food, clothing, housing) with their check books. Now, in the little free time they have for religion, they seek a purpose-driven life, deeper spirituality, reason to get out of bed in the morning, or inner well-being – matters of unconcern to Jesus. In this narcissistic environment, the gospel is presented as a technique, a vaguely spiritual response to free-floating, ill-defined omnivorous human desire.
A consumptive society perverts the church's ministry into another commodity which the clergy dole out to self-centered consumers who enlist us in their attempt to cure their emptiness. Exclusively therapeutic ministry is the result. I saw fatigue and depression among many clergy whom I served as bishop. Debilitation is predictable for a cleros with no higher purpose for ministry than servitude to the voracious personal needs of the laos.
The 12 million dollar Duke Clergy Health study implies that our biggest challenge is to drop a few pounds and take a day off. If you can't be faithful, be healthy and happy. I believe that our toughest task is to love the Truth who is Jesus Christ more than we love our people who are so skillful in conning us into their idolatries.
Seminaries, Wake Up
Yet I must say that by comparison, the poor old demoralized mainline church, for all its faults, is a good deal more self-critical and boldly innovative than the seminary. Our most effective clergy are finding creative ways to critique the practice of ministry, to start new communities of faith, to reach out to underserved and unwelcomed constituencies, and to engage the laity in something more important than themselves. Alas, seminaries have changed less in the past one hundred years than the worship, preaching, and life of vibrant congregations have changed in the last two decades.
As bishop I served as chair of our denomination's Theological Schools Commission. Most of our seminaries are clueless, or at least unresponsive, to the huge transformation that is sweeping through mainline Protestantism. We have so many seminaries for one reason: the church has given seminaries a monopoly on training our clergy with no accountability for the clergy they produce. Increasing numbers of our most vital congregations say that seminary fails to give them the leadership they now require. Oblivious to our current crisis, seminaries continue to produce pastors for congregational care-giving and institutional preservation. The result is another generation of pastors who know only how to be chaplains for the status quo and managers of decline rather than leaders of a movement in transformational faith. As a fellow bishop said, "Seminaries are still cranking out pastors to serve healthy congregations, giving us new pastors who are ill equipped to serve two-thirds of my churches."
In just a decade, United Methodists, various Presbyterians, Lutherans, and Episcopalians will have half of our strength and resources – judgment upon our unfaithful limitation of ministry to a demographic (mine) that is rapidly exiting. After decades of study, finger-pointing and blaming, we now know that a major factor in our rapid decline is our unwillingness to go where the people are and to plant new churches. Yet few traditionalist mainline seminaries teach future pastors how to start new communities of faith.
My new pastors repeatedly told me: "We got out of seminary with lots of good ideas but without the ability to lead people from here to there." "I've learned enough to know that something is bad wrong with the current church but I don't know where to begin to fix it." Seminaries produce clergy rich in ideas but impoverished in agency, well-intentioned in care giving but deficient in leadership.
After interviewing a dozen seminarians at one of our prestigious seminaries, I asked my District Superintendents, "How many interviewees could be helpful in the work that we believe God has assigned us in Alabama?"
They identified two of the twelve. "Seminaries are run by professors whose life goal is acquisition of academic tenure," said one DS. "Why ask the seminary to give us innovators who take risks and hold people accountable for their discipleship?"
We found that too many of our pastors want to be John on Patmos, dreaming dreams and seeing visions, when what we badly need is Paul in Corinth, doing the tough, persistent, measureable work required to initiate new communities of faith. If that much touted moniker "servant leader" means anything, it means someone who is willing to submit to what the institution now needs doing for the common good in this time and place. Mainline churches who want to be part of God's future need leadership by impatient instigators rather than patient caretakers for the ecclesial status quo.
Our Board of Ordained ministry habitually asked candidates unrevealing questions like, "What are your gifts and graces for ministry?"
Surprise, the would-be pastors were incredibly gifted.
I got the Board to ask behavioral questions like, "When is the last time you started a ministry?" "Tell us about your most recent failure in the church. What did you learn?" No ventures, no leadership; no failures, no initiatives.
Don't dismiss my criticism of seminaries as due to anxiety about a dying institution. Though anxiety is an appropriate response to death, my impetus for concern is Christological. Scripture renders a living agent on the move. "God never rests!" thunders Barth. The Lord of the church means to reign over a far more expansive realm than the church. Nothing in the message or work of Christ justifies a settled, parochial, sedate, care-giving style of ministry that comforts one generation (the average Methodist is 59), cares for aging real estate, and ceases all efforts to get the news to a violent, despairing world that, in Jesus Christ, God is decisively doing something about what's wrong with the world.
So in this semester's The Local Church in Mission class rather than have students write a paper on their theology of mission, I'm having them attempt to start up some mission in a church context. Then they are to tell me what they have learned about the leadership skills they need to obtain if they are to be a pastor in a North American church that finds itself in a missionary situation.
One of my pastors succeeded in planting a congregation in a marginalized, primarily Spanish-speaking community (where we have closed three churches in the past ten years). I spent a day with her, primarily to urge her to go back to school and finish her seminary education. During the course of the day she told me that in her previous life she had started three restaurants. Two failed, one finally succeeded. I not only understood why God had used her so effectively in this church start but also why I ought to put her in charge of our new church development rather than send her to seminary.
Seminaries have got to find ways to listen to the church's cry for bold, transformative clergy leaders to serve the church in the present hour or seminaries face a bleak prospectus.
Theological Refurbishment
Seminaries must remember that the most interesting thing about clergy is not that we have acquired savvy management skills or have been given esoteric knowledge that is unavailable to the lowly baptized. The One who calls and makes clergy, the One who is in ministry and mission rocking the world (whether we are or not) is ultimately the only good reason to be a pastor. Leadership in the name of Jesus is inherently energetic, transformative leadership that challenges and enables Christians to participate in the ever-expanding Realm of God. Pastors have the privilege of expending our lives for someone more important than ourselves or our congregations. We get to serve a people on the move because they are in the grip of a God who refuses to be God alone and leave us to our own devices.
After my prattling about how the sixth century prophets inform our work as pastors, a surly seminarian piped up, "So Jesus explains how you got to be pastor of a large church and a bishop?" Being a seminary professor is more difficult than it looks.
As I look out upon the students in my Intro to Christian Ministry class, I hear Jesus say, "Hey, I'm doing my part to give your church a future. I'm giving you all the resources you need to be faithful."
Then I hear Jesus sneer, "Would you people at Duke try not to bore to death those whom I've summoned to give your church a future?"
I agonized with a pastor about what he could do to stop his congregation from self-destruction. Had he tried a consultant? Yes. Had he secured a crisis counselor? Yes.
"I keep thinking that maybe our disintegration is not something I did or didn't do," the pastor said, "or even due to our bad history. I wonder if our demise is caused by Jesus."
"Maybe Jesus has used our way of being church as much as he intends. Perhaps the Holy Spirit is moving somewhere else? Only Jesus can birth a church; maybe he's the only one who's got a right to kill it."
How willing are we clergy to risk service to such a demanding Savior?
Seminary's grand goal? Theological education makes ministry in the name of Jesus Christ as difficult as it ought to be. In sending each new wave of pastors, seminaries have the opportunity to theologically regenerate the church, giving the church and its pastoral leaders some canon of measurement greater than institutional health or cultural relevance. Seminarians come to us more adept at construal of their world through a-theistic categories, most of them purloined from the reigning social sciences, than theological canons. Our job is to train the church's leaders in a rigorously theological refurbishment of the church.
Training people to minister in the name of Jesus is a huge challenge — because of Jesus. His vision of a new, reborn humanity, the extravagant reach of his realm, the constant outward, Trinitarian momentum, the command not only to belief the faith but also to enact and embody the faith, Christ's revelation of the God whom we did not expect, Christ's determination to save sinners, only sinners, all make leadership in Jesus' name a daunting task.
I received a heated email from a long-time member of one of my churches complaining that during the Sunday service the pastor had prayed for the salvation of Osama bin Laden. "We don't pay a preacher to pull a stunt like that," whined the lay leader.
I called the pastor, explaining to him that his behavior was difficult for the laity to handle, asking him if he had used good judgment to pray such a thing during our national crisis.
With distinct annoyance the pastor replied, "Just for your information bishop, I happen to believe that the Jew who said, 'Pray for your enemies and bless those who persecute you,' is the Son of God."
In my courses I face a two-fold challenge: responsibility to hand over what we've learned in two thousand years of leading in the name of Jesus, indoctrinating a new generation of pastors into the God-given wisdom of the church and taunting would-be pastoral leaders to step up and help the church think, pray, and act our way out of our present malaise.
"Here kid, watch me now," I say in my classes, "here's the way my generation tried to serve the church and its mission. Now, here's my list of failures and disappointments. God has sent you to overcome my generation's limitations in doing church. Go for it!"
In spite of my best intentions, my classes in ministry sometimes degenerate into techniques for success, managerial tips and tricks, and irresistible, knock down arguments for effective ministry; atheism that ministers as if God doesn't matter.
Still, my students keep calling me back to the theological wonders that convene us, another benefit of working almost exclusively among those who outrageously believe that they have been summoned, commandeered, called by God to leadership in the Body of Christ. Whatever God wants to do with the world, God has decided to do it with them.
The paradigmatic story of their enlistment is Exodus 3, the call of Moses. (We made our entering students read Gregory's Life of Moses to prepare them for Duke Divinity.) When summoned to leadership, Moses asks, "Who are you that you should send me?"
Moses cannot represent a deity without knowing the peculiar identity of the God who sends him against the empire. Nor can we. The best work we do in the seminary classroom is investigation and reiteration of the identity of the Triune God who, in every time and place, summons the people required to help the church to be faithful, giving them the grace needed to keep ministry as difficult as God needs it to be.
I begin my class by asking students to describe, in less than five pages, how they got to seminary, "My Call to Christian Leadership." Reading those papers is a faith-engendering experience. People jerked out of secure positions in perfectly good professions, bright young things commandeered and shoved into a very different life trajectory, a nurse to whom Jesus personally appeared on a patio. All I could say, when I finished reading those papers was, "Wow. Jesus is more interesting (and dangerous) than even I knew."
Will Willimon


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