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James and Kerry's Andaz Wedding Photography
As wedding venues go, London's Andaz is up there with the most stylish and James and Kerry's stunning wedding was a perfect fit for this luxury hotel. Kerry had chosen so many little touches and her relentless attention for detail really paid off on the day to make it a really beautiful wedding. The ceremony took place at Islington Town Hall with all the guests boarding two London buses for the journey to Andaz where the wedding reception was held.
Here are a few images from the day and you can scroll down to the bottom to view the full slideshow.


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this Easter we had a nice little dinner at home with a few friends and some yummy food. we had a small window during my Mr.'s break from leading worship for all 4 services at our church during lunch time to eat, have great conversation, and squeeze in a mini egg hunt with my two kidlets and our friend's daughter. it was a sweet time and i loved it.
here are all the crafts i made. you can find the links to them all in my previous post.
i made a ham, mashed potatoes, steamed green beans, and this tasty Lemonade Cake. friends brought salad, bread, specialty butters, drinks, and yummy cupcakes.
what a great way to celebrate the sacrifice my Savior made and rejoice that He is risen!

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Why Are Your Lecturers Striking?
What is the strike about? Newcastle University's management wants to make a massive change to the pension scheme for all academic staff and academic-related staff (e.g. librarians, student counsellors, IT staff, etc.).
What is a pension? A pension is deferred pay for one's retirement. Previously, lecturers put in 8% of their salaries, and the employer put in 18%. Lecturers would get a pension related to the average salary earned over one's career. Academics spend far more time in education before getting a job with a pension – usually in one's mid-30s – so we pay a lot now to make sure we just have enough to live on when we retire.
What's the problem with the pension offer at the moment? Since 2009, academic pay has NOT kept pace with inflation, so your lecturers' real wages have declined by close to 15%. Newcastle University management (along with many other Russell Group institutions) want to change the USS pension scheme so there is no guarantee of how much we will get: the change is likely to reduce the value of your lecturers' pensions to below subsistence levels. This is a huge blow to our futures – but more importantly, to the value of the work that we, as teachers and researchers, and you, as students, are doing together.
Why should you care? We know that you have incurred a large debt to attend university. Many of us fought against tuition fees. The tuition fees you pay are not used to pay those teaching you (which was promised) nor has it been going into pensions.
How has UCU responded to these proposed changes? The UCU (University and College Union) opposes the pension changes and has called a strike. The UCU is the bargaining agent for pensions for academics and academic-related staff at Newcastle University, whether they are members or not. The UCU has presented alternatives to the employers' plans (suggesting that staff contribute a bit more, employers contribute a bit more, and staff get a bit less). The employers have refused to budge an inch and the UCU held a ballot for industrial action: at Newcastle University, 62.1% of our members voted. 90% of us voted in favour of a strike. Read more here: https://www.ucu.org.uk/strikeforuss.
How does industrial action affect you? We love teaching and working with students. We do not take strike action lightly. The UCU has called for 14 days of strike action across 4 weeks, starting 22 & 23 Feb.
- During this time, UCU members won't be: teaching, holding office hours, marking, answering emails,
- The work missed in this period, including teaching, will not be rescheduled—it will just be gone.
- Action short of a strike begins 22 Feb: this means working to contract, i.e., only working the 40 hours per week in our contracts (most academics work 60+ hours because they love teaching and researching).
- There is the possibility of a marking boycott.
How can students help? We will set up an alternative programme of talks where we can together discuss and argue about fees, pay and radical ideas in the modern university. We want you to be part of these debates. If YOU want to help us stop these hugely damaging changes to higher education, here are some ideas:
- Talk to your lecturers about it (and if they're not in the UCU, suggest they join!)
- Discuss it with your family & friends (here's a flyer: http://newcastle.web.ucu.org.uk/USS-students)
- Contact our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Chris Day, on email@example.com
- Contact the President & Chair of Universities UK, Professor Dame Janet Beer, on firstname.lastname@example.com
- Tweet a selfie of yourself with this flyer & the hashtag #USS to @StudentsNCL @UniversitiesUK @samgyimah @ucu @UCUNorthern
- Contact USS board members via https://www.uss.co.uk/how-uss-is-run/your-trustee/people/the-board
- Contact the Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Debbie Abrahams MP, on firstname.lastname@example.com
- Go visit your MP at a local surgery: https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/mps/
- Volunteer to help Newcastle University UCU with the campaign (ask a lecturer to put you in touch with a rep, or contact the office directly at firstname.lastname@example.com).


text: Recognized as one of the originators of Abstract Expressionism, painter Adolph Gottlieb drew on mythological and tribal symbols as well as Surrealism to create works that emphatically broke with American Regionalism. Gottlieb's pictographs possessed primitivist qualities, featuring shapes evocative of cave drawings. His later paintings, such as the well-known Brink from 1959, often employed circular motifs and thick, gestural brushstrokes, which were an integral part of the development of Color Field painting.


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Enabling - Enabling is a pattern of behavior, often adopted by abuse victims, which seeks to avoid confrontation and conflict by absorbing the abuse without challenging it or setting boundaries. The perpetrator of the abuse is thus "enabled" to continue their pattern of behavior.
Enabling is a strategy often adopted by victims of abuse in an effort to try to placate the abuser by giving them what they want, fly "under the radar" or "keep the peace". The idea is that efforts to confront or set boundaries in the face of unacceptable behavior often result in an immediate escalation of conflict, therefore it is easier just to go along with what the abuser wants.
Enabling Pros...
While enabling does not completely eliminate abusive episodes, it does reduce the overall frequency and/or intensity of conflict in the home and establishes a stable and secure status quo where the abuser and the victim's roles in the relationship are clearly defined.
Enabling Cons...
While enabling suppresses short term conflicts, it carries the penalty of reinforcing and prolonging a dysfunctional controlling hierarchy in a relationship, where one person is free to use abusive behaviors to get what they want. Enablers often unwittingly become accomplices in their own entrapment which makes it all the more difficult for them to break the cycle of abuse.
Enablers who subsequently decide to establish boundaries are likely to face stiff resistance from an abuser in the form of anger, emotional blackmail, hoovering, FOG, threats, false accusations etc.
What it Feels Like
Enablers often feel frustrated and trapped, because they have to suppress their own goals, and feelings to sustain the status quo. As a result, enablers are prone to depression, substance abuse, sudden unexpected angry outbursts and projecting their own anger toward innocent "safe" bystanders. Enablers sometimes become secondary abusers of children, family members, acquaintances or co-workers who they may regard as "weaker".
Examples of Enabling
- A woman who makes excuses for her husband's violent rages.
- Cleaning up someone else's mess.
- Hiding a person's dysfunctional actions from public view.
- Absorbing the negative consequences of someone else's bad choices,
- Paying off another person's debts.
- Refusing to confront or protect oneself when exposed to physical, emotional or verbal assault.
- Projecting one's own anger and frustration from a dysfunctional relationship onto another, innocent third party.
Enabling makes it easier for an abuser to go on abusing - at great cost to the direct victim and to the innocent bystanders like children, other family members, friends, acquaintances and ultimately to the abuser themselves - who is kept on life support in the dysfunctional system just enough to have no real incentive to change it.
What NOT To Do:
- Don't be an enabler!
- Don't be silent about what you are dealing with.
- Don't hide another person's mistreatment of you from others.
- Don't turn your anger on children or other people who you consider to be "weaker" than you.
- Don't shield someone from the consequences of their own behavior - that is not helping them.
- Don't fool yourself into thinking you can "take it" or that you are strong enough to absorb another person's pain.
- Don't try to take on the role of a rescuer or a person who can fix an abuser's behavior.
- Don't assume that because your children are only observing what is going on that that they aren't getting hurt by it
- Don't tell yourself that because the abuse is intermittent or occasional that it isn't serious.
- Don't assume that because an abuser is friendly and kind most of the time that they don't qualify as a "real" abuser.
What TO Do:
- Get support. Talk to somebody who understands what you are dealing with.
- Protect yourself and any children from verbal and emotional and physical assault. See our Emergency Page if necessary.
- Work to establish realistic and meaningful boundaries.


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Site Coordinators
Leonard Bryant - email@example.com
Catrina Diggins - firstname.lastname@example.com
Campus Security Assistant
Leticia Alva
Regional Coordinator
Irma Hernandez
Program Administrator
Kimberly Thomas
Enrollment information
Please contact site coordinator for more information.
ASES Program
Program Elements
The ASES Grant requires that all grantees provide a program which is aligned with, and not be a repeat of, the content of the regular school day and other extended learning opportunities in a safe physical and emotional environment. After school programs in Compton Unified School District consists of three essential components:
Academic Enrichment: In addition to receiving tutorial opportunities by CUSD classroom teachers, students who are enrolled in the Compton Unified School District ASES Program also receive supplemental instruction in one or more of the core academic subjects (reading/language arts, mathematics, history and social studies, or science). Each lesson is designed to reinforce previously introduced skills.
Project Based Enrichment: Students are exposed to teaching that active, collaborative, and meaning full through long-term group projects aimed at building self-esteem through cooperative groups. Each project is intended to offer students an opportunity to expand their knowledge on a specified topic through visual and performing arts. At the conclusion of each five to seven week thematic unit, students will have an opportunity to showcase their newly found skills to district officials, parents, guardians and community members through a school-wide student showcase.
Homework Assistance: Children will have an opportunity to start/complete assigned homework in accordance with CUSD grade level guidelines on appropriate homework time increments. The after school program does not guarantee that all homework will be completed.
Hours of Operation
The program begins on the first day of school and ends on the last day of school. Students attend the after school program from 2:45 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. daily, except on 2nd and 4th Wednesdays when the program will run from 1:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.


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Waiting, Writing, Waiting, Writing…
April 13, 2011 § 9 Comments
Have you watched the movie Facing Giants? Here is a short scene I want you to watch:
God has given me a vision. It is a big one. One that I cannot make happen myself. One that I have to trust God to do in His time and in His way. At times this dream seems unreachable and things don't seem to fall into place like I think they should. Doors are not opening up, rejection notices come, my e-mail box remains empty. When I start to despair I remember this scene. Am I trusting that God will bring the rain? If I am then I must prepare my fields.
My dreams for sharing Him with others through the written and spoken word are huge. I know that God can do it through me and that I cannot do it myself. I am humbled when one person says my writing blessed him or her. I am honored that God would use me to point other to Jesus. Oh that all our hearts would burn for Him.
So while I wait for the rain, I write. I submit. I fail. I succeed. I wait. I write. I speak. I fail. I succeed. All of it is for God's glory. All of it is to bring praise to Him. All is because He loves me enough to give me breath and words and thoughts. All for Him.
So as I am praying for rain for this ministry, for articles I have submitted, for the book I am writing, for speaking engagements, for women struggling with infertility, for others struggling with dark times, for us all to be more like Him, will you pray with me? Will you pray that I will obey and wait and write and prepare my fields? I can't wait to see the God's sized harvest God is going to reap through this ministry. I am so glad that you want to be a part of it.
How can you help me?
1. Pray (I have submitted three articles. I am waiting to know if the editors have accepted them. I am also working on one more and finishing my book)
2. Tell your women's ministry director about me. (I would love to come and speak at your church)
3. Tell your friends about me and my blog.
Now how can I pray for you? Leave a comment or if you need to click on the contact me and send me an e-mail. I would love to lift you up in prayer.
Prayer, James, and Blemishes
March 17, 2011 § 2 Comments
Why Pray?
March 15, 2011 § 4 Comments
If God's plans can't be thwarted, if He is omniscient, if He is omnipotent, then why pray?
What difference does it really make?
Logically it doesn't make sense. And yet:
God tells us to pray…
Ephesians 6:18 "And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord's people."
Jesus prayed…
Luke 5:17 "But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed."
So what does praying do? Why pray?
In this short blog post I can't even begin to scratch the surface of prayer, but there are some simple things that God has been speaking to my heart about prayer…
1. True prayer changes the pray-er. Suddenly the person praying is no longer looking at his or her circumstances, he is no longer figuring out what he can do to fix things. Instead the he is humbling coming to the Father, the Almighty King, and laying his concerns at the feet of God. In order to pray the pray-er must admit things are beyond him and that things are not beyond God. So God is on the throne and the pray-er is on his knees. Check out 2 Chronicles 7:14
2. True prayer brings God near. Deuteronomy 4:7 says, "What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the LORD our God is near us whenever we pray to him?" So God is near us when we pray. Oh when He is near us we feel comfort, experience His peace, and can rest in His perfect weaving together of events (our sin, our obedience, others' sins, others' obedience, natural events) into His tapestry of grace and love. Working out good for those who love Him. Yes, when we pray we can see Him in our everything working out His perfect plan even when it doesn't match our longings.
3. True prayer that changes hearts and brings God near brings peace that guards our hearts and minds. Philippians 4:6-7 "Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." Because God is near, because we are humbled, then we can experience peace that guards our hearts and minds in Jesus! Oh that our hearts and minds would be guarded in Christ Jesus so we would obey Him, bring joy to Him, follow Him all the days of our lives! Amazing that God would bring that about when we pray!
Why do you pray? What have you learned about prayer? Share with me…
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Praying For You: Does it Mean Anything?
March 12, 2011 § 21 Comments
Facebook status: "My last ultrasound showed my baby was small, next test scheduled on Tuesday."
I commented: "Praying for you."
Facebook status: "My husband is going on his 50th job interview over the last nine months. Pray he gets this one."
Many comment: "Praying"
The question is what does "praying for you" really mean? Do we really pray right then as we send our comment into cyberspace? Are we adding these people to our prayer lists (if we have them)? Or are we holding up our Christian card and keeping up appearances?
Or is it possible that "praying for you" is only another way of saying "hugs" or "thinking about you?" It is a comfort term rather than something we are actually doing? Does that term make us sound good and holy when we are not even bringing the concern to the Throne of Grace? Have we gotten too comfortable with praying that we don't even realize we are addressing the God who created all things, the all-powerful One?
I admit it is easy to say, "praying for you," and not really mean it. I pray that I never say/write it without actually praying for that person right then…Most often when I say/write it I mean I have prayed for you and as God brings you to mind I will pray for you again. I am not a list maker or a prayer journal-er. I sometimes aspire to be, but it is not the way I am wired.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, most of my prayer time is the "pray continually" kind. As I am wiping noses, observing children, washing dishes, driving, I am praying. So I have my mental list and my mental list may not be as "good" as it used to be. I am becoming more and more forgetful. Ok I admitted it, I like to blame it on my kids. I mean I have more brain cells dedicated to different people now than ever before…My point is that I may only "pray" for a situation rather than truly "praying." Does the comment "praying for you" hold water when I only pray once?
I know what I think, but I want to know what you think.
What do you mean when you say/write, "praying for you?" What do you think others mean when they say/write, "praying for you?"
Jump in and join the discussion… And thank you Justin Voris for the idea that prompted this post!
Do I Really Pray?
March 10, 2011 § 11 Comments
I am studying the book of Daniel in Bible Study. I struggle studying prophecy. I just don't have pertinent historical facts filed away in my brain. Then there are about as many ways to interpret prophecy as there are people. So the prophetic portions of Daniel have taught me three things. God has a plan, His plan cannot be thwarted, and God wants us to be alert and ready for His return.
This week we studied Daniel chapter 9. Here is where God just got up in my grill. Like the baseball manager who presses his belly against the umpire's chest protector and screams his displeasure. Only it was God voicing His displeasure with love, while I – the lowly manager of the time, talents, and resources He has given me – go all silent. Then I get the look. That sheepish one. You know that look of suddenly realizing you are in the wrong and how foolish you look.
Well there I was studying for Bible study, after I had read my quiet time passage, and written my blog post. I had done some pretty good time with God today. I was feeling pretty good about myself. Then I saw it…Daniel was reading his Bible too. The book of Jeremiah to be exact and when he got to a certain place, he did something. He put on sackcloth, sat in ashes, fasted, and prayed.
So backing up here, I had read my Bible, written a blog post to encourage others to be more Godly, and was studying my Bible, but God's word hadn't driven me to pray. I wasn't moved in my emotions or my thinking. I was studiously checking things of my list. As if God cares about sacrifice. NO He cares about a broken and contrite spirit. He wants my faith, my time in the word to be translated into action. Specifically He wants me to pray for myself, for others, for our nation, for other nations.
I pray. I pray as I get up, as I wash dishes, I pray with each of my kids as they wake up and when they go to sleep. I pray on the fly, everywhere. But do I pray? Do I sit down without computer, phone, distraction and really pray? Do I come before God like Daniel did to confess sins, to ask for mercy. Do I sit still on my knees and pray? I confess not very often and by that I mean once a month would be stretching it.
Do I ever REALLY PRAY? Does God expect me to pray that way? I mean Him and me and nothing else…On my knees? Jesus prayed. He prayed for hours. Could it be that my bed bound grandmother is doing more kingdom work as she prays throughout her day than I do as I chase my kids, write, speak, teach Sunday School, and lead small groups?
What would it look like if I would at least weekly spend 5, 10, 15 minutes on my knees literally?
So here it is…I commit to spend at least 15 minutes a week on my knees in intentional prayer time. This does not change my pray continually lifestyle that I am still working on. No, it just adds a new dimension.
Anyone care to join me? Let's talk more about this subject of prayer. I can't wait to hear what God is telling you! I hope you join me!
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Best Laid Plans…
February 2, 2011 § 2 Comments
We had a snow/ice day yesterday in my house. All three kids home from school. Me unable to do most of what I planned on doing. Here is a brief synopsis of my day…
1. Got to sleep in a bit! YEAH…
2. During lunch I decided to put bowls out to catch snow (the sleet had stopped and snow was finally falling) so we could make snow ice cream. I went outside without my coat and in slippers. I completely wiped out…Bowls flew, slippers flew, I landed on my rear. Hard. After determining I hadn't broken anything, I went to find my slippers. I had to stand barefooted in the ice and walk a few feet to get back into my slippers and pick up the bowls. By the way, all that work was for NOTHING. It didn't snow enough for ice cream. Oh and only my pride was injured except for being really sore today.
3. During nap-time I did a vlog to post for today. However YouTube still says it has a "unknown error" and I have been unable to upload it.
4. J started croupy coughing during nap (while I was working with YouTube)…I still had medicine from last time he had croup to give him, but needed steroids called in. So called his doctor, called my sweet husband. Doctor called back, meds called in…Called hubby to pick up meds. He had only a slightly rough night and seems to be doing pretty well. Praise God!
5. As soon as I was off the phone, I heard a loud crash outside…I didn't even have to look, I knew. Someone had slid on the ice and into our fence. When I looked outside there was an SUV stuck in our fence because the ground was too soft or slick or something to get out. They were stuck…Husband came home. The wreckers were busy with another wreck, so we invited driver, his pregnant wife, and his mom who came to pick them up in case their car was not drivable once it was unstuck into our house to stay warm. L helped keep them entertained. No one was injured.
6. When the wrecker came, we discovered they had knocked over a gas meter. The wrecker guy called 911, we called the gas company. We never lost gas at our house amazingly enough. (God is good isn't He?) At one point we had four vehicles with flashing lights outside our house. The gas company, the wrecker, the fire department, and the police. The guy who hit our fence called the police to file a report and the police originally went to the wrong address. In fact he could have left before the police got there, but he was an honest man and stayed around to make sure the report was filed. Praise God! The kicker?! The gas company guys spent hours outside with floodlights and backhoes fixing the meter. Did I mention it is COLD outside?
Therefore, all my plans to have a great vlog for you all never materialized. However it made for a great story…And a great reminder that God hears our prayers. Psalm 18:6 "In my distress I called to the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears."
How has this crazy weather affected you? Can't wait to find out!
I tried to insert a picture of the fence and I can't. I tried to add tags to this post and I can't. I may go back to bed and try again! 😉 Blessing to you all…
I restarted my computer…Now there is a picture! WOOHOO!!! God is good even when I can't tag or insert a picture! 😉
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A Little Reality
January 28, 2011 § 6 Comments
In case you have a picture of me…Dressed perfectly…Perfect kids…Neat and tidy house….
Let me tell you the reality of me…
1. I LOVE to wear "work-out clothes." Always. An elastic waistband and a cotton t-shirt make me smile. I feel home. Don't get me wrong dressing up is ok, but I prefer active wear. 😉 Dressing like that is more comfortable and quicker than dressing up…
2. Sometimes my kids and I have p.j. days. Yes really…I spend a whole day wearing pajamas. In fact I am tainting my kids because they LOVE p.j. days too.
3. I have no ability to organize. I dream of a tidy home, I try to, there are times when it is better than others. However most days my house looks like an office and a toy room married and had kids. Papers and toys everywhere. I claim my twin sister stole my organizing gene in utero. She is organized and tidy. I am not. Praying somehow the gene is recessive and my kids can have it…I doubt it, but I would like it!
4. My kids are not perfect. I have drama, thumb-sucking, potty-training issues, and straight up defiance. I wonder where they got that? Let's move on…
5. I often have to warm up my coffee because I get distracted and don't drink it until it is cold. Sometimes I drink it cold.
6. I love my husband, but I often don't respond to him as I should. Yet he loves me and calls me beautiful (even on my p.j. days).
I am glad that God doesn't call the perfect…Aren't you? He loves us the way we are and sees Jesus in us. AMAZING!!!
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Use Skout to Scout New Friends WiselyPosted on September 30, 2015
In case anyone wants to know where people are spending their time, it is with their smart phones. Now they can meet people whenever they look at the app they have downloaded from Skout, which brings up a field of faces to 'wink' at. Of course this gives some people the creeps, but in the world of social media and mobile devices, it is a marriage made in virtuality. Skout does have ground rules, however, so that things do not get out of hand as they always do with out boundaries.
Skout has banned the selfie in the shower, or selfies taken naked in the bathroom as this trend has been showing up with a rather off putting result, surprisingly in this day and age of anything goes. It is good to know that there is still some restraint. The main focus of Skout on instagram is to share chatting, interacting online, and a way to get to know others in the world or locally. The features are to be for the user and "not them" who supplies general location information and not specifics, a strict management of that community, while peers regulate the rules going forward.
What is meant by 'intended for you, not them,' is that there are two communities. One is for teenagers and the other is for adults. They are separated for age-appropriate interaction. No adults will be permitted to communicate with teens and vice versa. The general location rules means no specific details are required so that contact is limited to general area information. This gives each member the choice of whether they are to reveal any specifics or not. The only personal information allowed is age and gender for profiles that are exchanged when there are winks.
The strict rules in place for community management is an obsession with Skout. Keeping things safe is a key to the success of this app. There is a staff that constantly monitors the community. The tolerance is ZERO for inappropriate behavior, such as posting naked selfies in the bathroom. Each month, Skout bans over 40,000 devices based on violations of these strict rules. One fourth of the entire Skout team is dedicated to scouting the community for infractions. Just a few of the rules being enforced are: no minors under age 13 or users making up false identities. No harassing or offensive texts or pictures. There is no soliciting for cash allowed, and fraudulent profiles or registrations are also banned. Any 900 numbers, selling products, or services is prohibited. Spam is also prohibited. No posting of copyrighted materials is allowed. These are just a few of the rules to be followed to keep the Skout experience safe.
Another principle that makes Skout a safer app is the Peer to peer regulation. Skout allows self policing as well to keep the community growing in a healthy way. Self policing provides a robust method of culling inappropriate behavior on the app. Reporting of suspicious interactions such as underage posting is very useful. The management will take action on reports within 12 hours.


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Spider Veins and Thread veins are the small yet unsightly clusters of pink and purple thread like veins that lie near the surface of the skin. They are commonly found in the leg but they can also appear in the face and other parts of the body. Reticular veins are larger blue veins, commonly found behind the knee. They are often found close to, and feeding into, clusters of thread veins.
Spider veins are not harmful to health and may not need to be treated. However there are various situation where treatment can have significant benefits to you
When spider veins cause aches, pain and numbness and this affect your lifestyle
When the appearance bothers you and you are not able to dress the way you like
When there are associated tortuous blue looking veins that suggest you may also have underlying varicose veins
Treatment options
Thread veins can be treated by injection microsclerotherapy, foam sclerotherapy, laser treatment or thermal coagulation. At your consultation, based on clinical and ultrasound assessment, an individualised treatment regimen will be planned that best suits your needs.
Your consultation
About 5-10% patients with Spider Veins may have underlying varicose veins problem. This is especially so if you also have concurrent blue and tortuous veins that may or may not be bulgy. Therefore for effective treatment, an Ultrasound examination is performed to exclude this possibility. This examination is painless and can be performed in less than 10 minutes. A careful assessment of the spider veins is made, searching for underlying reticular veins. If identified, these will also be treated, ensuring a more successful and long lasting outcome.


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When is this stock market going to crash? Can you believe the stock market is so out of touch with the economy these days? These are just a couple of the questions I've been getting on an almost daily basis. It seems the rising stock market has its share of skeptics. Perhaps it is just part of the "whatever goes up must come down" thinking, or else they are looking for confirmation from me that it would be OK to sell and get out of the stock market.
The stock market has indeed registered some impressive gains since the March 2009 low. The compounded annualized return is better than 20%, and rivals the returns of the late 1990s. The stock market rally ended back then with the tech wreck of 2000 to 2002. One big difference between then and now is stock valuations. Stocks in the late 1990s were trading at a much higher price to earnings ratio then they are today. This prompts some analysts to predict stock prices have a lot of upside potential before becoming overvalued.
Another significant difference between 1999 and today is interest rates. The yield on the 10-year treasury was over 6% at the end of the 1990s. The current yield is less than 2%. To understand the relationship to stock prices, answer this question: How much of your portfolio would you put into a riskier investment, like stocks, if you could get 6% in a low risk treasury note? Would the allocation change if your low risk investment options were yielding less than 2%? Most investors would allocate more to stocks in a low interest rate environment because it wouldn't take much of a return on their stock portfolio to beat a 2% treasury yield.
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Bill Would Force Colleges to be Copyright Cops or Lose Federal Aid
According to Eric Bangeman at Arts Technica, a New bill would punish colleges and students who don't become copyright cops.
Here's Bangeman's lead paragraph:
A massive education bill (747-page PDF) introduced into Congress contains a provision that would force colleges and universities to offer "technology-based deterrents" to file-sharing under the pain of losing all federal financial aid. Section 494 of the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 is entitled "Campus-Based Digital Theft Prevention" that could have just as easily been called "Motion Picture and Recording Industry Subsidies," as it could force schools into signing up for subscription-based services like Napster and Rhapsody.
This is not only nuts, it's insane. I say that not because I support piracy but because I want universities to spend their money on promoting education in a safe environment. Being forced by the Federal government to spend tuition and taxpayer money subsidizing the business models of politically strong industries is NOT something I want universities doing.
Why do I feel so strongly about this? Here's why. Back in August I published School Communications & Emergency Response: What are the Implications for Social Media? In the wake of the massacre at Virginia Tech (my daughter is a student there) I have been studying what colleges and universities are doing about beefing up campus security, and this article reported on that research.
My particular interest is in making sure that schools take advantage of the communication opportunities made available by increasingly popular social media ands social networking systems. But the use of social media has to be part of an overall campus plan that integrates planning and coordination with a wide variety of communication channels.
Colleges and universities are actively involved in developing and implementing such plans and technologies, and that's good. Technology is an important component of this and schools are starting to putting serious dollars into making sure students and faculty are made aware of emergency situations when they arise.
Now along comes a bill like this "College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007" with its "Campus-Based Digital Theft Prevention" section.
Here's the message this bill sends to colleges and universities:
Stop spending money on security related technologies.
Start spending money on figuring out ways to trap students using your networks for unauthorized file sharing.
If you have to transfer money from educational programs or campus security initiatives to pay for your new enforcement responsibilities, that's ok with the corporate sponsors of this bill.
If you don't do as we say, we'll take away your Federal funding.
Don't lecture me about copyright, intellectual property, or artist rights. This proposal has nothing to do with those things. This is all about propping up obsolete business models and providing corporate welfare — at the expense of educating our children and keeping them safe.
Copyright (c) 2007 by Dennis D. McDonald


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When producers for NBC's "American Ninja Warrior" called Texas resident Jasmine Cochran to say she had been selected for the show, her jaw dropped and she began to scream.
The Picayune native, who has been an athlete her entire life, decided in January to apply for the show that leads competitors through a treacherous obstacle course. Every time her cellphone rang and a number appeared that she didn't recognize, she hoped it was "American Ninja Warrior" representatives.
On March 3, the lucky number hit her caller ID and she had just three weeks to prepare for her attempt to beat the course.
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"While I was waiting, I got into really good shape, but I didn't have access to any of the obstacles," she said. After receiving her confirmation date, it was go time.
"I was super-excited, but I woke up the next morning and thought, 'Oh man, I haven't done any of the obstacles,'" she said.
Cochran was able to train at an obstacle-course gym in Oklahoma twice, but she relied on workouts she'd created herself to prepare for the competition.
She was a track star at Picayune Memorial High School and continued the sport at Mississippi State University, so many of her workouts to prepare for 'American Ninja Workout' had a track theme.
"I did track workouts. I believe track is the foundation of all sports. Name a sport where you don't have to run, jump or throw," she said.
Careful dieting
Cochran, who works as a personal trainer at her brother's gym in Euless, Texas, also developed her own diet. She focused on gaining upper-body strength without adding extra weight.
"I was very careful about what I ate so I could be in the best condition possible going into the competition," she said.
She competed March 28 in Houston. She wasn't allowed to see the track beforehand, and she said the show is taped after the sun goes down.
"Everybody goes in blind. On top of that, you compete in the middle of the night. You're already excited and you're up all night waiting on them to call your name," she said.
If she advances, she will compete in the finals round. From there, she can qualify to go the championship round in Las Vegas. The top prize is $1 million, and in its seven seasons on American airwaves, nobody has earned the title of American Ninja Warrior.
Going for No. 1
Cochran said one her goals was to be the first to take the top prize.
She couldn't say if she's made it to the final round, but her clip will air June 8 on NBC.
She said everybody on the show was very welcoming and helpful, and she felt like part of the ninja family. She also said the show is putting more female athletes into the limelight.
"There's more and more women who are being accepted onto the show, and it's awesome to see because I myself am a huge advocate for women's empowerment. I think women are strong and amazing and powerful and oftentimes not viewed as such," she said.
She said her biggest goal is to be an inspiration to her daughters -- Judah, who's 5, and Jael, who is almost 2 years old.
She and her husband, James, live with their family in Hurst, Texas. They moved from Mississippi almost two years ago.
A star athlete
In her days at Picayune Memorial, she set the 2001 record for high jump at 5-feet 7¾ inches. She was a senior. She held the high jump title at Mississippi State University until two weeks ago, when Emily Bougard jumped 6 feet, defeating Cochran's record .
"They're made to be broken, so now I just have to go break records on 'American Ninja Warrior,'" she said.


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I believe that just leaves 1 issue which I'm not considering a beta-blocker. If you remove a player from a Swiss tourney after it starts, that player will remain in the pairing pool for the duration of the tournament, giving his/her opponents automatic wins. The player should in fact be removed from the pool, but Challonge doesn't currently support a variable number of matches per Swiss round. This change will be made eventually.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a file photo.
The Filipino Reporter endorses incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo for a third term in the Nov. 6 polls in the State of New York.
We believe Gov. Cuomo has a lifelong commitment to public service and the proven leadership skills to make government work for the people of the state.
Lifting from https://www.governor.ny.gov/about, as Governor, Andrew Cuomo has been working to make communities across the state stronger and safer for all New Yorkers.
This includes restoring New York's reputation as the progressive capital of the nation — with groundbreaking accomplishments like passing marriage equality, a $15 statewide minimum wage, and 12 weeks of paid family leave.
Among his other notable achievements, the Governor also worked to enact the strongest gun safety laws in the nation, implement comprehensive policies to combat sexual violence on college campuses, pass reforms to combat New York's heroin and opioid epidemic, and set forth a plan to end the AIDS epidemic in New York State by 2020.
Under Gov. Cuomo's leadership, state education aid has increased $6.1 billion or 31 percent over the last six years to its highest level ever — $24.8 billion.
Major infrastructure projects such as the long-stalled Tappan Zee Bridge replacement and the much-needed redevelopment of LaGuardia Airport had been accomplished.
Improvements of trains and their services are also in his infrastructure agenda.
Andrew Cuomo was born on Dec. 6, 1957 in Queens, N.Y.
A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected to the same position of his father, Mario Cuomo, held for three terms.
He is a graduate of Fordham University and Albany Law School.
Before becoming governor, he held various responsible positions in the Federal government.
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A 16-year-old Accrington and Rossendale College student will be the first to bring a popular new exercise craze to the Ribble Valley.
Boogie Bounce is an exercise programme undertaken on mini trampolines, complete with a safety bar. The programme is choreographed to the latest music which helps participants have fun while getting fit.
Former Ribblesdale pupil Georgia-Leigh Burns will start the classes in Clitheroe in the next six to eight weeks. Currently studying for a BTECH Level 3 diploma in Sport and pursuing her dream of becoming a fitness instructor, Georgia also leads classes at Carter Leisure and EL Fitness, in Clitheroe.
Georgia commented: "After taking part in classes and personal training from a really young age, I found a love of fitness and decided I wanted to make a career out of it and become a fitness instructor. I love seeing people get healthier and helping them achieve their fitness goals and have already completed my level 2 spinning qualification.
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'Lost City Raider' cast shaping up
EmptyCOLOGNE, Germany -- James Brolin, Ben Cross and "Lost" star Ian Somerhalder are among the cast of U.S. and European talent that have signed on for the two-part event telefilm "Lost City Raiders" from Munich-based production house Tandem Communications.
The adventure drama, co-developed by Tandem and the Sci Fi Channel, revolves around two brothers who go out to salvage the past and end up in a fight to save the future. The production also features Jamie Thomas King ("The Tudors"), French actress Elodie Frenck and German stars Bettina Zimmerman and Michael Mendl.
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A Review by Joekool
World Trade Center
Director- Oliver Stone
Cast- Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhall
Rated PG-13: for
Running time-
This is the second September 11th film of the year, the first being United 93 back in April.
So people can not help themselves by comparing the two films, and I belive they should be compared. Basically every aspect
where United 93 succeeded World Trade Center failed.
In this film we follow the story of two policeman who became trapped in the rubble of the
buidlings, miraculousy surviving the collapse. Its a true story, and one that deserved a better care than it got.
The first 1/3 of the film is exceptional. Great character interaction, and some fabulous shots
of the chaos that ensued after the first buidling was hit on that terrible and unforgettable day. The collapse of the first building
was expertly done, as we see what might have happend on the inside (the second we only hear). However, after the collapse
of both buildings, things get pretty stale. The emotional click never happens. We see the mental torment of the fmailies and
the two men who struggle to stay alive, but the emotions dont carry over from the screen to the audience. This is mostly due
to a weak screenplay. The dialouge was dull and choppy, almost to the point of irritation. Just....just......BAD!
The acting in this was something i was looking forwrd to, but was let down. Nicolas Cage ddid
ok, but his New York accent was so anoying, especially once in the rubble, that it was hard to make out what he was saying.
Michael Pena, who played the other cop trapped with Cage, was also just ok. The only person who achieved good performance
was Maggie Gyllenhall, as Pena's character's wife. A letdown on this level.
Baiscally the only good things about this was that it looked good in the trailers. Im not
gonna say Director Oliver Stone has lost his touch, he is a master in film, but his last two pictures; this and Alexander
were pretty abismal. I will give hiom another chance though.
Good Points
-First 1/3
Bad Points
-Crappy screenplay
-Mediocre acting
-No connectable emotion
Rating- 5/10
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Shortly before I left on vacation I noted that the professional and personal had intersected when the mosque in my home town of Joplin, Missouri was destroyed in a suspicious fire (after two earlier acts of vandalism); arson is suspected.
The spirit that the town showed in last year's F5 tornado showed itself again in this instance. The mosque had hoped to raise $250,000 by the end of Ramadan for rebuilding; they're now at $350,000 and counting. the Christian churches and the synagogue in the town have come together to help, and a student at the local Christian Bible College is organizing a rally in support. On that rally, see here; the Islamic Society of Joplin's Facebook page is here.
A couple of news clips;
Though I've been live-posting yesterday and today, I'll be retreating to the pre-prepared posts as I resume my vacation. The second part of the Aramaic/Coptic discussion will appear later this week.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Update on the Joplin Mosque Story
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Brighouse Town's dismal home form continued with a 3-1 defeat to Ossett Town yesterday.
It was an eighth defeat in 12 Evo-Stik NPL Division One North games for Vill Powell's side at the Yorkshire Payments Stadium this season.
Brighouse had gone into the game on the back of a 1-0 win away to Skelmersdale on Saturday, when Ossett had lost 6-0 at home to Prescot Cables.
However, Ossett struck first through Jason Yates on 20 minutes.
Gabriel Johnson, who scored Brighouse's goal at the weekend, hauled the home side level on 57 minutes but the visitors took a grip of the game through Kai Hancock (50) and Isaac Assenso (63).
Both sides had a played dismissed in the last 20 minutes with Hancock first to go, followed by Johnson with three minutes left.
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At first they came for the smokers but I did not speak out as I did not smoke. Then they came for the binge drinkers but I said nothing as I did not binge. Now they have an obesity strategy.
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Yesterday I was watching CBS Sunday Morning and saw...me!! Certainly a pleasant surprise.
I'm always happy to see information about the lionfish invasion in mainstream media -- the more people who are aware of the problem, the better. Especially when it features footage and images from the REEF Environmental Education Foundation (including some of my images from the lionfish study in Curacao last year).
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Re "A Comet Is Missing, So Spacecraft Will Go to NASA's Next Choice"; (Observatory, Dec. 18): While NASA approved rerouting the Deep Impact spacecraft to comet Hartley 2, the new mission and new destination were devised by a team of scientists led by University of Maryland astronomer Michael A'Hearn, who also led the original Deep Impact. In fact, most key aspects of this new mission are handled by the University of Maryland-led team. Giving NASA all the credit is like ignoring Christopher Columbus and saying Queen Isabella discovered America because she supplied the ships and money for the trip. Lee Tune
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About Clematis texensis 'Duchess of Albany':Clematis texensis 'Duchess of Albany' is a beautiful late flowering Clematis that produces graceful and delicate tulip shaped flowers around 5cm across.
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Look out for:As with all clematis aphids may be a problem. Spray if infestations get really bad.
Trivia:'Duchess of Albany' belongs to the family of plants known as Clematis texensis. These clematis were native to Texas, USA, and were bought Europe in the late 1800s. They immediately captured the interest of plant breeders and it was the legendary clematis breeder Arthur George Jackman who was responsible for this particular hybrid.
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Zaha Hadid Architects: The Danjiang Bridge
The following article was originally published by Geoff Haines on the Desktop Engineering Blog and is reprinted with permission.
The Project
Located at the mouth of Tamsui River that flows through the capital Taipei, the Danjiang Bridge is integral to the infrastructure upgrading program of northern Taiwan. Commissioned through a competition by the Directorate General of Highways, Taiwan, R.O.C., the bridge will increase connectivity between neighbourhoods and reduce through-traffic on roads within local town centres.
By also reducing traffic from the congested Guandu Bridge upriver, the Danjiang Bridge will greatly improve the northern coast traffic system and enhance accessibility throughout the region with the rapidly expanding Port of Taipei/Taipei Harbour, the region's busiest shipping port.
The Team
The winning design team comprised a joint venture collaboration between architects Zaha Hadid Architects based in London, acting as design consultants; lead structural engineer was Leonhardt, Andrä & Partner in Germany and Sinotech Engineering Consultants in Taiwan acting as local engineering consultants.
The Design
The winning cable-stayed bridge design minimises its visual impact by using only one concrete structural mast to support the 920m road, rail and pedestrian deck made from steel. The height of the supporting mast is 200m of structural reinforced concrete, with steel cables supporting steel road/rail/cycle/pedestrian decks. Spans either side of the mast are 450m to the West and 175m to the East.
When completed, the Danjiang Bridge will be the world's longest single-mast asymmetrical cable-stay bridge in the world. It is a new piece of vital transport infrastructure which connects the two separate communities on either side of the isthmus of the Tamsui River in Taipei, greatly reducing travel time and enhancing to the region for people and goods, while achieving a harmonious integration with the natural landscape of the area.
The asymmetrical Danjiang Bridge design optimises the functionality of long-span bridge design while reducing construction and cost.
The Innovation on the Cloud
Given the project's design complexity, scale, engineering challenges and geographic distance, the team elected to use CATIA on the cloud, powered by 3DEXPERIENCE platform from Dassault Systèmes, supplied and supported by Desktop Engineering Ltd, to implement the project. This cloud-based 3D design system provides a common 3D data platform for all parties between Europe and Asia and acts as the central data repository, or Common Data Environment in BIM terms, for the project.
Key elements of this On Cloud solution:
- Immediate availability of a data management solution embedded within the software. Clearly, there was a need for user access management and revision control of design information across the collaborative partners.
- The ability to perform concurrent collaborative design sessions acting upon the single 3D data model that is a core element of the application.
- Available On Cloud anywhere with internet access meant that collaborators could engage with the design process anytime.
- A data-driven architecture—meaning no use of files, drop boxes or emails to share information—with the information stored once in one place—a "single source of truth."
- It is a true real-time online collaboration platform where users can see others' work immediately, and share design information in an organized, real-time approach. Everyone can get the information as needed from the cloud. This terminates the old issue of file upload/download and manually version management.
A key challenge that the team had to first address was to confirm their workflows and address the scale and level of detail that a 3D model of the bridge would carry. Zaha Hadid's team, who were leading the design element of the project through previous experience with "conventional" file-based CATIA V5 software, specified key elements of this process. Further, they configured the 3D CATIA model structure to reflect the relevant roles each of contributor makes to the partnership.
Design information was authored directly on the CATIA system while engineering analysis and optimisation were achieved through cyclical data exchange with specialist engineering tools and custom-made scripts. The resulting Digital Mockup represented a true solid model representation of the design.
The Innovation in Process
A key element to the CATIA On Cloud solution is the ability to communicate change graphically and share this in real time. Late in the design process, the client requested the mast be raised in height by 25 metres. This change was initiated and given the parametric capabilities of the software, once this change was initiated and the model regenerated, a revised 3D design was completed within 30 minutes. Hence rapid change was cascaded through the stakeholders of the project through the sharing of a single model and the collaboration messaging service within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform communicated this change.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform proved to be highly scalable, enabling the 3D project design information to scale up in detail and size without any loss of performance nor need to increase hardware resource. This proved to enhance the team's ability to deliver information ahead of schedule.
The team were able to continuously coordinate the design data, checking on clashes in real time, which again speeded up the whole design process. The project achieved outstanding operational economics through a compact design team completing work with minimum delay in communication all enabled by the 3DEXPERIENCE integrated technology platform.
One of the downstream process innovations lies in using this integrated 3D design data as a central part of the tender process. Traditional government procurement in Taiwan is based on 2D drawing-based documentation, however, the Employer's Requirements for an integrated contractor-led BIM process provides the opportunity to elevate the 3D CATIA data to form part of the base EPC contract tender documentation, thereby eliminating the need for costly and error-prone 3D model reconstruction from 2D drawings.
This project in one of the first major AEC projects on the CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE cloud platform. Although used in their more established industries, the new AEC specific design capabilities that Dassault Systemes have introduced were used to great effect. Further, the nature of internationally distributed design consultants that is a feature in major infrastructure projects, were well served by the real-time online collaboration features.
From the perspective of Zaha Hadid, their conclusion was that this project process resulted in a highly enhanced profit margin if compared to using a conventional process of a file-based approach—sharing and releasing information with email, Dropbox, or other file-based sharing portals.
This success has meant they have recently doubled their investment and commitment to CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE on the cloud and will look to use cloud-based technology on future suitable projects with a progressive phasing out of the previous technology. Further given the nature of Zaha Hadid's work being 95% outside the UK and more than 75% outside Europe, cloud technology delivers clear improvements in speed of communication and 3D design collaboration.
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State Home Builders Tap Snell
HARRISONBURG - J.M. Snell is a believer in the value of home ownership, and the Home Builders Association of Virginia is a believer in him.
Snell, the executive vice president of Penn Laird-based Valley Renovators, was installed last month as the president of the state trade association. He'll lead the organization, which has more than 3,500 member firms, until next year's annual convention.
Much of what the HBAV does, he said, is try to find ways to lower costs associated with building so homes can be more affordable for buyers."The building industry will survive regardless. People always are going to need shelter," Snell, 52, said Wednesday in the company's administrative office off South Main Street in the southern tip of Harrisonburg. "Protecting affordability for the promotion of the American dream is a large enough task."The Petersburg, W.Va., native has been on the presidential track for the last two years. He was tapped by the organization's board of directors to be its second vice president in 2013 and was in charge of membership. Last year, he was first vice president and oversaw finances.Snell said he thinks his work to expand the HBAV's membership as a regional vice president drew the board's attention. That's an interesting development when you consider that he said he had to have his "arm twisted" by several local people in the industry to get involved with the association in 2002."I was a skeptic," he said. "In 13 years I've become a bit of a poster child for them because I'm so concerned that home ownership should be affordable, and there are so many groups [in the industry] that have their own special interests."Valley Renovators started 19 years ago as a small company that did additions and renovations, said Snell, a founding partner. Over the years, however, new homes have become its specialty as it builds more than 50 homes a year.The company has built the town homes in Charleston Townes, Taylor Springs and Wellington Park; larger single-family homes in Mill View Estates in Bridgewater; cottages for Sunnyside Retirement Community; and custom homes in Barrington, Battlefield Estates, Magnolia Ridge and other developments.In the early 2000s, Snell said, gross annual revenues for the company topped $10 million. Post-recession they've settled at about $6 million, and new construction remains relatively flat even though the overall housing market has improved.For the company, Snell said he essentially acts as a CEO. Valley Renovators employs 28 people.The past few years, he said the HBAV's main focus was on stormwater as the association worked to understand new regulations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and try to find cost-efficient ways for members to meet them.The organization also worked with state officials on revisions to the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, the set of standards buildings in the state must meet. The HBAV staked out positions for and against proposed changes.One change endorsed by the International Code Council, which recommends model standards for building safe structures, was mandatory sprinklers for new homes. The HBAV opposed the mandate.It costs between $3,000 and $8,000 to sprinkler a house, Snell said, and insurance industry officials claimed it would increase premiums by 10 percent because water often does more damage than fire. Sprinkler pipes also could leak, so insurance companies would receive more damage claims."There was not enough evidence that they are life-saving," said Snell. "We argued that fire alarms are more effective. We supported the adoption of affordable sprinkler systems [as an option] but not the mandate that they all have them."The lobbying efforts were successful; sprinklers are optional.The HBAV now is working with the DEQ to refine and combine its stormwater management and erosion management programs. They're similar, Snell said, and the hope is that an effective consolidation effort can reduce redundancy and fees.
Bradshaw, Vic. "State Home Builders Tap Snell." Daily News Record 31 July 2015, News (Local) sec. Byrd Newspapers. Web. 2015.
A New Wave Of Stormwater Regs
" J.M. Snell of Valley Renovators, who serves as first vice president of the Home Builders Association of Virginia and on the board of the Valley association, estimated new regulations could add $5,000 to $10,000 per home.Whatever they are, the additional costs will be passed on to homebuyers, Snell said."Builders can't absorb that," he said. "Builders don't build for big profits - they build for marginal profits."Developments already under construction, such as the Preston Lake subdivision east of Harrisonburg, should not be affected by the new rules."
Hunt, Jeremy. "A New Wave Of Stormwater Regs." Daily News Record 26 June 2014, Business Journal sec. web.
HBAV installs executive officers and regional vice presidents for 2015
J.M. Snell has been elected to serve as HBAV first vice president/treasurer. Executive vice president of Valley Renovators in Penn Laird, Snell has been an active member of the Shenandoah Valley Builders Association for 13 years. During that time, he has served on many committees and was a two-term president. On the state level, he's been a member of the HBAV Executive Board for the past three years. In 2014, he served as second vice president and chaired the HBAV Membership Committee. Snell and his wife, Lori, reside in Harrisonburg


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Buckhurst Hill vs Prostar 15th February Kick off 12pm
With the weather effecting the fixture list, this is only the Buckhurst Hill boys 2nd game of the New Year and what a tough game it is. Prostar are the visitors today and they are a formidable physical presence and have plenty on the bench to back it up. Buckhurst Hill are struggling, and with only 1 on the bench and not much game time under their belts, Prostar are favorites before a ball has been kicked.
Buckhurst Hill kick off
6mins: Close for Prostar, they spring the offside trap and Rawlings comes out, makes himself big and the shot goes wide.
14mins: Close again for Prostar, they beat the offside trap as a through ball takes a deflection off a Buckhurst hill defender, Rawlings gets a block and the ball goes wide.
Buckhurst Hill are struggling, the physical but fair nature of the game has seen a number of the Buckhurst Hill players on the ground needing attention as they start to wilt under the constant pressure being applied by Prostar.
20Mins Goal 0-1: The break through for the away side, and it has been coming. Some good work on the left wing sees the ball crossed into the area, and the ball is struck but takes a wicked deflection that sends the ball into the opposite corner of the goal.
Its all Prostar as they carve through midfield and the Buckhurst Hill are really hanging on. Only a freekick from Laycock, which the keeper saves as the second attempt, gives the Buckhurst Hill defense a rest.
39Mins Goal 0-2: They get their 2nd and what a goal. A strike from outside the area is curled into the top right corner and no keeper is getting that, as Rawlings effort to keep it out is in vain.
Its going to be a very long half as the Buckhurst Hill players limp off at half time, with very little options on the bench it is going to be a long 2nd half.
Prostar Kick off
18Mins Goal 0-3: Another close in effort smashed home as a winger gets around the back and sets up a teammate to score. For the Buckhurst Hill boys its damage limitation as the game is gone and heads have dropped.
26Mins Goal 0-4: From what was an offside position a ball is squared across the area and group of Prostar players are queuing up to finish the move off, and dually do so with Rawlings in goal no chance.
32Mins Goal 0-5: A freekick is conceded central at the edge of the area is curled home. Rawlings gets across but the ball squirms free and the balls falls into the net, Rawlings wont be happy that it got past him.
The final whistle blows and the Buckhurst Hill boys look dejected, and they can have no complaints Prostar deserved the victory. Buckhurst Hill were 2nd best in most of the areas on the pitch today, which is a first for the team this season. With the injuries all over the pitch mounting up, lets hope none are to serious and players missing can return next week. Peter and Paul could have some tough work to do raising spirits, as they look to get the campaign for top honours back on track.
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Hugh McKinney played a major role in water conservation and irrigation development in New South Wales. Trained in Northern Ireland, he gained experience in the irrigation branch of the Indian Public Works Department, and in 1880 joined the New South Wales Public Works Department. Over twenty years he carried out fundamental studies of New South Wales rivers, collecting data essential for developing the colony's water resources. Later, he promoted what became the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Scheme.
This contribution was submitted by Dr Katrina Proust, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, The Australian National University.
McKinney graduated in engineering from the Queen's College Belfast, and was articled to Samuel Roberts, Chief Engineer for Waterworks, Galway. In 1867 he received a Diploma of Civil Engineering with honours and, in the next year, he obtained third place in open competition for appointments in the Indian Public Works Department. In 1869 he sailed to Calcutta to join the Bengal Public Works Department. First, he was stationed at Amritsar in Punjab. As Assistant Engineer (3rd grade) he was assigned to various engineering works on the Bari Doab Canal which would provide irrigation to land between the Beas and Ravi Rivers. In 1876 McKinney transferred to the Irrigation Department of the North-Western Provinces and was stationed at Saharunpur. In this district he worked on irrigation development for land served by the Eastern Jumna Canal and the Ganges Canal. In 1878-1879, as Assistant Engineer, he worked on drainage projects in areas of the Lower Ganges Canal that were seriously affected by irrigation salinity. After qualifying in canal law he also exercised the duties of Canal Magistrate.
While on leave from India in 1876 McKinney visited New South Wales, where he toured the Riverina with relatives who held large pastoral interests at Kooba and Pomingalarna stations. Later, after completing his ten-year tour of duty in India, McKinney moved permanently to Sydney. In 1880 he joined the Harbours and Rivers Branch of the NSW Public Works Department. He was employed on the Upper Nepean Scheme for the Sydney water supply, first as Resident Engineer, then as District Engineer.
In 1884, prompted by interest in developing the colony's water resources, the NSW Government convened the first public inquiry into water conservation, known as the Lyne Royal Commission (1884-1887), and appointed McKinney engineer assisting the Commission. During this period McKinney completed surveys of the Murray and Darling rivers, and instituted a system of river gauging of discharges on all major rivers in the colony. When the work of the Commission was formally completed, he was appointed to run the newly created Water Conservation, Irrigation and Drainage Branch of the NSW Public Works Department. With a small staff from the Lyne Royal Commission he continued to gather hydrological data on NSW rivers.
In 1890 McKinney was appointed Commissioner-in-Charge of the Murray River. This position was created following an examination of the whole Murray system to find an equitable way for Victoria and New South Wales to share its waters.
Developing the rivers west of the Great Dividing Range was vital to the colony's future. During the 1890s McKinney undertook a range of work in the dry Western Division of the colony, where the activities of the Water Conservation Branch were chiefly focused. McKinney was involved with the development of the proto-irrigation schemes operated by the Irrigation Trusts at Hay and Balranald on the Murrumbidgee, and at Wentworth on the Murray. With F.W. Ward he completed a six-week survey along the Darling River to identify suitable locations for locks and weirs. Among his major engineering works were the Willandra and Middle Billabong Weirs on the Lachlan River, the Yanco Cutting in the Riverina, and the weir at Bourke on the Darling River. On the Macquarie River he was responsible for the Warren Weir, and on the Lachlan River a self-acting flood-gate in Lake Creek. This flood-gate maintained a permanent water supply into Lake Cargellico. The Branch also was in charge of innumerable surveys of the major rivers for flood mitigation works, for water supplies to towns and to mining settlements (for hydraulic sluicing), and for improvement works on coastal rivers. After 1896 the Branch administered the long-awaited Water Rights Act, and issued licences under the Act. McKinney was directly and indirectly involved with all these activities. In addition, his many years of field work resulted in the first map of the Murray-Darling Basin published in 1900.
McKinney was passionate about reducing the risks involved in farming operations, and to this end he was dedicated to promoting irrigation development in the colony. In 1891 he drew up a plan for a canal to irrigate the northern bank of the Murrumbidgee. However, the 1890s were years of economic depression and drought, and McKinney believed that 'political inertia' made it difficult to achieve his aim within the government service. He left the Public Works Department in 1901 and, with Robert Gibson, a grazier in the NSW Riverina, promoted a private irrigation scheme from the northern bank of the Murrumbidgee. In 1906 the NSW Government eventually adopted a modified version of this proposal, which it developed and operated as the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Scheme.
Between 1883 and 1912, McKinney published nine papers on irrigation in the Journal of the Royal Society of New South Wales, as well as numerous technical reports for government, and popular articles. He also gave evidence before numerous public inquiries into water conservation and irrigation.
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Toyism Behind the Curtain – The Magical History Tour
In Toyism Behind the Curtain, you get a closer look at what toyism is about. This time we discover the musical heroes featured in the painting: The Magical History Tour. Now on display at Hotel ten Cate in the city of Emmen, the Netherlands. Can you guess who all the musical heroes are? Follow this link to find out!