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Ice Skating Rink References:
There is a growing trend for new ice skating facilities to not be limited to offering just ice skating sports, Investors have found that a facility catering to multiple indoor sports, with two or more year round ice surfaces, reduces risk exposure and provides greater revenue potential than a single surface ice rink.
A single surface ice rink can generate considerable revenues from public sessions when it first opens. However, the long term viability involves filling "off peak times" with multiple month contracts from various ice skating disciplines. The demand for ice time peaks during the winter sports training and competitive season.
The recreational skater does not frequent the rink as much as the competitive skaters. Ice skating disciplines tend to be much more intense during their training and the winter competitive season, followed by an off season. Some forms of figure skating have evolved into non Olympic events that hold their national and international competitions at different times of the year that do not coincide with the traditional world and Olympic winter sports seasonal championships.
Diversify and Open New Markets
Expand marketing opportunities to non-ice skating sports and activities is a very important for every successful business. Management must "think outside the box or ice rink in this case" to develop a system of recruiting new athletes and strengthening efforts to retain these individuals throughout their school years (including college), while pursuing a career, raising a family, and eventually retiring.
An eldercare, wellness, and fitness program of activities is a logical extension of providing recreational sports and related activities to retirees. This approach fully utilizes the investment in constructing a full service, all season, competitive and recreational sports complex. Such a diverse approach provides a path to maximize revenues and growth in an expanding economy, while protecting against periods of economic slowdowns and recessions.
Often a child or parent will need internet access to do home work or job related assignments in breaks between activities and intervals between scheduled activities. A distraction free environment should be provided with work spaces. A separate food service area is a desirable feature for clients, parents, and visitors.
Sports, recreation, and fitness centers operating on a 24 hour schedule provides an opportunity for an ideal companion service - a medical clinic offering 24 hour treatment for sports related injuries in addition to providing a full service treatment program dedicated to the preventative sports medicine and wellness issues.
A skating facility can maximize its revenues by hosting hockey leagues, curling, speed skating, and figure skating clubs, plus recreational skating sessions and "Learn to Skate" group classes.
Promotion of sports, fitness, and wellness should focus on marketing the facility to three main groups:
Long Track and Short Track: What's the Difference? by Jerry Search, Southern California
Apolo Ohno Physics : Dot Physics
Feb. 17, 2010... I always gets me thinking about physics is short track speed skating. ... The radius of the actual track layout is exactly 8m radius.
The Official Special Olympics Sports Rules for Short Track Speed Skating
Short Track Speed Skating
These arrangements bring the observer very close to the action. Given its layout , short track speed skating is an action packed sport ideally suited for the ...
Speed Skating
Hockey and Curling on Same Ice
should then be conducted by the ice crew. Curling Markings/Layout. A standard community rink is approximately 85 feet wide and 185 feet long. A curling sheet ...
Curling Workbook
My Curling.com - All the information on curling you need!
Oct. 8, 2005 ... The game of curling is played using carefully crafted stones thrown along a sheet of ice. The ice is carefully cleaned and pebbled
Starting a New Curling Club - The Curling School by CurlTech
The one thing they all have in common are sheets of ice for curling. ... Club Layout and Design. Designing a club is like designing a new house.
Layout 1 - Canadian Curling Association
PEBBLE A fine spray of water applied to a sheet of curling ice before play starts. It creates small bumps on the ice, making it easier for curling rocks to ...
"Learn to Skate" group class programs - group classes, testing, and competitions
USFS Basic Skating Skills
United States Figure Skating Association clubs, tests, and competitions
The Sport of Figure Skating
Figure Skating Disciplines
USFS Programs
USFS Testing Process
The goal of each sports facility management team should be to develop a wide range of recreation and competitive programs that serves all ages of adults and children and abilities without a gender bias. Activities can range widely from team sports, individual sports and fitness programs, theme & play specific activities to cultural enrichment augmented by a broad array of special events, including seasonal activities, community celebrations and other features for children, adults and families. It would be highly desirable to form partnerships with community organizations, school boards, and park departments help expand and broaden programs and activities offered to the community.
Gender Neutral Wellness and Fitness Programs
The following activities and sports could be easily accommodated in sports complex that caters to multi generations in a family environment. A single facility that offers a spectrum of opportunities allows each individual in a family unit to participate in different activities without the necessity of multiple car trips to transport and pick up athletes with activities held at different locations.
Ice & Inline Skating - Rethinking the Rink - Athletic Business Trauma and Tragedy Have Spurred Changes in the Ice Arena Environment, ... one radius point (where the rink's side boards become rounded at the corner) around the back ... Instead, small clips connecting the top of one pane of glass to its ... Some compare the barrier to a brick wall.
A Comprehensive Look At Arena Dasher Board Systems In addition, spectator seating, turn-around time, and maintenance .... This shorter dasher system acts as a visible barrier between the ice and dry floor .... the glass, lexan or acrylic clips are used at the top of the shielding to
Design Tips An ice covering can be used to facilitate light activities on top of the ice, ... A cement floor for an NHL size ice rink will cost between $50,000 and ... The glass around the ice surface will also fog over, obstructing the view of the ... the cooling floor and is separated by insulation and a vapor barrier.
White Ice - Protective Netting - Puck Board & Glass Arena Glass, Puck Board, Puck Control Netting Options ... i.e. breakage & stretch are based on use as all purpose barrier in typical applications.
Evaluating Arena Boards and Glass The exact height of glass as measured from the ice surface to the top of the glass? ... the first rudimentary boards were erected around outdoor rinks. ..... hold in a moisture barrier.
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associations that have a web presence with information concerning team and
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As I was saying at the previous post, I just had a Bali trip with my family for celebrating Aurelia's 8th birthday. I was so glad that she liked our "present" for her, especially when she knew we stayed at the luxury resort, Anantara Uluwatu. Nothing can make me feel happier than see the smile from my children.
|Outfit for dinner - White Floral Dress : Topshop , Bag : Longchamp
Ultimo is an Italian restaurant, located at Seminyak area. This is one of our favorite restaurant in Bali. Everytime we go to Bali, Ultimo is a must for us. Not just because of the delicacy of their dishes, but they also have an affordable price for that good quality food. They have a good interior for a fine dining restaurant. However, the ambience is quite not suitable for children. It has a low light, with a small space at indoor area. They do have an outdoor area which more spacious, and have live music too!! But as usual, outdoor area is a smoking area, and it's not good for children.
Despite the ambience, we chose this restaurant because they serve Italian food which is our children's favorite. They love pasta, a lot!! I've tried their pasta before, and I like it. And if I like it, so the children do. Beside the pasta, I also love to eat their seafood dishes. It was so fresh and also taste delicious.
Ravioli di Pollo (IDR 65K)
First dish is the pasta. This time I decided to try their ravioli, which is stuffed with chicken. It was so tasty, and the pasta also cooked perfectly. This ravioli is cooked with creamy sauce and mushroom, which make it taste better.
Grilled Snapper with Sauteed Vegetables & Caponata Sauce (IDR 135K)
To be honest, this dish is quite disappointed. Even though the snapper was really fresh, but it was overcooked. The texture was too dry and not juicy at all. Beside that, the sauce also has a very strong taste, and too sour.
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Grilled Seafood Platter
At the time we ordered, we didn't see this menu. But the waitress was telling it's one of their recommended dishes. Based on what he said, we decided to try it and it's very very delicious. This platter contains squids, prawns, muscle, and it's all grilled - my favorite cooking method all the time - and French fries for the side dish. I love grilled food especially for seafood dishes. This seafood was grilled perfectly, and also comes with less spices, so I could taste the flavor of the seafood itself. How tasty it is!!! Suddenly it reminds me with grilled seafood dishes from Cerveseria Catalana which is also very fresh, and delicious.
Not just the foods, we love their bestseller beverages too. I don't know what does it called, because we didn't see it on the menu. We just saw every table had this drink, so I asked the waitress to make the same. This beverage is exactly the same with the one that we got at Nervino Dieci Trattoria, Milan. It made with full of sorbet and it's really fresh. The only difference is the flavor. While in Milan they only have watermelon flavor, UItimo has more options for that. This time I tried the mango flavor and it wasn't disappointed at all. It was really good and fresh. You really need to try it when have a dinner at Ultimo.
Ultimo is the right place for you who are looking for a fine dining yet affordable restaurant. You can reach this place by short walking from Seminyak Village. Since this restaurant has many tables, reservation is not necessary. Except if you want to celebrate a special occasion, with many peoples on your group.
Ultimo Italian Restaurant
Address : Jalan Kayu Aya No. 104X, Seminyak, Bali 80361
Phone : +62 361 738720
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The path that the Holy Spirit takes in people is to first pull their hearts out of all people, events, and things, and into the words of God so that in their hearts they all believe that God's words are utterly without doubt and completely true. Since you believe in God you must believe in His words; if you have believed in God for many years but you don't know the path that the Holy Spirit takes, are you really a believer? To achieve the life of a normal person and a proper life of man with God, you must first believe His words. If you have not completed the first step of work that the Holy Spirit does in people, you have no foundation. You are lacking the most basic principle, so how can you walk the path ahead? Taking the right track of God perfecting man is entering the right track of the Holy Spirit's current work; it is also taking the path that the Holy Spirit walks. Right now, the path the Holy Spirit walks is God's current words. So, for one to walk it, he must obey, and eat and drink of the current words of God incarnate. He is doing the work of words, and everything is spoken from His words, and everything is established on His words, His current words. Whether it's being fully without doubts about God become flesh or knowing Him, one must put much effort into His words. Otherwise, he cannot accomplish anything at all, and he will be left with nothing. Only by coming to know God and satisfy Him on the foundation of eating and drinking His words can one gradually establish a proper relationship with Him. Eating and drinking His words and putting them into practice is the best cooperation with God, and it is the practice that best bears witness as one of His people. When one understands and is able to obey the essence of God's current words, he is living on the path that is led by the Holy Spirit and he has entered the right track of God perfecting man. It used to be that people sought grace and sought peace and joy, and then were able to obtain God's work. It's different now. If they do not have the words of God become flesh, if they do not have the reality of those words, they cannot gain approval from God and will be eliminated by God. To achieve a proper spiritual life, first eat and drink God's words and put them into practice; and on this foundation establish a proper relationship between man and God. How do you cooperate? How do you stand witness as one of His people? How do you establish a proper relationship with God?
This is how to see if you have a proper relationship with God in your daily life:
1. Do you believe God's own testimony?
2. Do you believe in your heart that God's words are true and infallible?
3. Are you someone who puts His words into practice?
4. Are you devoted to what He entrusts you with? How can you be devoted to it?
5. Is everything you do for the sake of satisfying and being loyal to God?
Through these things, you can take stock of whether you have a proper relationship with God at this current stage.
If you are able to accept what God entrusts to you, accept His promise, and follow the path of the Holy Spirit, this is doing God's will. Do you have inner clarity on the path of the Holy Spirit? Are your current actions in accordance with His path? Is your heart drawing close to God? Are you willing to follow the newest light from the Holy Spirit? Are you willing to be obtained by God? Are you willing to become a manifestation of God's glory on earth? Do you have the will to achieve what God requires? If you have the will to cooperate as soon as God speaks and you have the will to satisfy Him, if this is your internal dynamic, it means that God's words have borne fruit in your heart. If you don't have that kind of will and you do not have a goal in your pursuit, it means that your heart has not yet been moved by God.
As people have officially entered into the training of the kingdom, God's requirements of them have been elevated. How can one see that? It was said before that people do not have life, but now people seek life, seek to be one of God's people, and to be obtained and perfected by God. Isn't this being elevated? In reality, requirements of people are simpler than they used to be. People aren't required to be service-doers or to die—all that is required of them is to be people of God. Isn't that simpler? As long as you offer up your heart to God and obey His guidance, all will come to fruition. Why do you think it's so difficult? What is now spoken of regarding entering into life is clearer than before; people used to be unclear and didn't know what the reality of life is about. Those who have a reaction to hearing God's words, who have the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit, and who have gained His perfection and a change in disposition before Him—all of these people have life. What God wants is living beings, not lifeless things. If you are lifeless, you do not have life, and God will not speak to you, and He particularly will not raise you up to be one of His people. Since you have been uplifted by God, having received such a great blessing from Him, this means that you are all people who have life, and those who have life come from God.
For one to pursue a change in his life disposition, the path of practice is simple. If you are able to follow the current words of the Holy Spirit in your practical experiences, you will be able to achieve a change in your disposition. If you follow and seek whatever the Holy Spirit says, you are someone who obeys Him, and this way you will be able to have a change in disposition. Man's disposition changes with the Holy Spirit's current words; if you always uphold your old past experiences and rules, your disposition will not change. If the Holy Spirit spoke today to tell all people to enter into a life of normal humanity but you continue to focus on the surface and you are confused about reality and do not take it seriously, you will be someone who is not keeping up with His work and you will not be someone who has entered the path led by the Holy Spirit. Whether or not your disposition can change depends upon whether or not you keep up with the Holy Spirit's current words and have genuine understanding. This is different from what you understood before. What you understood of a change in disposition before was that you, who are easy to judge, through God's disciplining no longer speak carelessly. But this is just one aspect of the change, and right now the most critical point is following the guidance of the Holy Spirit. You follow whatever God says; you obey whatever He says. People cannot change their disposition themselves; they must undergo the judgment and chastisement and painful refinement of God's words, or being dealt with, disciplined, and pruned by His words. Only after that can they achieve obedience and devotion to God, and not try to fool Him and deal with Him perfunctorily. It is under the refinement of God's words that people have a change in disposition. Only those who undergo the exposure, judgment, disciplining, and dealing with of His words will no longer dare to do things recklessly, and will become calm and collected. The most important point is that they are able to obey God's current words and obey God's work, and even if it is not in line with human notions, they can put them aside and intentionally obey. When a change in disposition has been spoken of in the past, it has mainly been about forsaking oneself, allowing the flesh to suffer, disciplining one's body, and ridding oneself of fleshly preferences—this is one type of change in disposition. People now know that the real expression of a change in disposition is obeying the current words of God as well as being able to have a genuine understanding of His new work. This way people will be able to get rid of their previous understanding of God in their notions, and achieve a true understanding of and obedience to Him. Only this is a genuine expression of a change in disposition.
People's pursuit of entry into life is based on God's words; it has been said before that everything is accomplished because of His words, but no one has seen the facts. If in this stage you enter into experience you will be completely clear—this is building a good foundation for future trials, and no matter what God says, you just need to enter into His words. When God says He starts to chastise people, you accept His chastisement. When God asks people to die, you accept that trial. If you are always living within His newest utterances, in the end God's words will perfect you. The more you enter into God's words, the more quickly you will be perfected. Why do I fellowship again and again and ask you to understand and enter into God's words? It is only by focusing your pursuit toward God's words and experiencing them and entering into the reality of them that the Holy Spirit will have the opportunity to work in you. So you are all contestants in every method of God's work, and no matter whether your suffering has been great or mild in the end, you will all have a souvenir. In order to achieve your final perfection, you must enter into all of God's words. For the Holy Spirit to perfect people, He does not work unilaterally. He requires people's cooperation; He needs everyone to consciously cooperate with Him. No matter what God says, you simply enter into His words—this is more beneficial for your lives. Everything is for the sake of your change in disposition. When you enter into God's words, your heart will be moved by God, and you will be able to understand everything that God wants to achieve in this step of work, and you will have the will to achieve it. In the times of chastisement, some people believed that it was the method of work and did not believe in God's words. As a result, they did not undergo refinement and they came out of the times of chastisement having gained nothing and understood nothing. There were some who truly entered into these words without a shred of doubt; they said that God's words are true and infallible and that people should be chastised. They struggled within this for a period of time and let go of their future and destiny, and once they came out from that their disposition changed significantly, and they had an even deeper understanding of God. Those who came out from the midst of chastisement all felt the loveliness of God, and they knew that that step of God's work was His great love coming upon mankind, that it was the conquest and the salvation of God's love. And they also said that God's thoughts are always good, and everything that God does in man is love, not hate. Those who did not believe God's words or place importance on them did not undergo refinement during the times of chastisement, and the result was that the Holy Spirit did not accompany them, and they gained nothing. For those who entered into the times of chastisement, although they did undergo refinement, the Holy Spirit was working inside of them in a hidden way, and the outcome was that they experienced a change in their life disposition. Some people seemed to be very positive from the outside. They were always happy, but they didn't enter into that state of the refinement of God's words and didn't change at all, which was the consequence of not believing God's words. If you don't believe His words the Holy Spirit won't work in you. God appears to all those who believe His words; those who believe and understand His words will gain His love!
Enter into the state of God's words, focus on doing it in an active way, and find what should be put into practice; only by doing so can you have a change in your life disposition. It is only through this way that you can be perfected by God, and it is only people who have been perfected by God in that way who can be in line with His will. To receive new light, you must live within His words. If you have only been moved by the Holy Spirit once, that is not adequate at all—you must go deeper. Those who have only been moved once have just had the zeal in them aroused and they become willing to seek, but they cannot maintain that for the long term, and they must always receive being moved by the Holy Spirit. There have been so many times I have brought up that I hope that God's Spirit may move people's spirits, that they may pursue a change in their life disposition, and while they seek to be moved by God they understand their own inadequacies, and that in the process of experiencing His words, they cast off the impure things in themselves (self-rightness, arrogance, and their own notions, and so on). Do not believe that just proactively receiving new light is adequate—you must also cast off things from the negative aspects. You need to not only enter from the positive aspects, but you also need to rid yourselves of all impure things in the negative aspects. You must be constantly examining yourself regarding which impure things still exist within you. People's religious notions, intents, hopes, self-rightness, and arrogance are all unclean things. Compare yourself to all God's words of revelation, and look into yourself for any religious notions you may hold. Only if you truly recognize them can you cast them off. Some people say that now it is enough to just follow the light of the present work of the Holy Spirit and nothing else needs to be heeded. Then how will you get rid of your religious notions when they come up? Do you think it is that simple to follow God's words? In your real life, there are still religious things that can be disruptive, and when these things come up, they can disrupt your ability to accept new things. These are all problems that actually exist. If you only pursue the current words of the Holy Spirit you cannot satisfy God's will. While you pursue the present light of the Holy Spirit, you should recognize which notions and intentions you still hold, what particularly human self-rightness there is, and which behaviors are disobedient to God. And after you have recognized all of these things, you must cast them off. Having you forsake your previous actions and behaviors is all for the sake of following the Holy Spirit's current words. For a change in disposition, on the one hand, it is achieved through God's words, and on the other hand, it requires that people cooperate. That is, God's work and people's practice are both indispensable.
In your future path of service, how can you satisfy God's will?
One crucial point is to pursue entering into life, pursue a change in disposition, and pursue entering more deeply into the truth—this is the path to achieving being perfected and being obtained by God. All of you are to receive God's commission, so what is that? This is relevant to the next step of work, which is going to be greater work that is carried out throughout the entire universe. So now you should pursue a change in your life disposition so that in the future you will truly become the proof of God gaining glory through His work, and be made into specimens for His future work. Today's pursuit is all laying a foundation for the future work; it is for you to be used by God and so that you are able to bear witness for Him. If this is the object of your pursuit, you will be able to gain the presence of the Holy Spirit. The higher the object of your pursuit is, the more possible it will be for you to be perfected. The more you pursue the truth, the more the Holy Spirit will work. The greater energy you have for pursuit, the more you will gain. The Holy Spirit perfects people based on their internal state. Some people say that they are not willing to be used by God or to be perfected by Him, that it will be fine if they have peace in the flesh, and do not suffer any catastrophes. Some people are not willing to enter into the kingdom, but are willing to descend into the bottomless pit, and God will also fulfill that for you. Whatever you pursue will be what God fulfills. So what is your current pursuit? Are you pursuing being perfected? Are your current actions and behaviors for the sake of being perfected by God, for being obtained by Him? You must constantly measure yourself this way in your daily life. If you focus your heart on pursuing a single goal, God will definitely perfect you. This is the path of the Holy Spirit. The path led by the Holy Spirit is attained through people's seeking. The more you long to be perfected and obtained by God, the more the Holy Spirit will work within you. The more you do not seek, and the more negative and retreating you are, the more the Holy Spirit lacks opportunities to work. The Holy Spirit will gradually abandon you. Are you willing to be perfected by God? Are you willing to be obtained by God? Are you willing to be used by God? You should pursue doing everything for the sake of being perfected, obtained, and used by God, allowing everything in the universe to see God's actions revealed in you. Among all things, you are the master of them, and among all that there is, you will allow God to enjoy testimony and glory because of you—this shows that you are the most blessed generation!


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Three days listening to and speaking with some of the world's greatest manufacturers at the recent IMPACT event in Las Vegas proved one thing: senior executives are serious about undertaking their digital transformation journey.
They want to move beyond the reactive to the predictive. No more "rear-view mirrors." Today, with sensors and real-time data on causal factors like machine performance, value chain availability and even factors like the weather, manufacturers can do more than analyze what happened. They can prevent what could happen.
For example, one manufacturer we've worked with on digital transformation is now so confident about their production plans that they are changing their customer value proposition, offering guaranteed deliveries, guaranteed quality and performance-based pricing.
Digital Transformation: Six Steps
My colleague, Dennis McRae, and I delivered a keynote address at IMPACT titled, "Smart Manufacturing: Digital Innovations for the Next Generation of Operational Excellence." It seemed to strike a chord with the audience. In conversations after the event, executives were particularly interested in what we called the "six steps to digital transformation success." Here's a quick summary of those steps.
1. Set clear goals. Pick a couple of opportunities as a proof test of value. Be able to describe pilot projects in a few bullets. You'll want to test more than one hypothesis and avoid falling in love with one pet project.
2. Validate your hypotheses with data. For example, if one potential project is to improve the performance of a line that relies on a machine that is experiencing unplanned downtime, collect data over a fixed period of time—your manufacturing load, staff load, labor, raw material load, planned orders, all of the key metrics that you gather today specific to that work cell or that line.
3. Build a business case. Is there a dollar value that makes sense in investing in fixing or replacing that machine? If solving the problem generates a few hundred dollars' worth of impact, the ROI may not be justified. But if the data shows that downtime costs thousands with each occurrence, and puts customer relationships at risk, the business case is there. That's a project worth pursuing.
4. Executive alignment. The traditional lecture-style monthly meetings and status reports aren't sufficient for driving digital transformation. Instead, create an executive advisory board as a forum for education and foster a "roll-up-the-sleeves" attitude about possibilities and approaches where everyone is engaged as a team.
5. Focus on execution and results. Take on pilot projects with a strong business case and zero in on the barriers to execution. Perhaps your data repository lacks the capacity for relevant real-time information or your sensor data is inadequate. Addressing those interim issues will help ensure that you create the value you're looking for and keep the energy up during the digital transformation.
6. Seek advice from leaders. Look outside your own organization, particularly leaders from other industries. Often what you thought was merely a distant possibility is actually standard operating procedure in another industry. Your team will start to get excited when they see the success of others on similar digital transformation journeys and have a deeper appreciation of the importance of their efforts.
We've seen the power of this approach at a number of clients. Identifying and executing on a series of manageable, high-value projects is the key to a sustainable digital transformation journey.
Hitachi Consulting's new Point of View, "Accelerate Digital Transformation by Connecting Your Manufacturing and Supply Chain Data," is a great place to start if you would like to learn more about driving digital transformation in a manufacturing environment. We've also produced a short video about smart manufacturing. We hope you find it useful.
But most importantly, we want to hear how your digital transformation is going.
"Digital leaders attain 49% better gross margins, 45% better earnings and 57% higher net income than laggards." The Digital Business Divide, Harvard Business School


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A powerful new exhibition that uncovers the mystery, pain, anger and stories of forgotten police cells in the historic city of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Running for a week on London's SouthBank at the Oxo Tower Gallery, 10th - 14th April.
Freedom of Expression is a collection of work from celebrated South African photographer, Karl Schoemaker. Schoemaker has captured the long abandoned Baakens Police Station which is nestled behind the sleepy-harbour city's City Hall, to share its history and stories with the world.
Schoemaker captured the images alone across three-months, mindful to never spend more than three hours in the cells, afraid of becoming desensitised to the enormity of the history recorded on the walls: "The place was dark and dank, and to shoot the cells properly, I always closed the heavy cell doors which gave me the feeling of being trapped. An insight into what the captured felt. At other times I would go down and simply read the stories scratched into the walls, not photographing anything. But sitting with their energy, imagining the emotions they felt."
The exhibition is supported by The Linbury Trust and produced by the Moving Assembly Project, a not for profit which connects people, artists and students from diverse global backgrounds and communities through the arts. Co-curator of the exhibition and Artistic Director of Moving Assembly, Dane Hurst, says: "The historical context of these images and the trauma they hold is only a small element of what South Africa endured. They sit beside images that capture the lives of South Africa's youth and the freedom they have to express their experience of the world. Working with young people and empowering them has such a profound effect on our collective futures. Seeing the positive outcomes of this work says so much about the nature of hope, perseverance and the power of the artist in the community."
The exhibition will also feature poetry by London poet LyricL Nkechi and photography from Moving Assembly Project students who have taken part in workshops in South Africa under the tutelage of Schoemaker.
There will be a panel discussion on 'The
Power of the Artist in the Community' on Saturday 13 April @ 3-5pm
To Book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-power-of-the-artist-in-the-community-tickets-59154647142
Teaching is at the heart of what we do and thanks to your support, we have always been able
to offer our programme at no cost to the student. Last year we introduced and offered our first photography workshops led by Karl Schoemaker alongside our regular dance programme.
We worked with over 100 students in Port Elizabeth, at the Ithuba Community College in Port Edward and at the LIV Village in Durban. The workshops were facilitated by our MAP team
and the images were taken by our students on disposable cameras based on the theme 'Who Are you?' This year we continued the photography programme alongside our dance workshops that took
place at the St Thomas High School and the Ubuntu Pathways. The team worked towards creating a curtain raiser performance for 74 youth who performed alongside our MAP team in collaboration
with Nelson Mandela University on the PE Opera House stage. Most of the students were entering and performing in the theatre for the very first time. This was a very special experience
for the student, parents and members of the community who saw the youth expressing their individuality on stage; a contrast to knowing where they come from
and seeing them in a very different, radiant light.
We now have a very strong visual archive from the very many different perspectives and life situations of many of our students which allows us to have a deeper understanding of who it is that we are working with and what it is that we are offering within the context of their environment. Now after completing our third and most ambitious project to date, we are ready to fully share with you the impact of this work on the students. We are in the process of working towards showing all these photos and filmed documentary footage of our collective work thus far and look forward to finally hosting a celebratory event at the Africa Centre in London towards the end of 2018.
TEACHING and PERFORMANCE is our MAP focus and we aim to work with as many young or old students as possible. In 2016 we worked with approximately 80 students and in 2017 we opened our project up to the wider community and offered dance and photography classes to 200 students at St Thomas High School in Port Elizabeth, LIV Village Orphanage in Durban and the Ithuba Community College in Port Edward leading to the creation of new choreography that students and professionals performed to members of the community at the end of the workshops and at the National Arts Festival.
MAP delivered its first photography workshop at the St Thomas Senior Secondary School in Gelvandale, Port Elizabeth. Karl Schoemaker was leading lecturer and the workshops which spanned over 2 weeks resulted in the creation of some fantastic images based on the theme of WHO ARE YOU?
MAP are looking forward to working with LIV Village in 2017 and will be delivering professional Masterclasses in other parts of South Africa. More news to follow...
MAP delivered an intensive 2 week training and choreography programme, working with 60 untrained dance students at the Ubuntu Education Fund in Zwide, Port Elizabeth.
MAP delivered an intensive 1 week programme leading to an informal sharing of choreography, working with students of the Amaphiko Township Dance Project in Grahamstown, South Africa.
Artistic Director, Dane Hurst was invited to lead a 1 week choreographic workshop at the Cape Academy of Performing Art in Cape Town, South Africa, 2015.
Artistic Director, Mark Hawkins invited Dane Hurst to lead a 1 week choreographic workshop leading to an informal sharing in Johannesburg, 2015 and MAP are looking forward to building a partnership with MIDM in future.
Dane Hurst visited Flatfoot Dance Company's Artistic Director, Lliane Loots, in Durban and delivered a 1 day intensive dance workshop with students from her training programme and members of her company. MAP are looking forward to building a partnership with Flatfoot in future.
MAP are excited to be in talks with American Architect, Adam Kalkin, to design a creative arts centre using shipping containers.


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Experience advent Dec 9th at 5pm
Warm Coats Needed!
We have begun collecting good used warm coats for Friends of Night People. The box is in the Gathering Space for them. Thank you for your donations!!
Directory Picture Day!
On December 17th we will be updating the photos in the St. John Directory. Say Cheese!
Pledge Cards
Stewardship season is upon us, so please take a moment to fill out the pledge card provided to you today and return it this or next Sunday to either the office or the offering plate. Thank you so much for your generosity and time!
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Please have your Poinsettia Memorials in by this Sunday (12/10) ! Place them in the offering plate or bring them to the office. Thank you!
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Hindu extremists ransacked and burned eight rural churches in eastern India, marring Christmas celebrations in a corner of the country with a history of violence against Christians, officials said Wednesday. One person was killed in the violence.
Authorities deployed 450 police and imposed a curfew to quell the violence in the remote district of Orissa state where the churches — most nothing more than mud-and-thatch houses — were attacked, said Bahugrahi Mahapatra, a government official.
Six of the village churches were torched on Christmas day, and two more were attacked Wednesday along with 10 houses belonging to Christians, Mahapatra said.
India is overwhelmingly Hindu but officially secular, a fact India's leaders often point out. They note that religious minorities, such as Christians, who account for 2.5 percent of the country's 1.1. billion people, and Muslims, who make up 14 percent, often coexist peacefully. Some have risen to the highest levels of government and business.
But throughout India's history, both communities have faced repeated attacks from hardline Hindus, with violence against Christians often directed at foreign missionaries and converts from Hinduism.
Orissa has one of the worst histories of anti-Christian violence. In one of the most brutal incidents, an Australian missionary and his two sons, 8 and 10, where burned to death in their car following a Bible study class in 1999.
Orissa is also the only Indian state that has a law requiring people to obtain police permission before they change their religion. The law was intended to counter missionary work.
"It's good to get acquainted with God now so that at the end of time you won't be embarrassed in His presence"--A.W. Tozer
26 December 2007
Hindus burn churches in India
Christians face continued persecution, as Hindus burn several churches in India. From AP:
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA – The City of Brotherly Love may have added its first Super Bowl trophy to its list of accolades this year, but another distinction Philadelphia received in 2018 was another prominent placement on the American Tort Reform Association's annual list of "Judicial Hellholes."
ATRA's yearly report, issued today, placed Philadelphia at No. 6 on its ranking list of "Judicial Hellholes" – or legal jurisdictions nationwide where businesses involved in civil litigation are believed to not be given a fair shake in court.
"With both this annual report and year-round website, our Judicial Hellholes program since 2002 has documented troubling developments in jurisdictions where civil court judges systematically apply laws and court procedures in an unfair and unbalanced manner, generally to the disadvantage of defendants," American Tort Reform Association president Tiger Joyce said.
Last year, the city came in at the No. 5 ranking in the ATRA report.
A specific facet securing Philadelphia's place on the list in part, per the report, was the continuing growth of "sizable" pharmaceutical litigation in the city's Court of Common Pleas and its Complex Litigation Center.
A rescinding of tolling agreements last year resulted in the CLC seeing a surge of filings. Currently, more than 6,750 cases have been filed in the Risperdal mass tort litigation and more than 1,950 cases in Xarelto mass tort litigation in Philadelphia.
The CLC has long been a haven for out-of-state plaintiffs. The percentage of claims belonging to out-of-state plaintiffs has traditionally been in the high 80s.
In 2016, the percentage for pharmaceutical lawsuits dropped to 74 percent, while in 2017, CLC statistics showed that figure has jumped to an unprecedented 94 percent.
This year, 84 percent of these cases were filed by out-of-state plaintiffs, according to CLC stats.
"The Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas has become a jackpot for trial lawyers across the country who need a favorable venue to file frivolous lawsuits," Joyce said.
"The cases flocking to Philadelphia that have no connection to the state, are a burden on the state's taxpayers and create a court backlog that puts Pennsylvanians at a disadvantage. The state also remains a hotbed for asbestos litigation, thanks to its plaintiff-friendly rules and procedures."
For the second year in a row, the report also named the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on its "Watch List" of judicial bodies to closely monitor, based on its perceived track record of anti-business court decisions.
In 2017, the state chief's judiciary was labeled by ATRA as "more easily persuaded to expand liability, as it has done with decisions affecting asbestos litigation, medical liability, workers' compensation and 'bad faith' claims against insurers."
The complete list of ATRA's "Judicial Hellholes" is as follows:
1. California
2. Florida
3. New York City
4. The City of St. Louis
5. Louisiana
6. Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas
7. New Jersey Legislature
8. Madison and St. Clair Counties, Ill.
9. The Twin Cities, Minn.
From the Pennsylvania Record: Reach Courts Reporter Nicholas Malfitano at email@example.com


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Senior Photography: Break the Mold
Branding Q&A
Senior Photography: Break the Mold
Branding Q&A
Lesson Info
Branding Q&A
With music in my area country music is the staple you know live in the south of country music is a staple now myself I love bands like three doors down and shoot a veil and you know more of your alternative you got some guitar I'm not like the one where you wantto like bang your face against this glass right here but that's what I like but sometimes you know that can be deemed a little offensive if possible so what I do is I use pandora, pandora radio or slacker radio or something like that and type in a keyword and I make sure that I get the non offensive versions you know, so you don't hear him dropping the you know the bad words throughout the studio so I've tried the whole deal where you put in a playlist you build something on itunes and a playlist and that's cool but after about a week of listen to the same songs you're ready to throw that thing out the out the window so that was a great point you never want anything to be offensive, but the bad thing is about music is those kids...
I've got prime example one of my dance studios was this little girl was singing a rhianna song and I'm not going to repeat the lyrics and I look over at her it's playing out some photograph and she's other friends and she's over there doing a little shake thing going on like what are you doing? You sit down here five years old you do not do that on and she's out there singing the lyrics to it but I feel like creepy old dude if I've got that plane in my studio you know, even though they're listen teo and their parents are fine with it don't you cross it and that's that raises a good point too I mentioned this I think yesterday teo to someone here I said we were going over something to the keynote you know, now I'm conservative believe it or not, I know I may strike you as the other calm, but I'm very conservative I want to make sure that I follow the right path in life and I said, hey, I just want to make sure that I'm a kino you know, there's nothing that deemed offensive or you know, going to ruffle any feathers because I want I want to be I want to be friends with everyone oh no no no, no you're fine we've looked through it, you know everything is fine and same thing with music if there's any little thing throughout your business or even your life, especially your business that someone could take to be offensive, why even put it in there? You know, if it raises a question and makes you think about it don't even put it in there, just skip, go to something else, just go completely there's something else. What is this? Hey, players, I'm going energy really, really quick is there a difference between changing my style and my brand so that it matches the personality of the client? Is it alright to change that way? Is it possible to change both of those? I mean up to a certain degree, you know? And I'll give you an example here of what I would do if I have a client comes in, obviously they love my style, they love what I do and they say, well, blair, you know, maybe instead of going that extreme, you know, maybe can we tone it down, you know, tone it down some, you know? I'm not going to say, well, no, I'm sticking true to my brand lady claire phillips retired, he told me I got to be me, so you either like it this way that way, she obviously likes a little she likes you and she likes you enough. So I think at that point, as long as you don't change one hundred percent willing to change thirty, maybe forty percent to match what they won't, because bottom line is they're still paying you they're there because they like something but once they get there, they may not like something quite as much as they thought, so I absolutely think that it's okay to change one if not both of those as long as you don't change it one hundred percent don't let that client come in and say, well, blair, I printed out some examples of some work that I like I really like this, but this is your style, but I really want this don't just say say, look, you know, I understand where you're coming from, and I respect that, but as an artist, you know, I only know how to do one thing I can't change who I am, so, you know, unfortunately, we may not be the best fit for you, you know, for each other, great question you have any more questions? We have a question from m james t x or am I going to school him? No way? Well, I probably am james in texas thinking about it, so when starting your business, should you have all of the material produced and ready to go or that something that evolved so you've been doing this for nine years? What did you start with? Yeah, I am james t x from our whatever I'll tell you this, you're never goingto if you try and lay everything out and get started for me personal thing that's wrong with a go? I think the reason that I feel so good about my business and even as a person is because I didn't have all those things available to me when I first started, you know, I've had a struggle and I may have wanted this, but I didn't have that yet. I only had this, but it was good enough and I took this and use it as a learning tool to produce this so the moral of that story and to answer your question, I think your best work comes from being unprepared sometimes, especially in photography. I think your best work comes from not having the correct tools that you need. It forces you to go out and be creative and forces you to do them because as a creative type, a lot of the creative types, they're not very tom sensitive. If it's not a crunch crunch, I've gotta have it. I've got a house, you gotta have it just not going to play that you're playing, I'm not gonna have it ready, so I think it's good to struggle for a little while, it certainly has not hurt me in any way, you know, so yeah. Absolutely the question was from pro photographer how did you develop your logo on what are the ways that utilize it for branding and marketing yeah great question there got a lot of questions about that how do you come up with a logo so hold on thank you. Thank you. Yeah and for me the logo was it was one of the sailors pretty easy a lot of people struggle with and I get it I like to draw I like to draw abstract art just weird stuff that doesn't make any sense because I can call it art and people can call it trash but I'm like no no it's art so I sat down one day and I drew my initial and it was at the time of the wings were popular like I saw a lot of stuff with wings on them and things like that so I'm just kind of outlined it and it looked really ridiculous because I'm not an artist when it comes to drawing it looked terrible like a bird and like died and got really wet and been out ran over a few times. Well then I hired a designer someone that does that for a living and I said, look this is kind of my idea but now I want to see I want to see what you could do with it and she said with us operate she said I'll send you for examples and then from there you can change two of them and then we could change one up so I found someone that that's what they did that's one area that I was not afraid to spend a little bit of money because I knew that's the one thing that people going to see I wanted to be recognizable so I spent a little extra money on it make sure I got it where I wanted so if you're struggling with a logo now would be the time if you're just getting started out or even if you want to rebrand yourself you know if you've been using the same thing for years and years and years rebrand yourself if you want to gain some new clients they'll move into a different direction maybe you've had a midlife crisis you're gonna go get a sports car repair and rebrand yourself and but higher that out that's what I did, I got the base of it but then I hired them out to clean it up and make it look really pretty thank goodness so more questions do we have another question from sat one so they've been doing photography for a long time but they have they're just turning it into a business so people are used to not paying them for their photography jiminy tips on howto transfer that number thirty changes to a business yes do do you have a delorean you're going to need to get you in touch with someone that happened I'm just kidding I can't go back back to the future I mean that's a tough one and I think we can learn a lot from that to answer that question in the second we figure out the best way to do that, you see what they're saying right now they're saying man, you know, we've been in it for a while and we really need to start charging, but we've already laid all the groundwork so we're kind of messed up now that's what I was saying earlier they're gonna have to work so hard to get to where they should have been anyways and I don't mean that in a condescending way because I started the same way when I first started I was just oh yeah, just whatever you want to give me for it it's tough it's a tough cycle to break, but I think the answer that you're gonna have to go towards a new client till you're gonna have to go towards people that really may not know you you're almost gonna have to reinvent yourself rebrand yourself as a whole new studio maybe or some of the best practices I've ever had have been from I used to do something this way, but I come in tomorrow and I do it this way, so we used to follow this but I went home that night rewrote it this is our new way and you just slam it down and you say that's, what we're doing, I'm going to ruffle some feathers along the way I'm gonna lose some people I'm going to make some people mad, but that is how I have to do it in order to survive and feel good about it because I tell you, there's, nothing more frustrating, not more on motivating than to go out and do these awesome senior sessions, awesome sessions and not getting paid for it. I've done it and it stinks. It stinks, that's, why you went to get the cells portion you guys going like, why didn't I do that years ago? So answer that question you're going to ruffle feathers, but you just have to put a plan of action in place and you have to stick to it and you can't sway from if you lose friends along the way that's fun, go to go to them and say, hey, I wouldn't ask you to work your job for half of its wage, so food for thought good question question from sloan was kind of a fun question, not really question do goody bags teo seniors at the start of a session like a bag with water, small sample products, lip gloss on what do you include that is a good question way we don't really give them a whole lot going into the session and the reason is I give them and this I don't want to make this sound like I'm an arrogant or conceded but I give them me I basically go into that session when I first meet them sit down and we start talking and I break down all the barriers that they had preconceived in their mind that this was going to be awkward it's gonna be uncomfortable I'm not really sure about this so I spend a good bit of time before each session well I spent a good bit of time a free session sitting and talking and that is kind of what I give them I don't necessarily get a tangible good I think that's a great idea however but I feel like for me that the start of a session it works a lot better if I sit down and talk with him for a little bit just we call it in the south shooting the breeze just shoot the breeze with one another job back and forth a little bit so that's that's what we do that's what we do know about you guys, any questions at all anything that comes about oh she's being brave everyone she's picking up microphone yeah what's up like myself who's been kind of back and forth and diskant transitioning into into I guess professional more sure legit and so you know, you don't have a studio you're not completely full time, so it's like putting that branding in that marketing where you know you just almost don't have that physical space do you really want people coming into your house living room? You know, if yeah, you know, maybe some people would maybe not everybody you know, so it's kind of like we'll turn that out and getting that my you know, I'm I'm all this I'm in a place there's no star books, ferocity, miles you know? So I just gotta figure it out not not my advice to you would be and anyone else that would find themselves in a similar situation my advice is just to keep shooting, you know, that may not be in this thing with retiree there's never an answer that's like, oh, well, then I'll just follow that and that won't be my key to success, but it was very much in your shoes and my key toe at least a small level success that I think I have I was keeping was was to shoot all the time and I didn't really turn down a lot I would keep shooting and by doing that it's almost like doing an internship, you know when you first get out of high school and you think that hey, I want to be a nurse and you go and follow a nurse for about three days and after the first day you go home you're like uh oh won't be a nurse I don't wanna do that well we are on an internship basically all the town was a retired from we were first starting because we'll go and do this job will say oh my gosh, that was really really tough I don't want to do that anymore and then you'll go on that and you'll go on that job where you're like you know what you're driving home like I could see myself doing that again I'm going to kind of follow that and then you'll find something else I don't like that I like this I don't like that so if you quit on it you're never going to get there but I just think the more that you shoot the mohr tom you will have to you know, to develop the marketing pieces developed your brand so you know, like so like if you're not bringing someone into your house it would you then you just bringing ok I'll meet you at at this location on and and so then you're just going to be bringing and doing things kind of yeah outside if you're not you know me by inside kind of and I've got I've got a great solution of that I've got a whole program section they dedicated to locations and things as well but when I first started that's that's what I had to do I had had a public park up in salisbury which is about twenty minutes north of me that had a lot of beautiful greenery and you know that quintessential gazebo that I've never used but you know had running water a little stream and big rocks and things and I knew that I felt safe going there I knew I felt safe taking my clients there there was no one ever going to run me off on dh then I had another guy that I befriended that had a space that was like the most perfect set up photography ever and he said, you know, hey that's fine if you want to bring people over I understand you don't really have a studio I don't really mind if you bring people over here sometimes with me I had like five spots all run around a little core area depending upon the person style the senior style you know I could take her to the more urban I could take him to the more country I could take her to the more clean part I could take him to the morgue graffiti ish type stuff so you know, I think getting out and scouting is something that's really important to get in your car jumped on a bicycle one day and just take off riding I mean in your area just you will start to look at things a lot differently when you start thinking of okay, I've got to find somewhere I've got to find somewhere I've got to find somewhere all of a sudden things will start opening up you know like oh, I can use that oh, I can use that but until you start getting in that panic mode that's why I was saying it's good not to have it all laid out because until you get into that panic mode and you're like I gotta find something right now I gotta find something right? This could be perfect when I want you to do is go here here you tilt your head this way and turn this way just like that yeah this table's going to beautiful is gonna be awesome until you get on that panic mode you're never going to be there so unfortunately I think just keep struggling create most people like oh, get rid of the struggle may I keep the struggle? Yeah moving backwards blair good job play that kind of somewhat answer your question maybe ish if not, we can always like I said, I'll make myself available not in that way to all of you after long after we are done here for the next few days as well, so yeah, and this is ah, another point here I forgot to show this one earlier when we're talking about now, this is actually told you this is a senior program, but this is a wedding piece that I have like to be diverse imagine, and I'll put it into the context of a senior place let's say that I wanted to get my work in front of a lot of seniors, and I did a market share with someone, and they own a dress shop for prom dresses. I know that somewhere that I want to be now, I just gotta figure out, how can I get my work in front of all those girls that are going to come in there because I wanted to see it? And in a world where everyone wants something different, they all want the same thing it's crazy. We all say I want to be different, I want to be different. I want mine to be different, but you look at two teenage girls to seniors in the mall and they're dressed alike. They both have the same boots on, they get a concert, they're both wearing a jean skirt, boots and low kabul cowboy hat in my area, I was like, I want to be different, you know, where you got the same thing that's like when those ugg boots first came out. Those were like the ugliest thing there ever someone that's where they got the names oh yeah oh ugly no offense toe boots I think they're great I'm just using that as an analogy but every girl in america one of those things and I'm like I'm trying to sell pretty pictures and I could only sell ten of um you've got ugly boots and everybody in america bison where am I going wrong it's just through their branding but getting back to that prom store I want to get my work in there well, so does everybody else so I walk in there and there's a lucite business card holder you know, maybe like acrylic and there are thirty five photography cards and they're from various photographers all over the place you know, there's a tire from photographer there down a dozen so I said all right, pull my pants up and I said, all right, I'm gonna go in there with something different same thing I did this at this venue here instead off a business card we designed an eight by ten that shows images that are the type of images I like to shoot, so I'm going to attract the clientele that I won't and next to those thirty five business cards behind him is going to be an eight by ten from claire phillips retired, so what do you think is going to stand out more and don't say this one, come on, we're on lob, we're loving this is going to stand out more did this cost me a lot of extra money? No, not really, but if I'm going to do it, I'm going to be the best that I can be. I'm not gonna be the best at it, but I want to be the best that I possibly can, so that when I go home at night, I can say, you know what? The stuff that I put up in there and looks good and I'm proud of it, how many times like instead of you giving somebody something you're like? Well, yeah, I just don't this this really good representation, but it'll work. Why are we spending the effort and finding our brand that's what we're going for? We're getting halfway there and then closing the door right makes sense, right? Yeah, so I love I'm enjoying having an internet so involved, too. You guys were like, yeah, that's, great, but I love here from the internet because, you know, doing this, there is six people here, and I feel like we've connected really well. But the audience out there is like doing a webinar. You crack a joke and nobody laughs, and you're like, e think that was funny, or they think that was really ignorant, so I'd love to hear a little bit more from from the internet as well. They liked your karate kick, for sure, the karate kid, yeah, back, just about crash the microphone, and that would not have been a good way to start off your first day. I just had to buy these last week, so I know they're not cheap on ly the best creative live, too.
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Are you ready to add a new, lucrative dimension to your photography business? Join award-winning photographer Blair Phillips for an introduction to everything you need to know about taking portraits for high school seniors.
In this three-day course, you'll learn about how to market yourself to the high school audience, no matter where you live or who you know. Blair will discuss his signature techniques for effortless, versatile posing. You'll also learn everything you need to know about both off-camera and natural lighting, including how to create foolproof lighting setups, even if you're working without an assistant. Blair will also cover strategies for creating a productive workflow and working confidently in a wide variety of settings.
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As an experienced photographer myself, this class was both helpful and inspirational…we're never too experienced to learn from someone. Blair is really a lot of fun to watch and listen to. He has a way of making things fun with his high energy and dry sense of humor. To be completely honest in my review of this class, the lighting and posing sections, while VERY good, have been done over and over again by lots of photographers and didn't offer much in the way of new ideas. The real value was in the customer service and marketing techniques presented here. Blair's use of video as a marketing and communication tool with his clients is very unique and sparked TONS of ideas I would like to implement in my studio. His simple pricing structure and the way he presents it to his clients is also unique and has helped me rethink some of my own methods. "That being said" (Blair should appreciate that phrase) this class is totally worth the price and will continue to be a good reference for me. Some photographers are excellent at their craft but are dry teachers; others are great teachers but their "real-life" work doesn't live up to their classroom presentations. Blair is the real deal and makes this class very exciting.
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Blair is great. This class is packed full of great info and is a genuine good hearted person.. Really like his approach with high school seniors. I recommend it.
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This has been my favorite class on Creative Live. I loved how Blair explained exactly how he landed dance and sports contracts. This class was packed full of ideas for marketing and selling products. There was just so much great information. Thanks, Blair!


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Thanks for sharing your thoughts Ron! We are actually exploring how to make it easier for contractors to interact with schools using MaintenanceDirect. This is great feedback that I will pass on to our Product Management Team.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Ron! We are actually exploring how to make it easier for contractors to interact with schools using MaintenanceDirect. This is great feedback that I will pass on to our Product Management Team.
Our district relies on outside contractors to do a portions of our repair work.
It is nice to issue the work order to the contractor using schooldude as we don't need to waste time trying to get ahold of one another by phone.
I have found contractors also like this method for a number of reasons. One is that the work order has more details then would normally be given by phone. By the contractor receiving schooldude work orders via email, the contractor can get a better idea on what they need to do and or a better idea of the items they need to bring with them to the job, or any contacts numbers they may need, thereby saving time.
However I would like to point out a few negatives later in this document.
My idea is to have a selection in the "Assignment" window labeled as "Contractors/Vendors". When this option is selected, the work order assignment will then transfer over to the Contractor/Vendor window area of the work order where then the work order would be assign to the contractor/vendor selected in that window. Perhaps a new set of protocols could be used as far as routing, emailing, and even viewing the work order in the event you would like the contractor the ability to log into their own accounts.
Anyway the current negatives by setting up contractors as employees:
1. As you must currently set up contractors in schooldude as "employees" in order to enable the contractor to receive work orders via the email work order notification process. I don't care for this method for a few reasons. One is if you want to also give the contractor access to their own account, they then can now view things they don't need to be seeing.
I do like the contractor to be able to log into their own account. We both have found this very useful.
However I don't like the fact the contractor can view work orders not assigned to them using the work order search engine for example. So now if I don't trust the contractor I can't give them a user name or password to log in at this time. I must only let them receive the work order via email notification. I would rather have all my contractors the ability to log into their accounts, yet not have to worry about what they can see or do.
2. The other issue I have for contractor work order assignment is sending them the work order by email if their email address can only be used one time within the entire schooldude network. If the contractor I would like to use for schooldude is already receiving schooldude email from another school district, I can't use that contractors email address to send our schooldude work orders to them. Anyway, perhaps by using the contractor/vender section of the work order for contractor work order assignments may also open an avenue for changing routing protocol and or email restrictions.


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The more I try to ascertain what is wrong with the world, the church, and believers in it, the more I come back to this predicament: THE BIBLE IS NOT BEING TAKEN SERIOUSLY!
Now beyond that, there are other problems:
- People haven't been taught how to actually think
- Discernment is an anomaly among God's people
- The average Bible study methods usually result in bad exegesis
- Everyone without actually studying has an opinion on the subject
- People are more likely to trust their experiences and prejudices than accept that they were wrong.
All of this leads us here at WOTG to wonder if any of this is even worth the effort. We definitely don't want to just add to the noise. We want to provide a solid foundation. We certainly don't want to do the work of seeking the Lord for anyone. Our hero, Tozer, would not be very proud of that. We want to create an atmosphere that cultivates Christians who take after the Bereans – who are able to really wrestle with the complex principles of God's Word and discover truths for themselves.
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