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RAK Properties launches Verde Villas in Ras Al Khaimah
Verde Villas consists of 16 townhouses, spread across two residential clusters on RAK Properties' Hayat Island
RAK Properties has launched Verde Villas, the latest residential project on its Hayat Island master-planned development.
Verde Villas consists of 16 townhouses, spread across two residential clusters on Hayat Island, RAK Properties' flagship project in Ras Al Khaimah.
Managing director and chief executive officer of RAK Properties, Mohammed Sultan Al Qadi, said: "We are incredibly pleased with the response that Verde Villas have had so far.
"Following the launch of Northbay Residence on Hayat Island, we will continue to add to our portfolio based on a strategically defined map."
READ: RAK Properties sees double digit net profit growth in 2017
RAK Properties launched the 811,420m² mixed-use development Hayat Island in September 2017.
The residential part of the island features approximately 2,452 apartments: five studios, seven lofts, eight three-bedroom duplex apartments, and 1,117 one-bedroom, 1,030 two-bedroom, and 385 three-bedroom units.
The Hayat Island development includes 3,544m of planned coastline and 1,360m of sandy beaches, according to RAK Properties.
Meanwhile, RAK is on track to open the Anantara Mina Al Arab resort in 2020. The overwater villa complex in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah is progressing as planned, the company said at the start of April.
The Anantara Mina Al Arab hotel will have 306 rooms and will be operated under Intercontinental Hotel Group's umbrella.
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Prime time is pretty much saved in ABC renewals
Good news for fans of much of ABC's prime time lineup. Several current and new shows have been renewed for a new season.
ABC announced that the majority of its lineup will be returning for a new season.
So what's coming back?
Those coming back for a second season include "American Crime (which is good news for this guy)," "Secrets and Lies," "Marvel's Agent Carter," "black-ish," "Fresh Off the Boat," "Beyond the Tank" and "Galavant."
And it looks like all the ABC favorites will be returning.
"Castle," "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", "Once Upon a Time," "Nashville," "The Goldbergs," "The Middle," "Modern Family."
Reality and alternative programming wasn't lost either. "America's Funniest Home Videos," "The Bachelor," "Dancing With the Stars," "Shark Tank," and news program "20/20.".
But not every show got such good news. ABC axed a handful of shows including"Resurrection," "Forever," "The Taste" and the freshman comedy "Cristela."
Only Tim Allen's "Last Man Standing" has yet to be decided on for a new season.
The announcement was a win for TV producer Shonda Rhimes who had all her shows renewed: "Scandal," "How to Get Away With Murder" and "Grey's Anatomy" are all returning. As as cherry on top, ABC said yes to her new show "The Catch."


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Egypt's energy sector has received a boost by the discovery of a 'supergiant' gas field off Egypt's Mediterranean coast, the Zohr field, on 30 August. The field is estimated to hold gas reserves the size of nearly a tenth of Saudi Arabia's proven natural gas reserves and is larger than Oman's reserves according to EIA. If Eni's estimates are accurate, the field will increase Egypt's gas reserves of 65.2 trillion cubic feet by almost half. The Zohr field will be able to use the existing infrastructure, so drilling can start in 2016 and production could be initiated by 2020.
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The discovery of the gas field promises to solve the country's medium-term supply problems. Egypt's gas production has declined by almost one third in the past five years and is inadequate to satisfy the demand. This has resulted in gas shortages in recent years, hurting (energy-intensive) industries and curtailing output. It also dampened plans of the government to develop new industries to create jobs since unemployment is high, notably among the youth and an important concern. The discovery of gas should also generate savings on fuel imports in the future. Moreover, additional supply can give Egypt the option to restart gas exports. Both can boost Egypt's balance of payments, which has been in deficit for years. The discovery of the gas field came shortly after the inauguration of the new Suez Canal, resulting in a renewed vibrancy about the Egyptian economy. However, economic recovery will remain contingent upon political stability, as such addressing the systemic two-digit fiscal deficit while redeeming public expectations of improving living standards will continue to be crucial.
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Learn what makes OmniFocus unique and learn how to download and install the apps and a basic overview of how the apps work on the Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
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So much has happened since the Chicago Tribune article back in March!
We have some bombshells to talk about since my last blog post! It's not any exaggeration to say we are facing this unprecedented moment as the #ChurchToo movement clashes not just with unwanted sexual behaviors but with all the entitled male power within a kinder and gentler benevolent sexism.
I could almost turn this blog series into a sort of a running commentary as women struggle with so many unresolved issues of ecclesial/relational power and male entitlement.in this new era of anxious egalitarianism. Since I wrote my last post, evangelicals (both complementarians and egalitarians) are facing unprecedented anxiety and chaos in their cyber and face-to-face communities. In this past week, Paige Patterson, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has faced a serious backlash after an audio recording from 2000 resurfaced in which he told abused wives they should pray and "be submissive in every way you can."
Then conservative evangelical Beth Moore came forward with powerful blog post describing years and years of her acquiescing, accommodating, and complying to the psychological power of benevolent sexism in her everyday interactions with men. For conservative evangelicals. Beth Moore stepping forward like this was for conservatives, a bombshell of a different dimension to male-female closeness. Here is a clip of what she wrote:
As a woman leader in the conservative Evangelical world, I learned early to show constant pronounced deference – not just proper respect which I was glad to show – to male leaders and, when placed in situations to serve alongside them, to do so apologetically. I issued disclaimers ad nauseam. I wore flats instead of heels when I knew I'd be serving alongside a man of shorter stature so I wouldn't be taller than he. I've ridden elevators in hotels packed with fellow leaders who were serving at the same event and not been spoken to and, even more awkwardly, in the same vehicles where I was never acknowledged. I've been in team meetings where I was either ignored or made fun of, the latter of which I was expected to understand was all in good fun. I am a laugher. I can take jokes and make jokes. I know good fun when I'm having it and I also know when I'm being dismissed and ridiculed. I was the elephant in the room with a skirt on.
Blogger Sarah Nave Fisher then chimed in with her thoughts:
See, the men in Moore's stories — the ones who refused to speak to her (following the Billy Graham Rule, to be sure), the ones who expected her deference (didn't you know God created Adam first?), the ones who commented on her appearance instead of her call — they didn't see themselves as sinning through their actions. If anything, I am certain they saw themselves as embodying Godly Manhood. . .
The tricky thing is that the overwhelming majority of men I've known entrenched in benevolent sexism actually are… not jerks. I enjoyed them and have been (and am) dear friends with them. They aren't bad people. They aren't creepy and certainly not predatory. They're the types of men you want to be around, the types of men you trust to do what is best.
And this is precisely the problem with benevolent sexism: It masquerades as kindness, it masquerades as love — in my experience, it is often done from a place of good intentions… but it is no less harmful to women than overt sexism.
Now, even though Paige Patterson and Beth Moore are conservative evangelicals, there were still a number of "ex" evangelical or post-evangelical women and men tweeting and commenting. They were cheering Moore on from the social media sidelines.
But also, since I wrote my last blog post, several men and women expressed opinions about friendship between the sexes intersecting with the Billy Graham rule in light the this new anxious era. Imagine that! First of all, a big round of applause goes to complementarian Aimee Byrd! She took a provocative--provocative for complementarians and anxious egalitarians--position on cross-sex friendship!. No kidding. She dropped a bombshell in the complementarian world and the world of anxious egalitarians. Christianity Today, Ed Stetzer, Tim Keller, or Scot McKnight, David Fitch, BillHybels. You name powerful evangelicals with powerful platforms. No blogs, articles, or books have taken the cross-sex friendship dyad as deep as Byrd did (I'm not counting my book or blog).
Conservative evangelical males quickly took issue with Byrd's post. If you take a peek at some of the comments from men or go to this blog.
We also saw Anglican Priest and author Tish Harrison Warren tweet out a number of bullet list points asserting that evangelicals don't have to accept a simplistic either-or, between the Billy Graham rule or bust. She then turned it into an article for Christianity Today. That magazine has never published a blog post or an in-depth article that was positive toward deep male-female friendships, though. Never. So this article for many readers of the magazine must feel like cutting edge in light of anxious egalitarianism on this side of Hybels.
Kaitlyn Schless--a conservative evangelical offered her two cents in a blog for Christ and Pop Culture. She, too, has some idea of how friendship is inextricably tied up with benevolent sexism. One can't address issues of sexism among evangelicals ignoring or bypassing male-female friendship. Lutheran pastor Angela Denker wrote a beautiful blog on debunking the Billy Graham rule lifting men up who have befriended her.
In this season of reckoning, both egalitarians and complementarians are talking about something they have anxiously avoided in the forty year complementarian-egalitarian split: integrating power and dyadic friendship between men and women. But wait. The forty year avoidance is a mere tiny dot in the big historical picture where male-centered Christian tradition has always viewed women as inferior/invisible in spiritual friendship.
I have a couple of comments I want to make in light of these recent developments.
In claiming friendship as a foundation for egalitarianism, I am claiming as both men and women are friends of God, they can claim the shared power of God's friendship/nearness as friends.
I am not arguing for egalitarian abstract ideas, or concepts, or theory. Instead I am proposing a hermeneutic of friendship through the ancient practice of the presence of God. As a man and woman are friends of God, they can claim God's friendship--God's nearness, God's closeness--as good news for them, good news for their friendship! Good news for the world! It was Leanne Payne who introduced me to the ancient practice many years ago. She asserted, "We come to know ultimate Reality, not by theological ideas about it, even though these are valid and necessary, but by union."
For those of you who don't know me, I started to nurture close friendships with women as a complementarian with an intentional mindset toward practicing the presence of God. I can't credit Payne for applying the practice to cross-sex friendship dyads. She didn't go there. But sixteen years ago, I did. I could have never dreamed that claiming God's nearness in friendship with my female friends would turn me into an egalitarian! I came into this moment-by-moment awareness that claiming God's nearness in cross-sex friendship was practicing a moment-by-moment resistance to the deepest roots of hostile and benevolent sexism.
God's nearness/friendship does not play a numbers game.
One of the biggest myths among evangelicals is that God's heart, God's nearness plays favorites when it comes to numbers. This is a deep-seated, widespread patriarchal notion that many complementarians and egalitarians simply assume as true because of their anxieties and extremely limited experience. In the 21st century, this is tantamount to still holding on to the flat-earth theory.
This myth is so powerful, highly respected egalitarians--bloggers, theologians, authors--you know, those with the platforms and publishing contracts, have stayed clear claiming God's presence and power, right here, right now, in cross-sex friendship. Instead, what they have done is boxed in God to a numbers game. We are to assume a practical and functional atheism or agnosticism---a full-blown secular mindset with no intentional orientation to the fullness of God's presence in the moment whenever two cross-gender friends text, call, or see other other face-to-face when no one else is around.
We have so been brainwashed to accept this myth that even egalitarians consider a man and woman who choose to know bodily (not sex!) closeness, emotional closeness, intellectual closeness, spiritual closeness with no else around are--get this--spiritually naive or uncritical, or throwing caution to the wind. Or we compartmentalize and assert well, it's okay to assume God's presence may be near us in the front of the restaurant but not in the rear (Andy Crouch's boundary). So, you know, if there were four of us we could eat in the back of the restaurant. but God definitely could not be near two opposite-sex friends back there.
No, a thousand times no. Intentional practicing God's presence claims the fullness of biblical promises for two cross-gender friends together, alone no matter where they are. The future egalitarian ethic after #MeToo and #ChurchToo is not a retreat into functional atheism in everyday life whenever a man or woman are near each other.
Sixteen years ago, I began to repent of functional, everyday atheism when it came to the practice of knowing God's presence in cross-sex friendship. There is almost an embarrassment of riches for us to claim in this new era of anxious egalitarianism. Make no mistake about it: this is a power issue for men and women who know God. In God's overarching Story for men and women, can we claim God's nearness/friendship when we come together as two friends who love Jesus and desire to know Jesus?
Popular author John Ortberg writes,The central promise in the Bible is not "I will forgive you." The most frequent promise is "I will be with you." This is for cross-sex friends, too.
When we approach God's nearness through the friendship lens--both a man and woman can know God's friendship and therefore be friends with another--then friendship/nearness can also be seen as foundational to human nature. I gladly welcome Tish Harrison Warren's boundaries but they look at friendship through a marriage and sexuality lens. Opposite-sex friends are an "add-on" hence, she always (she assertively repeats, always) invites her husband to come along. I bet she doesn't do that with her female friends.
Can you imagine how many female friendships would be thwarted (and male friendships, too) if we always had to invite our spouse as absolute norm for getting together? Don't get me wrong. I totally respect her boundaries. But it surely doesn't seriously consider the power of God's nearness through a friendship lens.
I have several other points I want to make, about what it means for cross-sex friends to claim God's power in nearness as a Friend like no other friend they know and love. Imagine this good news applied for cross-sex friends: "The good news Jesus announced was simply this: God has invaded our backyard and is making his presence and power available to anybody who wants him. Right here. Right now. "The time has come," Jesus says. Now God is closer than you think" (John Ortberg, God is Closer Than You Think).


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The dinosaurs are coming!
We are pleased to announce that Jurassic Creatures is set to open for the very first time in Adelaide. This sell-out event from Melbourne, will be taking over Adelaide this June and July.
Jurassic Creatures is an exhibition with over 30 + dinosaurs that will captivate young and old alike. Explore a prehistoric world full of life like moving dinosaurs and be amazed and thrilled as the greatest creatures ever to walk the earth return before your eyes and come alive.
Marvel at the story of their 165 million year domination of life on earth. Watch them move and hear them roar. From the ripple of their skin to the glint in their eye, you will think that the dinosaurs really are back!
Apart from this amazing animatronics show, you will be able to become a Paleontologist for the day. Children will be provided with their expert digger outfit, and chip away at their very own fossil. Plus there will be many more dinosaur activities to take part in, including dinosaur 3D Jig-saw Land, fossil displays, dinosaur inflatable activity lands, dinosaur eggs to have photos taken in, walking dinosaurs and so much more. Plus for the first time, a Dinosaur Ball Pit will be installed! Hours of fun for the whole family.
In addition, there will be a Live Nickelodeon PAW Patrol Show. You will also be able to meet and greet Chase and Marshall from Nickelodeon's PAW Patrol. All these activities are included in the General Admission Ticket, making it amazing value for families.
Pegged as a must-see these School Holidays, Jurassic Creatures is set to bring all the wonder and excitement of the prehistoric world of dinosaurs back. Get ready to be thrilled as you see Triassic period comes to life!
Open from 28 June to 28 July, Jurassic Creatures will deliver a realistic animatronics show like no other that will capture the imagination of children & parents everywhere.
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Morgan Sindall has been appointed to construct a £2.2 million storage facility in Exeter.
The project for Britannia Lanes Storage and Removals Ltd is already underway and includes the demolition of two buildings on Hennock Road East to make way for a five-storey storage facility.
The warehouse-style building will include over 700 storage containers; ten individual self storage drive up units and three trade counter units, all with 24/7 number plate recognition access.
The self-store facility will provide 30,000 sq. ft. of storage space and be available for both commercial and residential usage. The building will feature an impressive glass frontage and will be completed in time for the start of spring 2017.
Morgan Sindall will also deliver external works as part of the project, including a car parking area and an on-site washing facility for large vehicles.
Rob Lane, director at Britannia Lanes Storage and Removals Ltd, said: "Since Britannia Lanes of Devon commenced operations in 1992, we have enjoyed great success and expanded our existing warehouse as well as renting additional storage space to fit with the growing demand.
"Within the same period we've expanded our other branches in Cornwall and Somerset, as well as acquiring a new branch in Bristol. With our continued success, we thought now was the right time to reinvest in our Exeter location.
"We have been looking for a new site for many years in order to create the first purpose-built removal and self-storage facility within the South West and are proud to be months away from realising our objectives with a state of the art modern facility. "
Nigel Whelan, area manager at Morgan Sindall, said: "We're very pleased to have been appointed to deliver this important scheme. The new building will provide 30,000 sq. ft. of much needed storage space for businesses and residents in Exeter and makes the best use of the space.
"Morgan Sindall is well versed in delivering projects of this nature and we're looking forward to completing the scheme in time for the start of spring in 2017."
Morgan Sindall has recently been appointed to deliver a £800,000 digital humanities laboratory for the University of Exeter. The project is already underway and includes a two-storey extension of the existing Queen's Building. The project will also include a range of refurbishment works at the Thornlea Building.
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Glen Dornoch Waterway Golf Links adds a little Highland flavor to the Carolina Lowcountry
By Lisa Allen, Contributor, TravelGolf.com, 12/1/10
LITTLE RIVER, S.C. - There are two things you'll remember about Glen Dornoch Waterway Golf Links on the north end of the Grand Strand: It's a beautiful golf course capped by a trio of holes you'll never forget, and the staff members are exceptionally nice and appear to love their jobs.
Designed by Clyde Johnston in 1996, Glen Dornoch is a Scottish-type course that manages a lot of elevation changes while fronting the Intracoastal Waterway.
"When they built the golf course, they kept the natural landscape," said Vickie Heher, the golf director at Glen Dornoch. "It's a challenging course. You definitely have to play the course, not your game. You gotta keep it straight."
Starter Wendell Booth gives you the lay of the land: what various markers mean, where the restrooms are and how quickly you should play. He's a stickler about time, checking the pace with every foursome that makes the turn.
"They made it in 2:03," he says as a couple of carts go past. "Since we want a four-and-a-half-hour round, nothing wrong with that."
Also, in the interest of time and avoiding frustration, Booth tells players, "Unless you're a legitimate single-digit handicap, please just play the whites." Heed his advice.
There is a yardage book in each cart, but paper doesn't do justice of what's ahead: marsh carries, trees plopped in the middle of fairways, scores of deep sand or turf bunkers -- some you discover much too late -- and on No. 17, a "Close Encounters"-type mesa pockmarked with cavernous railroad-tie-lined bunkers.
Read that last paragraph again. That's why this golf course rates 73.2 with a 145 slope from the 6,890-yard tips and 69.8/129 from the 5,002-yard reds.
Creativity reigns at Glen Dornoch Waterway Golf Links
The creativity on the course is amazing and builds as you go. You might notice on the third hole, which is a short dogleg left with regular bunkers at the corner, the twin bunkers lined with railroad ties about 50 yards from the green.
Glen Dornoch's par-5 fifth is a hop-and-a-skip exercise to clear the marsh on your second shot and again for the approach. One comes to the green at an angle from the right side, over a wall of gnarly bunkers. If you don't angle in enough, you'll land in muck farther right or hit a footbridge.
The sixth is a scrappy par 4 that requires a straight drive to position your ball for a hard right to the green. Your second shot has to clear not one, but two marsh areas and fly up to an elevated green. The good news is that Johnston did provide a run-up on the left to the green.
The eighth hole descends to sea level for a ringside seat to the Intracoastal Waterway. It includes a little optical illusion with a minefield of bunkers that start 70 yards from the hole and march left, right, left up to the green.
As much fun as the front was, the back is even more fun, with fairways that drop and rise, bunkers that front greens and waste bunkers that back them.
The par-4 15th features a huge tree in the middle of the fairway with a bunker around it. But it's the last three holes that are some of the best in golf. Surprisingly, this breathtaking work is done without resorting to a single par 5.
No. 16 requires your drive to get to -- but stop short of -- a cliff, avoiding mounds and bunkers short left and longer right. From there, you have to launch your second shot into space, taking into consideration the wind coming off the Intracoastal Waterway. Down, down, down your shot will fall toward a green with a bunker short left, far right and across the back. Farther left are trees, farther right, marsh.
But there is no time to recover. Next, the par-3 17th requires a blind shot over a large foliage-rich, branchy tree to a green with an Incan-like temple mound on the right that is pitted with massive, railroad-tie-lined bunkers. On the day I played, the pin was behind this mound, a scrap of blue flag only partially visible.
"Play often slows down on 16, 17 and 18 because people tend to just stand around and stare," Booth said. That's certainly understandable.
The closing hole is a little confusing because it's not clear which is the better course of action. Go left for a long marsh carry, but a short iron shot to the green? Or knock it short right, then hope you can launch an approach long enough to cross the marsh and get to the green? Either way, a ring of bunkers await at the green.
Geof Durring of Peterborough, Ontario, was playing in a group of 12 that spends November in Myrtle Beach, then continues south to Florida for the winter.
"It's the prettiest course I've ever played," he said. "The second shot on 16 is intimidating, and so is standing on the tee on 17."
His friend Ron Hays said, "Glen Dornoch is one of the toughest courses I've ever played." Then he got maudlin, thinking of what he left behind in the many marshes. "All the balls you lose …," he said.
Glen Dornoch Waterway Golf Links: The verdict
There's nothing not to love about this golf course. It's interesting, challenging, then amazing. The grounds crew does a great job on the course, and the rest of the staff takes good care of you. Put this one on your short list.
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The Anti-Uptown Working Group and others in the Kansas City and Lawrence communities ask you to take a stand against racist terror!
The Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, an anti-immigrant armed vigilante group that patrols the U.S./Mexico border, is having their regional leadership conference in Kansas City on Feb 1st and 2nd.
Keep the pressure on: Some calls to action against the Minutemen!
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The Anti-Uptown Working Group and others in the Kansas City and Lawrence
communities ask you to take a stand against racist terror!
The Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, an anti-immigrant armed vigilante group that patrols the U.S./Mexico border, is having their regional leadership conference in Kansas City on Feb 1st and 2nd.
Anti-Racists and immigrant rights supporters from Kansas City and the surrounding areas are organizing to stop this meeting from happening!
1) Keep the pressure on venues that are supporting the Minutemen Conference. The bottom line is that our pressure on the Uptown has created a climate where no major venue in KC will ever work with the Minutemen again after this conference is over.
However, the hotels they are staying in (and there is much reason to believe that one of these hotels is hosting their meeting for the second day of their conference) need to have a clear message sent to them.
The MCDC has rented a block of rooms in the following hotels. We're calling on any and all people concerned about the Minutemen Civil Defense
Corps to bombard these hotels with phone calls:
a. Marriot – 4445 Main, Kansas City MO, 816-531-3000
b. Holiday Inn – 1 E. 45th St., Kansas City MO, 816-753-7400
c. Hyatt Regency Crown Center – 2345 McGee St., Kansas City MO 64108,
d. Hampton Inn - 4600 Summit, Kansas City MO, 816-448-4600
e. Sheraton Suites – 70 W 47th, Kansas City MO, 816-931-4400
When calling, we're asking people to be specific about their concerns:
-The Minutemen Civil Defense Corps and its members are renting rooms from
your hotel
-The Minutemen Civil Defense Corps is an anti-immigrant vigilante organization with ties to international white supremacist organizations.
-The Minutemen are coming to Kansas City to further recruit and strengthen their white supremacist agenda.
-We're concerned with your hotel's active support for a white supremacist organization by renting their organization rooms.
-We would ask you to take a stand against racial terror in the KC community by canceling any and all contracts that you may have the Minutemen or any attendees of their conference.
-If this is impossible, we would ask your hotel to make a public statement denouncing the Minutemen and their tactics and post this at your hotel in a public space.
Of course, in the instances that the Minutemen have rented the rooms as individuals, this won't be as affective, but we need to demand public statements from these businesses.
2) On Friday, Feb 1st, people will meet at 4PM at Cristo Rey School (211 W. Linwood BLVD) in Kansas City and then march to the Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway St), the location of the first day of the Minutemen meeting. We are calling for you to come and join the people of Kansas City in response to the Minutemen's racist action in our community.
3) The following day, Saturday, Feb 2nd, the Minutemen will be holding their membership-only meeting to discuss and determine their plans for 2008. This meeting will be crucial to the ability of the Minutemen to continue to function as an organization.
In response, Kansas Mutual Aid is calling on fellow anti-racists to converge on the location (TBA as these details become available, but keep this date open if you want to participate in actions to shut them down) of the meeting and help us "build a wall against racism". We will shut this meeting down!
More details will be announced as they become available. There is room for a variety of tactics, and we are calling on anyone wishing to confront racism to join us. We encourage people to form affinity groups and take autonomous action.
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A sermon for Proper 9: 2 Kings 5:1-14, Psalm 30, Galatians 6:(1-6) 7-16, Luke 10:1-11, 16-20
Independence Day: Deuteronomy 10:17-21
40 years ago I was at Ft. Gillam near Atlanta with 10 thousand Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, and leaders, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence. It was not a surprise that we spent almost entire entertain budget on fireworks; it was quite a show. What was a surprise was that it took every port-a-potty in Atlanta. Late Friday afternoon they were picked up, cleaned, and deliver before 7 pm. On Sunday the reverse happened. In spite of un-forecast thunderstorms, complete with a tornado warning, and an escaped prisoner from the adjoining town it was a great event. Though, I am pretty sure no one was thinking about
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
I'm under no illusion that anyone was thinking about Naaman or Jesus sending 70 disciples ahead to proclaim peace, heal the sick, and reveal the presence of the kingdom, or Moses telling the Hebrews after the debacle with the golden café, what God requires of them, because
The LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe, who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing. You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. (Deut 10:17)
which is from the appointed readings for Independence Day. Today we will explore all of them.
Naaman's story reveals the truest nature of equality. He is the King's mightiest warrior and is immensely wealthy. He is ill, and he can afford the most talented physicians. He learns that when the mighty and wealthy are diagnosed with incurable "terminal" or chronic illnesses they and lowest of slaves are on equal footing (Epperly). His venture to Israel is similar to the overseas, black market cures jaunts desperate people seek today (Bratt). Yes, he wants to be cured, but I suspect more than anything, he wants to be clean, because he wants to know the gentle caress of human touch. Ever since his diagnosis of leprosy he has been considered unclean and no one will touch him. Naaman's story also reveals a curious inequality of the powerful. Thanks to the sympathy of a Jewish slave Naaman knows of a prophet who will cure him. But, he rejects it because Elisha sent a messenger with instructions to go wash in the Jordan. Naaman's see himself as above others; listen to what he says
I thought that for me he would surely come out, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and would wave his hand over the spot.
Part of Naaman being cured is to see himself equal to the slave who told him of Elisha and the slaves who convince him to listen to Elisha. And he does. We did not hear it this morning, but one clue to Naaman humbling himself is that he changes gods. Naaman becomes a follower of the God of Israel, the very lowly people Naaman and the Arameans, forbears of the Assyrians, detest (Sakenfeld). Through his experience, Naaman learns something about God's equality.
Luke tells us that, Jesus, sends messengers to the villages, he is headed to. There are 70 messengers, which is significant because 70 is the number of nations in the world descended from Noah listed in Genesis 10. Since they number all nations, there is the implication their mission includes gentiles, which reveals that Jesus' ministry is for everyone. This is Luke's way of sharing Jesus' teaching that all people are created equal (Hoezee, Luke). Jesus tells them to eat what is set in front of them. They are to accept hospitality, even if it means ignoring the Law, with respect to food, for the sake of sharing the news that the Kingdom of God is here (Hoezee, Luke). Another indicator of the radical equality Jesus tells his messenger to show is that no matter how they are received or treated they are to tell the house / village that the Kingdom of God has come near (Luke 10:11). Perhaps the most difficult bit of what the messengers are to convey; even learn, is that you don't get to choose. Following God in Jesus is not some sort of divine salad bar, where you choose this and leave that aside (Hoezee, Galatians). You don't get to choose who to love; everyone is your neighbor; everyone deserves to hear the good news that the Kingdom of God is near; everyone is equal.
Paul puts a very large dot on the dominant "I" of equality today's lessons reveal. He tells the Galatians; you reap what you so; God will not be mocked. You cannot proclaim this, and behave that-a-way. There is an equality of all to the universe, and it does not bend to our convenience. (Hoezee, Galatians) Paul continues, we are to bear each other burdens, trusting that as we come to aid of the other, yet others will come to our aid as we are burdened and all at the same time (Hoezee, Galatians). This is how shalom, wholeness, the peace of God comes to all of us; comes to any of us.
I am painfully aware not everyone agrees; however, for the most part, we believe that all men are created equal. Oh, our skills and abilities and essence vary tremendously. Nonetheless, all of us, everyone is created in the image of God, and all are called to remind everyone else, by how we treat them, that we can see, and we love the image of God they bear.
Looking back across my six plus decades, I see our struggle with unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness mostly because my life, liberty, and happiness appear to infringe on your life, liberty, and happiness. It is implicit in Deuteronomy, 2 Kings, and Luke, but Paul just makes it blunt: my pursuit, of life, liberty, and happiness, is dependent on your pursuit life, liberty and happiness. More importantly, our pursuit is dependent on their – the foreigners', the aliens' pursuit life, liberty, and happiness. It is my considered opinion that this is the most important, perhaps the only true function of governments that are instituted among us, radical equality of the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
Angie and I are looking forward to a quiet 4th and a joyous and raucous 6th, 7th and 8th as our daughters and their families will be here. It is my hope your 4th may be equally joyous and raucous. I pray that in our joy we will take the time to remember, that as the 70 were, we are also sent to all the nations, all the peoples of the world to share the news that the Kingdom of God is the true home of life, liberty, and happiness.
Bratt, Doug. Proper 9 C 2 Kings 5:1-14. 3 7 2016. <cep.calvinseminary.edu>.
Epperly, Bruce. The Adventurous Lectionary. 3 7 2016. <http://www.patheos.com/blogs/livingaholyadventure/author/bruceepperly>.
Harrelson, Walter J. The New Interpreters' Study Bible. Abingdon Press, 2003. E-book.
Hoezee, Scott. Lectionary Epistle Galatians 6:(1-6), 7-16. 3 7 2016. <http://cep.calvinseminary.edu/sermonstarters/>.
—. The Lectionary Gospel Luke 10:1-11, 16-20. 3 7 2016.
Parsons, Mikeal C. Commentary on Luke 10:1-11, 3 7 2016. <http://www.workingpreacher.org/>.
Reid, Stephen. Commentary on 2 Kings 5:114. 3 7 2016. <http://www.workingpreacher.org/>.
Sakenfeld, Katharine Doob. New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible. Nashville: Abingdon, 2009.
The Final Text of the Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776. n.d. 1 7 2016. <http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1776-1785/the-final-text-of-the-declaration-of-independence-july-4-1776.php>.
Vargas, Alicia. Commentary on Galatians 6: [16]. 3 7 2016. <workingpreacher.org>.


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Best Spyder Upgrades
With over 15 years of paintball playing experience and with my very first paintball gun being a Spyder I have tried and tested a ton of the gear on the market today. Now days there are so many Spyder paintball guns on the market no one knows what goes to what, what model they have, do they all work the same and so on?
Some of the best advice I was given on upgrading your paintball gun was that no matter how cool or how many balls per second you can shoot, if you can't hit what you're aiming at then all of those upgrades were a waste of money.
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My first recommendation on what the best Spyder upgrades are would have to be to upgrade the barrel. The two things that mainly effect accuracy are your barrel and the paintballs you are using. The stock barrels that come on your Spyder out of the box is okay. The barrel will shoot decently straight but not need as straight as an upgraded barrel will shoot if you are also shooting decent quality paintballs.
The best barrel upgrade for the money is hands down the Custom Products or CP One Piece barrel! This barrel sells for $29.95, comes in multiple colors and length and is available for nearly all paintball guns as an upgrade if you decide to change guns down the road.
This barrel has good porting (holes near the end of the barrel) to mKe the barrel more quiet than your stock barrel. They are made of aluminum so it will be light as well. I would recommend going with a 12,14 or 16 inch barrel. The 14 inch barrel is my favorite length overall. Anything over 16 is very difficult to use on a field especially if you are playing inside building with windows. The longer barrels tend to hang out the window making it difficult to stay hidden.
The next best barrel I would recommend would be the J and J Ceramic barrel. This is the very first barrel I purchased in 2000 for my first Spyder paintball gun upgrade. This barrel has more porting which will make it more quiet. It only comes in one color but offers a costing in the inside to allow for dirt and paint to clean out easier than other barrels. These barrels sell for about $34.95 to $39.95.
I have been extremely happy with the J and J barrels and they are clearly doing something right to have been in business for so long.
The third barrel I would upgrade for the Spyder paintball gun would be the Deadly Wind null barrel. This barrel sells for $59 and is carbon fiber making it one of the lightest barrels on the market.
The next Spyder Upgrade I would recommend would have to be an upgraded hopper or loader. Now that you can shoot straighter you have to be able to count on your hopper to feed paintballs into your gun.
On this upgrade there are only two I recommend and and really I my one I feel is a true upgrade.
The first hopper I would highly recommend would be the JT Revolution hopper. This hopper sells for $44.95- $49.95. This upgrade takes two 9 volt batteries and is compatible with most brand Speedfeeds to load your hopper faster without having to open the lid. These are only available in black currently. This hopper will feed as fast as nearly all Spyder paintball guns are capable of shooting, even in full auto. It is light weight and easy to clean when needed.


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There's been a bit of fuss about data protection lately and I've had several emails on the subject, as a result of which my email inbox will be much quieter from now on (being restricted to friends, family and the one company which just updated its privacy policy instead of sending me patronising emails that begged to be deleted).
This unfortunately means that no longer will I come home to phone calls from people who want to recover my PPI payments for me and get puzzled when my first question is "Where did you get this number?" to which the not wholly satisfactory answer was "You must have not ticked a box at some point. Now why don't you want to tell me you had PPI?"
(I eventually worked out who was distributing my telephone number to the extent that I would have got fewer unexpected calls had I posted it on here, which was that some relatively-reputable-looking survey body that UCAS signed me up for, possibly without asking, got me to do a survey from some seemingly reputable body willing to pay something for it which included a mobile number for follow-up surveys, which I foolishly provided, which follow-up surveys turned out to be working out which probably not reputable organisations – including Great Ormond Street Children's Hospice, British Gas and the aforementioned PPI people – I would like my details selling to so the said organisations could cold-call me. The follow-up surveys seemed to consider they were doing me a favour and were unwilling to accept either my requests to be removed from their database or my pleas that I was busy, particularly as I say this a lot (well, I usually am). Having worked out what they were up to, and during a particularly insistent call taking the view that I could not possibly be busy at three o'clock on a Thursday afternoon, I may have used only very slightly better couched terms to tell the surveying caller to sod off and this they have obligingly done.)
As an amusing feature, I thought I'd take a look at one of the organisations which has been asking me for permission to keep emailing me and examine exactly how this relationship has gone.
Organisation: The Labour Party.
Modus Operandi: In 2015 I went onto the Labour Party website to discover what their policies were for the forthcoming General Election (beyond putting up blocks of concrete in Hastings car parks – not, alas, across the entrance). On the website was a questionnaire about my views on Labour's policies. Thinking this might prove interesting, I clicked on the link and was prompted to input my email address in order to complete the questionnaire. (The questionnaire is discussed at the bottom of this blogpost, in case you missed it at the time; unfortunately the questionnaire itself has outlived its usefulness, the General Election being over, and is no more.)
Comments made at time of collecting data: Nothing terribly memorable.
Upshot: 90 emails (so far, over three years) inviting me to get excited about the activities of the Labour Party (including six on the 7th May 2015, which may have been in part because I live in a marginal seat, and seventeen over the course of the EU referendum campaign, which perhaps I should have paid more attention to). Included offers to buy postcards, calendars and a vote in the leadership elections. Also some slightly more random though highly worthy stuff, like a recent one for joining the campaign to ban bee-slaughtering neonicotinoid insect sprays.
Approach to new data protection laws: Recipients need to opt-in again. (As I can't recall actually opting-in to communications in the first place, beyond a default assumption that putting an email address into an organisation's box that asks for one counts as an opt-in to spam, this may actually have been a sensible attitude to take.)
Incentives: It's Jeremy Corbyn's birthday this weekend (it is indeed – tomorrow – he'll be 69) and he'll be terribly upset if his email database has shrunk.
Response: Actually, this one might have been tempting as the Party's rather naive assumption that their database consists of supporters, instead of random people who went to look at their website at the wrong moment, is rather touching and the resultant emails quite amusing. Alas, I also have a latent desire to annoy Jeremy Corbyn, for various reasons which I will withhold on data protection grounds.
Thinking of the PPI cold caller, one of the organisations the Press have picked up on that is particularly affected by these rule changes works by harvesting your data from your email inbox and selling it to random people that they meet in the street. They are terribly upset not to be able to offer this service to citizens of the European Union any more. It takes a lot to get me to make cynical comments about capitalists, but in this case I can't help feeling the sorrow should be directed to the shareholders rather than the erstwhile customers. (Ironically that organisation's work is now fairly obsolete in the EU, as it was dedicated to removing people from mailing lists – something that the mailing list owners have mostly now done for themselves.)


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Photo show a staircase in the Somerset House London.
From Wikipedia: Somerset House is a large Neoclassical building situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, England, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge. The building, originally the site of a Tudor palace, was designed by Sir William Chambers in 1776, and further extended with Victorian wings to the north and south. The East Wing forms part of the adjacent King's College London.


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Woodchuck Part Deux and Spiced Wine
So the barn is getting walls and a ceiling this week. I almost feel like calling it a winery, but I'm not there yet. I worked evening shifts, so I wasn't able to go out and look at it after work. Scott kindly took pictures for me. As I scrolled through, I saw:
What's this hole?…
Scott says "Honey that's what I call woodchuck part deux".
This thing has no fear. Apparently it just stared at him from that hole.
I don't even know what to say about it at this point. I'm trying to ignore it but I still know it's out there.
The strangest part is that on Monday I picked out a bunch of color samples for the wall, and the ones I was leaning toward were…
Can you see that?
Woodchuck and Spiced Wine. Really?


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Dear All,
Thank you all for your contributions to this online consultation, a pre-event to the regional conference on Youth Employment in Agriculture as a Solid Solution to ending Hunger and Poverty in Africa" to take place on 20-21 August, in Kigali, Rwanda.
The consultation is now closed. The next steps are as follows:
- The facilitators and the experts supporting the consultation will review your contributions to glean the issues and questions to be fed into the regional conference process in Kigali.
- A summary report of the consultation will be prepared and shared with you all on this same platform.
After the Kigali conference, we will arrange to follow-up with some of you, to hear more about and document your stories/successes.
Again, thank you all for the contributions.
Justin Chisenga
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Research 1 North & South includes 600,640 gross square feet (gsf) (390,160 net assignable square feet (nasf)) of new research space and will be the basis for the initial CU Anschutz Medical Campus research effort. Included in the Research 1 North & South facilities will be wet laboratories (163,000 nasf), core laboratory space (21,560 nasf), lab support space (108,800 nasf), related faculty office and conferencing space (54,400 nasf), Center for Comparative Medicine (34,000 nasf), and building support space (8,200 nasf).
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Fentress Architects
Hensel Phelps Construction
$216 million
June 2004
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These are the uneducated idiots who made it possible for the unthinkable to happen. These are the people who elected Donald Trump to the highest office in this so-called greatest country on earth.
(Here is the part where all of the short tempered assholes jump off this blog. Fine. This isn't really for you anyway.)
Now let me tell you what I really think.
While there is absolutely no doubt that the prejudice and hate that plagues this country played a role in what transpired this election day, the bigger issue is how those of us who staked our claim to the moral high ground by siding with "Her" dismissed those who didn't by labeling them racists, bigots, misogynists, or just generally less intelligent and uninformed. This attitude was crystallized in what I believe was the turning point of the entire election, when Hilary Clinton referred to half of Trump's supporters as a "basket of deplorables".
I was deeply disappointed when this news came out. It was at a time in the election when all of the momentum was shifted her way. She was coming off of a successful Democratic National Convention where Bernie Sanders and the Obamas helped unite the party behind her, after a disastrous Republican National Convention which was highlighted by Melania Trump's plagiarized speech and Ted Cruz's controversial non-endorsement for Trump. This was followed by a period of party in-fighting where Trump was at odds with everyone from John McCain to Paul Ryan. By mid-August things were so bad for Trump and his camp that Paul Manafort, his second campaign manager, resigned and was replaced by Kellyanne Conway two and a half months before election day. At the time, most opinion polls had Hillary ahead by double digits.
It was expected at the time that Hillary would take this momentum, kick the shit out of Donald in the presidential debates (if he even decided to show up!) and then ride on to one of the biggest landslide victories in history. Sounded legit. I mean she was the most qualified candidate ever to run and he was a dude who is in the WWE Hall of Fame. HOW COULD SHE FUCK THIS UP???!!!!
Well here's how. You start by ignoring the fact that there were people who were disgusted enough with the status quo that they decided to elect Donald Trump as the Republican nominee. That alone should have home the point that people were not fucking around when they said they were disgusted with Washington. Then, on top of that, you fuel the idea that you are some elitist New York insider who doesn't give two shits what Jimbos and Ellie Maes of the country have to say or what they care about by saying that they are all "deplorables". Yes, I know she said half, but it is absolutely no different than when Donald Trump says many of the Mexicans coming across the border are drug dealers and rapists. Trump didn't say all Mexicans are criminals, just like she only said half of Trump supporters are pieces of shit, but chances are if Hillary were to meet Jimbo or Ellie Mae they are going to be thinking this lady thinks I am a fucking deplorable. FUCK HER!!!
To be clear, I am not saying she did not deserve to be president because of this misstep. Again, she was maybe the most qualified candidate to ever run for office. She also may have proven to be one of the cockiest candidates ever (her and those in her camp). There was almost this attitude that it was Hillary's destiny to win this election. Like it was some self fulfilling prophecy.
She had worked her whole life to get here.
She had learned to be more likable.
The country had shown by electing Barack Obama twice that they were open to trying new things. We were finally ready for our first woman president! It wasn't a matter of IF SHE WOULD WIN, it was a question of HOW MUCH SHE WOULD WIN BY!
Hillary and her camp never really considered losing as a truly possible outcome. They never took Donald Trump as a serious threat. He was a joke. Hillary had the backing of every living president, prominent Republicans, and major celebrities of every kind. Trump had Scott Baio. This was never supposed to be a contest. This was just all the shit Hillary had to do before she became president.
Remember when Buster Douglas beat Mike Tyson?
When the USA beat Russia in the Miracle on Ice?
When Jennifer Hudson lost on American Idol?
Bad things happen when you take your opponent for granted. All Hillary's camp had to do was listen to any pregame speech of any NFL coach preparing his team to face the Cleveland Browns to hear things like, "you never take your opponent for granted", "wins are not just handed to you", and other such cliches. Because she violated these sacred rules, we just witnessed the electoral equivalent of Hillary losing to the Cleveland Browns.
Once you really wrap your head around how this happened, I believe it makes it just the slightest bit easier to move forward. What happened already happened. If you feel the need to protest to show your disgust, fine. If you really want to move to Canada, more power to you. But for those of us who are staying all I ask is one thing.
Find a way to make peace with this so we can all move on.
No one is saying you should not be angry or disappointed. There is a difference between complacency and acceptance. An alcoholic knows he has a drinking problem and keeps on drinking. A recovering alcoholic knows he has a drinking problem and takes steps to address his problem. If this election has shown us all something is that we all have a huge problem on our hands. Just a few weeks ago it was just the Republican party that was in crisis. Democrats everywhere looked down at the fire and laughed smugly. Don't act like it isn't true. We loved every minute of it.
Not so funny anymore is it?
Now that we know this is not just a GOP crisis, what do we do to fix things? For one, we all need to stop trying to find the nearest member of the opposing party to blame and concentrate on what it is that we can do better. It starts with listening to one another instead of dismissing each other as idiots the second we hear something that we don't agree with. Just because someone doesn't believe in abortion doesn't mean they might not have some sort of keen insight on the economy. Just because someone for some stupid reason believes we should build a wall doesn't mean they might not be right about some of our legitimately lax immigration policies. We all need to try harder to understand why these white people all felt desperate enough that they chose to believe in a guy who used to sell steaks at Sharper Image.
I will end this with a plea to all my fellow liberal assholes. The time for making fun of the uneducated redneck masses has passed. That group that you are so much smarter than just served you a big ole' country sized serving of WOKE! Instead of reacting the same exact way all the "racists" did when President Obama did in 2008, how about we try something different? We can all say #notmypresident till we turn blue in the face (Get it? Blue? This thing on?), but that will not change the fact that Donald Trump is f'reals the president. So go ahead, get all the anger out your system (PEACEFULLY!!!) and let's move on in a smarter, more productive fashion. Let's not let this happen again in 2020!


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Every year, a nurse comes to our office to dole out flu shots to everyone who wants them.
But Angela said that isn't in the budget this year. It's still covered by our insurance, but if we want one, we have to get one somewhere else. Of course waits this year are crazy with people more scared about the flu than ever. Ugh.
However, Dunder Mifflin did not totally abandon us. They came up with a backup plan.
In lieu of flu shots, the company issued signs for each branch to print and post in the bathroom that outline how to properly wash our hands.
Ohhh Dunder Mifflin, you think of everything!
P.S. CONGRATS PAM AND JIM!!!! I mean… umm congrats to me? Oh man I'm having an identity crisis.
P.P.S. Angela just snuck up behind me as I was typing this. Ack!


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About Ivers Photo & Imaging
Ivers Photo & Imaging is the partnership of Rory Ivers and Mike Ivers. Ours is an apparent anomaly, two brothers who managed to successfully work as a team for decades. Rory focuses primarily on the creative side and Mike handles the business details, each keeping our partnership solvent, and each supporting the other as the need arises. Over the years, we've expanded not only what we do but how much we can do from start to finish in-house.
The photography began as an off-shoot from our participation in motor sports racing. Then we needed catalog photography to help market the products we manufactured. Soon after, models and portraiture, then celebrities. Between photo projects, we learned image retouching and desktop publishing. Desktop publishing includes creating press-ready content for everything from postcards to flyers, catalogs and even a 400-page "History of Ferrari" book! As media and marketing evolve, so have our production capabilities which now include email marketing (opted-in only!), vinyl signage (specializing in era-accurate automotive livery) and large format printing and laminating.
In looking at the many examples of our work, it's obvious we know our way around sports. For motorsports, from the racetrack to the showroom and the studio, we've photographed cars that weeks later sold for millions of dollars. The same kind of successes can be applied to our work with artwork, memorabilia and jewelry. That not only makes a statement about our skills but our trustworthiness too. We take every precaution to ensure that our client's property is well protected when in our possession. Our clients know that and appreciate our efforts.
Going beyond the usual static automotive photography, we also shoot with gyroscopes to generate action straight from the camera. Photography and videography from one vehicle paced to another at ridiculously slow shutter speeds (just barely above 1/15th of a second) isn't for the faint of heart. It's physically demanding (handholding a gyro-equipped camera is brutal!) and requires skilled driving, significant safety precautions and quality cameras and lenses. Gyro-assisted images are a standard for automobile manufacturers and catching on with motorcycles and other motion-centric product. The images are real, not computer-generated, and that comes through to the final product.
Possibly the most satisfying photography are our "people" shots – models, portraiture and celebrities. Going into a shoot, it's rare to really know just what images we're going to make. We prepare for the unexpected and we're confident that they'll be good but so much depends upon mood, personalities and the notorious X-factor. It's necessary to adapt to unexpected weather, time constraints and impromptu location choices. But that's also what makes photography so satisfying and enjoyable. No job is the same and there's that ever-elusive goal of creating that perfect image. That desire for perfection keeps us hungry, driving us to our best efforts both behind the lens and in whatever post-production work our clientele desires.


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Healthcare group Vivantes is a critical healthcare services provider and the largest communal hospital group in Germany. Vivantes plays an important role in everyday life, with well over 200,000 patients annually. With almost 15,000 employees and annual revenue of over 1 billion EUR. Vivantes includes nine hospitals with more than 100 clinics and institutions and a total of 5,540 beds, 13 case facilities, retirement homes, and a vast array of other medical services.
Controlling had previously relied on SAP for group-wide reporting and monitoring patients from admission to discharge. Central reporting provided historical data, but Vivantes still needed a powerful planning system for KPIs to pinpoint risk early. Planning for 400 di fferent group divisions was done in Excel. Controlling sent out spreadsheets while operational planning would compile plan data and present the P&L statement to the supervisory board, then report in more detail based on board requirements. This was time-consuming and costly. "Data volume and complexity grew alongside Vivantes. With Excel alone, it was no longer possible to present meaningful insight to the board" explains Marion Seidenstücker, Head of Central Group Controlling.
Marion and her colleagues saw how the powerful and flexible Jedox could streamline their planning, and after reviewing the market, the Vivantes board chose Jedox. Jedox's rapid agile implementation made Vivantes' group-wide financial planning immediately easier. With reliable actuals, users now enter driver-based plans in
Jedox easily and independently. They understand the methodology and own their numbers. Marion: "The planning possibilities with Jedox are endless. We don't know how we ever managed without it!"
- Planning with Excel was slow and error-prone
- High data volumes overloaded the planning process
- Lack of visibility and transparency of workflow
- Highly manual to prepare planning
- Slow data queries with obsolete and low-quality data
- Web-based solution for group-wide enterprise planning
- High-speed in-memory model with write-back
- Automatic connection to existing SAP data
- Consolidation, calculation and capture of heterogeneous data
- Independent local planning through Controllers
- Data precision in real time
- Easy modeling of large data volumes
- Transparent data input and calculation formulas
- Secure granular permissions across all divisions, linked to existing IT systems
- Fast roll-out that aligned departmental and corporate processes


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Local Course: Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Qualitative Research Methods
EBQ offers a profound training of three weeks on the basic principles and methods of epidemiology. An in-depth study of biostatistics (lectures and hands-on tutorials with R software) with appropriate methods is integrated in the main epidemiological content. Basic principles of qualitative research methods will be explained, and introductory seminars on systematic review, meta-analysis and molecular epidemiology are also programmed.
The course will be taught by faculty from UAntwerp and UPCH , mainly in Spanish but basic level on English is required in order to follow some specialized seminars during the last course week.
Malaria and other infectious diseases severely affect the Peruvian Amazon population living low-living conditions. Currently, the Peruvian government has launched a Malaria Elimination program in the Peruvian Amazon (MEPPA) and therefore requested evidence-based data meeting international standards. Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana (UNAP), a public university located in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon (Iquitos city, Loreto region, Peru) has to play a key role in supporting the MEPPA and in the development of the region. Since 2016, within the framework of the VLIR South Initiative project ZEIN2016Z195, UAntwerp in collaboration with Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) (Lima, Peru) is building capacity at UNAP on molecular epidemiology research through:
Therefore, the 1st Peruvian edition of the EBQ course ('Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Qualitative Research') was carried out at UNAP facilities in Iquitos from 31 July till 18 August 2017. During 3 weeks, 20 selected participants (biomedical researchers and professors, 17 from Iquitos and 3 from other provinces) received lectures by UAntwerp and UPCH professors. Prof. Paul Van Royen (Dean Fac. Medicine, UA) and Prof. Lieve Peremans (UA) opened the course with a 3-day introduction on Qualitative Research Methods with lots of group dynamics e.g. focus group and interviews. Later, epidemiology lectures were given by Dr. Greet Dieltiens (ZNA, Antwerp) and the Biostatistics lectures and hands-on exercises using R were given by Dr. José Chauca (UPCH) and Dr.(c) Christopher Delgado-Ratto (UA). During the last week, focused talks were provided: Epidemiology of infectious diseases, Intro to Clinical trials and Systematic review & Meta-analysis (Prof. Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden, UA), Molecular epidemiology (Prof. Dionicia Gamboa, UPCH) and on technical aspects on the development of infectious diseases control program (Prof. Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas, UPCH). The last day, representatives of the National Malaria Control Program (Dr. Hugo Rodriguez, Dr. Gabriela Meza) provided an overview of the current malaria program activities and exchanged with the participants about the MEPPA.
During the course the students were highly motivated and actively participating. The written pre & post course evaluations showed that, by the end of the course, the students understood most basic concepts and developed a critical epidemiological thinking . Some participants developed, by own initiative, research proposals on infectious diseases relevant for the Peruvian Amazon (e.g. predictors for pregnancy interruption in Zika-infected pregnant women, malaria transmission dynamics, etc.). Participants expressed a need to expand the collaboration network with UA researchers and highlighted that the EBQ was a unique opportunity for UNAP researchers/students to learn research methods as these opportunities are very scarce in this region.
The organizers (UPCH & UA) already organized successfully a short course focusing on molecular epidemiology methods a relatively new and fast evolving filed (www.uantwerp.be/eponge) and UA, UCPH and UNAP intend to prolong the collaboration and further strengthen the research capacities at UNAP and contribute to the MEPPA initiative.
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After reading Philip Clayton's letter (Development woes of West Bromwich, 15 August), I feel obliged to set the record straight. Like many other towns (and yes, it is and always has been a town, not a city) in the industrial Midlands, West Bromwich has suffered in recent decades.
The "huge road round the centre, making this once busy hub a hole in a doughnut" was built by the former county borough of West Bromwich in the early 70s. I agree this inhibited growth and change. To combat this, council collaboration with the private sector has resulted in the £200m New Square shopping centre, offering a contemporary retail mall, multi-screen cinema, range of restaurants and public square. Since it opened last month, feedback from customers – many of whom, like Mr Clayton, had not visited the town in a long while – has been universally positive.
The town's swimming pool was knocked down several years ago, having become obsolete. Recognising the need for a replacement, work is under way on a new pool and leisure centre which opens next year.
As for the park, £5.2m of heritage lottery funds is currently bringing about its restoration and renovation. It boasts a stunning new visitor centre, cafe, popular high ropes attraction and children's playground.
West Bromwich is very much "open for business" and a town citizens can again be proud of. Perhaps it's time Mr Clayton paid another visit?
Cllr Darren Cooper
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These days, the decisions that must be made after the death of a loved one don't end at the arrangement conference. Even after the final disposition has occurred, one important consideration remains: how to handle the sizable digital footprints that many of us leave online.
It's no small issue. Consider that there are currently over 1.5 billion active Facebook users, a whopping 23% increase over March 2012. Of these 1.5 billion people, roughly 699 million log in to Facebook daily and spend an average of 20 minutes on the site per visit. Whether or not you agree with the increasingly important role social media sites are playing in our lives, you can't ignore the fact that the deceased may have had as rich an online life as an offline one.
So, in the wake of a death, what happens to a person's Facebook account? Currently, there are two common alternatives: the family can either leave the account as-is or request that Facebook turn the account into a memorial page (apart from requesting that the account be closed altogether).
Neither solution is truly ideal. If the account is left active, the profile will continue to appear in the network's lists of birthday notifications and friend suggestions. If no friends or relatives have access to the account's login information, there's also no way to manage the messages that are left on the deceased's Facebook Wall, as Facebook does not give out login credentials or transfer account ownership under any circumstances.
The case of Amanda Todd demonstrates how devastating this can be. On October 10th, 2012, the tenth-grader took her life after being bullied both online and offline over a period of several years. Though her Facebook Wall initially served as a hub for friends and family members to share condolences, the same people who drove her to her death eventually took it over – filling the pages with messages like "Yes we are glad that she is dead yay," and "She brought it on herself which is why I don't feel bad," and resulting in a truly heartbreaking situation for her family.
The alternative of switching an active account to one of Facebook's memorial pages has its own weaknesses. Once the change has been made, the account is essentially frozen. Nobody – not even those with the appropriate login credentials – will be able to log in to the account, and only those who previously had permission to do so will be able to leave condolence messages on the remaining Wall. It's also worth considering that any racy pictures or status updates that were left on the deceased's account will be preserved as part of his or her online legacy.
On a deeper level, the practice of leaving condolence messages on sites like Facebook raises some concerns among counselors and grief experts. Some worry that the ability to interact with the dead through their online presence delays the recognition of death as a finality. After all, if we're able to continue interacting with the deceased online, what is there that will encourage us to move on and begin to integrate the death into our lives in a healthy way?
Those who work with the bereaved also see the ability to leave online condolences as a "cop out" that prevents the exchange of more meaningful messages. Facebook messages are seen by some as being more impersonal than calls, visits or handwritten notes, and as a result, may be less useful in terms of their ability to provide support to the family in their time of sorrow.
Is there an answer to the question of how to best integrate somebody's digital death with their physical one? Unfortunately, not yet. According to Jay Brubaker, a scholar in the new field of digital identity at the University of California-Irvine, "There aren't really any norms around death and social media yet. People are kind of making it up as they go along."
In this world of uncertainty, families may turn to you for guidance on how to handle the deceased's digital legacy management. The following recommendations should help you to handle these requests in the most comforting way possible:
Let your customers know about online memorial walls.
Online memorial walls represent a much better alternative to Facebook in terms of online grieving. The best online memorial walls emulate the feel of Facebook's interface, giving friends and loved ones a place to share messages, pictures, videos and meaningful icons.
However, online memorial walls tend to come with one important feature compared to Facebook – the ability to flag inappropriate messages and delete them before they're published to the live site. This can be done in a number of different ways, including "swear word filters" that automatically flag pending comments containing profanity, and required manual picture and video review, which allow site owners to ensure that nothing inappropriate slips through the cracks.
Familiarize yourself with your state's digital asset access laws.
The question of who can access your digital accounts after death is difficult to answer, as state regulations vary tremendously – and some states have no codified access laws at all. For example, Rhode Island and Connecticut's estate laws cover email only, while Indiana's covers vaguely-defined "documents" and "information." Idaho and Oklahoma's laws are less stringent, offering the estate managers of the deceased the ability to access account information on everything from microblogging to social networking sites.
To make matters more confusing, ongoing litigation between individuals and companies like Google and Facebook has the potential to change access laws at any given moment. Take the example of Helen and Jay Stassen, a Wisconsin couple who served both companies with court orders after they were denied access to their son's accounts following his suicide. Google gave up email access quickly, but Facebook dragged the resolution process out for months – leaving those in similar positions as the Stassens without clear guidance on how to proceed in the future.
With all of this confusion in mind, the best answer you can give your families to the question of accessing existing accounts may be, "I don't know." But by familiarizing yourself with any laws that do exist in your area – as well as with any ongoing legal challenges that may affect these statutes – you can give customers a more straightforward, accurate response than they'll find digging around on their own online.
Get to know digital legacy management programs.
To address the question of who should have access to your information when you die, several digital legacy management – like those offered by My Wonderful Life and SecureSafe Digital Inheritance – have sprung up to give internet users a way to plan for their eventual demise. You may encounter these tools as you gather information and make arrangements for your families, so it's a good idea to familiarize yourself with the purpose they serve and how they operate.
In addition, getting to know these programs could inform any information pieces or community involvement events you offer in the future. As an example, if your funeral home conducts training sessions on how to make preneed arrangements, discussing the role of digital legacy management programs and providing recommendations on individual tools could add considerable value to attendees and help to position your business as a knowledgeable, up-to-date company that understands the needs of today's consumers.
By and large, digital legacy management is still the "Wild West" of the deathcare world. In fact, it may be many more years before a consistent set of recommendations and laws designed to handle the challenge of confronting death and its ramifications online are established.
But in the meantime, it's easy to recognize the truth behind another quote from Jed Brubaker: "What's known is that this Facebook generation will have more experiences with death than any generation before it." Make it a priority to continually educate yourself on these changing traditions, as the issue of digital legacy management is almost certainly something you'll encounter in the years to come. FBA
Matt Frazer is the owner of Frazer Consultants, a personalization, technology and consulting company for the death care profession. Founded in 2003, Frazer Consultants's top product lines include the all-in-one Tribute Center personalization suite, the Life Journey stationery collection, funeral home website design and the new revenue-generating Tribute Store plugin. Matt can be reached at 866.372.9372, by email at [email protected] or by visiting www.frazerconsultants.com.