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Great Android Apps for Adding Glitch Effects to Your Images
A Post By: Megan Kennedy
In digital photography, glitches are usually avoided at all costs. However, there are some who welcome the whimsical aesthetic of glitch art. Here are four of the best Android apps that can be used to add artificial glitch effects to your images.
What is glitch art?
Generally, the word glitch refers to a visual or audio malfunction occurring in a media format.
Music, video games, and digital photography; all technology can succumb to glitches. While often viewed as an unwelcome occurrence, glitches have, over time, garnered a growing amount of creative interest. That's where glitch art comes in.
Glitch art embraces the glitch as an artistic event spawned by the development of technology.
Glitch art is created by artists who embrace the nature of the glitch for its aesthetic and audible qualities. By either intentionally creating glitches or capturing them as they occur organically, artists elevate the status of the glitch from a technical irritation to an intriguing insight into the technology we surround ourselves with.
One of the earliest examples of glitch art was orchestrated by the art collective JODI. Founded by Joan Heemskert and Dirk Paesmans, JODI operated on experiments like deliberately causing errors on their website to evoke error messages. From there, artists have adopted the glitch aesthetic as a means of conveying ideas and exploring the technological landscape.
How is glitch art made?
Glitch art can be achieved in various ways.
For example, misalignment glitches are the result of a digital file being opened by a program that is ill-equipped to process that specific type of file.
Hardware failure glitches, on the other hand, are caused by tampering with the physical mechanisms of a machine itself.
Databending refers to the manipulation of file data with programs like hex editors.
An example of glitch art made with a hex editor.
The appreciation for glitch art has spread across the globe, with many glitch artists sharing their broad range of technical approaches to the format online. And with the growing number of glitch art apps available at little or no cost to the user, glitch effects have been an increasingly popular presence in art and social media.
Now let's take a look at the best Android apps for creating glitch effects:
Glitch Lab
Glitch Lab operates on the central theme of being "simple to use yet at the same time endlessly configurable." With an impressive amount of free presents and adjustments available to induce glitched imagery, all alterations can be tweaked with an easy-to-use interface, creating rich layers of visual chaos.
In addition, Glitch Lab offers some basic photo adjustments as well as a Generate function, which allows a user to generate glitch art from scratch, without the use of a photo as a starting point.
Glitch!
Simple to use and with a good amount of free features, Glitch! is one of the most popular glitch art apps available. With glitch effects like Scanner, Hacker, and Paintbrush, Glitch! realistically imitates manual glitching techniques. Premium functions include a Datamosh preset and video-based options.
Glitcho
The Glitcho app allows a user to glitch photos and videos in real-time, which can be handy for quick adjustments and previews. The app also offers a GIF-generating function, which animates some glitch effects applied to images.
Glitcho has a range of free glitch presets that can be applied to both photos and videos. The app also offers additional glitch effects that can be unlocked by watching ads or by upgrading to Glitcho Pro.
EZGlitch
Like Glitcho, EZGlitch provides glitch effects to create glitched photography and videography in real-time. The in-app purchases available in EZGlitch are balanced by the range of filters on offer at no charge to the user.
EZGlitch is also equipped with a simple-to-use Auto GIF function to generate animated glitchy GIF or MP4 files to save and share.
If you've recently looked for glitch-based editing apps on the Play Store, you'll have seen a myriad of different options on offer.
While it may take some trial and error to find the glitch app that works best for you, these four apps are a great entry point, allowing for quick and easy glitch effects on your Android device.
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We've all got one (or maybe many!): a relationship that we wish were more loving or peaceful, but is somehow stuck. It could be with your partner, your child, your sibling, your parent, your friend, or colleague.We want it to be different. But how? Explore the answers through tools and approaches inspired by NVC.
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You're invited to come to this gathering with one close relationship in mind which you would like to change (if you're really brave, bring the other person, too). If you don't have one relationship in mind, this workshop will still be valuable in discovering your own patterns across relationships.
Maximum group size for this workshop is 15.
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Q: set variable different time interval in set interval i have a function named checkInactivity i want to execute this function in variable time interval . i am fetching the time interval getInactiveTimePeriod and is tored in variable timeInMilliseconds. this varibale (timeInMilliseconds) holds different timings in each time its a value selected from database. i want to run the function checkInactivity with this variable time time interval ie depends on the value of timeInMilliseconds.
Please help me to solve this. Thank you in advance.
window.setInterval(function() {
    setInactiveMode();
    setInactiveTimePeriod();
    getInactiveTimePeriod();
 } , 100000);

 var applicationsopend = [];
 var applicationTabId = {};
 var timeInseconds;

 function getInactiveTimePeriod() {
    chrome.storage.local.get("user_inactive_time", function (obj) {
        timeInMinuts = obj.user_inactive_time;
        timeInMilliseconds = timeInMinuts *(60000);
        setTimeout(() => {
            checkInactivity();
        }, timeInMilliseconds);

    });
 }

// getInactiveTimePeriod();

 function checkInactivity() {
    chrome.storage.local.get("user_inactive_mode", function (obj) {
        inactiveStatusMode = obj.user_inactive_mode;
        if(inactiveStatusMode == 'true') {
            var timeInseconds = timeInMilliseconds / 1000;
            chrome.idle.queryState(timeInseconds, function (state) {
                if (state === "active") {
                    chrome.storage.local.get( "appList", function (obj) {
                        appList = obj.appList.split(",");
                        var queryInfo = {
                            // active: false,
                        currentWindow: false
                        };
                        chrome.tabs.query(queryInfo, function (tabs) {
                            for (var i = 0; i < tabs.length; i++) {
                                var taburl = tabs[i]['url'];
                                currentApp = findApp(taburl);
                                currentHashUrl = CryptoJS.SHA1(currentApp).toString(CryptoJS.enc.Hex);
                                if($.inArray(currentHashUrl, appList) != -1 && currentApp != 'onionid' ) {
                                    var tabid = tabs[i]['id'];
                                    currentApp = findApp(taburl);
                                    applicationTabId[currentApp] = tabid;
                                }
                            }
                            //console.log(applicationTabId);
                            getapplicationlogouturl(applicationTabId);
                        });
                    });
                }
            });
        }
    });
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A: Once you've retrieved the time you want to use for interval, use setInterval() to call the function indefinately every given milliseconds:
function getInactiveTimePeriod() {
    chrome.storage.local.get("user_inactive_time", function (obj) {
        let timeInMinutes = obj.user_inactive_time;
        let timeInMilliseconds = timeInMinutes * (60000);
        setInterval(() => {
            checkInactivity();
        }, timeInMilliseconds);
    });
}

Note that if you want to use this value in some other place, it should be declared in the higher scope:
// global declaration
var timeInMilliseconds;

function getInactiveTimePeriod() {
    chrome.storage.local.get("user_inactive_time", function (obj) {
        let timeInMinutes = obj.user_inactive_time;
        timeInMilliseconds = timeInMinutes * (60000); // setting the globally declared variable
        setInterval(() => {
            checkInactivity();
        }, timeInMilliseconds);
    });
}

function checkInactivity() {
    var timeInseconds = timeInMilliseconds / 1000; // use the globally declared variable

    // ...
}

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This song is about Tanabata, which happens to be one of my favourite Asian folktales. It's the tale of Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair), lovers who are separated by the Milky Way Galaxy and are able to meet once a year, on - you guessed it - July 7th.
Isshi also wrote a story using a similar theme, though the date is different.


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Hurricane Larry Threatens Bermuda—Newfoundland
Sep 8, 2021 | News, Tropical Cyclone
Hurricane Larry would cover the southeast from Tennessee to the Gulf of Mexico and to North Carolina through Florida. NOAA Satellite Image on September 8, 2021.
12th Atlantic Hurricane Season Storm Brings Rip Currents & High Surf to East Coast
Update September 10, 2021: Hurricane Larry will move over eastern Newfoundland tonight while it transitions to a post-tropical hurricane. Hurricane Warnings in effect from Placentia Bay east to St. Johns to points north and west to Big Island. Storm Surge Warnings most of eastern Newfoundland. Tropical storm warnings in effect for areas west of the Hurricane Warning.
September 8, 2021: Hurricane Larry is a large, powerful hurricane located over the central Atlantic. It developed into Depression 12 on August 31 from a tropical wave that emerged from the coast of Africa. Larry continued to organize and grow and by September 1 became the twelfth named storm of the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season as Tropical Storm Larry. The storm moved west by northwest for the next twenty-four hours and gained strength. By early morning on September 2, the National Hurricane Center upgraded Larry to a hurricane.
Larry continued to strengthen and was forecast to become a major hurricane as it turned more to the northwest on September 3. The islands of Bermuda appeared directly on its path or within the cone of probability. Large, dangerous swells and rip currents are forecast to affect the Caribbean from the Lesser Antilles through the Bahamas, the East Coast, and Bermuda.
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The hurricane reached its maximum intensity late in the afternoon on September 4 at 130 MPH, a Category 3 major hurricane. It's large size remains a concern as it continues to turn northwest by north.
Currently, Hurricane Larry has sustained winds of 110 MPH. The forecast track makes a sharp turn from Northwest to Northeast just north of Bermuda. Though Larry will pass to the east of Bermuda, the storm's size will bring Tropical Storm force winds to the islands and a Tropical Storm warning is in effect. Tropical Storm force winds extend up to 185 miles from the center, making Larry the largest storm of the season so far, but not the strongest.
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Late Friday, September 10, Larry will probably make landfall at, or brush by, Newfoundland while it transitions from a hurricane to a post-tropical hurricane. The risk of high winds, rainfall, and storm surge will grow over the next 48 hours. Residents in Newfoundland should monitor the storm and heed the advice from local officials. Widespread power outages are expected.
Here is Hurricane Larry from @Space_Station yesterday. Hoping this one doesn't make landfall. pic.twitter.com/I0PwrX858v
— Megan McArthur (@Astro_Megan) September 5, 2021
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Tropical Storm Mindy Forms Off Florida Panhandle
Tropical storm warnings Issued for portions of the Florida Panhandle as Tropical Storm Mindy approaches the coast. Mindy formed just offshore and is expected to pass over Florida and Georgiatonight and tomorrow morning and emerge over the Atlantic on Thursday. NHC Graphic Image.
Tropical Storm Minday will reach Florida this evening and the National Hurricane Center has issued Tropical Storm Warnings for the Florida Gulf Coast. Mindy is the thirteenth named storm of the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season is Mindy. There are eight more names on the list for 2021 and more than two and a half months left in the season.
Mindy will pass across the panhandle and Georgia tonight and emerge over the Atlantic on Thursday. Warm ocean waters over the Atlantic will give it a small chance for further development as it moves east away from the coast as a tropical depression.
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Mindy has maximum sustained winds of 40 MPH. It is moving northeast at 21 MPH.
Another disturbance is moving over the Western Gulf of Mexico. At this time, it has a low chance of development, but that could change early next week.
Near the coast of Africa and the Cabo Verde Islands, another area of interest has a low chance for development over the next few days and the weekend. Once the system moves off the coast, the forecast may change for this area with little wind shear and high Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs).
Tropical Storm #Mindy has formed in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico - the 13th named storm of the 2021 Atlantic #hurricane season to date. The average (1991-2020) date for the 13th Atlantic named storm formation is 24 October. pic.twitter.com/REO4x50XlY
— Philip Klotzbach (@philklotzbach) September 8, 2021
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Tropical Storm Mindy formed on Wednesday just off the Florida Coast and was included in the 4:00 PM NHC Advisory. Mindy will cross Florida and Georgia tonight as a Tropical Depression and go east away from the coast once over the Atlantic. NHC Graphic.
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Every system will be different. Look for the unique strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The boundary of the ecosystem you choose to map can either be very specific, such as the talent ecosystem in an organisation or industry, or very broad as in a community or a region.
Understand what currently exists, as well as what works and why. Look to identify particular aspects of the system to help explain the more general system. Look for ways you can make the ecosystem flourish, what levers might you pull. Ask those in the system what they think might work.
Consider the future, where gaps and surpluses might exist in five/ten/twenty years' time.
Hayden Glass speaks about mapping the ecosystem during the launch of the TalentNZ Menu of Initiatives on 11 June 2014.
This regular gathering of start-up entrepreneurs recently undertook a 'start-up mapping' exercise to chart the entrepreneur community in Louisville, and to envision how it might develop in the future. Key to this process was brainstorming practical and deliverable solutions for problems commonly encountered by start-ups in the city.
OpenAxel is an EU initiative that aims to map all the European acceleration services providers that can help emerging startups and SMEs in Europe. Additionally, OpenAxel will work in bridging the gap between industry and entrepreneurs, connecting emerging talent with business partners and digital corporations. On top of this, the top 18 European startups will be selected through two contests and will be awarded with a wide range of prizes that will boost their status.
Effat University has produced a series of maps of Saudi Arabia's 'entrepreneurship ecosystem'. These demonstrate how institutions, regulation and business strategy currently work to support or undermine entrepreneurs across the country, and suggest how the talent environment could be improved.


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Regional Experts Recommend Ways to Protect the Texas Hill Country While Supporting State Growth
Posted by admin | Jan 21, 2016
AUSTIN, Texas — New strategies for protecting the Texas Hill Country came out of a recently published study by regional planning experts and graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. The study addresses threats to water resources, scenic beauty and cultural heritage in the face of rapid population growth in the region.
"Toward a Regional Plan for the Texas Hill Country"
The Texas Hill Country is one of the fastest growing regions in the nation. The study recognizes that both rural communities and urban populations face economic, social and environmental challenges when more land and resources are consumed further and further west of the Interstate 35 corridor and beyond the city limits of Hill Country municipalities.
UT Austin visiting professor Robert Yaro, the former president of New York's Regional Plan Association and a University of Pennsylvania professor, led the project supported by 12 University of Texas students working toward Master of Science degrees in community and regional planning. The team drew upon local expertise, original research and analysis, national case studies, and regional discussions to craft the following recommendations:
Establish a Hill Country Endowment to finance land conservation and infrastructure investments.
Identify areas most suitable for growth and landscapes most suitable for conservation through suitability mapping and community input.
Map desired urban utility boundaries and secure an agreement among local governments to respect those boundaries.
Modify current land development policies and practices so that development maintains the scenic, historical and environmental values of the Hill Country.
Establish a Hill Country Trinity Water Conservation Area to manage groundwater in the Trinity Aquifer.
"If it were anywhere else in the country, the Texas Hill Country would be a national park," said Fritz Steiner, dean of UT Austin's School of Architecture, who also worked on the project along with co-instructors Meg Merritt and Jane Winslow. "It was an unparalleled experience for our students, and I expect that their work will inform future policy and practice to protect and preserve this beautiful part of Texas."
The team recommends near-term strategies such as building support for model land development guidelines and establishing metrics to track the well-being of the region's communities and environment. Medium- and long-term strategies recommended in the report include public investments in passenger rail and bus systems throughout the Austin-San Antonio corridor, leveraging the resulting economic development to offset the cost of preservation efforts across the region. Fuller descriptions of these and other recommended strategies can be found in the report.
"The future of the Hill Country and the Austin-San Antonio corridor are inextricably linked. Unless the water resources and natural systems of the Hill Country are protected, the economic potential and well-being of these big metro areas will be placed at risk," Yaro said.
Christy Muse, executive director of the Hill Country Alliance, an organization that works to build community engagement and awareness of the need to protect the resources and heritage of the area, said, "We have some of the most environmentally sensitive areas in the country west of I-35, and they are being threatened by suburban sprawl. Unmanaged growth from the larger cities is increasing pressure on our water resources, our aquifers and springs, and could destroy the cultural lifestyle of our small-town communities and heritage ranchlands."
Funding for the Hill Country Planning Studio came from the Hill Country Alliance; the UT Austin School of Architecture; and Deedie and Rusty Rose of Dallas, who created the Potter Rose Professorship held by Robert Yaro.
For more information, contact: Kim Berger, University Communications, 512-475-7847; Katherine Romans, Hill Country Alliance, 512-410-9368.
The Hill Country Alliance is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to raise public awareness and build community support around the need to preserve the natural resources and heritage of the Central Texas Hill Country. Visit us at www.hillcountryalliance.org.


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Brand: Motorola
Released Released 2018, June
Display 6.01" 1080x2160 pixels
Motorola Moto Z3 Play - Full Specifications and Price in Bangladesh
Status Available. Released 2018, June
4G bands It is the 4th generation mobile data communication technology. LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 28(700)
Speed HSPA, LTE
Build Describes the construction materials, methods and finishes used by the manufacturer when building a phone. Front/back glass (Gorilla Glass 3), aluminum frame (6000 series)
SIM A subscriber identity module or subscriber identification module, widely known as a SIM Card. Single SIM (Nano-SIM) or Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)
- Splash and dust resistant
Type Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Resolution Display Resolution is the measuring way of how much pixels does a display contain. 1080 x 2160 pixels, 18:9 ratio (~402 ppi density)
Protection Gorilla Glass 3
OS Operating System (OS) is the basic structural software which helps other application software to install/run/execute on it. Android 8.1 (Oreo), planned upgrade to Android 9.0 (Pie)
Chipset It's the mobile system, a chipset is a set of electronic components in an integrated circuit. Qualcomm SDM636 Snapdragon 636 (14 nm)
CPU CPU (Central Processing Unit) - otherwise known as a processor is an electronic circuit that can execute mobile phone programs. Octa-core 1.8 GHz Kryo 260
Internal Internal memory is the memory available on board (chip or motherboard) which is given while manufacturing at the factory. 32/64/128 GB
RAM Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of computer data storage that stores data and machine code currently being used. 4/6 GB
Primary camera 12 MP, f/1.7, 1/2.55", 1.4µm, dual pixel PDAF
Secondary camera 8 MP, f/2.0, 1/4", 24mm (wide), 1.12µm
Features Dual-LED dual-tone flash, panorama
Video [email protected], [email protected]/60fps
Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
3.5mm jack A common connector for plugging in audio output or input. No
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- Type-C to 3.5 mm headphone jack adapter
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is a method of distributing data wirelessly to a local area network practically to the internet. Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, WiFi Direct, hotspot
Bluetooth Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices. 5.0, A2DP, EDR, LE, aptX
GPS GPS (Global Positioning System) originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system. Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS
USB USB is a standard for a wired connection between two electronic devices, including a mobile phone and a desktop computer. 3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, magnetic connector, USB On-The-Go
Sensors A sensor is a device, module, or subsystem whose purpose is to detect events or changes in its environment and send the information to other electronics. Fingerprint (side-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
Messaging SMS (short message service) is a text messaging service component of most telephone, internet, and mobile-device systems. SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Battery type A Lithium Polymer (Li-Po) battery has a polymer cathode and a solid electrolyte, while Lithium Ion (Li-Ion) has a carbon cathode and a liquid electrolyte. Non-removable Li-Ion
Battery capacity The unit of capacity is milliamp hours (mAh), which means 3000mAh can be put on the battery to discharge it in one hour. 3000 mAh battery
Color Deep Indigo, Onyx Black (128/6GB only)
Other Features Fast battery charging 15W
- MP3/AAC+/WAV/Flac player
- MP4/H.265 player
- Photo/video editor
- Document viewer
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Effects Of Leadership Styles On The Performance Of Selected Pentecostal Churches In The Buea MunicipalityPHCS2022-01-28T06:43:52+00:00
EFFECTS OF LEADERSHIP STYLES ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SELECTED PENTECOSTAL CHURCHES IN THE BUEA MUNICIPALITY
Leadership styles used in an organization is an important aspect in obtaining desired outcome. This study examines the Transformational and Servant leadership styles and their effects on the Pentecostal church family in the Buea municipality.
A quantitative and qualitative survey of six Pentecostal churches in Buea with similar, ideology, belief system, organisational structure and operational systems were employed. Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) Form of five Likert Scale and Binary scale were used to determine their perceived leadership styles and performance.
A Sample size of 248 purposively selected members and leaders was used. The Ordinary Least Square technique was used to test hypothesis. However, the results of this study reveal that Transformational Leadership Style has a superior positive significance on performance over the Servant Leadership Style on the Pentecostal churches in Buea.
This research therefore proposes that in order to achieve maximum performance in the Pentecostal churches, leaders should do a microscopic check on the leadership style they intern to use.
Leadership has been defined as the process of influencing the thoughts, emotions and behaviours of followers towards a particular goal (David, 2012). Many theorists such as Blake, Gregory, Carlyle, Greenleaf and more have sought to know its source and how best a leader can perform. On this note, behavioural theorists, trait theorists, contingency theorists and visionary theorists came up, each trying to place leadership in a context, in a bit to achieve laid out organisational goals.
These schools of thought examine leadership in different perspectives which can be categorized under goal-oriented and member-oriented in the general sense of organisational leadership. In recent years, quality leadership is increasingly being identified as a progressive indicator related to the function and sustainability of business organisations (Victor J, 2008).
Hence, there has been increase wealth of knowledge and investigation on leadership styles, leadership qualities and traits for better efficiency, effectiveness of leaders to gain better performance (Etta, 2011).
In today's dynamic and global environment, there is growing evidence to suggest that organisations now recognise that leadership styles have effects on organisational outcomes (Avolio, et al, 2009) as cited in (Fokam, 2016). Notable persons in world's leadership history like Martin Luther Kings and Jr, Pope Francis, Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill, and more were all leaders whose value systems, leadership abilities and styles were impactful in different ways (Fokam, 2016).
Leadership in Cameroon at large and Organisations specifically, suffer from a number of crisis. This can be more understood as put 'The trouble with Cameroon is simply a failure of leadership" (Vakunta, 2012). The failure of leadership is not the absence of leaders but the inability of leaders to apply their artistic and scientific skills in order to achieve expected outcome within a specific time frame.
Words written by a man thirty decades ago, keeps ringing as Manske (1987) says My study of leadership confirms that, numerous leadership styles have been introduced with each style as a function of the context of the organisation and its goals.
Cameroonians lead in all spheres: political, business, academics, and more. Leadership styles also vary with organisational type, structure, goals, challenges, and personal interest (Manske, 2009). His words are in agreement with Wright who says the activity of leadership cannot be carried out without followers to lead ; what leaders do is to influence the behaviour, beliefs and feelings of group members in an intended direction (Wright et al,1994).
This operated in Cameroon beginning from her colonial masters the French and British before 1961, to our former president Ahidjo and now our current president Paul Biya. Thus, leaders at all levels use different styles to lead their followers thereby obtaining different outcome. The fluctuating performance of organisations has actually led to assessment of leadership styles in organisations.
The church in Cameroon is historically shared into Catholic (mostly French speaking population of southern and western parts) and Protestants and Pentecostal (mostly the English speaking population of western region) Fatokun (2016). He further explains that, there are presently hundreds of Pentecostal congregations, groups and churches in Cameroon recently pioneered by cross-bordered evangelists from Nigeria. An example is the Apostolic church created in 1916 with branches present in almost all the regions of Cameroon.
The South West Region is one of the Anglophone speaking sections in Cameroon with numerous churches made up of Christians. Only a few Mosque exist in Buea due to the little populations Moslims occupy over Christians in this region.
The Christians in the South West Region are members of either Catholic, Prostestant or Pentecostal churches. In Buea, being a metropolitan city, there is an observable increase the number of Pentecostal churches. These Pentecostal churches are of different sizes, belief systems, Structures, practice different leadership styles and are located in different parts of Buea. A few of these parts are Molyko, Bokwango, Mile 16, Muea, Bonduma, Clerks Quarters and more.
Leadership in the Pentecostal churches has as goal to perform in accordance to the Biblical standard of 'Christ-like' nature with the goal of going to heaven at 'rapture' or at the end of life on the earth. It is generally believed that the Christ has a particular way of life acceptable by Christians through the bible which indicates the Christian's standard for Christian living and performing on earth, before death or rapture.
Despite this heavenly consciousness, leadership in the Pentecostal church is not very different from secular/corporate leadership. The church as an organization, has not escaped such disturbing organisational experience of fluctuating performance as a result of leadership styles. This is due to the fact that the Church is equally God's business (Luke 2:49) and operates as a Business Organisation.
Dag (2003) affirms in his writings that as a result of the strife for better performance, leadership in the church like management has been grouped into three levels, namely; the top, middle and low although the application of these levels is dependent on the size of the church.
Fatokun further explains the spiritual state of the South West Region is that 'Pentecostalism has rapidly increased in the western region within the years as more people now look unto God for their health, Spiritual, financial sustainability especially with the message of life after death'(Fatokun,2016).
Leadership in the church is sourced from the Bible (Gen1:26-28) where God blessed man and said be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air and every creation that crawls on the earth. This implies that the expected performance of 'be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth should be attained. After God had blessed man, he gave him the responsibility of leadership over the fishes, birds etc. The expected performances were fruitfulness, multiplication, expansion.
From the bible, we can deduce some aspects of leadership style incorporated in the Church setting to meet up God's numerical and spiritual expectations from the Church. In verse 26, God said 'let us make man in our own image…' that is supposed to mean democratic leadership style. In Acts 6: 2 – 5, servant leadership style is used. This can be seen in the apostle's words
"then the twelve summoned the whole company of the disciples and said, it will not be right for us to give up preaching about God to wait on tables. Therefore, select from among you seven men of good report, full of the spirit and wisdom whom we can appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayers and the preaching ministry". so they selected Stephen and six others.
The leadership styles incorporated in the Pentecostal churches have been fragmented to fit the goals and objectives of the churches as the case may be in some organisations. Transformational and Servant Leadership styles by observation, are the most commonly practiced styles in the churches in Buea as also taught in seminars.
An example of such seminar is Feast of Esther (2016) attended by the researcher. These styles are preferred to others because of the vision of the church to transform people from worldliness to Godliness. Also, it is believed that Jesus took the form of a servant to serve his disciples (followers) despite being their leader .
Consequently, the variability in performance as a result of varied leadership styles exist in our present day churches Munroe (2008). As a result, leaders in the church at all levels are expected to use their spiritual, artistic and scientific skills to render services in order to obtain optimum performance Munroe (2008).
An example is the Full Gospel Mission Cameroon that has been functional for over 57years and has obtained varying performances in their different churches (FGM archives, 2020). Another is the Apostolic church that has existed for 104years with different outcomes at different places and different time periods (Fatokun, 2016).
Although, much literature has been reviewed on leadership and how it affects performances, little has been examined on the extent to which these leadership styles affect the performance of the Pentecostal Church organisation.
Munroe (2011) asserts that 'leaders are those who accept or are placed on extraordinary circumstances which bring forth their latent spiritual potentials, that produce results in the organisation and their followers.' The Pentecostal church has experienced a variation in performance as a result of the different leadership styles used to lead the churches.
True is the contingency theory that advocates for the fact that no single leadership style is best as "one shoe can't fit all sizes," but necessity demands that proper evaluation be done on these leadership styles to identify their varied performances especially in the pentecostal church setting.
It is the absence of this proper evaluation of leadership styles in relation to performance that has led to continuous inconsistencies in the performances of pentecostal churches. In addition, this study has identified the problem of failure to identify the significant differences in the performances obtained by the different leadership styles practiced by the Pentecostal church leaders in Buea.
Van (2013) confirms that 'The performance of organizations will continue fluctuating and may be deteriorating because of the kind of leadership that operates in them.' In effect, some leadership styles, have had an important role in the Performance of the Pentecostal churches in Buea. This actually affirms what Van (2014) further mentions that 'typical customers will gradually deteriorate if leadership in organisations are not assessed'.
A proper view of problem can be traced as far back as 2009. A decade past, in Buea, it was announced over the Revival gospel radio during the slot' Speak to the man in the mirror' that the rate of customer attrition was at arithmetic progression and leaders were called upon to rescue their members (customers) by coming to learn from a leadership program hosted by Bishop Tembi at the Revival Ministries Molyko. The objective of this programme was to help leaders with the right information and knowledge needed to improve on the numerical and spiritual performance of their churches.
Despite the efforts made by church leaders such as Bishop Tembi, Pastor Kobi, Pastor Ngwamesia and more from different denominations, the numerical performance of the churches were not progressive and Christians were not living as Christ stipulates the Christian lifestyle should be in the society (as reported by bishop Tembi over the Revival Gospel Radio, 2009).
Moreso, members of churches were migrating to other churches with the excuse of 'I don't like the way I was treated in the other church and not long after, they moved again to a different church and kept moving with their lives not reflecting Christ in humility, faithfulness, trust, and more. Thereby increasing godlessness and spiritual weakness as some members ended up not attending church services while others became less committed in the churches they attended.
This disturbing challenge was expressed by pastors in attendance, says Bishop Tembi over the Rivival Gospel Radio (2009). It is a problem as Apostle Johnson Suleman also says in one of his march edition of minister without blemish that 'Members do not leave churches, they leave leaders. Otherwise, they will not leave one church for another (Suleman, 2019).
To this effect, an Interdenominational Pastors Association was formed and led by Rev. Samba to assist each other in realizing God's objective for the church (Pastor's Forum achives, 2019).In 2016,after the creation of pastors forum, female pastors and pastors wives also organized a forum named 'Arise and Shine Lady pastors and pastors wives forum' to train female leaders.
In spite of all attempts of evangelism, corporate prayers, Seminars, such as Feast of Esther(2016) with title 'Re-visiting Leadership', to curb the situation of deteriorating performances in the Pentecostal churches in Buea, the situation has not been improved within the years.
In whole, looking at the growing challenges in the Pentecostal church, Leadership in the church has been more like 'Placing a square peg in a round hole'(Smith, 1986). Hence, the researcher has identified the problem of misappropriation of leadership styles.
Therefore, assessing these leadership styles will enable us identify the cause of negative variation in the Performance of the Pentecostal churches in Buea. This Investigation gives rise to the questions below:
1.3.1 Main Research Question
The main research question is; what is the effect of Leadership styles on the Performance of Pentecostal churches in the Buea municipality?
1.3.2 Specific Research Questions
The specific research questions include:
To what extent does Transformational leadership style affect the Performance of Pentecostal churches in Buea?
To what extent does Servant leadership style affect Performance of the Pentecostal churches in Buea?
What is the extent to which the Performance of transformational leadership style differ from that of servant leadership style in the Pentecostal churches in Buea?
What are the Challenges leaders in Pentecostal churches face as they strive to improve on the Performance of their churches?
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Tricia Nolan owner of Trisha's Tunes Karaoke.
Tricia has been singing in bars for years, however, long before her DJ business even existed, she was a real estate appraiser. Tricia Nolan has always been an entrepreneur, but when the recession hit, the housing market took a toll, and Tricia could see a decline in her real estate business.
"I thought, what else can I do? What else do I know how to do except sing and I don't wanna be in a band so…I started my own karaoke business," Nolan said.
Little by little, Nolan purchased DJ equipment, and began building her karaoke business. She collected most of her karaoke songs from a good friend, who at the time, already had a karaoke business. A tremendous amount of time and effort went into putting song books together and calling around bars and clubs for gigs to get her business started.
One of her first gigs was at a restaurant/bar in Eldersburg, MD., called Luna Rosas. As the pieces started falling into place, Nolan began booking more gigs, and she eventually purchased a laptop. After going digital with her karaoke music, Nolan said goodbye to her CD's and CDG's. For the past three years, Tricia's Tunes Karaoke has made a name for itself, gathering quite a crowd of karaoke singers. Nolan has sung karaoke in Hawaii, NJ., Conn., Ocean City, and even in Alcapoko, Mexico.
Tricia's Tunes at Luna Rosas.
"I won a contest in Mexico," Nolan said.
Nolan had won second place in Mexico at a karaoke contest. She has also performed with bands, including the popular Florida rock band, The Joe Cullutti Band, at Lou's Blues in Melbourne Beach, FL. Nolan has even traveled as far as Nashville, TN., to try her luck in the Music City.
Lou's Blues in Melbourne Beach, Fl.
Nolan's warm smile and charismatic personality has won over a huge fan base of karaoke-goers in Carroll County, MD. and Hanover, PA. Her routine gigs include the Moose in Reiserstown, MD., The Colosseum in Hanover, PA., The Eagles in Littlestown, PA., and in the summertime, she performs at a kids day camp in Carroll County, MD. Nolan DJ's at weddings and private parties. She also does trivia shows; including fun questions and trivial games that can be played for prizes.
Nolan's latest and most exciting DJ gig is the Colosseum in PA. The bar is holding a karaoke contest with a prize of one-hundred dollars for first place, and a 50 dollar prize for second. The karaoke contest starts at 9 p.m. and runs till 1 a.m. every Wednesday night. The contest runs for ten weeks, where the owner and bartender of the restaurant will pick two contestants each night, to compete in the finals.
Tricia and Friends.
Tricia Nolan's husband, James, is also a musician. His band, "Night Fall," plays modern to classic rock, and Top-40 Hits. "Night Fall" performs out in the Baltimore County area. Some have their gigs have included Belisimo's in Finksburg, MD. and The Moose in Reiserstown, MD.
Nolan is a people person and loves what she does. You will always see her smiling, and may always catch her singing a tune, whether it be at the gym, on a car ride to Nashville, or in her house practising some new karaoke songs! Tricia and I have been singing together since I was 18-years-old, and I'm sure we will be singing for a long time. Our next adventure will be singing karaoke in Vegas and California!
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Still in San Antonio, Northern Samar.
I woke up early today - as I usually do during my roams.
05:39AM, I was out on the water's edge, just curious of what might I see at such a lovely quiet morning on this 'off-the-beaten-path' western part of the island. Yes, it is still summer, and while the sun slowly inched its way up from the east, it was already unmistakably daylight!
I heard some movement beyond the resort's right end. Cute, it was a horse seemingly at play tapping on the sea water as it moved to a deeper portion guided by its master. I was too late to capture that moment on my cam. But, I still 'sleepily' went to the resorts perimeter edge, to watch the "spectacle'.
In the stillness of the morning, amidst softly lapping waves, with only forest crickets (or whatever those are) as background music... I saw this man guiding his horse out to the sea for a bath.
06:08AM, horse already fresh from a bath and eating, puppy still sleepy hehehe!
I loved this morning find!
Nice! It looks so peaceful there.


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India supports Dearman Engine
Support for the Dearman Engine liquid air technology as a solution to the challenges of postharvest food losses and air pollution gained prominence recently, following events in both the UK and India.
This began with a call for urgent attention to cold chain development, discussed at the two-day Clean and Cool Summit on June 30 and July 1 in London, organised by the Liquid Air Energy Network (LAEN) and hosted by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). Alongside the Summit, the IMechE's Head of Energy and Environment, Dr. Tim Fox, launched the Institution's latest report, A Tank of Cold: Cleantech Leapfrog to a More Food Secure World.
The report explains how, in developing countries like India, up to 50% of perishable food is lost before ever reaching a plate because cold chains are rudimentary or non-existent. Dr. Fox, the lead author, stated, "One in eight people on the planet goes to bed hungry every night. That shocking fact is made worse when you consider that a third to a half of the food produced globally is never eaten."
Where cold chains are developing – in megacities such as Beijing and Delhi – the delivery component is powered by highly polluting diesel transport refrigeration units (TRUs), which contribute to chronic and toxic smog. Outdoor pollution has caused 600,000 premature deaths in India in a single year.
At the Summit, delegates including government officials from India, Malaysia and Tanzania, multinationals and academics discussed the next steps towards the creation of a joined-up 'cold economy.'
In particular, the Tanzania Horticultural Association commended the work done by the Dearman Engine Company and stated their desire to partner with Dearman on an eco-friendly solution for transport refrigeration.
According to Eric Trachtenberg, Director of Food & Agriculture at McLarty Associates, studies of Tanzania have shown that using liquid air in the transport of passion fruit in the country could halve the cost of the refrigeration system. Trachtenberg commented, "Liquid air technologies will make it cheaper to make the necessary expansions in the cold chain" and Jacqueline Mkindi of the Tanzania Horticultural Association added "the majority of farmers are small farmers and liquid air can help them. The Dearman engine could transform prospects in Africa."
The 'need for clean' was a strong theme across the event. One of the key statistics quoted in the report was that diesel-powered TRUs emit 29 times the amount of particulate matter (PM) as the primary engine of a modern diesel truck. Eric Trachtenberg highlighted how liquid air uses fewer resources, could reduce PM and NOx emissions, offer more reliable energy access in countries where grid-based power can be unreliable, and offer better price stability too.
Toby Peters, Senior Group Managing Director of the Dearman Engine Company, has been invited to present the technology to industrial leaders and government officials in a special seminar at the British High Commission in Pune in December. He said, "On the evidence of the presentations given at the Summit and our meetings in India, demand for liquid air technologies from developing countries would far exceed the demand from within the UK. As well as supporting cold chain development in countries like India this has a real benefit for UK PLC, with the potential of even more British jobs."
"We know that the Dearman engine and liquid air are exciting and important options for developing cold chains around the world, but this recent support is exactly the validation we need. As the Dearman engine undergoes on-vehicle testing this summer, we will be working hard over the coming months to ensure the technology is ready to go into manufacturing and into market."
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Former Ricardo Director joins Dearman
The Dearman Engine Company is strengthening its team as it prepares for its liquid-air engine to begin on-vehicle testing, with the recruitment of Nick Owen to the position of Chief Technology Officer.
Latest liquid air report released
A new report published today by the Liquid Air Energy Network, the Centre for Low Carbon Futures, and the University of Birmingham provides stark numbers about the potential benefits of using liquid air-powered refrigeration vehicles.
Dearman and Hubbard to collaborate
The Dearman Engine Company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Hubbard Products Ltd to manage the vehicle integration of the Dearman engine liquid air transport refrigeration system (TRU).


Jim is the Director of Client Services for Maintainn—the maintenance and support division of WebDevStudios. Starting out as a Project Manager within the company back in 2016, Jim was soon promoted to his current role and was very honored to be selected for the challenging opportunity of ensuring client success as a mission for Maintainn.
From business strategy and marketing, to sales and account management, to team building and development, Jim's role carries a myriad of responsibilities but he wouldn't have it any other way. Creating strong, lasting relationships through communication, understanding and an emphasis on value is Jim's primary focus. Not only does he apply this policy for Maintainn's clients, but he also practices this in leading his team of project managers, support engineers and support technicians as well.
Before joining the team at WebDevStudios, Jim held project management positions within the healthcare and aerospace industries and worked with clients and project teams across the United States and internationally. Prior to his tenure as a project manager, Jim studied and worked as a photojournalist and still enjoys framing and capturing the moment whenever he has a camera in hand.
I guess you could say I've always had a service-oriented nature and background. My first job as a young teenager was working for my dad in an automotive repair shop he started and owned for over two decades. It was through this experience I was able to learn the value of hard, knuckle busting work while at the same time getting firsthand lessons on leadership through the lens of watching how my dad balanced running a business, developing new and repeat client relationships and ensuring a safe, healthy work environment for his employees. I'm very fortunate to have a role model like him in my life, and I strive to follow in his footsteps throughout my career and as a father to my own teenage son.


Sometimes, we learn more from our mistakes than our successes. Like that time that we found out the next-door neighbor's cat does not like tummy scritches. Or that time that a couple of guys accidentally upended some of the fundamental laws of physics. The Michelson-Morley experiment was supposed to be a piece of cake, but instead, it changed basically everything.
At the dawn of the 19th century, scientists were undecided about whether light was a wave or a particle. In 1801, a physicist named Thomas Young (apparently) settled the debate once and for all with the famous double-slit experiment. By shining a light through two slits cut into a notecard aimed at a wall, Young produced a barcode-like pattern of dark and light bars. If the light source was simply producing a stream of particles, it would have resulted in two slit-shaped patches instead. The pattern was a clear indication that waves were spreading out and interfering with each other.
But that posed a problem, since every known wave — sound, water, stadium crowds — needed some sort of medium to wave through. Since light clearly travels to Earth from the sun, not to mention from the stars and planets, physicists determined that there must be some substance pervading the universe. They called this substance "ether" (sometimes "aether") and decided it required a number of strange properties. It would have to be something that could be found literally everywhere, but that wouldn't interact with physical matter at all. (Sound a bit like dark matter? Here's why that's different.) By 1887, physicists like Albert Michelson and Edward Morley were convinced that ether only carried light waves, and they set out to design an experiment that would measure it once and for all.
To understand the Michelson-Morley experiment, you've got to understand the ether "wind." Think of the Earth like a car driving on a still, clear day. Even if there isn't any wind blowing, if you stick your hand out the window, you'll feel a powerful breeze. Similarly, the ether should be flowing over the planet's surface at a rate about equal to the speed of the Earth traveling through space.
To illustrate the experiment, imagine two swimmers taking a dip in a river that's 100 feet wide and flows at a rate of 3 feet per second. Both swimmers have a speed of 5 feet per second. The first one, Jacques, swims upstream 100 feet, then turns around and swims back downstream another 100 feet. Because he's going against the current on the first lap, he only goes 2 feet per second, but he makes up for it on the way back by traveling with the current to go 8 feet per second. That means he does the first 100 feet in 50 seconds, and the second 100 feet in only 12.5 seconds for a total of 62.5 seconds. The second swimmer, Sylvia, travels directly across the river, angling her swim to account for the flow of the river, then turns around and swims back to her starting point. Unlike Jacques, her rate will remain steady — the math shakes out to 4 feet per second. Therefore, it takes her 25 seconds to make both 100-foot journeys, for a total of 50 seconds. Sylvia wins.
Imagine that one of these light beams is Jacques and one is Sylvia. If Michelson's and Morley's hypothesis about ether was correct, currents in the "water" would have led them to travel at slightly different rates, so they should strike the detector at slightly different times. Yet, over and over again, they'd arrive at exactly the same time. Something was fishy in the world of physics.
If you know a thing or two about 20th-century physics, you probably see where this is going. Michelson and Morley couldn't detect the influence of the ether on light because, of course, there is no ether. Yes, light is a wave, but it's also a particle. And it always travels at the same speed in a vacuum, no matter what direction you're traveling relative to its source. These are the foundations of Einstein's theories of general and special relativity, and the Michelson-Morley experiment is what laid the groundwork for the most influential scientific ideas of the past century. Without their failure to detect the ether, we never would have even realized there was a problem to be solved. It's just more evidence that science makes as much progress through its missteps as it does through its successes.
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If we ban fracking and new oil wells in SLO County, Sentinel Peak warns "eventually" we will lose jobs: "20-plus employees and more than 100 contract workers." What's even worse, we will lose money: "$1 million to the county's general fund" and "$64 million in economic input." Yipes!
If climate change is real, as the far-leftist U.S. Department of Defense seems to think (see its 2015 report "National Security Implications of Climate-related Risks and a Changing Climate"), Sentinel Peak is talking chump change: "[The Department of Defense] must consider the effects of climate change—such as sea level rise, shifting climate zones, and more frequent and intense severe weather events—and how these effects could impact national security."
What are some costs of continuing to extract and burn fossil fuels? The Northern California firestorm in October 2017 destroyed 8,900 buildings and cost more than $9.4 billion. Forty-four civilians died. Should deaths be factored in? Can we count wildlife? Consider the Santa Barbara mudslides six months ago—21 dead, at least $177 million of property damage, $7 million in emergency responses, and $43 million in cleanup costs. Right now, people are turning away from Yosemite. That's got to cost the tourism industry some bucks and jobs, right?
Who's going to burn next, Sentinel? Are you going to pay? I thought not. Vote yes on Measure G if you value our lives.


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Drones could be the next disruptive technology
Home Ideas Drones could be the next disruptive technology
In just a few short years, drones have gone from a part of the War on Terror to a consumer technology with the potential to disrupt a host of industries.
Perhaps the most high profile potential disruption is Amazon's desire to offer 30-minute delivery for online orders, but there are plenty of other examples. Real estate agents can use them to provide clients with perspective on properties. Insurance agencies can use them to survey the damage after a claim, particularly after catastrophic events when an area may not be safe for people. Land surveyors and construction firms can use drones to map jobsites or inspect structures. Farmers can spot troubled areas in their crops and deliver targeted treatment.
Plenty of entrepreneurs have seen the potential to create businesses out of drones, but the current Federal Aviation Administration regulations governing commercial uses limit what is possible, according to those with experience in the industry.
"Right now, the restriction that's keeping most of the business uses under wraps is line of sight," said Russ Klingaman, referring to an FAA restriction that requires commercial users to keep an eye on their drone while it's in the air.
Klingaman, a partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in Milwaukee, teaches an aviation law class every other year as an adjunct at Marquette University Law School. When he started teaching in 2007, there wasn't any mention of drones. In 2009, the class considered some of the implications of drone warfare. It wasn't until 2015, though, that drones became a mainstay in classroom discussion.
"We probably talked about drones for 15 or 20 minutes every time we'd meet," Klingaman said.
As interest in drones among hobbyists has exploded, so too has the level of interest in potential commercial activities. A 2013 forecast by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International estimated the drone industry would create more than 100,000 jobs and have $82 billion worth of economic impact in the United States between 2015 and 2025. That included $527 million and 665 jobs in Wisconsin.
The caveat was that the FAA needed to develop new regulations to integrate drones into the national airspace, with the authors calling it "perhaps the single most important aspect."
Current FAA limitations on commercial drone use include:
The drone must be operated by someone with at least a sport pilot license.
Cannot go more than 87 knots or 100 miles per hour.
Cannot go more than 400 feet above ground level.
Must be operated within visual line of sight of the pilot, unaided by anything but corrective lenses.
Must use a visual observer.
Cannot fly at night.
Cannot operate within five miles of an airport.
Cannot be operated from a moving device or vehicle.
Must remain at least 500 feet from all nonparticipating people, vehicles or structures, unless there is protection in place or the person had granted permission.
The FAA was supposed to have implemented a plan to integrate drones, also known as unmanned aerial systems (UAS) or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) into the national airspace system by Sept. 30, 2015. There are regulations in the works and a framework has emerged through an exemption process, but the actual deadline has passed without full integration.
Peter Menet, founder of Menet Aero, prepares to launch his drone.
"The UAS technology still has a long way to go until it's commercially viable," said Peter Menet, founder of Milwaukee-based drone services firm Menet Aero Inc. He said the industry could be five to 10 years from fully integrating into the national airspace.
Menet said the use of drones in business settings has been presented as if an employer could pick up a drone at Best Buy on the way home from work, hand it over to employees the next day and see cost savings and productivity improvement by the end of the week.
"The one thing you have to understand about the UAS industry is it's really kind of overhyped," Menet said.
It isn't that drones aren't already capable of performing a lot of tasks—Menet can collect high resolution data on 25 acres in just more than 15 minutes—but the regulatory environment limits what is possible and legal to do.
"You have to go into using a UAV with a very specific application or basically a knowledge of what you're going to get back," said Zach Fiene, a co-founder of Prairie du Sac-based DMZ Aerial.
Larry Harvey, Tailored Label Products marketing and communications manager, flies his drone inside one of the company's factories.
Larry Harvey, marketing and communications manager at Menomonee Falls-based Tailored Label Products Inc., uses his drone for internal marketing purposes and shoots video inside. That use changes which regulations apply. He considers himself part hobbyist and part business user.
"I think a business user has to go out and educate themselves about what is legal to do," Harvey said.
The drone gives him a unique view of the factory floor—one he wouldn't be able to otherwise achieve without hiring a film crew. The drone also serves as a great display item for how labels are used when school tours visit, Harvey said.
He noted that a lot has changed in the drone industry since he first took an interest in it five or six years ago. The first drone he purchased could barely go 10 feet off the ground and was more a toy than anything else.
Today, drones have features such as built-in takeoff and landing technology, GPS navigation and collision detection capabilities. Amazon sells thousands of drone-related products and has a special section dedicated to drone photography. Prices for the DJI Phantom drone series —one of the most popular—range from about $300 to $1,400. Others reach $3,000 or more. Accessories and other products, like extra batteries, only add to the cost.
An evolving regulatory environment
The explosion in drones available to consumers—the FAA expects 2.5 million to be sold in 2016—has left regulators scrambling to manage their integration into the national airspace. While hobbyists and private users generally get a pass, commercial users aren't able to operate without a specific exemption from the FAA.
"That word 'commercial' is very broadly interpreted by the FAA," Klingaman said. "If it's related to an enterprise that ends up doing any buying or selling of services, it's covered."
FAA administrator Michael Huerta recently said the goal is to have new regulations out this spring to allow for routine commercial operations with certain limitations. The FAA would then be able to stop issuing Section 333 exemptions—a reference to part of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012—on a case-by-case basis.
"In reality, the day you decide to do commercial services, you could be four to six months out from doing it legally," Fiene said.
More than 4,000 exemptions have been granted already. An AUVSI analysis of the first 1,000 exemptions granted by the FAA found just nine were granted to Wisconsin companies. California led the way with 114 exemptions, followed by Florida at 97 and Texas at 82. Illinois was fourth, with 35.
Klingaman said he's worried about how many people are operating commercially either without knowledge of the FAA regulations or by intentionally ignoring them.
"I think it's a big number; I have no idea," he said.
The Section 333 exemption gives users a path around rules treating drones as aircraft, but it also comes with a number of conditions and limitations. Many of the limitations have become standardized as the number of exemptions granted increases. One of them—requiring that the drone be operated by someone with at least a sport pilot license—limits who can operate a company's drone.
Russ Klingaman is an attorney specializing in aviation law and is a pilot himself.
While requiring commercial operators to have at least a sport pilot license may give users some skills they won't use with a drone, it is the best available proxy to ensure safety, Klingaman said.
"There's some overlap. That's critical; that's safety; that's the airspace," he said. "Where the accidents are going to happen is when somebody doesn't understand they're sharing the airspace."
Pilots have reported hundreds of relatively close calls with drones, including at least nine in Wisconsin from November 2014 to Jan. 31,2016.
Klingaman said he expects the pilot requirement will change to a license more applicable to drone operation in the future.
Other conditions limit speed to 100 mph and altitude to 400 feet above ground level, and prohibit flying at night. Flights also need to use a visual observer and cannot be done from a moving vehicle. In addition, drones have to stay at least five miles from an airport and 500 feet from all nonparticipating people, vehicles and structures.
"We thought once we had our exemption we would be given a lot more freedom than we have," said Jon Chapman, a project manager at Brookfield-based R.A. Smith National who heads up the company's UAV operations. "We probably walk away from more than half of the opportunities that are brought our way because of the limitations in the COA," which is a certificate of waiver or authorization that comes with an exemption.
The one big limitation is the requirement to keep the drone 500 feet from anyone not participating in its operation, he said.
Staying in R&D mode
R.A. Smith has done some commercial work, but Chapman said "we don't do nearly as much as we hope to." The integration has mainly been in the company's survey business, something Chapman knows companies in Europe and Asia have been doing for years.
"We see it as a mapping tool," he said, noting nearly all the flights the company undertakes are done with GPS guidance on a predetermined path.
Drones offer a unique perspective and can be used in land surveying.
"It actually has seemed to be a little easier than we thought it would be," Chapman said of operating the drone. He said it is easy to launch and use the device in the field and then to process the data.
Drones bring a technological and cost advantage to doing volumetric surveys, Chapman said, adding that a drone can quickly and cost effectively collect data to create a survey grade estimate of how much material is at a particular site. That means anywhere there are piles of material or product, including quarries, metal scrap yards or a construction site, the drone can give an accurate picture of how much needs to be moved.
R.A. Smith also uses drones for developing topographical maps of job sites. He said it works well in areas with limited vegetation, but the camera technology has trouble in areas with a lot of trees.
Chapman said there are some uses for drones when it comes to inspections for the company's structural engineering division. While the drone doesn't replace an inspector physically inspecting a bridge or other structure, it can be used to provide an overview and allow the inspector to find out which areas to focus on.
"It has been a great supplement," Chapman said, adding that there was some fear in the industry that drones would cost people their jobs. He said there are certainly situations where drones can make a process faster or safer, but the big employment disruption hasn't happened.
Drones have changed the landscape in a different way, though. Chapman said larger companies are increasingly finding themselves in competition with smaller firms for jobs that previously would have taken the staff of a large company.
"That is a reality in our business right now," he said. "We literally compete with them on projects."
Both Chapman and Eric Orthey, an innovation consultant at American Family Insurance in Madison, said their companies are largely still in a research and development mode when it comes to drones.
Drones can be used for surveying damage on insurance claims.
"The use of UAS provides us with a better picture of what our customers are facing in times of need," said Orthey, adding that the regulations prevent the company from taking full advantage of drones.
But Orthey also said if the regulations were suddenly lifted, there would still be challenges to widespread use throughout the company. One of the issues would be who controls the drone. If there weren't a requirement to use a licensed pilot, the company would likely train adjustors to operate them.
Orthey also said there is some work to be done on the batteries used for drones. Right now, flights are often limited to 20 or 25 minutes, which doesn't always leave time to accomplish everything needed for a claim.
The idea for insurance companies is to use drones to get access to damaged areas faster after a catastrophe in a safer way. Orthey said there is a negative connotation around drones in the industry. While the idea of an insurance company with the ability to easily get a view of a customer's home may be concerning for some, Orthey said American Family is focused on providing benefits.
"We're not utilizing this to create more concerns for our customers; we want to help them," he said.
American Family has used drones to inspect homes in rural areas after a claim. Orthey said the company asks the homeowner for permission to bring the drone if the home is in a safe location, adding that it gives American Family a chance to talk about its efforts to use the technology.
"As long as there's the transparency, people were less concerned about it," he said.
A December poll by Saint Leo University in Florida found nearly 75 percent of respondents nationally had concerns about the increasing number of drones in the airspace. Among those with concerns, almost two-thirds said personal privacy was an issue for them. A similar percentage said they wouldn't want their neighbor to have a drone, according to a January 2015 Reuters/Ipsos poll.
State regulation and privacy
While handling air safety falls within the FAA's purview, the privacy portion of regulation is left to state and local municipalities. A Wisconsin law enacted in 2014 prohibits using a drone to photograph a person where he or she "has a reasonable expectation privacy."
"If somebody isn't breaking the law, then drones aren't any more invasive than satellite technology," said state Rep. Adam Neylon (R-Pewaukee).
Neylon has been pushing his fellow lawmakers to take a wait-and-see approach to regulating drones, hoping it will help commercial uses develop.
"The general attitude (among lawmakers) is very fearful and cautious of the technology," Neylon said, adding that many regulators view drones more as a hobby than as something with the potential to change the way business is done.
Neylon said there is something to be said for having smart regulations, but added the United States is being passed by other countries when it comes to commercial drone uses. He recalled being in Turkey for a legislative cultural exchange last summer. While on a hot air balloon trip, someone flew a drone alongside to take a picture of the experience. The photo was available for purchase when he landed.
"That would have been illegal to do that in the United States," Neylon said.
He said many people view drones as something used for spying on people or as a weapon, not as a tool for inspecting a roof without going on a ladder, or for checking crops, or for helping utility companies do their work.
"It doesn't really matter if people are ready, because they're already here," Neylon said.
Drone entrepreneurs
Cousins Mitchell and Zach Fiene are among those making a go of it as drone entrepreneurs. The duo spent summers in college scouting crops for farmers. Days spent walking through fields, almost at random, looking for signs of plant diseases or checking nutrients led them to an idea.
"We were thinking, 'there has to be a better way of doing this,'" Zach Fiene said.
Using a drone allows DMZ Aerial to do crop scouting activities without having to walk an entire field.
Now, as co-founders of DMZ Aerial, they offer drone services to agriculture clients throughout the country.
The services include straightforward aerial photography of crops, allowing farmers to look for discoloration in their fields. DMZ also can program the drone to take a picture at set intervals and then stitch the pictures together, creating something like a super high-resolution Google Earth image. The technique can be used in insurance situations, allowing for accurate measurement of how much of a field was damaged.
The Fienes also use the combination of two photos—one with traditional light and the other with near infrared light—to measure how much stress plants are under.
They've also expanded their business into helping others navigate the regulatory landscape established by the FAA.
"The biggest challenge has been the regulatory environment," Fiene said.
It was the potential regulations that initially delayed Peter Menet's entry into the drone industry.
Drones give the user the ability to capture unique vantage points they wouldn't otherwise be able to achieve.
Menet, who spent 19 years in the Wisconsin National Guard, including 12 years as a pilot, was working at his brother-in-law's web development company in 2012 after returning from a deployment. A client saw the toy drones they had in the office and asked them to produce a video for a website.
Menet started looking into the regulations, but ultimately told the client he couldn't do it. As a commercial pilot, Menet didn't feel he could really claim ignorance of the regulations. While he said the FAA has acknowledged it can't chase every reported drone sighting and issue fines, the concern was really what would happen if something went wrong.
Now, Menet has built a business with two full-time employees and six contract workers, all to offer drone services.
Some of the uses include working with the geographic information system many municipalities have in place. The drones allow for reduced costs, regular flights and better resolution.
Menet said drones can also offer a birds-eye view of a construction project instead of spending hours walking a building. A 3D model of the project's progress, produced from the flight, can be compared to the plans to check if footings, plumbing or walls are in the right place.
"It really is a very revolutionary technology if you know how to leverage it and understand its limitations," he said.
Klingaman said the line of sight requirement—which he called the biggest limitation to business uses—is "a very difficult challenge" for regulators, manufacturers, law enforcement, users and the general community to move beyond. He said he expects the FAA to implement tiers of regulations. One set would address close proximity uses and the other would allow drones to fly longer distances.
"The fix is technological and it's not cheap," he said, adding it will likely involve something that allows the devices to communicate with each other and with other aircraft nearby. Airplanes are moving toward similar technology and the cost can be as high as $10,000, he said.
Going beyond line of sight will require optics like autonomous cars, increased processing power and better batteries.
"I still don't know how you're going to keep them out of trees," he said, adding those are just some of the challenges preventing Amazon from having drones flying in and out of its Kenosha distribution facility "like a beehive."
Drone facts and figures:
pilot reports of drones in close proximity to their flight path between November 2014 and Jan. 31, 2016 (including 9 in Wisconsin)
Source: FAA
Cost of DJI Phantom series drone
Source: DJI.com
projected economic impact of drones in U.S.
projected economic impact of drones in Wisconsin
Source: Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International
respondents very or somewhat interested in owning a drone
Among the 35.1 percent, the reasons for wanting a drone were:
7 percent – to see own property from heights
2 percent – a fun hobby, a more advanced model plane
7 percent – to observe my neighbors
3 percent – safety/security interests
1 percent – other
Source: Saint Leo University Polling Institute, December 2015
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Yesterday Dave had the privilege of preaching at his home church in Littleton, Colorado - the church he started going to with his family when he was just seven years old. Who would ever have guessed that the little guy who used to pick gum off the pews would be a guest preacher there many years later?!
After the sermon there was a moving introduction of young adults.
This church has sent out SO many short term missionaries over the years! And this summer is no different. There are eight young people who will serve on five of the seven continents, bringing the light of Jesus to the people they've been called to.
That includes a young woman coming to serve with JV, as well as my niece and nephew, Jonathan and Kyrie!!
Speaking of JV...after the service, this dear couple came over to meet me and tell their story.
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This morning, I had the joy of seeing my dear friend, Jerri, who I served with in Germany the first time I went on a summer mission's trip. She was later my maid of honor in our wedding, and a very treasured friend for 32 years. So thankful for this wise and loving friend!
We also had two days with Dave's mom and dad, enjoying our time with them. So thankful for the family we were able to see on this trip to the States!
Our plane to Munich is about to board so I'll post this and head on to find our seats for a nice, long flight!


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Here is the thing: As opposed to what many Republicans like to say about programs to help economically disadvantaged folks, these things do NOT make us lazy or unwilling to work any more than a good pair of crutches make somebody not want to walk. Today, autumn is around the corner, and I hope for a beautiful one this year.
I am very thankful for a good amount of rain we got this summer, but what I am even far more thankful for is the great accomplishment which was just achieved by The Kitchen, Inc. Now even more struggling folks will be able to get a chance to get up on their feet and find a job or give their children a decent place to live! These people are not lazy deadbeats who do not want to work; they can't without a phone or address or transportation, and I dearly wish that our "conservatives" would ever realize this.
If you conservatives claim to know God, you would know about the difficulties which the poor live through and that "the poor will always be among you," as it is written in the Bible. Those who brought about this recent great accomplishment did do the work that God approves of. Tell me, conservatives, is that something that "only makes people addicted to government"?


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Ahoy me hearties and shiver me timbers! Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19th this year, which is right around the corner. I don't know about you, but pirates are pretty popular in our home right now. This year I thought it would be fun to make some printable flashcards with pirate terms and sayings to help us make the most of this totally fun and frivolous day. And you all know I can't make printables and not share them here with all of you. I'm betting there is at least one person out there who will find a use for these.
I know that I don't really blog about kid activites or, at least not often, but I just couldn't resist having some fun with pirate words. I toyed with a whole bunch of different ideas for things we could do to have fun on Talk Like a Pirate Day, but in the end, I think these simple printable flash cards were the way to go.
We're a kooky kind of family and generally we don't need an excuse or special day to have a little fun outside the ordinary. I foresee these flashcards getting a ton of use, and a whole lot of additions as time goes on. It wasn't hard to find a list of pirate terms and sayings, a simple google search pulled up lots to choose from. I tried to be really picky about what sayings and terms I included here, I was going to for an appropriate for all ages group of words, and some pirate terms that sound really cool mean things that I was pretty sure most parents would frown on if I included them in this collection. So, fair warning, there are only 16 terms and sayings (four per page) in the pirate talk printable collection.
And because I know that there are many sayings and terms I missed, I'm including a blank one so you can have fun creating your own.
To grab a copy of these printables for yourself, just simply click the picture to snag the pdf. Once printed just cut out the cards and you're good to go.
I hope that you and your kiddos are able to get some use out of the printable flashcards. I'm sure there are more way you could use them, especially the blank ones.
Use your imagination and have some fun with them!
If pirate words and terms are something you and your family have fun with then you're going to want to check out these fantastic pirate sight word games from Brain Power Boy. Trust me, if pirates are a favourite in your home then you'll want to stop by that site, she has so much pirate goodness, from the sight word games to a whole home school until study.
Take the fun of Talk Like a Pirate Day to even further heights with this great collection of pirate activities that your kids are sure to enjoy. The Super Mommy Club left no stone unturned in putting together this awesome list of pirate theme activities. You're sure to find at least one your kiddos will have fun with.
Do your kiddos like pirates? Are you doing anything fun for Talk Like a Pirate Day?
These are fun! I linked to them from my pirate costume so my readers could find them here. Thanks for posting!