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Ronda ist eine Stadt in der andalusischen Provinz Málaga (Spanien). Sie liegt auf einer Höhe von 723 m über dem Meeresspiegel in einer als Serranía de Ronda bekannten Berglandschaft, zu der auch die Naturparks Sierra de Grazalema und Sierra de las Nieves gehören. Die Stadt liegt rund 113 km westlich der Provinzhauptstadt Málaga und 50 km nördlich der Costa del Sol.

Mit  Einwohnern (Stand ), Rondeños genannt, und einer Fläche von rund 480 km² ist die Gemeinde Ronda eine der größten Ortschaften unter den "weißen Dörfern" Andalusiens.

Geografie und Wirtschaft
Bekannt ist Ronda vor allem für seine Lage: die maurisch geprägte Altstadt, La Ciudad, liegt auf einem rundum steil abfallenden Felsplateau. Die Altstadt ist vom jüngeren Stadtteil, El Mercadillo, durch eine knapp 100 m tiefe, vom Río Guadalevín gebildete, Tajo de Ronda genannte Schlucht getrennt. Überspannt wird der Abgrund von drei Brücken: die Puente Árabe ("Arabische Brücke"), die Puente Viejo ("Alte Brücke") und die bekannteste, die im 18. Jahrhundert erbaute Puente Nuevo ("Neue Brücke").

Die Wirtschaft der Stadt ist heute zum Großteil auf den Tourismus ausgerichtet. Täglich strömen tausende Tagesbesucher von den Urlaubsorten an der Costa del Sol nach Ronda. Daneben gibt es Betriebe zur Verarbeitung landwirtschaftlicher Produkte und traditionell auch zur Herstellung von Möbeln.

Klima
Die Temperatur beträgt im Jahresmittel 15 °C, bei 2.700 Sonnenstunden und einer jährlichen Niederschlagsmenge von 648 l/m². In dem Bergland um Ronda ist die Spanische Tanne (auch Igeltanne) (Abies pinsapo) endemisch.

Geschichte

Frühgeschichte
Früheste Spuren einer Besiedlung der Region stammen bereits aus der Altsteinzeit. Rund 20 km südwestlich der Stadt ist die Cueva de la Pileta zu finden, eine rund 2 km lange Höhle mit Höhlenmalereien, die auf die Zeit zwischen 18.000 und 15.000 Jahren v. Chr. datiert wurden. Während in diesen Malereien vor allem Tiere (Ziegen, Pferde, Fische etc.) dargestellt wurden, befinden sich in anderen Bereichen der Höhle jüngere Malereien aus der Jungsteinzeit, etwa 5000 v. Chr., die mehr geometrische und abstrakte Figuren zeigen. Im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. siedelten Iberer und Kelten in der Region, die auch Handelsbeziehungen zu den Phöniziern und Griechen unterhielten.

Römisches Reich
Der erste überlieferte Name für die Ortschaft stammt von den Römern: Arunda, das sowohl von Plinius dem Älteren als auch von Ptolemäus in ihren Schriften erwähnt wird. 132 v. Chr. ließ Scipio der Jüngere eine befestigte Anlage errichten. Die wichtigste Stadt der Römer in der Region war allerdings nicht Arunda, sondern das etwa 20 km nordwestlich gelegene Acinipo, das auch heute noch als römische Ruine, unter anderem mit einem Amphitheater für 2000 Personen, besichtigt werden kann. Während des Bürgerkrieges in Rom zu Beginn des ersten Jahrhunderts v. Chr. ließ der Feldherr Quintus Sertorius Arunda zerstören. Im Jahr 45 v. Chr. wiederum wurde ein Tempel zur Erinnerung an den Sieg Julius Caesars über die Brüder Gnaeus Pompeius den Jüngeren und Sextus Pompeius errichtet. Im Jahr 429, zu der Zeit, als die Herrschaft Roms auf der iberischen Halbinsel zu Ende ging, wurde Acinipo zerstört. Und auch Arunda wurde schließlich, trotz der vermeintlich uneinnehmbaren Lage auf dem Felsplateau, geplündert.

Um die Mitte des 1. Jahrtausends eroberten erst die gemeinsam einwandernden Vandalen, Alanen und Sueben im Zuge der Völkerwanderung das Land, wurden aber bald von den mit Rom verbündeten Westgoten vertrieben. 549 gelang es den Byzantinern, für kurze Zeit den Süden der Iberischen Halbinsel wieder zu besetzen. Die Westgoten zerstörten nach Vertreibung der Byzantiner die Stadt, die heute als Ronda la Vieja, das "alte Ronda", bekannt ist.

Al-Andalus

Zu Beginn des 8. Jahrhunderts drangen, aus Nordafrika kommend, die Mauren auf die iberische Halbinsel vor. Im Jahr 713, zwei Jahre nach Beginn ihrer Eroberungen, besetzte Abd al-Aziz, der Statthalter in Al-Andalus, das frühere Arunda und ließ eine Burg auf den Ruinen der römischen Befestigungsanlagen errichten. Ronda wurde Hauptstadt von Takorunna, eines der fünf Verwaltungsbezirke (Koras), in die Al-Andalus unterteilt worden war.

Das maurische Al-Andalus (711 bis 1492) war kein kontinuierliches und einheitliches Reich. Während maurische Heere mitunter bis über die Pyrenäen vordrangen, begannen schon bald Versuche der in den Norden der Halbinsel zurückgedrängten Westgoten, Hispanien zurückzuerobern. Vor allem regte sich Widerstand im 711 neu gegründeten Königreich Asturien. 719 begann die von den christlichen Königreichen des Nordens ausgehende Reconquista, die 1492 durch die Katholischen Könige Isabella I. von Kastilien und Ferdinand II. von Aragón vollendet wurde. Auch unter den verschiedenen maurischen Völkern, wie den Arabern und den Berbern, kam es schließlich zu Auseinandersetzungen, in deren Verlauf auch die Herrschaftsverhältnisse in Ronda immer wieder wechselten. Als das Kalifat von Córdoba im 11. Jahrhundert in eine Reihe rivalisierender Königreiche (Taifas) zerfiel, kam in Ronda Abú-Nur an die Macht. Er gründete das Königreich der Banu Ifrán, das in seiner Ausdehnung etwa dem früheren Takoronna entsprach. Die Hauptstadt wurde in dieser Zeit in Madinat Ronda umbenannt und die Verteidigungsanlagen der Stadt weiter ausgebaut. Sein Sohn und Nachfolger, Abú Nasar, wurde im Auftrag des Königs der Taifa von Sevilla ermordet, womit Ronda, wie auch Arcos de la Frontera und Morón de la Frontera an Sevilla fiel.

1086 riefen die Könige der Taifas die nordafrikanischen Almoráviden, orthodoxe sunnitische Berber aus dem Gebiet des heutigen Marokko und Algerien, zu Hilfe, um gegen die christlichen Königreiche im Norden zu kämpfen. Der Kampf war zwar weitgehend erfolgreich, allerdings übernahmen die Almoráviden, in deren Augen die Taifa-Königreiche zu dekadent und zu wenig orthodox lebten, nun selbst die Macht in Al-Andalus (1090/1091). Ihre Herrschaft dauerte kaum hundert Jahre. 1147 eroberten die Almohaden, nachdem sie bereits ganz Nordwestafrika (heute: Marokko, Algerien, Tunesien, siehe auch: Maghreb) erobert hatten, auch Al-Andalus.

Im Jahr 1212 kam es schließlich zu einer entscheidenden Schlacht zwischen den christlichen Heeren und den Almohaden bei Las Navas de Tolosa, in der die Mauren unterlagen. In der Folge verblieb nur noch das nasridische Königreich von Granada als letztes islamisches Reich auf der iberischen Halbinsel. Ronda war eine der westlichsten Städte dieses Reiches und damit sowohl eine wichtige Grenzstadt wie auch ein Handelsplatz. 1485, ein Jahr, in dem die Christen eine Reihe maurischer Städte eroberten, nahmen sie auch Ronda ein. Die Verteidiger waren geschwächt, da ein Großteil der Truppen auf Grund einer Fehlinformation, dass Málaga von den christlichen Heeren angegriffen werden sollte, dorthin abgezogen waren. Nachdem die Belagerer die Wasserversorgung der Stadt unter ihre Kontrolle gebracht hatten, kapitulierten die Verteidiger nach mehrwöchiger Belagerung.

Spanien

König Ferdinand II. ("Fernando el Católico") gewährte den maurischen Bewohnern der Stadt freien Abzug, aber sie mussten Ronda verlassen. Jene, die die Kapitulation arrangiert hatten, wurden nach Alcalá de Guadaíra (Provinz Sevilla) gebracht, wo ihnen die Häuser und Ländereien von Juden übergeben wurden, die zuvor im Zuge der Inquisition von den Christen konfisziert worden waren. Die Häuser und Ländereien in Ronda wurden unter den katholischen Eroberern verteilt. Die letzten verbliebenen Muslime wurden 1570 verbannt, nachdem sie einen Aufstand gegen die Unterdrückung durch die neuen Herrscher versucht hatten. Als letzte Zeugen der maurischen Herrschaft in Ronda sind heute, neben dem verwinkelten Straßennetz der Altstadt, die Baños Árabes (arabischen Bäder), die Brücke Puente Viejo, zwei Paläste, Casa del Gigante und Palacio de Mondragón, und einige kleinere Gebäude übrig geblieben, wie das frühere Minarett Alminar de San Sebastián, das durch den Aufbau einer Etage zum christlichen Glockenturm umfunktioniert wurde.

Nach der Eroberung Rondas begannen die neuen Einwohner mit der weitgehenden Umgestaltung der Stadt. Moscheen wurden niedergerissen und an deren Stelle Kirchen errichtet. Minarette wurden zu Glockentürmen umgebaut. Zur maurischen Altstadt, nun als La Ciudad bekannt, kam im Norden jenseits der El Tajo genannten Schlucht ein neuer Stadtteil hinzu: El Mercadillo ("der Markt"). Im Süden entstand schließlich der Barrio de San Francisco als Erweiterung der Altstadt, ein ursprünglich kleiner Markt, um die Steuern zu umgehen, die bezahlt werden mussten, um Waren nach La Ciudad zu bringen. 1580 erschütterte ein schweres Erdbeben die Stadt und zerstörte eine ganze Reihe von Bauwerken, die nur zum Teil wiedererrichtet und in den meisten Fällen durch neue Gebäude ersetzt wurden.

Die folgenden Jahrhunderte waren für Ronda eine weitgehend friedliche Periode, in der die Stadt sich weiter entwickelte. Spanien wurde durch die Eroberung von Kolonien, vor allem in Mittel- und Südamerika, zu einer Weltmacht. Ronda blieb jedoch von nur regionaler Bedeutung und konnte nicht in gleichem Maße vom spanischen Kolonialreich in Amerika profitieren wie die Hafen- und Handelsstädte Cádiz und Sevilla. Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts wurden zwei der prägenden Bauwerke Rondas errichtet: die große Brücke über die Schlucht zwischen alter und neuer Stadt, El Puente Nuevo ("Neue Brücke"), und die Stierkampfarena. Ebenfalls ab dem 18. Jahrhundert entwickelten drei Generationen der Familie Romero – Francisco, Juan und Pedro – alle geboren in Ronda, die Regeln des modernen Stierkampfes. In dieser Zeit entwickelte sich auch der romantische Mythos der Bandoleros.

Nachdem Spanien im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert den Großteil seiner Kolonien verloren hatte, damit auch auf die Einkünfte entfielen, und auch in Europa eine Reihe schwerer militärischer Niederlagen erlitt, war es schließlich so geschwächt, dass 1808 auf Druck Napoléons dessen Bruder Joseph Bonaparte den spanischen Thron besteigen konnte. Am 10. Februar 1810 marschierten seine Truppen in Ronda ein, um zunächst dort bis zum Frühling zu rasten. Sie blieben zwei Jahre und sprengten, als sie abzogen, die Burg und Teile der Stadtmauern. 1813 erlangte Spanien wieder seine Unabhängigkeit.

Im Rahmen des spanischen Bürgerkriegs versuchten die Bewohner Rondas zunächst die Republik gegen die spanischen Putschisten unter General Franco zu verteidigen. Dennoch gelang es faschistischen Truppen unter General Eduardo Varela durch Einsatz von Panzern, Ronda am 17. September 1936 einzunehmen. Republikaner, die nicht rechtzeitig nach Málaga fliehen konnten, wurden in den Folgetagen standrechtlich hingerichtet. Einige, denen die Flucht gelungen war, führten noch bis 1952 aus den Bergen der Umgebung einen Guerillakampf gegen die Diktatur.

Am 3. Februar 1937 begannen Francotruppen unter dem Kommando von Gonzalo Queipo de Llano aus der Umgebung von Ronda ihren Angriff auf Málaga.

Waren schon im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert Reisende nach Ronda gekommen, darunter Künstler wie Doré oder Rilke, wurde die Stadt ab den 1960ern wiederum allmählich zum Ziel von Touristen. Neben der außergewöhnlichen Lage der Stadt auf dem Felsplateau trug vor allem die Bedeutung Rondas als Geburtsstätte des modernen Stierkampfes zur Anziehungskraft der Stadt bei. Heute ist Ronda, neben den Küstenregionen und Städten wie Sevilla, Córdoba und Granada, eines der bedeutendsten touristischen Ziele Südspaniens.

Siehe auch: Geschichte Spaniens

Kultur

Stierkampf

Für Spanier ist Ronda insbesondere wegen seiner Rolle in der Entwicklung des Stierkampfes von Bedeutung. Im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert entwickelten hier drei Generationen von Mitgliedern der Familie Romero jene Regeln, nach denen auch heute noch gekämpft wird – vom Gebrauch des Tuches, dem Kampf des Toreros nicht mehr zu Pferd, sondern zu Fuß, bis hin zu Stil und Posen – bekannt als Escuela Rondeña ("Ronda-Schule").

Berühmte Gäste
Im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert besuchten eine Reihe internationaler Künstler Ronda und verbrachten mitunter auch lange Zeit in der Stadt, darunter waren Gustave Doré, Rainer Maria Rilke (Dezember 1912 bis Februar 1913) und Ernest Hemingway (1923). In Hemingways Roman Wem die Stunde schlägt findet sich im 10. Kapitel die Geschichte der Ermordung der Faschisten einer kleinen Stadt, die vom Hauptplatz in eine tiefe Schlucht gestoßen werden. Die Beschreibung nimmt Bezug auf tatsächliche Vorgänge in Ronda zur Zeit des Spanischen Bürgerkrieges.

Orson Welles verbrachte als 18-Jähriger einen Sommer in Ronda und war so beeindruckt von der Stadt und insbesondere von den Stierkämpfen, dass seine Asche gemäß seinem Wunsch in einem Brunnen auf dem Landgut Recreo San Cayetano fünf Kilometer außerhalb von Ronda begraben liegt. Auch die Schauspielerin Ava Gardner lebte nach ihrer Scheidung von Frank Sinatra in den 1950ern für kurze Zeit in Ronda. 1984 verfilmte dort Francesco Rosi die Oper Carmen mit Julia Migenes und Plácido Domingo. Damit brachte er die Handlung wieder an den Ort zurück, wo Prosper Mérimée sie in seiner der Oper zugrunde liegenden Erzählung angesiedelt hatte. Popikone Madonna nutzte Rondas Stierkampfarena 1994 als Kulisse in ihrem Video Take A Bow.

Sehenswürdigkeiten

Die Mehrzahl der historisch bedeutenden Bauwerke befinden sich in der Altstadt, der "Ciudad Vieja", meist kurz La Ciudad genannt, die mit ihrer Mischung aus nordafrikanischen und spanischen Traditionen als Ganzes ein sehenswertes Beispiel für die Architektur und Stadtentwicklung vieler andalusischer Städte ist.

 Die meisten Bauten aus der Zeit der maurischen Herrschaft wurden nach der Eroberung durch die katholischen Spanier zerstört. Noch heute zu sehen sind die Baños Arabes ("Arabische Bäder"), die Brücke Puente Viejo ("Alte Brücke"), zwei Paläste, die Casa del Gigante und der Palacio de Mondragón (mit dem Museum von Ronda, "Museo Municipal", schön erhaltenen Innenhöfen und einem Garten in maurischem Stil), und einige kleinere Gebäude, wie das frühere Minarett Alminar de San Sebastián. In der Casa del Rey Moro, dem "Haus des Maurenkönigs", kann man über in den Fels geschlagene Treppen – La Mina – bis hinunter in den Tajo de Ronda steigen.
 Kloster und Kirche Colegiata de Santa María la Mayor an der Plaza Duquesa de Parcent wurden Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts unter König Ferdinand II. ("Fernando el Católico") an Stelle der früheren großen Moschee der Stadt erbaut. Von der ursprünglichen Bausubstanz sind noch der Mihrāb mit arabischen Inschriften und ein Teil des in einen Glockenturm umgewandelten Minaretts zu sehen. Im Inneren der Gebäude finden sich Merkmale aus Gotik und Renaissance.
 Südöstlich des Platzes stehen am Abhang des Berges noch einige Reste der alten Stadtmauer.

Die Altstadt ist vom jüngeren Stadtteil, El Mercadillo, der erst nach der Eroberung durch die Spanier entstand, durch die über 80 m tiefe Schlucht El Tajo getrennt.

 Überspannt wird der Abgrund in der Stadtmitte von der aus dem späten 18. Jahrhundert stammenden Puente Nuevo ("Neue Brücke"). Vom Platz Plaza María Auxiliadora gibt es einen unbefestigten Weg hinunter zum Aussichtspunkt, von dem man die bekannte Aussicht auf Ronda mit der Puente Nuevo haben kann.
 Vom selben Architekten, José Martín de Aldehuela, wurde in den Jahren 1779–1785 die Stierkampfarena, Plaza de Toros, errichtet. Sie ist eine der ältesten und größten Spaniens und gilt als Geburtsstätte des spanischen Stierkampfes in seiner heute üblichen Form.
 An der Calle Santa Cecilia findet sich die ebenfalls aus dem 18. Jahrhundert stammende Kapelle Templete de la Virgen de los Dolores. Bemerkenswert sind die schmalen spätbarocken Säulen des Portals, die, beeinflusst von mittel- und südamerikanischer Ikonographie, Vogel-Mensch-Mischwesen und ähnlich seltsame Kreaturen darstellen.
 An der Abbruchkante der Schlucht El Tajo befinden sich die wunderschön angelegten Jardines de Cuenca, benannt nach der Partnerstadt von Ronda.

In der Umgebung der Stadt sind weitere sehenswerte Zeugen der Geschichte Rondas und der Region zu finden:

 Cueva de la Pileta, im Bezirk Benaoján, eine Höhle (span.: Cueva) mit Höhlenmalereien die auf die Zeit zwischen 18.000 und 15.000 Jahren v. Chr. datiert wurden, liegt etwa 20 km südwestlich der Stadt und zählt zusammen mit dem Dolmen de Chopo, einem Hügelgrab, zu den ältesten Zeugen menschlicher Siedlungstätigkeiten in der Region.
 Die römischen Ruinen von Acinipo – auch Ronda el Viejo, das "alte Ronda", genannt – liegen rund 20 km nordwestlich von Ronda.

Daneben lohnt das umgebende Bergland einen Besuch, insbesondere die Naturparks Sierra de Grazalema und Sierra de las Nieves, beide mit großen Wäldern der endemischen Igeltanne, und das Tal des Río Genal mit ausgedehnten Kastanienhainen.

Söhne und Töchter der Stadt
 Anita Palmero (1902–1987), spanisch-argentinische Tangosängerin und Schauspielerin

Einzelnachweise

Literatur

Prosper Mérimée wählte Ronda und die umliegende Region als Schauplatz seiner Erzählung Carmen (1845–47); in der darauf basierenden Oper (Uraufführung 1875) verlegte Georges Bizet die Handlung nach Sevilla.

Rainer Maria Rilke verfasste während seines Aufenthalts in Ronda (Dezember 1912 bis Februar 1913) eine Reihe von Gedichten:
 "Die sechste Elegie" (begonnen im Dezember 1912, beendet 1922)
 "Unendlich staun ich euch an" (Jahreswende 1912/13)
 "Ich Wissender: oh der ich eingeweiht" (Anfang Januar 1913)
 "Die spanische Trilogie" (Anfang Januar 1913)
 "Himmelfahrt Mariae" (Mitte Januar 1913)
 "An den Engel" (Mitte Januar 1913)
 "Auferweckung des Lazarus" (Januar 1913)
 "Dass ich, entartet meinem Tod" (Januar 1913)
 "Der Geist Ariel" (Jan./Feb. 1913)
 "Da rauscht der Bach" (Februar 1913)
 "Die weißen Häuser hin ein Überfließen" (Februar 1913)
 "Wird mir nichts Nächstes? Soll ich nur noch verweilen" (Februar 1913)

James Joyce machte Ronda im Ulysses (1914–1921) zu einem Teil der Erinnerungen im inneren Monolog Molly Blooms:

Ernest Hemingway machte Ronda in zweien seiner Werke zum Schauplatz des Geschehens:
 "Death in the Afternoon" (dt.: "Tod am Nachmittag"), 1932 – Essay über den Stierkampf und seine Geschichte
 "For Whom the Bell tolls" (dt.: "Wem die Stunde schlägt"), 1940 – Roman zum spanischen Bürgerkrieg

Max Frisch lässt im fünften Akt seiner Komödie Don Juan oder Die Liebe zur Geometrie (1952) die Hauptperson in Ronda ihren Ruhesitz nehmen.

 Prosper Mérimée: Carmen. DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1995 (zweisprachige Ausgabe, fr/de) ISBN 3-423-09333-1.
 Rainer Maria Rilke: Die Gedichte. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-458-14324-6.
 Ernest Hemingway: Tod am Nachmittag. Rowohlt Tb., 1999, ISBN 3-499-22609-X.
 Ernest Hemingway: Wem die Stunde schlägt. Fischer Tb., Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-596-20408-9.
 James Joyce: Ulysses. Suhrkamp, 2004 (kommentierte Ausgabe, Übersetzung von Hans Wollschläger), ISBN 3-518-41585-9.
 José Manuel Real Pascual: Ronda. Reihe Tourismus Spanien, Escudo De Oro 2017, ISBN 978-84-378-1684-5.

Weblinks

Ort in Andalusien
Conjunto histórico-artístico

Stadt in Spanien


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package ru.spbstu.icc.kspt.kuznetsov.fpf4mir.oo.broker.rest;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

import org.junit.Ignore;
import org.junit.Test;

import ru.spbstu.icc.kspt.kuznetsov.fpf4mir.oo.broker.rest.OORestFacadeImpl;

public class OORestFacadeTest {
	private static final int OO_PORT = 443;
	private static final String OO_HOST = "broker-a2dc6f.openshift.local";
	private static final String AUTH_LINE = "ZGVtbzpjaGFuZ2VtZQ==";
	private static final String appId = "532d689344b3be836800000e";

	@Test
	@Ignore
	public void testAddCartridge() {
		OORestFacade facade = new OORestFacadeImpl(OO_HOST, OO_PORT, AUTH_LINE, false);
		Response response = facade.addCartridgeByUrl(appId, "http://192.168.1.2/openshift-nginx-cartridge-master/metadata/manifest.yml");
		System.out.println(response.readEntity(String.class));
		assertEquals(201, response.getStatus());
		facade.close();
	}

	@Test
	public void testDeleteCartridge() {
		OORestFacade facade = new OORestFacadeImpl(OO_HOST, OO_PORT, AUTH_LINE, false);
		Response response = facade.deleteCartridgeByName(appId, "andrei_kuznetsov-maven-3.0.5");
		System.out.println(response.readEntity(String.class));
		assertEquals(200, response.getStatus());
		facade.close();
	}
}

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I am so lucky to be able to share this day with you….
Birth photography is about capturing the emotion, love & intimacy of your birthing experience & your journey into motherhood.
Your birth will be documented in a creative, raw & natural way allowing all the moments between you, your partner & family to become a beautiful reminder of a very gratifying time in your life.
These emotions can never be replicated and is a time of celebration.
Often people I meet have had set backs, struggles and a massive amount of heartache trying to create their own little tribe, for me as the photographer it is a real honour to be present at the birth and capture those emotions along with the absolute euphoria that comes with having a baby.
The nature of birth can be very unpredictable and in the lead up quite overwhelming. If you have questions that haven't been covered here please send them through.
Its important to keep in touch as much as possible, as soon as contractions start ( early labour) its best to make contact via text message or phone call. Each labour is unique so its important to keep communicating through contractions so that I can capture the whole birthing journey including the support during labour.
All labours are different so if your midwife/dr's feel its a long way off I may pop home and come back as it gets closer. Once active/advanced labour starts I would have been notified and be there…fingers crossed!
I will stay for a little after the birth to capture all the first cuddles then I will let you be and soak up your new little family.
What happens if labour stalls while you are present?
This can happen and is case dependant after discussing your labour with the team. The last thing I want is you worrying about me/my time or your coverage. I may leave and return once its all in full swing again!
Do you have a back up photographer if needed and can we meet them?
Yes, A fully experienced birth photographer. There may be occasions where I am unavailable due to the limited amount of births I can photograph per year or personal reasons therefore a back up photographer is an option after discussion. The most important part for me is that you are 100% comfortable with the people present are your birth.
What happens if you don't arrive in time for my baby's arrival?
If I miss your birth due to unforeseen circumstances such as an emergency or illness and you do not utilise the back up photographer you will receive a full refund or another session within the first 48 hours where we can still capture all the bonding and other family members.
What happens if we have a c-section?
If you have a planned C-section you need to confirm that they allow a photographer and support person in the operating room, they often don't mind but its very important to check in advance.
Its also a great idea to let any other staff know that you have been meeting with that way we are all on the same page on the day!
If its unplanned its best to still ask, sometimes its not possible but its still possible to capture all the beautiful moments after the birth as the baby is taken to the nursery with dad, then when you arrive a little later.
Do we need to get permission from the hospital?
As above you always need to ask that having a photographer present will not be a problem. I will also check with the midwives once I arrive as well, everyone is usually very cooperative.
Birth photography is a growing trend in Australia so it shouldn't be a problem.
Do you shoot water births?
What hospitals do you photograph at and how long does it take to get there?
Yes I have 10 million PL.
Will my images appear online anywhere – website, social media, etc?
Your images will only appear online with your permission.
Yes, we can discuss this prior to signing the contract, we can also arrange a gift registry where friends and family can contribute to the cost or additional products.
Do you offer pregnancy & newborn shoots?
I sure do! If you book all three sessions it creates a beautiful story for your album.
*Please note that all my immunisations are all up to date, I am a mother too so I know how important this is.


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Iheanacho misses penalty in Leicester City clash against Crystal Palace
The Nigeria international missed a glorious opportunity to add to his tally this season at Selhurst Park
Kelechi Iheanacho missed a penalty in Leicester City's Premier League game against Crystal Palace on Monday.
The centre-forward was handed his second league start of the campaign against Roy Hodgson's men but missed an opportunity to give the Foxes the lead.
The King Power Stadium outfit were awarded a penalty in the 19th minute of the encounter after James Tomkins brought down Luke Thomas in the box.
Iheanacho was given the opportunity to take the penalty but the Nigeria international missed the glorious chance, failing to fire his effort past goalkeeper Vicente Guaita.


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Despite mast controversy, skipjack has a new life
Jan 18th, 2020 · by Brice Stump · Comments: 0
Posing with the homemade mast of the Somerset, the crew includes, from left, John Earhart III, Jerry Bloodsworth, Joe Faber, John Earhart Jr., Herbert Jones, Greg White, Levi Jones and Capt. Bob Leath.
The Somerset, one of the iconic skipjacks of Deal Island, Chance and Mount Vernon, has a new owner and a new captain.
The boat had been owned by Capt. Walt Benton of Mount Vernon for decades until his death last June. Benton dredged oysters each fall with a five- or six-man crew.
Upon his death, his son, Walt Jr. decided to sell the skipjack.
Bob Leath Jr., owner of Fat Boy's Crabs on Old Ocean City Road in Salisbury, came forward and purchased Benton's skipjack the first week of November. With the deal came Benton's fishing boat for $10,000. Leath planned to dredge oysters during the 2019-2020 season.
There was one problem.
Well, two.
First, Leath had never captained a skipjack.
As a teenager he worked aboard the Howard, culling oysters, when it was owned by Stan Daniels, who recently died. He also worked aboard the Ida May with Clyde Webster when he was 16. By the time he was 22, he said, he retired from working on the water.
Second problem was that he didn't have a crew.
Remarkably Leath was able to "get together" a "six-head" crew, in a few days, which included his grandson, Chase Moore, a nephew, John Earhart III, and Earhart's father, John Earhart Jr., Herbert Jones and Greg "Biggy" White. "And there's another guy. Don't even know his name, somebody I picked up," Leath admitted with laughter. "I don't have a clue what his name is."
By the second week of November, he was on the Chesapeake Bay dredging. Only White and Herbert Jones were seasoned oystermen.
In recent years, with restricted oysters grounds limiting bay bottom for dredging and oyster numbers down, watermen have struggled to hit their daily catch limits. This season skipjacks can bring in 100 bushels twice a week using pushboat power.
The first of his two days dredging, Leath had problems with the winder that pulls the cable and dredge from the bottom of the bay.
"We only caught 80 bushels that day. The second day we caught 100. And today we have 100 again. I paid for the boat in two days,"
"I really don't know this boat too well. This is the first time I've even been on it, but she is rough. For safety reasons I took the mast out of the skipjack, didn't want it coming down on top of nobody."
Benton replaced the mast years ago, putting in a treated "telephone pole," instead of the traditional, custom made mast. At 70 feet, Leath thought it was too much mast for the skipjack's present condition.
Levin Jones, foreground, and Greg "Biggy" White are shown at the bow of the skipjack Somerset with the makeshift, but apparently legal, "mast."
Leath said he called the Department of Natural Resources asking them if it was ok to take the mast out and still dredge. Maryland regulations specify that a skipjack can have no inboard power source and must be able to get underway using sail power only. "When I told them I would be rebuilding the Somerset this summer they said they thought it would be ok to dredge without a mast."
Yet, Leath soon discovered, there's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
On the bay dredging, he was served notice he had to have a mast.
The vagueness of DNR rules allows for loopholes. Leath said the rules don't specify the size of the mast.
So, in true old fashioned Eastern Shore ingenuity, Leath came up with a solution. He put in a "major substitute" mast — one that's 4-by-6-inchs by 16-feet tall, with a 4-inch-by-4-inch 10-foot boom.
"I started to put a big pair of drawers on it for a sail," he said, laughing so hard his words were barely understandable.
The mast in a boat, with no internal power source, enables skipjacks to rake in considerably more money than smaller workboats with inboard engines.
Salisbury businessman Bob Leath Jr. is the new owner and captain of the skipjack Somerset.
This year each skipjack is allowed to catch 100 bushels, whereas the workboats can only harvest 10 bushels per day per oyster license, and only two licenses can be used on a boat, usually held by the captain and his mate. That's 20 bushels compared to 100, and at $40 a bushel that skipjack is pulling in $4,000 a day, to be divided among the crew, as well as a portion for the skipjack.
"I don't know why I'm doing all this. I'm getting ready to turn 60, right, but this is something I've always wanted to do. I've had to spend most of my life doing something other than working on the water to make a decent living. I left at 22 because I had to get a better job and now I can afford to come back to working on the water. Makes the experience a whole lot nicer. I like working on the water and I like skipjacks.
Already Leath is laying plans for the skipjack's future.
"This boat is going to be totally different come Labor Day," the captain said.
There's good news for the Somerset coming this spring and summer. Real good news.
"I'm going to rebuild her," the owner said.
"I'm going to put a new bottom on new deck and most of the sides. Replacing pretty much all the boat. Then I'll rerig the thing and get a new suit of sails. In five months he hopes to have the Somerset ready for the annual Labor Day Skipjack Race.
"I thought I knew how rough she was, and I was right," he said, laughing.
While others restoring and rebuilding have made equally optimistic predictions on finishing schedules, Leath's background suggests he's up to the job and the timing.
He's already replaced the badly damaged wooden chock, the wooden "bumper" and guide at the stern of the skipjack that allows the nose of the push boat stern to "dock" into to push the dredge boat, Leath replaced it with a stainless steel, homemade unit, that he made and welded. In the heating and air business for 30 years the skipjack entrepreneur is also a millwright. For a decade he built houses, handled rental properties and ran laundromats. He's a Renaissance man at the wheel of the Somerset. "But dredging this skipjack is really the most fun," he said.
He expects to be hands-on with the rebuilding of the boat. "My nephew is an excellent boat carpenter. Hey, I come from a family of men who built boats. My grandfather built boats and Isaac Somers, my great-grandfather, built the last bugeye to sail the bay.
"As long as my health holds up I'll be doing this. But I'm planning on turning this over to me nephew. I'm teaching him right now. He'd never been aboard a skipjack until we started in November. Except for "Biggy" and Herbert, none of the crew were ever on a skipjack. In a week I taught my nephew how to handle a push boat. In one week. If it gets too cold out there my nephew might get the boat early," he said, laughing.
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Where To Next For Starhill Global?
Starhill Global Real Estate Invmt Trust (SGX:P40U) has been an out-performer over the last five plus years. The real estate investment trust (REIT) recorded total returns (inclusive of dividends and right issue) of about 209% from 1 Jan 2009 to the closing price last Friday (31 October 2014). By comparison, the capital gain returns of the SPDR STI ETF (SGX:ES3), a proxy for the Straits Times Index (SGX:^STI), was 76% for the same duration.
Being a shareholder of a REIT gives you partial ownership to all the real estate that it owns. As per the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), REITs are mandated to distribute at least 90% of its profits as distributions to enjoy tax transparency. I also wrote about a few pointers for picking REITs here.
While the returns from Starhill Global has been dashing — as Foolish investors, we should look behind the curtains to understand how sustainable the distributions are, and how it can grow.
Starhill Global has 12 properties under its umbrella located in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, China, and Japan. The properties are primarily prime retail locations. It also has office rental that makes up a smaller percentage of the overall rental pie for REIT.
To get a sense of the resilience of the property portfolio, we can look at the gross revenue by geography of the REIT. Ngee Ann City and Wisma Atria makes up the Singapore property portfolio, while its Malaysian property portfolio covers Starhill Gallery and Lot 10 Property. The David Jones Building and Plaza Arcade comes under its Australian property portfolio and the Renhe Spring Zongbei Property in Chengdu, China is the sole property in its China portfolio. Finally, it has five different properties under its Japan property portfolio.
In 2013, Wisma Atria and Ngee Ann City made up 66% of the gross revenue for the REIT. In the past five years, the main contributors for revenue growth (compared to 2009) came from its acquisitions in Malaysia and Australia on June 2010 and August 2009 respectively. On the other hand, its Chengdu and Japan properties showed relatively lacklustre gross revenue growth compared to the properties in the other three countries.
It is worthy to point out that there is a high tenant concentration of its gross rentals where 38.5% of its total gross rental comes from two tenants: Toshin Development Singapore Pte. Ltd. and YTL Group. In fact, part of the reason for the gross revenue increase in 2013 for Ngee Ann City was due to the base rental uplift from its master tenant Toshin. Toshin made up 86.9% of Ngee Ann City's gross revenue for retail in 2013.
We would ideally like to see the revenue dollars drip down to the bottom line. For that, we look into the Net Property Income (NPI). The NPI is defined as the gross rental revenue of a property minus all related expenses.
Wisma Atria and Ngee Ann City again emerged as significant contributors to overall NPI for the REIT. Together, they made up 65% of the NPI for 2013. In the past five plus years, Malaysia and Australia were naturally the main drivers of growth NPI, while Chengdu and Japan were both rather weak. The NPI yield for Wisma Atria appears to be weaker compared to Ngee Ann City and its properties in Malaysia and Australia. Although Wisma Atria made up 33% of overall gross rental, it only contributed 31% of the overall NPI for the REIT in 2013.
Moving on, Foolish investors might also want to study the REIT's debt profile. The debt profile provides clues on how the REIT is funded, and its sensitivity to the interest rate environment. To do that, we can look at the latest quarterly earnings presentation for the quarter ended 30 September 2014.
With a gearing of 29.1%, and 100% of its loans fixed or hedged, Starhill Global might be relatively protected from any increases in interest rates in the near future. Furthermore, the next refinancing requirement will be in July 2015. Nevertheless, Foolish investors should keep an eye out for its refinancing activities in 2015 and 2016 when 36.3% of its borrowings comes due.
Starhill Global does have a blemish in its refinancing track record. In 22 June 2009, it proposed a 1-for-1 rights issue at an issue price that was some 45% lower than its closing price back then.
Looking ahead, Starhill Global is planning for an asset enhancement initiative for its Plaza Arcade property in Australia. The Phase 1 of activities is expected to begin in 2015, and the AEI is estimated to cost A$10 million. The relatively weaker performance of Wisma Atria could be the reason why the REIT management is looking to reposition tenants within the property to drive more rentable space, and to improve the tenant mix.
As lifelong students of Foolish long term investing, it pays to look under the hood to understand whether the rising distributions by the REIT is supported by the quality of business growth that we are looking for.
Starhill Global owns two of the most iconic buildings along the Orchard Road stretch in Singapore. Its presence on the popular shopping street can also make it more sensitive towards tourist spend compared to sub-urban malls. On the acquisition front, it has struggled in Japan and China thus far, therefore its future acquisitions should be watched carefully.
When faced with uncertainty on the future progress of a REIT, Foolish investors might consider demanding a higher margin of safety for an investment to provide adequate return over the long term.
Starhill Global REIT's share price last traded at S$0.82 as of last Friday (31 October 2014). That translates to a historical price-to-book ratio of 0.87 and a distribution yield of around 6.1%. To keep up to date with the latest company analyses and market news, click here now for your FREE subscription to Take Stock Singapore, The Motley Fool's free investing newsletter. Written by David Kuo, Take Stock Singapore can also show how you can GROW your wealth in the years ahead.


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Are you improving as a leader? Are you content with where you are right now? Are you anticipating the changing seasons in a tech driven world? Are you prepared for these changing seasons? Do you have any leadership books that have been published in the last 3 years? What resources are you regularly digesting to help you develop new skills?
Your answer to questions like those listed above, says a lot about your leadership trajectory. Leading a non-profit full of volunteers in a fast changing world is as tough as it gets and as leaders we need to constantly be growing and developing. If you want to develop and improve your leadership try the three things listed below.
There was a time, not too long ago, where I would never have spent time with a group of pastors. I skipped conferences, avoided phone calls and generally felt like I didn't fit in with all of my other colleagues. Part pride, part insecurity and part immaturity had me operating as a Lead Pastor in relative isolation and as we all know, that simply is not healthy. I always stiff-armed other pastors until a few of them ignored my stiff arms and accepted and loved me as I was. Those men showed me that I was valued, had a lot to offer and that I needed them too. I am so grateful for these pastors who were loving examples of Christ to me. I needed them and I still do. What they taught me was to put myself out there, to use my gifts not just in my own context but to help others. It is called adding value to others. Strive to add value to others in every context and it will make you a better leader. I still want to retreat into isolation sometimes, but I know I continue to grow as a leader by putting myself out there and by being willing to add value to others. If you want to grow as a leader, abandon isolation and put yourself out there with the hopes of adding value to others.
So, what are you waiting for, put yourself out there! Send an email offering to help someone, send an encouraging text, set up a lunch with someone with the goal of adding value and learning from the interaction.
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Go to a leadership conference and develop relationships with others that attend. If you are in our district this one is an incredible EDA Leadership Conference.
Join a mastermind group. A mastermind group is peer mentoring concept used to help members solve problems and accomplish big things with input and advice from the other members of the group. I have benefited greatly from being a part of one. There are not a lot of options out there for pastors but if you have more questions about a mastermind group for pastors or church leaders email me (thejoshott@gmail.com).
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But, if I am well rested, often I need to just persevere. Perseverance will get you somewhere and sometimes you just have to keep going. Keep getting better. Keep putting your content out there. Keep improving. Keep working on your team.
Let the results up to God.
I am a part of EDAmove's Multiply Team. Being a part of this team is an incredible opportunity to hang out with and learn from some of the best church leaders on the East Coast. I vlogged a trip we all took to Florida for the Exponential Conference.
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As a leader you need to be in a space where people can paint a bigger picture for you. Get outside of your immediate context and spend some time thinking big about your future and your ministry.
Find the room where a bigger picture is being painted and then spend some time there. It will keep you from getting stuck.
Conferences - Conferences usually bring a ton of energy to the conversation and they serve as a gathering place for leaders who are looking to grow and who are serious about their mission. Sign up for a conference and when you go meet some people and make some new friends. Conferences are also a great place to think big vision.
Mastermind Groups - These aren't huge in the church world (yet) but they need to be. I am in a mastermind group (with entrepreneurs and business coaches). A mastermind group is a group of big thinkers and big movers who help each other accomplish big things. If you are interested in being in a mastermind group for church leaders let me know!
Lunch with other big thinkers - You probably have people in your life who are big thinkers. Find someone in your life who thinks big and buy them lunch.
Staff meetings where vision is on the agenda and "How we have always done things" is not on the agenda. The problem with staff meetings is the past and the present can often detract from thinking big about the future. Declare the past and present off limits and start a wide open conversation about what could be.
Everyone should have a pastor, especially pastors.
My friend Joe, who pastors a very large church, reminded me of that recently. I needed the reminder, but I have known this to be true for as long as I have been a pastor.
In fact, If I could give any young church planter or pastor or seminary/college graduate going into ministry one piece of advice it would be this: Get yourself 3 or 4 people you consider your personal pastors.
I have four of them, we communicate regularly and they speak into every area of my life.
One of my pastors is named Chuck Holt. Chuck Holt is the CEO of Factories Ministries in Lancaster County. He is a national training facilitator, consultant and keynote speaker.
I recently recorded one of my phone calls with Chuck. It was a conversation filled with truth and encouragement and I am sharing it with you.
"If your content isn't as good as it should have been but, you have a relationship, you're still okay."
"Organizations get so big that they know relationships are the most important thing but they say, we are too big to change."
"People are starving for quality, authentic relationships."
"As you're tying to build a future, build success, build an audience, remember that it's truly not about you... You're the delivery person and you want to deliver the best you can, but it is so much bigger than you...it's really about what God wants to do with humanity...I want to be the best messenger I can be, not because I am cool, but because the message is incredible."
Here are 4 tips to get yourself a Pastor.
Ask someone with some longevity in ministry. You want a preacher who has been around the block a time or two, who has some bumps and bruises, who been to the mountaintop and who knows what the dirt tastes like in the valleys. Look for wisdom and discernment as character traits.
Be clear about what you are asking them for. Tell the person you are asking that you are asking them to fill the role of pastor in your life. Give them permission to speak into every area of your life. Give them permission to call you on your crap. Tell them you want to learn from them and you want to be in contact with them regularly (monthly or bi-monthly is recommended).
Don't let the line go dead. Follow up and say connected. Ministry can be crazy busy, so fight to get phone calls and meet-ups scheduled.
Be brutally honest and transparent in conversations with your pastors. Do you want to be a healthy leader and grow? Do you want your church or ministry to grow? You need someone who sees the stuff no one else sees. Let your pastor into your mess. You will be so glad you did.
In a world of complex schedules, complex opinions, complex issues, complex circumstances a simple, clear and scriptural message bangs on the door of hearts the loudest.
A simple, clear, scriptural message stand out and it is our job to deliver it.
Our church is growing rapidly because we figured out how to leverage social media to reach people.
As soon as people learn about how our church more than doubled in size in less than 12 months largely through the use of social media, they immediately want to talk about the content we create and use. What they fail to understand is that content is just one piece of the puzzle.
It is true that if your content is terrible, social media does more harm for your ministry than it does good.
It is also true that even if you have high quality, professional content the results from your social media efforts will be extremely limited if you aren't thinking about some other really important aspects to leveraging social media to reach people.
The five areas below are absolutely essential to think through with your team before you ever do anything with social media as a ministry or church.
The Strategy - Content is great, but strategy is greater. If you really want to reach your community through the tool of social media you have to think about and develop a strategy. Ask yourself (or your team) "What are we trying to say?" and "How are we trying to say it?". Clear and simple answers to those questions will help you develop and fuel your online social media strategy.
The Filter - Once your strategy is developed you will need to filter everything you do on social media through that strategy. No more pot luck dinner announcements. No more clutter. If it doesn't fit with what you are trying to say and who you are trying to say it to, don't post it. Spend some time deleting old content that doesn't fit the strategy you developed. Filter all future content through your strategy.
The Focus - Social media really works well when you have a razor sharp focus on your target audience. Clearly define the audience you are trying to reach. Who are they? What are their fears or frustrations? What are their dreams or desires? What obstacles are they facing? Use your focus on and understanding of your audience to drive your content creation.
The Content - There is no excuse to put poor content on the internet. We started leveraging social media with zero budget allotted for marketing and using free tools. When you put out poor content you turn people off to your message. Images should be modern and attractive without a lot of clutter. Videos should be clear and steady. Find someone in your church who is into photography. Ask them to take pictures for you. Get free stock photos at places like pexels.com. Use free editing software apps like Canva. There are a ton of tools available for you to up your content game. Get on google and start searching. Problem solve to improve the quality of your content.
The Health - If your church is unhealthy, if it does not have a healthy culture, if it has leadership problems, if it isn't focused on loving and reaching the unchurched, please don't use social media to try to grow your church. Be honest and courageous enough to take a good hard look at the health of your church. Take a good hard look at your health as a leader. Don't make excuses, just work on the health and culture of the church. If you use social media effectively and people show up to an unwelcoming, unhealthy church you actually cause more harm than good. Your church won't grow. You will create another barrier between people and Jesus making it harder for all of us to win influence and have a voice with lost people. Please get healthy before you ever think about using social media to reach people. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please.
There are churches that feel unchangeable, but any church can experience change and become a healthy, growing, even multiplying church.
Before we get into how to change an unchangeable church we need to admit something together: If churches don't change, they die. This is a reality we may try to avoid or ignore but it is very much true. I know this because I was the lead pastor of a dying church. Can I just paint a picture for you that too many pastors find all too familiar? The church I was pastoring was stuck, out of date and resistant to change. The people who attended this church had great hearts, loved God and loved people but somewhere along the way this community stopped changing, plateaued and shifted into decline. People told me it would never change. The average age of the church was 60 and it was located in one of the toughest rural counties (a place I love) in the country. The church was dying but it didn't die. Now, a few years later this church is still located in that county, the average age is 35, it is bursting with life, experiencing rapid growth and charting a course to multiply this next year. The journey has been amazing, fun, frustrating at times and beautiful. As I look back on the journey I am amazed at what God will do when we are willing to courageously follow him.
A place that once seemed unchangeable is now a place that welcomes change and values flexibility. To get there it took an intentional cultural shift that is reproducible in any context and I want to share how we made that shift with you.
Most pastors feel limited in what they are able to accomplish in a stuck church. It is easy to get lost in survival mode and be uncertain of how or where to start. But, in any church, in any setting the place to start can be simple and clear.
Start with creating, defining, and communicating a healthy organizational culture.
Lets set a goal. The goal is to become a church that values flexibility. Flexible churches adapt and adjust and do so with little or no tearing. Flexible churches are amazing to pastor. Flexible churches and free to grow and reach more people in an ever changing context. Flexible churches make your job exciting. To become a church that values flexibility first focus on creating a culture that accepts change. Once you have a culture that accepts change you can start to cultivate a culture that invites change. Once you have a culture that invites change it is easy to transition that into a culture that values flexibility.
Did I lose you? I'll make it simple. Move your organization along the stages below toward flexibility.
Where on this cultural journey is your church?
Still here? Good. Let's start to create a culture of change. If you want to turn a dying church into a healthy growing church this is the place to start.
1. Make small changes often. Ok, you probably can't make the big drastic change to your constitution even though your constitution was written in 13 BC, but you can make a bunch of small changes often. Small changes are easier for your organization to digest. Make a bunch of them. Spread them out and implement them often. Examples: Tweak the bulletin, change the lighting, adjust the seating, make changes on the website, make small changes on a Sunday morning, during worship, to the music, make small changes in how you communicate.
2. Stop asking for permission. There are a lot of changes you can make without getting permission from a stuck board or a resistant congregation. Use wisdom and act in love but also be courageous enough to know that as the leader of the organization, you don't need permission for every decision you make. If you are teaching and want to ditch the podium, ditch the podium. Your announcement guy will figure it out. Or better yet ditch announcements. You don't need permission to buy a drum set and add it to the front of your sanctuary. If you stop and think about it there are plenty of changes you can start to make without asking for permission.
3. Start with the things you can control. You may not be able to control the power players in your church but you can control you. Be intentional about what you communicate and how you communicate it. In fact, be intentional about everything you do and have a strategy for communicating toward a healthy future. Examples: Change how you preach, change up the sermon series more frequently, run meetings differently, have more individual meetings with staff and make those meeting shorter, create a strategy and start to implement it before you even tell anyone about it.
4. Don't say or listen to statements that include "old way" thinking. There are statements thrown around church that you should be ignoring and never, ever saying. Such as: "This is how we've always done it." "Trust me you don't want to change ________." "We never did it like that before." "This isn't who we are." "We don't really do things like that around here." Have an example to add?
5. Challenge team members to problem solve by thinking outside of the box. - Don't settle or look for easy answers or old answers or methods. Get your team to come up with and think through multiple solutions to challenges you face. Challenge "old way" thinking by asking good questions. Such as: "What are new options or approaches we could take to address this challenge?" "What can we do differently to get a different result?" "If we were to change how we did this, what would we change?" "What is missing or confusing about what we are doing or planning to do?"
6. Stay Consistent - Does that sound ironic in an article about change? Consistently change things. Don't allow yourself to settle in and get comfortable. To change culture you have to be consistent for a long period of time. Keep changing things. Don't stop, instead learn how to pivot.
7. Cast Vision Like a Fly Fisherman - Have you ever watched a fly-fisherman cast? It is art in motion. The heavy fly line creates a loop back and forth casting the fly out just above the water time and time again before finally finishing the cast, landing the fly at the most opportune time and place to move a fish. Cast vision like a fly fisherman. Keep throwing the vision out there, over and over again. Constantly search for opportune times to plant a vision in the best places to move your organization and your people forward toward health.
Be courageous. God's got this, you just have to follow.


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Treasure Place is near to International Science Park, West Coast Park, National University Hosiptal (NUH) and National University of Singapore (NUS). Amenities can be found along Pasir Panjang Road or the nearby Holland Village.
Treasure Place is within 8 minutes drive to the Holland Village and 15 minutes to the Central Business District. It is accessible from the other parts of Singapore via the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE) and West Coast Highway.


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Approved minutes of last meeting as amended (6 0 0).
Motion to make the OSP PAX be the same as the SM2 PAX and to locally class all Cobra and Cobra kit cars in BP. Approved (6 0 0). BSP-V will be eliminated as a local class due to lack of participants and difficulty in determining what the PAX should be for this year given other PAX factors which have changed.
Bob Weisickle will purchase another laser head so we have 2 of the new types.
Noted that we have to move the trailer from Stockton to Mather to Stockton on consecutive weekends.
Decided to alter PAX championship points system by awarding 100 points as the maximum PAX points for a given event and allowing one drop per 4 events.
Discussed using March 7 date as a test and tune date at Stockton. Doug will contact Stockton to explore options.


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Classic medium blue metallic is understated and simple, yet it remains a favorite year after year.
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My father was a talented artist and would have gone on to study at a top art school if World War II hadn't intervened. My son is similarly talented and works in the fashion industry but also illustrates books. They have a remarkably similar style even though they were taught in completely different ways. My father's education was very formal. My son was just taught what he needed to know when he needed to know it. Both were found to be colour blind – my father mildly so, my son more severely. It didn't stop them.
Their work is good, really good. So, I don't bother.
There was always that ice-skater I painted when I was in the first class of junior school. It was the only one who seemed like it was moving.
When we lived in Holland for a while I suddenly developed a talent for drawing some of the intriguingly shaped Dutch houses. I also started doing portraits of TV personalities and my children's friends. They were good by any standard.
Next I started a correspondence art course and then took up silk-painting.
So, I let it drop.
My friend Debz Hobbs-Wyatt likewise has a father who is an artist and also a brother. Is it something genetic? Who knows? She's good with layout, too.
I'm a little rusty on the technical side of things but I still have the eye. When we display our students' work I'm often asked to set it out and my arrangements do seem to work. I make useful suggestions about book-covers and I'm actually good with colour even though I possibly inflicted my father's colour-blindness on my son. Does perhaps an appreciation of shape help me to get form and balance into my stories?
Is it perhaps then, actually the same thing just coming out another way?
Maybe I'll get back to it one day. Perhaps when I retire. Ah, but there are a lot of things hanging on that.


Per a report by Miami's WSVN, a Florida woman was arrested after "darting" around through traffic with a baby in her arms.
Early Monday morning, Marion County Sheriff's deputies responded to a call of a woman appearing to be on drugs barking at vehicles as they passed.
Morgan attempted to run from police by weaving in and out of cars. As she fled, Morgan dropped the baby head first on the side of the highway.
Morgan was arrested and later admitted she had taken meth, as well as "molly." Her mother advised she had been dealing with postpartum depression and an abusive relationship.
The baby suffered a skull fracture in the fall.
Morgan faces charges of aggravated child abuse and resisting an officer.


Elite Resume is a site with dark, minimalistic design and a plenty of certifications mentioned on the site bottom. They claim to provide career management services that shows they are not restricted by resume writing only. They offer a range of career coaching services which include personal branding, executive coaching, social media etc.
It was an unpleasant surprise when I couldn't find the prices on the site. As I noticed, you are expected to contact them using the contact form first. I didn't need a free critique, I knew what I came for, so why did I had to contact them and wait for reply when I could simply make an order and don't waste my time?
In less than 2 hours, I got an email with detailed explanation of the process and prices. By the way, the price was considerably above average. After I submitted all the necessary information, I was informed that I would get a resume if 4-5 business days.
Support here is a phone number and a very inconvenient contact us form. Luckily my resume was good enough and I didn't have to get in touch with them all the time. The writer did his job the way I wanted it to. However, I still have questions to the site owners.
I was just wondering was it that difficult to publish all the information on the site so the potential clients could easily find it? Instead of showing off the professionalism and awards, it would be better for them to inform the clients about such important things as price, turnaround time, and discounts. Also, communication via email and payment process could be easier. Though my resume was ok, next time I won't use this site due to the above reasons, and probably will stay on Perfect Resume org – it's convenient and informative.
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New Work is not about the company! – Future of work besides ideologies
Economic success, is only one consequence of the implementation of New Work.
By Heike Bauer Last updated Oct 16, 2020
New Work as we really, really want it – that is the approach of New Work. The movement that was founded in the 1970s by the social philosopher Prof. Dr. Frithjof Bergmann, with the question of the freedom of the human being within his work and the realization that the future of work is closely linked to the satisfaction of the employee.
The original concept of New Work had other requirements
"How will we (want to) work in the future?
Dream jobs are still mostly heroic or very social
New work as we really, really want it.
This is the approach of New Work. The movement, which was founded in the 1970s by the social philosopher Prof. Dr. Frithjof Bergmann, with the question of the freedom of man within his work and the realization that the future of work is closely linked to the satisfaction of the employee.
Friedjof Bergman questioned the meaningfulness of work and through the search for meaning in work, which was manifested by Generation Y (Why) a good 20 years later, New Work gained concrete recipients and thus acceptance.
For more understanding: Wikipedia Definition of New Work
Is this radical approach not too ideological?
This concept can and must even be adapted to the "today".
In our exciting, but also extremely fast and uncertain times, driven by digitization and the digital transformation, we need a new attitude, even greater personal responsibility and above all the courage to make decisions.
In recent months, I have heard countless excuses for taking a step into a new working world, which always started with the words: "first the right processes have to be initiated". What?
This term is already completely misplaced in the understanding of New Work.
Why? There can be no processes, because the definition of business processes says among other things: Every process has a beginning and an end.
New Work, or Future Work, has no end.
It becomes a path that has to be constantly reconsidered and adapted, and, depending on the company, has to be renewed individually with all employees.
But back to the title: what we really, really want
In doing so, we have to break away from traditional patterns of thinking, because these do not really allow us to think about it.
A good example of this comes from my direct environment, from a colleague who works in technical management at a large company, well trained and successful in her profession.
But if she could really choose, she would want to work as a zoo keeper.
After her supervisor heard about this wish by chance, he organised a one-week paid leave of absence with a job in the elephant house as a bonus. This raises the question whether her dream has now given way to reality?
No; she would actually still change, if it weren't for the independence she has through her current, well-paid job and the fact that she is currently not trained as an animal keeper.
In that case, the unconditional basic income would have to be brought up again and I am convinced that in the long term we will not be able to get past this "base".
Either way, company management and employees must move out of their comfort zone and not only look for solutions that make work a little more appealing, but really change it from the ground up.
Work as we know it up to now will no longer exist in a few years.
Surely everyone wants to become an influencer today?
What do children answer when they are asked about their career aspirations?
According to a 2017 survey conducted by an educational scientist, there were an astonishing number of classics. More than 50% of the children concentrated their wishes on only twelve professions.
The professions footballer, fireman, racing driver, policeman and pilot were in the lead for the boys and unfortunately also very classical for the girls: veterinary surgeon, nurse, teacher, model and animal keeper.
In the teenage years, career aspirations are often shaped by the private environment and now also strongly influenced by the media. Therefore it is only comprehensible that an original wish or a creative talent, for example, only consciously appears again as a fulfilling career wish in much later years.
The term "work" is economically defined as gainful employment, i.e. time for money. As we know it, it has only existed for about 200 years. The human being is seen as a production factor, which is reflected by such standing terms from our economy or as well as "human resource" – human resource ("a means to an end"?).
"There are of course companies that exploit the idea of New Work and see it as a marketing trick" Interview Frithjof Bergmann/ Personalmagazin
New Work does not stand for home office, foosball table and ballroom, nor does it stand for the fact that we in the company are now all on first name terms.
New Work stands for humanity, responsibility, courage, transparency and community spirit. Not everyone against everyone, but all together for one goal.
New Work presupposes the will to change completely and today it is also about the willingness to allow and promote models for networked and flexible work.
Companies must no longer postpone the framework for future work, because yesterday's future is tomorrow's past.
Heike Bauer
Heike Bauer unterstützt Unternehmen bei der Ist-Analyse und Befähigung von Mitarbeitern auf dem Weg in eine neue, digitale Arbeitswelt, mit dem Instrument eines zeitgemässen NEW-WORK Ansatzes. Ausgebildet als Führungskraft für Industriebetriebe erkennt sie schnell die Stolpersteine, die einem echten kulturellen Wandel im Weg liegen. Bei den Dimensionen People, Place, Technologie setzt sie auf den kostbaren, Wissenstransfer zwischen den Generationen Publikation und Artikel: Mitautorin an der Studie Arbeitswelt 4.0. Als KMU die Arbeitswelt der Zukunft erfolgreich gestalten, Autorin bei MtD und topsoft und hält Vorträge zum Thema New Work. Vortragsreihe 2020: Wenn New Work die Antwort ist, was war nochmal die Frage.
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Due to the investment facilitated by Shuraako, Aloog purchased a solar power system (300 kW). This is the largest solar installation in the country to date. Together, wind and solar generation has increased Aloog's renewable energy mix to 24% of its power produced. Aloog now has the capacity to produce over 6 MW of power for the city of Borama. The renewable energy expansion has dropped Aloog's operational costs and thus customer tariffs, which conversely should enable the increased breadth and depth of customer consumption.


Sharing a home with a bird can be extremely entertaining, as pets they bring lots of pleasure into their owner's lives. Some species boast extremely long life spans so owning one is a huge long-term commitment. Taking good care of birds requires time and dedication which means doing quite a bit of research before deciding on what type of bird would best suit your lifestyle.
Birds are very sensitive to quite a few things and this includes anything that contains chemicals and other toxic ingredients. Should a bird be exposed to any it could seriously impact their health and in a worst case scenario it may even prove fatal to them. As such, it is ultra important to check any product you use around the house and which are quite commonly found in the kitchen or bathroom if you share a home with a feathered friend.
As a rule of thumb, it's best to think twice before using any sort of aerosol around the home because it could end up seriously impacting a pet bird's very fragile respiratory system. Should a bird be exposed to any sort of harmful chemical, the results could be disastrous and they may well die within minutes of having inhaled anything nasty. With this said, even spray perfumes or any sort of body lotions can be harmful to them if they are close enough to inhale any of the product which is why it's so important to keep a watchful eye on what you spray on yourself when you're around birds. All chemicals are potentially harmful to birds and if you keep this thought in your mind, you'll stand a better chance of keeping your pet bird safe and out of harm's way.
With the warmer weather comes lots of insects which includes flies and it's all too easy to buy some insect spray to kill them off. However, sharing a home with a bird means no more insect sprays because they are extremely harmful to our feathered friends. If a home needs to be professionally cleaned by a pest control firm, you must remove pet birds before any work can begin and then to keep them away from the home until it is safe to bring them back again which is when all the fumes have totally evaporated.
Chemicals found in nail polish and hair dye are also very toxic to birds which means you should never have your pet near you when you are handling or using any of them. Your pet should be in another room well away from you and any fumes that may be present in the air when you polish your nails or dye your hair.
It's also really important and much safer to put a pet bird in another room when you want to clean the one they normally live in and to only put them back once you are sure all the fumes given off by any cleaning products have completely evaporated.
If you share your home with a feathered friend the best way to keep them safe from inhaling any toxic fumes is to treat all common household products as being dangerous to birds. However, even fragrances and perfumes you use on yourself can be harmful to them so it's important to keep them well away from aerosol body sprays, deodorants and perfumes. Lastly, you should never smoke when you are around a pet bird because it could make them very ill and even prove deadly. Birds have such fragile respiratory systems and it does not take much exposure to negatively impact them which could see a bird drop dead in minutes.