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Find adventure with SlimPickins
by texannews · November 18, 2019
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The Dawes family opened SlimPickins Outfitters in 2007. Photo courtesy of the Dawes.
SlimPickins Outfitters (SPO) is owned by Jahmicah Dawes and his wife Heather and is the only outdoor store in Stephenville. When you walk in SPO, you are likely to hear music playing, see a toddler running around and see their dog, Bill Murray, taking a nap in the store.
Dawes opened SPO in 2007 because he felt that it was what God was calling him to do. He believes that SPO is God's business, not his own.
"God told us to open a shop in Stephenville. We believe it was definitely God because we didn't want to stay in Stephenville," Dawes said.
After Dawes knew he was supposed to open a shop, he started looking around town for places to open one. He remembers seeing the building they now run SPO out of, the old Rexall Drug Store on the Stephenville square, and thinking how cool it would be to have that building.
"We passed this building looking for places that were open for rent and I said, 'Man, if we could have that building.' It was the dopest building on the square," he said.
When reflecting back over their time at the store, Dawes had no idea of what it would become. They trusted that God had a plan when he was called to open this business.
"God is able to do abundantly more than we can think or imagine, and he has done that with this shop," he said.
SPO sells outdoor gear. Photo by Haley Barnett.
SPO is an outdoor shop that sells products unique to the area. Dawes believe in local businesses supporting local businesses. Some of the products they sell include backpacks, fly fishing rods, coolers and other kinds of outdoor gear.
"We sell outdoor apparel and footwear, gear and camping equipment," Dawes said. "We sell adventure."
Dawes wants to use SPO as a way to be active in the community of Stephenville. The focus of SPO is to build relationships and encourage people to go out and enjoy the outdoors.
"We opened because God wanted us to be a place that we could focus on community," Dawes said. "We are active in our community…through fly fishing, community yoga and The Sessions."
The Sessions are usually on the fourth Saturday of the month and include live and local music. SPO does many other events that invite the community to get to know them and adventure out.
"We want to be a relevant spot for our community," Dawes said.
Every Wednesday is Vinyl Wednesday, where customers can bring their own vinyl record to play or listen to the one SPO has playing in the store. On the first Saturday of the month, SPO has the Slim Saturday Pedal, a community bike ride. They have Community Yoga every second or third Thursday of the month. In addition, they have recently started doing Coffee and Missions on Tuesdays. SPO also has fly fishing classes that are every three or so months.
Dawes is very passionate about living his life as a mission and going where God has called. He has outfitted people to go to Cambodia, Africa, Ukraine, Peru, Ecuador and many other places. They want to hear peoples' stories and partner with them when they go on their own adventure to which God has called them.
"We are doing this new initiative called Outfitting the Saints," Dawes explained. "We are an outfitter for missionaries, so anyone going on a mission trip can come here and get outfitted. We would get to know them and…their stories and see how we could partner with them to provide them with the best gear."
Jahmicah and Heather Dawes. Photo courtesy of the Dawes.
In the future, Dawes wants to continue to encourage people to go outdoors and remind them that they can do that here, locally. He wants to keep the business in Stephenville and see how it can impact the community.
"I would like to provide a source for education about the outdoors for this area. There are a lot of resources here, a beautiful park. This area is known for the hardworking people that farm and ranch. There are a lot of people that love the outdoors that don't stay here to do that," Dawes said.
Dawes believes that there is innovation, creativity and potential in Stephenville and that it is growing and changing. He wants to continue to meet the needs of those locally and provide for them.
"I want this place to be a place that can provide a need however and whatever that looks like," Dawes said.
Dawes loves hearing the stories of others adventuring out and hearing what they are doing. He believes that this business and life has been their adventure. They welcome others to come see and be a part of their adventure.
"This has been our adventure: marriage, running a store, having a kid. When you come in, you kind of see the adventure we are in," Dawes said.
While SlimPickins Outfitters is the Dawes' adventure, they encourage you to go out and explore the world and to always, "Act Justly, Love Kindly, Serve Humbly."
SlimPickins Outfitters is located at 200 W. Washington St. For more information about SlimPickins Outfitters, you can check out slimpickinsoutfitters.com.
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Ardian Private Debt arranges unitranche financing supporting the acquisition of EMVIA Living by Chequers Capital
Investment underlines Ardian's further expansion of its direct lending activities in Germany
Frankfurt, October 26, 2017 – Ardian Private Debt, a divison of Ardian, the independent private investment company, announced today that it has provided a Unitranche financing supporting Chequers Capital ("Chequers"), in their acquisition of EMVIA Living, a leading operator of care homes in Germany. The financing also includes an additional committed debt facility to further support the company's expansion plans.
EMVIA Living, established through a carve-out of the operating business comprising 46 stationary care homes from MK-Kliniken AG, is an independent private company based in Hamburg and Berlin. EMVIA Living has a capacity of around 5,500 beds to service people in need of care and has around 3,200 employees. With c. €200 million in revenues, the company is one of the leading players in its sector in Germany. The company is managed by Markus Speckenbach as CEO.
Mark Brenke, Managing Director & Co-Head Ardian Private Debt, said: "We are delighted to be supporting the management team and Chequers who have a strong track record of investing in Germany's care home sector. EMVIA Living has a long and well-established market presence as one of the leading private nursing home operators in Germany, leveraging its broad and diversified network of individual homes as well as its deep regional market knowledge. EMVIA is well-positioned for continued growth and Ardian Private Debt is very pleased to be the company's financing partner".
Ardian, founded in 1996 and led by Dominique Senequier, is an independent private investment company with assets of US$65bn managed or advised in Europe, North America and Asia. The company, which is majority-owned by its employees, keeps entrepreneurship at its heart and delivers investment performance to its global investors while fuelling growth in economies across the world. Ardian's investment process embodies three values: excellence, loyalty and entrepreneurship.
Ardian maintains a truly global network, with more than 470 employees working through twelve offices in Paris, London, Frankfurt, Milan, Madrid, Zurich, New York, San Francisco, Beijing, Singapore, Jersey, Luxembourg. The company offers its 610 investors a diversified choice of funds covering the full range of asset classes, including Ardian Funds of Funds (primary, early secondary and secondary), Ardian Private Debt, Ardian Buyout (including Ardian Mid Cap Buyout Europe & North America, Ardian Expansion, Ardian Growth and Ardian Co-Investment), Ardian Infrastructure, Ardian Real Estate and Ardian Mandates.
ABOUT CHEQUERS CAPITAL
Chequers Capital is one of the leading European private equity houses, focusing on leading companies across all business sectors and has completed a large number of investments in the healthcare sector in several European countries. Chequers' previous investment in the stationary care industry was the acquisition of Silver Care. Under the ownership of Chequers the number of operated care homes of Silver Care more than doubled within four years, and was recognised as the quality leader among the large operators in the sector three years in the row based on the public quality rating system of MDK.
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1Education and career
3Bibliography
6Critical references
7.1Interviews
Brian McLaren
American pastor and author
Not to be confused with Brian MacLaren.
Brian McLaren (foreground) and Tony Jones, Yale Theological Conversation, Yale Divinity School, February 2006
Brian D. McLaren (born 1956) is an American pastor, author, speaker, and leading figure in the emerging church movement. McLaren is also associated with postmodern Christianity.[1]
Education and career[edit]
Raised in Rockville, Maryland in the conservative Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, McLaren became attracted to the countercultural Jesus Movement in the 1970s.[2] In the 1970s and early 1980s, McLaren attended the University of Maryland where he received both a B.A. and M.A.[3][4] He founded Cedar Ridge Community Church in Spencerville, Maryland, in 1982 while he was teaching English on the college level.[4] In 1986, he became a full-time pastor. The church eventually grew to include 500 members.[5] In 2015, McLaren was recognized by Time magazine as one of the 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America.[6] McLaren left his position at Cedar Ridge in 2006 to pursue writing and speaking full time.[5]
In 2011, McLaren defended Rob Bell's controversial book Love Wins against critiques from figures such as Albert Mohler, who argued that Bell advocated universalism.[7]
In 2013, McLaren stated that he did not believe homosexual conduct to be sinful.[8]
Personal life[edit]
McLaren is married and has four children.[4][9] In September 2012, McLaren led a commitment ceremony for his son Trevor and partner Owen Ryan at the Audubon Naturalist Society in Chevy Chase, Maryland.[10]
The Church on the Other Side: Doing Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix (originally published as Reinventing Your Church, Zondervan, March 1998 ISBN 9780310216544)
Finding Faith: A Self-Discovery Guide for Your Spiritual Quest (Zondervan, June 1999, ISBN 9780310225423)
A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey (Jossey-Bass, January 2001, ISBN 9780787955991)
More Ready Than You Realize: Evangelism as Dance in the Postmodern Matrix (Zondervan, January 2002, ISBN 9780310239642)
A Is for Abductive: The Language of the Emerging Church (co-written with Leonard Sweet and Jerry Haselmayer, Zondervan, December 2002, ISBN 9780310243564)
Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel (co-written with Tony Campolo, Emergent/YS, March 2003, ISBN 9780310253846)
The Church in Emerging Culture: Five Perspectives (Zondervan Emergent/YS, October 2003 ISBN 9780310254874) Leonard Sweet (General Editor), with contributors Andy Crouch, Brian D. McLaren, Erwin McManus, Michael Horton, Frederica Mathewes-Green
The Story We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian (Jossey-Bass, February 2003, ISBN 9780787963873)
A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-Hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished CHRISTIAN (Zondervan, September 2004, ISBN 9780310257479)
The Last Word and the Word After That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity (Jossey-Bass, April 2005, ISBN 9780787975920)
The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything (W Publishing Group, April 2006, ISBN 9780849900006)
The Voice of Luke: Not Even Sandals (Thomas Nelson, July 2007) ISBN 0-529-12351-7
Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope (Thomas Nelson, October 2007) ISBN 0-8499-0183-9
Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices (Thomas Nelson, May 2008) ISBN 0-8499-0114-6
The Justice Project (Baker, September 2009), edited with Elisa Padilla, and Ashley Bunting Seeber ISBN 0-8010-1328-3
A New Kind of Christianity (HarperOne, February 2010) ISBN 0-06-185398-4
Naked Spirituality: A Life With God in 12 Simple Words (HarperOne, March 2011) ISBN 0-06-185401-8
Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road? Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World (Jericho Books, September 2012) ISBN 978-1-4555-1396-3
We Make the Road by Walking: A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation, and Activation (Jericho Books, June 2014) ISBN 9781455514007
The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian (Convergent Books, September 2017, ISBN 9781601427915)
Seeking Aliveness: Daily Reflections on a New Way to Experience and Practise the Christian Faith (Hodder & Stoughton, October 2017, ISBN 9781478947479)
The Galápagos Islands: A Spiritual Journey (Broadleaf Press, October 2019, ISBN 9781506448251)
Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It (St. Martin's Press, January 2021, ISBN 9781250262776)
Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned (St. Martin's Press, May 2022, ISBN 9781250262790)
Postmodern Christianity
Frederick Buechner
^ "Brian McLaren: Postmodern Christianity Understood as Story". Christianpost.com. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
^ Murphy, Caryle (September 10, 2006). "Evangelical Author Puts Progressive Spin On Traditional Faith". Washington Post. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
^ "Author Brian McLaren to speak at summer worship series". Asheville Citizen. Asheville, NC. August 12, 2010.
^ a b c Tucker, Abigail (April 27, 2005). "Fire without brimstone: Brian McLaren preaches tolerance and environmentalism, making him one of the country's more unusual yet influential evangelicals". Baltimore Sun.
^ a b Garrison, Greg (August 2, 2014). "'The Bible is a book about immigration': Emerging Church leader McLaren returning to Birmingham". al.
^ "Brian McLaren - Paradigm Shifter". Time. 2005-02-07. Archived from the original on June 11, 2010.
^ "Brian McLaren Defends Rob Bell against Mohler's Critique". Christianpost.com. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
^ Theoblogy (8 October 2012). "Brian McLaren's View on Homosexuality".
^ "About Brian McLaren". Retrieved April 19, 2022.
^ "Trevor McLaren, Owen Ryan - Weddings". The New York Times. 2012-09-23. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
Critical references[edit]
Carson, D. A. Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church. Grand Rapids, Michigan Zondervan, 2005.
Erickson, Millard. Postmodernizing the Faith: Evangelical Responses to the Challenge of Postmodernism. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 1998.
________; Helseth, Paul Kjoss; and Taylor, Justin eds. Reclaiming the Center: Confronting Evangelical Accommodation in Postmodern Times. Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway Books, 2004.
Smith, R. Scott. Truth and the New Kind of Christian: The Emerging Effects of Postmodernism in the Church. Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway Books, 2005.
"Evangelical Author Puts Progressive Spin On Traditional Faith" (Washington Post, September 10, 2006)
Video interview/discussion with Richard Land on Bloggingheads.tv
Interviews[edit]
Interview with Brian McLaren on "Finding Our Way Again" by ReadTheSpirit.com
Interview with Brian McLaren on "A New Kind of Christianity" by ReadTheSpirit.com
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brian_McLaren&oldid=1131370551"
American evangelists
Emerging church movement
American Christian religious leaders
21st-century Protestant religious leaders
Christian bloggers
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Articles with SUDOC identifiers


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Tabligh is an album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith which was recorded live at the CalArts Creative Music Festival in 2005 and released on Cuneiform. It was the third recording by his Golden Quartet with a new electro-acoustic lineup featuring pianist Vijay Iyer, bassist John Lindberg and drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson.

Background
Smith had brought these musicians together in 2004, and in the spring 2005 they did an extensive European tour. Their world premiere at the Banlieues Bleues Festival was filmed by French filmmaker Jacques Goldstein for a documentary called Eclipse. "Rosa Parks" was written for the African American Civil Rights activist who died a month before the concert.  "DeJohnette" was written for the drummer who inspired Smith to form his Golden Quartet. The final two songs, "Caravan of Winter" and "Tabligh", were written as part of a collection of 11 compositions for a cross-cultural collaborative project commissioned by the Islamic World Initiative and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Reception

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states "Smith, in his sixties, is not only as inventive and adventurous as he was when he was a younger player, but his creativity and ability to direct a band into new territory is actually farther reaching than ever before. This is brilliant work."

The All About Jazz review by Troy Collins says "The expansive set reveals the quartet's versatility, ranging from atmospheric ballads and searing electronic melt-downs to spacious aleatoric detours and fragmentary collective improvisations."

In another review for All About Jazz Nic Jones states "Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has always carved out his own territory in the music and Tabligh is one of the best realizations of his work on record."

The Down Beat review by James Hale notes that "Tabligh is defined by Jackson's muscular energy."

In his review for JazzTimes, Steve Greenlee states "To say the new lineup is powerful would be a huge understatement. Smith elicits a symphony of sounds from his trumpet."

The PopMatters review by Will Layman describes the music as "lyrical and atmospheric, featuring both wide-open spaces and a heaping dose of pleasing melody."

In a review for Bagatellen, Clifford Allen says that "Tabligh is an album that should be on the shelf of anyone with an interest in the past eighty-odd years of trumpet improvisation."

The Point of Departure review by Ed Hazell notes that "the band is as comfortable and attuned to Smith's compositions as any band he's ever led; the music is lively, even explosive at times, yet still exquisitely balanced."

Track listing
All compositions by Wadada Leo Smith
 "Rosa Parks" - 16:14
 "DeJohnette" - 12:53
 "Caravan of Winter" - 8:36
 "Tabligh" - 24:34

Personnel
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Vijay Iyer - piano, Fender Rhodes, synthesizer
John Lindberg - bass
Ronald Shannon Jackson - drums

References

2008 live albums
Wadada Leo Smith live albums
Cuneiform Records live albums

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Patrick Kennedy Hosting Mental Health Conference In Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) – The son of the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy was in Chicago Thursday for an all-day conference on the topic of how we treat — or in many cases, fail to treat — mental illness.
"We can do better," said former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, at Thursday's launch of Kennedy Forum Illinois, a conference he helped organize to honor President Kennedy's 1963 signing of the Community Mental Health Act.
Since leaving the House, Patrick Kennedy has devoted himself to the cause of improving the treatment of the mentally ill.
Kennedy said it's a personal issue. Decades ago, his aunt Rosemary was lobotomized and hidden away, because of the social stigma from mental illness that caused erratic behavior and violent mood swings. He himself has struggled with alcohol addiction. Among the panelists at Thursday's conference was Cook Sheriff Tom Dart, who has called Cook County Jail the country's largest mental health facility, because so many of its inmates are mentally ill. Kennedy called that "unforgivable."
"It is torture, literally, to confine someone with a mental illness. In most cases, we are putting them in solitary confinement, when they're active in psychosis. It is absolutely horrific," he said.
Kennedy said more needs to be done in terms of prevention and early intervention. He said mental health screening should be a routine part of every physical exam.
"You'll get a check-up from the neck up, which means you're going to get your anxiety level, your mood disorder examined. It's shocking to me that in this day and age, with the epidemic of addiction and mental illness, that we would not include a screening for mental illness and addiction," he said.
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The origin of the whammy bar dates back to the 1940s when Paul Bigsby invented his vibrato bar for the electric guitar. The Bigsby vibrato is mounted to the tailpiece of the guitar. It produces a vibrato effect and a slight variation of pitch.
The contemporary whammy bar was created by Leo Fender and fine tuned by Floyd Rose. Fender combined the vibrato bar with springs, similar to pedal steel guitars, to raise and lower the pitch of the strings. The spring tension allows the bridge to move and this gives the whammy bar more variability. It is possible to accurately raise or lower the pitch of single notes or all six strings at the same time.
The origin of the whammy bar dates back to the 1940s when Paul Bigsby invented his vibrato bar for the electric guitar.
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COVID-19 Stays Under Control in Zambia
Covid-19 cases in Zambia reached more than 1,000 as of June 3, according to worldometers.info.
With a population of more than 17.35 million, the percentage of total cases is only 0.005%. In addition to this impressively low total case number, a total of 912 individuals have recovered, a 90% recovery rate. Here are three reasons for the high recovery and lack of cases in Zambia.
Testing, Testing, Testing!
On March 18, Zambia reported its first two cases of coronavirus in the nation's capital, Lusaka. Two residents tested positive after traveling to France. Before those cases, Zambia's government prepared by increasing testing and screening. A 14-day self-quarantine was put into place to make sure potential positive cases of COVID-19 in Zambia would not spread.
Presidential Response
On March 25, Zambia's president Edgar Lungu addressed the nation after 12 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. Lungu made headway by addressing those citizens who hadn't taken the virus seriously. "Let me say this; if your lifestyle has not changed in the past few weeks, then you are doing something wrong and endangering both yourself, your neighbor, and your loved ones," Lungu said.
Also during the speech, Lungu made commitments to ensure funding from the public sector would go into testing. Lungu has called this his COVID-19 contingency plan, which is "including its budget and directed the ministry of finance to mobilize resources to enable lune ministries, private sector, and other key stakeholders to contain and combat the spread of the coronavirus disease." Though, Lungu didn't stop there. He halted non-essential travel and restricted dine-in service for restaurants. Bars, night clubs, cinemas, gyms, and casinos had to close immediately. Lungu described the coronavirus as a war against his people. His analogy created an extra layer of importance for following his guidelines for fighting COVID-19 in Zambia.
Healthcare Funding
One group critical to the backbone of medical care and funding for the coronavirus pandemic has been the Zambian International Health Alliance (ZIHA). ZIHA has focused on funding HIV/AIDS treatment, medical personnel and research of new diseases that could affect the people of Zambia, like the coronavirus. This funding has allowed for an increase in testing.
Another key player in medical relief is the U.S., specifically the United States Agency for International Development. The Agency granted Zambia $6.77 billion, which has funded healthcare in Zambia. President Lungu made an announcement on April 1, saying that he's "welcoming the government's plans to recruit more health workers in the wake of COVID-19." The Medical Association of Zambia agreed with Lungu's statement. They think this will not only increase the number of medical professionals in Zambia but will also ease the pain of COVID-19 in terms of outreach.
Because of the efforts to battle COVID-19 in Zambia, the virus has a relatively small presence compared to the country's total population. Recently, an excellen maize harvest helped quell food shortage worries. The extra grain will be used as an emergency food supply, protected by Zambia's Food Reserve Agency (FRA).
COVID-19 has put economically impoverished communities at risk, but it has also helped reveal the willpower of the Zambian people and the power of a community coming together to fight a common enemy – hunger.
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Synod Insider
Gerry O'Brien has a cunning plan to extend the period of reception
The General Synod comes to the end of its five year life in July, but before it does so it will be asked to set in motion a legislative process which could lead to the ordination of women as bishops.
Other provinces of the Anglican Communion already have women bishops. America and Canada have tried it, though whether they are still Anglican is open to question. New Zealand tried this innovation, though their single example has now retired and no woman has replaced her. Their situation, however, is very different to ours.
Immigrants to the colonial territories generally brought their faith with them. Many were seeking religious freedom and were attracted to the idea of living in an environment which was more pluralistic than was the case at home. Non-conformity flourished and Catholicism was not subject to the restrictions that existed in the old country.
The result is that in the new world, Anglicanism is but one sect amongst many. There is no parochial system in the sense that we understand it here. Anglican congregations, like everyone else, are gathered congregations and people pick and choose. Among such Anglicans 'central churchmanship' is far more pervasive than it is here.
I think you can tentatively draw the conclusion that there will be issues, which while they may not cause a schism in a more homogeneous Anglican Church, could well be explosive and divisive in a broader Anglican Church like the Church of England.
Since 1992 we have lived uneasily through a period of reception, but can this properly be extended to include women bishops? Would it not be wiser to have a third province in which women could be bishops, so that the experiment could continue, but without jeopardising the unity of the Provinces of Canterbury and York?
As it happens, there is already a third province in this country where there is no bar on women becoming bishops. It is called the Scottish Episcopal Church. Anglican priests in England (both male and female) may currently be considered for any Episcopal vacancies north of the border. Indeed the Bishop of Tonbridge was translated to Edinburgh a few years ago, so it is quite possible, in practice as well as in theory.
There are currently only a few women priests with CVs who would merit consideration for Episcopal vacancies, though that number will no doubt rise in the future. Press speculation last year mentioned only three or four names. However, it will be interesting to see whether those responsible for appointments in Scotland decide that any of them are to be preferred compared with the men available.
If no women were appointed in Scotland, then the question arises as to why the women bishops lobby should advocate permissive legislation in England as well. The only reasons I can think of are either that they imagine the standards looked for on the episcopal bench in England might be lower than those in Scotland, or that their concern for the unity of the Church of England is less than they would care to admit.


Atlantic Coastal Ridge (Hoffmeister et al., 1967).
Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean and Florida Bay.
imperceptible, appearing nearly flat for kilometers.
Pleistocene Miami Limestone, a marine carbonate.
water level in streams and rivers.
surface typically displays up to one meter of relief.
through C-C' accompanying the maps.
consolidated, variably fossiliferous quartz sand.
overlies the Tamiami Formation in the map area.
calcarenite to a microsparry-coralline limestone.
lithostratigraphic unit for this study.
J.H. Balsillie, J. Branch, D. Hargrove, A. Howell, D.
Jensen, from the Florida Geological Survey, and S.
were very helpful in obtaining information for this study.
speculative and is based on limited data.
muck component may also be present in these areas.
of America Memoir 147, 198 p.
Society Memoir 3, p. 18-41.
Investigation Report 90-4108, 50 p.
America Bulletin 78, p. 175-190.
Service, 56 p., 12 maps.
Water resources of Southeastern Florida: U.S.
Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 1255, 965 p.
Publishing Co., Dubuque, Iowa, 167 p.


How do you search the text of changelist descriptions in Perforce?
...(the -l switch tells it to dump the full text of the changelist descriptions) and then searching the file, but this is rather cumbersome. Has anyone found a better way?
When the submitted changelist pane has focus, a CTRL+F lets you do an arbitrary text search, which includes changelist descriptions.
The only limitation is that it searches just those changelists that have been fetched from the server, so you may need to up the number retrieved. This is done via the "Number of changelists, jobs, branch mappings or labels to fetch at a time" setting which can be found by navigating to Edit->Preferences->Server Data.
-B 3 means show 3 lines before the matched string, should be enough to show the change id with 2 line comments but you can change it as necessary.
edit: added the p4options to return more than 31 characters in the description.
Why redirect to a file when you can pipe the output through less and use less's search?
And then press / to prompt for a search string. Afterward, n will jump to the next match, and Shift+n will jump to the previous one.
An implementation of less for Windows is available as part of UnxUtils.
Using p4sql is really the only way to effectively do what you want. I am not aware of any other way. The benefit of course is that you can use the select statements to limit the range of changelist values (via date, user, etc). Your method will work but will get cumbersome very quickly as you generate more changelists. You can limit the scope of the changes command, but you won't get the flexibility of p4sql.
changes the record separator $/ to double newline "\n\n" so it filters the input into full records of the ztagged p4 output.
scans the '/^... desc/..//' part with regular expressions from the args.
if that worked ok, you could integrate it into the p4win tools menu.
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In this tutorial we'll see one of the methods to represent a picture in anime style, learn representing accurate contours, change the colors, use different layers and some program's filters.
Open in a new window the already scanned picture: File ? Open (ctrl+o).
Create a new layer: Layer ? New ? Layer and start picturing the contours very accurately. Select for the beginning the Brush Tool of Hard Round type and represent the eyes of our figure.
Then choose the Pen Tool and use it for representing the rest of the contours (applying the Stroke Path command).
When finishing the contours, you may delete the layer containing the outlining: Layer ? Delete ? Layer. Create after that a new layer, situated under the contours' layer and paint it in a neutral color, applying the Paint Bucket Tool.
Then mark out the iris with the Elliptical Marquee Tool and paint it by parts, applying the Gradient Tool, then introduce the shadows, applying the Brush Tool and blur them out, applying the Smudge Tool.
Now we'll try to detail the small balls on the girl's hair. Create a new layer above the layer with the basic color and group these layers (don't get outside the contours), applying the combination Layer ? Create Clipping Mask (ctrl+g). Introduce then the shadows, selecting the Burn Tool, changing the instrument's Exposure when processing and then merge down the layers: Layer ? Merge Down (ctrl+e). The shadows must be blurred out with the Smudge Tool.
Now we have to change a little the color of the balls. We need to copy the layer: Layer ? Duplicate Layer and change the layer's Blending Mode on Hard Light. Change the colors also, applying Image ? Adjustments ? Hue/Saturation (ctrl+u).
And change a little the color (Ctrl+u).
Insert now the shadows on the grouped layer, placed above the basic skin's color (Brush Tool).
Start painting it on the grouped layer (Brush Tool).
Blur them out, applying the next option: Filter ? Blur ? Motion Blur.
Select the Brush Tool to add the flares on the hair (on a new layer also).
Make a copy of the layer, containing the flares and blur out the copy, choosing the next option: Filter ? Blur ? Gaussian Blur.
Minimize the blurred layer's Opacity till 90%.
Make a copy of the girl's layer and make the lowest copy looking entirely white, selecting the next option: Image ? Adjustments ? Channel Mixer.
Enlarge a little the layer, selecting the next option: Edit ? Free Transform (ctrl+t) and click on the next buttons: alt+shift.
Next we have to make a copy of the background's layer and apply to this copy the next filter's option: Filter ? Sketch ? Halftone Pattern.


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The purpose of the Standards Project of the World Wide Web Watermark Archive Initiative is to arrive at standards for the design and function of World Wide Web based Archives of Papers and Watermarks. To facilitate that purpose and to help people get archives going, we are making all supporting programs freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public license. All programs are Copyright © 1997, Bates College.
Programming note: although most of the programs are written in AWK, they should be easily translated into PERL using the a2p program that comes with most PERL distributions.
Important note: clicking on the program links will not get you a useable program. Use the "Save As..." or "Download" function of your browser to transfer a copy of the program to your local hard drive. Choose Text format, if given a choice.
wmlookup is a shell script (Bourne or compatible shell) which, using an awk script, processes the parameters to fetch multiple matching records between files as part of a one-to-many relationship. For example, looking up all the Watermark records for a particular Paper. It is called as a CGI by the UNIX web server.
wmlookup.awk is a new-AWK (nawk) script which does the bulk of the work in wmlookup.
In the Archive of Papers and Watermarks in Greek Manuscripts, presented at the 1996 Roanoke Conference (The First International Conference on the History, Function, and Study of Watermarks), we used some, now obsolete, programs which others may find useful, particularly for interfacing with the SWISH search engine and imitating database type (field-based) searching. The main program is an awk script called wmsearch.awk. It (wmsearch.awk) is loaded by a shell script identical to wmlookup, except for the file name passed to AWK.