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Will this be shown on History channel in the UK?

so Mandy's introduced the Royal Mail Bill a day earlier than expected......surely not cos some might see today as one on which to bury bad news?

I've been there, I know how wretched it is...


Did Prick Robinson really say those things?

As you said, he clearly needs help and the I find the jokey undertones of this artucle to be somewhat inappropriate.


Andy Davies - An ex-Birchfield Harrier

how you expect that to work not all blacks are liked in japan,but you still have good masters who will teach them

I feel like I am where I am supposed to be right now. I love most parts of it. When I came here, it was my dream job. 3 months later the pastor (who told me he had no plans of leaving when I was interviewing) resigned. Since then there have been some discouraging days/weeks. I love the life change that is taking place, don't get me wrong. I feel like the youth/young adult ministry is growing. We are in a smaller than small town (one caution light.) Since my family moved here the youth ministry has grown from averaging 35 to just under 70 last week. But there are some things happening that makes me wonder, is this my dream job? I read everything I can find about Newspring because your passion and the way you operate is something I covet (I know that is a sin, but @ least I didn't say effing. Don't judge me.)
So maybe you guys can answer some questions- and only newspringers answer please(No offense to non-springers, I just don't care what crazy guy who lives in a cabin and pastors a church that is full of unhappy Christians who came to his church because they resonate with the problems he has with churches and pastors who are growing the kingdom and making a difference.)
1. My ministry is thriving, growing, God is blessing it and He is the only reason for any success it is having. So how am I supposed to handle the fact the ministry is growing faster than I can train volunteers and my budget is exactly where it was when I started, which means I am away from home alot and it is starting to impact my family life and marriage in a negative way?
2. How do you handle it when "tenured" staff are more interested in people pleasing than reaching people? I've heard comments like "I don't know if we can grow anymore, etc." What if it is my dream job, but I am next to somebody who is riding it out to retirement and just seems lazy?. The church looks at this person for 75% of her direction because they have been here for along time. How do I keep this from draining passion and focus?
3. How do I find a mentor who thinks and operates similarily to me. I have emailed people asking for some mentoring/advice/guidance through email and only gotten a kind note from their assistant (don't worry Perry, it was a very nice note and I could just barely tell it was a copy/paste job.- I know you're too busy-I'm laughing as I type this.) My point is that I am in rural Central Kentucky, and it is tough trying to think with a "whatever it takes to reach people" attitude when it seems like most experienced pastors have a "whatever it takes to make people happy and tithe" mentality. Frankly, I don't want to learn from that guy, and I for sure don't wan to hear him preach every Sunday...

I do love my job, but sometimes the frustrations can be so overwhelming.

Newspring- thanks for what you are doing. Keep it up my friends. You are influencing more than just those attending your services. Thank you.

Per the prior comments and annoucnemnt by AMEX and other FS firms over this week, the current jobless figures are just the tip of the iceberg.

Great to discover this blog and am now a subscriber. The analysis here is spot on and as a fellow finance blogger, it is always great to discover new and interesting perspectives on the financial and economic issues of the day.

How a month can change things or show the futility of good intentions. We have now spent close to 2 Trillion dollar on Government interventions and yet the Dow is down 25%. So becoming a bailout nation has not solved our problems. Only time will clear the mess and a recession is inevitable. Paulson tried, but it was too late.

Good article, though I think in the longer term a weaker dollar will return. As I wrote recently, the rapid rise of the US dollar in the near term is a result of the flight to safety to US treasury's due to the global financial meltdown (yes people short the dollar are suffering!). This just shows despite America's longer term challenges it is still viewed as the financial bastion of the world. Hard to believe with the all the institutional collpases, but in Red, White and Blue we trust.

only 60,000 people? thought it was more.

i agree. janes is a great band. even to this day they can ( and hopefully will again) still jam and get your blood flowing. i would love to see them headline lollapalooza 2009!

I love their last 3 albums. I hope I'm not disappointed by this one.

Name: Andy Green
E-mail: andrewgreen@talk21.com

Hi T.C.
I have just been listening, yet again, to one of your fantastic Spacemusic shows (3.12). It is the most wonderful collection of relaxing music, and as always, excellent quality in both content and sound. I have lots of your episodes on my iPod and I take much pleasure in listening to them. They help me relax at work and alsoin my private times. They are wonderful at helping me to relax from the pressures of work and take a moment to look at things differently, a new perspective!

I hope that YOUR shows go on forever just like when you asked the listeners to imagine music being available forever now that is in a more digital permanent format.

Please continue with your shows as I am sure that people all over the world are happier just being able to listen to your show even if it is for a single episode.

Many many thanks for these soundscapes and atmospheres.
Kindest regards, Andy

their first 2 albums are way better than the "quilt". This think is like a travis solo album. the others were more a band.

i love this segment

@Jamal, thanks for commenting.
I want my code to fail fast. If I don't get a Drink, I want my code to tell me why.

I don't want my client code, that is expecting to receive a Drink, to have to check that I didn't cheat him and give him a null instead :-)

Can you give me an example of when a null is a valid response to something that is expecting a Drink object? That is, can you describe a situation where an object that needs a Drink to work with, would be happy with a null?

I preferred the old website...

That's looking good :-)
The point of the post was that the first thing we should do is get to a consistent detail level.

I rolled up the "how we wash our hands" into a "what are we doing?" washHands method.

My feeling is that washing hands is nothing to do with the making of the base. The chef should make sure he washes his hands before he starts making the base, but we'll get there eventually :-)

@Kris: Where does your sample code live? It seems that it's in the vending machine, in which case, how does blinkNotEnoughMoneyLight() keep to the contract of returning a Drink?
If it's in the client code, then "Tell, Don't Ask" says that we should not base what we ask of the called object on the state of that object. That's a decision for that object to make. Let's just ask it and see what we get.





@eckes: I'm thinking that we might move to a DrinksChute object, which is a collection, but that's not the way it is at the moment



@jeremy: Null Object is a possibility, but it depends on the planned usage of the returned object. In this case, the Drink has no behaviour, so it doesn't make sense to have a NullDrink. If we can't return a real Drink, I want to know why



@mark: These exceptions are unchecked :-) I'll post some thoughts on that soon.

Null Object is useful where we are expecting some behaviour from the returned object rather than just existence.

A quick example that I thought of would be a NullTransaction on a BankAccount. This would have no effect on the balance of the account, but may be used to make a note in the transaction history.



@sarah: I see where you're coming from, and there are many possible workarounds, but I have asked the VendingMachine for a Drink. I don't want my clients to have to worry about DrinkResponses that may or may not have a drink, which then has to be extracted. The DrinkChute collection would be acceptable, but it's not the simplest thing in this example.



@all: This is a contrived example, but the exceptions aren't really being used for business logic. They are unchecked, so there is no reason to catch them unless you want to handle the situation. The system fails fast with a clear reason as to why and where the problem occured.



Obviously, this is all just my opinion :-)

I'll defend my choice of using Exceptions with this:

The client code needs a Drink to proceed, it makes no sense to continue running if we do not receive a drink. If we use any of the other solutions, we still have to check to see if it's ok to proceed (did we get our drink?). With the Exception route, the application stops and tells you why, without additional burden on the client.

point is yer a faggot.

I have one, and it's a decent HU. The sound is great, the navigation is great, but some of the audio controls are a little "meh." My biggest disappointment is that the newly compatible XM tuner (CNP2000UC) seems to be limited to a display of 9 characters. MP3s and iPod information aren't limited to so few, so I don't see why XM would be...

What all the Stokies on here are failing to recognise is that they pipped Hull for the second auto spot with a game to go.. You hardly panned them over a season did you?

If the gap between 2nd and 3rd had been of the margin of 10-15 points then i'd concede that Stoke were significantly the better team. It wasn't, so you're not!

I'd like to join this contest...seems like fun. I just don't have a compatible ipod!!!


Have fun!



Made a post on another post of yours Kali...just thought I'd give you a shout and give you a hug on a job well done on your 2nd TT challenge.



You look amazing! Fantastic job!!!!



Andy

Congrats on finishing your 2nd TT contest, Kali...you're amazing! Keep up the great work! And goodluck on the Nike challenge!


Andy