 informative and helpful. Please let me know if you have any questions about my journey – I am happy to share!
So glad it was helpful! Thank you for the read!Before the charismatic figure of George Fox gathered together the ‘convinced’, in the North of England in 1652 ( prior to that as Seekers of Truth, then as the Religious Society of Friends), the Puritans for a hundred years had been busily reforming the reformed Protestant Church of England. The Puritan way to salvation was by ‘preaching and teaching’, by strict obedience to the rules, by the Covenant of Works.
On the other hand, the Children of Light, the Quakers, believed they had been graced with a spiritual step forward for Man, through what others saw as a step back into ‘primitive’ silent worship, with direct experience of God’s presence and leadings, the potential of living everyday ‘in the Light’, and through loving awareness of seeing ‘that of God’ in everyone.
The first Quakers, says sympathetic viewpoints, “discerned the ‘condition’ of their world and had something to say that was demonstrably relevant to it”. They were aware of and open to the spiritual currents flowing through that tumultuous mid-Seventeenth Century and believed themselves to be the bearers of a message which called for the sparing of no effort to communicate it, by tongue and pen and corporate witness.
Many of these “early ancestors” in the Quaker movement were fiery in their certainty about God’s constant and direct presence in our lives. In the mid 1600’s they confronted and brought the worst out of their equally Puritan brothers. The conflict, Puritan-Quaker, spread over the decades and, according to one religious historian, had “all the loving desperation of a family feud”.
Before Fox and in his times, the Puritans had shown little tolerance of those emerging sects that proselytised beyond acceptable bounds. As Quakers grew prominent in Old England, they too were harried and locked up, and many died from harsh conditions, in and out of prison – but none were hanged.Learn how to transform New, Old, Forgotten and Discarded items into functional and fashionable Jewellery, inventive Art, or simply a great project for the kids. Participants will be led through the process of creating their own accessories and be shown how to apply those skills to the creation of various types of Jewellery, Accessories and other pieces of Art. See how far you can go with a little bit of knowledge and a whole lot of inspiration and of course, leave with your own Up-Cycled Creation!
Canterbury City Council’s bin contractor Serco has restarted collections on roads where it is deemed safe.
It suspended them on Tuesday amid health and safety concerns.
A wheelie bin in warmer climes
Today the council asked people to leave their bins out so crews can collect them if they pass.
Council spokesman Rob Davies said: “Serco are still out currently in roads where it’s considered safe enough.
”Green bin collections have been suspended for the rest of this week and the whole of next week.
“The garden crews will be diverted to recycling and black bin collections to help catch up.
“This also means the food waste that would have been collected with the garden waste will not be done on this occasion.
“Food kaddies are collected weekly so the next collection will be on black bin day.”
Serco was recently criticised for its decision to install cameras on bin lorries to monitor staff behaviour.Current Aperture/iLife Sharing Nightmares, and How to Avoid It Entirely
So many people on so many forums have been struggling for so many days on this Aperture to iLife sharing issue — some quite literally spending dozens of hours trying to solve the problem — that I thought I’d share how I personally handle this, and why this hasn’t affected me at all.
I don’t use the iLife Sharing. It’s not because I don’t like the idea—on the contrary, I think it’s brilliant. However I work with multiple computers, multiple libraries, and multiple devices. The sharing system works best if you have one Library, on one computer, use iLife on that one computer, and sync your iPad/iPod/etc to that one copy of iTunes, and so on. The system is beautiful in its simplicity.
My setup isn’t simple.
My Setup
I have an iMac that hosts my main Libraries. Even though I’ve now merged most Libraries, I do still have a couple client-specific ones that I don’t want to merge. So right there, we have a sharing problem—which library is shared? The answer is, the last one that was open. That might not always be the one you want to get to, though.
I also have a MacBook Pro that stores working Libraries as I travel. And I use the fantastic Project export feature from Aperture on the iMac to move projects over to my MacBook Pro so I can catch up on old projects while traveling (for example, I’m currently copying a managed 127GB Library across my network so I can catch up on a wedding edit and some other projects on the flights to Bangkok tomorrow). Point is, I have projects on that computer, too.
iDevice Syncing
Where do I sync my iPad and iPhone from? Primarily from the MacBook Pro. (I actually sync music from another computer, a “music server” MacMini, but I rarely have to sync that as I don’t keep that much music on my iPhone, and don’t change it up too often). Why sync from the MacBook Pro? So I can easily rent movies and transfer them, update podcasts, and use the iPad Camera Connection Kit to transfer photos from the camera to the iPad to Aperture—all while on the road. If it was tethered to my iMac, I’d lose the ability to update while traveling.
But what about my photos? I keep hundreds of photos on the iPad; it’s the best portfolio money can buy. Any photographer + iPad owner can attest to this—showing your work on the iPad is just fantastic. So how do I sync all those photos, which come from multiple libraries? Photos that I am likely to want to add to while on the road? If I’m on a multi-day trip or job, it’s quite likely that I’ll do a photo edit in the evening, and want to put some favorites on the iPad to show off the next day. But if my iPad photos were synced to my shared library back on the iMac, I simply couldn’t do it—at least not without deleting what I currently had on there.
Photo Syncing
So how do I do it? Simple. Old school. Export. And sync.
I keep a folder full of images (portfolio and personal) with a yymm datestamp in front, in a folder titled “ photos”. All devices (iPad, iPhone, tv) sync to that folder, and all sync All folders. The screensaver on both Macs also points to that same “ photos” folder. If I don’t want photos showing up on my devices anymore, I’ll simply remove the folder from that collection.
Where to I store that “ photos” folder? In my Dropbox. Which means that I can export photos from any Library and any computer to that one shared Dropbox folder, and the pictures will show up on all devices. Look at the previous article Keeping your Aperture Library Accessible 24/7, Worldwide, where I talked about logging into my iMac remotely. I can log into that system from the other side of the world, kick of an export of photos to that Dropbox-synced “ photos” folder, and after a short time and a sync, they will be on my iPad.
By the way, I have an export preset in Aperture that I use for this, conveniently called “ photos” so I always use the same one. It’s set to export at 1920, which is large enough to zoom into a bit on the 1024 resolution screen iPad, and not take up too much space.
iLife Sharing
That solves the iDevice syncing issue. But what about actual sharing to iLife, iWork, etc?
Here’s the browser you use when you enable iLife sharing:
And here’s the “browser” I use…
Yeah that’s right… I use Aperture itself. I use the magic of drag and drop along with Exposé to get my pictures from Aperture to, well, anywhere else I like. iPhoto, the desktop, an email I’m composing, whatever. Drag the image from Aperture to the upper-left corner of the screen (that’s where I have my “All Windows” Exposé set), hover over the window I want to drop it in, wait for that window to come to the front, and put wherever I like.
I also don’t have Preview generation turned on automatically. Unless I explicitly want to drag-and-drop an image somewhere, I don’t need the Preview. So I assigned the keyboard shortcut of Shift-Return for Photos > Generate Preview, and now whenever I want to drag one or multiple images, I just select it/them, hit Shift-Return, wait the brief second it takes for Aperture to generate those previews, and then I’m free to drag them around. More on that tip was written up in the User Tips section a while ago, titled Generating Pre