I live in a days podcast for your Monday.
Most wonderful show is keeping up with the jones.
Should we apologize to our listeners?
We probably should.
We were really tired yesterday, so we didn't record a podcast.
It should be noted it is a holiday we can here in the United States.

But fear not, we have not left you in the lurch as we'll put this one out.
And you should only be a day without listening to our dulcet tones in your ears.
Yeah. Yeah. How was this week, babe?
It was a good week. I managed to come up with the new recipe for the coffee soda that I can do
at home now. Do you want to talk about that? Well, um, steadfast coffee and highbrow and
crema, I'll have something called a coffee soda, which I thought sounded disgusting until I had one.
and now I'm fully addicted, but they're like $6 and they're really far away.
So necessity being the mother of all inventions, you did what?
I went and bought orange sand palagrino because orange is one of the flavors in there.
And mixed it with slingshot concentrated cold brew coffee and Bob is your uncle. I have a
Cold brew, coffee soda, so good.
Okay, so coffee fans, that's what you need to do.
Is there any parts you need to know for a recipe?
It's like one part coffee to two parts, sample of green.
I use about half a can of Sam Pellegrino in some ice in a high ball glass,
which is about eight or 10 ounces.
And then about an ounce or so of this slingshot coffee.
It just you make it look the right color and it'll taste fine.
I love the way you say about your so Canadian.
Thank you.
This week was mostly domestic stuff.
We did lots of doctors and dentist appointments.
We did.
I just realized when I was reviewing what we did.
We also, and I can't believe I'm excited about this,
but got window treatments in the house.
We did.
They're fantastic.
Is this like a middle-aged thing that suddenly you're like,
look at my blinds.
[LAUGHING]
I don't know.
Maybe.
Well, I took the day off work to be excited
about somebody coming and installing blinds.
Yes.
which we should know several people in our community were very sweet and
surprised us with a gift when we moved into a house.
Admittedly, they thought they were going to buy a TV or a sofa,
but instead we used their money to buy blinds.
Yes.  Thank you very much for the.
Yes. They're blackout blinds. I'm sleeping better.
And it's because of you.
I'm helping you sleep better night by having blackout blinds,
but you're having a problem every morning.
Do you want to let our listeners into the little marital discord we have at the moment?
We have these four floodlights that are hue lights and Alan has set them to supposedly they're supposed to fade on so that they're on by six,
but their fate is not working for me. So like 542. I'm like, why is there a bright sun shining in my face?

I have to like wake you up to tell you the lights are on.
It's really annoying.
So we're not going to do that anymore.
Yeah, we have these Phillip Hue lights, which I really like.
I don't know if it's a bug in the software, but they're literally supposed to fade in
gently and I have them on a 20 minute fade.
So at 5.40, they should slowly begin fading in till at 6 a.m.
They should be a nice brightness to wake us up.
But apparently they just go to killer interrogation at 5.40, kink,
Lights are right above our eyes and for whatever reason you don't seem to like it.
I don't like it and you sleep through it.
It's so annoying.
And then this morning was Labor Day.
We should have been able to sleep in and what happens are stinking lights.
Come on before six o'clock.
We also had a highly social weekend.
We ended up having a shower at our house.
We did.
There was a lot of estrogen in our house.
There was enormous amount of estrogen.
How many women came over?
I think there was 16 women and those women can decorate.
Dude, they made our house look amazing and the food was fantastic.
Really good.
Yeah, really good.
You know, there's a strawberry cake left over in our fridge.
What?
Yeah.
No, there's not a strawberry cake left over in our fridge.
Shalee is pointing to her tummy saying that's my strawberry cake.
Well, that's only fair because the shower was in honor of Shalee who will introduce in
a second.
Then we had our friend sleepover who was also bright and Shalee and their kids and they're
here today.
and friends over tonight for our barbecues so we are social monkeys we're being very social for us this is positively.
Providential
i don't know what that phrase means i don't know let's go with that okay it's super providential yeah.
How should we can
probably potential.
All right speaking of which we want to introduce you to two of our friends.
brand shelly ratliff say hello to everybody hello hello you've been very good listening to us silently as we rambled by our week one of them is highly pregnant yes,
so not me so the shower was in your honor yes what was that like it was amazing it was actually a mother's blessing which is slightly different than a shower so what happens the difference,
Instead of it being all about the baby they actually came together to just bless me.

They it was astonishing how beautiful they made our house look I was like could you just come back and do that?
I almost thought by getting you pregnant again age it just for the strawberry cake and the
The some other things are gonna have to happen there for that time
I'm pretty sure we could ask Betsy for strawberry cake without having to go the whole route of having another child
Let's try that yeah, that would be
So, Brent and Shaley, we've wanted to have you on the podcast for a while.
I wanted to, just by way of people who don't know you, because if you're not in our culture
at Grace and you probably would know, Brent and Shaley are youth pastors, but long before
they were our youth pastors at Grace Center, they were our friends long before that, they
were students on the school, which is where we met.

In 2011, a friend of mine called me and said that there was a school of supernatural life
starting here in Nashville, and she knew that I had always wanted to do the Bethel School
of Ministry.
And so she said, "You should check it out.
I know the lady, A.J. Jones, who's doing it.
It'd be a great idea."
And at the time, Brett was playing for the Titans, so I thought it was a terrible idea.
Okay, stop right there, because some of our listeners are not from America.
They won't know what the Titans are.
I didn't know what the Titans are, and I live in America, and I live in Nashville.
So explain to us what the Titans are.
The Titans are Tennessee's American football team in the National Football League.
Is it called American football or do you guys just call it football?
Because you're in America.
Honest question, not being funny.
We only call it football, but if I have to explain it for a global audience, it would
be best to say American football.
You moved to Nashville to be on the Titans team.
Yes.
When did you get to Nashville?
In 2011.
Oh, so you just got to Nashville and that's why your friend, okay.
Yep, we came in early 2011 and she called and said,
they're starting a school this fall,
you should look into it and long story short,
I did end up applying, I got in and the week
that orientation was happening,
Brett got cut by the Titans and so I called to let
your assistant know that we were not going to be able
to do the school because we'd be moving and she said,
why don't you just come to orientation
and see what you think and we'll go from there.
And so we headed to orientation and we fought the whole way.

Which looking back now, she said was a totally
Holy Spirit thing because that was not her original plan.
And so I came ticking and screaming.
- So you came, you had no intention to do the school.
You were just a football player who,
this was gonna be ideal for your wife while you were
on the team, she was gonna come and do the school
and I would give her something to do.
- Yep, and I came and just was like,
This is so dumb.
Why am I going to an orientation or something I'm not planning on even doing?
Uh huh.
Well, and every time we'd been cut before that, we had to move so quickly.
We both felt like that was going to be very silly to be going.
So we showed up very angry with each other and walked through the door.
And as soon as we walked through the door, we walked through the door and started
meeting people, we sat down, Alan, I believe you got up and started talking
about what the school is going to be about.
And I just was like, this is why we're in Nashville.
'Cause we'd been saying we'd been what we wanted to do,
the like BSSM wanted to be in ministry school.
And it was like God brought us to Nashville for this.
- So you came for football, you stayed for S.O.S.L.
- Yep, I went to, right after that, I went up to AJ
and said, "Hey, is there any chance
that I could do this school as well?"
- So that's amazing, an uncharacteristic move.
We'd let you in on the day of orientation to school.
you had no intention of coming to?
- Yes.
- I remember when you guys walked in
and the Lord said to me,
"He's gonna wanna do it, so be ready for him to ask."
And then you came up with a break and we're like,
"Is there any chance?"
Like, yeah.
- And what were you thinking, Shaley?
'Cause you're quite the high planner
and your plan was for you to do this,
"Well, how did you feel about your husband
"gate-crashing your?"
- Well, on the way to orientation we fought
because he was upset and on the way home
from orientation we fought
because I was upset telling him this is a terrible idea.
How are we going to afford
For both of us to do this, this wasn't the plan.
Because how many understand, how do you effectively lost your job when you say cut from the Titans?
Does that mean you're no longer paid by the Titans?
Yes.
So in the NFL, they have 90 players on a roster during the whole off season.
At the end of training camp, into the off season, they cut down to 53.
You only get paid when you're on the 53-man roster.
So I went the entire off season, I'm not getting paid.
I got cut right before I was going to get paid and now we're leading into we don't
have any money and typically what happens is you'd mentioned to show that when you're
cut you get snapped up by other teams so your life before moving to Nashville looked like
what?
Just constant moving.
We moved 14 times in seven years so we were used to if we got cut or traded by a team
having to just pick up and go right then.
Like how much did you get?
So in 2009, I got traded to the Cleveland Browns.
I was at the New York Jets and got traded and I was a Saturday.
They asked if I could be their Sunday night.
They'd trade that fast.

We left and at that time, because I was traded, the Cleveland Browns paid for a moving company.
But fast forward a year and a half, 2010, ended up training camp.
I was released by the Browns and the Jaguars picked me up.
and they wanted me down there the next day,
they flew me out the next day,
which left Shalee to do all of the packing
and moving herself.
- With two children.
- With two children.
- And that was your life for?
- Six years.
- For six years, just trading, moving, constant flux.
So no wonder you're thinking, wait,
so we just signed up to do an eight month school
and we haven't really been in one place for eight months.
How is this gonna work?
Oh, and also we don't have any income.
- And the lease on our apartment was up in two weeks.
- Good times.
Yeah.
But as we'll find out, you guys roll really, really well with uncertainty, which is not
actually your personalities.
You guys love plans and stability, but you do remarkably well with tumultuous, adventurous
changes to those plans.
Thanks.
I think at the time for me, it was, I just, I felt what better place to be in.
We're in a major time of uncertainty of how long, how long is my career going to continue
on?
better place to be than in the ministry school with a bunch of people who know how to hear
the voice of God.

We prayed and asked God to close three doors and open one wide.
And he did.
By that afternoon, three teams had dropped out.
The Titans said they wanted you.
You signed the contract and I walked out of the room and the Lord spoke to me and said,
this is a means to an end.
And I was really excited.
So I came in and told you, I just heard the voice of God.
He said it's a means to an end, which was slightly offensive.
And I was like, wow, what are you saying?
I'm going to get cut.
Well, this is before all that happens.
This is before that happened.
Ever the little profit.
OK.
So then fast forward six months, he's like, this is it.
This is why we're in Nashville.
We're meant to do the school together.
Unbelievable.
I actually didn't know a lot of that.
Or maybe I did and I just didn't store it in my mind palace.
But I forgot all of that.
So all I remember is you guys would show up to SSL.
And I would imagine because you'd be on a training roster, you would constantly be
snacking, like, like your world was working out.

I've never seen anybody so muscular.
I mean, it was just crazy.
I was like, who is this giant of a man?

Yes.
And so all I remember is throughout school, you would sit in the front row and you
We would both have two hammers packed with food.
And I would always know if I just--
And drinks, they're honestly drinking.
If I hung out with you guys,
they would always be food or drink.
There's very few things that I plan in my life.
One of them is food.
So I'm always prepared with food.
Oh, you are.
We're very proud of our reputation
for having good food with us.
And hydration.

- So going back to your time on the school,
you were with us for eight months on the school,
what would you say your big takeaways
were from the school, give me two each?
- For me, number one, learning the father heart of God,
walking in as a kind of full football player,
that was my identity.
I was brought the football player.
That was what I was known for.
That was what I was given attention for.
That's how I made my money.
And coming into the school with the leaders,
not knowing anything about football, which was great,
but also being in a-
- I think we proved that a couple of times
and we knew absolutely nothing about football.
- Then also being in a more of a,
the people who were coming to the school at the time
were really into music and not really into sports.
So I wasn't seen as Brett the football player.
I've seen it's Brett and I left the school as Brett the son.
- Wow.
- My identity completely shifted from football's what I do.
Or football is who I am and I need football too.
Football's just what I do.
I can do anything on the sun and doesn't matter
what I'm doing.
- That's amazing. - Or how football's going.
- Oh, I love that.
- I hadn't figured out, so would I be right in assuming
that your value to a team is only as good as your last game?
- Yes.

- Yes.
- So that's fascinating.
I never even considered that our culture would be devoid
of the normal way that people would want to connect to you.
- Yes.
- Was that word for you too, Shaili?
I mean, I remember you talking about the joys
and inverted comms of being an NFL wife
that usually people would be connecting to you
for to get to breath.
- Mm-hmm.
It was hugely impactful for both of us.
We walked in as the quarterback and his wife.
That's what we were treated as.
what we were referred to in our daily lives. I was only seen as Brett's trophy wife, somebody
he took around with him. And so often that was really hurtful because I really wanted to be my
own person, but I didn't know how to come out of the shadow of all the NFL comments and things.
And here we step into the school and do intimate life with 30 students and an entire staff. And
not once were we ever treated like a quarterback and his wife. We were Brett and Shaley and we found
found our identity again in being Brett and Shaley, and then we found even more of our
identity in being sons and daughters and being able to even parent in all of that.
It was massive.
I remember we had to leave Nashville because Brett had signed with the Buccaneers just
before school had ended, and so we were going to have to finish it online.
And my assumption was that our leadership would be upset with us for leaving and that the
students would forget about us.
probably what we kind of experienced in the NFL in some ways.
And instead, everyone threw us a party and celebrated us and celebrated that Brett had
signed with a new team and wrote us individual encouraging words and prophetic words.
It just blew my mind.
I didn't even know how to receive that kind of celebration in the midst of we were choosing
to leave early for a job.
And then while we were gone, we really wanted to come back for the conference, but we couldn't
afford to come back for conference and graduation. So we're having to choose one of the two.
And when our fellow students who were all raising money for outreach found out that we
couldn't afford to do both, they pooled their money together and paid for our family to
come up for a conference that was completely unnecessary. And again, that just completely
wrecked my heart. We were the ones that had just signed with an NFL team and all of our
fellow students who were struggling to just meet their outreach funds blessed us financially.
I love that.
Yeah, that's incredible.
So Brett, you gave me a number one thing.
What was the number two thing?
We gained a community that we didn't have before then.
We jumped around so much and we didn't know where we were.
I had said that the comment multiple times, "Am I a chameleon?
I can fit in anywhere?"
Which was true.
But with a chameleon, you're never actually your true self.
You mold into whatever you are.
It wasn't until we walked through the school that I learned that I caught myself.
That's actually a true statement.
I'm actually now able to be fully me, fully bred and welcomed for that.
When we talked after we'd left, we talked about what do we want to do when football's
over.
We said we want to go home and we both looked at each other and it's like Grace Center is
home.
Shaley, I don't know if you just piggybacked off of Brett's number one or that was your
number one too.
But what were some of the stand out from the school for you?
Yeah, that was definitely my number one.
Number two for me was also community-based.
I had never been in a community where I could make mistakes and still be equally loved and
welcomed as when I was performing well.
And that wrecked my heart so much because I was so performance-based.
I was so used to.
If I did well, then I got accolades and if I didn't do well, then I was being shamed for it.
So, to come in and to be learning how to prophesy and how to pray for people and to be in the
process of making mistakes and still loved and still welcomed and things, it just changed
everything.
Gosh.
So good.

And I love that story.
- So when we signed on on the school,
we knew that there was gonna be a break
towards then to December, beginning December.
And so we immediately started praying into God,
we loved to be picked up the last four weeks of the season,
'cause we don't wanna miss any of the school.
And it was Sunday night, and Shaley told me,
"Hey, Bretta, I think you should pack a bag
just as an act of faith that you're going to be picked up,
someone's going to call tomorrow.

I just got hurt.
And so I fly down, they try me out
and up signing me to the practice squad.
And so I'm fully down there Tuesday,
go into the facility on Wednesday,
meet all the guys on the team,
and start practice with them,
and start getting a feel for the guys that are in the room,
the three other quarterbacks.
And on Wednesday evening,
I felt like the Lord told me that I needed to pray
for the starting quarterback.
'Cause I just, again, learned all these tools in school
and was all excited about 'em.

So if he's no longer hurt, I no longer have a job.
But I chose to go ahead and do it anyway.
So I was walking in the hallway and was walking past him
and I just went up to him and I said,
"Hey man, is it okay if I pray for you?"
And he's like, "Sure."
And so I just told him kind of the same thing
we learned in the school.

And so I just prayed for him, let him through it,
just a quick repeat after me prayer.
And he's like, "Oh, thanks man."
And walked away.
And I had no idea what just happened.
I was like, "Oh my gosh."
It's one of those things like, "Lord, I hope he's healed,
"but I would love to have the job still."
(laughing)
And so anyway, we go out to practice
and sure enough, the starting quarterback isn't out there yet.
And so it's just not really thinking much about it,
but warming up myself and then we start drills.
And I notice the quarterback run out and he stops
and he talks to one of the trainers
and he starts throwing a ball and he's like looking,
he's kind of taking it gingerly.
And then he backs up and starts throwing harder,
throwing harder.
And before this, he couldn't even lift up his arm
above his shoulder, couldn't really throw anything,
throw the ball, like couldn't throw the ball at all.
And they thought that he might be out the rest of the season.
So anyway, he's full on warming up, throwing as hard as he can.
Next thing I know, he runs out to the coach on the field, talks to the head coach for
just a minute.
And then next thing I know, he's walking into the huddle, telling the second string quarterback
to get out of the huddle because, you know, he's the guy.
And sure enough, he was totally healed.
So amazing.
And I ended up, they ended up keeping me on the roster the rest of the season and literally
I'd go out and stay in a practice and do absolutely nothing.
The trainers came to you and said, "What did you do to his arm?"
He says that you prayed for him or something and his arm got fixed.
Yeah.
And so I told him the same thing.
I told him that I was in a ministry school and I learned about praying for people.
And I believe that God still heals today and it was really cool.
So you prayed yourself out of a job.
But you got to keep your job?
Yep.
But God was so kind to let you keep your job.
Yes.
So your timeline is we meet you.
move to Tennessee, you get cut from the Titans, but you get to stay almost the whole time to do
the school. You left a little early because you took a job down there.  And then what happens? Because I remember having a phone call with you at one
point. So we ended up moving down there in March, and I went through the entire off-season and
had one of the best off-sasons I've ever had for a team. And it was multi-later, there was multiple
reasons why it was so great. One, I was in great physical shape, but I was in the best
spiritual shape that I'd ever been in coming out of the school. Learning my new identity
as a son, who I was, it didn't matter how well I did, how well I didn't do, I was still
bred as a son. And so being able to fully go into a place confident in who I am, not
confident in my abilities, just confident in who I am as a son. And being able to walk
that out, I quickly became one of the spiritual leaders on the team. A lot of guys were turning
to me and you know I was able to share my testimony and whatnot at times and just had
a lot of time to be able to sew into people and not just the players but everyone in the
facility and then fast forward into training camp.
I got to start the last preseason game and was really excited about that and thought
I was going to go one way and didn't go that great.
I ended up getting sacked seven times and hit 25 times and we ended up losing 30 to 3
through three interceptions.
But going into the game, my number one goal,
before my goal would have been,
I want to do the best that I can.
This time now with the changed identity,
my goal is I want to glorify God
in my performance and how I play.
And being able to have such a poor performance,
but still be, it didn't change who I was.
And I felt like I did a great job of representing,
like not getting discouraged,
still being encouraging, being the leader on the field,
'cause the offensive line didn't show up for me
to help me out at all.
And I was still the one that was there picking them up,
encouraging them.
And anyway, walking off of that field,
I had the sense that it was the last time
and I remember just kneeling down like weeping,
not because the game went poorly,
but because I was so grateful for the opportunity.
Sure enough, the next day I go into the facility
and I was released.
And so we were, at that point, we're like,
what do we wanna do?
And after a lot of consideration,
we had an opportunity to go back to Colorado with family
or move back to Nashville for a church family
that on paper didn't make any sense.
- Right, because back in Colorado, you actually had family.

You would just pick up some work.
But the attraction, what was the attraction to Nashville?
Because you didn't have any of those things.
- It just was what God did in her heart.
Like I said earlier, there was a sense of home about Nashville and Grace Center that
we'd never experienced before.
And so it was like our hearts were, our minds were saying that's not wisdom, but our hearts
were saying that's where I come alive and want to be.
Let me ask you a question, Shelley.
Had you encountered the presence of God like you did at Grace Center before?
We had gotten a taste of it.
We were coming here, we lived in Cleveland, Ohio, and just before we left Cleveland, we
found Bethel Cleveland, Steve Whit's church.
Yes.
And we had just been introduced to the Holy Spirit.
We had just been introduced to all of this, and we fell in love with the Whit family and
what they had going there, but we were uprooted from there so quickly.
We hadn't really been able to dig in to that community and that experience.
And so then we came to Grace Center and instead of feeling like a spectator that was watching
what was happening and learning about it, we actually dove in and it just was, it was
home of all those moves that we made, of all those times that we left places, never once
did we leave a place and say, "Oh, I miss home" and be referring to where we had just
left.
And we recognized that was really big for both of our hearts.
And he got cut from the Buccaneers in 2012.
That was the final game that he played.
That was actually the exact same week that our savings ran out.
We had been living off of our savings for four years.
And so now we were jobless.
Our lease was up on our apartment in a month.
And we literally were just penniless.
We just run out of everything.
And we recognize that if we came back to Tennessee, it was going to require selling furniture
to even pay for the U-Haul to even get to Tennessee. We didn't have a job lined up,
we didn't have anything, but our hearts were still here and it just felt like home. We were able
to look at Grace Center and say they have something that we don't fully walk in yet,
and if we're going to go and invest in something, that's what we want to invest in. That's what we
want to become, you know, in 10 years from now, we hope that we more reflect what's going on at
at Grace Center among all the people there, the inner healing, the father heart, the just
walking with Holy Spirit, doing life Jesus' way.
What I think is interesting is people who know you now know the end of the story.
Like today you are our youth pastors, you're on staff, your passes at Grace Center.
You're recognized within our community.

You didn't move back for a job.
You moved back for the presence and the community that you felt.
If there were a position that we were hoping for at that time, it would have been to be on staff at the school.
But you had actually just named all of your small group leaders for the year.
Right.
And we knew we had just missed the boat.
So even the one thing that we would have said, like, Oh, that would be a heart's desire.
We had just missed the boat on that.
We knew that that had passed up.
So it literally was just coming just to come be at the church, just to come and serve and volunteer and so in.
And that's exactly what happened.
I'll tell this part of the story because you probably won't.
I just loved watching you move as the priority being the presence of God.
Like you sacrificed.
I mean, in one sense, you'd run out of everything, but you sacrificed all your
other opportunities, pushed all your poker chips to the center of the table and
said, I just, we want what we experienced in the presence of God.
So you move back and I'm right in thinking that you end up working at Costco.
your stacking shelves at like 3 a.m. in the morning. What were your hours? I just watched
you get up and watch. 4 a.m. I'd be checked in by four and I'd do six days a week from
4 a.m. to 10 a.m. And that's what you were doing from being a quarterback in the NFL
to now stacking shelves. Stacking shelves and then two days a week I would do the be at the
front of the store doing the box like boxing the box and all the groceries and putting
in people's cards. And the thing I've learned about you, Brett, and honor we're honored to do
is whatever you do, you do unto the glory of God. Like, whatever you do, whether people's eyes
are on you or not, you are fully committed to everything. It's amazing. You've helped us
move house twice. And that's a sucky process for anybody who's moved or helped friends move.
If it's, you know, it's not like,
whoa, I can't wait to help somebody move.
But you just go for it.
Like whatever you're doing, you're like 100% in
and watching you just show up, be a man,
provide for your family, just get stuff done.
No grumbling, no complaining, total joy.
Well, it's just this huge testimony to who you are
and your character and your awesomeness.
Thank you.
I'm amazing to see.
During that season, we literally were homeless
and broke and jobless for a period of time,
and then he finally got the job at Costco.
And I've had people ask me since then,
"Oh, did you learn about the faithfulness of God
in that season?"
Obviously the answer is yes,
but I also learned what an incredible person
I was married to.
I remember going one morning to Costco
'cause I knew he would have a break
and the kids and I could see him really quickly,
but we had to sit over in the little cafe station
and watch him finish putting groceries in someone's cart.
And it was the same old lady who would yell at him
every time she went through for the way
that he put her eggs in her cart.
And I remember watching this unfold
as he's standing there putting groceries into this cart
and this woman's getting after him again,
even though he's doing it the way that she asked.
And he just has a smile on his face and honored her
and it was so polite.
And I remember thinking this is crazy.
30 days ago, he was in a stadium filled
with hundreds of thousands of people cheering and chanting.
And now here he is putting groceries in a cart
with the same enthusiasm and good attitude and smile
and work ethic.
Like just, he's an incredible human being.
- Yeah.
- With a six pack for a back.
It's ridiculous.
(both laughing)
- Can you guys tell a little bit of the precursor
to you guys knowing the Lord and stuff.
I'm just thinking anybody who meets you now,
you guys act like you're newlyweds,
even though you've been married for a good long time
and you know, you're just,
you would never read on either of you or on your marriage
or the way that you guys interact,
any of the stuff that actually you guys
have walked through and seen victory in.
And I'm just thinking there might be some people
that are listening to the podcast
that are maybe in a difficult season in their marriages
and could maybe use the encouragement of,
hey, God's still in the business of healing marriages.
- We have been married for 10 years.
We just celebrated our 10 year anniversary.
And we were reflecting.
We met when we were, I was 19,
but I had just turned 20.
Neither of us were walking with the Lord.
I grew up in a home where we didn't,
there was no religion or anything.
Brett did grow up in a Christian home,
but had completely walked away from the Lord.
And we met and married in nine months.
- Wow.
- And really young, yeah.
And we just kind of went about all of it the wrong way.
- Yeah, we were both really into partying at the time.
We believe that drinking a lot of alcohol was a good thing.
(laughing)
And at the time, we were at the University of Utah.
We were, I was playing football there,
Shay was going to school there.
And anyway, we hung out a lot
and our relationship progressed way faster
than I think both of us thought it would.
And next thing we know we're engaged and getting married.
Like Shay said, met and married in nine months
and looking back, it's like, why did anybody
think this was a good idea?
How did, why did our parents allow this?
And we kind of joke now, it's almost like God
put blinders on us and glued us together and said,
hey, work it out.
But then we ended up getting married June 2, 2006.
It was just before my senior year of college at Utah,
Shaley's senior year in school.
And I think it started off as good as it could go,
being that young and that immature.
And then football started going well
and things started happening.
And I ended up getting the opportunity to go to New York
to try out for the jets and we ended up spending six months of our first year apart.
Yeah, that's not a good idea is it?
And we ended up missing our when you're wedding anniversary.
So I think we were two really good-hearted people who got married really young, very immature,
very self-centered, but we both had such big weight of baggage that we carried in.
And I think we both hoped getting married that would fix it and it would all go away and instead it emphasized it.
So for our one year anniversary, I asked Brett for a divorce.
Every man's dream.
Happy anniversary, darling.
I want a divorce.
Yes.
Back story.
Then I went when I got out to New York, I was hanging out with a bunch of single guys who were going out to the club.
And at the time, I was still one.
I was walking in a lot of those things of wanting to drink, wanting to...
That's why I started going out with them, going out to the club, taking off my wedding
ring and doing a lot of things that a married man should not be doing.
And so when Shaley finally moved out to New York, she knew, could sense all this stuff
that was not being said, just women intuition, all that.
she could never point to one thing or point to anything.
And so when she got out there,
we'd just grown so far apart one because you live,
we were living apart,
but also when you do so many things behind your back,
it's like it drives a huge wedge.
And so there's a huge wedge.
- Mm-hmm.
And then, Addin, I had control issues,
we both had drinking issues, et cetera.
It just was a recipe for disaster.
- Yeah, big disaster.
- So when I got to New York,
I told Brett that I wanted a divorce.
he begged me to stay and said he'd do anything.
And I said, find us a good marriage counselor,
find us some help, and we'll see if we can work through it.
He came home from work that day and said,
hey, I found out that the starting quarterback
hosts a married couple's Bible study at his house.
We could go to that.
And I said, that's really dumb.
That's not at all what I was looking for.
(laughs)
But somehow he did drag me along,
and they were doing the study, Love and Respect,
by Dr. Emerson Eggrich.
and everything about the study offended me.
The thought that I should respect my husband
and all these biblical concepts and everything.
The whole thing was offensive to me
and then the women started dragging me
to the women's Bible study.
And it just was a big hairy mess,
but in the processes of all this,
I found out that we were pregnant with our first child.
And that gave me probably a little more
emphasis of trying to work through some things.
And I was not happy about the pregnancy.
I didn't, I had just graduated with my bachelor degree.
I wanted to head to law school and now I was pregnant
and just furious about it.
But a few months went by, kind of got on board
and thought, well, if we're gonna do this,
let's do it all the way.
And we started getting excited,
and we started buying things.
And then in November of 2007,
I ended up having a miscarriage.
And all of my control issues,
all of my performance issues,
everything came to a screeching halt because I had just failed at the one thing that a woman
should be able to do. Wow. And I was devastated. We had announced the pregnancy. Everybody knew.
I was far enough along. I'd been showing it just it was it was really overwhelming and I didn't
have any coping mechanism other than to just drink. And so I did. I just drink all day, every day,
for 40 days nonstop, Brett would try to talk to me about it. He would try to bring it up and I
And I would just scream at him.
And I was a functioning alcoholic.

And then just pass out at the end of the day
after drinking all day long.
And on December 15, 2007, as I sat up out of bed,
I audibly heard the voice of God say, knock it off.
And it shook me pretty good.
I went downstairs.
I dumped every drop of alcohol down the drain
and called one of the women who had been asking me
to come to the women's Bible studies.
She had had a history with drinking.
And I finally just said, "Hey, I have a problem.
"I think I need some help."
She came over and prayed with me
and 10 days later on Christmas Day,
we found out that we were pregnant
with our oldest daughter, Eleanor.
And it was the first time I ran into the mercy
and the kindness of God.
Here I was making a horrible decision
that could have injured my second child
and instead he intervened just in his kindness and saved our daughter.
And she was born the following year on August 8th on Brett's 23rd birthday.
  And I think edgy makes a great point, like for people who know you now, like
for me, you guys are two of the best parents I've ever seen. I love watching you the way
you parent your kids. I love the quality of your marriage. I think it's amazing. I think
a lot of people just think, well, you know, you just got lucky. But from what you're painting,
you nearly ended up in disaster, divorce and distress. So what would you say are the top
three things that changed your marriage from that mess to where you are today.
Well, at that point, I made some pretty drastic changes.
I ended up giving my life to the Lord in February of 2008.
And I just started seeking what does the Bible say?
What, what is in here?
And I started changing pretty significantly, but Brett was still living
a double life that I didn't know about.
Yeah.
So Shale gave her life to the Lord in February of 2008.
And I was at that point, because I was raised in the church,
I was able to talk the talk, but I was still not walking the walk.
But Shailie started learning tools.
On her side, she started praying for me.
She started learning how to honor me as her husband.
And so a year fast forward, a year and a half, I had all this weight and baggage that I'd
still been hiding, still been lying about this whole double life thing going on.
And August 25, 2009, I felt like the, I was at a, I was at a men's Bible study and they're
We're talking about every man's battle
and how the truth will set you free.
And the Lord just spoke to me and said,
if you're not honest now, you're never going to be.
So I ended up confessing all this stuff.
I'd been hiding to all these, this group of guys.
And they prayed for me.
And at the end, I felt like God say, you're not done yet.
And so I ended up going home from that meeting
and confessing everything to Shaili,
not knowing what that was gonna produce,
not knowing if she would leave me,
divorce me, whatever it was gonna be.
But I got to a point where I was like,
This is so heavy and so, so dark.
I can't handle this anymore.
I've been trying to, and I ended up telling Shaili,
I've been trying to fix myself for years.
I'm just asking you, you're good,
and give me another chance to let Jesus fix me.

And we finally got to that broken place of,
this isn't working, we need to do it Jesus' way.
And since August 25th, 2009,
we've done everything we can to be intentional
in pursuing the things of God
and what he says about marriage
and how to better our relationship with one another.
And that started with going to pretty intense,
pretty intense marital counseling.
We did that for about a year and a half.
We did other studies, other books, dating each other
on a weekly basis.
- We started pursuing other couples
who are older and wiser than us and asking questions.
I think it just got to that place where,
we live in a country where we have the freedom of speech,
we have all these rights and as a human,
I have all these rights, I can do what I want,
but we'd been doing everything the way
that we selfishly wanted and it wasn't working.
And so we finally got to a place where we said,
"Actually, Jesus, we wanna know what your way is."
And we're going to give up all of our rights
to pursue the promises that you have for our marriage
and try that out.
We just began to say, we're gonna choose his way
and we started seeing fruit and we started seeing life
come on things.
And logically, you look at Brett coming
and telling me that he's been lying to me
for four years in our marriage,
nobody's gonna look at that logically
and say that's a good idea.
No wife is going to be happy to hear that.
- Right.
- But Jesus' promise to Brett was,
you have to tell her to be free of this.
And so he took the words of Jesus and said,
"Okay, I'm gonna trust you."
And came and told me,
"And yeah, it was hard.
"We went through a year and a half of agony
"working through all of that."
But Jesus is faithful when he puts an offer
on the table for you.
And so little by little, we kept pursuing his ways instead of our ways, his promises instead of our beliefs, his truths instead of our cultures ways.
And we just started seeing fruit and life on that, both in our marriage and in our parenting and on and on, which is why we were so interested in pursuing the ministry schools and things.
Good Lord.
I love it.
I love that story.
I'm looking at the time.
I'm realizing you have to go because you have a maternity massage that you do not want to miss.
But guys, thank you so much for taking time out to come and just share a little blip of your story.
We love doing life with you.
We love being in relationship with you.
We love watching what has happened in your lives.
And we love using you as an example for people whose marriages are in crisis to go.
No, divorce isn't the option you're looking for.
Like it is absolutely possible for God to redeem anything.
And I just love watching you with your great family about to expect your third.
I think I love to that your kids don't even have a residue of anything either.

So yeah, we love you guys.
We love it that our kids are growing up together.
We love it too.
Thanks for having us.
So thanks to Brent and Shaley for being on the show.
Thank you to you guys for listening.
Apologies that we were daily with this.
We hope you have an incredible week and we will be back on Monday with another episode
of Keeping Up With The Joneses.
See you next week.


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3. The District Environment Engineer, The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, Maramalai Nagar, Kancheepuram District.
4. The Joint Chief Environmental Engineer (Monitoring), The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, 76 Anna Salai, Chennai.
5. The Superintending Engineer, TANGEDCO, Kanchipuram.
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ASTRONAUT'S WIFE, THE (director/writer: Rand Ravich; cinematographer: Allen Daviau; editors: Steve Mirkovich/Tim Alverson; cast: Johnny Depp (Spencer Armacost), Charlize Theron (Jillian Armacost), Joe Morton (Sherman Reese), Clea DuVall (Nan), Nick Cassavetes (Alex Streck), Blair Brown (Shelly McLaren), Tom Noonan (Jackson McLaren), Samantha Eggar (Doctor), Donna Murphy (Natalie Streck); Runtime: 109; 1999)
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
A too obvious derivative supernatural thriller, most imitative of "Rosemary's Baby," but without the same fresh intensity and without a credible script. What it had going for it, was a sleek look (the cinematography was simply out of this world) and an able workmanlike craftsmanship. Rand Ravich does a fine job directing his initial film, but fails miserbly with the storytelling part of his script. This results in a film that is watchable but not believable.
Spencer Armacost (Depp) and Jillian Armacost (Theron) are madly in love with each other, living in Florida near the space center, where he is an astronaut commander at NASA and she is an elementary school teacher. On a routine orbital mission, he and Captain Streck (Nick) are trapped in space outside the space shuttle and lose contact for two minutes, experiencing pitch black darkness, silence, an explosion, and something strange that the men refuse to talk about. It will turn out to be a noise that humans can't hear, and that sound is a way for aliens to travel undetected from outer space by hiding in the transmission signal while traveling at the speed of light - like a thought.
In this arty mystery, which doesn't have too much mystery if you watched a few of these supernatural films before, Spencer and Streck come back different men from what they were before they experienced the two minutes of mystery.   He will quit his NASA job and move to New York City to become a top executive in charge of building a fighter plane. What is strange about this, is that he hates NYC and loved his current job, telling his wife he will always be a pilot.
A crazed NASA official (Morton) risks his life to warn Jillian about the twins. He was terminated when he presented his theories to his NASA bosses that there was an alien in the space craft when the men experienced their two minute blackout and that the astronauts returning are not the same men, and when he clears up the film's mystery about three-quarters of the way into the film, the film loses its suspenseful impact.
Without a mystery to end on, the film becomes banal, having established no point of view and having nothing to say about space travel, it just becomes a predictable guessing game of how Jillian will defend herself against her husband, someone who is really not her husband. The other question is will she have the kids, who have the potential to be aliens, as she is not absolutely sure if she became pregnant before or after the doomed mission.
REVIEWED ON 8/18/2000 GRADE: C
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If you're running Linux, macOS or FreeBSD, definitely; we actively support
those platforms.
Installing Please on either Linux or macOS is as easy as
curl https://get.please.build | bash
. Further
dependencies shouldn't be necessary after that, assuming you have what you
need for the languages you want to work on (e.g. you'll need a JDK to use
Please for Java).
To compile it, one only needs Go and Git installed.
On Linux we primarily support Ubuntu; it should work pretty readily on most
distros though.
See
tools/images/ubuntu
for information and a Dockerfile for setting up a recommended environment.
For building on FreeBSD, you will need to install Bash as well.
Currently binary downloads aren't available, we hope to make them available
in future.
Windows is unfortunately not supported natively, since it's just too different from the Unix environment Please is designed for. It is possible to run it within WSL though.
When running inside WSL, make sure drvfs is mounting your windows partitions with the metadata option. You can configure this inside
/etc/wsl.conf
:
[automount]
options = "metadata"
All our release artifacts are signed with a GPG key. If you want assurance that they have not been tampered with since, you can use the signatures to verify them.
First, fetch the Please release key:
gpg --recv-keys 3A6C0AE370E18496045687A9B85AEAE1AA1D5142
This should receive key B85AEAE1AA1D5142
for
Please Releases<EMAIL_ADDRESS>.
To verify the download script:
curl -O https://get.please.build/get_plz.sh
curl -O https://get.please.build/get_plz.sh.asc
gpg --verify get_plz.sh.asc get_plz.sh
You can now run that directly to install Please.
To download and verify specific release artifacts:
ARCH="linux_amd64"
VERSION="16.0.0"
curl -O https://get.please.build/${ARCH}/${VERSION}/please_${VERSION}
curl -O https://get.please.build/${ARCH}/${VERSION}/please_${VERSION}.asc
gpg --verify please_${VERSION}.asc please_${VERSION}
You can now use this Please binary on your machine as you please!
Check out the code on GitHub, chat on Gitter or ask in the discussion group.
Cross-language support is a big advantage; we have four main languages in use at Thought Machine (Javascript, Python, Java and Go) plus several smaller pieces (some C++ and Thrax grammars) and having to invoke different compilers and/or test tools for each one would be extremely tiresome.
Please can also integrate many different kinds of build steps; for example a
code generation step using go generate
or
protoc
can be invoked dynamically without having
to check the resulting code into the repository.
We've tried other tools (notably Gradle and Buck) internally and ultimately decided that we could build something that would either better fit our needs, be considerably faster, or both.
All four of these systems are quite closely related in the scheme of things, being inspired by (or in Bazel's case, a direct open sourcing of) Google's Blaze.
Several of us had worked at Google and used Blaze extensively there; we were excited about it being open sourced as Bazel but by then we were already using Please internally. It's a great system but we have slightly different goals, specifically we're aiming Please at being lighter weight and pushing the boundaries of what can be done within the BUILD language. Since Please is written in Go there's no runtime dependency on the JVM.
We actually used Buck for some months internally before deciding to write Please and before it was capable of building our repo. We preferred it to other options available, but again we're focused on different goals; Please is easier to extend to new languages, has a bunch of features that we specifically wanted (e.g. test sandboxing) and has a stronger focus on BUILD language correctness. Conversely we have much less support for mobile development.
We're least familiar with Pants; one of our developers briefly tried it and while we liked many aspects we didn't think it was the ideal fit for us at the time.
Originally Blaze, since a number of us had used it at Google. More recently
we'd used Buck internally so many things superficially resemble that for
compatibility reasons (e.g. python_binary
instead
of py_binary
etc).
Some of the advanced features are based on things we would have liked to do with Blaze, for example being able to defer creation of some build rules until they actually need to be built. This is only really of interest for spectacularly large trees of targets or especially esoteric use cases though.
Mostly, of course, it was inspired by our fearless leader Paul, specifically the point when he told us "you absolutely cannot write your own build system". After that it was really inevitable...
Firstly, all the rules explicitly declare their dependencies, so Please can aggressively parallelise build rules wherever possible. It can also cache & reuse previous outputs when they haven't changed, and it hashes all input files to make sure it's correct.
Also BUILD files encourage you to break projects into smaller components, which can then be compiled in parallel. It's still possible to define a project with a single BUILD file in the traditional Java way that one would use in Gradle etc, and this works fine for smaller projects, but for larger ones parallelising the compilation can be a big advantage.
There are no separate steps inside Please; parsing BUILD files, building targets and running tests can all happen simultaneously, so there's no down time waiting for the last thing to compile before the tests begin. The parsing process is also very fast due to having an in-process Python interpreter.
It being written in Go and being an entirely native binary means great performance and fast startup times; internally it's also highly parallelised and can take full advantage of the underlying hardware.
Finally, the rules themselves are optimised in various ways; for example,
the construction of the final .jar from a
java_binary
is an efficient concatenation of other
.jar files without any recompression. Similarly the output .pex from a
python_binary
is built up piecemeal throughout the
python_library
rules and assembled at the end so
we don't have to recompress an entire zip file every time you change one .py
file.
The currently-unnamed BUILD language is a restricted subset of Python; see here for more details, documentation and a formal grammar.
This provides a nice balance between an elegant and powerful language, but also one that can be interpreted more easily than Python itself, and that is reasonably familiar to many developers.
One downside to this is that the BUILD files are a little hard to
automatically edit or update compared to a data format like XML, Yaml or
JSON. We think this is worth the tradeoff for giving the developer more
power and (in our opinion) a significantly nicer format.
A few Please features can help with updating BUILD files:
The built-in parser is an internal pure Go implementation. It's evolved through several implementations over time; ultimately this provides maximum control and performance (because we are not subject to Python's GIL, or cgo calling overhead).
Please bootstraps itself using go build
to build a
temporary version of itself, which is then used to rebuild itself using its
own BUILD rules. This requires disabling some features for that bootstrap
step (mostly codegen steps), but is definitely worth it since obviously we
can't rely on anyone building it already having a version of it installed.
Fortunately the process is pretty fast since Go is fast to compile.
We excluded most other languages that any of us were familiar with through a process of elimination; JVM languages were ruled out from a concern about startup overhead, we were concerned about Python's threading performance for an inherently parallel system and felt C++ was too fiddly and lacked a strong standard library. Rust was still pre-1.0 at the time (although that didn't take long, as it turned out) so we felt it was a bit early to leap into that.
It also turned out to be a really useful way of learning the language; the project is about the right size to explore it properly and sufficiently self-contained not to affect other parts of our repo until we were sure Go was a language we wanted to do more of.
We're very happy with the results; the performance of native binaries is excellent, the language was easy to become productive with and has great support for all the things we needed to do with it. Our early concerns (e.g. the classic "no generics!") turned out to be a lot less problematic than we expected.
An alternative explanation is that the original high-level design meeting for Please was an impromptu discussion in a pub one Friday evening, where we thought it would be a neat language to try despite none of us having any real experience with it.
This is the only repository; all development is done here. Initially we had an internally hosted repo but transferred the project to Github in preparation for open sourcing it.
We've got some build rules in our internal repo that aren't built into Please yet. We intend to open source as we can, but the ones left aren't easy to genericise for various reasons.
There are some additional rules available at https://github.com/thought-machine/pleasings, which we either do not want to guarantee compatibility for, are still experimental, or are sufficiently esoteric that we don't want the build process for Please to require them.
We are using semantic versioning so essentially:
These rules apply to the "public parts" of the project; specifically the
command-line interface and flags, the config file format and the BUILD file
format and builtins are essentially the API and so we take significantly
more care about compatibility around those.
The interface to the various sub-tools invoked by Please we consider an
implementation detail and those might change more aggressively (although in
practice they rarely do).
Things whose behaviour is not explicitly specified might change with less notice, because of course you shouldn't have been relying on it anyway. This includes the exact hash generation method - if it becomes necessary to change that for a bugfix it may force apparently unnecessary rebuilds after an update. We try to avoid that as much as possible since it's aggravating (for us too!) but since it doesn't affect eventual correctness it can change in minor releases.
The versions don't apply to the code interfaces themselves, since we don't expect this to see wide use as a library. If some part of it becomes popular in that way we'll likely split it out to a separate repository and version it separately.
Like this:
The appearance is somewhat inspired by Buck, although we have put some of our own spin on it as well.
They change based on the type of rule that's being built:
Libraries are normal weight, binaries (including tests) are bold.
There is absolutely no significance to the choice of colours beyond arbitrary choice when that code was originally written.
Because we liked the idea of sounding polite when typing "plz build", "plz
test", etc.
Also we chose the domain name before almost anything else (priorities!).


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Oxford University Gymnastics Club Constitution 2004-2005
Name & Objects
1.0
The
club is called the Oxford University Gymnastics Club. This is a federal name
which incorporates a men’s team and a women’s team. The Club’s objects are the support, development, improvement and
promotion of gymnastics in the University of Oxford; and the income and the
property shall be applied solely to those objects.
Compliance
2.a
The
Club shall be administered in accordance with the regulations for University
clubs which are published from time to time in the Proctors’ and Assessor’s
Memorandum ("the Proctors’ Memorandum"). At the time of the adoption of this Constitution the Club is
designated by the Proctors as a recognized sport.
2.b
If
there is a National Governing Body for the sport which the Club is eligible to
register, the Club shall effect and maintain such registration: purchase any
insurance cover which the national body makes available (unless the Insurance
Section of the University’s Central Administration ("the Insurance
Section") agrees to or prescribes other arrangements); and make every
effort to comply with all the safety procedures which the National body
prescribes or recommends as good practice.
2.c
The
Club shall ensure that all paid Club administrative and coaching appointments
are ratified by the University’s Sports Strategy Committee; that all coaches
are registered with any relevant national governing body; and that all paid
coaches are accredited by such body.
2.d
The
Club shall observe the Code of Conduct on Safety matters which is set out in
the Schedule to this Constitution, ensure compliance with the Code by the
members of the Club, and follow a procedure for risk assessment which is
acceptable to the Proctors (through the Director of Sport).
Membership
3.0
The members of the Club shall
be those who are eligible and apply for membership of the Club, who are
admitted to and maintained in membership by the Committee, and who have paid
the relevant Club Subscription.
4.0
All resident junior members
of the University shall be eligible to become members of the Club. A junior
member is a matriculated member of a College or Hall who is reading and
registered for a recognized degree, diploma or certificate. A member is
resident if during term the member satisfies the requirement for residence laid
down by the University. All members shall continue to be eligible until he or
she is given permission to supplicate for his or her degree, diploma or
certificate, regardless of whether or not he or she continues to be liable to pay
fees to the University.
5.0
The Committee may also, at
its discretion, admit to membership: -
a)
Junior members of the
University’s Permanent Private Halls who are not matriculated into the
University;
b)
Junior members of Ruskin
College; Plater College; Ripon College, Cuddesdon; St Stephen’s House; The
Oxford Institute of Legal Practice and The Westminster Institute of Oxford
Brookes University; and
c)
Other persons not being
resident junior members of the University, or of one of the institutions listed
in (b) above, provided that non-university members shall not constitution more
than one-fifth of the total membership.
6.0
The
Committee may remove a person from membership for good cause. The person
concerned may appeal against such removal to the Senior Member.
7.0
There shall be an Annual
General Meeting for all members of the Club in Michaelmas Full Term, convened
by the secretary on not less than fourteen days’ notice.
8.0
The Annual General Meeting
will :
a)
receive the annual reports of
the Committee for the previous year and the annual accounts of the Club for the
previous year, the report of the accounts having been approved by the
Committee;
b)
receive a report from the
Committee on the Club’s compliance with paragraph 2 above;
c)
elect Members of the
Committee in accordance with paragraph 18 below: the Committee’s nominations
for the Officers and the Senior Member shall be contained in the notice of the
Meeting: any alternative nominations must be seconded and have the consent of
the nominee, and must be received in writing by the Secretary not less than
seven days before the date of the Meeting: nominations for other Committee
Members may be taken from the floor of the meeting;
d)
consider any motions of which
due notice has been given, and any other relevant business.
9.0
An Extraordinary General
Meeting may be called in any Full Term; by the President, the Secretary or the
Treasurer on not less than seven days’ notice; or on a written requisition by
five or more members, stating the reason for which the meeting is to be called,
and delivered to the Secretary not less than fourteen days before the date of
the Meeting.
10.0 Prior to all General Meetings notice of the agenda shall be
sent out with notice of the Meeting.
11.0 The quorum for a General Meeting shall be six members
present in person or by proxy, of whom three must be members of the Committee.
When any financial business is to be transacted, there must be present the
Treasurer, or a member of the Committees deputed by the Treasurer to represent
his her views to the Meeting (provided that where it is a case of a deputy, the
only financial business transacted shall be that which was set out in the
agenda accompanying the notice of the Meeting).
12.0
The affairs of the Club shall be administrated by a
Committee consisting of not more than eight persons, which shall determine the
subscriptions payable by the members of the club, and have ultimate
responsibility for the activities of the club. Members of the University shall
at all times make up the majority of the members of the Committee. The
Committee shall have control of the funds and property of the Club, and of its
administration.
13.0
The quorum for a Committee meeting shall be three members
present in person. When any financial business of the Club is to be transacted
there must be present the Treasurer, or a member of the Committees deputed by
the Treasurer to represent his her views to the Meeting.
14.0
The Committee shall be made up of the President, the
Secretary, the Treasurer (together, the "Office Holders"; and their
offices are referred to as "the Offices"), the Senior Member and 2
other persons. The President, the Secretary and the Treasurer shall each be
either a member of the Club whose eligibility stems from paragraphs 4, 5(a) or
5(b) above, or (with approval from the Proctors) a member of Congregation. If
his or her eligibility stems from 5(a) or 5(b) above, on election to office he
or she must sign an undertaking to abide by the Proctors Memorandum and to
accept the authority of the Proctors on Club matters.
15.0
The President shall have the right to preside at all
meetings of the members of the Club and at all meetings of the Committee.
Should the President be absent, or decline to take the chair, the Committee
shall elect another member of the Committee to chair the meeting.
16.0
The Secretary shall:
a)
maintain a register of the
members of the Club, which shall be available for inspection by the Proctors on
request;
b)
give notice of meetings of
the members and the Committee;
c)
draw up minutes of those
meetings;
d)
notify the Proctors (through
the Director of Sport) promptly following the appointment and resignation or
removal of Office Holders and other members of the Committee;
e)
advise the Proctors (through
the Director of Sport) promptly of any changes in the Constitution;
f)
notify the Proctors (through
the Director of Sport) not later than second week of every Full Term of the
programme of fixtures which has been arranged for that term (e.g. by providing
them a copy of the fixture);
g)
provide the Insurance Section
with full details of any insurance cover purchased from or through a national
governing body pursuant to paragraph 2(b) above;
h)
inform the Proctors if the
Club ceases to operate, or is to be dissolved, and in doing so present a final
statement of accounts.
17.0
The Treasurer shall:
a)
keep proper records of the
Club’s financial transactions in accordance with current accepted accounting
rules and practices;
b)
develop and implement control
procedures to minimize the risk of financial exposure, such as procedures to be
reviewed regularly with the University’s Internal Audit Section ("Internal
Audit");
c)
ensure that bills are paid
and cash is banked in accordance with the procedures developed under (b);
d)
prepare an annual budget for
the Club and regularly inform the Committee of progress against that budget;
e)
ensure that all statutory
returns are made including VAT, income tax and corporation tax if appropriate;
f)
seek advice as necessary on
tax matters from the University’s Financial Division;
g)
develop and maintain a manual
for all written procedures for aspects of the Treasurer’s responsibility;
h)
make all records, procedures
and accounts available on request to the Senior Member, the Proctor and
Internal Audit;
i)
unless the Club is designated
by the Proctors as a ‘recognised sport’, forward to the Proctors (through the
Director of Sport) by the end of Second week of each Full Term in the Club’s
first year of operation(1 August to 31 July) a copy of the accounts for the
proceeding term signed by the Senior Member, for retention on the Proctors’
files; and after the first year of operation forward a copy of the signed
annual accounts to 31st July as soon as possible after the year end
(and in any event no later than the 1 October following the year end); and
j)
if the Club has a turnover in
excess of £30,000 in the preceding year, or if owing to a change in the nature
of scale of its activities, it may confidently be expected to have such a
turnover in the current year, subject its accounts of audit by the University’s
auditors (or other auditors approved in advance by the Proctors). Accounts are
to be ready for audit within 4 months after the year-end and the costs of the
audit shall be borne by the Club.
18.0 The members of the Committee shall be elected by the
members of the Club annually, and shall be eligible for re-election. The
members of the Club shall not appoint several individuals to jointly hold any
of the Offices, nor allow any individual to hold more than one Office at a time.
If the Club is designated by the Proctors as a ‘recognised sport’, the Director
of Sport shall be the Senior Member. If the Club is not so designated, the
members of the Club shall appoint a Member of Congregation as the Senior Member
when electing other members of the Committee each year. The Senior Member shall
be a member of the Committee ex officio.
19.0 If during the period between the annual elections to
Offices and vacancies occur amongst the members of the Committee, the Committee
shall have the power of filling the vacancy or vacancies up to the next Annual
General Meeting by co-optation.
20.0 Each Office Holder must, on relinquishing his or her
appointment, promptly hand to his or her successor in Office (or to another
member of the Club nominated by the Committee) all official documents and
records belonging to the Club, together with (on request from the Committee)
any other property of the Club which may be in his or her possession; and must
complete any requirements to transfer authority relating to control of the
Clubs bank accounts, building society accounts, or other financial affairs.
21.0 Without derogating from its primary responsibility, the
Committee may delegate its functions to finance and general purposes to
subcommittees; which are made up exclusively of members of the Committee.
22.0 The Committee shall have the power to make regulations and
by-laws, in accordance with this Constitution, and to settle any disputed
points not otherwise provided for in this Constitution. Any alteration to this
Constitution shall require the approving vote of two-thirds of those present in
person or by proxy at a General Meeting.
23.0 No member of the Committee shall be removed from office
except by the approving votes of two-thirds of those present in person or by
proxy at a General Meeting.
24.0 So far as may be permitted by law, every member of the
Committee and every officer of the Club shall be entitled to be indemnified by
the Club against all costs, charges, losses, expenses and liabilities incurred
by him of her in the execution or discharge of his or her duties or the
exercise of his or her powers, or otherwise properly in relation to or in
connection with his or her duties. This indemnity extends to any liability
incurred by him or her in defending any proceedings, civil or criminal, which
relate to anything done or omitted or alleged to have been done or omitted by
him or her as a member of the Committee or officer of the Club and in which
judgment is given in his or her favor (or otherwise disposed of without any
finding or admission of any material breach of duty on his or her part), or in
which he or she is acquitted, or in connection with any application under any
statute for relief from liability in respect of any such act or omission in
which relief is granted to him or her by the Court.
25.0 So far as may be permitted by law, the Club may purchase
and maintain for any member of the Committee or Officer of the Club insurance
cover against liability which by virtue or any rule of law may attach to him or
her in respect of any negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust of
which he or she may be guilty in relation to the Club and against all costs
charges, losses and expenses and liabilities incurred by him or her and for
which or she is entitled to be indemnified by the Club by virtue of paragraph
24.
26.0 The Club may be dissolved at any time by the approving
votes of the two-thirds of those present in person or by proxy at a General
Meeting. The Club may also be dissolved (without need for any resolution of the
members) by means of not less than thirty days notice from the Proctors to the
Secretary of the Club if at any time the Club ceases to be registered with the
Proctors.
27.0 In the event of the Club being dissolved, its assets shall
not be distributed amongst the members, but shall be paid to, or at the
direction of the University.
28.0
Any question about the interpretation of this Constitution
shall be settled by the Proctors.


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20min Talks
Animation in Asia
Chair: Hassan Muthalib
Terry Man Chi Cheung:
Chinese Independent Animation in the Contemporary World: Case Studies of Hong Kong and Mainland China
Millie Young:
Herding the Proverbial Siamese Cats – The Beginning of a New Chapter
Raina Pankaj Patel:
A connecting bridge between Animation and Performing arts
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3D Animation Aesthetics
Chair: Ben Seide
Santiago Montesdeoca, Seah Hock Soon:
Artistically Driven Non-Photorealistic Computer Animation
Hillary Yeo:
Dynamism given by facial expressions
20-Min talks
Thinking beyond borders 1
Chair: Kirsten Thompson
Mihaela Mihailova:
The Life Plasmatic: Digital Bodies and the Negotiation of Reality
Jacqueline Ristola:
Recreating Reality: The Documentary Genre Within Waltz With Bashir and Persepolis
Rachel Walls:
tranSTURM: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration
20min Talks
A closer look on animation
Chair: Gray Hodgkinson
Tyler S. Williams:
The Irrelevance of Authorship? Appropriation and Absurdity in "Space Ghost Coast to Coast"
Pooja Pottenkulam:
Schools and Festivals; Impact and Influence of the Animation Festival Circuit on UK Animation Education
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Animation Production: Lessons Learned in Interdisciplinary and International Student Collaboration
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Chair: Ben Shedd
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Wall་E and the Ecological Footprint of Animation Production
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As web users, we know web forms are inherently awful. We have all been there before; we fill out a incredibly long form, press the submit button, only to find out we didn't satisfy one of the validation requirements. Even worse, with most server-side form validation, once we are redirected back, we must fill out the entire form again.
I often wondered, why are web forms so bad? How could they be improved? My goal was to create the less painful web form, with a good-as-possible user experience. I knew I wouldn't be able to make a form fun, but at least I could prevent people from pulling their hair out.
My form uses JavaScript to provide the user with real-time form validation. No more guessing. This also allowed me to prompt the user with descriptive validation requirements. Finally, I created a local storage implementation to save users' non-sensitive data. This prevents the user from having to re-enter text fields if the browser crashes, or they accidentally close the page.
My final project for my 'Web Development Using XML' course at Harvard Extension School was to take raw XML course data and develop a dynamic course catalog. Users (students) have the ability to search by department, professor, and keyword. A option to search by schedule would display all available courses at a specified semester and time. An advanced search feature allows students to use multiple different search criteria at once.
Part practical demo, part useful tool. The goal was to develop a custom web application to help developers calculate project costs based on their estimated number of hours. Not only does this make it easier for developers to quickly create bids, but also communicate with clients and stay within their budget.
Yapperbox is a basic social media platform developed with JavaScript and PHP. Utilizing a custom PHP framework, users are able to sign up, upload a photo to their profile, create posts, and add comments.
Understanding who the users are is essential for designing a great user experience. Through research, creating personas & user stories, mock-up design, usability testing, prototyping, and telemetry & analytics, the goal of UX design is to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty through the utility, ease of use, and pleasure provided in the interaction with a product. In other words:
"User experience" encompasses all aspects of the end-user's interaction with the company, its services, and its products.
— Jakob Nielsen


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1. Introduction¶
This documentation describes various components of the OpenDSA system. This includes the support infrastructure for authoring OpenDSA modules, information helpful for developing AVs and exercises, documentation for the textbook configuration system (to control which modules and exercises are generated for a specific book instance and how the exercises are scored), documentation for using the front-end (client-side) portion of the logging and scoring infrastructure, and documentation for the back-end (server-side) API and data storage system.
AVs and exercises are typically built using the JavaScript Algorithm Visuailzation library (JSAV). Complete documentation for JSAV can be found at http://jsav.io.
If you are new to OpenDSA, it will help you to keep in mind as you look through this manual that it targets a lot of different things, but you are probably concerned with only one of several possible roles at any given time. Those roles include:
- Content developer: Someone who wants to create or modify modules, visualizations, or exercises If so, you want to read the sections on creating content.
- Instructor: Someone with a class to manage. If so, you want to read about the instructor tools. If you want to set up your own book instance by picking and choosing from the OpenDSA collection of materials, then look at compiling a book instance and the configuration system.
- System administrator: Someone who wants to set up their own copy of OpenDSA. OpenDSA separates the front end content delivery server from the back end data collection server. You might want to set up either or both, in which case you should look at the installation guides.
- OpenDSA Infrastructure developer: If you want to help to extend the OpenDSA infrastructure, then you will need to understand the details of the part of the system that you are targetting.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
A. GS1 Related B. GS2 Related Polity 1. Collegium moves to devise norms to pick, shift judges 2. After foodgrain and LPG, direct transfer of benefits for fertilizers kicks in from Sunday 3. Reforms money can’t buy 4. Major Swachh hiccups: Funds crunch, failure to transport and segregate waste Environmental Science and Ecology 1. Govt’s wildlife action plan to focus on e-surveillance C. GS3 Related D. GS4 Related E. Prelims Fact F. UPSC Prelims Practice Questions G. UPSC Mains Practice Questions
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1. Collegium moves to devise norms to pick, shift judges
Context:
- Appointment of judges and transfer of high court judges.
- Transparency in the selection process
In news:
- The five-member Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra has resolved to devise a procedure to streamline the process to select judges of constitutional courts.
December 16, 2015 judgment
- The SC had asked the government to frame a new memorandum of procedure for selection of judges
- Disagreement: The draft is stuck over a disagreement on the Centre’s insistence on including a “ national security” clause to enable the government to reject a name recommended for appointment as judge of the SC or HCs on these grounds.
- Tussle between Judiciary and Government:
- The collegium has been firm that the Centre must put in writing its objections, including on national security grounds, for rejecting a recommendation and insists that if the collegium reiterates its recommendation the appointment must go through.
- But the Centre remains firm it will only show intelligence inputs on a person to the collegium and not put it in writing as this could jeopardise the future of a person whose appointment was stalled because of national security apprehensions
- The collegium headed by CJI Misra will soon give effect to the December 16, 2015 judgment of a five-judge bench mandating establishment of secretariats in the SC and each HC.
- The secretariat will collate data on the track record of persons being considered for appointment as judges and place it before the collegium.
2. After foodgrain and LPG, direct transfer of benefits for fertilizers kicks in from Sunday
In news:
- The government will launch the much-awaited direct benefit transfer (DBT) of fertiliser subsidy in Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Puducherry and Goa.
- Unlike other DBTs such as cash transfer for foodgrains or subsidised gas connection where the subsidy amount is directly transferred to beneficiary accounts, in this case the subsidy will go to the manufacturer or marketing firm.
- No- denial policy: The government will follow the no-denial policy, which means anyone can buy any quantity of fertiliser after giving details of his Aadhaar card at the retail outlet.
- Under this scheme, the retail fertiliser outlets equipped with PoS machines will be able to read buyers’ Aadhaar cards. As the farmer buys, the difference between market rate and the subsidised amount will be credited to the bank account of the manufacturer or the marketing company concerned.
- First phase of implementation: After assessing the success of its implementation and capturing the details of consumption, government will consider to launch phase-II, which will be transferring the subsidy to the accounts of farmers.
- Advantages:
- Records of sales and purchase will bring transparency about the quantity of fertilisers that companies are selling to farmers.
- Experts opinion: this move will reduce the total sale by 10-15% and thereby reduce the burden on the exchequer by about Rs 6,000 crore annually.
Context:
- The Centre recently approved Rs 25000 Cr modernisation of police force scheme which will be implemented between 2017 and 2020.
Police force modernization:
- It will strengthen the law and order apparatus, modernise state police forces and enhance their capacity to combat terrorism.
- It also has special provisions for women’s security, mobility of police forces, logistical support, hiring of helicopters, upgradation of police wireless, satellite communications , crime and criminal tracking network and systems (CCTNS) and e-prisons.
- The idea is to assist the states to upgrade their police infrastructure, especially in respect of transport, communications and forensic support, to enable them to effectively tackle the emerging challenges.
Funding Pattern:
- Centre share 75 per cent while the states’ share will be the rest.
- Under the scheme, J&K, north-eastern states and states affected by Left-Wing Extremism will get a boost of Rs 10,132 crore.
- 14th Finance Commission’s recommendations increased the state’s share of central taxes from 32 per cent to 42 per cent, following which Centre de-linked eight centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) from its support in 2015.
- While central funding of modernisation of police was stopped, non-plan funding for the same would continued.
- Thereafter, majority of state governments were disinclined to make any investments in police.
- But, the Centre again started its funding in internal security with modernization of police forces scheme on the recommendation of Cabinet Committee on Security.
Smart Police
- The PM in 2014 enunciated the concept of SMART police. The smartness has two dimensions external and internal.
- External Dimension refers to the uniform a policeman wears, the way he carries himself, his weapons, the communication equipment on his person, his mobility, response time, et al. The scheme would enhance his capabilities to respond to and deal with the kind of challenges he is confronted with in his day to day work.
- Internal Dimension refers to the expanded acronym of SMART that is, the police should be strict and sensitive, modern and mobile, alert and accountable, reliable and responsible, tech-savvy and trained. This is far more important than the external dimension but the scheme hardly improves this aspect.
Problems:
- Today we have Ruler’s police but what we need is People’s police.
- Accountability has to be to the Constitution, the laws of the land and the people of the country.
- The police is being accused of being insensitive to poor and tribals.
Way Forward
- Reliability would increase only when the police are objective, fair and impartial. Gadgetry won’t help here.
- It is the state of mind which matters. And to achieve that state of mind, police must be freed from the stranglehold of politicians.
- The scheme must be followed by structural reforms, institutions like the state security commission, police establishment board and complaints authority must be set up in every state in keeping with the directions of the Court.
- The GOI should bring police and public order in the Concurrent List of Schedule VII of the Constitution. Constitutional experts like Fali S. Nariman have strongly spoken in favour of such an amendment.
- Sustained economic progress needs the solid foundation of good law and order, and we cannot have good law and order in the country unless the police are reorganised, restructured and rejuvenated.
Basic Information:
Cabinet Committee on Security
Central Sector Scheme
Centrally Sponsored Schemes
4.
Major Swachh hiccups: Funds crunch, failure to transport and segregate waste
Context:
In news:
Reasons:
Category: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ECOLOGY
1. Govt’s wildlife action plan to focus on e-surveillance
Context:
- New National Wildlife Action Plan (2017-31).
- The action plan will be launched by environment minister Harsh Vardhan on the inaugural day of the Global Wildlife Programme (GWP)
In news:
- The Centre will announce its new National Wildlife Action Plan (2017-31) on October 2 to strengthen conservation measures.
- Use of technology, including e-surveillance through drones, and modalities to involve people living around national parks and sanctuaries in conservation efforts will be key to this 14-year roadmap.
- The action plan spells out how India will go about handling these issues in a time-bound manner in the next 14 years.
- It covers all the issues concerning conservation, ranging from rehabilitation of threatened species to integrating climate change in wildlife planning.
- The plan has a road map to deal with poaching and illegal trade of animals and animal parts, and management of tourism in wildlife areas.
- Setting up special courts for effective implementation of the Wildlife Protection Act to ensure the speedy trial of wildlife crimes, identification and validation of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITK) available in various parts of the country for dealing with human-wildlife conflicts, and use of mobile technology to develop ‘Digital Field Guides’ for easy identification of various wildlife goods and their derivatives are other key features of the plan.
- The plan cites as a model the Gujarat forest department’s initiative to appoint local youth as ‘Vanya Praani Mitra’ (friends of wild animals) in in high conflict zones.
- The four-day conference will give India an opportunity to get acquainted with best practices on the management of wildlife habitats and minimising human-wildlife conflict situations.
Global Wildlife Programme (GWP) :
- The GWP, initiated in 2015, is a World-Bank led partnership of 19 countries to promote the conservation and sustainable development by combating trafficking in wildlife.
Nothing here for Today!!!
Nothing here for Today!!!
Nothing here for Today!!!
F. Practice Questions for UPSC Prelims Exam
G. UPSC Mains Practice Questions
GS Paper II
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Electronic cash transfer system for the welfare schemes is an ambitious project to minimize corruption, eliminate wastage and facilitate reforms. Comment.
GS Paper III
- What were the reasons for the introduction of Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act, 2013? Discuss critically its salient features and their effectiveness.
- What is the meaning of the term ‘tax expenditure’? Taking housing sector as an example, discuss how it influences the budgetary policies of the government.


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Paudimar is the Brazilian sister to the Hostel Inn on the Argentinean side. While it's not as big or as fancy as its famous sister, it's also part of the HI network, and it's also a nice place to stay. They're a bit far out of town, but their spacious out-of-the-way location gives them room for an enormous garden, a set of hammocks, a nice swimming pool, and camping space. They also have a tour agency on-site, for all your booking needs.
""" +++Paudimar is the Brazilian sister to the Hostel Inn on the Argentinean side. While it's not as big or as fancy as its famous sister, it's also part of the HI network, and it's also a nice place to stay. They're a bit far out of town, but their spacious out-of-the-way location gives them room for an enormous garden, a set of hammocks, a nice swimming pool, and camping space. They also have a tour agency on-site, for all your booking needs.
Rooms: fairly basic beds and dorms, but nice and quiet.
People: as well as the usual hostel-to-hostel backpackers, they also attract a few of the more rugged and interesting types, since they have camping and trailer-home areas.
Staff: helpful enough, and most of them speak English.
Location: a bit of a pain-in-the-a$$ spot, to tell the truth — 12km from town, and you need to catch 2 buses to get there. However, they are fairly close to both the waterfalls, and to the int'l airport.
Food: nice buffet breakfast, and the all-you-can-eat dinner is pretty good too.
Internet: only 1 free PC — very hard to get on it! In fact, you generally need to book it on the whiteboard. They also have (total rip-off) by-the-minute PCs, and Wi-Fi for laptop owners.
Hot water: works well.