Tim McCarthy, Trumpet

Concerto in D Major / Heinrich Stolzel; Concerto in E-flat / Franz Joseph Haydn; The Adventures of… / Kevin McKee; Sonata for Trumpet and Piano / Halsey Stevens; Grand Russian Fantasia / Jules Lev

Apprentice Life: Finding Life in the Way of Jesus

The Apprentice Life: Finding Life in the Way of Jesus course is a project designed to address the difficulty of mobilizing more experienced believers at a large, western Canadian, evangelical anabaptist church to embrace their role in helping new believers grow up in their faith. The author has explored Old and New Testament teachings, various historic Christian traditions, contemporary faith formation theory, disciple-making literature, and the insights of local and expert contributors. Based on these discoveries, new believers are most likely to become resilient apprentices of Jesus when more experienced mentors in faith accept responsibility to pass on a living memory of God’s saving work through Christ and the Spirit through loving, intentional relationships. Apprentice Life provides a framework and content for a relational disciple-making and catechetical experience incorporating teaching, class and small group interaction, one-on-one mentoring, and personal exploration. Through a series of 13 interactive sessions, new believers (drawn from various evangelistic and seeker-oriented efforts) discover the key elements of basic discipleship; mentors receive training and resources for spiritual accompaniment, and journey alongside a new believer for the duration of the course

Innovative Data Capture and Presentation Techniques in Support of the EU Environmental Noise Directive

The Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland (EPA) funded from 2006 to 2007 a research project to develop methodologies to meet data-related challenges arising under the European Union (EU) Environmental Noise Directive (END) (2002/49/EC) for Ireland. The research project sought to assess the role of advanced ground-based spatial video and also aerial digital photography in the creation of data required for suitably accurate noise modelling in road environments

Will mass drug administration eliminate lymphatic filariasis? Evidence from northern coastal Tanzania

Copyright @ 2012 The Authors. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and 85 reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The article was made available through the Brunel University Open Access Publishing Fund.This article documents understandings and responses to mass drug administration (MDA) for the treatment and prevention of lymphatic filariasis among adults and children in northern coastal Tanzania from 2004 to 2011. Assessment of village-level distribution registers, combined with self-reported drug uptake surveys of adults, participant observation and interviews, revealed that at study sites in Pangani and Muheza districts the uptake of drugs was persistently low. The majority of people living at these highly endemic locations either did not receive or actively rejected free treatment. A combination of social, economic and political reasons explain the low uptake of drugs. These include a fear of treatment (attributable, in part, to a lack of trust in international aid and a questioning of the motives behind the distribution); divergence between biomedical and local understandings of lymphatic filariasis; and limited and ineffective communication about the rationale for mass treatment. Other contributory factors are the reliance upon volunteers for distribution within villages and, in some locations, strained relationships between different groups of people within villages as well as between local leaders and government officials. The article also highlights a disjuncture between self-reported uptake of drugs by adults at a village level and the higher uptake of drugs recorded in official reports. The latter informs claims that elimination will be a possibility by 2020. This gives voice to a broader problem: there is considerable pressure for those implementing MDA to report positive results. The very real challenges of making MDA work are pushed to one side - adding to a rhetoric of success at the expense of engaging with local realities. It is vital to address the kind of issues raised in this article if current attempts to eliminate lymphatic filariasis in mainland coastal Tanzania are to achieve their goal.This work is funded from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Compact Airborne Image Mapping System (CAIMS)

Airborne image mapping systems, to a large extent, remain the preserve of specialist aerial survey companies and research groups. This paper describes the current status of the CAIMS project, established in July 2006 at the National Centre of Geocomputation, National University of Ireland, Maynooth with their industrial partner; Compass Informatics, Dublin. It’s chief objective is to develop a compact, less complex, mobile airborne mapping system. Historically, aerial survey systems comprise technically complex and expensive image mapping systems. These high-end camera and navigation systems are usually installed in aircraft that have been specially adapted to carry out this activity. A dedicated full time team, including Survey Manager, Pilots and Observers are required to support this activity. Compounding the situation is the cost of advanced software modules and associated Data Processing specialists required to turn these data into useful georectified and orthorectified image products. Meanwhile, more advanced, less complex, reasonably priced imaging and navigation sensors continue to appear on the market. Allied to this trend are less complex, cheaper data processing modules enabling data to be collected and processed in a cost effective and timely manner. The CAIMS project was setup to review current technology for compact, relatively in-expensive, mobile aerial image mapping systems. The chief research objective was to develop a complete system in terms of survey operation, data acquisition and processing. Some secondary objectives include: (i) the development of a compact acquisition system that could be installed in common light-aircraft, using a removable, fully licensed mounting system; and (ii) the development of in-flight survey management software tools and downstream pre-processing modules enabling rapid turnaround of georectified mosaics. No attempt is made to reduce the role of conventional image survey systems but rather it is to look at areas where this new technology could be used to complement existing survey work and, indeed, open up new sectors. Some examples of the latter include development of rapid mobile aerial mapping methodologies and route corridor surveys. The results of this work will help develop novel solutions for some age-old aerial survey problems and so enable a wider audience access to this rapidly evolving technology