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Vendors at the Market sell a wide selection of in-season, local and organic produce, local all-natural meats, free-range eggs, cut flowers, locally roasted organic coffees, edible plants and trees, orchids, handcrafted teas, gluten-free and vegan foods, handcrafted cheeses, locally made desserts, freshly baked breads, homemade dog treats, local honey and other seasonal delights. Through the Beaches Green Market, community members can learn about seasonality and sustainable farming practices by getting to personally know the people who grow their food. The Market aims to empower through education and awareness, thus allowing people to make active decisions towards the betterment of their personal health, that of their families and the planet as a whole.


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By Daniel Copeman
My first introduction to Scott Walker was on a wintery morning inside the warm belly of HMV Southampton when I was a Christmas temp there. I recall restocking the Bestsellers of the day (Hard-Fi, Westlife, Nizlopi) at 6am and the gentleman I was working with chose 'Scott 2' to listen to. The opening song was 'Mathilde', and I was awestruck by the pomposity of the arrangement and the theatre of the song. Although I had no idea who he was at the time, Jacques Brel was a later obsession I acquired through this introduction to Scott Walker. I listened to the whole of the CD while counting the gaps on the shelves of the chart toppers, fascinated by the scope and ambition involved, particularly given the context of music I'd encountered that was recorded during this period.
From here I began, where everyone begins I presume; 'Scott 4' then backwards through the solo records.
'Scott 4 is in my opinion a wondrous album, a fantastic balance of pop sensibility, hooks and delicate inclinations towards what was to come in his later records. The Old Man's Back Again is almost Phil Spector-esque, using big band production, sheen and accessibility; even within a song that seems to infer triumph, the vocal tone and delivery imbue the sense of the macabre and a sadness which is less imbued and more the centre of pieces like The Seventh Seal.
These first 4 solo albums are particularly interesting when exploring Scott Walker as a songwriter. A majority of Scott Walker's first three solo albums were either covers or songs written by hired songwriters, as was typical of the time, as due to a strict recording contract his self-penned efforts were vetted before considered for record release. 'Scott 4' was the first instance in which he had the level of control he had desired over the album, which certainly shows in the consistent standard of the songs, and in its originality and daring as seen in On Your Own Again. However, it unfortunately suffered a severe dip in album sales. This could partly be blamed for its release under his birth name - Noel Scott Engel - rather than under his moniker, which has since been changed in subsequent re-releases. Scott Walker feels the poor sales of 'Scott 4' could be blamed due to most of the album being in 3/4 tempo.
The most disappointing impact of poor record sales was not the re-introduction of hired songwriters for Scott's future solo albums as you might expect, but rather that he lost faith in his ability to write and that he stopped writing altogether. He discusses this period as one of his biggest regrets in Stephen Kijak's phenomenal documentary '30 Century Man' which is essential viewing for anyone with an interest in recording and writing methods.
Having discovered Scott Walker's early solo albums, I had not particularly dug into the story of his work, and the musical journey he had undertaken in the time between the present day and 'Scott 4'. Idiotically, I had presumed that as an artist of his time, and once the fashion of the era had passed, Scott Walker would have passed into some sort of sedate retirement alongside his musical contemporaries. My first error was to mistake him as an artist of his time and secondly, to presume that he had stopped producing albums. I then stumbled across 'Tilt' one day in Resident records in Brighton. Tilt was unlike anything I could have expected, and found it to have the same effect on first listen that the majority of my favourite albums have had on me, enraptured bemusement. Given my experience of Scott Walker (I came to 'Nite Flights' and 'Climate of Hunter' later) the first track Farmer in the City was astounding. The rising strings swaying, seemingly tempo-less across the room, and this aged and trembling yet still beautiful and recognisable voice, sat awkwardly atop them reciting the verse of Italian poet Paolo Pasolini.
Further into the album, Bouncer See Bouncer is all repressed aggression and tension with its twitching, rattling intro, before briefly flowering to then return to its unsettling beginnings, whilst The Cockfighter seethes and hisses exquisitely. 'Tilt' though - as it transpired - was a dress rehearsal for what is in my opinion not only Scott Walker's finest work but is also quietly becoming (if that's a word you can use connected to the album in question) my favourite album of all time.
'The Drift' was released in 2005, but sounds like it could have been released any time between 1950 and 2200. Its timeless quality comes from the insistence of acoustic recordings and the closeness of the audio to the ear of the listener. I am unaware how this is achieved, but I have heard that it comes from the album not being mastered rather the volumes just being pushed. This effect feels uncomfortable, the voice seems to pierce you and drum hits feel as if they are in the room, strings fracture, splinter and splice through bar after bar of one horrendously sustained note. This makes the album a thoroughly tough and impenetrable listen (for me anyway) but the rewards garnered from commitment to the album as a piece is unparalleled. There are too many moments of tremendous genius contained within 'The Drift' to sit here and extoll their individual virtues without boring everyone senseless (if I haven't already) and inevitably the more sensationalist elements are talked about more often than not, the meat beating, the donkey howling, but its the subtler moments than that which really set it apart.
Sonically 'The Drift' is so diverse and sporadic, and dynamically varied musically that you could easily never mention the lyrics while over excitedly ranting at someone about it (which I may have done repeatedly while drunk) and that is a testament to its majesty as a musical endeavour. Lyrically Scott Walker's elliptical references and the imagery he conjures throughout 'The Drift' turn to both the beautiful and the horrific. I will not embarrass myself by trying to dismantle and understand the meanings of his lyrics, but examples are manifold of his grasp of wordplay and his handle of how to place lyrics within a musical context. "His obsession with moon/ its influence upon men of affairs" from Clara explores Mussolini's many superstitious inclinations, and does more than glibly refer to this. It conjures a scene for the listener from the point of view of his mistress of a distrustful man trying to attach reason to what he can't control. "A Fugleman moves/ in lung-smeared slides and corridors" from Cue, containing lyrics that reputedly took 12 years to complete, constructs this idea of an organ plated corridor, dripping. What Scott Walker does particularly well is to leave enough space and inference in the lyrics for the listener to appropriate their own particular fear or horror to the landscape, thus intensifying and personalising the experience.
Even further than this, his use of lyrics in conjunction with the music is imperative to the impact of certain songs lyrics. In Psioratic, the use of a recording of a bin to imitate a thimble being moved, conjoined with a metal bar being struck in a snare like fashion (all 5th and 13th beats) and a rarely tempo driven vocal melody only makes for a more unexpected and disjointed listening experience. However, the most striking moment of this ilk is on Cue when the vocal declares almost impassively "Bam, Bam , Bam, Bam" which immediately is to be retorted to in a call and response fashion by an intensely close, almost intrusively raw sounding drum in what appears to be a deliberate blurring of the lines between the vocal as the narrative, and instrument as the accompaniment.
The only moment 'The Drift' falls away, ever so slightly, is in The Escape which is a slightly clumsy ballad akin to his prior material but the final track A Lover Loves finishes the piece on a surprising turn as the composition and arrangement is stripped down to just a dry vocal and acoustic guitar. This is one of the more traditional vocals on the album, interspersed with an aggressive 'pssting' as if a secret is being disclosed to the listener. The chords then discord and the beauty becomes less tangible but you can still hear the original melody within the song before it returns. This is another recurring theme of the album, a desire to juxtapose beauty and horror and a desire to push the commitment of the listener.
The influence of Scott Walker on myself is indisputable and although probably (possibly, I can't say) not apparent in the sonic palate of our album, it certainly influenced the structuring of songs and the production. I cannot recommend 'The Drift' and 30 Century Man enough to anyone.
The issue I have now is that I have not yet discussed a majority of his material, most prominently 'Nite Flights', the final Walker Brothers album, or 'Climate of Hunter', and I am already comfortably in excess of the word count allocated for this article and am also probably becoming quite tedious in my adoration. To finish I wish to mentioned one particular track on 'Nite Flights', written aside from his band fellows. The stand out piece of this album is comfortably The Electrician which also ties into our article on movie soundtracks, as it is used in one of my favourite intro scenes of all time, at the beginning of Bronson… Enjoy.

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Opinion: Rubber-Stamping the Syrian Slaughter
Assistant books editor Sohrab Ahmari on the U.N. resolution to eliminate Bashar Assad's chemical weapons. Photo: Associated Press
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A most unlikely friendship has blossomed between two creatures that traditionally tend to be at odds with each other.
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Caring for Your False Eyelashes
In other news, which seems pretty trivial considering the paragraph above... I'm addressing some questions I received after posting my False Eyelash tutorial. How do you take the lashes off? How do you clean them? How long can you use them before throwing them out? I plan to answer those questions in this blog. Enjoy!
Once you're ready to take the lashes off, just get a light grip on the outer corner of the lash strip, and slowly and gently pull them off. The glue does not dry hard as a rock- it remains flexible so it will not pull or be painful. Keep in mind, when applying the lashes you want to get them as close to the lashline as possible without being ON the lashes themselves. This way when you remove the strip of lashes- you won't pull out any of your own. However If you do get some glue on your natural lashes- don't freak out. If you're gentle, you can still get them off without losing your own lashes.
To clean your false lashes, I recommend using the following items pictured above... Eye makeup remover (I use Rimmel), the container your lashes came in, some Q-tips, a tissue, and of course- the lashes you want to clean. I recommend cleaning them soon after your wear them. If you let them sit too long, the mascara on them can affect the shape and leave them brittle and mishapen. If you watch my falsies tutorial, you'll notice I recommend using mascara to blend the fakes with your own. Perhaps that's not your style... well I would still recommend cleaning them off with some eye makeup remover just for sanitation purposes.
As you can see in this extreme closeup, I use dark-toned glue on my lashes... it appears grey when it's wet, but it dries black. Before I start cleaning the lashes, I simply pull the glue from the lash strip. It remains flexible and somewhat stretchy- so just peel it right off. Once again, the key word is "gentle"... pull to hard and you could actually pull some of the lashes off the strip too. It's not rocket science, just don't get rough with it! :D
Now that your lash band looks like it did when you bought them, it's time to get that gunky mascara off the lashes. Here's how I do it- I dunk my Q-tip into my eye makeup remover, and then (on top of a tissue), I gently rub the q-tip over the lashes (moving in outward strokes from the band). You'll notice a lot of mascara residue collecting on the tissue. Once the lashes look and feel smooth, you're done cleaning them off! If the mascara seems to be particularly resistant, I'd suggest putting some remover on a cotton ball and then holding it for a few seconds on the lashes so it begins to break down the mascara... the lightly rub and it *should* come off.
It's a good idea to hold onto that case that the lashes came in. Otherwise I'm really not sure how in the world you'd keep them nice and neat. After a few uses they may not bond to that plastic like they originally did, but that's ok. They're safe in there! Plus it helps you remember what kind to go buy next time! (or what not to buy)
There's really no hard and fast rule that I can give you as far as a specific time frame that the lashes will be good for... There have been some sets that I've gotten 6 or 7 uses out of... that's becuase I cleaned them promptly after wearing, I was gentle when I cleaned them, I NEVER slept in them (this can cause them to get very mishapen), and I stored them in their container.
Some signs that it's time to toss them out? If they don't seem to have the same shape they did when you bought them. Note: sometimes as you wear lashes, the shape of the band slightly changes, becoming easier to place on your own lashes- this is a GOOD thing! Toss them out if: the lashes start falling off them you clean them, the outer lashes start pointing in a different direction, straying from the pack, if the lashes feel brittle and aren't straight & smooth, or if they look downright nasty and you don't want to wear them anymore!
Whew! this was a long blog, but I hope it was helpful. It's definitely some much needed info- and it's just as vital to know how to care for the lashes as it is to know how to apply them. Please don't hesitiate to let me know if you think I left something out!


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By Lauren Day and Bridget Brennan
Terry Mills remains Chief Minister of the Northern Territory and former police officer Willem Westra van Holthe will replace Robyn Lambley as Deputy Chief Minister.
Mrs Lambley quit the deputy leadership on Monday.
Dave Tollner has been sacked from cabinet, losing his portfolios, including health.
The decisions on the Country Liberals leadership came after a marathon meeting of more than six hours by the parliamentary wing of the Country Liberals.
A meeting of the parliamentary wing of the Territory CLP began at 8.30am today.
The meeting was supposed to be a simple matter of electing a replacement for Mrs Lambley.
At a press conference after the meeting, Mr Mills said there had been no vote taken on the leadership.
He said he had enjoyed the overwhelming support of his colleagues and it had been a "long and productive" meeting.
"I am still here ... and I still have work to do," he said.
He foreshadowed a shuffle Cabinet ministries tonight.
Mr Mills confirmed that he had told Mr Tollner "not to bother" attending a meeting of Cabinet on Monday.
He said he still regarded Mr Tollner as a "mate" but there were "issues" between them.
Only 14 of the 16 members of the Country Liberals parliamentary wing were at today's meeting.
Only those who were in attendance could vote.
Mrs Lambley had returned to her home in Alice Springs, and Tourism Minister Matt Conlan is in Europe to on a promotional tour.
The ABC understands that both Mrs Lambley and Mr Tollner were involved in heated clashes with Mr Mills earlier this week.
Opposition Leader Delia Lawrie had claimed Mrs Lambley resigned because she was about to be dumped by Mr Mills.
Territory Country Liberals Senator Nigel Scullion says long-running tensions within the party are behind what could become a Cabinet shuffle.
He says it is partly due to a series of tough belt-tightening decisions the Government has made, including putting up utility prices.
"I find it completely understandable in it isn't dissimilar to what happened in Queensland and New South Wales," he said.
"I don't think it's about them not holding their nerve; I think they're doing pretty well, but it is a very difficult time."


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Police in Utah say a teenager who was participating in the latest viral 'challenge' is to blame for a crash that left two vehicles all banged up.
Layton police tweeted two photos of the crash which they said occurred on Monday.
"Bird Box Challenge while driving… predictable result," the department wrote on Twitter. "This happened on Monday as a result of the driver covering her eyes while driving on Layton Parkway."
The 17-year-old girl was driving on Layton Parkway Monday when she reportedly decided to pull her beanie hat over her eyes and keep driving, according to Layton Police Lt. Travis Lyman.
The teen eventually lost control, swerving into oncoming traffic where she sideswiped another vehicle on the driver's side. The girl's pickup then spun into a light pole and concrete barrier along the parkway.
The "Bird Box Challenge" was spawned by the popular Netflix movie "Bird Box." The movie's characters must remain blindfolded at all times, with Sandra Bullock's character needing to do several everyday activities while blindfolded.
It's similar to other viral challenges such as the dangerous "In My Feelings" car challenge and Tide Pod eating Challenge that went viral last year.
This isn't the first time people have gotten hurt in the "Bird Box Challenge." The Netflix social media team has attempted to discourage viewers from participating in the viral meme, with limited results.
"Can't believe I have to say this, but: PLEASE DO NOT HURT YOURSELVES WITH THIS BIRD BOX CHALLENGE," the official Netflix account tweeted earlier this month. "We don't know how this started, and we appreciate the love, but Boy and Girl have just one wish for 2019 and it is that you not end up in the hospital due to memes."
No injuries were reported as part of the crash. Police say they expect to hand the case over to prosecutors for a possible charge of reckless driving.
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States need to do more to honour and strengthen their treaties with indigenous peoples, no matter how long ago they were signed, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has said in a statement to mark International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples tomorrow, 9 August.
"Even when signed or otherwise agreed more than a century ago, many treaties remain the cornerstone for the protection of the identity, land and customs of indigenous peoples, determining the relationship they have with the State. They are thus of major significance to human rights today," she said.
Treaties often marked a decisive step in ending a period of conflict, exploitation and expropriation, the High Commissioner noted.
"The honouring of treaties has in many cases been described as a sacred undertaking requiring good faith by each party for their proper enforcement. Yet too often indigenous communities are obliged to go to the courts to force States to live up to their promises," she added.
"The nature of the agreements themselves, with their spirit and contents passed on through elders to future generations, reminds us of their fundamental importance," Pillay said.
"The fact that exploitation and expropriation continue today underscores the need to do more to protect the rights of the estimated 370 million indigenous people worldwide," the High Commissioner said.
Pillay pointed to the importance of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted in 2007, in promoting the recognition, observance and enforcement of treaties and other arrangements concluded with States or their successors.
"There is a growing commitment by States to fully implement indigenous peoples' rights, as shown by constitutional, legislative or administrative measures that recognize indigenous identity, rights to lands and resources, culturally appropriate forms of development, as well as programmes to tackle poverty and disadvantage," the High Commissioner said.
"The message of this International Day of Indigenous Peoples is about building alliances and honouring treaties. This reminds us that efforts need to be redoubled to build a partnership between States and indigenous peoples based on trust, mutual respect, rule of law and the affirmation of indigenous peoples' culture and customs," said Pillay.
"As we look forward to the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples in September 2014, I encourage States to take concrete steps to honour and strengthen the treaties they have concluded with indigenous peoples and to cooperate with them in implementing new agreements or other constructive arrangements through transparent, inclusive and participatory negotiations," the High Commissioner said.
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More than 60 women take self-defense course at UA-Fort Smith
More than 60 women on the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith campus have learned how to protect themselves from assault and attempted rape, according to UAFS Chief of Police Craig A. Nance.
Nance said the women, ages 18 to 65, have participated in Rape Aggression Defense classes conducted by the UAFS Police Department.
"We chose the RAD System curriculum because it's taught at over 400 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada," Nance said. "It's the only self-defense program ever to be endorsed by the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators. It's the country's largest and fastest growing self-defense program for women and children."
Nance said he has always believed that women should be empowered so that they can be the ones who make the decision whether or not they are going to fight an attacker, and this course can help make that possible.
Up until now, RAD classes were only available to UAFS students and employees. Now, they will be offered through the Center for Lifelong Learning. Classes are limited to 15 female participants who must be 16 years or older. CLL sessions are 6-9 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays from March 26 - April 4. A $45 fee includes a free lifetime return and practice policy for RAD graduates.
Courses are taught by nationally certified RAD instructors and provide each student with a workbook/manual outlining the entire program for reference and continuous personal growth. UAFS students, faculty and staff can take the course for free.
Kay McPhail of Arkoma, Okla., an administrative specialist in UAFS Human Resources, said, as an employee, she's glad she took the course.
"If given the opportunity, I would encourage every woman to take the RAD class," McPhail said. "Although our campus is a safe environment, this class gave me the skills, knowledge and confidence I need to defend myself in any situation and taught me how to be aware of my surroundings."
Maggie Davis of Greenwood and Amanda Page of Fort Smith are UAFS students who belong to SkillsUSA, an organization that helps students build character and self-confidence through educational experiences in leadership, teamwork, and citizenship. Through this program they were able to take RAD training for free.
Davis is a freshman nursing student and a pharmacy technician at the Walmart in Greenwood. Since she's 4 feet 10 inches tall, she thought the RAD course would be beneficial for her.
"This was not at all what I thought it was going to be," Davis said. "I was expecting a classroom course. But this was very interactive -- way more than I thought it was going to be. A police officer took the part of the 'aggressor,' and the students learned how to deal with many different forms of assault during the weekly three-hour sessions."
Davis said the course was not about "building confidence," but more about learning about awareness, preparedness and controlling any situation she might find herself in.
"I was foolishly brave before I took this course," she said. "Now I'm more conscious of my surroundings and the situations around me."
The first part of safety is avoiding dangerous situations, Davis said.
"Now I know that when I walk my dog I should cross the street when I see someone loitering along the path I'm on," she said. "Yes, I'm more confident. But that doesn't mean I take risks. It means I avoid risky situations."
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How do you cut costs sustainably and still retain and grow functional capabilities and strength? It is difficult, both politically and administratively. But it can be achieved through a disciplined, value-based transformation that considers both short-term challenges and long-term consequences.
Critically, governments must also address their existing acquisition practices and reform them so that timelines are more responsive; acquisition leaders are better trained in private sector and public sector best practices for managing large programs, reducing costs, and procuring goods and services; and program managers are more incentivized with positive rewards for success.
With this approach, defense and supporting agencies will be able to meet their immediate fiscal challenges, improve returns on investments over time, identify and manage future risks—and strengthen their capabilities, now and in the future.
This legislation required DoD to cut $487 billion over ten years—obviously a big cut. . . In this case, the president asked, "How do we manage this reduction of resources while still sustaining US leadership in the world?" We had to determine what our priorities were and how we would manage risk.
One of the principles we followed was that if someone was responsible for a major aspect of implementation, they should be at the table in the development of the strategy. So the president asked for all of the combatant commanders and service chiefs who drive a lot of the military's direction to meet with him, almost as a corporate board of directors. Together, they decided how the department would operate during a time of change and reduced resources.
When we went back to the department to translate those priorities into the actual budget, it was easy to hold people to account because they were in the room when the strategy was decided. When we got to hard decisions, we could ask, "If you're going by the strategy, would you keep this thing or cut it or delay it?" I think as a result, the budget was very much in alignment with the strategy, which is unfortunately rare in government.
We're bad at predicting the future, so we need a force that's very agile. The future direction of warfare . . . is taking us into cyberspace . . . and into areas where Special Operations forces will be more important and where we need to rely more on intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, as well as on unmanned vehicles and automation. You can try to protect and strengthen investment in those areas, even as you have to tighten belts in other areas.
When I came into government, my people were really my only asset. Yet no one was investing in their professional development. . . . We started a human capital strategy that clarified the values and priorities for the organization and had a very clear leadership model. We did 360-degree reviews of every leader, starting with me, and then these cascaded down through the organization. We used feedback tools, regular surveys, focus groups, town halls, plus surprise walk-arounds.
It created an internal conversation about how to work better together, and it led to very noticeable increases in performance. … Most importantly, it led to some significant changes in the way we worked. We instituted an alternative work schedule, which included flextime, "flexplace," and predictable compensation for extra hours worked. People said it couldn't be done in government when you're managing crises 24/7. So we made the two busiest offices the pilots. We knew if we could do it there, we could do it anywhere.
One is to be very clear about your vision and where you're trying to take the organization. … You also need to set some very clear expectations about values, roles and responsibilities, and decision rights and processes. . . . Empower people, then hold them accountable. Make sure there's feedback and a way to measure whether progress. Investing in people, giving them feedback, and caring about their professional development goes a long way, and you get tremendous performance in return.


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My brother worships two things: God and Subwoofers.
We were raised to be quiet, well-mannered Lutherans. But for Erik, there was nothing quiet about the gospel. In church, he sang as loud as he could. He didn't care what anyone else thought – he was reaching out to the Lord and it was our problem if it made our ears ring.
One Sunday, the rumbling bass and baritone voices in the choir sang, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus," and Erik felt God's presence. That rattle and boom was God's voice literally vibrating his heart. We were still young but it decided everything: he would do the Lord's work and it would be loud.
He enrolled in seminary as soon as he could, spent some time in the Holy Land and discovered that a low-end 25 watt sub could not adequately convey the genius of either John Paul Jones bass work on Led Zeppelin IV or the sermons of that other John Paul. Both required an upgrade to a 125 watt Miller & Kreisel MK II sub.
God understood.
My brother must not have mentioned his acoustic theory of divinity when he was ordained because the Bishop assigned him to an elderly congregation in rural Washington State. The greeting committee could hear Pastor Erik coming from miles away – the sound of a booming bass floated across the raspberry fields and through the apple orchards. Things didn't quiet down after he parked his car in the church's gravel parking lot. Erik rejects silences with a roaringly good-natured laugh and a voice that would feel at home in the Super Dome. The senior citizens responded by permanently notching down their hearing aids.
Pastor Erik didn't mind - he just spoke louder and pointed out some immediate problems with the pretty, white steepled church. First, the 20 year old sound system was not up to the task of conveying God's word.
"This is the Word of God we're talking about," he said. "It needs dignity and a high power 12-inch subwoofer with a neodymium magnet and a vented enclosure."
The Church Elders blinked. Pastor Erik was not like their other ministers.
This young whippersnapper wanted to take this flock in a new direction. It didn't matter if they needed walkers, dialysis or a hip replacement to get there– they were going to hear and feel God's word.
He met any resistance with an out-pouring of Lutheran wisdom. Why spend thousands of dollars upgrading the sound system for a congregation of only 80 people? Because in 1541, Martin Luther himself said, "Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world." Pastor Erik watched his congregants closely and asked if they were willing to run the world's greatest treasure through a dusty old sound board that muddled the low range? Would Martin Luther want that?
The Elders decided to approve a budget of $9000 and Pastor Erik set to work.
His first move: bring in Jim Hall, an acoustician who has spent 42 years installing commercial audio systems in the Northwest. Hall and the Pastor huddled near the altar and laid out a battle plan. Hall wanted to deploy a four speaker TOA HX-5 variable dispersion system above the altar to ensure speech clarity. It's what he typically recommended for small churches.
"But it won't rock, will it?" the Pastor asked.
Hall was a little surprised – most churches were content with the HX-5 system. But this minister was sharp. He knew the HX-5 couldn't deliver the low end. The Pastor was asking Hall to push himself, to dig deep and that could mean only one thing: the FB-120B.
The 120B is a crunk-ready 600 watt sub guaranteed to strip the paint off the steeple of any church silly enough to order it. It's exactly what Pastor Erik was looking for.
The system took eight hours to install. They added a 16 channel Mackie 1604 VLZ3 mixing board, an EAW CAZ 1400 dual-amp for the HX-5 and an additional CAZ 800 amp interlaced with an Ashly cross-over for the sub. The final touch: two 1 inch tweeters over the choir.
"It's got to be the best system for a church its size in the Northwest ," Jim Hall says.
To test it, Pastor Erik grabbed the nearest CD he could find: a copy of Veggie Tales left behind by a pre-schooler. He pressed play and the voice of Larry the Cucumber boomed across rural Washington as if Abraham himself had just come down from the mountain to tell the world that he had a new hat and it was made of lettuce.
Pastor Erik heard the music and it was good. It didn't matter what the Cucumber was babbling about. The tune sent its shock waves through his bones and brushed across his soul like a divine wind.
Now and truly, God was in da house.
Joshua Davis is a Contributing Editor for Wired Magazine who wrote about deep sea cowboys and the world's largest diamond heist. (Both of which are being adapted for film.) He's also the lightest man to ever compete in the US Sumo Open.


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Apple's Tim Cook Goes to D.C. Seeking Tax Reform
The U.S. Senate gets a high-profile visitor this week as Apple CEO Tim Cook will press Congress to simplify corporate tax rates. Marketwatch's Robert Schroeder explains.
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This is the final part to the description of the barbell curl exercise and how to vary it.
The barbell curl is most of the time presented as an excellent exercise for the biceps. So it is, but no exercise is perfect. Given how much newbies want big biceps and the barbell curl has been acclaimed as a mass builder, even in this blog, it is only fair that the other side of the coin is shown. Continue reading


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Dodgers launch season ticket sale for '14 season
LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers have launched season ticket sales for the 2014 season, and for a limited time the club is offering fans the opportunity to secure tickets to 2013 National League Division Series and NL Championship Series home games at Dodger Stadium with the purchase of '14 season tickets.
The best way to receive 2014 promotional items and secure tickets for Opening Day and Interleague matchups is to purchase season tickets. For more information on the benefits in becoming a Dodgers season ticket holder, call 323-DODGERS or visit www.dodgers.com/seasontickets.
While prices are increasing in many areas of the ballpark for the first time in years, more than half of season tickets cost fewer than $20, including fewer than $12 and, for the first time in 28 years, there will be tickets on the Reserve level for $5. The recently upgraded Dodger Stadium offers families one of the best entertainment experiences with a range of ticket options for every budget.
"Most Dodger tickets have not increased in price in the last two seasons as we looked to first prove to our fans that this ownership group was committed to putting the best possible team on the field, providing a first-class fan experience at the stadium and performing meaningful outreach in the community," said Dodgers president and CEO Stan Kasten. "We've made great strides in demonstrating that, and with these necessary adjustments and the support of our fans, we will continue to put all of our efforts into upgrading the team and the stadium and producing a championship-caliber organization.
"Our fans have been coming to Dodger Stadium in vast numbers and we want to make sure they can continue to do that," Kasten said. "It's a priority of this ownership that we offer a variety of ticketing options that will work for any family, any pocketbook."


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The issue: Winter moth caterpillars eat their way through 70,000 to 80,000 acres of forest in an average year, 100,000 acres in a bad year. A parasitic fly may kill the winter moth and save trees.
Why it matters: Winter moth control would help save trees and even entire forests
Every late fall, they come out. White, flitting dots in the headlights. Like snowflakes in a blizzard.
Every mid-spring, the quarter-inch-long green caterpillars fall from the deciduous tree leaves they devour on strands they spin. Like raindrops in a storm.
It's the attack of the killer winter moths and they've been consuming area foliage since the late 1990s -- but a small fly may have the winter moth on the run.
"We are in the process of turning the winter moth into a non-pest," said Joe Elkinton, professor in the Agricultural Engineering Department at UMass Amherst, who heads an effort to control the winter moth with the Cyzenis albicans fly.
The parasitic flies lay their eggs -- 150 to 350 eggs per female -- on the leaves the winter moths eat. The caterpillars consume the eggs along with the leaves. The fly eggs hatch inside the pupating caterpillar and the fly larvae eat the caterpillar.
The flies generally help keep the invasive winter moth under control in its native central European habitat and the flies have helped control two other North American winter moth outbreaks. One in Nova Scotia starting the 1930s. The other in Oregon and in British Columbia in the 1970s.
The exact extent to which the fly reduces winter moth numbers remains a matter of debate and research, but where humans introduce the flies, winter moth populations drop.
Rusell Hopping, ecology program director for the Trustees of Reservations, which owns over 100 properties throughout Massachusetts, said he's noticed a distinct reduction in the number of winter moths flitting about this year.
"One or two nights I just had a couple in my lights. The next couple nights there were hardly any. It was a drop in the bucket compared to other other years. The message for me is the biological control must be having an impact," Hopping said.
The latest winter moth outbreak began on the North Shore and in eastern Massachusetts in the late 1990s. Now the moths have spread north to the Maine coast and through southeastern Massachusetts, the Cape, Rhode Island, coastal Connecticut and the norther tip of Long Island.
The moths number in the trillions and annually strip some 70,000 to 80,000 acres of mostly deciduous forest in eastern Massachusetts alone, said Ken Gooch, Massachusetts Department of Conservationa and Recreation, forest health program director.
In the worst years, Gooch has recorded defloation in up to 100,000 acres.
The winter moths don't generally kill trees all by themselves. Other factors such as the drought of two years ago and the gypsy moth combine with the winter moth to kill the trees.
"They feed mostly on deciduous trees, oaks and maples," said Hopping. "They make them into Swiss cheese. They hatch at a time when buds just begin to open up and continue to feed on the leaves until June. It's one more major impact the tree has to deal with."
The moths also attack apple trees and blueberry bushes, but have had little impact at Russell Orchards on Argilla Road in Ipswich.
The fact the orchard has a variety of crops, including blueberries and apples, keeps the winter moth in control at the orchard, said Doug Russel, part owner, in an email.
"If we only had blueberry bushes, we would see a lot more stuff on moth infestation," Russell said.
The fly and how it may combine with other predators and with an area's weather and climate remains the main hope to control the winter moth and help save area forests and individual trees.
It can take years to establish the parasitic fly populations and for them to affect the winter moth, but Elinkton's latest research shows the fly may be taking hold throughout 43 properties where he and his UMass research team have released the fly, including in Wenham.
"Levels of parasitism at our older release sites has increased markedly this year compared to last," Elkinton and partner George Boettner, professor in the UMass Amherst Department of Environmental Conservation, write in a just-released paper, "Winter Moth Biological Control Report 2017."
The paper puts parasitic levels at 25 percent or higher at these older sites, "which is the level at which we started to see effects on winter moth density in Wellesley in the past six years."
The paper puts the parasitic fly levels at 10 percent of the winter moth populations at the other sites, "but the trajectory of parasitism is upwards at all sites," the paper says.
The research as to exactly how or how much the fly reduces the winter moth populations continues.
Cold weather and other predators, such as beetles, may also affect the number of winter moths or they may combine with the fly to attack the winter moth.
"I agree with Dr. Elikinton," Gooch said. "Plus, it's weather patterns, too. When the winter moth emerged last year we had a quick freeze in the spring that decimated their numbers. We could easily have another population rebound. But, the population has gone down dramatically with the fly. It's what we were hoping for."
Colder winters, away from the New England coast may also keep winter moth populations down inland -- Gooch noted he's seen no defoliation west of 495.
"It's not often you get a big success like this," Elkinton said. "What you're describing goes across all of eastern Massachusetts."


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This theater is a classic movie palace, opening on January 5, 1928 with seating for 1,841 and located near the University of Michigan.
During a recent restoration, the 1,700 seat Michigan Theater added a second 200 seat screen next to the main auditorium, and installed a new marquee to replace the older, 1950's-era marquee (seen at right). This new marquee reveals much more of the theater's facade, instead of hiding it. The theater retains its original Barton theater organ, installed in 1928.
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Maybe I'm the only person who remembers this, but back in 1978 when Butterfield moved out of the Michigan there was serious talk of Jacobson's moving in, gutting the interior and making it a new store (with movie theaters in the balcony). Though I've been seriously disappointed by many (most) of the changes I've seen in my hometown, the restoration of the Michigan is a big plus.
There was a lot of talk like that, including turning the building into a warehouse. The Michigan is the best kind of success story.
I like the old style marquee better than the new one,which is always the case.
Wrong rating on DAISY MILLER it was rated PG.Why do i catch all these mistakes.Ever look at a one sheet guys.
Was that"BUCK ROGERS" the re-cut TV show for the big screen.Just wondering.
Is that a "JABBERWOCKY" one sheet in front? Sure looks like it.
Mike, I'm looking at a one-sheet for Daisy Miller and it has a G rating on it. IMDB also has it as G.
''Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'' was out in 1978,(I think,I drove to the movie so it had to be then) they then made the TV show from the movie, Gil Gerard was the star of both.
it actually seats 1,590 people
Link with 1976 photos.
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The much-anticipated roller coaster at Ghost Town opened amid fanfare last week, then was promptly shut down again.
The coaster is one of the primary attractions at the mountaintop amusement park in Maggie Valley, but has been plagued by a series of glitches in the two years since the park opened under new ownership. The new owners pledged to breathe life into the 1960s-era amusement park, including rebuilding the coaster that had been shut down due to safety issues under the former owner.
The park hired a ride manufacturer to build an all-new roller coaster train that could run on the existing track. The new train has been slow to pass state ride inspections, however — from the type of harnesses it used to the way the cars rode on the track.
All those hurdles were finally cleared, however, and the coaster debuted to the public for a single day last Wednesday (July 1). By Thursday, it was shut down again.
The latest glitch involves the way the seat frames are bolted to the cars, according to Jonathan Brooks, head of the N.C. Elevator & Amusement Device Bureau. The seats will have to be taken apart and the connections analyzed — all the way down to which forge and which batch the steel came from, Brooks said.
Brooks said the ball is now in the ride manufacturer's court to do an evaluation and come up with a fix.
"Until their engineers come back to us with a suitable solution to the problem, there is where we are," Brooks said.
Ghost Town characterized the issue as "fine-tuning" in a press release sent out last Friday announcing the set back.
"The maintenance of a coaster is an ongoing and continual thing. This is just part of a process," said CEO Steve Shiver. Indeed, a roller coaster at Carowinds was shut down by the state over the weekend due to concerns that arose there.
Shiver said the ball is already rolling on a new design for the seat brackets. If the new design is approved by the state, it should not take long to make the modifications to each seat.
Shiver said issues like this aren't unusual and in fact are to be expected as part of the process in launching a new roller coaster.
"If it were easy everybody would be doing it," Shiver said. "Some of it is trial and error, particularly given the uniqueness of our location and the logistics of being on top of this mountain. That's why we are excited about having one of the most unique roller coasters in the world."
How it was discovered
The state signed off on the final round of lengthy and arduous inspections Tuesday afternoon, but Brooks asked one of his inspectors to hang around and keep a close eye on the first couple of days of the ride's operation.
"This being a brand new coaster, it is not unusual to have the inspector hang around and make sure the operations are running properly," Brooks said.
In fact, ride inspectors make both surprise and announced inspections of all amusement parks and fairs in the state. Sometimes inspectors will pay the admission price at Carowinds and go in undercover as a tourist. Brooks said the repeated monitoring goes with the territory.
"You are taking people and turning them upside down and flipping them and spinning them, so there is a constant oversight that happens," Brooks said.
The Cliffhanger roller coaster was open to the public all day on Wednesday. But Thursday morning, a Ghost Town ride operator detected something that didn't seem quite right. He noticed what seemed to be abnormal movement of one of the seats in a car at the back of the train. The movement was most likely imperceptible to most, but not for an attuned ride operator.
"You get to know every little clink. They know when they see some abnormal movement," Brooks said.
The ride operator in turn called the state inspector over who was still on the grounds. The inspector examined the seat fastenings, which wasn't an easy task in itself.
"You have to get on your belly, standing on your head with a flashlight and mirror, to be honest," Brooks said.
The inspector called Brooks and told him something didn't look right in there. Brooks' response: shut down the coaster and take the seat apart. The ride inspector found a hairline crack in the seat frame near the bolt that fastened it to the car.
"I took some heat for shutting it down, which I was willing to take. I don't have an issue with that. My family may be on it and I certainly want it safe for my family, your family, everyone else," Brooks said, reciting the rule of thumb behind his decisions.
Shiver said that while the setback is "absolutely frustrating" he, too, puts safety first.
"We want a safe and enjoyable experience for all our patrons," Shiver said. "We have waited this long to open the coaster and because of our false starts in the past, we want to make sure that all of our theming and the complete Cliffhanger experience is satisfactory according to the high standards I personally set when we embarked upon the renovations and remaking of Ghost Town in the Sky."
Inspection process works
The closure is a testimony to the state's inspection system working properly, Brooks said. Brooks said his inspectors had been all over the roller coaster train examining every bolt and the crack wasn't there. Brooks surmised it is a stress crack that developed during operation. It's one reason the state requires a roller coaster to make 1,000 runs loaded with 170-pound sand bags in each seat before it can pass inspection.
The test runs not only familiarized ride operators with the coaster enough so they would detect any abnormality, but also meant the stress crack appeared early in the coaster's debut while an inspector was still on site and not back in Raleigh already.
"We crossed all our T's and dotted all our I's," Brooks said.
Shiver agreed.
"The process worked like it should," Shiver said. "That's why we have daily inspections and well-trained ride operators. It worked."
Brooks' expertise in ride operations helped the amusement park overcome a problem that had been stumping them for months. The roller coaster was repeatedly getting stuck on the track in certain places. The ride manufacturer, Rotational Motion, was unable to diagnose the problem that seemed potentially insurmountable without either rebuilding the cars or making serious alterations to the track itself.
Ghost Town had hired Brooks' former counterpart with the state ride inspection bureau, Clyde Wagner. The two were on site at Ghost Town one day trying to troubleshoot the confounding problem.
"He and I were just talking one day and I said something ain't square here," Brooks recounted.
It turned out the neoprene wheels weren't quite hard enough. Using an instrument to taking readings on the softness of the wheels, they tested the old wheels from the original roller coaster cars and discovered they were slightly harder than the ones on the rebuilt cars. New, harder wheels solved the problem.
There was another issue as well. The park has greased down the track with cooking oil. Lubricants aren't uncommon to reduce friction since roller coasters operate on gravity.
The cooking oil left a residue, however, and sand sifting out of the bags placed in the seats during test runs had stuck to the track and even gotten in the bearings. Brooks had the maintenance crews strip the tracks of the build-up.
The ride manufacturer suggested switching to baby oil as a lubricant, which is applied to the wheels of the cars by hand every morning.
The Cliffhanger
Ghost Town's Cliffhanger roller coaster is truly amazing. The track perches on the side of a 4,700-foot mountaintop, offering sweeping vistas of distance mountain ranges in every direction and the valley floor visible far below. See footage of the short-lived opening of the coaster filmed by a tourist, including footage of the ride from the front seat of the coaster train at www.ghosttowninthesky.com/Special/cliffhanger.html.


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by John Dyer
It's odd that most of us spend our days immersed in and preoccupied with technology, yet also take its most important features entirely for granted. This book is full of jewels of observation that will help you see technology, the Bible, and your own life afresh. It's frequently funny, surprisingly moving, and consistently smart--a great guide for those who want to begin thinking about how technology shapes us and how we can live faithfully with it.Andy Crouchauthor, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative, wickedly brilliant and insanely nice
John is the unusual person who is as expert in information technology as he is familiar with the Bible, and he is even more unusual in being able to move to and fro with ease and come up with striking and helpful insights. His voice, though gentle, speaks with authority.Albert Borgmannauthor of Real American Ethics, giant in philosophy of technology
We all have a great deal of experience with technology, but few of us have sought to think about technology in a distinctly Christian way. This is one reason I commend John Dyer's From the Garden to the City. As comfortable with theology as he is with technology, Dyer is a steady guide to the digital world we find ourselves in.Tim Challiesauthor The Next Story: Life and Faith after the Digital Explosion, the grandaddy of Christian bloggers
Technology is almost omnipresent these days whether we like it or not. So what do we do with this thing that is impacting people everywhere? Very few Christians think a lot about this, but John Dyer has. From the Garden to the City is more than a trip through the digital world; it is a tour of discovery about a growing part of our lives. Read and discover what technology is and can be.Darrell L. Bockprofessor of New Testament Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary, author Jesus According to Scripture, on TV more than Regis
John has created a superbly crafted theological framework for both the layperson and technology-enthusiast so that they can engage technology wisely, rejoicing in the redeeming properties as well as being cautious with the corruptive. John balances both the contemporary challenges that newer devices create with timeless historical models from the Scriptures. Thanks John for giving this fast-paced generation something worthy enough to cause us to pause, re-align, and re-program our thinking for not only ourselves but all those that we impact in our relationships, businesses, and ministries. I will never look at my iPhone the same way again and I'm better person for it - and you will be too.John SaddingtonProfessional Blogger, TentBlogger.com, always breaking the internet
It's a unique perspective that combines the heart of a theologian with the brain of a high tech expert, but that's what you get with John Dyer. And speaking as a pastor, I believe that's what you need as well if you share in any sort of spiritual leadership. Our cause is to live and communicate the good news as deeply and as broadly as we can using all the tools at our disposal, especially and including high tech tools. But as John shows, we must be wise in the use of technology lest we and our cause change to serve it and not the other way around. From the Garden to the City offers Biblical, profound, and practical insights as to how we can do just that.Dr. Andy McQuittysenior pastor Irving Bible Church, (a.k.a., "Semicolon")
There are few guides through the sometimes uneasy relationship between technology and Christianity that I would more highly commend than John Dyer. In this book, he walks us through difficult concepts in ways that are eminently accessible. Never hysterical but appropriately critical, From the Garden to the City provides an important and timely framework for churches and leaders to think through how they can use technology without technology using them.Matthew Lee Andersonwriter and author of Earthen Vessels, head of a class of young Christian intellectuals
Dyer does a magnificent job—the best that I have seen—of explaining to the Christian community how and why technology cannot be morally neutral. He crafts his arguments carefully, using examples from his field of information and computer technology. But the principles he extracts are quite general and include fresh insights into the role of technology in culture and matters of the spirit.Jack Clayton Swearengennuclear weapon scientist, Emeritus Professor of Engineering, and author of Beyond Paradise: Technology and the Kingdom of God, can actually disarm nuclear weapons
Dyer's viewpoint is self-consciously Christian without being reactionary, tech-savvy without being naive, and well-considered without being pedantic. At a moment in history when our tools are being developed at a rate faster than our capacity to evaluate their impact, we need reliable guides to help us to understand them well, so that we can use them thoughtfully and intentionally. John Dyer is such a guide; and this insightful volume dodges none of the difficult questions, while retaining a balanced and judicious consideration of those areas that do not yet enjoy universal consensus.T. David GordonProfessor of Religion and Greek, Grove City College, can read, but cannot count
Slow down for a minute, be still and ponder what John Dyer is addressing in this helpful book. Technology is undeniably reshaping how we communicate, relate to and ultimately love one another. If you've ever texted, tweeted or sent an email to someone who was sitting right next to you at the time, you're affected. It's time for you to read From The Garden to the City.Bob LepineCo-Host, FamilyLife Today, the best next door neighbor I ever had
Technology—from the first stone tool to the latest smartphone—has changed our daily routine, the way we communicate, and even how we encounter God. We often laud the benefits of technology (increased quality of life, faster ways to spread the gospel) or bemoan the detriments of technology (decreased attention spans, reduced interpersonal contact), but fail to properly address its transformative power. Where does technology fit into the larger Biblical story?
From the Garden to the City deconstructs the concept of technology and examines it through the lens of Scripture. Studying Bible passages and insights from the best thinkers on technology, theology, and culture, John Dyer shows how technology left unexamined can enslave us rather than honor God and fulfill his plan for us. With helpful observations and practical application, Dyer issues an urgent challenge to live faithfully in this technology-saturated world.