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DUST CRACKLES & TAPE HISS: Five Blurry Snapshots of Reigning Sound
Wild & Far-Out Sounds from the South
Plenty has already been written about the sublime music of the mighty Reigning Sound, once of Memphis, lately of Asheville, North Carolina. Critical accolades and rabid fan-raving about the band have never been in short supply. So, it may be somewhat of an exercise in futility to rant on here at length about the particulars of their sound, how bandleader and songwriter Greg Cartwright and his band may be the best torchbearers for the empyrean spirit of rock & roll. But, in fact, they are all that. And, you may, in fact, already know it. When I listen to the Reigning Sound, as I do often, I find myself immersed in my memories of them—memories of seeing them play live on so many occasions, of where I was in my life, recollections sometimes dim and furtive, but always, it seems, negotiated only by the harmony and noise of Reigning Sound. But, I also think of seemingly trifling details about the group that, I think, speak to their greatness—a guitar, a jacket, a stance, a secret cinema of salient detail, the conveyance of potent rock & roll heroics. Greg Cartwright is still a hero. Here are five quick reasons I still revere him and his indomitable band.
1. "Goodbye."
In 2001, Reigning Sound released their first album, Break Up Break Down (Sympathy For The Record Industry). It's probably the most beautiful, poignant, and intense song cycle about the dissolution of a relationship in rock music. It's sad, painful, and intense. Throughout the record, from one song to the next, Cartwright's voice is tender, but weary and agonized—frustrated. It sounds like you might imagine your own voice sounding when lamenting to a friend the sad passing of a romantic relationship you once thought held so much promise, a heavy curtain pulled on what once seemed luminous and perfect. In 2001, too, I played in a band called Tyler Keith & The Preacher's Kids, and we shared the bill a number of times with Reigning Sound. The Preacher's Kids were a rock & roll band, abundantly in debt and in thrall to a kind of heavy-handed, purist reading of the music—Jerry Lee Lewis, The Rolling Stones, The Standells, Faces. We toured relentlessly during that year, crossing the U.S. several times. Back home in Mississippi, the other guitar player in the band, Dru Dunnaway, and I were involved in relationships that were suffering from our dumb, cultivated, narcissistic plunge into the deep end of the hedonism pool. Things didn't look so good. We were remorseful and forlorn, realizing we were spectacularly screwing up a good thing. Dru had brought on the road with him a homemade cassette of the new Reigning Sound LP and it ended up functioning as a kind of therapy for us, delivering something we couldn't get in the heat and bluster of our own music. In particular, the song "Goodbye" burrowed into our consciousness, an antidote for our excess and selfishness; a sober transmission from home played so loud during 4 A.M. drives through the inky dark of rural Pennsylvania or winding down mountains in New York with windows rolled down to let in the cool, soft night air, the wind a kind of spectral accompanist to the song. Cartwright's guitar solo communicated all of that bitterness and melancholy, too—perfectly and succinctly—and is, I'd argue, one of the best, most emotionally primal guitar solos ever committed to tape. It wasn't uncommon to be a bit bleary-eyed and teary after those middle-of-the-night communions with "Goodbye," and all of Break Up Break Down, really.
2. Compulsive Gamblers / Oblivians / Tip-Tops.
Reigning Sound is indeed heroic, but Greg Cartwright was also in a couple of other bands that are truly legendary, notably The Compulsive Gamblers and The Oblivians. These bands were from Memphis, and their influence can't be overstated. The Compulsive Gamblers were big and brilliant—craft sharing the stage with instinct and nerve. Scott Rogers, bassist and member of defunct combos The Cool Jerks and The Dutch Masters (both bands featured ex-members of The Oblivians and The Compulsive Gamblers) remembers seeing The Compulsive Gamblers thusly: "I remember thinking about how much I loved it, but I don't actually remember IT. It's just a drunken twenty-year-old blur. I remember Jack Yarber (although I didn't know him at the time) wearing his porkpie hat, and that there were a bunch of dudes on stage (although one turned out to not be a dude), and I remember thinking how much I loved it after the fact." A white-hot, drunken blur; a party mess full of sweat, spit, and blood. Absolute. The Oblivians recorded and played live in the mid-1990s. Their sound was tough, aggressive, even ferocious. Their distillation of punk, blues, and pop was like a massive, collapsed star, a singular and powerful thing that sucked everything into it and spit it all back out in a spasm of energy. I saw them play live only once, in New York City in 1995, the brainless excellence of the show still burned deep into my brain.
Greg Oblivian and The Tip-Tops. When The Oblivians broke up in the late 1990s, Cartwright (still using his nom de guerre, Greg Oblivian) made an LP with his wife, Esther. In a word, it's precious. It's also precocious: a tender, beautiful, intimate record that sometimes feels too naked, too lovely. Listening to it is a happy, guileless, voyeuristic pleasure. Most rock bands are just that—rock bands—groups with a silly, catholic reliance on burned-out notions of what rock bands should do and sound like. If one is lucky and able to transcend those damaged, lifeless ideas about the music, then one might have a chance of being in a truly great band. Greg Cartwright has been in four.
3. Cover songs.
Reigning Sound perform a particularly important service in that they turn on their audience, especially their younger audience, to a world of sometimes obscure, but nonetheless great, records via their inspired cover versions. The band has knocked out stellar, inspired readings of crucial songs by such artists as Nolan Strong, Glass Sun, The Swingin' Yo-Yo's, and Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs, amongst numerous others. Their version of the garage-punk warhorse "Brown Paper Sack" is the definitive modern rendition. And the band is no less brilliant when covering well-known songs from the rock canon (their versions of The Byrds' "Here Without You" and The Beach Boys' "I'm Just Waiting For The Day" being sly exercises in rock song arrangement, bringing more to the table than they left with).
4. DJ Greg.
I don't know why he was in Oxford, but Greg Cartwright was. We ended up at the same late-night party, a typically raucous dance party at an out-of-the-way apartment building near the Oxford Square. Johnny Valiant, whose apartment and party it was, had a great collection of records and was (and is still) known to throw a feverish blast of after-midnight record spinning. It seems like Cartwright had a bunch of his own records with him, though I can't really recall the details through the gauze and discontinuity of time (ca. 2004) and alcohol consumption. Whatever the case, Cartwright commandeered the turntable and proceeded to casually play a whole passel of the best records—oddball soul and r&b singles, 1960s garage-punk obscurities, 1970s punk-rock gems, deep-album cuts, curios forgotten by most. It was a hot living room of sonic perfection! I remember that he played Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Porterville," an incredible, completely ignored track from the first routinely critically dismissed first CCR album, about five times in a row, the two of us bonding in a drunken, rabid babble of affirmation that ended only when the sun came up. Lesson: record nerds make the best rock stars.
5. The band.
Reigning Sound is not just Greg Cartwright, though. Reigning Sound is a band in the truest sense, the group all contributing to the texturally rich arrangements, stamping Cartwright's songs with their own indelible, individual instrumental presence. For me, the first incarnation of Reigning Sound was the best. Perhaps that's only because it's the version of the group I've seen the most and listened to most intently. That first Reigning Sound—Jeremy Scott (bass), Greg Roberson (drums), Alex Greene (organ)—was maybe the most fluid rock band I've ever seen play live. They created a kind of sensuous, sonic moiré pattern effect live—wavy and shimmering like a hidden incandescence illuminating the rawness of Cartwright's songs. They could make groups of great players and listeners, like Wilco, even, appear mechanical. It was a special group. The group changed when Cartwright moved to Asheville, but the band is still spectacular. The new group is David Wayne Gray on bass, Lance Wille on drums, and the magnificent organist, Dave Amels. They're still recording great stuff—impossibly great stuff, truth be told. Their most recent record was released last fall, titled Abdication...For Your Love. Kristen Berry writing in the great online magazine, Get Bent, called it "shiver-inducing." Just like all of Greg Cartwright's records, it is. Here's a rock & roll hero. His name is Greg Cartwright.


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A Special 50th Wedding Anniversary Message from Dan Wooding (with pictures)
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
LAKE FOREST, CA (ANS) -- Dear friends: I do hope you are all keeping well. I would especially like to welcome all of our new subscribers to ANS and trust that you will be both blessed and challenged with the many stories that you are receiving into your in box each day.
It began when I started an evangelistic group (with my sister Ruth) called The Messengers, which was a team of young Christians that, each Saturday, night would fan out from my father's church, The Sparkbrook Mission, to take the Gospel to the local coffee bars and pubs (bars) of the area.
We then became involved in working with drug addicts and helped to start Hill Farm, Europe's first drug rehabilitation farm, and became its first wardens. Our two sons, Andrew and Peter, came along and, after a time at Hill Farm, I finally got into journalism and we made the exiting move from Birmingham to London, where I became the Chief Reporter with Billy Graham's newspaper, The Christian.
Sadly, after a year, the paper was closed down, and I moved into very different world of secular journalism, working for a series of London-based newspapers, including two of Britain's large circulation tabloids, the Sunday People and the Sunday Mirror.
If that wasn't enough, we began to get death threats from people in London's Underworld, and on one occasion, when I was overseas, a gangster I had been writing about, contacted the Sunday People to say that he had been told that someone was going to try and kill Norma. Fortunately, nothing happened, but it was all most disconcerting. I also received a threat from a terrorist group for something I had written.
The turning point came about one night in the 1970's when I was, once again, drunk in my "watering hole," the "Stab in the Back" pub, where my many tabloid colleagues gathered to verbally stab each other in the back. Suddenly, to my surprise, a dear friend, Irish-Canadian, Ray Barnett, appeared in the pub and soon began to challenge me to give my life my to Christ and walk out of my tabloid career and "do something worthwhile" with my life.
Believe it or not, there in that smoky bar, I recommitted my life to Christ and then handed in my notice.
Now I was free of my work in Fleet Street, Ray asked me join him on a dangerous trip to Uganda to chronicle the story of the terrible eight years of misrule of Idi Amin, during which some 300,000 Christians were murdered by Amin and his thugs. Idi Amin had just fled the country and Ray suggested that we worked together on a book called "Uganda Holocaust", which was later published by Zondervan.
It was a turning point in my life, for after meeting some of the most amazing Christians I had ever met, I knelt by my bed in the Namirembe Guest House in Kampala, Uganda, where we were staying, and told the Lord that I wanted to spend the rest of my life writing and broadcasting about Christians like these who didn't have a voice out to us in the West.
After the book was published, I was hired by Brother Andrew's ministry, Open Doors, to write a series of books for them about Christian persecution, and in 1982, they asked me if I would like to move to Southern California to be their media director.
So, once again, Norma stood with me and even though it was a big wrench for her to leave her mother and sister in the UK, she and the boys came over "The Big Pond" with me, and so began another chapter in our lives.
But even that proved difficult for her, as both Andrew and Peter eventually returned back to Britain, after both committing their lives to Christ, and began working with Youth With A Mission. She missed them terrible, and still does. They are now both now married and we have six grandchildren in the UK.
When we started ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) more than 20 years ago, she again stood with me and agreed that we would not take a regular salary from the ministry, but trust God to help supply all of our needs. It was another step in our walk of faith.
It has been quite a ride for both of us, as each month we have seen our support drop sometimes dramatically, and recently we have been having to dip into our savings at about $1,000 each month to just keep going. We both live very frugally, but I thought you would like to know just a little of our background, and see if that maybe some of you would like to join our support team, so that we do have to keep seeing our saving disappear in this way.
If you can help, all you have to do is to go to our secure site at: http://www.assistnews.net/assist/donations.htm and designate your gift for our support, the third item down on the page, under "Our Writers."
If you prefer to send a check, just make it out to ASSIST and mail it to: ASSIST, PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609, USA, and indicate on the envelope, "For the Support of Dan and Norma Wooding".
Blessings, Dan Wooding
PS. If you would like to read more about our life together, it is all contained in my autobiography called "From Tabloid to Truth," which you can get at: http://www.assist-ministries.com/feedbkdan/indexbook1.htm
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Valarie Naydene Brent, 57, of Fredericksburg passed away Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, at Mary Washington Hospital.
Born in Fredericksburg on Feb. 12, 1956, she had worked at Country Inn Suites in Fredericksburg and was a member of Mount Olive Baptist Church in Stafford County.
Valarie was predeceased by her father, James R. Brent. She is survived by three daughters, Melanie Lasean Parker, Kimeshan Brent and Tanisha A. Brent, all of Fredericksburg; her mother, Lucille Hill Brent; sister Yvette Tracey Brent of Fredericksburg; brothers Anthony "Tony" Brent and James S. Brent Sr., both of Stafford County; five grandchildren; devoted friend and companion Terry Johnson; son-in-law Emmitt Chuck Parker; sister-in-law Lynette Brent; three special godchildren, Theresa Johnson, Terry Johnson Jr. and Randy Johnson; and a host of nieces, nephews, other family members and friends.
A visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, at A.L. Bennett and Son Funeral Home. A funeral will be held at noon Saturday, Sept. 7, at Mount Olive Baptist Church with Pastor Sharon Fernandez officiating. Interment will be in Glen Haven Memory Garden, Route 17, Stafford.
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Eight candidates participated in the CBS News/National Journal GOP presidential debate tonight on national security and foreign policy. Here is the National Journal website used to view that debate. Notice who was once again excluded from active participation in the debate. This person was also excluded from having a "Foreign Policy Dossier" at the site describing his background expertise in this area. Yes, it was the twelve-term Texas congressman who sits on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and who is the author of A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce and Honest Friendship, a collection of statements Congressman Ron Paul has made over the past 30 years dealing with foreign policy from the date he was first elected to Congress. This principled record comprises his "Foreign Policy Dossier," which is second to none in the entire history of the United States Congress.
UPDATE from LRC reader Larry Diffey: "Ron Paul's dossier was in fact on the site, but I had to manually change the URL to get to it. You were correct, however, that it was not provided. Here is the link. It looks like they represented his views pretty well in it though. Even though I continue to expect them to treat Ron Paul this way, it infuriates me every time it happens."8:53 pm on November 12, 2011 Email Charles Burris


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Federer wants faster courts to encourage attackThe Associated Press | November 13,2012LONDON With the top defensive players increasingly getting the better of him often in recent years, Roger Federer would like to speed up the game of tennis.
Or at least the courts the matches are played on.
Federer lost to Novak Djokovic in the final of the season-ending ATP finals on Monday, and then praised the top-ranked Serbs ability to retrieve so many shots and keep the ball in play. Thats a trait Djokovic shares with Federers other two biggest rivals Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray and the Swiss star said attacking play doesnt always reap the benefits it deserves even on hard courts because theyre often slower than they used to be.
Its an easy fix. Just make quicker courts, then its hard to defend, Federer said. Attacking style is more important. Its only on this type of slow courts that you can defend the way we are all doing right now.
Mondays final at the O2 Arena had a familiar feel to it. Federer did most of the attacking, trying to dictate play with his forehand and aggressive shots. But Djokovic kept finding ways to get the ball back over the net and was sharper on the key points.
Federer won the first nine points of the match and was up an early break in both sets, but Djokovic recovered to win 7-6 (6), 7-5.
Federer said that he was happy with this court, calling it one of the faster indoor surfaces on the circuit. He said slower courts are also good for long rallies, but that having more variety in the surfaces would force players to learn to be more aggressive.
What you dont want is that you hit 15 great shots and at the end, it ends up in an error, he said. So I think sometimes quicker courts do help the cause. I think it would help from time to time to move to something a bit faster. That would help to learn, as well, for many different players, different playing styles, to realize that coming to the net is a good thing, its not a bad thing.
Federer has won a record-equaling seven Wimbledon titles on grass, the quickest surface, but has only one French Open title on the slower clay, where Nadal has repeatedly thwarted him.
Djokovic and Murray also rely heavily on their great defensive abilities, which have helped set them apart from the rest of the pack.
Having more tournaments played on faster surfaces could make it easier for other players to challenge the sports Big Four, Federer said, adding that he wasnt sure tournament directors would necessarily buy into that.
I think some variety would be nice, some really slow stuff and then some really fast stuff, instead of trying to make everything sort of the same, he said. You sort of protect the top guys really by doing that because you have the best possible chance to have them in the semis at this point, I think. But should that be the goal? Im not sure.
Djokovic said his strategy against Federer is usually to try and extend the rallies and hope for an opportunity.
Hes somebody that is very aggressive, that likes to finish points very quickly, Djokovic said. But I managed to get a lot of shots back into the court, being passive, a couple meters behind the baseline. ... That was one of the goals tonight, to always try to get him into the longer rallies where I think I had the better chance.MORE IN Wire SportsMIAMI Dwyane Wade scored 24 of his 31 points in the first half, Luol Deng finished with 25... Full StoryCINCINNATI The Bengals are back in the playoffs, and so many of their fans are wondering... Full Story
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A quick Google for 'Hyper-V P2V' should through up a freebie tool by MS themselves that does just that.
Is there a way to copy a physical server to Hyper-V?
A quick Google for 'Hyper-V P2V' should through up a freebie tool by MS themselves that does just that.
I use disk2vhd from sysinternals. Cracking bit of software which can convert while the machine is online which is a handy feature.
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We use VMware, and their converter - in most cases very sucessfully.
There have been one or two that were converted that have been flaky and much better when rebuilt from scratch.
This may not be relevant to Hyper-V but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
bump on disk2vhd.. great tool worked floorlessly for me.. converted phyiscal DC, Printserver and Policy Central Server in real time no issues at all.
Do you always check the "Fix up HAL for virtual pc" option?
What does it do?
This replaces the HAL with one that is compatible with Hyper-V so the server shoud not BSOD on boot, which it may do other whys. So yes, if you are P2V'ing to Hyper-V you should pretty much always select this.
I haven't used the "Fix up HAL" option as I thought it was to do with MS Virtual PC rather than Hyper-V. Have yet to see a BSOD but only time will tell;/
Interesting, I tried it both with and without on Virtual Server 05R2 and always get BSOD so have to repair install. I thought it was a Hyper-V option. Oh hum.
Not saying it isn't Hyper-V just that I haven't used it. Maybe I'll have a play sometime and tick the box and test it.
Funny, I never have gotten the blue screen from P2V conversion. But I have after repairing or upgrading a VM.
We are using the full System Center Virtual Machine Manager. It was very inexpensive and gives us a nice all in one console we can use to control these types of tasks as well as manage different Hyper-V hosts. As well as create P2V conversions.
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The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin
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You probably remember Princess Leia saying this to Governor Tarkin right before he started trying to impress her with the size of his battle station. But I'm not here to talk about battle station size or who might be compensating for what. Instead, I'm interested in Leia's point about unintended consequences: sometimes pushing directly for some outcome can actually make that outcome less likely.
Specifically, I wonder if the way we in the Church (thinking mostly of General Authorities, but sometimes of the rest of us too) try to solve problems might not sometimes fall prey to this problem. Below are some examples.
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Modesty. fMhLisa recently wrote a fantastic post on modesty that spurred me to think about this more general issue of unintended consequences. She points out that indeed there does appear to be a trend of girls being sexualized at younger ages. But, she argues, by focusing on modesty so much and for girls at such young ages, we as a Church are implicitly agreeing with the prevailing idea that yes indeed, young girls are somehow sexual. We're contributing to the problem. We're only differing with the more general trend in what we suggest girls should be doing (cover themselves versus flaunt themselves).
To make progress in having younger girls sexualized less, rather than pushing harder and harder on modesty, with more and better defined rules, we need to actually offer an alternative way of talking to and about young girls that doesn't take their sexualization as a given. Or, as Rebecca J puts it so well in her wonderful post on the same topic at BCC:
The next time you feel impressed to talk to girls about the importance of dressing modestly, count to 100 and say a prayer. Ask God what nourishment these young ladies need for their souls. And then talk about that instead.
Women feeling undervalued. It's clear that many women in the Church feel undervalued. Even if you don't buy all the numbers being passed around about young women leaving the Church (and I'm not sure I always do), the way GAs talk to and about women makes clear that this is a big concern. Their response to this problem appears to be to tell women over and over and in ever more inflated tones, that they are wonderful and important and valued. The problem with this kind of rhetoric is that, as I argued in a post last year, it only suggests its opposite. Why would they need to tell women how much they're valued if there weren't good reasons for them to feel that they aren't?
The solution in this area seems obvious. If the Church were to change in its practice in ways that actually made women feel more valued, there would be no need for all the reassurances. For starters, Caroline wrote a great post in which she outlined many things that could be done even within the framework Church's existing doctrines and policies. Going further and actually changing some policies (such as allowing women to be witnesses to ordinances, for example) would be even better.
Are Mormons Christian? We like to argue that we are; many other Christians like to argue that we're not. I think one way we fail here is parallel to the problem with women feeling undervalued. We protest too much, and people figure that if we are that worried about being accepted as Christian, we must really not be. The best example of this protesting too much was the Church's change to its logo back in the 1990s to put "Jesus Christ" in a bigger font. My guess would be that this only convinced more people that we were shady in our self-labeling than it convinced that we were in fact Christians.
Again, I think the solution here would be simple. If we just gave up on the "we're Christian too!" rhetoric, we would stop arousing the suspicions of those who think we're protesting too much. We could also focus more on maybe trying to be Christian in our behavior, and let the labels fall where they may.
Pornography. When people use pornography, it can have a negative effect on their real-world sexual relationships (and relationships more generally) with their spouses. In order to combat this problem, General Authorities hammer at this issue, Conference after Conference, particularly in Priesthood Session. Local leaders often hit the issue too. Porn is evil horrible nasty filthy stuff that will ruin your life. Unfortunately, this approach may not reduce porn usage and may actually increase it. More heated rhetoric surrounding porn can make people who have used it more anxious, and they may actually use porn as an anxiety-reduction tool. (I know I've heard John Dehlin make this argument on a few podcasts, but I don't recall which episodes offhand.)
A better approach to reducing porn usage might get at the problem indirectly. Perhaps the time now spent in Priesthood Session railing on porn could instead be used discussing how men can better take their wives seriously as fully people. If porn is brought up, it could be brought up more briefly and with less hyperbolic rhetoric.
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I've tried to think of other examples where the Church did the reverse: realized that its actions might have perverse results opposite the intended results, and backed off on the direct approach. One clear example is in keeping the Handbook secret for a long time, but then with the latest edition, publishing half of it on lds.org. As I argued once back when the Handbook was entirely secret, the very fact that it was kept secret probably made its contents seem more sinister than they actually were. I think it was a good decision for the Church to publish half of the Handbook openly. (Of course I think it would be good if they did this with the entire Handbook, but even publishing half is a step in the right direction.)
Other possible places where similar changes have occurred are with discussion of birth control and women working for pay. The rhetoric opposing both used to be much more frequent and categorically condemning than it is now. It's difficult for me to tell, though, whether this is a situation where General Authorities decided that backing off was a better approach, or if they just decided that birth control and women working for pay weren't actually all that bad.
I know the Church isn't alone in stumbling into situations where pushing harder for some outcome inadvertently makes the outcome less likely. I'm sure other organizations do it, governments do it, people do it. I really don't have a general idea of what might make an organization or person more or less prone to this problem, or more or less able to see it when it's happening. I'd love to hear if you have any ideas along these lines, or more examples of either type–where the Church pushes too hard and accidentally makes a problem worse, or where it has backed off such a situation to avoid doing so.
- 4 October 2012
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Loved this post. You summed up my feelings so well.
It's not the Mormon church per se, but studies show that too much focus on abstinence and eliminating birth control actually results in more teen pregnancy.
I would likewise say that strongly discouraging people from reading internet sources on church history only creates a situation where the internet information has extra credibility and people used to white wash can't distinguish fact from fiction.
Just a quick quibble: Book 2 of the Church Handbook of Instructions has been publicly available for many, many years, in pieces. I worked for Church Distribution Services for a few years beginning nearly a decade ago and all of the chapters of Book 2 were separately available for anyone to buy. (You may remember them: each chapter had a different color on the glossy cardstock color and they were all three-hole punched; usually they occupied a full shelving section in the various Distribution Centers.) The change was to publish Book 2 on the Internet and provide public access to a bound volume containing all of the chapters together. But the situation with the CHI hasn't actually changed; Book 2 was not controlled and Book 1 still is.
Good points.
I think in addition to what you've got here, maybe "missionary" work toward "inactives". I think people who need a break, or space, or just are dealing with something that makes church going hard feel they have to "duck and cover" to get some peace and it probably makes them more resistant to any sort of participation or "activity" because they are then surrounded by folks pushing for more.
Additionally church members often feel that visiting and repeating "it was so good to see you at church" or "how do we get you back" is a caring and inclusive behavior but is easily experienced by the receiver of that kind of caring as judgement and superiority.
Thanks for pointing that out, Tom. I didn't realize that was the case. I guess the step of putting Book 2 online was much smaller than I had thought.
Zaissa, great point! I know I have several friends who don't attend church who have said similar things. When people from church are overly zealous in prodding them back in, the result can be that they're pushed farther away.
hawkgrrrl, great examples! The forbidden fruit one I particularly like. What's the joke about how the easiest way to get people to read something is to tell them it's off limits?
Shawna, thanks!
The forbidden fruit one I particularly like. What's the joke about how the easiest way to get people to read something is to tell them it's off limits?
Oh man. I had a high school English teacher who once used that kind of reverse psychology on some of his middle school students:
They were reading a Shakespeare play (I forget which) and he got up in front of the class and said "I was going over tomorrow's reading and I realized that there were some things in it that are pretty inappropriate, so I just wanted to apologize and say that it's OK if you don't do the reading tonight."
The next day, one of his students came to class and said "Mr. K., I read the assignment three times and there was nothing bad in it!"
I don't know (or recall) if he had a particular reason for wanting his class to read that section or if he just wanted to test the power of reverse psychology / forbidden fruit, but I think he succeeded in getting every single student to read the assignment.
Great post, Ziff! One I would add is that the church leaders are reluctant to explicitly retract old teachings and practices and teach a whitewashed version of their own history. I think one justification for this is to protect and promote the testimonies of the saints. However, these practices can contribute to a sense of betrayal when more historical information is found and a sense of cognitive dissonance when old teachings don't conform with new teachings.
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Excellent post.
In addition to the above, I do think that the heavy-handed emphasis on marriage has back-fired a bit. At least the pressure to marry as soon as returning from a mission has been lightened. But, I do think that the pressure to marry has caused some people, who were probably just trying to be obedient, to rush into marriages that they were ill-prepared for. Now, divorce statistics in the church are trending like those for outside of it. If, instead, the church were to focus on discipleship (like Chieko Okazaki), I think it would be a lot more helpful for people's spiritual development. And maybe for getting all those spiritually-enlightened people married!


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Monday, October 15, 2012
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Susan Murcott, Senior Lecturer, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at MIT
Title: Lessons in Safe Drinking Water from Northern Ghana: Assessing Seven Years of Work in Household-Scale Ceramic Water Filters
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Susan Murcott will provide an overview of lessons from the 7-year implementation of household ceramic water filters in Northern Ghana with Pure Home Water.
Pure Home Water is a non-profit organization that produces and distributes low-cost ceramic water filters to the most remote areas of Ghana where the infant mortality rate can be 25 times that of the United States (155 infant deaths/1000 live births in N. Ghana). Pure Home Water has distributed filters to 100,000 households to date, but, with 2 billion people worldwide lacking safe drinking water, the goal is far more ambitious. In the past 7 years, over 100 MIT engineering, planning, policy and business students have done field research in Ghana, assisting Pure Home Water to improve product reliability, reduce production costs, monitor progress, become financially sustainable and scale up.
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Susan Murcott is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She is an expert water and sanitation infrastructure systems in developing countries with a focus on the bottom billion(s) lacking safe water and basic sanitation.
Susan Murcott's research is on water and sanitation in developing countries, including the treatment and safe storage of household drinking water. Murcott's field of endeavor is water and wastewater treatment technologies in developing countries. During the 1990s, her research and professional consulting practice focused on innovations in wastewater treatment for megacities in Mexico, Brazil, Eastern Europe and China. Since 1998, she has led multi-disciplinary teams in developing country field projects through the MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering, Masters of Engineering Program. She is a leader in the emerging field of household water treatment and safe storage. These are technologies designed explicitly for those who lack a piped water supply and/or as an additional barrier of protection to those who have "improved" water from piped supplies, boreholes, rainwater harvesting, protected wells or springs. She has led projects in Nepal, Haiti, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Peru, Kenya, Ghana, Bangladesh and Cambodia. These initiatives are part of her larger effort "Safe Water for 1 Billion People" to train MIT students as water professionals and global citizens and to concurrently assist in bringing safe drinking water and sanitation to the developing world.
Murcott and her student teams have won many competitions and awards, including the Kyoto Water Prize - Top Ten Finalist (2006), St. Andrews Prize for the Environment - 2nd Prize (2006), the Wall Street Journal - Technology Innovation Award - Environment (2005) and a World Bank Development Marketplace Prize (2003). She received the CEE Award for Outstanding Service to the MIT Master of Engineering Program (2003).
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Former World Player of the Year Ronaldinho will return to his home country after 10 years in Europe to join the popular Brazilian club Flamengo until the 2014 World Cup.The agreement was announced on Flamengo's website on Tuesday after several days of negotiations to secure the player's transfer from AC Milan.Flamengo was able to sign the 30-year-old Ronaldinho after Brazilian clubs Gremio and Palmeiras ended their efforts to acquire the two-time FIFA Player of the Year over the weekend."This is a very special day for Flamengo,'' Patricia Amorim, the club president, said after the contract was signed following a long meeting with Ronaldinho's brother and agent, Roberto Assis, and Adriano Galliani, AC Milan's vice president. "Flamengo can finally celebrate, Ronaldinho is ours.'' Financial details of Ronaldinho's contract with Flamengo were not immediately released, but Brazilian media said he will earn a monthly salary of more than $600,000.
He reportedly also will receive money from marketing actions related to his image.World Cup 2014Ronaldinho has said one of his main goals is to play for Brazil in the 2014 World Cup, and he hopes the return to Brazilian football, with a contract until 2014, will help him revamp his career and accomplish that goal.Ronaldinho helped Brazil win the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, but he had a disappointing performance in the 2006 tournament in Germany, where the Brazilians were eliminated in the quarterfinals. He has played only a few times with the national team since then and was not summoned to play in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.Six-time Brazilian champion Flamengo, currently coached by former Brazil and Real Madrid coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo, won the 2009 national championship with the help of Ronaldinho's former Brazil teammate Adriano, who had a successful return to Brazilian football after several years inEurope. Ronaldinho is also hoping to follow in the footsteps of Ronaldo, who regained his status of a top player after returning to Brazil a few years ago with Corinthians, the country's second most popular club behind Flamengo.
Special talentWith his nifty skills and dazzling moves, Ronaldinho impressed from the moment he transferred from Gremio to French club Paris Saint-Germain in 2001.He peaked after moving to Barcelona in 2003, winning consecutive FIFA World Player of the Year awards in 2004 and 2005 and leading the Spanish club to the Champions League title in 2006.Ronaldinho joined Milan in 2008 but struggled to establish himself at the Italian club, where he played sparingly this season. The team released him after he expressed his desire to return to Brazil.Ronaldinho had initially said he wanted to play for his hometown team, Gremio, where he started his career, but negotiations collapsed in the final stages after Gremio said the player and Milan had increased their demands.An introduction party for Ronaldinho had already been prepared and the failed deal made him an unpopular figure with Gremio fans. Palmeiras also complained of the negotiating tactics of Ronaldinho's agent, Assis, who had guaranteed that the player would sign with the club but then backtracked and reportedly made more demands.English side Blackburn Rovers had also made an offer to acquire Ronaldinho, but the playmaker's desire to return to Brazil ended the team's chances.
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2013 WQYK Fun N' Sun Toyota Country Concert Lineup Video Preview
Now that the lineup for this year's big show in Clearwater has been revealed, the countdown is on! Join 99.5 WQYK for a free day of country music Sunday, April 28 at Coachman Park.
This year will again require TWO stages to accommodate this lineup! Billy Currington will headline the show… but there are 10 acts altogether. Some are familiar names, but some may be new to you. As the guy who brings you new music weeknights on the WQYK Top 8 at 8, I figured I could help you brush up on who's who so you'll know all the words when these artists take the stage!
Billy Currington
I doubt I have to tell you about Billy. His string of hits began on WQYK 10 years ago. But here are some of his biggest hits to get you warmed up!
Colt Ford
Can't wait to Waste Some Time with a beer or 6 when Colt rocks the stage!
Jon Pardi
The first time I saw Jon live was right here in the WQYK conference room. He was new to the scene and came by to introduce himself and play a few songs. His big song "Missin' You Crazy" was a big favorite on the Top 8 at 8 in 2012.
Chris Janson
You have heard "Better I Don't" on WQYK for a few weeks now. I'm hoping he also plays the song he co-wrote for Tim McGraw… "Truck Yeah!"
Rachel Farley
"Ain't Easy" made its debut on WQYK last month. Listen to these vocals of a 17 YEAR OLD!
Joel Crouse
A fellow New England country music lover is on the bill. Joel was schooled on country music by his grandfather while they played poker. Before he hits the road with Taylor Swift, he'll play his new big hit "If You Want Some" live at Coachman Park!
Greg West
Greg's a Tampa guy these days. Like me, he did his partying with the heavy metal Gods of the 80s, but has come home to country music. Check out this performance of "Cold in California."
Dakota Bradley
Just when your ears stopped ringing from the Hunter Hayes Florida Strawberry Festival concert, here we go again! The girls will definitely be lining up early to catch this 18 year old! Check out this cover version of Taylor Swift's "Mine!"
Katie Armiger
She's had a few hits on the country charts over the past 5 years. Her new song "Playin' With Fire" is hot!
Drake White
"The Simple Life" made its debut on the WQYK Top 8 at 8 a couple weeks back. And we're excited to welcome Drake to Clearwater!
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A novelty song is a comical or nonsensical song, performed principally for its comical effect. Humorous songs, or those containing humorous elements, are not necessarily novelty songs. The term arose in Tin Pan Alley to describe one of the major divisions of popular music. The other two divisions were ballads and dance music.[1] Novelty songs achieved great popularity during the 1920s and 1930s.[2][3]
Novelty songs are often a parody or humor song, and may apply to a current event such as a holiday or a fad such as a dance. Many use unusual lyrics, subjects, sounds, or instrumentation, and may not even be musical. "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" has little music and is set to a rhythm tapped out on a snare drum and tambourine. One novelty song, a remix of "Axel F" by Crazy Frog, started as a mobile phone ringtone.
Novelty songs were a major staple of Tin Pan Alley from its start in the late 19th century. They continued to proliferate in the early years of the 20th century, some rising to be among the biggest hits of the era. Varieties included songs with an unusual gimmick, such as the stuttering in "K-K-K-Katy", silly lyrics like "Yes! We Have No Bananas", and invocations of foreign lands with emphasis on general feel of exoticism rather than geographic or anthropological accuracy, such as "Oh By Jingo!" and "Nagasaki".[citation needed]
A famous 1940s novelty song was the 1942 "Der Fuehrer's Face", and the 1952 #1 single "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" became notable for extensive play and backlash because the song became annoying.[citation needed] Dickie Goodman, the godfather of the genre, faced a lawsuit for his 1956 novelty song "The Flying Saucer", which used sampling.[4] "Yakety Yak" became a #1 single on July 21, 1958 and is the only novelty song (#346) of the Songs of the Century. Satirists such as Stan Freberg and Tom Lehrer used novelty songs to poke fun at contemporary pop culture in the early 1950s. There was a novelty song in 1958 called "The Purple People Eater" sang by Sheb Wooley. This song was the one of the first songs to use a speed-up voice technique.[citation needed] There were other songs in the late 1950s that were novelty hits too, such as "Lucky Ladybug" by Billy and Lillie in December 1958, and "Witch Doctor" by David Seville, also in 1958. The first Best Comedy Recording Grammy was awarded to David Seville's "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)", which used a speeded-up voice technique to simulate a chipmunk voice.[5] In 1960, 16 year old Brian Hyland had a novelty hit with the song "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini", by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss, which went up to the top of the Billboard charts.[citation needed] In 1964, the Grammy for Best Country and Western Album was awarded to Roger Miller's Dang Me/Chug-a-Lug, which had several novelty songs.[citation needed]
Novelty songs have been popular in the U.K. as well. In 1988, The Timelords (aka the KLF) had success in topping the single charts by releasing their novelty song "Doctorin the Tardis", a song based on Doctor Who and the official video featuring some very poorly made, but amusing Daleks.[citation needed] In 1991, "The Stonk" novelty song raised over £100,000 for the Comic Relief charity. In 1993, "Mr Blobby" became the second novelty song to reach the coveted Christmas number one slot in the UK, following Benny Hill's 1971 chart-topper "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)".[6] Many popular children's TV characters would try to claim the Christmas number one spot after this. In 1997, the Teletubbies failed to gain it with their single "Say Eh-oh!".[citation needed] They came second in the charts to The Spice Girls second of three consecutive Christmas number ones, with "Too Much".[citation needed] Later on at the turn of the millennium, Bob the Builder was successful in achieving a Christmas number one in 2000, with "Can We Fix It?". This is currently the last novelty song to have been released into the UK Christmas Charts.[citation needed] However, Bob the Builder did have another number one single a year later with a cover of Lou Bega's Mambo No.5, and also another less successful single in 2008 "Big Fish Little Fish", peaking at 81 in the UK Singles Chart.[citation needed]
Some novelty music draws its appeal from its unintentional novelty; so-called "outsider musicians" with little or no formal musical training often will produce comical results (see for instance, Florence Foster Jenkins, Mrs. Miller, the Portsmouth Sinfonia, The Shaggs and William Hung), leading record companies to release their works as novelty pieces.[citation needed]
After the fictitious composer P.D.Q. Bach repeatedly won the "Best Comedy Album" Grammy from 1990 to 1993, the category was changed to "Best Spoken Comedy Album"; when "Best Comedy Album" was reinstated in 2004, "Weird Al" Yankovic won for Poodle Hat.[7]
Novelty songs were popular on U.S. radio through the 1970s and 1980s, to the point where it was not uncommon for novelty songs to break into the top 40. For instance, Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-Ling" reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972,[8] and Ray Stevens, known for such novelty hits as "Ahab the Arab", "Gitarzan", and "Mississippi Squirrel Revival", had a #1 hit with "The Streak" in 1974.[citation needed] Freeform and album-oriented rock stations made use of novelty songs; some of the best-known work from Frank Zappa, for instance, is his extensive body of novelty music. Beginning in 1970, Dr. Demento's nationally syndicated radio show gave novelty songs an outlet for much of the country; this lasted through the mid-2000s, when the show (mirroring trends in the genre) faded in popularity until its terrestrial cancellation in June 2010. Novelty songs and parodies are fixtures on morning radio.[citation needed]
One of the longest selling novelty songs of "Rock and Roll" is Zane Ashton's whimsical "He Was A Mean Dragon," recorded in 1961 on Lan-Cet Records and still being sold on the internet today. Members of the band on the record include Ray Pohlman, Earl Palmer, and Al Casey, who said, "It was so funny I laughed my way through the whole session." With the recent re-issue of the record by Ace Records in England and entitled "The Dragon", this record is well on the way to actually becoming "The Longest Selling Novelty Record." The record was recently picked up to be sold on iTunes which will further enhance its longevity. The recording by Zane Ashton (aka Bill Aken) is enjoying a resurgence by an entire new generation of fans and will be featured in 2015 in a film "Lost River" directed by Academy Award nominated actor Ryan Gosling and starring Eva Mendes..
In the 21st century, novelty songs have found a new audience online: the hit song "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)" by Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis was featured on the kids' compilation album So Fresh Pop Party 13 in 2014.
- ^ Hamm, Irving Berlin Early Songs, p. xxxiv: "The text of a novelty song sketches a vignette or a brief story of an amusing or provocative nature. ... noted for portraying characters of specific ethnicity or those finding themselves in certain comic or melodramatic situations, ..."
- ^ Axford, Song Sheets to Software, p. 20: "As sentimental songs were the mainstay of Tin Pan Alley, novelty and comical songs helped to break the monotony, developing in the twenties and thirties as signs of the times."
- ^ Tawa, Supremely American, p. 55: "... in the 1920s, novelty songs offset the intensely serious and lachrymose ballads. nonsensical novelty songs, reproducing the irrational and meaningless side of the twenties, made frequent appearances."
- ^ "New Case for Old `Napster'; Dickie Goodman's Son Reveals Father's Legacy in Book and Fights for It in Lawsuit". PR Newswire. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
- ^ Hoffman, Dr Frank. "Novelty Songs". Jeff O's Retro Music. Jeff O'Corbett. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- ^ Bromley, Tom We Could Have Been the Wombles: The Weird and Wonderful World of One-Hit Wonders p.51. Penguin books ltd, 2006
- ^ Donnelly, Tim (July 12, 2014). "Why Weird Al is still the king of spoof". New York Post.
- ^ "Chuck Berry: Charts & Awards – Billboard Singles". Allmusic. United States: Rovi Corporation. Retrieved March 28, 2011.
- Aquila, Richard, That Old-time Rock & Roll: A Chronicle of an Era, 1954-1963. University of Illinois Press, 2000. ISBN 0-252-06919-6
- Axford, Elizabeth C. Song Sheets to Software: A Guide to Print Music, Software, and Web Sites for Musicians. Scarecrow Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8108-5027-3
- Hamm, Charles (ed.). Irving Berlin Early Songs. Marcel Dekker, 1995. ISBN 0-89579-305-9
- Tawa, Nicholas E. Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century . Scarecrow Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5295-0


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