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When your child goes through teenage development, it can sometimes feel like you're speaking different languages. We spoke with Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., about how to connect with your teenager, establishing trust with your teen, and how your relationship changes.
One minute your kid is laughing hysterically, rolling on the bed with the dog—and the next she's sullen, slamming the door (!), barely willing to acknowledge your presence. Sound familiar? Of course acne, algebra, and angst will always plague young people, but according to a new book by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., the rapidly changing teen brain is also a factor. "We've been told numerous myths about adolescence that we need to correct: that this is a time of 'nuttiness' and 'immaturity' that we have to get over or get through, rather than a moment of necessary change and important growth of the brain," Dr. Siegel says. More than ever, the period of a child's adolescence is a time parents should stay connected with their child—and maintain their relationships with other adults. An actual social life? you say. Yes, parents need to get out with friends, too. We spoke with Dr. Siegel about some of the issues he explores in his newly-released book, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain (Penguin/Tarcher).
You write: "Not being socially engaged can make an adult feel disconnected in the face of a teen's social life." How can a parent who's feeling this way cope?
Teens remind us very plainly that adulthood can be an isolating experience. For example, how many new friends did you make in your 30s and 40s? Kids make new friends practically every week! If parents realize that our relationships with others are the best source of our own well-being, both physically and mentally, it'll go a long way toward helping them motivate to reach out and connect with others.
How can adults rediscover their social side? Will it help them gain perspective when dealing with their adolescent?
Don't isolate yourself! Healthy minds and bodies are ones that are in supportive relationships—at home, at work, and in your community. Not having an emotional spark can make a teen's exuberance for life seem threatening. This time in your child's life isn't a threat, but rather a reminder of what's good for us across the lifespan. Developing friendships is important, no matter the age.
It's fairly common these days for some parents to act as if they're 'best friends' with their adolescents. Is this troublesome?
Yes, it can be. It actually makes no developmental sense for teens and parents to be best friends, and to a teen, this situation can be an inherent conflict. Children are attached to us, which means they seek comfort and connection and need to feel safe, soothed, and seen. But we should not be attached to our teens, as it puts them in a stressful role-reversal that can inhibit their growth and development. We can certainly be bonded to our teens, which means we're dedicated to them and care [about them], but we can't use them to soothe our own needs.
How can a parent establish, or re-establish, trust with their adolescent?
During adolescence, there's a natural pushing away from adults, so to the best of your ability, keep the lines of communication open and clear (and bear this in mind each time there's a period of friction with your child). Changes in your teen's behavior and decision-making can be hard to handle from the parent's point of view, but these are fundamental to the remodeling that goes on in the adolescent brain. Being aware of these developmental issues will help you maintain trust and continue an open relationship with your adolescent.
A parent's natural tendency is to protect her child, but doesn't a parent also need to let her teen learn some lessons on her own?
Yes—but it's tough to strike the right balance. You can protect and support your adolescent by being both a safe harbor and a launching pad. Kids need to explore on their own and create their own lives. This takes courage, but it can also involve a few risks. Being there for your kids and listening to them will help them to find their own inner compass that can guide them to be careful and reflect on their own values, rather than simply obeying parents' rules.
Some parents feel a sense of loss when their teens gain more independence. What advice can you give that may comfort during this time of transition?
First, get to the root of why you may be feeling this way. Sometimes this sense of loss may be about how we're actually re-parenting ourselves, offering our kids the kind of care that we never had during childhood. Or it could be about feeling important and essential in someone's life, or about missing that tender and powerful relationship with a young child. Name these feelings so as not to project them onto your child in a way that might inhibit his or her necessary journey toward independence.
What else would you urge folks to keep in mind as they parent their adolescent?
Keep talking! This is a time when adults should be maintaining relationships with their adolescents—don't let teens exclude you from their lives or push you away. We need to reframe the meaning of adolescence in our culture and the role these kids play in our communities—they're moving into a time of great creativity and contribution in our world.
Jennifer Kelly Geddes, mom of two girls whose ages fall smack within the scope of this conversation, is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Parenting, Scholastic Parent & Child, and EverydayHealth.com. She lives with her family in West Harlem.
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The Summit Sirens Invite You to Visit This Weekend for a Special Labor Day Event:
"Suddenly Summer on the Summit!"
Enjoy special pricing on the wines of summer, plus live music and food pairings. Weather should be perfect for relaxing outdoors with a bottle of your favorite wine.
The Summit to Sea wineries are open all three days to celebrate the Labor Day holiday:
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Hunter Hill is open Sat/Sun, but closed on Monday.
Burrell School is offering their lush Chardonnay for $20 per bottle. Stock up for the Indian summer ahead!
Hunter Hill has 2007 Rock 'n' Rhone and 2006 Estate Merlot on sale for $10.00 per bottle. Chef Sid is cooking both days and will serving up tri-tip, beans and bread for $10.00, $5.00 for wine tasting.
Loma Prieta is offering the 08 Saveria Pinot (reg $50) on sale for $45, and the 07 Cab (reg $50) on sale for $45.
Poetic Cellars has summer-fresh Chardonnay and Viognier, two for $40, plus small plates of delicious pates and cured meats for pairing, $5 per plate.
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The engines are daft though, they redline at 100rpm...
Umm, but think of all that lovely torque......
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The engines are daft though, they redline at 100rpm...
Umm, but think of all that lovely torque......
So....if these signs are on the Internet of Things, as is my fridge, can the fridge tell the sign to put up a message reminding me not to forget to buy some milk on the way home?
Now that would be useful.
Is this an over reaction by officialdom?
Assuming this was an open reservoir, then it contains raw untreated water. A miniscule amount of human pee is hardly significant. Considering the reservoir is open (ie not covered) birds can pee and sh!t in it as much as they like, and it is fed by rivers, into which the perp could easily have pee'd unnoticed. Indeed I am sure the sheep, cows and rabbits upstream have no concerns about pee'ing in the river at all. And the reservoir no doubt contains fish, all of whom sh!t and pee with no regard for the environment. Good grief, the fish even have sex in that water!
All these contaminents will be filtered out or neutralised by the subsequent treatment process.
However, if this was a closed reservoir (ie. sealed, containing treated "potable" water) then it is a whole different kettle of fish. Members of the public should never have access to sealed reservoirs, and he deserves everything they can throw at him. As does whatever process (or failure of process) which allowed him access to the reservoir.
I tip my hat to the scientists and boffins who have managed to measure/observe, or whatever they did, to something 2cm in size at that kind of distance. An incredible feat of technology.
I'm a bit late chipping in but here are two comments.....
1) About 15 years back, the company I was working for took on a new recruit. A networking guy in his early 30's, who had come from the power industry, and work on "safety critical" systems. During the first few weeks/months whilst fitting in with the team, he would chat about his previous employment. Even back then he was commenting that the power industry was heading into a huge black hole (which the power companies were all aware of), and that by 2015-2020 the UK would be in a major power crisis: - old power stations (30-40 years old) were being or were scheduled for shutdown, coal was coming to an end, "green pressure" was starting to bite on all fossil fuels, the UK had not researched or kept up with nuclear development since the 60's, etc, etc, etc, and meanwhile our appetite for electricity was forever growing - not just at home, but our business in those days of the mid/late 90's was data centres and PoP's which were starting to appear and munch through kilowatt hours at an alarming rate.
2) At around the same time, give or take 5 years or so I was driving one morning up the M6. I was stabbing the buttons on the car radio and ended up on some local station somewhere. There was an article on the news about a power cut the night before which had left umpteen thousands of homes in the area with no power all night. After the news the DJ stepped in to have a little "backchat" with the newsreader and commented that he was one of the homes that had been blacked out. He and his wife had to fumble around in the dark to find if they had some candles and matches somewhere, whilst his kids thought it was really exciting and spooky with no power, and thought that candles were only for birthday cakes and couldn't actually be used to produce "real" light. He then went on to say, that after five - ten minutes the kids started to realise there was no TV, no DVD, no computer, no cordless phone, no microwave, no warm food, no light in the fridge, no heating, no light to see anything by anywhere except a couple of solitary candles, and then started to get really stressed about the lack of electrcity. The DJ/newsreader then went on to comment about how reliant we were now on electricity compared to when they were youngsters (aka in the 70's) when such things were relatively frequent and how we are not prepared for it, and how his kids had never ever experienced a power cut or had any concept that such things happened.
I'm not sure why I remember both anecdotes so clearly after all this time, but there was obviously a connection between them, and I guess it started to make me think about what to do if the power is off for more than 15 minutes every five years, or whatever we take for granted these days.
I was looking forward to a nice bright streak across the sky on a crisp winters night, but alas...
That's a nice and thoughtful touch he put on the end.
"In ISON's memory," he writes, "donations are encouraged to your local astronomy club, observatory or charity that supports STEM and science outreach programs for children."
I just asked google to show me pictures of my dog on the beach at sunset, and it was an epic fail.
There were lots of pictures of dogs I don't recognise, and none of mine.
Mind you, I don't have a dog.
So, by that test, I think think humans are safe from the rise of the google machine for at least a while yet.
OFCOM seem obsessed with attempting to drive down the cost of broadband, and presumably squeezing everyones margins along the way. Why can't they just accept that's how much it costs for a broadband connection? Personally, I think £20 per month for my 16mb/s (upto 20) service is amongst the best £20 a month I spend, for what I get in return and what it gives access to. If I needed to save £20 a month, there are plenty of things I would sacrifice before my internet connection.
The people I feel sorry for are those also paying £20 or whatever, and getting a pittance of a service, or no service at all (though obviously not paying £20 in that case!). If OFCOM had some balls they would "price cap" at the wholesale or retail point, and make the amount they charge dependent on the speed they actually deliver. ie £20 for upto 20mb/s, but if they can only deliver 5mb/s, then they only get to charge £5. That might actutally make some of the ISP's pull their fingers our and invest in getting a better network.
By continually squeezing everyones margins, they are making it even more difficult for an ISP to justify giving punters better speeds, or for those who live in a black-spot/have-not, any prospect of service at all.
Just my tuppence worth.....
Diesel bugs exits in both mineral diesel and biodiesel (which is, roughly speaking, a blend of mineral diesel and vegetable oils).
It's not a critical issue with cars and general transport as the fuel is pretty fresh, ie. from refinery to your tank in a week or two, and re-filled in your tank every few days/weeks. It can be a problem with standby generators as the fuel may have been sitting in the tank for years. And I mean years. If you have a standby genset at work, when was the last time anyone ran the tank to the red-line or until the little light came on, and refilled it? Sure, you might "top up" a few hudred litres each year after routine testing, but the bulk of the fuel may have been there 5 or 10 years or more.
It's not unusual for a genset to fire up during a power failure, run for a hour or so, then cough and splutter to a halt as the sludge and stuff get drawn through the filters.
Good points there, lglethal. My question would be that is it possible to "highly train" someone to be a world class hacker, or even a script kiddie? Or is that particular skill something you develop a skill/passion for by being exposed to these computery thingmybobs at a very young age and firstly teaching yourself how to fiddle, then growing from there? Is it really posible to take someone who has never seen a computer or the internet until, say teenage or university age, then give them such exposure to use it for malicious purposes? It would need some very good professors and lecturers, who in turn must have been trained very well and given a lot of internet exposure. And could a country the size of NoK come up with 3000 such persons?
Or is this just another round of sabre rattling? Another WMD and 45 minutes to hit London claim to "sex up" South Koreas and the wests paranoia?
brings a whole new meaning to......
Klingons on the starboard bow........
(Can't believe no-one got there before me)
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"1300 employees is £500,000 per seat."
My seat cost £25 from a charity shop.
Can I get a job as a consultant to Google?
How much kebab and lager is required to produce sufficient quanity of the vomitus substitute?
And does he only work on Friday and Saturday evenings?
Easy to forget that the UK was once a world pioneer in Nuclear Power AND Computing. Nice to see we have preserved something from that era so future generations can understand what this country used to achieve.
Plus, I bet it smells nice when running, that authentic, warm, ye olde electricale smelle, unlike modern computers.
Actually, i hope any high speed, highly stressed capsule has got round corners. History records that square corners on the Comet did not end too well......
Bet it tastes of peanuts and caramel....... Oh sorry, that was a marathon/snickers, not a Mars bar.....
Oh well, one mouthful a day will help Curiosity work rest and play...
Coat? The one with a sticky chocolate bar in the pocket, of course.
Nice website and great pictures, Dave. Thanks for sharing it.
I agree too. Always amazes me to see all those local distribution cables strung up on poles for miles, and so labour intensive to repair after damage. At least in the UK our local distribution is mostly underground, though of course the incoming 33kv to a town/village may well be on overheads. But, its a lot quick to repair one set of 33kv overheads in an open field and light up a few thousands homes than it is to have to repair poles on street after street of residential properties all lined with trees and branches.
I also suspect the 25% figures means sites out of action - either due to loss of power or loss of backhaul. Remember most mobile backhaul is on microwave link, which needs a pointing accuracy of less than 1 degree and line of site to work. A fallen tree can block the path, or twist the antenna enough to take the path down. Where you have one major node acting as a concentrator it can easily knock out comms over a larger area, even though many of the locals sites are still capable of working - as T-mobile learnt in the Peterborough area a few years back.
This is another solid reminder of why the emergency services MUST have their own comms networks, under their direct control and not rely on public infrastructure.
"promising "everyone can get [Vodafone] 4G when it launches next Spring" and offering a free replacement handset and 70 per cent of the remaining contract charges when customers upgrade to Vodafone 4G"
What a bunch of lying bathtubs Vodafone are. They have had 10 years to build a 3G network, and it's a joke. I very much doubt everyone will have 4G when it launches or for another 10 years afterwards. Vodafone don't even have a 4G licence yet, and are not guaranteed to get one (unlikely not to, admittedly) so how they can make statements like that beggers belief.
As I travel round the country my 3G Vodafone probably has 3G signal about 20% of the time. As previous poster comments, even a reliable 2G signal would be useful.
Hopefully there is a clock tower nearby if they ever need to jump start the reactor......
Whatever will they think of next.......
Mind you, I think I would welcome improved call quality compared to what we are now forced to suffer over current 2G/3G implementations (in the UK at least). Let's return call quality to what it was 15 -20 years ago!
Sorry, which century are we in here?
"wireless telephony is described as "a key enabler of change" whose ability to spread education and information is necessary to drive the jumps in productivity we need." Which is exactly what Marconi, Sarnoff, et al were saying 100 years ago.....
"Brereton also brought up the example of fishermen using mobiles to check which harbour will offer the best price on the day's catch" Righty-o, and fishermen have not had ship-to-shore radio comms to do that exact thing for the past 75-ish years then? Even in places like Africa? And how does he expect a mobile to work 20 or 30 miles offshore?
Just confirms my belief that accountants should not be left in charge of technology, or the economy or the country......
The last thing Bletchley Park needs is civil servants and politcians getting involved......
Top marks to tBP for the funding, also one of the places I keep meaning to see but never get round to....
Nope, the old DTV powers were roughly 17dB down on analogue. Post DSO powers are typically 6-10dB down (pretty much on all sites) - that was the whole point of DSO - switch off the high power analogue and you free up spectrum to increase digital powers.
Also, directly comparing analogue radiated powers with digital to establish coverage areas is not a good idea. Digital can work with much lower strengths than analogue. If you need proof of this just look at the radiated powers in the analogue system for analogue sound, and NICAM digital sound. The NICAM carrier powers were around 1/10 of the analogue power, yet NICAM could still give solid reception when both vision and analogue audio were very noisey and starting to fail.
However, as another poster has pointed out, the biggest problem for some people now will be too much signal, overloading all those cheap and nasty freview boxes. This is particulary so for those who have installed high gain "digital" aerials and amplifiers. It's been a problem in other parts of the country, and it's effect is for some channel to be missing completely and is difficult for people to diagnose correctly. At least with analogue, overloading was fairly self evident from floating pictures in the background.
Heck, haven't seen that video for, er 29 years, thanks for sharing! Some of todays wannabe's could learn something about (cheesy) pop music and videos from that.
I must be getting on a bit as I am fairly sure I have some Tracey Ullman 7 inch vinyl in the cupboard under the stairs.. will have to dig it out and play it later....
What, it's the Simpsons we're talking about? Doh....
And while we are at it lets spend lots of money on MS software that won't be used for anything that OpenOffice or LibreOffice can't be.
Double Fail.
Sounds just like every other mobile network then.....
And these people have a cheek to charge us money for delivering half-baked service?
I'm on GiffGaff and their service is patchy as hell - it has major capacity issues which they never admit (tested via multiple handsets etc). It typically hits in congested parts of London (most of London, then!) and calls are dropped instantly, one gets the service unavailable tones when attempting to connect a call, I've even had HALF-duplex calls where the recipient can't hear me and thinks it's a prank call(!), SMS fail to send, and don't get me started on internet reliability.
Yeah, and not just the batteries, and the dealers cost to replace them. What about all those catalytic converters and diesel particulate filters that never get properly warmed up and stay warmed up, so fail much sooner than they normally would? Plus all those acidic exhaust gases that now get to condense in the exhaust system and cause it to rust much quicker. Plus what does stop/start tech do to the life of a starter motor? Given that a starter motor doing a few starts a day lasts for, lets say, 120,000 miles, do stop/start ones last for only 20,000 miles?
Manufacturers seem to love to spend OUR money on waste of space technology, 'cause it reduces their CO2 figures by a few g/km or saves £50 a year road tax, but adds hundreds, if not thousands onto the total costs of ownership of a car over its lifetime. And don't even mention the hassle of having it go wrong at the most inconvenient moment..... Having a lazy starter motor is one thing when you are sitting in a car park and take a few attempts to get it engaged and going, it's another entirely when you are stop/starting along a busy motorway or at a busy set of traffic lights.
IMHO Voda need to be investigated by Ofcom (for compliance with their license/coverage requirements) , not the ASA (though they do have a cheek to market 3G wireless broadband...).
As a self-employed bod who travels the length and breadth of the UK on a frequent basis, with a 3G Nokia on Voda, and a USB dongle on 3 for my laptop, there is no comparison between the networks. Voda's 3G coverage is an abysmal embarrassment. Outside built up areas it is non existent, and even in those areas it can be very patchy and slow. We are now almost 10 years into 3G technology, yet Voda have not even upgraded all of their 2G cells for 3G coverage, let alone built significant infills. My business often takes me to work on or next to cell sites, and I can stand there reading the Vodafone logo on a cabin door, yet there is no 3G coverage. Their 2G coverage is generally second to none, so they need to stop resting on their laurels and running on past glories and get some investment into their UK network and not on sponsoring football shirts and whatever.
When 3G first appeared Glasgow city centre was one of the areas across the UK which was "wired up" for discreet cellular coverage, with lots of infill points to create an experimental "wireless city". AFAIK that network is still there and Voda have access to it, so they have no excuse other than laziness and taking their eye off the ball.
And if you complain to Voda about 3G coverage? They ask for your postcode and offer to send you a femtocell PoS. What has my home postcode got to do with it? It's a bl**dy MOBILE phone - the clue being in the title. It actually works fairly well in my home.
Having spent a year with an I-phone on Voda my business partner ditched them in favour of 3 earlier this year and hasn't looked back, and whenever I get round to retiring my old Nokia I won't be hanging around with Voda either.
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Early this morning a bill for the transfer of sovereignty was passed by the constitutionally required two-thirds majority; 71 votes for, 29 against. The full membership of the Chamber was present and cast their votes as follows: in favour-Catholic Party 32, Party of Labour 27, Party of Freedom and Democracy 8, Christian Historicals 4; against-Historical 5, Anti-Revolutionary 13, Communist 8, Political Reformed 2, Catholic Independent (Welter) 1.
It had been generally forecast before the voting that the party line-up would follow the table set out above. The most doubtful element was the Christian Historicals. It was assumed, however, that their votes would be divided.
2. The Government accepted an amendment proposed by Oud (Freedom and Democracy) adding a third article to the bill covering the agreement. The first article covered acceptance of the agreement, the second gave the title of the bill (Bill for Transfer of Sovereignty to Indonesia). The proposed third article was to the effect that everything possible should be done, in consultation with the Government of RUSI, to take such steps with UNCI or another United Nations body as in Government opinion could be beneficial to a full implementation of right of self-determination under the relative article in R.T.C.
3. Speakers for groups voting for bill all stressed great responsibilities which vote entailed. Oud spoke on the problem of minorities for which his amendment was designed to make provision.
Communists merely continued their previous policy opposing every step towards an agreement with the Republicans.
4. Van [Maa]rseveen ended his comments on behalf of the Government with a warning to the Chamber that the Government could take no responsibility whatsoever for the consequences of the rejection of the bill and that if this should happen the Government would draw its conclusions immediately.
5. Before the vote was taken Stikker read statement giving view of a number of prominent businessmen in Indonesia, whom he mentioned by name to the effect that ratification of the agreement was imperative.
6. In reply to questions by Oud and Welter, Stikker said that Foreign influence had, in fact, exerted pressure on the Government and cited the boycott by Australian Waterside Workers, the threat of a similar American boycott, the threatened cutting off of Marshall Aid to Holland and the ban on Dutch aircraft by India and Pakistan.


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Yesterday, the Presbyterian pastor at the church we attend as a family described the Holy Spirit as a "violent, invading force" which cannot be "domesticated, organized or tamed." He likened the work of the Holy Spirit to the wild, fire-whipping Santa Ana winds we experience here in Southern California.
Violent. Invading.
I felt a wave of nausea sweep over me and my pulse sky-rocketed. I thought I might faint. Panic blurred my vision. But I couldn't escape because I was seated mid-pew. I tapped my husband and when he looked at my anguished face, I mouthed the words: Violent. Invading.
If that's what the Holy Spirit is, then it confirms all my deepest, darkest fears. God is out to get me. God is going to take me by force and punish me for all my wrongdoings. God the Holy Spirit is a violent, invading force.
[Disclaimer: I realize that I heard this sermon through my own filter. I have no way of knowing whether this sermon was objectively OK because my brain was involuntarily triggered by the "old language," the code-words that evoke immediate bodily reactions. I'm pretty sure any normal, non-spiritually-abused person could sit through that sermon and just be "challenged" or "convicted." For me, though, it's torture: no matter how many times I think I've healed or "moved on," when I hear those kinds of words, my psyche responds with a near black-out bodily reaction.]
And today, even after the last drop of adrenaline had eked out of my system, I felt awful. I fought a deep, sagging weariness all day. And then. The worst.
I was hit with a sudden, compelling urge to hurt myself. It's an old, familiar feeling.
During my darkest days inside the fundamentalist cult, I would occasionally lock myself in the bathroom and gouge deep, angry lines into my skin. Sometimes I used my fingernails, sometimes a sharp object. Once, I carved a bloody cross into my thigh. Nobody knew, nobody saw because I hid it beneath my long, modest skirts.
Oddly enough, the physical pain blotted out the psychological pain. I felt release.
Today, instead of hiding and hurting myself, I forced myself to articulate the pain.
"Matt," I said. "I can't go to church anymore."
"OK," he said. "Maybe someday you'll be able to attend church without having a panic attack. Until then, I want you to talk to your therapist about wanting to hurt yourself."
I broke down on his shoulder, weeping. That release was better than hurting myself.
He's seen me clench my fists so hard during church that my nails leave marks in my palms. He knows I've sometimes tucked my hands inside my coat and pinched my stomach until it bruises. I do this to ground myself so fully into the moment and to focus my mind so intensely on the bodily pain, I don't scream in panic.
In highschool, I used to blot out the pain with exercise. I was a competitive swimmer and I used to drive myself so hard, so intensely that I wouldn't feel the pain, the black despair that threatened to creep across the whole of my consciousness.
Avoidance is not the healthiest coping mechanism. But hey, it works.
For eight years I've held out hope that I could "move on" and one day I'd find a pastor I could trust. Now I'm coming to the conclusion that the problem is not any church, any pastor or any small group. The problem lives inside me. I'm so utterly broken, so completely mistrusting, suspicious, jumpy and scared that even if Jesus was the pastor, I'd probably still have issues.
How's THAT for a lost cause?
To be completely honest, I feel like crap. I've tried so.damn.hard to get beyond What Happened. But it's been EIGHT years of panic attacks, EIGHT years of walking out of church, EIGHT years of listening to myriads of different pastors–only to experience the exact same response: total, unrelenting panic.
The only place that has brought me some modicum of relief is the Catholic Church. But even that is only a partial-peace because I have to go alone.
I am so tired of fighting through this alone.
I am so tired of playing nice, of repenting and trying again, of singing hymns through the tears, of praying and seeking.
It's over. I'm not going to hurt myself. I'm not going to keep going back to the pain. I'm walking away–for now.
I can't go to church anymore.


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This past weekend I attended one of the coolest conferences that I've been lucky enough to attend so far in my relatively young "conference career"; the social media focused PodCamp Cincinnati which, conveniently enough for me, was held on a Saturday morning in the building I work in!
When I woke up that morning, I had second thoughts about going because I didn't really feel like being in my place of work on a weekend morning. But I decided to suck it up (nice academic term, I know) and go.
I could not be happier about that decision to go; it turned out to be a great, great day. It seems as if this attendee thought the same. While the dominant focus of the conference was social media in the context of business (i.e. marketing) and my personal focus is more on social media and the news and also social media and communication theory, I still took a lot of cool ideas away.
I won't discuss the details of the conference here, but I mention it because the passion of the people there (who were all social media nerds) and a current event combined to inspire today's blog entry.
This is Not Your Grandfather's Farm
At the above conference, I attended a lecture entitled "Advocacy + Agriculture + Social/New Media = Agvocacy 2.0″ by John Blue of Truffle Media. During this presentation, Mr. Blue showed us a few different examples of how people from the agricultural sector are using new media to spread awareness about the importance of farming to the United States economy and lifestyle. For example, he mentioned @zweberfarms, which is the Twitter account of a fourth generation American dairy farm. Most of the tweets consist of the farmers sharing with the world their daily routines and lives. For example, below is a screenshot of some of the images that @zweberfarms shares with the world.
I absolutely love the fact that American famers are beginning to use social media to teach the rest of us lazy bums about the importance of the work they do for us on a daily basis. This is a great example of using new media for the greater good. Below is another, and arguably more serious, example and it is related to the recent earthquake in eastern Turkey.
Twitter & Turkey: Using New Media to do Good
A few days ago a strong earthquake struck far eastern Turkey in the city of Van and the surrounding area. The latest news on the matter is reporting that more than 400 are dead and more than 1,300 injured, and this number is unfortunately expected to rise as rescue operations continue. The potential of new media, especially Twitter in this case, to do good in the world has been displayed in the aftermath of this earthquake.
Today's Zaman, an English-language daily Turkish news source, reported how journalist Ahmet Tezcan started a Twitter campaign for those who had lost their homes in the earthquake. You can check out the original article here. Mr. Tezcan started the hashtag #EvimEvindirVan, which means "My home is your home, Van" because he had extra space and he offered it to those who had been left homeless after the quake.
For those of you who have not converted to Twitter yet, the hashtag (the "#" in front of a word) means that the phrase is automatically grouped with all the other mentions of that phrase by any other Twitter user in the world. This allows certain words to "trend", or to become instantly popular as millions of Twitter users add the hashtag to the same phrase. The more people use the phrase, the more popular it becomes, and thus the louder and more far reaching the message can become. Check out this post if you want to read some more about hashtags.
#EvimEvindirVan is still trending; if you search for the phrase on Twitter you will see that people are mentioning it every few minutes.
A CNN guest article written by TIME magazine's Pelin Turgut does a nice job of summarizing what effect the above Twitter hashtag is having on the post-earthuake recovery.
Ahmet Tezcan, a Turkish reporter with close to 16,000 followers, posted a tweet offering his spare flat to a family in need and suggesting others do the same. Within hours, 20,000 people had emailed the 'My house is your house' (#EvimEvindirVan) campaign, offering their homes or spare rooms. The campaign's success has been such that the Istanbul governor's office has taken charge. There is now a 24-hour hotline where people can apply to stay or host.
It is amazing how quickly this idea spread, and how many people have potentially found a place to sleep only because of a Twitter hashtag. The same article discusses other ways in which Twitter has been used to help the recovery effort in Turkey.
The sheer number of people with their eyes on the wire creates pressure on companies to respond –and quickly. 'Van needs drinking water. Still waiting for a water company to step up!' read one tweet on the #van page. Shortly afterwards three water firms announced pledges of shipments to the region.
At the risk of giving you too many quotes, I will share a final one from the same article. Ms. Turgut discusses the Turkish earthquake of 1999, which killed tens of thousands of people, and talks about how media as we know it today did not yet exist (in the olden days of 1999!) She mentions how email was still the new thing in 1999 and that the inventor of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, was only in high school. She then compares this to the media response after the earthquake a few days ago.
Contrast that to yesterday's disaster. Hours after a 7.2 earthquake struck Van, in eastern Turkey, technologies whirred into motion that would have been unimaginable back then. Google has already reconfigured the person-finding tool it used in Haiti and Chile, allowing people to both request and post information about the safety of loved ones missing in the rubble. (Their system is currently tracking some 2,000 records.) Hashtags like #van, #deprem (earthquake in Turkish) trended instantly, and are being tweeted hundreds of times per second as people share information on how to help and what to donate. Groups like the Red Crescent (the Turkish equivalent of the Red Cross) and AKUT, a search-and-rescue organization have enabled one-click SMS donation services. On Facebook, users share updated information on aid requests – winter clothing, insulin, diapers — as filed by people on the ground in Van and have started pages listing bus and freight companies that are delivering aid packages free of charge.
It is not uncommon for people who study communication or social media (such as yours truly) to be asked about the merits of studying such topics instead of focusing on business management, psychology, engineering, chemistry, etc. I have written twice about what I study and why I think it's important (here and here) and I continue to religiously defend communication as a discipline. It often helps to use practical examples of how communicative phenomena play a role in our world. New media tools such as Twitter can be really fun ways to communicate with our social circles. But communication through media is so much more than that, it can affect real change in our world.
New media can be used for tasks as simple as an American farmer tweeting about their daily routine to make sure that the rest of us support agriculture in this country to something as complex as organizing relief efforts after a humanitarian disaster. The main point is, new media (such as Twitter) is not just a fun and new tool for us to communicate with, but a potentially great improvement on how we can communicate with each other to do good things in the world.


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Earlier this week I had the opportunity to see the Eric Church concert in Minneapolis. It was a fantastic show, with everyone singing along with just about every song. They not only did this for a very energetic Eric Church, but they also sang along with opening act Dwight Yoakam.


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Patch 4.1 implements a lot of nice new features for all of us. Some of the major ones are:
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- PvE-to-PvP currency conversions
- Call to Arms added to the dungeon finder
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The Safilo Group and Fendi have announced a license agreement for the design, production and worldwide distribution of Fendi sunglasses and vision frames through December 31, 2022.
"We are extremely pleased to announce this agreement with Fendi" – declared Safilo Group CEO Roberto Vedovotto. "We are proud to add to our portfolio a brand with such a unique and extraordinary heritage. The know-how that has always distinguished Fendi handbags, accessories and apparel, in addition to the craftsmanship and ability to innovate in haute couture furs, will be transferred to and fully enhanced in the eyewear collections, thanks to our considerable expertise and ability to interpret the codes and values of luxury. This agreement further consolidates solidarity with the LVMH Group and will allow Safilo to establish even closer relations with the best clients all over the world".
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Tahlequah Man Pleads Guilty To Endangering Human Life While Illegally Manufacturing Methamphetamine
Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that ANDREW KELLI BRADDOCK, age 20, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Endangering Human Life While Illegally Manufacturing Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 858 and Title 18, United States Code, Section 2.
The charges are a result from an investigation by the District 27 District Attorney's Drug Task Force, the Cherokee Nation Indian Child Welfare, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Drug Enforcement Administration. The defendant was indicted in March, 2013, along with BRENDA TONIECE VANN, age 54 and LISA AUTUMN SHIANN CREECH, age 23, both of Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
The Indictment alleged that beginning on about January 23, 2013, within the Eastern District of Oklahoma, the defendant aided and abetted his co-defendants, to manufacture a substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, a Schedule II Controlled Substance, creating a substantial risk of harm to human life.
The Honorable Steven P. Shreder, Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, in Muskogee, presided over the hearing. The defendant will remain in the custody of the United States Marshal Service pending sentencing.
The statutory range of punishment is up to ten years imprisonment, and/or a fine of up to $250,000.00.
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Chris Voigt, who heads up the Washington State Potato Commission, is nearing the end of his 60-day all-potato diet.
And he's craving another of the state's commodities—an apple.
Voigt took the extreme measure after the U.S. Department of Agriculture removed potatoes from the list of fruits and vegetables approved for purchase under Women, Infants and Children.
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My annual open letter to wrestling coaches
By Jamie Baker
EDITOR'S NOTE: I'm going to leave this up at the top for a couple of days so everyone sees it. I think it's important to remind everyone to promote the sport.
I also have a couple of forms that coaches can use to report results and information to their local media outlets.
Here is a Courier wrestling dual match reporting form form and a Wrestling preseason analysis form. Download them and use them however suits your needs. Of course, if you return your information to me, I'll certainly post it here. There will be new posts added daily below this one. And I'll be mailing one of these forms to every school in NW Ohio on Monday. I hope to get them all back and you can always reach me at email@example.com or via Twitter: @Courier_Sports
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Dear Wrestling Coaches,
If you don't care enough to call in your results to the local media, don't bother complaining about a lack of coverage.
You should know most sports writers and editors don't know a half nelson from a jelly doughnut. Most of them would rather watch a 28-21 girls basketball game than watch your team wrestle. It's just a fact of life and a hurdle that will be tough to overcome. You have to lead a horse to water if you want him to even think about drinking.
If you report you results in a complete, timely fashion you will get better coverage. If you show no interest, neither will your media outlets. They have a lot of things to do and if you make their jobs easier, you will be rewarded in some shape or fashion. Not only that, because of the recent economic downturn, budgets have been slashed and positions at most media outlets have been cut. So there are fewer people at newspapers and radio stations than there were five or six years ago.
It only takes a minute to shove your results in a fax machine and send them off or type them up in an email. A call is even better…the personal touch. If you don't want to report the results yourself, appoint a responsible assistant coach, statistician or even parent to do it.
If you have any story ideas for them, don't be shy give 'em to them. They might not use every one of your story ideas but chances are they will use some of them and those stories will only promote your program. It will also help keep parents happy because they like to see their kid's name in the newspaper.
What better way is there to promote your program than foster a good rapport with your local media? Report the results to ALL media who cover your school. Give them your varsity and junior varsity results and make your junior high coaches report their results too. Even tell them about your special events like when your biddy practices begin, senior nights, tournaments you are hosting, etc.
Who knows? Maybe better coverage will draw more attention to your program and get more kids involved. If you flood them with wrestling information and results you won't be ignored. And you will draw more attention to the sport of wrestling…and we all win.


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Following the storyline of the campaign modes comes the multiplayer aspect of the game. In this Multiplayer section of the game, players face off in various different gametypes in various different ways.
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I hate to practice. It's no secret, I'd rather be playing live with other musicians than sitting in a room playing with a recording, or working on scales and technique. Let's face it, practice is boring and repetitive. It is, however, necessary. In order to build the skills needed to perform, you need to learn skills.
Simple, but boring.
Some of the things I do to spice it up is I'll take a break and hit shuffle on my music player. then I play along with whatever pops up. Sometimes I'll put on the TV and play along with the show and commercials, trying to change the feel of the scene.
What are some of the things you do to make practice easier?
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It's been a while, but I'm back. There have been a few changes, all for the better. Here are the new changes:
1. We are starting sound check 15 minutes earlier.
2. We are doing a REAL sound check. Yep, one actually run by the sound engineer in a orderly manner.
So far, they positive changes that have had positive impact.
Have you made any changes?
Are they working?
I'll try to post after ever worship team experience and keep you up to date on our progress.
That's not how it's done.
Lessons in real life. Or in other words, that is not how it's done. Today's church worship service was a bit shaky. We had decided at rehearsal that the new song we had just learned was ready to perform. Normally we would not learn something on Thursday and play it on Sunday. To add to the degree of difficulty, both the worship leader and lead guitarist were not in attendance on Thursday. It is just a bad idea. But against all odds, it worked. the song went well. Too bad I can't say the same about the songs we already knew. We had an issue with the timing of one song, and in another, the drummer went to the chorus while the rest of us went to the bridge. Then we had a misstep that stood out. The musicians are all on in ears. The acoustic guitarist and the keyboard players have open air headphones, but the drummer, myself and lead guitarist are on actual in ear monitors and cannot hear anything that is not in the mix. There was a pause between the third and fourth songs. One of the congregation started to speak, a common thing after worship, but we did not hear it. It lead to 30 or 40 seconds of use playing the intro and wondering why the rest of the group was holding off. We eventually stopped but it was very awkward. I have been asking for ambient mics on stage for this very reason it has never happened. I hope that is becomes a lesson learned and not a mistake to be repeated.
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It's been a while
Despite my best efforts, I haven't posted in awhile. The worship team has settled into a groove of sorts and things are running OK. The never ending battle between how things look and how they sound is still being waged. To recap this, there is a disagreement between what the musicians want and what the powers that be will allow. Our stage has been stripped of most of the sound making equipment. There are electronic drums, no amps of any kind and we are trying to cover a 30 foot section of the stage that the 8 singers occupy with 2 very old, very poor sounding stage monitors. The reasoning is it looks better. I know it makes the musicians job harder. I have gotten used to using in ears but I miss the feeling of live music. The band has gotten used to it too but the singers are still on wedges and they are suffering.
Has your church made the choice to go for looks over how things sound? What choices did aht force and how are you handling them?
Ah, the wonders of technology
Important tip. Know the location of your cell phone. Everyone has a cell and all of us take them on stage. Today I made the mistake of placing mine in my suit coat pocket. I then laid the suit coat directly on my DI. A minute or so later I heard the telltale sound of a GSM phone searching for the network. Actually the whole congregation heard it too. As the sound crew frantically tried to get my attention, I realized it was my phone, but I forgot where it was. I searched my pockets and remembered the suit coat. I reached down and grabbed my jacket as the sound faded. I moved the jacket and tried to look calm. Oh Well. Next week I'll make some other mistake.
Computers in Worship
I'm considering using a computer during worship. At first it would be to run a click track and to play back songs. It seems that the drummer and I are always bringing up a song on my iPhone to get an idea of the tempo and maybe to jog the memory on how the song starts. It could expand into loops for the songs that use loops.
I've seen many live shows and this year almost every band at the main stage at Kingdom Bound used computers. It honestly looked like an ad for the Apple Store. Every musician had a laptop and 95% of them were mac.
Are you using computers in your worship?
How are you using them and what programs are you using?
This one time, during service….
Sit back and let me tell you a story. It's about how not to be ready for service and how not to handle the issues. We'll run through the service from the my eyes and then cover the errors and how they could have been handled.
We are required to be ready to do sound check at 9 AM. That means that we need to be onstage, instrument in hand, in tune and ready to play at 9. We are asked to be on stage at 8:45 so we can line check, tune up and chit chat before 9. I was there at 8:45 and ready to go at 9.
At 9, we still had no drummer so we started without. The first song starts with mainly drums and keys, so we jumped ahead. The drummer shows up a few minutes after 9 so we go back to the first song. We have 2 keyboard players most times and this song has a distinctive part that is played by the keyboard player who is not here (she did let everyone know she would be absent weeks ago and reminded everyone this week). Our worship leader plays keys and decides she will cover the part. We start playing. As usual, the levels in the Avioms are a bit off. Most of the players do not send full volume to the board and thus do not send consistent signals week to week. The drummer is complaining that he cannot hear himself and male lead singer is doing the same. After a few minutes of complaining, the sound guy runs a line check on all musicians.
We are now running late and have 12 left minutes to sound check- by now, I have been on stage for over 35 minutes and have played one song. We finally pull our act together and finish sound check 18 minutes late. It has taken over an hour to sound check and the whole team is frazzled. We jump in the music room and pray.
In the prayer room it is announced that the keyboard player from the youth group will cover the keyboard part in the first song.
We head out on the stage and get ready to play. It takes about 30 extra seconds to get the new keyboard player set up. The drummer clicks us off…..
The next few seconds are surreal. The drummer starts, but there is no keys. Since we have two keyboard players, the second starts playing the organ part, but on a piano patch. The guitarist walk over and tells him to stop, but he doesn't. The song progresses to to the verse, the singers start and we all settle in, or so we thought. The next song begins with only the acoustic guitar, and the rhythm section comes in on the second part of the verse. We start, but after about 2 measures, the drummer stops, waits for the pick up beat and comes in. We finish the song and then struggle through the third.
We finish what has to be the worst worship set in a long time and wait for the offering so we can go lick our wounds.
Pastor walk up to the pulpit and starts talking. I have in ears and I can't hear him, which is weird because he is assigned a Aviom channel and I could always hear him before. I pop out one ear and realize that his wireless is not working. There is no back up mic so he does his best to be heard. We have announcements at this time and the announcer's wireless is working. The pastor is supplied an new 9 volt battery for his pack and a handheld wireless mic just in case. The offering goes well and we retreat off backstage.
In the backroom, it is disclosed that the lead singer/acoustic player's aviom was not working. It also turns out that the keyboard and the aviom the youth keyboard player used was not working either. Some one must have tripped on the power cord and took out the keyboard power strip, which powered the Korg and the Keyboard Aviom. The lead singer/acoustic player's aviom is piggybacked of that aviom and since they need power to do that, his was dead. He could not hear anything and just did the best he could. The Youth group keyboard player came out to a dead keyboard and no monitor. He did his best, too.
The worship leader sensed that there was a problem with the korg and told the other keyboard player to play the part. The guitarist, not knowinh this, told him to stop. The keyboard player listened to the worship leader.
On the second song, the drummer tried to control the tempo of the acoustic player, but since the acoustic player had no monitors, he never noticed. The drummer had to stop and come in on the pick up to get back in time.
OK, now to point out the many problems and offer solutions.
- replacing a musician at the last minute. This was just a bad idea. It should not have been done. This one move lead to confusion on stage. It is not his fault that he did not know why nothing worked, he never used any of this equipment.
- lead singer/acoustic player's aviom not working. He should have todl one of the singers who could have alerted the sound crew. The sound crew should have noticed the problems and checked it out. They have the ability to talk to the musicians and could have asked us with out being heard by the congregation. We should not have done a whole service with this issue. We should have a stage mic that talks directly to the sound booth. As it is we have no way to get their attention without looking like idiots waving our arms on stage.
-There should always be a back up mic, battery and pack at the pulpit. Also all wireless pack should have new batteries EVERY SERVICE. I know they cost money, but purchased in bulk they are less than a dollar each. Money well spent.
-Everyone needs to be on time. We need to do line checks before sound check. You need to send the same signal to the sound board each time. I turn up the volume knob all the way. I have a volume pedal so I can tune (I know that I could use the mute button, but I have a rack tuner and this is just easier) I keep the same settings on my sans amp, so I send the same signal level each time. I know it is harder for the keyboards because each patch has different levels. We seem to have the most problems with the guitars. Seems that they don't use the same settings. The electric players always use volume pedals and they seem to "hold back a little something" for the leads. The acoustics these days all have an EQ section in them and the players seem to run the volume at about half way, but they rarely seem to find the same middle point.
-One last point, the lead singer/acoustic player and drummer always complain that "I can't hear myself, turn me up" When they are reminded that they alone control their mix, they state " I am all the way up, everyone else is off and I still can't hear me". They have avioms. What they are saying is actually true. They simply cannot hear themselves. The problem lies in the headphones they have. Both use headphones that are open ear design. They let in too much ambient sound. If you use Avioms, get in ear monitors or use sealed headphones. If your church will not supply them, buy your own. You can get a decent pair of sealed headphones online starting around $20
OK,enough ranting for now. It is funny how a few small things can lead to a totally messed up service.
Sans Amp
Here it is. My review of the sans amp Bass Driver DI. It works.
What? You want more? OK
I'm really happy with the sans amp. It has done everything I wanted. It improves the tone, and it increases the output to the sound board, which makes the sound guys happy. After fiddling with the knobs and lots of comparisons, I've found a setting I love. The bass sounds warmer, closer and more even, the high notes are strong, sweet and smooth. The low notes have more body but are not boxy, nor do they boom. When I dig in for some growl, it responds smoothly. When I bypass it with the foot switch the bass sounds like it is in a big room. The controls are intuitive, but reading the manual helps. There are 6 knobs, one foot switch and three sliding switches.
The Knobs
Level- This controls the of the output.
Blend- The blends the straight signal with the Sans Amp Tube Amplifier Emulation Circuitry. I have it set to 95 %
Bass and Treble-Active boost and cut +/- 12 db I have the treble at +3 and the bass at +6.
Drive- This adjusts the amount of gain and overdrive, similar to pushing a tube amp.
Presence- tweaks the harmonics and attack.
The switches-
Foot switch- Bypasses the Sans Amp Tube Emulation Circuitry
Instrument Output- Selects line or instrument level for the 1/4 output
XLR Output- Selects line or instrument level for the XLR output
Phantom and Ground Connect- Lifts or connection the ground. This also effect the phantom power if the sans amp is the only thing used between the bass and the board. If there is no other connection to ground and you lift the ground on the sans amp, phantom power will not work.
Outputs-Low Z
One male XLR connection and one female 1/4 connection.
Parallel output-
One female 1/4 connection that is hardwired to the 1/4 input. This output is not effected by the sans amp settings.
On a side note, I am using a Godlyke Power-All PA9 to power the sans amp. You can use a 9 volt battery, or phantom power, but I did not want to rely on the phantom power.
What kind of Musician are you?
I've come to understand that not everyone is like me. That's probably a good thing. One of the huge differences I see is how you approach being a musician. I'm the "what key is it in" type. I know quite a few that can only play using written music. Let me explain.
The only thing I need to be able to play any song is the key. I can usually figure out the rhythm and chord changes as I go. Granted, it's better if I actually know the song, but knowing the key gives me a starting point to add musically to the song. I have no problem playing a song that is totally new to me. I find it exciting and if I am doing it in front of a few hundred people, well, cool!
This concept boggles the mind of anyone who is the second type.
This may be you and I mean no harm. The second type is a fantastic musician who can play anything, as long as it is written out. You hand them the most confusing piece of music and they play it perfectly.
Tell them "It's a blues riff in B, follow me for the changes" and they look like a deer in the headlights. Luckily most musicians fall between these 2 extremes.
So what does this have to do with Church? Plenty. If you can only play from a written piece, you may have problems when the worship leaders morphs "All the earth will sing you praises" into "Amazing Grace" unannounced. You'll be diving for your sheet music while the rest of the team just goes with the flow. Also bouncing back and forth between the worship leader and a the sheet music could lead to a missed cue and have you playing the chorus when they have looped back to the verse.
On the other hand. If you never look at the music and just play by ear, you could wind up playing a F# minor where the team has changed it to a D. Not a huge mistake and you may not notice it, but it will change the feel.
So what is the answer. Ha, trick question, there is no right answer but the best answer is to learn to read the music, learn to follow the worship leader, learn the song so you play it without the music, learn theory so if the key changes you can still play the song- (the I to V change is the same in all keys!) Learn what intervals are and what they sound like. Learn that just because music says it's Verse Chorus you may play Chorus Chorus Verse. Learn to be prepared. Learn to be flexible.
Oh, and learn to be patient with the other musicians who don't think like you.


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PLATTSBURGH — Next weekend, children and adults of all ages will have the opportunity to experience life as it was in the North Country nearly two centuries ago.
On Sunday, Sept. 9, Plattsburgh's Macdonough Monument Park and the sidewalk along City Hall Place will be transformed into the second-annual Children's Old Time Village Fair, complete with the sights, sounds, smells and tastes of the 19th century.
The fair, which is part of the annual Battle of Plattsburgh Commemoration Weekend, will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will feature educational activities for the whole family.
The "idea is to have a quality activity for children and families during the Commemoration Weekend," said Linda Ward, chairperson of the Village Fair Committee, in an email to the Press-Republican.
While much of the weekend festivities will focus on the military history of the 1814 battle, the Children's Fair will provide a glimpse of the practices and pastimes of civilians.
"We want children to know how people lived during that era," Ward said.
The fair's village atmosphere will be created using tents, she said, and each tent will offer a unique and interactive display or activity.
Attendees will be able to purchase and enjoy old-fashioned treats while browsing the antique fire trucks, bicycles, clothing, dolls and teddy bears on display.
In addition, the fair will feature children's crafts and games, as well as demonstrations, including apple pressing, the use of farming tools, quilting, 4H practices, woodcarving and old-time medicinal treatments.
Petting zoos, face painting and horseback riding will also be available.
All fair activities are free, Ward said, with the exception of the horseback riding and some of the crafts, which will cost a small fee to participate in.
Also part of the festivities will be live performances by musician Tom Hooker Hanford.
At 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., Hanford will fill the air in downtown Plattsburgh with music of the 1800s in his "Girls and Boys of Old 1812" shows.
Other event highlights include the Plucky Rooster Contests and the Story Walk.
The Rooster Contests challenge local groups to create larger-than-life statues of "Plucky Rooster," using just about any material they can get their hands on.
The original "Plucky" was a rooster that inspired American sailors aboard the U.S. ship Saratoga during the Battle of Plattsburgh.
Legend has it that the rooster flew unharmed out of a chicken coop aboard the ship despite the coop having been hit by a cannonball.
The contest entries will be on display in Trinity Park during the Children's Fair.
The Story Walk, which is based on a book created by Cumberland Head Elementary School students, tells the history of the Battle of Plattsburgh using kid-friendly terms.
The walk leads to various locations in downtown, using a different part of the book to tell the battle story at each location.
"This is a very special activity," Ward said.
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Hi everyone,
I am fairly new to grape vines, but since seeing one at a local nursery last year I have wanted one in my garden. This pegoda has haf a failing clematis in the pot on the right for a few years and now I would like to get a grape growing. I am on the south coast of the UK, so reasonably mild winters but usually a week or two of freeze.
1) What would work well? I am sure there are a million answers but I have a limtied knowledge of the varieties available?
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Ourarka - both the clematis and any grape vine would be happier in the ground rather than in pots. Do you want fruit or are you content with leaves and Autumn colour? (eg 'Brandt') Either way a grape vine will grow pretty big and will cover your pergola densely unless you prune it annually. They are also prone to mildew unless sprayed. It will outgrow and smother the Clematis unless yours is C montana or one of the other vigorous types. Best bet is to research grapes on UK sites for suitable cultivars and pruning advice. I see you have an olive already. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Outdoor grapes
Yes, the olive went in in the Spring. I wasn't intending on the grape sharing the space with the clematis as I was going to get rid of that. However, if you don't think a grape would work ....... |
- Posted by gardengal48 PNW zone 8 (My Page) on Sun, Nov 11, 12 at 17:17
With the exception of just a couple cultivars, neither clematis nor grape will do well in containers.......unless much larger containers than you now have. FWIW, most vines that produce significant topgrowth (like enough to cover your pergola) will produce equally large root systems that make growing in a smallish container problematic at best. It looks like you have room to plant in ground just to the left side of the pergola. I'd consider an ornamental (rather than fruiting) grape for that position - something like Vitis vinifera 'Purpurea' or Vitis coignetiae, both of which produce stunning fall color. You could get grapes forming on either but not particularly tasty ones. As flora has indicated, fruiting grapes need to be selected for site appropriateness and a more local source is better able to provide that. Nothing wrong with growing fruiting ones but they do tend to require more attention than the purely ornamental species. If you DO have the opportunity to plant in ground, nothing is stopping you from planting just about any sun-loving vine you want......clematis, grape, honeysuckle, even climbing rose. |
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