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Welcome to the Piano School of NYC!
Founded in 2001, and now with administrative offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Uptown/Bronx, New Jersey, Westchester & Rockland County, our programs vary from Individual Piano Lessons to Small Group Piano Classes we organize at schools.
Today, Piano School of NYC has developed its own brand and approach, and THREE Major Pillars set it apart
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Piano Outreach Of New York (PONY) is a sister charity Organization that is an immediate outgrowth of the Piano School of NYC. Founded in 2003 as 501C3 organization, it raises funds for its scholarship fund. Its mission has been to provide the opportunity of Music & Piano studies to economically disadvanteged children.
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I Know This Might Sound Like Blasphemy But Indian Bollywood Jaws Might Be Better Than The Original
SPOILER ALERT: They slice Jaws completely in half – long ways – in this one.
Wow! Just non stop action. I mean as we all know the original Jaws has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. So, what does Bollywood Jaws get then? 200%? 500%? I think this guy:
Was some sort of bad guy considering he gets harpooned in mid air
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I think they blew their whole budget casting the dude from the actual original Jaws and thats why the rest of the production sucks.


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Dreezy's been teasing a collaboration with Common since the two hit the studio together in Los Angeles a few weeks ago and today, Dreezy unleashes what she cooked up with Com via 'Plex.
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Best Product Ever. Totally Unrelated.
They are just like frequent flyer miles, or something. Which, of course, explains why he had to deny knowing about it for about a year. Cuz everyone lies about their frequent flyer program.
Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, chairman of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, said an account executive at Countrywide Financial Corp. told him that the VIP status was "nothing more than … courtesy stuff."
Cuz, you know, when I get the same treatment as everyone else gets (frequent flyer miles), I totally lie about it.
No favorable treatment at all. That he's getting a unique benefit (mortgage rate reductions) from a company he's supposed to be overseeing is totally kosher. Of course. How could there be anything wrong with it?
Um. Why isn't he in jail? He'll probably end up getting re-elected instead.
Yep. Put them in charge of 1/5 of the economy.
Crumbling sidewalks near the Jefferson Memorial are sinking into the Tidal Basin. Reflecting pools are filled with green, smelly water. And millions of visitors have trampled the soil into virtual concrete where grass can't grow.
So they'll fix it right? Just like they'll assign funds properly to 1/5 of the economy, right? Yeah, right.
Last year, when dozens of ducks and ducklings died of avian botulism because the water in a mall pool near the Capitol was so fetid, and as urgent repairs were needed to stop the Jefferson Memorial's sea wall from sinking into the mud, the Senate killed a $3.5 million earmark for the mall.
Instead, funding went to projects back home. All told, Congress sent home more than $181 million in earmarks through the park service budget last year – an election year – according to data compiled by the group Taxpayers for Common Sense and analyzed by the AP. Nearly half that money was driven by lawmakers who were on the House and Senate appropriations committees.
Wait. You mean, given the choice between maintaining a decent park for everyone and giving money to their own voting bloc, they choose the latter? I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you.
At least we know that congress is so competent at running things that service will be efficient and without any wait times. Oh hell.
And now we are promised a tax increase for this wonderful service? Well, damn. Why didn't you tell me in the first place? Sign me up, man.
Less care. More waits. More inefficient. Higher taxes. Less choice. It has all the makings of success!
Obama, under criticism for saying a white cop acted stupid for arrested a black professor, defended his actions, saying:
"I think that I have extraordinary respect for the difficulties of the job that police officers do,"
And really, when you think about it, Obama is right. He, more than anyone else, understands how hard it is to be an officer. He has some buddies with a history of blowing up cops. So if anyone understands how hard their job is, it's Obama.
Biden Today:
"We're going to go bankrupt as a nation," Biden said.
"Well, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'" Biden said. "The answer is yes, I'm telling you."
Would you like to buy more of our bonds? We need to auction off about $1 trillion by the end of the year. We are bankrupt. Would you buy some, anyways?
Oh yeah. About that stimulus that is "working as intended" – it really wasn't about stimulus at all.
Bills should be passed so as to not interfere with vacation time.
"It is an ambitious goal, but it is doable," Durbin said in an interview last week. "Don't rule out the possibility of Mondays, Fridays and even weekends as we come to the close, the finish. … As long as you tell people, 'This is going to happen, and focus on it. If you don't get busy and get it done, you can lose part of your August recess' — it is amazing how much you can finish."
May as well rush it through. They, apparently, will not be read anyways.
"If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn't read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes," Hoyer told CNSNews.com at his regular weekly news conference.
Hoyer was responding to a question from CNSNews.com on whether he supported a pledge that asks members of the Congress to read the entire bill before voting on it and also make the full text of the bill available to the public for 72 hours before a vote.
In fact, Hoyer found the idea of the pledge humorous, laughing as he responded to the question. "I'm laughing because a) I don't know how long this bill is going to be, but it's going to be a very long bill," he said.
And surprise 300 page amendments to bills will be added moments before the vote.
Overnight, House Democrats tacked onto the bill a 300-page amendment.
No matter. The administration won't bother reading them anyways, either.
But I guess it's all okay, cuz, as we all know. It's Bush's fault.


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This is a discussion on All of these people on this list should be sent letters thanking them from the people within the The Second Amendment & Gun Legislation Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; List of Pro Second Amendment Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (110+) | Guns Save Lives...
It's absolutely worth contacting our own sheriffs. Ideally, if folks can swing it, it might help to do just as you say by contacting every sheriff ... though I don't know an easy way to get in touch with each of them short of rooting out the correct contact info one by one.
Nice list, though nowhere near large enough.
Washington County, Oregon -- Gotta love anyplace with a pro-carry sheriff named Pat Garrett.
Your best weapon is your brain. Don't leave home without it.
Thoughts: Justifiable self defense (A.O.J.).
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: Why the Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).
Pretty disappointed only 2 from Texas are on the list but I think you are right. If people publicly spoke up in support of these Sheriffs more of them would jump on board too I bet.
"He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." - Leonardo da Vinci
One of the Sheriffs from Alabama was listed about 4 times. I need to email the Sheriff for my county.
Here is the text of an email I sent to my Sheriff last week. He responded within an hour and although he sidestepped the defend against confiscation portion of my email he plainly answered the main thrust. Don't expect an answer via email to the very hot potato of them arresting federal agents who try to take our guns. That is a statement for another format. Perhaps a formal announcement with a letter to the President.
Thank you for your service to the county. You and your deputies have my
In the wake of the current attack on the second amendment of the
constitution, I have seen more and more sheriffs nation wide declaring
their position against the federal governments actions and rhetoric
against our 2nd amendment rights. Since the sheriff is the most
powerful person in the county, the stand that is taken by the sheriff as
to the Bill of Rights is of critical importance to all the citizens of
the county. You have the authority to arrest federal agents who come
into your county to illegally take property from you citizens, thereby
making you our last line of defense.
Would you make a statement in strong support of the Volusia citizens
right to keep and bear arms? I support you, will you support me if
tyranny becomes a reality? This issue is very important to many of us
in the county.
Regardless of your position, I respect you and your fine deputies and
will continue to support them.
Thank you for taking your valuable time to read this.
New Mexico and Utah have a ton of support. Only one from Iowa gotta email my local Sheriff and Police.
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The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
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Discipline isn't just punishing, forcing compliance or stamping out bad behavior. Rather, discipline has to do with teaching proper deportment, caring about others, controlling oneself and putting someone else's wishes before one's own when the occasion calls for it.
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Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
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To reduce recidivism and promote public safety, each program shall continue using approved evidence-based strategies geared to increase client success and to track and report program outcomes by assessed risk levels proven to predict risk for committing new crimes.
To assertively seek funding and programmatic opportunities at all levels to enable our clients to succeed in being more productive citizens. The current economy with high unemployment, government changes and budget challenges at all levels is reducing funding for offender programs and services. The management team will collect data and work collaboratively with stakeholders in assessing the environment to provide policy-makers with accurate information and recommendations that promote public safety and long-term fiscal responsibility.
To maintain and promote respectful and inclusive workplaces the department shall continue using the established M.E.E.T. model to help recognize, respond to, and resolve day-to-day workplace situations. Cultural competence of staff and the organization will continue to be a training priority for all DOC staff members.
To continue to participate in the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) sponsored by KDOC Juvenile Services and to achieve measurable improvements in the policies and practices impacting detained youth. The work includes collaborating with consultants from the Annie E. Casey JDAI and representatives from four other Kansas sites (Shawnee, Johnson, Douglas and Wyandotte counties). The JDAI work is anticipated to last five years (until 2016).
To complete a pilot project with Wichita State University (WSU) and the District Court to develop an evidence-based pretrial risk assessment instrument using local data gathered from detainees at the adult detention facility. The Pretrial Services staff are in the process of completing 1200 sample assessments with adult detainees for analysis. Once the instrument is tested and deemed to be valid it will be a District Court decision in how to use it when making release decisions after arrest and booking at detention.
To sustain operations at Judge James V. Riddel Boys Ranch (JRBR) while county and state officials and legislators work on short and long term funding solutions necessary for the County to keep the program in business. Currently funding is provided through June 30, 2014. Work will continue toward solving the funding issues to improve the system and to keep JRBR in business.
Community Corrections will effectively implement the new Justice Reinvestment Initiative funding to increase behavioral interventions in partnership with COMCARE and Higher Ground to improve success of high risk adult felony offenders on probation. The Council of State Governments and KDOC are providing funding and technical assistance for quality assurance.
Community Corrections will continue to work with the District Court Judges to refine and expand use of an evidenced-based risk assessment instrument at the presentence phase of criminal proceeding on designated presumptive prison cases to assist the judiciary in making sentencing decisions. The new process was established in collaboration with District Court Services using data locally developed by Community Corrections with Wichita State University. The information can be valuable to public safety in measuring risk to reoffend if granted a departure sentence from presumptive prison to probation, as well as making assignment decisions to standard or intensive probation.
To expand and improve the consolidated department-wide staff training program to meet the training needs for those working with juveniles and those working with adults to enhance knowledge and effectiveness in delivery of evidence-based techniques and practices. Training will be expanded focusing on developing supervisor skills in measuring quality assurance and guiding staff development.
To demonstrate collaborative leadership across systems by advocating and being a resource to facilitate use of evidence-based policies and practices to improve the coordination and integration of service delivery to youth and families with complex needs. The department will continue to provide an education liaison located at the juvenile court to assist workers with court-involved youth with education issues and to work on policy issues establishing arrest alternatives at schools, truancy intervention, credit retrieval, transition planning and alternative discipline policies to zero tolerance to reduce expulsions and suspensions and to increase student success and graduation rates
Progress: Accomplished and ongoing.
To assertively seek funding and programmatic opportunities at all levels to enable our clients to succeed in being more productive citizens. The current economy with high unemployment, government changes and budget challenges at all levels is reducing funding for offender programs and services. We shall demonstrate leadership and provide policy-makers with accurate information and recommendations that promote public safety and long-term fiscal responsibility.
Progress: Accomplished and ongoing. Community Corrections received new grant funding to expand behavioral health interventions to adult felony offenders through the Juvenile Reinvestment Initiative. Partners include COMCARE and Higher Ground to provide expanded mental health and substance abuse interventions. The Council of State Governments is providing technical assistance to assist with quality assurance as the expanded interventions are implemented. Another significant accomplishment has been work with county and state government and the public on the value of Juvenile Riddel Boys Ranch (JRBR) and the need to reform the way residential placements serve juvenile offenders, track results and pay for services. JRBR has been scrutinized and has been held up to serve as a model. The state legislature allocated additional funds for SFY 2014 while these issues are studied. This work continues with the Legislature in 2014 where bills to address the JRBR funding needs in the short- term and the necessary system changes to address the long-term are being considered.
To continue to participate fully in the planning, implementation, operation and/or monitoring of any county-approved programs from the Criminal Justice Alternatives Master Plan to reduce demand for adult detention services.
Progress: Accomplished and ongoing. New initiatives include a pilot project with the District Court and Wichita State University (WSU) to develop and validate an evidence-based pretrial risk assessment instrument. Staff from the Pretrial Services Program are field testing the instrument by interviewing detainees at the adult detention facility for analysis by WSU. The goal is to complete a sample of 1,200 assessments by the end of 2014. Another project is underway at Community Corrections to implement and refine a risk assessment at the presentence stage of criminal proceeding for felony offenders with pending sentences of presumptive prison. The project is being implemented in cooperation with Court Services. Their staff are completing the risk assessments on offenders facing border box sentences. The information is being provided to judges for consideration when making sentencing decisions.
To maintain and promote respectful and inclusive workplaces the department shall continue using the established M.E.E.T. model to help recognize, respond to, and resolve day-to-day workplace situations. Cultural competence of staff and the organization will continue to be a priority training all DOC staff members in the new 8-hour class titled Diversity Phase V during 2013.
To improve student success of youth involved with the juvenile justice system at both the policy and individual case levels by continuing to provide an education liaison position housed at the juvenile court offices.
Progress: Accomplished and ongoing. Significant accomplishments include arrest alternatives for youth who commit minor offenses at schools, a truancy pilot project with the schools in the West High School feeder pattern, improved transitions from placements to school and effective implementation and use of the new transition school. The arrest alternative program was presented at the Annual Models for Change meeting in Washington, DC as a successful example of collaborative leadership and community engagement in bringing about positive changes. The director and the juvenile justice education liaison presented the workshop to a national audience of experts in December 2013.
To maintain summer schools provided by the school district for our juvenile detention, residential and boy's ranch facilities to enable students to earn credits and improve their academic skills while in placement.
To continue to expand and improve a consolidated department-wide staff training program.
To continue to participate with the Kansas Department of Corrections – Juvenile Services in the Annie E. Casey Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) by working collaboratively with community and justice system stakeholders to collect and analyze data and make agreed upon improvements. The work will also involve collaborating with consultants from the Annie E. Casey JDAI and representatives from four other Kansas sites (Shawnee, Johnson, Douglas and Wyandotte counties). The JDAI work is voluntary and anticipated to last five years (until 2016).
Progress: Ongoing. Work is focused on expediting case processing for detained youth and examining detention practices to improve conditions of confinement. A therapist from COMCARE has been co-located at the juvenile intake and assessment center and dedicated to completing court-ordered evaluations on detained youth. Studies were completed and recommendations were offered to implement automated and/or personal telephone reminders for pending court hearings to reduce bench warrants for failure to appear for court and an immediate intervention in handling youth charged with sexually harmful behaviors. Decisions are pending on the recommendations. Inside the detention facility work is focused on reducing physical restraints and room time. To increase understanding of the juvenile justice system a system walk through document was developed and placed online for easy access.
Progress: Significant leadership and system changes stalled these efforts. The juvenile court has new administration and judges. The contractor for child welfare changed. The state department of children and families changed leadership in the regional office. Grant funding for a cross-systems coordinator that was provided for many years by the state was discontinued. The department planned for and presented opportunities for collaboration and technical assistance from Georgetown University on the Crossover Youth Practice Model. The proposals are being considered by the leadership at each of the entities. A decision on the next steps is expected early in 2014.
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MEDFORD, Ore. — The Medford School District says it's planning to open at regular times on Friday.
Medford School District is watching the weather conditions. The final decision on school closures happens around 4:30 in the morning.
The superintendent and transportation manager will drive the roads and then decide if there should be late start, school closed, or keeping school open but adjusting the bus routes in the higher levels to snow routes.
"I need to make the call by 5:40 and do the notifications thereafter because transportation starts rolling people clearly need to be thinking about childcare if it's a late start or whatever it is," said Medford School Superintendent Dr. Phil Long.
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Florida's Unemployment Rate is Lowest Since August 2009, But Miami-Dade's Rises Again
Categories: Recessionomics
The Florida unemployment rate now sits at 10.6 percent. That's the lowest level since August 2009 when it was also 10.9 percent. Still that represents about 980,000 out-of-work people in Florida's 9,249,000 person strong labor force.
Miami-Dade's unemployment rate was a staggering 13.7 percent in May, up from 13.2 percent in April. The number is also up from a year ago when the unemployment rate in the county was 12.1 percent. Even when Miami-Dade's rate is seasonally adjusted it still sits at 13.4 percent.
That means about 180,993 in the county are out of work. Miami-Dade has a labor force of 1,323,042.
It's the second highest rate in Florida, only behind Flagler County. Monroe County, our neighbor to the south, meanwhile has the lowest unemployment rate in the state, sitting at 6.2 percent.
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Here is the quote that sums it up well from the very article QK linked (an article written largely by who else but Crimson Trace);
And the truth is that in many gunfights officers don''t use sights at all. Many will tell you afterward that during the shooting all they were looking at was the big gun in the suspect''s hand. This is why many agencies teach reaction point shooting for those instances when using any sight at all will be too slow. Equipping officers with laser sights should not change that in any way.
I will say that this is very true from first hand experience. So why train with a gimmick that will not be useful at all when the elephant is barreling down at you? It just doesn't make sense to me one bit. In my mind, its like the guy why trains with a .22 on the range because he can be more accurate with it, but carries a 44 on the street. It only makes sense if you look at it from one angle, and don't consider the real world.
I don't give a rats behind if you want to spend your money on goofy products to give yourself a false sense of your skills and artificially inflate your perceived level of competence. Its not me that is on the line, its you. I choose to train how the fight will actually go down, not on what happens in movies.


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8 Reasons Why You Need to Establish Authority on Google+ Google+ Local Bible for SMBs. If you're a small local business, having a Google+ Local profile is imperative to putting your brand – quite literally – on the map.
Google Places was recently replaced with Google+ Local – a merging of Places and Plus that serves up your Google+ Local listing in Search and Maps results on mobile devices and traditional browsers. Whereas Places was a static listing, Local is dynamic and social. A well-optimized Google+ Local page can benefit your digital marketing strategy in the following ways: How to Use Google+ Local to Get New Customers. Google+ Local is a powerful tool for small businesses targeting local customers because it combines customer reviews and local search into one platform.
Yet, many small businesses still aren't sure how to take advantage of Google+ Local. Let's take a look at two key ways small businesses can use Google+ Local right now to get new customers. Use Google+ Local to Increase Local Search Visibility According to Google, 20 percent of all Google searches have local intent and 40 percent of Google mobile searches have local intent. The Ultimate Guide for Businesses. Readers Tip: If you have a specific question about Google+ that isn't answered in this ultimate guide or if you'd just like to keep up to date with some of the latest Google+ and digital marketing developments, we'd recommend adding the author of this guide, +Paul Goldston, to your Google+ circles: UPDATE #3 – Jun 20, 2013 - While most of the strategies and tactics in this article will not really change too much over time, the actual Google+ interface has already been re-imagined three times since the original version of this article was written.
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The question that had been posed was whether Google+ was a ghost town. I received an answer. What was revealed was a vibrant city bustling with passion and people that were happy to point out the real value of Google+ The post to date has received 440 comments with some in depth contributions on how Google+ should be used. Google+ Adds Content Recommendations For Mobile Websites. Website owners with a Google+ page will soon be able to add content recommendations to the user experience on their mobile websites.
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Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang said China is committed to a free trade agreement with Australia and developing a broader relationship, as he began a three-day visit aimed at cementing ties strained in the past year.
The two nations should view their relationship "from a strategic height," Li said at a lunch organized by the Australia China Business Council in Sydney today, adding he aims to "enhance mutual trust" during the trip.
Relations between the two countries have been frayed in recent months over a failed investment deal with Rio Tinto Group and the detention of Rio employee Stern Hu by China.
Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said this week Australia's relationship with China is one of its most important and that the two governments must work through any difficulties in a "calm and measured way."
Two-way trade between the two nations was worth A$74 billion ($68 billion) in 2008, compared with A$8 billion in 1995. Australia is pushing for a comprehensive free trade agreement with China and wants resource producers to enter into long-term supply contracts with Chinese companies.
The FTA should be approached "step by step" and in a "down to earth" manner, said Li, who's scheduled to hold talks today with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Canberra. The growth in trade has been a highlight in relations between the two countries, he added.
'Strategic Choice'
The negotiations are a "strategic choice for both of us," Li said through an interpreter. "Our political will of advancing these negotiations remains unchanged and our confidence of concluding negotiations and reaching agreement remains unchanged."
Li, who arrived late yesterday, will also visit Brisbane, where he will meet with Queensland state leaders, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Agreements covering forestry, cultural heritage, illegal logging and education and training were signed earlier today, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard's office said. China is Australia's largest source of overseas student enrolments, with more than 125,000 last year.
Li and Gillard will discuss global challenges such as recovery from the financial crisis and addressing climate change, her office said.
Li's visit is an "obvious gesture to say that the relationship is now returning to the status quo, which was a developing relationship," Michael McKinley, senior lecturer in international relations and strategy at the Australian National University, said in a telephone interview today.
'Economic Interests'
"There have been some distractions in the relationship," McKinley said. "But economic interests are what count."
Li, who has a doctorate in economics from Peking University, is seen as a possible successor to Premier Wen Jiabao in 2013.
Tensions between the two governments rose after Rio Tinto rebuffed a $19.5 billion investment from state-owned Aluminum Corp. of China in June. The detention of Hu, an Australian citizen, and three Chinese Rio executives in July further stained ties.
Hu has been formally arrested on suspicion of violating commercial secrets and taking bribes, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra said Oct. 23.
Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer's visit to Australia in August escalated the spat. The government in Beijing accuses Kadeer of orchestrating clashes in July between Muslim Uighurs and ethnic Han Chinese that left more than 190 people dead in Xinjiang province. Kadeer denies the allegation.
'Prosperous Win-Win'
Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, who attended today's lunch, told reporters the visit is a "very firm indication that those difficulties, major difficulties, are behind us and we can go forward now on what is going to be a very prosperous win-win for both countries."
Australian regulators have approved more than 100 investment proposals from China to acquire Australian businesses since November 2007, Smith said this week.
Felix Resources Ltd. became the latest high-profile Chinese investment in Australia when the government agreed to allow Yanzhou Coal Mining Co.'s A$3.5 billion takeover offer on Oct. 23.
Li, accompanied by a 50-strong delegation, will visit New Zealand from Nov. 1-3 for talks with Prime Minister John Key and Deputy Prime Minister Bill English, the government in Wellington said in a statement today.
Administrative arrangements on educational cooperation, dairy products, temporary workers and meat products will be signed during the visit, according to the statement.


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Why Are Young Christians Leaving the Church? An Interview with David Kinnaman
David Kinnaman, the President of Barna Group, recently released You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving the Church And Rethinking Faith. In many ways, the book is a follow-up to 2007′s UnChristian. However, instead of looking at how those outside of the church perceive Christians, You Lost Me considers how young Christians themselves, many of whom aren't regularly involved in the church, perceive the church. David talked with FaithVillage about his new book.
FV: How did you arrive at the Barna Group?
David Kinnaman: I went to Biola University and expected to be a pastor. I read one of George Barna's books and decided I was interested in research. I thought it would be an interesting internship, a way-station between college and getting into fulltime ministry at a church. It's been 17 years in February since that happened.
FV: Did you know that You Lost Me was going to be the follow-up to UnChristian, or was there an inciting incident that led you to start research for You Lost Me?
DK: In a weird way, I did UnChristian knowing that it would be consistent with what I wanted to do with You Lost Me. We didn't have the title yet for You Lost Me, but I did want to work on this question of why young adults leave the church. So that question was actually before the notion of writing a book with Gabe [UnChristian] on this subject. That was the inciting incident.
FV: When you begin these projects, do you ever have preconceived notions of the outcome, despite your best intentions?
DK: Any good researcher will tell you that they're as unbiased as they can be, but every researcher has their own history, their own sets of questions, ideas, or hypotheses that they're trying to assess. Does the fact that a young person has a clear purpose in life . . . is that a factor or not? We come at it without a predetermined outcome as to the results we'll find. Good research will give you things that you expected to find and things that you didn't expect to find. You can be surprised if your assumptions are correct or not.
The other side to that, and this is a little bit more about how I craft a project, I read as much as I can in the space around a subject, but I'm also very careful not to read too much of the books that I think are right within the exact center of the target that I'm trying to write to or work on. I try to do my best to read as much as I can to be aware of who's writing and broadly what people are saying, but I also try to be very careful until after the book is done to read too much of that center of the target. I respect authors, I respect researchers, but I don't want to say the same things they're saying.
FV: What finding in You Lost Me surprised you the most?
DK: I thought that college, and particularly non-Christian colleges, would be a huge factor in what caused people to walk away. That's a factor, but it's not, certainly, the leading factor. They end up losing their faith in college for a lot of reasons beside college. They've already begun to leave before college, or the church hasn't taught them to think. There's all sorts of other social or sexual factors that are taking place in their lives as they're maturing. The church just really hasn't given them the tools.
It's a spiritual principle that you see in Scripture, and not to get into a theological backwater of predestination or once-saved-always saved, but just this notion that Jesus teaches that there will be some that fall away or that some seed will be taken away from actually taking root. That's the kind of thing that you see so often in the research—that there's this real question about "How does faith actually connect?" So, the notion of college making a difference or not was one of the things that really surprised me.
Watch David Kinnaman talk about You Lost Me.
FV: Of nomads, prodigals, and exiles, the descriptive terms you apply to those that have been lost along the way, why are nomads the most common?
DK: If you think about our nation today, one of the things that you could very clearly describe us as is a nation of superficial Christians. Most of the adults in America today have some sort of Christian background. So, the real question we need to keep asking ourselves is, "Why is it that so many Americans are Christian in name only?" That's where the nomads come in. They're people who grew up that had some sort of experience with Christianity at one point but then something gave way and the rest of life made them hang back. Nomads are really the most common, followed by exiles, and the least common are the prodigals.
FV: You use the phrase "discontinuously different" to contrast the Mosaic generation with every generation that has come before. Why is it often difficult for older generations to understand just how different this generation is?
DK: In some ways, even with the Boomers, their generation was discontinuously different than their predecessors, just as the World War II generation had a discontinuously different setting by comparison to the generation that grew up before them.
The thing that really struck me about that was the acceleration of so much of life and the pace of change—changes related to technology and access, that, if you look beneath the surface, it's not simply that the culture is so dramatically different, or the generation is—it's that everything is so dramatically different for all of us, and young people are the Geiger counter for this increase in cultural change. There are so many distractions now that keep them from paying attention to faith in a way that would not have been prevalent 15 or 30 years ago.
FV: Of the six different themes of disconnection described in You Lost Me (overprotective, shallow, antiscience, repressive, exclusive, doubtless), is any theme more pronounced than any other, or are they fairly even across the board?
DK: Each one is more pronounced for specific kinds of people and specific kinds of traditions. In a fundamentalist background, the themes of overprotection and antiscience are more common and more prevalent than anything else. That's the kind of perception that I think is most common with those kinds of young people because they come from a particular kind of soil. It's a very protective kind of environment. In other places, like with young mainline students and young Catholics, the perception of shallowness and doubtless are the more common ones that they experience.
That was one of the surprises to me. I expected that we would see, like the UnChristian research, these huge smoking guns or big red flags, like anti-homosexual or judgmental or hypocritical or too political, but what we found with this book was that there was more texture and nuance. As we described in the book, every story matters, so it becomes a real question of the personal, spiritual exegesis we do for people and their back story.
FV: You give flesh to faceless numbers by including personal stories in You Lost Me. Do you have a friend who got lost along the way? What pains you most about their story? Or, which story in the book resonated with you the most?
DK: I have had friends that were young Christians in high school that have fallen away and become either prodigal or nomad, and, in some cases, I think even exiles. It's a perceptive question. Even as my basis as a researcher, there are a lot of questions that I come at this in terms of what has happened to so many of us, knowing even peers of mine, that grew up in Christian homes and spent so much time wasting their 20s, in my view, at least in terms of their connection with the church.
Some of those poignant ones are the conversations that I talk about, like at the very beginning of the book, about young people that grew up in my home church. I was part of the youth sponsorship team, one of their youth coaches, and seeing them no longer Christian, you play back the history and wonder "Was I really connected as I could be? Did we really have the right structure in place to help Amy and Ashley and Lucas and others develop the kind of faith they could be best served by and that really kept them connected to Christ through those critical years?"
As a side note, it's a bit of risk for us as researchers to put a lot of personal stories in something like this because, in a way, I'm trying to have these poignant moments for readers to recognize that it's not just a bunch of statistics. We live in an era with great storytellers and great video and great advertising and marketing, and you run the risk of cheapening these stories, even by including them, or having people question whether we're real researchers because we're just good storytellers or we've somehow preyed on people's emotions.
I hope none of those things are true of the book, but it's a good blend of both great quantitive research, as well as a real sense that we do need to pay attention and listen better. That's one of the key perspectives I have about this, that there's got to be a way for us to listen more effectively as leaders about the spiritual journeys that people are taking around us.
FV: Do you believe that in focusing too much on generational segregation the church has lost itself?
DK: I think it's catered too much to the cultural cues that are around us. You have to have everything really dialed into a particular demographic. You see that in advertising. For instance, you never see a beer commercial that features an older person, I guess, except for those Dos Equis commercials with the guy that says "Stay thirsty my friends." Still, he's hanging around a bunch of young people and it's pitched to young people because of its massive irony. You see in our culture this real intensity of focus on particular age demographics, particular sensibilities, and I think that's part of this acceleration of culture.
I wasn't alive before 1973, and certainly I wasn't alive during the 60s, but I have to believe that before the 1960s, youth culture was something very different, and you can see that from a lot of researchers who talk about the rise of youth culture and the generational separations that have occurred over the last 50 or 60 years. In the early 1900s, from the little data we do have, it's not as complete a sociological record as we have now in our information era, but from Gallup and others, there does seem to be a huge gap in the early part of the 1900s by age that most young adults said they attended church just as often as older adults. I have to believe that most churches certainly must have had classes for young people, but they must have operated on a different kind of ethic.
I wonder how we could serve as a prophetic challenge to culture that was different than what we see around us. It doesn't mean we can't put our kids into age-segregated classes, age-appropriate classes, but how does the church stand as a prophetic response to culture rather than mimicking it?
FV: You talk about the church failing to teach what vocation is. What can be done about that?
DK: The first is to recognize that you can't teach vocation holistically through the existing models. Vocation isn't something that's taught in classroom style teaching. It's really something that's caught more than taught, to use that cliché. We really need to rediscover what vocation means. It's not only about our jobs or professions, it's also about a whole host of other factors: our relationships, our vocation as a neighbor, as an employee, as a father or a mother. It seems that there's a lot of work to be done there.
This is so obvious that it's almost painful, but every young person has particular gifts and abilities, as a leader, as a writer, as a performer, as a counselor, as a journalist, as a lawyer, as a doctor or medical professional, and for so many millions of these young people who go through our churches, they really have no idea, not only what they're good at, but how their faith or faith community or Scripture relates to that calling.
To me, that's probably the single largest tragedy coming out of the research is that we've really not given young people a sense of the grand scope of vocation and how that could help them reimagine the importance of faith and church in their lives.
FV: What makes you hopeful for the next generation?
DK: I'm glad you used the term hopeful and not optimistic, because I'm very hopeful but I'm not always optimistic. I think there's a difference. In terms of our obligations as Christians, we should be hopeful biblically, but we don't necessarily need to be optimistic biblically.
One of the things I really am hopeful about is that they're very globally aware. Their digital capabilities are astounding. They're capable of simplifying tension, an idea that we write about in the book of being in but not of the world. I think there's a capacity that's being cultivated in the generation to do that that's really healthy but I think that's where the church may really let them down. On the other hand, the next ten years could be a real golden era of ministry to a generation that's capable of synthesizing tension as well as any other. That could be the real legacy of older Christians who are working with younger Christians today and it could be the thing that really helps them prepare to stay faithful in a new cultural context.
You Lost Me was released on October 1, 2011 and was published by BakerBooks. David Kinnaman is on Twitter @davidkinnaman.
Originally posted on November 10, 2011.
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The 2010 Montreal Guitar Show has come and gone (July 2nd, 3rd and 4th). I had a great experience there, with a nearly constant stream of attendees and other luthiers asking questions. Everyone wanted to know something about the integrally carved curvilinear tone bars, and the Q-Tuner pickup. Jacques, Arno, Sandrine and all of their team do a great job. I made many new friends, heard some terrific music, and learned a lot. I am very much looking forward to next year. Only one thing left to be desired, I did not take any pictures or video. If you have any content or comments for me from the 2010 Montreal Guitar show, please email me via my Contact page. Thank you very much!
From an MGS facebook album:
A 17" Skylark (#9) on the left, an 18" Skylark top in the middle, and a 17" Pannonica (#8) on the right.
From a Premier Guitar Gallery:
You can read the Premier Guitar magazine article about the Montreal Guitar Show here.
LaGuitare.com has complete coverage of all the luthiers at the Montreal Guitar Show.
You can read some comments by people that saw or played my instruments in Montreal on the Comments page.
Link to Michael's page at Montreal Guitar Show site


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For the first time since the results of the 2008 Industry Data Survey, we can finally say, "Thank goodness. Progress!" The release of the 2013 survey at the ConcreteWorks Conference in Las Vegas in September showed producers' balance sheets have improved. But we were still not out of the woods last year: Although the industry significantly closed the gap in 2012, it still operated at a loss, although that loss was down almost two-thirds from the prior year.
And further, Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation & Amortization (EBITDA), the measure of free cash a business generates, went from a revised negative number in 2011 to solidly in the black. The collective client financial data our firm gets to see in any given year indicates that 2013 has continued to demonstrate progress, and I am calling for the industry's return to profitability this year.
Here is how the survey works. NRMCA member producers fill out a questionnaire with detailed, line-item data on their financial performance for the prior year. The questionnaires are all sent to an outside accounting firm, which processes the survey information and assures the privacy of all producers' financial data. The report delivers detailed results sorted in a variety of ways: an analysis by size; an analysis by region, of which there are eight; by company area type, that is, rural, urban, and mixed; and a five-year trend analysis. In addition, the report compares the respondents to the Typical NRMCA Member, as well as the Upper and Lower Quartiles, from the standpoint of profitability. And if at least five producers from any state participate, an analysis by state is also included. Remember, while we call this the 2013 Industry Data Survey, this report is actually based on the industry results for calendar year 2012, the most recent full year available.
The big news is that volumes in 2012 were up significantly, and selling prices turned up for the first time in three years. Here are some key data:
My late partner Bill Allen used to say that the Industry Data Survey was the single most important tool any concrete producer can use to benchmark the performance of his company against industry peers, and he was right. We hope you will participate next year.
Pierre Villere writes the Concrete Returns column and is president and managing partner of Allen-Villere Partners. E-mail email@example.com or telephone 985-727-4310. Visit www.allenvillere.com.
While I have described the mechanics of participating in the survey many times in the past, there may be readers who are not familiar with the report and the participation process.
Historically, participants are solicited each spring and financial personnel within the participating companies complete detailed questionnaires with the results of their prior year's financial performance. This is then submitted to a third-party accounting firm to assure confidentiality.
The data from these questionnaires is compiled and circulated to the participants, each of whom receives a customized report that measures the performance of their individual business against their peers throughout the industry. The results are tabulated by region, size of the business, and by the top and bottom quartiles in terms of profitability.
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Electronics and Electrical Engineering Design Forum
LDO heating up
I want to build a circuit like that shown in the picture. I haven't assembled it yet, instead I have made a small test circuit for the LDO to measure its correct operation. I have noticed one thing, if I don't apply the voltmeter terminals to the circuit, the LDO gets very hot with the danger of burning up. As you can see on my circuit, in the neutral switcher state the LDO doesn't have any current consumer to convey its current to. The batteries will be all the time inserted, of course. Do I take a risk of burning the LDO?
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Simon Mak
What's the battery voltage?
Also, check to see that the LDO isn't oscillating.
if your battery voltage is to high a big part of the energy is wasted as heat.
Maybe a stupid question, Are you sure that it is connected correct and not in reverse.
because you are at 80mA well in the 150mA limit and the voltage is good. And yes the capacitors are good.
Im inclined to agree with peter
Sounds to me as though your device is connected round the wrong way
The datasheet suggests a maximum of 4 to 18 volt maximum input defined as VI
The regulator in its on state at 4 to 18volt vi has a quiesant of 3ma , I OUT defined as 100 ma which is maximum current
I'm not sure if you have all 4 leds connected at once because your circuit neither show the junction to the diodes as a switch or permanent connection perhaps you could explain In fact it neither shows if on or off It appears as if you have a tri state switch with both pairs of leds off
With all 4 connected you would have 73ma that I can calculate in fact 76 ma if you account for 3 ma quiesant current
That's near enough peak anyway which means the device is going to get extremely hot assuming your diodes are all on
You capacitance that you have used is ok ,peak bypass capacitance is stressed to be a max of 10uf so that's fine
I would suggest change the Regulator myself for a far better solution
Secondly download and read the datasheet or possibly that Peter is correct
See below for specs
Ideally you want something like a ZSAT500C which will produce 5volts at 200ma then it will run cool
See below for datasheet
I have connected the test circuit correct, look at the board. But I did not use the capacitors in the test circuit, maybe that's why the LDO was heating up. I would like to stay with 3,6V because of the portability and easy replacement of batteries (you can buy them at every news-stand).
Yes, it is a tri-state switch, with two groups of leds. So only two leds will be switched on at the same time, which yields a current of 43mA, which is half of the peak current.
Also, I have doubts, if the LE33CZ max output current is 100 mA (look at the title page) or 150 mA (page 9, specs for LE33C).
The resistor in the board is supposed to resemble a voltage meter.
Hi Simon Page 1 of your link says, quote "OUTPUT CURRENT UP TO 100 mA " MAX
Page 9 Reads Output Current Limit this is when thermal and current protection kicks in In otherwords thoeretically the device shuts down resulting in a couple of millivolts out In otherwords current exceeding 100 and btw 150 the device starts shutting off non regulation occurs
150 ma in otherwords which should never happen if you are only running 43 ma there abouts Theoretically you aim for 100 ma max my friend not 150 ma In practice you aim for less than 100ma in order to keep operating tempartures down practically you aim for tops 60% of that figure You should never design to extremes unless apsolutley critical Worst scenario in otherwords
Could be because youve ommited caps You should include these I suspsect that might be an issue
Think logically here You wouldnt put a 15 amp cable where you intend to run 30 amps would you So why do that with a poor old regulator only capable of supplying at best 100ma Typically you would aim for besdt performance being 50ma Under fault conditions 100 ma not visa versa
If you ran the device at peak current The device runs max temperature The solder melts ouround the legs of the device and you wind up with dry joints No power out or intermittent
The difference between moving from design to technician and technician to design Now you know why I like apprenticeships self explanatory because fresh out of university has all the theory and know how and can design but practically is bloody useless He designs on books not knowing what the practical implementations of his / her design cause or how serviceable the product is
Now I'm making sense just like management Look at the mistakes they make why never worked from the ground floor up haven't got a clue
Yes cost this country whole industries thats what they do and jobs and peoples lives and start wars
Just like cameron with his ideas on social security hasnt got a clue Not a clue similar to the newpaper advert this morning re hosuing for students and well pay you £200.00 a time without even so much as vetting the the people who are going to act as quote , "Host families " ha ha !! poor bloody students thats all i can say , Havent got a clue what they are going to meet or come against " Horror story 5 billion and one" , with a news paper salesperson for advertising with a couldnt care less attitude , quote Page 6 "The Royal Greenwhich Times " Please contact Gaynor on 0208 89215033
Should read "wanted dead or alive I think " thats if they get out of these places alive thanks to this stupid person
After all its all about the money !!
Good isnt it !!
Aha !! Eurika huh !!
Hope that helps you
Ok, I understand now, the max output current is 100mA. I think the capacitors are the reason for overheating, since I didn't use them in the test setup. Thanks everyone for help.
The bewares for both foreign and local students
See and advert like this make sure you contact them make sure you can reach both numbers take a note of the newspaper who's advertising such so called golden opportunities, get references meet the people face to face and above all do a criminal record check if you have too Other wise you could very well lose your life particularly in this country
Yes I'm not pleased with this lot ether and had years of experiences in this country not to mention elsewhere in the world
I know only to well what some of these people who are "Host families" will get up too if not the social and domestic problems you will encounter often resulting in violence not just amongst themselves but also towards you if you happen to be there at the time Anything for a pound note some of them and I mean anything
None to pleasant I can assure you further if you see adverts such as this and the newspapers cant explain or wont answer report it for gods sake for other peoples saftey if not your own
So be warned and be ultra careful especially in the UK and abroad Its not worth the risk anymore
First of all you battery symbol as shown is Backwards, your battery as connected is on the output and not the input. Your LED circuits are on the inputs and appear as exact same circuits.
If you actually connected this per your schematic of course it isn't working and surprised isn't be used as a marshmallow roaster.
You need to correct something. Not surprised you are having trouble.
I didn't spot that either straight away I wonder if he's has learning problems swaps left and right , draws everything upside down
I wonder if he's dyslexic fortunately though he has the caps round the right way , otherwise there would be a loud bang except of course for the first one which is non polarized but it is only a circuit diagram isn't it ? Not the practical item put together so we don't really know that he's connected the battery round the wrong way in practice do we ?And we also presume that all people have the same learning ability don't we hence he might very well be quite clever , but cant put this onto paper
Has that occurred to you Earl See I suffer from this as well my mind locks up and I cant focus on anything , cant move sometimes , cant think straight although I know what I want to do and I now how to do it I just cant function,
I wonder if you saw that earl before you dished out your 50 lashes
A bit like my spelling at times unless I have help from office or direct to the net or a dictionary Lets face it who uses dictionaries anymore We don't We use auto complete
But my programming is good and I did recieve lots and lots of punishemnt for not being able to do homework or so my superiors thought and I found science dead boring so much so that I slept right the way through classes at school but believe it or not I still managed to pass all six subjects including maths and science and another language , and managed distinctions for uni and for college and imanaged a diploma in law whuich was taught to me in two lanagauges which i had to speak and write and read and i managed to complete at least four programming langauges
I do have a certificate that catagorically says Im normal Not may people have that one do they and a certificate to say Im HIV free
Now all im waiting for is my dog tags to say Im dead
Good isnt it I must be the sixth wonder of the world
Only Eral Ive been like this since a child only this didnt dawn on me or anyone else till a lot later in life but im normal and can probabbly do thrice quadriple what you can do on one hand and I can show you what to do and a few others and I know exactly where your making mistakes Only Im considered abnormal after all Ive been in a mental assylum so accoding to society I must be nuts , untill they want something done Aaaah then its different of course hmmmm Interesting
Told you !! Don't think sometimes do we hmmm !! Easy when you can only see in one direction with blinkers on bit like the population in Kent a bit like their horses a bit like their conservative party a bit blinkered , a bit blind , only want to see what they want to see and nothing else , very narrow minded when it comes to life in general Cant quite see themselves in the mirror at times can they !!
Go and have a look at the drawing again its drawn upside down EARL !!!!!!!!!
Normal or what you consider to be normal would draw his circuit as below
Right way round left to right he hasnt hes draw his upside down and right to left Hence his mistake on the
See below In fact Im surprised he didnt draw the capacitors round the other way 2.2 uf on the supply in and ceramic on the output, "Interesting !"
Yes, it's just a typo. In my test setup I have connected the power supply the right way, knowing that the plus is supposed to go to the LDO IN, that it is the power supply side. Below is the corrected layout, but there is nothing wrong with the leds.
Yes i thought as much Simon
Change the regulator Simon , much easier
Well let's just assume that you sort of have it connected correctly, that is an assumption, nothing else to go on. A likely scenario it that it is oscillating because I don't see a load when the button is not pushed, i.e., LDO is unloaded. So what who cares no load. well depending on the caps in the circuit, under no load some linear regulators can oscillate. You can easily fix this by putting some minimal load, say a 10K Ohm on the regulator's output voltage. The DVM that you are placing on the device when you notice it is cool, is sort of doing that, but it has a different impedance, none the less it appears to stop the oscillation.
Again the schematic is so bad (sorry if that offends) that I am just guess about how it's actually connected.
In my experience I have not be able to get linear regulators to oscilate with the output caps removed. Now I want to preface my comment not using an output cap was not a study on all regulators and not having output caps. I removed mine for very specific reasons which goes beyond your project.
In any event just to make sure put the 10K Ohm resistor on the output and it should be fine (in most cases). Also the manufacturer usually have some info on output caps, types and min load. Resolving an oscillation is the easy part. You do need an input cap
Thank you, I have put the resistor to the output, after the caps. Should it be before or after the 2,2uF capacitor?
I would assume that not using the cap on the output can be the cause of oscillation, only because the manufacturer stipulates a 2.2uF cap on the output for "stability". Also, if you are using the version with the inhibit, then ground it when not using to inhibit — i.e. don't leave it floating (just in case).
Earl's statement that he has never been able to get one of these to oscillate, is likely predicated on proper layout and such — who knows how you have your device "hooked-up" (no offense).
And, the 2.2uF cap should be as close to the regulator output pin as possible, with the negative side of the cap connected as close to the ground pin on the regulator as possible, and the input lines should be as far away from the output lines as possible. Also, avoid running ground current through the capacitor's line to the regulator's ground. Same with the caps positive line — run it as directly to the regulator's output pin as possible.
If that 10K resistor is supposed to be your minimum load, then you need to connect it from the output of the regulator to ground.


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