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A Gardening Tradition
Since 1959, the American Horticultural Society has sponsored and coordinated a seed exchange among its members so that gardeners throughout the United States have an opportunity to try growing a wide variety of new and heirloom plants.
How the Program Works
Each fall AHS members send in seeds collected from their gardens to share with other members. AHS staff and volunteers compile a list of the submitted seeds along with information about how to grow and care for them. The seed list and order form are then posted on the AHS website in mid-January.
All AHS members can order seeds from the exchange, but those members who donate seeds get first choice when ordering. This can be an advantage because some rare or uncommon seeds can be in short supply. There is no charge to order seeds, but a donation is requested to cover the costs of shipping and handling.
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upper storey
With the exception of some Egyptian stone monuments which are exceptionally well preserved, most Ancient Near Eastern buildings were discovered through archaeological investigations. Stone structures survived better than those built with mudbrick. The tracing of mudbrick walls, often subjected to successive rebuilding, is a difficult and meticulous task. Many of the older publications dealt with architectural remains rather summarily, concentrating on the ground plans. As the archaeological techniques become more advanced, much more detailed information about the structures of excavated buildings is made available. A statistical and chemical analysis of débris inside a ruined building, for instance, contributes valuable information regarding the displaced superstructure.
The existence of upper storeys in Ancient Near Eastern architecture has always been surmised as possible but not very common and the flat-roof skyline was generally postulated. Comparisons with contemporary vernacular building traditions and the functional analysis of excavated ancient buildings have shown that these flat roof terraces lend themselves readily for vertical extensions, especially if lightweight materials are used. Architectural representations or model houses also depict buildings with several storeys. The construction methods are identical to those for the ground floor and access by ladders or stairs is easily provided. In very closely built-up domestic conglomerations, the lighting and ventilation are better on the upper floor, which makes it likely that the bedrooms and family apartments were installed there. In palaces especially, upper storeys would make optimal use of the existing space; in fact many structures do not make any sense unless one postulates that the ground-floor accommodation was primarily utilitarian. Supporting circumstantial evidence, such as furnishings and plaster fallen from above, the emplacements of stairs and the thickness of walls is not always clearly recorded in the excavation reports. Although the exact nature and extent of upper storeys in an individual building is naturally impossible to establish, one has to admit the general principle of vertical extensions throughout Ancient Near Eastern architecture.
Ur (modern Muqqayir)
Mesopotamia, see map p. xviii. Important Mesopotamian site, seat of the moon-god Nannar and dynastic city with a variety of interesting architectural remains, some of which have been partially restored and reconstructed.
Ur was first inhabited during the Obeid period (beginning of the 4th millennium BC) and the earliest settlements of mud and reeds provided a firm substratum for later and more solid constructions. The buildings of the Early Dynastic period


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The Days the Earth Stood Still
Gross, Daniel, Newsweek
Byline: Daniel Gross
With a huff and a puff, mother nature grounded the global economy--and pointed up the need to fix our fragile system.
As the ash cloud emanating from an Icelandic volcano wreaked havoc on global travel, Cisco Systems completed its $3.3 billion acquisition of Tandberg, a Norwegian teleconferencing company. Marthin De Beer, Cisco's senior vice president of emerging technologies, found that his flight from San Jose, Calif., to Oslo, where he was to discuss the deal, had been canceled. So he and Tandberg's CEO, Fredrik Halvorsen, held a virtual press conference using the merged firms' equipment. Since the volcano erupted on April 14, Cisco's TelePresence service (think a very high-end Skype) has boomed. Thanks to cheap and pervasive information technology, TelePresence and similar products from competitors have emerged as a sort of redundant network for business meetings. When face-to-face meetings are impossible, executives can go to a specially equipped conference room, flip a switch, and share bad jokes and PowerPoint presentations.
For business, investing in that kind of redundancy is a form of insurance. And for those in the business of trading information, this insurance comes relatively cheap. They won't divulge the locations, but most major Wall Street firms have backup trading floors in the Northeast--desks, chairs, and computer equipment that lie fallow. If a man-made or natural crisis shuts down their Manhattan headquarters, workers can show up and start trading derivatives. Google says, "Every action you take in Gmail is simultaneously replicated in two data centers at once." If one fails, the user won't experience a disruption. A company spokesman says Google has put a lot of thought into the "geographic diversification" of data-center site selections, so that if one area of the globe is affected by a disaster, traffic can be routed to another. And with the rise of cloud computing, everyone can have a backup network.
But as the global economy learned last week, it's much harder--and in some instances nearly impossible--to build redundancy into the vital networks that now move people, goods, and services around the world. The same technology-abetted forces that spur globalization and efficiency have left the world economy particularly susceptible to disruptions.
The International Air Travel Association reported that airlines lost $1.7 billion due to the shutdowns in Europe. But disrupted business travel and tourism (this writer's family vacation to Paris was buried in volcanic ash) are only the tip of the iceberg.
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The third column needs to span the first two "rows" and then span the next three "rows" The first "column" needs to have the same width
I ask this because of the whole "Tables are dead for layout" argument
UPDATE: the content of the markup has checkboxes, textboxes, and textareas
This has been very enlightening. I believe I have been cleared up with this philosophical question.
It seems to me that the general rule should be: Don't use tables for your entire website, if there are sections that look like a table, then use a table. Extremes of "NEVER USE A TABLE" seems impractical and theoretical. Likewise, excessive use of tables makes maintenance difficult, and dealing with 4-deep nested tables can be a real pain.
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WASHINGTON — Sequestration has spurred a lot of grim conversation about federal job loss.
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South Africa will host friendlies against Namibia and Cameroon next month as they continue preparations for the FIFA Confederations Cup next year.
The national FA said Monday the Namibia fixture is scheduled for central diamond city of Kimberley on 4 November while the north-western town of Rustenburg welcomes Cameroon 15 days later.
These are the final internationals this year for South Africa, who are staging the FIFA Confederation Cup next June ahead of becoming the first African hosts of the quadrennial FIFA World Cup™ the following year.
Bafana Bafana (The Boys) will seek a fourth consecutive victory when they face neighbours Namibia after defeating Equatorial Guinea in a 2010 FIFA World Cup-CAF Africa Cup of Nationsand Malawi and Ghana in friendlies.
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Mysterious "ball of light" puzzles Värmland
"The whole house shook"
What is it that has struck in Värmland?
SOS, police and air rescue center has received calls from concerned Värmlandsbor after a ball of light is said to have exploded last night.
- It lit up the sky and flew over us, then we heard an explosion, says Jessica Berg Stöllet.
Jessica Berg Stöllet was out walking with a friend when they were surprised by the strong lights.
Calls have come from Stöllet, Ekshärad, Karlstad and Forshaga.
All have seen a mysterious ball of light which then struck down - followed by an explosion.
- They say they have seen a sharp blue glow, then a sharp orange ball struck, says Leif Svensson, duty officer at the Värmland police.
- It sounded nothing in the sky when it flew over us. Then it hit bottom near Klarälven somewhere. Then we were struck by the sound, like an echo after the explosion, she says to Aftonbladet and continues:
- It was mysterious. Nasty mysterious.
Several readers have contacted Afronbladet about the event.
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Saw the overthrow
24-year-old Sandra was sitting in his apartment in Karlstad and suddenly felt that she would look out the window - where she saw a plunge from the sky.
- At first I thought it was fireworks, but small and just never went on, I thought maybe it was a comet, for it looked a bit like a ball. It was a red and yellow light around and after, she says, adding that she had seen shooting stars before, and this is not at all like that.
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What could these things possibly have in common you ask? I'll try to explain. Its been a while since I posted here, about 2 months to be exact. My excuse is that I didn't have a lot to post about during January. Other than one polar vortex mishap which you may have read about in loopville, there wasn't much to talk about. Cold as H, E, double hockey sticks, yada, yada,
I'd been looking forward to the Frozen Pilgrim 10K which was February 16th in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The kids have a Winter Break from school that week, and we spend the break at Cape Cod which is close to Plymouth. I started stalking the weather a week prior to the race, just as any other anal retentive runner would do. The weather still looked good one week out. However, a few days before the race a Nor'easter storm developed and put my plans in doubt. 9 inches of heavy wet snow and 50+ MPH wind gusts were predicted. I got up early and probably could have made it to Plymouth in time, but there was no electricity in our neighborhood and DW probably would not have appreciated being left alone with the boys as the storm wound down. Score 1 for winter, 0 for me.
My running has been consistent, even with the miserably cold and snowy winter we've had here in the Northeast. I managed to shuffle workouts and rest days to accommodate snow storms and frigid temps. Some runs were moved indoors to the mind-numbing indoor track at the local YMCA. Oddly, I inhaled a snowflake Wednesday morning while running and had to stop to cough and gag. Score 2 for winter.
Hopefully winter comes to an end soon, and I think it will. I noticed the first sign of Spring while running Wednesday morning. Every year a woodpecker arrives in my neighborhood just before the weather finally breaks. The rat-a-tat drumming of this woodpecker every morning has become a familiar and happy sound every Spring for several years now. I've seen this woodpecker - he/she is HUGE and looks like Woody Woodpecker. (if you're old enough to remember Woody Woodpecker.) So there you have it! A sure sign Spring will be here in 2 weeks.
Thats all the news I have. Hopefully your woodpecker arrives soon. Happy running.
I hope you're right about spring!
Sorry about the DNS. Winter has been kicking our butts this year.
I ramble...
All of you getting your miles in through this winter should be commended.
Will we see you at Flying Pig?
Rock on and keep on running.....
Who is Woody Woodpecker? I'd also like to know exactly HOW you manage to choke on a snowflake.
Basically, RUN!
Come on now, YMCA track running ain't that bad.
"I may not be handsome, but I am loved."
I hope you're right about spring in a couple of weeks. Good ole Woody Woodpecker!
Running = Happiness
Sadly, no. I have a trial in May and it appears to be going forward.
I wish I knew how that happened! I've run in the snow several times and this ts the first time I gagged on a snowflake.
I think HJ was trying to be funny when she asked about Woody Woodpecker.
Did he look like this? Pileated Woodpecker. Pronounced Pill-ee-ated or Pile-ated.. either is fine
Pileated are big woodpeckers. They are amazing and very curious. I think they are 8"+ in height.
I'm a fan of that woodpecker.
Attitude is everything
Tree Girl: Yes. Great photo.
I'm going to start ignoring the weatherman (4-10 inches of snow Sunday? Screw that!) and listen to the birds. Clearly they are on to something.
My head is on fire
But my legs are fine
After all they are mine...
So the groundhog at the beginning of the month says long winter, but John's pileated woodpecker at the end of the month says it's just about over? If they fought each other, I think the woodpecker would win, so I'm putting my money on the second forecast! C'mon spring!
good job toughing it out
gagging on snowflakes FTW!
Just hoping your woodpecker isn't lost and wondering why it's so cold. Good job in getting the miles in.
Yay! I've been wondering if you stuck in an igloo
Exactly how fast does a shivering woodpecker peck? That would be in PPM (pecks per minute)
Let's hope he doesn't break his pecker.
Ok....my next complaint if winter isn't getting better in two weeks will be to you!
Winter is kicking our butts this year but glad to hear that you are getting the runs in anyway.
Run on everyone.....................Steve
Is it bad that I totally lol'd at the gagging on a snowflake part? Sorry. If it means anything, I'm so sick of winter I could straight up puke.
I heard a woodpecker on a run 3 weeks ago. Either he's stupid, lost, or a year-round resident...
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Amanda Bynes' concerned parents Rick and Lynn have arranged a legal meeting on Friday (26.07.13) to gain a temporary conservatorship for their troubled daughter.
Amanda Bynes' parents are hoping to get a conservatorship for their troubled daughter this Friday (26.07.13).
The 27-year-old actress' estranged parents, Rick and Lynn, are hoping to secure the court order, which if permitted would grant legal control of her personal and financial affairs until she gets her life back on track, and have arranged a hearing at Ventura County Courthouse in Oxnard, California.
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Entrepreneurs with new offerings or similar offerings in a different business model may be stumped by what to charge. How do they work around it?
In 2007 Patti Peeples, as president, launched HealthEconomics.Com LLC, a health economics and outcomes research consultancy in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., to fill a market need (www.healtheconomics.com). She expanded her graduate school website into a "central place for researchers, healthcare professionals, policy makers and payers to access research results, tools and resources to conduct cost-effectiveness studies in healthcare." Potential advertising clients were willing to pay; so she test-marketed with free advertising and analyzed results for a month for three organizations.
For ten years Scott Skinger offered 200 computer training courses for IT professionals at $400 each as the 2002 CEO/founder of TrainSignal Inc. in Schaumburg, Ill. (www.trainsignal.com) When he converted to a website and subscription model, he had more than 30,000 customers but didn't know what to charge. Should it be $29 per month? $49? $99? "I talked to people with subscription companies, studied the competition and sampled customers," he says, taking six months to decide on $49.
Peeples opened with expenses of $330 for a business license and newsletter template. Since then she's received a $75,000 loan to re-design her website. Skinger had about $5,000 in personal savings and credit cards at start-up and later infused another $500,000 in personal savings. Both retain profits.
They spotted opportunity in very different settings. Skinger, busily researching online, noticed that one website kept reappearing. "I structured revenue-sharing with (the owner) sending traffic and doubled our sales over six months," he comments. He expected to lose money – and did, more than $500,000 – while carrying the overhead and expenses from doing business and building subscription service revenue from the old customers.
Peeples was trout-fishing when the annual partnership that generates 75 percent of her revenue crystallized. "If I wished I could market every day myself," she surmised, "I bet my potential advertisers wish there were someone marketing for them." She reached for her cell phone to assess interest in a client and took a stab at an annual fee of $10,000. Fees now go as high as $25,000. She learned the value of consulting trusted clients, as Skinger learned to try things even if they weren't comfortable.
Cash flow strained both entrepreneurs. When starting up, Skinger "felt very stressed, anxious and depressed, and had to focus on teaching full-time, rather than my business," to support his family. During the recession pharmaceutical companies lengthened their payment terms, which contradicted the signed contract and made Peeples frustrated.
Two years ago, though, she felt elated after redesigning the website, hiring another salesperson and increasing prices 250 percent. "We reached our annual goal in April," she notes. Similarly, in 2005 after price increases, TrainSignal exceeded $1 million. Skinger comments about how "that felt really, really good, and I thought I'd exceeded my expectations. Before it was just to support my family, not lofty goals."
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Review: Relatively polular with the locals. The decoration is cheap as in a typical comedor. It however offers good cheap vegan meals. I had a delishious vegan goulash with rice and fries and 2 complemantary sodas for 7 soles. Even though I arrived at 8, the place was still full with locals having a drink or a small snack. The place is located just outside the center, and actually right behind the adress provided here. It doesn't have any outside advertising and as such is imposible to find when closed. The seem to be open for lunch untill 5, and for dinner from 7 onward. I came back for another dinner 2 days later. The friendly waitress I had the first time was nowhere to be found, and this time staf really didn't feel like cooking and only wanted to serve me the lunch menu for 5 soles. If you have dinner here, plan on arriving late, after 8. Updated from previous review on Sunday May 08, 2011
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Film criticism, Wayman Tisdale and Oklahoma films highlight Saturday at deadCenter
An abridged version of this story appeared Sunday in The Oklahoman.
Film criticism, a local legend and Oklahoma moviemaking were on the agenda Saturday at the deadCenter Film Festival in downtown Oklahoma City. The last full day of the five-day fest played host to more than 40 short films and close to a dozen feature films across seven downtown locations.
Included among those films Saturday was "For the Love of Movies: A Story of American Film Criticism" which traces the profession from its origins to today's climate, where dozens of film critics have been laid off from their full-time positions.
The director of the film, Gerald Peary, himself a film critic for the Boston Phoenix, was on hand to discuss the state of the industry, and the increasingly democratized state of it thanks to the Internet. While the legions of online critics — mostly young writers — represent a major shift in the way criticism is practiced and perceived, it's not all bad, Peary said.
"This is not an anti-young person film," he said. "This is not an anti-web film for sure. I really do feel two ways at once. I feel protective of older critics. At the same time, I agree with critics that say we should look to young people."
Elvis Mitchell, former New York Times film critic and host of public radio program "The Treatment," appears in the film and attended the festival to participate in a panel discussion with Peary.
Despite the fact that it's becoming increasingly difficult to make a living as a film critic — a proposition that was always dicey, he said — the influx of different perspectives is certainly welcome.
"The great thing about now is that criticism isn't monolithic anymore," Mitchell said.
Saturday also saw the world premiere of "The Wayman Tisdale Story" a documentary about the NBA and OU basketball star and jazz musician who battled bone cancer and died suddenly last May.
Directed by Chicago-based filmmaker Brian Schodorf, the film features interviews with Tisdale conducted just months before his death. Tisdale was emphatic that quitting was not an option, Schodorf said.
"All the stories you hear about Wayman Tisdale are true," he said. "[He] was very grounded and that's why he could handle what he was going through so well."
Anita Richardson, Tisdale's sister-in-law, said the film was immensely rewarding.
"It really showed how much of an impact he made," Richardson said.
Greg Price, Tisdale's friend and a board member of the Wayman Tisdale Foundation, was emotionally impacted by what he saw, he said.
"Sitting that close to the screen and seeing him right there a year later — it just kind of got to me," Price said.
Also showing at the festival Saturday were feature films by Oklahoma filmmakers, including "The Rock 'N' Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher" and "1 in 3."
Tulsa native Jack Roberts wrote and starred in the karaoke superstardom comedy "Rock 'N' Roll Dreams," and said his state roots played a major role in the film's conception.
"We really wanted to make a fun movie that had a broad audience and we wanted to make a movie that was Oklahoma-centric," Roberts said.
Lagueria Davis, who lives in Norman, directed "1 in 3" which draws on her experiences working for the Women's Resource Center in Norman for its story of the effects of domestic violence. Despite the touchy subject matter, Davis had plenty of people who wanted to help, she said.
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Harold Leroy Derr, 57, was pronounced dead at the scene. His passenger, Tracy Allen Derr, 34, received minor injuries and sought treatment on his own.
Deputies said Mr. Derr was traveling eastbound at 7:11 a.m. on East Territorial Road near Cowan Road when his vehicle left the roadway on the south side. It then traveled across the road and into a ditch on the north side of the road. The vehicle struck the ditch and rolled over on its top.
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With the 2012 London Games fast approaching, International Olympic Committee officials met in Switzerland this past week with Israeli and Palestinian Olympic Committee officials to build a partnership to send stronger teams to the games.
The five hour meeting at Olympic headquarters was held by IOC President, Jacques Rogge, led by Director of Relations Pere Miro and attended by delegations led by Palestinian National Olympic Committee President Major General Jibril Rajoub and Israeli NOC President Zvi Varshaviak.
This was the first meeting between the two countries. One of the main issues was lifting Israeli travel restrictions on Palestinian athletes and coaches.
Palestine was eliminated from 2010 World Cup qualifications because they were not allowed by Israel to send a team to a return match against Singapore in Oct. 2007, thereby being forced to forfeit.
The IOC is hoping to build a stronger sporting relationship between the two countries. Palestine was promised funding from the IOC and Israeli support to prepare for the 2012 Games, by way of Palestinian access to Israeli training camps, coaching seminars, sports science and medicine.
"It is my dream as Palestinian national Olympic committee president to participate in next year's Olympic games by an army of athletes," Major General Jibril Rajoub was quoted as saying.
In the 2008 Beijing games only four athletes represented the Palestinian team. The Israeli NOC is also hoping for assistance from the International Olympic Committee so as to be better represented in future Olympics as well.
With both sides and the IOC actively searching and working on positive ways to increase both countries access and participation in international competition, both should be well represented in future events.
Although the meetings went well, this is all determinant upon how each countries governments take the proposals; they are to reconvene with the IOC in March after said proposals.
This is a large, uncertain hurdle because these governments have had their problems coming to agreement in the past, however, by all accounts, it is expected to be accepted by all sides. Secretary general of the Israel Olympic Committee was quoted as saying that Israel was there "…and in advance we said 'Yes' for any request regarding assistance for the preparation of Palestinian athletes for the Olympic games."
And after what was agreed upon it does seem that he was being genuine. With the lowered travel restrictions, increased financial backing and access to superior medicinal and training facilities the Palestinians should be well on their way to competing at a much higher level; since 1996 they have been able to send 9 athletes and have yet to receive a medal at the Summer Olympics games.
But beyond sport, this small advancement in an athletic relationship between Palestine and Israel could be a very large step towards greater peace between the countries as a whole.
In the words of the late great college basketball coach, John Wooden, "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
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Destruction of Idolatrous Cultic Objects
1#a. [10:1] Is 5:1–7. Israel is a luxuriant vine
whose fruit matches its growth.
The more abundant his fruit,
the more altars he built;
The more productive his land,
the more sacred pillars#Sacred pillars: see note on 3:4. he set up.
2Their heart is false!
Now they will pay for their guilt:
God will break down their altars
and destroy their sacred pillars.
3For now they will say,
"We have no king!#No king: the instability of the monarchy (7:3–7) and its vassalage to foreign kings (7:8–16) render the monarchy ineffective. The kings do the opposite of what they are supposed to do (10:4).
Since we do not fear the Lord,
the king—what could he do for us?"
4They make promises,
swear false oaths, and make covenants,
While lawsuits sprout
like poisonous weeds#Lawsuits…like poisonous weeds: the administration of justice, which should have been the mainstay of the people, has in corrupt hands become another instrument of oppression; cf. Am 6:12. in the furrows of a field!
5The inhabitants of Samaria are afraid
for the calf of Beth-aven;#The calf of Beth-aven: see note on 4:15.
Its people mourn for it
and its idolatrous priests wail over it,
—over its glory which has departed from it.#b. [10:5] 1 Sm 4:21–22.
6It too will be carried to Assyria,
as an offering to the great king.#The great king: a title used by the Assyrian kings. See also note on 5:13. #c. [10:6] Am 5:27.
Ephraim will be put to shame,
Israel will be shamed by his schemes.
7Samaria and her king will disappear,
like a twig upon the waters.
8The high places of Aven#Aven: wickedness, first of all at Bethel (v. 5), but also at all the high places. will be destroyed,
the sin of Israel;
thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars.
Then they will cry out to the mountains, "Cover us!"
and to the hills, "Fall upon us!"#d. [10:8] Is 2:10, 19; Lk 23:30; Rev 6:16.
War Because of Israel's Wickedness
9Since the days of Gibeah#e. [10:9] Jgs 19–21.
you have sinned, Israel.
There they took their stand;
will war not reach them in Gibeah?
Against a perverse people
10I came and I chastised them;
Peoples will be gathered against them
when I bind them to their two crimes.#Two crimes: the allusion is not clear; a possible reference is the outrage described in Jgs 19.
11Ephraim was a trained heifer,
that loved to thresh;
I myself laid a yoke
upon her beautiful neck;
I will make Ephraim break ground, Judah must plow,
Jacob must harrow for himself:
12"Sow for yourselves justice,
reap the reward of loyalty;
Break up for yourselves a new field,#f. [10:12] Jer 4:3.
for it is time to seek the Lord,
till he comes and rains justice upon you."#g. [10:12] Is 45:8; Jl 2:23.
13But you have plowed wickedness,
reaped perversity,
and eaten the fruit of falsehood.
Because you have trusted in your own power,
and in your many warriors,#h. [10:13] Is 31:1.
14The clamor of war shall break out among your people
and all your fortresses shall be ravaged
As Salman ravaged Beth-arbel#As Salman ravaged Beth-arbel: perhaps Salamanu, king of Moab, mentioned in an inscription of Tiglath-pileser III, after an invasion in Gilead (Transjordan), where there was a Beth-arbel, close to present Irbid. on the day of war,
smashing mothers along with their children.#i. [10:14] Ps 137:9; Am 1:13.
15So it will be done to you, Bethel,
because of your utter wickedness:
At dawn#At dawn: normally the moment of God's victory over Israel's enemies, and thus his salvation (Is 17:14; Ps 46:6). Here it is a reversal of this expectation. the king of Israel
will utterly disappear.
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Taking over this language which, although it is mine, is foreign to me. Arranging it in my fashion and I don't translate. This meant, at first, learning on the writing slate in order not to squander. Writing meant learning not to spend; it meant erasing as I went along all that had been inscribed on the slate; a sharpened memory would compensate for the loss of the signs. My body, at the time, was losing nothing yet, my periods would come much later, yet everything was preparing me for it. Learning to exchange blood, milk, tears in the loss of the body, learning to flow, and remembering the traces on the day when they had been erased. For me words have always flowed as freely as the signs on the writing slate. I did not learn about the powers or the rights associated with them. Copyrights, rights of survival or immortality, the power of what is written down and remains, the obsessions with translations or with death, I, a woman, don't understand much about all this. I have learned to efface1 myself a thousand times and each time I return triumphant with pleasure. For me death is daily and monthly, it comes and goes. It doesn't mean ONE unique death to be feared; ever since I started to exist I have been dissolving into all that disappears and comes to life again. "To invent a language that is not oppressive, a language that does not leave speechless but that loosens the tongue" ( Parole de femme),2 this is where we stand, that is we men and women who are still struggling against all of the varied forms of exploitation, against all the forms of domination, for we have lived these for thousands of years within the core of our bodies; regardless of their origins, be they of sex or class, we have experienced them in our sexes. That's why we can only speak in a
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Mission+MoneyMaximizing the worship AV budget. 10/13/2010 11:14 AM Eastern
Oct 13, 2010 3:14 PM, By Dan Daley
Maximizing the worship AV budget.
In a recent article on tech blog CNET, Brady Boyd, the lead pastor at Colorado's 10,000-plus-member nondenominational New Life Church, summed up how integral AV technology has become to American worship congregations. "The American church can't measure its success now only by who ... comes on Sunday," Boyd said. "Our message is being broadcast more and more through digital means, and they may not ever come to our building; they may never sit in a chair in our church. But they are certainly listening and receiving ministry because of the technology that's available. So the scope of your influence is really unlimited—if you're willing to invest the time and money."
American houses of worship may have realized how important AV technology is to their success, but how to pay for that investment these days is another matter. According to a 2009 Christianity Today International survey, the single biggest source of church income is tithes and offerings, making up 87 percent of the church budget; however, nearly 40 percent of congregations responding say that current economic conditions have resulted in a decrease in weekly giving by 2 percent or more last year. As the survey starkly states, "Churches today are in uncharted waters financially."
Strategies and Tactics
This conundrum—the need for AV and IT technology to grow a church's reach but a declining base with which to pay for it—has led to strategic rethinking of how to continue to keep that technology integrated into HOW operations and to keep updating it as systems need replacing.
John Westra, CEO of Audio Design Specialists in Madison, Wis., says many HOW clients are only beginning to feel the effects of a constricted economy. But as more churches feel the pinch, he has devised several strategies to address that. One tactic has been to call upon the church's volunteer labor pool, which is already tapped to run the gear, for help with nontechnical installation tasks such as pulling wire. He applied that to a recent installation of new sound, lighting, and video systems at the 4,000-seat Faith Family Church in Canton, Ohio. And it paid off. Westra estimates that the church shaved $10,000 off the total installation cost of the sound system. "We had used that approach in the past over the last two decades but always to free up more money in the budget to buy a higher level of equipment," Westra says. "Now, the savings from the labor may be what's required to sell systems at all."
Another technology tactic has been to make better use of either existing—and thus already paid for—equipment or to specify less expensive, lesser-featured items like audio mixers with fewer channels and basic automation or minimizing monitor speakers. A planned upgrade path provides for adequate function in the short term, with the expectation that less-expensive or legacy components will be upgraded in the future when budgets allow. At Faith Family Church, Westra incorporated the use of a pair of Midas mixers the church already owned from its original location in place of a new, larger digital console.
Good, Better, Best
Gary Zandstra, HOW specialist with Parkway Electric in Holland, Mich., has taken a page from the custom homebuilders' playbook, developing a budget-based good-better-best set of menu choices for churches. "We used to simply provide our recommendation for the equipment and design what we felt was the best for each project; now, we need to have a good-better-best set of options ready for them just to get to the table," he says. One recent bid illustrates the matrix (see sidebar). Zandstra says the severity of the economic downturn has impacted even churches that have not seen their revenues decrease significantly; like other businesses, church boards are reluctant to commit funds to systems expansions and upgrades until they feel the economic landscape is stabilizing. "The close cycle is stretched out to forever now," he says, referring to the time between initial bid and contract signing. "I'm doing more demos now than I have ever done. That's part of helping them sell the idea of systems to their congregations." Parkway has also instituted a practice of letting congregation clients use a sound system over a weekend to see how well it performs, increasing the company's cost per sale, and damping down already intensely thin profit margins in what he describes as a highly competitive market in Michigan and neighboring states.
Yet another tactic, though once carefully employed, has been to help connect clients with key pieces of used equipment. The use of owner-furnished equipment is not unusual even under normal circumstances, but historically it has been equipment that a church already owns and used in a previous location. The purchase of used gear from third parties can help lower costs, but Zandstra says he has to make the limits of his company's liability crystal clear and cautions clients that used equipment may end up costing them more in the long run.
What works better, Zandstra says, is the practice of temporarily trading gear between churches on an as-needed basis. He helps facilitate a quarterly meeting of area worship leaders, connecting one that might need a spotlight and a fogger for a special production with another who needs a wireless microphone system for a week or two.
Liturgical Differences
Catholic churches, which represent the single largest specific denomination in the U.S., have been under economic pressure well before the recession, due to large financial settlements of lawsuits against several of its largest diocese. Furthermore, Catholic churches tend to be older and smaller than many evangelical churches, presenting additional systems challenges, especially in terms of sound systems and acoustical requirements. And the way the Catholic liturgy is structured—more daily and weekend services than Protestant denominations with less average attendance at each one—means they are less able to rely on parishioner volunteers to man sound and lighting systems. Once the effects of the recession began to affect these churches, integrators with sizable Catholic client bases had to step up their responses.
Oct 13, 2010 3:14 PM, By Dan Daley
Maximizing the worship AV budget.
David May, president of DCI Sound in Marcellus, N.Y., says this type of client relies more heavily on automated systems solutions to take the place of operators. DCI had traditionally applied the same Crestron systems that are found in high-end commercial installations to his Catholic church clientele, customized for each project. However, in the last two years, the company has switched to using a more standardized systems interface, composed of a Lectrosonics DM series DSP and a Crestron TSP-4 touchpanel controller, for most of its installations. "This has simplified the way we approach automation, putting all the programming toward the end of the project instead of using a lot of different kinds of elements in custom configurations toward the beginning," May explains. "That's lowered costs."
He cites the renovation done at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany, N.Y., as an example of how a lower-cost DSP and controller package lowered the church's costs. "Between the cost of the equipment and the amount of labor for installation and programming, this [combination] reduced that part of the original budget by one-third," he estimates.
Another phenomenon in response to the diminished parish sizes has been consolidation of two or three churches into a single congregation. That has actually helped increase AV budgets for the consolidated facility. "It lets us keep quality of the equipment at a higher level, too," May says.
Streamlined Design
Even as one of the nation's largest systems integrators, AVI-SPL has noticed the effects of a two-year recession on its HOW clients, including longer cycle times between project phases, more deliberative time in budget committees, and tightened budgets in general.
Ward LaDuke, a sales engineer who oversaw projects including the Valley Family Church in Kalamazoo, Mich., and the Resurrection Life Church in Cadillac, Mich., says the company continued to adhere to its practice of presenting a single design proposition to clients based on the project's requirements. However, the company has increased the use of more efficient systems components and found ways to streamline systems design, such as using inhouse networking infrastructure throughout an installation rather than using multiple cable types.
"We'll use IP-based infrastructure all the way throughout a design because it's inexpensive and reliable, which gives us the ability to choose I/O components accordingly," he explains. Self-powered audio speakers are an example of a product-based solution, but their benefit versus their somewhat higher cost also reveals how integrators have to budget time to explain the long-term economic advantages of certain products to HOW clients, who are understandably focused on the short term at the moment. Citing the self-powered ISP speakers line-array systems he often specifies for that reason, LaDuke says, "Each driver has an amplifier specifically designed for the specifications for the driver. Having all the amplifiers at the drivers that are in the speaker minimizes the need for multiple cable runs, and instead of having to run 10 12-gauge strands of copper, we can run it all on one Cat-5 line, so the installation costs are also lower. It also reduces the number of racks we need since the amplifiers are part of the speaker cabinets. But we have to take time to lay out [to the client] where the long-term savings will come in."
The same goes for the use of LED lighting. LaDuke ticks off long-term savings in the form of lower BTUs emitted, resulting in lower HVAC costs as well as longer bulb life, reducing spare parts costs and replacement labor costs, and eliminating down time for components like lighting fixtures.
Yet another strategy that some integrators with engineering and other expertise are making use of is moving into or increasing the number of design/build propositions they take on. "That gets us into the process earlier, which is better for the budget and for how we work with the other trades," says Dave Collin, vice president of sales for Communications and Entertainment in Atlanta, who says they applied the strategy for HOW clients who were adding onto existing structures. One such client was the Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Atlanta, where the company worked in conjunction with an architect on a new parish hall, education rooms, and a chapel. Citing why the design/build aspect was so useful, Collin points to intricate millwork in one the spaces that would also get a Da-Lite motorized screen system.
"They would need access points to the screen that would be in the millwork," he explains. "We were able to work with the architect and the woodworking guys on that ahead of time, something we might not have been able to do as well if the process had to go through a consultant, who might not have foreseen the issue."
But as well as many of these tactics work for integrators and their HOW clients, there will be long-term strategic consequences of this recent downturn. As Kurt Bevers, director of technical engineering for Delta AV in Milwaukee, points out, "Churches that are putting off investing in their AV infrastructure will be facing major [systems] failures at some point in the future, and then they're going to need those systems very quickly and more expensively than had it been properly planned. The recession has changed the complexion of the cycle. A lot of churches will have put off upgrades and deferred maintenance for close to a decade if they hadn't begun to address it before [the recession]. That's going to lead to catastrophic problems in the future."
In response, Bevers is taking the design/build approach out a lot further, as well. The company is offering churches a technology evaluation, generally at no charge, with the intent of starting the upgrade process well before any funds have been allocated or even raised. "Without a plan, there's nothing for them to be pushing forward toward," he explains. "The idea is, let's start the conversation, even if there's no money for it now because what's happened in the last couple of years is going to be affecting us all for years to come."
Coming To Terms
The recession has had systems integrators rethinking their financial strategies. In the past, churches tended to pay cash for systems, often after special fundraisers had brought in additional capital specifically for the project, says John Westra of Audio Design Specialists. As the recession deepened, Westra would increasingly design new systems based on what was in his inventory. This has allowed him to offer better prices and faster turnaround, which helped him win bids. But as HOW budgets have became even tighter, he has modified that concept by offering to extend payments over the course of a year. This idea was first applied to a new 800-seat church in Wisconsin this year. The congregation agreed to use Tannoy PA components and MC2 amplifiers that were already in Audio Design Specialists' warehouse. "That allowed the deal to be sealed immediately," says Westra, who adds that the idea was also prompted by the expansion of the company's woodworking shop, which needed some of the space currently being used to store inventory. "We're looking for solutions that help everyone, including us."
Other companies, like DCI, have become more liberal with their terms, spreading payments over longer periods. However, as with others whose main client base is HOWs, DCI does not impose finance charges, which would contradict scriptural prohibitions on usury. "That's just the nature of the market," says DCI President David May. —D.D.
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