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DNC in Charlotte
With Charlotte only 30 minutes away I couldn't resist jumping on the light rail and checking out the city during the Democratic National Convention. In contrast to the first couple days of inclement weather the sun was bright and the
Obama's Failure of Leadership
From ObamaCare to Solyndra and everywhere in between it is clear that Obama has over-reached in his first term as president. Obama has become the Pied Piper of every liberal cause and leftist idea, while developing into one of the
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Pushing For The Prize: Cut, Cap and Balance
The Cut, Cap and Balance plan is the only real solution of all the debt plans so far that will actually mandate spending cuts now, cap the future expenditures and help create a mandate that would require the federal government
The Debt Ceiling – A Battle of Ideologies
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On Saturday, April 26, 2014 the 7th Annual Ladies' Tea and Tour will be held at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina. The guest speaker for this event is Aileen Coleman, a medical missionary and co-founder of a mission hospital in Mafraq, Jordan.
There will be two separate seatings for the 7th Annual Ladies' Tea and Tour at the Billy Graham Library this year, with the first seating being at 11 a.m. and the second at 3 p.m.
Those interested in attending should know that the last day to make reservations is Monday, April 21, 2014. Reservations can be made by calling 704-401-3263. The cost of reserving seats ranges from $25 to $35. Everyone must have advance reservations.
The following details are from the site for the Billy Graham Library:
Guest Speaker: Aileen Coleman, a nurse and longtime medical missionary in the Middle East, co-founded a mission hospital in Mafraq, Jordan, in 1965. It was there in 1971 that Franklin Graham first her—an encounter that helped inspire his call to world missions. Coleman's ongoing work has been lauded by Queen Elizabeth II of England and Queen Noor of Jordan. She is known to the Bedouin tribes as "The Angel of the Desert."
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2012: Started 10 of 12 games at right guard.
2011: Played in 11 games and started 10 at left guard.
Junior college: Was a Junior College All-American as a sophomore ... Butte College won the 2010 ASBG Bowl and the 2009 Premier West Bank Bowl ... part of a unit that in 2009 enabled Jordan Rogers to set school single-season passing yards and total offense records ... team captain.


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Computex kicks off for another year next week, but the teases are coming in thick and fast - this time, from ROCCAT. ROCCAT has a new website that is telling gamers to Own the Couch, teasing that it will announce something that is its "contribution to your living room experience" on June 10.
With a June 10 tease, ROCCAT is poised to show off or announce something big at E3 3014. ROCCAT's new website is its first step toward a game-changing product announcement on June 10, something we look forward to seeing. The video above is what you see on the Own the Couch website, so I'm going to take a guess that we're going to see some new gaming peripheral, but we could be surprised yet.


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Most opponents to the well-meant offer of the gospel admit that a straightforward reading of certain texts would lead to the conclusion that God desires some objectives that he hasn't decreed (e.g., Deut 5:29). They retort, however, by insisting that such a conclusion is logically inconsistent and theologically impossible. Having debunked the charge of logical inconsistency in an earlier post, we began to address the alleged theological problem in our last post, arguing that God's "preceptive will" reveals not only what God commands us to do but what he really wants us to do. Now we turn to another theological objection, i.e., the well-meant offer and God's self-sufficiency.
He Can't Get No Satisfaction
Opponents of the well-meant offer also object to the doctrine because it predicates unfulfilled desires of God, which signify a kind of emotion. Such emotion, they argue, cannot be predicated of God since it is inconsistent with God's sufficiency and immutability. In the words of the authors of the "Minority Report,"
Desire suggests a want or lack in the one who desires which can be fulfilled only by the gratifying of the desire. This is incompatible with the self-sufficiency of God. Desire is something weaker than the firm determination of the will. No such weak wishing can properly be ascribed to God whose will is firmly fixed and fixes all things. God has not a will that can be frustrated as well as one that cannot be.1
To ascribe to God "unfulfilled" or "frustrated" desires would seem to imply not only that God does not get what he wants but also that he cannot get what he needs.
God Always Gets What He Ultimately Wants
In my estimation, opponents of the well-meant offer misconstrue God's self-sufficiency. As a matter of fact, advocates of the well-meant offer affirm God's self-sufficiency, also known as his independence or aseity.2 This doctrine, as Wayne Grudem defines it, asserts,
God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation can glorify him and bring him joy.3
In other words, God did not create the universe and humans because he was lonely or felt some unmet need (see Job 41:11; Psa 50:10-12; Acts 17:24-25; John 17:5, 24). Hence, none of God's desires–whether decretive, dispositional, or emotional–are "need-based" in the absolute sense. We may, I think, view the objects of God's desires as "need-based" in a contingent or consequent sense. For example, God needed to bring the world into existence as a consequence of his decree.
God Always Wants What Is Intrinsically Good
Likewise, I would argue that God needs to desire whatever is good and detest whatever is evil (whether intrinsically or teleologically) as a consequence of his nature and relationship to the world he created. Ultimately, God freely desired to create the world and humans as his image. Moreover, God is free and able to contemplate a myriad of states of affairs, whether decreed or non-decreed, and to evaluate each as desirable or non-desirable in keeping with his moral perfection and in consistency with the circumstances in which each particular state of affairs is situated.
For example, God's evaluation of the pre-Fall world contrasts with his evaluation of the post-Fall world. He assesses the former as very good (Gen 1:31) and the latter as very bad (Gen 6:5). Viewed intrinsically, God viewed human sin and misery as undesirable. What Jesus said of Judas Iscariot (Matt 26:24) could be said of the fallen world–it would have been better had such a state of affairs not come into existence (Gen 6:6-7). On the other hand, what Satan and rebellious humans intended for evil, God ultimately intended for good (cf. Gen 50:20). Viewing the fall and spread of sin teleologically, we may affirm that God evaluates the Fall and consequent spread of human sin, which he ordained, as desirable (Psa 115:3; Rom 11:33-36).
In the end, God always gets what he ultimately wants. Furthermore, those desirable states of affairs that God chooses not to bring into existence remain "unfulfilled" because God himself freely and sovereignly chooses not to fulfill them and not because some autonomous entity or random event outside of God has thwarted his ultimate design. Consequently, it may be misleading to speak of God's will being "frustrated" since that expression can imply a denial of God's absolute sovereignty.4 It's more accurate to say that God has chosen not to actualize certain desirable states of affairs because they don't fit into his ultimately good and wise teleological design for the world and his own declarative glory.5 This is the same as saying God ultimately gets what he wants.
God's Always Satisfied With His Own Goodness
But how can an absolutely sovereign and all-sufficient God be happy if he doesn't get every conceivable state of affairs he might want? Doesn't the predication of non-decretive desires in God deprive him of self-gratification?
Simply put, No. Quite the contrary! God himself is the sum of all goodness. As such, he not only takes supreme delight in himself, but desires every creature made in his image to do the same. And while God's self-gratification doesn't depend on the actual devotion of his creatures, it would be incomplete if God wasn't free to desire and be affectionally inclined toward whatever was agreeable with his nature. Since universal human obedience as such is agreeable with God's nature, it follows that God finds gratification in desiring it even if he doesn't decree it.
In the next post we'll argue that it's appropriate to view God's desire for the salvation of sinners–including the non-elect–as an affection or emotion, analogous to human affections and emotions.
- "The Free Offer of the Gospel" (accessed April 20, 2012). See also David Engelsma who asserts, "It is incontrovertible that the offer teaches – does not imply, but teaches – that God's grace in the preaching is resistible, and resisted, and that God's will for the salvation of sinners is frustated. Many towards whom grace is directed in the preaching successfully refuse it; and many whom God desires to save perish." Emphasis his; "Is the Denial of the 'Well-Meant Offer' Hyper-Calvinism?" (accessed April 20, 2012). [↩]
- The term "aseity" is based on the Latin expression a se, meaning "from himself." [↩]
- Systematic Theology (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996), 160. [↩]
- Once again, distinctions are important. Fallen men may resist God's revealed will but not his decretive will. The same is true with respect to God's general call (which is resistible) and his effectual call (which is irresistible), his common grace (which is resistible) and his saving grace (which is irresistible). [↩]
- Some argue that the language of Psalm 115:3, which reads, "Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases," implies that only actualized or decretive desires may be predicated of God. But the language itself doesn't preclude non-actualized desires (compare 1 Kings 9:1). Besides, even opponents of the well-meant offer usually concede in light of passages like Hosea 6:6 that God desires human devotion and obedience in the abstract, which cannot be properly termed an actuated desire. Therefore, the language of Psalm 115:3 (cf. Psa 135:6) only requires that God brings into realization every desire he purposes to bring into realization. [↩]


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Pandora's Box
Hot Rain
Kat Martin
2002, Romantic Suspense
Zebra, $6.99, 414 pages, Amazon ASIN 0821769359
When Allie Parker's best friend dies in an explosion aboard a boat, she's sure
there has been foul play. The police don't seem to take the case seriously, so
Allie boards a boat owned by the same company and looks for her own answers. How
could she know that the boat is about to set sail? When she meets Jake Dawson,
she's not sure whose side he's on. He's teamed up with a gang of ruffians, and
she thinks he might be involved in drugs. He's actually an undercover federal
agent involved in an arms sting, and as the Allie and Jake travel across the
ocean - and then through a jungle, they fight their mutual attraction and their
growing feelings of love.
Blythe: I've read Kat Martin once before, several years ago. I know LLB recommends Innocence Undone, but it really did nothing for me. Hot Rain provided a similar reading experience - characters that got on my nerves in a plot I didn't really enjoy. The strangest thing is that it starts out in a similar way to the book we talked about last month, Gibson's Lola Carlyle Reveals All. A main character (in this case, the heroine) is on a boat that isn't hers, and it takes off with her on it. In the case of Lola, it was the hero on the boat trying to escape from a drug lord who was after him. In Hot Rain, the heroine's presence on the boat is due to a TSTL moment. And it pretty much went downhill from there.
Linda: Are you sure we read the same book? I loved this one and thought the intrepid Allie and the wisecracking Jake were terrific! For me the book book had the same flavor as Romancing the Stone. I suppose Joan Wilder was TSTL, but like Allie she was likable and quick thinking. And Jake was great - his blonde jokes had me rolling on the floor.
Blythe: I'll admit to liking the blond jokes (don't tell everyone else in my house). And I liked the movie Romancing the Stone. But I think if I'd had to read Romancing the Stone rather than watching it, it would have annoyed me as much as Hot Rain did. Allie repeated her favorite phrase, "OhmyGod!", all the time - always as one word, and always with an exclamation point. It always drove me nuts! When Allie wasn't saying "OhmyGod!", she was flaunting her perky breasts, which I could swear were mentioned on every other page. Between the "twins" and Jake's perpetual hard-on, it was just too much.
Linda: I did notice the "OhmyGod!" because this is about the sixth book I've read recently to use that phrase over and over. I wish authors would move on to something else. But did you pick up on the clever use that Martin made of the blonde jokes?
Blythe: Yes, I did like the way the blond jokes were inserted - they generally had something to do with what was happening at the time. (My favorite: "Why do blondes hate making chocolate chip cookies? It's too hard to peel the M&Ms." LOL!).
The problem was that I had other issues with Martin's writing style. It did seem to get better as it went along, but there were a lot of cheesy, trite descriptions. Stuff like white fluffy clouds and clear blue skies. And then there was the matter of Allie's mysterious college degree, which she sometimes had and sometimes didn't. I hope it's resolved in the final copy. And that leads to my main problem with Allie. I always have trouble relating to characters (particularly heroines) who wander around for years, wondering what they are going to do with their lives. It's just not a type of behavior that I can understand, but that's probably a personality thing. I also thought her lifestyle would have been a little out of reach for someone living as a waitress in San Diego.
Linda: I've known people who got a professional degree and then hated working in the field. Some waited tables or bartended for a few years while they "discovered" themselevs, so this didn't seem all that unrealistic to me. What I liked about the blonde jokes is that Martin used them to show Jake's emotional temperature. When he was trying to distance himself from Allie, he told himself blonde jokes. They disappear when they are together in the jungle, but re-emerge when Jake is trying to distance himself again at the end of the book. I thought that was both funny and clever.
I really rooted for Jake. His history - the loss of his son and his father's callousness - made me want a happy ending for him. And I loved the epilogue to this story.
Blythe: The subtle placement of the blond jokes in relation to Jake was lost on me, probably because I was so happy to see more of the jokes than I was to have to read about Jake or Allie!
Unfortunately, I didn't share your high opinion of Jake. When I start muttering, "Get over yourself, buddy" under my breath every two seconds, that's usually a bad sign. I have no patience with men that have been burned once (I refuse to count his pseudo-marriage to the cheerleader) by a woman who is a total bitch, so they decide they will never get married again, ever. Jake didn't seem to care how his anti-marriage stance was affecting Allie at all. His attitude seemed to be "Boy is she hot. Boy is the sex great. Wow, I really like her. Wow, she likes me too! Oh, I hate to see her go. Oh well, I've already decided that I'm not the marrying type, so I'll just doom us both to eternal agony." When a guy gives up this easily, I usually decide that he doesn't deserve the heroine.
And it's funny you should mention the epilogue and the ending, because I thought both were terrible! The end of the book seemed so over the top and saccharine. One particular loose end that was tied up neatly in a bow was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Linda: I liked the schmaltzy ending and it left me with a big smile on my face; what more can I ask of a romance novel?
I loved Jake; the opening scene where he stages a rape of Allie to keep her safe and keeps saying "scream" had me in stitches. Yes, he is one of those Alpha-males from Diana Palmer country who have been burned once and are afraid to trust again, but he was up front with Allie about not wanting to marry. Plus, you just knew he was too intelligent to go away and pout forever <g>. This book was non-stop action from the opening paragraph and I enjoyed going along for the ride. As a matter of fact, while I was reading I was casting the movie!
Martin never let the couple get lost in the action - they were always front and center. I did think it funny that they stopped to have hot sex at the jungle waterfall knowing that they were in danger. It was moments like that which made me feel that Martin was going for an "over-the-top" campy feel like Romancing the Stone - complete with hissable villains - and I really enjoyed it. And I thought the dialogue was very clever too.
Blythe: Well, you have to take advantage of those waterfalls when you can. <g> Sometimes, over the top cheesiness really does work for me on some level. Stephanie Laurens' new book,
On a Wild Night features a couple who cavort all over the ton having sex, and the heroine's parents never seem to care that she doesn't come home at night. That's as silly as sex in a waterfall while the bad guys are chasing you, but somehow Lauren's book was fun to me while Martin's book was just annoying. When you come down to it, it probably has to do with the characters; I just didn't like Jake and Allie, so I didn't find any of it "fun."
Linda: Well, if you don't like the characters in a romance, it is obviously not going to work for you. I just finished another book which had a heroine that I hated. This made it hard to want her to get together with the terrific hero <g>. I did like Allie though, and admired her loyalty to her friend in not wanting to let her death go unpunished. I also loved the secondary romance between Allie's friend, the single mother, and Dan, the police detective.
Blythe: Okay, I'll admit to liking Allie's other friend in the secondary romance (which I thought was more interesting than the main one). But unfortunately, Allie's roommate was literally too stupid to live. "When I asked my boyfriend how he made so much money, he got really mad at me. Do you think he's doing something illegal?" Like, duh. She reminded me of a character in another book who actually wondered why her husband was taking condoms on a business trip!
Linda: LOL, yes I agree her roommate was a real dummy - but she didn't last past the first couple of pages so she didn't annoy me.
I liked this one a lot and it sent me out to find other contemporaries by Martin and I discovered that most UBS's put the historicals in the romance section and the contemporaries in the mystery section. At least you have a whole new repertoire of blonde jokes to use after reading Hot Rain - so it wasn't a total loss!
What are we reading next month?
Blythe: Well, we are clearly destined to "agree to disagree" on this one, and it's actually been awhile since we've had such a dramatic difference of opinion.
Up next month is Lisa Cach's George and the Virgin. Cach has garnered several good reviews at AAR, including a positive one from me for The Mermaid of Penperro. So I'm really looking forward to next month's offering.
Linda: I have heard nothing but good things about Cach, and the plot of George and the Virgin sounds fun - since George is a professional wrestler! Other then the wonderfully campy Beauty and the Beastmaster, I can't think of another book with a wrestler for a hero.
Blythe: Well, it will certainly be different, won't it? See you next month.
Linda: Happy reading!
--Blythe Barnhill and Linda Hurst, for
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Finland Names Roster for World Championship
(from staff reports) Team Finland has announced its 23-man roster for the 2014 Federation of International Lacrosse Men's World Championship, which takes place July 10-19, 2014 in Commerce City, Colo.
Iroquois Names 44-Man Training Roster
(from press release) The Iroquois Nationals are proud to post a spring roster of players that will make up its 2014 Iroquois Nationals field lacrosse team.
Schedule Released for FIL World Championship
(BALTIMORE) The Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) has announced the complete schedule and division alignments for the 2014 FIL Men's World Championship, which takes place July 10-19 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colo., the "Official Competition City" for the world championship.
Hong Kong Names Roster for World Championship
(from press release) HONG KONG – The Hong Kong Lacrosse Association (HKLA) has named the 23 players who will represent Hong Kong at the Federation of International Lacrosse World Championships in Denver (July 10th – 19th).
Switzerland Names 2014 FIL Championship Roster
(from press release) ZURICH, SWITZERLAND — Swiss Lacrosse has announced the final roster that will travel to Denver, Colorado for the 2014 FIL World Championships in July. Switzerland will be one of 38 teams that will compete July 10th-19th in the quadrennial world-wide lacrosse tournament.
Germany Names Roster for 2014 FIL Championship
(from press release) Germany officially released its squad for the 2014 Federation of International Lacrosse World Championships. The decision was based on an overall of three camps held from autumn 2013 until mid of January this year.


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Irvin Mayfield & Ellis Marsalis: Yesterday
Irvin Mayfield (trumpet) and Ellis Marsalis (piano)
Love Songs, Ballads and Standards (Basin Street 0405)
Irvin Mayfield (trumpet), Ellis Marsalis (piano),
Neal Caine (bass) Jaz Sawyer (drums).
Composed by Lennon/McCartney.
Recorded: Museum of Art, New Orleans, June 2004
Rating: 88/100 (learn more)
Paul McCartney's melody always sounds plaintive, but especially so when you know the story behind this track. Mayfield's session came close to being destroyed in the midst of Hurricane Katrina. But he preserved the original mixes on his iPod. Yet a larger tragedy loomed: the trumpeter lost his father, Irvin Mayfield, Sr., in the floods following Katrina. This talented musician and jazz educator has channeled his grief into rebuilding efforts, including an ambitious plan to help New Orleans' devastated library system. His recording, dedicated to Mayfield Sr. and the other victims of Katrina, is a moving tribute by an artist who has done more than almost any other jazz player of his generation for his home town. And how fitting that he is accompanied by Ellis Marsalis, the great patriarch of the New Orleans jazz revival of recent decades.
Reviewer: Ted Gioia
Tags: beatles covers · trumpet · yesterday
// May 20, 2008 at 02:43 PM
Irvin Mayfield and Ellis Marsalis work hand in hand in the album "Love Songs, Ballads and Scandals". When I first saw that they were covering a Beatles song(Yesterday), I was a little nervous. But they came together and pulled it off with style and class. I found my self in this relaxed trance while listening to this album. The two musicians are brilliantly smooth while working together and this album is complete proof of their talent.


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False Matters opens on Friday, and I for one am super excited. We're doing our dress rehearsal this evening. We've got a couple of pieces of media for you to consume in the meanwhile. First, our video trailer, show by company member Brandon Salinas and edited by company member and False Matters performer Courtney Hopkin.
And here's a link to an interview we did on KUT.
See you this weekend I hope.


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The Climate Group driving Indian state policy changes to scale-up LEDs
- Date
- 21 December 2011
NEW DELHI: After the substantial success of LED street light pilots in some of India's biggest cities, The Climate Group is now working on a pioneering project towards impacting policy level changes for the wider scale-up of energy efficient LED lighting in two Indian states, Orissa and West Bengal.
For the last year The Climate Group has been working on accelerating adoption of LED street lighting in Indian cities including Kolkata, Haldia and Thane through pilot LED street lighting projects. However, there must be favorable policy environments for the large-scale adoption of the pilots' LED technology, and currently no such policies are in place.
The West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (WBSEDCL) has taken the initial steps needed to integrate the low carbon, energy efficient technologies into policy mechanism, but The Climate Group will work to unlock the enormous opportunity for street lights to be adopted on a wider scale.
The British High Commission under the Prosperity Fund India Programme is supporting The Climate Group in its initiative towards enabling Indian states to formulate the necessary policies for large scale LED street light adoption, and will be initially focusing on the two states of West Bengal and Orissa.
The project, which began in November 2011, is expected to map out technical and financial frameworks for at least two large-scale LED street light projects in the two identified states, drawing from international best practices.
Outlining the details of the project, Aditi Dass, Director of Technologies India, The Climate Group said: "This exciting and challenging project - through its action and advocacy oriented activities - will aim towards formulation of a Steering Committee to provide overall direction to the project, and two state-level committees for Orissa and West Bengal." Adding further Aditi Dass said: "Apart from the preparation of a White Paper on LED street light technology and ways to accelerate its deployment, the project will also aim at facilitating inclusion of LED street lighting projects as urban infrastructure development for ULBs in the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM)."
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Sparking success: Kolkata LED pilot brighten lives
LED trials persuading early adopters
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What does it take to make a church popular these days in Boston? There are experts galore who claim they have all the answers, that they know what makes the church tick. They also say they have a handle on where the faith is going in the future.
But they're only human, just like the rest of us. They're not Jesus, nor do they have a direct line to God. Often, they use the scientific or statistical methods pioneered in business to try to explain the church. That's a little like a bricklayer saying he (or she) knows how to perform surgery. The church is an organic, living thing – not a machine or man-made system that's easily predicted or manipulated. God created it – and the Spirit is the one who sustains it (regardless of what we foolish human beings think).
So, with that said, how can any of us faithfully attempt to prepare for the future? How do we respond to what's happening in Christianity in the year 2013?
Some of the trends that have been reported include the existence of a growing but aging Baby Boom segment that resists being called "seniors," and thus won't be reachable or responsive to traditional "senior" ministry approaches.
Another trend that many congregations worry about is the insidious influence of our modern society. In one so-called expert's words, churches have been "absorbing" the standards of individualistic and materialistic western culture.
For example, if one walks through the streets of downtown Boston these days, one can't help but notice the hundreds of thousands of college students who flock to this area to attend the numbers of colleges and universities here. And the second thing that jumps out at the casual observer is how many of these young adults are tanned, tattooed, and "trendy" in the way they dress or pursue extracurricular activities.
How does a traditional congregation reach a population like that?
Before we jump to easy answers like tanning booths and tattoo parlors in fellowship hall, perhaps it would be helpful to get back to the basics. What does the faith offer, which other activities or interests do not?
One of the trends being reported is the desire of many seekers to have "deeper" teaching. In other words, satisfying a need for less superficial Bible lessons and more deep-diving into faith issues that many conventional churches have been reluctant to touch with a ten-foot pole.
How many of these can your church rightfully claim to address in a meaningful and relational way?
- The role of faith in the workplace
- Politics and religion
- Interfaith, interdenominational worship (and the trend towards incorporating other religions' beliefs into Christianity)
- Sexual and transgender issues
- Healthcare, healing, and physical fitness
- Cross-generational (seniors/families/young adults) relations
- The intersection of the arts and media in faith practices
- Computers and the digital world
- Caring for the increasing numbers of needy in our midst and around the world
If your congregation chooses to stick its head in the sand and not even acknowledge how many of these trends actually have a serious impact on the church, then it's no wonder that attendance, member involvement, and local ministry is on the decline. It's time to wake up and look at what's happening around us, in the world of 2013.
We don't have to be trendy—but at the very least, we can start thinking about how to bring our faith into the streets and into the modern, digital age.


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Makis earliest works were done in the late 1950s and remained rather unknown until the late 1960s. He first started producing prints using red ink in 1965 and this is probably the first example. It is also a Big Red. It is very abstract and it fills up the whole sheet. Maki wanted his prints to have balance. This has it: the red field is pierced by three blue squares: two on the left side of the orange meteor-like strokes, and one on the right side. The field is composed of small squares of horizontal and/or vertical strokes. 16.1 x 22.9 inches, (41 x 58.4 cm). I think this print is better than Heap-like prints but on a par with the Emanation 65B print shown in the last frame of the listing. This Big Red has a weaker paper than later prints; why? Michael Minckler holds the view that because Maki was still working his way toward the two layer paper that came to characterize much of his work from 1966 on. Two layers makes for a stronger paper and allows for larger prints. A thinner paper does not lend itself to large prints which Maki evidently wanted to make. By the same token the image in frame 8 of a Maki print done in 1958 is embossed but on paper thinner than the 1965 print shown here: Maki was working his way to The Maki Style. Proportion 10 done in 1966 also shows the embossing in full play with bold abstract calligraphy yellow print Proportion 10 is 50 x 40 cm It was done in 1966 and is a very early two sheet paper print


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Friday, April 27, 2012
Make Your Own Jackson Pollock
You may well have seen this Jackson Pollock site. It's been around for awhile and won a Webby in 2009. But it was new to me when I first saw it on The Presurfer, so I'm passing it along just in case there are more novices like me out there. One note: on the site, there's an old version (the one I used to make the image below) and also a new version. The site says that the new version has issues with Internet Explorer, but I couldn't get it to work with Chrome, either. Just so you know.
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This movie is the saddest film I have seen in my entire life. I was waiting for some sort of relief throughout the whole movie, but it kept getting sadder and sadder. It seemed like the main character Uxbal is doomed and there is no light in the end of the tunnel for him. His life is series of terrible events and its filled with dysfunctional people. The movie will make you think but it will not touch you emotionally. I honestly did not care for Uxbal's character and all his suffering. Javier Bardem is really good as usual and I thought that the film was full of strong performances, but none of them were releatable and that is a major problem of this film. The film was beautiful and powerful visually, but it did not connect on the emotional level. I do not recommend seeing it because it will make you loose your will to live. It is so incredibly sad.
This movie made me so sad, actually it literally made me depressed. It was way too much sadness and hoplesness in this film and no light in the end of the tunnel whatsoever. It was two an a half hours of watching the main character being destroyed with no hope for better times. I did think that technically and artistically the film was very good and beautiful in a sad way, but I could not get over the way it made me feel. I also did not think that the film was relateble, therefore the movie was just plain depressing and nothing else. I did not like the movie, but I can not deny that Javier Bardem is excellent in this film and he plays the character perfectly. Overall, I wish I did not see this film because it made me so unbelievably sad. I do not recommend seeing it, unless you wish to be sad and depressed for the rest of the week.
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ESPN's Adam Schefter, via his Twitter account, is reporting that former Houston Texans and University of Houston quarterback Case Keenum has been claimed on waivers by the St. Louis Rams on Monday, September 1, 2014.
Keenum was release by the Texans early Sunday morning after the Texans traded the New England Patriots for quarterback Ryan Mallett.
The native of Abilene, Texas, who played his high school by at Wiley High School, Keenum, started eight games for the Texans in 2013, throwing for nine touchdowns while completing 54 percent of his passes for 1,760 yards.
Keenum will likely fill the backup role for the Rams, behind Shaun Hill, due to the season ending injury sustained by Sam Bradford.
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The Pit's barbecue and bluegrass music will join together at this year's 'Cuegrass 2014 festival on Saturday, April 26 in downtown Raleigh.
The festival celebrates bluegrass with live performances by several bluegrass bands including Old Habits and The Barefoot Movement (complete line-up is here). In past years, festival-goers have brought comfortable chairs and their canine companions for the afternoon of pickin'.
'Cuegrass 2014 starts at noon on Davie Street in front of The Pit and will last until 6 p.m. It'll cost $5 to get past the gates (proceeds will go to several charities). Kids are free to get into the festival.
And, if you get hungry or thirsty at 'Cuegrass, there will be a pig pickin' feast and plenty of beer. The Pit will serve its famous Eastern-style North Carolina barbecue all day. A selection of beer from local breweries will be on tap as well. Food and beer will cost $5 each.
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Who needs iTunes Match? Apple's new cloud music service is for the nerds
When Amazon (and then Google) rolled out their cloud music services earlier this year, something just wasn't right. Neither streaming service seemed poised to take off.
The main problem? Users who wanted to stream their giant music collections first have to upload them to the cloud. For some users, that meant weeks of clogging their upload bandwidth before being able to stream their entire collections.
Forget about the fact that Google's product, Google Music, is still in beta, and requires an invite. Or that Amazon's service costs $1/GB per year once you exceed their free 5GBs.
Apple's offering, the newly announced iTunes Match service, addresses these issues. For a flat $24.99/year, users have cloud access to their entire music collections, regardless of size. To get around the inconvenience of uploading large collections, Apple paid over $100M to the labels for the "Match" part of iTunes Match. It scans your iTunes library and provides access to a 256kbps AAC file on Apple's servers, regardless of the quality of the original file. Match only works with songs that iTunes sells, so the bootlegs, rarities and otherwise obscure tracks will still require uploading.
The rub? It's not yet available, so by announcing it, they have effectively given Amazon and Google a chance to improve their services in time for Apple's launch.
But the real disappointment with iTunes Match goes deeper than the announcement of a still-unavailable product. Unlike Google and Amazon's services, it doesn't actually stream any music; each track must be downloaded to your device before playing. And it isn't what many see as the future of purchased music; an all-you-can-eat subscription service that lets you stream all of iTunes' tracks. Execs at Spotify can breathe a little easier, at least for now.
So who is iTunes Match for? Namely, us. We've been uploading our 120GB collection to Google Music for the past week and we're only 25 percent done. Amazon's paltry 5GB of free storage seemed to serve little purpose outside of holding one 500-song playlist. Neither option has an iPhone app, requiring us to pinch and zoom the full Web interface on a 3-inch Safari window. Plus, most of our music has been acquired outside of online music retailers, so it is nice to think about our vast collection of dubiously sourced music legitimized for a mere $25/year. The iTunes/iPod integration is also welcome, as we have multiple Macs, iPhones and iPods.
But as much as it pains us, most people who listen to digital music are not nerdy archivists whose music collections don't fit on an iPhone, iPod or other portable device. And despite the iPhone's ubiquitous status, Android devices are proliferating at an alarming rate. iTunes Match isn't going to be enough to get loyal Android users to switch (and don't expect a Google Music iPhone app any time soon), at least in its current form. Users averse to Apple's music store can still patronize Amazon for their online music purchases.
Ultimately, iTunes Match is a nice feature with a low enough point of entry to entertain curious consumers and satisfy a small group of hardcore users who have been looking for ways to free their growing collections from the prison of their computers. It was made possible by Apple's relationships with the labels, and offers something none of its competitors do. It's a testament to Apple's reputation for innovation that the announcement seems tame and disappointing.
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Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Warren County Sheriff have joined with the Origins Church to provide this year's free community Easter Egg Hunt in Deerfield. These organizations will have booths, activities before and after the hunt for children and many giveaways.
The Easter Egg Hunt is Saturday, April 19, 2014 at Cottell Park beginning at 9 a.m. There is face painting, before and after hunt activities, safety booths and a trade-in station where kids trade their plastic eggs for candy. There are two hunting sessions available 9 – 10 a.m. session and 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. session. Skidaddles AnyTime Kidcare generously provides free face painting to all children.
A schedule of all the activities and times is posted at Deerfield Township website and there will be a large white tent on-site where children can go if they are separated from their family.
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Living With Arthritis1:16 PM
What comes to mind when you think of the word Arthritis? If you're like me you will likely associate it as a "senior" condition. I was raised by my grandparents so i'm quite familiar with the word although i struggled to understand what kind of discomfort they were feeling. In all honesty i often found it fascinating because my grandmother would predict the weather with her aching ankle. There were also some funny moments: for example when my then 4 year old cousin Amy would be utterly perplexed by our grandmother because she would often say, "my ankle is biting me". Poor Amy would stare at Grams ankle till she couldn't take it anymore and say, "Abuela, but your ankle doesn't have teeth". We still laugh about this to this day. Amy is now 26. Grams still has manageable arthritis.
Until then I never knew or met someone of my age to have suffered from this condition...til just recently. Now this post is far different from my standard but i figured, why not bring awareness to a condition that could very well be affecting me as well, right?
A couple of weeks back i was invited to the launch of Arthriving.com, a new site designed to educate you and provide you with products that can help make living with arthritis more manageable. At the event was TV chef Danny Boome resident correspondent on "The Chew", and host of "Rescue Chef" on The Food Network. I had the opportunity to chat with him and learned that he has been suffering from this condition since the age of 23. Incredible.
Quite the charmer, Danny took time to answer questions and explain that although having arthritis is a nuisance, there are so many things available in the market that can helps facilitate daily task - task that normally you and i would take for granted. Each person is different, he explains, so you have to do what works best for your body.
It was a really informative and enlightening Q&A. Since then i've learned that a few of my close friends have mild arthritis. Wow! I quickly referred them to the Arthriving.com site where i'm sure they can find some relieve.
Here's a quick footage of the exchange i had with Chef Danny Boom.
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I have to say that I have never before been as disappointed by an author I love to read as I have been about When the Rogue Returns by Sabrina Jeffries. All of her other books, especially The Hellions of Halstead Hall series, have been superb. But her latest is not up to the high bar she sets for herself. The hero and heroine fail to engage me, the plot is stilted, and, while she seems to going somewhere, I'm not sure where it is. I've thought and thought about this book before writing this review. But when a book from so talented an author fails me so miserably, it had to be done.
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Badass Book Reviews Welcomes: Kristi Charish kicks off her new Urban Fantasy series with Owl and the Japanese Circus, an action packed story that keeps you on the edge of your seat. With all of the twists and turns, our 'Indiana Jane' has her work cut out for her! Kristi joins Badass Book Reviews today to talk about female leads and the standards they are held to versus their male counterparts. Owl and the Japanese Circus by Kristi Charish Book #1 in The Adventures of Owl Genre: Urban Fantasy Publication Date: January 13th, 2015 ARC Provided by Netgalley and Gallery, Threshold, Pocket Books [ Read More of this Review ]
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Welcome back to this month's Featured Author Friday! Most people are familiar with the more established authors but this feature focuses on introducing some of our favorite authors that you might not know about. Today we are featuring an urban fantasy writer with an amazing debut novel — Mr. JD Horn! AH and I both loved his first novel, The Line, so much that we knew we had to feature him here. Read on to learn more about JD and his witchy world of Savannah! Q & A Time with JD Horn Badass Book Reviews: Welcome, JD! So, how did you begin writing and what made [ Read More of this Review ]
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We're back with another introduction to an author that you might not know about. This month's Featured Author Friday is running a little early so that we can showcase phenomenal SF romance talent Sharon Lynn Fisher and her upcoming release The Ophelia Prophecy. Read on to learn more about Sharon and her fantastic worlds and characters! Be sure to come back tomorrow and check out our review of The Ophelia Prophecy in Science Fiction Saturdays. Sharon Lets Us Into Her World! Badass Book Reviews: How did you begin writing and what made you choose the science fiction genre, Sharon? Sharon Lynn Fisher: [ Read More of this Review ]
Welcome back to this month's Featured Author Friday! Most people are familiar with the more established authors but this feature focuses on introducing some of our favorite authors that you might not know about. Today is the wonderful and talented Shannon Richard! Shannon currently writes the contemporary romance series, Country Roads, and is working on a brand new book, I Run to You. Read on to learn more about Shannon and her books! It's Time to Pick Shannon's Brain! Badass Book Reviews: Welcome, Shannon! So, how did you begin writing and what made you choose the contemporary romance genre? Shannon Richard: [ Read More of this Review ]
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Interview with Patricia Briggs Author of Night Broken (Mercy Thompson #8) and Giveaway Too!
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We've been writing about the coming of micro fuel cell technology to replace current lithium ion and similar rechargeable battery systems in hand-held electronic devices for a long time now, with prototype devices from Toshiba and MTI Micro being the most prevalent. While it's been a long time in coming to market, fuel cell technology will almost certainly eventually prevail, so the showing of an embedded fuel cell prototype handheld GPS device at the 10th Annual International Small Fuel Cells Conference on the weekend is significant. Based on direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) technology, MTI Micro's Mobion power packs promise an increase in run time (time until a recharge is needed) of between two to ten times over the status quo of existing battery technologies.Read More
A new cord-free rechargeable methanol fuel cell for handheld devices has been demonstrated which is expected become available later this year heralding the arrival of the first viable alternative to batteries for powering handheld devices. inevitable move from battery to fuel cell technology. The company expects that the fuel cell will offer ten times the power from an equivalent sized battery and make a significant impact on the military and commercial portable electronics markets.Read More
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Please refer to the following Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to learn more about CrossFit Advantage. You can also read CrossFit's detailed Frequently Asked Questions section. Please contact us with additional questions.
About Us
CrossFit Advantage is home to men and women of all ages with a variety of athletic and non-athletic backgrounds. We offer small group classes led by certified trainers (at a fraction of the cost of any other personal training out there). Our fitness programming presents athletes of all levels with mental and physical challenges which we know from real-world evidence will produce better results than any other program out there. Please note that we scale our workouts to your athletic ability.
What is CrossFit?
CrossFit benefits everyone from the couch potato to the elite athlete. We believe fitness means being able to perform well in different movements and different time intervals. CrossFit athletes can perform well in a variety of different events. Our programming delivers clear results which are measurable and comparable. We burn fat like crazy and create the world's best athletes with a scientifically-backed, evidence-based approach to fitness. CrossFit is designed around the following concepts:
- Constantly Varied: Routine is the enemy and neglects key development areas. Wonder why you spend hours in a traditional gym with no results? Your body gets really good at doing one routine at the expense of becoming a well-rounded athlete.
- Functional Movements: We mix together functional full-body exercises that mimic you lifting things off the ground, sitting and standing, pulling and pushing in the real world. In the gym, this means movements like cleans, jerks, snatches, squats, pullups, deadlifts, muscle ups, rowing and running, because your body is made for them.
- Done at High Intensity: Our workouts rarely last longer than 20 minutes because, based on firm scientific research, high intensity training burns more fat and develops strength and conditioning better than traditional training programs.
What Will CrossFit Advantage Offer me?
- Small-group, semi-private classes provide a careful and customized approach to your unique fitness abilities and goals
- Certified trainers teach you new functional movements and motivate you throughout the process
- Organic fitness - use your body's bio-mechanics, not overbuilt machines, to achieve results that help you in the real world
- Variety – you will not be bored because our workouts are rarely repeated
- Measurable results which improve over time and increase performance in any sport(s) in which you compete
What is a WOD?
We refer to our daily workouts as "Workouts of the Day" or a WOD, and these will be updated the night before the workout.
What is RX?
RX refers to performing a WOD at the prescribed (RX'ed) weight, repetition, and/or time. RX should be used as the highest weight possible and you will likely need to reduce the workout, with the guidance of our trainers, to a level that's appropriate for you.
What if I don't know a movement or the weight is too heavy?
We design our workouts under the assumption that MOST PEOPLE cannot complete them as prescribed. We want our athletes to learn the exercises safely and that often means reducing the weights to an appropriate level which should be decided upon by one of our trainers.
Why is membership more expensive than LA Fitness, Gold's Gym or 24 Hour Fitness?
The short answer is "it's not." The cost of local gyms and health clubs don't include personalized small group training. They can have thousands of members because they know you won't use the gym.
Our higher prices reflect our commitment to offering you the best possible personal fitness training around. Think about how much small group sessions or personal training sessions cost you ($20 to $100/hour). At CrossFit Advantagee, we charge our members less than $10 per class which is a great deal.
Remember, we don't just show you a machine and tell you to use it, we work with you, teach you new movements, focus on your specific goals and make sure that you are reaping the benefits of CrossFit.
I'm a woman. Will lifting weights give me "Popeye" arms and a huge neck?
There is a common misconception that lifting weights will gives women massive shoulders and huge arms. With CrossFit, you will have better tone and build lean muscle mass, but you won't look like a body-builder, we promise.
I'm a runner, cyclist, golfer, tennis player, etc., why should I do CrossFit?
Every specialized athlete has clear deficiencies. CrossFit will target your weaknesses and improving these areas will make you a dramatically better sport-specific athlete.
What is CrossFit Endurance and POSE Running?
CrossFit Endurance (CFE) specializes in training athletes for long-distance events and dramatically reduces training time. POSE running uses body mechanics and gravity to help athletes run more efficiently, reduce injury and perform better. We're certified to teach POSE Running and CFE, contact us to learn more.
Is CrossFit a franchise?
CrossFit represents a community of certified trainers and affiliates who have dedicated themselves to developing the best fitness program in the world. We have to pay a fee to use the CrossFit name and all of our trainers have been through official CrossFit certifications. We receive a huge benefit by being part of this community and think it's well worth it. Unlike a franchise, we don't have to operate our business in any specific way, so we've designed CrossFit Advantage with local needs in mind.
How is CrossFit different than P90X?
- P90X only lasts 90 days and is repetitive, CrossFit lasts a lifetime and is constantly varied
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San Diego Padres OF Cameron Maybin suspended for amphetamine use
CHICAGO - San Diego Padres outfielder Cameron Maybin has been suspended for 25 games for testing positive for an amphetamine.
Major League Baseball announced the suspension Wednesday.
In a statement issued by the MLB Players Association, Maybin said:
"I have been undergoing treatment for several years for a medical condition, attention deficit disorder, for which I previously had a Therapeutic Use Exemption. Unfortunately, in my attempts to switch back to a medicine that had been previously OK'd, I neglected to follow all the rules and as a result I tested positive.
I want to assure everyone that this was a genuine effort to treat my condition and I was not trying in any way to gain an advantage in my baseball career. I understand that I must accept responsibility for this mistake and I will take my punishment and will not challenge my suspension. I apologize to my family, friends, fans, teammates and the entire Padres organization. I look forward to returning to the field and contributing to the success of my club."
Maybin is batting .247 with one home run and nine RBIs in 62 games this season.


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Definitions of RETIRES in dictionaries:
- verb - go into retirement
- verb - withdraw from active participation
- verb - pull back or move away or backward
- verb - withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
- verb - break from a meeting or gathering
- verb - make (someone) retire
- verb - dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
- verb - lose interest
- verb - cause to be out on a fielding play
- verb - cause to get out
- verb - prepare for sleep
- verb - to go away or withdraw
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The energy cost of rock drumming: a case study
Physiological demands of rock drumming: a case study
European College of Sport Science (ECSS) 13th annual Congress, July 2008, Estoril, Portugal
The energy cost of rock drumming: a case study
Authors: Marcus Smith, Clem Burke: University of Chichester, School of Sport Exercise & Health Sciences, College Lane, Chichester, West Sussex, P019 6PE, UK. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com, Steve Draper and Chris Potter: University of Gloucestershire, Faculty of Sport, Health and Social Care, Oxstalls Campus, Oxstalls Lane, Longlevens, Gloucester, GL2 9HW, UK.
The energy cost of various forms of physical activity has received considerable attention (Ainsworth et al., 1993). However, despite being a physically demanding activity that could offer an alternative to more conventional forms of physical exercise prescription: drumming has received little attention (Smith, 2001).
The aim of the study was to to investigate the energy cost of rock drumming during concert performance in a high profile rock drummer.
Subject: Clem Burke (drummer with the band Blondie): 52yr, 1.80m and 83.6kg) volunteered to take part in the study. Ethical approval was gained from the University of Chichester Ethics Committee.
Incremental drumming test:
- Performed 6 hours prior to the concert.
- Consisted of four 4-min stages, followed by fifth stage to volitional
- Work rate at each stage controlled via a click-track that was
audible to the subject through headphones (Sony, Japan).
- Starting work rate was 110 b.min-1, increasing 20 b.min-1 for
each subsequent stage.
- Oxygen uptake (VO2) and respiratory exchange ratio (R) were measured
throughout using a portable analyser (K42b,Cosmed, Italy).
- Heart rate (HR) was measured throughout the incremental drumming
test and concert performance using short range telemetry (S810i,
Polar, Finland).
- Energy expenditure was calculated using indirect caliometry from
the respiratory data (using the final 60 s of each sub-maximal
- This was used to calculate the relationship with HR using linear
- This relationship was used to estimate energy expenditure from
the concert HR data.
- Resting metabolic rate was calculated from the 2-min period prior to the incremental test, VO2peak was defined as the highest 15 s moving average VO2 during the test.
Figure 1 and 2 showing the subject playing drums during the incremental test to volitional exhaustion and concert performance.
Incremental test:
- Peak heart rate: 191 b.min-1.
- VO2peak: 2.02 L.min-1 (24.2 ml.kg-1.min-1).
Concert performance:
• Concert duration: 82 min 27 s.
• Average heart rate: 145 b.min-1 (range 110-179 b.min-1).
• Estimated total energy expenditure based on HR: 564 kcal.
• Equated to 2.7 times greater than resting metabolic rate.
• Average energy expenditure: 412 kcal.hr-1 or 0.082 kcal.kg-1.min-1.
Data showed that rock drumming is an intense and physically demanding activity with peak HR well in excess of age predicted maximum.
Estimated energy expenditure from the concert revealed a rate of energy expenditure higher than those previously published for seated drumming.
We conclude that rock drumming demands a high level of energy expenditure and warrants further investigation as an area of physical activity.
Ainsworth, B.E. et al. (1993) Compendium of Physical Activities: classification of energy costs of human physical activities. Med Sci Sports Ex. 25(1): 70-80.
Bannister, E.W. and Brown, S.R. (1968) The Relative Energy Requirement of Physical activity. In Exercise Physiology (Falls, H.B. (ed)). Smith, M.S. (2001) Physiological Analysis of Clem Burke during Blondie's 1999 'No Exit' World Tour. In Blondie, From Punk to the Present: A Pictorial l History (Metz, A. (ed)).
British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) Annual Conference, September 2008, Brunel University, West London
Physiological demands of rock drumming: a case study
Authors: Marcus Smith, Clem Burke: University of Chichester, School of Sport Exercise & Health Sciences, College Lane, Chichester, West Sussex, P019 6PE, UK. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com, Steve Draper and Chris Potter: University of Gloucestershire, Faculty of Sport, Health and Social Care, Oxstalls Campus, Oxstalls Lane, Longlevens, Gloucester, GL2 9HW, UK.
The physiological demands of different types of sport (Smith, 2006, Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 5, 74-89) and physical activity (Abdelhamid & Everett, 1999, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 125, 47-52) have been documented.
However, despite its worldwide popularity, rock drumming has received limited scientific enquiry.
This is somewhat surprising given the intensity, duration and number of concerts played by professional rock drummers during National or International Tours (Smith, 2002, In Blondie, From Punk to the Present, edited by A. Metz, Musical Legacy Publications).
The aim of this study was to investigate the physiological demands of rock drumming through a longitudinal study of a professional rock drummer.
With institutional ethical approval a longitudinal case study (1997 to 2007) was undertaken on Clem Burke, drummer from the rock group Blondie.
Physical characteristics during the data acquisition period were: (Age
range: 42 to 52 yrs, Mass range: 79.5 to 84.3 kg).
Drumming performance was undertaken using a Premier drum kit (Premier, Leicester, England) recorded at 2 outdoor and 10 indoor venues in England.
The duration of each concert varied between 60 to 93 minutes.
Throughout each performance heart rate was measured at 5 second intervals using short-range telemetry (Polar S810i, Kempele, Finland, see Figure 1 below).
Blood lactate was measured 3-minutes post performance from a finger-prick sample (Lactate pro analyser, Arkray, Japan).
ResultsHeart rate:
- Typical 'live' performance heart rate trace shown below in Figure 2 (Brighton Centre, 2004, selected songs in boxes). Also see research video recordings
- Example data set (Manchester Apollo, 2007):
- Concert duration: 82 min 7 sec
- Number of songs played: 19
- Longest song: 'Rapture': 10 min
7 sec
- Shortest song: 'Please Please Me':
1 min 50 sec
- Highest peak heart rate: 'Union City
- (range 144- 179 b.min-1, mean 155 b.min-1).
- Lowest peak heart rate: 'Screamin Skin'
- (range 129-144 b.min-1, mean 135 b.min-1).
- Concert mean heart rate: 145+13 b.min-1.
- Peak blood lactate value: 3.6 mmol.l
It is evident that rock drumming may be classified as an intermittent activity.
'Live' rock drumming performance relies
heavily upon the interplay between aerobic and anaerobic energy
systems, supporting the work of Smith et al. (2008, European
College of Sports Sciences, Stormily, Portugal).
Future research should focus on the physiological demands of energy supply to the leg versus arm muscles for different song tempos.


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How I Wrote My First iPhone Travel App
How a card-carrying member of AARP learned a new trick
For someone born B.C. (before computers), writing a mobile travel application seemed a daunting task. However, all of us in the travel writing industry know that mobile apps are the next paradigm shift in our business, so I knew I had to learn the technology and try to get a foot in the door of that growing market.
I partnered with an established company, Sutro Media, to publish a travel guide app on my adopted hometown of St. Petersburg, Florida.
As they always say -- whoever "they" are -- "Write what you know." Sutro already had a relationship with Apple, a template, and several published and successful travel guides, so it made more sense than veering off on my own into cyber and c-fone space.
My instructions from Sutro to start with were fairly minimal, but being a Mac person, I'm used to winging it without a manual of any sort. Trial and error have been a way of life for me since my first clunky desktop. However, I did learn a lot about organizing my material and how to maximize the small screen space on an iPhone or iPod touch.
App Features
One of the coolest things about these apps is the ability to sort the entries by several criteria: by category (art, museums, dining, historic, etc) or by function (cost, distance from where you are). Each entry has a Google map giving you the pinpointed location and number of miles from where you are when you're looking at it.
The function sorts are established, but you have to create the "tags" that will become the category sorts. You also have the ability to group and sort by neighborhoods (again you input the neighborhoods). It's a good idea to do this first, as you will need to check off each tag box and/or choose the appropriate neighborhood for each entry.
You also have a mini-slideshow for each entry and a master slideshow for the whole app, so the pros recommend having a minimum of 10 photos per entry. Since this is a commercial application, you can't use photos from the CVB or the properties you're featuring. You'll need to shoot them yourself or use a free stock photo site. Sutro has included a link to a free stock site on the template screen, which is really helpful.
At the bottom of each entry on the final screen are the entry's URL and phone number. If you have an iPhone™, you can touch the number and call directly. Although you can access the guide offline, on both devices, you can touch the web link and go immediately to the entry's website for more information if you have access to Wi-Fi. It's all about immediate gratification!
Learn from My Mistakes
Since I've been writing blog and web content for years, I thought writing the app would be a piece of cake, but there are tips and tricks to this. First of all, the screen size is small and narrow: one sentence can fill an entire screen and although folks can scroll down through an entry, you need to keep them as short as you possibly can. The type also looks really dense on the small screen, so you'll need to put paragraph breaks in more often than you normally would, sometimes after just one sentence. In general:
1) Write short and then edit again and make it even shorter
2) Insert breaks at regular intervals
3) Remember that the user can go straight to the web for details: your job is to describe the one or two major reasons the place is worth a visit
4) Don't forget to check all tags that are applicable to the entry so it will show up in multiple sorts
5) Write an appealing subhead that will entice the user to scroll through the entire entry
Choosing the best photos and organizing them into slideshows is another major component, and on this first attempt, I learned a lot from my mistakes in this area. Each entry has a thumbnail icon and these are teeny-tiny. Forget panoramic shots of the beach or skyline: close-ups work best for these apps.
The photos do appear full screen in the slideshows, but remember that the screen is vertical, so horizontal shots are going to have huge bands of black at the top and bottom. In the Sutro app, every photo is earmarked for the master slideshow, a fact I didn't know until I was almost finished so I then had to go back through each entry and delete photos.
Next time, I'll delete everything from the master show as I enter it so that I can go back and pick what I want to be in the big slideshow. You might even want to sit down and make a list of shots that you feel are the best for the slideshow…the ones that really give a visual overview of your subject, like a photo essay. Remember that:
1) Thumbnail icons are really, really tiny so use close-ups
2) Photos are appearing on a vertical screen, so vertical shots will fill the screen
3) While you can use duplicate photos on entries, remember not to duplicate them in the master slideshow
4) Put some real thought into how you want the master slideshow to look and which photos you want to use for that
5) Use free stock if you don't have enough shots of your own. This is particularly good for historic attractions in major cities, and close-ups of nature (like a seashell on the beach or a bird) Use the most general search terms for the subject to get the most results.
With Sutro, I was able to run test after test on my iPod Touch™ to find errors in spacing, bad photos, etc. Also be sure to check every single URL and every map, as I found bad links and bad maps that had to be adjusted.
Would I do it again? Absolutely! I'm already working on my next app, this time about Paris. It's presenting its own set of challenges with foreign addresses and foreign currency, but I'm loving it.
If I can do it, you can do it. You don't have to be a "techie" to learn this: you just have to have some patience, learn through trial and error, and not be embarrassed to ask questions. I can't say enough about the team at Sutro, all of them professional writers and editors who really get it. They want their authors to succeed and were incredibly patient mentors. So if you have the next great "small idea", go for it…you'll love seeing your guide in lights on the world's biggest small screen.
Link to my app: St Petersburg iPhone App
A regular contributor to GoNOMAD, Ginger Warder fled the cold northeast winters in the '80s and has called her arts & crafts bungalow in St. Pete home since 1997. She honed her travel skills as a tour manager and publicist in the music business, and writes about Florida, Virginia, and Europe for several websites, magazines, blogs, and newspapers.
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On February 27th, 2014, the Tea Party held a fifth anniversary convention, at which Breitbart News author Sonnie Johnson received a standing ovation for a speech at which she not only insisted that President Obama is a Marxist, but discarded all illusions of the Tea Party being libertarian by accusing him of wanting God "dethroned."
"Karl Marx had two main goals: to destroy capitalism and to dethrone God," said Johnson. "So when you hear the leader of progressivism, aka American Marxism, say that you are doing 'God's work,' understand he means it. He means you're taking over God's work. God must be dethroned."
Actually, Marx had wanted neither. Marx had been critical of the wealthy elite and the institutions that supported them, including the Church, but it is stretching the definition to even call Marxism a political philosophy in general (Marx's observations were of factories, not countries).
Johnson's real problem with Obama is that, while he has actually consistently gone out of his way to accommodate religious beliefs, he has not taken any steps towards the establishment of an American theocracy.
"If God is in all of these things," she continued, in reference to government services, "why are the Ten Commandments not allowed in the social services building? If God is in all of these things, why is there even a question if Little Sisters of the Poor have to pay for abortion? If God is in all of these things, do we have to ask him where he stands on marriage?"
Johnson should already know the answer to all of these questions. The answers just happen to be too inconvenient for her to openly acknowledge.