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VBS Week
The days are growing longer and hotter and school is out for the summer. Time for churches everywhere to get kids out of mom and dad's hair for a week with the yearly Vacation Bible School! But, of course, fundamentalists have their own way of doing VBS and the memories that are made there last a lifetime.
For Day 1, here's a flyer received by an alert SFL reader from a church run by one of the bastions of fundy craziness: Peter Ruckman. Doesn't it just scream "kid friendly"?
(In the interest of full disclosure my own child just finished VBS at a local Southern Baptist church where she also goes to Pre-K. When asked what she learned she informed us that free hot dogs are good.)
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looks like that would help the kiddies to sleep good!
could it be……….yes, I think it is!
Congrats! That's some good hustle!
"Scared Straight" the IFB way.
I can't help but think that, well, in IFB-land, concerning the phrase "scared straight," as the famous philosopher Robert Plant once said, "you know, sometimes words have two meanings."
Can anyone enlighten me as to what the heck a "chalk talk" is? Or do I even want to know?
if you can stomach it, here is an example
UGH. Made it to 1:31. I think a former elementary school Bible teacher of mine may have tried to do something similar to this with a black marker instead of chalk. I'm getting some vague, uncomfortable flashbacks…
Don, thanks for this. My father loved Ruckman growing up, and I can remember having to get dressed up in the Sunday best to watch Mr. Ruckman do a chalk talk on Thursday evening. Back in my fundie days, I thought he was the bees' knees. Now he just sounds hateful. My dad just sent me a few of his commentaries for a Bible study on the book of John that I just got assigned, but it is hard to slog through all of his attacks against everyone to find anything useful about the Bible – and he corrects the Greek with the English of the KJB!
After a few seconds of that, I had to listen to some Peter Tosh to clear my head:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oD63-EJW5Y -
Once again, I am grateful that I come from a different part of the world from most of you, and for the first minute or so of the clip I honestly cannot understand a word he says. In all seriousness, it sounded exactly like someone speaking in tongues to me.
Those of you who are from the States but not the South, do you find him easy to understand? (genuine question) Also do many people speak like this, or is this diction a quirk of fundy preachers?
Actually no. I'm from Michigan but I'm very used to the southern accent, being as my dad is from Mississippi and I grew up with him and my grandparents speaking this way, but I couldn't make out a word of this. It was as if he was partly singing, partly talking, for some kind of dramatic effect. Just as well, I'm quite sure what he had to say was nothing I wanted to hear or understand.
Because I grew up with Ruckman's sermons on video, I had no trouble understanding him. I remember when my dad got the first video, I had to really listen carefully to know what he was saying, but now it's no trouble.
Notice that the good ol US of A will be the last part of the spooky red world to burn . . . oh wait, is it red because the sea already turned to blood?
Nothing says kids programming like terrifying tells of God's wrath! And they'll have cookies too!
As someone who's scared of fire there is no way I would participate in this or send my kid to it. And Ruckman is a nut!
Our church just finished Vacation Bible School. We're thinking about letting our daughter go to the VBS at another church next week. About half her classmates from kindergarten make the rounds of VBS programs all over town during the summer, just for something to do.
Our daughter scored a phenomenal amount of candy and several prizes last week. I think she got a better take in candy at VBS than last Easter, Valentine's, and Christmas combined, plus tickets for free ice cream, free french fries, and $5 off pizza! I don't remember VBS being nearly so rewarding when I was that age!-
We got things like Bible verse bookmarks as prizes when I was in VBS.
I have to go a LOONG way back to remember VBS… I don't remember bringing home any candy back then, but I do remember cookies and kool-aid at various frequent breaks.
On a good note, I did come to Christ as a result of a local church's VBS.
I've never heard of a VBS theme like that. If I were a parent I think that the world on fire graphic would be enough to make me not want to send my kid, but then again maybe their are plenty of parents who just want their kids out of the house.
That grim red flyer looks unappealing enough, but then the topic: the end of the world, for five year olds?
My kids are going to a local non-denominational church tomorrow for VBS. They're using Groups' program: "At Sky VBS, kids discover that by trusting God, everything is possible." Or I could go with the nightmares of the earth burning.
Our church just finished VBS and used that program. My wife said it was a good one.
Our church did that one as well this year. Our family got to help out, and it was really good. I especially liked the music for it (the songs weren't the kind that got annoying after hearing them for the 5th time time ).
That's exactly how it is. Just like they send them to church on the bus on Sunday morning to get them out of their hair for a few hours, they send them to VBS and never question what they're being taught. The kids don't go for lesson time, they go for the prizes and treats. They make the rounds of all the VBS's in town. In Fundy churches they get saved over and over so they get some special attention. It's a lot of work for the bus workers and teachers, etc. As a kid I loved VBS, as an adult worker I hated it and couldn't wait for it to be over. And it was always hot all week. I'm so glad to be out of that!
Yup; I recall irate parents calling a church and bawling them out for having their VBS at the same time as another church's VBS — the parents couldn't ditch the kids for two weeks!
I was young at the time, but still thought that was incredibly selfish of the parents – they weren't members of the church they bawled out.
I think a good many parents use VBS as free child care during the summer. I remember reading a newspaper article one time about parents calling VBS programs for that very reason.
Yup. You can send your kids to VBS at mainline churches where the lessons are things like "God loves you" and "God wants us to love our neighbors," but why do that when you could give them a week of terror about the f-in' end of the world?
So, since this is a Peter Ruckman ordeal, do the kids learn about the blue, black, and grey aliens that the KJV foretells?
I think if Ruckman is leading it, that's scary enough. Wouldn't need aliens or blood or anything.
Perhaps some parents need a powerful threat to control their kids? "Eat your broccoli OR YOU'RE GOING TO SEE RUCKMAN!"
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That's just a crazy theme for VBS. We always did "Army vs Navy" and it worked out very well each year. We occasionally had some Marines or Air Force show up though and had to give them their own little seating section to themselves.
We usually had so much fun with that!
I wonder what crafts they are making?? End of the world little models???
The candy must be fireballs, to stay with the theme.
The decorations???? How uplifting.
But make sure to tell the parents not to let them watch Barney, after all he's gay purple.-
Based on my extensive VBS experience, I expect that they will take Styrofoam balls, color land and water onto them (green and blue, respectively), glue on some crepe-paper orange and red flames, and then add some glitter, because … hey, everybody loves glitter.
that's a pretty confusing facebook biography???
Ruckman is what, 90 now?
So he's in good shape if he can still do a chalk talk.
… But I wonder what he thinks about the world not having, you know, ended yet? He's been predicting The End for a really long time now.-
1988.1989. Those were the big ones. He's been saying, "In the next 3 (or 5) years" for a long time.
maybe the voices told him that the KJV is the only real Bible
I agree with your daughter – free hot dogs are good.
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Yes. Yes, they are.
As my church's VBS director, there is no way in hell I would do a theme of "The End of the World." But I wouldn't have a choice of themes either. We're doing Lifeway's "Amazing Wonders Aviation. We have a 2-seater airplane and a hangar backdrop for the sanctuary.
Hey!! That's the one we are doing too! My daughter is finally old enough to be a helper and has been going around singing all the songs all week long, practicing for when she gets to help lead them. No "Chalk Talks" for our kids!
VBS was just a numbers game in the IFB church, just something they could brag on. "We had 554 kids come through the week (never mind that they weren't that many DIFFERENT kids) and 101 kids made professions of faith!" Yeah right. It's always about numbers in Fundyville.
Oh, yeah, Fundy math. Add up the total number of attendees for each day (including volunteers & teachers) and then add THOSE totals to get the number of "souls reached" for the week.
Wow. That's bad taste in subject matter. I guess they think if they use terrifying content then they won't have to spend any time worrying about behaviour management.
When I first saw the flier, I really, really thought that someone had found an old flier they'd somehow stored from years ago.
Will they be playing U2? "It's the end of the world as we know it…"
THAT might be worth my kids' time…
Slightly OT, but my mom (as a kid) was always terrified by the terminology used to explain the salvation experience. "Let Jesus into your heart…" "Give your heart to Jesus…" "Let Jesus wash the sin from your heart…" She said she always pictured some sort of surgical procedure and would start to cry in fear that she would be forced to have her chest cut open. The well-meaning teachers would, of course, interpret her tears as conviction and apply more pressure for her to "give her heart."
I wonder if her lessons included, for example, Philippians 1:8 (KJV):
"For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ."Or any of these:
Probably not. One doesn't (in fundy circles, at least) speak of bowels in polite company.
Nor doth one speak of pissething against the wall, though that's in the KJV too.
Unless one is Steven Anderson, in which case it is one of one's favorite sermon topics.
One wonders if there will be wall pissing at Anderson's VBS.
I also wonder if his wife gets tired of cleaning up the mess in their bathroom.
"One wonders if there will be wall pissing at Anderson's VBS."
Are you kidding? That's the THEME of Anderson's VBS.
I feel compelled to point out that you just made an REM reference, not a U2 reference.
Ex-fundies often make mistakes when it comes to cultural references because we missed so much of it growing up!
I'm pretty sure 'the end of the world as we know it' was sung by REM, not U2.
oops, I guess Daniel beat me to it. Sorry…
Is it just me, or does the second flyer look like something someone developed 15 years ago, and they just fill in the blanks for the dates and theme?
SFL: doing VBS the same way we always have because it's too much work to develop something new every year and too expensive to buy a program from those compromisers at Regular Baptist Press.
The fill-in-the-blank for the phone number makes me wonder how many phone numbers the church has had in the last 15 years.
I agree with you – it's clearly too much work to come up with a new idea year after year. As someone who has made too many of those programs from scratch, I can understand the desire to save time, but at least pick something age appropriate and put it on a rotating basis. At my church, we had a five year rotation so that nothing within the students' memory would be repeated. And we didn't scare them with end-of-the-world burning ideas.
Hmmm. The church is on "Jo Jo Road."
Peter Ruckman is awhole different kinda crazy than any other fundy that has ever been featured on SFL, he's in a complete different atmosphere than run of the mill fundy's like Hyles, Schapp etc.
No children should ever be allowed around this man!
Ruckman is the Godfather of crazy on today's scene, but I think Phil Kidd more than gives him a run for his money.
I wonder if they'd be open to a Hunger Games theme. Tributes would be chosen from each "district" (class) on the first day. They would compete against each other all week to be the last righteous person standing. The tributes could bring each other down with carefully-placed stumbling blocks (Harry Potter books, rock and roll CDs, etc.). They would be monitored at all times for the entertainm- I mean exhortation of the rest of the districts' denizens, which would be nothing new to these kids. The teachers would wear absurd clothing and hairstyles and follow the tributes around squelching any rebellion with the mantra of "Manners! Manners!" and reminding the tributes how lucky they were to be chosen. And for the closing program, all the fallen tributes, who have now been sent to hell and mutated into demons, will attack the last two while the crowd watches to see which will give the other over to Satan to save him or herself. The winner of the Hunger Games will be presented with a leather-bound, monogrammed KJV Bible, as will each member of the winner's family. Because, you know, man cannot live by bread alone.
Lol. I don't know anything about Hunger Games, but that still sounded funny.
That might not work for VBS, but that would make a hilarious fundy/hunger games spoof video!
Our VBS is four weeks away. The teacher guides have just been handed out, but nothing else has been done. I mean, isn't it normal to wait until the week before to slap some crap together? I won't be participating in that crazy.
If any local Baptist churches do this, they do it as a bait and switch. I considered sending my 8-year-old to the Baptist mission's summer-long summer camp extravaganza–activities every day but Sunday, just drop in!–but I just heard from a friend that their equestrian camp offers an hour of riding practice and takes half of that for reading Bible verses. No thanks.
Our fundy church was so removed, ("how removed were they, you ask?") they did not have VBS because other churches were doing it. Yea, it was that messed up. But on a sightly different note, they always had some kind of bible conference meetings on the absolute hottest week of the year. It was pretty impressive… 100 degree days in a church with no a/c and 75% humidity. We would sneak out and head to the lake or take extra work shifts so we would not have to go.
On my recent short trip I got roped into helping at the Presbyterian church VBS. The skit I had to do was pablum, basically social gospel. The main "project" was raising money for mosquito nets being sent to Africa, I think. Which I do support. But there has to be a more biblically responsible medium between this Fundy nightmare and liberal social do-goodism. Hopefully.
Missions money going to provide for the physical needs of others is not "liberal social do-goodism", nor is it "social gospel." It is money going to missionaries already sharing the gospel with people in that area, but they are just not content to say "be warmed and filled" and leave them with their physical needs unmet when they have the ability to help meet them.
Like I said, I do support giving to the poor and meeting people's needs. "Which I do support" is what I said but that's what I meant. My concern was more with the mish-mash presented by loosely biblically themed skits. I guess you had to be there perhaps you are personally familiar with the program I'm talking about? http://group.com/childrens-ministry/vbs/babylon It's sounds solid from the website but up close it was wanting and the SKY theme looks really awful to me. I'm not a fan of mixing things up with popular culture themes either, like superheroes, because the bible is not the same. That might brand me Fundy but I don't care.
I think it's important to encourage kids to pray for, help and personally get involved with other people but I also believe that church is the place where they should come to know the great truths of "the faith once delivered." The people in other places are important but I'm concerned about what those kids are learning in church too! I realize VBS is usually more of an "invite your friends" kind of venue to start but that is no excuse for not making sure it has CLEAR biblical content. I like Concordia's theme, for instance, and yes they still do have a "mission" to help others behind it. http://vbs.cph.org/2012/index.asp I realize no one gets it perfect and we all have our views on what is acceptable. I see from your other comments that we actually have similar ideas so hopefully this clarifies my point a little more.
I personally don't have a problem with overall VBS themes that are based on some element of popular culture, provided that there is actual Bible teaching at the VBS, and the theme itself isn't at all contradictory to Scripture. From my experience, the theme was to give an overall guide for decorating, funny skits, crafts, etc. (at least at the churches I've gone to). I don't think it's really the theme or the publisher that makes the difference so much as the church. If a church is lax about Bible teaching, then its probably going to rely on the gimmicks and show during VBS. If a church is committed to sound doctrine and Bible teaching, then its VBS will most likely reflect it.
And no, a concern for Biblical doctrine does not make you a fundy.
OK, we do have some difference of opinion but I heartily agree with this: "If a church is lax about Bible teaching, then its probably going to rely on the gimmicks and show during VBS. If a church is committed to sound doctrine and Bible teaching, then its VBS will most likely reflect it."
That is spot on!I was in a tiny mountain town with kids that come from rough backgrounds. More than anything they just want to show them "the love of Jesus". And I talked with the Pastor's wife and she knows and appreciates sound doctrine. Overall the Pastor handled it well and they already knew all the faces that show up in such a small place. But, again, the potential for that material to be confusing was high,IMO,; thankfully they emphasized well. I'm not a big fan of Evangelical" anything goes as long as kids have fun and learn about Jesus" having grown up with hip Christianity I'm on guard. I was a casualty of confusing, gimmicky, moralized pablum in kid's and youth programs.
I do think it's wonderful you seem to have a heart to reach and teach children.
Ironicly, the people who want to teach the children about plagues of war, death, starvation, terrible disease, blood, and the eventual slaughter of all remaining humans are the same ones that cry out about video game violence. No doubt they also teach the children David and Goliath (the slaughter of a man with a rock to the forhead followed by removal of the head and walking around with it like a trophy). I don't have a problem with the proper teaching of those stories, but I do if there's the hypocrisy of condemning video game violence.
"In the interest of full disclosure my own child just finished VBS at a local Southern Baptist church where she also goes to Pre-K. When asked what she learned she informed us that free hot dogs are good."
LOL! I'm glad she came away with one good thing about fundy VBS.
In the summers, when I was a kid (a long, loong, loonnngggg time ago) everybody went to everybody's VBSs. The churches in my home town staggered them. The Lutheran church has its first, the Methodist a couple of weeks later and so on, Our baptist church was pretty fundy but A) they like getting new kids that week and fair's fair and B) ANYTHING that got the kids out of the house for a couple of hours and wasn't illegal was fine with our mothers (who were fundies but were also realists).
Come now! He said Southern Baptist! Not all Southern Baptists are Fundy! There's actually quite a spread. Some are fundy, some are more moderate, some are Calvinist, some are just plain weird…
(And, yes, I'm a Southern Baptist. My church has contemporary worship, people wear shorts, even the preacher doesn't wear a suit, and we use the NIV and other contemporary translations.)
Don't forget the visual aid posters with pictures of Jesus in different scenes….except Jesus has had his hair altered and He may be blacked out altogether!! Because we don't know exactly what Jesus looks like. However everyone else is left as is because we know what they looked like.
There was a church I was involved in that refused to even look at VBS material-anything published was obviously doctrinally watered down to be more appealing to the masses.
Why we expose children to lots of the bible stories is a mystery to me. People wallpaper their newborn's bedrooms with the story of Noah-why? That's an awful story. I don't get it…
It is strange how we've turned frightening stories into kids stories. We need to teach these stories, but it needs to be done properly.
When you read them with open eyes, most of the Old Testament is just plain horrifying, and most of the New Testament is deeply disturbing and/or bewildering.
Still, I approve of teaching children Bible stories. The stories you learn in childhood will be yours for ever. But thought needs to be given about what's age-appropriate.
We ran out of fairy tales to kidie-ize–the OT was the next best thing.
And yes, some of those narratives are not something children are ready for at all. I don't even teach all the stories in our 5th grade school Bible curriculum. The sin of Achan? Really? The rebellion of Korah? I struggle with those stories; I can't in good conscience teach them to 5th graders….
My favorite is when my 4 year old comes back from church asking about hell. Really? How can someone who can't comprehend evil, depravity, and judgement ever grasp hell? Again, it needs to be taught. However, given the fact that I struggle with such a truth as an adult when I take my whole theological worldview into account (i.e. being born with a nature that I can't help but sin), maybe we can teach this to people who have the capacity to work through it.
Does that say through the 8th grade or 6th? Either way….VBS's seem to market themselves for a very young age group and expect the older ones to actually participate and enjoy themselves. They usually end up just goofing off and experiencing the wrath of the Powers that be…or was that just me?
Also….transportation to "the End of the World" just sounds funny. "No! We're not looney!"
If you get on a bus with "The End of the World" as the stated destination, I guess it's hard to complain about where it lets you out.
Our church just finished VBS this year (so all us workers are recovering…) and the kids and the adults really enjoyed it. Of course, instead of trying to scar kids for life or terrify them into saying The Prayer (T), we presented the Gospel as "Jesus LOVES you so much that He died for you so that you could be saved", instead of "Accept Jesus or you'll BURN IN HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY!!!!!!!!"
I also like that our church emphasized that VBS was a great opportunity for not just the adult workers, but also the regular church kids to show God's love to the kids who may not go to church at all. Can't really expect kids to do that if you make them think that God is nothing but a violent force of nature, waiting to destroy you when you mess up.
"Can't really expect kids to do that if you make them think that God is nothing but a violent force of nature, waiting to destroy you when you mess up."
I'm not really sure how we constantly come to that conclusion with the gospel message. "He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?"
I wonder, if I called from NC would they provide transportation to the "End of the World"?
Glutton…for punishment
My daughter went to a fundy VBS one year. It was actually pretty cool. The theme was "Walk through Bible Lands." They had different rooms set up as different places mentioned in the Bible, and even had a few animals outside for the kids to pet. My daughter's favorite of the week was getting to pet and play with a rabbit.
This is a downright terrible VBS theme. I can't even imagine what that week would be like. And I wouldn't send a child there. Yeesh.
Tonight is day 3 of our VBS, we start on Sunday evening. We are using Cokesbury's "Operation Overboard – where kids dive deep into God's love." "The above Bible School is just creepy.
So on a Fundy site that some of them have their panties in a wad because some VBS material, using Patch the Pirate music has him singing some CCM! What kind of music would you sing at the End of the World VBS? Maybe they end VBS by watching 2012!
This cannot possibly be a current VBS flyer. I remember being dragged to "Chalk Talks" with Peter Ruckman when I was young… and he was old back then. What is he now? 90? Is he still alive?
I grew up in Pensacola and remember driving past Ruckman's smallish-looking house just across the street from PCC. Eventually PCC's sprawling campus surrounded Ruckman's house, and for many years he refused to sell to PCC, probably out of spite. He always had the yard sign with some threatening Bible verse on it.
He lives……LOL.
Does he walk with you and talk with you along life's narrow way?


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So my downstairs neighbor who pays for internet lets me leech off of his connection. He's totally cool with it as he offered me the opportunity. It works fine except for when I try to use torrents. Within a short (variable) time after starting up microtorrent the connection just "dries up." It's like someone just pulls the plug. I can't do anything to re-establish the connection except for restarting my laptop. What can I do to correct this?
It sounds like your torrenting is causing the router to hard lock. Depending on how much HP his router has (CPU,RAM) you might simply be overloading it with the traffic. utorrent and most P2P apps open a lot of concurrent connections. When I use Utorrent I ususally have 100+ connections open simultaneously. You can try all the basics such as making sure WPA2 AES is the encryption method being used, making sure he has the latest firmware on his router, or a router replacement might be in order.
I hope you use a fully configured Peerblock! It's for your protection, and the owners. Even if you're dling legal stuff, the moment you open a udp port your ip will be slammed by anti-p2p scanners.
I have never had that issue with any router I've had, even when I was on 100mb/s and had those old/crappy ones. And I've downloaded tons of Linux distros. EDIT; Didn't know about PeerBlock, thanks!
If your neighbor is on a(n) (A)DSL, there might be no easy fix. In some cases, this type of connection fares rather poorly when subjected to a large number of simultaneous connections. Other than that, it could be the router's fault, depending on the model, type of wifi connection you use, any and all QoS rules in place, etc.
Torrent traffic get's bandwidth managed by a lot of ISP's ever thought that could be the issue? really surprised no one has mentioned this
Lemme guess, microTorrent 3.#? Get 2.#. I'm 99% 3.# throttles itself. I got crappy speeds using it when downloading the HIB. It wouldn't surprise me at all if it completely stops downloading if you didn't upload enough.
Thanks for all of the replies. I'll try a few of these suggestions a bit later to see what works. To respond to what a few people said: He just recently got a new router, so I don't know what kind it is now. The last one I looked at I believe it was type n, but still I think this one is brand new. He's on Cox cable, not ADSL. I am (was) using utorrent 3, but I had the upload set to a pretty generous size based upon Cox's bandwidth. I'll change to 2.
reduce the amount of connections you use. ignore everything people tell you, and set it to about 20 connections maximum, lock the upload speed to about 5KB/s and under advanced change net.max.halfopen to about 40. they'll be slower, but they wont hog or lag a connection.
+1: I would keep it legal when using your neighbors internet. If you really want to go using torrents (not to say there aren't legal torrents, just most people don't use it for that,) you really should man up and get your own internet because he is liable if anything happens. What a nice neighbor but I bet you he would be less nice if he knew what you were doing.
Then you shouldn't have a problem because almost all legal downloads use torrents as an alternative and not as the only means to get the content that you're downloading.
I tried all of the suggestions, but nothing worked. Must be fun to (think that you) know everything huh?
A lot of the older G routers (and some cheep N routers) had issues with the traffic from torrents. Its the table that gets full from all the connections and does not renew its self often enough. Newer N routers do not have this issue. Suggestion: Buy or loan him a good N router sense your getting a connection for free. To see if this is the problem have him reboot the router by pulling the power for a sec. If it speeds back up its the router Another thought, maybe your neighbor is throttling you? Or just taking all the bandwith
Don't be a smart ass. Well, did you even try checking to see if there are an alternative download? You didn't answer my comment and only responded with a witty retort. What about telling us what you're trying to download because I bet you that there is an alternative to using a torrent, assuming what you're downloading is legal which you've claimed that it is. So how about you find out if that is the case so you can actually download what you're trying to get while you try to figure out why the torrents are acting up instead of not having what you're trying to get at all? Two examples are WoW and Ubuntu. WoW uses torrents as the primary means to push out new content and updates but it doesn't limit you to it (you can disable p2p,) and with Ubuntu, torrents are the alternative method to download. I'm just saying that I've yet to see a legal torrent be the only means for getting something because not everyone's hardware plays nicely with torrents (as you've figured out.)
...or that. I mean, I can't really justify complaining when I use someone else's internet. Even more so when everything works fine other than torrents (does it? I'm assuming everything else works fine).
If you must torrent, I haven't seen this mentioned so here goes.MANY people Don't notice it, Be sure Your Hard Drive is keeping up with the writing of the torrent file. Sometimes it will display as "hard drive full" or the like. Effectively , It will appear that you have No internet speed in the torrent client, but all that is needed is a faster hdd, or a separate hdd.Running torrent client on secondary Hdd works well. Also Many ISP's DO throttle as mentioned earlier.
If it is hard drive speed, Mussel's recommendation would solve it because that happens when you have a ton of connections open and there are a ton of random reads and writes. Limiting the number of connections essentially makes this a non-issue if you're drive isn't close to full.
@Hotobu Why don't you try the excellent and reliable uTorrent client along with the settings that Mussels suggested? Can't hurt. http://www.utorrent.com


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Reviews by TwelveOunces:TwelveOuncesKentucky 4.84/5 rDev +8.3% look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 5 Bomber poured into a tulip Review #400 2012 Vintage A- Pours as black as the come. Almost no head, but there was some brown lacing. Intense alcohol legs. S- Whiskey and massive, massive cherry notes. Tart and sweetness from the cherries. Rye, sour mash and some roasted malt. A slight bit of chocolate as well. T- A huge tart sweetness at first. The massive cherry flavors are very strong and sweet. It really opens up the beer in a strong way. Followed up by the rye whiskey notes. There is a lot of whiskey mash and some of the oak barrel comes through. Alcohol is well hidden but gives the beer a lot of kick in the taste. This is an intense drinking beer. Follows up by a huge roasted malt profile and a great bit of chocolate as well. The cherry really compliments all aspects of the palate and goes the whole way though. M- This is a thick sipping beer. The intense flavors profile of this beer makes it a slow drinking but keep calling you back for a another sip. The flavor is constantly changing. It is a sweet beer. A very warming feel. O- This is an epic beer. The cherries in this beer were far from what I expected. They really turned this beer into something both strange and incredible. This is a totally different animal from the standard bourbon county. This is a sweet beer but its absolutely fantastic. Please brew again GI. Serving type: bottle 01-24-2013 00:57:00 | More by TwelveOunces More User Reviews:wordemupgAlberta (Canada) 4.55/5 rDev +1.8% look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5 650ml bomber poured into tulip, big thanks OakedCanuck for the bottle A black body with a deeper then expected cola edge, noisy thumbs width of mocha foam fizzes out quickly leaving no lace but that's almost expected in these booze monsters, legs on the side ofter a swirl also expected in a booze monster S lots of rye barrel, some booze but nowhere near 13.7%, some cherry, dark chocolate, molasses, more woody rye, a hint of smoke, some cola, smells pretty good T more cherry in the mouth, dried, candied and chocolate covered that is, still plenty of barrel with some added char, cherry cola opposed to cola, some cinnamon, a little chewing tobacco, cold coffee, and again I get some booze but I'd guess 9-10%, think cherry chocolate fudge mixed with burnt rye barrel and some licorice, just beautiful M shes a thick one, low carbonation, some heat and a little numbing, quite slick, lots of charred barrel lingering and my lips are stuck together, seriously though this is some sticky liquid O this ones up there no doubt, I like the spicy rye barrel choice, the cherry plays its part quite well, the booze is well hidden all things considered, and it just plain and simply tastes brilliant One of the better beers I've had in a while and I've been exposed to some great ones as of late. I doubt I'll get to try this one again and in might have benefited from some age but I really can't complain about whats in my glass at the moment Serving type: bottle 12-17-2013 06:56:20 | More by wordemupg dirtylouWashington 4.49/5 rDev +0.4% look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5 22oz bomber, split #VARIANTS Clocks in at 13.7%, which actually seems low for a BCBS varietal. The cherry is evident throughout - sweet and juicy, cherries seem more akin to pie cherry than some of the bolder and darker varietals. The rye was not overly apparent to me but the cherry definitely cut through some of the abrasive bourbon, which is a plus or minus depending on your purogative. A nice treat - I perhaps prefer the original though Serving type: bottle 12-16-2013 19:15:22 | More by dirtylou illiduritCalifornia 4.25/5 rDev -4.9% look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25 Pours black with a light brown halo. Cherry pie aroma, heavy on cinnamon, spicy booze but not too hot. Flavor has a lot of cherry and when mixed with the spirit heat it takes a slightly medicinal character, which isn't too bad since the stout character takes over with heavy dark chocolate and caramel. Comes together really nicely as it warms. Serving type: bottle 12-08-2013 06:39:02 | More by illidurit vandemonianMaryland 4.38/5 rDev -2% look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5 Goose Island Cherry Rye Bourbon County Brand is a delicious stout with some nice cherry accent. I had this at the Goose Island event at Meridian Pint in DC a few months ago. A: Black with a nice head, especially around the edges. 4 S: Malty with dark fruit flavour. Cherry? 4 T: Malty with lovely black cherry flavour. The finish is clean with some cherry tang in there. The cherry is super string but very well integrated. 4.5 M: Chewy with low carbonation. 4.5 O: 4.5 Serving type: bottle 12-03-2013 07:22:48 | More by vandemonian WVUbrewWest Virginia 4.9/5 rDev +9.6% look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 5 Had this one on tap at the Goose Island brewpub on B(CBS)lack Friday. 5oz pour served in a snifter. A: Pitch black, minimal head. S: Smells like walking into grandma's kitchen as she pulls that famous cherry pie out of the oven to cool while taking another hefty swig of grandpa's finest whiskey... T: Follows up the smell with the perfect amount of cherry. No tartness at all really, and just sweet enough to blend in perfectly with the rest of the flavors... No need to elaborate further here so use your imagination. M: feels like any world class stout should and does so very well. O: This was a treat. I actually got to talk with brewmaster Brett Porter about this beer amongst other things and one of the questions I asked was when he thought this beer would/had reached it's peak (since it took a couple of years for Bramble to peak) and his answer was "right GD now"... His answer was right on point, just like this amazing brew. So if you're reading this and have a bottle of Cherry Rye that you've been saving, now is the time. Definitely glad I managed to grab a bottle to enjoy again here soon and compare with the draft version. Cheers! Serving type: on-tap 12-01-2013 03:40:49 | More by WVUbrew |
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I am descended from families of John Winthrop's Fleet of 1630 and have ancestors that have served in King Philips War, the Indian Wars, the American Revolution and the Civil War. Have been researching my family for over a decade and am just getting into the Irish side of the family. I have a special interest in the Civil War and have been researching African American veterans of that war.
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Dear sir or madame -- You come up as the family researcher/contributor of a photo of the grave marker of Elvira J. Powers at Hope Cemetery in Worcester, Mass. Can you tell me how you are related to her? She wrote a memoir of her time as a civil war nurse in which she mentions my great-grandmother, C. Annette Buckel, MD, who was the director of nursing where Mrs. Powers served. I would like to contact Mrs. Powers' family to let them know how much I appreciate her memoir, to learn more about her life after the war, and to tell them of the amazing life led by my great-grandmother as one of the first women MD's in America. Thank you for any help you can give me.
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Libby, Laverty, and more...
My fiancee is the great-great grandson of Abbigail Laverty and Patrick Markey, both buried in St. Johns. I'm the family researcher and genealogist, for this generation, and rather then make this a hobby, I treat it as an unpaid, part time job. You can say I really like what I do :).
Abbigail's father James Laverty is buried in an unmarked grave, with his wife Ellen Calligan. He fought in the Civil War. He and his wife died the same day, 22 Nov 1909, of unrelated causes. Sad, but sweet.
His brother Andrew S. Laverty enlisted. He was only in service a month and a half before he was mustered out. Died 25 Jul 1910.
Another brother, Joseph Fitton Laverty, was in service for 4 months. Died 12 Jan 1880.
Their brother Oliver Laverty fought in the war, but is buried in Maine.
The father of their sister Catherine's illegitimate daughter, Alfred Jones, fought in the war, but is buried in Unknown, probably Maine.
Their brother William Laverty fought in the war. Died 5 Nov 1891. Did 3 tours.
His son Frederick Laverty lied on his enlistment records, and entered the service at 16, in 1866. Not in the war, but he does have a Civil War marker in St. Johns. Died 21 Jul 1877.
Their brother John R. Laverty did not fight in the war.
His son John R. Laverty Jr. fought in the war. He did 2 tours. Died 15 Oct 1875.
His other son Robert M. Laverty fought in the war. Not sure when he died, but apparently you have some records on this.
His daughter Margaret Ann Laverty's husband Herbert Alonzo Libby was in the War. He died in 1920.
Their other brother Robert F. Laverty fought in the war. You have a fairly detailed listing on him already.
Their father Robert had a brother named John. Neither of them fought in the war. They were the immigrant ancestors to the family.
One of his daughters Mary Laverty married Sgt. Sefton "David" Orrell (Worrell). He fought in the war.
His other daughter Lucy Laverty married Thomas Jackson Proal, he fought in the war.
His only son Andrew Laverty enlisted in Jun 1861. He died in 7th Mar 1862 in Washington DC. He had been released from a POW status after the Battle of Ball's Bluff, and he didn't make it home.
-John Laverty (Didn't fight)
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----------Mary Laverty (Sgt. Sefton Orrell)
----------Lucy Laverty (Thomas Jackson Proal)
----------Andrew Laverty (Died during the war
So of the 7 Laverty's in St Johns, that fought in the war and are listed on findagrave.com, all are related. The only one I don't know is Joseph C. Laverty, but I have a serious feeling he is too.
Now, not all of these are buried in St. Johns.
Also of note, 6 of Robert's 8 son's fought and survived, some with injuries, some without. One of his 2 daughters had a relationship with a man who would go on to fight.
In contrast, Robert's brother John had 3 children (two more that I still can't name or prove). One married a vet, the other married before the war to a future soldier. His only son died after being taken POW.
I hope this helped. Also, I would love to find out if I could peruse your holdings to see if I can find some more information out on these men's military records. I'm in Worcester, and would love to exchange any more information you might need. And I also have a few stones photographed that you don't have.
Again, Happy Thanksgiving, and enjoy the weekend.
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Libby and Laverty
I was poking around your postings, when I found two interesting individuals. Robert M. Laverty, and Herbert A. Libby, both buried in St. John's Cemetery, Worcester, MA. They both fought in the Civil War, but I thought I would let you know they were brothers-in-law. Herbert married Margaret Ann Laverty, Robert's younger sister. Herbert was born 16 Dec 1852 in Rutland, MA. He died in 1920 in Worcester, MA. Robert was born about 1846 in MA. My son is related to the Laverty lineage. I would love to talk, in case you are too!
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I'm connected to the Lyons & Quinn families that immigrated to Massachusetts from Kilsheelan /Carrick on Suir, Ireland area. I just became a findagrave.com member so that I can add info and photos re: Lyons family members buried in the Saugus & Lynn area of Mass and happened to come across your William & Mary (nee Ahaesy) Lyons entries.
Wondering where info came from which showed William was born in Kilsheelan. I believe this is true, but have found no US records showing this info. I've searched the Kilsheelan church records in person and recall many with surname of Ahasy & Hasey in that area. Any information you can share would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps I have information that would also interest you and would be happy to share.
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I will be happy to add any information you send via suggest-a-correction.
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Hi--are you a relative of Thomas W. Whittey's? I am his great-grandson.
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You left me no way to contact you. I just added an email to my Find A Grave contributor page - you can use that to send me your contact info. I have some info for you and documents for John & fam. My Mom was gr-granddaughter to this John. If you follow John's memorial down to Ruth Connors Pattangall climb back up from her Find A Grave memorial thru my father's family, you may find we are probably well connected on the Yankee side, too. Would like to hear more from you!
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I would be most happy to transfer any of your family members to you. I like to see the memorials in the hands of family. Go to their pages and use the edit feature to send me a message so I know which ones to transfer. I'm not related but probably added them from obit look-ups helping others or came across the grave and photographed it. I know I have corresponded with someone in the past researching the Ward and McGourty families.
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I received an email this morning from ancestors.com with an announcement of a new book which is part of the Great Migration Study. Thought you might be interested. Title: The Winthrop Fleet. Hardcover, 6x9, 912pp, $64.95 plus shipping.
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Said a NC local politician, "We'll secede from the union if we have to."
I'm not certain 300,000,000 other Americans would miss you but NC might miss the positive economic impact tourism and business has on your state. The same is true for SC which has a population half the size of NC and also depends heavily upon tourism and interstate commerce. And just suppose the rest of the U.S. decides to boycott what your state produces because it perceives your state as a rogue state and also dangerous to visit. The other 9,000,000 in NC or 4,000,000 in SC might take a dim view of you parading around armed to the teeth. They might think to themselves, 'hey, your right to swing your fist ends where my safety and that of my family begins.' I'd say some of the comments coming out of my fellow southerners sound like someone shooting themselves in the foot.
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'Bedtime Nursery Rhymes' is a little project that I have been working at on-and-off for a few months now amongst all the other stuff that I'm involved in. It grew from a combined wish to work on something that had a more obvious market and also for me to have an excuse to experiment with conceptual sound; playing with sound synthesis is something I have wanted to do more of for a while now.
The idea of the compilation was to choose well-known nursery rhymes that I could use and tailor to work together as a whole to promote calm feelings and aid sleep in children. Also, I have fond memories of certain story books that I read as a young child due to the magical atmospheres they created. If I could create something that would invoke these kinds of magical feelings whilst having a valid use and it also allow me to experiment, I would be very happy.
To create these atmospheres I would need a palette of songs that would invoke visual imagery as well as work towards that calming feeling; the songs chosen were almost of little importance as it was the effect that I wanted to create, however, choosing well-known tunes would have an obvious advantage. So, I ended up choosing: 'Curly Locks'; 'It's Raining It's Pouring'; 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'; 'Rock-a-Bye Baby'; 'Kum Ba Yah' and 'Brahms' Lullaby' (originally known as 'Good Evening, Good Night').
For the sounds I used some synthesizers from the Logic Pro audio recording and production software, the Sculpture synthesizer in particular. Sculpture works on a basis that other synths don't usually take into account. Synthesizers usually allow you to make various types of sound wave and then merge them together in different ways to produce different sounds. They usually also allow you to manipulate these sounds further using various effects but Sculpture was designed to work a bit more like a traditional instrument. Within the software you effectively manipulate a string like you would do on any traditional, analogue instrument; you get to choose what this string is made from (glass, wood, metal), how the string is being vibrated (plucked, hit, etc) and even how the medium around it is behaving (is it thick like water or thin like air?). Amongst these parameters you also find more traditional synth settings (which I wont go into in fear of alienating the non-musical reader!), some effects and even a control over the imaginary pick-up that converts the string's vibration into electrical energy (like the pick-up on an electric guitar which enables it to be an electrical instrument). One function of Sculpture in particular that I have not yet talked about is the most interesting for me as well as being important considering the thematic nature of the music: As described, Sculpture allows you to use different types of string manipulation (plucking etc) but you can layer three types on top of eachother and one of these can even be an input from an audio clip. Any audio clip at all can be used to morph your sound and, as will be seen, it is this that formed the basis of some of the tracks.
Now for the actual pieces of music…..
The tune for 'Curly Locks' is actually used in various nursery rhymes but I used this one as I wanted to create some visual imagery and I thought a great way would be to make some sounds feel curly… The sounds used here are therefore wavy, slightly pulsating and also move around from one speaker to the other. I also chose to have a bouncing ball effect sounding Sculpture's imaginary string. Being the most lively of all the tunes I decided that this one should be first.
To enable calm passage into sleep I decided that each track should merge into the next and next up would be 'It's Raining, It's Pouring'. This used the Sculpture synth in a more obvious manner and predictably enough I chose an audio clip of rain to sound it's imaginary string. I also used a similar idea with 'Kum Ba Yah' where I used an audio clip of a fire burning. For both of these tracks I wanted the main melody to be far away from the background noise. With '…Pouring' I wanted to invoke the feeling of being inside , safe and dry behind a window on a quiet evening whilst watching the rain. The rain and uncomfortable wetness that goes with it would be very distant and in real-life it is the rhythmic pitter-patter of the rain on a window that I personally find very comforting. This idea was very similar in the creation of 'Kum Ba Yah'. For this one I wanted the effect of somebody telling a magical story around the camp-fire before bedtime in a forest that Tolkien may have written about; distant, other-worldly melodies convey the story whilst other background noises emulate the fire and the non-threatening wild-life within the forest. Not somewhere to be scared, but somewhere to excite the imagination.
'Twinkle, Twinkle…' was designed to feel like staring up at a clear, silent and soothing night's sky. I always get a childish wonder and amazement at how vast the night sky is when I look at it and it is this I wanted to capture. Towards the end of the track, the stars even begin to sparkle at various points across the sky. The music then gradually merges into '…Baby' and it is here where I really wanted to step down a gear towards sleep. The rhyme conjures up images of wind in the tree-tops as well as sleep (although I didn't want to have any mention of any falling cradles!). So, for this I chose noises synthesized to sound like calm breezes and after a while of playing around with the sounds and rhythm, I noticed that I could create a soft, regular breathing noise of somebody sleeping.
Finally, Brahms' Lullaby makes a soothing entrance to finally lull the listener to sleep with all of the imagery of the previous tracks to fuel wondrous dreams . There was no real obvious connection of sound here for me but I fondly remembered a music box my mum once owned that played this tune so therefore I tried to create a music box tinkle to carry the melody. There are a couple of pre-made music box sounds amongst all the synth on Logic Pro but as they didn't really hit the spot I ended up creating my own that I felt was delicate enough. The background noise in this track was actually one of the first things that I thought of when I came up with the idea for 'Bedtime Nursery Rhymes; arguably the most comforting noise we are ever exposed to could be said to be the noise a baby may hear in the womb and I have actually heard a couple of sleep aids that try to replicate this. Of course, I have no scientific basis around choosing the sounds that I did but I could not deny that these sounds really had a pleasing, meditative effect on me. Therefore I decided to create my own version but, as with all of the sounds I created for the collection, I wanted to hint and influence imagination rather than force-feed. The imagination is a powerful thing and above all I wanted to get this working to create fond memories that could even stay with some one into adulthood. I thought that if I could create a special state of mind that would excite and intrigue then I would have achieved what any musician hopes to do. Why should edgy music for adults be needed to achieve this…?


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I would love TUTR, LS and I'm Addicted as singles. GB would be interesting to see how well it did.Chaostheory wrote:My addiction to this record is like a curve. In the beginning I was totally hooked. Then I didn't listen to it at all, but it is a different thing now again. Since the sun is shining here in Germany it sounds somehow different. It is a great summer album and I hope that many people come to realize that.
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In 2008 Matthew Allender, a wildlife veterinarian affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, noticed something wrong with some of the rattlesnakes he'd been studying as part of a population-monitoring program near Carlyle, Ill. His team had found three eastern massasauga rattlesnakes (Sistrurus catenatus catenatus) with severe facial swelling and disfiguration. Allender brought them back to his lab for observation. The lesions ulcerated and progressed beneath the skin. When the snakes died just three weeks later the disease had deformed their mouths, nasal passages and fangs beyond recognition.
Allender described a fungus, Chrysosporium, as the culprit. In 2010 Allender's team found another infected snake, and since then two more. Allender doesn't yet understand how the disease is transmitted—or how to stop it.
"I've never seen anything like this in wild snakes before," Allender says. "Nor has anyone else. In almost all organisms, fungi are opportunistic pathogens that attack compromised immune systems. These were otherwise healthy snakes," however, he says. Already suffering from diminishing numbers, the snake is a candidate for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's threatened species list.
Unfortunately, the rattlesnakes are only the latest example of species falling prey to fungal attack in a troubling global trend noted by public health officials, zoologists and conservationists. Fungi have afflicted species as varied as amphibians, bats, arabica coffee, mangrove crabs, wheat, coral, bees, oak trees, sea turtles and even humans. (For instance, infectious meningitis is caused by a fungus.)
The most well-documented example is the lethal amphibian fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, commonly known as chytrid. Originally reported in 1997, chytridiomycosis has infected more than 500 species of frogs and salamanders on all continents where amphibians are found, and launched half of all amphibian species into evolutionary decline. Many other species affected by fungal disease face imminent extinction, such as the European crayfish.
View a slide show of invasive fungi's trail of death and disease.
To establish whether the data scientists were gathering really did point to a dramatic shift in a deadly trend affecting numerous species, Matthew Fisher, a reader in fungal disease epidemiology at Imperial College London, and his colleagues conducted a meta-analysis of past studies available on Web of Science, an online citation index provided by Thomson Reuters, ProMED (the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases) and HealthMap, which monitors disease outbreaks in plant and animal hosts. Their findings revealed that fungi and funguslike pathogens (oomycetes) account for 65 percent of the pathogen-driven species loss in the past half century.
Perhaps it is unsurprising in a global economy, but human activity such as international trade and military operations have intensified the dispersal of fungal pathogens, delivering new foes to unprotected victims and introducing new evolutionary opportunities to previously harmless fungus species.
Long thought to reproduce asexually through mitosis, where each offspring is the identical clone of its parent, scientists have discovered fungi can also reproduce sexually, via meiosis. By nimbly changing their reproductive strategy in response to new environmental conditions, fungi transfer genetic advantages from both parents—just like humans do—giving their offspring a better shot at survival. They also readily hybridize (interbreed between different species), outcross (selectively breed with individuals of different strains within a species) and recombine (exchange genetic material during cell division).