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In this hard-driving actioner, an Army drill sergeant John North (Brian Bosworth) enlists the aid of a street-smart 12-year-old punk to wreak vengeance upon the weapons brokers who slaughtered his family. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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Relative Fear
This Canadian thriller features a cute little kid who kills. Connie and Linda give birth simultaneously in the same hospital. A mix up with the babies occur. Linda, after the baby, Adam, hits her, feels something is wrong. Indeed, the babe's real mother is a homicidal maniac and her illness seems to be genetic. Four years pass and Adam has grown into an autistic child. He cannot speak, but he sure can glower when he doesn't get his way. He despises his grandfather because the old man considers him stupid. His parents really love him, but they are concerned. They should be. It is not long before bodies are dropping like flies in the house. The parents hire Clive, a special ed. tutor, to teach Adam to speak. Detective Atwater becomes involved after he begins to suspect that little Adam is behind the mayhem. His mother is inclined to agree. Eventually the mix-up is discovered and Linda confronts Connie, who is chained up in prison. Soon she discovers the whereabouts of her real son. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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The Neighbor
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This low-key Canadian thriller stars Rod Steiger as Myron Hatch, a deranged gynecologist who has an unhealthy obsession with his late mother's memory. After Hatch puts his family home up for sale and moves into the adjacent house, a yuppie couple, Mary and John Westhill (Linda Kozlowski and Ron Lea), set their sights on the property. Hatch's latent mania is unleashed the moment he sees Mary -- a dead ringer for his late mother -- and his obsession with her begins. His less-than-subtle attempts to maneuver himself into her life are nearly thwarted by John's fears of losing his job, and Hatch resorts to murder to keep Mary near him. Despite slick production values and some clever Hitchcockian touches, there is little to distinguish The Neighbor from formulaic made-for-TV fare. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi
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Double Trouble
Two beefed-up twins (played by the Paul brothers, Peter and David, who have appeared in several programmers as "The Barbarian Brothers") operating on opposing sides of the law, team up to stop a nefarious crook in this actioner. Peter Jade is a notoriously arrogant burglar who ends up with the key to an enormous underground cache of diamonds. David Jade is a cop who joins forces with Peter after greedy Philip Chamberlain, wanting the diamonds for himself, kills David's partner. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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When 90% of your time is spent working at your computer, finding a simple, effective way of backing up all of your files is a must. Whether you are a full studio / agency, or a freelancer, your income and livelihood will most probably be dependent on you being able to access the files that you created the day, week, or month before. Now, we are all all too familiar with the nightmare of forgetting to save a file and then the software kindly crashing on us, but just imagine if your entire hard-drive failed!
Most of you are already backing up your data in some way or another I'm sure, but here are 5 ways that you could potentially do it a little more effectively:
External (Offline) Storage
If you own a Mac, then Time Machine is definitely one of, if not the best option out there for external storage. It works with any hard-drive so you don't have to buy Apple's own Time Capsule and it automatically backs up all of your data on an hourly, daily, and monthly basis.
It is recommended that if you're going to use Time Machine then you should buy an external drive that is twice the size of your computer's. This is simply because of the sheer amount of data that it needs to store – just think how many files you work on / play / access in a day! I listened to this recommendation and bought a 1TB drive to back up my 500GB internal drive and it didn't have any trouble filling up within a few months…
The great thing about it though, besides the sexy UI, is that once the hard-drive is full, it asks if you want to start overwriting the oldest files, so effectively you never run out of room. Mine has been doing this for a while now, but I can still reach over 6 months back into old files in case I lose something!


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A 35-year-old man was sentenced Thursday for his role in a scheme to direct illegal campaign contributions to a candidate for U.S. Congress.
Joshua Nassi, formerly of Fairfield, was sentenced to 28 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release and fined $6,000, according to an announcement by the United States Attorney's office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.During the 2012 legislative session, Nassi and an employee of a "roll your own" smoke shop in Waterbury fraudulently donated thousands of dollars to then-U.S. House of Representatives candidate Chris Donovan's campaign, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice. At the time, Nassi was Donovan's campaign manager.
Donavan was elected to the Connecticut General Assembly in 1992 representing the 84th Assembly District of Meriden, and is former Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Court documents described the scheme this way:
The scheme consisted of multiple recruits that served as contributors to the campaign. The recruits allowed checks to be written in their names and subsequently given to the campaign. The recruits were later given cash, which disguised the fact that the smoke shops were illegally donating to the campaign, according to the news release.
Over a two-month period in 2011, Nassi and other participants in the scheme made four $2,500 conduit contributions to the campaign. The campaign later submitted the report to the Federal Election Commission ("FEC"), falsely stating the source and amount of the contributions that were received and deposited, according to the news release.
In April 2013, Nassi pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to make false statements to the Federal Election Commission and to impede the FEC's enforcement of federal campaign finance laws.
"Seeking to gain an edge in a high-pressure congressional campaign, this defendant traded promises of legislative action in exchange for illegal campaign contributions," said Acting U.S. Attorney Daly. "His criminal behavior undermines the principles of transparency and fairness that are the bedrock of our electoral and political processes. We are confident that this prison term, along with those previously imposed in this case, send a clear message to campaign workers whose ethics may be tested."
"Good honest government, for the people and by the people, has no room for the actions of political insiders like Mr. Nassi, who was willing to trade influence over pending legislation in exchange for contributions to a federal campaign that he was steering," said Acting FBI Special Agent in Charge Glover.
"The election process in this country is the very foundation of democratic society and the integrity of that process must be protected. Today's sentence is appropriate and just, and serves as notice that the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office are fully committed to investigating and prosecuting corruption at all levels of government."


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The Mission of the SaltLight Center is to provide opportunities for the Body of Christ to meet the immediate needs of homeless women and children in Gwinnett County.
- The SaltLight Center is an emergency shelter for single women and women with children. The center is located at a host congregation in Lawrenceville and is open daily from 7pm to 7am.
If you NEED SHELTER, contact Family Promise at 678-376-8950 Monday-Friday from 8am-4pm. Guest Flyer Tour of Center
- We have an immediate need for volunteers in order to keep the Center open 7 days a week. We need volunteers to staff the center which inlcudes spending the night. We also need groups to bring a hot meal for 14 people each evening.
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gives me goosebumps.. . . love the4ir rendition of this song(s)
This is wonderful!
Am looking for some Christian rock (or pop) artists in spanish. I love Julieta Venegas but would like to find similar music that is christian. Any suggestions?
I dont' know the artists, but I know the content of the song and I like it very much, the fact that I am in Christ and He in my and the desire of my hart is to go home and be with him, I am no rushing in just anticipating the home coming. Can you say this, Is the same power the brought Jesus back to life dwelling in you, I pray so.
May God richly bless you, Fire walker 3
May God richly bless you, Fire walker 3
Please...thi s isn't the place to be trading remarks about bands. Remember that whether you like them or not, the group honors the risen Lord with their music. Maybe you like them, maybe not, but for the sake of our testimony, let's keep the disagreement s civil...with o u t the sarcasm.
Gregimus: I guess you do not understand German; otherwise you would not think them as "bland"... Too bad you ain't reading this! :-)
AndOne quit the VNV tour last year in Phoenix... thank god!! too bland, no originality. . . too say that they overshadow VNV is a travashamock e r y . Access Zero took AndOne's place in PHX (their first ever live show) and rokked!
I also was introduces to And On through a VNV Nation concert. As an opening act, the almost overshadowed VNV!
Awesome sound.
Awesome sound.
I got to see "And One" last year open for VNV Nation...WOW ! ! ! ! Since "Icon of Coil" open for VNV Nation has no other group impress me. I have heard of them before but till that night in April in Tampa I was blown away and since then become a instant fan to get all there material. They have a Depeche Mode vibe but with a twist of new school sound that I love listening to. When will they be back on tour?
I've seen these guys twice in Mpls. They opened for Front 242 at The Qwest and opened for Covenant at Ground Zero. Both were awesome shows. They blew Front 242 away in my opinion. Tons of energy. Steve Naghavi has great stage presence.
Pretty damn good, and with this many albums you 'ave to wonder why pandora doesn't 'ave any notes about them.
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The instrumental cutin for the chorus in the song "Speicherbar " by And One is straight outta Depeche mode. Which I believe is an intentional allusion to their sound. In any case, I like this group.
rubyhellcat9 9 9 : funny that this page says they are "One", but when listening to
"Enjoy the Unknown" Pandora got the artist's name correct as "And One"
My question, since Ive only heard the one song I mentioned above, are they like
Depeche Mode? Pretty good start in my opinion.
"Enjoy the Unknown" Pandora got the artist's name correct as "And One"
My question, since Ive only heard the one song I mentioned above, are they like
Depeche Mode? Pretty good start in my opinion.
agree with teh comments below however, even the German lyrics need work - a bit simplistic and a throwback to the industrial music of the late 80s and early 90s - "yep I am dating myself" <---ah, and this is one reason I am dating myself as well :)
agree with teh comments below however, even the German lyrics need work - a bit simplistic and a throwback to the industrial music of the late 80s and early 90s - yep I am dating myself
I LOVE the sound of the music from this group, but I encourage the band to create lyrics in german or to get an english editor. The english lyrics truly take away from this otherwise talented group.
Growing more attached to this artist each time I hear one of their songs.
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It's AND ONE, not ONE. Jeez, these profile things are never right.


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Driving in Style: Alluring Autos 1930 - 1965
Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos, Events, Books
In conjunction with an exhibition titled The Allure of the Automobile which just opened at Atlanta's High Museum of Art, SkiraRizzoli will publish a book dedicated to the entrancing vehicles featured in it later this month. The Allure of the Automobile: Driving in Style 1930–1965 traces the evolution of the artisan-crafted luxury motorcar. Embodying speed, style, and elegance, the carefully selected vehicles first broke records on racetracks and won awards at prestigious classic car events around the world. Examining the contrasts between European and American design, the influence of the decorative arts, and the significant changes in automotive styling before and after World War II, the book highlights eighteen of the world's rarest and most coveted cars manufactured between 1930 and 1965.
In addition to the legendary Porsche Type 64, the exhibit and book features Steve McQueen's 1957 Jaguar XK-SS and Clark Gable's 1934 Packard Twelve Runabout Speedster, as well as a classic Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato, Bugatti Type 57S and more. Ronald Labaco, curator of the exhibition, provides historical context and pays homage to these remarkable machines that can be seen as fine art, sculpture, and the embodiment of an industrial craft to be remembered for generations, while extensive entries by noted automotive historian Ken Gross consider each masterpiece and Peter Harholdt's photography stunningly details the custom-built designs that were created for the privileged few. See the gallery for images.


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Concept to Creation: Pitching to a Studio, Network, or Distributor
This is the 11th in a series of 12 excerpts from Mark Simons book, Producing Independent 2D Character Animation: Making and Selling a Short Film. This book is a full-color, concept-to-pitch guide that teaches animators, students and small studios the art and business of producing short, cel animated films. Animation producer Mark Simon has detailed the process in an accessible how-to manner using his award-winning series, Timmys Lessons in Nature, as a guide. This 432-page book contains more than 600 full-color images, interviews and a CD-ROM containing sample animation, animatics and sample software described in the text.
Animation is a bit different than other forms of television when it comes to pitching and selling a show. Since animation is so visual, it has to be sold with visuals. Many live-action shows, on the other hand, are sold with only a verbal pitch or a script.
Networks and studios are buying into the creators as much as they are the show concepts. It takes a long time and a lot of effort to produce a series, so the more energy and confidence you have during a pitch, the better. They need to feel confident that you will be able to do what it takes to make your show a success.
An animated short may be used to pitch a television series. Hit shows such as The Simpsons, Powerpuff Girls, and others started as shorts. In fact, before committing to a series the Cartoon Network often produces 7-minute shorts for shows they are interested in testing.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker produced the first South Park as a video Christmas card for a studio executive. It led to their deal with Comedy Central.
Full animation is not always needed. Often, presentations include only sketches of the characters in action whatever it takes to present the look and convey the concept of the show. Pitches include everything between sketches and full animation. Linda Simensky, director of childrens programming for PBS says, I like to see lots of drawings. I like to see drawings of characters doing all sorts of things, because the humor should be right there.
Timmys Lessons in Nature, a series of animated shorts, was used as a pitch for a half-hour series called The Troop. The shorts introduce our lead character Timmy and demonstrate the look of the show. A one-sheet and presentation package introduces the rest of the cast and explains the concept of the show. When we pitched the half-hour series, we showed the shorts and then verbally explained the half-hour version using sketches to introduce the supporting cast.


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Police say 26 year old Bobbi Jo Schantz admitted to the neglect. A court document says Schantz told police that she did leaver her son at home locked in his bedroom "not more than five times."
It happened in a quiet neighborhood off 1700 South and Sky View Drive in Sandy is home to several families including a mother and son. We knocked on 26 year old Bobbi Jo Schantz's front door, but no one answered.
"I've seen the little boy walking in front one or two times," said a neighbor who declined to give her name.
Many of the neighbors we spoke to declined to speak on camera. But they told us they were surprised to hear about the allegations against Schantz.
"For the most part I'd say it's pretty quiet," said another neighbor who wished to remain anonymous.
Police say it was neighbors who alerted them to the alleged neglect.
"Locking the door and leaving a port-o-potty in there and going to work. It was for the cries of the kid that the neighbors heard the cries of this kid and contacted law enforcement and found this child left inside," said Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill.
Pediatrician Dr. Antoinette Laskey says, "a four-year-old is not capable developmentally to safely care for themselves…respond to emergencies or access food and water.."
That's why Gill says these cases are so tragic.
"We as a society say these parents need to be held accountable because the risks are so tragic when you are not paying attention," said Gill.
Again, Schantz faces five third degree felonies. District Attorney Gill says there are plenty of programs that can help with parenting skills. But in this situation, Schantz is being prosecuted.


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Little Flower by Erin Rager, Illustrated by D. Ellen Kay
Rager, Erin. Little Flower. Illustrated by D. Ellen Kay. Mountain Home: Borderstone Press, LLC, 2011. 42 pp. $9.95. Purchase at Amazon.
Note: My 7 year old son had to write a book review for one of his school lessons. The majority of this review will be his thoughts while mine will be obvious to the reader.
Austin's Review
There was a flower in some weeds. Then a storm came and ripped her petals off. Then the gardener came out and helped her. The next day she found another little flower and another and another.
I liked the storm because the Gardener was watching Little Flower. That reminds me when in the Bible the writer of Hebrews wrote, "And no creature is hidden from His sight." I would recommend other kids read this book because it tells you that God is always watching you.
Erin Rager is a nurse and a mom who enjoys cake decorating, scuba diving, and playing the clarinet in her church orchestra. Little Flower originated on her bucket list but became almost a necessity when she began to face quite a few trials in her own life. D. Ellen Kay has a degree in graphic design as well as a passion for coffee.
Little Flower is in the midst of nothing but weeds. After strong storms come, Little Flower fears that he is all alone only to learn that the Gardener was there the entire time. Little Flower will teach the reader, in parable, the truth of persevering faith.
This little book will be a great resource not just to be read to children (or grand children), but to adults as well. The truths, so masterfully told in this little story will be a sweet balm to a hurting soul.


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Heritage & Collections
Stonyhurst College and the British Jesuit Province are lending three important artefacts to the British Museum for this summer's major exhibition on the world of Shakespeare. As part of the exhibition, the College Curator, Mrs Graffius, has also recorded two programmes for Radio 4 with Dr Neil MacGregor, the Director of the British Museum, discussing two of the loans.
The exhibition will provide a unique insight into the emerging role of London as a world city interpreted through the innovative perspective of Shakespeare's plays, and will be brought to life through objects, digital media and performance. The British Museum has collaborated with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the creative approach to the design of the exhibition, accentuating the connections between the objects, Shakespeare's text and performance.
Stonyhurst is lending its First Folio, a rare copy of the very first edition of Shakespeare's plays, printed in 1623. The College copy was bought by Lord Arundell in the 17th century, and is part of the Arundell Library collection. The famous engraved portrait of Shakespeare in the book, which is shown on all the British Museum publicity, is taken from the Stonyhurst Folio. The College is also lending the Pedlar's Trunk, a unique link with the world of Jesuit missionaries working in secret in 17th century Lancashire. The ponyhair covered trunk is similar to those used by travelling salesmen of the time, but instead of containing ribbons, threads and silks for sale, it contains vestments, an altar stone and chalice, for celebrating mass. It was discovered in the 19th century concealed in a hiding hole at Samlesbury Hall, and is associated with the Jesuit martyr, St Edmund Arrowsmith sj. It will illustrate the Catholic world with which Shakespeare was so familiar, and also themes of hidden identity in his plays.
One of the most powerful relics lent to the exhibition by the British Province. It is the right eye of the Blessed Edward Oldcorne sj, who was martyred in 1606. Collected by Catholics after his execution, it probably made its way to St Omers quite soon afterwards, as it was a very dangerous object to be found with in post-Gunpowder Plot England. The Museum will explore the violent world of religious persecution of Shakespeare's day, and also compare the reality of Tyburn with the violence in Shaekespeare's plays.
Jonathan Bate, Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, who is contributing to the exhibition said "I am tremendously excited to be working with the British Museum's brilliant curators in devising an exhibition for the London 2012 Festival. This show is potentially the most exciting thing to have happened in my thirty year love-affair with Shakespeare."


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Now before everybody hangs me for buying this harshly cleaned pig of a copper, hear me out! No, it's not pretty, but it's a very interesting study piece and I feel lucky to have purchased it. This was an eBay purchase from a person with an excellent return policy whom I had purchased from before. It was unattributed in the description and the price was right considering the cleaning and scratch in the hair.
So the coin arrives and at first I'm saying "What was I thinking?". I break out Breen's Encyclopedia of United States Half Cents and verify my C-2 attribution. Ok, cool, an R3 for cheap, I'm starting to be able to live with it.
Then I'm REALLY looking at the details. Repunching on stars 6 and 7 are still very evident, just like a R6 Cohen-1, yet the cracks extending through the 13th star almost to the 9 in the date fall under Breen's die state IV. Huh. The repunching should have faded, says Breen. Interesting.
And that's why I decided to keep it. Yes, it's definitely the more common C-2, but the state of the obverse die is just weird enough to keep me interested. And I get to see how long it takes to retone in a wood cabinet.
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Companies today are doing everything they can to nurture, protect, make available and otherwise exploit their most valuable asset- information. And this will frequently mean venturing into new technology domains in order to most successfully manage information.
Many are tempted to consider the NoSQL movement as the epitome of these new technology domains. However, many other possibilities have been created by the vendor community that have just as much merit.
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End -- the -- flight that Michael.
-- we are finally getting that peek at Justin Timberlake.
And Jessica deals big day because of few lucky guy because -- -- -- -- well they've been married for less than a week.
In already Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are going public with the details of their big day.
Well here's a happy couple Ainsley on the cover of people they'll probably scored a 300000.
Dollar deal with the magazine well.
Deal wore a custom have a pink OK here we go John Batiste valley couture gown very good bad right.
While Timberlake on the custom Tom Ford kind of a portrait of notice they're all the -- this year and yet he's light over the -- for her right Tom Cruise I hear he's going to court because of his daughter -- he -- -- Tom Cruise firing back against him tabloids.
Cover story that suggested he and then he abandoned six year old story.
After his divorce.
He's now suing the publisher of life and style -- fifty million dollars.
Cruz's attorney said he sent letters to the magazine informing them the headline was false.
And demanded which tracks and attractions but was refused so we'll see how that six out.
I then what about the Angel ball what exactly is that -- the -- were all balled up last night in New York City for a good cause.
Celebrities like Smokey Robinson -- -- asked him and Kanye West attended the sixteenth annual aims a ball.
That benefits the fight for cancer I've talked to some of them on the red carpet before.
And found out why they decide to be part of this big night.
It's a given time of year and we reflect on things to happen.
And things that still need to be accomplished politely thanked them research and you know curing cancer out what to better reasons than a bit ridiculous this combating cancer people's.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- the event hosted by Gabriel's foundation every year raised more than three point seven million dollars -- that's -- are touched by cancer in us.
I Superman big news regarding him is well Superman is the next match drugs.
In the latest issue of the comic Clark -- quit his day job at the daily planet to become a blog -- I recently sat down with the co publisher of DC comics that New York -- comic con.
And he assured me there is more in store for the superhero who's getting ready to celebrate his 75 anniversary next year.
I think when you knew this fingerprints jones' are really question -- -- regards to both as a felt physically able lets them mentally you know how does he fit in the world that distrust them and then what -- -- -- -- -- against them because of that.
We can catch my entire interview would tend to deal -- fox news magazine dot com and for all the latest Hollywood buzz you can check me out on Twitter.
At fox like one go good to see it's Superman it was great for 75 -- congratulations by the flag.
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Church music that plays on both sides of the aisle
The book of love has music in it.
In fact, that's where music comes from.
Some of it is just transcendental;
Some of it is just really dumb.
But I love it when you sing to me,
And you can sing me anything.
--Stephin Merritt, The Book of Love
The vast majority of all music -- from that initial touch of a stretched animal hide that constituted the first drum to the perfection of Bach's Mass in B minor to the modern-day Tom Fettke choral classic "The Majesty and Glory of Your Name" -- is sacred in nature. Since we first crawled out of the water and stood up on two legs, we've been searching for a higher power and worshipping it, and doing so with song.
And as we have evolved, so has our sacred music. And holy crap, has it changed a lot lately.
As with all evolution, there is a telescoping nature to it. It took about 2 billion years for life to evolve. After about 100,000 years, mankind as we know it had come in to existence. Ten thousand more years brought us agriculture, then 400 years for the scientific revolution, about 150 years after that came the industrial revolution, and now, we're seeing real evidence of evolutionary changes in humanity happening in one generation.
The same pattern -- a sort of Fibonacci-in-reverse pattern -- exists in the history of our church music. For a millennium (almost), the music of the Christian Church consisted exclusively of men singing Latin in unison, and doing so unaccompanied. Then someone decided to add a second voice. Craziness. That lasted a couple of hundred years, and then somebody decided to add some instruments. Suddenly, we were having ourselves a Renaissance period, and there were choirs and recognizable versions of orchestras playing and singing praise to God.
And Then Came the Guitar
A generation ago, the pinnacle of church music looked something like this: a 100-voice choir wearing robes sings an inspiring piece of music accompanied by a 50-piece orchestra on the chancel, all inside a sanctuary that is as beautiful as it is massive. That's awe-inspiring. And it engenders worship.
Today, that's not what you normally find when you go to a church service on any given Sunday. You are more likely to find a darkened room, sometimes with folding chairs, and a rock band on the stage. They're still praising God, but it's really different from what that choir and orchestra were doing 30 years ago. Then again, that whole choir-and-orchestra shtick ruffled some feathers when it was new, too.
A fundamental shift in church music has occurred in the last half-century. It is for better or worse? Who knows? But it's changed and is changing. What you find is based on the kind of churches you stumble into.
Take Joseph Bias, for example. Bias has served as the minister of music at First United Methodist Church in Tulsa for 16 years. His is an older congregation (not a bunch of blue-hairs, but it's not a church of 20-somethings, either), so the music of his services isn't all electric guitars and fancy stage lights.
"We have three different types of services in the sanctuary, the early and the later services are more traditional," he said. "Solos, choirs, instrumental, the organ supports the congregational singing. We don't do much of the so-called worship choruses."
However, those services bookend a 9:30am service referred to as a contemporary service, though Bias is quick to get out in front of some of the terminology related to this discussion, a theme that ran through all the interviews for this piece.
"The word 'contemporary' doesn't really apply to this service, but that's because it's hard to say just exactly what 'contemporary' is. We have choruses and a band," he said. "Most churches are doing things like this, but we don't go quite as hard on the rock side. But most of the stuff is contemporary in nature. We do Chris Tomlin, Michael W. Smith, things like that."
Jeff Elkins, music minister at First Baptist Church in Tulsa, echoes Bias' unease with the labels, especially the C word.
"When you say something is contemporary, and you're talking about church music, I think it's part of the connotation of the past," Elkins said. "I was in Muskogee in the '90s. We were Baptist and kind of behind. And we started a 'contemporary' service. That was a division to a lot of people. People felt like we were taking something away, and they said, 'You're taking away what I like.'"
There seams to be -- surprise, surprise -- people who have certain ideas about how the music in their own worship experience should be.
"Maybe we should have used 'modern.' 'Contemporary' also seems like it's putting what you're doing in a box," Elkins said. "But whatever we do, we are supposed to be meeting God. 'Contemporary' puts a label on it. And so does any other label, I guess."
On the opposite end of town from Bias and Elkins is Chris Cleveland, a worship leader at Asbury United Methodist Church. He puts perhaps the best point on the terminology discussion.
"It's interesting. Over the years, you had 'traditional,' and that was like a choir and an organ and some hymns," Cleveland said. "And then the move was to 'contemporary,' back in, like, the '90s. There were some pretty simple praise choruses and some acoustic guitar and maybe some drums, but then people wanted to get more edgy. So now 'contemporary' is kind of the new 'traditional,' and now we're calling what we're doing these days 'modern.'"
And modern it is. Or at the very least, it ain't your father's church service. Cleveland leads worship at Asbury's Venue service, and in many respects, there's a definite rock concert vibe. There are loud guitars, rock music (sometimes you'll even hear a song you might have heard on The Edge on the way to church), colored lights, the works. The congregation stands throughout most of it, they sing along loudly, and lots of people seem like they're having a great time -- worship leaders and worshippers alike.
But like just about anything else, church music exists on a continuum. What someone like Cleveland might consider lightweight, or might call "Church Rock Lite" could be something other worshippers find very edgy. Because of this, because of varying tastes of congregations and of their music leaders, what you find throughout Tulsa (and throughout all church music, really) is a buffet table filled with options.
In addition to the straight up rock in Cleveland's Venue service, there's also a pretty frequent nod to the past.
"There's not a Sunday where we don't do a version of a hymn. I may not play it like I did 15 years ago, but I still like to keep it traditional in some ways," he said. "Every once in awhile, if I can get my brother or some really solid backup singers, I'll go Gaither on you for a bit. I always enjoy that."
Asbury also offers five other services each Sunday, one of which is the pinnacle of traditional worship. Its music ministry is helmed by Hart Morris, who will retire this month after a 20-year stint as the leader of an enormous music ministry that has grown in ways few could have imagined when he came on in 1992.
Elkins gave a nod to his own preferences, and expanded on what the FBC music ministry has to offer.
"I have my own personal likes, and of course that comes in to play," he said. "I mean, I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time programming stuff I just don't like."
That said, he either has widely varying tastes, or is good at compartmentalizing. Whereas someone like AUMC's Morris can focus on the traditional services and leave the rocking to the longhairs (okay, the longer-hairs), Elkins presides over all the music at his church.
"We have two services," he said. "One is more traditional, with an organ, a choir, and an orchestra. And the other one is a kind of do-anything service, trying to relate to so many different age groups. That service goes back and forth from a rhythm section, Top 20, or between a jazz kind of feel -- Brad Henderson is a jazz musician and he's on staff here -- and we try to sing modern music."
This idea of a wide variety is present in what Bias is doing, as well.
"We do a real variety of more recently-written things along with older things. We'll do Andre Crouch, gospel, and with the choir sometimes do Brooklyn Tab Choir, and the next week we'll do Haydn," Bias said.
With three services and two choirs, he's able to explore many, many options, stylistically speaking, especially with two distinct kinds of services -- much like Elkins has at FBC.
"We have two choirs: One serves at 8:15, one at the 9:30 and the 10:55 services," Bias said. "The cathedral choir is about 45 people strong on a Sunday."
The 9:30am service in known as the Regeneration service, and it's the one Bias points to as leaning toward wearing the contemporary or modern labels.
"The Regeneration service is more of a cutting-edge kind of service. They'll do secular music in that service. There's a lot more media involved -- visual and whatnot," he said. But lest anyone mistake it for a rock gig, he is quick to qualify his description.
"We don't' do the kind of stuff where you're jumping up and down because most of our people are too old to jump around," he said with a laugh. "We're not on the hard side with guitar riffs and things."
Like Bias, Elkins speaks of reaching out across musical and stylistic boundaries for one reason only.
"I'm always trying to connect to a different audience and connect a different audience to the Lord," he said.
It's almost like these music ministries are trying to be all things to all people. But is that even possible?
"Ideally, we would love to bring everything, everybody together. I doubt if heaven is divided up into age groups and personal tastes," Elkins said. And while that may seem a little Pollyanna, Elkins averred to as much. "Ideally, one body would worship together, old and young, blending the modern and the ancient together. But it would take a long time to get to that place."
Cleveland spoke a little more pragmatically, and admittedly with a much less active personal filter -- not that that's a bad thing.
"I think like anything else, the church should meet people where they are. That's our job," he said, as if to say that all-things-to-all-people is not only possible, but mandatory.
"I think Asbury has done a better job of that than pretty much any other church. We have a vast demographic," he said. "Sure, we're in south Tulsa, and there are a lot of rich, white people, but we also have [support group] Celebrate Recovery and things like that, where you can meet a lot of fascinating people. And then there's all of Asbury's missions work."
That missions work stretches from Guatemala to a seminary in Estonia to hundreds of upstart Lutheran churches and even more water wells in Tanzania.
"It's almost like worship services are secondary to serving the people of Tulsa and, really, like, the world," Cleveland said.
He went on about Asbury's wide array of choices for its worshippers.
"We've got options for everything in life, so obviously, we'll have options in church and church music," Cleveland. "At Asbury, we've got six different church services with five different worship leaders. We're like the Russell Stover's of church music. There are churches, like Church on the Move, who do only the modern services, and they do it really well. But we're lucky to be able to offer the variety that we do."
While both musicians felt the need to talk about reaching out to all, Elkins spoke about the difficulties involved in actually doing so.
"Practically, it can be difficult, because if you're going to do music like it needs to be done, if you're going to 'A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,' there's a way you have to do it," he said. "There's a way it's supposed to be done. It needs a monster pipe organ."
But there are other pieces of music, other styles, that must be done appropriately, as well -- songs on the other end of the spectrum, for instance. Songs by guitar-wielding worship leaders wearing t-shirts and backed by a band.
"But if you do a Chris Tomlin song, you need to do it like he laid it out. It's hard to do all of that, but people are doing it," Elkins said.
Bias expanded on this idea, as well.
"I like to think of it this way," Bias began. "The music for the worship experience -- the music, the media, the visuals, whatever is done to engage people in worship -- is all good if the idea is to focus them in on Christ. If they are meditating on the Word, if the song -- however it's crafted -- is causing them to have a sense of the presence of God, then that's what we're doing. And we're doing it right."
He then launched into something that one gets the feeling he's said before, and more than once.
"That said, there's room for a variety of things. When you sit down to a meal, you don't sit down to have just one thing. You don't just sit down to nothing but meat," he said. "You have some vegetables, you have some meat, starches, whatever. Then at the end of the meal, you might have a dessert. All those things serve a different purpose. I think worship is the same way."
This extended food analogy led to the issue of the quality of the new church music versus what all three ministers termed "traditional."
"It's good to have the deep, meaningful hymns and their textual integrity and well-crafted melodies," Bias said. "But it's also good to have something that's lighter and that gets into you a little more immediately. That hymn might not come back to you until a few weeks down the road."
Perhaps a few examples might clarify this issue of quality. One of the more prolific hymnists ever was Charles Wesley. He wrote nearly 8,000 hymns in his 81 years in the 18th century (roughly three times the output of William Wordsworth), and among them is "And Can It Be:"
And can it be that I should gainAn interest in the Savior's blood?Died He for me, who caused His pain--For me, who Him to death pursued?Amazing love! How can it be,That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
'Tis mystery all: th'Immortal dies:Who can explore His strange design?In vain the firstborn seraph triesTo sound the depths of love divine.'Tis mercy all! Let earth adore,Let angel minds inquire no more.
Long my imprisoned spirit lay,Fast bound in sin and nature's night;Thine eye diffused a quickening ray--I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;My chains fell off, my heart was free,I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.
No condemnation now I dread;Jesus, and all in Him, is mine;Alive in Him, my living Head,And clothed in righteousness divine,Bold I approach th'eternal throne,And claim the crown, through Christ my own.
Note the rigid adherence to rhyme scheme and structure (and before you tell me that "blood" and "pursued" don't rhyme, look up some information on the vowel shifts our bizarre little language has endured over the years, because when Wesley wrote that in 1738, those words actually did rhyme). Note the power of the words individually, and how Wesley the poet did as poets do: he said as much as possible in as few words as possible.
This is quite different from, say, "Lord, I Lift Your Name on High," written by Rick Founds:
Lord, I lift your name on high.Lord, I love to sing your praises.I'm so glad you're in my life.I'm so glad you came to save us.You came from heaven to earth to show the way,From the earth to the cross my debt to pay,From the cross to the grave,From the grave to the sky,Lord, I lift your name on high.
It's not really even long enough to establish a rhyme scheme, but I think we can all agree that "praises" and "save us" don't rhyme. For that matter, neither do "high" and "life."
Is this the deepest piece of music ever written? Certainly not. But is it bad? Who can say? I can't. And neither can anyone else. There are people reading this article right now saying to themselves, "Hey, I love that song. Why are you saying bad things about it?" Well, I'm not. And I personally know people who find themselves genuinely moved by this song. But its simplicity -- and that of songs like it -- is often one of the elements pointed out by churchgoers who prefer the traditional, choir-hymns-and-organ service to the contemporary or modern aesthetic.
Because of this very contrast, often, the issue of quality has come up. There are those in the traditional camp who mock the so-called praise choruses, calling them "24/7 songs," the joke being that you sing the same seven words 24 times, and then move on to the next, equally simplistic song. But as with "Lord, I Lift Your Name on High," simple songs, songs that might not be perfectly-crafted, nevertheless can have profound impact upon their listeners. So is there an actual issue of quality? Is one kind of worship style better than another?
Bias answered with a tale from his past.
"When I was in California," he began, "I was working in a church there. I was visiting New York. I had a friend there who was a worship leader there and wrote his own songs. Well, he had this song called 'Jesus is a Winner, Man.'"
Bias then sang the song -- very simple, cute (almost annoyingly-so), and just plain corny: "Jesus is a winner, man, a winner, man, a winner, man. Jesus is a winner man. A winner, man, a winner, man, a winner, man, a winner, man, a winner, man, a winner, man, a winner, man. Jesus is a winner, man, a winner, man, a winner, man. Jesus is a winner man." Literally. That's it.
He said he took this cute little ditty (as it wasn't very hard to remember) and brought it back to his California congregation. He taught it to the church, they sang it a few times over several weeks, and according to Bias, the church loved it and had fun with it.
"Well, weeks later, we had a woman who was a church member who had someone in the hospital, and she was desperate for some hope, something, some comfort from the Lord," he said. "And all she could think of was this little ditty. It was enough there to help build up her faith. She said, 'I gotta tell you, that song got us through a really tough time.'"
While Bias wasn't an opponent of the song, nor its simplicity, he nonetheless admits to surprise at the woman's statement.
"I would never think of something that simple having such an effect at such a spiritually difficult time, but it did," he said.
As for Asbury's Cleveland, the rocker, one might expect an answer heavily extolling the virtues of rocking out for Jesus, and one less in favor of the choir-and-organ show. One would be wrong, it turns out. In fact, he hardly touched the issue at all.
"You know, I think there's good and bad in both kinds," he said. Rather than risk his being a cop-out of an answer, he continued with some preaching.
"I think it's hard for people to connect with some of the old texts because honestly, they're lazy and they don't listen," he said. "We're in a fast-paced, Western society that's about immediate gratification. But on the other hand, there's a short verse in the Bible that says, 'Let my words be few.' There's something great in simplicity."
Being a musician who writes songs for his band Stars Go Dim, in addition to writing the occasional piece for the Venue worship service, Cleveland brings more weight to his next words than there would be if they came from a non-writer.
"If I can come up with a simple way to say, 'God, I love, you,' and it resonates the way 'It Is Well With My Soul' does, well, I don't think you necessarily have to bog down a song with big words just to make it touch people," he said.
The irony of the fact that he said this to an Urban Tulsa Weekly writer who has used "snarkily," "conundrum," "fractiously," and "bombastic" in recent weeks seemed lost on him. Maybe I'm not as widely-read as I thought.
At any rate, he continued, speaking about specific lyric points of view, pointing out that regardless of quality, the speaker's intention is perhaps the determining factor of a song's appropriateness, at least in terms of what Cleveland himself likes and wishes to use.
"I start making distinctions between those songs that are about me -- 'I want this, I blah blah blah,'" he said. "I don't like to sing those a lot. I'd rather sing, 'You've done,' 'You are,' 'You've done so much for me' -- songs that focus on God instead of us or what we feel. And a lot of the new music is written from our standpoint."
He continued, invoking perhaps the most famous church musician (no, not J. S. Bach) -- King David, author of the Book of Psalms.
"A lot of David's work was about him--'Lord, save me,' 'slay my enemies,' 'Lord, I screwed up,'" Cleveland said. "But I like more God-centered stuff. Then again, I think there's a place for the more literary stuff," he said, hearkening back to his earlier reference to all them five-dollar college words in some hymns. "I don't think one is better than the other. As long as it's bringing worship and praise, it works," he said
"That's what our job is. For me as a worship leader, for 22 minutes on stage every week, my job is about helping people meet God and learn how great he is. If that's with a new chorus that only has five words, I'm okay with that, as long it as helps people come to God," he said.
Why is it that the young bucks are often ones we expect to have dumbass answers, but they so often hit the target so very well?
Elkins address the quality of music, and specifically, the unspoken notion among many church musicians that older is just always better, with his opening statements on the issue.
"I have seen an evolution in worship music that's pretty complex," he began. "There's this Irish couple, the Gettys, who are writing really complex, almost hymn-like stuff. It's modern, it's fantastic, but lyrically, it's getting really complex and deep. There's a lot of music lately that's really well thought-out. It's not just, 'I love you, Lord, and I lift my voice.' That's a really sweet song, but there's some really complex stuff out there."
He continued, referencing the hymn text above, averring to its power.
"If you want to know theology and sing theology, sure, maybe 'I love you Lord,' isn't your best choice," he said. "There's a reason 'And Can It Be' has been around such a long time. You can tell the salvation story and the love of God with that song."
But that particular hymn isn't the only heavy-hitter in the repertoire.
"There are certain songs that stay forever. I think there are some modern songs that will be around for a good, long time. We won't know, because we won't be here," Elkins said. "But I'm hoping people are really aspiring to communicate the love and grace of god, not to make a hit record. That's my hope. And it's our choice -- my responsibility -- to make it happen."
Another main issue to which some people point in an effort to demonstrate the lower quality of music of the non-hymn variety is the stark difference in the rehearsal processes of, say, a choir of 100 voices versus a six-piece band.
While many choir directors lead 60- to 90-minute weekly rehearsals, following pre-planned rehearsal agendas and rehearsing songs as much as six to eight weeks prior to the songs' inclusion in a worship service, many a band rehearsal goes something like this:
LEADER: Hey, guys, here are the chord charts for this week [chord charts look very much like this article does on the page: there's a line of printed lyrics, and above words in the text that correspond with a chord change, there's a capital letter indicating what chord to play. It's violently different from the printed music that a choir sings from or that an orchestra reads]. So let's play.
BAND: (Plays three or four songs.)
LEADER: Okay, see you Sunday.
Sometimes, it's a 20-minute rehearsal. Good? Bad? Who knows?
Elkins offered some insight into the differences.
"The volunteer base of a choir is talented people," he said. "But taking 75 people or whatever and getting them to do something together takes five or six weeks. Not that they're unskilled, but general volunteer singers need a little more time."
Then he opened the possibility that this may actually be comparing apples to, say, ducks.
"When you have a band, everyone's pretty skilled at what they do. If you're a guitar player and you're skilled, you are good at the five chords that are on that chart in front of you. You don't need six weeks of rehearsal," he said.
The subject of lyrical content and complexity came up again, this time pointing to something positive about a denser text.
"The benefit of a choir singing and rehearsing an anthem for six weeks is that they can internalize the words," Elkins said. "When they sing it for the congregation, they have a pretty good grasp on the text and can convey it to the church. But when I have just four singers, they're generally pretty good singers, so we don't need to spend a lot of time on rehearsals." The lyrics that praise God, then, it would seem, don't get as easily internalized as they do for the six-weeks-rehearsing choir members.
While six weeks on the same piece of music might sound like a terrible experience (it's not, because you're rehearsing lots of other songs. And by the way, you should totally go out and join a choir, because it's super fun), it isn't. However, Bias goes one step further, taking on what he considers a widely-held belief about choirs and their rehearsals.
"I'd really like to dispel this idea that choir rehearsals need necessarily boring," Bias said. And it should be noted he was not speaking in opposition to any kind of band or any kind of rehearsal style. "Our choir rehearsal is a worship service. It's a body connecting. We pray, and we worship. Even when we're working on the nuts and bolts of music, I'm moving toward the idea of 'This is our song, this is our message' to try and move things toward worship. It's not a performance, and it's not a rehearsal for a performance."
More on that P-word in a bit.
Cleveland spoke mainly about his rehearsal style, and that is is most likely a product of the people in it.
"I assume that everyone can play," he said, referring to band members and potential members. "So I have to approach them with the idea that they have something to say, something to offer, and who am I to try and tell them what they can and can't do?"
It would seem that the rehearsals for Cleveland's Venue 68 band are a lot less structured than, say, one of Bias' choir rehearsals.
And regarding the ability of the musicians present, Cleveland also raised the spectre of the professional church player. There are choirs in town that pay singers to be there every week. There are praise bands that pay their members each week, as well. Cleveland took a moderate stance on the subject.
"There are pros and cons of both," he said, referring to the volunteer-versus-professional debate. "I think it's great to have a group of people who are making it their service to the church, and while the music might suffer from time to time, you know their hearts are in it."
However, he finished up with that P-word mentioned above: a word that is a touchy subject among many in and around modern church music.
"Whereas with paid guys, you run the risk of it just being a gig," Cleveland said. "And there's the problem many people have with this style of music and worship -- that it becomes a performance by the singer or the band, rather than a tool to worship God and to help others do the same."
That's the main sticking point often heard in debates about the pros and cons of each worship style: that the music takes place in a worship service, and not at an arena. The people in the crowd constitute the congregation, not the audience.
Bias readily speaks of this issue, making it about the players' motivations.
"Early on, we had individuals who were more into themselves than they were into the team or in to worship," he said of the early days of bringing this type of contemporary music to the congregation of his church. "They would draw attention to themselves rather than the Lord. Sometimes I had to ask people not to participate any more."
Elkins performance looks at the motivations, but understands that there are differing views -- probably as many as there are different individual worshippers.
"A lot of people have really passionate views about this: 'My superb performance is my offering to God,' he said. "While we want to serve up something superb, everything is supposed to be there to help us meet God, from the prelude to the postlude."
Quick to take the spotlight off of anything not related to God and the work of the church, Elkins talked about his and his church's purpose, which remains the same, irrespective of musical style.
"We're not here to do specific things that we love," he said. "I'm not here to say, 'I like this kind of music, so that's all we should do.' We're here to bring people to God."
Cleveland takes a completely different view, readily and unapologetically using the debated word, but he has some pretty sound reasoning to back up what he's saying.
"I've been on the road more than 200 days a year with my band Stars Go Dim," he began. "The people who know about that might put me under a microscope and say, 'What's the difference between what he's doing on Saturday nights and what he does on Sunday?'"
And that is a valid question. Is there a difference? While the Saturday night Stars Go Dim gig might be in a bar or a club or a concert hall, Cleveland maintains that the music is what matters.
"What I do is sing love songs," he said. "I sing them on Saturday, and I sing them on Sunday. Passion has to come from somewhere."
Regarding whether a musician is performing or leading worship or has the best intentions or any other myriad possibilities and variations, Cleveland says it all comes to one point, one place.
"It's where your heart is. For me, it's a personal thing to know that I know where I'm at personally, and it's really nobody else's business," he said. "That might be harsh for some people, but if they've got a problem with it, maybe it's their problem."
He then punched a bear.
Okay, not really, but he did get kind of John Wayne right there, didn't he?
When looking ahead, both Cleveland and Elkins have their eyes set on the future of church music. Where it goes is anyone's guess.
"I don't know what the next fad in church music is going to be, but there will be a new one," Cleveland said. "And there will be a time when I'm not as relevant as I am now. But the best church music leaders are the ones who can see that these things are always changing."
Elkins summed up the church's responsibility regardless of musical and worship fads that will come and go.
"People bringing people together," he said. To him, this is paramount. When pressed on the issue of what's coming, though, he does have something to say, though not anything really all that concrete.
"It's hard to say. Who knows what church will look like in 15 years?" he asked. And he's right.
Think about the world 15 years ago and how drastically it has changed -- politically, technologically (the Internet wasn't even a hint of the amazing thing it has since become), scientifically (Pluto was still a planet), and few if any could have accurately described 2012 while standing in the middle of 1998.
At any rate, no matter what fads come and go (and they will), Cleveland focuses on the horizon.
"The leaders who can change with the times are the ones who are going to succeed," he said. "If we don't change and don't evolve and don't keep thinking about what we're doing, we're going to close up shop in 20 years."
Elkins is like-minded about the inevitable changes.
"Whatever it is, I need to evolve and stay with these changes," he said. "Because no matter what, I need to help people meet God."
As long as all three of these church musicians continue down that path, adhering to it strictly, all three feel they're pretty well set for whatever the whims of fashion throw at them.
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My kinderkids have been working really hard to isolate the sounds they hear at the beginning and end of words. We will be moving on to isolate sounds they hear in the middle of words. We will be doing a lot of work with CVC words and Elkonin boxes in the next few weeks, so I wanted to share this little St. Patty's Day phoneme segmentation activity
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This activity addresses the following Common Core Learning Standards: RF.K.2d: Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (CVC) words.
They will use this by placing all of their gold coins on the top of the rainbow. They will then select a card (I have sooo many picture cards to choose from, so I did not include any in the document), name what is pictured, and then slide their gold coin down the rainbow for each sound they hear. I will be using real gold coins. (Well not real gold, just plastic, but it is real to them!) I did include paper gold coins in case you didn't have the "real" ones on hand.
I would love for you to share with me some ways that you reinforce phoneme isolation and/or phoneme segmentation?


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