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DIY Decor Trend: Handmade Storage Ladders
Old ladders are easy, inexpensive finds and the possibilities for DIY storage projects are endless. Bookshelves, towel or quilt racks, plant stands, pot racks — you name it and you can come up with a clever way to turn that old ladder into virtually anything! Check out these 10 DIYs for a little inspiration and help with what to do with that old, wobbly ladder gathering dust in your basement.
1. If you're in the need of extra kitchen storage, a DIY ladder comes extra room for towels and accessories. From Scandi Home.
2. Also from Scandi Home, a different style of wooden ladder becomes a stacked shelf to store magazines and supplies in the office.
3. Inspiration aside, here's a great hack using an IKEA ladder shelf that becomes a towel rack and extra storage for the bathroom, from Hammers and High Heels.
4. A great tutorial for creating a simple, modern copper accented ladder. This one is used for extra kitchen storage, but would look good in a multitude of spaces. From Monsters Circus.
5. This gorgeous, weathered and rustic ladder turns into leaning basket storage suitable for any room. From Natalme.
6. This beautiful black and white ladder comes with a tutorial from A Merry Mishap.
7. I love this idea for clever shoe storage, especially for those Carrie Bradshaw types with a gorgeous high heel collection. Spotted on Design Sponge.
8. This ladder gets retrofitted with planks for shelves and a bright pop of color, becoming the perfect place to house your plants. From A Beautiful Mess.
9. This idea could work for those of you with ample room. It would be especially perfect as extra storage for a man cave, basement or studio. Photo from The Independent, via 2Modern.
10. Here's another great great example of a horizontally suspended ladder, but this time around it's storing plants instead of pots. From decor8.
Do you have any other crafty ideas for a DIY ladder project that we didn't include? If so, please share your ideas with us in the comment section!


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Psssssssst! Brent, ya gotta have it!
I going to be there Friday for the first time since I started collecting SW. Hopefully GG can send out the links to the exclusives soon and on a day off so I can get my clone.
Dammit! That's it ..I'm gonna go get a collared shirt embroidered with 'Jedidefender.com' on it so I can get all the free press **** like Matt got from the booths last year. Yeah, and I'll carry a camera or something too
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US Looking To Strip Fair Use & Other Key Protections From Copyright Treaty For The Blind
from the this-is-helping-the-blind? dept
It is understood that Contracting Parties who are members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) acknowledge all the principles and objectives of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) and understand that nothing in this Treaty affects the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement, including, but not limited to, the provisions relating to anti-competitive practices.As Love notes, similar language has appeared in a variety of other agreements, including ACTA and the Beijing Treaty (which would give Hollywood stars their own special copyrights). Why is this language important? Because TRIPS includes key provisions that allow countries to make some of their own decisions about how they implement the agreements, to protect the public's rights. But, the content industry doesn't want that same language in this treaty, which is focused on the public's rights, because they're afraid it will, once again, open the door to countries expanding the public's rights, and pushing back on egregious copyright restrictions on those rights.
As if to drive that point home, in a later update emailed from Love, he notes that the US is now also trying to get the phrase "fair practices, dealings or uses" deleted from the following section of the treaty:
"Contracting parties may fulfill their rights and obligations under this Treaty through, exceptions or limitations, specifically for the benefit of beneficiary persons,other exceptions or limitations,or a combination thereof within their national legal traditions/systems. These may include judicial, administrative or regulatory determinations for the benefit of beneficiary persons as to fair practices, dealings or uses to meet their needs."In other words, it's just as we said the MPAA is trying to do: sure they claim they want a treaty to help the blind, but not if it includes anything even remotely suggesting an expansion of the public's fair use rights. So, here, they're "fine" with helping the blind get access to works, but not if it's done via fair use.


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In just months, Commissioner Stacey Monahan led the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) through a very bleak period to one of human services transformation. This culminated in the transition to a first worker assignment model for SNAP-only cases, supported by electronic document management and a centralized contact number.
This human services initiative was completed on time, and early statistics reveal its effectiveness.
- Over two weeks in 2014—November 17 to 21 and 24 to 28—DTA delivered approximately 350,000 client services, handled nearly 70,000 call center calls, and had nearly 10,000 clients use the enhanced interactive voice response (IVR) system.
- Over that same time period, average wait time for the call queue the first week of these weeks was 3:39 and 1:38 (minutes: seconds) the following week.
How did Stacey Monahan's unique leadership style help DTA realize this exciting human services transformation?
This article was originally published in the February 2014 edition of Policy & Practice magazine. It is authored by Matthew Burnham, Public Service Strategy Executive, Accenture, with insight from Stacey Monahan, Commissioner, Department of Transitional Assistance, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Download the full article for Stacey Monahan's inspiring human services story [PDF, 218KB].


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Mar 2008 09:43 UTC, submitted by diegocg
"OpenSolaris has launched a new project, Flexible Mandatory Access Control, to integrate the Flask/TE security scheme into their OS. This is the same underlying model implemented by SELinux, and follows other cross-platform Flask/TE integration projects such as SEDarwin and SEBSD. This is very exciting in terms of establishing compatible security across operating systems, particularly for Mandatory Access Control, which has traditionally been narrowly focused and generally incompatible. With FMAC, we're closer to seeing truly ubiquitous, cross-platform MAC security."


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Local Government Revenue Assistance Fund
Amounts Distributed to Counties, Calendar Year 2006
Ohio's local government revenue assistance fund began July 1,
1989. This fund is composed of 0.6 percent of revenue from
the state sales tax, use tax, personal income tax, public
utility excise tax, and corporate franchise tax.
However, recent state budget bills (House Bill 94, 95, and
66) temporarily suspended this funding formula beginning with
the July 2001 distributions. Effective July 2005, House Bill
66 extended the temporary freeze by two more years. In
calendar year 2006, each county received the same amount it
received in calendar year 2004.
Approximately $94.6 million was distributed from the fund
during calendar year 2006. This money was distributed to the
88 county undivided local government revenue assistance
Under statutory law (suspended in 2005 by the House Bill 95
and House Bill 66 provisions), the amount allocated to each
county undivided local government revenue assistance fund is
based upon the county's population as a percentage of the
total population for the state. The population is the more
recent of either the latest federal estimated census figures
or the latest decennial census figures that include
population totals as of June 1 of the preceding year (Section
5747.61, Ohio Revised Code).
The revenues received from the state's local government
revenue assistance fund are distributed by county budget
commissions to eligible subdivisions within the county
(municipalities, townships, park districts, and county
government itself). Table LG-6 shows the total revenues
distributed to each county undivided local government revenue
assistance fund in calendar year 2006.
Figures shown were compiled from records of the Ohio
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The first round of the 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup kicked off across the country with seven matches (and a forfeit) Wednesday night.
Of note, three games went to extra time with two of those going to penalty kicks. One of the matches decided in a shootout was that of local side RWB Adria downing NPSL darlings Detroit City FC 3-1 on penalties after playing to a dramatic 2-2 draw.
Hot Time in Old Town's Sean Spence live tweeted the match from Livonia Stevenson High School in suburban Detroit where Adria took an early lead through Vlad Baciu in the 20th minute. Fueled by the always raucous DCFC partisans, the home side took a 2-1 lead with second half goals from Tyler Arnone and former Colorado Rapids defender Kevin Taylor in the 71st and 77th minutes respectively.
Baciu bagged a dramatic brace in the dying moments of regulation to send the match to extra time where both teams saw two players sent off and neither could find a goal in the 30 extra minutes. Adria played the spoiler connecting with three of their penalties to see out Detroit City FC and set up a return date to Detroit next week where they'll face perennial U.S. Open Cup spoilers Michigan Bucks next Wednesday, May 14.
Adria will be joined in the second round by another local Chicago side, Schwaben AC, who host USL PRO's Dayton Dutch Lions in Arlington Heights next Wednesday at 4pm CT.
These games should be of interest for Fire fans as the regional groupings make sense for a potential fourth round match up (where MLS teams enter the tournament).
Other Notes:
- The tournament saw it's first forfeit in a decade as USASA side Corinthians were forced to withdraw from their match against the San Diego Flash due to not being able to obtain international clearance for their players in time to play the match. TheCup.US has more information on this intriguing story.
- Kudos to U.S. Soccer for upping their coverage of the tournament this year by introducing a "Game of the Round" which streamed on the Federation's official site Wednesday night. The chosen match saw the USL Premier Development League's Western Mass Pioneers down USASA side GPS Massachusetts 4-1 to advance to the second round. Catch the archive of the match here.
- With the first round done and second round matches set, U.S. Soccer will conduct the tournament's third round draw at Soccer House in Chicago this afternoon. Chicago-Fire.com will once again be a witness at the festivities and have a full account of how the matchups happened later Thusday.
For more information on the 2014 U.S. Open Cup, please visit USsoccer.com and the tournament's unofficial site TheCup.us.


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Team Prenda Loses In Default Judgment; Ruling Clearly Names Steele, Duffy And Hansmseier As Prenda Law
from the and-another-arrow-comes-in dept
As noted in the supporting memorandum, AF Holdings has been found to be an alias of Prenda Law, Inc. and its principals -- John Steele, Paul Duffy and Paul Hansmeier.Steele and Hansmeier keep trying to claim they have absolutely nothing to do with Prenda, and Steele argues that he's got nothing to do with AF Holdings. Having more courts officially note that AF Holding is really Prenda, and Prenda really is Steele, Duffy and Hansmeier, is going to make their argument more and more difficult going forward.
Of course, as if on cue, in a different case, Paul Duffy is now arguing strenuously that it's unfair to lump Prenda Law in with Steele and Hansmeier or to connect it with AF Holdings. Of course, sooner or later, Duffy is going to realize that if he keeps making this argument, he's actually hanging himself out to dry, almost certainly leading up to Steele and Hansmeier quickly tossing Duffy under the bus when the opportunity permits (one assumes soon after they're done doing the same to Mark Lutz).


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Sunday, 9 June 2013
PRIORITY ONE: The Music of TRON | Stemage
Thanks to my good friend Stemage of Metroid Metal fame, it was great fun to revisit one of my favourite movies, TRON! The album is a tribute to Wendy Carlos' original TRON soundtrack from 1982, and its wicked! Great big thanks go to Stemage for a great time on the grid, I would have kicked myself if I missed out...
Priority One is a Joypad release, available now one Loudr.
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- Beth Witchalls said...
Lovely work Ruf! Turned out really good.
- 9 June 2013 at 07:56
- rufus blacklock. said...
Thanks for you help BW :)
- 9 June 2013 at 13:14
- Marc said...
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Skip to comments.Obama Plugs Birth Control and Planned Parenthood in Speech at High School
Posted on 06/26/2012 12:53:14 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
Listing the reasons why Americans should vote for him, President Barack Obama told an audience at a high school in New Hampshire on Monday that failure to subsidize abortions and contraception is the same as restricting access to those services.
In this election, on every single challenge that we face, youve got the final say, Obama told the crowd at Oyster River High School in Durham, N.H.
You can decide that instead of restricting access to birth control or defunding Planned Parenthood, we should make sure that in this country, women control their own health care choices. Thats up to you, the president said to applause.
Obama did not explicitly say that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney or any other Republican has proposed to restrict access to birth control.
However, Romney and congressional Republicans have opposed an Obama administration mandate that requires insurance companies to provide free abortifacients, sterilization and contraception, which Catholics and other religious denominations find morally objectionable.
Further, Republicans have supported cutting federal funding to Planned Parenthood, the nations largest abortion provider.
A recent Rasmussen poll shows Obama leading Romney in New Hampshire, 48 percent to 43 percent.
In his remarks, Obama also said Romney wants to keep our brave men and women in Afghanistan indefinitely. He suggested that Romney would discriminate against sick people, kick people out of the military just because of who you are and who you love, and deny citizenship to responsible young people just because theyre the children of undocumented workers.
In the presidents own words:
And, New Hampshire, the only thing that can break this stalemate is you. (Applause.) Is you. In this election, on every single challenge that we face, youve got the final say. Thats the amazing thing about our democracy.
You can decide whether we keep our brave men and women in Afghanistan indefinitely, like Mr. Romney wants to do, or whether we stick to the timeline that Ive set to finally bring our troops home. Thats up to you. (Applause.)
You can decide that instead of restricting access to birth control or defunding Planned Parenthood, we should make sure that in this country, women control their own health care choices. Thats up to you. (Applause.)
You can decide whether we keep Wall Street reform; whether ending taxpayer bailouts for Wall Street banks was the right thing to do; whether preventing insurance companies from discriminating against people who are sick is the right thing to do; whether over 3 million young people being able to stay on their parents health insurance plan is the right thing to do. (Applause.)
You can decide whether or not we go back to the days when you could be kicked out of the United States military just because of who you are and who you love. (Applause.) You can decide whether or not its time to stop denying citizenship to responsible young people just because theyre the children of undocumented workers -- (applause) -- who have been growing up with our kids and want to contribute to this country.
Its going to be up to you whether we continue seeing these elections where multimillion-dollar donations, one person writing a $10 million check -- whether that speaks louder than the voices of ordinary citizens. Its all up to you. (Applause.)
This is going to be a close election. And from now until November, the other side will spend more money than at any time in American history. And almost all of it will be on ads that tell you the economy is bad -- it's all Obama's fault. He can't fix it because he thinks government is always the answer; because he doesnt have the experience of making a lot of money in the private sector; or because he is in over his head; or because he thinks everything is just fine. (Laughter.)
Thats what the scary voices in the ads will tell you over and over and over again. Thats what Mitt Romney will say. Thats what the Republicans in Congress will say. And I give them credit -- they have a lot of message discipline. They just repeat over and over and over again the same thing. (Laughter.) Doesnt matter if it's true, they'll just keep on repeating. That's what they do.
But you know what, that may be a plan to win the election; its sure not a plan to create jobs. Its not a plan to grow the economy. Its not a plan to pay down our debt. It's not a plan to revive the middle class and restore the American Dream.
So, Durham, if you believe we need a plan for education and energy, for infrastructure and innovation; if you believe that our economy grows best when everybody has a fair shot and everybody is doing their fair share, and everybody is playing by the same set of rules -- (applause) -- then I'm going to need you to stand with me as I run for a second term as President. (Applause.) I'm going to need you. The country is going to need you. (Applause.)
I knew you could!
What a sick SOB.
He doesn't want them to be "punished" with a baby after having sex in high school. He is disgusting and has no sense of propriety.
I wonder if his own daughters have been "educated" by Planned Parenthood yet?
Sure, women can make their own choices, but we DON'T have to pay for it. It is the same with Obamacare—why should we pay for something we don't want and do not believe in.
By the way, maybe his young, unmarried mother should have had an abortion.
You only "subsidize" something if you want more of it.
Gonna suck to be hussein when he stands before the Lord at Judgement time.
All of the kids that might have been there should consider themselves lucky their moms didnt kill them off as a "choice".
kind of hard to go to prom when you were ground up into a pile of mush before you were born.
"Ideas have consequences." Weaver
Deliberate destruction of life in the womb is no subject for self-promoting political power advocates. Such "choices" have potential consequences that may rob future generations of possible scientists, talented musicians and artists, and leaders whose ethical grounding might solve the world's problems. This president once described his depth of understanding on this subject as being "above my pay grade."
This political promotion before high school students illustrates that he was correct.
Did the faculty have the kids sing a song to their Dear Leader?
Maybe this assault on childhood is the petulant princeling's way of retaliating for the insult.
I would think school would be out by now — but was anyone required for class (maybe summer school?) to sit through this Marxist Kenyan's speech?
Putting it like that just assumes that most women are sleeping around and have serial sexual partners. Women, married or single, in monogamous relationships would have a husband/boyfriend to help with the birth control choices and cost.
"Summary judgement"...
Seriously, though, anyone who chooses to not be with God will have his wish fully fulfilled.
Besides being unlikable and mean, Obama isn't very bright. Parents might expect him to pull out a gay porno mag to show the little boys.
The easiest way for women to control their health care choices where pregnancy is concerned is to keep their legs closed, and that is a message at a high school that i could approve of.
What Obama is doing is suggesting they screw everything available and the Government will take care of them.
Not a good message to deliver to randy kids in High School.
If only we could make it retroactive and have BO's mother use birth control so we would not have the POS as president.
The more the Demmies keep aborting and birth controlling, the less of them that can vote......ohhhhhh....I get it....no wonder why they want illegal immigrants.
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Andre Villas-Boas could recall Gareth Bale for the visit of Stoke after the Wales winger recovered from a hamstring injury sustained during Tottenham's victory over Fulham earlier this month.
The Spurs boss could also bring Michael Dawson back into the team, while Emmanuel Adebayor faces a late fitness test. Midfielder Scott Parker and left-back Benoit Assou-Ekotto will likely take their place on the bench after resuming first-team training.
Parker made his first appearance of the season last weekend in the Tottenham victory over Swansea, and the England international could make a starting return to the team on Saturday, but Villas-Boas will probably ease him back into action.
The former-West Ham star has been out of action since injuring his achilles during England's Euro 2012 campaign, and Tottenham will be delighted to see their reigning Player of the Season return as they aim for a Champions League qualification place.
Tottenham are in good form, having won four of their last five Premier League matches, and Stoke have found it difficult on their travels this term.
Here's your GMF predicted line-up for the match…
Lloris, Walker, Naughton, Caulker, Gallas, Sandro, Dembele, Lennon, Bale, Dempsey, Defoe


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42 U.S. Code § 247b–21 - Mosquito-borne diseases; coordination grants to States; assessment and control grants to political subdivisions
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(a) Coordination grants to States; assessment grants to political subdivisions
(1) In general
With respect to mosquito control programs to prevent and control mosquito-borne diseases (referred to in this section as "control programs"), the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may make grants to States for the purpose of—
(2) Preference in making grants
In making grants under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall give preference to States that have one or more political subdivisions with an incidence, prevalence, or high risk of mosquito-borne disease, or a population of infected mosquitoes, that is substantial relative to political subdivisions in other States.
(3) Certain requirements
A grant may be made under paragraph (1) only if—
(A) the State involved has developed, or agrees to develop, a plan for coordinating control programs in the State, and the plan takes into account any assessments or plans described in subsection (b)(3) of this section that have been conducted or developed, respectively, by political subdivisions in the State;
(B) in developing such plan, the State consulted or will consult (as the case may be under subparagraph (A)) with political subdivisions in the State that are carrying out or planning to carry out control programs;
(C) the State agrees to monitor control programs in the State in order to ensure that the programs are carried out in accordance with such plan, with priority given to coordination of control programs in political subdivisions described in paragraph (2) that are contiguous;
(D) the State agrees that the State will make grants to political subdivisions as described in paragraph (1)(B), and that such a grant will not exceed $10,000; and
(4) Reports to Secretary
A grant may be made under paragraph (1) only if the State involved agrees that, promptly after the end of the fiscal year for which the grant is made, the State will submit to the Secretary a report that—
(b) Prevention and control grants to political subdivisions
(1) In general
The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may make grants to political subdivisions of States or consortia of political subdivisions of States, for the operation of control programs.
(2) Preference in making grants
In making grants under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall give preference to a political subdivision or consortium of political subdivisions that—
(A) has—
(B) demonstrates to the Secretary that such political subdivision or consortium of political subdivisions will, if appropriate to the mosquito circumstances involved, effectively coordinate the activities of the control programs with contiguous political subdivisions;
(C) demonstrates to the Secretary (directly or through State officials) that the State in which such a political subdivision or consortium of political subdivisions is located has identified or will identify geographic areas in such State that have a significant need for control programs and will effectively coordinate such programs in such areas; and
(3) Requirement of assessment and plan
A grant may be made under paragraph (1) only if the political subdivision or consortium of political subdivisions involved—
(A) has conducted an assessment to determine the immediate needs in such subdivision or consortium for a control program, including an entomological survey of potential mosquito breeding areas; and
(4) Requirement of matching funds
(A) In general
With respect to the costs of a control program to be carried out under paragraph (1) by a political subdivision or consortium of political subdivisions, a grant under such paragraph may be made only if the subdivision or consortium agrees to make available (directly or through donations from public or private entities) non-Federal contributions toward such costs in an amount that is not less than 1/3 of such costs ($1 for each $2 of Federal funds provided in the grant).
(B) Determination of amount contributed
Non-Federal contributions required in subparagraph (A) may be in cash or in kind, fairly evaluated, including plant, equipment, or services. Amounts provided by the Federal Government, or services assisted or subsidized to any significant extent by the Federal Government, may not be included in determining the amount of such non-Federal contributions.
(5) Reports to Secretary
A grant may be made under paragraph (1) only if the political subdivision or consortium of political subdivisions involved agrees that, promptly after the end of the fiscal year for which the grant is made, the subdivision or consortium will submit to the Secretary, and to the State within which the subdivision or consortium is located, a report that describes the control program and contains an evaluation of whether the program was effective.
(6) Amount of grant; number of grants
(A) Amount of grant
(i) Single political subdivision A grant under paragraph (1) awarded to a political subdivision for a fiscal year may not exceed $100,000.
(ii) Consortium A grant under paragraph (1) awarded to a consortium of 2 or more political subdivisions may not exceed $110,000 for each political subdivision. A consortium is not required to provide matching funds under paragraph (4) for any amounts received by such consortium in excess of amounts each political subdivision would have received separately.
(iii) Waiver of requirement A grant may exceed the maximum amount in clause (i) or (ii) if the Secretary determines that the geographical area covered by a political subdivision or consortium awarded a grant under paragraph (1) has an extreme need due to the size or density of—
(c) Applications for grants
A grant may be made under subsection (a) or (b) of this section only if an application for the grant is submitted to the Secretary and the application is in such form, is made in such manner, and contains such agreements, assurances, and information as the Secretary determines to be necessary to carry out this section.
(d) Technical assistance
Amounts appropriated under subsection (f) of this section may be used by the Secretary to provide training and technical assistance with respect to the planning, development, and operation of assessments and plans under subsection (a) of this section and control programs under subsection (b) of this section. The Secretary may provide such technical assistance directly or through awards of grants or contracts to public and private entities.
(e) Definition of political subdivision
In this section, the term "political subdivision" means the local political jurisdiction immediately below the level of State government, including counties, parishes, and boroughs. If State law recognizes an entity of general government that functions in lieu of, and is not within, a county, parish, or borough, the Secretary may recognize an area under the jurisdiction of such other entities of general government as a political subdivision for purposes of this section.
(f) Authorization of appropriations
(1) In general
For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2003, and such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2004 through 2007.
(2) Public health emergencies
In the case of control programs carried out in response to a mosquito-borne disease that constitutes a public health emergency, the authorization of appropriations under paragraph (1) is in addition to applicable authorizations of appropriations under the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002.
Source(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 317S, as added Pub. L. 108–75, § 2(2),Aug. 15, 2003, 117 Stat. 898.)
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The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002, referred to in subsec. (f)(2), is Pub. L. 107–188, June 12, 2002, 116 Stat. 594, as amended. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 2002 Amendments note set out under section 201 of this title and Tables.
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But, even more ridiculous are the laughable claims from Steve Gibson, the guy behind Righthaven, and Mark Hineuber, the general counsel for the parent company of the LVRJ. Hineuber is claiming:
"My hope," says Hinueber, "is we will raise awareness of copyright laws, and have more links back to our site, and have less of our material infringed on the Internet."Yeah, right. Suing people linking to you is going to get more links? Considering that some of the examples of sites being sued included one that posted just 4 paragraphs of a 34-paragraph article... with a link, it seems that these lawsuits are almost guaranteed to lead to less linking.
Gibson keeps claiming that his is not a legal shakedown business, but a technology business. This is pretty laughable too. If they invested in technology beyond "searching Google," they've wasted money here. But even more ridiculous is the claim that this somehow makes business sense:
"Since the advent of the Internet, there has been an ocean of infringements of copyright that have gone unaddressed," Gibson says. "I've also seen that many media companies have been facing financial difficulties. I was inspired to pursue technological solutions and marry them with the available legal machinery."Actually, no, that's not true. It hasn't gone unaddressed. Lots of companies have tried suing, and so far it's been a dismal failure, costing a lot more money than it ever brought it and calling much more attention to the ability to infringe. To ignore that basic history is pretty laughable.
Amusingly, the article also has the Righthaven folks admitting some "kinks" that need "to be worked out," such as the time it sued the very source for an article (apparently, this has happened more than once). In the one case that we wrote about, after that came to light, Righthaven dropped the lawsuit. I'm guessing that after some more lawyers start fighting back against Righthaven, it's going to discover quite a few more "kinks" in its system.


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The Truth War - John MacArthur
Right now, Truth is under attack, and much is at stake. Christians are caught in the crossfire of alternative Christian histories, emerging faulty texts, and a cultural push to eliminate absolute Truth altogether. As a result, many churches and Christians have been deceived. Worse still, they propagate the deception that poses itself as Truth! In The Truth War John MacArthur reclaims the unwavering certainty of God's Truth and anchors Christians in the eternal, immovable promises that are found in His Word.
John Macarthur is a man on a mission, one to preserve the truth of God's Word and its integrity. In this work he sounds the alarm that the time has come for true believers to stand up and declare that God and His Word alone are true.He shows past problems and how they have emerged in church life today and gives some serious warnings to the Body of Christ. He points out that our warfare is not with swords or modern weapons but is spiritual and must be fought spiritually. If indeed we are in the final days, it would do all Christians well to understand what truth is concerning the doctrine they are living.
Very well written, Biblically sound and will certainly step on a few toes; I am sure, but also will cause many believers to think and re-think what is being told them, and I hope will cause them to go to God's Word and let that final authority speak to their hearts.
Chap 1:
"One of the most basic, universal, and undeniable axioms of all human thought is the absolute necessity of truth."
"After thousands of years, the very best of human philosophers have all utterly failed to account for truth and the origin of human knowledge apart from God."
"Post-modernism has resulted in a widespread rejection of truth and the enshrinement of skepticism."
"Emerging Christians are determined to adapt the Christian faith, the structure of the church, the language of faith, and even the gospel message itself to the ideas and rhetoric of post-modernism."
Chap 2
"When you reflect on how much of the Christian message is undermined by postmodernist notions about truth, it turns out the current controversies are infinitely more serious than McLaren wants to pretend."
"When false teaching goes unchallenged, it breeds more confusion and draws still more shallow and insincere people into the fold."
Chap 3
"Influential people who profess or pretend to believe the truth although they do not savingly believe it are probably the greatest internal danger the church faces."
"Some have even suggested that truth is broad enough to accommodate all well-intentioned ideas from non-Christian religions."
Chap 4
"They must be exposed for what they are, and their doctrines must be refuted witht the clear proclamation of truth from Scripture."
Chap 5
"They have in effect embraced the postmodern axiom that dialogue is morally superior to debate, a conversation is inherently more edifying than a controversy, and fellowship is always better than a fight."
Chap 6
"Try as they might, they cannot overthrow or even slightly derail the eternal purposes of God."
"When we attack the lies of an utter apostate with the truth, we are doing the work of God. There is no need to pull punches."
Chap 7
"Contemporary evangelicalism seems bent on shaping itself into the most stylish, trendy movement in the history of the church."
"Apparently, some evangelicals are prepared to let the dogmas of political correctness trump any article of faith."
Chap 8
"Biblical ignorance within the church may well be deeper and more widespread than at any other time since the Protestant Reformation."
"Today's church-growth experts seem to have no confidence in Scripture's power."
"Mega churches have been built by men with strong entrepreneurial skills and weak exegetical skills."
This latest book by John MacArthur speaks to the dangers of postmodern encroachments on the church of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Description: Is the emerging church movement just another passing fad, a more contemporary approach to church, or a bunch of disillusioned young people looking for answers? In fact, it is actually much broader and is influencing Christianity to a significant degree. Grounded in a centuries-old mystical approach, this movement is powerful, yet highly deceptive, and it draws its energy from practices and experiences that are foreign to traditional evangelical Christianity. The path that the emerging church is taking is leading right into the arms of Roman Catholicism and ultimately to an interfaith perspective that has prophetically profound ramifications.
� Ancient rituals and practices brought back to life
� The Eucharistic Evangelization
� The emerging road to Rome
� Contemplative spirituality and mysticism
� The emerging church's view of Hell and the Atonement
� How the emerging church considers biblical prophecy and the future of planet Earth
� The key catalysts of the emergent church
� Purpose Driven ecumenism: Part of the emerging church's new reformation
� How emerging spirituality is altering missions and evangelism
� Understanding the emerging church in light of Bible prophecy
In the not-too-distant future, most evangelical pastors will have to decide whether to support or reject the spirituality behind the emerging church. If this movement continues unfolding at the present pace, mainstream Christianity will be completely restructured, and the biblical gospel of Jesus Christ will be considered obsolete. If I believed for one minute that this movement was just another passing whim or the discontent rumblings that so often occur with young people as they search for answers to life, I would never have written this book.
But sad to say, the emerging church is far more than a fleeting fad and much more than the complaints of a group of young leaders. It is indeed a new way of being Christian and its objective is to usher in a new reformation throughout the world.
Those who refuse to embrace this direction will be considered spiritual oddballs that are hindering a unified one-world spirituality that is promoted as the answer for peace and that is prophesied about in the Bible. I know these sound like preposterous concerns. How could a movement that seems so unorganized and mismanaged do so much damage? The answer to that is the reason I wrote this book. For behind this new kind of worship, this new kind of church is a strategic apostasy and maneuver by the prince of this world, the enemy of our souls, to literally take apart the faith of millions—it will be nothing less than faith undone.
Chapter by Chapter Overview
1. A New Kind of Church
Leaders of the emerging church say drastic changes must take place because the church can no longer be effective with old ways and an old church. We need a new kind of Christianity if we are going to make a difference in people's lives and the world around us. But just what is this new kind of Christianity?
2. The Birth of the Emerging Church
Contrary to what many believe, the current emerging church movement was not initiated by a group of disillusioned young people. In reality, the movement was largely the inspiration of a successful business guru whose ideas on an emerging church were catapulted into existence by other successful businessmen, and thus it became the influential religious force it is today. Backed by multi-million dollar corporations and entities, its very core has been influenced dramatically by those with mystical affinities.
3. A "New" Faith for the 21st Century
The Word of God is under attack. According to emerging church leaders, the Bible is not so much for truth and doctrine as it is for hopes, ideas, and participation. In other words, don't use the Bible as a means of theology or absolute truth and standards by which to live; rather than the Bible molding the Christian's life, let the Christian's life mold the Bible.
4. Riding the Emerging Church Wave
How far is this new kind of church willing to go to reach its objective? Emerging church proponents say there is a new wave taking place and we have to hop on. The wave is a Vintage Christianity, which in reality is an experience-based religion. Experiences must be implemented in order to attract both Christians and non-Christians alike; we must appeal to this postmodern generation with its hunger for experience, rituals, and mysticism.
5. Ancient-Future Worship
The emerging church embraces multi-sensory worship. While many are bewildered why their churches are darkening their sanctuaries, setting up prayer stations with candles, incense, and icons, the promoters of the emerging church movement say they know exactly what they are doing by practicing mysticism through music, rituals, and worship and offering stimulating images for a spiritual experience. Leaders of the emerging church say the ideas and beliefs of the early church fathers (100 AD to 600AD) are important and these teachings from the past will bring spiritual transformation and success to churches in the 21st century.
6. When West Meets East
Contemplative spirituality (i.e., mysticism) is to the emerging church what the wind is to a sail boat. Without it, there is no momentum, and it is woven into the very fabric of the emerging church's ambience. In order to understand why this is so important, we must first understand the dynamics of contemplative spirituality.
7. Monks, Mystics, and the Ancient Wisdom
The emerging church is embracing contemplative spirituality and what is called the ancient wisdom. While appearing to be Christian because of the altered terminology, in actuality, it is occult based and New Age.
8. The Evangelization of Eucharistic Adoration
The Roman Catholic Church has a plan to establish the Kingdom of God here on Earth and win the world to the Roman Catholic Jesus—the Eucharistic Christ. It is believed the "triumph of the Eucharist" will be accomplished when the world (including the separated brethren) come under the rule and reign of Rome and the Eucharistic Jesus. The presence of "Christ" in the Eucharist is the second coming, Roman Catholic style. The emerging church is a bridge to Rome.
9. The Kingdom of God on Earth
The Bible says that Jesus Christ will establish His kingdom when He returns to Earth. But today a theology called Kingdom Now or Dominionism is permeating the walls of Christianity, and the emerging church movement is taking this heretical belief full speed into the next generation. With the idea that the church can establish the Kingdom of God before Christ returns and essentially turn our world into a Christian world, this belief system has literally changed the way countless Christians view the world and go about their Christian living. What most of them don't realize is this Kingdom of God on Earth mindset is an all out effort by Satan to merge together the religions of the world and thus negate the gospel message.
10. The Undoing of Faith
The fruit of the emerging church includes: changes in views on sexuality (homosexuality acceptance and tantra, a mixture of mysticism and sex), the desire by emerging leaders to stop identifying with Christianity, eradicating the gap between good and evil (the very goal of Satan's religion, the New Age), and developing a new missiology which says keep your own religion, just add Jesus. This truly is the undoing of Christian faith.
11. A Slaughterhouse Religion?
If someone said that emerging church leaders don't like the Cross, many would cry out, "Yes, they do. I've heard them talk about Jesus and the Cross." But while this may be true, there is an underlying theme building momentum in the emerging church that says, "Jesus going to the Cross was an example of sacrifice and service that we should follow. But the idea that God would send His Son to a violent death for the sins of mankind—well that is not who God is. He would never do that!" This mindset negates the very atonement on which biblical Christianity rests.
12. A New Reformation?
Faith Undone shows that the nature of the emerging church's new reformation is anything but new, and when it comes to pass could bear violence and persecution on those who defend the Bible as the true and literal Word of God. This is a heavy chapter that will zero in on what this new emerging reformation will look like.
13. Or An End-Time Deception
The Bible says that in the last days Satan will deceive the whole world with doctrines of demons and seducing spirits. The question must be asked, is the emerging church spirituality part of this great falling away? And just what are the earmarks of a church that has become part of this end-time deception?
a newsletter from The Berean Call. It was written by T. A. McMahon, and published in February 28, 2008. Go back through historical church eras and glean from such time periods those issues deemed to be of value in the development of the Christian faith. Let's review the first-century church, the church between A.D. 100 and 600, then consider the medieval era (A.D. 700 to 1500), followed by the Reformation period (A.D. 1500 and later), and so on. To be effective in this endeavor, it's important to have a good understanding of the cultural context in which the Christians of each era practiced their faith. In addition, we'll need to study the Church Fathers and gain the insights they provided. Why? Well, those who are promoting this "re-presenting the past" believe that today's Christianity will greatly benefit as it "re-invents itself" in order to effectively bring the message of the gospel to the postmodern world. If you think this may not be a good idea, you could be labeled a "traditionalist," one whose faith and practice is inflexible and out of touch with our rapidly changing culture-and church.
That's the view that Christianity Today (CT) has of what's going on in evangelical Christianity. In introducing its February 2008 feature article with a cover-page declaration, "Lost Secrets of the Ancient Church: How evangelicals started looking backward to move forward," CT senior managing editor Mark Galli writes:
You might say a number of CT editors have a vested interest in this issue's cover story. David Neff, Ted Olsen, Tim Morgan, and I have been doing the ancient-future thing for many years, at Episcopal and/or Anglican parishes. And if this were not enough immersion in the topic, in his spare time, David Neff heads up the Robert E. Webber Center for an Ancient Evangelical Future, founded by the father of the ancient-future movement.
Robert E. Webber, who died last year, is certainly the "father of the ancient-future movement," and his many books have provided encouragement and content for leaders of Emerging Church fellowships. As a Wheaton College professor for three decades, he also played a significant part in influencing that evangelical institution's capitulation to ecumenism, particularly its support of Roman Catholicism (see TBC 6/02, 7/02, by T.A. on ECT at Wheaton).
Webber wrote in his book, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World, "Currently, Western society is in a transition from the modern world to a postmodern world... shifting us toward the affirmation of new values...resulting in a whole new culture and rais[ing] new questions about the way a biblical Christianity is to be understood and communicated."1 The solution for Christianity to be viable in this cultural transition, Webber contends, is to "recover the universally accepted framework of faith that originated with the apostles, was developed by the [Church] Fathers, and has been handed down by the church in its liturgical and theological traditions."2
This Church Fathers' "framework of faith," along with "its liturgical and theological traditions" is found primarily, according to Webber, in the era of "Classic Christianity," between A.D. 100 and 600. And it was to that church age that most of the speakers at the 2007 Wheaton Theology Conference on "The Ancient Faith for the Church's Future" sang their praises. CT describes what took place at the Billy Graham Center in the Cliff Barrows Auditorium, including taking the audience through prayers from the Gelasian Sacramentary (also known as the Book of Sacraments of the Church of Rome), a fifth-century book of Catholic liturgy containing the priest's instructions for celebrating the Eucharist and recommending them for worship in today's Protestant churches. One speaker promoted the Catholic "medieval fourfold hermeneutic," which emphasizes the nonliteral interpretation of the Bible, and another "gleefully passed on the news" to this highly receptive crowd "that Liberty University had observed the liturgical season of Lent."
The writer of the article then asks, "Had Catholics taken over?" in this former bastion of conservative evangelicalism. His answer is NO! This Wheaton College conference was simply evangelicals looking to the past for "rich biblical, spiritual, and theological treasures to be found within the early church" as supplied by the early Church Fathers.3
Are evangelicals truly paying attention to the Church Fathers? University professor D. H. Williams, author of Evangelicals and Tradition, substantiated "the recent upsurge of evangelical interest in patristics (the study of the Church Fathers): 'Who would have thought, a decade ago, that one of the most vibrant and serious fields of Christian study at the beginning of the 21st century would be the ancient church fathers? There has been an opening of new avenues...[created] by the almost overnight popularity of bishops and monks, martyrs and apologists, philosophers and historians who first fashioned a Christian culture 1,500 years ago.'"4
Although these developments may seem shockingly new to some and seem to have sprung up overnight, Christianity Today gives some preparatory background (see also "Evangelical Mysticism?" TBC 2/08). The article quotes Robert Webber from his then controversial 1978 book Common Roots: "My argument is that the era of the early church (A.D. 100-500), and particularly the second century, contains insights which evangelicals need to recover." CT notes that 25 years later Webber rejoiced in his book Younger Evangelicals that they [emergent fellowships] "want to immerse themselves in the past and form a culture that is connected to the past...."
Nearly a decade earlier than Common Roots, a number of Campus Crusade leaders went on their own "recovery" of ancient liturgies, specifically from Eastern Orthodoxy. Peter Gillquist, Jack Sparks, Jon Braun, and others left Campus Crusade to form what was a forerunner of today's ancient-future-emergent movement. They turned to the writings of the early Church Fathers "to practice a more liturgical form of worship than in their previous evangelical background."5 They called their movement the New Covenant Apostolic Order and, later, the Evangelical Orthodox Church.
In 1978, Quaker and CT advisory editor Richard Foster wrote Celebration of Discipline. His book, which introduced Catholic and occult meditative techniques to evangelicals, sold more than a million copies and was selected by Christianity Today as one of the top ten books of the 20th century. Foster later formed Renovaré, an organization dedicated to teaching spiritual formation through the mystical beliefs and practices of the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Desert Fathers. Eugene Peterson (CT editor), author of the very popular paraphrased Bible, The Message, was the New Testament editor of the Renovaré Spiritual Formation Bible.
These developments are foundational to today's Emerging Church phenomenon and indicate that such roots will carry it well beyond its merely being a fad among today's evangelical youth. More recent support (noted in last month's TBC) is the change in attitude among evangelicals toward Roman Catholicism fostered by "Evangelicals & Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium," an endeavor of Chuck Colson and Father Richard John Neuhaus (both CT editors) and the stunning success (thanks to evangelicals) of Mel Gibson's extremely Catholic The Passion of the Christ.
Is any of this "for the good," as Christianity Today declares?
Let's both reason from the Scriptures, and simply be reasonable (Isaiah 1:18). The Ancient-Future search to discover gems from "Classic Christianity" comes up short by a century -- the century in which the New Testament was written. The critical difference should be obvious. The writers of the New Testament were inspired by the Holy Spirit as they penned God's Word (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21, 22). What writings from A.D. 100 and later can claim such inspiration? None. But we're told that some were disciples of or lived at the time of the apostles. True, but proximity to the apostles is hardly a guarantee against heresy nor does it come close to inspiration. Furthermore, much of the first-century-written New Testament reproved and corrected errors that had already entered the church!
Remember the Apostle Paul's warning to the Ephesian elders, who were certainly closer to Paul than any of the so-called Church Fathers:
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. (Acts 20:28-31)
It's not that these men got everything wrong; some, on certain doctrines, upheld Scripture against the developing unbiblical dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church.
Nevertheless, overall they are a heretical minefield. So why seek them out?
Worse yet are the Desert Fathers and the Catholic mystics. Anthony the Great, known as the father of Christian monasticism, is the most revered of the Desert Fathers. According to Athanasius, the devil fought Anthony by afflicting him with boredom, laziness, and the phantoms of women, which he countered by becoming a hermit and isolating himself for years inside a tomb. He communicated with the outside world through a crevice that enabled him to receive food and to offer spiritual advice. Supposedly, the devil, upset by his holiness, would come and beat him unmercifully.
Later mystics were no less bizarre-or unbiblical. Benedictine nun Julian of Norwich, a favorite of evangelical mystic wannabes and "Christian" feminists, believed in universal salvation, that God was in all things, referred to God as "Father-Mother," and experienced intense visions of heaven and hell. Her most famous saying became a positive mental attitude mantra: "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well." Like Anthony, she had herself walled off from society, living for 20 years in a cell attached to a church, where a small window provided access to food and a view of the church altar and of the Eucharist.
Could these hermits and mystics really interest evangelicals? Christianity Today says they do. Referring to "monastic evangelicals" and the "new monasticism," an insert in its cover article observes how "growing numbers of evangelicals" are "taking their newfound love affair with Christian tradition" beyond "books and talk" and are "now experimenting with advent candles [and] sampling [Catholic] practices associated with Lent...." CT credits Richard Foster's Devotional Classics as possibly fueling this latest trend, and it notes that Brian McLaren, Tony Jones, and a number of emerging church writers have "been calling evangelicals to monastic models as a guide for the future."6
As a former Roman Catholic, I am staggered when I see who and what Christianity Today is blatantly promoting. Robert Webber, for example, writes in Signs and Wonders of an experience that changed his Protestant life. He received the Eucharist (allegedly the "actual body and blood of Christ under the appearance of bread and wine") while at a Catholic retreat center: "You might say I was surprised by joy!...I had never had an experience like that in my life....I had been in dialog with another worship tradition, and I was surely the richer for it"7 Thousands of steadfast biblical Christians were martyred for refusing that idolatrous and gospel-denying "worship tradition."
Campus Crusade leader-turned-Orthodox-priest Peter Gillquist explains the "mission" he and those who joined him are on: "Our desire is to make North America Orthodox!" As former conservative evangelicals, they believe that "if we [could] become Orthodox, then anyone in North America can!" Furthermore, due to their apologetics and evangelism training, "...we represent a strong force for Orthodox evangelization....And we know there are many others just like us who if given the time and persuasion will join the Orthodox ranks just as we have."8
Will this soon pass? No. It's all part of related agendas that are building the end-times apostate church (Revelation 13:8). Its tools are experientialism, subjectivism, mysticism, and dominionism, all of which aggressively and obstinately subvert the Word of God. They are intentionally (in some cases unwittingly) being used to work out Satan's primary scheme against God and mankind (Genesis 3:1: "Yea, hath God said...?") as they undermine His Truth. Is God doing anything about it? Yes. As evidenced by what's been presented here and so much more, He is sending "strong delusion" among those who have not a "love of the truth" (2 Thessalonians 2:10,11).
We desperately need to heed the words of Jesus in Revelation chapters 2-3 that give critical warnings to churches that profess to be His. To Laodicea, which very likely represents the last church age before His return, He declares,
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. (Revelation 3:19-22)
Here are some warning signs. There still may be time to stop your church from "submerging" to "Emerging" but only if you act decisively and in union with others in your church who feel the same. A delegation of one or two will never impress church leadership who already think this "new way of doing church" is better than warmed bagels and who have swallowed the Emergent deception. And make no mistake, it is deception.
* Scripture is no longer the ultimate authority as the basis for the Christian faith.
* The centrality of the gospel of Jesus Christ is being replaced by humanistic methods promoting church growth and a social gospel.
* More and more emphasis is being placed on building the kingdom of God now and less and less on the warnings of Scripture about the imminent return of Jesus Christ and a coming judgment in the future.
* The teaching that Jesus Christ will rule and reign in a literal millennial period is considered unbiblical and heretical.
* The teaching that the church has taken the place of Israel and Israel has no prophetic significance is often embraced.
* The teaching that the book of Revelation does not refer to the future, but instead has been already fulfilled in the past or is allegorical.
* An experiential mystical form of Christianity begins to be promoted as a method to reach the postmodern generation.
* Ideas are promoted teaching that Christianity needs to be reinvented in order to provide meaning for this generation.
* The pastor may implement an idea called "ancient-future" or "vintage Christianity" claiming that in order to take the church forward, we need to go back in church history and find out what experiences were effective to get people to embrace Christianity.
* While the authority of the Word of God is undermined, images and sensual experiences are promoted as the key to experiencing and knowing God.
* These experiences include icons, candles, incense, liturgy, labyrinths, prayer stations, contemplative prayer, experiencing the sacraments (for Protestants), particularly the sacrament of the Eucharist.
* There seems to be a strong emphasis on ecumenism indicating that a bridge is being established that leads in the direction of unity with the Roman Catholic Church. This will ultimately lead to the one world religion of Revelation.
* Some "evangelical" Protestant leaders are saying that the Reformation went too far. They are reexamining the claims of the "church fathers" saying that communion is more than a symbol and that Jesus actually becomes present in the wafer at communion.
* Some suggest there are many ways to God.
* Members of churches who question or resist the new changes that the pastor is implementing are reprimanded and usually asked to leave. If you are over age 50, your opinion will not even matter.
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In Search of the Perfect Market Bag: 10 Favorite Picks
How do you haul your fruits and veggies from the market? Do you like the feeling of a basket nestled in the crook of your elbow, or do you prefer to swing a tote over your shoulder? The perfect market bag is a very personal thing, but whatever your preference, we think you'll find something to love in our roundup today. From simple canvas bags to fancier compartmentalized carry-alls, here are 10 bags we wouldn't mind carrying on our next market trip:
• 1 La Vie Orange French Market Basket, $39 from Maison de Kristine
• 2 Market Bag, $58 from Apolis
• 3 Baggu Duck Bag, $24 from PUBLIC
• 4 Mercado Market Bag, $24.99 from Quirky (see our review here)
• 5 Cornucopia Bag, $124 from Betabrand (on backorder)
• 6 FRESH Market Bag, $55 from Neiko Designs
• 7 Sac à Baguette, $299
• 8 Built Large Market Tote, $39.99 from Zappos
• 9 Farm Tote, $130 from Makr (also available in other colors)
• 10 Island Tote, $24.95 from Basketville
Related: Why You Should Try Returning Old Shopping Bags Before Tossing Them
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For most indie musicians the idea of hiring a producer might seem high-falutin', or at least expensive. But the truth is hiring someone to produce your demo or album might be smarter, more practical and cheaper than your think. A good producer makes songs, sounds and arrangements better, and can identify an artist's or band's strengths and weakness, then develop a strategy for embracing the former and triumphing over the latter. Smart producers also understand how to make an album strategically, selecting and crafting songs and arrangements to best reach a demographic, ideally without artistic compromise.
Wassaic Way , the new CD by Americana wife-and-husband team Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, is a good example. Over the course of five albums they've slowly evolved from a traditional folk duo to more ambitious inclinations aimed at taking them to a larger audience. Their previous album, 2011's Bright Examples, featured full-band arrangements that strained toward breaking from the traditional folk and folk-pop constraints, and featured Gary Louris and Mark Olsen of the Jayhawks as backing vocalists. But with the addition of Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and Patrick Sansone as co-producers, Wassaic Way takes Guthrie and Irion's music to the level they were seeking. Tweedy and Sansone expand on the duo's already smart, playful lyrics with hook-accenting guitar licks and filigrees, including hand claps and other classic pop signifiers, that clearly lift things beyond the folk world. They also carefully framed the duo's voices with their own often-exploratory guitars, broadening both the textures and the sheer rock appeal of the core sound of Iron and Guthrie, who is the daughter of Arlo Guthrie and the granddaughter of American folk cornerstone Woody Guthrie. As a result the album is already garnering more attention and airplay than any of their previous releases, led by the psychedelic-pop single "Chairman Meow."
Of course, hiring a celebrity producer like Tweedy is beyond the reach of most bands, but there are plenty of good producers in the early stages of their careers that are willing to work cheap to build their resumes. They can usually be found in a local music scene or in the credits of other indie artists' and bands' releases, and if they're savvy and looking for work they'll have a homepage or Facebook page where they can be contacted.
There are three major components to the producer's role. The first and arguably most important is "preproduction." The term is most often used to describe the process of selecting and improving songs that will be recorded. And for that, a good producer should have deft arranging and orchestration skills, as well as a strong knowledge of song structure and lyric intelligence. But preproduction is also the stage where a producer may assist with finding a studio and, if necessary, an engineer that fits a project's budget, as well as help with the selection of players who'll appear on the sessions, much like a film director chooses his cast. Smart preproduction also requires marketing savvy. Identifying the audience that's likely to buy an artist or band's music plays an important role in picking and arranging the songs that are the best match for that audience. Ideally the producer can discover the strengths and weaknesses of the musicians during this stage, and plan on taking appropriate action to get the best studio performance based on those.
The "production" stage involves the actual recording of the album. Here, the producer takes on the role of director, guru, muse, psychologist, cheerleader, negotiator and whatever else may be required to get the job done and mange the people who are doing it. Not all producers are engineers, even in the low-budget world, but many are. And for guitar driven bands it's good to hire a producer who is six-string savvy and will know how to help you get the best and correct sounds out of guitar, amp and effects combinations. Hiring a producer or studio with a great guitar and amp collection is certainly a plus.
One of the requirements of a good producer is to have a vision of what the album will be like when it is finished before the tape — analog or digital — starts running, and to make sure the artist is on the same page. Ideally, a producer should make an album that is true to the artist's creative core, even if this requires helping the artist discover exactly what that core is during preproduction. The producer should also be flexible. Sometimes going off script in the studio, leaving room for inspiration, can lead to capturing essential performances. That's how Radiohead's breakthrough single "Creep" got on tape. The band was playing the song, which they considered a throwaway, for friends in the studio before a session, and producers Paul Kolderie and Sean Slade had the good sense to hit the "record" button.
After the album is recorded, there's "mixing." That's where an educated set of ears with knowledge of outboard gear really comes in handy. Bands and artists who mix themselves tend to sabotage hooks and other interesting events in songs by mixing certain parts too loudly, or failing to delete elements that have been recorded in the interest of helping the best parts of songs. They also tend to bury the vocals if they're rock bands and place them too high in the mix if they are singer-songwriters. Most studio newbies also tend to underutilize the spectrum of sound. For stereo, envision the vocals and instruments arrayed across a 180-degree field. For Dolby, the world is your playground. If you're not experienced at mixing, it's best to sit back, watch, listen and make occasional suggestions while the producer and/or engineer brings the recording to life in this essential stage.
The final stage of album making is "mastering," where various EQ and compression parameters are applied to the finished mix. This requires yet another specialized set of ears. Chances are your producer can suggest a good, efficient mastering engineer based on experience. It's good to have the producer at the mastering session to ensure that the project comes back as it was envisioned. Poor mastering can take the life out of an excellent recording and mix. On the other hand, it's best to leave the kibitzing to the qualified. One Nashville mastering studio, which does superb work, has evolved a strategy for foiling meddlers. It changes $600 for mastering an indie album if nobody involved in the recording attends the sessions. If a band member, producer, engineer, manager or other party want to be present, there's a $200 up-charge.
Some producers will go the extra mile and help an artist or band with various aspects of an album's post-production life, like market planning or shopping for labels or distributors, but that's well above the requirements of the job title.
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I believe the children are our future
[Verse One] [Homeboy Sandman]:
Boy Sand is for the kids
Lil' bro and lil' sis smoking cigs
Shouldn't you go study for a quiz?
STD is not pronounced "stid"
Who produced this?
Kids 'tween 3 and 6 shouldn't have to tussle with the three sixes
Watching big chested vixens
Need to go and get they chest Vixed
Little black girls your hair is beautiful
You could leave it natural it's suitable
Forgive the adults that try to get you
To burn it, they've got self image issues
Turn off the TV and go to sleep
You're not a ugly duckling, you're a swan
I know you think that being different makes you weak
But being different makes you strong
[Hook] [Homeboy Sandman]:
[Verse Two] [Homeboy Sandman]:
Think before you speak
Wash your hands before you take a leak
Don't be cocky when you take the lead
If you cocky light a match before you leave
Brush your teeth
Stop and smell the flowers seeds
Enjoy the sun showers seeds
De-shell your sunflower seeds
Don't crack when sides is pulling you
Between either going to math or cutting class and getting drunk
Don't let nobody bully you
Feels so much better having someone beat your ass than being a punk
Say no to drugs
Never turn your back on your bruhs
The object of life ain't making bucks
The object of life is spreading love
[Hook] [Homeboy Sandman]:
[Verse Three] [Chase Infinite]:
I take the time to teach the kids in the streets
For the children like Asa and Unique
Little sisters, you ain't gotta be a freak
Even Nicki Minaj wasn't that at 13
Little brothers you ain't gotta be a fool
And I know they don't teach us nothing useful in them schools
But, if you hustle than consider school a tool
That you use against the devil so he don't fool you
Uh, consider these jewels
For growth and development, guidelines and rules
The little homies need to know it ain't cool
To openly disrespect the people that made you
Love your parents no matter the consequences
Before you go to sleep, don't forget to wash the dishes
And say a prayer before you eat something
That's a blessing because somebody get to eat nothing
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Thornburg Heads TMS's Concierge Service
May 4, 2010 by RVBusiness · 1 Comment
Stony Thornburg was named to head up the new personal service advocate program for Thor Motorized Services (TMS), serving owners of Damon Motor Coach and Four Winds International Corp. products.
TMS announced in December creation of the new program for retail owners called "Concierge Connection."
The program was developed to establish a personal relationship with new retail owners of Damon Motor Coach and Four Winds International motorhomes. With this program now in full swing, brand new owners will be contacted by their personal service advocate, Thornburg.
When a dealer submits the retail sold registration for a new motorhome, Thornburg will call the new customer to introduce himself and Thor Motorized Services. The goal for the Concierge Connection is to provide a person at the factory who can provide helpful information or advice to new retail customers, according to a news release.
Thornburg has been in the RV industry for 17 years and has worked with suppliers and manufacturers in various positions. "He has a wealth of knowledge in customer service, technical troubleshooting, and dealer and owner relations," said Janae' Kurtz, TMS director. "Stony has been part of the customer service team for nine years and is a natural fit as our concierge. Stony has not only the knowledge of this position, but he has the experience and training to make him successful. As a veteran of our armed forces, he understands leadership and how to implement a successful game plan. I couldn't be happier with our choice for the job."
"Working with customers is what I love to do. Fostering new relationships and treating people with the utmost respect is what keeps me coming back to the office everyday. After only five months I can tell we are making a difference," said Thornburg.


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MILLBURY � Police Detective Kimberly Brothers, whose dismissal last August was overturned last week, will be reinstated to her former position with no loss of seniority, rank or benefits, according to the award submitted by arbitrator Timothy J. Buckalew. The ruling states she will also be made whole for lost wages, lost overtime opportunities and paid details she would have otherwise received.
Mr. Buckalew found that the town did not meet its burden of proof on either of the two key allegations against Detective Brothers.
The town had alleged that Detective Brothers engaged in excessive text messaging while on duty, presenting evidence from one text correspondent that Detective Brothers had sent 591 texts to this person over the course of six shifts in late September and early October 2011. However, the union, which represented Detective Brothers, counted only 259 texts over those same shifts.
There was no department policy on sending text messages or cellphone use at that time. Also, no other officers were disciplined for using cellphones for personal business.
Mr. Buckalew concluded that "the Town cannot show excessive personal texting when it has no standard from which to argue that the employee deviated."
The evidence for the other charge by the town, that Detective Brothers harassed three residents, was deemed by the arbitrator "largely impressionistic" and "ultimately amounts to little more than inchoate subjective feelings."
Lawyer Leigh Panettiere, who represented Detective Brothers, said, "She's pleased with the arbitration award and she's looking forward to going back to work."
Police Chief Kenny Howell was unavailable Wednesday for comment about when Detective Brothers would return.
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