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In our complex society, how you pray for and connect with each neighbor will depend on their culture, circumstances and challenges.
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As soon as you start clicking on these remarkable new maps your leadership team will gain new insight, direction, hope and energy to fulfill your church mission and vision.
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The fact is, these treasure maps can be your most powerful vision-casting leadership and mobilization tools over the coming years.
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Frustrated by high mailing costs?
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They're frustrated by high costs of traditional mailing with no discernible results, so they don't mail at all, or
They waste a small fortune mailing to thousands of homes that have little interest or need for the ministry being offered.
Now there's a better way. You have so many different groups of neighbors that need to be reached with different approaches. For example, young marrieds with young kids; empty nesters, older singles, younger singles, widows and orphans, immigrant neighbors who speak a language other than English in their homes, just to name a few.
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OLD WAY: A church wants to reach neighbor families with young children. So they send 30,000 VBS invitation postcards to every home within five miles for $5,000 (Their blew their whole outreach mailing budget and got marginal response).
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Every church has a mission field "sweet spot" where they will find their "Low Hanging Fruit" - i.e. those neighbors who are most likely to visit and join. Determining the sweet spot involves measuring how far you can drive in any direction from the worship center within, say, 10 minutes. But it also is determined by how your member homes are distributed. Those neighborhoods with multiple member homes are your strategic neighborhoods which deserve special attention from your leadership team.
For example, you will probably want to subscribe to receive monthly list of new neighbors moving into your strategic, highly occupied member neighborhoods.
Introduce your members to each other when they are neighbors
One of the most important applications of the Online Community Connector is to introduce your church families to each other when they live in the same neighborhoods.
Most churches are shocked when they discover how few of their members know each other when they live in the same neighborhoods.
Neighborhood Networking Open House Parties are a great way to build many more Christ-centered friendships within your church.
Is your church "building centered" or "missionary sending"?
Most American churches follow an "Attractional Model" i.e. building centered. Almost every staff person works in the building and plans bigger and better events with the "Build it and they'll come" mentality. But an intentional Great Commission church is a missionary sending organization, where every member home is a mission outpost. The primary role of the Great Commission church is to recruit, equip, network and dispatch each member home to pray for and reach the people they live near.
Turn more visitors into members by connecting neighboring church homes
If you don't do anything with the Online Community Connector other than to map your recent visitors and and mobilize your closest members to connect with them, you will multiply your return on investment many times over. Your members who are neighbors are far more likely to connect and build sustaining friendships than the typical follow-up visitation teams that don't live nearby. A St. Louis area church that has been doing this faithfully for six years is turning an amazing percentage of their first time visitors into active new members.
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The Hurricane Lantern Effect
This is for all you nascent researchers about to head off to remote places to engage in your very first fieldwork and for all you eco-tourists or educational travelers about to embark on a trip through strange lands afar.
When I was preparing to start my graduate research in Africa, I was already very experienced in fieldwork, but all of it was in the United States, and although there is cultural variation across the land even in old New England and New York, the work I was planning was at a field site in Africa originally selected precisely because of its extreme remoteness. So I needed advice.
I had three people advising me. One was a professor in my department who had done a lot of work at this site. His advice was extensive and detailed and had a lot to do with the logistics and mechanics of running the research base camp, where I and a fellow graduate student would be replacing a couple from Montana who had been living there for a year. Another was my main adviser, Glynn Isaac, who had visited this research site briefly (just long enough, apparently, to contract what would later prove to be a fatal disease). Glynn, a very experienced field archaeologist, really only had one piece of practical advice for me: "You're going to a rain forest. Better bring an umbrella."
The third was my "co-adviser," later to become my primary, and eventually only, adviser, the primatologist, Irv DeVore. DeVore had also been to this field site and, in fact, helped to set it up a few years earlier. And he had considerable fieldwork experience, having been one of the select few who invented modern methods of fieldwork in primtalogy and what might now be called biosocial anthropology. His advice was more extensive and turned out to be (as I was to learn would always be the case with DeVore) most valuable.
He told me about a thing he called the "Hurricane Lantern Effect."
It is so named because of the primary exemplar of the effect, the events on which the central parable are based, concerned hurricane lanterns.1
You arrive, new and naive, at a remote, already established field site to relieve experienced researchers harried and haggard from months in the field and ready to go home and with little truck for the newbie. (You are the newbie.) The first evening, you observe the daily ritual of bringing the hurricane lanterns out, cleaning them up, trimming the wicks, and filling them with paraffin. On the equator, where you certainly are when you observe this ritual, the sun goes down very quickly at very close to 6:00 p.m., so these lamps are critical to provide you with a few hours for dining, socializing with comrades, and finishing off your notes from that day. You are not living in a Michael Creighton book, so there are no generators to run perimeter lights or to charge flashlight batteries and power satellite uplinks to HQ. Just some kerosene-powered lamps and no flashlight batteries.
As you observe this ritual, you notice that the person engaged in the task is clearly doing it wrong. The process itself…the order in which things are being done…is inefficient. The way in which the funnel is used, the kind of container used to store the paraffin, the choice of device used to trim the wicks, and so on–all can be improved. You wonder how it is that these people could have survived here a year being so stupid about something as basic as maintaining and lighting the hurricane lamps they use every day.
So this goes on for a few nights, and finally you can stand it no longer. You speak up and provide the Lamp Meister with a suggestion or two as to how to better carry out this task. At first all you get is an unintelligible grumble and you are not sure whether he's heard you. So you throw in another handy tip for good measure.
Suddenly, the Lamp Meister puts down the lamp he's working on, stands up and says, "You know, you're right. You obviously know what you are doing and I don't. Why don't you just finish up what I've started here and this can be your job from now on."
Now, hold on a second. Most of you are thinking that the "Hurricane Lamp Effect" is where you screw up and get yourself assigned an onerous task by opening up your big mouth. But were you thinking this, you'd be wrong. It is much, much more than that. You need to bear with me on this.
So, satisfied that your suggestions were acknowledged as excellent but a bit worried about the grumpiness induced in the now-former Lamp Meister, you dive in and take over the task. By the time you are done with the evening's lamp maintenance, you have spilled a bit more paraffin than you had hoped, and your hands smell like petroleum product, and two of the five lamps are burning really funny and putting out a lot of smoke. But you chalk this up to nuances missed by you as a product of your inexperience and don't think much about it.
The next night, when you take over lamp duty, you get similar results, but this time you've spilled less paraffin. The reason you've spilled less paraffin is because you altered your procedure slightly in a way that avoids this waste. The next night, the lamps smoke less. Again, this is because you've made another change in your procedure. The next day, you drive the researchers whom you are relieving to the airport, and when you eventually return to the base camp (a couple of days later), you resume your hurricane-lamp duty. This time, you get even better results because you, once gain, alter your procedure a little.
Over the next several weeks, in fact, you refine and adjust the process of maintaining the lamps, and now you normally do not spill a drop of paraffin or get any on your hands. You can really appreciate this because that four day trip to and back from "town" is what it takes to get more paraffin, so you understand the value of every drop saved and the tragedy of every drop wasted. The lamps are now working so well that you only need to light them at the beginning of the evening, and they stay lit and burn evenly, without smoke, for hours. One night, your camp is invaded by army ants, and you really appreciate the fact that you can sleep outdoors with a lamp burning, set at low, steadily burning all night, allowing you to check periodically for invading insects. This only works because you are the man. You are the Lamp Meister.
Then one evening, after being in the field for 11 months, near the end of your hitch and ready to go home, a set of replacement researchers is dropped off by passing missionaries. You didn't know they were coming, but you're glad to see that the folks back home did not forget you and eventually sent replacements, even if they are three months late and your colleague…the one who came out with you…has already gone home. These new researchers really are new; they've never been out of the U.S. before. You are going to have to train them to do everything. What a pain.
So the first night with the n00bs, as you are heating up dinner on the central hearth, you begin your daily ritual of lamp maintenance. Halfway through the process, which you, the Lamp Meister, have perfected, one of the n00bs pipes up…with a suggestion.
"Oh, excuse me, but I think there is a better way to do that…."
You get the point.
And just to make sure, let me point out the slightly less obvious side of this point. The method you've developed to manage the hurricane lamps, in the end, is exactly the method you originally observed and criticized. It turns out that there is a reason for every little thing that you thought was a bad idea. You just didn't get it then.
DeVore's advice was good. When I first went to the field site, on the very first night, I observed as Jack Fisher (an archaeologist) took a bunch of hurricane lamps out of the storage shed, along with a container of paraffin. I watched as he cleaned the lamps, trimmed the wicks, filled the reservoir, and lit a couple of the lamps. I was in awe of the fact that he did not spill a drop. Yet I could see how one observing this procedure might criticize it, might have a few suggestions about how to do it better. But I also knew that Jack had been doing this every day for nearly 400 days, and I figured he had probably optimized the procedure as well as it could be. And I'm certain that the only reason I kept my trap shut is because I could hear DeVore's voice in my head. "Keep your trap shut, young man. You'll have a lot to learn…" and so on.
But then, when Jack left, it was up to me to become the Lamp Meister, and so I became the Lamp Meister, and I achieved this status quickly by understanding the Hurricane Lamp Effect. I trusted Jack, and while I probably did modify the procedure a little over time, I did that with the assumption that what was working was working for a reason. And most importantly, I did not get Jack mad at me, and I did not make myself appear a total fool (regarding this one issue, at least) in the eyes a colleague who was just then in a position to form an opinion of me.
This post and this post about tumbu flies reminded me of the Hurricane Lamp Effect. The short version of the story is that the tumbu flies lay eggs in clothing, which hatch into larvae that crawl onto your body and dig their way into your flesh, where they grow and pupate. They may be worse than botflies.
At a much later time than my first experience described above, I moved on to a different area of Africa, where the tumbu flies live. (I did not know about tumbu flies at that time.) One of the interesting practices carried out there was to always iron the clothing. The guys who did the laundry for us at the research site would iron everything. Shirts, pants, underwear, socks. Everything. Many researchers noted this and commented on how quaint the natives were. It was as though they had learned about ironing clothing during the colonial period when everybody worked for the white man, and continued this practice, almost like a cargo cult, to the present day. At least when ironing our clothing. Trying to make a good impression and all that.
I was troubled by this. I had no problem with hiring local labor to do day-to-day tasks. If you do all the day-to-day tasks yourself while on a research project, in the absence of labor-saving inventions like running water, washing machines, stoves and so on, you can't do any of the research for which you've garnered rare and precious funding. So you hire local folks to facilitate. But I did not want to be treated like a colonialist, with servants running around carrying out onerous tasks like ironing my socks to simulate some sort of bygone colonial atmosphere.
So I sat down to talk with one of the "guys," a professional Zorba the Greek capable of doing almost anything, often hired by travelers or research teams to run the domestic side of things, which involved, in our case, housing and feeding up to 20 researchers and 40 local workers. Tomah listened carefully to my concerns. Then he laughed. A lot. Tomah tended to laugh at me a lot.
"Mzungu!" he said, "Hutakukamata manano ile! Husikia!" (Roughly translated: What a dumb-ass you can be!)
He then proceeded to explain to me the life cycle of the tumbu fly, the medical consequences of infection by them and how only by ironing out the clothing–all of the clothing–could one kill the eggs, thus avoiding serious complications.
That was the first of many opportunities Tomah embraced to save my dumb ass.
- A hurricane lamp is a kerosene-burning device with a shapely glass tube positioned over a cloth wick emanating from a reservoir filled with "paraffin"–the word, everywhere but the U.S., for kerosene. [↩]
This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 at 6:14 am and is filed under Greg Laden, Stories. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
3 Responses to "The Hurricane Lantern Effect"
Kelly McCullough says:
Fascinating, Greg, and bound to inform some of my fiction at some point. Thanks for this.
Thanks for another interesting story, and with an excellent moral to boot! Still waiting for your Africa book 😉
Chas says:
Intlxpatr says:
I am thoroughly enjoying this blog, and particularly this post. I truly love being in Africa, and I truly hate living with the nasty flies of all kind that bite me. My husband keeps me close; he never gets a bite as long as he has me near him to attract the flies. TseTse flies are my all time favorites for the huge big welts they give me. Aarrgh.

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Twin wins for brand-new Titleist balls
This past week was a huge one around the world of golf, with star players like Luke Donald, Adam Scott, Miguel Angel Jimenez and Henrik Stenson earning victories in all corners of the globe. It was an even bigger week for Titleist, which earned the very first victories for both its 2013-14 Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls with a matter of hours of each other.
Scott chalked up the first triumph for the new Pro V1 model at the Australian Masters, while Donald rolled the Pro V1x to its first title at the Dunlop Phoenix on the Japan PGA Tour. The photos I've seen from those events didn't show any distinctive shots of the new balls but, coincidentally, former PGA Champion Steve Elkington tweeted a photo of the test models he received on Friday, and I have posted his photo above.
Since the original Pro V1 balls were introduced a dozen years ago, Titleist has released new models every two years. The company unofficially debuted the 2013-14 editions at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals Open in Las Vegas in October, when Titleist staff players began receiving plain white boxes containing the precious spheres to begin testing and evaluating.
Officially, Titleist has said very little about the new balls, though maybe we'll hear more about them this week now that they've found their way into the winner's circle.
To refresh your memory, the current Pro V1 is designed for increased spin control and a more consistent flight, thanks to a large, solid polybutadiene core and an ionomeric casing layer inside a urethane elastomer cover outfitted with a 352 tetrahedral dimple design.
The current Pro V1x ball is designed for longer distance and what Titleist calls its Drop-and-Stop greenside control. It features a large, high-velocity dual core with a soft center inside an ionomeric casing layer and a urethane elastomer cover with a 328 tetrahedral dimple design.


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In Debussy's Paris, dance stands at the crossroads between the arts of music and painting. Dance incorporates both sight and sound, translating musical values into visual forms. Edgar Degas, one of the visual artists Debussy is known to have particularly admired, depicted the onstage performances and backstage flirtations of young ballet dancers during a period when French ballet was itself considered to be in artistic decline. Meanwhile, dance also thrived in popular entertainment venues. A leading figure of the bohemian counter-culture of Montmartre, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec portrayed the stars of the café-concert and cabaret as they performed the can-can and other popular dances.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, dance came to play a critical role in shaping abstraction in the visual arts. This period witnessed the invention of new kinds of dance conceived as "high art" rather than mass entertainment, as choreographers chose concert pieces by Debussy and other well-known composers to accompany their creations. The American-born performer Loïe Fuller, whose manipulations of silk drapery and electric stage lights made her a celebrity in 1890s Paris, pioneered such a form of modern dance, choreographed, on at least one occasion, to music by Debussy. Toulouse-Lautrec created a series of lithographs of Fuller dancing, each one differently inked and dusted with gold and silver to convey the shifting visual impression of the dancer with light playing off her swirling skirts.
The Ballets Russes, established in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev, introduced a new kind of collaboration among choreographers, artists, and composers. For a time the company was a fixture on the Parisian cultural scene. In creating the ballet L'Après-midi d'un faune, the renowned dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and the Ballets Russes explicitly referenced the concept of a correspondence of art forms. Nijinsky's "Cubist" choreography for Debussy's Faune as well as for his Jeux ("Games") claimed for dance and the body a central role in the development of abstraction, continuing the conversation between music and the visual arts that had preoccupied avant-garde artists and critics over several decades.
Image Credit: Léon Bakst. Russian, 1866–1924. Nijinsky as the Faun, cover of the theater program for the 7th season of the Ballets Russes, 1912. Color mechanical print. Collection of the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, Gift of Herbert D. and Ruth Schimmel, 2003.0856.517. Photograph by Peter Jacobs
Loïe Fuller Link: This 1896 film by the Lumière Brothers shows a dancer performing The Serpentine Dance in Loïe Fuller's style. The film was handtinted at the time to evoke the changing effects that Fuller achieved with stage lights playing off her swirling skirts.


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"I was wrong."
There are few words strung together that possess such power to free us. In less than a second, we're able to reconcile the inconsistency between our previous conviction and the apparent truth. Humbling, yes, but also strangely euphoric.
Well, I've earned the opportunity to claim said euphoria, as I must confess that I had bought into the most prevalent myth du jour surrounding bond investing. You'll forgive me, I hope, because this misconception—like all of the most powerful ones—is especially deceptive because it's grounded in half-truth.


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What better place to celebrate the birthday of one of the pillars of our community than to hold a party for him in the park named after him.
City historian Paul Sanborn, whose tireless work for Cape Coral has helped turn the city from a pipe dream to Southwest Florida's biggest city south of Hillsborough County, blew out the candles on his 90th birthday cake Saturday at Paul Sanborn Park, and many of his friends and colleagues were there to celebrate it with him.
And they spared no expense in making the day special. A bluegrass band, food, a tent, even a helicopter was there for people to enjoy.
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Paul Sanborn with state representative Dane Eagle at Sanborn's 90th birthday party at Paul Sanborn Park on Saturday.
But the day was about a man who never made anything about him in the more than 50 years he has spent in the community.
A special ceremony was held that included guest speakers extolling accolades, gifts and a few words from the guest of honor, who used that time to introduce everyone to his extended family.
"Parks build a sense of community and pride in the neighborhood, and from Viscaya to Hancock Bridge Parkway, from Del Prado to 24th Avenue, this is the only park in Cape Coral and we're honored that it's in your name," Parks and Recreation Director Steve Pohlman said.
Mayor John Sullivan said he had a list of accomplishments from Sanborn, 15 pages long. He did mention some of them before summing it all up.
"He spent years helping others and to make Cape Coral a better place to live," Sullivan said. "He is the example of what it means to care for the community."
City Manager John Szerlag said his first impression on the city was having a park named after someone who was still living, asking what happens if someone does something wrong.
Szerlag then added it didn't take for him to realize what Sanborn was all about.
"He is a part of Cape Coral's evolution. The Rosen brothers may have founded Cape Coral, but Paul fathered it," Szerlag said.
Other accolades came, such as a new sign on the park, replacing the old one that made Sanborn look like, Pohlman said, like a referee.
He also received a written tribute from State Rep. Dane Eagle, who was able to present it to him in person, and a sign on flashing billboards throughout Lee County wishing Sanborn happy birthday, compliments of Lamar Industries.
Sanborn, who moved to Cape Coral in 1962 after he was offered a job with Gulf American Land Corporation, thanked everyone for thinking about him.
"Many in Cape Coral think turning 90 is no big deal when there are people turning 100," Sanborn said. "It's a big deal to, me because I can't guarantee 91."
Sanborn got a chance to thank everyone, as people lined up under the tent for a chance to extend their well wishes.
Among them was Patricia Ferrara of Lee County Mosquito Control, which Sanborn ran for 20 years and for which the helicopter was there to honor him.
"It's a wonderful tribute to Paul's work at Mosquito Control. Even now, we still see him at many functions," Ferrara said.
The musical entertainment featured bluegrass band Captain Joe & The Bottom Feeders, and there was plenty of food and drink, as well as a huge birthday cake.


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After being struck by a hit-and-run driver on Oct. 3 while riding his bicycle in Lancaster, Jack Lally, 12, has spent time in the hospital. His recovery has been documented on Facebook, where his big smile has been shown.
Smiles like that will be shared when Comics for a Cure put on a show Tuesday, to raise money to help the Lally family with medical expenses, including making the Lally�s Lancaster home accessible while Jack is confined to a wheelchair during his recovery.
The show is Tuesday, at 8 p.m., at the Old Timer Restaurant. Doors open at 7 p.m.
Jerry Caruso, a comedian since 1993, is coordinating the show and will be performing.
�Comics for a Cure began in the fall of 1994,� Caruso said. �A good friend (Toney Markus) and I were having coffee and spoke of a benefit we just had. We agreed that we should start a group of comedians who do benefits and worthy causes, but needed a catchy name. Then it came to me - Comics for a Cure.�
The group includes several comedians available for shows, including Thomas Mitchell, Bob Sheehy, Larry Lee Lewis, Greg Boggis, Dennis Wirth, Bill Slemmer, Rich McCabe, Kristin O�Brien, Julie Kitayama, Krista Brennan and Alana Susko.
�I knew Thomas, Bob, Larry Lee and Greg as we did comedy together for about a year,� Caruso said. �Dennis, Bill, Rich and Kristin were students of a comedy class I taught at Mount Wachusett Community College. Julie, Krista and Alana are close comedienne friends I�ve known and worked with in the past five years.�
When Caruso heard about the Lally family, and what they were going through for Jack�s recovery, he contacted family friend Rita French about putting on a comedy benefit for Jack and his family.
Caruso said the show will include people like Wirth, Lewis and himself.
Wirth�s observations of �real life� situations including divorce and child support, teaches audiences to laugh at their pain.
Lewis is a piano player, singer, comedian, variety performer, radio personality and senior entertainer.
Caruso is a stand-up comedian, celebrity impressionist and songwriter.
�What I do know is that we want to pack the place � Old Timers,� Caruso said. �We�ll bring on the funny and expect them to laugh all night long.�
Caruso said Comics for a Cure likes to give back to worthy causes and many deserving non-profit organizations.
�We love doing comedy, love to make people laugh and love feeling good after helping someone and/or some people in need,� he said. �I thank God for having the ability to make people laugh and for the idea to start Comics for a Cure.�
Tickets to the 21-plus show are $10 each.


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Hi friends of the forum,
This is my first post here. I just bought a Calrec S series for peanuts to use in my recording studio. My plan is to use it for mixing purposes only. But I have two questions:
1-The console doesn't have a master bus fader. It has two main output modules with the compressor built in, but no faders.
I have some spare channels with faders, is it possible to use one of them in the master? According to the manual, the channel faders are IY 3677 and the master output uses IY 3682.
2-I was also reading about the auto gain ranging. How can I know if my console has that option? Is it something you can HEAR? Would it be something not suitable for mixing music, like an auto leveling of some sort? I'm asking because I know this console was made for broadcast purposes.
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What's In My Bag? with Res & Talib Kweli of Idle Warship (2012)
I love how both Res and Talib Kweli of super-duo Idle Warship are genuine music fans and true supporters of their fellow artists as proven in the above What's In My Bag? video recently shot at Amoeba Hollywood. In this latest What's In My Bag? segment Res (pronounced Reese), who confided that whenever Talib releases a new CD that she cops six copies of it, picked up such releases as Nikka Costa, Crosby Stills & Nash, and female vocalist Havana who she got turned onto it after hearing it been played over the Sunset Blvd. Amoeba sound system.
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Bluegrass Coverfolk: The Joe Val Festival (Covers of Elvis, Waylon Jennings, The Grateful Dead, Steve Goodman, Gospel and more!)February 18th, 2008 — 12:49 am
By most popular definitions, bluegrass isn't folk music. Where modern singer-songwriter folk teeters on the edge of pop, rock, and blues, today's bluegrass bands find radioplay on the country end of the dial, if at all. And though there are certainly plenty of crossover alt-country and Americana musicians out there who are welcome at both bluegrass and folk festivals, most music festivals tend to be firmly either/or.
But as I've noted previously, folk and bluegrass have much in common. Both stem from the same early American folk tree; both depend heavily on the acoustic guitar; both use traditional forms of rhyme, verse structure, trope and storytelling in their lyrics and song structure. Wikipedia lists bluegrass as a form of country music, it's true, but it also refers to it as a form of American roots music, or Americana – the category which encompasses the "folk" forms of American music.
Which is to say: we're bluegrass fans here at Cover Lay Down. And though owning up to this has probably already lost me some hardcore folkies over the months since we started, I make no apologies for the bluegrass among the folk. The acoustic nature of the two forms, and their shared roots in African-American blues, British folk ballads, and appalachian music, makes for a clear commonality, even if the sounds are clearly different.
One significant distinction between bluegrass and modern folk music is the vastly different ways in which the two forms approach harmony. Where folk music performance tends to prioritize the singer-songwriter, both as vocalist and instrumentalist, the best bluegrass is about balance – between instruments, and among voices. The bluegrass sound is thus typified by close harmonies that span the range from high male tenor to bass, and a wide range of acoustic stringed instruments – typically bass, guitar, banjo, mandolin, and fiddle – which echo that vocal range, and, through alternating-beat use of bass and percussive high-stringed chords, provide an equally rich, full sound.
Bluegrass gets a bad rap in the world of covers — all those anonymous session musicians cutting albums of Phish and Nine Inch Nails and Led Zeppelin covers just to pay the rent doesn't help. But bluegrass music is much more than country music's poor country cousin. The covers you'll find featured in today's post are the real deal, performed with love and respect. Even if you're not usually the bluegrass type, I highly recommend giving them a try.
To those unschooled in the history of bluegrass music, the Framingham, MA, Sheraton might seem an especially odd choice for the International Bluegrass Music Association's 2006 Event of the Year. But the popular stereotype which casts bluegrass music as a form of southern music belies a rich and long-standing tradition of New England bluegrass. And remembering that Scots-Irish dance tunes and English ballads are but one of several primary influences on the bluegrass form does help one come to terms with the fact that the Sheraton is built like a giant Irish castle, and thus looks more like a venue for a jousting tournament than a site for a bluegrass festival.
Once you get over the strange dissonance between the snow-capped castle turrets outside and the sound of a thousand banjos, basses, high tenors and mandolins inside, The Joe Val Bluegrass Festival is a great gig. Incredibly, festival sponsor the Boston Bluegrass Association manages to successfully reproduce the feel of a great outdoor festival indoors in the dead of winter. The atmosphere is infectiously fun, from the ubiquitous hallway jam sessions to the ballroom mainstage to the conference rooms stuffed with product demos and instrumental workshops.
And the musical talent is out of this world. The Joe Val Festival, which celebrates the life of seminal 1960′s New England bluegrass mandolin player Joe Val, attracts a significant share of IBMA award winners, both old and new. As such, it's a good way to whet one's appetite for the cornucopia of summer festivals which pepper New England in the warmer months. And it's a great vehicle for us to consider the place of bluegrass in the spectrum of American folk forms.
Today, we feature a select set of covers from the artists I've been lucky enough to see at Joe Val in the past two years. Together, they explore the surprisingly vast potential of the bluegrass sound, running the gamut from country singer-songwriter (Claire Lynch, Miller's Crossing) to gospel (The Bluegrass Gospel Project, David Parmley), from old-school (Seldom Scene) to new school (The Grascals, Steep Canyon Rangers). It was a genuine pleasure to see them all, and it's a genuine pleasure to share their work with you. (PS: I've saved the best of the bunch for the bonus song, so don't forget to read all the way through.)
- Steep Canyon Rangers, Don't Ease Me In (trad./arr. Grateful Dead)
(from Lovin' Pretty Women)
- The Grascals feat. Dolly Parton, Viva Las Vegas (orig. Elvis)
(from The Grascals)
- David Parmley and Continental Divide, I've Got A Home In That Rock (trad.)
(from Church House Hymns)
- Bluegrass Gospel Project, Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown (trad.)
(from The Bluegrass Gospel Project)
- Miller's Crossing, Lonesone, On'ry, and Mean (orig. Waylon Jennings)
(from Adirondack Rail)
- Claire Lynch, If Wishes Were Horses (orig. Gretchen Peters)
(from Silver and Gold)
- Seldom Scene, City of New Orleans (orig. Steve Goodman)
(from Act 1)
As always, all album and artist links lead directly to band and artist websites, where albums can be purchased, tours can be charted, and fan appetites can be whetted. If you live in New England, you might also be interested in knowing that the Boston Bluegrass Union, which sponsors the Joe Val Festival, puts on great shows throughout the year.
Today's bonus bluegrass artists stand alone, because they deserve it:
- Though this song was first recorded by Patty Loveless on Your Way Home, Higher Than The Wall was written by Mike Henderson and Chris Stapleton of roots/blues bluegrass band The SteelDrivers, so it's not technically a cover. But discovering this band at this year's festival was by far the most incredible musical experience I have had in months, and I just couldn't resist sharing this live track. I cannot recommend any music higher than the new self-titled album from The SteelDrivers. Heck, I'm so impressed, I'm going to totally break the cover mold: here's a second original song of theirs from that same live session.
Coming soon on Cover Lay Down: fuzzfolkie Mary Lou Lord, covers of Donovan songs, and a review of SXSW 2002 Best New Artist Caroline Herring's new album Lantana. Y'all come back now, y'hear?
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Lewis wants to see how he measures up on PGA Tour
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PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) – His achievements alone would suggest Tom Lewis is racing toward stardom.
The 21-year-old from England burst onto the world scene last summer at Royal St. George's when he ran off four straight birdies late in the opening round for a 65. It was the lowest score ever by an amateur in the British Open, and he was the first amateur in 43 years to be atop the leaderboard in golf's oldest championship.
If that wasn't enough, he won in his third tournament as a pro with a 65 on the last day at the Portugal Masters. Tiger Woods didn't win until his fifth tournament. Rory McIlroy waited until his 38th start to win.
But for a kid with no other aspirations but to play golf for a living, Lewis sees himself as someone with much to learn. Another step comes this week at the Transitions Championship, where Lewis makes his PGA Tour debut, his first time playing in America as a pro.
"I know I've got two years in Europe. That helps," Lewis said, referring to the two-year exemption on the European Tour for winning. "It gives me the opportunity to come here and see what standard I need to get to."
There are so many examples of players wasting little time to get to where they want to be.
McIlroy two weeks ago rose to No. 1 in the world at 22, the second-youngest player behind Woods to be atop the world ranking. Harris English last year won a Nationwide Tour event while still an amateur. Bud Cauley became only the sixth player to go straight from college to the PGA Tour without a trip to Q-school.
The tee times for Innisbrook offer a bizarre indicator of youth: Cauley is about to turn 22, and he'll be the oldest player in his group.
"That's kind of funny," Cauley said. "I never thought that would happen."
He'll play with Lewis and Ryo Ishikawa, the 20-year-old from Japan who is coming off a runner-up finish last week in the Puerto Rico Open. Lewis already is a European Tour winner. Ishikawa already has won 10 times in Japan and played on two Presidents Cup teams.
"Golf is getting so competitive at an earlier age," Cauley said.
Justin Rose was one of those guys. He tied for fourth in the 1998 British Open as a 17-year-old at Royal Birkdale, turned pro the following week and spent the next year missing cuts. He finally figured it out and won a World Golf Championship last week at Doral, his 10th win worldwide.
Rose spent some time with Lewis last fall in Asia, and he was impressed with what he saw.
"He seems to be in no hurry," Rose said. "I thought it was incredibly long-sighted. I see a lot of kids, me included, who come out and think it's so important to have your tour card immediately, get into the top 50 in the world, get into the Masters, get into the majors. That will all happen in time, and I think you need to focus on development of your game.
"I think that's what he's done really smartly."
Lewis gained loads of confidence from the British Open, especially playing alongside his namesake – Tom Watson – when he opened with a 65 and was only three shots out of the lead going into the weekend. He tied for 30th.
Asked when he knew he was good enough to compete against the best, Lewis replied, "When I won." But he always believed he would be playing golf for a living. Lewis never considered anything else.
Golf has been in his blood a long time.
His father, Bryan, came from the same golfing region north of London that produced tour players Bobby Mitchell and Trevor Powell, all of them overshadowed by six-time major champion Nick Faldo. Bryan Lewis played a few years on the European Tour, enough to recognize that his son had a special talent.
Lewis also has dyslexia, which gave him a disdain of school and made him even more determined to be a golfer.
"I didn't see anything in school for me," Lewis said. "If you're not good at something, and you're competitive, you don't really like doing it. School was frustrating. I couldn't read or couldn't really spell very well. And it wasn't really fun. I wanted to be the best at everything I did. And school was something I was bad at."
And if golf didn't work out? Lewis never considered an alternative.
"People talk about backups for their career, and that's probably a good way," he said. "But I gambled. I said, 'If I do a backup, then I'm not concentrating on the actual goal.' My full focus was on playing golf, and it paid off. I've got two years to learn as well as I can, and then I have no excuses. If you leave school at 16, there are no excuses not to do good at sport.
"It gives me pressure, but that pressure is a good thing."
Lewis played three times in America as an amateur – the Western Amateur outside Chicago, the U.S. Amateur at Erin Hills and the Jones Cup at Sea Island. For his pro debut, he picked a tough event.
The Copperhead Course at Innisbrook is regarded by some as the strongest course of the Florida swing, and it has attracted a deep field – Rose, coming off his big win at Doral; former world No. 1 Luke Donald; and Masters champion Charl Schwartzel, along with the likes of Nick Watney, Webb Simpson and Jason Day of Australia.
Lewis has solid credentials, yet he is always looking to measure himself against various players. As a kid, he admired the sweet swing and quiet demeanor of Retief Goosen. His standard as a young teenager was English amateur star Oliver Fisher. As a pro, he was inspired by Italian teen Matteo Manassero winning twice in Europe.
He is not eligible for the Masters – only a win at Innisbrook would get him to Augusta National – though Lewis is not sure he's ready.
"If I can get to the standard I want to," he said, "I'll be there in time."


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In 1988, Raylynn was a young, single mother when she met Curly Thornton, who she says left her spellbound. This meeting was the beginning of what she calls her shameful secret; one she would carry for decades.
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"Curly was a very charismatic person, just like my father. I was drawn to his personality right away," Raylynn recalls.
"I was about 8 years old when we met Curly Thornton," says Sunny, Raylynn's daughter, now 32. "He had this smile that everybody around the room wanted to look at, was drawn to him. My mom thought he was the bee's knees. From the moment that he shook my hand, I felt, like, my stomach flipped, and something just made the hair on my arms stand up."
Curly told Raylynn that he was running for governor and asked her to be his campaign manager. "When I got to the meeting that I thought was going to be a campaign meeting, it was actually a time that he was preaching. I really liked what he was saying. This was a time in my life that I was searching," she recalls.
Raylynn says she became so wrapped up in Curly's teachings, she gave up
everything, including her car, her home and her job. She says she and Sunny even moved into Curly's home and that
shortly after, he changed from an inspirational leader to a fear-driven, mind-controlling abuser.
"Being part of Curly's religious group, I felt that I was one of the chosen people," Raylynn reveals. "In the beginning, meetings were based on putting someone on the 'hot seat.' Then, everyone in the room would tell that person something negative about them. The purpose of the 'hot seat' was to tear us down, and it was extremely painful. I felt like a nothing. I felt like a piece of garbage."
Raylynn says that as time went on, Curly became more physically abusive. "The abuse started first with the men. They would go out and play football and at times, he would line them up, have them put their hands behind their back and then he would punch them, or he would have them kneeling down and hit them with a bat, and I was having a tough time understanding why. He explained that this was necessary discipline; this was the discipline of the Lord, because we were being trained for the army of God," she explains. "After a while, it wasn't just the men who were beaten; it was also some of the women, and I was one of them."
"Several times, my mom would come home with black eyes and then I would see other women who were in the cult with the same thing: black eyes, really big bruises," Sunny recalls, noting that she didn't believe that Curly was Jesus, but she would smile and pretend to believe to keep her mom safe.
"He had control over every part of our lives — where we went, what we did, what we had to eat in our house. Any money that any of us got had to go straight to the ministry," Raylynn says. "I have blocked out so much of what happened over those years. I lived in such terror. Curly would represent himself as a spokesperson for God. As time went on, Curly said that he was Jesus. At the time that Curly told us he was Jesus, it was an exciting thing, because then it made sense for all of the bad things that we had gone through.
"At times, I felt like a caged animal, yet the bars weren't visible; they were imposed there by his fear, by his intimidation, by his abuse."
A Traumatic Experience
Sunny was 14 years old when she was pulled out of school to travel with the religious group for six months. That's when she says Curly began to pay attention to her for all the wrong reasons.
Sunny describes what happened when Curly requested to see her. "That was a moment in my life, that for a lot of years, became my identity."
Still under Curly's Control?"Curly still haunts my mother in ways that I can't even understand. I want my mom to let Curly die," says Sunny. "My mom has been trapped in the guilt from what happened. She's never moved beyond that guilt, and I can only say, 'I forgive you,' so many times. I really want her to stop apologizing because I don't look at my mother and think, you horrible person. I look at her and I see a beautiful woman who just needs to not be stuck in the choices she made."
Raylynn says she still holds on to a box of memories from her time with Curly. "I took all of Curly's teachings and my belief in who he was, and I put it in its own little box, and I stuffed it away, because I didn't know what to do with it, but I was too afraid not to continue to believe. That 'what if' would always go through my head — what if, and if I don't continue to believe, then I'm on my way to hell and so is my family," she says, fighting back tears. "There are logs of every meeting, of every painful thing, and it's, like, why? Why do I think that I can't get rid of this? I don't know."
"I have no idea why she's hung on to those things, unless it's that she's afraid to let him die," Sunny says. "I think that box of things should have been burned a long time ago."
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Freeing Herself from the Past
Raylynn says she wants to move forward and release herself from Curly's hold. Curly's son, who has never spoken about his father publicly and doesn't want to be identified, joins the show via phone. Will what he says help Raylynn? And, in a dramatic gesture, Raylynn rids herself of Curly for good.
"Unless you're in that situation, you can't understand what she went through and the influence and the power that my dad had over her and other people."


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A new propaganda video supporting rebel uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa was released by U.S.-born al-Qaida spokesman Adam Gadahn.
The address to rebels is Gadahn's second appearance in September in al-Qaida videos posted on jihadist online forums, CNN reported.
The video, "Advice and Support to Our Rebel Brothers Against Injustice," was released last week and reportedly was produced in April by al-Qaida's media unit.
The two videos are the first Gadahn videos since before Osama bin Laden was killed during a U.S. raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, last year.
Gadahn's remarks also were included in Ayman al-Zawahiri's message recorded for the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
Since he first appeared in an al-Qaida propaganda video under the name Azzam al-Amriki in 2004, Gadahn, of California, has been in numerous videos disparaging the West because of his appeal to Western Muslims and his knowledge of Western culture, observers note.
Unlike American Anwar al-Awlaki, who played a significant operational role for the Yemeni al-Qaida offshoot before his death in a drone strike last year, Gadahn appears to be expanding his role in communications for al-Qaida, CNN said.
"Gadahn appears to have carefully crafted a role for himself in the organization and through competent performance, has presumably garnered the respect necessary to expand that role," analysis by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, N.Y., indicated.
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 4:01 PM GMT on August 29, 2012
Hurricane Isaac continues to lumber slowly northwestwards at 6 mph, as it pounds Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida's Panhandle with torrential rains, high winds, and a damaging storm surge. The eye was partially over water for most of the 15 hours after Isaac's official landfall at 7:45 pm EDT Tuesday night, but New Orleans radar shows the eye of the storm is now fully ashore near Houma. The radar echoes show some weakening on the west side of the eyewall, where dry air has infiltrated the storm. Wind shear remains light, and upper level outflow over Isaac is as impressive as we've seen so far, with a strong outflow channel to the north, and a respectable one to the south, as well. Infrared and visible satellite loops show a very large, symmetric, and well organized storm, and Isaac is going to be able to stay near Category 1 hurricane strength all day today. This will allow Isaac to drop rainfall amounts of 15 - 20" in some areas of Louisiana before the storm is over. A few rainfall totals from Isaac through 11 am EDT:
9.26" New Orleans Lakefront Airport
5.59" Belle Chasse, LA
5.21" Mobile, AL
3.65" Hattiesburg, MS
3.42" Gulfport, MS
2.81" Biloxi, MS
Figure 1. Morning radar reflectivity image from New Orleans.
A dangerous storm surge event underway
Isaac is bringing a large and dangerous storm surge to the coast from Central Louisiana to the Panhandle of Florida. Late this morning was high tide along much of the coast, and the highest water levels of Isaac are likely being experienced at many locations. At 11:30 am EDT, here were some of the storm surge values being recorded at NOAA tide gauges:
8.0' Waveland, MS
8.2' Shell Beach, LA
2.0' Pensacola, FL
4.6' Pascagoula, MS
3.4' Mobile, AL
The peak 11.06' storm surge at 1:30 am EDT this morning at Shell Beach, which is in Lake Borgne, 20 miles southeast of New Orleans, exceeded the 9.5' surge recorded there during Category 2 Hurricane Gustav of 2008. In general, the storm surge heights from Isaac have been more characteristic of a strong Category 2 hurricane, rather than the weak Category 1 hurricane one might suppose Isaac is, based on its top sustained winds of 75 - 80 mph. The Saffir-Simpson Scale for ranking hurricanes is only a crude measure of their potential impacts.
A storm surge estimated at 12' moved up the Mississippi in Plaquemines Parish near Port Sulphur, LA, near 8:30 pm EDT Tuesday, causing overtopping of the levees and flooding of homes in the mandatory evacuation areas behind the levees. These levees were not part of the $14.5 billion levee upgrade New Orleans got after Hurricane Katrina, and were not rated to Category 3 hurricane strength, like the levees protecting New Orleans are. The surge continued upriver, elevating the water levels 10' in New Orleans (103 miles upstream from the mouth of the Mississippi), 8' in Baton Rouge (228 miles upstream), and 1.4' at Knox Landing, an amazing 314 miles upstream. The river was 7' low due to the great 2012 U.S. drought, and I suspect the near-record low flow rate of the river allowed the storm surge to propagate so far upstream. The salt water from the storm surge will be slow to leave the river, due to the continued winds of Isaac keeping the surge going, plus the very low flow rates of the river. One benefit of the heavy rains of 10 - 20 inches expected to fall over Louisiana over the next two days will be to increase the flow rate of the Mississippi River, helping flush the salt water out of the river. The low flow rates of the Mississippi had allowed salt water to move upriver to just south of New Orleans over the past few weeks, threatening the drinking water supply of Plaquemines Parish.
Figure 2. Tide gauge data from Waveland, Mississippi. The green line shows the storm surge. The red line is the storm tide, the height of the water above Mean Sea Level (MSL.) The storm tide at Waveland currently (9') is 2' higher than that of Category 2 Hurricane Gustav of 2008. Image credit: NOAA Tides and Currents.
Tropical Storm Kirk in the Central Atlantic
Tropical Storm Kirk formed Tuesday night in the Central Atlantic. Kirk's formation at 03 UTC on August 29 puts 2012 in 4th place for earliest formation date of the season's 11th storm. Only 2005, 1995, and 1933 had an earlier formation date of the season's 11th storm. Kirk should stay well out to sea and not trouble any land areas.
Figure 3. Morning satellite image of Tropical Storm Kirk.
Invest 98L in the Eastern Atlantic
A tropical wave (Invest 98L) is about 750 miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands, and is moving west to west-northwest at about 15 mph. In their 8 am EDT Tropical Weather Outlook, NHC gave 98L a 50% chance of developing by Friday morning. Several of the models develop 98L into a tropical depression by this weekend, but none of the reliable models foresee that 98L will be a threat to the Lesser Antilles. The storm may be a threat to Bermuda next week, but it is too early to say if it may threaten the U.S.
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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Newark, N.J.—New Jersey Public Advocate Ronald K. Chen issued an advisory today highlighting the launch this month of a new free 8-1-1 "Call Before You Dig" telephone number that consumers should call before beginning any small or large digging jobs to prevent damage to underground utility lines to their homes.
"Before digging up ground for a deck or even planting a tree, it's critical for consumers to first dial 8-1-1 to get a free mark out of utility lines that can prevent damage to those lines and protect human life," Chen said.
The new number, which was launched nationwide on May 1, was designated by the Federal Communications Commission to eliminate the confusion of multiple "Call Before you Dig" numbers across United States. When consumers or contractors call the number, they will be connected to the state's damage prevention center, which contacts the appropriate utility for the caller's area. The utility will then send a technician to the requested site to mark the underground lines. Previously, New Jersey operated a One-Call Center, and that number, 1-800-272-1000, will still be accessible to callers. However, the new 8-1-1 number streamlines the caller's access.
New Jersey's law requires that anyone planning to do any excavation, call for a free mark out of utility lines at least three business days before digging. As part of a public educational effort, the state proclaimed the month of May as "New Jersey Underground Damage Prevention Month" and joins other states in a campaign kicked off by Common Ground Alliance (CGA), an association of individuals and organizations from every facet of the underground utility industry.
CGA notes that unfortunately current statistics on One-Call centers show that the majority of Americans are not using the service. The association's recent study shows that while 46 percent of Americans are active diggers who have done or plan to do a digging project at home, only 33 percent of do-it-yourselfers plan on calling before they dig and they are taking a huge risk each time their shovel disturbs the dirt.
For more information on the 811 telephone number campaign, go to www.call811.com.
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Lippert registered her 12th career 20-point performance as Harvard rolled UNH (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Victoria Lippert scored 17 second-half points to help grow a six-point halftime lead to a 21-point advantage as the Harvard women's basketball team cruised to a 63-44 win over New Hampshire Wednesday night at Lavietes Pavilion.
Lippert finished with a game-high 21 points on 7-of-10 shooting from the field and 3-of-5 shooting from beyond the arc, including 6-of-8 performance after the break. It was Lippert's 12th career 20-point performance as she also added eight rebounds and two assists while playing only 23 minutes.
Christine Clark chipped in 13 points and recorded game-highs in rebounds (8) and assists (4). Temi Fagbenle notched nine points and Ali Curtis turned in eight. Harvard (5-2) shot just 38.6 percent for the game but went 7-of-18 from deep and 12-of-13 at the line.
The Crimson dominated the glass and outrebounded New Hampshire (3-2) 43-27 for the game, including 18 offensive boards which led to 18 second-chance points. The victory improves Harvard to 5-2 to begin the year for the ninth time in program history and the first time since 2004-05.
Morgan Frame scored the game's first four points for UNH but Harvard rallied quickly to take a 7-4 lead. A pair of free throws from Lippert and a Fagbenle and-one put the Crimson in front initially, 5-4, before a Clark putback ended the run. UNH regained the lead off another Frame bucket, 12-11, but a layup by Erin McDonnell made it a 13-12 game and Harvard never looked back.
Miriam Rutzen's three-pointer made it a five-point game and the Crimson led 21-14 following a Fagbenle layup. Harvard led by as many as nine points off a Clark basket before the intermission, 23-14, and went into the locker room at half on top 25-19. Fagbenle led all scorers at the break with nine points as Clark added seven.
The second half belonged to Lippert as she scored 13 points in the first 7:03 to extend Harvard's lead to 14 points, 46-32. Cutis and Lippert hit back-to-back three's to open the frame before Lippert found Curtis cutting to the basket to make the score 33-21. After jumpers by Lippert and Clark, two three-pointers from Lippert gave Harvard a 16-point advantage, 44-28. The senior added one more basket for good measure to make it a 46-30 game with 12:56 remaining.
Lippert followed a Curtis runner in the paint with four more points and a pair of Clark free throws gave the Crimson a 54-37 edge. Two more free throws from Clark pushed the score to 56-37 and a three-pointer from Emma Golen gave Harvard its first 20-point lead of the night, 59-37, with 4:59 on the clock. Elise Gordon and Kit Metoyer each got in on the scoring action before the final buzzer signaled the victory for Harvard, 63-44.
The Crimson will return to action Saturday, Dec. 1 at 1 p.m. against Hofstra in a re-match of last year's WNIT first round in Hempstead, N.Y.
Game Notes: Harvard improved to 5-2 for the ninth time in program history and the first time since 2004-05 … Victoria Lippert moved into 12th place in Harvard history with 1,190 points … Harvard is 10-4 at home in Lavietes Pavilion dating back to last season and 15-1 when holding opponents to fewer than 60 points … Harvard has set a program record with five wins in the month of November.


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Every forex robot promotes a track record of gains and yet well over 95% failure to deliver so here is the sales copy translated so you can find out the ones that will not make money and find the minority which do …
Here is the sales copy and translation
1. A track record of spectral gains
On paper yes, in real trading not at all. Try and find a track record which does not have the worlds "simulated" and in "hindsight" on it in the risk warning – a word from experience, you will have a long search. The track records you see of $ 100,000 a year are not real dollars there paper dollars done looking back with all the facts and price data to hand. The reality of trading forex though is you do not have that luxury of knowing the closing prices.
That's why you can get financial freedom for $ 100.00 or so – its not real life though!
2. A formula that occurs and re occurs for consistent gains
The formula works once on paper and never works again and the system takes a bath. The vendor simply bends the system to fit the data (a concept known as curve fitting) and curve fitting is always the death of a trading system in real time trading, as the data never replicates itself exactly again the system fails.
3. Designed By a Boffin
Usually an ex banker, mathematician or other boffin. Why does that ensure success? Trading systems that tend to work tend to be simple and being clever or having an education mean nothing in forex trading – its results and that's it and I know plenty of simple traders who make money and plenty of clever ones that do not.
4. Earn Money Without knowing anything
You can try and earn money but if the systems worked as the vendors say, ie there is no work involved, begs the question – Why bother selling the system, why not trade it and keep quite you could make yourself a millionaire or better and not worry about a few hundred bucks from a sale.
You do not get anything in life for nothing and it's the same in forex trading
5. You have nothing to lose
On the fee maybe not, on the account probably yes!
Demo accounts (unless you want to trade them for a long time) are no real use, as you need a year to judge a system and also there is no pressure, so its not a real trading experience and after reading this article why bother, you know the facts.
Forex robots sell in there thousands and very few work and most simply fail miserably in the market and its no wonder when they have never been traded. The hypothetical track record simply is not questioned by buyers – but why not? That's the acid test and keep in mind you cant spend paper money.
If you want to make money at forex trading understand, it's not easy and you do not achieve success with no effort.
You can make gains but you need to get a solid forex education, a simple system, that's robust, logical and you understand and can trade with discipline. You are then on the road to currency trading success.


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Responsible for the preparation, care, sterilization and/or transportation of medical and/or surgical instruments, packs, supplies and equipment.Performs duties to support the goals and objectives of Geisinger in its efforts to provide quality patient care and patient satisfaction.Works under the supervision of the Supervisor, Central Sterile Supply.Duties may vary by site.
Demonstrates good hand/eye coordination.Demonstrates ability to perform arithmetic calculations and communicate effectively.Demonstrates ability to maintain a good working relationship with coworkers and other department staff.Demonstrates a willingness to work in a team environment. Shows flexibility and resourcefulness when faced with unforeseen circumstances and is available for additional duties within the scope of practice.
High school equivalent or GED required.Certified Registered Central Sterile Technician (CRCST) or recognized equivalent certification must be obtained within 12 months of hire. Additional 90-day extension may be granted to attain certification.*Current employees with a minimum of 5 years of sterile processing experience as of 1/1/18 will be grandfathered and are not required to attain the CRCST certification, although it is still highly encouraged. Employees are not eligible to move to the Sterile Processing Tech if the certification is not attained.
Extensive periods of standing to perform most duties and bending, stooping, pushing sterilizer carriages and lifting up to 45 pounds is involved.
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