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No. 84,883
FRED F. LIEBAU, JR., Individually and as
Trustee of the FRED F. LIEBAU, JR.
REVOCABLE TRUST; and JAMES G. WOODALL,
LINDA S. PARKS, as Trustee for the
Liquidation of PRIMELINE SECURITIES CORPORATION,
1. K.S.A. 60-219 establishes the parameters of compulsory joinder of parties. Following the guidance set by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Kansas rules abrogated the distinction between necessary and indispensable parties, opting for the term "contingently necessary."
2. A "contingently necessary" party is one without whom the parties already named to the action cannot obtain complete relief or one who claims an interest in the subject matter of the suit which is so interrelated that failure to include the nonparty will impair or impede the nonparty's ability to protect that interest or will subject an existing party to double or multiple liability or inconsistent obligations related to that interest.
3. The factors a court must consider in determining whether a suit must be dismissed under K.S.A. 60-219(b) include: (1) the extent to which a judgment rendered in the nonparty's absence might prejudice the right of the nonparty or the existing parties; (2) the extent to which such prejudice may be lessened or avoided by shaping the judgment or relief granted; (3) the adequacy of any judgment rendered without the nonparty; and (4) whether dismissal of the suit would leave the present plaintiff without an effective remedy.
4. Substantive consolidation is clearly an equitable remedy applied by bankruptcy courts in reaching distributive fairness to all creditors concerned.
Appeal from Sedgwick District Court; KARL W. FRIEDEL, judge. Opinion filed March 2, 2001. Reversed and remanded for further proceedings.
Arthur S. Chalmers and Scott R. Schillings, of Hite, Fanning & Honeyman L.L.P., of Wichita, for appellant.
Marin W. Bauer and Jack Balderson, Jr., of Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Swartz, L.L.P., of Wichita, for appellee.
Before RULON, C.J., ELLIOTT, J., and WAHL, S.J.
RULON, C.J.: Intervenor Linda S. Parks, Trustee for the liquidation of Primeline Securities Corporation (PSC) appeals the district court's refusal to set aside a consent judgment entered into between plaintiff Commerce Bank, N.A., Wichita, Kansas (Commerce Bank), and defendants Liebau-Woodall & Associates, L.P. (Liebau-Woodall); Fred F. Liebau, Jr., individually and as trustee of the Fred F. Liebau, Jr. Revocable Trust; and James G. Woodall. The intervenor contends that as the trustee in an involuntary bankruptcy, she was an indispensable party to the consent judgment and the consent judgment entered without her participation was void. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.
In 1992 Liebau-Woodall entered into an indenture agreement for the sale of debentures to investors to raise $250,000. The investors' interests were originally managed by Union National Bank in Wichita. Eventually, Commerce Bank succeeded to the management of the trust.
The indenture agreement did not formally provide for security, but Commerce Bank claims the parties to the agreement understood that the money would be used to finance the renovation of office building space for lease, which would provide the security for the investment. In addition, Fred F. Liebau and James G. Woodall personally guaranteed the indenture agreement. The guaranty agreement provided that "the Issuer will use the proceeds from the sale of the Debentures, in part, to finance the reconstruction and refurbishing of real property located within the City of Wichita, Kansas, for use as an office building and other Partnership purposes as provided by law."
In September 1993, the indenture agreement was amended to authorize the sale of debentures to a total of $750,000. Liebau-Woodall redeemed $25,000 of the debentures before eventually defaulting.
On January 8, 1998, Commerce Bank filed suit against Liebau-Woodall for judgment in the amount of the outstanding $725,000 debt plus interest and costs, further requesting an equitable mortgage on the office building purchased and maintained with the capital obtained through the sale of the debentures. On March 18, 1998, Commerce Bank and Liebau-Woodall arrived at a settlement which was memorialized in a consent judgment. The judgment ordered Liebau-Woodall to pay $725,000 plus interest and costs and imposed an equitable mortgage against the office building at 154 North Topeka, Wichita, Kansas.
In the meantime, the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) forced PSC into an involuntary liquidation bankruptcy, under 15 U.S.C. § 78eee(b)(3) (1994). As of January 9, 1998, an automatic stay was imposed upon all judicial or nonjudicial procedures designed to attach assets of PSC. Todd M. Connell, the trustee appointed to oversee the liquidation, began an investigation of PSC's assets. (Connell was later replaced in the liquidation procedure by Linda S. Parks as Trustee. The term "Trustee" will be used throughout our discussion to generally describe the trustee of the liquidation procedure).
The Trustee's investigation revealed that Liebau and Woodall each owned a 50% general partnership interest in Liebau-Woodall. In turn, either the partnership or the combined individual shares of Liebau and Woodall allegedly comprised the entire stock of several related corporations, such as Primeline Financial Group, Inc. (PFG), Primeline Insurance, Inc. (PI), Primeline Advisory, Inc. (PA), and First Street Leasing, L.L.C. (FSL). PFG in turn is alleged to be the owner of 100% of the outstanding stock of PSC.
Consequently, viewing the office building owned by Liebau-Woodall as a potential asset of PSC's liquidation, the Trustee filed a motion to intervene in Commerce Bank's suit against Liebau-Woodall. The district court heard arguments on the motion to intervene. The court subsequently found the Trustee had presented a prima facie showing of a material interest in the office building property that might be substantially impaired or impeded if the Trustee was prevented from intervening in the suit between Liebau-Woodall and Commerce Bank.
Eventually, the Trustee filed a motion to set aside the journal entry of judgment filed on March 18, 1998, which approved the settlement reached between Liebau-Woodall and Commerce Bank. Arguments on the motion to set aside the consent judgment were made to the district court but not to the same judge who entered the judgment.
In denying the motion to set aside the consent judgment, the district judge held:
"Now, I'm not getting--a little more specific working backwards, I'll find that there is an insufficient showing with respect to collusion. I will find that with respect to the issues raised by the petition of Commerce Bank and settled in the journal entry of judgment filed and entered March 18 I do not find that Mr. Connell as trustee or the creditors who are represented by him are indispensable or indispensably necessary parties under the statutes that you have cited.
"I'll also find that based upon my understanding of the law that you have an opportunity to assert the trustee's claims in a foreclosure action. By not setting aside the March 18 judgment it seems to me that the only prejudice to Mr. Connell as trustee is the establishment of the date of the equitable mortgage.
"Well, if we're proceeding under bankruptcy rules, I suppose that there is potential prejudice from the standpoint of no--rattling around in the back of my mind is the special position that a trustee in bankruptcy has in relation to all other creditors, and I forget the terminology. It's been a long time since I've been called upon to think of it and use it but it's that extra special quality that a trustee in bankruptcy has. . . .
"Yes, yes. And I can see some potential prejudice there, but there is a basis for that date of July 1, 1992 and I'm satisfied that the judgment should remain and not be voided and for that reason I will deny Mr. Connell's motion as trustee."
Dissatisfied with the district court's ruling, the Trustee removed the case to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Kansas and filed a motion to reconsider. The bankruptcy court remanded the case to state court, concluding that the present matter is not a "pending claim or cause of action" within the meaning of the applicable removal statute. The bankruptcy court further emphasized that sound judicial policy prevents a federal court from reconsidering a decision by a state court, including federal-state court comity and prevention of forum shopping.
Eventually, the Trustee refiled the motion to reconsider in the district court, which heard arguments on November 23, 1999. The court reaffirmed its denial of the motion to set aside the consent judgment, and the Trustee perfected this appeal.
The primary focus of the Trustee's appeal has been the claim the district court erred in overruling a previous finding the Trustee is an indispensable party in Commerce Bank's suit against Liebau-Woodall.
K.S.A. 60-219 establishes the parameters of compulsory joinder of parties. Following the guidance set by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Kansas rules abrogated the distinction between necessary and indispensable parties, opting for the term "contingently necessary." See Froelich v. Werbin, 212 Kan. 119, 121, 509 P.2d 1118 (1973).
A contingently necessary party is one without whom the parties already named to the action cannot obtain complete relief or one who claims an interest in the subject matter of the suit which is so interrelated that failure to include the nonparty will impair or impede the nonparty's ability to protect that interest or will subject an existing party to double or multiple liability or inconsistent obligations related to that interest. See K.S.A. 60-219(a).
If the district court determines that a nonparty is a contingently necessary party but cannot join the nonparty because the court lacks personal jurisdiction or proper venue or because joining the party would destroy the court's jurisdiction over the subject matter, the court must apply K.S.A. 60-219(b) to determine whether the original suit must be dismissed. See Greenwood v. McDonough Power Equipment, Inc., 437 F. Supp. 707, 709-10 (D. Kan. 1977); 7 Wright, Miller & Kane, Federal Practice and Procedure: Civil 2d § 1607 (1986).
The factors a court must consider in determining whether a suit must be dismissed under K.S.A. 60-219(b) include: (1) the extent to which a judgment rendered in the nonparty's absence might prejudice the right of the nonparty or the existing parties; (2) the extent to which such prejudice may be lessened or avoided by shaping the judgment or relief granted; (3) the adequacy of any judgment rendered without the nonparty; and (4) whether dismissal of the suit would leave the present plaintiff without an effective remedy. See K.S.A. 60-219(b).
In the present action, the subject matter of dispute relates to the office building located at 154 North Topeka, Wichita, Kansas. The parties stipulate that the building is wholly owned by Liebau-Woodall. Additionally, this record shows the Trustee is responsible solely for the liquidation of PSC. As such, the Trustee has an interest in the Commerce Bank suit against Liebau-Woodall only to the extent that Liebau-Woodall's property is interrelated with PSC's.
The Trustee argues that Liebau-Woodall and PSC are related through the bankruptcy theory of "substantive consolidation." In In re Circle Land and Cattle Corp., 213 Bankr. 870 (Bankr. D. Kan. 1997), the bankruptcy court considered the application of a substantive consolidation claim to pull the assets of an alleged corporate alter ego into the bankruptcy estate. The Circle Land court recognized the substantive consolidation doctrine but declined to apply such doctrine under the circumstances presented there.
The Circle Land decision suggests that substantive consolidation is rarely proper unless the party seeking the consolidation can demonstrate that no creditor will be harmed by the consolidation. 213 Bankr. at 875-76.
Whether the Trustee has alleged sufficient equitable claims to support the imposition of substantive consolidation in a bankruptcy proceeding, however, is not for this court to decide. Substantive consolidation is clearly an equitable remedy applied by bankruptcy courts in reaching distributive fairness to all creditors concerned. See Circle Land, 213 Bankr. at 874-75. The sole issue presently pending before this court concerns the right of the Trustee to challenge a state court judgment as void for lack of a contingently necessary party. This is a question of law, requiring the application of legal principles.
To that end, Kansas courts have recognized that legally separate business organizations may be merely alter egos for a common entity. See Dean Operations, Inc. v. One Seventy Assocs., 257 Kan. 676, 680, 896 P.2d 1012 (1995). The determination of an organization's legal status under the alter ego doctrine is a question of fact. 257 Kan. at 682. To guide the factfinder in this determination, Kansas law provides 10 factors to assess the unity of interest of separate legal entities:
"(1) whether the parent [organization] owns all or a majority of the capital stock of the subsidiary; (2) whether the [organization] have common directors or officers; (3) whether the parent [organization] finances the subsidiary; (4) whether the parent [organization] subscribed to all of the capital stock of the subsidiary or otherwise causes its incorporation; (5) whether the subsidiary has grossly inadequate capital; (6) whether the parent [organization] pays the salaries or expenses or losses of the subsidiary; (7) whether the subsidiary has substantially no business except with the parent [organization], or no assets except those conveyed to it by the parent [organization]; (8) whether in the papers of the parent [organization], and in the statements of its officers, the subsidiary is referred to as such or as a department or division; (9) whether the directors or executives of the subsidiary do not act independently in the interest of the subsidiary but take direction from the parent [organization]; and (10) whether the formal legal requirements of the subsidiary as a separate and independent [organization] are not observed." 257 Kan. at 683 (citing Schmid v. Roehm GmbH, 544 F. Supp. 272, 275 [D. Kan. 1982]).
Although the Trustee alleged many of the above factors in the motion to set aside the March 18, 1998, journal entry, the record arguably contains no evidence supporting any of these claims. Unquestionably, however, the district court's finding the Trustee was not an indispensable party within the meaning of K.S.A. 60-219 left no opportunity for the Trustee to present evidence in support of the alter ego theory. As such, we conclude the district court's denial of the motion to set aside the consent judgment does not support a presumption the district court found the facts necessary to support the judgment, and the case must be remanded for additional factual findings. See In re Estate of Cline, 258 Kan. 196, 205-06, 898 P.2d 643 (1995).
In response to the veil-piercing or substantive consolidation arguments posed by the Trustee, Commerce Bank argues that the alter ego theory is not available to a corporation to pierce its own corporate veil. Commerce Bank's position misstates the status of Kansas veil-piercing law. Under Kansas law, a corporate entity cannot apply the alter ego doctrine as a sword to vindicate its own interests. The veil-piercing concept is to be used solely to avoid potential injury to third parties by perpetuating fraud, illegality, or injustice worked through the legal fiction of a corporate identity. See Pemco, Inc. v. Kansas Dept. of Revenue, 258 Kan. 717, 723, 907 P.2d 863 (1995). If, indeed, the alter ego theory is to be applied in this case to reach the assets of Liebau-Woodall, it is applied to protect the interest of third-party creditors, not the interests of the debtor corporation.
Assuming, without deciding, the alter ego theory is applicable in this case, the office building clearly becomes an asset of the liquidation estate. Under the Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970, 15 U.S.C. § 78fff-1(a) (1994), the Trustee in a liquidation proceeding under the Act is vested with the powers of a trustee in bankruptcy. Furthermore, a liquidation proceeding is to be conducted in the same manner as a bankruptcy proceeding. 15 U.S.C. § 78fff. As such, an equitable mortgage placed on the property would prejudice the other creditors of the estate to the extent that it places the debenture security holders in a position of priority. See Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. § 506(a) (1994).
Consequently, as to the Commerce Bank action against Liebau-Woodall, the Trustee might be a nonparty whose interests in the subject matter of the suit will be impaired if not permitted to join the action. In other words, the Trustee is possibly a contingently necessary party to Commerce Bank's suit against Liebau-Woodall, depending upon the determination of the alter ego status Liebau-Woodall bears with respect to PSC.
Moreover, on remand if the district court finds the office building is an asset of the liquidation estate because of the application of the alter ego doctrine, the original consent judgment may be avoided under the automatic stay provisions of the Securities Investor Protection Act. Section 78eee(b)(2)(B)(i) imposes a stay upon "any pending bankruptcy, mortgage foreclosure, equity receivership, or other proceeding to reorganize, conserve, or liquidate the debtor or its property and any other suit against any receiver, conservator, or trustee of the debtor or its property, and shall continue such stay upon appointment of a trustee pursuant to paragraph (3)." The stay becomes effective upon the filing of the application for the protective decree. See 15 U.S.C. § 78eee(b)(2)(B).
Furthermore, the liquidation estate for the purposes of the Securities Investor Protection Act encompasses all of the debtor's assets as of the date of the application. 15 U.S.C. § 78fff(b) (1994); 11 U.S.C. § 541(a)(1) (1994). As a result, the office building is conceivably an asset within the liquidation estate as of the date of the filing of the liquidation proceedings, i.e., January 9, 1998. Because the consent judgment was not entered until March 18, 1998, in violation of the automatic stay, the Trustee may avoid the judgment under the powers awarded a liquidation proceeding under the Securities Investor Protection Act. 15 U.S.C. § 78fff(b); 11 U.S.C. § 549(a) (1994).
Consequently, we remand this cause to the district court to determine if PSC is a mere alter ego of Liebau-Woodall and the effect that finding has upon the consent judgment, consistent with the opinion of this court.
The Trustee argues the district court improperly imposed an equitable mortgage favoring Commerce Bank upon the office building. In light of the foregoing analysis, this issue is moot.
If, upon remand, the district court determines that Liebau-Woodall is a mere alter ego of PSC (or vice versa), the consent judgment granting the equitable mortgage is either void or voidable at the will of the Trustee.
If, on the other hand, the district court finds no facts supporting the Trustee's veil-piercing theory, PSC and Liebau-Woodall are separate legal entities and the Trustee has no standing to challenge the district court's determination with respect to Liebau-Woodall's assets.
This court refuses to address a question of law which would amount to an advisory opinion. See Shanks v. Nelson, 258 Kan. 688, 692, 907 P.2d 882 (1995) (citing Hannon v. Maynard, 3 Kan. App. 2d 522, 597 P.2d 1125 [1979]). Accordingly, we need not consider whether the district court properly imposed an equitable mortgage on the office building located at 154 North Topeka, Wichita, Kansas.
Reversed and remanded for further proceedings.


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When Bulls, Hawks, Cubs and Bears Start Playing Hail Mary Like Lady Gaga, It Is a Different Ball Game!
CSN Chicago, a part of NBC Sports Regional Networks, is changing the meaning of sports forever!
Sports used to be something a few celebrities engaged in for the rest of us to watch and the press used to have a field day about.
a new feature introduced by CSN called Team pulse is on its way to transform how games are played out, enjoyed and reported, with active participation of everyone and with greater and unprecedented mass intellectual and emotional involvement. Can we call that sports anymore?
The nature of sports and its explosive emotional upheaval has changed a long time ago by the infusion of music which has immense mass appeal. The emotional swaying power of music and its celebrity creators have blended well with the turmoil of sports, taking it to exhilarating heights in the past.
The Three Tenors Concert of Los angel Super bowl remains a musical moment etched in the history of sports. Numbers like We will Rock you by Queen still reverberate in stadiums around the world. The bears have even turned music celebrities in the past by performing Super bowl Shuffle for charity.
It is the genius of music celebrities like Lady Gaga in turning technology and the immense influential power of the ever expanding social web, to pamper and keep hold on their fan base, which the giants of sports have borrowed this time.
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The interactive social experiences technology CSN Chicago sought out for their new social engaging feature Team Pulse is the same as the one which Lady Gaga employed with great success to engage with her fans in real time through her website, provided by ARKTAN, specialised in creating engaging user experiences on the social web and TV.
However, unlike the massive benefits such interactive features bring to celebrities like Lady Gaga in the entertainment field, the Team plus feature of CSN has far deeper and wide reaching power to convert all sports to mass sports.
For example, real time interactive facilities provided for the 'Bulls Pulse', the official site of BULLS, include real time curated time lines of Bulls Talk for fans, Press Box, Player Tweets, Official Bulls & NBA and Instagram photos. The feature also includes a Trending list of players with mentions each get during the event.
What this means is that everyone involved and watching a game live and all those away from the venue but engaged through TV or other media can express their views, opinions and criticisms, which everyone else can see and react to, anywhere around the world.
The revolution in smart phones and tablets, which has rendered such interaction easy and enjoyable and platforms on the social web like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram and numerous Blogs and forums take the game to the level of a global event.
What does this mean in reality? Spectators can now influence players during the game. Someone can pass a valuable tip or advice the coach is missing. The commentator can see the trend and focus on a player if he is doing well or making mistakes because the tweets are benign or nasty. Everyone can see how much attention the game is catching so everything including the live ads can be changed. See where this is going ?
In fact the Instagram stream brings much fun to the experience by letting everyone express their feelings of the 'moment' before, during and after the event in an unprecedented and unique way, giving a sense of one to one community participation in the event.
Adding short video streams like 'vine' can add depth to this experience if added to the page, leveraging on the immense addictive power of this new social media platform, something CSN and the technology provider need to consider.
Further making the streams scrollable can enhance participants experience by being able to revisit and 'miss' nothing, especially if they want to share at a later time.
It is only just the beginning of a trend how the sporting world is going to change. Pretty soon, such features can become standard for several other games like football and cricket, basket ball and hockey popular in other parts of the world.
The impact of interactive features like Team pulse can be much far reaching changing the laws of the games, their engagement, betting industry, entertainment and TV and even the popularity.
Pretty soon, like Psy of South Korea who has taken the world by storm with his 'Gagnam Style' and now his follow on 'Gentleman' which had over 10 million Youtube hits under 24 Hrs, locales and national boundaries will disappear for sporting events.
One thing is sure. The way people will live and relax during weekends will certainly change. There may be nothing of interest about a game you watched over the weekend to talk about aound the Monday morning coffee in the office!
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Well, as it turns out, not only did Nikolai manage to surpass his output from last year, but he completely blew my good-natured prediction out of the water, writing a whopping FIVE tracks during the week. This is what Nikolai had to say about his efforts over the last week:
Each song was put together roughly over the course of a weekday evening after work with a beer (or two) and a cat climbing over everything. The production isn't fabulous but as I usually compose and then try to spend some time away from the track to lose familiarity before going back to calm everything down that wasn't going to happen in the tome allowed. Most tracks were put together with Robb's PADs and standard Reason soundbank patches - with the exception of the beats on a couple of tracks being from the Rebirth 808 / 909 refill.... oh and I used Peff's fantastic square bass (free from his site) on a couple as well. Each track up on the soundcloud site has track notes regarding which PAD's were included.
Nikolai's trick of inserting comments where each patch from Reason Patch A Day appears is actually really clever and makes listening along a lot of fun.
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2011 PAD challenge NOMAD by Nikolai Bonamente
As you can see from his Comment "signposts," Nikolai used the Chimera - Thor, Nomad - subtractor PAD, and Reductio Ad Absurdum - Malstrom patches in Nomad. Nikolai wrote the following about his track:
This is the last one that was put together on Friday and I think is my favorite of the bunch - it achieves the feel I was going for early this year with Thorong-La and Glide-Plane . While both of these tracks headed off into embellishment land Nomad stays fairly minimal with lots of space and has a sort of lazy drifting lilt that it's name suggests.
2011 PAD challenge NERVE AGENT by Nikolai Bonamente
His second track, Nerve Agent, used the following patches: Ironic is Iconic - Subtractor, Newcomer - Malstrom, Peanut Snap - Sample, Rebop HiHat 6 - Kong, Rebop Snare 4 - Kong, Reductio Ad Absurdum - Malstrom, and Starpower - Thor.
Nikolai had this to say about his track:
An attempt to tweak some acid out of Robbs pads - I've been tooling around with the rebirth refills lately so I wanted something in that general area. This track shows examples of Robb's PADs after a fair degree of tweaking, some nice airly reverb layer percussion and my desire to try sounds that grate a little around the edges in otherwise fairly commercial sounding tracks.
2011 PAD challenge COVER PRICE by Nikolai Bonamente
Again, as you can see from Nikolai's carefully placed comments, the patches Brush - Malstrom, Peanut Snap - Sample, Rebop HiHat 6 - Kong, Rebop Snare 4 - Kong, and Secret Door - Thor (processed through the Veiled effects combinator) make an appearance in Cover Price.
This one came out of nowhere - I think I was a little um tipsy when I knocked it up. In the past I've not been a big beat head, but I'm getting closer so this track again shows experimentation with some of Robb's latest Kong patches.
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Acrimony - Malstrom, Rebop Kick1 - Kong, Rebop Rimshot 3 - Kong, and Rebop Snare 3 - Kong all make an appearance in Infinite Rim Shot (Short Cut to Sanity Remix).
Nikolai had this to say about Infinite Rim Shot:
The result of 20 minutes playing with the rebop rimshot and delay and reverb - I almost did a minimal track with just that oscillating around for 7 minutes. After a while I thought some more percussion and another screeching PAD would go nicely.
2011 PAD challenge MILKWEED KEEPSAKE by Nikolai Bonamente
And lastly, Milkweed Keepsake uses the following patches: Keepsake - Malstrom, Milkweed - Malstrom, and Rebop Tom 2 - Kong, among others.
Of his song Milkweek Keepsake, Nikolai wrote:
This was heading in the direction ambient drum and bass but then took a big swing elsewhere - another attempt to make spooky left field ambient pads dancable.
A truly Herculean effort, Nikolai! The best part is that we all have five new tunes to listen to because of it, so thanks for submitting all of these to the Challenge.
If anyone has any constructive criticism for Nikolai, please be sure to post a comment or two on his tracks via Soundcloud or leave a message for him in the comments section here.


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Former President George W. Bush has closed a three-day civil rights summit in Texas by saying education is the key for opportunity for poor and minority children and that he fears what he calls the `soft bigotry' of low expectations is returning 50 years after the signing of the Civil Rights Act.
Bush signed the No Child Left Behind law in 2002, which expanded the federal government's role in public education.
He said Thursday the law helped close the achievement gap between white and minority students. He criticized efforts to weaken the law, saying the federal government has a role in demanding school accountability.
Bush said that while education in America is not still legally separate, it is not effectively equal.
The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library hosted the summit.


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Trotz out as Predators coach after 15 yearsby John Manasso
NASHVILLE -- In what can only be described as a heart-felt love letter to the Nashville Predators and the city he called home for 17 years, Barry Trotz said an emotional goodbye on Monday to the organization that he coached from its inception, a span of 1,196 regular-season games.
"I'm from Dauphin, Manitoba, and I didn't know much about Nashville," Trotz said. "I was in Portland, Maine, working for their minor-league team. I never thought I could find a better place, better people. Come to Nashville, I found out. It's incredible."
Always among the most accommodating and thoughtful coaches in the NHL with the media, Trotz proved no different on a day when general manager David Poile announced that the Predators would seek a new coach after 15 seasons, 557 wins and seven appearances in the Stanley Cup Playoffs under Trotz.
Trotz, who was offered a different job within the organization, said he had "zero ill will" towards the franchise, but that he wants to coach next season and would accept a position if offered one. Poile said he would grant another NHL team permission to talk to Trotz if the Predators are asked.
"I love you all," said Trotz, wearing a shirt with no logo while sitting at the same table where he had presided after postgame press conferences. "I love Nashville, but now I'm going to have to beat you."
Poile said he wants the Predators' next coach to have "strong leadership and communication" skills. He said assistant coaches Phil Housley and Lane Lambert remain under contract. Goalie coach Mitch Korn is not and, citing Korn's closeness with Trotz, Poile said he would talk to Korn about returning, but seemed to imply that Korn might not want to.
Poile said that hiring a new coach is such a new experience for him that he wants to take some time with the process. He expressed great frustration that Nashville did not qualify for the postseason. The Predators missed by three points and will sit out for a second straight season.
Poile cited a five-game homestand that began after 2014 Sochi Olympics concluded when the Predators went 1-4 as a major factor why Nashville did not make the playoffs. When the League resumed play, Nashville was four points out of the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference. In the four losses, the Predators scored three goals.
Poile said the entire organization shares responsibility for the decision. He said he has not managed well enough, scouts have not scouted well enough and players have not played well enough.
But he also expressed frustration with the Predators' performance in shootouts. Nashville won twice in 11 tries, ranking among the three worst teams in the NHL. Four more shootout wins and the Predators would have made the playoffs, Poile said on multiple occasions. A third factor was the hip infection that kept No. 1 goalie Pekka Rinne out for 51 games.
Trotz and Poile said that the latter made up his mind long ago that the Predators needed a change (officially, Poile said he informed Trotz on Friday). However, Poile said if Nashville had made the playoffs, it could have changed Trotz's fate.
"Give me a healthy Pekka, give me Pekka where he was two years ago [when he led the NHL in wins]," Poile said somewhat regretfully, "we wouldn't be here today."
As a longer-term factor, Poile said the Predators' loss in five games to the Phoenix Coyotes in the 2012 Western Conference Semifinals was hard to get over. Nashville finished with the NHL's fifth-best record that season, but lost to Phoenix after dispatching their long-time nemesis, the Detroit Red Wings, in five games. That series with the Coyotes was marred when the Predators suspended two players, Alexander Radulov and Andrei Kostitsyn, for breaking curfew. Poile referred to how the Predators "goofed up" in the series.
Poile said the Predators had gone into a rebuild "on the fly" after that series. The Predators lost defenseman Ryan Suter, a Norris Trophy finalist last season with the Minnesota Wild, to free agency in July 2012. Then, veteran right wing Martin Erat asked for a trade last season and the Predators accommodated him. This season, the Predators traded veteran defenseman Kevin Klein and center David Legwand, who had played with the organization in every season of its existence.
Poile said he thinks the Predators are not far from returning to the playoffs. He made it clear in no uncertain terms that Shea Weber, who led NHL defensemen in goals this season with 23 and who has 12 years and $82 million left on his contract, would return.
Poile also said that his own health is not a factor going forward. He suffered serious injuries on Feb. 7 when he was hit by an errant puck in the head during a morning skate and has yet to recover vision in his right eye.
"I'm up for the challenge, if that's what the direction was," he said of the question.
In moments of personal touches, Poile said hiring Trotz was the best decision he ever made, at one point holding up his arms triumphantly in praising Trotz, and also one of the things of which he is most proud of in his time as an NHL general manager.
"Let's be clear," he said, "Barry is a top, top coach in the NHL."
Poile said that Monday was a day about celebrating what Trotz had accomplished and the foundation he had laid.
Trotz, emotional at times, also joked. He said early on, he was helping Poile pick out carpet for the locker room when Poile cracked to him that he would not be around longer than the carpet.
"I've been through about five carpets," Trotz said. "The running joke is who's going to last longer, me or David Legwand? I think he's going to have buy me dinner now. It's been absolutely wonderful."
And under the category of things you would never expect a fired coach to say, Trotz added, "It is really not a sad day, but a joyous day. It's sad because I won't be around some of my friends as much."


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More than an estimated 160,000 people in the United States will die from lung cancer this year, making it the country's leading cause of cancer death. According to the National Cancer Institute, it surpassed breast cancer as the number one killer in women back in 1987. It causes more deaths than colon, breast and prostate cancer combined, according to the American Lung Association. Bruce Johnson, MD, the director of the Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, sorts out the facts about lung cancer and offers simple ways to reduce risk.
1. Lung cancer targets more than just smokers
The greatest risk factor for lung cancer is smoking, but non-smokers can also development lung cancer. "Roughly 10 to 15 percent of lung cancer cases occur in non-smokers, and many of these patients are women," said Johnson. He added that it is important for everyone to know the symptoms of lung cancer, just not smokers, because detecting the cancer early can lead to better treatment outcomes.
2. Know the warning signs
Overall, cancer death rates have been dropping in the U.S., but the number of cases of women with lung cancer has been on the rise. Both men and women should know the warning signs of lung cancer. They can be subtle but symptoms to be aware of include: 1. a cough that does not go away, 2. shortness of breath, 3. back and shoulder pain, and 4. coughing up blood. This could be a sign of something serious and should be discussed with a doctor.
3. CT screenings can save lives
Lung cancer can be difficult to detect and, until recently, there has not been a good screening test. But results from the National Lung Screening Trial suggest that screening high-risk individuals with low-dose CT scans can detect tumors at an earlier stage, resulting in improved lung cancer survival. Screening is currently recommended for people who are between the ages of 55 and 74 and who have smoked a pack a day for 30 years and quit less than 15 years ago.
4. New therapies show promise
Thanks to advances in the last decade, new targeted therapies offer more treatment options for patients. "The identification of genetic alterations – such as EGFR and ALK – make the tumors more likely to respond to certain targeted drugs that can be taken in pill form and have fewer side effects than standard chemotherapy," said Johnson. Dana-Farber physicians offer testing to all lung cancer patients for the presence of such mutations. And researchers continue to hunt for additional genetic targets within lung cancers.
5. It's never too late to quit smoking
"The most important thing a person can do to avoid lung cancer is to never start smoking," said Johnson. For those who do smoke and decide to quit now, within weeks to months they can begin to reduce the risks of heart attack and lung cancer. "People who stop and remain a non-smoker for at least 10 to 20 years can cut their risk of developing lung cancer by 50 to 75 percent," explained Johnson.
Quitting smoking can be difficult because the nicotine in tobacco is addictive. "It's very common to have people try several times to quit before they stop permanently," said Johnson, but he emphasized that "it's never too late to quit."
For those who are looking to quit smoking, Johnson offered the following tips: 1. Plan the quit day, 2. recruit friends and family for support, 3. avoid triggers (get rid of cigarettes and ashtrays), 4. exercise to reduce cravings, and 5. follow the Four D's – Deep breaths, Drink lots of water, Do something to avoid cravings, Delay reaching for a cigarette, the urge will pass.
A conversation about lung cancer with Dr. Johnson


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Yes, Harold Camping has been exposed as a false prophet, deceiving many as concerning the timing of the second coming of Jesus Christ. Again. Yes, his deception has caused lots of problems and unnecessary harm, especially for his followers. Again. The question is this: what is the big deal? Why has Camping been the subject of such media attention for months when there are so many pressing stories to cover i.e. wars, famines, diseases, natural disasters, economic failures, political intrigues etc. on a global scale? Clearly the media has an agenda, but what is it?
First off, for the sake of sound doctrine, let it be known that the return of Jesus Christ will not occur until A) the gospel has been taken to all nations and B) a great apostasy, a great falling away from the true faith, occurs. As the great commission is a primary duty of the church, it logical to conclude that the falling away will occur shortly after the great commission is fulfilled, or when the great commission's fulfillment and with it the time of the Gentiles draws to a close. Anyone who extricates themselves from rapture watching and religious right (or religious left) politics long enough to pay attention to the global missions movements knows that barring a fantastic miracle we are at least 100 years from fulfilling the great commission (the 10/40 window alone is an amazing challenge) and – despite the claims of Camping otherwise – far from there being a great falling away, there are more Christians – or definitely appreciable numbers of Christians in more places – today than at any time in history. So, if we can learn anything from this Camping episode, it is that we should heed the words given by angels and recorded by the physician Luke at the direction of God the Holy Spirit "why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." That was an exhortation to cease waiting for eternity and to get on with the business of living for eternity by loving Jesus Christ and walking in His ways.
With that out of the way, let it further be said that the error of Camping does not undermine the authority of the Bible, Jesus Christ or His church but rather confirms it. How? Because the Bible repeatedly warns against false teachers, including those who would lead people into error concerning His second coming. Jesus Christ said that "false prophets shall deceive many" in Matthew 24:5, and that many will be offended by the true faith in Matthew 24:10. Such false teachings were present even while the New Testament was being written, as the apostle Peter referenced them in 2 Peter 3:4, the apostle John did the same in 1 John 2:18, and the apostle Paul did the same in 2 Thessalonians 2. Further, Jesus Christ predicted such specifically in Matthew 24:4-5! The New Testament makes it clear that we identify false teachers when they teach things that are in contradiction to the Bible. This truth is what drove William Tyndale to martyrdom, when he stated "I defy the Pope and all his laws. If God spare my life ere many years, I will cause the boy that drives the plow to know more of the scriptures than you!" in response to being told that common people didn't need to be knowledgeable concerning the Bible's contents, because it was better to obey the pope than the Bible anyway. So, in rejecting Jesus Christ when He stated that none knows the timing of His return save God the Father (Matthew 24:36), and in rejecting Jesus Christ when He stated that the great commission will be fulfilled before He returns (Matthew 24:14) and in rejecting the Holy Spirit's inspiration of Paul concerning the falling away first in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, this Camping teaches against things concerning God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, and by his doing so and attracting so many followers he verifies the pages of the New Testament when it said that such a thing would happen. So, Camping did not harm the authenticity or integrity of the Bible by being wrong, but rather verified the Bible's truth! Instead, Camping's being RIGHT would have been an occasion to challenge the veracity of the Bible, for were Jesus Christ to return before we reach the many tribes in the 10/40 window or while there are tens of millions of believers risking persecution to worship in Africa and Asia, what would be said of those Bible texts?
So, make no mistake, there is nothing special about Camping. Was not just over ten years ago when there were tons of false prophets claiming based on Bible codes and numerology that Jesus Christ was going to return in 2000? (Never mind that the Bible doesn't follow our modern calendars, and that Bede almost certainly incorrectly calculated the date of the birth of Jesus Christ that we use for "B.C." and "A.D." anyway). Or about 25 years ago Jesus Christ was going to return because it was 40 years after of the establishment of the modern state of Israel? (Never mind that Jesus Christ spoke "this generation" to the Jews of His own time concerning the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D., and if the Bible actually does speak of the restoration of the political nation of Israel, it does not link this event to any timetable concerning Christ's return.) So why all the fuss and the furor? It has to serve some sort of media agenda.
Consider this: how come when the subject in view is Usama bin Laden or some other Muslim terrorist, the media is quick to say "he isn't a real Muslim" or "he doesn't represent mainstream Islam that is practiced by hundreds of millions of peaceful followers", but the media is quick to depict Camping as being in or near the mainstream of evangelical and fundamental Christians? In truth, as Camping rejects the Holy Trinity, he shouldn't be classified as Christian at all. Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Muslims and Jews all reject the Holy Trinity, a core foundational doctrine of Christianity that sets it apart from other religions that are either polytheistic or present a false teaching on God's Unity. But while the media does its best to present Islam and increasingly Mormonism as moderate and mainstream, it uses Camping to create a wild eyed, dangerous fanatical face for Bible-believing Christianity.
Another thing: it isn't as if Camping is the only false prophet or source of wrong information. Far from it. It is just that when so many others get things wrong and are exposed for their false, anti-Biblical thinking, nothing is ever said about it. Instead, the media, the academy, the elites simply move on. (Or they carry on as if the error was never made.) Consider liberal Christianity, such as the critical "scholars." Barely a year goes by when an archaeological find of a Biblical site or a scientific breakthrough that confirms Biblical truth or discovery of early manuscripts verifying the existence of historical persons, places and the integrity of Biblical texts that the critical scholars challenged, yet the critical scholars are still accepted as scholars, and their methods – which would never be used in any other field because of their ascientific nature – accepted as reliable.
But that is just the Bible, right? Wrong. Take psychology. The theories of giants in that field like Sigmund Freud and Alfred Kinsey have long been discredited. Yet they are still revered as having made great contributions to science, modern thought and human progress, and furthermore their discredited theories are still being taught as fact in our schools and universities. But psychology, save when it is based on experimentation and observation and does not deal with brain's biology and chemistry, is a "soft science", right? Sure, except that the theories in the hard sciences like physics and biology turn up erroneous also. Our schools still teach the long-discredited false leads in evolution theory, i.e. the "evolutionary timeline tree chart" that has long been abandoned as unworkable, and fossils allegedly showing primates evolving into humans that were actually either diseased humans or other animals as fact. You would be surprised to know how many of the things that were taught in science class has been quietly abandoned, how much more needs to be pushed from the classroom, and would be if the media held that community to the same scrutiny that it does evangelical and fundamental Christianity.
But that is just arcane science that has little relevance to our daily lives, so what harm does it do? Fine, except that the realm of false prophets also exists in government and policy. Many fantastic, dire predictions have been made and influenced the direction of governments and leaders to who knows what ends. Example? Global warming. Except that they couldn't call it "global warming" anymore when many places in the world started experiencing prolonged unseasonably cold weather! So, the cause of the cold weather was attributed to greenhouse gas emissions also and "global warming" became "climate change." I remember a specific prediction from the global warming prophets that had a lot of people frightened: after Hurricane Katrina and other large, powerful destructive hurricanes in 2005, the global warming community (the "climate change" moniker had not yet been instituted) claimed that the increase in the power and severity of the storms were caused by global warming, and that we could expect worse storms – and more of them – thereafter. They predicted that the hurricane season of 2006 was going to be one of the worst in history! All their models said so! What happened? We haven't had anything approaching Katrina since.
Another example: peak oil. The experts a few decades back claimed that we had maxed out our oil production, that we had exploited the main reserves, that oil production was heading for an inevitable decline, and that we needed to alter our lifestyles and change our way of life to conserve what oil was left or face a global energy crisis. A few years after those dire predictions, some of the largest oil reserves in history were discovered, as well as technological breakthroughs for accessing oil, and possible new sources of oil, such as from shale and sand. (Do not mistake me for an oil company and fossil fuels advocate, quite the contrary I am fully supportive of alternative energy, and believe that a lot of great technology in that area is not being exploited.) And there was also the "overpopulation crisis." It was promoted by folks who believed that if the world's population reached 4 billion, it would become unsustainable, and the result would be mass famines and starvation, diseases, wars and environmental degradation. The only solution was immediate global population control programs! Well, now the world population is 6.75 billion and counting.
There is more. Remember when mad cow disease was going to ravage our food supply? Oprah Winfrey said "I'll never eat a hamburger again!" (Of course, these folks OPPOSE abstinence from fornication as a defense against sexually transmitted disease as the Bible commands, but constantly promotes abstinence from eating the animals that God gave us dominion over and called lawful to eat.) Remember when bird flu was going to kill thousands, or tens of thousands? What about swine flu? Brought to you by the same false prophets who told you to run out and buy cellophane and masking tape to protect yourself from a nuclear terrorist attack after September 11th.
The prophets told us in the 1980s that AIDS was going to wipe out a significant portion of the U.S. population with little or no regard for lifestyle, and needless to say they were wrong, as AIDS rates only increased among homosexuals, the promiscuous and drug users while declining for everyone else. The lead false prophet was surgeon general C. Everett Koop, who used this false information to promote sex education and condom giveaways in schools starting in 3rd grade. Speaking of sex education, the false prophets told us that it would drastically reduce the venereal disease and teen/out of wedlock pregnancy rates, and it did neither. Instead, both shot through the roof, and further there are now new venereal diseases that even condom manufacturers acknowledge their products are useless against (not that you will ever hear that in any public school sex education program).
But wait, there's more. The prophets told us that abandoning classical education for new education reforms (often based on Freudian or Marxist theories) would lead to markedly improved results and a transformation of society. They were totally wrong, American academic achievement has fallen off the map, and no one talks about it. The prophets told us that divorce and illegitimacy were GOOD for women, children and even most men, but education, poverty, drug use and incarceration rates say otherwise. The prophets claimed that we could eliminate racism through education. How is that working out? They claimed that we could eliminate poverty through government action, and now not only is poverty still a reality (as Jesus Christ said it would in Mark 14:7, not a favorite text among liberal theologians!) but unprecedented numbers of people in America and worldwide are reliant on government assistance of some kind. The false prophets also claimed that the triumph of Soviet communism was inevitable, and the best course of action was resignation, acceptance and learning from and becoming more like them, only to have the Soviet Union collapse and many remaining Marxist regimes like China and Viet Nam adopt more capitalistic economies. Those who predicted that the war on drugs and the war on terror (especially Afghanistan and Iraq) could be effectively and quickly won? Whatever happened to them?
The sociologists who said that eliminating censorship laws and allowing the free trafficking of pornography would make us more progressive and improve relations between the sexes? They have been nowhere to be found as rapists, child molesters and other sex criminals have proliferated, multiplying like rats. The social theorists who claimed that putting criminals in jail wouldn't lower crime rates because the root causes were economic? Wrong, and verified when crime rates still remained lower despite two severe recessions and deep cuts in social services. (Well, street crime is lower anyway. White collar crime, the rich in their vain attempt to sate their lust for greed, remains through the roof. But the Bible said that this would happen concerning the wealthy also … see the book of James, which is not a favorite among political conservatives or those who teach the false prosperity gospel.) And another example: remember Barack HUSSEIN Obama's claim that we had to immediately adopt a stimulus package to keep unemployment from hitting 8%? Unemployment has been at or near 10% for over two years! Anti-Christ? Probably not. False prophet? Definitely.
So, on one hand you have ONE Harold Camping, who again due to his rejection of the Holy Trinity and of many Bible texts (he forbids his followers from fellowshipping in local churches in violation of Hebrews 10:25) should not be considered a Christian is a false prophet. On the other hand, you have MANY worldly prophets who due to their embrace of ungodly, anti-Biblical ideas, doctrines, philosophies and imaginations that exalt themselves against God (2 Corinthians 10:5) that are utterly, totally and completely wrong all the time. Now both groups of false prophets are wrong for the same reason: their rejection of Biblical revelation as true, infallible, inerrant, and the final authority in all matters, and not merely things necessary for salvation. But the media and the elites shine the light on Camping to defame and discredit Christians who actually do adhere to the Bible while doing their best to cover up the fact that they so wrong so often on so many issues to the great harm of so many is appalling. It is hypocrisy at best, and a conspiratorial cover-up at worst. If anything, talking about Camping gives them an excuse to keep from having to address the huge mess that these folks have made of the economies, governments and societies of the world. Further, it allows them to transfer the blame from their failed policies – and the rejection of Jesus Christ and the Bible which reveals Him ideology that motivate them – to Christians, as if Christians are undermining their efforts.
Christians, for instance, are blamed for illegitimacy by opposing sex education. Christians are blamed for AIDS by opposing homosexuality. Christians are blamed for poor educational performance for opposing evolution. Christians are blamed for global warming for opposing climate change legislation. Christians are blamed for the wars and tension in the Middle East for supporting Israel and not a Palestinian state (by the way, I reject Zionism, and "Christian" Zionism is especially repugnant to what the Bible actually says, and John Hagee and not a few other false prophets follow this flawed school of interpretation). Christians are called misogynist for adhering to what the Bible says about the roles concerning men and women in the church, in marriages and homes and in society, and for opposing the murder of abortion. Christians are blamed for "Islamophobia" and "anti-Semitism" and "anti-Mormonism" for refusing to deny that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven, and accused of undermining cultures with our missionary work. And the list goes on and on.
And it is only going to increase. As more and more ideas based on a rejection of the Bible and even of general revelation (see Romans 1:18-32) causes still more decline and failure, anger will increase against Christians. As the world continues to reap the fruit of the sin and wickedness that it sows, it will increasingly see Christians as scapegoats. Instead of repenting of their sins and acknowledging those as the true source of the misery and calamity, the blame will be on Christians for failing to get with the program.
This will climax in first sporadic but then general and organized attempts to silence Christians and remove us from their midst, in the hopes of keeping us from hindering their "progress." This is far-fetched, you say? Not in the least, because it has already happened. An example is not merely the brutal repression and murder of Christians on a massive scale in the Soviet Union, China, Germany, Sudan and other totalitarian (whether Marxist, Muslim or fascist) regimes in the last century, but the experience of the church in the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire's wealth, power and culture were declining due to the decadence and incompetence of its ruling classes, and from Nero to Decius, they saw Christians as a scapegoat.
The legitimate Christians refused to join in their state religion (an odd mix of paganism and patriotism not dissimilar from what goes on in our country today, including in not a few churches) so the Roman "gods" were angry. The Christians refused to join in their public activities (regrettably this is not a mark of contemporary Christianity!) so they were called "divisive" and were accused of undermining the common culture (in addition to not being patriotic!) that was allegedly needed to have a cohesive, strong empire. And Christians preached and taught against the immorality, wickedness and depravity of the people, the rulers and the times. They preached against the rampant adultery, homosexuality, violence and child molestation. They preached against the wanton excesses of the upper classes (again, not a mark of contemporary evangelical Christianity, unless the upper classes in view are Hollywood, government bureaucrats and other liberal elites). And they preached against paganism, not only by the people but the official state religion (again, the evangelical Christian preacher who even speaks of the freemasonry and occult that was vital to this nation's founding and has been influential in it ever since is rare).
Then, the persecution began as sporadic and localized, but climaxed in a brutal, sustained attempt to completely rid the Roman Empire of Christianity. And despite the estimated ten million Christians that were killed by the Roman Empire (something that you will never see mentioned in history books or depicted in movies, as they are more wont to depict Christians as murderous crusaders and the like) and the carnage of the past hundred years, that is only a shadow of the real bloodbath to come. You see, unlike Harold Camping, I do not adhere to a rapture belief. Instead, I believe the Bible when it says that when the anti-Christ comes, it will be given to him to make war against the saints, and to overcome them. I believe the Bible when it says that the time of tribulation, of great sorrows, will be of such severity that it will be cut short so that the saints, the elect, will survive it. And I believe that the saints that were mentioned in Revelation and Matthew 24 that will see that horrible time are not Jews, or those converted by Jews during the great tribulation, but Christians.
And that is what it is all about. That is why turning an obscure preacher with questionable doctrine into an international news story lasting several cycles was done. It is why Westboro Baptist Church, a cult that has existed for decades, is only now becoming international news. It is why Terry Jones, an obscure leader of a small congregation, became an international pariah for burning a Koran when not only Muslims but the United States military routinely burns Bibles!
It is why terrorists attacks committed by atheists like Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph are attributed to Christians. It is why violence against abortion clinics and doctors is an issue oft raised against Christians despite the fact that less than 5 such incidents have occurred in over 20 years, and only 1 in the past 10. The Hutaree militia drew headlines and a massive sting operation from the federal government as a Christian terrorism threat to rival that posed by Al Qaeda, and it turned out to be just a bunch of guys spinning yarns over the Internet. Yet, the Marxist "liberation theology" types, not a few of whom were trained Soviet infiltrators, fanned the flames for any number of bloody murderous third world Marxist coups with their organizing and "preaching", and the truth about their activities – and the level of support that they received from their ideological and religious fellow travelers in the U.S. – has never been documented by the media, Hollywood or our schools. Neither has the true history of our own "civil rights movement" – how it duped the black church and many well meaning white Americans into supporting Marxist subversive tactics, and how that movement was also organized by and rife with Soviet agents and sympathizers – been told, and nor can you expect them to spill the beans on their own false prophets.
The agitation propaganda against Christians will continue in the future just as it did in the Roman Empire. Christians should be heedful of the times, which means that we must be aware of what is going on, aware of where it is headed, and aware of whose agenda it is serving. That is why Christians should end these "battles" over "being represented in Hollywood" and the "culture wars" and "religious right politics" (and religious left politics) in favor of opening our eyes to the true state of affairs. Instead, we should study our Bibles, study about the early church during its time of persecution before Christianity was co-opted by the Roman Empire so that by learning about the church's past, we can learn about the future – our future. Of course, the Bible tells us that Jesus Christ will win in the end and vindicate and save His church. But make no mistake: just as Jesus Christ suffered Gethsemane and His passion before His resurrection and glorification, the church, being less than its Master Jesus Christ, must also suffer many things. Christians must be prepared so that we might stand during the time to come, and endure to the end. This is a battle that will be won not by guns, money or governments but by faith in the God who is fighting on our side and prevail.
It must be asked: which side are you on? The side of God, or of the wicked? Though Camping was wrong, his error only proved the Bible to be correct. The Bible makes it clear that the wicked perish and that Jesus Christ and those who believe in Him will triumph. If you do not believe in Jesus Christ, make no mistake, you will be counted among the wicked, because no matter how good you perceive yourself to be, before a holy and perfect God you are a sinner. I urge you, repent of your sins, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved.


text: McIlroy finished way outside the places while Woods was penalised two strokes for a rule infringement [Reuters]The world's top two golfers, Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, both missed the cut in their first tournament of the season at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship on Friday.McIlroy finished well outside the cut line, while playing partner Woods appeared to have squeezed into the weekend before he was hit with a two-stroke penalty for a rules infringement that sunk his challenge.By the time the dust had settled, England's Justin Rose was the leader at the halfway stage at eight under par after a 69, with rising Danish star Thorbjorn Olesen (69), Jamie Donaldson of Wales (70) and Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (67) all a further stroke back.But it was the astonishing double demise of McIlroy and Woods that was the story of the day.Playing for the first time in competition with his new Nike clubs after signing a mega-money, long-term deal with the US sportswear giant, the 23-year-old McIlroy clearly failed to get the hang of his new sticks.Starting the day well down the field after an opening 75, McIlroy had three straight pars but that failed to steady his ship and three bogeys in the next four holes sent him spiralling to six over, well outside the projected cut line.He birdied eight and nine to pick up some hope, but bogeys at the 10th and 14th all but sealed his fate in a tournament where he was runner-up last year with his old Titleist clubs.Another wild drive into desert scrub at the last summed up his day as he eventually came in with another 75, which left him tied for 99th position and with no hope of making it through to the weekend. Rusty Rory The last cut McIlroy missed was at the US Open in San Francisco last June, which ended a run of three missed cuts in four tournaments.It was shortly after that that his game suddenly picked up again and he went on to win the USPGA title at Kiawah and the money lists on both sides of the Atlantic. McIlroy does have the excuse that Abu Dhabi was his first tournment since winning the World Tour Championship in Dubai in early December. "I knew it was going to be a tough week with everything going on, but I was just looking forward to getting to the golf course and getting back to what I do and what I am comfortable with" World number one Rory McIlroy But he will need to return to the driving range for some much needed repairs in the four-week break he has that follows before the tournaments in the United States leading up to the Masters, the first of the four majors at Augusta National."I knew it was going to be a tough week with everything going on, but I was just looking forward to getting to the golf course and getting back to what I do and what I am comfortable with," a clearly frustrated McIlroy said."It just didn't work out like that."Playing partner and Nike stablemate Woods also struggled to find his game as he bogeyed four of the first five holes.But the 37-year-old world No.2 produced a battling back nine with three birdies in a row from the 14th to get back to level par. A bogey after another wild drive at the 17th popped him over par, but he shot regulation on the last to come in with a 73.That left him at one over for the tournament, with the cut projected at two over. But it was then announced that he had been hit by a two-stroke penalty for a rules infringement in sand at the fifth hole, turning a five into a seven.That was enough to seal his fate."It's tough because I didn't get off to a very good start today and I fought and got it back," he said of the penalty stroke drama."I was right there and I felt that if I had close to even par, I had a chance going into the weekend, being only eight back. Evidently it wasn't enough."It was also the first tournament of the year for Woods, whose focus this year is on winning a 15th major title, four and a half years after his last success at the 2008 US Open at Torrey Pines.Tournament leader Rose said that his recent surge of form came down to an improved fitness regime and softer shoes to take the strain away from his suspect lower back. SOURCE: Reuters Sport Golf US & Canada Spain United Kingdom


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The Music Story of the 70s
The 70′s exactly what a great decade for music as well as for music enthusiasts too. Music from the 70′s has already established lots of affect on the background music we pay attention to today not to mention there are several people who still have several the most popular 70′s records and pay attention to them still. A few of the genres that actually arrived to their very own within the 1970′s are Classic Rock, Disco, Southern Rock, Punk Rock, and also the birth of Heavy Metal And Rock even though it was initially referred to as Hard Rock too. Whether you had been born right into a more youthful generation there's most likely a 70′s song or album that you simply pay attention to so lets consider some good albums from the 70′s.
Most likely, concerning the music from the 70′s the background music genre most carefully associated with that American decade is Disco, which really came on strong within the mainstream following the film "Saturday Night Fever". The soundtrack from that movie continued to get among the finest selling albums ever too. Moving Stone magazine in 2003 placed the album on their own 500 finest albums of occasions list, as well as in exactly the same year, VH1 known as it the 57th finest album ever. With songs like "Remaining Alive", "Night Fever", "Basically Can't Have You EverInch, and "Boogie Footwear" it is no wonder this album soared to the peak.
Another genre that actually elevated in recognition throughout the 1970′s is Southern Rock. There have been an entire slew of Southern Rock bands within the 70′s that actually exploded onto that music scene too. Bands such as the Allman Siblings, The Outlaws, and Molly Hatchet made some good music, but those who elevated the bar of Southern Rock music from the 70′s is the one and only Lynyrd Skynyrd. Lynyrd Skynyrd had four platinum albums within the 70′s, three which went double platinum. Street Survivors however, showcased the three-guitar attack of Gaines, Collins, and Rossington behind Ronnie van Zant that other artists attempt to copy today making Street Survivor their most significant album within the 70′s.
The genre of Progressive Rock is yet another type of music that although born of Psychedelic Rock within the 60′s, made its bones on the rear of earlier artists within the 70′s. Bands like ELO, Utopia, Kansas, and Hurry moved in to the forefront from the genre maintaining the main of the listeners, while making Prog Rock Top 40 friendly too. Of all of the bands pointed out Hurry is really the conventional through which other Prog Rock bands are measured by. Possibly their most critical contribution in vinyl to music from the 70′s may be the bands album "2112″, and also the boss track with that album "Passage to Bangkok"
All of the the genres we will discuss is obviously Heavy Metal And Rock, which assaulted Rock 'n roll and went mainstream within the 70′s Motorhead, Judas Priest, and Iron Maiden found a house inside the genre making fantastic music, however the band that managed to get all possible is obviously Black Sabbath. The album "Black Sabbath" may be the undisputed father of Heavy Metal And Rock music from the 70s in addition to Heavy Metal And Rock 70′s records. The 3 tracks that everybody mentions when discussing this musical masterpiece are "N.I.B.", "Black Sabbath", and "Warning" and all sorts of agree this album may be the finest ever from the 1970′s Metal scene.
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Monday, July 23, 2012
Employers: Never Hire Based on Looks Alone
Do you receive text message every ten minutes wondering where you are and who you are with?
Have you ever received an unsolicited call from your bank confirming a request for joint checking accounts?
No? Then you've probably never gotten involved with your cute intern from Iowa you hired based on those Glamour Shots she sent along with her pink resume. Make sure it stays that way, people.
My lawyer has advised me not to get into the details, but let's just say I will probably never trust any girl named Shantelle nor will I look at banana pudding the same way again. Until I can recover emotionally and financially, my plans for the nation's first Telekinesis Camp for Aspiring Jedis and Anyone Else Interested (TCAJAEI) are on hold.
So for now, I'll be focusing on something that has always brought me joy - the Green Bay Packers. Looking around the internets, I can already tell journalists and bloggers alike have been overlooking some quality Packers material. Be sure to check back once in a while as I'll try to get to those hidden gems you've come to expect from Ranter, including but not limited to, the progression of Tim Masthay's thigh circumference from puberty to professional (hint: it's exponential) or the nutrition facts of Stadium View's cheese curds (not that that's going to stop anyone from consuming mass quantities!). As always, suggestions are welcome in the comments.
Go Pack and remember: $19.95 doesn't just buy a background check – it buys peace of mind.
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i'm pretty sure you shouldn't ever get involved with any chick from iowa. and as far as a pink resume: they also used to paint the visitor's locker rooms pink just to make them passive. hey, there were no posts for like 4 months, emmeffer. you need some help? i gots mad chops, and commitment. you have an awesome site with a great name. no need for it to die!!here: never published. it's yours. http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3144466938479024238#editor/target=post;postID=492473066505559953ReplyDelete
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
As the Blog Turns...
I'm still working on this blogging schedule thing. It looks like Wednesdays are going to be the day for taking care of blog-related things, like updates on my writing, contest and blogfest news, and award bequeathing (I just read that term over at Myrna Foster's Night Writer blog and it stuck with me, hope you don't mind if I borrow it, Myrna!)
Writing Update:
I'm making slow progress with revising In the Seventeenth Year after its eighteen month hiatus. I'm continuously amazed at the sheer number of was's and were's in the manuscript, and that I didn't seem to notice this during the first several revisions.
Contest News:
Erica at The Book Cellar is giving away books, a tank top, and random swag.
Shannon Whitney Messenger is giving away a signed copy of The Body Finder + awesome swag.
Christi Goddard at A Torch in the Tempest is giving away gift cards of your choice in her 106 Followers Contest.
Michelle Hodkin is giving away four ARCs.
The Slushpile Slut is celebrating 104 followers and giving away a copy of Noah Lukeman's The First Five Pages or another writing book if you've already read that book (which I have, and it's fabulous!)
Blogfest News:
The Slushpile Slut is hosting the Next Top Title Blogfest on Saturday, June 12. I've already entered. Have you?
I received the gorgeous Journey Support Award from Michelle Teacress and Crystal Cook at Write Because You Must (Thanks, Ladies!) I'd like to pass it on to:
Lydia Kang at The Word is My Oyster. Lydia is not only a wife, mother, writer, and blogger, but she's also a part-time doctor and hosts Medical Mondays at her blog, a feature where she answers medical questions emailed to her by us curious writers. She just answered a question for me on her post this Monday, and I can't thank her enough for her help.
Pam at The Chronicles of a Veteran Kindergarten Teacher. Pam visited my blog during a blogfest I entered and left one of the most encouraging comments I have ever received. I smiled for a long, long time after I read her comment. Thank you for your wonderful support, Pam!
Okay, that was a lot of linkage for me...I'm worn out. What's going on in your neck of the woods?
50 comments:
- Piedmont Writer said...
I know, linkage kills. I've been procrstinating my own awards post just because of it.
Don't you just love 'first books'. I still can't believe how 'bad' mine was/is. That's why it's called revisions.
- Wed Jun 09, 07:42:00 AM
- Tara said...
Yep, I am hoarding awards again, dreading the linkage, lol.
Was-ings were the death of my first WiP.
- Wed Jun 09, 07:43:00 AM
- Susan Fields said...
Anne - I know, it's a good thing I love this story, or I might give up on it altogether. I even remembering searching on "was" and "were" when I first revised it, so how come I still have so many unnecessary ones in there?
- Wed Jun 09, 07:45:00 AM
- Susan Fields said...
Tara - That's why I decided to do one award at a time, and only to a couple of recipients. All that linkage is draining, and the readers are much less likely to go check out five, ten, fifteen new links than they are just two (at least, that's my thinking on it). I can see the "was" problem is a common one - I'm in good company! :)
- Wed Jun 09, 07:55:00 AM
- Crystal Clear Proofing said...
LOL. I feel the same way after typing all that html for links! Your efforts are appreciated...looks like some really neat sites to check out!
It was so nice to see you stop by CCP today! I've truly missed everyone so much! Have a wonderful day, Susan! ♥
- Wed Jun 09, 08:09:00 AM
- Christi Goddard said...
Thanks for the contest pimpage :-)
I'm making almost no progress on my writing the last several days. I'm also not a blog scheduler since I suck at sticking to plans.
- Wed Jun 09, 08:16:00 AM
- JustineDell said...
Linkage. I love linkage. Thanks! I procrastinate on posts that require linkage (hmm...awards) beause they take so long.
- Wed Jun 09, 08:21:00 AM
- Mary McDonald said...
Nice round up of what's going on out there. I try to keep up with blogs, but it's hard to hit every one of them. :-)
- Wed Jun 09, 08:24:00 AM
- Joanne said...
I always enjoy the revision process. To me it's a great way to really layer the story, once I see the basic structure there in front of me. Good luck!
- Wed Jun 09, 08:31:00 AM
- Clara said...
That was great, congrats on the award! And oh so many cool contests! Must check them out! =D
- Wed Jun 09, 08:56:00 AM
- Lydia Kang said...
Linkage is hard work! So I appreciate your post, and thank you so much for the award! You are too sweet, I understand why you got it in the first place!
I'm going to check out that Karen Weisner book. Thanks for the tip!
- Wed Jun 09, 09:14:00 AM
- Bossy Betty said...
Love a girl with a schedule. Hope you got to take a nap after all the linking.
- Wed Jun 09, 09:19:00 AM
- Old Kitty said...
OOooh well done for keeping to your schedule!
Thanks for the links!! Yay!
Good luck with your editing and revision! It's funny about you and were's and was's. Mine is with been's and be's. LOL!
Take care
- Wed Jun 09, 10:04:00 AM
- Sharon K. Mayhew said...
So you are saying it's Wednesday? I was sure it was Friday...I almost went to the bank to get my weekend money!
I think you linkage idea is a good one. In all honesty I probably only check a max of 5 or 6 links on a post. I guess I'm awful...
I'm off to check your links, starting with the title blogfest. :)
- Wed Jun 09, 10:18:00 AM
- Laura Marcella said...
Linkage is the worst! On some posts I think I spend more time linking than writing the actual post, lol.
Good luck with your revision and editing! :)
- Wed Jun 09, 10:46:00 AM
- Aubrie said...
Links take soooo long. And you have soooo many of them up there! Kudos to you!
- Wed Jun 09, 10:52:00 AM
- Creepy Query Girl said...
Thanks for linking all these great bloggeresses! Now go take a nap!
- Wed Jun 09, 11:16:00 AM
- Talli Roland said...
Thanks for the links and all the wonderful contests! Glad you're making progress on your MS.
- Wed Jun 09, 11:39:00 AM
- Susan Fields said...
Crystal - It's great to have you back, you've been missed! And I hope you have a great day, too!
Christi - I feel like I'm making no writing progress, too. I'm just not feeling the excitement I usually do, but I think it has something to do with the kids being off school for the summer. And you're very welcome for the contest mention - I really enjoyed my 100 followers contest, I hope yours is a huge success!
Justine - I always think those posts will be the easiest to write (because I don't really have to say much), but then they always end up taking the longest. I do appreciate links on other blogs, though, so I think it's worth it!
Mary - I know, it is really hard to keep up with all the blogs out there, even all the ones I follow. Thanks so much for stopping by mine today!
- Wed Jun 09, 12:36:00 PM
- Susan Fields said...
Joanne - I actually love revision, too. I see plotting, rough drafting, and revising as three distinct types of writing, and I love them all! Now if only I could fall in love with research! :)
Clara - Thanks for stopping by my blog today! And I hope you enter some or all of those contests, they look like good ones!
Lydia - I do hope you enjoy that book, it's been a real help to me! I am an outliner through-and-through, and that book shows how to do some hard core outlining.
Betty - Luckily I wrote this post at bedtime, so I got to just fall into bed after all that hard work. :)
- Wed Jun 09, 12:39:00 PM
- Susan Fields said...
Old Kitty - I mention the was's and were's because they're the most prominent, but I also have an overload of be, been, had, and have. This ms is just a mess! :)
Sharon - I hope you'll join me for the title blogfest, I've really enjoyed the blogfests I've participated in so far.
Laura - I always think the linkage posts will be so easy because I don't have to write much, but they always end up taking the most time. I used to check each link to make sure it went where it was supposed to go, but I admit, I just don't have time for that anymore. Hopefully someone will let me know if I got one wrong. :)
- Wed Jun 09, 12:42:00 PM
- Susan Fields said...
Aubrie - Thank you - it's nice to know my hard linkage work is appreciated. :)
Creepy Query Girl - "bloggeresses" - I love that word! And a nap sounds divine...
Talli - Thank you, progress on the wip is slow but steady, I'm making some headway. :)
- Wed Jun 09, 12:43:00 PM
- Amanda J. said...
Good luck on the WIP, fresh eyes and time away always make a world of difference. Thanks for the links!
- Wed Jun 09, 12:52:00 PM
- Genie of the Shell said...
Thanks again for all the great links and info! So much temptation here... :)
- Wed Jun 09, 12:59:00 PM
- Lindsay (a.k.a Isabella) said...
Thanks for the links. Good luck with the revsions. :)
- Wed Jun 09, 01:35:00 PM
- Theresa Milstein said...
Susan, I read your blood question.
I love Pam at VKT. Last I checked, she was on hiatus. I miss her! She's such a nice person.
Thanks for all of these links. I'm going to check a few out!
And good luck banishing your was's and were's
- Wed Jun 09, 01:45:00 PM
- Jen said...
Congratulations Susan you are so worthy of this award!!! I've missed you around the blogosphere so I'm glad to have finally stopped by!
- Wed Jun 09, 07:29:00 PM
- Crystal Cook said...
You deserve those awards so, so much :):)
You are doing awesome with your revisions!
And if you want to feel better about all those was's just offer to read my first chapter. Oy, it's bad, really, really bad. I promise yours can not be worse :)
- Wed Jun 09, 07:40:00 PM
- Christine Danek said...
Congrats on the award and thanks for the links. Keep going :)
- Wed Jun 09, 07:49:00 PM
- Susan Fields said...
Amanda - I totally agree, fresh eyes make all the difference. I guess that's why I'm finding so much wrong with this ms. :)
Genie - You're so welcome, it was my pleasure (despite my complaining about the linkage). :)
Lindsay - Thank you for the good luck wishes. I'm sure it will go well, once I get motivated!
Theresa - I saw that Pam is on hiatus, too. I guess the award will be waiting for her when she gets back, but I will miss her!
- Wed Jun 09, 08:57:00 PM
- Susan Fields said...
Jen - It's great to see you here! And thanks for the congrats!
Crystal - Thank you so much! And I'm sure your first chapter isn't nearly as bad as you say!
Christine - Thanks! I'll try to keep going, if someone would just put my kids back in school. :) Just kidding - I'm enjoying their summer break so far, just not getting a lot of writing done.
- Wed Jun 09, 09:01:00 PM
Congratulations on the awards! And thank you for the contest links.
- Wed Jun 09, 09:11:00 PM
- Susan Fields said...
Sandy - thank you! I do love awards. :)
- Wed Jun 09, 09:33:00 PM
- Velva said...
Wednesday is a busy blog day for you. The blogging schedule is something that us bloggers need to work out. If not, blogging can take over our lives.
- Wed Jun 09, 09:37:00 PM
- Kimberly Franklin said...
Thanks for the contest info and congrats on the awards!!
- Wed Jun 09, 09:42:00 PM
Adding links to blog posts does take a considerable amount of time. I appreciate your effort! And congratulation on your awards. If I wasn't in the midst of Creative Boot Camp and Mommytography I'd join in on Slushpile blogfest. So many great things going on, but only so much time!
- Wed Jun 09, 09:45:00 PM
- Susan Fields said...
Velva - I'm just starting to discover the benefits of a blogging schedule. I didn't think I'd like it, but if anything, I find myself wanting to get more structured, not less. And thank you for letting me know about your Netherlands picture - that was a great photo!
Kimberly - Thank you! And you're so welcome for the contest links. They take some time, but I think they're worth it. :)
Lynn - I know exactly what you mean about so many great things going on and not enough time. I love taking part in blogfests, but I definitely have to limit them.
- Wed Jun 09, 10:07:00 PM
- Sierra Godfrey said...
Totes cool list of contests! Thanks for those :)
- Wed Jun 09, 11:09:00 PM
- TerryLynnJohnson said...
wow, great linkage! Thanks for all your research and congrats on your awards!
- Thu Jun 10, 06:21:00 AM
- Susan Fields said...
Sierra - You're so welcome! I really do need to do a better job of keeping up on contests and keeping my sidebar updated, so this was a start. :)
Terri - Thank you! I'm still waiting to hear your news... :)
- Thu Jun 10, 06:46:00 AM
- Wendy Paine Miller said...
Heading to check out the links. Thanks!
~ Wendy
- Thu Jun 10, 07:38:00 AM
When I take a break from my work, I also notice many errors and redundancies.
Congrats on the award.
- Thu Jun 10, 02:53:00 PM
- Hema P. said...
Congtatulations on the award, Susan! And what you said about missing the "was" and "were" was so familiar -- it's so eerie how we miss some of things we do when we read our own work the first hundred times, isn't it? Good luck with the revision!
- Thu Jun 10, 05:03:00 PM
- Susan Fields said...
Wendy - You're very welcome - I hope you enjoy the links! :)
Medeia - Thank you. And yes, I'm always amazed when I take a break at how clearly I see things I hadn't noticed before.
Hema - Thank you for the revision luck! Yes, the first hundred times sounds about right - no wonder we stop seeing things after a while. :)
- Thu Jun 10, 07:12:00 PM
- laurel said...
I've seen you commenting everywhere and thought I'd drop by to visit. Thanks for the lovely links!
I've been doing a series on overwriting that folks may find helpful (if they're as prone to the problem as I have been). http://laurelgarver.blogspot.com
- Fri Jun 11, 08:28:00 AM
- Faith E. Hough said...
I have an award for you on my blog if you want it! :)
- Fri Jun 11, 12:54:00 PM
I'm visiting other blogs and leaving comments, meeting new people, learning a few things. That's about it for now.
Stephen Tremp
- Fri Jun 11, 02:16:00 PM
- Jo Schaffer said...
Susan, you won a prize in the giveaway on my blog. Check it out. (=
- Sat Jun 12, 02:12:00 AM
- Susan Fields said...
Laurel - Thanks for stopping by! It's great to see you here.
Faith - Of course I want it! Thanks so much! :)
Stephen - Isn't it amazing how many new people there are out there to meet? So many great blogs, so little time...
Jo - Hooray - I can't wait to see my new jewelry! Thanks so much!
- Sat Jun 12, 08:47:00 AM
- Jackee said...
Congrats on your awards and for the progress on 17th. So very exciting.
I'll definitely look for you on Weds. In the meantime I'll check out these contests. :o)
Have a lovely weekend!
- Sat Jun 12, 10:19:00 PM