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This was an easy day along the Deeside Way to the heart of Aberdeen, through Torry past the harbour with the final bit on the coastal path to Girdle Ness. The sun was shining, I had plenty of time and I set out in the late morning, planning to finish about 1.30 and then have a pint and lunch in Aberdeen.
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From Reconstruction to deconstruction : undermining Black landownership, political independence and community through partition sales of tenancies in common
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- 2000
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- African Americans Land tenure; Joint tenancy United States; Partition United States; African American farmers Government policy United States; Agrarian structure United States; Common property United States
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- Research paper, no. 132
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- The pattern of landownership in the rural African American community represents the mirror opposite of the trend in black land acquisition100 years ago at the dawn of the twentieth century. Remarkable levels of acquisition have been replaced by extraordinary levels of land loss in the past half-century or so. Today, African American farm owner-operators on little more than 2 million acres of land in the United States. Land loss in rural African American communities far exceeds farmland lost by white farmers. Even American Indian landowners-a group whose current land base represents but a fraction of its ancestral landholdings-have fared better than rural African American landowners over the past 50 to 60 years. This paper focuses on one of the primary causes of involuntary black land loss in recent times-partition sales of black-owned land held under tenancies in common. Our society has a clear moral obligation to reverse the processes that have stripped black landowners of their land. This paper advocates government intervention to promote enhanced landownership-both quantitatively and qualitatively-for African Americans. This paper maintains that the problem of fractionated heir property within the rural, African American community justifies more fundamental reform of common property law and the creation of government institutions that would have the capacity to help those who own heir property restructure their ownership in a way that the ownership could be stabilized and the property could be used productively.
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Sad news in Bachelor Nation: Lex McAllister, who competed on Jake Pavelka's season of the ABC reality show The Bachelor, died Tuesday of an apparently intentional drug overdose. She was 31.
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I always think that I am going to be crazy embarrassed to read what I have written in the past but I just re-read this entire blog and I don't mind it at all. I like my writing so I should definitely do more of it.
Drunk-writing again, though the drink I made was too strong so feeling more sick than drunk. I will probably have to take a nap again but that is one of my favorite weekend things anyway so it's all good.
I have been so into the entire #PRFAIL that occurred with thebloggess.com and Jose the grammar-impaired PR VP with his "fucking bitch" comment. I read about it on twitter when I was on break from work and immediately took part on Thursday...and I knew that it would go viral because that's how it happens when Jenny is involved. I usually don't read all the comments on her posts because they tend to be "I love you, Jenny" which is nice but not exactly entertaining. This time I read almost every post even though they are just as repetitive as usual. It's like reading a great story with very obvious foreshadowing beginning with Jenny's final statement in her email to Jose, "Please standby for a demonstration in relevancy." And that battle cry brought out her legions and we tweeted and we emailed and we posted and we proved her relevancy. And we all know that the t-shirt will be available soon. And it is wonderful.
thebloggess.com is a wonderfully funny, smart woman who says the things we all wish we had thought to say and she will be saying them and making money doing it long after Jose has accepted his irrelevance.
Off to naptime for the drunkie.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
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Criminalized Association and Counterterrorism
As this is my first post as a guest blogger for Opinio Juris, I'd like to begin by saying thanks to Peggy, Chris, Julian, and Roger for their generosity in inviting me to participate. I really appreciate it, and hope that I can make some useful contributions. Now, on to the topic at hand….
In the course of studying the legal aspects of the U.S. response to terrorism both before and after 9/11, I've often been struck by the fact that federal criminal law – notwithstanding its considerable scope in this area – does not go so far as to overtly criminalize the mere act of being a member of certain terrorist organizations. To be sure, certain statutes (particularly, 18 U.S.C. 2339B, prohibiting material support to terrorist organizations) come rather close to outlawing membership in foreign terrorist organizations so designated by the Secretary of State. Indeed, I have argued elsewhere that during the prosecution of the "Lackawanna Six," federal prosecutors employed an interpretation of the material support statute that was tantamount to a membership prohibition. The fact remains, however, that we have no post-9/11, terrorism-oriented parallel to the Cold War-era Smith Act membership prohibition that was upheld (albeit with a very important narrowing construction) by the Supreme Court in Scales v. United States.
Some European states, in contrast, have taken precisely this approach. In Brussels today, proceedings began in the trial of a group of 13 men on charges including the act/status of membership in the Moroccan Islamic Combat Group, an outlawed terrorist organization. According to a statement from the Beglian Federal Prosecutor's Office reported by the AP, the membership ban makes it "easier for police and investigators to shut down suspected terror cells and detain those believed to be aiding and abetting terrorists . . . . Prosecutors do not have to prove that the defendants themselves were involved in carrying out an attack, only that they belong to terrorist groups." (Note that the statement may be paraphrasing by the AP reporter).
That the U.S. Justice Department has not sought similar authority in the U.S. says something, I think, about the distinctive role that First Amendment freedoms play in our society. That, in turns, leads me to wonder about the status of the Belgian membership ban under Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Article 25 of the ICCPR. According to both, freedom of association may be restricted "in the interests of national security." I can certainly see that argument's theoretical applicability here, but am not certain whether this issue has been litigated previously under either convention (might this have come up in connection with UK law relating to the IRA, or Turkish law relating to the PKK?). I suspect that if this has been litigated such provisions have been upheld, particularly given the "margin of appreciation" often said to be owed to the state's determination of its own national security interests.
That's all for now. I hope some of you have some thoughts or insights to share!
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Hello Prof. Chesney,
I have not yet read your article but plan to do so over the weekend, however, I thought you might be interested in an article I wrote for the Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal: "In the Absence of Democracy: The Designation and Material Support Provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Laws" 2 Cardozo Pub. L. Pol'y & Ethics J. 107 (2003).
I guess you are technically correct that there is no statute that criminalizes membership in a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), since that provision is intended merely for immigration (exclusion) purposes, but the material support provision does, in my opinion, criminalize membership in the form of personnel and other acts (although some of these provisions were amended in the Intelligence Reform Act of 2004).
Take a look at my article (and I will read yours) and we can discuss this further, if you like.
Thanks Jennifer – I look forward to reading your piece, and will get back to you soon with my thoughts.
In the article cited above, I take the position that the "personnel" aspect of the definition of "material support or resources" can function as a membership prohibition when interpreted reflexively (i.e., supplying one's self as personnel to the FTO). This arguably was the theory at work in the Lackawanna prosecution; it is not clear whether the theory has been relied on in any other context (although there are some candidates). The IRTPA amendments from last year, although important in some respects, don't preclude this approach.
In light of the vast array of other circumstances to which section 2339B can be and has been applied, I try to be clear in discussing this provision that it does not raise the Scales issue in most of its applications. To that extent, I don't agree that the statute is a membership ban when the support consists of, say, provision of funding or equipment. Even when applied as a membership provision, moreover, the impact of Scales is merely to require that an intent-to-further-unlawful-conduct requirement be read into the statute. In any event, fascinating stuff – I look forward to reading your perspective on all this. Thanks so much for your comments.
I have been reading your wonderful article, Professor, but am not through it yet. My approach when I wrote my article was strictly in raising concerns about these provisions. Yours is much broader and more thorough and I'm enjoying it.
Most interesting to me, also, is the fact that you view the subject from the law enforcement perspective, rather than the civil libertarian one, which is the p.o.v. I take.
I've recently been submerged in the detention and torture issues (as I just completed a long article for the Case Western Univ. J. Int'l L.) and can't speak about the designation/material support issues quite as well as I could two years ago. I look forward to an engaging discussion with you when we've both finished reading each other's articles.
Thanks for your response. Cheers.
As a point of reference you might both be interested to note that membership of an illegal organisation has been a criminal offence here in Ireland since the Offences Against the State Act 1939 designed, of course, to deal with organisations such as the IRA. In looking at US responses to terrorism after 9/11 for my doctoral thesis I have been finding it useful to use Ireland as a control model – it's an interesting comparison (and of course the nature of the enemies might be justifiably said to be different) but there's plenty of stuff out there on Ireland and counter-terrorism if you're interested!
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Exciting news for commuters to and from South Acton! The newly renovated South Acton Commuter Rail station is having its grand opening on Saturday, January 30th. Join the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the MBTA, the Baker Administration, and other Federal, State, and Local officials at the station at 10:00AM for a speaking program followed by a reception from 11:00AM-1:00PM hosted by Senator Jamie Eldridge at the South Acton Congregational Church located at 35 School Street, Acton.
The new, fully accessible station was completed in December and includes full-train lenth high-level platforms, an enclosed walkway with elevator over the tracks for access to both sides, a second drop-off/pick-up area on Maple Street, passenger shelters, benches, windscreens, variable message signs, lighting, closed-circuit security camaras, and emergency call boxes. All of these upgrades are welcome at the most heavily-used station on the Fitchburg Line.
And if you're not already aware, there are ways to get to the new South Acton station by public transportation provided by CrossTown Connect and the Town of Acton. The on-site parking lot fills up fast in the morning, but the MinuteVan Rail Shuttle provides transportation from two satilite parking lots at the West Acton fire station and the Mount Cavalry church to the train station during the morning and evening weekday rush hours. Parking and shuttle passes can be bought for a single day, a ten-ride ticket book, a month, or a full year. The Rail Shuttle schedule and fare prices can be found here. You can also access the new station via the new Cross-Acton Tranist (CAT) shuttle that runs in a continuous one-hour loop donwn Rt. 2A from residential areas in North Acton to Donelan's, over to Main Street and down to Mass. Ave., through West Acton Center, and to the train station (and back again). The cost for the CAT is $1.00 per trip and the schedule with specific stops can be found here. The CAT runs between 8:00AM and 6:00PM Monday-Friday.
So pleas join us in celebrating the new station and thanking those who made this project happen to better serve residents, visitors, and businesses alike. And if you haven't tried them already, we invite you to hop on one of CrossTown Connect's public transportation services to access the station during weekdays. Happy riding and we hope to see you on the 30th!
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Monday, January 21, 2008
21 Jan 08
Hunt and I started off the morning by getting a capacitor for the motor we will use for a vacuum pump we are assembling. When we got back, I got Ben working on the back end of the car some more. He worked on this all day long, and it is looking a lot better. Aaron and Zac laid out the footprint for a new building we are making in the back for glue-ups. After lunch, Hunt and I went to see our buddies at Tramway Veneers to get some hickory and birch veneer clipped for use on the butterfly panels. While we were gone, Aaron and Zac dug holes and poured concrete around the posts for the new building. After dinner, I went back outside and worked some more on the surfaces of the mold that make up the flanks of the car. Pretty rundown tonight, I hope I am not getting sick; keep the fingers crossed.
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I have two adult children, known as the kidlets; who still live at home. My son is 23 who works full-time while finishing his college degree. My daughter is 20 years old who is in her 2nd year of nursing. I have two wonderful adult stepchildren and blessed with an amazing daughter in law. I also refer to them as my kidlets.
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Five [Awesome] Things I Read This Week, 4.25.2014
Things I love? Reasonable people saying reasonable things. Freedom to Marry, Freedom to Dissent: Why we Must Have Both, is a statement signed by a number of respected, thinking people saying that they support gay marriage AND they support the right of others to disagree without being punished. And here's a statement from Dale Carpenter at Volokh explaining how he does and does not agree.
Esther Emery's Why I Will Not Leave the Evangelical Church Today. Another piece of nuanced, compassionate writing from my friend in Idaho.
A new series is starting up at Vulture.com and it looks FANTASTIC. The first post is up: Questlove on How Hip-Hop Failed Black America. (h/t to Belle at CapHillStyle.)
Joy the Baker has a story/recipe combo post on her blog, making The Old-fashioned, which is (after a bit of trial and error) her cocktail. It looks awesome and like it would bring a little extra credibility and sophistication to a night out.
Finally, we've got a Writing Lessons post from Emily Maloney that has stayed with me this week. She writes about how she learned to put into practice the important writing mantra of showing up and getting it done. Reminds me about what Anne Lamott said at the Festival of Faith and Writing, and a new effort to write words on pages at #6am led by my new friend Ed Cyzewski.


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And we fell
Fell around the world.
A drunken mess
With nothing left,
But the other ones
Still holding on
To all those dreams.
We didn't know were done
And we fell
'cross the state,
Never gave 'em much
Never giving' up.
And we'd raise a glass,
And we will today
To all those times
It never went our way.
And we fell through the town,
Held each other up,
Never staying down,
And we'd take a drink
When it got too much.
And im still not sure
Just what became of us.
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As we came into 2016, our church's leadership team had a vision to launch several new projects, including live video. Behind this idea was our lead pastor's heart to reach outside of our four walls and provide a worship experience for those away. But beyond that, we also hoped to create a better experience in our auditorium and pave the way for a second satellite location.
Our church, Piedmont Chapel, is a plant that was launched back in September 2014, so we are still new kids on the block. We are a portable church meeting in a movie theater with on-site storage available. On Sundays, we have two services and run around 400 in attendance. Being new and portable both bring their own set of challenges in terms of budget and setup.
With the help of a few friends who are experienced in the production world, lots of YouTube videos, and a few Facebook groups, I took on the task of putting together our video package rather than going through an outside consultant. My goal was to accomplish these tasks:
• Live stream video of our services online (website + app)
• Archive messages on our website and app
• Record/archive our services for use in promo videos
• Display "IMAG" in our auditorium during messages
• Prepare to send video to a second location in the future
Accomplishing this vision was made possible by the generosity of our church family. As a part of our Christmas offering, we were able to raise $25,000 to go towards making this project a reality. God is good! I began my research soon after and we were ready to go live by Easter Sunday.
Because of our portable location and unconventional masking on our projector (see photos), I had to put together a pretty unique system. For example, our switcher is actually two switchers in one – one is used for streaming/recording and the other sends a masked image to our projector to work with our stage setup. Most churches could get away with a switcher that's 1/4 of the price.
Another interesting example is that we run two different iMacs with ProPresenter. One is solely for the stream/recording, while the other is sized to show in our auditorium.
I built most of our system on BlackMagic Design products. We use an ATEM switcher, the new Studio Cameras, and several of their adapters. While BMD products all seem to have their challenges and workarounds, I've been happy our system overall. I especially love being able to run one fiber cable from our switcher to each camera rather than a thick snake of SDI's and com cables.
Other interesting notes about our system:
• We run a four camera system – two cameras on a center platform, one on drums, and one in the back of the room.
• Our "video world" is located in the projection room of our theater. We are able to leave this equipment set up throughout the week.
• All of our audio comes straight from our X32 sound board via two XLR cables.
• We use a Mac Mini with a Dell touchscreen monitor to control our switcher.
• The Teradek VidiU Pro is our primary device for streaming and is one of my new favorite pieces of equipment to recommend.
• We stream for FREE by using YouTube Live Events and the Church Online Platform. (We also hope to integrate Facebook Live soon.)
• Because we cannot get internet at our portable location, we use a 4G Verizon Wireless hotspot for all of our streaming. We've successfully streamed at 720p with no problems for two months.
While I have been extremely happy with our results, I've realized that live video and streaming is not for every church. There is a large cost upfront and it requires a lot of manpower. Our setup requires at least five team members on Sundays. Our team is getting better each week, but I have to spend a lot of time with them perfecting our product. (And we still have a long way to go!)
At two months in, we average about 100 devices watching live each week. In addition, we average around 120 on-demand views every week. Our next step is to add an online campus pastor that can interact and pray with these viewers on Sundays as we continue to build our audience.
Below is also a link that gives a full equipment list and budget of what we purchased. I hope it will help you as you consider live streaming in your church!Download Equipment List
What do you think?
Does your church do live streaming?
Let us know by leaving a comment below!
Ernesto Banales : May 24, 2016 at 1:10 pm
Thanks for sharing!
Josh Stout : May 24, 2016 at 1:14 pm
Love your setup!
Chad Frey : May 24, 2016 at 1:40 pm
Love it man. I have been feeling impressed to get this going for our church for a few years now, but we have been less than finiancially able to do this. Ive been pouring over the studio camera options and switchers by Blackmagic. I think we'll have to purchase it bit by bit, but Im okay with that. We've started using a mobile phone and streaming directly to facebook for a few weeks now and we get a great response, so Im hopeful to step the production quality up.
Ive gotten setup with Lifechurch.tv's streaming campus as well, Just need to take the next step forward. Thanks again for this!
Jordan : August 15, 2016 at 4:26 pm
Hey Chad! I too love Piedmont's setup! On the facebook live dilemma, have you looked at Mevo (http://getmevo.com)? Its a pretty handy little camera that allows multiple "shots" from one camera and it streams directly to facebook live and livestream as well as records video for archiving and later publishing. You'll have to take a look at it to see what I mean. Controlled by an ios (and eventually android) device and you can use house audio via the headphone port on your device making it super simple to mix off a matrix on a board if you have that functionality available. Just check it out!
Chad Frey : May 24, 2016 at 1:47 pm
Could you clarify how you send a masked image through one of the M/E's to the projector?
Chad Frey : May 27, 2016 at 4:39 pm
So, Do you stream the worship as well or just the sermon?
Benjamin : May 24, 2016 at 2:24 pm
What settings are you using to encode?
We use YouTube Live too! But how are you using YouTube Live on Church Online Platform. Did you just copy and past the URL or is there some work around you have to do?
Great information; thanks for sharing! Blown away by both the cost and the manpower. We've having trouble getting enough people to pledge for the new fiscal year, and have just introduced a new slide show system (it may be ProPresenter). The worship team handles most of that.
Timi : May 24, 2016 at 4:54 pm
Thanks for sharing this. A question I have is how you do your recording as the methods I know usually require a whole lot of storage.
Thank you for sharing!
We have a very similar church setup to you. Using a cinema, but we have to remove everything every week. Also use a Blackmagic mixer & ProP.
For streaming we use:
– Blackmagic mini recorder with thunderbolt (£130) that capture one of the house SDI outputs from the mixer and a dedicated camera feed on hdmi. You are able to switch between inputs with a few black frames
– Mac mini loaded with wirecast play (£10) (technically a mac mini does not have sufficient specs). Wirecast can also play clips and other content directly. Not sure if this could be a way of getting rid of the second mixer.
It means we use software encoding for our 720p50 stream, but it works ok.
We have had a Virgin Business fibre line installed. I cant imagine streaming over 4g! But maybe the teradec helps
Thanks so much for taking the time to write this and write it in such a way that is practical! Good for you and your church!
Mun : May 24, 2016 at 9:31 pm
Thanks for sharing this. Love the excellence you put in each post, and desire to help others take it to the next level!
Brett Meredith : May 25, 2016 at 8:48 am
We have an X32 console at my church. How have you setup your audio send to the video recorder? We've struggled on how to get the best mix sent out.
Peter Weir : May 25, 2016 at 9:29 am
Thanks for the great post. My church (in China) is working through streaming while being a portable church that meets in a hotel. We don't have quite as large of a budget, and don't have any space that can be permanently set up for video control. For those that face this problem, we have had some success using Telestream Wirecast running on a MacBook Pro. It is limited to 2 camera inputs and has a few frames of latency, because of the signal conversions and software switcher. Therefore, we cannot use it for IMAG, but it is good enough for an overflow/cry room, and handles encoding, streaming and recording all from the laptop (that is easy to transport for our portable church). The cameras, tripods and associated equipment is contained in a road case that serves as a desk during the service. I can give more details if anyone is interested. Hopefully, we will upgrade to a ATEM switcher this year, but this has allowed us to get started at a much lower cost.
Quentin Rogers : March 30, 2017 at 7:44 pm
I would love a equipment list. It seems like I could manage a small setup for my church.
what lenses are you using on your Studio Cameras?
Ryky Legg : May 25, 2016 at 1:00 pm
Great post! On a slightly related note, whats your process for uploading your messages online? What service to you use to embed the video in the site? Thanks!
Dale Jones : May 25, 2016 at 2:44 pm
Kendall, my name is Dale and I'm the XP here at Forest Park with your boy TJ Wallace. Are you guys using your live audio mix for online or are you doing a separate audio mix for that?
Tyrone : May 30, 2016 at 9:39 am
Great post! What do you use to communicate with your camera operators?
Tucker Tangeman : May 31, 2016 at 5:50 pm
So much good information! I've just pieced together a system with a Tricaster Mini? It's good for what we are doing, it's so compact I love it! Thanks again for sharing all this information it's so helpful
Kola : June 7, 2016 at 4:35 pm
Thank you for your article. My Church is in Nigeria. We have a TRICASTER mini set up. But please we are having issues with the livestreaming. We are only receiving audio signal on the livestream while the visual is showing blue screen . Please can you help
Timi : July 12, 2016 at 10:27 am
Hi Kola. I am also in Nigeria. You can contact me via twitter. I may be able to help you out with my little experience. Twitter: @demtimichael
Nang Khan Khup : June 2, 2016 at 2:26 am
Can you explain with video? And behind the scene of worship service, and production.
This article is really helpful for me and give motivate to start live stream our Sunday service in future.
Thanks for sharing. God bless more and more.
Thomas : June 12, 2016 at 6:37 am
Thanks for the article! Really informative and helpful!
Do you have any advice for a small portable church of about 200 per week looking to do a simple IMAG setup with one to two cameras?
We currently use a MacBook Pro running ProPresenter for our projection and we need a system the media operator can easily run alongside their other duties as our current volunteer numbers allow for only two tech team members per Sunday (One guy running sound and lights and one other running media). Budget for this project is pretty small too.
Any suggestions or help?
Do you have any problems with advertisements using the YouTube Live Events? We are worried an inappropriate ad will pop-up during broadcast.
Chad : June 29, 2016 at 1:02 pm
Hi Kendall, I see that you are using a mac mini with Dell Touchscreen to control the ATEM. What software are you using to enable touchscreen features with the Mac Mini? I am currently using an ATEM 1 M/E controlled with a MacBook Pro and find it clunky to operate with mouse and keyboard. I have been looking into purchasing and programing an X-keys board but would love to go touchscreen if it is reliable.
Great article. Encouraging to see how much progress you've made in just two months. Goes to show proper planning and preparation does pay off. Thanks for sharing.
Josh : July 12, 2016 at 2:09 pm
Thanks so much for this! I am in the middle of choosing gear for a live stream. Used this as a start point to make sure we thought of everything. We're going with ptz cameras (fingers crossed).
Hi Kendall, great article. I have a quick question, how were you able to have pro presenter talk to the ATEM so you can show lower thirds while you're streaming? I been trying to figure that out for ages and haven't found anything on it. Maybe you can direct me in the right direction? Thank you in advance!!
Hey Kendall,
Thanks for this article! It's super helpful as we're putting together a plan to start streaming our services.
The system I'm building (on paper) is similar to what you're using. We're planning on starting with a two camera set-up. For the time being, we will have the two cameras close to the sound booth and controlled from the sound booth in the sanctuary. From what I understand, we could bypass the Studio Converter, optical modules, cross converters, etc. and just run short SDI cables from each camera to the switcher.
Does that seem right, or am I missing something?
Jordan : August 16, 2016 at 7:02 pm
Hi Kendall,
Love The Creative Pastor, super useful and always well written. Thanks!
May I ask why you chose and how you went about choosing the lenses you chose for your studio cameras?
Roberto matarrita : September 2, 2016 at 2:51 pm
Really cool information. I hope my church to get to that place someday.
Blessing from costa rica.
what is the "App + Web Player 1 $1,000.00"?
Benjamin : October 30, 2016 at 11:13 am
Hey Kendall I was just curious what settings you use on the X32 to send out the audio. I'm assuming you send 2 channels to send the audio.
Alyssa : November 8, 2016 at 2:47 pm
Have you had any issues with Youtube live streaming taking down your feed for your worship music? We are looking around at streaming providers and I read that even if your church has the proper licensing, sometimes youtube can still take it down? Have you had any experience like this or is it nothing to be concerned about?


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Just as a reminder, you don't have to sew these to participate in the apron swap...just scroll down a few posts, and read the previous post about the apron swap if you want to double check the rules.
Now for my plum jam. I was just looking around the internet to get a few plum jam recipes and compare them to the one I already have, and found this one, and was delighted with how very much like mine it was. The outcome is also very much like mine...one of the best plum jam recipes I've tried. Check it out you might even agree with me :) but be sure to read it all the way through before you decide you are not interested in my plum jam recipe. I think if you read the whole thing, you will decide that you might want it. Ok, and incase you are not catching on, get ready to laugh out loud at the author's directions.
It's that time of year again. Summer fruit is ripe for jam making, and my plum tree just produced a bumper crop of fruit. It isn't the sweet kind of fruit just made for eating warm from the sun. Nope. Mine are the tart-sweet red plums that make the best jam.
Oh, I've tried giving the fruit away to relatives. I've tried. Present them with a big box of plums and say: "It's simple. Wash 'em, take out the pits, and boil 'em up with three-fourths cup of sugar to every cup of fruit. Just enough water to cover the bottom of the pot. When they reach a full boil with foam on top, dip them into jam jars. Let cool. That's it. And, " I add casually "if you think the jam might not be thick enough, add a little pectin to the mix."
And they come back and say: "Well I followed your directions. I did! But my jam just didn't turn out like yours. Are you sure you follow the same recipe?" After careful thought, I grudgingly admit: "Well, not exactly. But mine is ..um..complicated." And I get "That Look."
So, well, here it is. My Never Fail Recipe for Perfect Plum Jam:
1. Collect plums from tree into a container that only holds 80 percent of the plums. After trying to stack the plums in a pyramid on the top of the bucket with limited success, go look for another bucket. Ignore the wasps. They are just mad about losing "their" fruit. Come back with second bucket and transfer the excess plums from bucket one to bucket two. Pick up the half-bucket of plums that ended up on the ground in the process. Finish picking plums from the tree.
2. Take the plums into the house and set the buckets in the sink while looking for the tube of stuff that treats wasp stings. Dump the first bucket of plums into a colander and start water running, then add the fruit from the second bucket until the colander is filled. Try adding the remaining two cups of fruit by stacking them into a pyramid. Pick up all of the spilled fruit and put it in another container. Clean up the floor where fruit was stepped on, and dump stepped-on fruit into the compost bucket.
3. Pit the washed fruit by cutting one side with a knife and lifting out the pit. When this gets tiresome, try pitting the plums with a cherry pitter. Clean the plum juice off of the sink, walls, and ceiling fan, then put the "cherry-pitted" fruit in the compost bucket.
4. Finish pitting the fruit with a knife and dump contents into a stockpot. Add a half cup of water, turn on the heat, then realize that the pitted plums were never measured to determine the number of cups. Estimate the number of cups in the stockpot, then add the appropriate amount of sugar. Add another cup of sugar just to be safe.
5. Realize that the jam will eventually need jam jars. Go to the storage room to look for the jam jars and search the five boxes on the top shelf for jars, without success. Stop and think "Now why am I smelling something with the scent of burned fruit?"
6. Turn off the stove and move the stockpot of plums to a trivet while cleaning up the two cups of sticky liquid that boiled over on the stove. Suddenly remember why you wanted a stove with a solid ceramic surface. Try cleaning the outside of the stockpot without removing the contents. Pause to look for the tube of stuff that treats burns.
7. Move the remaining plums to a clean pot, then worry that there's not enough liquid. Add another half cup of water, and turn the burner on low. Write a note to self that says "Don't leave the kitchen when the fruit is coming to a boil. It boils over FAST!" Decide the best place for the note is on the inside of the jelly cupboard door. Open the jelly cupboard door, and add the note to the five other ones from previous years. Discover the jam jars in the jelly cupboard, and take them to the sink. Realize that the jars need to be sterilized, but one stock pot is in use for the jam and the other one is in the sink covered inside and out with sticky jam-like stuff. Clean up the sticky pot and fill with water and jam jars. Put on burner to boil.
8. Check the plums and worry that they have too much liquid. Go look for the pectin. Read the label and remember that the pectin needs to be dissolved in a half cup of water before being added to the fruit. Prepare the pectin and add it to the boiling plums. Add another cup of sugar just on general principals. It can't hurt.
9. Check the jam jars. Turn up the heat on the plums to get the excess liquid out. Check the lids for the jam jar. When the plums boil over, quickly turn down the heat. Try cleaning the stove without taking the pot of plums off the burner. Go look for some more stuff to treat burns.
10. Turn off the heat under the boiling jam jars. Gently lift the jars out of the water with a jar-lifter thingamajig. Carefully clean up the floor where one of the jam jars broke. Pause to find bandages to treat cuts, and more of that burn salve.
11. Turn off the heat under the boiling plums, then carefully transfer the hot jam to the jars. Add lids and transfer the filled jars to the cupboard to cool. Clean up the floor, sink, stove, and (unaccountably) the overhead fan where the jam spilled. Make a note to buy more burn salve.
Okay, that's it. My recipe for perfect plum jam. It goes quite well with a pat of butter on fresh homemade yeast rolls. I'd give you my recipe for the yeast rolls, but it's a bit complicated.
Ha ha ha. You have to admit, this one was funny, it just cracked me up when I read it.... and really, a little too close to home... Other than the 15 minute waterbath canning procedure which I give mine...or is it 20?, this recipe is about like mine :)


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HILLSDALE, Mich. – Despite a combined 34 points from freshman guard Alyssa Colla and senior guard Chelsea Lyons, the Northern Michigan women's basketball team fell at Hillsdale 68-62 on Thursday (Jan. 26).
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Haiti is a Mess
A woman ran from the sound of gunshots near Port-au-Prince's port as a body burned in the street nearby. (Julie Platner for the Wall Street Journal)
Visiting the Big House
Who is he? That's Andy Stern.
Andy who?
Andy Stern holds the distinction of being the most frequent visitor to the White House in 2009, 22 visits by last July alone, and on seven of those occasions, meeting President Obama.
Stern is head of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which gave $61 million to the Obama campaign in 2008. Also on the visitors list were the names Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, but the White House insisted these were namesakes to the ones made infamous by the press during the campaign.
Distant Erotica
Peter Robinson's eye was hurting, so the doctor takes a look and says: "Something's been stuck in your iris!"
In a faraway land to the east, another earthquake has struck! This time, the tremors shook not just Northern Ireland, but also the Big Barrel of Poor-Taste Metaphors which I was scraping out.
Northern Ireland's First Minister, a prime minister of sorts, was until this week the dour-faced Peter Robinson, whose single-minded ascent of the political greasy pole was matched only by his equally-unpleasant wife, Iris. No, no, no! NOT "Irish" Robinson, her name is Iris. They may live in East Belfast in Northern IRELAND but note carefully, they are not Irish, but British.
OK, to the meat of the stew (no, not an Irish stew!): Peter Robinson, seen above with the AK-47 (the composite image is made from genuine original photos, including the famous one of Peter-with-a-big-gun which he'd rather you did not see) made it all the way from loyalist thug to First Minister, but has temporarily stood down from his job because of the wife.
The Wife: Mrs. Robinson (for yes, that is her name), aged 60, had an affair with a 19-year-old son of a butcher called Kirk McCambley. Adulterous encounters took place at a watering hole called the Lock Keeper's Inn, where McCambley was a chef.
Not only, but Mrs. Robinson seems to have stolen 50,000 pounds of public funds for her young paramour... and then asked him for 5,000 of it for herself. I will now let the good people of Northern Ireland speak (and sing!) on the matter:
Kirk McCambley has publicly thank his late father the butcher: "My da taught me how to palm off mutton and pretend it was spring lamb. He also showed me how to bone, stuff, roll and stitch up an old bird!"
The Department of Health has closed McCambley's butcher shop - they suspect it was the source of an outbreak of mad cow disease!
Do you fancy lunch tomorrow at The Lock Keepers Inn? I hear the young chef does a great orange tart.
There's more. Both Peter and Iris are members of the Democratic Unionist Party, which is associated with the Free Presbyterian Church. Accordingly, Robinson describes herself as a born again Christian, and has publicly stated that "the government has the responsibility to uphold God's laws"; her expressed views on homosexuality caused controversy in 2008: the same week as a gay man was badly beaten in Northern Ireland, Iris said that:
Some people have said that it's wrong to join this massive opportunity to participate in Schadenfreude, and have counciled sympathy for the Robinsons.
homosexuality was an "abomination" and it made her feel "sick" and "nauseous", and offered to refer homosexuals to a psychiatrist she knew. In a subsequent interview, Robinson defended her views and denied prejudice against LGBT people, saying that "just as a murderer can be redeemed by the blood of Christ, so can a homosexual.... If anyone takes issue, they're taking issue with the word of God."
While I can see this point of view, and while I appreciate that Mrs. Robinson allegedly tried to commit suicide when the news broke (that is, when she was found out, not when she felt guilty), her words and actions speak for themselves. It should also be noted that when asked if he knew about the money his wife gave to her lover, Peter said he knew:
absolutely no information about that, nor of any of the other financial arrangements, which is hardly surprising – if somebody is hiding an affair from you, it's probably not a surprise they are hiding the other arrangements relating to that affair.Note the ruthless political brain at work: he makes a sly pitch for your sympathy with words that also build up his claim of innocence: "if somebody is hiding an affair from you, it's probably not a surprise they are hiding the other arrangements relating to that affair."
Or in other words, "even my wife is expendable."
UPDATE: there's more!
"Kirk has been arrested and charged with having an offensive person on his weapon."
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
It Seems 2010 Won't Be Much Better
Haiti in Ruins After Earthquake
An earthquake struck Haiti, yesterday. Thousands have died. How those poor people have suffered before this!
"The poor who define this nation squatted in the streets, some hurt and bloody, many more without food and water, close to piles of covered corpses and rubble" -- New York Times
Monday, January 11, 2010
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Montoya pulled away on a late restart from Marcos Ambrose, his biggest challenger all day, and beat Kurt Busch by 4.7 seconds in the 90-lap race around the 11-turn, 2.45-mile layout.
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Newt Gingrich, campaigning Wednesday in Broward, aimed his fire at President Barack Obama, virtually ignoring his competitors for the Republican presidential nomination.
"Four more years of Barack Obama will be a disaster for the country," Gingrich said. "We have a president that lives in a fantasyland."
He ridiculed the president for part of the previous night's State of the Union Address, in which Obama said he'd favor raising all tax rates to 30 percent. First he mocked Obama, suggesting the president didn't understand what he was doing by suggesting he'd double the capital gains tax rate. If that happened, Gingrich predicted economic catastrophe.
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He repeated his plan to challenge Obama to seven three-hour long debates for the general election. If Obama refuses, he said he'd follow the president around the nation and rebut everything he says.
He said he has no interest in cooperating with the debates arranged by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates because he doesn't want news reporters deciding "what kind of junk" the candidates debate about.
The commission has set the last of the three presidential debates for 2012 at Lynn University in Boca Raton, which would be out a significant investment of time and some money if the debate doesn't happen.
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He only mentioned his chief competitor, Mitt Romney, once. "Governor Romney has an enormous amount of money, but if you look around here, we have an enormous number of people."
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