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The band name subsequently inspired novelist William Gibson to entitle his first X-files episode Kill Switch after a chance meeting with Sebasstian during a book tour. Later when Kill Switch aired it inspired the naming of the metalcore band Killswitch Engage. Sebasstian used the acronym KsK for Kill Switch...Klick with a lower case "s", paying homage to PiL, one of his biggest musical influences.
Kill Switch...Klick's sound was very different at that time from a Seattle music scene steeped in the then current grunge sound. Sebasstian's main musical influences were from late 1970s and early 1980s bands like Killing Joke, Public Image Ltd., Cabaret Voltaire and SPK. Sebasstian produced a Kill Switch...Klick demo tape recorded solo in his studio apartment on a four track tape deck. The cassette demo received airplay on Seattle's newly reformatted KNDD 107.7-FM. The End, as KNDD was now called, embraced local artists like college radio stations of the day. The End, as well as the University Of Washington's radio station KCMU, would both play key roles in Kill Switch...Klick becoming one of the Northwest's best known electronica acts.
Encouraged by the attention and airplay of the KsK demo recording, Sebasstian began the task of putting together a live band to bring these recordings onto the stages of Seattle. He found drummer Mike Ditmore from an add in The Rocket, a once popular Seattle musicians resource and classified monthly. They were soon joined by Avette Avery on keyboards and backing vocals. Their first show was an art gallery opening at the Art/Not Terminal. As luck would have it, The Seattle Times was at the event doing a feature article on the gallery and thus the bands very first gig garnished them a bit of local publicity. The band decided rather than re-recording their demo they would concentrate on making a music video. Enlisting the help of Ditmore's long time friend, director Sylvia Szabo, KsK made their first music video for the song "Follow Me". Shot entirely on location in 16 mm black & white film, this highly controversial and artistic video made the rounds on the international gothic-industrial club circuits and was even banned for commercial airplay in Canada due to its "adult graphic content." Soon after the videos release, Avery left the band. The core of Kill Switch...Klick remained Sebasstian and Ditmore for nearly five years after.
The next year Sebasstian got a phone call from Chris Massey and Robert Riscassi of the Seattle grindcore band And Christ Wept. They were looking for other like-minded bands to play area shows with. Riscassi mentioned another Seattle band who might be interested in gigging called Noise Box. Sebasstian immediately called 'Dre of said band and after a few minutes on the phone they all decided to have a meeting at the Puss Puss Cafe in the Capital Hill area of Seattle. This meeting became the foundation for the N.E.C. or Northwest Elektro-Industrial Coalition. Over 30 musicians showed up in 10 different projects. These included Kill Switch...Klick, Noise Box, And Christ Wept, SMP, Terminal, The Same, Sex WIth Sarah and many others. The purpose of the N.E.C. and its monthly meetings was to help promote electronic music in the Northwest by giving similar influenced artists a network of bands to play shows with. This was right in the middle of the Grunge explosion and electronic music was still not very popular in the Seattle area. The N.E.C. was a huge success with national articles written in Keyboard Magazine, Industrialnation and Axcess magazines as well as regular club showcases of N.E.C. bands at well-known clubs like The Weathered Wall and Coulorbox. The N.E.C. also released compilation tapes of its members and put out a monthly newsletter. By sharing mailing lists the N.E.C. bands quickly made a network of area electronic music enthusiasts. Many of the founding bands and artists were later signed to national record deals.
Formation and deGenerate (1993 - 1998):
KsK originally signed with Urge Ltd in 1993, a label founded by Russell Ziecker (former band mate of Charlie Sexton and before starting Urge working at Virgin Records Publishing). This relationship did not produce anything more than demo tapes and a rumored track "Big Dub" in the movie Headless Body Topless Bar. The duo then signed to Cleopatra Records in 1994. The following year the band released the albums Beat it to Fit, Paint it to Match and Oddities & Versions, and went on their first US tour with bassist Paul Wynia. The tour was entitled "Muzak for the Masses", and also included grindcore artists And Christ Wept. This tour was a success for the band and added to their growing fan base. When Sebasstian returned from tour he released his first solo CD on his own imprint INDVSTA MVSIC. The disc was entitled One Minute Endless and showcased a more classical and experimental side to Sebasstians song writing. Each disc was signed and numbered and encased in pieces of orange plastic fence material held together with electrical zip ties. The title track was a twenty minute ambient piece that used vague movie samples and textures washed together in a stream of reverbs and delays. Said Jester in Sonic Boom Magazine, "This album is the solo work of Sebasstian the lead vocalist from Kill Switch... Klick. The CD itself arrives in a nifty package consisting of two pieces of orange barrier fence twist tied together and the CD itself is individually signed, hand numbered and inserted into a liner sleeve. The music is quite unlike anything that D.A. has written for KsK and borders more on classical piano in some places rather than the traditional grinding electronic industrial that you might expect. Overall the music is much mellower, more emotional and deeply personal compared to other material Sebasstian has been responsible for writing. D.A. utilizes an inordinately large amount of keyboard work on this album. The keyboards ranges from classical piano to other classical keyboard instruments as well as various wacky samples." In 1996 the KsK began work on its second music video for the single "Produkt (Mass Market Mix)". They hired director Brent Watanabe to animate and direct this lo-fi animated homage to "consumerist corporate America". Sebasstian had worked with Watanabe on several short film project previously as both actor and sound designer. In 1997 Kill Switch...Klick added former Transilvia bassist Jeremy Moss, releasing the highly acclaimed album deGenerate released on Cleopatra. Said The Stranger, "deGenerate is not a great album in a local or industrial sense. It's a great album period!" Later that year, and right before their second US tour, Ditmore quit the band to pursue a career with American aviation giant Boeing. KsK's 1997 tour was financially devastating to Sebasstian, when their tour van blew up just before their very first gig in San Francisco. Determined to finish the tour across the United States, Sebasstian borrowed additional money from Cleopatra Records, with the promise of a quick "no recording cost" release when the band returned from tour. This album was ALT. a b-sides and alternative versions CD that actually garnished decent reviews and in fact paid back the borrowed tour money to Cleopatra Records.
Organica (1998 - 2001):
In 1998 Sebasstian formed Irregular Records (later Go-Kustom Rekords) and in 1999 released Kill Switch...Klick's most controversial album, Organica. This album featured new songs and re-recorded versions of KsK classics using only acoustic sound sources. Said CMJ Magazine in Issue 67 "D.A. Sebasstian has taken to using only acoustic instruments, recorded in his studio and sampler- processed appropriately, to write new songs and recreate older KsK material. The convention-busting instrumentation makes Organica a surprisingly flirtatious, personality-driven album. Just listen to "5 Hotwheels In My Box," which rhythmically alters a sample of a child blurting "five" and juxtaposes the soundbite with the bleating of bagpipes. Organica is a testament to the ingenuity of Sebasstian as well as to the viability of acoustic instruments in making great dance records." Organica was later licensed and reissued by Invisible Records.
Milkin' It For All It's Worth (2001 - 2005):
In 2001 Kill Switch...Klick came out with a "Best Of" collection called "Milkin' It For All It's Worth" on Cleopatra Records, which included remixes by Spahn Ranch and Sigue Sigue Sputnik. The next year Invisible Records released Almost Ambient Collection Volume One. Said Keyboard Magazine, "The accent in the title is on "almost." Though much of the music is warm and gauzy, there's generally a beat prowling around. The sound effects, while subdued, are sometimes disturbing- love the squidgy filter stuff. The cluster-chord piano solo in "Feeding the Machine (Day to Day)" is downright rude, and "A/B Continuity (Resurgence)" is a full-on industrial/techno song. For my money, mastermind D.A. Sebasstian finds a good balance between energetic and mellow. Eleven of the tracks are previously unreleased, eight are reissues."
Sebasstian also began releasing and producing music and remixes for other bands, including Drag Strip Riot, The Wages of Sin, Faith & Disease, The Bad Things, Melene Marie Brown, OmBili Troupe, The Flathand 5, Billy Dwayne & The Creepers, Gary Numan, Gene Loves Jezebel, and his own solo project D.A. Sebasstian & The Inner Demons. He also expanded his Go-Kustom Records into the realm of public-access television cable TV with a popular weekly Seattle-based show called Go-Kustom TV with Hostess Lindsay Calkins. GKTV ran for four seasons and has recently been issued as a DVD series and on internet video sites like Blip.tv and YouTube. The show features interviews with Northwest Hot Rod builders, Pin-Up Models, Artists & Musicians.
In 2003 Sebasstian began filming Hot Rod Girls Save the World, a Black & White B-movie style independent film, which includes original soundtrack music by Kill Switch...Klick, as well as many other Seattle area musicians. Filming was completed in 2006. The film went into post-production that same year, and is set for tentative a 2008 release.
Sebasstian started writing feature articles for the national kustom kulture publications- CK Deluxe and Ol' Skool Rodz Magazine in 2004.
Mechanoid Collections (2005 - 2008):
In 2006 Go-Kustom Rekords began reissuing the Kill Switch...Klick back catalog including ALT., deGenerate and Almost Ambient Collection Volume One as well as the edgy collection Mechanoid Collection. Says Sebasstian about Mechanoid Collection, "Most of the disc is older material repackaged yet again- but released more for strategic reasons than anything else. I wanted to get some of my favorite songs on a single collection on my own label and quickly up on iTunes. Mechanoid was the vehicle to do this."
Sebasstian teamed up with You Tube starlet Super Amanda in late 2007 to record "Killing Machine," a song featured prominently in Hot Rod Girls Save The World. "Killing Machine" includes five different versions of the title song, in styles ranging from straight ahead rock, electro-industrial and acoustic. Sebasstian also published the Hot Rod Girls Save The World Screenplay with the announced intention of making it into a full blown three part novel series called The Anywhere Trilogy (with Hot Rod Girls Save The World being Book Number Two). Part One of the series is entitled The Legend Of D.B. Petty and is a prequel to the Hot Rod Girls Save The World story line.
In 2008 KsK released Sterile, It & All (seven disc box set), Ugly.Noises, Nominal, The Killing Machine E.P. (with Super Amanda) and The Hemi Charger E.P. (also with Super Amanda on vocals) as well as recording the original movie soundtrack for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. Sebasstian also released the third D.A. Sebasstian & The Inner Demons disc entitled "House Party" (with Super Amanda on backing vocals). Sebasstian's film Hot Rod Girls Save The World was completed on October 31, 2008 with its first private screening held November 15, 2008, to a sold out audience at the 911 Media Arts Center in Seattle, WA.
Hot Rod Girls Save The World (2008 - Present):
Main article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Rod_Girls_Save_the_World
Hot Rod Girls Save the World came out on DVD November 2008, and the original movie soundtrack (on Go-Kustom Rekords) was available early 2009. Said Sebasstian, "The hardest part of creating an original score for Hot Rod Girls Save the World was musically creating a collision between old rockabilly styles representative of the townsfolk of Anywhere, Washington and the high tech soundscapes for the aliens from the planet Moosha Maa. I came up with several recurring themes that were woven between the two musical genres and then culminate in the end theme for the film. The idea is the old meets the new, both visually and musically."
Hot Rod Girls Save the World premiered in Seattle at 911 Media Arts November 2008. The films East Coast premiere was at the Seventh Annual Backseat Film Festival in Philadelphia on March 6, 2009. Also screening at the festival were Sex Galaxy and a film by Bam Margera entitled Minghags: The Movie.
Midway through 2009, Portland, Oregon's DJ Prophetnoise remixed the Hot Rod Girls Save the World title theme in a dubstep-style single entitled "Hot Rod Girls Save the World Theme (Prophetnoise Dubstep Remix)". Sebasstian also made a special movie mix video to go with the song that is featured on the special features disc of the Hot Rod Girls Save the World (Kustom Edition) DVD, that was released in 2010. Sebasstian also premiered his second feature film Rat Rod Rockers! at the historic Everett Theater in Everett, Washington, on November 13, 2010, to over 400 patrons. Although Sebasstian did the films soundtrack himself, he did not credit it as KsK (like he did with Hot Rod Girls Save the World), but rather as D.A. Sebasstian & The Inner Demons.
In 2011 Sebasstian began filming his first feature documentary, Rats & Gassers: Kustom Kulture Takes a Ride, a movie about the underground fabricators and builders building rat rods and gassers.


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One of the things I really enjoy is strolling through an open air market. There's simply nothing like it. The sights & smells of bountiful, fresh local produce are visceral & stimulate the senses, providing ample inspiration & ideas for meals.
Many of my original recipe ideas have come to me while strolling through local farmer's markets, or visiting open-air markets in other areas (i.e., the "Italian Market" in Philly, etc.).
Using locally grown, fresh, seasonal produce is not only a great way to support your community, but is also makes your dishes taste better! Since it's been picked fresh (versus arriving from halfway around the world), local produce is fresher, typically retains more of its nutrients, & usually costs less.
Time to open up the floor: What's your favorite local market & why? Do you also get creative cooking ideas when visiting open air markets? What inspires you most & make you want to cook? From which sources of inspiration do you derive your best cooking ideas?
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The Winner is Alisha! Thank you everyone for your wonderful comments. I wish you all happy & fruitful creating.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Giveaway: Shabd Simon-Alexander
The Winner is Alisha! Thank you everyone for your wonderful comments. I wish you all happy & fruitful creating.
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- Casie Haley Photography said...
Tie dyeing I also learned as a kid! Rubber bands, some Rit dye, a HUGE kettle and wooden spoon and there you have it! Honestly, I want to learn how to quilt. It's an art that I would like to master, and be able to gift the quilts to loved ones. :-) And Happy Birthday to you!
- August 8, 2013 at 12:12 AM
- ginevra said...
I'm more & more interested in dyeing - I tried it for the first time with friends recently. I'd love that book!
- August 8, 2013 at 12:18 AM
- Sand Castle said...
I've used color in food (pastry), in canvas art and now I'm exploring it on textiles!! This book would be a great addition to my mini collection before I start getting my hands dirty - pun intended!
- August 8, 2013 at 1:13 AM
- Sand Castle said...
been dying to try these techniques! It's time to get my hands dirty - pun intended!!
- August 8, 2013 at 1:15 AM
- Trine said...
I still remember making tie dye shirts with my best friend, back in the 90s...only yesterday I made a cover for an old sofa with some self acquired shibori like technique! ;-)
Next on my list is definitely some wood carving! All those beautiful spoons all over instagram have got me hooked!
xoxo Trine
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- August 8, 2013 at 1:54 AM
- Katri Jenni Sofia said...
I've always been a nature person but it was only this year that I really got interested in botanical colours and dyeing. I went to different courses and started experimenting different dyeing techniques. This book would be so awesome for me get inspiration and more knowledge about tie dyeing!
- August 8, 2013 at 2:27 AM
- Sharon said...
I would love to learn the shibori tie dye technique! Happy bday J and I cannot WAIT for the next Ermie collection!
- August 8, 2013 at 5:36 AM
- Sara Hernandez said...
I recently took my first Shibori dyeing class, and fell in LOVE.. I might have found a reason to go back to college! All I want to do is pursue fabric arts! I have been "dyeing" over the photos of your new collection. I would really love to win this beautiful book, and continue to learn!!!! Hope you have a great birthday.
- August 8, 2013 at 6:29 AM
- Gemma said...
I've been meaning to try making natural dyes for a while now - soon hopefully. Happy birthday!
- August 8, 2013 at 6:51 AM
- sissy said...
I've been wanting to learn some metalworking techniques to push my jewelry designs.
- August 8, 2013 at 7:02 AM
- pkj said...
I have a pair of plain canvas shoes I've been wanting to dye--would be great to learn a few techniques from Shabd's book!
- August 8, 2013 at 7:13 AM
- Meghan said...
I tried shibori a number of years ago, but have been hankering to give it another try. I've had my eye on this book, and would love to check it out! [megp47 at yahoo dot com]
- August 8, 2013 at 7:58 AM
- Karina said...
I've been wanting to exploring dyeing techniques in my paintings. The colors and patterns in your clothing is always a source of inspiration for me and I'd love to learn how to do it. The book would be a great resource.
- August 8, 2013 at 8:06 AM
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- August 8, 2013 at 8:34 AM
- gc said...
Happy Birthday, Jen! This book looks great and makes me nostalgic for the tie-dyeing we did at summer camp when I was a kid. (Sigh.) I've been giving a ton of thought to dyeing my photographs, but need a kick in the book. Not sure this book would help, but it looks rad! What a generous birthday girl you are!!
Much love...
- August 8, 2013 at 9:58 AM
- Beklina said...
So many where to choose. Thanks Jen for the great post. I would like to explore dying natural blended fabrics, that have mixes of wool and cotton and silk. I had a a dying accent a year back that gave me this idea. I was trying to do a solid dye and the fabric was a blend and it came out with a beautiful heathering effect.
I'd love to explore that further. xx Angelina (aka lina rennell)
- August 8, 2013 at 12:06 PM
- One Little Star said...
That book looks awesome! I am also interested in learning how to paint on silk. Love wearable art!
- August 8, 2013 at 1:48 PM
- Pragmatic Sustainability said...
Shabd's work is gorgeous - I would love to try the projects in her book!
- August 8, 2013 at 3:54 PM
- Gina Choe said...
Tie dying is on the list, of course, but I want my knitting skills to be intentional.I tend to dive into projects that force me to learn new stitches but I couldn't tell you anything about swatching or gauges etc :)
- August 8, 2013 at 6:28 PM
- Gina Choe said...
(Sorry, left off my contact email from my comment. It is firstname.lastname@example.com)
- August 8, 2013 at 6:31 PM
- Neza said...
I'd like to do more watercolor this year, besides knitting. The book must be interesting, quite similar to watercolors.
(in case I'm the happy winner :))), I'll be on internet-free vacation after 8-12-13 for 3 weeks).
Love the bits of your new collection, your work is an inspiration, thank you!
- August 9, 2013 at 11:57 AM
- Agnes said...
I did a collection for an university project last year that was based on dying with natural products, such as wine, curcuma, tea... I got some very interesting shades.
We also did a bag out of fabric that we dyed with shibori tehnique.
But I would still like to learn a lot more about tie dying, as I know very little, and I think her work is excellent!
Janja from Slovenia
- August 9, 2013 at 2:27 PM
- nfc said...
I am interested in dyeing with indigo these days...would love this book! thank you
- August 9, 2013 at 4:46 PM
- Kit said...
Tie dying is definitely on the top of my list, I've always wanted to try but never dared. Not doubt this book would push me. Thank you for this giveaway!
- August 11, 2013 at 3:25 AM
- Moira said...
I love Shabd's updated tie-dye style. I've been getting interested in shibori and in machine knitting. I'd love to be able to make my own knits.
- August 11, 2013 at 11:18 AM
- Alisha said...
I want to learn about hand dying and hand weaving fibers. Right now I'm just trying to learn everything I can and expose myself to the many possibilities of the craft. Thanks for inspiring me! alishabethadams at gmail dot com
- August 12, 2013 at 1:48 PM
- patrickstar said...
So many things I'd love to learn! One of them is knitting!
My contact is patrickstar (at) gmail (dot) com
Thank you for this giveaway!
- August 12, 2013 at 3:50 PM
- Indigo Reid said...
I'm interested in learning more about natural dyes.
- August 13, 2013 at 9:05 AM
- Jane B said...
I've always wanted to learn chair caning. I just signed up for a class here! www.northhouse.org
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Friday, May 28, 2010
More on the IWC
As the next meeting of the IWC approaches (it's at the end of June), the debate slogs on. Australia is now taking Japan to court over whaling, as it has threatened to do for a while now. Various governments are struggling to clarify their positions as the public realizes that the proposed plan would reopen the can of worms known as commercial whaling. On The Diane Rehm show this week (definitely worth a listen), US IWC Commissioner Monica Medina helpfully explained that the commercial whaling moratorium would simultaneously be in existence and not in existence under the plan (it should be noted that the US no longer will support the plan in its exact current form). Not in existence because it's clear that the plan allows the resumption of commercial whaling, which ostensibly means that a moratorium on commercial whaling must have ended, in existence because Monica says it will be. You may feel that allowing Iceland, Norway and Japan to resume commercial whaling and banning everyone else from doing so is a good idea if it brings those countries back under IWC scrutiny. Fine. But don't pretend that the moratorium is still in place when the thing it moratorium-izes has resumed, even if only by a few countries.
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I sure can remember the Depression era. My father was a farmer in hard times. We were a big family of six girls and two boys.
Shoes were the biggest problem. I remember one time Dad went to a shoe sale and came home with about ten pairs of shoes, all different sizes, that he got real cheap. We older girls had to wear high top shoes (old fashion), we really hated to wear them, but it was either that or go barefooted so we wore them. Later when I was in high school, the sole of my shoe wore through, so I cut a piece of heavy cardboard and put it on the inside of the shoe until I could get new ones. (It was hard for my kids to believe this story.)
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first: blue to red!
first of all i've bleached my old pair of shorts. and i thought that they would become white. but no, they didn't :D the colour was ugly pink, so i decided to buy pink dye and make them bright pink. but finally they became red. but i like the colour of the shorts now, it's so intensive!
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i wanted half-dyed shorts and actually i'm very happy with the result. maybe the purple colour is too dark but i like the way it is. i found white jeans in a secondhand store for 50 cents and my sister helped me to crop them. i put half of the shorts into a pot with purple dye, left them in the pot for a day, washed and here they are!
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these are my favourite now. i've bought studs on ebay and after some time i finally found right jeans to stud (also in a secondhand store). the first thing i did was cut the jeans into shorts, also with my sister's help. and theeen i studded the back pocket. it took some time to stud all the space there but after all i'm so excited to have the shorts like these!


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Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan, a leader who has gained massive popularity among the youth for his vows to bring change in Pakistan, turned 60 today.
His ardent followers on Twitter made the trend #HappyBirthdayImranKhan the top trend of the day in Pakistan. Although, Khan decided not to celebrate his birthday this year on account of Ashura.
Top tweets
#HappyBirthdayImranKhan You are a legend. Be it cricket or politics you're the mann!! :D @ImranKhanPTI
#HappyBirthdayImranKhan I believe you can change the politics of Pakistan. Live long and keep your promises. @ImranKhanPTI
Imran Khan celebrating his 60th Birthday.. my bro jst textd me this pic.#HappyBirthdayImranKhan pic.twitter.com/zuzozBn2
#HappyBirthdayImranKhan We will celebrate your next Birthday as Prime Minister of Pakistan. #PTI #PAKISTAN
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Chrome OS, Google's newly open sourced operating system has been posted for download on several file-sharing sites, and peer-to-peer BitTorrent tracking sites, including Mininova.org and Pirate Bay. Gdgt web site also posted download of Chrome OS disk image. Users must create an account with site to access download. To run Chrome OS, users must launch a virtual machine client, such as VMware's Workstation, or for Mac, Fusion 3, then install Chrome in new VM, or free VirtualBox, a Sun-hosted open-source VM. To set it up with VMWare Fusion on a MacBook Pro, see the video below, and to get it running on Windows PC with VirtualBox follows steps below:
- Download Chome OS using above links and install VirtualBox
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- choose Linux as OS
- allocate ample memory to your VM
- use existing hard disk
- open Chrome OS image
- select hard disk image
- If all is well, your screen turns dark and you'll see Chromium splash screen. You'll then need to log in using a valid Google Account ID, either your existing ID or a newly created one.
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My favorite part of fall has to be the multiple visits to local pumpkin patches.
There's something so nostalgic about hopping into a straw-seated tractor bed, running through a corn maze, and picking out a variety of pumpkins to carve. So naturally, when I found out I'd be spending a day at work at the pumpkin patch with little ones, I knew immediately what I needed to make.
These Pumpkin Spice Whoopie Pies are easy to make and fun to eat. They are great for outdoor fun and are mildly spiced to be kid-friendly.
Pumpkin Spice Whoopie Pies
– 1 box spice cake mix
– 15 oz pumpkin purée
– 1/2 cup oil
– 1 container Cool Whip
– 1 small box vanilla or cheesecake pudding mix
1. In a mixing bowl, combine cake mix, pumpkin, and oil and stir until combined.
2. Scoop out a tablespoon of batter and place on a parchment lined baking pan. Continue until all batter is used.
3. Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes or until cooked through. Let cool.
4. In a bowl, combine Cool Whip and pudding mix until thoroughly combined.
5. Flip over half of the cakes and scoop on a tablespoon of cool whip frosting. Sandwich with another cake to make a Whoopie pie.
Soft, moist, and full of creamy "frosting", these Whoopie Pies were a big hit with the kiddos and are sure to be an even bigger hit with all pumpkin-spice obsessed consumers!
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What is hepatitis B?
Hepatitis B is caused by a virus that attacks the liver. The virus, which is called hepatitis B virus (HBV), can cause lifelong infection, cirrhosis (scarring) of the liver, liver cancer, liver failure, and death.
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Can I donate blood if I have had any type of viral hepatitis?
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For how long is hepatitis B vaccine effective?
Long-term studies of healthy adults and children indicate that hepatitis B vaccine protects against chronic HBV infection for at least 15 years, even though antibody levels might decline below detectable levels.
Are booster doses of hepatitis B vaccine needed?
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What does the term "hepatitis B carrier" mean?
Hepatitis B carrier is a term that is sometimes used to indicate people who have chronic (long-term) infection with HBV. If infected, two percent to 6% of persons over 5 years of age; 30% of children 1-5 years of age; and up to 90% of infants develop chronic infection. Persons with chronic infection can infect others and are at increased risk of serious liver disease including cirrhosis and liver cancer. In the United States, an estimated 1.25 million people are chronically infected with HBV.
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In 2001, an estimated 78,000 persons in the U.S. were infected with HBV. People of all ages get hepatitis B and about 5,000 die per year of sickness caused by HBV.
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One out of 20 people in the United States will get infected with HBV some time during their lives. Your risk is higher if you
You get hepatitis B by direct contact with the blood or body fluids of an infected person; for example, you can become infected by having sex or sharing needles with an infected person. A baby can get hepatitis B from an infected mother during childbirth.
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You may have hepatitis B (and be spreading the disease) and not know it; sometimes a person with HBV infection has no symptoms at all. Only a blood test can tell for sure.
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If you have HBV in your blood, you can give hepatitis B to your baby. Babies who get HBV at birth may have the virus for the rest of their lives, can spread the disease, and can get cirrhosis of the liver or liver cancer.
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PGA Tour Is On Par With Linux - page 2
Linux and Golf... Smooth As A 20 Foot Putt Right Into The Cup
"Using Linux back then was quite a big step", explains Steve Evans, Vice President of Information Systems for the PGA. "When Tourcast was launched we needed a hosting environment. It was cost prohibitive to use the normal peak capacity sizing models, because high activity happens during the actual tournament. It's not a 24/7 type of web application."
"They [IBM] suggested 'E-Business on Demand' web hosting. The Tourcast application server lives on an IBM mainframe running Linux that varies 'server units' according to demand," Evans said.
The service is contracted for base-level capacity and then as demand rises (during peak application activity), server units are added in (and charged) to meet the load. As more customers use and are charged for the Tourcast service, it was a cost effective way to do it.
Evans and his team chose Linux for several reasons. The primary reason was for reliability. Evans said he wanted "reliable systems that go in and just run." Another reason was that Linux had good support from the IBM consulting and architecture groups. Additionally, the staff liked the IBM Websphere and Java (for building web pages) development environments that also run on Linux.
Evans had very few big challenges. The original planning and development for the web implementation took about 60 days. Tourcast was planned and developed between July and November of 2002, with the launch of the Tourcast site in January 2003. Pretty decent rollout times, by anyone's standards.
Getting the real-time scoring, position data, and event logging into the system was pretty interesting. A truckload of hardware known as the Shotlink Scoring System collects every stroke for every player using Palms, UHF radio links (connected via serial port), and spotters on the course. UHF works well with obstructions and is used for voice as well as data. The course spotters also use laser range-finders for positioning measurements. The UHF radios link to computers on a Windows 2000 network in the 18-wheel trailer that serves as the communications center.
Through the magic of networking, the data quickly find their way to the Linux Tourcast application servers and is presented to the audience member's web browser.
Since the Shotlink system is currently doing the job well, Evans has not seen a need to convert it from Windows 2000 to Linux yet. He speculated that it might be an option in the future.
He added that when the Palms, radios, Shotlink, and activity in and around the trailer (bristling with antennas) are at full tilt operation during a tournament, it's really quite an impressive sight to see.
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Tavira is a beloved holiday destination that combines breathtaking beaches with Portuguese culture. Regarded as one of the most beautiful towns of the Algarve, you will find a unique mix of traditional architecture with Moorish influences. Culinary tourists will be pleased to find the many top rated restaurants in this historic town with picturesque plazas and cobbled streets. From cycling, golfing to dancing the night away, it is never a dull moment in the Venice of the Algarve. Find out all the secret tips on Tavira.
Tavira – Highlights
Top attractions in Tavira:
• Beautiful old town
• Monuments (Roman bridge, ruins of the castle and many churches)
• Beautiful sandy beaches at the island Ilha de Tavira
General information
Tavira is a municipality in the Algarve, that is situated about 20 kilometres from the Spanish border. The biggest city of the municipality is Tavira, but some other cities in the municipality are Cachopo, Santa Luzia and Santa Catarina da Fonte do Bispo. The total number of inhabitants in this municipality is about 25.000, of which about 13.000 people live in the town of Tavira. The town has the reputation of being the Venice of the Algarve, due to its location near the estuary of the river Gilão. That is why many people find Tavira one of the most beautiful towns in the Algarve.
The history of Tavira is long, with interesting monuments from several periods. Its origins date back from the Phoenicians. It was also occupied by the Romans. They built the beautiful bridge that connects the two parts of the town separated by the river. The town developed during the Arabian occupation. It was conquered by the Portuguese in 1242.
By the 16th century, Tavira was one of the major ports in the Algarve, but nowadays the port is not that influential anymore. Tavira achieved city status in 1520. Until then, the river was navigable up to Tavira. Its gradual silting up led to a decline of the trading activities and the town itself. Tuna fishing was (until the 1970s) one of the main activities in the region. Nowadays, fishing and tourism are the main activities.
What to see
Visiting Tavira
We suggest that you start your visit in Tavira at the main square, the Praça da República. Centuries ago, it was here where slaves were traded, along with fresh fruit and fish.
Cross the Roman bridge (in Portuguese: Ponte Romana) over the Gilão river to the other side and admire the baroque and neoclassical façades on the other side of the river. The bridge possibly predates the Romans, but it was named the Roman bridge because it connected the Roman road from Tavira to Castro Marim. Most of the structure today dates back to a reconstruction from the 17th century.
From the next bridge you can take pictures of the seven-arched Roman bridge and the old town with the castle on the top. Coming from the bridge to the west bank of the river you see the market on the left-hand side and a nice garden on the right with the shopping area straight ahead.
From the Praça da República you follow the way up through the arch of the street Rua da Galeria, where you can see the coat of arms of king Manuel I, who gave Tavira city status in 1520. On both sides of the Royal coat of arms there is an armillary sphere, representing the discoveries around the world. Close to this location you find the tourist information board (on the left-hand side) and straight ahead the Misericórdia church. This church was built around 1540. On the Renaissance façade of this church you can see the sculpture of Nossa Senhora da Misericórdia. In the interior there are fine gilt carved woodworks and glazed tiles from 1760. This church is usually closed.
In the middle of Tavira, you can find the ruins of a castle of Moorish origin. It was built by king Dinis in the 13th century. The castle was heavily damaged by the earthquake in 1755, but was subsequently rebuilt. Most if the structure that stands today, is from the 18th century. From its walls you can enjoy a magnificent view over the town and the surroundings. Notice the typical four-sided roofs of the old houses, called in Portuguese telhados de tesouro.
Next to the castle you can find the church of Santa Maria do Castelo. This is the main church of Tavira. It was built in the 13th century in Gothic style, on the site of an old mosque. The Gothic portal dates back to the 13th century. Like the oldest churches in the Algarve, it was destroyed by the earthquake of 1755 and rebuilt in a kind of poor baroque. Because of the scale of the disaster, there was not sufficient money to rebuild the church. Only the doorway, two chapels and the windows from the clock tower remain from the original building. Some chapels are decorated with gilded wood carvings (18th century) and glazed tiles. In the main chapel there are the small tombs of Paio Peres Correia, the knight who conquered the town from the Moors in 1242 and seven of his Cruzaders, who had been murdered by the Moors.
Another church near the castle is the Santiago church (in Portuguese: Igreja de Santiago). Also this church is built on the site of an old mosque.
Carmo Church
In Santa Maria, you can visit the Church of Carmo (in Porutguese: Igreja da Ordem Terceira do Carmo). This church dates from 1744 and has a rich interior of gilt carved wood. The stalls deserve special attention. This church is not always open to the public.
Santa Luzia
Santa Luzia is a small fishing village, which specializes in the fishing of octopus. It is also known as the 'octopus capital' of the Algarve. You can try the octopus in several restaurants in Santa Luzia. In order to catch the octopus, the fishermen use earthenware pots which you can see everywhere on the quayside and on the boats. These octopus traps are bound together with a rope and are left overnight in the sheltered waters of the lagoon and offshore islands. During the night, the octopus climb into those traps, which provide them with a secure hiding spot. The earthenware pots are taken out of the water on the following day. Santa Luzia is a typical village, where you can get a taste of the traditional way of life in the Algarve.
To the west of Santa Luzia there is a holiday resort called Pedras del Rei. From there you can reach the beach by crossing a small narrow bridge and continuing by foot or by holiday train.
The coast of Tavira is located within the Ria Formosa national park boundaries. The beach situated on the island of Tavira (in Portuguese: Ilha de Tavira) is one of the longest and best beaches in the Algarve. The island is about 3 kilometres from the town of Tavira. The island has restaurants and toilets and also holds a blue flag, showing the quality of the beach. You can not reach this beach by foot, but only by boat from the center of Tavira or by ferry from the port of Quatro Àguas (2 km south of Tavira).
The low sandy coast between Tavira and Monte Gordo has some long beaches, such as Cabanas, Manta Rota, Praia Verde, Altura and Monte Gordo. This coast invites for long seaside walks and for bathing, as its waters are warmer than anywhere else in the Algarve. Monte Gordo was once a small fishing village, which some 50 years ago became one of the first seaside resorts in the Algarve. On the beach, one can see many fishing boats as well as fishermen repairing their nets. The catch is unloaded in the morning. Nowadays, Monte Gordo is the most important resort of Eastern Algarve.
Cacela Velha
Cacela Velha is an old fishing village situated in a beautiful coastal landscape of the Ria Formosa. The village has a fortress, a small church and consists of a few houses. The view over the lagoon is fascinating.
Vila Real de Santo António
This small town is situated one the right bank of the river Guadiana and was founded in 1774 by Marquis of Pombal. From the former wet land, the town was built in only six months. It was called Vila Real, which means Royal Town.
Castro Marim
The town of Castro Marim has an old fortress. The Romans called this fortress 'Castrum Marinum' (castle on the sea). In 1282 it became the headquarters of the Templars in Portugal. This order was later renamed Order of the Knights of Christ and was responsible for the defense of the border. We recommend that you to visit the old fortress.
Secret tips
Visit the tourism office (Rua da Galeria 9, near the Praça da República). Here you can get a free map of Tavira, which includes all major sightseeings.
Make sure you take a boat to the island of Tavira, known as Ilha de Tavira. This island has one of the most beautiful beaches of the Algarve. The beach is quite sandy and the sand is almost white. The island of Tavira is rated by TripAdvisor as the #1 thing to do in Tavira. If you want see the river-side of the island now, there is a live webcam stream of the beach.
Visit the municipal market. It is situated on the southeastern side of Tavira, in the street Avenida Don Manuel I. The market sells fresh fish to visitors, many of which are restaurants in the town. Make sure you go there early, because usually all fish is sold by mid-morning. There is also a section where you can buy fresh fruits and vegetables.


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May 5, 2008- Yay! Today is Kodomo no hi- Children's Day! National holiday=no school. Everyone gone. Quiet house. I knit all day in pajamas, drinking wheat tea and eating mochi. Finished Gedifra scarf (see photo in margin- will block tomorrow if it isn't raining). Worked a bit on Tsuchigusa. Found cool project at Craftster: explains how to spin newspaper into a knitable "yarn"! I wanna try their technique. 🙂 I'm thinking, too, that to cut the paper thinly in z's up and down will avoid all that joining in of small pieces. Lots of possible applications on stage . . . (costumes, set pieces, etc.)
On the other hand, if I get a drop spindle, will I not be selecting that first seductive step down the slimy, steaming, sloping path that sucks one inexorably into the Sinister Slough of Spinning? Arghhhhhhhh!!


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Darktimer 2 – Film Photography App
Some of you guys may remember the Darktimer App that I featured a while back. Well, Paulo, the guy behind the app has been busy beavering away and making a new updated version of this great app. And this time there are loads more features for you all to enjoy and aid you in the developing process. And if you are lucky, you might even get a free copy. Read on.
Now as many of you may know I am not all that much of a fan of phones, especially when people are walking with them and not looking where they are going (save that rant for another day), but they do have their uses and this is a great use. I really wish I had been able to have this information at my fingertips when I was working in the darkroom. But then, this just gives me an excuse to get back into it.
The Darktimer App has been massively updated and I think this is a winner.
Over to Paulo for the details:
DarkTimer 2
Three in one Film Photography tool.
Film Photography is all about been unpredictable and fun.
DarkTimer 2 is a three-in-one timer tool for your film photography.
It creates a collection of film recipes in a nice detailed iOS7 interface.
A film developing timer, an enlarger timer and a paper developer sequential timer for the photographer darkroom.
Film Collection:
Because each film has its own character, every film details can be modified: ASA, brand, film format, emulsion type, expiration date and notes. Besides that, the user can browse through a film database or add its custom film.
DarkTimer 2 also has a film developers database list which the user can choose from or add its own developers to the list. If the user is pushing the film, the App is able to store this information and calculates the amount of stops.
Recipes aren't just limited to black and white. The user can select between many process types (color dev, blix, stabilizer, reversal, bleach) to create its own color and slide developer recipes. When creating a recipe it will calculate the dilution/volume rates.
It's a developing timer, the photographer can add solutions to the recipes and edit/re-organize them later. Each solution represents a timer that it's organized in a easy to operate timers interface.
Switching between timers can be done with finger slide. Each solution has it's custom agitation, during developing the user gets notified the remaining time to the next agitation.
Sound notifications inform the status of operation.
Film Enlarger:
This section was designed for the darkroom photography which lets the photographer to keep a collection of its enlargements schematics. It's designed for split grade printing with two filters. It's a timer to let the user focus in creative process. It calculates the exposure time if the photographer want to change the enlarger f-stops.
It incorporates an extra pair of timer filter for burning or dodging techniques.
DarkTimer 2 it's a test strips timer, which can be operated in equal steps or half-stop increments.
After printing the user can save all enlargement details like: filters, apertures, timers, enlargement name, paper name, lens name, height, print name and notes.
Paper Developing:
After making the enlargement the paper needs to be developed in the darkroom solutions. To better control this operation DarkTimer 2 has a customizable sequential timers that will help the user to be more precise in developing times. The timers will fire automatically so the photographer just have to ear the notification sounds allowing him hands free to manipulate the paper between baths.
The user also can decide what are the timers that will fire automatically.
With DarkTimer 2 the photographer can keep a detailed collection of it's art creation and have better control on its creative process with a easy to operate well designed user interface.
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This is so cool. A big thank you to Paulo for making something like this. It is these passionate people that keep film going strong.
I have 9 free redeem codes to give away (I kept one for myself LOL) to the first 9 people that leave a proper comment on this (and not a "first" or "I want" kind of comment, and no fake mail addresses).
33 comments on "Darktimer 2 – Film Photography App"
This seems like a really useful tool. I have been thinking about creating my own darkroom with all the stuff I got from different people. This may just be the final piece of the puzzle. :)
Thanks Bellamy! Keep up the good work!
I've been working with Dev Chart app so far and it's been great, but it lacks the whole printing process handling. I'd like to give this new app a try. Does the timer for printing includes an f-stop timer? That would be super cool!
Thank you Bellamy! :D
Great app. Until now my iphone timer was the only tool I needed. This looks much better though.
Thanks Bellamy. you're the man!
I really dig iPhone apps which help me with my photography.
But you know what would be great to include a database for pre-development, so I can save shot-information and see the results at the develepment phase.
Just a thought.
Thx for posting it!
I use Kodak's app for developing times but it has some flaws so it would be nice to give a try! I am in a hurry so I didn't read through the article, but I hope it supports to save my own recipe :)
Wow this is great!
Could just be the incentive I need to get out the gear and start printing.
Thanks Bellamy for promoting this, and good to see a developer using digital tools for analogue processes.
whoa! been looking for something like this for a while, been using my friend's ipad over at his place and it just gets soaked with developer and fixer all the time with the repeated resetting of the default timer
Excellent app, but is there any Android version planned ?
Thanks for showing it to us anyway !
I can use it on my iPad though.
PS : I have an iPad, but my phone is an Android one and I rather use stg small in the darkroom.
This app does seems to do what I have been looking for. Noting down my experiments with film development in a easy to access data management instead of trying to remember all of it haha. Going thru the app it looks like its got all the major bases covered. Wow!
I've wanted to develop my own film for some time now. I've purchased all the chemicals and supplies needed, but I've been timid about developing the first roll due to being unsure about the steps involved and the timing of each step. This app looks like it will give me all the information I need to finally develop that first roll. Plus the UI looks great.
i've been using massive dev to develop my films but it,s a app the always seen to lack something in the end…
darktimer seens to be THE APP made by a film lover for film lovers..
the prove its that it covers the whole process instead of just developing the film..
looking forward to this
Nice! Have been using the Digitaltruth app for a while. But this one is even better as it works for paper development too. Thanks for the shout out Bellamy!
Looks ok! I wish there was an iPad version though :)
Also the agitation settings are a bit awkward imo, more control in that department would be nice (it's good that you can set individual agitation schemes for the dif stages, something the massive dev chart app is lacking). Like if I set 30s initial agitation and then a 1min interval it tells me to start inversions at 1min30s instead of 1min, also the length of the agitation intervals would be nice (5s, 10s aso).
Almost there! Looking forward to future updates!
would be interesting to see the use of the iphone as a light meter and implement something like the Heiland Splitgrade to determine contrast grade and exposure.
Well using the front camera and a diffusing filter we could identify and measure some areas by putting the phone face up on the enlarger easel and the app would determine the paper grade or filter and time.
Another and simpler idea would be to use the same kind of setup , test print exposure on a small print with the smallest aperture and then enlarge and use the phone to get the same luminance or light intensity by opening up aperture so to use the same exposure time.
Looks really handy, but I can't use it until the developer decides to release an Android version :-(
Thank you for the suggestion. I just bought it! Can't wait to get into the darkroom now!
Downloaded the app last night, got it all set it up and just processed my first roll of HP5. Works like a charm and only $1.99 to boot! Thanks for putting Darktimer 2 out there!
This seems like a great app. I wish there was an android version!
Nice! If you have an iPhone.
Is there a comparable App for Android Phones?
I didn't find one yet.


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Hunter Shea lives in New York with his family and one vindictive cat. Aside from writing horror he's been involved in real life exploration of the paranormal, he interviews exorcists, and has been involved in other things that would keep normal people up at night.
Tortures of the Damned manages to avoid many of the cliches found in the typical apocalyptic horror novel and the result is a terrifying read that left me wanting more.
The story starts with numerous explosions, the lose of electricity, meaning no TV and no radio. Despite that, Daniel Padilla does his best to keep his family calm...
"'There's nothing to be afraid of . In fact, why don't you, Miguel, and Max go in the kitchen and make us all ice cream sundaes?'
Gabby's eyes lit up. 'Really?'
Elizabeth gave him a warning look, 'Dan, it's late.'
He kissed her cheek 'They don't have school tomorrow. I think ice cream is exactly what we all need.'"
The idyllic family, instantly likable, caught in a nightmarish new world. Their neighbors, Buck Clarke and his girlfriend Alexiana offer to have the family join them in his bomb shelter until things blow over.
What follows is an intense horror story filled with graphic images, like that of a man having his face ripped off by a horse. That's right, I said a horse. Horses are grossly underused in horror fiction. And let's not forget the rats. I hate rats.
"This was no fantasy, this was a horror movie, one of those flicks from the seventies where there was no happy ending."
I absolutely devoured this book. I allowed myself four days for this read and finished it in two. There is excellent use of lose in Tortures of the Damned, as well as some crass sexual situations, but I found them certainly appropriate for the story given the circumstances. Anything less would have taken away from the realism.
Although the book was not promoted as the first of a series, there had better be a sequel especially with the heluva cliff-hanger that comes at the end.
From Pinnacle Books, an imprint of the Kensington Publishing Company, Tortures of the Damned is available now in both paperback and e-book formats.
Highly recommended.


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It's an interesting fact in the story of Paul going to Macedonia that the key person in the tale is not the fellow who appears in Paul's dream. It is Lydia who both receives Jesus' word and the gift of baptism from Paul, and who then becomes an ardent advocate for Christ and supporter of Paul's ministry.
Who is this woman? She is a gentile, but one who is attracted to the Jewish religion. She goes to the river to prayer, presumably with other women, since even Gentiles regarded separation of the sexes as appropriate. She has not yet made the full commitment to conversion to Judaism.
She is a businesswoman who is successful enough to own her own home. She deals in cloth, specifically purple cloth. That kind of cloth is reserved for the use of the upper classes, so she regularly has contact with people of power and wealth. She is, in fact, the first person converted by Paul in Europe, since she lives in Philippi, in Greece.
So Paul lands in Philippi and meanders down to the river, a usual place of prayer, and there are a group of women, including Lydia. He speaks to the women and Lydia is particularly taken with the message.
So intrigued is she that, after Paul baptizes her in the river, she insists that Paul and his traveling companion stay at her home.
What a woman! And when it comes to the church Paul founds at Philippi, Lydia is not the only woman of note. Paul refers to Euodia and Synteche, other women who were key to the mission work that he started in that place.
For some, that may be a surprise, because we may have heard folks quoting Paul saying "women should be quiet in church" (I Cor 14:34) or that "women should submit themselves to their husbands" (Ephesians 5:22).
Those words are often used when someone does not want women to have a leadership role in the church or in the home…but if that is what Paul says to the churches in Corinth and Ephesus, what is he doing lauding the work of Lydia, Euodia and Synteche in Philippi? Or the fact that he cites a woman named Chloe as a key leader in the church in Corinth even as he says women should be quiet?
Seems a little confusing, doesn't it?
But perhaps not.
Paul is a missionary. He goes to different places, with different cultural mores, and sets up churches and then moves on. He has to find the best people to carry on his work, and he has to deal with the way people are used to doing things, including respecting the social structures that are prevalent. Missionaries know you can only change things so much from the standard culture in a place, and Paul is nothing if not a smart missionary.
So he responds to the people and the place where he goes. He reads the context, as social scientists might say, and he works within that context.
And when they write to him with questions or problems, he answers them as a pastor who knows that one size doesn't fit all. What works in Corinth might not work in Galatia. What works in Ephesus might not make any sense at all in Philippi.
So of course he welcomes the fervent support of a rich woman like Lydia in Philippi. She is powerful and influential, which will lend some protection to this messianic movement. She is smart and committed. Who wouldn't encourage her to lead, just as he lauds the work of Euodia and Synteche?
We don't know why he seems to be so intent on keeping women in their place in Corinth or Ephesus. Some of it may be that culturally, in those places where women were traditionally viewed in second-class roles, it made more sense to guide the church to a place that was more congruent with the way things worked there. Maybe there was one particular woman who aggravated him – Paul does seem to get aggravated with people on a regular basis.
But again, I emphasize that Paul is nothing if he is not a smart missionary and a wise pastor. He reads the context and responds to it.
And it this point, I imagine you're thinking "what in heaven's name does this have to do with us? We're past the point of keeping women quiet, and we certainly have female leadership in the church and in the secular world."
Well, it ties to who we are, where we are, and what God has in mind for us.
We have been in conversation about what kind of church we want to be, what kind of church God wants us to be, and how we make that happen. The implication of that statement is that we are changing in some way.
That's not a surprise. The world has changed, and our neighborhood has changed around us. The time when church activities were the only social activity most evenings, when everyone belonged to a church and every teen belonged to a youth group and every family centered their life around the parish is past. Now children and their parents juggle sports schedules, SAT prep classes, music lessons, dance classes, and part-time work as well as church activities. Now adults fight to make time for their spiritual lives even as their bosses insist on overtime, as they try to find time to work out to stay healthy, as they struggle to find at least one day a week when the whole family will sit down for a dinner together. Even singles don't escape the pressures to do lots of things that make church activities just one more competing force.
So what does it mean to be in conversation about what kind of church we want to be? The hard answer is that it means that the things that worked in the past will not work now. We have got to get creative, and we have got to be smart, just like Paul.
This is our context. We are standing at the edge of a different river than our parents did.
How are we going to see the Lydias, the Euodias, the Syntoches, all those who are hungry for something that they know is missing from their lives? How are we going to welcome those who might seem unlikely newcomers, as women may have been unlikely in Paul's day?
We pray. We listen. We try new things. We think hard about what welcome truly means.
We get a little more humble and look for the gifts newcomers have, rather than thinking we are the ones who have something to give them.
I am grateful for Harrison's great work in helping us start the conversation. It will be an ongoing one, and it will necessarily evolve as we learn and discern more.
But if we learn nothing from Paul's experience in Philippi, we must learn that those who might be the moving forces behind new growth in our parish might be the most unlikely ones, the Lydias, the Chloes, the Junias…
…unlikely missionaries. Unlikely gifts to us, even more than we are gifts to them.
So welcome them and listen to them. This is a new world we live in, and while we honor the beauty and comfort of our traditions, we must – WE MUST – be prepared to partner those traditions with the new things. Like the river where Lydia was baptized, like the river described in the passage from the Book of Revelation, we are white-water rafting down a new river of life. What and see what God has in mind for us now!


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Your floral fiend is back in town!
We are having a shock of unusual cold for a Chicago May. I defied the gray skies by being as bright and obnoxious as comes naturally. What color do you think my aura is? Neon purple?
I can't recommend the Nyx High Voltage line enough. This color is called Twisted and it has changed my life more than you'd think an additional purple lipstick possibly could.
And then there's this dress! From the Asos regular line. Size 14. The shoulders are a little snug, but I have that problem often enough to hardly complain.
I'm a little obsessed.
Dress: Asos
Lips: Nyx High Voltage Lipstick, "Twisted"
Jacket: Thrifted @ NoHo Hospice
I think the sunglasses were purchased by my sister at a dollar store, but I am not sure.


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Financiers may grumble that the United States is acting like an imperial power in punishing foreign banks for dealings far beyond U.S. territory, but in the end they are more likely to bow to Washington than kick against its dollar muscle.
Last week, French politicians and business leaders demanded an end to the global dominance of the U.S. currency - and hence of the U.S. banking system - after a New York court fined French bank BNP Paribas $9 billion for doing business in Sudan, Iran and Cuba. Yet despite irritation at the long reach of U.S. sanctions, most bankers see that as wishful thinking.
Instead, major lenders in Europe and Asia are reacting to the steady flow of punishments from the United States by doing ever more to comply with U.S. laws and by cutting business ties in countries Washington dislikes rather than risk its wrath and, in the worst scenario, risk exclusion from the dollar system.
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Official regulators outside the United States are starting to look at ways to prevent their own banks and markets from being damaged by the scale of U.S. penalties. But for now, each bank on its own has little choice but to toe Washington's line.
"The demands placed on banks to know their customer's customer, even in countries where such records are not routinely kept, means that banks have little choice but to terminate relationships or risk eye-watering, balance sheet altering fines," said Anthony Browne, chief executive of the British Bankers' Association (BBA).
The BBA estimates Western banks have cut hundreds of relationships with correspondent banks in emerging markets, hurting businesses, governments and people in poorer countries.
Read MoreIs shadow banking set to take off globally?
Large commodity traders such as Glencore, Vitol, Trafigura and Mercuria are stepping in to plug the gap in trade finance. Glencore was chosen last month by the government of Chad to finance its purchase of $1.3 billion of assets being sold by U.S. oil company Chevron.
Meanwhile, far from turning their backs on the United States as a result of the demands of regulators and judges, foreign banks who have fallen foul of U.S. rules are doing everything they can to ensure they can still tap the world's financial epicenter.
BNP has set up a financial security unit in New York to ensure its staff comply with all U.S. sanctions and all of its U.S. dollar flows will ultimately be processed and controlled via its branch in New York, centralizing activities that used to be spread across various international offices.
Russia "wake-up call"
For all that, there are plenty of bankers with whom the U.S. attitude rankles. Many - privately - sympathize with the senior British banker who was quoted in U.S. legal papers when his bank was fined in 2012 for breaching sanctions on Iran.
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In an expletive-charged broadside, the executive was quoted as saying: "You ... Americans! Who are you to tell us, the rest of the world, that we're not going to deal with Iranians?"
Nowadays, bankers are loath to object in public to U.S. requirements, even though privately many believe Washington is using its financial dominance to push its foreign policy agenda and give its own banks the edge over foreign rivals.
"It's the U.S. that people worry about," said the chief executive of a bank in the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf state that has long been forum for business with sanctions-hit Iran.
"If the U.S. says you must clamp down, you have to do it."
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New York attorney Adam Kaufmann dismissed the idea that the United States was engaging in "financial imperialism" overseas or targeting foreign banks for economic gain. U.S. courts were simply applying laws in respect of the domestic banking system - where foreign banks need some presence if they are to clear payments in dollars, wherever in the world they are made.
"If you're going to use U.S. financial institutions, you have to play by U.S. rules," said Kaufmann, a former prosecutor involved in numerous sanctions violations cases.
Despite grumbling from European players, U.S. banks have also suffered. JP Morgan was fined a record $13 billion this year for misleading investors during the housing crisis.
In Russia, where Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over this year's Ukraine crisis have prompted tens of billions of dollars in capital flight, the BNP fine may make international banks even more wary of doing business with Russian customers.
Read MoreFrance hits out at dollar dominance in international transactions
Brian Zimbler, managing partner of U.S. law firm Morgan Lewis's Moscow office called BNP's penalty a "wake-up call":
"Banks around the world are very scared of the U.S. authorities," he said. "They are less likely to want to do deals with any counterparty in Russia unless they know them well."


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Two Months Passed after the Tragedy in Takhtisdziri Village
Lado Bitchashvili, Shida Kartli
On August 13, two months had passed since two women were ruthlessly killed in Takhtisdziri village, but the investigation is still underway. The investigation was commenced under the Article 109 Part III of the Criminal Code of Georgia which applies to the premeditated murder in aggravating conditions.
On June 13, mother and daughter Manana and Meri Japiashvilis were ruthlessly killed in Takhtisdziri village, Kareli municipality. The neighbor Mzia Ivanishvili was first who found them killed in their house. She recalled that the women were killed by gunshot.
"Presumably, the murderer got into their house by jumping over the fence and killed the innocent women. We found feet prints on the fence and the flower pot was also broken. The murder happened during the night. Almost entire village was questioned and we are waiting for the results of the investigation and answer to the question – who committed this ruthless murder," Mzia Ivanishvili said.
The villagers request speed up of the investigation. They said the police have already arrested one person in their village and they discovered the murder gun in his house.
Representatives of the MIA press-center confirmed with the humanrights.ge that they have already arrested a resident of Takhtisdziri village though for illegal purchase-possession of gunfire. The MIA does not clarify whether the women were killed from the withdrawn gun.
Human Rights Center took up the case with regard to the dragged out investigation into the murder fact. Shida Kartli office lawyer Aleksi Merebashvili will defend the interests of the person assigned for the victim.
"Since August 2, 2017 Human Rights Center got involved into the case to represent the interests of the person assigned for the victim in order to ensure timely and effective investigation into the crime. After studying the case materials, the lawyer will address respective bodies to request information about investigative activities or additional evidence into the case," Aleksi Merebashvili said.
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We were to upload the new UC San Diego video on You Tube today but when we got into the office there was no Internet and no telephone. Hernandez and I went to Telnor to find that the Mexicans had cut my internet service for lack of payment. I took a chance and paid the $234 bill using my debit card. It worked.
Back at the house I called AT&T. Service had been stopped for lack of payment. I had changed cards (lost the previous one) and had not updated my records. I wasn't certain there was enough in the CODOH account to pay the $123. When I checked I discovered that a supporter who did not identify himself had made a wire transfer into the account for 500 euros—some $675. I was in. I paid AT&T and now we were ready to work. I later discovered that the contribution was from my favorite Dane.
I wasn't through with getting things up and working. I called oncology at the La Jolla VA to find out if I have bone marrow cancer or not. The results of the bone marrow biopsy (autopsy) were to have been available this week, but now they won't be ready until next week.
It's not difficult to upload video to You Tube, but if you are sending it to several hundred or more email addresses it can take an hour, or ten hours, or overnight to get the list uploaded. Anyhow, I expect tomorrow that the video will be uploaded and distributed.
** We have a text link running as an advertisement at UC Los Angeles in The Daily Bruin. It's a tiny thing, how could anyone object to it? There it is, nestled in among the text links advertising things that students really want:
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Is that cool, or what?