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Book Review : James Rayburn - The Truth Itself (2017)
Long-time readers of this site are familiar with the bleak and ultraviolent political thrillers of South African author Roger Smith. His novels Dust Devils and Capture have made my year-end list before and my affection for Smith's fuck-you-I-dare-you-to-keep-reading violent scenes is well documented. He wrote The Truth Itself under the pen name of James Rayburn because....* drum rolls *...it's an espionage novel, which is quite a departure from his usual style. It's something he's done before and he's always been super honest about it. I thought the exercise was intriguing because while Roger Smith is always compelling, there's only so many ways of telling South Africa's fucked up, you know? Unsurprisingly, I've enjoyed The Truth Itself quite a lot and thought it had a couple interesting things to say about individualism, patriotism and espionage novels in general.
The Truth Itself begins in Vermont where two young men walk in an elementary school armed with assault weapons and start opening fire. Kate Swift, CIA whistleblower living under the assumed identity of Holly Brenner, takes out the gunmen and disappears with her daughter Suzie. She believes the gunmen were sent by her old agency nemesis Lucien Benway and travels to Berlin to seek her retired mentor Philip Danvers and, ultimately, legendary CIA "fixer" Harry Hook's help to disappear a second time. Hook went dark several years prior after a hostage crisis fiasco and has been battling his demon since. When the Swift-Benway fiasco resurfaces, everyone is swept into old workplace bullshit that cost lives and that will end up costing many more. There's no stopped a humiliated Lucien Benway looking to settle the score.
This is not a geopolitical espionage thriller featuring a nefarious foreign power. The Truth Itself is a post-9/11 thriller if you will, which are more about spies themselves that spying. Homeland is another example of post-9/11 espionage fiction and there's an obvious connection between both: they explore the idea that spies, while being ruthless killing machines, are flawed human beings like you and I and that working for the CIA is a shitty, high-stress job that eventually wears you down, kills your dream and turns you into an existential mess. The plot of The Truth Itself basically originates from a clash of egos between true patriot Kate Swift and ruthless, sociopathic Lucien Benway. Traditional espionage thrillers present this patriotic facade that pits the U.S against an evil-minded political enemy. Whoever strays from the program always ends up being a traitor. This is not the case here. Technically Kate Swift is the traitor for blowing the whistle on CIA activities and Benway is just an overambitious government employee who got caught red handed at doing horrible shit. I guess you could say it's a deconstruction of traditional spy novels.
That leads me to what I liked most about The Truth Itself: it explores the question of patriotism from a very contemporary angle. This isn't particularly surprising for long-time readers of Roger Smith such as myself because he's always been extremely critical of every forms of nationalism *. Kate Swift and Lucien Benway symbolize the two faces of patriotism: selfless sacrifice for the greater good (and perhaps an untamed taste for adventure too) and reckless ambition hiding in government agencies and masquerading as selflessness. Benway was particularly convincing as the demented power broker and perhaps the more typically Smith-ian character in the novel. I particularly enjoyed his dysfunctional relationship to his much younger wife Nadja, who he saved during the Bosnian War. Part of the fun of reading The Truth Itself was gauging the level of self-interest in Benway's actions and it was always more complicated when dealing with his wife.
Sure, The Truth Itself doesn't avoid certain issues most thrillers suffer from. The layers of storylines always have to unfold in a particular way, so it always becomes somewhat predictable after a while and it was especially the case with Kate Swift, who was rather stereotypical by design (she was the caring, patriotic one). I've enjoyed the damned thing anyway because I didn't expected some boundary-challenging experimental fiction or anything. The leap from politically-charged thrillers to espionage by Roger Smith was enough of a change for me and it was a successful one on top of that. 9/11 changed the world in many respects and one thing it did is change the way espionage novels are written. We're still caught into the absolute global shitstorm it created but thanks to Smith, a.k.a James Rayburn, we're starting to gain historical perspective on the situation.
* So am I, by the way. That's another reason why I enjoy Roger Smith's work.


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I previously wrote about problems with Milwaukee's DNS computer system. They now have their new system online.
I spoke to a couple of people that have attended a recent DNS presentation on the new property information system.
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Mr B has a confession, once a year (yes I can assure you it's ONLY once) he dresses up for Children in Need. This involves a 5.30am start to get ready, then he catches the train to Southampton, walks up and down the train collecting money, then proceeds to spend the rest of the day extracting money from whoever will give it to him.Now you know the saying, 'The quiet ones are the worst' well this applies to Mr B. Years ago he was dared to dress up as a woman and collect money for Children In Need. Never ever dare him to do anything, especially for a good cause, he will take it to the extreme! Before you fall about laughing at the photographs lets get one thing across, this day freaks Mr B out, there is a lot of breathing and calming going on before he leaves the house, it exhausts him, and he doesn't find it at all easy. However he feels if it helps just one child to have a better life then its worth all the agony, we have two very privileged children (young men), who are healthy and able to do their best with their lives, so this is one day of thanks for that.
OK here we go, each year has had a theme, we've had brides, we've had school children, and one year he had a change of heart and went as a male teenager, this was hopeless, the money raised was halved, so back to being a woman for a day. We have had the time when Mr B dressed as a cow girl, he had walked up and down so many stairs during the day that he hurt his leg, this ended up with him being carted off to the local hospital with a morphine drip in an ambulance, and yes he was still dressed as a cow girl when I eventually found him on a ward! Embarrassing or what? Sympathy? Not much!
Good luck today Mr B and I look forward to your clothes returning to the loft for another year! We all think you are very brave and provide people with a good laugh which is what we all need. My lasting memory of each year is of the sound of heels clopping along on our wooden floors, Mr B has to practice wearing the heels at least a week before the day! It's not a good look with his normal clothes!
This years theme is from the film Some Like It Hot.


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"No man with narrow views of God, of his plan to save people, and of the universal needs of all people can pray effectively.It takes a broad-minded man who understands God and his purposes in the atonement to pray well.Prayer comes from a big heart, filled with thoughts about and sympathies for all people" The Power of Prayer by E.M.Bounds.
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Father I thank you for this day that you have made.
I will rejoice and be glad in it.
You are the creator of everything in the universe.
There is none like you my God.
Who is like my God?
Who ushers in the seasons?
Who renews hope?
Who brings life to dead situations?
You are a god of second chances.
Mighty in battle,and in the pulling down of strongholds.
A god of deliverance, you set the captives free.
I give all my praises to you.
I bless your holy name.
You are not like man, you change not oh God.
I pray for all the nations worldwide.
For your grace and strength to persevere in the coming months.
I decree and declare that your righteousness must prevail in the earth.
For your word declares that righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to every man.
Let your glory be revealed in all the nations.
Let your sons and daughters arise to exalt and praise your matchless name.
Most holy father we glorify you, we adore you, we worship you in spirit and in truth.
We acknowledge that you are god alone!
Powerful Prayers
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Just hold on a little longer the light will burst through your darkness!
Psalm 27
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American King James Version
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up on a rock.
6 And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.
7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also on me, and answer me.
8 When you said, Seek you my face; my heart said to you, Your face, LORD, will I seek.
9 Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
11 Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies.
12 Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
I put God first above all else.
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Lord as we come before you in your presence.
We acknowledge that you are God.
There is none like you.
You are more than able this day.
Lord you a bigger than any of my circumstances.
I give you my praise and worship today.
I am alive today because of your love and grace.
I humble myself in you Lord.
Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.
Where sin did abound ,grace much more did abound.
It's your grace that is keeping me Lord and I thank you today.
I am guided by the Lord to write prayers and worship for the people to read and use.Feel free to support my work, but give 'the glory to our father' who arte in heaven.I can do nothing by myself.It's his grace that is keeping me.Once we start to pray and flow in the things of God,you'll become stronger.You'll go from strength to strength.
Pray for Canada:
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Canada need prayers like never before! Please pray for Canada,intercede and ask God to save this great nation!


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Every third Wednesday of the month from 10-12pm join Kimberly Durdin, IBCLC and her colleagues for an Informative and supportive group for folks who are breastfeeding/chestfeeding their babies ages 1 year old and up.
Kimberly has created a safe space to come and get support, community and answers to all of your questions regarding breastfeeding/chestfeeding and child development.
Space is limited to 10 participants! Bring your own lunch, your baby and your questions.
We meet from 10am-12pm at Kindred Space, 6820 LaTijera Blvd, #202, LA, CA 90045 suite #202. plenty of free parking in back of bldg
cost is $20.00
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I am planning to go cycle touring across Europe taking in France, Italy, Croatia and Montenegro probably ending up in Istanbul. I plan to take May to August 2016 inclusive to do this trip and am looking for team mates. Minimum 1 other person, maximum 3 others. Route is yet unplanned and I would be looking to stay in a mix of camping and cheap accommodation.
I have various previous touring experience in both France, Spain and Italy for between 4 to 10 days. I have also interrailed for a month in Europe and backpacked round the world for 2 years.
Preferably someone with previous experience and looking to do the whole trip.
Someone who wants some time out, to travel without set times and be flexible but with an overall plan to ensure we see as much as possible in the time we have.
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After earning my BA in Sculpture, from
Providence College, I worked as a graphic designer
in Boston and Seattle for many years. While I loved
the creativity of print design and the magic of the software, it always bothered me that the final product of so many hours of detailed design work would quickly become out dated and end up in the recycling bin.
Let's face it. You just can't drink a great cup of coffee
out of a folded catalog… well, at least not twice.
I am thrilled to have made the shift back to working in clay. My current work is mainly functional. I enjoy playing with textures and colors against simple, clean shapes. I make pieces that seamlessly blend into my everyday life.
They can hold a hot meal as easily as they can contain my daughter's endless piles of crayons. They sometimes even bring me a bit of joy while emptying the dishwasher.
I hope they will do the same for you.
Gretchen Desrosiers Quinn
1201 W. Lenoir St, Raleigh, NC 27603
There are many great studios, teachers and artists that have guided
me along the way. I am grateful for all that you have taught me.
Zeren Earls – Belmont Day School
John B. Petropolous – Buckingham Browne & Nichols School
Gina Haplern – Buckingham Browne & Nichols School
Constance Holden – Buckingham Browne & Nichols School
John DiCicco – Providence College
Rev. Richard A. McAlister O.P.– Providence College
Rev. Adrian Dabash O.P. – Providence College
Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland,WA
Seward Park Clay Studio, Seattle, WA
Barbara Dunshee Pottery, Seattle, WA
Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA
Pullen Art Center, Raleigh, NC
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A law permitting the collection and storage of DNA samples from those convicted of or arrested for violent crimes may infringe on their human rights, the nation's top human rights watchdog said Tuesday. "The commission ruled that the law on the use and preservation of personal genetic information may infringe upon the affected person's self-decision right regarding his or her private information," the Human Rights Committee said in a statement. "We will deliver our opinion to the Constitutional Court for reference," it said. The Constitutional Court is currently reviewing the constitutionality of the law in five separate cases.
The law on DNA collection and storage, which took effect last July, allows law enforcement authorities to collect genetic information of those convicted of or arrested for violent crimes such as murder, rape, robbery and arson. The information is then encoded and permanently stored in the police and prosecutorial database. Crime and forensic experts have hailed it, as it has led to breakthroughs in many cold cases. For instance, a man was caught for robbery in Busan last month. Police found after comparing his DNA with the database that his DNA matched that from three unsolved child rape cases five or six years earlier. Controversy flared recently, however, after prosecutors were found to have collected DNA samples of union workers on strike at Ssangyong Motor Co. and eviction protestors in Yongsan, Seoul. The rights panel judged the law problematic as the range of crimes it can apply to, including property damage and burglary, is too wide, and that it allows storage of DNA data of all related suspects, regardless of their likelihood of reoffending. Also, the law may undermine the basic principle of presumption of innocence, as it enables the collection of DNA samples from arrested suspects.The panel also judged that the indefinite storage of criminals' genetic data is excessive. They should be stored only for a certain period of time, it said.
Lee Sun-young, Korea Herald
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Sunday, 6 November 2011
Short and Sweet
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OH MY! WHAT WONDER AND BEAUTY HERE DEAREST! AND do you know that I am sitting here, hacking away as well? It is laryngitis at the moment, and I HOPE that this does not develop into bronchitis or upper respiratory, which is typical of me, as a teacher!ReplyDelete
Bisous, Anita
WONDERFUL and WELL DONE you too......get well soon and you should be proud of yourself.....I also love the look of the magazines ~ my mum is an avid gardener, as am I, they look like wonderful magazines to while away the winter months.ReplyDelete
Get better soon, both of you.ReplyDelete
The magazine looks amazing, what beautiful drawings and how wonderful to have your article published in the 25 anniversary edition...that makes it even more special.
Stay warm.
Much love.
Congratulations on your magazine article Stephanie!!ReplyDelete
Hope you and the little one get well really soon, keep warm and cosy!
Vivienne x
Congratulations on your article in such a wonderful magazine, Stephanie. I'm so sorry to hear you're not well, and that poor Angelique is suffering too! I do hope you both feel better very soon. And in the meantime, keep cosy and enjoy your knitting. Take care.ReplyDelete
Helen x
Oh dear, I do hope both you and Angélique feel better soon xReplyDelete
Hortus, how I adore it, and hugest congratulation Stephanie on being published in this very special anniversary edition.
And the cards, I bought some too! So delightful with their mousey Good Cheer message.
And your new header is so pretty. What a treat this post is :D
Oh, so sorry to hear of illness at your house, Stephanie. I do hope both of you recover very soon.ReplyDelete
How very exciting to be included in such a beautiful and artistic publication. You must be justly proud. Three big cheers from across the channel!
Dear Stephanie,ReplyDelete
Such an honour to have your article published in the magazine! Is it the same article you used as a blog post recently? I really liked it!
The garden by the two gentlemen looks impressive too. It would be lovely to visit when in England again.
Hope you and your daughter will feel better soon!
Take care!
Lieve groetjes van Madelief x
wow! congratulations...that is fabulous!ReplyDelete
hope you are both feeling better very very soon x
love jooles x
I love the look of that magReplyDelete
Dear Stephanie,ReplyDelete
I´m impressed! To have one´s article published in such a beautiful magazine must be quite an honour. I like the cover drawings very much.
And of course I followed your link to the garden - stunning!
Hope you both will feel better soon! Enjoy the knitting.
Liebe Grüße, Bärbel
congratulations! What a beautiful book!~ReplyDelete
I am now going to have to do some searching for that beautiful magazine. I know the name, but am ashamed to admit I have never actually looked at a copy.ReplyDelete
Feel better soon!
Am off to research Hortus...what an incredible looking publication. Congratulations on having your written article included!ReplyDelete
Be well and take care of yourselves.
I hope you get better soon. I am nursing a belly pain, the slings and arrows of the human body.ReplyDelete
I hope you know there are humane mouse traps out there if you need them! read your post mentioning the mice :-} and weather here is fine now, back to fall, thanks for asking!
Lovely new embroidery on the header! And what a wonderful-looking magazine. Your suggestion is perfectly timed, as I am even now planning what to give my gardening sister for her birthday this month.ReplyDelete
How exciting to see your name in print, in such a beautiful publication.
So sorry to hear about the bronchitis and la petite's ear infection. She will feel better very soon, and I hope you do too. I was a martyr to bronchitis as a child (twice a year, most years)and heartily sympathise. Guaifenesin is very helpful for getting the goop out of the lungs.
That card from Vanessa is priceless.
Your name in print - wow!!! Congratulations, Stephanie!!!ReplyDelete
I LOVE your new christmassy banner AND your package from Vanessa!!!
Get well soon.....
The Hortus magazine looks wonderful and would indeed make a wonderful gift and I know just the person...! Many congratulations also on having your article included in the anniversary edition. So very exciting.ReplyDelete
I hope you and your daughter get better very soon Stephanie. Keep warm.
Wowzer! Congratulations on the published artlcle! Sorry you are feeling so unwell in your household....I hope you both speed back to recovery.ReplyDelete
Take care
Vanessa xxxxxxxxxx
I hope you both feel a bit better soon!ReplyDelete
Well done on the published article... :0)))
Lou xxx
Congratulations on the article in the magazine. Nothing better than sitting by a fire looking at gardening books, planning in the imagination .ReplyDelete
A mon tour de découvrir tes pages et d'étre impressionnée par ce que j'y vois !ReplyDelete
Oh Stephanie, am sorry to hear you are not well (again or still?) So much sickness around at the moment and it seems not to be seasonal anymore. Wishing you a speedy recovery. Your publication is very exciting you have such a way with words, well done.ReplyDelete
Isn't Vanessa's work gorgeous, such talented ladies out there in blog land, seriously we could run this country so much better than the men with such creative minds and more nurturing hearts.
x Sandi
Hope your baby is better too.
Congratulations on your article Stephanie, what a beautiful magazine! Hope you and Angelique are both better soon. Stay snugly and enjoy your knitting! (and thank you for your recent visit and very kind words) :DReplyDelete
Congratulations on the article, the magazines do look beautiful.ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous parcel that is!
Hope you're feeling better soon
Lori x
I'm so sorry to hear that both you and Angelique are ill, ear infections are so painful, and it's terrible when a little one has one and there's really not alot you can do for them, I do hope you're both much better soon. I've never heard of Hortus magazine, I shall have to look that one up. Many congratulations on having an article published. I shall head over to Vanessa's site and have a look at her designs, the parcel was wrapped beautifully. Enjoy your week of knitting.ReplyDelete
Hortus looks like a beautiful publication - you must be very proud to be included.ReplyDelete
I hope the illnesses clear up soon. It sounds like you are both really poorly. juliex
My Mom would love that magazine! Congratulations on having your article published! I hope you and Angelique are both feeling better soon! I'm headed over to see your friend's blog.ReplyDelete
Well done, Stephanie; what a joy to be included in a publication of such grace and dignity. Hortus looks as though it has Victorian depth of content and elegance of line, a welcome contrast to the more usual gaudy throwaway publications produced nowadays.ReplyDelete
Dearie me...what a fabulous magazine! And to have a published article is simply splendid...a BIG congratulations to you!ReplyDelete
Wishing you and your little one a quick-as-a-bunny recovery.
Be well...
Warmly, Judy
Hello Stephanie,ReplyDelete
Congratulations on your article in such wonderful magazine, that must be so exciting !
And what a lovely gift you received !
Hope you and your daughter are feeling better soon, take care ...
Enjoy knitting,
Me again. I shall seek out Rosie Thomas's new book. The title is so very similar, how extraordinary!ReplyDelete
Hope this finds you both lots better.
Hello Stephanie!ReplyDelete
Congratulations on your Hortus magazine feature which looks absolutely wonderful...I would love to explore those beautiful illustrations too..
I hope you and little Angelique are feeling much better soon...and in the meantime keep warm by the fire lovely friend, have lots of nutritious drinks and enjoy your knitting,
Susan x
P.S Your gift tags are fabulous...I am off to explore!
Congratulations on getting into print! What a good feeling - well done.ReplyDelete
Pomona x
What an exquisite magazine, and you are in it, with the likes of Penelope Hobhouse! sincere congratulations to you, I'd love to read that article.ReplyDelete
That Rabbit card by Vanessa is just the limit. So happy and unique.
Wonderful post
You have a beautiful name Stephanie, and doesn't it look exquisite in print! Gosh, to be published in such an esteemed publication, how wonderful, and congratulations. The very fact that you're published there does make me want to subscribe, because I know the writing will be wonderful. I must thank you for mentioning my cards too, that's very kind of you, and I love the fact that you're savouring the wrapping before you open the parcel, wonderful! Love Vanessa xxxReplyDelete
Oh, and I was too wrapped up in Hortus, so I forget to say I hope you feel better soon, though I know I did say that in my earlier email, I felt my comment wasn't complete without saying it here too! Love Vanessa xxxxxxxxxReplyDelete
Well done you! How exciting..your published article. Bother, bother, about the bronchitis. Ear infections are so unkind & so often come on in the middle of the night. David used to get them such a lot when he was small & I hated the antibiotic rondo but learnt to use a Weleda remedy called Levisticum comp..I could begin giving it the minute I suspected ear trouble & eventually they stopped happening all together. Thinking of you. Much love Catherine xoxoReplyDelete
I love Hortus and you have reminded me that this will be the perfect Christmas present for me! Thank you. I am deeply impressed that you are included. What an honour.ReplyDelete
I am sitting here with a sore throat and a total absence of energy so I send you and yours very best wishes and much fellow feeling.
Chère amie,ReplyDelete
"Leaden skies" of November are here for sure, but as the rolling clouds reveal the brightness of the moon, so shall our plans be made more apparent...thank you for coming to share in my weekly thought. With my new Etsy shop having opened with great success the first 2 weeks, week 3 is DEAD. I was very worried and discouraged, but reality set in, but not in a bad way. Rather, in a realistic way, knowing that this is the life of an artist. Money is of importance only because I want to make a living ONE day out of writing and illustrating. But as an artist, and like BABETTE said in Babette's Feast, "....an artist has to create." So with that said, I will exercise my wings and GO ABOVE my expectations and see what happens....go dearest, go and see what awaits YOU. Anita
wow - published in such a special issue - congratulations! I do hope you recover soon, there's just so many nasties at this time of year, especially I find moreso when the weather doesn't know what to do with itself!ReplyDelete
Enjoy that glass by the fire if you can!
Get well soon to you both,
BH x
Congratulations on the article! It looks like a thoroughly beautiful journal, and a wonderful example of the book as object as well as inspiration for the green fingered :)ReplyDelete
Thanks to you, I learned a lot of interesting things. I hope to learn more. I congratulate you for these wonderful shares. Keep going !ReplyDelete
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Frequently Asked Questions
when does the conference take place?
The Baptist Church Music Conference usually occurs in March or April. It begins on Sunday afternoon and lasts until Tuesday evening. The 2019 BCMC will take place March 17th-19th.
Where is the CONFERENCE held?
The Baptist Church Music Conference is held in one of four states: Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. The 2019 BCMC will be held at Judson Baptist Church, Nashville, TN.
Does the conference cater to one style of music?
The short answer: No.
The long answer: The nature of our conference may indeed be something quite unique. The conference is planned and led by an Executive Council elected by the conference members. As our conference encompasses members with a wide variety of stylistic thought, so does the Executive Council, and thereby the conference itself. At times, the conference may take on more of a particular thrust than another, but overall, there really is something for everyone.
What is the attire for the conference?
As children of God and representatives of Christ, appropriate modesty is expected at all times. There is no official "dress code" for our conference. As you might expect, our conference reaches a wide variety of stylistic thought. You will see some members perfectly comfortable in a coat and tie, while others may be more comfortable in jeans and a polo. Perhaps a good rule of thumb might be that if you are comfortable wearing it to your own church, you'll be in good company at the conference.
what is the relationship of SBCMC and BCMC?
Our conference was originally chartered as an organization of Southern Baptist Convention-affiliated ministers of music, denominational music employees, and state Southern Baptist leaders. With the advent of other Baptist fellowships and affiliations, we desired to widen our scope, gathering under the banner of Christian first, Baptist second, and to focus on our similarities rather than our differences.
In 2004, it was decided that our legal charter would remain "Southern Baptist Church Music Conference" because of the legal hurdles we would encounter should we attempt to change it. Officially, that is our name, but it was also decided that we would informally use the name "Baptist Church Music Conference" in respect of our varied membership.


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Authors: Sheila Hollins, Margaret Flynn and Philippa Russell
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This is a story about what can happen to a man when he does not keep himself clean. People do not need to be able to read in order to understand the story. In the book we follow George's daily life - at home, at work, on the bus and in the pub. George likes being with people and does not understand why they seem to avoid him. He often feels lonely and unhappy, and sometime feels unwell.
George's life changes when he is helped to be clean and to wear appropriate clothes. Not only is he happy about the way he now looks and feels, but his work-mates and friends want to be with him. George enjoys their company, and no longer feels so isolated.


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Let me start by saying you MUST turn your smartphone or tablet on its side to shoot most video — and for most still shots, too. Little vertical-strip pictures are annoying in a world where we have widescreen monitors and TVs showing almost all photos and movies at a 16:9 aspect ratio, and most movies are shot in an even wider format, usually 1.85:1.
Second, lighting is important. Whether you're shooting with a smartphone or a $5000 professional video camera, you don't want the main light source behind your main video subject, a sin called "backlighting" in the trade. As a general rule, you want lights to show the face of your subject(s). The only time you ignore this rule is when you're going for an artistic effect, like the photo of leaves next to this paragraph — or the person you're interviewing doesn't want his or her face to show. And in that case, you'll want to disguise the voice, too, which is a whole different level of complexity.
Third, headroom. I've mentioned this before, and I'm sure I'll mention it again. "Headroom is a technical term, not just Max's last name. Please keep the top of your subjects' head at the top of the frame, not in the center.
Fourth, not everything needs to be viewed from the height of your face. You might want to take some shots from your waist, so that the person(s) you're shooting look especially imposing. Or you might want to hold your camera overhead to get a view from above. Now and then, you might even want to hold your camera a little off-level, although this is an effect that should be used sparingly so that your audience doesn't think you're incompetent instead of a fine artiste.
Back to the "narrow strip" thing. Here's an impromptu video of Charlie Sheen shot by a fan. Think how much better it would have been if it had been shot in 16:9 widescreen, which it could have been if the person who shot it had been in the habit of turning his or her smartphone 90 degrees to take photos or videos. In fact, if this video had been shot widescreen, TMZ (or a similar gossip outlet) might have paid for it, since they're always in the market for well-shot videos of celebrities embarrassing themselves.


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Right, so, biopower. I don't mean, like, ethanol fuel; I'm not talking literally about energy. I'm talking about the other kind of power. You know - power. Control. The ability to make things happen the way you want them to happen. And biopower is power over bodies. That's the "bio-" in biopower, clue is in the title.
It used to be, back in the day when there were kings and shit, they had power over your death - if you were a problem they would just fucking kill you, because fuck you I'm the king and I can do that. And that was more or less it. "Do what I say, because I say so. Just don't give me any reason to kill you, and everything will be fine." What were those things? Pay your taxes, worship the right God, don't attempt an uprising, and go fight places we need you to fight. In other words, things that kept the state in place and secure. Sometimes good kings would, I don't know, feed their people, but that was just so they didn't have hungry peasants all burning cottages and shit. As long as the king wasn't threatened, he didn't give two fucks about "it's so cold" or "clean drinking water" or "seriously we're hardly getting by on like 80 hours of farming a week and we could really use some ditches dug." Fuck whatever rabble his whiny subjects happened to be rousing at the time.
But eventually, kings began to figure out they could use power to create power. And the more we learned, the more the law could be used to create rather than destroy. With the advances in science and genetics and the discovery of evolution, we knew more about humanity than ever before, and slowly, power over death got replaced with power over life. The state stopped trying to just survive - now states are actively trying to create a healthy, productive populace. And you can't create a healthy, productive populace just by fucking menacing them with the death penalty all the time, not that some real assholes didn't try that route. No, now laws do a whole lot more than just condemn shit the state doesn't like - they decide what is normal and healthy and okay for people to do.
So what's the problem? "Healthier, happier people? More caring state? This sounds great!" And that's exactly the fucking problem. That sounds great, but what exactly is healthier and happier? Who gets to decide that? You? Your buddy Steve? Fuck you, and fuck Steve. Biopower is literally power over your body, my body, er'rybody's body; the state gets involved in everything - health, labor, education, your goddamn sex life, and it tells you what you can and can't, should and shouldn't do, and it backs it up with guns. And if you're all, "Hey, uh, I don't feel more healthy and productive," well there's an easy answer for that! "Oh, you don't? Hm… well, uh, how about fuck you. You just have the wrong ideas. Glad that's all cleared up!"
And biopower doesn't stop there - it's also power over the populace as a whole. The state doesn't want to just make you healthy, it wants to make us healthy. Oh, and hey, by the way, it gets to decide who "us" is. Hitler never could have pulled off the Holocaust back when rulers just had to "preserve the state." But as soon as he was all, "Oh, I'm doing it for the health of the nation! We have to clean things up! Make Germans better!" that's when the whole country jumped on board. He didn't pretend to be not racist. It was like the centerpiece of his policies. He just made racism sound like something the country had to do for its own good. And who doesn't want to do "good" for their country, or for humanity?
And now maybe you're thinking, "Oh! That's terrible! We have to stop electing people who abuse the power of the state!" Yeah, it's not that simple. What counts as 'abusing' power? What are the 'right' ideas? It hasn't even been fifty fucking years since "homosexuality" stopped being called a mental disorder in America. Who the fuck are you going to elect in 1960 to help homosexuals become "healthy and productive?" More importantly, who knew back then that the state was being abusive?
If, tomorrow, some crazy lunatic got on TV and started ranting about how juggling is destroying America and fuck juggling, and enough people believed him, we would start electing politicians who promised us they would get jugglers off the streets, man, and make them do something productive for once. And then in fifty years, someone would come along and say, "Why can't we juggle?" And everyone would scoff and go, "Look at this fucking guy! Wants to juggle. Hey what are you, some kind of juggler? Huh?" And that's bad enough, but then we'd throw him in jail or a mental asylum, thanks to biopower, because we want to protect ourselves from that crazy juggler guy. That's super important here: we would be the ones putting him in jail. Sure, "the state" would do it, but because we elected a state that was anti-juggling and gave it the power to do things like imprison jugglers.
So the problem isn't just choosing the right kind of state; the problem is that we don't even know what "the right kind of state" is. We all have these ideas of right and wrong and normal and we choose a state according to those, and sometimes we fuck up what is right and wrong and normal. And when the state has the power to literally control what citizens do with their bodies, and we justify that power with "it's for your own good! and for everybody's good." There is no limit to what the state can justify, and if you don't like it, you must not want to be healthy. You must be broken. And you know what we can do with people who are broken, thanks to biopower? We can "fix" them. We can "fix" them by deciding what they learn and eat and do for a living and whatever else we want.
At bottom, biopower is what you get when human well-being suddenly becomes subject to the political whims of an imperfectly informed society, which (it turns out) is the only kind of society.


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Noyce, Richard. "Printmaking Off the Beaten Track," London: Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013. http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/printmaking-off-the-beaten-track-9781408156728/
Birol, J.C. ed. "ArtSync Book Project: Conversations 2011-2012," Toronto: ArtSync TV, 2012. http://www.artsync.ca/artsync-book-project/
Pizanias, Caterina. "The New Alberta Contemporaries," Exhibition Catalogue, The New Alberta Contemporaries. Calgary, AB: Esker Foundation, 2012. http://eskerfoundation.com/exhibition/the-new-alberta-contemporaries/
Forbes, Tegan. "Truth and Isolation," Exhibition catalogue, Okanagan Print Triennial 2012. Kelowna, BC: Kelowna Art Gallery, 2012.
Canadian Art Connected, "Interview: Dana Tosic," ArtSync TV, interview by Michael Hansen, aired September 23, 2011 on Rogers Cable and online at: http://vimeo.com/29453574; http://www.artsync.ca/interview-dana-tosic/
Steenbergen, J. Eric. "Dana Tosic: Everyday Ephemera," Exhibition Catalogue Brochure, Dana Tosic: Everyday Ephemera. Open Studio, 2011; online at: http://www.openstudio.on.ca/images_site/dana-tosic.pdf
Woodrow, Paul. "Dana Tosic: Elegy for Every Moment," Exhibition Catalogue Brochure, Calgary, AB: Paul Kuhn Gallery, 2011.
Wylie, Liz. "Traditions and Transitions: A Group Printmaking Exhibition," Galleries West 10, no. 3, Fall 2011, p. 32 and online at: http://www.gallerieswest.ca/Departments/ExhibitionReviews/6-108238.html
Craig, Briar. "Traditions and Transitions," Exhibition Catalogue, Traditions and Transitions: A Group Printmaking Exhibition. Kelowna, BC: Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, 2011
Noyce, Richard. "PRINTOPOLIS: A new destination in the global Printmaking world…" Printeresting, November 10, 2010, online at: http://www.printeresting.org/2010/11/10/printopolis-a-new-destination-in-the-global-printmaking-world%E2%80%A6/


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There's been a lot of talk around what the final product name for Apollo should be. Many people, including myself would like the code name to stick. Just think about all the publicity Apollo has gotten, would be a shame to have to go out and market a new name when there was a perfectly good one all along.
Despite some early indications that made me believe Apollo would carry through as the final product name (the rocket icon in the new Adobe icon designs, having Apollo t-shirts printed, the "Apollo for Flex Developers" O'Reilly book etc.) I've heard the product managers insist that this is a code name and will very likely change. The only reasons I can think of is if there are any legal concerns registering a trademark or PR and marketing are kicking up a storm about exactly how it fits into the Adobe brand.
Whatever the case may be, I think the community has been vocal enough about this and hope we'll get to keep the name.
Its surprising to see how attached you can get to a name after just a few months of limited exposure, shows the developer relations teams are doing a great job getting the word out.


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Last Day of Freedom is a new, short documentary that follows the story of Bill Babbitt and his younger brother, Manny. It has already sparked conversations around the country, and now the it's gaining momentum as a contender for an Academy Award.
The film centers on the moral challenges Bill faces when he learns Manny has committed a crime. Bill narrates, sharing Manny's life journey from childhood to his hardships after returning from the Vietnam War. He navigates complex questions surrounding mental health access, veterans' care, and criminal justice. We love the way the film uses animation to tell the powerful story.
"The animation adds a tiny layer of distance, and it really allows for the viewer to take in the story and really listen to the human voice," said co-director/producer Nomi Talisman.
EJUSA Campaign Strategist Mona Cadena started working with Talisman and co directors/producer Dee Hibber-Jones in 2012, meeting at their local coffee shop in San Francisco to brainstorm about the project. Mona helped identify themes in death penalty debate that would help shape the story.
Manny Babbitt suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain injury when he returned from the Vietnam War. He never received adequate health treatment. Then he did the unthinkable. Bill made the heart-wrenching decision to turn his brother in when he suspected Manny had committed a crime. That decision ultimately led to Manny's conviction in 1982 and his execution by the state of California in 1999.
In just a short amount of time, the film paints a richly detailed portrait of two brothers and the way the death penalty is connected to other aspects of the criminal justice system and effects many lives beyond those executed.
Towards the end of the film, Bill Babbitt says, "We are all taking part of the same experiment. We all have blood on our hands." From the storytelling and animation comes an understanding that we all are impacted by cases such as Manny's.
"This is just part of a larger conversation that needs to happen," said Talisman.
Winner of the Jury Award for Best Short and Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April, Last Day of Freedom continues to receive widespread acclaim for the personal arc that makes the film so moving.
Watch the Last Day of Freedom trailer:
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DOK Leipzig, Germany
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11/1/15: Cinematheque Leipzig, 3:30 pm
St. Louis International Film Festival
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Monday, November 9th at 5:00 pm
Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
What Sucks...2007
NOTE: Sorry for taking so long in between posts, I made a vow to myself recently that I wasn't going to blog anymore until someone came out with a special edition DVD of Blade Runner that finally shows the director's "true vision" and by golly, they did. Jesus, this thing has been released more times than Jeff George. I'm gonna back date post so history will be kind to those who check out archives, nevertheless, enjoy, you crazy 324 page viewers who clearly are bored at work and shit, Happy New Year!
2007. Wow. What a shitfest. As a race we may have outdone ourselves, although I doubt it. Anyway you cut it, the Gods of Suck (read: God) must be exhausted, but man did He deliver this year. Think of the lowlights- Iraq, the continued abuse of our environment sprinkled with public ridicule for anyone who publicly speaks out against it, Spiderman 3, and a media complicit in all the bullshit we find ourselves steeped in. (Only the children's magazine "Highlights" was able to see things for what they really were.)
Looking back at 2007 you have to ask, why live? First person to put a good reason in the comment section wins a subscription from me, to the insightful Highlights Magazine, or "Over 50", whichever periodical you like to get your truth from.
So with the past year fading into memory, and 2008 just emerging from the gooey mess that is Father Time's birth canal, time to take a look at a some of the people behind 2007. Directly behind 2007. Directly behind 2007, giving it to us rough and hard. Now, note- I won't be able to count everyone who made the past year suck- let's be honest, it would crash the internet before I got out of the "B's", so here are some especially big douchebags who contributed to the past year.
One more note: just so you know, if you DON'T appear on this list it doesn't mean you weren't a total dick- I'm talking to you, guy who constantly votes against stem cell research, and you, nurse who's rude to someone in the emergency room when all you're trying to do is get some information and you, Jim Davis author and creator of Garfield. And I'm also talking to anyone in 2007 who hung a noose over something, shot a gun on any kind of campus, cried for three days on national TV over a dog getting adopted or who's a member of the Janjaweed.
By the way, the BEAST does a pretty good end of year a-hole head count too.
10) Michael Vick
For an athlete to make a 2007 Shittiest People in the World List he must be a real a-hole. I mean he's competing with douchebags the likes of Alberto Gonzales, Dick Cheney and Curt Schilling. But Michael Vick is no ordinary a-hole. Hence his well documented case. Bottom line, here was the deal the universe offered this douchenut…
…we'll pay for your college education.
…you can make millions of dollars playing pro football.
…you can try and sneak weed through an airport.
…you can flip the bird to an entire stadium of fans.
…you can even give women herpes under the name "Ron Mexico".
Just don't have dogs fight each other to the death in the backyard of your mansion. Apparently that last one was a deal breaker.
9) The Britney's, the Lohan's, the whoever the hell else you want to throw in there
Just a few years ago, the prospect of feeling this much disappointment after seeing the privates of these women seemed like an impossible, far-off dream. Alas, we are wide awake and it is a reality I for one did not see coming. As a matter of fact, the last time I found someone's naughty parts so unappealing I have to go all the way back to myself. They've made the upskirt and the nip slip boring- soon the net will be filled with pictures of girls with horn rimmed glasses reading books and you'll all know who to thank.
8) The AMPTP
I know this doesn't necessarily effect everyone in the same way but…
The media is controlled by about 7 companies. They make outrageous amounts of money and control basically everything you see and experience in the way of entertainment. They distribute their content vertically to ensure maximum profit- i.e. Warner Bros. releases "The Golden Compass", wait, that blows, they release "The Dark Knight", a news story on its popularity runs on CNN, it is advertised on the CW, promoted to AOL users, fans of Ellen tune in to watch Heath Ledger talk about it and after it hits theaters- which in some cases are owned by the parent company that owns the film, (in this case not,) it's put out on DVD. Maybe there's a spin off animated series that plays on the Cartoon Network, and when the movie is aired on TV, it's aired on TBS or TNT. Everything there is owned by Time Warner, and every dollar you spend to see it, including when you watch it on the 13 different HBO's where it makes it's pay-cable premiere, goes to Time Warner. So they've made a lot of money on this particular movie especially when you consider how many times they make you pay to experience some form of entertainment associated with it.
Here's an example involving Shrek with a cute little joke at the end. You see Shrek. You rent Shrek. You purchase Shrek on DVD. Your kids play the Shrek video game. You go to Universal Studios in Florida and do the whole "Shrek 4D Adventure" thing. You just paid 5 times for Shrek- no wonder that guy is green! (Feel free to use that gem.)
The Writer's Guild of America, which makes 4 cents on a 20 dollar DVD, is looking to start their negotiations for the future of entertainment (the net) at 2.5 cents on the dollar. The AMPTP won't even sit at a table with them. After reaping the benefit of their services and paying very little comparatively for it, they cynically follow the corporate, union busting playbook and drag the entire city of Los Angeles down with them. An alternative to this could be coming to the table, and staring negotiating at 2.5 cents on every dollar made in the internet, a medium they are already profiting from.
7) The Republican Candidates For President
I'm totally open to the idea of having an entry on this list entitled "Democratic Presidential Candidates", it would probably exist too if I did the top 20 or 25 a-holes of 2007, but honestly, they're not the ones championing a deceitfully sold, horribly planned war, questioning the age of the earth, and pointing to the millions of illegal aliens in our country as the great evil of our time, without saying much about the corporations benefiting from the work those illegals do.
These pigs are in a constant battle to outdo each other on who's crazier, they're like a bunch of jealous high school girls competing for the attention of the big football player, however the "football player" in this scenario is god. F them. Honestly, does anyone doubt the WORST Dem candidate (Biden? Hillary?) wouldn't make a better Pres than any of these ass-clowns?
Please note, not sure any of the above applies to Duncan Hunter as I have no idea who the fuck he is. Actually, that's a joke, he's a douchebag.
6) Bill Kristol
It's difficult to be wrong about something as many times as Bill Kristol has been about Iraq. It's like finding a puppy, and then saying "Oh, I know what this is, a sex toy!" and then 45 horrible minutes later saying, "wait a second, this isn't a sex toy, it's a artificial heart!" and then, after 14 hours of surgery to install a puppy as someone's heart, and then corrective surgery to take the puppy out, you say "Duh. That's not an artificial heart, it's a very important part of a jet engine, let me put it on this jet that only carries very sick children back and forth from hospitals." And then, after the fire trucks leave, saying "wait a minute, this thing is a Shrinky Dink, let me put it in the oven…"
He's the Isiah Thomas of Iraq. At this point he must say something about the war and even Bush is like "Dude, we're not doing that."
5) The Media
For all the railing against Fox News people do, it gets lost how shitty the ENTIRE media is. Think about it, we have two 24-hour news networks, three if you count MSNBC, and is watching any of them insightful and informative? Endless stories on John Edwards' hair cut overshadow all legit reasons to not like him. And the Anna Nicole coverage I would rail about but clearly, she's a national figure.
Just today the "most popular" story on CNN is Amy Fisher and her hubby promoting their sex tape. Can you imagine if you were from outer space and you first landed on Earth in 1992 when the whole Amy Fisher/ Joe Buttafuoco went down and you witnessed the whole media sensation surrounding it and were like "I'm out of here." And then, you came back this week to give Earth a second chance and saw that CNN's number one story was Amy Fisher, Hubby Promote Sex Tape", I think you'd shoot the Earth with a big, fat "WTF? Ray Gun" ™
4) Karl Rove
Karl Rove did more of his damage in major election years like 2002, 2004, etc. but this is the year he left the White House so I think it's important to remind people as he heads out into the sunset what a tremendous douchebag he was/ is. So don't forget, all who read this, he is a tremendous douchebag.
Often referred to as "the architect" or "boy genius", his legacy of engineering political victory for his party was built on getting religious people all riled up about gay marriage, putting that item on ballots across the country and using it to get people anxious to vote against 2 dudes getting married, to also vote for his candidate.
Inspirational. Seriously, nice job. Aim for the sky why don't you.
He also presided over the era of the Swift Boat Ad, an political ad so negative in which an opponent is lied about in such an egregious way that the term "Swift Boating" became synonymous with the act of putting out false information about someone and attacking their character. That's kind of like having a candy bar named after you that kills butterflies.
The final component of his legacy? Luck. He went up against John Kerry.
3) George W. Bush
George W. Bush in 2007 took it to the next level, it's like he's daring you not to hate him. Vetoing health care for kids. Being out smarted by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Pardoning Scooter Libby. The whole Walter Reed Hospital thing. It's to the point where I am convinced that the 29 percent of the people out there who approve of the job he's doing must think they're being asked about pussy. Or Busch Beer. Makes sense that 29 percent of Americans like Busch Beer. But 29 percent for George Bush? That's high.
2) Alberto Gonzales
A truly remarkable douchebag. That's him on the left.
First Latino Attorney General becomes first Latino Attorney General to resign in disgrace. His legacy? Approving torture, domestic spying, limiting Habeas Corpus and politicizing his job as Attorney General by firing US attorneys who didn't play ball with Republican party honchos. He's only number two on the list because his visit to a disoriented, post-op John Ashcroft (also a world class douche) to talk him into allowing domestic spying did not take place in 2007. Seriously, this guy makes John Ashcroft NOT the worst AG hired by Bush. Bonus douchebag points for passive aggressively kicking his dad as he resigned in disgrace.
"I have lived the American the American Dream- even my worst days as Attorney General have been better than my father's best days."
What does that mean? Who the hell was his father, Augusto Pinochet? Good thing this dude's memory sucks, he probably can't recall being such an ass-hat.
Hey Latinos, good luck getting another Attorney General.
1) Dick Cheney
All jokes about this guy shooting a dude in the face and not telling anyone about it for 2 days aside, something I'm sure if you did the police would be fine with, he is a serious, serious douchebag. In everything from forming his own intelligence gathering arm of the government to using Blackwater as a means of outsourcing the war in Iraq to just being in general, a pretty dicky guy, Cheney reigns supreme as a 2007 dickbag. As a matter of fact, he's a douchebag for the ages. He beats Bush here because, let's face it, he should know better, you don't blame the dog for shitting on your lawn, you blame the owner.
Well, that's it for 2007, 2008 you have a lot to live up to, I'm sure you won't let us down.
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Good reasons to go on living in 2008? New episodes of BSG? Rose returning to Doctor Who? The elections being over by the end of the year? I don't know if hops growers have planted more vines, but we could see the end of the worldwide hops shortage, and that would be good.
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In the consulting world we love to use all sorts of silly lingo that makes us appear smarter than we really are. At least that's what I did for 20 years as an internet marketing consultant, and still struggle with it today. One of those gems is "Key Performance Indicator", or KPI. It's simply a number or value that we measure and report on that tells us how we are doing in a certain aspect of the business.
I left the consulting world in 2010 after God gave me an undeniable calling to give people an opportunity to take a "time out", rediscover (or discover) their story, and share it on video so God can use it for His purposes. The ministry I serve is called The 3:15 Project, and it's based on 1 Peter 3:15…
"But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect" 1 Peter 3:15 (NIV)
The calling was simple enough to understand but I had no idea how difficult it would be to help "all in" Christians in the marketplace through the process of knowing and sharing their story, and then going public with it.
In the 5 years of following this calling, I've had the blessing of helping more than 300 people share their story, and in the process spoken with thousands more who were not able or willing to do so, for a number of reasons. Over that time I've discovered the hardest part, the biggest obstacle for most people lies not in getting on camera (though they use that as an excuse most often), not in going public with the story (though that's always a concern), and not even taking the time out of their busy lives to know and prepare their stories. The most challenging part for most people, regardless of their denomination, age, vocation, upbringing, is simply this:
Being willing to step out of the boat, into the unknown.
It's a scary proposition when you think about it for 10 seconds. Finding the time to prepare the story, revisiting pain, guilt, shame, fear, pride, thinking about laying that all down on camera, and then sharing it with people that think you have it all together, that might see your true self? Forget it right?!
I've found that each person that has shared their story through The 3:15 Project, score well along two KPIs that I believe each one of us can baseline and measure in ourselves, and invite God to give His feedback and perspective.
Humility is an often misunderstood concept, especially in the marketplace. It's easy to confuse true humility with false humility. By far the most impactful book I've ever read on this subject is Humility by Andrew Murray. The crux of it is simply this, humility is the belief and knowledge that I am nothing and He is everything. As C.S. Lewis puts it "humility is not thinking less of oneself, it is thinking of yourself less." I can easily detect my own lack of humility simply by being honest with myself and God and asking "what am i trying to prove?", or even how often I use the word "I" in my inner thoughts, and external words. It's impossible to think about yourself and God or others at the same time.
I would say almost without fail, that 90% of the people that have share their story with The 3:15 Project, you would call humble, or at least genuinely desiring to become more humble. It gets back to the 1 Peter 3:15 verse "but in your hearts revere Christ as Lord". In other words, set Him above anything and everything in your life, including yourself. His Kingdom, not ours. A simple prayer like "Father, when I begin thinking about myself, help me turn towards and meditate upon You."
Most people, especially men, hate that word and its cousin submission. It's weak, timid, for losers, or so the world would have us believe. But in God's Kingdom, which we pray will be done here on earth, it is one of the most beautiful and powerful things we must do to have any hope of experiencing the abundant life.
Surrender your heart to God, turn to him in prayer, and give up your sins—even those you do in secret. Then you won't be ashamed; you will be confident and fearless. - Job 11:13-15
Again, as with humility, I would say 90% of the people that have shared their story came through with an attitude or posture of either being willing to lose everything, or had the desire to be willing to lose everything, for the sake of knowing Christ, and being known by Christ more deeply.
What are you holding on to and afraid you could lose if you were take the time to know share your story? Your job? Friends? Reputation? Your mask? The things that we fear losing most are the very things that bind us from being all God wants us to be. I'll bet you a power lunch that those same things are holding you back from experiencing the fullness of God's love, and sharing that love with those around you.
It's not about how well you score or measure. And it's certainly not about comparing yourself to others. It's simply an opportunity to assess where you are currently at in your walk, and ask God and others to help you in both areas.
I invite and challenge you to take 15 minutes of quiet time and ask God these simple questions, and journal whatever He puts on your heart. Share your answers with someone you walk with, and invite them to answer these questions as well. I pray and trust that God will honor and bless your willingness to seek Him in this way.
Father, where in my life do I tend to feel the need to prove myself or desire to impress others?
Father, what am I holding onto, too tightly, that is keeping me from knowing you and serving you more intimately and deeply?
Father, what am I putting ahead of you in my life? What do I cherish more than you?
Todd Miechiels is the founder of The 3:15 Project which empowers followers of Christ to know and share their story for God's glory. He is always looking to connect with Kingdom leaders in the marketplace. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
You can connect with Todd on twitter, facebook, and LinkedIn.


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About Jess
Jess decided to train as an acupuncturist after having acupuncture herself for many years and realising its effectiveness.
Jess trained at the Northern College of Acupuncture in York. She received her license to practise in 2008 after three years training. She is also a member of the British Acupuncture Council , the Acupuncture Childbirth Team (Oxford) and the Acupuncture Fertility Network.
Since graduating, Jess has worked at busy acupuncture practices in Edinburgh and Manchester before deciding to settle in Oxfordshire. In Witney she provides one to one acupuncture sessions and in Oxford she works from home offering more affordable treatment at The Acupuncture Shed and the Women's Acupuncture Clinic, both multibed practices.
Continuing professional development is an important part of Jess' work and she regularly undertakes courses that deepen and broaden her acupuncture skills. Jess volunteers with World Medicine, a charitable organisation, which provides complimentary health care to people around the world suffering the effects of trauma, disaster and poverty.
Before training as an acupuncturist Jess graduated with a degree in economic and social history and has also worked as a co-ordiantor on a city farm, for a mentoring project and for a local environmental charity.
Jess is happy to answer any questions you have regarding treatment either by email (email@example.com) or phone (07792394801).


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Editor's note: This story was edited after posting to correct an error in the final paragraph.
By Bob Allen
A federal judge said Nov. 23 that an IRS rule allowing clergy to avoid paying taxes on a part of their income designated as a housing allowance violates the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state.
Senior United States District Judge Barbara Crabb said a section of the tax code granting a benefit for "ministers of the gospel" not available to everyone else favors religion over non-religion, thus creating an establishment of religion prohibited by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Crabb, appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the U.S. District Court for Western Wisconsin, ordered her ruling to take effect after the conclusion of any appeal. That means what GuideStone Financial Resources calls "the most important tax benefit available to ministers" is safe for now.
Leaders at GuideStone, the Southern Baptist Convention agency that offers retirement, insurance, investment management and other financial services to the Southern Baptist and wider evangelical Christian communities, plan to join others in a legal brief supporting the ministerial housing allowance when the case goes to appeal.
"Although this particular case does not have immediate impact, we know that pastors and others in ministry are facing challenges in our very own nation as never before," GuideStone President O.S. Hawkins said in a statement.
"This decision, while not unanticipated, is sadly symptomatic of our culture today," Hawkins said. "We count it a privilege to be an advocate for those who have given their lives to ministry, and we will not forsake our mission to undergird those who so faithfully serve our churches and ministries."
GuideStone is currently suing the federal government, claiming the Affordable Care Act requirement that employers include birth control in employee insurance coverage violates the religious liberty of faith-based employers who believe emergency contraception is immoral.
Russell Moore, president of the SBC Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, stood beside Hawkins in statements posted on the ERLC website.
"The clergy housing allowance isn't a government establishment of religion, but just the reverse," Moore said. "The allowance is neutral to all religions. Without it, clergy in small congregations of all sorts would be penalized and harmed."
The so-called "parsonage allowance" dates back to 1921, when most churches maintained a parsonage near the church where the minister and his family lived rent-free. The IRS allowed ministers to exclude such in-kind compensation from federal taxes.
In 1954, Congress extended the law to cash allowances, as more and more ministers were moving out of parsonages to rent or purchase their own homes.
Over the years challenges have arisen, including a high-profile case in 1996 when Purpose Driven Life author and Southern Baptist mega church pastor Rick Warren deducted his entire $77,663 salary from Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., as housing allowance. The IRS ordered Warren to pay back taxes on a portion of his income.
Warren spent four years in court defending his housing deduction and won in 2000, when a court struck down the IRS argument capping the deduction at a "reasonable" amount and accepted Warren's argument that the amount could be unlimited.
The IRS filed an appeal, but before it made it to a three-judge panel, Congress swiftly passed the 2002 Clergy Housing Allowance Clarification Act to protect the parish exemption but limit it to the fair market rental value of a home.
Several challenges to the benefit have failed due to the legal loophole of "standing." Courts have ruled that non-ministers suing for a benefit available only to clergy cannot possibly prevail, and the only result would be to deny it to those who qualify.
The current case, filed in September 2011 by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, cleared that hurdle by designating a portion of employee compensation as a housing allowance. Two employees in turn sued the federal government, claiming that denying them a benefit available to ministers violates the Establishment Clause and gives the IRS and Treasury Department authority to make "sensitive, fact-intensive and subjective determinations" on religious matters such as whether an individual is "duly ordained."
FFRF officials pointed out that when the law was enacted in 1954, America was in the throes of the Cold War and gripped by fear of Communism. The congressman who proposed the ministerial exemption, Illinois Democrat Peter Mack, who died in 1986, declared:
"Certainly, in these times when we are being threatened by a godless and anti-religious world movement we should correct this discrimination against certain ministers of the gospel who are carrying on such a courageous fight against this foe. Certainly this is not too much to do for these people who are caring for our spiritual welfare."
The IRS has interpreted the exemption broadly, taking "ministers of the gospel" to mean not only those who preach from the New Testament, but also applying to thousands of ministers, priests, rabbis, imams and other faith leaders.
In her 43-page ruling, however, Judge Crabb said because a minister's primary function "is to disseminate a religious message, a tax exemption provided only to ministers results in preferential treatment for religious messages over secular ones."
"Some might view a rule against preferential treatment as exhibiting hostility toward religion, but equality should never be mistaken for hostility," Crabb opined. "It is important to remember that the Establishment Clause protects the religious and nonreligious alike."
Crabb said if members of Congress believe there are "important secular reasons" for granting the exemption, they can rewrite the law in a way that includes ministers as part of a larger group of beneficiaries, but as currently written the tax code "is unconstitutional."
Freedom From Religion Foundation co-presidents Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker celebrated the ruling as a "major federal court victory."
"This decision agrees with us that Congress may not reward ministers for fighting a 'godless and anti-religious' movement by letting them pay less income tax," Gaylor and Barker said in a joint statement. "The rest of us should not pay more because clergy pay less."
Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, disagreed.
"The ministerial housing allowance does not violate the First Amendment's Establishment Clause," Walker said in a statement. "Government violates the Establishment Clause when it gives religion a tangible benefit, such as grants to churches to finance their ministries or vouchers to parochial schools to pay for the teaching of religion. However, accommodations of religion, such as tax exemption and other exclusions, are generally permitted."
Walker says the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment does not require such accommodation but the Establishment Clause does not forbid it. While Section 107 of the tax code applies specifically to clergy, he said, other sections give similar relief to other segments of society including members of the military, taxpayers living abroad and employees required to live on premises or who are on 24-hour call.
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Reactions of Main Group Elements with Hydrogen
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This module will introduce the basic chemistry of hydrogen and the general reactions between hydrogen and the main group elements. Hydrogen cannot simply be grouped with any other element due to its uniqueness, which is exhibited through its ability of obtaining multiple forms and producing unique compounds in its reactions with other elements.
Hydrogen is an element that frequently participates in chemical reactions. Free dihydrogen (H2, hydrogen gas) is found in nature having a bond dissociation energy of +436 kJ mol-1 and being unreactive at room temperature. However, H2(g) is very reactive with elevated temperatures and/or with the use of a catalyst.
Main group elements (Figure 1) are the elements found in the s-block (Groups 1 and 2) and p-block (Groups 13-18) on the periodic table. Some of these elements are metals, metalloids, or nonmetals. The metalloids are represented below as the yellow staircase. Everything above the staircase are nonmetals and everything below the staircase are metals. The elements of group 18 are stable nonmetals referred to as the noble gases.
Figure 1. Main group elements of the periodic table.
Characteristics of Hydrogen
Hydrogen's unique electron configuration allows it to possess various distinct characteristics. The 1s1 electron configuration of hydrogen represents the one electron in its s orbital (also known as its valence shell). The s orbital only needs two electrons in order to be considered filled. Hydrogen's nucleus is not shielded because it has no inner shell to act as a shield. Hydrogen's electron configuration affects how it is able to react with other elements (Figure 2). Due to its electron configuration, hydrogen cannot be grouped with any of the other main group elements in the periodic table.
Similar to the alkali metals of Group 1, hydrogen has a tendency of losing its electron and obtaining a +1 charge. What differentiates hydrogen from the other Group 1 elements is that when hydrogen loses its electron it becomes a proton, H+.Hydrogen is also like the halogens of Group 17 because it needs only one more electron to fill its valence shell. This results in hydrogen's tendency of forming a particular kind of covalent bond known as a hydrogen bond. Unlike halogens, hydrogen rarely forms H- ions (also called hydrides). Halides are stable in water while hydrides are not. Hydrides are hydrolyzed:
\[H^-_{(aq)} + H_2O_{(l)} \rightarrow H_{2 (g)} + OH^-_{(aq)}\]
Hydrogen also has a half filled valence shell comparable to the elements of Group 14. Group 14 and hydrogen also have similar electronegativity values. Both hydrogen and elements in Group 14 have a tendency of sharing their electrons and forming covalent bonds. Due to these characteristics presented above, hydrogen is proven to be a unique element because of its ability to be found in three forms in which it can perform chemical reactions:
- \(H^+\): a proton
- \(H^-\): a hydride with a filled valence shell (electron configuration of 1s2)
- \(H^.\): a covalent-sharing its electrons
S-Block P-Block
Figure 2: Possible compounds hydrogen is capable of creating with the main group elements.
Hydrogen Reactions
Hydrides are binary compounds of hydrogen. There are three possible hydrides that can be formed: ionic hydrides, covalent hydrides, and metallic hydrides. Metallic hydrides form when hydrogen reacts with transition metals, therefore they will not be introduced in this module.
Hydrogen and the S-Block
Ionic hydrides form when hydrogen reacts with s-block metals, not including Be and Mg. These s-block elements are found in Group 1 and Group 2 of the periodic table and are the most active metals. Group 1 metals are referred to as alkali metals and have a charge of +1 Group 2 metals are referred to as alkaline earth metals and have a charge of +2. Both Group 1 and Group 2 metals have low electronegativity values (less than 1.2).
Example 1
Reaction between Hydrogen and Group 1 Alkali Metal (M can represent any Group 1 alkali metal)
\[2M_{(s)} + H_{2 (g)} \rightarrow 2MH_{(s)}\]
Example 2
Reaction between Hydrogen and Group 2 Alkaline Earth Metal (M can represent Ca, Sr, or Ba)
\[M_{(s)} + H_{2 (s)} \rightarrow MH_{2 (s)}\]
In ionic hydrides, hydrogen acts like a "halogen" in its hydride form needing 1 electron to fill its valence shell.
Hydrogen and the p-Block Elements
Covalent hydrides are formed when hydrogen reacts with the p-block nonmetals by sharing its electrons. Elements with high electronegativity values (Table A2), from as low as 1.5, can form covalent hydrides. Relative to hydrogen's reaction with other elements, hydrogen can readily react with nitrogen, oxygen, and halogens because they are very electronegative, therefore reactive.
Example 3: Group 13 Elements
The hydride of boron \(B_2H_6\) is an example of an electron-deficient hydride (compounds with at least one atom sharing less than eight electrons).
Example 4: Group 14 Elements
Reaction between Hydrogen and Group 14 Elements (C is interchangeable with Si, Ge, and Sn)
\[C_{(s)} + 2H_{2 (g)} \rightarrow CH_{4 (g)}\]
A hydrocarbon is a compound that consists only of the two elements: carbon and hydrogen. There is no apparent limit to how many chains of C-H can form. Hydrocarbons can be arranged in straight chains, in branched chains, or ring structures.
Example 5: Group 15 Elements
Reaction between Hydrogen and Group 15 Elements (N is interchangeable with P, As, and Sb)
\[N_{2 (g)} + 3H_{2 (g)} \rightarrow 2NH_{3 (g)}\]
Example 6: Group 16 elements
Reaction between Hydrogen and Group 16 Elements (O is interchangeable with S, Se, and Te)
\[2H_{2 (g)} + O_{2 (g)} \rightarrow 2H_2O_{(l)}\]
Example 7: group 17 elements
Reaction between Hydrogen and Group 17 Elements (X can represent F, Cl, Br, or I)
\[H_2 (g) + X_2 (g) \rightarrow 2XF (g)\]
Acidic halides are composed of a hydrogen and a halide (a binary compound made up of a halogen and an element less electronegative than the halide). Hydrogen's reaction with fluorine occurs very fast because fluorine is the most electronegative. Hydrogen's reaction with chlorine is rapid in the presence of light because it is photochemically initiated. The reaction between bromine and hydrogen occurs more slowly.
There are no compounds formed between the noble gases (Group 18) and hydrogen due to the electron configuration of the noble gases. The noble gases have full valence shells, therefore they are stable and very unreactive. When elements react together, they try to achieve a stable state (a full valence shell). Since the noble gases already possess a full valence shell and stable state, they have no need to react with any elements, thus they will not react with hydrogen.
Hydrogen Bonding
A hydrogen bond forms between a partially positively charged hydrogen of one molecule (X-H-) and a partially negatively charged atom that can either be the same as the atom in the molecule (-X) or it can be another atom (-Y). This bonding can be depicted as: X-H-X or X-H-Y. Hydrogen bonds occur when covalent hydrides bond with another highly electronegative element. The only elements that are electronegative enough to do so are fluorine, oxygen, nitrogen, and sometimes chlorine (the previous depiction of X and Y can only be representations of these particular elements).
The most abundant hydrogen compound is water, H2O, and it is a great example of how hydrogen bonding works.
δ- δ+
the partially positive hydrogen end can still attract another highly electronegative atom
δ- δ+ δ-
this is an example of a hydrogen bond
Hydrogen bonds are relatively strong. These bonds have higher boiling points and remain in liquid state for a wide range of temperatures. This is good for biology such as maintaining the chemistry in the human body; even the DNA structure maintains its double helix structure due to hydrogen bonding.
The Ability of Group 1 and Group 2 to Reduce Hydrogen
Group 1 and Group 2 metals of hydride compounds have the ability to reduce the oxidation state of hydrogen when reacting with or in water.
Example 8: Reducing Hydrogen
The hydrolysis of ionic hydrides results in dihydrogen gas.
\[NaH_{(s)} + H_2O_{(l)} \rightarrow NaOH_{(s)} + H_{2 (g)}\]
solid precipitates out when it is not in H2O solvent
\[CaH_{2 (s)} + H_2O_{(l)} \rightarrow Ca(OH)_{2 (aq)} + H_{2 (g)}\]
in H2O solvent
- Ebbing, Darrell D., and Steven D. Gammon. General Chemistry. 9th. Brooks/Cole, 2009. 440-442, 920-924, 949-952. Print.
- Henderson, W. Main Group Chemistry. Illustrated. 3. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2000. 20-31. Print.
- Thomas, Jens. Noble Gases. Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2003. 5. Print.
- Write the equation of the reaction between hydrogen and strontium.
- Write the equation of the reaction between hydrogen and phosphorus.
- Write the equation of the reaction between hydrogen and potassium.
- Write the equation of the reaction between hydrogen and bromine.
- Write 3 possible hydrocarbons that contains 3 carbons atoms.
- Sr(s) + H2(s) → SrH2(s)
- P2(g) + 3H2(g) → 2PH3(g)
- 2K(s) + H2(g) → 2KH(s)
- H2(g) +Br2(g) → 2HBr(g)
- C3H8, C3H6, C3H4 ....answers may vary


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Trihedral released updated software to mitigate resource consumption, cross-site scripting and information exposure vulnerabilities in its VTScada product, according to a report with ICS-CERT.
VTScada Versions prior to 11.2.26 suffer from the remotely exploitable vulnerability discovered by Karn Ganeshen who has also tested the patch.
Rockwell Fixes PanelView Vulnerability
Digital Canal's Wind Analysis Updated
Phoenix Broadband Mitigates BMS Hole
GE Updates Multilin SR Fix
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in uncontrolled resource consumption, arbitrary code execution, or information exposure.
No known public exploits specifically target this vulnerability. However, an attacker with a low skill level could leverage the vulnerabilities.
In one vulnerability, the client does not properly validate the input or limit the amount of resources that are utilized by an attacker, which can be used to consume more resources than are available.
CVE-2017-6043 is the case number assigned to this vulnerability, which has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5.
CVE-2017-6053 is the case number assigned to this vulnerability, which has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5.
Some files are exposed within the web server application to unauthenticated users. These files may contain sensitive configuration information.
CVE-2017-6045 is the case number assigned to this vulnerability, which has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5.
The product sees action in the chemical, critical manufacturing, communications, energy, food and agriculture, transportation systems and water and wastewater systems sectors. It also sees use mainly in North America and Europe,
Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada-based Trihedral recommends users of an affected version update to the latest version, v11.2.26.
Click here for help file notes for upgrading VTScada/VTS.


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Fun for all the family
Feb 23rd: We had a lovely time last week, with three generations of the Springett family from England and Ireland celebrating grandfather Rod's 70th birthday and with several members of the party bone fishing for the first time. The weather was generally divine, with just a few tropical downpours that failed to dampen the spirits.
There was lots of snorkelling, shelling, kayaking, boat trips to Hope Town and blue-hole-diving to entertain the younger ones, while other guests went scuba diving. And there was lots of bone fishing. Happily, Rod took his first ever bonefish on his birthday and followed up with several more.
No less than five family members – Rod, Ros, Matt, Lochie (aged 12) & Fionn (aged 9) – caught their first ever bone, with young Lochie taking the best fish of the week, which weighed about 6lbs (pictured). Among the many other fish taken was young Fionn's bizarre guppy-like thing that we have yet to identify – anyone know what it is?
Other guests at the Club did well too, with Michael & Betty Hayes, again from Ireland, taking 17 bones in one day to top the catch league. And Jon Exton from England also caught his first ever bone.


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Stacey Johnston-Gleason
RESUME: Special Olympics athlete, official, and board member
WHY DID YOU WANT TO BE ON THE BOARD? I look for opportunities to be involved in Special Olympics any way I can. I live in Montana now but I lived in Washington for a long time and I'm very invested with trying to be a voice for the athletes from Washington.
WHAT SPORTS HAVE YOU PLAYED? I've competed in 18 different sports. I'm focused more on golf now.
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM SPORTS THAT YOU'VE APPLIED TO YOUR LIFE? Sportsmanship, friendship, and the freedom to feel good about yourself.
WHAT WILL IT MEAN FOR SEATTLE TO HOST THE GAMES? I hope people in Seattle get an understanding that the USA Games are a big event but that Special Olympics is happening every day. Athletes train every day and compete several times a year. I also hope it leads to recognition for all that Special Olympics does on the east side of the state of Washington.
WHAT SHOULD ATHLETES SEE WHEN THEY VISIT SEATTLE? I think everyone should see Pike Place Market.


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Hazards hinder NZ's A1GP charge in China
- Published: 13/11/2006
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The New Zealand team is philosophical about its meagre points haul in the incident-plagued third round of the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport held on the streets of Beijing.
The team moves from 13th equal to outright 14th on the championship points ladder with Mexico taking over from Germany on the top rung. Mexico has 24 points, Germany 22 and Great Britain, with 20 points, and Italy, a point behind, soared to third and fourth respectively after impressive weekends.
A1 Team.NZL director of corporate affairs Bob McMurray says track problems made race day a lottery and the team was always battling after qualifying was cancelled and grid positions were retrospectively determined by early performances in the one and only practice session.
"The system rewarded teams on their second runs and penalised those still in the garage when the practice session was cut short. But that's racing and there's not much you can do about it except give it a shot. We could've lucked in as much as we lucked out," McMurray said.
Two major dangers caused limited practice time in the lead-up to Sunday's two points-scoring races.
A notoriously tight hairpin bend at the end of the straight that was practically impossible to navigate forced the cancellation of all practice sessions on Friday and forced organisers to shorten the track by just over a kilometre.
A secondary hazard emerged yesterday when manholes, despite being welded shut, starting losing their covers due to the downforce of the cars having a suction effect as they roared overhead. The solitary 90-minute practice session was dramatically cut short after just 25 minutes.
The manhole covers were re-welded and bolted for today's races and remained in place as much as the grid in the Sprint Race. The top six finished in the grid order they started in as passing opportunities proved rare.
New Zealand picked up two places to 10th only because of misfortune to South Africa and Ireland. Those two nations were the exceptions to the rule as positions one through to 16 finished in the order they began.
The Feature Race was less of a parade because of the added dynamic of the compulsory pit stop and the higher number of yellow flags and safety cars as even minor mistakes caused accidents and hold-ups on the narrow circuit.
"The weekend as a whole didn't provide an effective competition, but the Feature Race defied the odds and turned into a reasonable race," McMurray said.
"A1GP, the teams and the drivers did a remarkable job in turning on a good spectacle given the circumstances and, in the end, we're somewhat thankful for the two points we got."
The New Zealand team now gets off the street to prepare for Round 4 in Malaysia in a fortnight (November 26).