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The Disruptive Nature of Listening
2015 August 18, Tuesday Filed in: listening
By Hildegard Westerkamp
Keynote Address International Symposium on Electronic Art,
Vancouver, B.C. Canada August 18, 2015
Publiée en français : La nature perturbatrice (disruptive) de l'écoute, Revue filigrane, mars 2019
A true state of listening cannot be acquired by force. The order to listen
- LISTEN! we all have heard and experienced it - guarantees a closing off,
a turning away, a non-listening, possibly even a permanent disturbance in
our once open and trusting listening channels. It is perceived like any sound
that annoys, disrupts, hurts, or injures: we cringe, we try to block it out,
might fight it, may want to get rid of it, but we will not listen.
By its very nature listening is a continual and gentle process of opening.
We usually know when we are in that place of perceptual receptivity and we
know when we have lost it. Listening is never static, cannot be held on to,
and in fact needs to be found again and again.
As such, it is disruptive in its nature. Paradoxically, while a grounded and calm
state of mind, a sense of safety, peace and relaxation are essential for inspiring
perceptual wakefulness and a willingness and desire to open our ears, normal
routines, habits and patterns will be disrupted and laid bare in such a process of
listening; noises and discomforts inevitably will be noticed, and all kinds of
experiences will be stirred and uncovered. Listening in fact implies a preparedness
to meet the unpredictable and unplanned, to welcome the unwelcome. How do we
reach such a state of listening, why would we want to?
I would like to dedicate this talk to John Hull, author of the book Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness. He passed away on July 28. The news of his death reminded me of a remarkable lecture he gave in the UK in 2001 at a conference on Sound, Culture and Environment. Like his book, this lecture was essentially about his experience of turning blind when he was in his 40s. His was not a "print speech" - he was not reading his text. The expressiveness and intonation of his voice created an extraordinary listening atmosphere in the room and added another dimension of depth to his words. He was a true orator in the sound-sense of the word. He spoke from his whole being. Let me read you a few quotes from that lecture:
I don't study sound. I live in sound.1
In the case of the ear, I learnt that you don't actually listen with your ears,
you listen with your whole body. 2
The senses tend to establish a subject/object division. But when you really see,
you are absorbed in what you see. So it is when you hear, when you listen.
You no longer are aware that you are listening, because you have become absorbed
in what you are listening to and so the subject/object distinction disappears.
In other words, you hear with your heart, because you become one with the sound.
The sound is in you, is you. And blindness has taught me that, and I was grateful for that. 3
Interestingly enough similar words come from the deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie, whose only aim in life, as she says in her TED talk, is to teach the world to listen, to listen with our whole body and to learn to sense our body as a resonating chamber. When she performs - and some of you may have experienced her - she literally seems to be inside the sounding music, with her whole body sensing the vibrating sound waves of all the pitches and frequencies in the music. My challenge today is to create a similar listening atmosphere in this room. It is not unlike composing, which of course always poses the same challenge.
Sound Example 1: Like a Memory: remembering in words
At this moment I am - we are - in Vancouver, Canada. It is August 18, 2015. We are together in this room. But really, we could be anywhere in any time zone, it could be any season of the year, any time of day or night. Whether we listen to this room, look at it, smell or touch it, there are no identifying features that would give us a clue in which city this room may be located. Architecturally it is a no-place, one that might be found in many cities of the world. We are listening to the global soundscape of the typical institutional or corporate indoors.
Outside of this room and all over the city a sound will be heard at noon that is characteristic for Vancouver. But I doubt that it will penetrate this space. It is pretty loud and is located not far from here in the harbour.
Sound Example 2: O Canada Horn, far
It's the O Canada Horn, a soundmark exclusive to Vancouver. When we hear it we know we are in Vancouver. The late Robert Swanson and his company Airchime designed this horn as well as a number of foghorns, train horns, factory whistles and boat horns that characterize our local soundscape. More about this later...
The title of my presentation today is The Disruptive Nature of Listening, intentionally chosen to create a meeting between the theme of this year's ISEA, Disruption, and my own life-long involvement with listening, soundscape studies, acoustic ecology and soundscape composition.
When I speak of the disruptive nature of listening, I agree with Michael Stocker who writes: "Our experience with sound unfolds as a continuous now". 4 If we open our ears to this experience of sound unfolding as a continuous now it inevitably includes an opening to surprises, to the unexpected, to the difficult and uncomfortable, to noise or potential discomforts with silence. It means staying with the sound for a time no matter what reactions it may elicit in us.
No doubt we all have had to grapple with discomfort when exposed to disturbing soundscapes or unsettling inner chatter. At such times, do we decide whether we open our listening further to the reality of that discomfort and try to affect changes - which is what I would call the disruptive nature of listening - or do we try to ignore it and psychologically shut it out - which is when the sound itself is in danger of disrupting our lives, stressing us, precisely because we are trying to shut out something that our ears and bodies are still receiving, still perceiving.
Sound Example 3: Construction Noise and Yoga
Such a listening experience means that we learn to understand how we listen and that the act of listening grounds us within our own inner world from which - in turn - inspiration springs. Listening cannot be forced. Quite the opposite: true receptive listening comes from an inner place of non-threat, support, and safety. As such listening is inherently disruptive as it puts a wrench into habitual flows of time, habitual behaviour of daily life.
From that stance we may be better equipped to deal with the environmental, social, and political challenges of this decade. The intense corporate push for us to succumb to a 24/7 time perception is threatening to disrupt deep and profound life rhythms in us and as an extension is also disrupting dangerously the earth's biological, environmental and ecological conditions. The following words by Jonathan Crary might reinforce why we urgently need creative and forceful tools to challenge this trend.
24/7 steadily undermines distinctions between day and night, between light and dark,
and between action and repose. It is a zone of insensibility, of amnesia, of what defeats
the possibility of experience.
...The planet becomes reimagined as a non-stop work site or an always open shopping mall
of infinite choices, tasks, selections, and digressions.
Sleeplessness is the state in which producing, consuming, and discarding occur without pause,
hastening the exhaustion of life and the depletion of resources. 5
Photo credit: Hildegard Westerkamp. The image was posted at one of the transit stops of Vancouver''s Canada Line.
As artists we cannot help but notice all this. It is our lot to express what we notice, express what moves us. As such we are the troublemakers, the disruptors of normality.
And when we work with sound we are by nature engaging with the flow of time and the sonic quality of any time span. We could be the ideal interceptors of a no-rhythm, continuously humming 24/7 life style and time flow.
Sound Example 4: exhaust, Canada Place
You can hear this building exhaust at Canada Place. Although sonically quite attractive, it does add to the humming mix of all the building exhausts in the city. On clear summer nights I can hear this mix from my back porch, like a hum from a nearby factory.
Sound Example 5: Train Horn Vancouver
In this recording, made in 1978, I was obviously pleased to hear the train horn, which coincidentally broke through the dull urban hum right after I had commented on it! However, this train horn sound, which then could be heard every evening around 9 p.m., has disappeared from the soundscape. Over 15 years ago Canadian Pacific Railway, the CPR, discontinued the train traffic to the relief of the residents along the Arbutus corridor. Just this week, though, the longstanding controversy has intensified as the CPR is attempting to re-activate its dormant rail line. Will we hear the train horn again? If so, its sound in the current context would signal nothing but unresolved matters.
Let me go back to what I called the city roaring in the previous recording. Artificial control of air and light is an integral aspect of highrise building design and means an excessive amount of energy use. Sonically this translates into electrical hums from artificial lighting and broadband sounds from air conditioning inside and from the buildings' exhaust systems outside. 6 The internationalism in urban design has not only resulted in visual but also in aural sameness. A rather sinister acoustic extension of this is the so-called functional music, or mood music, that is heard in many such buildings all over the world for the express purpose of increasing profit.
Sound example 6: Oakridge muzak
Air conditioning and music are usually centrally controlled. Trying to make any changes, let alone turning the sounds off, becomes a journey in uncovering layers and layers of bureaucracy and centralized building design. It is not surprising then that these all pervasive humming and music-doodling soundscapes are now generally accepted as a normal building ambience of the corporate indoors, in fact let me call it our "new silence" in contrast to street and transit noises outdoors.
It is only when we experience the sudden shut-off of these building sounds that we get a visceral sense of the dull, never changing "new silence" sound wall that has surrounded us all along. Power failures best demonstrate this and allow us to experience a physical reprieve and relaxation from the broadband sound waves that impact our ears, bodies and psyches in their dull quietness all day long if we work in such environments. Given the ecological issues of energy use we must finally confront, such an acoustic disruption could be a potential teaching, ideally powerful enough to inspire architects and engineers to make fundamental changes in urban building design.
As you heard earlier, Vancouver has its identifying soundmarks, as most other cities in the world have as well. In 1977 as part of our new radio program "Soundwalking" on Vancouver Co-operative Radio, my friends Joan Henderson, Ann Holmes and I did street interviews about the O Canada Horn. We asked people whether they have heard the horn, what they think of it and whether it carries any significant meaning for them. At that time, the horn blasted at an ear splitting 108 decibels every day at noon, from its original location, the top of the old BC Hydro building, three blocks away from our recording location. We timed it so that we collected people's comments from 10 minutes before noon to 10 minutes after noon, with the horn sound occurring in the middle.
Just before 12 o'clock Joan and Ann talked with a young woman, who was intensely critical of the relevance of our question. In fact, she was quite aggressive and a little condescending about how we could waste our and her own time with such a meaningless inquiry, when so many more important things needed to be addressed in the world. "You are talking to someone pretty socially conscious here, you know" she says. And then, Boom, the horn goes off. Silence...
Sound example 7: O Canada Horn, excerpt from Soundwalking
The young woman's stance switches instantly. Her wall of defense and aggressiveness collapses and a deeply vulnerable person is revealed. The sound of the horn literally hits her like a lightening bolt and penetrates her armour. She is speechless. When she does try to speak, her voice breaks and she is consumed by total astonishment at her own strong reaction. Her sadness seems enormous and she becomes thoughtful and reflective.
It is hard to let her go. How will she carry her experience with her on that day? Will she be okay?
Obviously the injustices and inequalities in our society had concerned and stressed her for a while - yes she was a socially conscious person - but the listening epiphany revealed her sensitivity and opened up her being beyond social consciousness and political correctness towards deeper feelings of pain. She was mourning the perceived loss of sounds so characteristic for the Vancouver she loved.
Our listening radio microphones that day were meant to create a little disruption and make people think about the daily sound of the O Canada Horn. That had been our intention from the start. We did not, however, expect to meet such a sensitive listener with such a strong and very real reaction. It is this kind of sensitivity in listening that lays bare realities in our soundscapes. No one else of the people interviewed mentioned the issues of disappearing sounds in the Vancouver harbour soundscape, and the ecological implications of such a phenomenon.
Let me stay with the theme of disappearing sounds for a minute. My long-time colleague Bernie Krause has recorded natural sounds since the 1970s and has accumulated hours and hours of recordings from all over the globe. On this year's World Listening Day he contributed a series of four recordings made 50 miles north of San Francisco in Sugarloaf State Park, which powerfully illustrate issues of climate change and the California drought's impact on the biophony in this area over the past 11 years.
The recordings are represented on a spectrogram, which consists of 4 fifteen second examples - 1 minute total - from the years 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2015. According to Bernie the recordings were made in exactly the same spot, mid April, and with carefully calibrated and repeatable settings, same protocol, same equipment. The 2004 segment apparently was similar to the density and diversity of the previous 10 years at the same spot, with the sound of a nearby stream showing on the lower part of the spectrogram and several different species of birds occupying the upper half. Listen now to the dramatic changes in water sounds and bird song density that have occurred since 2004.
Sound example 8 with Spectrogram: Bernie Krause, Sugarloaf Park 7
This year virtually a silent spring in that region, and as Bernie Krause states further, "an accurate outcome of Rachel Carson's prediction in her book Silent Spring, that she wrote more than 50 years ago." 8
Vandana Shiva, the environmental activist of high caliber from India, who has fought for changes in the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food for many years, spoke at the International Water Conference, here in Vancouver on July 2001. I was then struggling to finish my composition Attending to Sacred Matters. Vandana's speech miraculously removed whatever block I had been experiencing and the piece acquired a clear flow, like water. I'll play you the excerpt that includes her voice.
Sound example 9: excerpt of Attending to Sacred Matters.
An ongoing listening practice tends to become a way of life that inevitably reveals and amplifies that which is ignored or normally avoided. Listening not only grounds us within our own inner world from which inspiration springs, but most importantly it inspires new ideas and changes the quality of soundmaking, speaking and musical expression. Michael Ende in his book Momo, describes such listening:
...Another time, a little boy brought her his canary because it wouldn't sing.
Momo found that a far harder proposition. She had to sit and listen to the bird
for a whole week before it started to trill and warble again. 9
Momo, a little girl, is a literary character symbolizing someone who refuses to loose touch with her special perception of the people and the world around her. She senses and perceives the dangers implicit in a society driven by hidden interest groups and manipulations. In this society the Grey Men represent the Timesavings Bank, where time can be deposited and returned to the client later, supposedly with interest. Momo does not engage in the stressful and hectic rhythms of such a society - a perfect, if fictional example of what I am addressing here today. She is someone, who disrupts gently, essentially, through her listening.
Such strength of perception becomes a matter of survival, when disruption itself has become the social norm, when the conditions of a 24/7 world have been internalized, when there is an inability to slow down, when in fact the interruptions, invasions, and noises of so-called modern life are addictively needed. And Jonathan Crary describes well the reality of such a world:
Everyone, we are told - not just businesses and institutions - needs an "online presence" needs 24/7 exposure, to avoid social irrelevance or professional failure. But the promotion of these alleged benefits is a cover for the transfer of most social relations into monetized and quantifiable forms. It is equally a shift of individual life to conditions in which privacy is impossible, and in which one becomes a permanent site of data harvesting and surveillance. One accumulates a patchwork of surrogate identities that subsist 24/7, sleeplessly, continuously, as inanimate impersonations rather than extensions of the self... Sensory impoverishment and the reduction of perception to habit and engineered response is the inevitable result of aligning oneself with the multifarious products, services, and "friends" that one consumes, manages, and accumulates during waking life. 10
So, when I speak of disruption in the sense of stopping routines, habits, unconscious gestures, reactions and behaviours, I am not necessarily implying a violent disruption or a one-time shock. Yes, a loud sound can shock, disrupt and change our ways, as we have witnessed earlier. More significantly, I am suggesting, that our listening be an ongoing practice, so present and attentive that it asserts change inside us over time, and as a result eventually in the soundscape, in our communication with others, in society at large. It is a state of ongoing attention.
When John Cage created his piece 4'33" he essentially set up conditions for such listening - astonishing the ears of concert goers by not in any way meeting their expectations of what the performance of a piece of music in a concert hall should be. And in doing so, he gently nudged the audience's listening attention to every other sound present in that environment.
He created 4'33" in 1952. Nowadays and perhaps not surprisingly, there is an increased emergence of pieces that attempt to slow the pace of our lives and alter our time perception. To name a few more, there is Pauline Oliveros' Extreme Slow Walk and actually all her deep listening pieces and exercises 11, John Cage's piece Organ2/ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible - whose performance started 2013 and will continue until 2020.12 Then there is Jem Fine's Longplayer, designed to play for 1000 years,13 and as we speak Max Richter is composing his 8-hour lullaby Sleep.14 The pieces all invite audiences to stop and listen deeply.
Sound Example 10: Lighthouse Park excerpt 1, from Soundwalking
This was a short excerpt from my radio program Soundwalking, recorded in Lighthouse Park. You heard my much younger voice reading a quote from the writings of our own B.C. painter Emily Carr. The show ran on Vancouver Co-operative Radio in 1978/79. My original intent was to open listeners' ears towards their own local soundscape. What I did not anticipate at the time was that Soundwalking also caused a disruption of radio-time, as we knew it from regular radio listening. Even on Co-op Radio, which already had a different sound and pace than the CBC or commercial radio, broadcast time was slowed further during the program.
I hardly ever got immediate feedback, like phone calls, and had no clue how the show affected listeners. Years later I would meet people who recognized my voice or remembered how the show caused them to stop and listen, even to sit down and relax! Only one person, a truly angry and exasperated listener, did call me during one broadcast and suggested that I should call my show Sleepwalking. For her the slow pace of the program was unbearable!
Taking the time to listen goes against today's 24/7 status quo of hectic and stress, of racing towards riches and success, of never having time and always being importantly busy. In this larger context soundwalks become a conscious practice in learning to change our pace in a society dangerously speeding out of control. Even taking the time for soundwalks at conferences is still an extraordinary act. We are lucky in this conference: we have been given quite a few opportunities to realign our ears, brains, bodies and souls in an hour of walking, breathing and listening. Jean Routhier is offering another soundwalk today at 2 p.m. Do go, if you haven't had the opportunity yet.
can speak about soundwalks until I am blue in the face and you will still not really know what I am talking about. Soundwalks, just like listening itself, need to be DONE. Out of that doing comes an entirely knew experiential knowledge. This is precisely what makes out the disruptive nature of listening. The decision to do it, rather than talk about it, is the first disruption of old patters. The experience of soundwalk listening then gives us a visceral understanding of what in fact the disruptive nature of listening really is.
Sound example 11: Camelvoice
photo credit: Peter Grant
At this moment we are in Vancouver, Canada. It is August 18, 2015.
We have been together in this room, listening. Thank you.
1. Hull, John. "Sound: An Enrichment or State", in Soundscape - the Journal of Acoustic Ecology, Vol. 2, Number 1, July 2001, p. 10
2. ibid. p. 12
4. Stocker, Michael. Hear Where We Are, Sound Ecology and Sense of Place (2013). Springer. p. xiii.
5. Crary, Jonathan. 24/7, Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (2013). London: Verso. p.17.
6. Westerkamp, Hildegard. "Bauhaus and Soundscape Studies - Exploring Connections and Differences", published in Anthologie: Multisensuelles Design, ed. Peter Luckner, Hochschule für Kunst und Design, Halle, Germany. 2002.
7. Krause, Bernie. Contribution to World Listening Day, July 18, 2015.
See: http://www.worldlisteningproject.org/2015/05/world...
9. Ende, Michael. Momo. 1984. Puffin Books. P. 22
10. Crary, Jonathan. 24/7, Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (2013). London: Verso. p. 104
11. Oliveros, Pauline. Deep Listening, A Composer's Sound Practice. Deep Listening Publications. 2005.
12. Cage, John. http://www.aslsp.org/de/
13. Finer, Jem. http://longplayer.org/listen/live-stream/
14. Richter, Max. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-...
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Thayer Academy Athletic Director Rick Foresteire P '19, '21 was throwing batting practice when he learned he'd been inducted into the Massachusetts Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
He'd been throwing BP indoors to his son, James Foresteire '21, as part of the first day of winter workouts. Realizing he'd left his phone in the car, he'd asked James to get it for him.
James returned, held the phone up to his father, and asked, "Whaddya think about this, Dad?" It was a text from good friend Dwayne Follette, a fellow Brandeis alumnus and Plymouth North High School baseball coach, congratulating Foresteire on his induction.
"True story," said Foresteire, smiling. Asked what he and his son did afterwards, the coach responded: "We finished batting practice."
The MBCA recently announced that Forestiere and three fellow coaches — Mark Baldwin of Northampton High School, Patrick Forbes of Whitman-Hanson High School, and Bill Mahoney of Brighton High School — would be association inductees for its Class of 2019. Ceremonies are slated for Jan. 26 at the Four Points Sheraton in Wakefield.
Foresteire has earned the honor. This spring, he will begin his 23rd season as a high school baseball head coach, and he has yet to have a losing season.
"That's what I'm most proud of," said Foresteire, who was head coach for 19 years at his alma mater, BB&N. "My philosophy has always been that our number-one goal is to have a winning season. We tackle that first."
As a head coach, Foresteire's record is 370 wins, 130 losses, and four ties. His teams have captured six ISL championships. He's coached three MLB draft picks, four former pros, and a host of players who've succeeded at the collegiate level.
The Melrose native was quick to praise his players for their work on and off the field. He also credited his coaching staffs throughout the years.
"I was blessed to have unbelievable assistant coaches," he said.
Foresteire added that, as a young coach at BB&N, he received great support from Thayer's coach at the time, Don Badger '63 P '98, '01.
Foresteire said he received a solid education in baseball fundamentals from Jack Etter, his coach at BB&N, and has tried to pass those lessons on. He also singled out his college coach, Pete Varney, a legendary figure at Brandeis after his years as a legendary two-sport athlete (Football, Baseball) at Harvard University.
According to the MBCA website, Foresteire is only the fifth private school coach to earn Hall-of-Fame honors and just the second coach from the ISL. The name of the first ISL inductee, so honored in 1992, should ring a bell: Thayer Academy's Arthur Valicenti '51 P '75, '75, '77 GP '10, '14.
Thayer Baseball Head Coach Rick Foresteire P '19, '21.


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An 11% fall in number of Council bureaucrats earning over £100,000
Meirion Jenkins: Birmingham is the largest metropolitan authority in Europe – and one of the worst-run.
Tony Devenish: Seven practical messages for local authorities
Why do some Tories think it appropriate to give themselves pay rises in a time of austerity?
Councillor allowances boosted in Cardiff
Judy Terry: The public sector pay cap should apply to Council chief executives too
The Taxpayers' Alliance annual Town Hall Rich List is out and it shows a quite significant fall in the number of council staff on six figure salaries (or rather "remuneration" as the TPA rightly includes the cost of pension contributions.) There were 2,525 council employees who received total remuneration in excess of £100,000 in 2011 -12. This is a fall of 11% on the previous year when the total was 2,839.
Also included within that figure of 2,525 are dozens of posts where the salary cost is split between more than one council. That is trend I expect will continue. If two neighboring district councils share a chief executive and he is paid £110,000 isn't that likely to be better value than them each employing their own at £95,000? There is a saving of £80,000. Yet that would show up on the TPA survey as an increase in fat cat pay.
There is no simple equation between Town Hall pay for senior executives, and the Council Tax and quality of services. The two councils with the lowest Council Tax – Westminster and Wandsworth – pay their senior people very well indeed. These councils also have high satisfaction from their residents with the standard of the services they provide.
Let's judge by "outputs" rather than "inputs." If the Council Tax is low and the services are good then so what if the chief executive is paid more than the Prime Minister? However councils that are charging higher Council Tax and pleading they have "no alternative" are rather more open to challenge.
Camden Council has 40 employees earning over £100,000 – that is the highest of any council in the country. Fair enough if they are all such great value for money and the Council Tax is low. But it isn't. It is £1,022 at Band D – excluding the GLA precept. It is the second highest in "inner London." (See Table 9). Of course it is higher than Westminster, Wandsworth, Kensington and Chelsea, and Hammersmith and Fulham. But it is also higher than Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Lambeth and Islington.
What about the county councils where we had elections last week? Staffordshire where the Conservatives held on against the trend, has eight employees on over £100,000. In Lancashire, where the Conservatives lost overall control but did very well to stop Labour gaining the council, there are 11 employees earning over £100,000. These are both councils that cut the Council Tax.
Oxfordshire has 16 employees on over £100,000. This was a council that should have remained safely Conservative but put up Council Tax and saw the Conservatives lose overall control.
This information is a valuable way of holding councils to account.
Councillor and officer remuneration
Paul James: I'm proud of what we achieving in Gloucester. But more incentives are needed for new housing.
Council by-election results from yesterday and forthcoming contests
Stephen Davies: Fighting for Conservative values in Stroud
Mark Weston: Why the present way of directly electing mayors is working badly for Bristol
John Bald: "Points mean prizes" has to stop.
Shaun Bailey: Rent controls will make a bad situation worse. It's time to build.
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The biggest benefit of a treadmill is that you have full control over it. This helps you work on pacing and your running technique.
Oh no, the dreaded treadmill, also known as the dreadmill. After years of back and forth, I have finally learned to love running on the treadmill. Even when the weather is perfectly fine for a run outside, I jump on the treadmill to work on specificity and pacing.
A treadmill offers a controlled environment to take your running technique to the next level. It helps you set a pace and work on your cadence. Running on a treadmill also gives you an opportunity to figure out if you're over-striding, which can increase the risk of overuse injuries.
When I'm on the treadmill, I like to focus on foot cadence. I try to aim for 180 steps per minute (90 steps per minute per leg).
To test your cadence, count the number of steps you take on one leg for 30-seconds. This number should be roughly around 43-45 steps, which equates to roughly 90 steps per minute per leg.
Pacing on a treadmill is very easy. With a push of a button, you can set your desired pace and train at different race speeds. For example, you can run at a sprint triathlon pace (3:45/km) or a half Ironman pace (4:30/km). Because a treadmill is so easy to use, you can also incorporate interval training by mixing paces.
Tip: Always start at a low pace and progress. The key is to use it as a tool for increasing pace over time. The controlled environment allows you to listen to your body and monitor your effort.
The biggest benefit of a treadmill is that you have full control over it.
Use the manual button on the treadmill set your pace and intervals. The incline can also be changed to your needs. I like to keep it at 0 per cent at the start and avoid any significant changes in the gradient to protect my Achilles. Tip: If you have any Achilles issues you may want to avoid inclines on the treadmill.
Some studies suggest that increasing your incline to 1-2 per cent when running at paces over 8mph is helpful to simulate running outside, but I don't implement that. Talk to your coach and see what works best for you.
Don't hold onto the handrails or console – this will compromise your natural biomechanics and doesn't help you improve your running. You may be able to go at a faster pace – but it's a false ability.
Finally, I love to listen to music while running on the treadmill. It helps with motivation and improves my running rhythm. But listen to whatever you want – podcasts or tunes, you may even choose to listen to nothing.
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Posted On November 19, 2017 By Dan Chesser 1 Comment on Posted in Sizzlers
Calverton Customs : Sizzlers
The Sizzlers were a 1970s Hot Wheels spin off with a built-in motor and a tiny rechargeable battery. (The X-V)
They were introduced in 1970 and became an instant smash. Sizzlers run on the regular "orange" Hot Wheels track, and Mattel created special race sets with U-Turns, multi-level spirals and loops to take advantage of the cars' electric motor.
Two lane race sets such as the California/8 race set were developed that allowed Sizzlers to race side-by side, until Mattel created the black Fat Track, which is three lanes wide, with steep banked curves, and designed to allow Sizzlers to run free. In action, Sizzlers display a unique, competitive "passing action" when running on the Fat Track, as if each car were piloted by an impatient driver trying to jockey ahead of the rest.
The Fat Track sets included the "Big O", "California 500″, and Super Circuit" race sets, and accessories such as the "Scramble Start" (a four-car starting gate), "Lap Computer" four car lap counter, and "Race-Timer" stop watch.
Six cars were made in 1970, 12 cars were made in 1971, and 4 cars were made in 1972. The "Fat Daddy" Sizzlers (oversized bodies with huge tires) were introduced in 1973. Mattel put the Sizzlers on a hiatus after that year, and in 1976 they created Sizzlers II.
That next year, the Night Ridin' Sizzlers (which had headlights you could turn on or off) were created. Because of faded popularity (because of perhaps poor marketing), Mattel permanently stopped Sizzlers production in 1978.
Sizzlers were (and are) charged with four or two D battery chargers called the Juice Machine and Goose Pump respectively. Later, the Power Pit was introduced—which was an electric charger that plugged into any household AC outlet and resembled a race track garage or pit stop. A 90-second charge of the tiny internal NiCad battery gives up to five minutes of frenetic run time. It has been said that the 90-second charge time was "the longest minute and a half in a kid's life" as they waited impatiently for the car to charge sufficiently to get back into the race.
The Sizzler electric technology spun off into the Hotline Trains, which ran on track similar to regular Hot Wheels, and the Earth-shakers construction vehicles. Both lines of vehicles were charged using the Sizzler Juice Machine or Power Pit.
In the 1990s, toy company Playing Mantis re-released Sizzlers in NASCAR stock car models and reproduced the Fat Track as the "Stocker 400" and "Mach 500" track sets. The Juice machine was renamed the "Mega-Charger" and incorporated a more efficient "trickle charge" rather than the "dump charge" of the original machines. Interest in the Sizzlers line began to increase once again. They were taken off the market after Mattel filed a lawsuit against Playing Mantis. However, Sizzlers returned again in 2006, when Mattel struck an exclusive deal with Target stores to re-release Sizzlers cars, the "Big O" Fat track, Juice Machine and car carrying case—all in the original packaging from the 1970s. As of January 2009, the Sizzlers line has been discontinued by Target.
The Sizzlers offered by Calverton Customs are first run 2006 model year.
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A few days ago, I went to Kelapa Gading Mall with Mr. G. We had the usual lunch and then went to Duta Suara. I wanted to get the latest Taylor Swift CD. She used to be my guilty pleasure until I realized that she really is talented and her songs are easy listening.
Afterwards, we went to Periplus for book shopping. It's been a while since I went there, so I'm surprised to see that they're having a book sale on certain books. I got my usual magazine (Prevention) and a two of their discounted items.
One of the first things that I found underneath the pile of discounted items is this 'DC Super Heroes and Villains Card'. I'm not the biggest fan of DC comic books, but I like some of the super heroes and villains from DC, compared to Marvel. This item retails at Rp 94,000 (USD 10) from the original price USD 13.00.
I also noticed this language tutorial flash cards in Japanese. At first, I didn't want to purchase it, but looking at the before and after price, I immediately grabbed it. It was sold at Rp 274,000 and is now being reduced to just Rp 99,000!! I showed the price to Mr. G and he also agreed to buy the cards.
It's targeted for people that wants to enhance their Kanji and can already read Kana.
At the cashier, I'm super excited to see the newest Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Call me childish, but I love reading this book. It makes me feel like a little girl again, reading easy-to-read books. Sometimes, I just want to read a book without having to think what the next chapter is going to be like, lol.
So, if you live near Kelapa Gading or looking for a book sale, come to Periplus Mall Kelapa Gading. I don't know when the sale will be finished, but I'll try to keep you updated with the date. See you in the next post, book lovers!


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Graybeard Outdoors > Hunting and Trapping Forums > Bikers who hunt and shoot > I may not be welcome here, but I'll try..
I may not be welcome here, but I'll try..
Having achieved four score years earlier this month..I just decided to try a 2 wheeler with a bit more than my regular ride, which is a Schwinn. Figured since I am already performing their chaplain & public speaking duties, I may want to ride some with our newly organized "Legion Riders" club. I didn't really want to go "whole hog" AKA Harley..so I started out a bit lighter. I went with a Kymco 150cc scooter. Here in NY, a special motorcycle license is required for anything more than 50cc, so I am working on that. Here's a Kymco photo of my ride..same color and all.
Re: I may not be welcome here, but I'll try..
are you sure your 80 yrs old ?
Go for it IG; I still keep the "M" on my license and would buy a scooter if I could convince my wife and daughter that I CAN ride one with my left leg sticking out to the side.
Ironglow, you have 2 wheels and a motor. So you are good to go in my book. Enjoy the wind in your face as long as you can.
Thanks guys, and thanks for the tips. I picked up a Kymco people 150cc scooter and am going through the process. I have a neighbor with lots of blacktop (trucking outfit) and have been invited to practice there until I'm ready to go. I have been practicing and feel quite confident that I should do OK !
This is Kare and I 1986 with our 85 Cavalcade, Michigan's UP road side rest area while on vacation. Still have it and a pile of miles on it.
I like to get off the major roads to enjoy a nice ride. Not a bike picture but the type of road I like.
Go for it and have a great time, remember to wear your helmet.


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Q: ASP.NET User-based Templates Is there anyway to let users write their own aspx templates with my defined dynamic variables?   Note that I don't want to use Web Forms (so there are no tags like <asp:button> etc).
In addition, I'd need a security solution so users can't change the system or do dangerous things like this.
Thanks.

A: Personally I would avoid using the ASPX engine for this.  I would probably use either a really simple custom formatting solution (such as just a text file with %%VAR_NAME%% allowed for dynamic values), or I would look at a templating language such as Markdown (used by StackOverflow and others).  BBCode is another option in a similar vein.
Allowing people to create ASPX templated pages on the fly seems like to much of a security issue to me.  It would be hard to make sure you have closed all the possible attack vectors once they have direct access to the ASP.NET engine.
Since you didn't specify, I'm just guessing at your needs, so depending on the exact problem this may or may not be your best bet.  If you include more details about the problem you are solving it would be easier to make suggestions.

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Ainsi soit je... è il secondo album di inediti della cantante pop francese Mylène Farmer, pubblicato nel 1988 dall'etichetta discografica Polydor.

L'album è composto da dieci tracce, sette delle quali scritte dalla stessa Mylène Farmer insieme a Laurent Boutonnat, che ne ha anche curato la produzione. Le restanti tre tracce sono una poesia di Charles Baudelaire, riadattata come brano musicale, una cover del brano Déshabillez-moi di Juliette Gréco e un brano strumentale, The Farmer's Conclusion.

Promozione e successo
Per la promozione, dal disco sono stati estratti diversi singoli, primo fra tutti il brano Sans contrefaçon, che ha anticipato l'uscita dell'album. Come secondo singolo è stata pubblicata la ballata che ha dato il titolo all'intero disco, Ainsi soit je..., mentre come terzo singolo è stato scelto Pourvu qu'elles soient douces, pubblicato nel dicembre 1988, che ha mantenuto la vetta della classifica francese dei singoli per cinque settimane. Quarto e ultimo singolo tratto da questo album, Sans logique, è stato pubblicato nei primi mesi del 1989, in concomitanza con il tour promozionale del disco.

L'album ha riscosso un buon successo in Francia, raggiungendo la vetta della classifica degli album diverse settimane dopo la pubblicazione, vendendo oltre un milione e ottocentomila copie e venendo certificato disco di diamante. In Svizzera, l'album è stato certificato disco d'oro.

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CD (Polydor 835 564-2 (PolyGram) / EAN 0042283556423)

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Album certificati disco d'oro in Belgio
Album certificati disco d'oro in Svizzera
Album certificati disco di diamante in Francia


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t is prudent to obtain a letter from a lender stating you are qualified to purchase a property within a specific price range before you begin viewing properties with Sally and/or members of the Platinum Team. Having pre-approval strengthens your Buy/Sell offer for negotiations. We are happy to provide you with the names of local lenders. Terms vary from lender to lender and it is wise to obtain quotes from more than one source.
Lenders require an appraisal prior to financing, and they order the appraisal to insure its accuracy. Appraisals in the Gallatin Valley can take 3 to 4 weeks. Sally and her team will help arrange a time for a reputable appraiser to view the property. Should the house not appraise for the contract amount, we will help negotiate a change in the price.
It is the Buyer's responsibility to seek Home and Property Inspections. The cost of these inspections range from $500 to $750 for a high-end home; this is determined by the age of the home, square footage, and location. Inspection for the potential presence of radon gas, which we urge you to do, generally costs an additional $100.
It is vital that you engage a qualified Home Inspector. We will provide you with names of reputable local inspectors, schedule the inspection, and will be present during the inspection (which can take between 4 to 7 hours). After the inspection, we will go over the results with you and after this, present an Inspection Notice to the Seller and negotiate any repairs or provisions required from the Seller due to the Inspection Report.
This may involve a price reduction or a requirement for repairs or mitigation.
The Water and Mineral Rights on the sale property may require both legal advice and, potentially, specialists in such matters; these issues are also the Buyer's Responsibility. Water and Mineral Rights in Montana can seem like a daunting labyrinth of legal records and laws. It is the responsibility of the Buyer to determine how important the role of Water and Mineral Rights are in the negotiations for a property and then to accurately determine what rights convey. We will include in the Buy/Sell Agreement that all rights appurtenant to the property will convey with the property, however it will be up to you to determine what these rights include. The property may have a stream running through it, but that doesn't mean – and this is all too often the case! – the owner of the property has any right whatsoever to take any water out of the stream.
Also, wells and pond construction are regulated by the DNRC and the State of Montana, and, in many cases, Homeowner Associations. You need to know what your options are in regards to water before you purchase the property.
Flood plains are another consideration in purchasing a property in the Gallatin Valley. There are 100 year and 500-year flood plain maps available. Click here to read more about flood plains in Montana. If you can see or hear water, you must be aware of your risk for flooding. Engaging a qualified Hydrologist can help determine the best site for a new home or the risk potential of the property.
Many properties in the Bozeman and Gallatin Valley area are connected to activeHomeowner Associations. Sally and her team will provide you with any and all known Covenants for the Homeowners Association associated with your property. You will need to consult with your attorney to determine any restrictions and regulations that affect your intended use of the property.
The Buyer generally takes possession of the property when the Deed is recorded. This is the day of closing if it is early in the morning, or the following day when the signing is in the afternoon. We will arrange a final walk-through of the property prior to Closing to insure that everything is in tip-top condition and you are closing on what you have agreed to purchase.
You will need to arrange to have a mover scheduled well before closing date as qualified movers are booked well in advance. We will provide you with names of the most qualified movers. You will also need to arrange to have utilities and phone connected in your name.
The Buyer's responsibilities at Closing include any loan fees, as applicable. The proration of taxes and any special Assessments that are not the Seller's Responsibility. Other responsibilities include insurance required by the Lender.
Closing Costs, which are generally split between Buyer and Seller, are generally under $300, or a $150 cost to the Buyer.
You will be provided with a closing statement prior to closing. The closing itself is a simple process of signing documents, which can take place in the Title Company's office, or by registered mail with documents being notarized. You will be able, up until 10 or so days prior to closing, to determine which name or entity you wish to have the property titled under.
You will arrange with your lender or banker to have a certified check delivered to the Title company or the monies wired to the Title Company in the amount of the closing by the date of closing.
Congratulations! You are now a Gallatin Valley property owner.


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Q: can not convert implicitly from string to int In C#, I have used Enum to get the drop down values:
class Enum
{
    public enum Fields
    {
        AssignedTo = "Assigned To",
        CloseReason = "Close Reason",
        CustomerId = "Customer ID",
        CustomerName = "Customer Name",
        CompanyID = "Company ID",
        CompanyName = "Company Name",
    }
}

When I build the solution. I am getting the error: cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'int'.
I have removed the double quotes but still it shows the same error. What do I do wrong?

A: In C# string are not allowed types for enums.
Quote from MSDN https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sbbt4032.aspx

The approved types for an enum are byte, sbyte, short, ushort, int,
  uint, long, or ulong

If will have to do some kind of conversion (i.e. using [DisplayName] attribute) to use enum in dropdown.

A: this is syntactically invalid in c#
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sbbt4032.aspx
you will need a workaround to create string enum in c#
https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=sBwXV_XZDKO_wQOjmaqABw&gws_rd=ssl#q=string+enum+in+c%23

A: It is giving this error because by default the enum expects you to assign an integer value to the fields inside an enum.
public enum Fields
{
    AssignedTo = 1,
    CloseReason = 2,
    CustomerId = 3,
    CustomerName = 4,
    CompanyID = 5,
    CompanyName = 6
}

If you skip the assigning part , it will by default start assign the fields starting from integer 0.

A: i am not sure if it is because you are trying to display string to the enum  then is because enum only use int 16 and 32 so we have to create an extension to make it show strings and then use the int value to call it
using System.Reflection;

  public static class EnumExtensions
{

    public static string DisplayName(this Enum value)
    {
        FieldInfo field = value.GetType().GetField(value.ToString());

        EnumDisplayNameAttribute attribute
                = Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(field, typeof(EnumDisplayNameAttribute))
                    as EnumDisplayNameAttribute;

        return attribute == null ? value.ToString() : attribute.DisplayName;
    }
}

public class EnumDisplayNameAttribute : Attribute
{
    private string _displayName;
    public string DisplayName
    {
        get { return _displayName; }
        set { _displayName = value; }
    }
}
class Enum
  {
         public enum Fields
{
    [EnumDisplayName(DisplayName = "Assigned To"
    AssignedTo,
    [EnumDisplayName(DisplayName = "Close Reason"
    CloseReason,
    [EnumDisplayName(DisplayName = "Customer ID"
    CustomerId,
    [EnumDisplayName(DisplayName = "Customer Name"
    CustomerName,
    [EnumDisplayName(DisplayName = "Company ID"
    CompanyID,
    [EnumDisplayName(DisplayName = "Company Name"
    CompanyName ,
}
}

just like i did for my group description for listview

A: I do not think you want to be using enum for a drop down. Try looking into Dictionary or DataTable or some other structures. Maybe we could help if you give us more detail about what exactly are you trying to do.
EDIT: Here is a simple example of using List<string> as data source for ComboBox
List<string> dsList = new List<string>();
dsList.Add("Assigned To");
dsList.Add("Close Reason");
dsList.Add("Customer ID");
dsList.Add("Customer Name");
dsList.Add("Company ID");
dsList.Add("Company Name");

comboBox1.DataSource = dsList;

Also, you can dynamicaly change the List based on what options you want to display to the user


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Gary Washburn & the Honokaʻa Jazz Band
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Kahilu Theatre is proud to present Gary Washburn & the Honokaʻa Jazz Band. This exclusive show will livestream on Kahilu.TV Saturday, April 24, 2021, at 4pm HST.
The Honokaʻa Jazz Band is a group of advanced music students from Honokaʻa High School who uphold a long tradition of excellence in Hawaii's music industry and the community. Under the direction of Gary Washburn, a dedicated educator and accomplished jazz artist, the band is considered to be one of the top high school bands in the country. The band is attributed with 18 albums of which "Honokaʻa Jazz BANDemic" is their latest release.
This concert is sponsored by Marilyn & Carl Bernhardt, Carol & Clive Davies, Ken & Robin Key, Jim & Susan Mori, and Cindy Roher & Thomas Kapp.
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Sea Pines Resort's Inn at Harbour Town pampers guests with Hilton Head elegance and European flair
By Lisa Allen, Contributor
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - The Inn at Harbour Town at Sea Pines Resort is small - just 60 rooms - accommodating, and European. The ambiance is clear upon entry with a grand foyer decorated in rich, dark woods and elegant, floral displays. Young, English women and men staff each of the small, check-in desks. They're gracious and helpful, if a little hard to understand for those rusty in deciphering accents other than Southern.
The Inn at Harbour Town at Sea Pines Resort has been honored by the Mobile Travel Guide, Travel and Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler and more.
After the completion of minor paperwork, a butler escorts each guest to his or her room and provides an overview of the amenities. This is where your cooler is revealed, hiding in a handsome, half breakfront. Also within are wine glasses, a wine rack and corkscrew. Next to a small box of chocolates, hopefully, you'll notice the handwritten, personally addressed note that welcomes you to the Inn.
Without the aid of your butler, you might miss the dimmer control in the bathroom or the bathrobes in the closet. If one chooses to use the robes, housekeeping will henceforth leave fresh ones folded at the foot of the bed.
The European bathrooms feature a separate soak bath and shower. The tile floors can get chilly, so slippers are provided. Toiletries are more than ample, including body wash in the shower and a glass container filled with cotton balls and Q-tips. The Inn also offers complimentary trouser-pressing and shoe-shining, services more often associated with an urban, four-diamond hotel. But with the possible exception of John Daly, one might not want to appear rumpled on the first tee of the august Harbour Town Golf Links.
The Inn works hard to maintain its AAA Four-Diamond Award (seven years running) and other honors, including the Mobile Four Star Award by Mobile Travel Guide, a spot among Travel and Leisure's 500 best hotels in the world, Conde Nast Traveler's the World's Best Places to Stay, Gold List and the Best in the World - Top 100 - Reader's Choice Award.
The 10-year-old hotel currently is adding more ceramic to the bathrooms and slightly lighter-colored furniture to every room, re-wallpapering and installing new drapes. The Inn pulls from other Sea Pines Resort resources to ensure around-the-clock room service and staff. No matter the hour, someone is ready to take care of your every problem, craving or need.
The Inn at Harbour Town's first-class services - and staff
Housekeeping provides first service and a turn-down service, which includes more chocolate and the next day's weather forecast.
The breakfast is very well done and quite British: Brie cheese, fruit, and every conceivable bread - scones, raisin bread, bagels, croissants and more. The full coffee service, on each of the three floors from 5:30 to 10:30 a.m., is most appreciated by us Americans. Tea service replaces it in the afternoon.
Where does Sea Pines Resort find such dedicated and well trained staff? Overseas. Sea Pines cultivated strong relationships with universities in Great Britain, Australia, Germany and beyond to offer one-year internships for hospitality, property management and even agronomy students, said Monika McDonald, director of human resources.
"I didn't invent this," McDonald said. "I learned about it talking to other people."
Like those at Disney World, she said.
Most American students aren't required to complete internships of longer than 10 weeks. Given the amount of training and logistics, McDonald said, it makes more sense to seek a longer commitment.
The program includes about 50 students at a time, with an influx in February and the summer. The resort pays them and provides subsidized housing.
"We watch over them, too," McDonald said.
Of course, the students' accents add to the aura of Sea Pines. In particular, Harbour Town has worked to create and maintain its Scottish stock, from bagpipes to its patented Heritage tartan. (Spare toilet paper rolls in the bathroom vanity are tied with a tartan ribbon.)
The internships are win-win for the resort and its young employees. The training program has been perfected over years so the semi-annual class turnover is nearly seamless. The veterans, with nearly a year of experience, help break in the next group of interns.
All part of Sea Pines Resort
The Inn at Harbour Town is just one aspect of the 5,000-acre Sea Pines Resort, which includes nearly every activity imaginable. There's tennis, golf, eco-tours, horseback riding, sailing, art classes, biking and cruises. The possibilities are limited only by one's imagination.
Staying at the Inn offers additional perks. Guests receive two hours of free time on the tennis courts next door at the Sea Pines Racquet Club and a complimentary, three-hour bike rental. I'm not a tennis player, so the court time didn't appeal, but the bike rental ranks as the best way to experience Sea Pines Resort. The cushy, beach bikes are the perfect mode to explore everywhere from the Yacht Basin to South Beach. Along the ride, note the sunning alligators and a plethora of water birds. The only stressor? Trying to avoid the furry nuisances known as squirrels that dart across miles of paved bike paths.
Nearly every business at Sea Pines, from retailers to restaurants, offer discounts.
The Inn at Harbour Town holds its own against any four-diamond hotel out there, but with its own tartan and golf-loving accent.
Lisa Allen, Contributor
Lisa Allen is a golf, travel and business writer based in Beaufort, S.C. She has edited newspapers, magazines and books in Michigan, Indiana and South Carolina. Follow her on Twitter @LAllenSC.
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Last week while I was in Ocean City, New Jersey, my family and I attended a concert by the Christian group GLAD. Evangelicals of a certain age will remember GLAD. They began in the 1970s as a progressive Christian rock band based in the Philadelphia area and sometime during the late 1980s reinvented themselves as an A cappella group. The members of the band are getting older (and so are their fans), but they can still harmonize with the best of them.
The GLAD concert sent me on a trip down memory lane. I was first exposed to Christian contemporary music in the 1980s. Since I was a young Catholic for much of the 1970s, I was not familiar with Larry Norman, Randy Stonehill, or the Resurrection Band. As a new evangelical I remember being baffled when people in the youth group I was attending were crying over the death of Keith Green. Who the heck was Keith Green? And why did people think his stuff was better than Springsteen, Kansas, Chicago, Led Zeppelin, and Yes—the stuff I had always listened to on New York City FM radio.
Yes, it was a wonderful trip. I sat at my computer for a few hours listening to Petra ("More Power to Ya"), DeGarmo and Key ("Destined to Win"), Steve Camp ("He Covers Me"), Wayne Watson ("Friend of a Wounded Heart"), White Heart ("We Are His Hands"), Benny Hester ("When God Ran") and Russ Taff ("We Will Stand"). (I was apparently a real sucker for electric pianos and ballads in those days).
I must admit that I listened to most of these songs the other day not for spiritual encouragement, but as a form of nostalgia. They brought back many memories from my formative years as a student at a Christian college in the 1980s. The words of these songs contain a lot of bad theology, but I always thought that the hearts of the artists were in the right place.
Today, as a historian, I wonder what explains the success of this kind of music among evangelical young people during the Reagan Era. As Philip Jenkins and John Turner have noted recently, and David Stowe has argued, Christian rock and roll music began with the Jesus People in the late 1960s and early 1970s. But by the 1980s, so called Christian contemporary music really took off, led by many of the groups I mentioned above. This music was first charted in 1978. (Some of those early lists included songs such as "Praise the Lord" by the Imperials and "What a Difference You've Made in My Life" by B.J. Thomas).
What triggered this proliferation of Christian music in the 1980s? Was it the rise of Christian radio stations? Was it a regional phenomenon? (The CCM world of the 1980s was based in Nashville, but I listened to this stuff in Philadelphia and New Jersey). Was it an attempt to bring the music of the Jesus People into mainstream evangelicalism at a time when evangelicals were taking center stage in the political culture? Did it have something to do with the Jesus people growing up, or a general turn within American evangelicalism to a sort of middle-class conservatism? (Compare, for example, the image and music of Larry Norman or Randy Stonehill to that of Michael W. Smith and Wayne Watson–the music of the 1980s certainly lost a lot of the counter-cultural edge of the Jesus music of the 1970s). And in what sense were these musicians in the 1980s just reflecting–or copying– changes taking place in the larger music world?
I am not entirely sure how to answer these questions. I am not a historian of Christian contemporary music. But I am curious about how to interpret what was an important part of my life back then. Your thoughts on these questions, or any other that might come to mind, would be greatly appreciated as I try to make sense of this rush of nostalgia that has recently come over me.
I just finished driving for my job 4 hours yesterday listening to WOW Gold and 2 other WOW gold CDs of a later period. These are collections of CCM music like what you mention above (with church and black gospel stuff thrown in as well). They are a top 40 collection of 70s, 80s, and 90s CCM. Two things were happening back then, Christians were expressing freedoms NOT to be bound by traditional formats, and you had a wave of revival and evangelical growth at that time where the Spirit was bringing many to Christ and pop music styles of he period were being adopted right from the pop music outside the church of the day. The Spirit was "redeeming the times" with unique creative presentations of the Gospel in new formats. I love that period and miss it. THere is a place for nostalgia as you get older. And also when in the course of human event, there is noothing new under the sun, and you have to endure the same grungy style raspy voiced, distortion abckgrunds of contemporary CCM that lack the melodic musical bounce, rhythmic, and biblical lyrical hearts of new born Christians excited by their faith we heard in 80s when Jesus People on both coasts, Campus Crusade for Christ and the Navigators were growing on college campuses, and Billy Graham and Josh McDowell was running huge "One Way" and "Here's Life" media campaigns without resistance from an unbelieving leftist media.
I'd say it is one facet of the rise of market-based Evangelicalism. Could the rapid growth of youth ministries and college ministries in churches have been a contributing factor?
When I started college in the Fall of 91 a friend introduced me to Degarmo and Key, white heart, etc and to be honest all I heard was lots of noise. Fast Forward 20 years, I Pastor a small Baptist Church and am married with a child and I love CCM. Artists such as Tomlin, Steven Curtis Chapman. Mercy Me and The list goes on. The difference? IMHO it's two fold (1) the words r Scriptural 2) It's not as edgy and they seem to be the real deal.
I, too, have wondered about that transition from Jesus People rock (Daniel Amos is another good example) to the saccharine CCM usually identified with the 1980s. Is it a natural progression that all musical forms experienced or is it limited just to the Christian genre?
I have been thinking of these exact artists lately myself and listening to them for nostalgic reasons as well. THANK YOU for bringing it up and writing about it! I wish I could find these 80s artists in one place on a station or CD compilation. I can't even find Morgan Cryar (Keep No Secrets) anywhere! Such good memories; and I know EVERY word.


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Leo Varadkar confirms February 8 general election
Photo taken from the Twitter feed of Councillor Paul Donnelly of staff erecting posters of Taioseach Leo Varadkar around his constituency, Dublin West, before the Dáil had been dissolved or an election had officially been called
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has confirmed the Republic's general election will take place on Saturday February 8.
Making an announcement outside Government Buildings, Mr Varadkar said: "I have always said the election should happen at the best time for the country - now is that time."
Outlining his rationale, he said a deal on Brexit had been achieved and the UK would exit the EU in an "orderly" fashion.
"There will be no hard border, citizens' rights have been protected and the Common Travel Area will remain in place," he said.
And with a wave at the end, the 32nd Dáil has been dissolved. #GE2020 pic.twitter.com/PdGGoy54ZM
— Cate McCurry (@CateMcCurry) January 14, 2020
He said an agreement to get powersharing back up and running in the north has also been sealed.
Mr Varadkar said he had decided to hold an election on a Saturday for the first time in the Republic to avoiding inconveniencing families by closing schools on a weekday.
"I also want to make it easier for students and those working away from home to cast their votes," he said.
The taoiseach thanked the independent TDs who had joined Fine Gael in government since 2016.
He added: "Now I seek a fresh mandate so we can continue to build a better future. A future we can all look forward to.
"We have the team. We have the track record. We have the plans."
Mr Varadkar stressed that Brexit "is not done yet".
"In fact, it's only half-time," he added.
"The next step is to negotiate a free trade agreement between the EU, including Ireland, and the United Kingdom, that protects our jobs, our businesses, our rural communities and our economy.
"The capacity to do everything else that needs to be done - health, housing, climate action, tax reform - depends on achieving this outcome. And, it has to be done by the end of the year.
"There exists now a window of opportunity to hold a general election and to have a new Government in place before the next European Council meeting in March with a strong mandate to focus on these negotiations into the summer and autumn."
Mr Varadkar said it had been a privilege to lead the country as taoiseach.
"Thank you for that honour and for your trust in me," he said.
"We have a deal on Brexit and in Northern Ireland. Our economy has never been stronger. There are more people at work than ever before, incomes are rising, poverty is falling and the public finances are back in order. As a nation, we have every reason to be hopeful about the future.
"We've modernised our society - marriage equality, women's rights, real progress in education, welfare and childcare.
"But, it's not enough. I know it's not enough. People want their government to do much more. And I want us to do much more."
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin says the 2020 election will be "vital" for the Irish people.
"Particularly in terms of housing, inability of people to afford houses, rising housing prices, rising rents," he said.
"In health we have a serious crisis of people waiting far too long for procedures.
"Things are simply not working in this country in so many areas, and these problems need to be addressed far faster and there needs to be greater delivery on these issues than we have experienced."
Mr Martin went on to say he has "no problem" with the chosen election date of February 8, which is a Saturday.
"We have no issue with the 8th but we want the public to have sufficient time to examine the policies and proposals, and a longer campaign would've given greater opportunity for the public to hold the government to account, but the date has been set and as far as we're concerned, we'll concentrate on the issues," Mr Martin said.
Mr Martin said the conversation with the taoiseach about the end of the confidence and supply agreement was "about one second".
"He was just informing me he was going to (Phoenix Park) this afternoon - I have to say, I had an idea he was," Mr Martin added.
"At the end of the day, the indecision has come to an end."
The key issue for us is we need a change of government," Mr Martin added.
"We need a new government - Fine Gael has failed, they have failed in housing, health, cost of living, The National Children's Hospital for example, the extraordinary way that ballooned out in expectations of cost, and the National Broadband plan.
"It illustrates lack of control, lack of hands-on management from Fine Gael ministers and we've picked up on the doorsteps that people are angry with the situation, young people in particular who can't aspire to home ownership.
"People are finding it very difficult to buy a house.
"They haven't delivered and haven't got the capacity to deliver, that is why we need a change."
Mr Varadkar acknowledged that many people had not felt an economic recovery in their pockets.
"We have a plan for fairer taxes - for future jobs and for rural Ireland - to put that right," he said.
The taoiseach accepted there was frustration at the pace of efforts to tackle problems in housing and health.
"We share that frustration and I look forward to sharing our plans to build on what has been done, with a particular focus on home ownership and universal healthcare," he added.
The Fine Gael leader said the Republic was making "real headway" on climate action.
"We're no longer a laggard but we are still far from being a leader. We have much to do," he said.
He said he knew many families struggled with the cost of living, "so we have plans to ease the burden and help families who we believe should be at the centre of our society."
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Hot smoking is fun to do in your own backyard on your BBQ. It does need a bit of time, patience and understanding though. Low and slow is the way to get great results.
Brine chicken one day before cooking. Place honey, sage leaves, smashed garlic clove, salt and peppercorns in large jug or deep bowl. Pour over 500ml just boiled water and stir to dissolve salt. Top up with cold water and leave to cool completely to make volume up to 1.1 litre liquid.
Submerge chicken breasts in cooled brine. Cover and refrigerate for about 24 hours.
Light BBQ. Place smoking box full of woodchips on grill for about 10 minutes, until chips start to smoke.
Meanwhile, remove chicken breasts from brine and place on cooling rack, spaced apart from each other. Place rack over roasting pan half filled with hot water and place in BBQ on rack next to smoker box. Extinguish half flame under roasting tin if possible and turn heat to medium.
Smoke chicken for 15 to 25 minutes, depending on size of breasts. Chicken is ready when springy to touch and golden. Towards end of cooking, brush some extra honey on chicken. Remove meat from BBQ, rest on covered plate for 5 minutes.
While chicken is smoking, make salsa verde. Finely chop shallot and soak in vinegar for 10 minutes. Chop parsley leaves and tender stalks into medium size. Mix with olive oil.
Heat vegetable oil in small but deep saucepan to 180°C. Pat sage leaves dry and cook in batches for a couple of minutes or so, until still green but oil has stopped bubbling. Remove from oil and place on absorbent paper. Leaves will crisp up once out of oil. Set 12 leaves aside and crumble the rest into parsley.
Add salt and pepper to salsa verde. Drain vinegar from onions and add onion to herbs. Stir and taste for balance of flavour – if too sharp, add a touch more salt.
Boil 500ml salted water. Add rice and stir. Cover and cook according to directions on packet, until tender. Drain.
Place large frying pan on medium heat. Cut spring onions into 1cm slices. Crush garlic. Add to frying pan, season with ½ teaspoon salt flakes and pinch pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally for 3 to 4 minutes.
Meanwhile roughly chop broccoli florets and stalk. Place in food processor bowl and process until chopped to about the size of a grain of rice. Add broccoli to frying pan. Season with ¾ tsp salt flakes and good pinch cracked black pepper. Cook for 4 to 5 minutes over gentle heat until just starting to soften, no need to colour.
Mix broccoli with warm rice.
Brush final amount of honey on resting chicken then cut into ½cm thin slices.
Place broccoli rice on plate, top with chicken and finish with spoonful of salsa verde and 2 crisp sage leaves perched on top. Serve.
We used hickory chips to smoke the chicken.


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Sean Bean is a tremendously talented English film and stage actor, perhaps best known for his role as Boromir in The Lord of the Rings.
Sean Bean currently has three Body Paint which we know about, including two designs which are dedicated to his favorite football team, Sheffield United.
His first football Body Paint says "100% Blade" and is located on his left upper arm, along with the letters "SUFC" on his wrist.
Mr. Bean's other Body Paint reads "Nine" in the mythical Elvish language, and is part of a " Body Paint pact" with fellow Lord of the Rings cast members who received the very same Body Paint .
Other cast member with the "Nine" Body Paint are, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, and John Rhys-Davies.


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TDSB to close all schools for in-person learning on Friday as education workers vow to walk off job
Closures are in response to threat by education workers to walk off the job, TDSB says
Patty Coates, head of the Ontario Federation of Labour, speaking during a news conference at Queens Park on Monday. Coates stands in solidarity with CUPE members Laura Walton, left, and Fred Hahn, who announced provincewide job action in response to failed negotiations with the Ontario government. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) says it will close all schools for in-person learning on Friday, the same day some 55,000 Ontario education workers are set to walk off the job in a province-wide protest.
On Monday the union representing the workers — the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) — said its members will walk off the job Friday, regardless of Ontario's proposed anti-strike legislation, which was tabled Monday and invokes the notwithstanding clause to block job action by the union.
As a result of this announcement, the board will have no option but to close all schools for in-person learning for all students on Friday Nov. 4, the TDSB said in a statement Monday night.
Peel schools to close, students to learn remotely Friday amid CUPE education workers' protest
"While we understand that this will be challenging for many families, parents/guardians/caregivers will be required to make alternate arrangements for their children," the statement from the TDSB said.
"This is not a decision that we take lightly and we have explored every possible contingency plan to keep schools open.
"Student supervision and safety are our top priorities and without the important services of these school-based employees, we cannot guarantee that our learning environments will remain safe and clean for all students," it added
Striking workers could face fines of up to $4K per day
At a news conference earlier on Monday, CUPE said education workers will "withdraw their labour" to protest against the move by the province, which they called a "monstrous overreach."
The Ontario government introduced the Keeping Students in Class Act on Monday, which invokes the notwithstanding clause to impose a contract on education workers and avert a strike. The clause — or Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms — gives provincial legislatures or Parliament the ability, through the passage of a law, to override certain portions of the charter for a five-year term.
Education workers could face fines of up to $4,000 per day should they strike, the legislation states.
The union held the news conference hours after the provincial government announced it plans to bring in legislation to block the potential job action.
CUPE has said they will explore every avenue to fight the bill, but the government said it intends to use the notwithstanding clause to keep the eventual law in force despite any constitutional challenges.
Speaking to reporters Monday afternoon, Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce called the union's decision to proceed with striking "unacceptable."
"The government has been left with no choice but to take immediate action today," Lecce said, indicating the union rejected its latest offer, adding he believes the legislation is in fact constitutional.
WATCH: 'I will not accept for one day a strike': Stephen Lecce
Ontario education minister Stephen Lecce says the Ford government offered an increased wage package to CUPE education workers but, "when we offer a union an option and off-ramp to avoid a strike and to avoid a contract being legislated, and they decide to proceed with the strike; you should expect the government to stand up for the right of children to learn." 11:48
The government had been offering raises of two per cent a year for workers making less than $40,000 and 1.25 per cent for all others. Lecce said the new four-year deal would give 2.5 per cent annual raises to workers making less than $43,000 and 1.5 per cent raises for all others.
CUPE has said its workers, which make on average $39,000 a year, are generally the lowest paid in schools and the union has been seeking annual salary increases of 11.7 per cent.
"The government is going to pass the bill. We're going to move forward," said Lecce.
The education minister said its move was not a blanket approach, saying it will continue to negotiate with other education unions.
Unclear how long protest could go on
As for whether the job action will run longer than one day, union officials said that remains to be seen.
The union also said it will come up with financial support for any consequences that workers might face for protesting in the face of the legislation.
On Sunday, education workers represented by CUPE gave the required five days' notice for job action, positioning its members — including educational assistants, custodians and early childhood educators, but not teachers — to go on full strike as early as Friday.
Several Ontario school boards have said they will shut down schools if support staff withdraw their services.
Ontario government tables legislation to prevent strike by CUPE education workers
The government and education workers returned to the bargaining table Sunday afternoon but there doesn't appear to have been any progress since.
Union officials said the province's offer put forward Sunday would have provided only a nickel more for each worker, giving the union an ultimatum. Instead of the government holding a negotiation, officials said they learned the government intended to legislate against a strike if the union didn't acquiesce.
Laura Walton, dressed as Rosie the Riveter on Halloween, speaking at Queen's Park in Toronto on Monday. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
"If Stephen Lecce cared about kids, he wouldn't have handed $200 to parents," said CUPE member Laura Walton, dressed in a Rosie the Riveter Halloween costume — a choice she said was intended to send a message.
Still, she said, "negotiations aren't done."
ETFO walks away from bargaining Monday
Meanwhile, in a news release Monday, the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario said it "unequivocally" condemned the Ford government's move.
The union representing some 83,000 Ontario elementary teachers said it ended its own negotiations with the government for Monday because it could not "in good conscience, sit across the table from the government," ETFO President Karen Brown said.
"ETFO stands with CUPE members and their right to strike for better pay and working conditions, and not with a regressive government that is cloaking anti-labour legislation as being pro-education," said Brown.
The Ontario Secondary Schools Teachers' Federation (OSSTF) also issued a statement, calling the proposed legislation "heavy-handed," "effectively undermining and disrupting their rights to free and fair collective bargaining."
The union, which represents more than 60,000 members across Ontario says it "stands in solidarity" with CUPE's members, but that its focus remains on its own negotiations with the province.
"We continue to call on the Ford government to work within a fair process that respects and upholds all workers' Charter rights, and to invest in public education and negotiate a fair deal," OSSTF President Karen Littlewood said.
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