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SBTC praised by SBC leaders for leadership
CORPUS CHRISTI?Southern Baptists of Texas Convention messengers and guests heard expressions of gratitude from Southern Baptist entity leaders, grateful for the state convention's commitment to send more funds beyond the state than are retained for Texas ministry.
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary President Charles Kelley Jr. led off with praise to the SBTC and Executive Director Jim Richards "for the incredible work you are doing in setting aside 52 percent of state Cooperative Program receipts to give to worldwide ministry. No state convention has ever done that before. Thank you for your vision to touch the world for Christ."
The great challenge among Southern Baptist seminaries is not in finding faculty committed to the inerrant word of God, enlisting students to be trained, nor in offering groundbreaking, innovative curriculum, stated Kelley. "The greatest challenge we have is providing adequate funding for those seminary students."
Despite a 10 percent increase in enrollment in the past 20 years, students are taking fewer courses because of the need to work to pay for their education. "Seminaries are working extremely hard at keeping costs under control, but the task gets ever more difficult to do," he said.
Kelley described the extended ministry of NOBTS as "the sun never sets" on the graduates of the seminary. Inmates at "the bloodiest prison in America" have heard the gospel proclaimed by other prisoners saved and then discipled through the outreach of the seminary. Volunteer teenagers, college students and senior adults utilize campus dormitory space to offer ministry in the French Quarter.
"God put Baptists in New Orleans to show his gospel can flourish in any kind of setting if only his people will be brave and courageous enough to let that gospel loose."
Told by a former Southern Baptist leader that "the seminaries are in ruin, devastated, with virtually nothing left of the great seminary system we once had," Kelley said, "I had to pray and ask God that he would ruin us some more." He praised the faculty at each Southern Baptist seminary for teaching the Bible "as the word of God, inspired, inerrant, infallible and sufficient for every need of the world today."
Kelley urged churches, "Work harder than ever before to be faithful to the Cooperative Program God has given to us."
"We are not to wait until we reach everyone in Jerusalem to go to Judea and Samaria," said Southern Baptist missionary Randal Pegues in his report on behalf of the International Mission Board. "We do all of those at one time." With 1.5 billion people having never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ and 220 people groups with no access to that message, Southern Baptists are striving to share the gospel with all unchurched people groups with a population of 100,000 people or more by the year 2005.
"Southern Baptists are answering God's call to missions, but must wait for financial support to catch up," Pegues said. In spite of an 8.7 percent increase in the number of mission candidates responding, giving has risen by only 1.5 percent. As a result, the number of field personnel will decline from 5,510 to 4,800 by the end of next year.
In a videotaped message, IMB President Jerry Rankin appealed to SBTC churches to prayerfully consider increasing their gifts to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions by 33 percent over last year. At that level of giving Rankin said Southern Baptists would surpass the $130 million goal and open the floodgates to send all of the candidates prepared to go. Without such a strong response among Southern Baptists, he said, "We'll continue the status quo and send those 4,800 missionaries."
Reminding Texas Baptists that the work of LifeWay actually began in Texas, President James T. Draper said Southern Baptists established the Baptist Sunday School Board in 1890 at the annual meeting in Fort Worth. Over a century later, LifeWay is partnering with the SBTC to provide $215,948 for student ministry, field service, training and promotional materials.
Draper described LifeWay as the largest publisher of religious resources and materials in the world with 119 retail stores, 188 monthly periodicals and more than 300 undated periodicals. That ministry has extended around the world as resources and training are provided globally. In 2002, Southern Baptist churches reported 109,000 professions of faith and 300,000 prospects through Vacation Bible School.
"VBS is still the best evangelistic tool Southern Baptists have," Draper remarked.
As the only entity in Southern Baptist life whose primary focus is not on the message, but rather the messenger, Annuity Board President O. S. Hawkins said the Dallas-based entity seeks to assist pastors who often lack an advocate, partnering with them to enhance financial stability throughout life. By enrolling in a retirement plan, Southern Baptist ministers automatically qualify for matching funds that provide for disability and survivor's benefits. "It's a no-brainer. Every church ought to have its pastor and staff in the Annuity Board.
SBTC Executive Board honors Richards,
CORPUS CHRISTI?The Southern Baptists of Texas Executive Board celebrated the five-year mark of the convention in its regularly scheduled meeting the morning after the SBTC's sixth annual meeting, electing new officers, approving job responsibility shifts for three ministry staff members and welcoming a new ministry associate.
Steve Cochran, pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church in Longview, was unanimously elected board president. The board elected Joe Stewart, pastor of First Baptist Church, Littlefield, as vice chairman, and Sally Tillman of Exciting Immanuel Baptist Church in El Paso, as board secretary, both unanimously.
The board also recognized Jim Richards, SBTC executive director, for five years of leading the convention by presenting him with a book of letters and photos.
"Not very often do words fail me, but this is one of those times," Richards remarked. "I am absolutely humbled by your graciousness and the expression of love that you have shown, not only this morning but also during the last five years.
"It's been a tremendous journey, it's been an incredible journey. And it would not have been possible had it not been for the pastor of the little church out in the country, the layman who was willing to take of his resources, the lady who was willing to pray, and all of those faithful Bible-believing, Christ-honoring Southern Baptists of Texas who said we need to have a ministry in this state. It's because of them."
Richards said he was given the opportunity to "raise the banner" and is thankful for those who have prayed for him and for the SBTC, adding he hopes others will continue to pray. He also thanked the SBTC ministry and support staff for its faithfulness, as well as the Executive Board for its support and vision for ministry.
"May the next five years be even greater than what we've experienced in these first five years," Richards said.
The board approved the following staff reassignments: Robby Partain, from missions and evangelism senior associate to director of missions, beginning Jan. 1; Casey Perry, from director of minister/church relations to area ministry coordinator, effective Jan. 1; and Deron Biles, from minister/church relations associate to director of minister/church relations, effective Jan. 1.
Also, the board unanimously called, upon recommendation, Troy Brooks as minister/church relations associate, effective Jan. 1. Brooks is pastor of First Baptist Church, Groesbeck, where he has served since March 1986.
Upon accepting the call, Brooks commented, "Paula and I are deeply saddened at the thought of leaving First Baptist Church of Groesbeck, Texas. They have been our family for the past 18 years, We are, however, greatly excited about working with the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention and her more than 1,380 churches as we partner to reach Texas together."
Brooks earned his bachelor's degree at Dallas Baptist University, a master of divinity at Southwestern Seminary and a doctor of ministry from Louisiana Baptist Theological Seminary.
Joe Davis, SBTC chief financial officer, reported to the board that the convention has garnered $1.4 million of net operating revenue through Sept. 30 and estimated that figure to be $1.86 million at year's end. When reduced by a $492,000 building fund allocation, the figure will be an estimated net operating income of $1.37 million, Davis noted.
"We've had a good year, receipts wise," and "Cooperative Program receipts continue to be strong," Davis said.
Receipts for Reach Texas, the state missions offering, are $700,299, compared with $672,091 last year, and the Lottie Moon Offering for International Missions yielded $3,509,412, compared with $3,091,775 last year, Davis reported.
The board also approved up to $300,000 in surplus funds to be used for SBTC ministry projects among the convention and its ministry partners. Specifically, the breakdown would be up to $100,000 for the SBTC Hispanic Initiative, up to $25,000 for the 20/20 Connection Project, and up to $75,000 for ministry in partnership with Houston Baptist University. Up to $100,000 was approved for special projects, which likely will involve the establishment of an SBTC foundation to support new ministry projects.
Richards reported that "we are very close" to calling someone to lead the Hispanic Initiative, a stepped-up effort to meet the rapidly expanding Hispanic culture in Texas. "Our desire is to reach the people that God is sending our way," he noted.
Empower conference to feature Blackaby
Henry T. Blackaby, author of numerous books including the popular "Experiencing God" study, will be among the speakers at the emPOWER Conference, sponsored by the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, Feb. 9-10 at the Arlington Convention Center.
Blackaby will be among other well-known Christian leaders at the conference?formerly known as the State Evangelism Conference?such as Zig Ziglar, Jack Graham and Larnelle Harris.
Formerly the director of prayer and spiritual awakening at the North American Mission Board of Southern Baptists, Blackaby is president of Henry Blackaby Ministries in suburban Atlanta, an organization he founded in 2001.
The Canada native has served churches in California and Canada. He was president of Canadian Baptist Theological College for seven years and president of the Canadian Southern Baptist Conference from 1977 to 1978. He has provided leadership to thousands of pastors and laymen across North America and has spoken to missionaries and other groups in more than 80 countries.
Blackaby is a graduate of the University of British Columbia and earned a doctorate at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in San Francisco. He holds four honorary doctorate degrees.
In 1970, Blackaby became pastor of a tiny church in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Faith Baptist Church, which grew to many times its original membership and helped found 38 new churches and became a center for pastoral training.
Blackaby later served at the North American Mission Board and also served as special assistant to the presidents of the International Mission Board and LifeWay Christian Resources. Although he is now officially retired, Blackaby continues to consult numerous evangelical leaders.
He has written many spiritually influential books, most notably "Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God," which has sold 4 million copies and has been translated into 50-plus languages. His "Experiencing God Day by Day" devotional won a Gold Medallion Award from the Christian Booksellers Association.
For more information on the emPOWER Conference, call the SBTC office at 972-953-0878 or toll free at 877-953-7282.
Super Bowl evangelism project
HOUSTON?The team roster is just beginning to fill for the Super Bowl Evangelism Project and organizers are praying for thousands more Texans to suit up for what is arguably the most visible event in sports.
The goal is to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the hundreds of thousands of people from around the world in Houston Feb. 1 for Super Bowl XXXVIII.
A kick-off rally was held Oct. 2 at Houston's First Baptist Church to inspire interest in the project, coordinated by the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board and in partnership with the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention.
"It is our hope and prayer that this will culminate in thousands of volunteers working throughout the venues to witness," said project coordinator David Fannin, pastor of Nassau Bay Baptist Church in Houston, a church affiliated with the SBTC.
"The purpose we have for this effort is mainly to reach people where they are, at the Super Bowl," said Tom Cottar, Sbtc youth evangelism associate. "We need literally hundreds of people for tailgate parties in church parking lots and other events beginning 10 days prior to the Super Bowl. The vision is to fish while the fishing is good."
Working in concert with NAMB, evangelist Tim Knopps said the project truly is a grassroots effort that could reap thousands of souls.
NAMB has retained Knopps, president of the Timothy Institute of Evangelism in Oklahoma City, to help coordinate the volunteer effort in Houston. He has organized similar undertakings during seven previous Super Bowls.
Although only 73,000 people can actually get into Houston's Reliant Stadium to see the big game, Knopps said anywhere from 200,000 to 300,000 people will come to the city just to be a part of the Super Bowl atmosphere. The event will not only attract football fans, but reporters and revelers worldwide. All of those people, in addition to the 4 million people who live in Houston, make for a huge mission field, Knopps said.
He emphasized the key to reaching as many people as possible with the gospel is to get Christian volunteers working in as many different venues as possible. There will be activities organized and manned by area churches and in addition to those sponsored by the Super Bowl Host Committee?church and secular opportunities in which Christians can involve themselves. The volunteer work won't get anyone into the game, Knopps said, but the results of their work are far more rewarding.
That work, Knopps added, does not begin the day of the game but several days out as people begin to converge on Houston. Individual Christians and entire congregations can be involved in the church-sponsored ministries which will include street evangelism, block parties, family-oriented sports events featuring Christian professional athletes, food distributions, watch parties, and "stadium stuffing."
The latter project is usually assigned to area college students. Their job will be to stuff the tens of thousands of gift bags to be given to every attendee of the game. Knopps said those students then get to place the bags in the stadium seats and as they do they pray for the person who will occupy that seat.
An S.O.S. prayer is sent up, he said. The students ask God for the salvation of the individual, for the person to be obedient to their newfound faith, and that they be given safety in their travels.
"Everything we do is geared to getting people saved," he said.
Knopps emphasized the importance of the Christians involving themselves in all areas of the project. Coordinators for the Houston Super Bowl Host Committee are trying to secure 10,000 volunteers to operate the venues hosted by the Super Bowl. The "NFL Experience" exhibit will need 6,000 volunteers. This "1.5 million square feet of fun," Knopps said, is a playground where kids and adults can put themselves through the rigors of mock football training in addition to other fun and games.
Organizers of the evangelism project anticipate volunteers from outside the city and state to suit up for the team effort. Super Bowl Evangelism Project Volunteer Coordinator Roy Guel said he has already received calls from churches around Texas and as far away as Virginia. One task of local churches will be to play host to those mission groups.
Guel said he is still in the process of compiling a volunteer database for the project, beginning with those who attended the Oct. 2 rally. Of the 100-plus people who came to the informational meeting, Guel believes at least half of them represented leadership from area churches. That, he said, is 60-70 churches interested in being a part of the evangelism project.
Once the database is complete, he said, more information and registration materials will be sent out. Preparation will then begin on the volunteer training due to take place in 2-3 months.
During the project, the city of Houston
Seminary trustees affirm new offering suggestion
FORT WORTH?The intentionally light agenda of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's trustee board was interrupted by a unanimous resolution asking the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention to launch a seminary offering in honor of the late W. A. Criswell. In their Oct. 20-21 meeting, trustees affirmed the newly elected president's proposed solution to alleviate rising costs in a way that would avoid shifting more of the financial burden to students.
No other major actions were taken in the regular board meeting scheduled amidst presidential inauguration festivities. The proposal of a special offering benefiting Southern Baptist seminaries arose during President Paige Patterson's report to trustees at the first plenary session. While Patterson's pledge to reverse a 20-year enrollment decline will provide increased Cooperative Program funding, a new source of revenue is needed to handle rising costs and significantly increase faculty salaries.
"If you've looked at faculty salaries you now this is one of the most astonishing and heartbreaking situations imaginable. What we pay our faculty is just unthinkable," he said. "Southern Baptists are going to have to give an account to God for what we have not done in that regard." In suggesting the SBC establish the W. A. Criswell Offering for Seminary Education, Patterson said the money could be designated for faculty salaries, alleviating the current budget crunch.
Patterson said the SBC Executive Committee responded to his proposal by appointing a special committee in the spring of 2002. While the proposed offering was among the various items discussed in seeking ways to increase support for SBC entities, other ideas relating to seminary education have also arisen. "I regret to say [that committee]may have taken on a life of its own," Patterson said without elaboration.
Texas trustee Michael Dean of Fort Worth added, "Part of their thinking on this is that they want seminaries to retool and change the format of traditional theological education to take on more of an MBA approach," he said, referring to an increased use of distance learning. He said consideration was given to moving away from a traditional approach to seminary education by scaling down campuses. "Is that what is driving this?" Dean asked Patterson.
The president acknowledged that Dean had "a most remarkable capacity to open up a new can of worms," drawing laughter from the audience. "Yes, a fundamental distinction in how you do seminary education is very much involved in this. There are strong elements at least within the Executive Committee staff and even involving a few Executive Committee members who believe that the age of electronics has dawned, that the seminary campus is antiquated as an idea and we need to move to a primarily electronic delivery system" to reduce overhead. "There are even elements within the Executive Committee staff that advocate having one seminary with a super board operating in various other locations" utilizing media-driven instruction.
"I am forever the opponent of that," Patterson declared. "When the day comes that you train your cardiac surgeons" and "the United States SEAL team is trained on an extension campus by means of electronic media, then I'm ready to do it in a seminary." Convinced that would never happen, Patterson insisted that some assignments require on-the-job training as individual professors impact the lives of future ministers. By way of example, Patterson described the influence of former Southern Seminary Professor Wayne Ward in teaching him how to preach expositionally as the two interacted across the years. "I am arguing you can't reproduce that. You can do some things by media, by internet and by extension campus, but you can't put Craig Blaising on every extension campus. It would be sinful to put him with electronic media," Patterson quipped, referring to the executive vice-president and theology dean.
"We are in severe danger right now of dumbing down the future," Patterson continued. "We're not training occupation troops here, folks.
SBTC, Taiwanese Baptists plan for 2004 mission
Plans are being developed for Southern Baptists of Texas Convention churches to be able to send mission teams to Taiwan next July for a week of evangelism in the Buddhist-dominated island nation off mainland China.
Dub Jackson, the SBTC's partnership missions consultant, said the Taiwan Baptist Convention has invited the SBTC to send 50 teams of 4-10 people?one for each of Taiwan's 50 Baptist churches?to lead in preaching, music and outreach July 18-25. The teams will leave Texas July 14 and return July 26.
Of 23 million people in Taiwan, only 3 percent are Christians, according to information from the Taiwan Baptist Convention.
"We want to take advantage of the opportunity while we have it," Jackson said. "We know we have the freedom (to share the gospel) now. We have the invitation now. We have the command to go?now. That ll adds to the urgency of it. ? We really have to consider this as if it's the only opportunity we have to witness in Taiwan."
Jackson said because of Taiwan's proximity to mainland China, the freedom to preach the gospel might cease soon.
A veteran of international missions work, much of it in east Asia, Jackson said invitations from native people groups are necessary in such partnerships. Nehemiah Tsai, executive director of the Taiwanese Baptists, initiated the partnership, Jackson noted, because of the Taiwanese Baptist Convention's desire for a greater evangelistic emphasis in 2004.
He said a similar mission effort in which he participated at the invitation of Japanese Baptists in the early 1960s yielded more than 25,000 conversions among Buddhists. He said through prayer and participation something similar could occur in Taiwan.
"Dub Jackson has been involved in more international Crusade Evangelism projects than perhaps any Southern Baptist," said Jim Richards, SBTC executive director-treasurer. "The SBTC is blessed to have him coordinating the effort in Taiwan for 2004. The Baptist convention leaders in Taiwan have expressed a passionate plea for help. Theyfeel an abundant harvest is near. If you have an interest in cross-cultural crusade evangelism, I encourage you to go. People will be saved if we are obedient."
Under the supervision of the local churches, the Texas teams will likely present the gospel in schools, service clubs and jails and have opportunities to address the news media and civic leaders.
Many of the Taiwanese are Buddhists, and many Westerners believe wrongly that a straightforward gospel presentation is inadequate in witnessing to Buddhists, Jackson said. The partnership needs people "with the faith to believe that a person can receive Christ by just a simple prayer of faith, asking for forgiveness and accepting the eternal life that is promised."
The estimated cost will be $2,795 per person, which includes travel, lodging in a quality hotel, and meals, Jackson said.
For more information, contact Ronnie Yarber, SBTC interim director of evangelism, at 972-953-0878.
Stanley remarks draw response
FORT WORTH?Former Southern Baptist Convention President Charles Stanley's remarks in an Oct. 18 newspaper article that Southern Baptists are wrong for not ordaining female pastors and for including a phrase in the Southern Baptist Convention's confessional statement that wives should submit to their husbands drew rebuffs from SBC leaders.
Stanley's comments to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram were that the SBC's inclusion in the Baptist Faith and Message that a "wife should submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband" was inappropriate and "just ridiculous." Stanley said the phrasing reflected a misreading of Scripture, which he said "leans more toward" mutual submission.
Stanley, longtime pastor of the First Baptist Church in Atlanta, also said he was saved at age 12 by the preaching of a woman, "and I'm still saved." Stanley offered that he disagrees with the Baptist Faith and Message statement on pastoral leadership as limited to men only, the Star-Telegram reported.
SBC President Jack Graham, pastor of Dallas-area Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, said Southern Baptists' intentions on addressing the family and husband-wife roles have been clear.
"The issue of the husband-wife relationship is critical to the culture in which we live, where there is so much disintegration of the family and questions regarding what constitutes a family, Graham said.
"I'm disappointed that Dr. Stanley would not see this as an important issue. I certainly respect Dr. Stanley and his viewpoint, but our beliefs are not based on the culture or on experiences but upon the clear testimony of Scripture." Graham said most Southern Baptists would disagree with Stanley.
"That the Bible teaches mutual submission in the body of Christ does not dilute the fact that the roles of the marriage relationship are different," Graham noted, adding that the "role of husband and wife is always uniquely in the context of a mutual loving relationship."
Susie Hawkins, a Prestonwood member who served on the committee that revised the Baptist Faith and Message in 2000, remarked: "I'm just very disappointed in Dr. Stanley's statement. Anyone who has a problem with the Baptist Faith and Message regarding those two portions really has a problem with the Bible because that's all the Baptist Faith and Message is. We sought to uphold the scriptural boundaries and that seems to be where his issue lies."
The other female who served on that committee, Heather King, Women's Program director at Southern Seminary in Louisville, Ky., said Stanley "is free to profess that which he believes; however, as Christians we must look again an
Elisabeth Elliot to speak at Criswell College
Dallas?On Nov. 14, The Criswell College will present "Ancient Words, Ever New," a conference for ministers and their wives that is expected to draw participants from Texas and surrounding states.
The full-day event will feature noted pastors and Bible teachers, including renowned author and speaker Elisabeth Elliot, widow of missionary Jim Elliot, upon whom the book "Through the Gates of Splendor" was based.
Other guests include David Allen, pastor of MacArthur Boulevard Baptist Church, Irving; Mac Brunson, pastor of First Baptist Church, Dallas, and his wife, Debbie; worship leaders Ron and Patricia Owens, and members of The Criswell College faculty.
Topics will include Investing in Your Mate; Passion on the Bayou; How to be Happy Where You Are; Preaching Christ in the 21st Century; Balancing Family Life and Ministry; Gifts to Go: Using Your Spiritual Gifts; Empowering Kingdom Growth, and Youth Ministry in Cultural Crisis.
"'Ancient Words, Ever New' will be an encouraging and inspiration-filled day," said Lamar Cooper, acting president of The Criswell College. "Everyone associated with this conference is an encourager to fellow believers and especially to those serving in a ministry. We are especially blessed to have Elisabeth Elliot to challenge all who join us for the day to go 'Beyond the Gates of Splendor.'"
Elliot will share her dramatic life story during the evening session of the conference. There will also be a private screening of "Beyond the Gates of Splendor," a feature-length documentary debuting in theaters next year. The conference?excluding the documentary screening?is open to the public.
Elliot was born in Belgium to missionaries, graduated from Wheaton College and later, in 1953, married former classmate Jim Elliot. Together, they worked on translating the New Testament into the Quichua Indians' language. In 1955, their daughter, Valerie, was born, and 10 months later, Auca Indians killed Jim while he attempted to take the gospel to the primitive tribe. After Jim's death, Elliot remained and continued her work among the Quichuas and Aucas.
Elliot is a speaker and author of many books including "And When You Pray" and "The Glory of God's Will." For many years, she hosted the nationally syndicated radio program, "Gateway to Joy." Today, she lives north of Boston with her husband, Lars Gren.
"Beyond the Gates of Splendor" captures the lives and work of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot, the fateful event that took place while serving among the Aucas, and the many miracles that would follow. It traces the lives of five North American missionaries in 1955?Nate Saint, Jim Elliot, Peter Fleming, Ed McCully, and Roger Youderian?who ventured out to peacefully share the gospel with one of the most violent tribes in the Amazon?the Auca Indians. Their attempts were not in vain?they were encouraging in the beginning?though tribesmen murdered them on January 7, 1956.
The documentary attempts to explain that in the darkest places of the world, the brightest miracles can be seen. "Beyond the Gates of Splendor" features narration by the missionaries' families and the Waodani tribes people. Through the film, the audience witnesses the fruit of the five missionaries' work. It also depicts the strength of the widows who would resume their husbands' work in spreading the gospel, and of one missionary's son who would come to soon after regard that same tribe that slew his father as "family."
The conference segment "An Evening with Elisabeth Elliot" will be from 7:30-9 p.m.
Conference registration is $35 for singles and $50 for couples. The Friday evening event alone is $10. After the evening session, Elliot will be available for book signings. This event is expected to be one of Elliot's last speaking engagements, The Criswell College officials said. For a registration form or more information, contact Kathy Sibley at 214-818-1318 or 800-899-0012.
The SBTC at five years
As our Southern Baptists of Texas Convention completes its fifth full year, it is a good time to note our progress and look at the principles that brought us to our current place. Many have noted the blessings of God, but he has provided some specific things that were used to build the mature convention we are today.
Our core values?theological agreement, missiological activity, and methodological approach?have been distinctive and foundational to our fellowship. Their straightforward simplicity allowed us to build ministries in harmony with our stated purpose. They have also provided a plain-spoken explanation of our convention. Within the SBTC, we are reminded of why we exist. Outside our convention, people know what we're about. It's made a big difference.
Part of the reason our core values have been so instrumental in our progress has to do with the time in which we were born. By 1998, most existing organizations had developed mission statements, core values, and the whole gamut of business-speak accoutrements. Most struggled to apply defining, guiding principles to already-existing organizations. It was painful, destructive, and more often than not, defeating. Our founders understood the value of defining statements and were able to start fresh with these in mind. It's often easier to start something than change something.
Another blessing of our time was the mindset of our founding generation. Ours is a baby-boomer convention, at least at the beginning. By habit, this makes us think more carefully about institutions and traditional forms of ministry. By temperament we resist doing things because others do them or because we always have. This bias has made it easier to start something new and distinct.
Our birth coincided with an age when user-friendly technology is not only available and affordable but widely used in churches and ministry. For the first time in generations, many small churches and groups of churches are able to stay current in information technology. It allows a new convention to work smarter and more efficiently. We can deliberately build our staff without the difficult decisions of downsizing an outdated organization.
The Southern Baptist Resurgence was an important precursor to the foundation of the SBTC. Southern Baptists see the value of confessional fellowship today because of what we experienced during the past 20 years. There was no need for a new convention that would start well and then drift or struggle with essential issues formerly taken for granted. Our fellowship is based on principles designed to settle those issues up front in our relationship with one another.
A high level of agreement within our fellowship has followed commitment to our core values. Some scoff at the low level of dissent present in our business meetings. That should not be mistaken for apathy or herd thinking. Debate and discussion do get lively in our committees and on our board but those are not about the direction of our convention or the nature of our mission. That spares us from "divided house" issues many older conventions will face this year. Our confessional nature is a blessing in this way. We don't have CBF churches hostile to the traditional vision of Southern Baptists. We don't and won't have affiliated churches experimenting with innovative theology because being a part of our body is defined by commitment to orthodox doctrine. It would be nearly impossible for an older convention to adopt a confessional approach because of the already-existing diversity of their churches. Even churches engaged in clearly unbiblical practices are not in violation of the constitutions of most state conventions. Again, God blessed us in the timing that birthed our convention.
Our ministry has grown at an accelerated rate because most of the churches affiliated with SBTC are themselves already mature and developed. New work state conventions face a much more gradual growth even after they reach our starting point of 120 churches. Their 120 churches, after 10 years or longer, are smaller and less well-grounded than our original group. The nature of our churches brought with it people, resources, and a variety of ministry most new conventions only dream about. In fact, new work conventions 10 times our age still look forward to the opportunities available to us after a half decade.
What challenges might face us in coming years? The changing nature of Texas is an opportunity and a challenge. The expanding Hispanic population of our state as well as the growth of other ethnic groups must affect our predominately Anglo convention. If our convention is to minister to Texas as it changes, a transition in the makeup of our leadership seems a natural step. Many churches and groups have not faced this reality in their own communities and have thus faded in relevance. Our current leaders are already thinking of how we might ensure a growing, vital ministry in our next generation.
A second challenge is to maintain the purity of our commitment to our core values once the new has worn off our fellowship. We have all been part of churches and other groups that have simply forgotten their founding principles. I was in a church once that used the New Hampshire Confession of Faith for its faith statement. Most members had no idea what that was. I, a new member, was the only one who owned a copy of that statement. It seems inconceivable that we would forget the principles upon which the convention
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Patterson installed as 8th SWBTS president
FORT WORTH?Paige Patterson, a key architect in the conservative theological resurgence among Southern Baptists, was inaugurated Oct. 21 as the eighth president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary amid family, students, friends and colleagues. Majestic hymns and fiery exhortations from Baptist leaders?rife with historical references to past champions of biblical integrity?characterized the service.
The son of the late T.A. Patterson, a pastor and leader among Texas Baptists, Patterson and his platform guests entered the formal environs of Travis Avenue Baptist Church adorned in academic robes and regalia.
New Orleans Seminary President Charles Kelley and O.S. Hawkins, Southern Baptist Convention Annuity Board president, charged Patterson with presidential responsibilities. Patterson's son-in-law, Mark Howell, delivered the inaugural message.
The program included Baptist leaders such as SBC President Jack Graham and the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention's Executive Director, Jim Richards, who greeted Patterson on behalf of the SBTC's 1,370 congregations.
"The churches of the SBTC believe in you, Dr. Patterson, and believe in Southwestern. Our shared core values make us spiritual partners," Richards said.
Southern Seminary President R. Albert Mohler, citing the faith of the church fathers and later Baptist forebears, exhorted Patterson in his signing of the Baptist Faith and Message confessional statement. Kenneth Hemphill, Patterson's predecessor, presented Patterson the seminary's Presidential Medallion.
Hawkins' charge to Patterson drew applause and was defined by a rousing historical account of seminary founding President B.H. Carroll's doctrinal beliefs.
"President Carroll, Bible in hand, did more than standardize orthodoxy in Texas; he rallied the host of Baptists to the Bible doctrines of the Holy Scripture," Hawkins said in quoting J.B. Gambrell, Carroll's friend and contemporary.
"Southwestern has always been known as a conservative place. Why? Because we have always sought to conserve something: the trustworthiness of the word of God, the dreams and visions of those founders.
"So we come this evening to celebrate a president of Southwestern Seminary" characterized by the courage to fight for the inerrancy of Scripture, the conviction to use confessional accountability, the consistency to hold to the Bible amid cultural change and a belief in denominational cooperation.
Hawkins then quipped, "And lest anyone in here this evening misunderstand, and lest you (Patterson) get too puffed up, I'm not speaking of Dr. Paige Patterson. I'm speaking of Dr. B.H. Carroll, the founder of Southwestern Seminary."
Hawkins said Carroll's writings are documented in "hundreds of printed pages that leave us the answer" as to how Carroll might respond to current theological debates.
"B.H. Carroll, though he is dead, still speaks."
Patterson said Carroll believed in the "verbal, plenary (complete) inspiration" of Scripture.
" 'One part is no more inspired than any other part,'" Hawkins said, quoting from Carroll's book "The Inspiration of Scripture." "'It is perfectly foolish to talk about degrees of inspiration. What Jesus said in the flesh as we find it in the four gospels is no more his word than what the inspired prophets or inspired apostles said.
" 'In other words,' Carroll said, 'we cannot pit the words of Christ over the words of Paul, as some seek to do today.'"
Continuing his quoting of Carroll, Hawkins said, "'The modern cry (of) less creed and more liberty is a degeneration from the vertebrate to the jellyfish and it means less unity and less morality and it means more heresy. It is a hurtful sin to magnify liberty at the expense of doctrine.'
Alluding to debate about SBC views on female pastors, Hawkins said Carroll believed in women's ministry and even had deaconesses who served women at First Baptist Church, Waco. But, Hawkins said in quoting Carroll, "The custom in some congregations of having a woman as pastor is a flat contradiction to the apostolic teaching and is an open rebellion against Christ our king and is high treason against his sovereignty."
Hawkins said Carroll immersed himself in denominational controversy, in Carroll's words, "for one purpose ? to promote unity."
Hawkins continued. "It's not hard when we take time to read our forefathers in their own words to see who the real denominational loyalists and preservers of Baptist heritage truly are. One must ask, 'Who has moved from Baptist roots?'"
Howell, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Little Rock, Ark., delivered the inaugural sermon, "Why Do We Do What We Do?" from Acts 20:17-38.


Amazon recently added a feature to their Kindle book market.
The link provides the same screens as "peek inside" on the page. So I could add this to a web page. You, the reader, could jump directly to the book and peek inside.
I may actually add this to my website, as a second choice. See the next option.
The embed provides something much more interesting: html. If I put this html on my website, it displays the cover of the relevant book. If you click correctly, it will use enough screen space to avoid awkward line breaks. You can read a portion of my book. If you click on the right spot, you can be 'in' Amazon Kindle and purchase the Kindle version right there.
Beautiful, you say, and I agree. But there is a catch.
The display of my book includes over forty pages of poetry. In a book of roughly sixty poems, that's a lot of the store given away.
For this reason, I've chosen not to implement this option.
I have tried to let Amazon know that this is an issue for me, and will be an issue for all authors of relatively short books. A child's picture book would be given away entirely. Many small book authors will feel, as I do, that the giveaway is excessive.
Now for the question, which for once will (imho) not be a dumb one.
to get such an issue even listened to?
I think my question will go into a marketing bean counter's inbasket and get filed in what we used to call 'drawer thirteen'.
Ontario Insurance – what (or who) gives?
A few years ago, Ontario drivers (where car insurance is mandatory) were promised a fifteen percent reduction in premiums.
Premiums were already too high, and a reduction was in order; however, Our Government decided to give back to the auto insurance industry. They were allowed to greatly reduce payouts for medical expenses. In short, grievous injury got dis-insured.
Insurance premiums went in all directions; some went up immediately. Some went down slightly. Payout costs plummeted. Insurance industry profits soared even higher.
Now we're doing it again. Ontario home insurance is about to drop, supposedly significantly. What's really happening is, coverage is being split into new categories, and the insured has to pay more for the same or extra coverage.
A similar tweak is in the works for Ontario auto insurance. Again, it is being promoted as a cost reduction to drivers, but it is in fact a cost increase if the client chooses to maintain the same coverage.
What bothers me here is, the profits of the insurance industry keep rising, and we citizens keep complaining that we're paying too much. Those profits prove we are right.
Are you pleased with the effects of previous 'insurance premium reductions' that were not reductions?
Are you pleased with the current insurance policy changes?
Do your constituents pay too much for both home and auto insurance?
Have you, in effect, said as much publicly?
Is the insurance industry making record profits, year after year, in a country with negligible GDP growth, negligible job growth, and negligible wage growth?
Are you able to make any real changes to insurance premiums in Ontario?
Will you even try? Or will it merely be promises, like those in the past?
Have a nice day. I voted for you once.
Most of you are aware of telephone scams and will avoid them. For the few who have not heard of these, this is your fair warning.
One way or another, the caller gets you to run assoc in a command prompt, or something similar. What appears is a Lot of weird gibberish. Your caller will claim that your PC has been generating complaints; that they have sent you messages and you haven't responded, and that the output from the assoc command proves they have identified your unique PC and know what they are talking about. They will read for you part of the following text, generally starting after the opening curly bracket.
If you google that part of the line above, you'll find that this scam has been going on since 2011 at least. You'll also learn that what the line actually does, is tell your machine's Windows File Explorer how to send a file to a compressed (zipped) folder.
The CLSID part is identical on my Win7 and WinXP machines. It is not unique to your machine. Every Windows computer has this identical entry.
which now opens with a warning. Otherwise you might enter the information your phone caller gives you, and thus allow them complete access to your computer.
While 'fixing' your error situation, they will compromise you in some way. Perhaps encrypt your entire hard drive. Then you pay them to fix these problems.
Scam number two. You're about to be arrested for taxes owing.
Your caller is a recording. A name and phone number are given. You've run out of time, and unless you settle federal taxes owing asap, you're going to be arrested. Call this number now.
Generally they accept payment in a wide variety of ways. One of them involved the victim buying and transferring bookstore gift cards. Other transfer methods have been used; apparently some of the time these can be traced back to the recipient.
Your federal government (on either side of the 49th parallel) will not phone you like this. They will not threaten you like this. I know; I had the pleasure of having mis-directed CRA attention arrive at my door. It was a pain, but nobody demanded money while threatening legal action and jail.
Scam number N. There are others. Be careful. Don't give out anything to an unsolicited caller.
I'm not sure if the 'person of interest' here should be our mayor, John Tory, or our TTC CEO, Andy Byford.
In today's Toronto Star, our mayor invented a new reason for the one-stop Scarborough subway: it will be better for underprivileged riders.
The fact that it will not be better than the seven-stop LRT has been conveniently ignored. There will be 'more studies' to verify or deny this subway-supporting claim by John Tory.
Worse than that, I think it's a sad progression of John Tory toward the styles of Rob Ford and Donald Trump: say anything.
I apologize to Rob Ford as he can no longer defend himself. Rob was exceptionally effective as a councillor – agitating for what he wanted. Those skills did not serve him so well as mayor. He did, often, get what he wanted.
John Tory will probably get what he wants, too. Like Donald Trump, he can change on a dime and use a new approach to attack what he perceives as being in the way of his vision.
What John Tory really does, imho, is like Trump: sound bites. Like Subways, Subways, Subways, we have SmarTrack, SmartTrack, SmartTrack. And, Scarborough deserves a subway.
Toronto citizens do not have an effective leadership team with real brains in their heads driving their speeches and (in)actions.
That's a pretty snarky criticism of John Tory, SmartTrack, and much of our City Council. How did Andy Byford, TTC CEO, get included in this rant?
Byford has been the voice of reason. Byford has apologized for mistakes. Byford has fixed things. Byford has been shafted by Bombardier (streetcars that don't meet specs, are late, etc etc.) and improvised.
Byford is a genius at running the TTC.
Andy Byford is onside at not re-opening the Scarborough light rail option for discussion. An option which the province of Ontario recently confirmed it will still pay for.
Now it's time for the dumb questions.
Do we get the mayor we deserve?
Is Andy Byford's new position on Scarborough light rail a mis-step?
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I receive an eMail request, .mobi file attached, subject Kindle Book Review.
I respond indicating some facts (tough reviewer, probable wait time) and see what comes back.
Usually, the wait duration is ok; then (almost always) I understand the work well enough to review it. I generally post the review on Amazon and perhaps elsewhere, as requested.
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This could be a momentous day many of us will later remember – perhaps as big as the crash of 2008 or 9-11.
There is a lot of panic as to what will happen in markets. Currency traders are moving about like tasered boa constrictors, not sure what to grab ahold of for the next meal after recoiling.
I think it's time we all thought about money, markets, trade, and profits in a clear and sensible manner.
Money can 'come out of the sky.' Governments can print it. However, value canNot come out of thin air, and freely printed money is generally devalued – its existence inflates the prices of all things that money can purchase.
That American and European Central Bank 'quantitative easing,' where one agency prints money and buys bonds from another, and that manoeuvre has not created inflation, is one of the conundrums of today's world of finance.
Money can 'disappear into thin air.' Governments can literally collect and destroy cash and equivalent paper. Generally this causes prices to fall, as less money is chasing the same goods.
If that were all we had to worry about, there'd not be much to it. So the UK decides to treat the EU somewhat differently. An Audi car still has the same relative value as a diamond ring or a Swiss cheese or a British pub pot pie. No reason for panic here, eh?
The problem is 'con-fidence,' and I use that term in a pun-ishing sense.
Most of the money you and I (and governments and corporations) actually earn, spend, invest, save, et cetera, is not real money. It is an accounting fiction, created in an electronic record in a bank. To give a really dumb example of this, consider myself foolishly lending my Bank a hundred dollars. I'm getting less than one percent per annum on this deal. The Bank, however, due to its 'reserve ratio,' can lend that money perhaps a dozen times (when I went to Economics 101; it's much higher now) and earn a lot more than a mere percent on each of those times.
So my 'saved' hundred dollars becomes a spendable thousand or more.
Businesses (and governments and central banks and rich individuals) similarly create non-paper money by swishing magic wands that create mortgage-backed securities, interest rate swaps, credit default somethings, trade finance loans, and much more.
Like my ten or dozen or more friends who are borrowing based on my hundred dollars (many of them using credit cards, or simply credit,) these large footprint actors run their world (and a lot of ours) on assets created as offsets to debts, all of which is electronic and only 'real' because everyone behaves as if it is. So long as everybody pays on time, and the system stays 'liquid,' all is well.
The crash of 2008 was largely a crisis of liquidity. Even a Bank has to have a 'reserve ratio' of 'real' money in case its electronic account holders actually ask for theirs. When the reserve ratio is a lot more than one, and a reasonable fraction of account holders (like me) ask for their money in hand, the system stalls.
Brexit is a potential confidence breaker. Traders know that confidence in world finance starts with 'con:' the assurance that all will be well and all notional funds can actually be produced as cash, so long as not too high a percentage of holders actually ask for it.
Brexit is a potential confidence breaker. If you live day-to-day with revolving loans, a small hiccup in your access to new credit could lead to business disaster.
Brexit is a potential confidence breaker. Currency exchange includes an element of risk. Normally, funds traders profit from the simpler minds of those who only exchange currency for purchases and sales of real assets.
It's a bit like horse betting, or card-counting at BlackJack. If you've got lots of hands in the fire, and are informed enough to beat the odds faced by lesser mortals, you can make money exchanging currency.
Currency exchange is a big deal in international / trade finance. The EU managed to get most members onto the Euro, with a few holdouts like Britain. But even the EU countries must trade with the USA, China, Japan, … it's a long list. So businesses need foreign exchange, and professional gamblers / traders supply them – for a fee, and often, with a view to making a profit on exchange rate moves.
So for large corporations, large financial institutions, and central banks, Brexit is a threat to the easy stability and predictable volatility of foreign exchange.
Thus we can expect many traders to sit out what might be an unpredictable storm of exchange rate shifts, coming in waves based on consumer, and their own, fluctuating sentiment.
I think post-Brexit trade agreements can be made. I think the final equilibrium will not be drastically different from before Brexit. I think other issues (migration, for example) will be settled easily enough.
I think the real wealth of countries will not change much.
However, the imaginary wealth created by bank accounts may change drastically.
A dumb example might explain this latter point.
In a fictional story, the anti-hero escapes wartime Italy with fabulous wealth hidden in his clothes and hand luggage. Unfortunately, in the USA, table salt (extremely valuable in wartime southern Italy) is worthless.
A man can become rich and poor holding the exact same assets.
What matters is, do those around think those assets are valuable, or not.
Those who created illusionary wealth might suffer. Or, watch for bailouts.
Citizens might find sudden goods or job shortages: can't get potatoes in England; can't sell tea to Germany.
Real value (whatever that means) will remain.
Is one function of 'global trade' to move jobs and the means of production to the lowest bidder, least sustainable-practice enterprise, cheapest human rights jurisdiction?
Does all of this lubricate corporate profits at the expense of employment (pay and opportunity) in developed countries?
Will this be disrupted by Brexit?
If there were no human costs to Brexit, would any of us mere live persons care?
Trying to follow Toronto's current mayor is an exercise in confusion. Trying to understand SmartTrack is hard. I'm not good at making sense of either.
Here is just one article on Smart Track. There's a lot of confusion here.
I'll give some (potentially unfair, out-of-context) quotes. You should read the article for yourself, and possibly look at others – if you care about Toronto transit.
But his much-ballyhooed project has shrunk significantly from the 22-station vision he put forward on the campaign trail, and critics say it's become virtually identical to the province's pre-existing Regional Express Rail initiative.
The six new stations are fewer than half of the 13 new stops Tory had proposed, and the 15 total stops now being contemplated for SmartTrack are fewer than the 22 he pitched during the campaign.
I could add more, but interested readers will simply click on the hotlink earlier.
Now for the dumb questions. These are not necessarily polite or nice.
Can anyone name a significant promise kept by our mayor in regard to Toronto transit?
Can anyone name a significant decision taken and implemented by our Toronto mayor?
Is it conceivable that our political elite, including our Mayor, John Tory, will ever have the guts to replace the Scarborough Subway (Subway, Subway) with the light rail the province agreed to pay for, even if it's not a SmartTrack?
Is it conceivable that our Mayor would lead such a charge to rationality?
Is it possible for our Mayor to make a sound, numbers-justified, ridership-tested, Scarborough transit decision?
Or is it all about provincial seats, and influential councillors, in Scarborough?
Comments? the usual rules apply.
Mark Saunders 'expressed regret' over some roughly-done police raids of bath houses. This happened some thirty-five years ago.
Observers don't think this is much of an apology. The word 'sorry' is, er, absent.
Many were arrested, most later dismissed.
This reminds me of the infamous Toronto G20 policing incidents. A crowd was kettled in the rain for over three hours, a kilometre away from the seven-metre fence defending the G20 summit. Peaceful protesters in a designated protest area, also far from the actual summit, were ridden into / over by officers on horseback. Police removed their name tags, and all supervisors had amnesia over which officers were involved in beating of several demonstrators, including Adam Nobody.
And then, finally, (thanks to Rosie DiManno of the Toronto Star: a picture of an identifiable officer's face relating to the 'Nobody' assault) one officer was charged and convicted. Of assault with a weapon.
Sort of. Here are some of the background facts.
It is worth noting that a second judge removed the jail time. At last notice, the officer was still being paid.
Has police practice changed much in thirty-five years? Crash raids on bath houses, kettling and mass arrests and assault far from defensive fences?
Has police accountability changed much in thirty-five years? No officers charged in the past, I'm pretty sure; one convicted and then un-convicted today?
Will some future Toronto police chief, without saying 'sorry,' apologize for the G20 roughhousing of innocent citizens?
Will we have to wait for thirty-five years?
Are police apologies only to be expected when the apologizer is unconnected to the relevant events?
Will the present Toronto police chief, or the present president of the police union, or the police chief at the time of the G20, or the police union president at the time of the G20: will any of these individuals have the guts and decency to apologize to all of Toronto for the treatment of citizens at that event?
That was the dumb question. Asking for the word 'sorry' would be even dumber.
This may seem like an unkind post, but I think it is warranted.
When Ontario Health Minister, Matthews presided over the ORNGE debacle. She did not seem to probe what was really going on there, when Mazza apparently designed and ordered helicopters that do not support CPR while in transit (insufficient head room).
Here is an historical article on the ORNGE probe from the Toronto Star. I'll give a small quote; go read the actual page for more.
For the last four months, an all-party provincial probe has heard of CEO Dr. Chris Mazza's reign at ORNGE including the promotion of his water-ski instructor girlfriend to associate vice-president, of a Porsche-driving board chair who pocketed $200,000 in compensation, of a senior employee with drug problems and another who was told to fake an MBA because it would impress investors.
Then there were the dreams and schemes of now-defunct ORNGE spinoff companies, lavish business trips, a $6.7-million marketing services agreement that is being investigated by the Ontario Provincial Police, and a $275-million "bond issue" to pay for a fleet of helicopters and office space.
Throw in a speedboat, a law firm that billed 22,000 hours and a couple of customized orange motorcycles and you've got the latest scandal of an agency that seemed to fly off the government's radar.
Matthews is expected to face hard questions from the opposition-dominated public accounts committee about what she knew and when she knew it.
OK, so Deb Matthews had a bad outcome as Health Minister. Let's move forward.
In 2013 Matthews was involved in the handling of a sexual harassment incident. When this became news in May 2016, Matthews told us that it had all been managed very well. Here's one article. I'll give a small quote; emphasis mine.
TORONTO – Just take the Liberal government's word for it.
That's what Deputy Premier Deb Matthews said Tuesday when asked how Ontario's Liberals can prove they looked into allegations of sexual harassment against a former caucus member.
Matthews wouldn't say if the government would release a report penned by a third-party investigator or discuss the allegations against former Niagara Falls MPP Kim Craitor.
There's a lot more in the referenced page; go read it for yourself.
OK, so Deb Mathews backed up the Premier of Ontario in a controversial, with withheld reports, incident. Let's move on again.
Deb Matthews is now Deputy Premier of Ontario – the second most powerful provincial politician. She is also in charge of managing all government spending. That makes this next piece of news a bit discomfiting. Again, emphasis mine.
TORONTO — Ontario's deputy premier says she "certainly didn't know" about a reported $65-million reserve fund the public high school teachers' union had when the government agreed to pay them $1 million for negotiating costs.
Deb Matthews, who is also head of the department that manages all government spending, wouldn't say if the government as a whole or the bargaining team knew about it before they agreed to the payout.
The Liberal government has defended $3.74 million in payments to several unions over the past three rounds of contract talks as necessary because the transition to a new bargaining system made the process quite lengthy.
Meanwhile, a tentative agreement that Ontario reached with elementary teachers may have ended their work-to-rule campaign, but it still won't be mandatory for them to do parent-teacher interviews.
How could the Minister of Health not have a clue about a lot of money going in very strange directions at ORNGE?
Do we expect the Deputy Premier to understand that a union, whose 'negotiating costs' are being defrayed with taxpayer dollars, that that union had lots of cash on hand?
Is this a fine negotiating result: parent-teacher interviews are at the discretion of the teacher?
Why does Deb Matthews keep getting senior appointments in the Provincial government?
Why does Deb Matthews never seem to have any problem 'stick' to her?
Are Ontario voters, and taxpayers, all dumb sheep?
This website has a page which includes free samples: work I've published elsewhere. Please feel 'free' to have a look.
I just re-published a song-lyric making fun of figureheads. Good for a laugh.


Our new edition of Leeds Creative Labs will bring together artists with biological scientists to explore collaborations and create ideas. This comes after the success of the first Biological Sciences edition of Leeds Creative Labs in 2017.
Four collaborations will take place during Leeds Creative Labs: Biological Science 2nd Edition. Each non-University partner or organisation selected to take part will be awarded a bursary of £1,000 in recognition of their contribution to the programme.
Successful applicants will be matched with our academics by the Leeds Creative Labs team, which includes representatives from the Cultural Institute and Leeds Digital Festival. Partners will spend at least three days together (arranged at mutual convenience), before sharing their experience and ideas for the future with fellow participants.
There is not a defined expectation of output, but ideas for the creation of new work, activity and material will be considered for development and funding as part of a potential stage two programme.
Leeds Creative Labs gave us the freedom of three days without any expectations. We were given excellent guidance and financial support, and it was the beginning of a continuing relationship with our academic collaborator.
Creative professionals are invited to complete our short application form.
If you are an academic wishing to take part, please complete this short application form. We are hosting a launch event aimed at researchers based in the Faculty of Biological Sciences on 3 December. Register for your place.
For further information about Leeds Creative Labs, please email culturalinstitute@leeds.ac.uk.
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La septième édition du meeting All Star Perche, compétition d'athlétisme en salle de saut à la perche, est prévue le  à Clermont-Ferrand, en France. Considérée comme la compétition la plus prestigieuse de saut à la perche au monde, la réunion accueille les meilleurs athlètes mondiaux de la discipline.

La compétition est remportée chez les hommes par Menno Vloon avec une meilleure performance à 5,87 m. Anzhelika Sidorova s'adjuge le concours féminin en établissant la meilleure performance mondiale de l'année et un nouveau record du meeting à 4,87 m.

Déroulement
La compétition se déroule le  à 20 heures 30, heure locale.

Résultats

Notes et références

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Sport en France en février 2022

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Q: Check if element has no children with jquery I want to check if element has no children set parents element display:none property.
But my js is not working as expect where is my mistake ?

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A: The id detay-main-carousel is duplicate.
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A: The ! operator has a higer precedence than >, so you should write it differently:
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which would be the exact opposite of the >1 check. But reading your question, you would want to test for no such children at all (excluding 1):
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CarDekho Bags $250 Million In Funding To Boost Growth
With the latest fundraising, the company joins the unicorn club with a valuation of $1.2 billion and becomes the first unicorn based in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
Updated: 13 Oct 2021 12:47 pm
Car search platform CarDekho on Wednesday said it has raised $250 million (around Rs 1,881 crore) at a valuation of $1.2 billion.
The Jaipur-based firm said it has raised $200 million in Series E funding and $50 million debt in its pre-IPO round.
With the latest fundraising, the company joins the unicorn club with a valuation of $1.2 billion and becomes the first unicorn based in Jaipur, Rajasthan, it noted.
It is the largest ever fundraise by CarDekho and the proceeds will be used to accelerate growth in the used car transactions, financial services and insurance businesses, build robust product and technology functions, increase brand awareness, and expand into new markets, it added.
"The new fundraise will help us expand our used car transactions and financial services businesses. The trust and conviction of our investors will help us to accelerate our growth plans whilst we provide our customers with an experience that will continue to re-define car buying and selling," CarDekho co-founder and CEO Amit Jain said in a statement.
CarDekho currently buys cars from customers in more than 100 markets and has a catalogue of over 3,000 certified pre-owned cars for online purchase.
The company will be expanding its used car retail transactions business geographically and is set to increase its catalogue to 10,000 cars in the future.
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FILE - In this May 30, 2019, file photo trader John Doyle works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. U.S. stocks headed broadly higher in early trading Tuesday, June 4, on Wall Street after comments from Mexico's foreign minister injected some optimism into a developing trade dispute. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
US stocks move broadly higher; Dow jumps 400 points
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks headed broadly higher in midday trading on Wall Street Tuesday as investors digested optimistic comments on trade from Mexico, along with a technology sector recovery and an encouraging signal on interest rates from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Mexican Foreign...
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks at a conference involving its review of its interest-rate policy strategy and communications, Tuesday, June 4, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
Powell says Fed stands ready to respond to trade conflicts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the Federal Reserve is prepared to respond to the Trump administration's trade conflicts to protect the U.S. economic expansion if it decides that would be necessary. Powell's comments came at a conference in Chicago on how the central bank...
A currency trader walks by the screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), left, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at the foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. Shares are mixed in Asia after a tumultuous session for tech shares on Wall Street.(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
World shares skid after technology sell-off hits Nasdaq
BANGKOK (AP) — World markets retreated Tuesday after news that the Trump administration is considering anti-trust moves against tech giants triggered a sell-off, pushing the Nasdaq composite index into a correction. Britain's FTSE 100 lost 0.3% to 7,161.29 and the CAC 40 in France dropped 0.8% to 5...
FILE- In this Aug. 24, 2015, file photo specialist Frank Masiello is reflected in his screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The bond market is getting another whiff of a recession Bonds are supposed to be the boring corner of the finance world, but even high-flying stock investors stop and pay attention when they fall into a particular, concerning pattern. It's called an "inverted yield curve," and it happens when investors are willing to accept lower yields for long-term U.S. government bonds than for short-term debt. It's been a relatively reliable predictor for recessions, and it's happening again.(AP Photo/Richard Drew, FIle)
The bond market is getting another whiff of a recession
NEW YORK (AP) — The scent of a possible recession is wafting through the bond market again. Bonds are supposed to be the boring corner of the finance world, but even high-flying stock investors stop and pay attention when they fall into a particular, concerning pattern. It's called an "inverted...
European flags blow in front of the European Central Bank as the sun rises in Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday, May 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
European Central Bank sends Italy a warning over debt
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank says that challenges to financial stability in the eurozone have risen amid risks to growth from trade tensions, and warns that indebted governments such as Italy could run into trouble if they don't heed rules limiting debt and deficits. The...
FILE - In this May 1, 2019 file photo, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, in Washington. Federal Reserve officials at their recent meeting believed the central bank could remain "patient" in deciding when to adjust interest rates, though some officials thought future rate hikes might still be needed. In minutes of the April 30-May 1 discussions, Fed officials note that prospects for the U.S. and global economy had been improving, while inflation had fallen farther below the Fed's 2% target. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Minutes show some on Fed still think rate hikes possible
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials at their recent meeting believed the central bank could remain "patient" in deciding when to adjust interest rates, though some officials thought future rate hikes might still be needed. In minutes of the April 30-May 1 discussions released Wednesday, Fed...
Powell says he sees 'moderate' risk from corporate debt
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says a sharp rise in corporate debt is being closely monitored but currently the Fed does not see the types of threats that triggered the 2008 financial crisis. In remarks prepared for a banking conference in Fernandina Beach, Florida, Powell...
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Ballarat Book Launch Pics & Interview
On March 23, 2018 By Steven PaulsenLeave a comment
The Ballarat Book Launch for my short story collection Shadows on the Wall was a great success. Thanks very much to Jason Nahrung and Kirstyn McDermott for hosting, and to everybody who came along and made it such a success. I had a lot of fun and I hope you did too.
For anyone who was unable to attend the event here are some pics (courtesy and copyright, Jason Nahrung), and a recording of Kirstyn McDermott interviewing me.
Rather than just have me speak at the launch, which might have been quite boring, Kirstyn McDermott interviewed me instead (fantastic suggestion, Jason and Kirstyn!). Here's the recording of the interview for anyone interested:
https://stevenpaulsenblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/steven-paulsen-sotw-launch-ballarat.mp3
On February 1, 2018 By Steven PaulsenLeave a comment
Fiona McVie has interviewed me for her Author Interviews blog. You can read it here.
Ballarat Book Launch
On January 17, 2018 By Steven PaulsenLeave a comment
If you're in Ballarat on Sunday 18th February, Kirstyn McDermott and Jason Nahrung will be launching SHADOWS ON THE WALL in The Printer's Room (behind Sebastiaans) starting at 2:30pm.
AT THE LAUNCH
• We'll have a few drinks and nibbles to start.
• Kirstyn and Jason will do their stuff.
• I guess I'll have to say a few words and do a short reading.
• Collins Booksellers will be there selling copies of the book
• Then I'll be happy to sign a book for you if you wish.
• After that there will be music and the bar will be open at regular bar prices.
I plan to have some fun so please come along and join in. Feel free to invite any friends you think might be interested. Hope to see you there!
The Printer's Room is located behind Sebastiaans (58 Lydiard Street, Ballarat), right next door to the Bluestone, directly across the road from The Sporting Globe, down the road from Faux, and up the street from Karova.
Publication Day!
On January 15, 2018 January 15, 2018 By Steven PaulsenLeave a comment
My new book, Shadows on the Wall, is out TODAY!
It's available in paperback and ebook from your preferred online retailer (links below) or from your favourite bookshop, so please buy yourself a copy if you like weird and dark stories of science fiction, fantasy and horror. And don't forget to tell your friends.
If you read it and like it (and even if you don't like it), please post a review on the platform of your choice.
Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | iBooks | Book Depository | Booktopia | Angus & Robertson
Cover painting and internal artwork by Shaun Tan
Foreword by Isobelle Carmody
Shadows on the Wall contains the very best of Paulsen's dark and weird tales…plus stunning new fiction written expressly for this volume.
Glimpse a future where population controls force families into terrible choices.
Visit Colonial British India and experience the awakening of an eldritch horror.
Walk the steaming jungles of Vietnam alongside the spirits of the forest.
Light an ancient oil lamp but beware, the shadows on the wall.
These stories are beautifully written and subtle, and in their subtlety, they linger uneasily in the minds…Their particular potency lies in the honed sharpness of the writing, in the repertoire of emotional responses to strangeness they offer through brilliant and detailed characterisation…They are shadows, shifting on the wall, barely seen, slipping into our minds to lie, light and cold over our hearts…
Isobelle Carmody – author of the Obernewtyn Chronicles
Paulsen's body of work, as evidence by this impressive collection, explores the nature of our fears, effortlessly exposing us to shuddering horrors and milder terrors while drawing us in with utterly real characters.
Kaaron Warren – author of the multi-award winning The Grief Hole
Shadows on the Wall will take you into some dangerously dark places, places that you know you should not enter, but enter you will, for, alas, you won't be able to help yourself. The stories contained within are rocket-fuelled with narrative drive. These subtle, ironic, humorous, and sometimes horrific extrapolations and fantasies showcase Paulsen's wild talent and tight grip on craft.
Jack Dann – multi-award winning, international bestselling author
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On September 9, 2017 By Steven PaulsenLeave a comment
IFWG Australia have revealed the cover for my forthcoming short story collection Shadows on the Wall. It's based on a fabulous piece of art by the multi-talented artist, Shaun Tan. Check it out, I'm thrilled!
The publisher wrote: Earlier this year we informed you that we had the great pleasure to have acquired Steven Paulsen's dark collection of stories, Shadows on the Wall. This will be released on 1 January 2018, but in the meantime we are very excited to reveal the front cover of the collection, with original artwork by Academy award-winning artist and animator, Shaun Tan (Elizabeth Lang, designer).
More information can be found here on IFWG Publishing Australia's web site:
Cover Reveal: Shadows on the Wall by Steven Paulsen
New Short Story Collection
On April 10, 2017 April 16, 2017 By Steven PaulsenLeave a comment
I am thrilled to announce that IFWG Publishing Australia will be publishing my short story collection, SHADOWS ON THE WALL, early in 2018.
The book will include the best of my previously published stories, plus new work written since I returned to writing. Shaun Tan has kindly provided art work and Isobelle Carmody has written a lovely foreword for the book.
Thanks very much to Gerry Huntman and IFWG, Shaun, and Isobelle for their support. Here is the IFWG Publishing Australia publicity announcement:
New Signing: Shadows on the Wall collection by Steven Paulsen
14/03/2017 by Gerry Huntman
It is with great pleasure that we announce the acquisition of publishing rights to Steven Paulsen's dark and weird collection of short stories, Shadows on the Walls. The collection contains stories from award winning anthologies, as well as original fiction. Original cover and internal art will be supplied by the Hugo and Oscar Award winning artist, Shaun Tan.
The collection is expected to be released in the first quarter of 2018.
Photograph by Kirstyn McDermott
Steven Paulsen is an award-winning writer whose speculative fiction has appeared in publications around the world. His bestselling dark fantasy children's book, The Stray Cat, illustrated by Shaun Tan, has seen publication in several English and foreign language editions. His short stories, which Jack Dann describes as rocket-fueled with narrative drive, have appeared in a variety of magazines and in anthologies such as Terror Australis, Strange Fruit, Cthulhu: Deep Down Under, Fantastic Worlds, The Cthulhu Cycle, and the World Fantasy Award winning Dreaming Down-Under.
Steven has also written extensively about Australian horror and fantasy for publications such as Eidolon, Interzone, Bloodsongs, Sirius, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, Fantasy Annual, The St James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers, and The Melbourne University Press Encyclopaedia of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy. His interviews with Australian SF writers have been published in magazine and book form in Australia, UK, Europe and the USA.
On February 4, 2017 May 13, 2017 By Steven PaulsenLeave a comment
I have a new novelette called "Harold the Hero and the Talking Sword" written in collaboration with Jack Dann in the forthcoming cross-genre anthology And Then… (ed. Ruth Wykes and Kylie Fox), from Clan Destine Press early in 2017.
Jack Dann and I had been talking for a while about doing a project together when the opportunity to write a story for the Clan Destine Press And Then… anthology came up. He showed his story "The Talking Sword" to Lindy Cameron and she loved it, but suggested it be expanded because the theme of the anthology was for stories with two protagonists, and the demon sword held sway over his "sidekick" in Jack's original tale.
As Jack and I talked about it, we soon found ourselves brainstorming the further adventures of not just the time-travelling sword, but having his unlikely wielder, Harold the Hero, come to the fore. We took our inspiration from Homer's Odyssey, and asked ourselves what would happen if the sword somehow lost its powers. The result was "Harold the Hero and the Talking Sword". It was great fun to write and hopefully great fun to read.


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A highly influential avant-garde composer and one of the key founders of the minimalist school of music, composer Steve Reich has, since the 1960s, embraced a wide variety of musical styles and interests, forging from them a unique synthesis (as evidenced by his most important compositions from the period, Piano Phase, Violin Phase, Four Organs, and Drumming), which proved influential to generations of musicians and sound artists from across the spectrum. His approach has expanded considerably since then. It contains not only aspects of Western classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz. He has written chamber pieces (Music for 18 Musicians), an oratorio of the Psalms (Tehillim), and orchestral and choral reflections on poet William Carlos Williams (The Desert Music, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas and performed by 106 musicians). His Grammy-winning work Different Trains, a three-movement piece for string quartet and tape based on the train rides of forcibly transported Jews to Nazi concentration camps, was commissioned and performed by Kronos Quartet and released in 1989 on the same disc as Electric Counterpoint, featuring guitarist Pat Metheny playing live over a multi-tracked tape of ten guitars and two electric basses. While Reich spent the early part of the 1990s participating in and supervising orchestral recordings of works from his catalog, he nonetheless issued several provocative recordings including his opera The Cave in 1993. His hypnotic work translated to a generation of DJs and producers, many of whom participated on Reich Remixed, featuring Howie B, Ken Ishii, Andrea Parker, and others. His three-movement Triple Quartet was commissioned and recorded by Kronos Quartet and released in 2001. In 2014, Reich, who continued to see recordings of his masterworks by different ensembles and orchestras, released Radio Rewrite, which took as its inspiration a series of Radiohead songs. On the same album, a re-recording of Electric Counterpoint featured Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood as soloist. Steve Reich took piano lessons as a youngster, but his first big musical revelations came at 14, when he encountered the music of Bach and Stravinsky. He also had his first exposure to bebop, and immediately started learning drums and playing in a jazz band with friends. He played on weekends while studying at Cornell, which he entered at age 16 and where he received a degree in philosophy, specializing in the work of Wittgenstein. In 1957 he entered Juilliard, studying with William Bergsma and Vincent Persichetti (and meeting fellow student Philip Glass). Here Reich first heard 12-tone music; he got a further dose of it during graduate studies at Mills College in Oakland, working with Luciano Berio and Darius Milhaud, and eventually earning his master's degree. At about that time, Reich met Terry Riley, who was in the process of writing In C (1964). Reich played in its premiere, and In C's tonal approach and use of repeating patterns had a big influence on Reich's own music. In turn, Reich suggested the use of the eighth-note pulse, which is now standard in performance of the piece. Reich had been experimenting with tapes, creating loops of speech and layering them, allowing the layers to move in and out of sync with one another. His early works It's Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966) led to similar experiments with live performers, the first of which was Piano Phase for two pianos (1967). Back in New York, Reich and Glass formed an ensemble to perform their music (1968-1971). Several of those players later formed Steve Reich and Musicians, who have toured the world many times over. In 1970, Reich studied for several weeks at the University of Ghana. His encounter with Ghanaian music and dance inspired his ambitious work Drumming (1970). Encounters with Indonesian gamelan music in 1973-1974 in Seattle and Berkeley were equally significant, and broadened Reich's rhythmic and timbral palette. His most significant composition of the time was Music for 18 Musicians (1974-1976), a large and colorful work that brought Reich worldwide recognition. In the mid-'70s, Reich started taking Torah classes with his future wife, video artist Beryl Korot. He also studied traditional Jewish cantillation and incorporated it into his psalm settings, Tehillim (1981). Several chamber and orchestral works followed in the 1980s. For Different Trains (1988, a Grammy winner), Reich used a digital sampler to record speaking voices and derived the rhythmic and melodic ideas of the piece from those voices. Reich knew that Different Trains was going to lead to some kind of new documentary form incorporating both video and music. Collaborating with his wife for the first time, the two completed their theater work The Cave in 1993. They continued to explore the combination of music and video with Three Tales (1998-2002). By the end of the 21st century's first decade, the lasting significance of Reich's music was being recognized worldwide. After 1998's new recording of Music for 18 Musicians won a Grammy, Reich received honorary doctorates and awards from Juilliard, Budapest's Franz Liszt Academy, and other schools; the 2007 Polar Music Prize; the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music (for Double Sextet); and, in 2012, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Music. In 2016, as Reich celebrated his 80th birthday, he continued to debut new material -- Pulse, a composition for winds, strings, piano, and electric bass, premiered at New York's Carnegie Hall as part of a special birthday concert on November 1, 2016, while Runner, a dance piece for winds, percussion, pianos, and strings, was introduced by London's Royal Ballet less than two weeks later, on November 10. Nearly two years past his 80th birthday, Reich issued Pulse; Quartet on Nonesuch in February of 2018. The former composition, performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, used an electric bass to nod at Giorgio Moroder via Daft Punk in tandem with a repetitive series of piano patterns playing directly at pastoral timbres performed by lithe strings and woodwinds to create a textural and sonic juxtaposition. Quartet, the latter work, was a jazz-inspired essay for two pianos and two vibraphones, written for and performed by Reich's favorite percussionists, the Colin Currie Group.
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Music for 18 Musicians
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Nonesuch's 1998 issue of Music for 18 Musicians was originally released as part of the ten-disc box set Works. It's a new digital recording (from 1996 ...
Steve Reich: Pulse / Quartet
Classical - Released by Nonesuch on Feb 2, 2018
"QUARTET has the Colin Currie Group performing a composition designed for two vibraphones and two pianos that Reich himself describes as one of his mo ...
Double Sextet/2x5
Steve Reich's 2007 Double Sextet, which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, is given its first performance by eighth blackbird, the group for whom it was wri ...
Octet - Music For A Large Ensemble - Violin Phase
Classical - Released by ECM New Series on Sep 1, 1980
Steve Reich: Proverb, Nagoya Marimba, City Life
This recording brings together three disparate styles on one record showcasing Reich's compositional work. Opening with "Proverb," a piece for voices ...
These historical recordings were difficult to find (usually on out of print compilations) for a long time, so it's gratifying to have them readily ava ...
Steve Reich : Sextet - Six Marimbas
Although Reich's music during the '80s, as he gained in popularity, was increasingly written for larger, lusher ensembles (with, oftentimes, the conco ...
Tehillim/Three Movements
Classical - Released by Nonesuch on Dec 6, 2005
Although not as well known as Drumming or Music for 18 Musicians, 1981's Tehillim has earned its place next to those works in Steve Reich's canon. It' ...
Classical - Released by Nonesuch on May 28, 1992
Simply put, Drumming is, along with some of Philip Glass' Einstein on the Beach, one of the most fascinating pieces of first-generation minimalism. Th ...
New York Counterpoint, Eight Lines, Four Organs
Classical - Released by Nonesuch - Warner Records on Apr 25, 2000
This is a record that serves two purposes: first to offer a retrospective of Steve Reich's work over the course of three decades and second to showcas ...
Reich : WTC 9/11, Mallet Quartet, Dance Patterns
This 2011 album features three attractive works by Steve Reich written between 2002 and 2010. These aren't pieces that break new ground for the compos ...
The Desert Music
This hour-long work, commissioned by West German Radio and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, marks a transitional period for Reich. Based in the rhythmic ...
New Sounds In Electronic Music
Classical - Released by Columbia - Legacy on Oct 30, 1967
One of the most beautifully pressed vinyls of electronic music with 3 important works: Steve Reich "Come Out" (see Reich's Early Works), Richard Maxfi ...
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Electric Counterpoint
Classical - Released by LABMUSIC on Oct 4, 2013
Triple Quartet
Classical - Released by Nonesuch - Warner Records on Oct 2, 2001
Steve Reich continues his exploration of counterpoint and phasing with Triple Quartet, a commission piece for the Kronos Quartet dating to 1999. For t ...
Classical Best Avant Garde
Classical - Released by Armasi on Aug 30, 2020
Classical - Released by Dna Label on Jan 31, 2017
Reich: Remixed 2006
Electronic - Released by Nonesuch on Oct 3, 2006
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