Beach Reach 2007 Video 4
Just found a video of UMHB’s BSM director Shawn Shannon doing the twist in Padre for this year’s beach reach.
Awesome. Love me some YouTube.
Category: Friends
Fruit Salad
Smiley and Shari had everyone over after church yesterday to hang out and enjoy burgers and hot dogs. We had a great time and I found a “new” fruit salad recipe to mix up to take to the event.
I’ll try and type it up from memory. I doubled the recipe and we had about half left over. The original said it was enough for 6 servings.
2 cups of diced apples (i used semi-tart green ones)
2 cups of grapes (i used seedless red grapes from H.E.B)
1 can of mandarin oranges
1 cup of crushed/broken pecans
1 tbsp of lemon juice (i used apple juice instead)
2 cup of whipped cream
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of mini-marshmallows
The lemon juice is likely used to help preserve the apples but we were out of lemons and such so I just added a little apple juice to add flavor instead.
Mix the whipped cream and sugar together and then pour it over the fruits and nuts and mix it all together. Serve immediately or refrigerate before serving.
It’s a small world after all
I was reading Brian Davis’ blog this week and came across the above picture that looked VERY familiar.
Davis is the Director of Worship Technologies at Fellowship Bible Church in Dallas.
This weekend I had the chance to get away with our high schools students (boys only) and do some camping. Our Senior High Pastor spoke to the boys about character, and what it means to be a man of God. We had a great time, and caught lot’s of fish off the pier you see above. In fact, here’s the prize winning fish from the weekend. I had to leave early, but not before making some peach cobbler in my dutch oven over colas from the fire.
The setting was beautiful and I really enjoyed spending time with my 15 year old son and his friends.
Some of you may already know where the picture was taken – Hidden Acres, the campground Metropolitan Bible Church owned and I practically grew up at.
Pretty cool to see others enjoying the campground where I’ll be tomorrow night for a portion of my bachelor party.
Engagement announcement
From The Belton Journal:
New fees could shut down OrangeNoiseRadio!
Recently, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) issued the significantly higher new royalty rates for Internet radio for the 2006-2010 period. The ruling ignored webcasting community proposals and set out the SoundExchange proposed “per performance” rates and a $500 minimum fee per channel per year. With around 10,000 stations playing over 250,000 artists each month, that would mean an additional $5 million per year for Live365 and our broadcasters.
Although there is no clear definition of what a “channel” is, the $500 minimum fee per channel threatens Live365’s ability to help make the small webcasters’ voice heard on the Internet (like OrangeNoiseRadio), by effectively forcing Live365 to raise the minimum broadcasting fees to a level that would cause most small webcasters (like OrangeNoiseRadio) to discontinue their service thus silencing their stations. The CRB’s determination imperils small and large webcasters alike and threatens listening experiences of millions of Internet radio listeners.
What You Can Do:
Speak up!
There are several options you can take to help OrangeNoiseRadio stay on the air. #1 is becoming a sponsor. Zip us an e-mail and let us know you’d like to keep OrangeNoiseRadio on the air. With increased fees, our only option will be to find more sponsors to help pay the added fees, or shut down. You can also become a VIP listener through Live365. Your monthly subscription helps keep us and other stations on the air.
Also, please join us in our petition for overturning the CRB determination and in our fight to save Internet radio. Visit Live365.com/choice for more on how you can participate in our campaign early next week.
Meanwhile, make your voice heard by the lawmakers on Capitol Hill! Call, write, e-mail, and/or visit your Representatives and Senators today and request that:
1. Congress void the retroactive $500 per channel minimum that threatens to drive Live365’s small webcasters out of business.
2. Congress reinstate the Small Webcaster Settlement Act. The CRB declared that the 2002 SWSA would not be extended despite the Small Webcaster contracts SoundExchange offered on its website and signed with Small Webcasters for 2006 and 2007.
3. Stop the retroactive, ex post facto royalty payments for 2006 mandated by the CRB, until all appeals have been heard.
4. Create a level playing field by bringing the Internet radio per performance rates into parity with traditional and satellite radio. Unlike internet radio, traditional radio does NOT pay royalties to record labels or artists for songs performed over the air.
How to Contact Your Representatives and Senators:
1. Send a stamped letter, mailed by U.S. Mail or FedEx to your congressperson (find their mailing address). This type of hand-written message with your own personal story is treated with a LOT of value when received by your congressperson. Include your personal story… your name and location, the type of music you listen to, and how this new royalty will affect you. Be as specific as you possibly can.
2. Though it’s not nearly as effective as a postmarked letter, you can also send an e-mail message to your Senators and Representatives. With your zipcode or address, you can use this quick, easy e-mail form to get directly to the congressperson for your location: http://www.congress.org (use the form letter found there or write your own story)
Thaxton gives OrangeNoiseRadio props
OrangeNoiseRadio got some props this week in The Christian Rock Report from ONR artist and encounter guitarist Thaxton.
Check out the article in the mag and be sure to check out Thaxton’s new CD on myspace.com/thaxtonmusic, iTunes, rhapsody.com, emusic.com and others.