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Preaching Chords
Preaching Chords is the colloquial name given to a sub-genre of Traditional Black Gospel and Urban Contemporary Gospel music, usually in the African American Baptist and Pentecostal Church tradition, to a number of Blues Music-inspired chords and Blues riffs that are usually played on a Hammond Organ and/or a piano (and sometimes with rimshots to a snare drum and hi-hat on a drum kit to accentuate the chords) to accompany a pastor or minister's sermon while he is preaching, usually played to audibly imitate the preacher's voice in a musical way.The exact origin of preaching chords being played in African American Baptist and Pentecostal churches is relatively unknown, but is mostly believed to have started in either the early or mid-20th Century, at a time when many African-American clergymen and pastors began preaching in a charismatic, musical call-and-response style where they would encourage their congregations to shout out vocal catchphrases (based on whatever they were preaching about) along with them as they preached their sermons.
Church musicians began playing different Soul and Blues music-inspired chords, chord progressions, and musical riffs on pianos and Hammond organs that were improvised to imitate the voices of the preachers and the calls-and-responses of the congregations because it audibly sounded almost as if the preachers and congregations were singing.
This type of call-and-response preaching is also colloquially referred to by many as "hooping and hollering," or "hooting and hollering."
On October 20, 2010, CNN featured a story of African-American Atlanta, Georgia Baptist megachurch pastor E. Dewey Smith, Jr., where he talked about this type of call-and-response preaching that he incorporates into his sermons and referred to it as "hooping," giving an explanation of its cultural significance to African-American Christianity and gospel music, saying, "Hooping is delivering and celebrating the Gospel message of Jesus Christ in an exuberant, musical style with a call-and-response type of synergy...it's almost like an improvisation of Jazz music meeting Gospel music with a little bit of Blues and Soul."
He continued on to say, "The reason why it's so important to the Black Church and to Black communities is because, even though the message is the most important part for the sake of preaching and winning souls, it's our African-American way of connecting the message of the Gospel with a unique, soulful, and cultural style of musical celebration, that helps to get the message across and make it stick, emphasizing the joy of the message of the Gospel and of Christianity itself as the faith of God."
Today, preaching chords have become a staple part of Baptist and Pentecostal musical worship, particularly in the Black Church tradition, and have become a staple part of Traditional Black Gospel music and Urban Contemporary Gospel music in the United States, and even in other countries as well where Black Gospel music and culture is prevalent among Black Christians, such as in different countries in sub-Saharan Africa and in Europe.
Mirror of Love (2 Brothers on the 4th Floor song)
"Mirror of Love" is a 1996 song by Dutch Eurodance group 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor featuring rapper D-Rock and singer Des'Ray.
It was released as the fourth single from their second album, "2".
The song peaked at number 6 in the Netherlands, number 19 in Finland, number 22 in Belgium and number 44 in Sweden.
On the Eurochart Hot 100, "Mirror of Love" reached number 90 in August 1996.
Shirin Sharipov
Shirin Sharipov (born 18 December 1989) is an Uzbekistani Paralympic judoka.
He represented Uzbekistan at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and he won the bronze medal in the men's 100 kg event.
He won the gold medal in the men's +100 kg event at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games.
Tägerschen railway station
Tägerschen railway station () is a railway station in the village of Tägerschen, part of the municipality of Tobel-Tägerschen, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau.
It is an intermediate stop on the Wil–Kreuzlingen line and is served by local trains only.
Tägerschen is served by the S10 of the St. Gallen S-Bahn:
Lorena Vindel
Lorena Vindel (born 1977) is a Honduran actress and artist.
Lorena Vindel began her artistic training at the Experimental Children's Music School in Tegucigalpa, and continued it at the National School of Music.
From 1996 to 1998, she studied art history at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras.
At the same time she performed at the Teatro Zambra.
In 1998, she emigrated to Spain, where she continued her training with acting and musical studies.
She started working as a theatrical actress and obtained supporting, extra, and double roles in Spanish films.
In 2008, she won the Best New Actress award at the for her role in "Seven Billiard Tables".
In 2010, she won the lead role in the film "", released in 2011.
In 2014, she returned to Honduras to create a performance art piece called "Madre Tierra", inspired by biblical texts and local traditions.
24S-hydroxycholesterol
24"S"-hydroxycholesterol (24S-HC), also known as cholest-5-ene-3,24-diol or cerebrosterol, is an endogenous oxysterol produced by neurons in the brain to maintain cholesterol homeostasis.
It was discovered in 1953 by Alberto Ercoli, S. Di Frisco, and Pietro de Ruggieri, who first isolated the molecule in the horse brain and then demonstrated its presence in the human brain.
24S-HC is produced by a hydroxy group substitution at carbon number 24 in cholesterol, catalyzed by the enzyme cholesterol 24-hydroxylase (CYP46A1).
24S-HC binds to apolipoproteins such as apoE, apoJ, and apoA1 to form HDL-like complexes which can cross the blood-brain barrier more easily than free cholesterol.
Thus, 24S-HC production serves as one of several counterbalancing mechanisms for cholesterol synthesis in the brain.
After entering general blood circulation and traveling to the liver, 24S-HC can be sulfated, glucuronidated, or converted into bile acids, which can ultimately be excreted.
24S-HC is an agonist of liver X receptors, a class of nuclear receptors that sense oxysterols.
In the brain, liver X receptor beta is the primary LXR type which interacts with 24S-HC.
24S-HC levels sensed by LXRs can regulate the expression of SREBP mRNA and protein, which in turn regulate cholesterol synthesis and fatty acid synthesis.
24S-HC may participate in several aspects of brain development and function, such as axon and dendrite growth or synaptogenesis.
Regulation of 24S-HC metabolism in neurons may play a role in their health and function, as well as their response to injury or disease.
Blood plasma levels of 24S-HC may be altered after acute brain injuries such as stroke or in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and multiple sclerosis.
Fort Myers Power Plant
The Fort Myers Power Plant is a natural gas and fuel oil-fired power station located in Lee County, Florida.
The power station is composed of two combined cycle natural gas-fired units (Units 2 and 3) and two fuel oil-fired units (Units 1 and 9), totalling an installed capacity of 2,608.9 MW.
It is the third largest power station in Florida by installed capacity.
George W. Hellmuth
George William Hellmuth (1870-1955) was an American architect based in St. Louis, Missouri.
Hellmuth educated at the Missouri School of Mines and worked in a practice with Louis Spiering.
He also worked with his brother Harry at the firm Hellmuth and Hellmuth Architects.
A number of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Works involving George W. Hellmuth in the Waterman Place-Kingsbury Place-Washington Terrace Historic District, in St. Louis, are:
Also possibly designed by G.W.
Hellmuth is:
Tobel-Affeltrangen railway station
Tobel-Affeltrangen railway station () is a railway station in the municipality of Tobel-Tägerschen, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau.
It is an intermediate stop on the Wil–Kreuzlingen line and is served by local trains only.
Tobel-Affeltrangen is served by the S10 of the St. Gallen S-Bahn:
Eric Westbrook
Dr Eric Westbrook, CB, (1915–2005) was a British-born Australian artist, curator and gallery director of Auckland City Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Victoria.
Eric Westbrook was born in Peckham, south-east London on 29 September in 1915.
In childhood, he accompanied is father, a businessman in the textile industry, on his travels in Europe and waiting for him in museums, an experience which made a lasting impression on his love of art and of galleries.
He was taught by Walter Sickert and Mark Gertler in painting courses at art schools including Battersea, Clapham and Westminster School of Art, and supported his studies by working as a telephone operator.
Despite being scholarship winner, he decided he could make a better contribution as a connoisseur than as a painter, and went to Paris in 1934, at age nineteen, to tour its galleries and to see contemporary art.
During WW2, and after graduating from art school, he was rejected for service in the infantry on the grounds of 'puniness' and instead worked in intelligence liaison and army education.
In 1944 he met his first wife, domestic science teacher Ingrid Nystrom, in an air-raid shelter.
He took up art teaching after the war for the London County Council before being appointed art master at Ardingly College, Sussex.
This led to work for the Arts Council of Great Britain as one of four guide lecturers touring Britain with art exhibitions, and in another role he set up art education for the army and advised the YMCA Youth Clubs in Britain.
Westbrook was approached by the retiring director of the Wakefield Art Gallery (est.
1934, and since 2011 named The Hepworth Wakefield) in West Yorkshire in 1946 to apply for the position.
Successful, he became Britain’s youngest gallery director.
During his tenure he organised a retrospective of the work of Henry Moore who was born 60km from Wakefield.
The exhibition attracted controversial attention when president of the Royal Academy of Arts Alfred Munnings in his 1949 radio-broadcast valedictory speech in 1949 attacked Modernism, identifying Moore as an offending artist.
The material Westbrook generated for the show was taken up for a British Council European tour of Moore's work.
This led three years later to Westbrook being invited to join the Fine Arts Department of the British Council as chief exhibitions officer, arranging traveling exhibitions on British to most European countries, and twice in charge of the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
While in Greece during one of these tours, he was informed that Auckland City Art Gallery was seeking a new director.
In 1952 he successfully applied and flew back to England through America to visit galleries there.
For the next four and a half years as director at Auckland he was innovative in exhibitions and expanding activities of the gallery in other arts by inaugurating poetry readings, concerts and summer schools, lecturing and broadcaster.
In recognition, the Art Galleries and Museums Association of New Zealand appointed him an honorary life member in 1959.
In 1955 with Daryl Lindsay’s impending retirement as director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Westbrook was invited to apply for the position and he was appointed on 1 January 1956, aged forty-one years, on a salary of £1,868 p.a.
($A220,000.00 at 2018 value).
Negotiating with a new Victorian Government, he worked to restructure the gallery and increase staffing, raising the profile of the Gallery through his lectures and on the media.
He supported the establishment in 1957 of the Victorian Public Galleries Group (later named Regional Galleries Association of Victoria).
A period of travel in Europe 1957 enabled Westbrook to inspect museums in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, following which in 1960 he and architect Roy Grounds toured 122 galleries and museums and other cultural buildings in Europe and America, as they planned for the removal of the gallery from Melbourne’s public library to a new complex at Southbank and St Kilda Road and the development there of an Arts Centre.
Study leave on a Carnegie Fellowship in 1965 led him in 1967 to establish the NGV voluntary guide service as an interactive and friendly means of introducing audiences to art in institutions which they may find daunting.
In a 1965 interview for a "Walkabout" magazine profile, he asserted an aim to make art and all forms of culture more accessible.
In 1968 construction of the new building for the National Gallery of Victoria was completed, though the design, met with the disapproval of some commentators, including art patron John Reed of the Museum of Modern Art Australia (MOMAA), who ridiculed it as "an unmitigated disaster."
The process was commemorated by Westbrook in "Birth of a Gallery" which incorporates a transcript of conversations between the director and architect Grounds.
He proposed in a 1962 interview that the Centre in St Kilda Road would provide "information, stimulation and relaxation for citizens" and that from it a huge creative effort by artists would result in a building designed for its best display, adding that "...it's an ‘instrument’ which we are leaning to play," his role being like that of an orchestral conductor.
In 1970 he was appointed president of UNESCO Visual Arts Committee, but his directorship sometimes met with controversy; he was instrumental in the Gallery becoming the first in Australia to have a photography department, eventually with its own curator Jennie Boddington;; in 1973 Westbrook mounted a large retrospective of work by socialist artist Noel Counihan to criticism from the staff and trustees on grounds that it either was insufficiently 'modern' or that its subversive nature might bring the gallery into disrepute, but Professor (Sir) Joseph Burke's support in opening the exhibition carried weight with most trustees, leading to Counihan's acceptance as a major Australian artist; and an exhibition of Leonard French, who was then Westbrook's exhibitions officer met the disapproval of Professor Bernard Smith and his Antipodeans.
Westbrook retired from the National Gallery of Victoria in 1975 and until 1980 he headed the Victorian Ministry for the Arts, moving then with his second wife non-objective painter Dawn Sime to Castlemaine.
There he resumed his practice as an artist and supported the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Museum.
Shukhrat Boboev
Shukhrat Boboev (born 3 December 1985) is an Uzbekistani Paralympic judoka.
He represented Uzbekistan at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and he won the bronze medal in the men's 90 kg event.
At the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games he won the gold medal in the men's 90 kg event.
2020 Southeastern Conference softball season
The 2020 SEC softball season began with practices in January 2020, followed by the start of the 2020 NCAA Division I softball season in February.
Conference will start in March 2020 and will conclude in May, followed by the 2020 Southeastern Conference Softball Tournament at Rhoads Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in May.