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1. Describe the structure of the DNA molecule
2. If the sequence of bases on one stand of the molecule is AAC TGC CCG, what is the sequence on the complemetary strand?
3. During DNA replication, what enzyme breaks the hydrogen bonds between the base pairs, and what enzyme matches up nucleotides to the existing ones on the parent strand of DNA?
4. Why is this type of replication called Semi Conservative?
5. How is RNA different from DNA?
6. The production of messenger RNA from DNA is called ________, and this happens in the __________ of the cell.
7. The parts of the mRNA molecules which are edited out before RNA reaches the cytoplasm are called __________
8. mRNA gets a cap and a tail prior to being read by the ribosome. What is the function of the cap and tail?
9. If the DNA strand being copied had this sequence: ACT GGC ATA CTA what would the sequence of the mRNA be?
10. The function of transfer RNA is ?
11. What is the name of the enzyme that produces RNA from DNA?
12. If the sequence of DNA is the same in your body cells, why are all cells not the same?
13. The DNA in you, an earthworm, and a fungus is the same. So why are you a human and not an earthworm?
14. What is an anti-codon and where is it found?
15. The protein synthesis process that occurs at the ribosome is called _____________
16. What is a stop codon?


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Thanks for a great game - I have spent hours playing this with several chars.
My hardcore healer/druid was trying to win a Holy War, and had gotten down to having only one more altar to destroy. I searched for it, and got told it was in one area. I looked on the map in that area and did not find any marker. Upon looking through other areas, I found it was in an adjacent area and underground. I went down into the area's only dungeon, ran into lots of monsters and the game crashed. Upon restarting, I could find no such altar or quest in the dungeon, and I'm thinking I will have to abandon the area to move on.
My concern: different sources give me different info about this P1 quest. The upper left corner of the screen tells me it it in one area, where I don't find it. The quests-in-area info under the little blue "i" for another area says it is there, and underground, but I don't find the quest in what I have confirmed is the second area's only dungeon. I'm willing to accept there may be a yet-undiscovered secret area in this well-explored area, but finding that may be frustrating for me and potentially for other gamers.
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Books for Young Adults:
Prayer, Ethics/Morality, and Jewish Life
Jewish Kids' Catalog
By Chaya M. Burstein
Everything a kid wants to know about being Jewish in one volume, this book is a fun-filled, illustrated look at key people and events in Jewish history; at the holidays and customs; at the origins of Jewish names, and much more. This is a book that will be opened again and again to pages filled with the joys of being Jewish.
The creators of the Jewish Catalog series have created a series perfect for kids. This book does not intend to be read from cover to cover. Instead, it serves as an excellent resource for all kinds of information that kids will want to know about being Jewish. The book covers topics as diverse as the meanings of common Jewish names, how to treat animals, trivia about the Jewish holidays, recipes for traditional Jewish foods, and a Jewish tourism guide. Chaya Burstein has a wonderful knack for picking out the information that will fascinate children and present it in a conversational style that is perfect for older elementary through high school aged children. This book is a must-have for any child's personal library!
The First Jewish Catalog:
A Do-It-Yourself Kit
By Michael Strassfeld
For anyone who has ever wondered how to make wine, crochet
a kippah, locate a Jewish film, start a Jewish library, or
bring the Messiah, this exciting collection of far-ranging
topics can help any Jew--those steeped in tradition or those
just discovering Judaism--to become personally involved in
the many aspects of Jewish ritual life, customs, cooking,
crafts, and creation.
When no one else can answer your questions on celebrations, ceremonies, arts and music, travel and education, The First Jewish Catalog has the answer. This must for every Jewish home has been a best-seller for over twenty-five years!
The Second Jewish Catalog:
A Do-It-Yourself Kit
By Michael Strassfeld
This is a creative, innovative help to those seeking to
experience a more fully Jewish life. Illustrated with
photographs, drawings, and whimsical observations, and
cartoons throughout.
The Third Jewish Catalog:
A Do-It-Yourself Kit
By Sharon & Michael Strassfeld
Logically arranged, lively, innovative, thoughtful, and provocative,
this book reflects the attitudes of a growing number of Jews who are
seeking to rediscover Judaism's meaning and significance in their
own lives. This, the third book in the best-selling series, focuses
on many issues of contemporary Jewry, with articles by leading
scholars; contains an index to all three catalogs.
While Standing On One Foot :
Puzzle Stories and Wisdom Tales from the Jewish Tradition
By Nina Jaffe
Calling on thousands of years of Jewish folktales, legends,
rabbinical stories and literature, the authors show the wit
and wisdom that are the cornerstones of the Jewish tradition.
Posed as a question, each story turns on a conundrum that
young readers can try to solve. The solutions are supplied
within the tales.
Eighteen stories testifying to the tradition of quick-thinking mother wit that has saved countless individuals, as well as larger Jewish populations, from harm--like the man who, offered a choice of how he'll be put to death, contemplates briefly and replies that he would like to die of old age. After narrating each story up to its denouement, the authors invite readers to come up with a solution to the seemingly implacable problem before providing the classic answer. Thus, this unusual and appealing collection can be used as a teaching tool offering examples of graceful logic; it's also a fine source for storytellers, and should enjoy wide usage in a variety of venues. Attractive format; Segal's stylized b&w illustrations are at once comic and wonderfully austere.
The 17 brief selections in this book come from many eras and places in Jewish history and geography. Among them are "The Grand Inquistor," set in medieval Spain, in which a vicious inquisitor schemes to trick an innocent rabbi into admitting his (and by extension, all the Jews') guilt for a terrible crime. Others tell how a fox outwitted Leviathan, the powerful sea monster; how the boy who would later become King Solomon outsmarted a surly innkeeper; how a jester avoided dying by choosing the right form of death; and how a barren wife kept her husband through cleverness. Those who have read classical versions know that the originals meander, lack drama, and are dull. They have been adapted here so as to be short enough for memorizing and telling; all have a hero, a villain, a challenge, and a punch-line. Introductions supply background information. Just before revealing the outcome of each tale, the teller pauses, sums up the dilemma, and then asks readers what they would do in the same situation. Excellent for group discussions.
Solomon And the Ant: And Other Jewish Folktales
By Sheldon Oberman
An unusually varied and useful collection of 44 folktales ranging from legends involving the ethical dilemmas of King Solomon to stories of the Prophet Elijah to wisdom tales of ancient rabbis to universal stories given a Jewish slant and selections from near-modern times. The inspiration for Obermans retellings stems from many cultures and continents, yet his direct, relatively unadorned language manages to convey the time and atmosphere of each setting. Sometimes reverent, sometimes jocular, each of the stories has something to teach. Oberman appends explanatory notes and source information to each folktale. Penninah Schram, who completed the editing after Obermans death, has augmented the commentaries. Scholars will appreciate the notes indicating folkloric motifs and variants as well as the full bibliography. This is a gold mine for storytellers and educators alike.
Menorahs, Mezuzas, and Other Jewish Symbols by Miriam Chaikin
For over 3,000 years, the lives and customs of the Jewish people have been shaped by
a great variety of experiences, commemorated by symbols of these important beliefs
and events. Miriam Chaikin explains the most popular symbols as well as others that
are less well known. She discusses the symbols associated with the Jewish Sabbath,
symbolic garments, symbols in Jewish worship, symbols of Israel (Menorah, Shield of
David), home symbols (Mezuza), symbolic acts (circumcision), number symbols, and
holiday symbols. Evocative drawings capture their uniqueness and beauty.
Chaikin succeeds admirably both in covering the whole range of Jewish symbols and in presenting their underlying ideas with clarity and succinctness, distilling the scholarship (attested to by seven pages of notes and two pages of reference books) into a form easily comprehended by the intended audience. There have been other books about Jewish symbols, but none are of this scope and calibre. The book is divided into nine chapters, each dealing with an aspect of Judaism and/or Jewish culture and the concepts and symbols associated with it. The narrative, while conversational in tone, is interwoven with references from the Bible, Talmud, Midrash, folklore, and history.
Jewish Heroes, Jewish Values: Living Mitzvot in Today's World
By Barry L. Schwartz
What makes a Jewish hero?
Spanning the worlds of sports, science, film, and politics, Jewish Heroes, Jewish Values introduces the Jewish heroes of yesterday and today to those of tomorrow. Students discover how to live Jewish values by reliving some of the most dramatic moments of the twentieth century:
Eyewitness accounts capture the immediacy of each climactic event, and the "Jewish Heroes Hall of Fame" shows students how they can fulfill core Jewish values in their own lives. Over 70 photographs illustrate these inspiring portraits of men and women whose commitment to Jewish ideals have made them legends--and heroes.
Jewish U: A Contemporary Guide for the Jewish College Student
By Scott Aaron
This book is exactly what every Jewish college students needs. You�ve applied. You�ve been accepted. You�ve packed up. And now, finally, off to college you go, leaving your high school days behind, saying goodbye to your parents, your siblings, and your friends. But, something you shouldn�t leave behind is your Judaism.
Jewish U is a hands-on guide to �living Jewish� on campus. How to observe your first high holidays away from home. How to decide if you should join a fraternity or sorority. How to find the right place to eat during Passover. How to talk to non-Jewish roommates about Judaism. How to find common ground with Jewish students from different backgrounds. How to find a Jewish home for yourself on campus. College is about diversity, offering up countless options, choices that YOU will now have to make on your own. Jewish U: A Contemporary Guide for the Jewish College Student is an invaluable resource for those about to be presented with these myriad choices.
Alongside the many contemporary resources that he recommends, Scott Aaron incorporates what the Jewish texts have to say about interacting with others, making decisions, and ethical living.
The Wonder of Becoming You
By Miriam Grossman, MD
A sensitive explanation of how a Jewish girl grow up, describing the
body's changes, and how Jewish tradition view related matters.
Listen to the Trees :
Jews and the Earth
Listen To The Trees looks to the Torah for its environmental
wisdom. Through quotations, sayings and stories, Molly Cone gives
young readers an inspiring view of the jewish connection to the natural
world. Listen To The Trees presents Torah teachings that have
made responsibility for caring for the earth an important part of
Judaism from its very beginning. Roy Doty's charming illustrations
enhance the value of Listen To The Trees as an informative
and engaging book of interest to any young reader with a concern
for nature and our environment.
Making a Difference: Putting Jewish Spirituality into Action, One Mitzvah at a Time
By Bradley Shavit Artson & Gila Gevirtz
Inspire your teens with an action-based view of the Jewish spiritual tradition!
Based on the best selling book It's a Mitzvah! by Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, Making a Difference presents both ethical and ritual mitzvot, such as Rodef Shalom, Tzedakah, Kashrut, and Tefillah, as well as practical and creative suggestions on how to observe them. Students study the wisdom of Jewish sacred texts and examine through a Jewish lens who they are, the kind of adults they want to become, and how the mitzvot can help them achieve their goals.
Each chapter presents a mitzvah and includes the following writing activities:
The book uses the same dynamic graphics and layout that teens respond to in popular magazines and on websites. More than 130 photographs illustrate and enrich the text.
The Time of Our Lives: A Teen Guide to the Jewish Life Cycle
By Nina Beth Cardin and Scott Blumenthal
Is it true that I was born for a reason? Am I really an adult when I become a bat mitzvah? How should I act around someone whose grandmother just died?
The Time of Our Lives is an unforgettable journey along the path of the Jewish life cycle, as your students have never traveled it before. While exploring how Jewish life cycle events help us mark and celebrate the milestones in our lives, young teens will consider how we each contribute to the modern evolution and enrichment of these celebrations.
Using teen-friendly narrative, thought-provoking questions and a dynamic, vibrant design, The Time of our Lives serves as a guidebook to the major milestones along the paths of the Jewish life cycle:
The Great Balancing Act: A High School Ethics Curriculum with Book
By Michelle Shapiro Abraham
This latest addition to the UAHC Ethics Curriculum takes age-old ideas and places them within a thoroughly modern context for High School students.
You Be the Judge :
A Collection of Ethical Cases and Jewish Answers
A judge forbids an expert witness from wearing his kippah in court because it makes
him look too credible and it may influence the jury. A fourteen year-old transplant
recipient wants to go off his medication and die because the side effects are too painful.
American doctors wonder if they can use Nazi medical research gathered by the
torturing of Jewish prisoners in order to save the lives of American pilots. The children
of Sol Gordon want to violate his dying wishes in order to move his charitable pledge
from the recipient he indicated to a recipient they believe is more "ethical."
Each of these cases is drawn from the headlines. Here are real or realistic ethical problems that are submitted to the test of "Jewish Law" in order to find "the right solution." This book contains more than fifty cases and the Jewish responses to each case. It is perfect for both the dinner table and the classroom. Here is a chance to share values, discuss ethics, and take a first look into the Talmud, the codes, and the wisdom of the Jewish legal process.
The Time of Our Lives: A Teen Guide to the Jewish Life Cycle
By Nina Beth Cardin
Is it true that I was born for a reason? Am I really an adult when I become a bat mitzvah? How should I act around someone whose grandmother just died?
The Time of Our Lives is an unforgettable journey along the path of the Jewish life cycle, as your students have never traveled it before. While exploring how Jewish life cycle events help us mark and celebrate the milestones in our lives, young teens will consider how we each contribute to the modern evolution and enrichment of these celebrations.
Using teen-friendly narrative, thought-provoking questions and a dynamic, vibrant design, The Time of our Lives serves as a guidebook to the major milestones along the paths of the Jewish life cycle:
Choosing to Be Chosen
By Ellen Frankel
A fascinating collection of nine stories illustrating the dilemmas and options facing Jewish pre-teens in America today: assimilation, anti-Semitism, Jewish Identity, parental pressure, personal ethics.
Drugs, Sex, and Integrity:
What Does Judaism Say
This book is an excellent learning tool for all readers, especially young
adults, encountering Jewish law for the first time. Dilemmas pertaining to
alcoholism, sex, integrity, and Jewish religious values are presented.
Biblical, Talmudic, and Reform responses are given.
Where G-d Dwells :
A Child's History of the Synagogue
Through beautiful illustrations, fantasy and historical exploration, Where G-d Dwells:
A Child's History of the Synagogue presents the results of Dr. Fine�s research on
the synagogue. Here is a chance to take your students to Jerusalem and Masada, Dura
Europos and Beth Alpha-then back to your own synagogue community!
Understanding Jewish Holidays and Customs: Historical and Contemporary
By Sol Scharfstein
A historical and contemporary overview of customs and ceremonies as practiced by Jews from Biblical times to the present. The author begins with a discussion of the Jewish lunar calendar upon which the holidays are based and then distinguishes between the types of holidays. The Sabbath, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Shavuot, and Sukkot go back to Biblical times and are religious. Passover (also Biblical), Purim, Chanukah, and the more recent Yom Ha-Atzma'ut celebrate historical "victories"-the survival of the Jewish people or Israel's independence. Yom Ha-Shoah memorializes the victims of the Holocaust and Yom Ha-Zikkaron commemorates the soldiers fallen in defense of Israel. Other topics covered include the synagogue and Jewish life-cycle events. Several small, black-and-white and color photographs and reproductions appear in the margins of every page, and each chapter begins with a color illustration. In a clear style and attractive format, this volume offers much information about Jewish traditions.
Kids Speak :
Children Talk About Themselves
By Chaim Walder
A collection of essays written by Jewish children aged 8-11 describing
their personal problems, their fears, and their unusual experiences.
Through these stories, children will learn to deal with their own problems,
or turn to those who can help.
More Kids Speak :
Children Talk About Themselves
By Chaim Walder
By popular demand, the author has compiled the personal stories
and experiences of children who wrote in response to the book,
Speak. Provides parents and educators with insights into
youngsters' lives, and provides young readers with an outlet
for their own feelings.
Kids Speak 3 :
Children Talk About Themselves
By Chaim Walder
A sequel to
Speak and
Kids Speak, chock-full of children's own personal stories. The fears,
challenges, and triumphs described by these children make up every child. A
must for your kids--and you!
A Bridge to Prayer :
The Jewish Worship Workbook
By Nachama Skolnik Moskowitz
Volume One:
G-d, Prayer, and the Shema
Volume Two:
The Amidah, Torah Service, and Concluding Prayers
These books are designed to familiarize young people with the
fundamental prayers of our heritage and the order of the Jewish
worship service. Young readers can explore the morning and evening
services held on Shabbat and weekdays, while gaining an in-depth
introduction to various concepts of God, prayer, righteousness,
repentance, and redemption. These concepts are immediately
reinforced through exercises that accompany the text.
Explaining Reform Judaism
By Eugene B. Borowitz Naomi Patz
An authoritative presentation of the fundamental history, beliefs, and goals of Reform Judaism in one compact volume.
Alef Bet of Jewish Values :
Code Words of Jewish Life
Creatively presenting Judaism's key concepts, this book features four
themes that are the foundation of Jewish lifeyJewish identity, G-d and
prayer, community values, and personal valuesyand explores each
concept through stories, midrashim, and prayers.
The UAHC Kids Catalog of Jewish Living
By Chaya M. Burstein
Living as a Jew doesn't just happen. It takes some doing. The
big question is 'doing what?' This book will tell you about
Jewish living from a Reform perspective. It includes illustrations,
puzzles, activities, biographical profiles, and bibliography.
To Learn Is to Do :
A Tikkun Olam Roadmap
By Sharon D. Halper
This book combines attractive, humorous black-and-white line drawings with a text-based study of tikkun olam and related mitzvot using Torah, Torah commentary, and other primary sources. Includes Hebrew key words, roots, and phrases related to tikkun olam, and highlights organizations that do the actual everyday work of tikkun olam. To Learn Is To Do provides roadmap of tikkun olam. It teaches students that being Jewish involves both learning and doing and provides practical, realistic ways for students to begin their lifelong connection to ethical living. Thus it enables teachers to make connections between text study and Jewish living.
To Learn Is To Do can be used as an independent curricular unit, or integrated into Hebrew, text-study, Torah, or tzedakah curricular units. User-friendly accompanying teacher's guide containing suggestions for classroom implementation is also available.
Mah Tov Series:
Asot Mishpat (Do Justice)
By Abraham Shumsky
Teacher's Guide Also Available
This series fosters vocabulary growth and grammatical understanding. Through the Mah Tov workbooks (illustrated by Hal Just) students learn vocabulary before reading the stories.
Living Torah in America :
Derekh Hatov
By Rabbi Maurice Lamm
For traditional Jewish teens, the conflicts between religious observance and the attractions
of modern life seem especially sharp. Applying halachah to daily routines, this
book suggests how young people can participate in teenage life while living a modern
Orthodox life.
A Topical Bible :
Biblical Answers to Modern Questions
By Naomi E. Pasachoff
Did you know that the moral framework found in the Bible can offer practical guidance
to real-life issues confronting today's young people? A Topical Bible uses
biblical texts to guide students as they wrestle with real-life social and ethical problems.
Each chapter presents a major contemporary issue and examines it through the lens of
the Bible. The engaging stories are illustrated with dramatic contemporary photographs
and whimsical cartoons. Step-by-step questions guide students through the text and
demonstrate its relevance to modern life.
Contents include Repairing a Damaged Relationship (Jacob's Reconciliation with Esau; Joseph and His Brothers), Accepting Personal Responsibility (The Tree of Knowledge; David and Bathsheba), Questioning Authority (Abraham and the Cities of the Plain; Job), Sexual Equality (The Creation of Humankind; The Daughters of Zelophehad), Identifying with the Suffering of Others (The Awakening of Moses; Esther), Welcoming Change and Challenge (Moses and the Burning Bush; King Saul), and A Time for Action (Crossing the Sea of Reeds; Deborah and the Canaanites)
The G-d Book:
A Necessarily Incomplete Look at the Essence of G-d
By Rabbi Paul Yedwab
From the author of the best selling, Sex in the Text, comes the perfect "G-d" book for your 7th and 8th graders.
The G-d Book: A Necessarily Incomplete Look at the Essence of G-d is, according to the text-book author Rabbi Paul Yedwab, "an antidote to premature atheism." This is not a theology textbook: It's a thinking, feeling, and sharing textbook. Each chapter features a "My G-d Diary," in which students can write about their feelings, thoughts, doubts and affirmations about the "Unknowable."
The Book of the Jewish Life
Life-cycle ceremonies are the most essential expressions of our Jewish community.
For contemporary American Jews they are also among the most creative--and the
most diverse--expressions of Jewish life. In order to best represent the wide and
interesting variety of what we do and how we do it, the authors of The Book
of the Jewish Life and the UAHC Press felt that the liberal Jewish community
should have a say in editing this book. In an unprecedented experiment, the basic
manuscript of The Book of the Jewish Life was sent to 7,000 educators,
rabbis, cantors, and congregational leaders--the core of the liberal movement
today--along with a questionnaire asking for comments, critiques, and recomendations.
Based on your feedback, the new Book of the Jewish Life is the first text
on the Jewish life we actually live today. Illustrated in full color and geared toward
intermediate grades, each chapter relates a stage or landmark of life, its traditional
practices, and its modern observance. Also included are glossaries of Hebrew terms,
blessings, and stories to bring our celebrations to life.
It's a Mitzvah!: Step-By-Step to Jewish Living
By Bradley Shavit Artson
An open door for all of us who want to deepen our Jewish commitment but don't know how or where to begin. From lighting Shabbat candles to spending a night in a homeless shelter, this guide to Jewish living presents simple steps to incorporate the rich tradition of Jewish values into everyday life.
Each chapter focuses on one mitzvah--both its traditional and contemporary significance--plus ways to put the mitzvah into practice. Addressing ritual-based and social-action mitzvot, this book offers a wealth of opportunities to grow Jewishly.
A guide to Jewish living, this book is the starting point for everyone who wants to increase his or her level of Jewish commitment, but doesn't know where or how to begin. From lighting candles on Shabbat to spending a night in a homeless shelter, this book identifies hundreds of opportunities to transform daily living into Jewish living. Over 100 pictures detail the richness and diversity of Jewish life in action.
(Beliefs & Cultures Series)
The history of Judaism and its modern customs are detailed in
this fully illustrated text. Readers will learn about the
persecution of the Jews, both in ancient times and the Holocaust.
Traditions and holidays-bar and bat mitzvahs, Passover, etc.
We Gave the World Moses and Bagels: Art and Wisdom of Jewish Children
By David Heller
In describing what it means to be Jewish, Rabbi Abraham Joshua
Heschel once said that the Jewish people "are the track of God in
the wilderness." In We Gave the World Moses and Bagels,
children ages four to twelve leave their little footprints as they
describe their own uniquely Jewish journeys. A humorous and
heart-warming collection of children's quotes and full-color artwork,
this book is the perfect gift for all ages, a lively and colorful depiction
of what children think it means to be Jewish.
The Synagogue :
House of the Jewish People
By Susan Van Dusen and Rabbi Marc Berkson
Take a tour through the gathering place of the Jewish people. A synagogue
is a holy place for the Jewish people. Help your students feel at home in the synagogue.
This introduction covers it all--the synagogue's history; its ritual objects; and how it
serves as a house of prayer, a house of study, and a house of meeting.
Special features include: What Do You Think? (provocative questions to engage students' curiosity and analytical skills ), Did You Know? (sidebars offer an opportunity to explore a point of interest in depth), and In Your Synagogue (students discover the unique qualities of their own synagogue)
This richly illustrated volume includes pictures of synagogues from around the world. Students will especially enjoy the opportunity to design their own synagogue, with space for the many activities that take place in the house of the Jewish people.
Let's Talk About Loving: About Love, Sex, Marriage, and Family
By Dorothy Karp Kripke & Myer S. Kripke
Discusses, with a Jewish point of view, the different kinds of love--for God, for other people, and, especially and more explicitly, between husbands and wives. Includes chapters on divorce and adoption.
I Believe: The Thirteen Principles of Faith: A Confirmation Textbook
By Kerry M. Olitzky & Ronald H. Isaacs
Based on Maimondies' famous 13 principals of faith will afford teens an opportunity to explore their own personal beliefs as related to a variety of topics.
After the Rain
Danny talks to adults and teenagers about how easily one is able to
perform tikkun olam...the ability to repair his or her own world
wherever and whenever it is needed...and he supplies a list of tools
and people to help do the mending.
Basic Judaism for Young People :
By Naomi Pasachoff
Use concepts to teach history, stories to teach morality, heroes to teach values. The teachers
and sages of the past mastered this teaching strategy--and it is as appropriate today as it was
in talmudic times. The Basic Judaism series weaves together history, belief,
ritual, halachah, and tradition to convey the richly textured fabric of Jewish life.
This encyclopedic course can be taught in discrete units; includes photographs and artwork.
Contents include: Kedushah, Shema, Teshuvah, Shabbat, Tefillah, Bat/Bat Mitzvah, Brit, and Olam HaBa
One People:
A Study in Comparative Judaism
Describes the similarities and differences among the three branches of
Judaism while emphasizing the ties which bind all Jews together as a people.
Includes exercises, questions, and activities.
The Western Wall And Other Jewish Holy Places (Holy Places)
By Mandy Ross
An introduction to Judaism which focuses on some significant and holy sites of the religion.
My Jewish World
By Robert Thum and Susan Dworski
An interdisciplinary approach to the religious school curriculum, this is a holiday,
life-cycle, and civics text all in one. This introductory volume is the foundation
for a lifetime of Jewish involvement.
Students will find it all here:
The fundamental building blocks of Jewish life and presented in a lively, inviting, and colorful format. The practical structure combines text, photographs, and activities, allowing the teacher to create consistently successful lessons.
Teacher's Guide Also Available
Beginnings in Jewish Philosophy
By Meyer Levin
An initiation into the tradition of eternal speculation about G-d and humanity that is at the core of the Jewish spirit. Students confront the really tough questions of Jewish belief and philosophy.
How Do I Decide?: A Contemporary Jewish Approach to What's Right and What's Wrong
By Roland Bertram Gittelsohn
Our Jewish tradition offers unique insights into the problems confronting young people today. This accessible volume uses both personal experience and case studies to address such contemporary issues as substance abuse, suicide, premarital sex, aging, divorce, AIDS, and intermarriage. The Torah, Talmud, and other traditional authorities, along with contemporary Jewish commentators, provide examples to stimulate discussion of each issue.
Students discover how our Jewish heritage can help us strengthen family relationships and fulfill our communal responsibilities.
The Many Faces of Judaism: Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstructionist and Reform
By Gilbert S. Rosenthal
An objective comparison of the four branches of Judaism and their historical and theological differences, including their teachings on:
Tikkun Olam: To Speak on Behalf of the World
By Steven Bayar
Tzedakah teaching textbook
Jewish Synagogue
Why does a Jew wear a Tallit? Where in a synagogue are the
Torah scrolls kept? What happens on Shabbat? The children
in this book visit a synagogue to help them find out about
Judaism and what it means to be Jewish. From the people
they talk to and the objects they are shown, the children
build up a picture of what Jews believe and how they worship.
Where G-d Dwells :
A Child's History of the Synagogue
By Steven and Leah Bierman Fine
Through beautiful illustrations, fantasy and historical exploration, Where G-d Dwells: A
Child's History of the Synagogue presents the results of Dr. Fine�s research on the
synagogue. Here is a chance to take your students to Jerusalem and Masada, Dura Europos
and Beth Alpha-then back to your own synagogue community!
Sex in the Texts
By Paul Yedwab
Are you looking for a high school curriculum that brings to life issues directly related to your students? Would you like to help your students improve their text skills? Sex in the Text may be your answer.
Rabbi Paul Yedwab, author of several books, introduces students to controversial texts and related commentary from our tradition, ranging from B'reishit to other biblical, rabbinic, kabbalistic, and responsa texts. These are the stories and narratives not usually discussed in the classroom. Though it may sometimes be uncomfortable to talk about these texts, this collection make it clear that in its more than 4000-year history, Judaism has had an astonishing breadth in its perceptions on every aspect of our sexual lives. Sex in the Text will enable students to make connections between the texts and their lives and help them learn Jewish perspectives on sexuality, love, and marriage, as well as topics like deception, abortion, adultery, and rape.
Teacher's Guide Also Available
One People: A Study in Comparative Judaism
By Abraham Segal
Describes the similarities and differences among the three branches of Judaism while emphasizing the ties which bind all Jews together as a people.
This textbook-workbook provides teachers with numerous classroom activities.
Includes exercises, questions, and activities.
Making a difference :
Commandments and Community
By Rabbi Michal Shekel
Our Jewish Service Organizations and Mitzvot
Throughout our history, wherever Jews set roots, they immediately established Service
Organizations for the betterment of their communities. Starting from ancient times to the
present, these organizations have provided for the welfare, wellbeing, scholarship, employment,
education, burial, health and happiness for the less fortunate. These organizations, , because
of their size and funding have undertaken projects and initiated programs that were beyond the
scope of any individual. All of their efforts are based on Mitzvot. This excerpt from the Talmud
teaches of both type of mitzvot, those between an individual and God, and those between people.
"These are the deeds that are timeless, that one enjoys their results in this world and in the world
to come: honoring father and mother, deeds of loving kindness, Torah study, welcoming strangers,
visiting the sick, welcoming bride and groom, accompanying the dead to the cemetary, praying with
sincerity, making peace. The study of Torah is equal to all of them because it leads to them all."
Rabbi Shekel has combined the study of the history of Mitzvot with the history and functions of
our ancient and modern Service Organizations. The Organizations include the following:
ADL, B'nai B'rith, AJC, JPC, JNF, Hadassah, ZOA, AZF, ARZA, MERCAZ, AIPAC,
Workmen's Circle, HIAS, Loan Societies, JVS, ORT, MAZON, JCC, YMHA, YWHA, JFS,
Bikur Holim, Hevra Kadisha, CAJE, Hillel, BBYO, UJA, Hatzolah, Wexner Foundation,
Spielberg Foundation, NFTY, USY, NCSY, Jewish Big Brother/Sister, and many more
alphabet soups.
Repairing My World: The Responsibilities of a Jewish Adult
(Student Scrapbook)
By Michelle Shapiro Abraham
Parent Booklet
and Leader's Guide Also Available
For Grade 7
Why Be Different: A Look into Judaism
By Janice Prager and Arlene Lepoff
Being Jewish can mean being different from other people. Sometimes it requires upholding values different from those taken for granted in our secular society.
Adolescents in our religious schools are searching for answers to some troubling questions. Why Be Different? answers them:
Let's Learn About Kosher Food
By Rabbi Ze'ev Greenwald
With its endearing and amusing illustrations and its fun format, this
book is a winner at teaching about the laws of kashrus. You will be
treated to a wealth of information presented in dialogue form as you
accompany the 6th grade girls on their preparations for a huge bas
mitzvah party.
For One Another:
Jewish Organizations that Help Us All
By Raymond A. Zwerin
This text helps readers understand the workings of the American Jewish community.
Hillel Guide to Jewish Life on Campus
As a Jewish student making the important decision about where to go
to college, you probably have concerns about Jewish life on campus:
Will there be many other Jewish students? Are there active Jewish
student organizations? Are there Shabbat services at the local
Hillel branch? If there is no Hillel, is there a synagogue nearby?
How does the university handle Jewish holidays? Is kosher food
available? Is there a Yom Ha'Atzmaut celebration?
The Hillel Guide to Jewish Life on Campus answers all those questons and more. In addition to its more than 500 college listings, this book includes:
Judaism in Today's World: Student's Book
By Claire Clinton
Examining Judaism, this work includes a look at how Jews make moral decisions, what Jews believe about life after death, and what Judaism teaches about human relationships. This text - the third in the "Religion in Focus" series - aims to continue the motivating coverage of the GCSE short course syllabus. The Jewish faith community has been actively involved at each stage in the planning, reviewing and editing of this book.
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Message for Farmers all over the World
Recorded during an interrview on United Nations Yak
Prof M S Swaminathan
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
Chennai, India
- 1. This decade may mark the beginning of a new climate era, characterized by extreme and often unpredictable weather conditions and rise in sea levels. The recent Climate Conference in Copenhagen unfortunately failed to get a global commitment to halt economic growth based on high carbon intensity. Let us hope that the Climate Conference due to be held in Mexico in December this year will generate the political commitment essential to restrict the rise in global mean temperature to not more than 2ºC, as compared to the mean temperature of today. Even a 2ºC rise will affect adversely crop yields in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, which have a high degree of prevalence of endemic hunger. It will also lead to the possibility of small islands getting submerged. The greatest casualty of Climate Change will be food and water security.
- 2. Farmers of the world can help to avoid serious famines by developing and adopting climate resilient farming systems. 2010 has been declared by the United Nations as the International Year of Biodiversity. Biodiversity is the feedstock for a climate resilient agriculture. We should therefore redouble our efforts to prevent genetic erosion and to promote the conservation and sustainable and equitable use of biodiversity.
- 3. 2010 will also witness a major conference at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to review the progress made since the year 2000 in achieving the U N Millennium Development Goals. The first among these goals is the eradication of hunger and poverty. Unfortunately the number of hungry children, women and men, which was 800 million in 2000, is now over a billion. This is partly due to a rise in food prices, thereby making it difficult for the poor to have access to balanced diet at affordable prices. There is no time to relax and the farmers of the world must redouble their efforts to increase food production through an ever-green revolution pathway of increasing productivity in perpetuity without associated ecological harm. Without the total commitment of the two billion farmers of the world to produce more by adopting climate resilient farming systems, the goal of "food for all and for ever" cannot be reached.
- 4. This decade will show that the future belongs to Nations with grains and not guns. Human destiny during this decade and beyond will be shaped by farm women and men. This Decade will thus be the Decade of Farmers.
- 5. Overcoming hidden hunger caused by micronutrient deficiencies like iron, iodine, zinc, Vitamin A and Vitamin B12 can be achieved by growing and consuming appropriate local vegetables and fruits. There is a horticultural remedy for every nutritional malady. Moringa, which is a jewel in the horticultural crown, is an example.
- 6. Urban and non-farming members of the human family should realize that we live on this planet as the guests of sunlight and green plants, and of the farm women and men who toil in sun and rain, and day and night, to produce food for over 6 billion people, by bringing about synergy between green plants and sunlight. Let us salute the farmers of the world and help them to help in achieving the goal of a hunger free world, the first among the U N Millennium Development Goals.
(M S Swaminathan)
January 12, 2010


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Please see this exciting opportunity for interested faculty members below:
We are pleased to announce 2018 Sustainable Research Pathways (SRP) program is now accepting applications from faculty at US degree granting academic institutions. Come to Berkeley Lab to learn about summer research opportunities for you and/or your students at a Department of Energy National Laboratory
SRP Matching and Exploratory Workshop
To facilitate the possible matching of faculty and/or their students with lab research opportunities, selected faculty will be invited to a workshop on December 3-4, 2018, at Berkeley Lab. Computing Sciences staff and selected faculty applicants will discuss their research projects and interests in order to determine possible matches and the potential for research collaborations.
This workshop, developed under a partnership between Sustainable Horizons Institute and Berkeley Lab, is designed for faculty from any US degree granting institution, including Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) and women's, liberal arts, and community colleges, which support students such as: women, minorities, first generation scholars, and people with disabilities as well as those from under-privileged backgrounds. Faculty learn about opportunities to engage in collaborative, cutting-edge research with Berkeley Lab computing scientists. Matched faculty will be invited to apply for summer research opportunities at Berkeley lab.
Faculty Benefits
- Pre-workshop webinar
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Potential to participate in summer research as:
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Preference is given to faculty/student teams
Application requirements and other details can be found at
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Harvest of Talents of Lincoln Christian Church
An Afternoon of Great Scenes from the Musical Theatre
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[August 04, 2014]
LINCOLN - Harvest of Talents of Lincoln
Christian Church presents an afternoon of great scenes from the
musical theatre featuring the talents of: Linda Storm, Tim Searby,
Gail King, Kay Dobson, Brandon Davis, Julie King, Tiffany Sprague,
Paula Landess, LaVerne Tesh, Rich Knopp, Mike Vernon, Gayla Woods,
Annie Sheley, Betsy Ramsey, Randy Storm, Laurin Hill, Barry King,
Bev Kurka, Deb Parker, Paula Knopp, Bob Kurka, Lorna Searby, Emmary
Roemer, Donnie Parker, Dan Bailey, Sadie Bolton, Owen Roemer, Maura
Gowin, Zildgin Bolton, Eli Roemer, Isaac Sprague, Erin Gowin, Ella
The program will include great scenes from many outstanding
musicals including: The Sound of Music, Phantom of the Opera, Guys
and Dolls, My Fair Lady, Wicked, The King and I, Oliver, Forty Days
and Forty What?, Fiddler on the Roof and Hello Dolly. The Harvest of
Talents Vocal Ensemble will be featured and the newly formed
Children's Ensemble will round out the talent.
Please mark your calendars for Sunday, September 28 at 2 p.m. in the
Lincoln Christian Church Sanctuary.
A free-will offering will be taken and all proceeds will be given to
Harvest of Talents to help feed hungry and hurting people around the
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan, May 22 - One Afghan civilian was killed and five others were wounded Wednesday morning when an improvised bomb went off in Ghazni city, the provincial capital of eastern Ghazni province, police said.
"An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attached to a bicycle exploded at around 8:40 a.m. local time in third police district in Ghazni city, killing one civilian and wounding five others," deputy provincial police chief Assadullah Khan told.
The casualties, including the dead, were shifted to a city hospital and two injured were in critical condition, he added.
The obvious target of the attack remained unknown in the city 125 km south of Afghan capital Kabul, he noted.
The Taliban-led insurgency has been rampant since the militant group launched an annual offensive late last month against Afghan government forces and about 100,000 NATO-led troops stationed in the country.
The Taliban urged civilians to stay away from official gatherings, military convoys and centers regarded as the legitimate targets by militants besides warning people not to support the government and foreign troops.
In a separate incident, five militants were killed and one was wounded when Taliban launched an attack against police checkpoint in Shar-e-Buzurg district in the country's northern province of Badakhshan earlier on Wednesday morning, said provincial government spokesman Abdul Maruf Rasikh.
However, Rasikh told that no member of the security personnel was injured in the attack in the province 315 km north of Kabul.
The Taliban-led insurgency and conflicts claimed the lives of more than 2,800 Afghan security forces and 400 foreign soldiers while leaving 2,754 civilians dead last year in the war-hit central Asian state.


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Welcome to the RDC Liaison page!
The function of the Liaison is to initiate and maintain good communications with anyone and any group in Roanoke valley and surrounding areas.
This includes businesses such as The Grandin Theater, The Park as well as area organizations including Roanoke Pride, Roanoke PFLAG, Floyd PFLAG, Lynchburg PFLAG, Lynchburg Diversity Center, Lynchburg Transgender Alliance, Ladies and Gents of the Blue Ridge, The Drop-In Center, and many others.
If you'd like to be 'in the know' about places I've gone, meetings I've attended and hear about events we've held--this is the place to be!! I'll be adding entries quite regularly.
The postion will attend most of our on-location events, as well as the events of other organizations. That way, they can meet and greet, as many folks in the community as possible!
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If you follow my ramblings with any level of alacrity you will note I've been considering putting the world into the Asylum. If this has confused you, dear reader, worry not.
You see, I am a Douglas Adams fan. Adams died in 2001, at the painfully young age of 49. Yet, his words still echo down the years, at least for me they do. I miss the fellow, even though I never met him in real life. I just adore his writings, his published works, and his finely-tuned sense of the absurd.
I first made his acquaintance in the late 1970s, when the BBC was airing something called the The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. You may have heard of it, but don't worry if you haven't. The radio series spawned a book, then some more books, some more radio series, a television series and — finally — a "major motion picture".
Douglas wrote many things in the Hitch Hiker's universe that were patently meant to be absurd or surreal. He was writing a fiction, yet somehow along the way, the real world has fallen into step with what he wrote.
It's absurd to think this is so, surely?
Well, for whatever reason, I feel the world in which I am existing now is not the real world any more. At some point around the turn of the millennium (two ells, two ens) I awoke in a subtly different universe to the one in which I'd been living up to that point.
The differences were very subtle. The sun still rose in the east. Days were about the same length. The sky was still blue, when the clouds let it show. I wasn't a different age, or living in a different country. It was, to all intents and purposes, the same universe in which I began my journey through life.
As the new millennium (two ells, two ens) drew on, however, the disparities began to show. George W Bush had narrowly squeaked into the White House, and soon after somebody decided to take out the World Trade Center by flying jet airliners into it. Everything's been going steadily downhill since. Sacred personal freedoms have been eroded more and more, in the name of security, yet we managed quite happily when some Irish freedom fighters were actually blowing shit up — and some of it not far from where I grew up. We just carried on as before, just being a bit more careful about lonesome packages and loitering near litter bins.
These days, we're perilously close to living in an Orwellian dystopia. We're in a so-called War on Terror (without the vowels, if you're George W), but it strikes me the terrorists have won if I can't go about my daily life without being spied on, stopped for being a photographer, or having to virtually strip naked before being allowed onto an aeroplane.
I'm sorry but, what the f…?!
As the news media get ever more sucked into the world of Newspeak, nonsense "reality television" and no-name celebrity fawning, I have come to the conclusion that Adams' character of John Watson, from "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", first published in 1984 (how apt), was right all along.
I won't bore you with the whole back story, but let's just say that Arther Dent (the main narrative character of the Hitch Hiker's series) has found himself on an alternative Earth where the dolphins seem to have vanished. Trying to find answers to this disjunction in his timeline, Dent and his lover Fenchurch, head to the US west coast in search of John Watson, Wonko the Sane.
'Your wife,' said Arthur, looking around, 'mentioned some toothpicks.' He said it with a hunted look, as if he was worried that she might suddenly leap out from behind the door and mention them again.
Wonko the Sane laughed. It was a light easy laugh, and sounded like one he had used a lot before and was happy with.
'Ah yes,' he said, 'that's to do with the day I finally realized that the world had gone totally mad and built the Asylum to put it in, poor thing, and hoped it would get better.'
This was the point at which Arthur began to feel a little nervous again.
'Here,' said Wonko the Sane, 'we are outside the Asylum.' He pointed again at the rough brickwork, the pointing and the guttering. 'Go through that door,' he pointed at the first door through which they had originally entered, 'and you go into the Asylum. I've tried to decorate it nicely to keep the inmates happy, but there's very little one can do. I never go in there now myself. If I am ever tempted, which these days I rarely am, I simply look at the sign over the door and I shy away.'
'That one?' said Fenchurch, pointing, rather puzzled, at a blue plaque with some instructions written on it.
'Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do.'
The sign said:
Hold stick near centre of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion.
'It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a packet of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.'
It wasn't the toothpicks, or the warnings on take-away coffee cups about hot liquids, or the packets of nuts with warnings about containing nuts, that convinced me the world had lost it. It's a whole variety of little — and larger, it has to be said — things about everyday life, the actions of those around me, and the general aptitude for the "civilised" human species to royally fuck up everything it touches these days that has convinced me the world has actually gone insane. I am working on building the Asylum, but I'm having a little difficulty in finding a suitable calming location for me to live outside it.
Since finishing that last paragraph, I discovered the term "Dagenham mad". As anyone who knows the District Line will note, Dagenham is three stops beyond Barking. It's only that I don't really like that part of Essex that prevents me from opening the Asylum on the District Line, three stops beyond Barking. It would be rather appropriate, don't you think?


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Webcasts expanding in 2012
Unable to attend our presentations on-campus? No problem. We are coming to 30+ remote sites this year by way of the Web. Each of the 15 presentations will be shown live on a large screen at the following remote sites:
All presentations will be shown at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Be sure to note what time zone each remote site is in for the correct start time in your area or contact the local site for additional information.
Downtown Grand Rapids
Ladies Literary Club
61 Sheldon Blvd SE, Grand Rapids , MI 49503
Phone: 526-6280 (Calvin's Campus Events Office)
Doors will open at noon
Parking available at LaGrave Avenue CRC
Christ Memorial Church
Contact: Paul Scholten
595 Graafschap Rd, Holland, MI 49423-4534
Church Phone: 616‑396‑2305
Website: www.christmemorial.org
Email contact: email@example.com
The Community Foundation for Muskegon County (New for 2012)
Contact: Heidi Sytsema
The Frauenthal Center's Beardsley Theater
425 W. Western Avenue
Muskegon, MI 49440
Phone: 231-332-4107
Website: www.frauenthal.org
Grand Haven
Second Christian Reformed Church
Contact: Harley Dyk
2021 Sheldon Rd, Grand Haven, MI 49417-2551
Church Phone: 616-842-0710
Website: www.secondcrcgrandhaven.org
The Dogwood Center for the Performing Arts
Contact: Robert Jordan
4747 West 48th Street, Fremont, MI 49412
Phone: 231-924-5350
Website: www.dogwoodcenter.com
Midland Reformed Church
1100 N Saginaw Rd, Midland, MI 48640
Contact: Cheryl Albee, Ministry Associate
Church website: www.midlandreformed.org
Phone: 989-835-4000
Northern Michigan Christian School (New for 2012)
Contact: Dirk Walhout
128 S. Martin Street
McBain, MI 49657
Phone: 231-825-2492 x 202
Website: www.nmcs.us
Third Christian Reformed Church
Contact: Marcia Taylor
2400 Winchell Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI 49008
Contact email: email@example.com
Church website: www.3rdcrc.org
Phone: 269-343-2400
Ann Arbor
The Center for Faith & Scholarship / Campus Chapel
1236 Washtenaw Ct., Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Contact: Dr. Rolf Bouma
Phone: 734-668-7421
Website: www.cfs-aa.org
East Lansing
River Terrace Church
Contact: Dena Brunsting
1509 River Terrace Dr., East Lansing MI 48823
Phone: 517-351-9059 ext. 205
website: www.riverterrace.org
North Hills Christian Reformed Church
Contact: Anita Beem , Dir. of Education & Outreach
3150 North Adams Road, Troy, MI 48084
Church phone: 248-645-1990
Website: www.northhillscrc.org
St. Joseph
Maud Preston Palenske Memorial Library
Contact: Stephanie Masin
500 Market Street, Saint Joseph, MI 49085
Phone: 269-983-7167
Website: www.youseemore.com/maudpreston
Beyond Michigan…
St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
7650 N. Paseo del Norte, Tucson, AZ 85704
Church Phone: 520-297-7201
Website: www.standrewspres.com
Note: 10:30 a.m. start time (Mountain Standard Time)
Crosspoint Church
6950 Edison Avenue, Chino, CA 91710
Church phone: 909-606-9833
Contact: Ted Mejan
Website: www.crosspointcrcweb.org
Note: 9:30 a.m. start time (Pacific Standard Time)
The River Christian Reformed Church
Contact: Pastor Will Verhoef
459 E. Highland Ave., Redlands, CA 92373
Phone: 909-798-2221
Website: www.therivercrc.com
Note: 9:30 a.m. start time (Pacific Standard Time)
Bethany Christian Reformed Church
Contact: Todd Pheifer
17054 Bixby Avenue, Bellflower, CA 90706
Church Phone: 562-866-1812
Website: www.bethanycrc.org
Note: 9:30 a.m. start time (Pacific Standard Time)
San Jose
San Jose Christian School
Contacts: Karen & John Wynbeek
1300 Sheffield Avenue, Campbell, CA 95008
School Phone: 408-371-7741
Website: www.sjchristian.org
Note: 9:30 a.m. start time (Pacific Standard Time)
Immanuel Christian Reformed Church
Contact: Pastor Bret Lamsma
517 Orange Ave, Ripon, CA 95366-2644
Church Phone: 209-599-6163
Website: www.www.immanuelcrc.org
Note: 9:30 a.m. start time (Pacific Standard Time)
Denver Christian Schools High School Campus
Contact: Mark Swalley
2135 S. Pearl Street, Denver, CO 80210
School phone: 303-733-2421
Website: www.denver-christian.org
Note: 10:30 a.m. start time (Mountain Standard Time)
South Windsor
Avery Street Christian Reformed Church
Contacts: Rev. Jerry Lion / Cal Hulstein
661 Avery Street, South Windsor, CT 06074
Church phone: 860-644-2731
Website: www.ascrc.org
Note: 12:30 p.m. start time (Eastern Standard Time)
Sarasota - Bradenton area
Bradenton Christian School
3304 43rd Street West, Bradenton FL 34209
Contact: Deb Thomas
Phone: 941-792-5454
Website: www.bcspanthers.org
Note: 12:30 p.m. start time (Eastern Standard Time)
Fort Lauderdale
First Presbyterian Church (New for 2012)
Contact: Pastor Douglas Brouwer
401 SE 15th Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Phone: 954-462-6200
Website: www.firstpres.cc
Note: 12:30 p.m. start time (Eastern Standard Time)
Chicago - Elmhurst
Faith Christian Reformed Church
1070 S. Prospect Ave., Elmhurst, IL 60126
Church phone: 630-279-1776
Church email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.faithelmhurst.org
Note: 11:30 a.m. start time (Central Standard Time)
Faith Church (Dyer Campus)
100 - 81st Avenue
Dyer, IN 46311
Contact: Barb Wondaal, Office Manager
Phone: 219.864.0300
Website: www.faithchurchonline.org
Note: 11:30 a.m. start time (Central Standard Time)
Third Reformed Church (New for 2012)
Contact: Jaime Schiferl
708 E 13th Street
Pella, IA 50219
Phone: 641-628-4900 x211
Website: www. trcpella.com
Note: 11:30 a.m. start time (Central Standard Time)
Fairlawn Christian Reformed Church
Contact: Don Stahl
305 Goldthwaite Road, Whitinsville, MA 01588
Church phone: 508-234-2838 ext. 200
Website: www.fairlawncrc.org
Note: 12:30 p.m. start time (Eastern Standard Time)
Unity Christian Reformed Church
Contact: Rev. Steve Zwart
510 6th Street, Prinsburg, MN 56281
Church phone: 320-978-4300
Website: www.unitycrc.org
Note: 11:30 a.m. start time (Central Standard Time)
New Jersey
Cedar Hill Christian Reformed Church
Contact: Roy Heerema
422 Cedar Hill Ave, Wyckoff, NJ 07481
Church phone: 201-652-4277
Website: www.cedarhillchurch.org
Note: 12:30 p.m. start time (Eastern Standard Time)
Oak Hills Christian Reformed Church
Contacts: Corinne & Sam Bosch
2800 NW 153rd Ave
Beaverton, OR 97006-5312
Church Phone: 503-645-2245
Website: www.oakhills-church.org
Note: 9:30 a.m. start time (Pacific Standard Time)
First Christian Reformed Church &
Shoreline Christian School
14555 25th Avenue NE, Shoreline, WA 98155
Church Phone: 206-364-3021
Website: www.seattlecrc.org
Note: 9:30 a.m. start time (Pacific Standard Time)
Youth House of Third Christian Reformed Church
Contact: Greg Bode
514 Liberty St, Lynden, WA 98264-1941
Church Phone: 360-354-1448
Website: www.third-church.org
Email contact: email@example.com
Note: 9:30 a.m. start time (Pacific Standard Time)
Brampton, Ontario
Holland Christian Homes
Contact: Niesha Kovacs
7900 McLaughlin Rd
Brampton, Ontario L6Y 5A7
Phone: 905-463-7002 x5262
Website: www.hch.ca
Note: 12:30 p.m. start time (Eastern
Standard Time)
Burnaby, British Columbia
New Westminster Christian Reformed Church (New for 2012)
Contact: Pastor Andrew Beunk
8255 13th Ave.
Burnaby, B.C., V3N 2G6
Ph: 604-521-0111
Website: www.nwcrc.ca
Note: 9:30 a.m. start time (Pacific Standard Time)
LCC International University
Klaipeda, Lithuania
Contact: Derek Benthem
Email contact: email@example.com
Website: www.lcc.lt
Note: 7:30 p.m. (European Time)
Calvin College is excited to partner with this like-minded liberal arts institution and Christian academic community. It is our shared vision to provide our students with global learning and opportunities in order to be ambassadors for the Kingdom in all corners of the world. LCC is in partnership with Christian Reformed World Missions.
Have an idea?
Submit a proposal for your church/school to host the 2013 Series. Contact our office in February.


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P.S. have you ever seen any of Danny MacAskills trials riding videos? They are incredible.
- Mat said...
I love stuff like this, I remember staying up mega late when i was a kind to watch the xgames. Still like this stuff too, jumping around, riding on really thin beams ect. cool that they got their own beer involved too.
- May 6, 2013 at 10:20 AM
- Katherine Alice said...
I used to ride my bike without the seat on it - absolutely brilliant way to stay in shape!
- May 6, 2013 at 1:10 PM
- Christine said...
Skillzzz! that's really cool!
- May 6, 2013 at 4:33 PM
- polkadotpeticoat said...
Wow.....thats amazing! Heidi
- May 6, 2013 at 5:19 PM
- little t said...
Very cool way to spend the weekend Krystal.
And yeah cute name, as if I needed any more excuses to drink cold beers.
- May 6, 2013 at 7:08 PM
- fluff and fripperies said...
Sounds like lots of fun - and love the name!
- May 6, 2013 at 11:58 PM
- Dancing Branflake said...
That picture of Wesley and Mark is beyond adorable.
- May 7, 2013 at 12:38 AM
- maria said...
this is amazing - I don't know how these guys do it!
- May 7, 2013 at 1:18 AM
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- May 7, 2013 at 5:47 PM
- Lady Grey said...
I can't imagine riding a bike without a seat! Ha! I'd be terrified I think ; )
No kidding Wesley enjoyed watching his cool dad... I bet he's going to be into the same hobbies one day.
- May 9, 2013 at 9:17 PM


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Yes, it's been awhile but to my defense Jason has been hunting a lot and takes my card reader to check his game cameras.. so without being able to upload my pictures, there's been zero blogging! But I'm back and with lots to catch up on.. Presley- she is now walking!!! she takes a couple steps at a time then falls, but the record is 15 steps- she's crazy. She now has 4 teeth, and is finally saying DA DA, ma ma, and all kinds of interesting noises, she has started this new thing where she grinds her teeth and it drives me crazy, it's like nails on a chalk bored and makes me cringe! We got her Halloween costume this week, she is going to be cookie monster- I know what your thinking, Cookie monster isn't very girly, but trust me it's adorable.. Jason- like I said he has been hunting and had a couple rodeos to go to so he was gone quite a bit this last month but now he is home and we love it! Me- Obviously my life isn't very exciting, I do pretty much the same thing everyday- Take care of Pres, cook, clean, laundry... But I have been going to play volleyball twice a week and I love every minute of it! So that's all we have been doing and I'm going to try and not disappear from my blog for a month!!
P.S. Taking pictures of Presley is difficult.. She won't sit there and as soon as you put the camera up, she stops smiling.. so here's the best we got..
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I was very proud to finally pass the ordinance to officially ban individuals from selling personal cars on certain streets in Arleta. The final ordinance included streets in other interested communities as well and prohibits vehicles with a "For Sale" signs from parking on Van Nuys Blvd. between Woodman Ave. to the I-5 freeway and Woodman Ave. between Roscoe and Van Nuys Blvd.
Local residents raised concerns with my staff and I after they noticed a growing number of vehicles consistently parking on Roscoe and Van Nuys for the sole purpose of displaying them for private sale. This situation worsened as on-street parking was monopolized, motor oil leaked on the pavement and the neighborhood felt their quality of life was affected by the visual blight created.
I'm proud to represent the community in which I was born and raised and I believe all of Council District Six deserves to share in that pride. Arleta is a beautiful neighborhood and it is my hope that this motion will preserve the quality of life for residents in this area and resolve the growing problems associated with selling personal items on a public street, in this small community.


text: Maputo - Mozambique's new President Filipe Nyusi was sworn into office on Thursday in a ceremony boycotted by the main opposition party, which has rejected the results of October's elections.Nyusi's inauguration extended the ruling Frelimo party's nearly 40-year hold on power since the southern African nation won independence from Portugal in 1975."This takeover of power is illegal," Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama was quoted by Lusa news agency as saying ahead of the ceremony, which was attended by regional leaders and Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva.Dhlakama, a former rebel leader who claims the elections were fraudulent, boycotted the opening of parliament on Monday and has threatened to form a parallel government in parts of the gas-rich country.Nyusi, 55, took the oath of office before symbolically exchanging seats with outgoing president Armando Guebuza.He pledged "to open constructive dialogue with all political forces and civil society organisations to promote peace" in a country that was ravaged by a brutal 16-year civil war that ended in 1992."I represent a new generation, a generation that inherits huge success and exciting challenges," he said. The former defence minister is Mozambique's first president not to have fought in the liberation war against colonial power Portugal and holds no top position in the nominally Marxist-Leninist Frelimo party.An engineer by profession, Nyusi took 57% of the vote in the election - a sharp drop on the 75% of votes won by Guebuza in the previous presidential election in 2009.Growing economyHe inherits a growing economy with massive potential, but whose recent gas and oil finds have yet to benefit the impoverished majority in a country plagued by inequality and unemployment."Reforming the agricultural sector will be one of the main challenges for the new president because it comprises 70% of the jobs in Mozambique," said economist Joao Mosca.Nyusi's immediate focus, however, will be stabilising the volatile political situation given Renamo's defiant stance on the election results.Dhlakama has a habit of challenging election results. He has disputed the outcome of every election since 1990, and in the months leading up to the October poll led a low-level insurgency against the government from his bush hideout.The difference this time is his resurgent popularity, says Fernando Lima, director of Savana independent weekly - particularly in the under-developed central and northern parts of the country.Good ideasDhlakama took 37% of the vote, more than double his 2009 score of 16%."Without forming a unity government, I think Frelimo could still be generous and give governorships or agree with Renamo on ministerial positions," said Lima.How Nyusi chooses to compose his first government will give an indication of how he intends to deal with Renamo."I will be open to propositions and ideas from other other parties that promote the peace and development of Mozambique," he said at his inauguration. "Good ideas do not wear party colours."The leaders of South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia and Tanzania also attended the swearing-in ceremony at Independence Square in the seaside capital Maputo.


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The company says that this is a marked change from what it has been hearing at developer conventions and user group meetings over the last few years. "Speaking to developers and project managers, Serena's Adam Frankl says that reducing costs was consistently listed as the #1 developer priority until recently."
"More software application development professionals identify delivering applications faster as a priority — rather than just cutting costs. As we emerge from the global economic slowdown, innovation and, especially, the speed of innovation are the priority. I can't think of a time in my 20-year career when there has been a higher profile for software applications, a broader range of available platforms and more data available. So we may be entering the golden age of application development," said Frankl.
Serena's findings come as no major surprise given the company's willingness to extol the virtues of its Orchestrated ALM Whitepaper, which it positions as being a useful route towards learning how you can deliver applications faster, reduce app development costs and expand the use of Agile.
Writing in the company's aforementioned white paper, Serena's David Hurwitz notes that, "With so many apps already in production, it would be tempting to say that app driven innovation is mature, with little room for additional competitive advantage. That would be wrong, as the evolving mix of devices, Internet communications and markets creates a constantly shifting playing field from which new winners and losers regularly emerge. Speed and efficiency are the keys to winning in this world."


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8 of Donald Trump's Most Outrageous Quotes
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Traditional Republicans and party leaders have wholeheartedly rejected Donald Trump. I believe all Republicans should listen to their own party. There is no debate here, or there shouldn't be. Trump shouldn't be President. Democracy is officially terrifying because it means someone like Donald Trump could be a Republican frontrunner in the race for President of the United States. The problem is that people who want to vote for Trump aren't reading this article. Or any other article that criticizes Trump. Chances are, they don't even read articles.
Republicans aren't bad people. They have the ability to think critically. How do I know this? Because there are well-educated, prominent Republicans who are just as terrified of Trump as the Democrats. The Facebook group Republicans Against Donald Trump has over 1,000 members. The National Review collected numerous quotes from leading Republicans on why Trump is not the answer. Throughout this article, for each insane quote by the Donald there is a quote from The National Review by a fellow conservative criticizing him. Here's one to get us started:
This [Donald Trump] is a crisis for conservatism. –Glenn Beck, founder of The Blaze and bestselling author
For the first time in his life, Glenn Beck makes sense. Let the outrage begin:
"Two Corinthians 3-17, that's the whole ball game… Is that the one? Is that the one you like? I think that's the one you like."
Oh man. You know, part of being a successful politician is sounding like you're one of the people you want to vote for you, like you actually understand and respect them. This is a soundbite from Trump's speech at Liberty University, an evangelical college.
Here's the verse he was referring to: "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." I mean, I guess that's a good one? But couldn't he have at least taken the time to memorize it?
Trump later ranked his favorite book, placing one he had written "a deep, deep second to the Bible…" because "the Bible blows it away." Oh, Lord have mercy.
Just as Trump's political leanings are unpredictable, so is his religion. Some say he's a Catholic, a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, or a Presbyterian. He was married to his third wife in an Episcopalian church.
Remember: the Christian Trump accuses Muslims of being full of hatred, hatred he's never seen any other place, yet his treatment of them is anything but Christian.
I once compared Trump to Lonesome Rhodes, the character played by Andy Griffith in the 1957 film A Face in the Crowd. Trump might also be compared to Elmer Gantry, the fictional evangelist who used religion to mask his dark side. Cal Thomas, Fox News contributor
Look at Trump's record and ask yourself, does he really deserve support of the religious right?
"Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!?"
Donald Trump is king of playground insults and here's some of his childish sexism for you to chew on. Here's the full quote excerpted from Rolling Stone:
[Trump makes a joke.] His staffers at the conference table howl and hoot; their man, though, is just getting warm. When the anchor throws to Carly Fiorina for her reaction to Trump's momentum, Trump's expression sours in schoolboy disgust as the camera bores in on Fiorina. "Look at that face!" he cries. "Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!" The laughter grows halting and faint behind him. "I mean, she's a woman, and I'm not s'posedta say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?"
And there, in a nutshell, is Trump's blessing and his curse: He can't seem to quit while he's ahead. The instincts that carried him out to a lead and have kept him far above the captious field are the same ones that landed him in ugly stews with ex-wives, business partners, networks, supermodels and many, many other famous women.
The man is 69 years old and his go-to way of criticizing a female opponent is saying she has an ugly face? Fiorina has a truly classy and simple response:
The point is, whether a man thinks you're homely or a man thinks you're beautiful, it's not a topic of conversation when a woman is trying to do a job – whether it's president of the United States or secretary or anything else.
Preach, girl. Mona Charen reigns us in on the big picture: Trump's comments are reflective of an extremely low level of maturity:
The man has demonstrated an emotional immaturity bordering on personality disorder, and it ought to disqualify him from being a mayor, to say nothing of a commander-in-chief. –Mona Charen, senior fellow at Ethics and Public Policy Center
"I know exactly what I want to do, I just don't want to announce it yet."
Well that's an easy way to answer the tough questions, right?
Trump wants to Make America Great Again. This is a cute and simple idea, but when it comes to how to execute this goal, Trump reveals no detail, no plan. And, just like a middle schooler, he's mood swinging and changing his mind all over the place. We forgive teenagers, but we can't forgive Trump as easily.
The Washington Post sends Trump to the principal, and how could he possibly defend himself when everything he's said is recorded?
Here's the long version of his wavering position:
Simplify it. (June)
You can't just boom, boom, hard and fast. (August 11)
Fair Tax. (August 11)
Flat tax. (August 11)
Or you can leave the system alone. (August 11)
I know exactly what I want to do, I just don't want to announce it yet. (August 11)
I'm just not prepared to tell you right now… (August 11)
Trump, for real? You are the biggest tease. Or maybe you're just that confused. Just like a teenager looking to get into the cool clique, Trump seems to be willing to say anything to get voters.
The GOP base is clearly disgusted and looking for new leadership. Enter Donald Trump, not just with policy prescriptions that challenge the cynical GOP leadership but with an attitude of disdain for that leadership — precisely in line with the sentiment of the base. Many conservatives are relishing this, but ah, the rub. Trump might be the greatest charlatan of them all. –L. Brent Bozell, president of Media Research Center and chairman of For America
"We must have universal healthcare. I'm a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by healthcare expenses."
This is a quote from Donald Trump's book released in 2000 called The America We Deserve.
This doesn't sound like the most shocking quote, that is, if you live underneath a rock. Why is this so shocking? Because it sounds nothing like a real Republican, especially not a frontrunner. So, how is this guy getting votes? And is his flip-floppery an indication of genuine ignorance or masterful adjustments simply designed to get the most voters? So here he goes, keeping it as vague as ever:
Trump promises to make Obamacare "much better and much less expensive." (June)
"I want to take care of everybody." (July)
"We are going to have to work out some kind of a very, very smart deal with hospitals" (July)
"You need a compromise… you need flexibility." (August)
In other words, Trump has no plan whatsoever, but, surely, he'll fix it. Because he's the Donald.
In a 60 Minutes interview with Scott Pelley, Trump aggressively supported universal health care, saying, "This is an un-Republican thing for me to say. . . . I'm going to take care of everybody. . . . The government's going to pay for it." He supported the prosecution of hate crimes. He favored wealth-confiscation policies. He supported abortion rights. On all these things, Donald Trump now says he has changed his mind. –Erick Erickson, editor of The Resurgent
"I would bring back waterboarding and I would bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding."
The law bans waterboarding, also known as "controlled drowning," as a cruel and inhumane punishment on the level of a war crime. Yet Trump wants to "go through a process and get it declassified;" "waterboarding at a minimum," though it isn't apparent what comes after that.
Why is this a crazy quote? Let's study waterboarding for a second. For one, it doesn't work. This isn't just softy Democrats trying to get rid of torture… waterboarding simply does not work the way you'd imagine it would. Waterboarding and similar techniques literally "cause severe, repeated and prolonged stress, which compromises brain tissue supporting memory and executive function," according to Wired. Torture subjects often rewire their memories to match what interrogators want to hear. In other words, they don't even know what the truth is anymore.
Why is Trump pro-waterboarding? The answer is simple. It's a really easy way to get ignorant, war-mongering, angry people to vote for him. If Trump based any of his decisions or opinions on cold hard facts, he wouldn't be making proposals like bringing back waterboarding, a torture device that doesn't even work. And, is, you know, a torture device.
He doesn't know the Constitution, history, law, political philosophy, nuclear strategy, diplomacy, defense, economics beyond real estate, or even, despite his low-level-mafioso comportment, how ordinary people live. But trumping all this is a greater flaw presented as his chief strength. –Mark Helprin, novelist
"You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her… wherever."
Wait, what? Are you kidding? Trump implied that Megyn Kelly was on her period when she asked him some tough questions at the Republican debate. Here's what she'd said:
You've called women you don't like 'fat pigs,' 'dogs,' 'slobs,' and disgusting animals'… Your Twitter account has several disparaging comments about women's looks. You once told a contestant on 'Celebrity Apprentice' it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president…?
That is such a fair, simply worded question that I commend Megyn Kelly. Here's how Trump responded:
What I say is what I say, and honestly, Megyn, if you don't like it, I'm sorry. I've been very nice to you although I could probably not be based on the way you have treated me.
Uh wait. Trump's answer was to threatening the moderator? Saying he can say something even worse about her? And, at the same time, he's offering no apology for talking about women like animals and objects for men's pleasure.
Trump later said if anyone deserved an apology, it was him. She'd asked a mean question. In what world does this man live in?
It's all too easy to compare Trump to petulant and spoiled children. Remember that kid on the playground who just had to have the last word? "Are not!" "Are too!" "Are not!" until the sun goes down? That's Trump. He closed the Kelly feud (after she gracefully bowed out of it from the very beginning) with a real classy Tweet:
I refuse to call Megyn Kelly a bimbo, because that would not be politically correct. Instead I will only call her a lightweight reporter!
Isn't Donald Trump the very epitome of vulgarity? –William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard
"He's not a war hero. He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."
It's actually difficult to be as offensive as Donald Trump is. And it gets you thinking that maybe part of his campaign platform is actually being offensive, bombastic, and obnoxious. What a platform, right? If it isn't a platform, why would we ever vote for someone with such a terrible personality? This is beyond political correctness. It's basic human civility and respect for others.
Senator John McCain spent five years as a prisoner during the Vietnam War.
Here's an extension of the interview, since Trump has said before that the quote was taken out of context unfairly:
"[John McCain] is not a war hero," Trump told pollster Frank Luntz, who was hosting the session.
"He is a war hero," Luntz interjected.
"He is a war hero because he was captured," Trump said, cutting him off. "I like people that weren't captured, OK? I hate to tell you. He is a war hero because he was captured. OK, you can have — I believe perhaps he is a war hero."
Wait, let me get this straight. John McCain would be a war hero if he weren't captured? It was his being captured that prevented him from being considered a hero. Joining the war effort in the first place had no effect on his character at all. Alright, Trump. Step back.
Worst of all, Trump's brawling, blustery, mean-spirited public persona serves to associate conservatives with all the negative stereotypes that liberals have for decades attached to their opponents on the right. According to conventional caricature, conservatives are selfish, greedy, materialistic, bullying, misogynistic, angry, and intolerant… Trump is the living, breathing, bellowing personification of all the nasty characteristics Democrats routinely ascribe to Republicans. –Michael Medved, talk show host
"They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
Trump kicked off a horrific campaign by asserting that undocumented Mexicans, as a whole, were rapists and drug dealers who were only going to corrupt the United States. His answer to this problem? Build a big-ass wall.
Here's the quote in context: "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best… They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." Some are good people. Wow, Trump is so nuanced in his offensive statements!
Instead of taking back his comments, Trump added to them on Fox News: "Our politicians are stupid… And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning… They send the bad ones over because they don't want to pay for them, they don't want to take care of them. Why should they, when the stupid leaders of the United States will do it for me?"
Here's yet another Republican against Trump for quotes like this one:
Not since George Wallace has there been a presidential candidate who made racial and religious scapegoating so central to his campaign. Trump launched his campaign talking about Mexican rapists and has gone on to rant about mass deporation, bans on Muslim immigration, shutting down mosques, and building a wall around America. America is an exceptional nation in large part because we've aspired to rise above such prejudices… –David Boaz, author of The Libertarian Mind
Thank you, David Boaz.
The Donald is our frontrunner for the Republican nominee for the President of the United States! He has shown, clearly, in his own words, a lack of respect for Muslims, Mexicans, women, and even veterans.
If you're a Republican, respect your party and vote for anyone but Trump. Anyone would be better than him. If you're a Democrat or Independent, please drag yourself to the polls, even if you feel more hopeless than ever.
Trump has no experience in domestic or international political affairs. He has weird hair. He is, according to numerous prominent psychologists, likely a person with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Voting Trump into the White House would make America a laughingstock, and it would be our greatest mistake in decades.


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I want it to be spring. I love that in the spring there are bursts of brilliant green everywhere you look. But I live in MA, and I think that means spring doesn't come until May. So Z and I decided to make our own brilliant burst of green with homemade pesto shrimp over provolone mash.
This dish is easy, it's cheap and it's delicious. Read on.
My mom had made her very own basil pesto (she's amazing) and had brought it over when she came to help me with Z and house craziness. We had a little bit left. I also had a tiny mason jar filled with parsley pesto I had made last week. I combined them together, Added some shrimp (1 bag – I was serving 4 adults and 2 children).
Previously to the shrimp/pesto goodness, I had cut up 6 medium sized potatoes and added to boiling water until they were cooked through. I then dumped them in a bowl and let Z go crazy mashing them. While she mashed them I added 1/2 cup heavy bream, 1 tbsp of butter and 4 pieces of provolone cheese (it was what was in the fridge). When all potatoes were mashed and the mixture was smooth I added 1/8 tea salt and 1/4 tea pepper. Taste. Remember you're adding pesto which already has some salt. Alter seasoning to your preferences.
To serve I simply scooped up some mash into a bowl, and topped with the pesto shrimp mixture. DELICIOUS.


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To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Hanky Panky Original Rise Thong (Style # 4811), the company hosted an Event on Tuesday night at the downtown event space simply known as "91" (located at 91 Horatio Street in the West Village). The open space was converted into a Hanky Panky Wonderland for the Silver Jubilee, replete with Hanky Panky Thongs galore and an ample supply of sugary sweet treats including mini cupcakes from NYC's Baked by Melissa.
The celebration in honor of the World's Most Comfortable Thong was a real blow out bash! The main space was sparsely decorated with white and Lucite furniture providing plenty of room for guests to mingle while sipping Skyy Vodka custom cocktails such as the Hanky Panky Lemonade, Anna Sweet Cosmo or the Racey Lacey Fizz. The adjoining room showcased Hanky Panky's upcoming Spring 2012 collection. You can expect to see neon brights in stores for Spring as well as printed lace styles in gingham, animal, paisley, bold floral, and multi-color psychedelic prints. I am particularly excited about the new modal fabric daywear pieces they are introducing for Spring '12.
The highlight of the event was the clever "photo opportunity" which allowed guests to express their creativity…. Models wearing the "Anna-ver-Sui" print Cami and Chemise posed with guests in a faux bed including plush pillows and comforter. Guests could choose from an assortment of props including yards of Hanky Panky galloon lace, eye masks, teddy bears, books, fuzzy handcuffs, and of course, Hanky Panky Thongs (which ended up being worn in very innovative ways)!
The celebration honoring 25 years of legendary style and revolutionary comfort was a huge success…. The Hanky Panky brand is synonymous with style, innovation, quality, comfort, and fit. These ideals were reflected in the details of the event. And the company's commitment to donate a portion of the proceeds of their limited edition "Anna-ver-Sui" collection to Fashion Targets Breast Cancer comes as no surprise. Hanky Panky is no stranger to supporting social issues such as the environment and sustainability, and their dedication to sourcing and manufacturing in the USA is unrivaled.
Congrats to Gale and Lida for creating an American Icon…. Many have tried to copy the Hanky Panky Thong…. But there is only one "Original."
About Hanky Panky
In 1977, as a birthday gift for her friend, Lida Orzeck, designer Gale Epstein created a hand-made lingerie set crafted out of embroidered handkerchiefs. Inspired by this ingenious concept, the friends soon became business partners and named their new company after the original design—Hanky Panky.
With the inception of the hanky set in the seventies to the thongs of today, Hanky Panky continues to influence trends in lingerie and sleepwear. Hanky Panky prides themselves on providing brilliant solutions for fashion fit issues by remaining dedicated to innovative design, comfort, quality, and US production.
Each garment is made from the finest fabrics, creating supple collections season after season. Blending traditional with modern glam looks, Hanky Panky regularly appears in magazines and is a fashion favorite of countless celebrities.
In 1986, the first 4811 Original Rise thong was designed in NYC by Gale Epstein, Hanky Panky's Creative Director. Since then, the 4811 and its younger sister, the 4911 Low Rise thong, have become classics. Many women wear these styles exclusively and wouldn't dream of wearing any other undies.