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The New Jersey Office of Faith Based Initiatives (NJOFBI) continues to strive toward its mission to eliminate all barriers to funding and other resource opportunities, create greater access for partnership and enhance the capacity of faith and community based organizations (FBCOs) to effectively design, implement, successful programs and efficiently manage the day to day operations of their organization.
With the economic climate that New Jersey finds itself under, the NJOFBI will be launching a pilot project designed to take a creative approach at moving FBCOs towards self sufficiency and generating resources that would allow these organizations to gain access to additional resources allowing them to continue to provide needed services to the residents of this great state.
Not only will the NJOFBI provide resources to FBCOs in the area of services to At Risk Youth, English as a Second Language and Services to Seniors. This year the NJOFBI, will partner with faith and community based organizations to take a holistic look at the strategies that can be employed that would allow the organization to identify approaches to reduce its dependency on government funding while generating revenue in new and exciting ways.
More than ever nonprofit leaders need to be entrepreneurs. The job or operating a nonprofit organization has become increasingly complicated. Nonprofit leaders face government funding cuts and rising demands for performance and serious questions about the effectiveness and appropriateness of traditional charitable remedies for social problems. These changes pose both opportunities and challenges.
Rev. Calvin Mckinney, Chair
Marlene Lao-Collins
Garvester Kelley, Jr
Lee Zandstra
Rabbi Amy Joy Small
Rev. Floyd White III
Rev. Dr. David Ireland, Ph.D.
Tanya Poteat
ex-officio members
Tahesha Way, Secretary of State
Darcella Sessomes
Nina Mosley
Edward LaPorté, Director
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Working with principles from the fields of evolutionary and developmental biology (evo–devo), this fascinating work offers a new approach to analyzing child growth and development, examining each stage and transition in detail, from fetal development to preadulthood. Based on the author′s in–depth review of the current literature and his own observations as a pediatric endocrinologist, the book demonstrates how the transitions between human life history phases represent unique periods of evolutionary adaptive response to the environment. In addition, the author explains why an understanding of these transition periods enables us to better understand the sequence and mechanisms of child growth as well as to better diagnose child growth disorders.
Logically organized and clearly written, Evo–Devo of Child Growth:
Sets a solid foundation of principles such as evolutionary thinking in medicine and child growth, life history theory, and heterochrony and allometry
Examines the relationship between child growth and the theory of life history
Applies evo–devo theory to fetal growth, infancy, childhood, juvenility, adolescence, and preadulthood
Explores the trade–offs and adaptive phenotypic plasticity during transition periods
Explains the role of life history theory in understanding and diagnosing growth disorders such as Down syndrome, Noonan syndrome, and Silver–Russell syndrome
In addition to the author′s own analysis and observations, this book also features notes from leading clinicians and evolutionary biologists, offering additional perspectives on the relationship between evo–devo and child growth and development.
Evo–Devo of Child Growth provides a new perspective for evolutionary biologists to understand the phases and transitions of child growth. Moreover, it offers a new approach to help clinicians to better understand and diagnose a broad range of child growth disorders.
I. Introduction
a. Evolutionary thinking in medicine
b. Evo–Devo
c. Life history theory
d. Evolutionary perspective in child growth and maturation
e. Child growth and the environment
f. Heterochrony and allometry
g. Adaptive plasticity in life–history
II. Child growth and the theory of life history
a. Life–history stages
b. Transitions between life–history stages
c. Developmental plasticity and adaptation
d. Cultural adaptation to the environment
e. Adaptive plasticity of attachment behaviors
f. Note by George Chrousos on stress in early life: a developmental and evolutionary perspective
1. Stress concepts
2. Stress mechanisms
3. Pathological effects of stress
f. Note by Stefan Borenstein and Andreas Androutsellis–Theotokis on endogenous stem cells as components of plasticity and adaptation
1. The adult mammalian brain: Plastic or rigid?
2. Hidden plasticity potential in the brain
3. Neurogenic cell vs. neural stem cell
4. Does the role of neural stem cells change from the developing age to the adult?
5. The disconnect between neurogenesis and the presence of neural stem cells
6. Fetal vs. adult neural stem cells
7. Signal transduction of stem cell regulation
8. Beyond the nervous system
9. Conclusions
III. Fetal growth
a. Endocrine and metabolic control of fetal growth
b. The role of the placenta
c. Developmental origins of health and adult disease (DOHaD)
d. Imprinted genes and intrauterine growth
e. Note by Alan Templeton on the evolutionary connection between senescence and childhood growth and development
1. An evolutionary theory of aging
2. Thrifty genotypes and antagonistic pleiotropy
3. Thrifty genotypes and heart disease
4. Why we grow old: the answer
IV. Infancy
a. The reproductive dilemma
b. The obstetrical dilemma
c. Growth of the infant
d. Endocrine aspects of infantile growth
e. Infancy – childhood transition: determination of adult stature
f. Weaning from breast–feeding
V. Childhood 146
a. The weanling′s dilemma
b. The grandmother theory
c. Growth of the child
d. Endocrine aspects of childhood growth
VI. Juvenility
a. The social/cognitive definition of juvenility
b. Paleo–anthropological juvenility and teeth eruption
c. Adrenarche
d. Juvenile body composition
e. Growth of the juvenile
f. Trade–offs for the timing of transition to juvenility
g. Precocious juvenility
h. The Pygmy paradigm for precocious juvenility
i. Evolutionary perspective in precocious juvenility
VII. Adolescence
a. Human evolution of adolescence
b. Transition from juvenility to adolescence
c. Pubertal growth
VIII Preadulthood
IX Evolutionary strategies for body size
a. The little people of Flores
b. Lessons from the great apes
c. The Handicap theory
d. Sexual dimorphism
e. The role of sex steroids
X Energy considerations
a. Endocrine control of energy expenditure
b. Weaning and growth in a malnourished environment
XI. Stage transitions: trade–offs and adaptive phenotypic plasticity
a. Trans–generational influences in life–stages transition
b. Epigenetics and life–history stage transitions
c. Note by Ken Ong on population genetics and child growth and maturation
1. Genetic adaptation
2. The genetic epidemiology of child growth and maturation
3. Basic principles and heritability estimates from twin studies
4. More complex heritability models
5. Heritability is dependent upon the setting
6. Essential genes for childhood growth and maturation
7. Common genetic variants for childhood growth and maturation:
8. GWAS findings lead to new biology:
9. GWAS findings lead to new phenotypic understanding
10. Genetic adaptations for childhood growth and maturation
11. Conclusions
d. Note by Moshe Szyf on the DNA methylation pattern as a molecular link between early childhood and adult health
1. Introduction
2. DNA methylation patterns and their roles in cellular differentiation and gene expression
3. DNA methylation as a genome adaptation mechanism
4. Epigenetic programming by the early life social environment
5. Genome and system wide impact of early life adversity
6. Prospective and summary
XII. Life history theory in understanding growth disorders
a. Down syndrome
b. Noonan′s syndrome
c. Silver–Russell syndrome
d. Additional cases
XIII. When the packages disintegrate
XIV. Concluding remarks

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Part of the joy of owning a car means you get to personalize it in some way, and, like the aftermath of radioactive arthropod bites, that great power comes with great something. Let's say culpability. There's all kinds of things you can put on your car. So what's the worst?
There's been trends for various car dress-up and personalization items for years, and there's many awful ones. I always hated those chrome strips that outline doors and panel gaps, and of course there's the fake chrome scrotums popular in the truck world.
But I think in a more mundane way, the black leather car bra has a special kind of awful. They're meant to preserve the car's paint from chips and dead bugs, I guess, but they always end up making the car look worse, somewhere between a grandma's couch with plastic on it and the car about to knock over a liquor store. I never liked those.
So what's worst in your book?


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Denver novelist Peter Heller appears at LoDo's Tattered Cover
You really can't write about Peter Heller's debut novel in terms of a local-boy-makes-good story.
At 53, Heller has already established his chops as a writer for such magazines as Outside and Men's Journal.
He also has a long list of non-fiction books under his belt, including "Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River" and "The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the World's Largest Mammals."
Still, "The Dog Stars" IS the Denver resident's fiction debut, which makes his Tuesday book signing at The Tattered Cover in LoDo a bit of a big deal, both for us and him.
"I had to make a living so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures," Heller said in a Friday morning interview. "Writing 'Dog Stars' was coming home. My spirit just sang. It's what I wanted to do my whole life."
You can learn more about Heller's writing life in a Q&A that runs Sunday Aug. 12 in The Denver Post's Arts & Culture section. And you can show up at The Tattered Cover at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to wave the flag for Heller, who in the coming months will also have two poetry collections coming out.
Info: 303-346-1070.


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Greeley Senior Center news for March 31
April 4, 2013
Events and tours
Senior Car Lovers Unite, 9 a.m. Wednesday. Our men's group will meet to discuss cars and a variety of other topics. New members welcome. No fee members. Nonmembers $3 drop-in fee.
Volleyball celebration, 6 p.m. Wednesday. During our volleyball celebration players and their guests will remember another successful year of our 50-and-older volleyball program. The Senior Center will provide barbecue pork sandwiches for the main dish. Bring a favorite side dish or dessert to share. Reservations can be made by calling (970) 350-9440.
Shareholder lunch, 11:30 a.m. Thursday. Celebrate monthly birthdays and anniversaries. The menu is chicken ziti dessert & beverage. Fee is $4 per person.
Black American West Museum and Heritage Center, 9 a.m. April 9. Visit and learn about the African American men and women who helped settle the American West. Lunch cost is on your own at the Welton Street Café before returning to Greeley. Registration fees are $15 for members, $20 for nonmembers.
Allosource tour, 8:30 a.m. April 11. See a presentation and take a one-hour walking tour of Allosource, one of the nation's largest non-profit providers of bone and soft tissue graft used in medical treatments. Lunch cost is on your own before returning to Greeley. Registration fees are $15 for members, $20 for nonmembers. Please wear comfortable walking shoes.
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Health and fitness
SilverSneakers® orientation, 9 a.m. Monday. Come for a tour of the facility and an overview of fitness equipment. No fee for SilverSneakers® members, $7 for non-SilverSneakers® members.
Pickleball Mixer, 9 a.m. April 13. Competition will alternate women's games with men's games. Prizes awarded to the top-three finishers in each gender division. Room 101 ABC is reserved for a potluck lunch and socialization throughout the day. Bring a dish to share for lunch. The fee is $5 per person.
Rocky Mountain Senior Games registration, April 26. Would you like to win a Rocky Mountain Senior Games registration valued at $40? Members of the Senior Center are eligible for the drawing. To enter the drawing call or stop at the Senior Center front desk by April 26.
Racquetball, 10 a.m.-noon Tuesdays and Thursdays, April 2-June 27. Session fee is $7 for members and $12 for nonmembers. No fee for Recreation Center members. Call the Recreation Center at (970) 350-9400 to reserve a court.
50-plus basketball, 8-10 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, April 2-June 27 at the Greeley Recreation Center. Session fee is $7 for members, $12 for nonmembers.
50-plus softball league practice, 9 a.m. April 1, 3, 8, 10, 15 and 17 at Twin Rivers Softball Complex. League games begin the week of April 22 and will be held at 9 a.m. Mondays for our 70s Team and at 9 a.m. Wednesdays for Divisions B-E. Beginning April 22, Divisions B-E will practice Monday mornings. Time will be determined by your manager.
Afternoon Table Tennis, 1:30 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. No fee for members. Nonmembers pay the $2 daily drop-in fee or $5 monthly fee. At 6 p.m. on the first and third Wednesdays and the first, third, fourth and fifth Fridays of each month, play Open Table Tennis. The fee is $3 per person per night, payable at the door. Enjoy a round-robin tournament at 6 p.m. on the second Friday of each month for just $5.
Water walking, 7 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, April 1-29, with Doris Gilreath. Fees are $14 for members and $19 for nonmembers. 8 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, April 2-30, with Connie Perkins. Fees are $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers.
Circuit training, 9:35-10:35 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, April 22-May 22 at the Family FunPlex. Start your year off on the right foot. The five-week class is designed with low-impact exercises that use various fitness equipment. Member fee is $28; nonmember fee is 33. Register by April 17.
Chair Tai Chi, would you like to try Tai Chi, but you are not able to stand without assistance or are chair-bound? The Senior Center would like to start a Chair Tai Chi class that will meet for six weeks on Tuesday or Thursday beginning in May. Call the Senior Center if you are interested. A minimum of eight students is need to being the new class.
Porcelain art, 9 a.m. Monday. Purchase supplies on your own then join us. No registration fee. Stop in to see if you would enjoy this hobby.
Bridge lessons, 9 a.m. Mondays April 1-29. The monthly fee is $4 for members, $9 for nonmembers.
GRASP (Greeley Retiree Academic Study Program), 1:30 p.m. Mondays, April 8, 15, 22 and 29. You can join GRASP for $20 per year, with a Senior Center membership. Monthly topic is "Potpourri-a wide range of health subjects and our community." No class this Monday.
Ceramics, 1-3 p.m. each Wednesday of the month. The monthly fee is $7 for members, $12 for nonmembers.
Greeley Senior Activity Center Hours of Operation, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and noon-3 p.m. Saturday (unless evening activities are scheduled). Check our monthly calendar for special events and evening activities. You only need to be 50 years young to join the Greeley Senior Activity Center. Annual memberships cost $22 for Greeley residents and $24 for nonresidents. For more information, call (970) 350-9440. If you need special accommodations for one of the trips, call the Senior Center at least 30 days before the start of the event.


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For days when the weather is warm, it's great to wear lightweight short-fingered gloves (or track mitts, as die-hards still like to call them) - and a pair of Sugoi RSs might be just the thing.
They're very comfortable to wear with no protruding seams that may chafe. Although turning the gloves inside out for a close inspection, some of the seams are a bit untidy, while others have stitching very close to the edge of the fabric, meaning seams might split if you pull on the gloves with too much gusto.
These gloves are made from a range of materials. The palm is protected by faux leather, perforated to help disperse sweat. The back is covered in a thin slightly stretchy perforated fabric, which is breathable and good for protection against sunburn. The cuff is held tight by Velcro tabs.
Between the fingers is extra-thin perorated fabric, this time more stretchy (which helps get the gloves on and off, and is more comfortable when riding), although there's no hem so it looks likely to fray. Meanwhile, the side of the thumb is covered with a softer fabric, which is good for wiping sweat off your forehead or snot off your nose, depending.
The most important part of any cycling glove is the padding, and on each Sugoi RS are three pads: across the base of the fingers, on the base of the palm, and where the thumb joins the hand. All these pads are on the minimal side. For an all day ride, especially on rougher roads, you might want pads that are a bit more beefy. If you're doing just an hour or two on a summer's evening, they'll be fine. These track mitts will also be good for, yes, track-riding, as well as shorter time-trials.
The colour scheme on our test pair is black, grey and white. The gloves are also available swapping white for red or more black.
When it comes to the cost of cycling gloves, the range is wide. You can find basic track mitts for under a tenner, although they're usually very minimal in the padding and breathability departments. At the other end of the scale, for full features and a fancy logo, you can pay £50 or more. Mid-way along the range, these Sugoi RS short fingered gloves retail at around £25 in bike shops, and you can find them for 20 quid or less on-line, which is a fair price.
Mid-range mitts at a fair price, ideal for rides in hot weather. Build-quality is not the finest, and for long-distance outings you may want more padding.
If you're thinking of buying this product using a cashback deal why not use the road.cc Top Cashback page and get some top cashback while helping to support your favourite independent cycling website
road.cc test report
Make and model: Sugoi RS Glove
Size tested: Medium, white
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
The Sugoi website highlights several features of the RS gloves, including:
Textured mesh back is breathable and durable
Stretch terry thumb is bonded to keep shape
VControl pad placement protects the ulnar nerve while supporting the median nerve
VControl foam padding across all the palm pressure zones provides maximum vibration dampening
Soft synthetic leather palm is vented to reduce palm sweat
Flexible Velcro tab closure
3M Scotchlite logos add style and visibility
The 'maximum vibration dampening' claim seems a little ambitious. The padding is OK, but there are many other gloves available with much more padding. What you get on these Sugoi RSs is fine for short rides, or if you simply don't need a lot of palm protection.
Also, I'm not to sure about the Scotchlite logos adding visibility. They don't appear to be reflective, and even if they are, they're pretty small and it's not going to make much difference if you're riding at night.
Looking closely at the seams, it's clear these aren't the best made gloves in the world. To be honest, it's what you get for 20 quid these days, and if you treat these gloves with care, they should last a summer season or two - but maybe not longer.
Comfort and breathability is good. Padding is minimal. For longer rides, especially on rough roads, some riders may need more padding.
The quality of construction indicates that these gloves won't last long if you use them regularly. It's not so much when you're wearing them, but when you pull them on and off that puts a strain in the stitching.
At around 35g this is a good weight for a pair of mitts if you're looking to shave off every gram.
Comfort is very good for short rides. You may need more padding for longer rides
a fair price for what you get.
Did you enjoy using the product? yes, on short rides
Would you consider buying the product? personally, I'd go for something with more padding
Would you recommend the product to a friend? maybe, but not if they wanted more padding
Anything further to say about the product in conclusion?
A good pair of mid-range gloves. They'd be better value and would get a higher score if it wans't for doubts about the build-quality. But if you treat these gloves carefully, especially when taking them on and off, their longevity should be increased.
About the tester
Age: 50 Height: 5ft 10 / 178cm Weight: 11 stone / 70kg
I usually ride: an old Marin Alp My best bike is: an old Giant Cadex
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: A few times a week I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: touring, club rides, sportives, mtb,


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Tennyson House Surgery 20 Merlin Place ChelmsfordEssex, CM1 4HWTel: 01245 260 459
Please follow the links below regarding information on our proposed merger with Humber road and Melbourne surgeries.
Proposed merger information
Merger FAQs
All practices in Mid-Essex will be closed for TIME to LEARN sessions from 12.30 on the dates below. If you need medical advice during this time please phone 111.
Wednesday 11th September 2019
Thursday 10th October 2019
Tuesday 12th November 2019
Wednesday 11th December 2019
EAR SYRINGING -Please note as of 1st February we will no longer be offering this service at the practice as it is not part of the GMS contract. The GP and Nurse will still be happy to check your ears as usual and will then advise next steps if necessary.
EXTENDED ACCESS - Please note that as from 1st August 2018 you will be able to book appointments to see a GP, Nurse or Healthcare Assistant when the practice is closed at a time perhaps more convenient to you. This means you can be offered an appointment at a different location from 6.30pm to 8pm weekdays and 8am to 2pm at weekends - these are for routine appointments only not emergency problems and please note you would not be seeing your usual GP or Nurse if you use this service, for further information visit the following site:
Notice for patients
The partners would like to keep patients updated about some plans that are under discussion at the surgery. We are currently working with our neighbours at Melbourne Surgery and Humber Road Surgery with a view to forming a merger between our three practices. This is an exciting opportunity to gain more funding, develop new services and ensure that we can each continue to offer the same standards of care to our patients in a sustainable way for the future. We would like to reassure patients that we will still continue to offer the same services at Tennyson House Surgery and we will be running a consultation exercise about our plans in the very near future.
Drs Stead, Roberts, Ahmad and Radford 1/3/18
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To make it easier when you telephone us we only have 2 options.
Option1- Reception only who will deal with your call or pass you to the most appropriate person
Option 2- Queries- only available between 10.30am and 1.30pm Monday to Friday for all test results and queries you may have
We hope this makes life easier when trying to contact the surgery- But advise you that between 8.30am and 10am it is a lot busier and may take longer to process your call. Thank you
Please note we are having a lot of patients not attending their booked appointments (see figures below) PLEASE could you CANCEL your appointment if you no longer need it to help others who do! Please note that we are now sending text messages to those patients who do not arrive for their appointment in the hope it will reduce the numbers not attending but so far it does not seem to be making any difference. Please update us with your contact details if they change and please think of others that could have used that appointment.
Numbers of Patients that did NOT attend their appointment
January 2018 - 212
February 2018 - 197
March 2018 -248
April 2018- 222
May 2018 -261
June 2018 - 281
July 2018- 247
August 2018 -219
September 2018 -227
October 2018 - 271
November 2018 - 273
December 2018 - 256
January 2019 - 244
February 2019 - 282
March 2019 -218
April 2019 -221
May 2019 - 220
June 2019 - 229
If anyone has any good ideas on how to reduce the amount of people not attending we would be very glad to hear them, thank you.
FRIENDS AND FAMILY TEST- Please fill in our survey which can be found under the link - Have your say - this is a survey that all practices will be using over the country to get feedback from their patients to help improve their services. It is a very short survey with just one question and then a place for textual comments so we would really appreciate your time in helping us to help you.Thank you
ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING Please note that we are now able to offer you electronic prescribing. You can nominate a chemist of your choice to organise the request and collection of your prescriptions, This may save you time as you will only visit the chemist instead of coming to the surgery twice. Please ask at Reception for details.
ONLINE SERVICES If you have access to the internet, we can give you the oppurtunity of booking online appointments with all Doctors and the facility to request your prescriptions without having to contact the surgery by telephone or in person.You are also able to access a brief summary of your medical record online and from 9th March a detailed coded record which will show you more information. Please ask at the Reception Desk for details on your next visit. You will need to have photographic id such as a driving licence or passport to be able to register for this service. Please note this service is for over 18`s only from 9th March 2016.
Please click the link to online services to see our STATEMENT OF INTENT regarding medical record access for this practice
The Doctors welcome new patients who live within our practice area.
Our area extends from School Lane, Broomfield in the north to Springfield Road in the south and Chignal St. James in the west to Pump Lane in the east. If you are unsure whether or not you live in our catchment area, please telephone the surgery or ask at reception and we will advise you.
You will need to show us 2 proofs of ID, preferably photo ID such as a passport or driving licence and one which must confirm your address in the last 3 months before we can accept you onto our list
If you are not in our area please telephone the NHS England Customer Contact Centre on 0300 311 2233 and they will advise you of your nearest doctors' surgery.
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Please contact reception for further information.
You may print off a registration form, fill it out and bring it in with you on your first visit to the practice.
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Don't be surprised if you see Bloomington residents doing yoga in the street this weekend.
Bloomington is participating in Open Streets, a crowdsourced fitness event to encourage healthier living, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday.
West Kirkwood Avenue is being closed to allow visitors to participate in more than two dozen health and fitness exhibits, including Force Fitness and Vibe Yoga. All activities will be free to the public, and families are encouraged to attend.
Force Fitness General Manager Jake Geary plans to showcase some new workout techniques at his booth, hoping to get more people interested in exercising to help treat obesity and inactivity.
"We're going to be bringing out some portable equipment, some things that are going to be a lot of fun and very interactive, like resistance bands, medicine balls, kettlebells, foam rollers," he says. "We'll be able to show people how to get in a good workout with minimal equipment."
IU Health will be giving away free bike helmets, and other activities include dance stations, an obstacle course hosted by the Boys and Girls Club, and yoga classes.
"We have a great lineup planned so far, we have an all-levels class planned for 10 a.m., and then we are going to do a 30-minute salute to the sun at 11 a.m., which will be sun salutations," says, Laura Patterson, founder of Vibe Yoga.
Vibe Yoga is still in the process of putting together their afternoon activity lineup, and residents are welcome to make suggestions via Twitter.
More than 80 cities in the U.S. and Canada have hosted Open Streets events.


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The man suspected of kidnapping a woman and her three daughters was spotted in surveillance video shot three days after the Tennessee family first disappeared.
In the video from the evening of April 30, the suspect, Adam Mayes, can be seen wearing a white t-shirt in the County Line One Market on Highway 348 in Guntown, Miss. Mayes was last seen a day later, and authorities believe he may have changed his appearance and that of the two missing girls , Alexandra Bain, age 12, and Kyliyah Bain, age 8. The bodies of the two girls' mother, JoAnn, and sister, 14-year-old Adrienne, were found in the backyard of the Mayes' family home in Guntown on May 5.
The women were first reported missing on April 27 by Gary Bain, JoAnn's husband and the stepfather of the children. During the investigation, police interviewed Mayes, who admitted he was the last person to see the four women prior to their disappearance. When police went back to request a second interview later in the investigation, Mayes fled, according to the police warrants obtained by ABC News.
He is considered armed and dangerous, and was added to Tennessee's Top Ten Most Wanted list Tuesday.
His wife and mother have been arrested in connection with the Bain family's disappearance, according to a Hardeman County, Miss., court clerk. They are charged with "especially aggravated kidnapping" in connection with the kidnapping.
Details in the arrest warrants show that on April 27, Adam Mayes and his wife, Teresa Mayes, worked together to take Bain and her daughters from their home in Tennessee to Mississippi, where Adam and Teresa share a home with his parents.
Teresa and Adam's mother, Mary Mayes, both confessed to police during interviews that on April 27, they witnessed Mayes digging holes in his mother's backyard, where the two bodies were later found.
Police said they believe that Bain and her daughters were confined on the Mayes property. At some point in their confinement JoAnn and Adrienne died and were buried on the property.
"It is believed that Adam Mayes removed or confined Jo Ann Bain and her 3 daughters...in a manner that substantially interfered with their liberty," the warrant states. "Concerning Jo Ann Bain and Adrienne Bain, both victims suffered serious bodily injury as a result of their removal or confinement."
Police were digging in the Mayes' yard on Monday, but have not said what they were looking for or whether they found anything.
Teresa Mayes' sister, Bobbi Booth, said her sister knew about the killings, but may have been too scared to call the police, according to the Associated Press.
During the investigation, police also found a trailer that Mayes had rented from Union County, Miss., which contained property of the two girls who are still missing and thought to be in Mayes' custody.
Mary Mayes is charged with conspiracy to commit especially aggravated kidnapping, while Teresa is charged with committing especially aggravated kidnapping.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is offering a $6,000 reward for information leading to Adam Mayes' whereabouts and arrest, and the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service are offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the location of the missing victims and the arrest of Mayes.


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|West Roxbury, MA
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|Mount Alvernia
Named a Tri-Captain ... Quiet
leader, who will receive a bigger leadership role ... Good
experience ... Will see more time at the forward position ... Very
good catch and shoot player.
2008-09 Missed nine games with an injury ... Started 14 of 17 games and averaged 5.4 points and 3.5 rebounds per game ...Netted double digits on four occasions ... Finished one shy of the school record for three-pointers in a game with seven in 11 attempts at Rhode Island College on January 24 as part of a career-high 26 points to go with a personal-best 12 rebounds for her first career double-double ... She followed that effort up with 14-point, five rebound performance vs. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on January 27 ... Knocked down two or more three-pointers in five outings.
2007-08 One of five players to see action in all 26 games, while making 22 starts ... Averaged 8.2 points per game to rank second on the team among players with nine or more games played ... Led the squad with 39 three-pointers made ... Tied for third on the squad with 4.0 rebounds and came up with 27 steals to place fifth on the squad ... Shot .765 (13-17) from the free throw line to rank second among players with 15 or more attempts ... Began the season with 10 or more points in her first four contests, including 17 in 24 minutes vs. Pine Manor College in the opening round of the 2007 UMass Boston Tip-Off Classic on November 16 ... Netted a season-high 19 points on 6-12 from the floor to go with eight rebounds, four assists and three steals vs. Plymouth State on January 15 ... Picked up multiple steals in six games, including a season-high of three at Western Connecticut State on February 9 ... Canned at least one three-pointer in all but five contests and knocked down two or more on 12 occasions ... Grabbed a season-high nine rebounds and added nine points vs. Mount Ida College on December 11.
2006-07 Enjoyed a solid rookie year, playing in all 26 contests and making a pair of starts ... Averaged 5.5 points and 2.5 rebounds in 14.3 minutes per game ... Ranked third on the squad with 25 made three pointers ... Shot .762 (16-21) from the free throw line for the third-best mark on the team for players with at least 20 attempts ... Showed the ability to score with seven double-digit scoring efforts, including a stretch of five straight, where she averaged 12.6 points per game, shot 56% (20-36) from the floor and knocked down 14 three-pointers at a 56% clip as well ... Canned two or more treys on seven occasions.
Personal/High School: Earned four letters at Mount Alvernia High School ... Selected as a three-time Catholic Conference All-Star for the Mustangs ... Led the Catholic Conference in scoring as a junior and senior ... Scored 1,139 career points for Mount Alvernia and led the Mustangs to the Division 4 North Championship in her senior season ... Received the Public Safety Award ... Born May 3, 1988 ... Daughter of Frank and Suzanne Ashe ... Majoring in sociology ... Would like to pursue a career in criminal justice and as a basketball coach ... Enjoys reading, music, shopping, going to the movies, the beach, traveling and being with family.


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jcolson1027 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 144 diseños de 52 diseñadores freelance.
Advanced HCG Diet Protocol
I am the manager of the LifeStyle Diet Clinic. I created a website that has done pretty well in bringing in a lot of traffic and revenue to our company. Since just about a week ago we did all of our own design as I am a bit savy in the Adobe CS5 Master Collection programs, but not a graphic designer. Our website titled the "Advanced HCG Diet Protocol" needs a new logo design that has a more professional look. I have an original design that can be played around with a little.
- Individuals needing to lose weight. Um, fat people.
- Mostly women between the ages of 28-50.
Neat and Clean - The website is here: http://www.advancehcg.com; you will see a basic name at the top where the new logo should fit.
A proffesional look - We are a clinic and we should look like one.
A bit Zen - We are a natural healing clinic, focussed on total body wellness.
Will work on banners and signs - This logo is not JUST for the website
Green - as you will see from the old logo I uploaded, the colors we used were green. It is sort of our theme color. The new site will have more green eventually to match the logo.
Advanced HCG Diet Protocol - The old logo says "advance hcg diet clinic". Make sure to use the new name.
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KickStarter: The Good, Bad, & Ugly/
I forget again who sent me this link, but I found CoffeeAndCelluloid's post on their KickStarter experience illuminating.
Although I have yet to engage in a crowdfunding attempt yet, I have been contemplating. And I have been providing some advice, thoughts, and general consulting to those that have. I think the points Joey Daoud raises about needing to raise a fan base first, having some investment pre-committed, and needing to have supporters, promoters, and blogs lined up in advance are all right on. He's helping all of us learn how to make this better together.
Joey also posted many good links to bring more perspective on the whole crowdfunding experience:


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Sometimes we just need to give a reminder.
Sometimes we just need to give a reminder.
Pop Culture, No Grease
A writer\'s anti-blog from T-bone Productions (In Touch with Yours Truly)
Romance, Musings, and More
" ... As it stands, we all need the truth. Especially me, and probably you."
I just wanna love and write.
Please Don't Let me Be MisUnderStood
From geekdom to freedom
Life at the Intersection.
Hood About Geek Things
The Rants of JP Fairfield
Dear World, I have stuff to say, so get cozy. Here, I've got cupcakes.
issues affecting our lives, acts of resistance against oppression, and black feminist thought
Science & technology commentary
Arts and entertainment for the rest of us
Writing journal of author Tananarive Due
commentary on the news from 2009...and then some
Politics, Race, Gender, Sexuality, Anger


text: NPR's Peter Sagal took his wife and three "excited and happy" daughters to see Horton Hears A Who and left super pissed. The number one-grossing film of the year so far caused Sagal to be "irritated by something even more annoying than Jim Carrey's tics." See, the filmmakers added a subplot to the Dr. Seuss story. Now the mayor of Whoville has 96 daughters and one son. Says Sagal: "Guess who gets all his attention? Guess who saves the day?" Ugh, yeah, it's the son, of course. Sagal's commentary (as a father with daughters) is only three minutes long but so full of ire and rage it's totally worth listening to. [NPR]


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Ron Perkins has been named to the newly created position of executive director of the Washington-based Ag Container Recycling Council. The ACRC is a non-profit organization that collects and recycles plastic pesticide containers from U.S. farmers and applicators, mostly free of charge.
"Ron Perkins is a dedicated and nationally recognized pioneer in the solid waste management profession with an excellent track record in developing cost-effective recycling models and enterprises," said Johnny Berry, chairman of ACRC. "His main goal will be to develop new sustainable strategies for collecting and recycling plastic."
"Crop Life America members have helped fund the ACRC for more than a decade," said Jay Vroom, chairman of CLA, the umbrella group for nation's pesticide manufacturers and distributors. "Ron is the right person to take this program to the next level."
"The Ag Container Recycling Council has successfully collected and recycled plastic pesticide containers in more than 30 states for over a decade," said Perkins. "I am honored to become executive director and to build upon ACRC's exemplary achievements in environmental stewardship."
One of the first ag container recycling programs was started by Rex Livingston, a farmer from Leland, Miss., in the late 1980s.
Prior to joining CLA, Perkins spent 14 years as the owner and operator of solid waste management firms, implementing innovative and cost-effective refuse and recyclables collection systems. He also spent almost 10 years as director of Recycling Operations at American Plastic Council, where he directed nationwide field research for production of the widely acclaimed How to Collect and How to Sort Plastic for Recycling manuals, designed to improve recycling economics and sustainability.
Perkins also focused on strategy and advanced research and development projects for APC. He ran field programs identifying economically sustainable recovered plastic packaging collection and processing systems.
In addition to his deep experience in the recycling of plastic containers, Perkins brings a strong business background to his position. Earlier in his career, he led marketing and management teams at Stearns, Conrad and Schmidt Consulting Engineers and the City of Portland, Ore., where he advised clients on a wide range of solid waste management projects.
He holds an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College and graduated with a B.S. from University of Maine.
The Ag Container Recycling Council has also launched a new Web site at www.acrecycle.org. The redesigned site is intended as a comprehensive resource for ag container recycling and includes detailed information on how to recycle and best practices for recycling. It details the entire process from collection of containers to the development of end use products.
Features of the site include:
-- Downloadable how-to-use videos for rinsing and recycling
-- An easy online order form for training materials
-- A map of local ACRC contractors with contact information
-- Links to additional recycling resources
-- A listing of 30 member companies who pay the entire cost of the ACRC container-recycling program.
"The new ACRC Web site reflects our continued commitment to promoting ag container recycling and environmental stewardship," said Don Bradley, ACRC vice chairman.
"Since 1992, the ACRC has collected 82 million pounds of plastic containers which have been recycled into useful products such as corrugated drain tile and marine pilings that otherwise would have been dumped in land fills.
"In launching the new Web site, we hope the new easy-to-navigate format will encourage others to see how simple it is to get involved and do their part for the good of the environment."


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A must try, family owned restaurant in the heart of Pa`ia town, Café Mambo's colorful, vibrant dining area offers a friendly and relaxed atmosphere to enjoy a quick, yet delicious, meal. One of the few places open at 8:00am, Café Mambo features classic American and Mexican breakfast dishes and is the perfect stop to fuel up for the Road to Hana! Home of the famous Crispy Duck—the lunch and dinner menu showcases a wide variety of burgers, salads, and house-favorite fajitas with a choice of duck, slowly cooked Kalua pork, local grass fed beef meat, or fresh fish delivered daily. The mouthwatering cuisine and genuine, uplifting vibe has kept visitors and locals alike coming back again and again for over 15 years.
"…there's no comparison to the response I've received from my ads in Best Guidebook and the Dining Magazines. Nothing has been more successful in continuing to produce art sales and increasing name recognition. I can honestly say that my business is thriving because of these publications."
Aloha and Welcome to our beautiful island of Maui. We hope you enjoy your visit. Use BEST GUIDEBOOK to discover the very best of Maui's natural wonders, recreational activities, hotels, restaurants, shopping, and island culture.
Nowhere do we get a better return on our advertising dollar than in your Maui and Big Island visitor publications. How do we know? Our customers tell us when they bring in the magazine pointing to our ads.
Maui has much to offer. From bustling Lahaina to the natural beauty and unblemished landscapes of Haleakala National Park and the Road to Hana, Maui truly has something for everyone. The BEST GUIDEBOOK is a wonderful resource that will help you make the most of your trip to Maui, known as the Valley Isle.
Longhi's has been satisfying visitors for several decades and has partnered with The Best Publishing since the 1980's. In such a competitive market it is important to know that our advertising reaches our customers in an elegant and cost-‐effective way. Their magazines and Best Guidebooks produce considerable business for both of our Maui locations.
We don't advertise in many places, but when we do, Lahaina Dining Art Shopping Magazine is always on the short list. The quality employed in these publications reflects our values and produces great results.
As a top producing real estate professional based in West Maui, I help people in a variety of ways beyond selling and buying real estate. On a daily basis, I refer to the Lahaina Dining Art & Shopping publication when directing visitors to the finest West Maui restaurants and retailers. It is one of the most fulfilling aspects of my work because I "give back" to the West Maui business community by sharing my favorite West Maui attractions to the world… all from one publication!
As a business operator, it is essential that every advertising dollar you spend is spent well, and Lahaina Dining is definitely our market niche. Building trust is an integral part of any successful business relationship, and Mikel is friendly, caring and passionate about his work.


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EM NARI is a non-profit membership association dedicated to the professional remodeling industry. Representing professional remodeling contractors, suppliers, vendors, subcontractors and service providers, EM NARI stands as the voice of the industry and an ally to our region's homeowners.
Homeowners know the NARI symbol means quality and professionalism. The NARI remodeling contractor is pledged to uphold the association's Code of Ethics and is dedicated to exemplary workmanship. To support our members, we offer:
- Best-in-class educational certifications and courses,
- Informative programming highlighting improved business practices and trends in the market, and
- Engaging networking opportunities that allow members to connect and share best-practices.


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Cameron Cory scored two goals to power DeSales to the Sixth Region boys' soccer final with a 3-0 victory over Fairdale on Tuesday at Male High School.
Willie Schurfranz was the other goal scorer for the Colts (17-1-2). Fairdale finished 11-7-3.
DeSales will face Fern Creek in the regional final at 7p.m. Thursday.
Salah Garad scored the lone goal in Fern Creek's win over Pleasure Ridge Park (14-6-1). The Tigers are 18-2-2.
Girls' soccer
Sixth Region: Mariah Geisen, Sydni Metzmeier and Jacqueline Schmitt each had two goals in host Mercy's 10-0 semifinal victory over PRP (8-6-2). The Jaguars (11-13-0) will play Bullitt East, a 6-2 winner over North Bullitt (13-7-4), in the final at 7 p.m. Thursday at Mercy. Alnee Tutson, Christian Foster and Layne Cutler each scored two goals for the Chargers (17-7).
Field hockey
First District: Bailey Gill scored five goals as Kentucky Country Day shut out Christian Academy 8-0 at KCD. The Centurions will face Ballard in the final today at 7 p.m. The Bruins advanced with a 7-0 victory over North Oldham behind Katie Walsh and Sara Wilder, who each had two goals.
Fourth District: Lindsey Reynolds and Elena Curley had three goals each and Ally Harris scored two in Presentation's 8-0 victory over St. Francis at Manual. The Toppers will face the Crimsons in the final at 6 p.m. today. Manual defeated Holy Cross 10-0 behind Anna DuFour's two goals.


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Though the city's Union Square farmers market has received the most attention from environmentalists and foodies alike in recent years, other, lower-profile farmers markets have been sprouting elsewhere across the city with the speed of (pick your plant), and in the unlikeliest of places, too.
A closer look at the farmers market in East New York reveals the neighborhood - and other high-density, lower-income urban areas like it - does, in fact, represent the next logical front in the burgeoning green food movement.
East New York Farms, a project of United Community Centers, a neighborhood social service hub on New Lots Avenue, was founded in 1998.
Following the troubled 1970's and '80's, community activists in some of the city's most distressed areas - form the South Bronx and Manhattan's Lower East Side to Central Brooklyn - began transforming abandoned property lots into gardens where residents could grow their own produce.
The idea was especially popular in East New York. By the late 90's, said David Vigil, farm manager of East New York Farms, the area had more registered community gardens, at around 60, than any other city neighborhood. Local residents from Africa, the West Indies, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and South Asia were producing ever-larger quantities of fresh produce but had no place to sell them, recalled Vigil.
"There was a huge number of gardens and an existing network of people already creating change in the neighborhood in terms of developing abandoned lots into gardens," Vigil said.
Vigil said it became clear a farmers market would allow farmers to sell their excess produce for profit, provide residents with access to fresh and affordable fruits and vegetables, and give area youth an opportunity to become involved in their community.
So in 1998, various organizations including the Cornell Cooperative Extension and the Pratt Institute partnered with United Community Centers (UCC) to found East New York Farms. The organization, which today receives a combination of public and private funding, established a farm, a six-month-a-year farmers market, and an agriculture-oriented youth internship program.
"The market has been growing significantly every year," said Vigil. "In 2008, there was a 20 percent increase in sales. Clearly there's a high demand for fresh produce.
"There's a misperception that farmers markets won't do well in low-income neighborhoods," Vigil continued. "We've been able to prove that there is a demand and you can have a very viable, vibrant market, and one that can be community-led, too."
Vigil, dressed in well-worn overalls and boots, donned a winter hat on a cold day last month to show off the group's main farm, located on a half-acre lot behind the UCC building.
The farm, enclosed by a chain link fence, its northern end shadowed by the nearby elevated subway tracks, is indeed an incongruous sight in the gritty neighborhood but colorful, hand-painted signs and neat plant beds hinted at a public open space that teems with activity during the warmer months.
Every Saturday from late June through November, East New York Farms runs a farmers market on the sidewalk outside the farm, which is bounded by Schenck and Livonia Avenues. The market sells produce grown there, at its second farm only a few blocks away, as well as produce grown on eight additional, unaffiliated community gardens in the neighborhood.
Over 35 farmers participate, said Vigil, paying $12 to 18 a month to the central farm organization for the right to sell their crops. Some growers earn up to $5,000 a year, Vigil said. The market and the organization's two farms are manned by local youth who are paid for their work, and who are taught organic farming methods by Vigil and his staff.
The market distinguishes itself from others in the city because of its crop diversity, a mark of the neighborhood's multicultural population. Shoppers there can buy callaloo, a bitter melon grown by immigrants from the West Indies, or a different bitter melon variety altogether grown by immigrants from Bangladesh. Vigil said growers with roots in the American South sell collard greens, Okra, and sweet potatoes, to name a few.
The market also offers staple vegetables such as onions, tomatoes, and lettuce grown by upstate farmers who have begun including East New York on their city market circuits. An average pound of produce at the market goes for $1.50.
In 2008, the farmers market sold over 80,000 pounds of produce, according to Vigil. He said the market could grow much larger, as more growers in East New York join up. If even half of the neighborhood's more than 50 community gardens still uninvolved with East New York Farms decide to sell produce at the central market, it could mushroom into the biggest farmers market in the city.
"We're still trying to educate people and encourage people to come to the market and see what it really looks like," said Vigil. "The community's role in making this farmers market is really significant. More people need to come and see that."


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1 Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me,
for in you I take refuge.
I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings
until the disaster has passed.
2 I cry out to God Most High,
to God, who vindicates me.
3 He sends from heaven and saves me,
rebuking those who hotly pursue me—[c]
God sends forth his love and his faithfulness.
4 I am in the midst of lions;
I am forced to dwell among ravenous beasts—
men whose teeth are spears and arrows,
whose tongues are sharp swords.
5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
let your glory be over all the earth.
6 They spread a net for my feet—
I was bowed down in distress.
They dug a pit in my path—
but they have fallen into it themselves.
7 My heart, O God, is steadfast,
my heart is steadfast;
I will sing and make music.
8 Awake, my soul!
Awake, harp and lyre!
I will awaken the dawn.
9 I will praise you, Lord, among the nations;
I will sing of you among the peoples.
10 For great is your love, reaching to the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
11 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
let your glory be over all the earth.
1 Do you rulers indeed speak justly?
Do you judge people with equity?
2 No, in your heart you devise injustice,
and your hands mete out violence on the earth.
3 Even from birth the wicked go astray;
from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.
4 Their venom is like the venom of a snake,
like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
5 that will not heed the tune of the charmer,
however skillful the enchanter may be.
6 Break the teeth in their mouths, O God;
Lord, tear out the fangs of those lions!
7 Let them vanish like water that flows away;
when they draw the bow, let their arrows fall short.
8 May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along,
like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns—
whether they be green or dry—the wicked will be swept away.[f]
10 The righteous will be glad when they are avenged,
when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 Then people will say,
"Surely the righteous still are rewarded;
surely there is a God who judges the earth."
1 Deliver me from my enemies, O God;
be my fortress against those who are attacking me.
2 Deliver me from evildoers
and save me from those who are after my blood.
3 See how they lie in wait for me!
Fierce men conspire against me
for no offense or sin of mine, Lord.
4 I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me.
Arise to help me; look on my plight!
5 You, Lord God Almighty,
you who are the God of Israel,
rouse yourself to punish all the nations;
show no mercy to wicked traitors.[i]
6 They return at evening,
snarling like dogs,
and prowl about the city.
7 See what they spew from their mouths—
the words from their lips are sharp as swords,
and they think, "Who can hear us?"
8 But you laugh at them, Lord;
you scoff at all those nations.
9 You are my strength, I watch for you;
you, God, are my fortress,
10 my God on whom I can rely.
God will go before me
and will let me gloat over those who slander me.
11 But do not kill them, Lord our shield,[j]
or my people will forget.
In your might uproot them
and bring them down.
12 For the sins of their mouths,
for the words of their lips,
let them be caught in their pride.
For the curses and lies they utter,
13 consume them in your wrath,
consume them till they are no more.
Then it will be known to the ends of the earth
that God rules over Jacob.
14 They return at evening,
snarling like dogs,
and prowl about the city.
15 They wander about for food
and howl if not satisfied.
16 But I will sing of your strength,
in the morning I will sing of your love;
for you are my fortress,
my refuge in times of trouble.
17 You are my strength, I sing praise to you;
you, God, are my fortress,
my God on whom I can rely.
4 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, discovered in this matter? 2 If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God. 3 What does Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."[a]
4 Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. 5 However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness. 6 David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
7 "Blessed are those
whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the one
whose sin the Lord will never count against them."[b]
9 Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham's faith was credited to him as righteousness. 10 Under what circumstances was it credited? Was it after he was circumcised, or before? It was not after, but before! 11 And he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them. 12 And he is then also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
13 It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. 14 For if those who depend on the law are heirs, faith means nothing and the promise is worthless, 15 because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression.
16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. 17 As it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations."[c] He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.
18 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, "So shall your offspring be."[d] 19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah's womb was also dead. 20 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21 being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. 22 This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness." 23 The words "it was credited to him" were written not for him alone, 24 but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. 25 He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.


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[CAUTION: I am not a teacher:take the advice and or corrections offered in this post at your own risk.
If you doubt the information, please get a qualified opinion from one of the teachers on these forums.]
I would try to address serious pronunciation problems on three fronts.
(1)The alphabet and phonetic symbols
Many language learners become quite advanced in reading and writing while retaining only a foggy notion of the relationship between the symbols of English writing and their pronunciation.
For these students they should be introduced to the nuance and difference between each symbol and combination thereof. This can be tedious and difficult, but is necessary to the mechanical understanding of pronunciation, especially if a majority of their ideas about how words should be pronounced comes from writing.
This has the potential to be incredibly boring but is just plain necessary, just like a musician has to learn all the rules of written music although technically she or he may play an instrument without it.
(2)Listening ability
If a native speaker were to go deaf, his or her speaking ability would suffer and decline into near unintelligibility in months. The reason being that they can't hear themselves speak.
I would argue that listening ability plays the first role in our pronunciation with mechanical oral ability coming in a close second. Reasonably, if someone cannot hear the difference between words with similar pronunciation, or their slight mispronunciation of a sound, they cannot reproduce this difference correctly.
A great amount of exposure to the spoken language is required indeed, but this can come from movies or music/songs (books on tape, perhaps?) just as well as speech, and may be more entertaining. Not only this, but I find that stress and intonation tend to be slightly exaggerated in song and performance, and so are easier to pick up.
Not to mention, all language learners I have known with exceptional pronunciation who have not had a lot of personal exposure to native speakers usually watch a considerable amount of television in the target language or listen to music of the same.
(3)Recording one's voice
Easily the most difficult practise to encourage, we all have grand illusions as to the rich and musical sound of our own voice, which are often shattered when we hear it in recording. This is perhaps even more reason to do this exercise.
Some tape and CD players specifically designed for language study provide a function whereby the learner can record their voice for direct comparison with the recorded material, but this can easily be set up by any determined student.
Finally, a consideration for ability.
Like musical ability, some people just naturally show talent for learning the sounds of language where others do not. As native speakers we often ignore the systematically flawed pronunciation of other native speakers but on observation can point it out easily enough.
Some people never even master the sounds of their own language, which is odd. Others do fine with pronunciation of their own language but fail miserably when introduced to a second (Jackie Chan who I revere comes to mind).
Also, we must factor in age, I have heard people who begin learning language in adolescence never completely lose an accent. You might not want to undertake an impossible mission.
Still, movies like "My Fair Lady" and my own personal experience (I started learning Mandarin at 21 and now four years later can fool native speakers on the phone into thinking I'm Chinese. Granted, I spent those years living among native speakers.) show us that exceptions are possible.
I hope this has been helpful.
English Teacher


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I found this article rather interesting:
This has been around as a concept for 25 years or so, but a couple of guys reckon that it is not so difficult as previously thought.They crack passwords by measuring the time it takes for a computer to respond to a login request. On some login systems, the computer will check password characters one at a time, and kick back a "login failed" message as soon as it spots a bad character in the password. This means a computer returns a completely bad login attempt a tiny bit faster than a login where the first character in the password is correct. By trying to log in again and again, cycling through characters and measuring the time it takes for the computer to respond, hackers can ultimately figure out the correct passwords.


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In Which Lindsay Lohan Is Almost Preternaturally Alive
The Lindsay Lohan Problem
by ALICE BOLIN
The internet's collective anticipation of the Lifetime network's Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton biopic Liz & Dick was palpable — it was meant to be Lifetime's culminating achievement in low-budget ill-considered melodramatic crap cinema, with the grand and legendary movie star Taylor played by bedraggled former child actor and tabloid train wreck du jour Lindsay Lohan. The incongruity was sublime, and viewers were eager for the failure that Liz & Dick would be.
Sure enough, Liz & Dick did serve up some of Lifetime's signature camp. It begins with a title card that reads "The Last Day of Richard Burton's Life," and its plot is scaffolded by interludes in which Taylor and Burton, sitting in director's chairs and dressed all in black, reminisce about and explain the movie's action, an expository device that is supposedly taking place in the dying Burton's mind. It ends with a title reading "Elizabeth Taylor kept Richard Burton's letters for the remainder of her life," choosing to leave off on a "no duh" note.
Along the way it chronicles Taylor and Burton's epically obnoxious love affair. "I'm sleeping with your wife," a drunk Burton, played by Grant Bowler, shouts at Taylor's husband Eddie Fisher after she and Burton begin their affair. "You do know I'm shagging him senseless, don't you?" Taylor says to a hotel employee, randomly. In a triumphant curtain call after his successful performance in Hamlet, Burton brings Taylor up on stage. "In the words of the immortal bard: there will be no more marriages!" he says. A producer pitches Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Taylor at a party but says Burton wouldn't be right for the male lead because he can't picture them fighting — so naturally they make a scene staging a mock fight to convince him. They really are insufferable.
And the script clunks along nicely. Toward the beginning of the film, Burton tells Taylor he can't leave his family for her, and she is beside herself. "I don't loathe you," Taylor says. "I hate you." Later, he calls her "miss pudgy digits" in a fight, and she has a fit, staring angrily at her hands. "They are fat! And they're pudgy!" she screams. Of course, subtlety was never a hallmark of the biopic genre. "We were meant for each other," Burton tells his brother shortly after the affair begins. "That's what she said to Conrad Hilton, Michael Wilding, Mike Todd, and Eddie bloody Fisher!" his brother replies. If I understand all of this statement's implications correctly, Elizabeth Taylor was married many times.
Still: Liz & Dick looks lovely. It is set mostly in Switzerland and along the coast of Italy, and its sets are adequately luxe. Lohan has had some unfortunate plastic surgery, but her styling was good — at many moments she looks genuinely fierce. And her and Bowler's performances are low-energy, but not ridiculous. Comedians took to Twitter the night Liz & Dick premiered, giddy to live-tweet this televised disaster, but many of their tones turned grudging quickly after the movie began. Sure, they got shots in when Lohan, portraying 1984-vintage Taylor, dons an absurd salt-and-pepper wig and enormous glasses, but for the most part the fun Twitter had with the film seemed halfhearted. Liz & Dick was ultimately a disappointment. As Alessandra Stanley of the New York Times noted, "The film's real failure is that it's not terrible enough." It could have been worse, and when viewers are expecting so-bad-it's-good, that is a grave fault.
Liz & Dick's failure as a failure was surprisingly frustrating. Its mediocrity was so dissatisfying because it disrupted the narrative — Lohan's descent through eating disorders and substance abuse and jail time from the accomplished ingénue she once was. And she was certainly set up for a monumental fall from grace. When she starred in the remake of The Parent Trap at the age of twelve and the remake of Freaky Friday at seventeen, she was favorably compared to Hayley Mills and Jodie Foster. The Parent Trap's director Danette Meyers likened her to a young Diane Keaton.
The praise for Lohan's acting ability continued so profuse that one might have begun to sense some hyperbole. Meryl Streep, her co-star in Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion, said, "She is very present and alive, almost preternaturally alive, on camera." Tina Fey said of Mean Girls, "I would watch Lindsay to learn what it is to be a film actor." Around the same time, her father, Michael Lohan, an abusive cocaine addict who had been arrested multiple times for assault, began to seek the media spotlight. She wrote a hit song about him, "Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father)," which Tommy Mottola described as "one of the best I've heard in my career."
By 2006, when she was nineteen, the train wreck narrative was already beginning, as her heavy partying and dramatic weight loss made her a constant figure in the tabloid media. She gave an interview with Evgenia Peretz in which she may have admitted to having an eating disorder — though she later claimed she was misquoted. Lohan and her management were outraged by how she was portrayed in the Vanity Fair article, but reading it now, its take on her is remarkably positive and optimistic.
"She may be the most compelling and charismatic and real of all the actresses on the very young A-List," Peretz wrote, and also called Lohan "a serious and emotional young woman" who "clearly has great reserves of strength." This was around when Lohan began several years of living in hotels, and Peretz spun this wholesomely as well, calling her "the Eloise of Chateau Marmont." Lohan talked about how she had a quiet dinner with some friends for her nineteenth birthday — "That's how much I've changed," she said. "When I turned 18, I had a party at Avalon with an 'I'm a Slave 4 You' theme." The Peretz article thinks it's telling the story of a star who has made missteps, but is ultimately back on the right track.
The next year Lohan had two DUIs and the first three of her four stints in rehab. She had cocaine either on her or in her system during both of her DUIs — a drug she had denied that she was ever involved with, sensitive because of her father's history with it. "It's a sore subject," she said about cocaine in the Peretz article. For Lohan the four years following have mostly been violated probation, car accidents, shoplifting, jail time and community service, and getting dropped from one movie after another.
Despite all this, people want to believe that there is something brilliant about her, if only to make her current situation appear even more dismal. Many still buy into the narrative of her potential — Richard Brody called her performance in Liz & Dick "thrillingly immediate." The myth of her prodigious talent has played a part in enabling her destructive behavior. As Ken Tucker says in his review of Liz & Dick, Lohan has "been cut so many breaks, it's difficult to root for her anymore." Her entitled attitude is clear, with stories of her being constantly late to movie sets, skipping court dates and community service, even stealing a necklace from a jewelry store. "I think the root of the problem," said an anonymous source in Nancy Jo Sales' 2010 Vanity Fair story about Lohan, "was every single person telling her how amazing she is, kissing her ass all the time."
In 2007, an executive on Lohan's film Georgia Rule wrote a cranky open letter to Lohan about her behavior onset. "We are well aware that your ongoing all night heavy partying is the real reason for our so-called 'exhaustion,'" he wrote. "You have acted like a spoiled child." This is probably a realistic assessment of Lohan — she is someone who got too much money, fame, and praise too young, who has never been expected to grow up in any meaningful way. After Robert Altman died in 2006, Lohan wrote a long, strange tribute to the director, filled with spelling and grammatical errors. "He left us with a legend that all of us have the ability to do," she wrote, and concluded bizarrely with the closing phrase "Be adequite."
The letter revealed Lohan not as a movie star of rare talent or as a legendarily troubled public figure, but as a young woman who had been making movies while she should have been going to school. But this picture of Lohan — as an undereducated and spoiled party girl — doesn't wash with what she had been set up for, with what she was supposed to become. After her film work post-Prairie Home Companion did not live up to the hype surrounding her talent, the story couldn't just be that she had disappointed. She had to have disappointed because of some darkness in her soul — if her life wasn't going to be a legendary success, it had to be a legendary tragedy.
This is where the "old Hollywood" connections start coming in. Lohan has done photo-shoots re-creating ones done by her idol Marilyn Monroe twice — one for Playboy that was inspired by Monroe's nude pictorial from the magazine's first issue, and the other for New York that was a re-creation of the last photo-shoot Monroe did before committing suicide. It's as if it is already decided: Lohan will lead a sad, destructive life before facing a tragic and untimely death — and she's complicit, helping to create this narrative.
And this is where Lohan playing Elizabeth Taylor starts to take on significance. Lifetime was most likely trying to cash in on the similarities between Lohan and Taylor's lives — and they do have points in common. Both were promising child actors with controlling stage mothers. Federico Fellini invented the term "paparazzi" to describe the photographers who followed Taylor, and Lohan has been continually hounded by the paparazzi for nearly ten years. But their stories are more different than they are alike. At the time that Liz & Dick begins in 1963, Taylor was twenty-nine years old, had been married three times, and had three children and one Academy Award. Importantly, Taylor was the rare child actor to become a genuine adult movie star, which Lohan so far is not.
Even in her scandals, Taylor was in different league from Lohan. The boozing and shouting and bottle-throwing portrayed in Liz & Dick are endlessly more dignified than the weird, sordid situations Lohan's gotten herself into recently. She is known for being so unreliable that a producer on Liz & Dick described her as "the most insured actress ever to set foot on a Hollywood sound stage." She has hosted slumber parties at the Chateau Marmont with Lady Gaga and Lana Del Rey where they "watched old movies and played board games," which is a euphemism for I don't know what. Charlie Sheen, whom she became friends with when they worked together on Scary Movie 5, reportedly gave her $100,000 to settle a tax debt. And she was recently arrested for punching a woman in a club after attending a Justin Bieber concert.
Lohan was an incredible talent whose personal demons have turned her into a Hollywood tragedy — that is what many people want to be see as the scenario. Instead, she may just be another child actor whom the system permanently fucked up. When Lohan hosted Saturday Night Live in 2005, Amy Poehler posed as Lohan's future self during the opening monologue — she came with a message of warning, cautioning Lohan to stop partying and drinking so much Red Bull.
When Lohan asked what movies she would do in the future, Poehler responded with weird accuracy: "Well, let me see. We did Herbie: Fully Loaded, then we did Mean Girls 2, that was a suck bomb, then we did National Lampoon's Jamaican Vacation, and then we did like eight Lifetime movies, and now we host a Cinemax show called Night Passions." Lohan's future was predictable because we've heard her story so many times before — not in Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, but in Corey Haim, Gary Coleman, and Danny Bonaduce. Lohan's life and Liz & Dick are not the epic catastrophes they were meant to be. They're just run-of-the-mill messes, which makes them even sadder.
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Boys need to be taught separately from girls from the age of five to prevent them being damaged by the education system, experts claimed.
Dr Leonard Sax argues that boys are "turned off" by starting formal education too soon when they are expected to sit down and keep quiet in class. And, because they develop at different rates to girls, they can be discouraged from learning while very young when sat alongside female classmates.
He said: "With boys you have to start right away. If you wait until secondary school, you have waited too long. From the age of five, there are clear advantages in all-boys' education when teachers know how to take advantage of it."
Sax refers to a few other studies that he says show that girls and boys draw differently, including one from a group of Japanese researchers who found girls' drawings typically depict still lifes of people, pets or flowers, using 10 or more crayons, favoring warm colors like red, green, beige and brown; boys, on the other hand, draw action, using 6 or fewer colors, mostly cool hues like gray, blue, silver and black. This apparent difference, which Sax argues is hard-wired, causes teachers to praise girls' artwork and make boys feel that they're drawing incorrectly.
Glory to Allah who says in the Qur'an about that issue :( And the male is not like the female)[Sűrat Al-Imrân-(The Family of Imran)verse36].
Dr. Sax believes girls also benefit from single-sex education because they can concentrate on subjects such as maths, which is traditionally seen as a "male" interest.
WeMuslims can find in the Sunnah the same instructions as the prophet peace be upon him orders us by saying: {separate between boys and girls in beds} as both of them must sleep in a separated beds if they became adults.
Also the great religion of Islam orders men not to look at forbidden things by saying: (Tell the believing men to lower their gaze (from looking at forbidden things), and protect their private parts (from illegal sexual acts, etc.). That is purer for them. Verily, Allah is All-Aware of what they do.)[Sűrat An-Nűr-The Light- verse 30].
At the end we say that whoever read the latest researches in many disciplines will discover that western scientists and researchers are calling people to avoid alcohol, not to eat too much and women to wear decent clothes , so they returns to the principles of Islam.
Allah almighty says: (And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers.)[Sűrat Al-ImrânSűrat Al-Imrân-verse85].
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Assalamu alaikum.
How can Western countries return to principles of Islam while no Muslim country has a Caliph? Is establishing the caliphate not the basic principle of Islam? What is then the meaning of sending Messengers to different nations?
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