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The Terasem Movement is a US charity founded by Martine Rothblatt.
Other staff members include:
- President - Bina Rothblatt
- General manager - Mike Clancy
- Vice President & Secretary - Lori Rhodes
- Treasurer & Assistant Secretary - Nikki Knudsen
Amongst other things, they run events in Second Life.
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Today I celebrate my first anniversary as a published author. This year has been an adventure that's for sure. When I began this journey, I can't say I expected half of the love and excitement I've gotten. Casey and Sam were and still are a huge part of my heart. I go back to them every now and then to revisit their story.
I've been asked more than once if I plan on continuing their story. Maybe. I have a few ideas floating around in my head, but as they are, Sam and Casey are forever part of my life.
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The Parish of North West Lochaber is unique within the Church of Scotland as it consists of communities accessible by road and some only accessible by sea.
With ten communities, each with their own unique characteristics, the traditional models of Parish Ministry and so new models of reaching out with the good news of Jesus Christ are always being explored.
The Parish has a very interesting and varied history, which you can read about in the history of the Parish section of this site.
The Road to the Isles and the Rough Bounds are names synonymous with the area covered by the Parish.
The vision of the Church of Scotland is to be a church which inspires the people of Scotland and beyond with the Good News of Jesus Christ through enthusiastic, worshipping, witnessing, nurturing and serving communities.
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MOSCOW — A Russian presidential candidate who vanished last week surfaced Tuesday in Ukraine, saying he was surprised by all the fuss that his disappearance had caused.
Ivan Rybkin, a critic of President Vladimir Putin, had been missing since late Thursday after being dropped off outside his Moscow home, according to his wife and campaign staffers.
His staff reported Tuesday evening that he had been found in Ukraine, and Rybkin told the radio station Echo of Moscow that "I haven't disappeared anywhere."
"I decided not to listen to the radio and TV" for a few days, Rybkin said. "I decided to go to Kiev to visit friends."
Rybkin, 57, said he was "shocked" when he read Russian newspapers on Tuesday and saw that his absence was being given wide attention.
A campaign staffer, who gave her name only as Maria, said Rybkin was to return to Moscow on a flight Tuesday night.
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Rybkin's wife, Albina, and Rybkin staffers filed a missing-person report on the 57-year-old on Sunday, the day after his candidacy for the March 14 presidential election was approved by the Central Election Commission.
Poll results suggested Rybkin would draw less than 1 percent of the vote, but he is expected to be one of the few candidates who will campaign aggressively against Putin, the overwhelming favorite.
Rybkin launched his campaign last week with a stinging attack on the president, whom he accused of basing his power on blood, citing the war in Chechnya. Putin's tough attitude toward Chechen rebels boosted his popularity ahead of his election in 2000.
Rybkin is a member of Liberal Russia, a party supported by Berezovsky, a billionaire who was a powerful Kremlin insider in the Yeltsin years but who fell out with Putin and was granted asylum in Britain.
In the last 18 months, two lawmakers from Liberal Russia have been gunned down in murky circumstances.
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During his unexplained absence, Rybkin, a national security chief under former President Boris Yeltsin, failed to show up for a news conference Friday, missed his formal registration as a candidate Saturday and didn't answer his cell phone, said Alexander Tukayev, deputy chairman of Rybkin's Liberal Russia party.
Police searched Rybkin's apartment, office, garage and cottage on Sunday but said they found no signs of foul play or clues to his whereabouts.
Albina Rybkin told the Kommersant newspaper that she found the home empty when she returned home at 11 p.m. on Thursday, though the mail had been brought inside and Rybkin's jacket was in one of the rooms.
"I think that when he was at home, someone called him and asked for a quick meeting," she was quoted as saying. "Clearly, they proposed that the meeting would be short because my husband didn't call me or leave a note."
In April, Liberal Russia lawmaker Sergei Yushenkov was shot outside his apartment building in Moscow. Prosecutors have accused Mikhail Kodanyov, the chairman of a rival branch of Liberal Russia, of organizing the killing together with five accomplices as part of a power struggle. The trial of some of the suspects is currently under way in Moscow.
Another co-chairman of Liberal Russia, Vladimir Golovlyov, was shot and killed in August 2002. Some have suggested that his murder was politically motivated, but others link it with his alleged involvement in privatization fraud in the metals industry, which is believed to be riddled with criminals.
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North Korea executes uncle of leader Kim Jong Un: reportBy Hasani Gittens and Robert Windrem, NBC NewsYoung North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's previously powerful uncle has been executed as a traitor, the country's state-run news service said Thursday. According to KCNA, the uncle, Jang Song Thaek, was guilty of "attempting to overthrow the state."On Monday, the isolated regime announced that Jang had been dismissed from his vaunted official post for a string of criminal acts, including corruption, womanizing and drug-taking. "All the crimes committed by the accused were proved in the course of hearing and were admitted by him," KCNA stated on Thursday — in a report that claimed that "people throughout the country broke in to angry shouts" when they heard of Jang's alleged crimes.More...http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/...-un-report?lite
Zitatincluding corruption, womanizing and drug-taking.
Isn't that the MO of the whole ruling apparatus in that shithole of a country? Kim Jung Ill did all of those things in spades when he was alive.
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day 24, Onward !
Onward! We were ready on our skis at 8, happy to find that the conditions were a little better than yesterday.
We found a good system with the rotating of the trail blazers and the pulk load of the mule and the bull, and made good progress despite challenging snow.
We are beginning to understand why the inuits have so many different words for snow, and are hoping to experience more of the hard, smooth and fast surfaced snow tomorrow, as we still have a good few Km to cover the next three days…
The spirit in the group is high, despite the fact that chocolate reserves are running low now…
We will soon be able to smell the ocean, and that calls us forward.
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had an awareness there was a God, but I wasn't sure He took too much interest in my life."
This was the mindset of 16-year-old Nik Wright, and little wonder, too, considering what life had shown him thus far.
At 14, Wright had been kicked out of his house by parents who were struggling with substance abuse issues. He soon found himself living with an "uncle," who was fresh out of prison and bouncing around from hotel room to hotel room. Out of necessity, he quickly learned his uncle's trade — selling drugs to afford a place to stay each night.
Not surprisingly, Wright became chemically dependent and dropped out of high school. "I was a pretty good student for a period of time. I had a 3.9 GPA, but after my sophomore year I dropped out completely in the heat of this different world I was learning about."
The situation went from bad to worse, Wright said, as those who were "taking care" of him returned to prison. "I ended up alone in some pretty vulnerable types of situations."
The lifestyle took its toll. After two years, he weighed 105 lbs. Hungry, angry, scared and completely alone, Wright showed up in Colorado Springs, Colo., at the doorstep of his grandfather, who immediately understood the seriousness of the situation.
Wright's grandfather brought him to the Dale House, a residential facility in town aimed at helping hurting kids and equipping them with the skills necessary for independent living.
"That experience was my yellow brick road in this roundabout kind of way. The people at the Dale House welcomed me with open arms. There began the road … "
The path didn't start out smoothly, however. Wright was, admittedly, not thrilled to be there. "I was a pretty angry and broken kid, and for the first few months, defiant and rebellious. I had a hard time with trust. But the leaders there were really persistent with me. They didn't force anything on me, but they also didn't waver."
One of those unwavering leaders was Drew Hill, currently a communications specialist and volunteer leader with Young Life. As Wright's primary care counselor, Hill broke down walls with his younger friend through the power of laughter and music.
"Drew would sit on the foot of my bed every morning and wake me up by singing country songs," Wright recalled, "and I was not listening to country music at that point in my life!"
Wright often woke up to Hill's reworked version of a popular country song:
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How was your night? /
Mine was wonderful /
Good morning, Mr. Wright!
Unbeknownst to Wright, Hill was not only inviting him into the day, but into a life of hope.
"Nik didn't have a lot of people in his life telling him he's worth something," Hill said, "but inside he knew it. I was able to speak into that and tell him what I saw and tell him he was valuable because he was God's child."
"I was confused by why these people who seemed very different from me cared about me and loved on me for no reason," Wright said. "In my mind, my value was pretty low — I had been involved in all these bad things. It was confusing, but also really attractive."
"Nik wanted relationships and he was well liked by both the staff and other kids," said Kevin Comiskey, program director at the Dale House, and Wright's good friend. "And the routine of the Dale House was soothing to him."
That routine is an important part of the rehabilitation process for kids like Wright. "I learned how to eat at a dinner table," he said. "I learned how to work and save money; and I learned how to have real relationships." These lessons were preparing Wright for the greatest truth of all.
Every summer, kids from the Dale House spend a week at Frontier Ranch, experiencing Young Life camp like thousands of other adolescents. When his week came, Wright was blown away.
"Nik had never been any place like Frontier," said Comiskey. "At meals they tell kids 'it's all you can eat.' The night of the steak dinner — after all the other campers left and the work crew was clearing tables — Nik and the guys at our table just stayed and said 'keep bringing us that steak!' They could not believe it was all you can eat. Kids go to camp and they see the kingdom of God. They see there's another way — a whole other world they knew nothing about. From there they can choose: do I want to move into that world or not?"
"I remember the sin talk," Wright said. "I could get on board with that — I had this separation from God. I realized I have this choice. After the cross talk, I sat on this flatbed wagon in the infield, in those beautiful mountains, and had this visualization of God being this Father. I met Jesus there at Frontier Ranch and I could see — again on this yellow brick road — that God really had a hold on me."
The road allowed Wright to obtain his GED, enroll in community college, and pursue career opportunities. Throughout these post-Dale House years, Wright's thoughts never strayed too far from the place where so many had poured into him. He longed to do the same for others.
"Just like kids dream of being an astronaut, my dream was to come back and work at the Dale House ... and I got my dream!" In September of 2010, Wright returned and for the next two years, invested directly in kids the way Comiskey and Hill had invested in him. In 2012, he was promoted to residential team leader, a position which not only includes caring for the kids, but also leading the other leaders.
"The exciting part is I have a purpose today. When I wake up in the morning, I know what I'm doing is kingdom work. It has eternal weight. Jesus had a special place in His heart for the widow and the orphan and marginalized people. The greatest commandments are to love Jesus and love people, and I'm trying to do that to the best of my ability. I believe I was made to do this."
"I have tangibly seen and experienced what this dark, broken world has to offer. I've also tangibly seen and experienced what an abundant life with Christ offers." Armed with this knowledge, today Wright lovingly walks beside kids and leaders who are following their own yellow brick roads. Wright smiles as he lives out the truth he himself learned firsthand:
"You can only love on somebody so long before they have to respond."
In 1971, under the direction of longtime staff George and Martie Sheffer, and their son, George Sheffer III, Young Life launched the Dale House Project. Sheffer III, who oversaw the work for more than four decades, began the ministry as a response to the large amount of disaffected teenagers who, because they were runaways, not attending school, or even in and out of jail, were outside the scope of the traditional ministry. Comprised of three houses (on Dale Street), the ministry provides "a home away from home" for hurting kids, while training young leaders in residential and community ministry.
The Dale House has a capacity for 18 residents at a time and hosts about 60 to 100 kids annually. The time spent there prepares kids for life awaiting them.
"We are hard on them," Comiskey said, "but not nearly as hard as the world is. They have a lot to learn in a short time, because they're usually here six to nine months, then they're emancipated. Work ethic is a huge struggle for kids. Many live on the edge of poverty, and if they don't work, they don't make it. It's not all about work, but work gives you freedom of choices.
"We have these kids and they're each God's kids. He wants His kids treated a certain way. We celebrate birthdays with kids who've never had a birthday cake. What a great deal! That's what we get to do with these kids!"
For the staff, the experience consists of a one-year training program, where they are immersed in the fields of psychology, counseling, family systems, Bible, theology, and relational ministry while walking alongside the kids. While the Dale House is independent from Young Life, Comiskey said, about half the staff still come from Young Life. "They know how to be relational with kids," he smiled.
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In today's world, the smallest situation can turn into a crisis, which damages your organization's reputation and revenue. The proliferation of cell phones and social media means that anyone, virtually anywhere, can post a picture, video, or comment about your situation. Within minutes, your situation goes viral online, then the mainstream media come knocking at your door.
Your crisis communications plan is your pre-determined road map that specifically outlines how you will respond to every crisis, no matter how unique it may be. The reality is that on the day of your crisis, you won't be able to simply gather everyone in the boardroom and make decisions fast enough or well enough if you don't have a plan.
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Last Thursday was my birthday and it was one of the best birthdays I've had in a while. All of the snow and mixed up schedules we'd had for the two weeks before it was really making me crazy and then to have my birthday thrown in a week where we seriously had too much to do... well, it wasn't looking too promising.
On Monday I had an incredible amount of fun at the social run with Fleet Feet. I got to eat some fabulous food with friends at The Porch. Tuesday I was relieved of Jury Duty and then had another wonderful 6 mile hill run with my training group that night.
On Wednesday I had my weigh out for my Diet Bet and I just barely made it. Then it was the only night we had free so we celebrated with friends and family at my favorite restaurant for dinner. That's all I ever want for my birthday... a good meal with family. One of my friends wrote out 37 reasons she loves me which was incredibly sweet and made me smile from ear to ear.
It was gloriously sunny and 68 degrees. On Thursday they were calling for snow and freezing rain again but I didn't mind.
My husband and kids had entered me in the WBFJ radio station birthday contest so they announced my birthday on the radio that morning. I was already at work so I didn't get to hear it but the kids did and they were so excited.
We had done the same thing for Josh in October and when they announced his name they incorrectly pronounced it Josh Too-Ker so when Josh told me they might say my name on the radio he said, "We'll enter you as long as you don't mind being called Too-Ker."
Jonathan delivered a big bunch of tulips to work for me.
We had a normal dinner Thursday night at home and then Jules and I had to head to Summit Runners at our church. They had a great shoe talk/demonstration that night with Keith Davis from Fleet Feet and then Jules and I ran 2 miles together in the snow flurries and freezing drizzle. It was so much fun to have that chance to do something so unique on my birthday and have the quality time with Jules.
I went to bed very happy.
Friday morning I didn't hear it but I went on a field trip with my classes at school and apparently they chose me as the winner of the Birthday Bundle on WBFJ. Jonathan and the kids were on their way to school and the kids were so excited to hear my name and then Jonathan's voice on the radio when he called in for me.
When I got back from my field trip they called me up to the office at the end of the day and there was Vern with a big cake from Ketchie Creek Bakery. He told me I'd won the prize pack and it included tickets to the ACC Tournament and a bunch of CDs and a T-shirt, etc. Everyone was clapping and congratulating me.
It was the great start to an awesome weekend and overall a fantastic birthday week!
Many thanks to WBFJ for the terrific birthday surprise, for the incredible music and goodies. Thanks to Ketchie Creek for the beautiful and delicious cake and to the ACC for the fun tickets. Thanks, friends, for being a special part of my life and for all of your sweet birthday wishes. I hope each of you have an equally wonderful birthday this year.


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With the ski season approaching (and more snow on its way to Tahoe) it's time to start blogging more about fun in the mountains.
And because pictures speak a thousand words, I love that the PSIA has created some great videos to help increase our enjoyment of skiing and snow boarding.
Here's one that is perfect for parents who want to help their kids conquer the mountain while skiing as a family.
However, a common error is choosing to ski on trails which are more difficult than fun! Or the trail may be fun, but to handle it, children practice defensive skiing, creating movement patterns and habits that will take time (and more lessons!) to fix. Even worse, but unfortunately common, is a child developing a fear of blue squares or black diamond runs that he or she has been forced to follow Mom or Dad down.
So this video is extremely helpful. It provides the visual clues to how your child is handling the terrain. Even if they're having a blast... these signs should help you decide where to ski to set them up for success in the future.


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"There is a surprising amount of humor in this tender novel. It is one of the best portrayals around of kids whose heritage is mixed but still very important in their lives. It's Rain's story and she cannot be reduced to simple labels. A wonderful novel of a present-day teen and her 'patch-work tribe.'" — School Library Journal
"…readers will feel the affection of Rain's loose-knit family and admire the way that they, like the author with the audience, allow Rain to draw her own conclusions about who she is and what her heritage means to her." — Publishers Weekly
"Smith (author of Jingle Dancer) portrays a protagonist with a genuine voice and an appealing sense of humor." — Children's Literature
"Cynthia Leitich Smith's newest novel, RAIN IS NOT MY INDIAN NAME, is a powerful novel of two friends and the residual effects of a night of impulsive behavior. Smith's writing is inspired. Rain's heritage, sense of loyalty, her faith in herself and her abilities, and even the memories of her friendship are tested in this compelling story of a teenager who must face the realities of her life. A compelling read sure to be a popular choice among intermediate and young adult readers." — 100 MOST POPULAR CHILDREN'S AUTHORS by Sharon L. McElmeel (Libraries Unlimited)
"Not since BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA have I read a book for young people which dealt with death in such a gentle but firm tone." —Apache (Oklahoma, not Nation) News
"Smith deftly tackles such dominant society icons and artifacts as football mascots, fake dreamcatchers, Elvis, Anime, Pez, cigar-store Indians and Barbie, and places them in a contemporary Indian cultural context alongside fried bologna sandwiches, two-steps, and star quilts. There is Indian Humor that not everyone is going to "get" …no vision quests and no mixed-blood identity crises…we see Cassidy Rain, called 'Rainy Day' by her mom, as a smart teenager with an acerbic wit." — Multicultural Review
"RAIN IS NOT MY INDIAN NAME is a poignant chronicle of the tender years. As a main character, Rain proves truthful, pensive, able to laugh at herself and absolutely intriguing. The way she handles herself when the cards of her life are shuffled and cut with lies and secrets provides an inspiring tale for teens." — January Magazine
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iHeartMedia is the Entertainment Sponsor for IS20G12!
Day 1: Rockstar VIP Party
iHeartMedia is providing Nashville's #1 FM DJ, For Our VIP Networking Event
Ready Rob has been a part of the iHeartMedia family for three years! He has honed his talents with Nex-Gen, VoxPro, Adobe Audition, and how to craft promos while at WUBT 101.1 the Beat.
Ready Rob has cemented himself in Nashville, graduating from Tennessee State University with a degree in Mass Communications. He has since spread his talents to K97 Memphis, 103.5 the Beat Miami, 104.5 the Beat Orlando, Jam'n 94.5 Boston and Shade 45 while remaining a regular on 101.1 the Beat with his normal show, The Ready Mixtape.
He joined iHeart in Las Vegas with KYMT Real 103.9. He also hosts DJ Events, doing Pop & Top 40 for WRVW 107.5 the River. Ready Rob specializes in Urban, Rhythmic and Top 40. He continues to work to the top with iHeart, winning over audiences with his presence, passion, and personality!
Day 2: Cocktail Hour Live Band
Paul Childers will be performing at our Cocktail Party at the Nashville Airport Marriot!
Hailing from the Music City, Paul Childers is no stranger to the stage. When he's not singing, Childers lets his '59 Stratocaster do the talking. His creative approach to solos and signature riffs showcase the fact that he's been touring as a working musician since age 15.
Blending pop, R&B and Soul, Paul Childers is leading a new class of singer/songwriters and guitarists. Childers finds a way to blur the lines between Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Mayer and Justin Timberlake while adding a nod to D'Angelo.