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This months blog is aimed at looking at the aftermath of the Great North Run. Naturally runners will pick up injuries through preparation and certainly through the race itself. So if you feel like you have more than just the aches and pains than is expected read on…
Running related injuries are common, due to high volume and high repetition we are prone to over use. Reports suggest as much as 60% of runners experience over use injuries in any given year. People starting running in their first year have a greater prevalence of injury which is linked to a lack conditioning specific to the sport.
Often injuries occur due to poor preparation and a failure in your training plan. Tim Gabbet an Australian performance consultant suggests that training volumes of greater than 10% per week will increase your chances of injury. So unless you have the experience and knowledge to formulate a detailed progressive and adaptable plan entering such activities needs to be done with caution and with correct preparation.
A little whistle stop about running. Injuries are likely to have developed from a spike in training load or distance. This is the first step but a vitally important step in understanding that your tissues have a certain capacity to tolerate load. If you don't have the strength you are likely to run into trouble. As your foot hits the ground the majority of runners will land with their outside of the heel impacting first. As your foot hits the ground you have an apposing force from the ground called the ground reaction force which can peak in the soleus muscle at 6-7 times your body weight, so as the foot hits the ground and you need to contend with the ground reaction forces, your foot, ankle, knee, hips and back all need to be resilient to those forces. All musculature involved needs to be strong enough to control and accept that load. So you must ask yourself are you strong enough to contend with the load and volume applied to reduce your risk of injury.
Let take a look at these injuries.
Lower limb tendons such as your Achilles and patellar tendon are force producing tendons. Therefore they need to be strong. Quite simply a tendon will respond very poorly to an increase in training load without much preparation.
You may feel that squeezing your Achilles is tender or you may hobble first thing in the morning, it normally eases slightly as the day progresses. Please note that there is different management strategies with Achilles tendon pain but ultimately they all require to have strength. A good start would be not to stretch, Do some single leg calf raises and bent leg calf raises, a good amount to look for is 35 on a single leg.
Pain under your patella (wobbly bone in knee cap). Your patella bone sits in the tendon, a tendon attaches muscle to bone. In this case your patellar tendon is attaching some of the strongest force producing muscles in you body. Patellar tendon pain can be initiated again by poor training plans, increases in training load that is beyond its capacity. Pain is normally initiated when your knee may have been flexed for a while and your get up and move, it can be painful on compression. Strengthening this tendon needs to be done in a phased progressive manner to accelerate healing and return to sport.
Gluteal tendinopathy (Bum Pain) is less common, should you have a pain in your ass its probably wise you see the physio to get a diagnosis as this subject alone is another blog in itself.
Plantar Fasciopathy
This is simply pain under your foot. It is an umbrella term used to describe a long term over use problem. As your foot hits the ground your foot will generally pronate through a few degrees, it is the fascias responsibility to stabilise the foot, just like tendons your fascia is exposed to huge forces, although your fascia is not contractile, it responds and works like a tendon therefore you must load this as much as possible.
Generally speaking, problems arrive in your foot when you have increased pronation (flat feet) and reduced 1st ray function ( your big toe does not move to well). Apart from strengthening, Custom orthotics and Shockwave Therapy are very productive management strategies for this. Evidence is showing that Shockwave therapy is a preferred choice in managing fascia pain with a 90+% success rate.
Calf Strain
You will be lucky to go through a running carrier without a strain in the calf muscles. Although the calf muscle is generally consists of the gastrocnemius and soleus there is many other important muscle groups in your lower limbs that need to be considered. However keeping this simple, you may experience calf pain as result again of poor strength training and planning, a calf strain occurs when the force that a tissue produced is beyond its capacity to tolerate it. You will develop microscopic tears where a small number of muscle spindles with have torn up to quite a significant volume of muscle spindles been torn (this will be a dam site more painful) Initially there is a lot of bleeding and swelling so pain is expected. If you expose yourself to an activity that generates any form of force the calf is likely to be painful as its in an injured state. Generally starting off with some none weight bearing activity would be beneficial, as your tissue is able to tolerate exercise and load progress slowly. For example double leg calf raises, go to single leg calf raises. However it would be recommended that if your pain is enough to be concerned about then seek professional advice.
Anterior Knee pain
Unfortunately the knee becomes a culprit of what is going on at the hip and the foot. The knee is directly influenced by what happens in them joints. This can lead to your patella bone mal tracking, think of a ship going through a shipping lane, it needs to stay in its channel, however your down a few engines and start drifting to one side. This is what can happen in the knee, if your strength is not there the knee can pull laterally and rubbing against the outside of its groove, this can create a sharp pain. Normally this is most painful descending stairs or a hill. This would be known as lateral tracking.
Contributing factor are multi factorial If your foot rolls in your shin bone rotates with the ankle bone so it has little choice but to follow its movement. If this is the case an orthotic could be used to help this but it should be noted that this would be used to facilitate rehabilitation and you should not expect it to completely cure your symptoms, there would still be a requirement to strengthen and condition the required muscle groups. Deep tissue massage can also help with reduction in the tightness produced through lateral dominance of the quad muscle groups.
ITB Syndrome
Finally your ITB runs down the outside of your leg, it originates from a muscle called your tensor fascia late as this muscle become over used it gets tight, it can then influence the ITB as this directly attaches into the front of the knee coming around the out side of the knee cap it can create discomfort in many way, it can laterally pull your patella, symptoms normally are sharp pain on the outside of the knee. The ITB inserts into Gerdys tubicle and can often cause friction. This will result in inflammation and pain on the outside of the knee ( four fingers up from the lateral joint line may be painful). This is generally managed with strengthening exercises to improve weaknesses identified in certain muscle groups, deep tissue massage, exercise modification and there may be a possible requirement for an orthotic.


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Dedham Carpet Bowls Club operates from the Sports Club on Duchy field in Dedham.
Dedham Carpet Bowls Club was formed in 1993. We currently have around 20 members and would like to increase that number, our constitution allows for a maximum of 40 members. Bowling sessions are held on Tuesday evening (7pm to 9pm) in the Sports Club. The club participates in Essex County Carpet Bowls Association (ECCBA) league games during the Winter and Summer as well as taking part in and running various competitions. Use the Bowls Links tab for details of the Essex County Carpet Bowls association website as well as neighbouring counties websites.
Our major annual competition is the Peggy Brooks Memorial competition which usually takes place in September when 20 teams compete for the Rose Bowl Trophy. Click on the 2018 competition link for details of the competition which took place on Sunday September 9th 2018. The charity selected this year was the Great Ormond Street Hospital. See also the photo album for photos of the day,
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1968 Camaro - The Plan
March 11, 2018
By Scott Lewis
For those of you that followed my search for a classic car, you know I found a 1968 Camaro. If you want to catch up on the search read this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this.
The Car
My 1968 Camaro is a base level Camaro, with 72,213 miles (as of yesterday when I filled the tank). It is a 3 or 4 owner car, like in Star Wars, depending on your point of view. The original owner had it until he passed. He left the car to his son. The person that I bought the car from bought it from the original owner's son. It would take a deep dive to determine if the son ever had the car titled in his name. If not, then I am the 3rd owner. Let's go with that.
The car has almost no options on it. Is is so low optioned it has a 3 speed manual with a column shifter, nicknamed Three on a Tree. This is how a 68 Camaro came it had a 3 speed manual and was not ordered with a console. The car is equipped with a 327 ci V-8 with a 2 barrel carburetor (210 hp in 1968 ratings, likely 140 hp by today's methods of rating power). There were only two lower engines available, both inline 6s. That means this car has the entry level V-8 available in a 1968 Camaro, along with the entry level transmission.
The color for this car is called Corvette Bronze.
This was only available on the Camaro in this year, 1968. The car has
had one "respray." You can see the tape lines under the hood and in the
trunk area which lets you see where the new paint ends and the original
paint begins in those areas.
Project Camaro
I am slightly conflicted with this car. On the one hand it is so original. It still has the California Smog Pump (and early emissions control device only used in cars delivered to California) that is still functioning. I feel bad modifying it. Should I leave it stock and enjoy it as-is? On the other hand, it is a perfect blank canvas for a project.
There are a few items that absolutely need attention. The shifter bumps into my right knee when shifting into 1st and 3rd. A column shifted manual transmission is quaint, but impractical. I will put in a floor shifter. And while doing that I will get new carpeting (the carpet in there now is very faded). This starts down the modification route. While the carpet is out I will add DynaMat sound deadening material.
While doing some driving to Cars & Coffee and later to look for a location to photograph the car at sunset, it is apparent the car needs new shocks. That is a replacement item. Or is it? The car has manual drum brakes as well (the entry level brakes for this car (remember, almost no options). I will put disc brakes on it. I need for it to be safer to drive.
Here is where it all starts. How much is enough? At what point am I the guy that "cut up" a perfectly good classic?
I have a little delay before I get started. It turns out I will be entering the car in a car show. No... it is not a Show Car. It is a driver. However, the car show itself is unique. It is going to be in a car show celebrating the 50th Anniversary for the Tower of the Americas in downtown San Antonio. The tower was built in 1968, and they are having a car show for cars from 1968 only. Hey... mine fits. The downside to that is I won't be taking it there. I will be in Dallas on the day of the show, so I will be entrusting my car to Vault Auto Services to take it to the show and display it.
The Plan
My plans for this Camaro are two fold...
1) Slightly improve the appearance of the vehicle without altering its stock nature. This means only making changes that the factory would have done.
2) Improve the overall drivability of the car without impacting its reliability or appearance as a nearly stock vehicle. The areas I will focus on are: Braking, Handling, Comfort & Power. Improving all of those together increases drivability.
The ultimately goal is to make sure this car can be driven any time, any where. I would like to take it on Hot Rod Power Tour.
Simple! Not really.
I do not know everything I want to do to this car... yet. Fortunately, I cannot afford the vast majority of what you will read about below. Budget will constrain many things. It will take quite a while to get this car finished... if that will ever be possible.
I am very concerned with spending money twice. For example, the suspension is mildly in need of a rebuild. The steering is a little lose, and the shocks definitely need replacing. P-S-T makes a Polygraphite front end kit that includes Upper & Lower Ball Joints, Upper & Lower Control Arm Bushings, Sway Bar & End Link Bushings, Idler Arm, Inner & Outer Tie Rod Ends & Sleeves and Upper Control Arm Shafts. However, if I want to upgrade to tubular control arms they come with new bushings and ball joints, making a comprehensive rebuilt kit unnecessary. If I add power steering, it will happen with new tie rod ends and such, also negating the P-S-T kit.
For the moment, let's take a look at the ideas for this car... keeping in mind the two objectives above.
I wish this was simple, but not even the appearance comes easy. I
could leave the car as is, but it needs to look "tougher." It is a
Muscle Car (I know, it is really a Pony Car, but it gets lumped in with
Muscle Cars all the time).
The vinyl roof has a tiny bit if rust under it. It will have to be removed, the rust repaired and a new vinyl top installed. I do not have an estimate for that, and any estimate will be hard to do since there is no real way of knowing how much repair is needed. It should be repairable without painting the car. There is currently no rush for this.
To improve the looks of the car I want to install a factory rear spoiler. That should be relatively easy and it can be painted to match. A factory front spoiler would also be easy, especially since it would be flat black and not even need painting. Of course... I have to add a factory style cowl induction hood (factory for 69 Camaros) and get it painted.
I could stop there... and maybe I will. However, I really like the look of the Rally Sport option with its hide-away headlights. They make kits for this, so that helps.
There are some issues with converting to an RS. It is not just the grill and headlights that change. Since the RS grill does not have turn signals, those go into the valance panel below the bumper. I do not know if I can buy those lights and brackets and cut a hole in the existing valance. I have seen photos of the valance panel part and it seems to show mounting hardware for these lights. I might need to buy that panel and have it painted to match. The same happens at the rear. The taillights on the RS were also different. Instead of having the red/white (brake/reverse) light in the taillight panel, you get an all read taillight and the reverse lights were moved to... you guessed it... the rear valance below the bumper. Again, can I just cut a hole and install the lights? Or do I need a new panel that must be painted. The most comprehensive kit I have seen costs $1,874. That is a lot of money to change the look of the car. This will not happen quickly.
Wheels and tires also help make the look of the car. If we keep goal #1 in mind it mentions, "without altering its stock nature." I would love to install 17 or 18 inch wheels in the same factory Rallye style on the car now. We will get more into wheels and tires in the performance section below.
The last item on my wish list for the exterior appearance of this car is stripes. When I bought the car there was a Z/28 Stripe Stencil Kit in the trunk. This allows a painter to lay out and paint stripes like the factory did. Simple enough. However, this is the one area I might consider deviating from stock. I work with a restoration shop, and the painter there has done ghost stripes on some cars. I definitely want to talk to them about doing that on my car at the time they are painting the hood and spoiler to match the rest of the car.
I am also going to want to make changes to the interior of the car. It needs new carpet, which will include DynaMat sound deadening. I am still trying to decide if I want a factory style console. Initially I thought yes... including the 4 gauges at the end of the console. Then add a Tick-Tock-Tack (a tachometer with a clock in the center) to the main gauge cluster. But I also like the clean, uncluttered look of the interior as it is now. I will be researching custom gauges that fit in the stock location with a stock appearance, but include more actual gauges. I might want to update the interior to the deluxe interior with houndstooth seats. That has its own pluses and minuses. No decision is easy.
Improving drivability goes hand in hand with improving performance. Back in the day, when I was a teenager just getting into cars, kids all hopped up the engines of their cars with no regard for braking or handling. Wow, we were dumb back then. I plan to increase the overall capabilities of this car in reverse from the old days.
I look at drivability with the following categories:
Brakes -- Steering -- Suspension -- Comfort -- Power
Brakes are the first item that will get upgraded. Next will be steering and/or suspension improvements with power increases coming last. Comfort items can be done along side most of these, and don't really need any other prioritization other than cost.
Keeping in mind goal #2 and its claim to, "improve the overall drivability," I am going to move the shifter to the floor. The Three on the Tree is charming, and quirky. However, it makes driving more difficult. A friend said, "If you are going to do that install a 4 speed while you're at it. It is a total bolt-in."
I don't think so. Doing a little digging, the transmission in the car now has these gear ratios: 1st=2.54, 2nd=1.50, 3rd=1.00. A Muncie M20 (wide ratio) that could bolt-in has these gears: 1st=2.52, 2nd=1.88, 3rd=1.46, 4th=1.00. In a nutshell, this just provides a gear between 1st and 2nd compared to my current transmission. I just assume wait until I can afford to install a 5 or 6 speed transmission and get overdrive.
By moving the shifter to the floor, it does not really change the "stock nature" of the appearance. However, it will have a huge impact on drivability. So it is the first change I will make. Since the carpet kit for the car is only $150 I am going to do that too. Of course that means adding DynaMat to the car. At this point I will be considering adding DynaMat inside the doors, trunk and other places. That might turn into a fun and labor intensive project.
Wheels & Tires
I initially wanted to get 15 inch Rallye Wheels with BF Goodrich Radial T/A tires. That would greatly improve the Muscle Car look I want. However, the BFGs are an old technology. They are a basic all season radial. I would prefer a good summer performance tire.
I am leaning heavily toward a 17 inch Rallye wheel. That is not perfect either. The Trim Rings that are made for 17 inch Rallye wheels are only 1-1/2 inches deep. The trim rings on the car now are around 3 inches deep. Does this matter? That is the #1 thing keep me up at night.
A few people told me to go to 18 inch wheels. There are two strong reason I am probably not going to do that. 1) They do not make trim rings for 18 inch Rallye wheels, and 2) I am concerned that having a shorter sidewall (the overall diameter will not change, the tire would be lower profile) will upset the ride comfort too much. Remember goal #2, is looking for overall drivability, not pure performance. Comfort is also part of that goal. I think I will get 17 inch wheels.
As for tires... that is easy! I created a spreadsheet to calculate the overall diameter of the tire based on its size. I plugged in the the tires on the car (205/75-14) and came up with 26.1 inches. The seller told me these wheels were not original, and the speedometer is off by about 10%. So it is likely the car originally had a slightly short tire.
I decided to get as close to 26 inches as possible without going over. In the rear I will put 17x8 wheels with 245/45-17 tires that yield a diameter of 25.7 inches. Close enough! Going with a 17x7 wheel on the front, I can get 225/45-17 which gives an overall diameter of 25.0 inches. I might consider a 215/50-17 tire that bumps the diameter to 25.5, keeping them closer. But since I want a little downward rake, the 225s should be fine.
I can get BF Goodrich G-Force Sport Comp-2 tires in these sizes for $502 (as of 3/11/18 on Discount Tire's web site). Sweet!
The brakes were dependent on the wheel size. Going with 17 inch wheels, I looked up the brakes on Wilwood's web site. Front brake kit 140-7675-D requires a 15" wheel, but recommends checking clearance. A 17" wheel should not be an issue. This kit includes 4-Piston Calipers with Black Powder Coating and 12.19-in Dia. slotted and cross drilled rotors. Brake kit 140-7149-D is a match for the front kit. I would love to buy both of these at the same time. However, these are not cheap. I will also need a new master cylinder, as well as brake lines, and parking brake cables. The cost for everything... including replacing all the hard lines throughout the car... is approximately $2,600.
Since I need to buy the wheels and tire first (which I expect to cost roughly $1,700), I cannot afford to do the brakes all at once. I am going to install the front brakes initially, and save up for the rears.
I need to reach out to Wilwood and ask about power brakes. Their master cylinder does not include a power booster. Do I need one? Does their master cylinder work with one? Do they recommend one?
I am pretty sure I will be upgrading to a power steering system. More choices and issues arise here. Most power steering kits either aren't complete, or do not come with quick ratio steering boxes. There are a lot of options, but none seem to be perfect.
I do not know if I will be building this piece-meal. Getting the necessary power components and a quick ratio steering box separately. I think it might come to that.
Of course, any steering components not replaced as part of the conversion will be replaced too. I don't want 50 year old steering components to limit the ability of the car. I priced a complete steering linkage kit for only $309. I may just do that at the time of the front brakes. Maybe with this I might like the way the car drives with the manual steering.
This is going to be the biggest conundrum. Remember the goals, to improve drivability. I am not going to be racing the car. I can't image tracking it or even auto crossing it. All of those would have a suspension system too harsh to enjoy on the street. I do want handling that compares to a modern car. At the least, I want my 68 Camaro to handle as well as a Camry.
Steering and cornering go together under this suspension category. However, there is a huge difference between converting manual steering to power vs. getting modern levels of steering feel and performance.
The car must drive safely on the highway among all the idiot drivers out there. I also want to take it on Hill Country drives, like the Texas Twisted Sisters. This means serious upgrades.
I showed several suspension options to my restoration shop owner. He said that double adjustable shocks are not worth it. Single adjustable shocks adjust bounce and rebound together. Only serious racers need to fine tune bounce and rebound separately. It is unnecessary on the street. He also mentioned that I would not feel a difference between coil-overs (shock and coil spring as one) and regular springs and shocks... unless I plan to actually use the adjustability of the coil overs to change ride height.
But when he saw the Detroit Speed kit I had listed, he said I should save for that. It's $3,800! Ouch. I will likely go that way eventually, but I am still on the fence. Do I need that much suspension. Hotchkis has a TVS kit (Total Vehicle System) that I can get for less than half the price. What to do?
This is the area I will likely spend "throw away" money. Meaning, I will buy some things now and end up replacing them later. For instance, I can't afford to do the suspension now, but I can afford to buy a couple of 2" drop spindles for the front of the car and install them with the disc brakes. I will have to replace those spindles with the originals (cleaned up, of course) when I put on the Detroit Speed or Hotchkis kit since they both include a 2" drop.
Driving the car I notice that the front takes longer than it should to settle down on the highway over bumps. It needs shocks. The suspension kits come with shocks. I expect to buy shocks soon and install them with the front brakes. I might... might... look at getting a basic sway bar kit. For $300-500 I could get a pair of bolt-on front & rear sway bars that will help. How much? I don't know. I will put the shock and sway bars aside when I install a full suspension kit.
Air Conditioning
No where in my Appearance and Performance sections does providing the most comfort come into play. Air Conditioning.
I have to add air conditioning, likely sooner rather than later as it is summer for 9 months out of the year in San Antonio. I was told not to do the A/C until I make up my mind on the engine. Why? If I decide to do an LS swap, it would be a completely different A/C kit than for the Gen I small block engine. I hadn't thought of an LS swap, but it might be easier in the long run to swap an LS with a matching 6 speed, than go through the trouble of swapping a 6 speed onto a crate motor and adding fuel injection. A complete swap from a single donor car would likely result it the best drivability.
Also, a Vintage Air system will cost about $1,500 for the main kit. It will need a couple of items to fully get it running. I am not sure how much of the labor I can do myself, before needing to pay someone to do finish it. I expect to need somewhere between $2,000-$3,000 to get the A/C up and running.
Since I plan on getting wheels and tires so that I can start the brake upgrade, A/C will have to wait until next year. I will suffer through 100+ degree heat this summer.
Long term I will likely consider a crate motor. Nothing crazy, 350-400 horsepower max. I want drivability, not maximum power. Fuel injection will be part of that drivability. This is a big ticket item. I may want to add a little power to the current engine in the mean time. Surely an exhaust upgrade to give the car a nice sound is in the cards. I believe I could install a Holley Sniper Fuel Injection system on the current 327, and still be able to use it on a crate motor. The Holley system is rated to 650 horsepower, more than I need.
Here are my basic engine choices:
1) Mild upgrades to the stock engine. This is the least costly... unless it puts too much strain on the engine and it requires a rebuild or replacement. Hence...
2) A Gen I small block crate motor that will pretty much bolt in place of the original engine. The prices for these range from $2,400 to over $6,000 if I want to go nuts. I would like something in the middle with an engine for about $3500-4000. Or...
3) An LS engine swap. This might be worthwhile if I can a complete LS engine with 6 speed manual transmission and all the computers from a Camaro that was in an accident (that did not effect the engine). How much would an LS swap cost?
LS swaps are fairly common today. In fact, it is almost a cliché to swap an LS engine in an early Camaro. I should buck that trend and stick with the Gen I small block that I can paint orange to look original. This will all come later, so I can decide on it in a couple of years.
As you can see... I have a lot of options.
I plan on purchasing the 3 Speed floor shifter and carpet kit soon. I am still wrestling with the wheels, but will be reaching out to Wilwood soon for the info to start the brake upgrade.
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Story, Synopsis, Trivia, Dialogues for A Distant Mirage (2010)
USHA, a girl in her late twenties, daughter of a respected Delhi family is introduced to MICKY, visiting from the United Kingdom.
They marry and after an idyllic honeymoon in India, MICKY returns to London promising he will send the neccessary papers and visa as soon as possible.
A year goes by, tired of waiting Usha takes a bold step and travels to London, only to find that the world she enters is emotionally & culturally utterly alien. She is too sedate to relate to the youth culture of London.
Micky is leading a double life, has a long standing relationship with an English girl and is physically abusive to Usha. Usha's neighbour, Raji helps her to find a job. "It's better to experience the outside world rather than remain cooped up indoors" Raji has said.
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Dear Lord,
There is no greater feeling of liberation than to experience this freedom from sin and death that you have provided for me through Jesus Christ. Today my heart and my soul are free to praise you. For this, I am very thankful.
On this Independence Day I am reminded of all those who have sacrificed for my freedom, following the example of your Son, Jesus Christ. Let me not take my freedom, both physical and spiritual, for granted. May I always remember that my freedom was purchased with a very high price. My freedom cost others their very lives.
Lord, today, bless those who have served and continue to give their lives for my freedom. With favor and bounty meet their needs and watch over their families.
Help me to live my life, in a way, that glorifies you, Lord. Give me the strength to be a blessing in someone else's life today, and grant me the opportunity to lead others into the freedom that can be found in knowing Christ.
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"All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God's paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the sins of us all" (Isaiah 53:6).
Matthew 27 and 28, 1 Corinthians 15:55-57
So, the Romans nailed Jesus to the cross and waited until He was dead. (they thought that was the end of the trouble maker) Then they handed the body over to Joseph, a rich man from Arimathea. Joseph wrapped the body in a long sheet and placed it in his personal tomb which was carved out of a large rock. He then rolled a great stone across the entrance.
The Bible says on the next day, (the Sabbath), the leading priests and Pharisees went to see Pilate. They told him, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver once said while he was still alive: 'After three days I will rise from the dead.' So we are requesting that you seal the tomb until the third day. This will prevent his disciples from coming and stealing his body and then tell everyone he was raised from the dead!
Pilate replied, "Take guards and secure it the best you can." So they sealed the tomb and posted guards to protect it.
But something spectacular would happened on Sunday morning. The Bible says, early on Sunday morning, as a new day was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went out to visit the tomb.
Suddenly there was a great earthquake and an angel came down from heaven, rolled the stone aside, and sat on it. The guards shook with fear when they saw him, and they fell into a dead faint.
Then the angel spoke to the women. "Don't be afraid!" he said. "I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here! He is risen from the dead, just as He said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying. And now, go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and He is going ahead of you to Galilee. You will see him there. Remember what I have told you."
The women ran from the tomb quickly. They were frightened but also filled with great joy. They rushed to give the disciples the angel's message. And as they went, Jesus met them and greeted them. And they ran to Him, grasped His feet, and worshiped Him. Then Jesus said to them, "Don't be afraid! Go tell my brothers to leave for Galilee, and they will see me there."


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Kind Reviews: Part 2
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Programs will emerge from this "being together" as an invitation to others to join us.
It is within this framework that we are creating an open call for students and emerging artists interested by hybridization and becoming queer. In the manner of Bandits-Mages origins we'll screen research films, film studies and experimental movies in multiple spaces: theater, cinema and transmedia stage.
This call is focus on three topics: Witchcraft, Trans_plant and Specement (the embodiment of hybrid species).
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- Deadline is extended to July the 15th.
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An invitation to technoshamanisms, to vampire knowledge and to cyborg sabbat. An invitation to a re-appropriation of the notion of sorcery, entirely distanced from any associations with black magic, esoterism, or other definitions produced by the medieval Catholicism, the colonization, fairy tales or Disney's films.
If we distance ourselves from these definitions from a transfeminist perspective, we find ourselves inside a set of practices, that through the manipulation of symbols, bodies, substances, objects, views and spaces, aim at the modification/creation of our identities, relationships, and surroundings. A mixture of practices that witches used to name "art" or "arts", from which we assume that they could call themselves… "artists". So, the covens were encounters of collective art.
How to consider a transition process: human/plant/machine? How to switch from red blood to green chlorophyl? How to transit from Anthropocene to the Donna Haraway's Chthulucene? How to move from identification to mutation? How to inhabit our ecosystems with radical tender?
How to become compost?
How to desert species?
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Specement is also a creative attention which consist of bringing into existence that which has not yet come, or of seeing in a different way what we are supposed to see.
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New Schlotzsky's to Open
Schlotzsky's will open a new location July 19 at 10800 Spring Cypress Road, Ste. 100, Tomball. The restaurant will serve its specialty sandwiches alongside salads, soups and a number of macaroni and cheese flavors.
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BZ Honey
Bee keeping is all the buzz--pardon the pun--and when production exceeded 2,000 pounds in one season, owners Matt and Kelly Brantley realized their beekeeping had outgrown their home. They opened BZ Honey and sell their honey as well as beekeeping supplies and beeswax products. 405 E. Main. Tomball.
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The Turquoise Door Relocates
Take note: The Turquoise Door will relocate in early August to a new development on Market Street at 314 Market St., Tomball, near Fire Ant Brewing Company. The boutique offers a large selection of unique jewelry, clothing, home decor, gifts and children's toys and clothing. It also serves as a co-op featuring 10 different rental spaces for others vendors to sell their products.
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New Mens Store to Open
No need to go to the mall for mens wear: Jaime and Brian Groff will open Commerce Street Clothiers this month at 110 Commerce St., Tomball. The business—located next door to the Groff's existing venture, Home and Ranch Outfitters—will feature men's apparel and accessories.
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Tomball Softball Thrives
First-year head coach Billy Noonan arrived at Tomball thinking he was only going for football and then be in the softball program as the first assistant.


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[Editor's note: This is the second of two articles on nonprofit board recruitment. Part 1 discussed creating a strategic and intentional board-recruitment plan.]
By Terrie Temkin
You've done the hard, behind-the-scenes work to create a strategic and intentional board-recruitment plan for your nonprofit (see Part I of this series).
You've identified your nonprofit's needs and have plotted to attract the right people.
Now it's time to fold the following tips into your plan so you'll have qualified board candidates beating down your door to be a part of what you are doing:
- 1. Recruitment is the job of the board, not the executive director. The executive director may have some excellent recommendations, but should not be "hiring" his or her bosses. Nor should board members feel any obligation to the executive director.
- 2. Recruitment is a year-round job. The generation of names and the cultivation of prospects should be continuous. Many organizations ask their board development or governance committees to spearhead this activity, but every board member should be contributing to the process on an ongoing basis.
- 3. Look beyond the usual suspects. The era of looking for lawyers and accountants is over. Having one of each isn't wrong – they can help you think clearly and ask important questions. But you can hire a lawyer and accountant (it's not recommended to expect board members to take on these responsibilities anyway, for reasons too many to get into here). The same is true of a marketing specialist or a media representative if you are looking for more visibility. (Ask them to serve on a time-limited committee instead.) Nor should you aim for affluence and influence. A study by Herman and Renz shows that individuals who fit that profile often produce less for an organization than others with less clout. Don't forget to seek out women. A recent study on women and philanthropy shows that 90 percent of women control or share equally in the decision-making about which organizations will receive their family's money. They are also more likely than men to donate to organizations for which they volunteer.
- 4. Look for people who already are committed to your mission. Studies have shown that passion for mission is the number-one indicator of board success.
- 5. Encourage people to serve on a committee prior to putting them on the board. It's a great place to test out their true commitment and ability, and to weed out those people who are all talk.
- 6. Avoid asking husbands and wives or staff to serve on the board. The potential for conflict of interest is high and in most cases not worth the risk. Besides, the IRS takes a dim view of nonprofits where the same last name appears more than once on the board roster.
- 7. Look for people who will challenge the status quo, ask questions and insist on multiple options. One of the most important roles a board member can play is that of loyal opposition. It might be irritating at first, but the organization will be richer for it.
- 8. Bring up the expectations when you first speak with potential board members, when you ask them to join the board, when you officially welcome them to the organization and when you orient them. You can't stress these often enough.
- 9. Don't ask someone to join your board if that person never accepts an invitation to your events. Clearly he or she is not interested and will make an unreliable board member.
- 10. Ask people to serve only a single term, even if the bylaws allow multiple terms. Let them earn the right to serve additional terms. And while not a recruitment issue, don't suffer someone who isn't performing. Remember that expectations list? Ask non-performing members to step down before they can infect the rest of the board.
So go to work and good luck. You'll soon begin to see positive, substantive changes in your board's effectiveness.
Terrie Temkin is founding principal at Miami, Fla.-based management consulting group CoreStrategies for Nonprofits.


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Connecticut U.S. senators continue call for better mental health services
Senators see need for health system reform
NEW HAVEN >> The failure to coordinate care for Adam Lanza and provide intervention early in his life are viewed as important lessons that should help drive future federal mental health policies and resource decisions.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., in his latest roundtable discussion with experts on behavior health funding, used the report prepared by the Office of the Child Advocate to drive the discussion on Monday.
Almost two years ago, Lanza, whose serious mental health issues were not dealt with over his lifetime, combined with an easy access to firearms, killed 20 first-graders, six educators and his mother before he committed suicide at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Murphy said he was struck by the number of institutions that interacted with the Lanza family.
"There were a lot of people who were opining without talking to each other and it wasn't clear who was in charge of this young man's mental health and his treatment plan going forward," Murphy said.
He said inevitably the burden fell to the school system, which did not have the resources to handle it.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, also D-Conn., said the health system has to be overhauled and reformed so there is equal treatment of mental health issues as there is for physical maladies, something that has been the law for years but is essentially ignored.
"We need more than words. We need actions and resources and that begins with the insurance companies," Blumenthal said. The state's senior senator said "the insurance companies have never followed their responsibility" to give parity to mental health treatment.
"One thing we know with absolute certainty (is) that mental health issues are inextricably intertwined with violence. Whether it is domestic violence or gun violence, violence on our campuses and sexual assault, we all reap the whirlwind of failing to deal with mental health patients effectively," he said.
Blumenthal said the overriding message of the report is to "intervene, screen, get the family engaged at the earliest possible stage, pre-school where disability or issues first become apparent as they did with Adam Lanza."
"Think of how much pain and suffering could have been spared that family and ... the families that ultimately were victims, if earlier screening, earlier intervention had been involved," Blumenthal said.
In a release sent Wednesday, the organization Sandy Hook Promise, led by several families who suffered loss of loved ones in the Newtown slayings, said: "The recent report released from the CT Office of the Child Advocate on the 'Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School' has been incredibly painful to read. While many questions remain unanswered about the shooters motivation to attack and kill so many children and educators at our elementary school, what pains us most is to realize how truly preventable this tragedy was."
"The CT Child Advocate's report makes it clear that there were real failures by the shooters parents, school officials and mental health officials to coordinate on identification of mental health issues, and to coordinate care around those issues. It is an issue we care deeply about at Sandy Hook Promise, where we focus on educating and empowering parents to implement community-based gun violence prevention programs and tools in the areas of mental health & wellness identification and intervention, social & emotional development, community connectedness and firearm safety & access in order to protect children from gun violence. Our plan is to give other parents and communities the tools to ensure that positive interventions are made to help prevent future tragedies.
"Though we feel the report confirms that the approach we are taking at Sandy Hook Promise is correct and will make a difference in preventing other tragedies and loss, we despair that our own tragedy was not prevented. There are so many places where it seems like good intervention might have made a significant difference and saved lives. As we near the two-year remembrance, we must learn from the recommendations in this report, and recommit ourselves to making sure that no other families or communities have to suffer through this kind of preventable, senseless loss."
The practitioners, who attended the senators' roundtable and deal with the bureaucracy daily, on Monday had a number of suggestions.
Dr. Ece Tek, who is chief of behavorial health at the Cornell Scott Hill Health Corp., said the rules mitigate against good timely care.
In order to get approval of insurance companies, you need a diagnosis, but they are unwilling to pay for the assessment that often takes more than one session with a child. She said the clinic, if it sees the patient without the approval, takes the risk of not getting paid.
Talking to insurers can take up to an hour, which can wreak havoc with scheduling.
Murphy said the rules imposed by the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services also present a barrier to the "handoff" of the child from one agency to another to get the necessary care.
He said the amount of bureaucracy and paperwork necessary to get a child with a broken leg to an orthopaedic specialist is fundamentally different to approvals required for help with a behavioral health problem.
The discussion that should be talking place among social workers, practitioners, school officials and a family is not paid for, said Abby Anderson of the Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance, unless there is a private grant they can tap.
"That's a huge problem. ... Nobody pays for anything that is patient centered," she said.
Several practitioners argued for education to address the stigma of mental health treatment, as well as education on the over-reliance on drug solutions.
Kristie Barber, director of the regional South Central Connecticut Mental Health Board, talked about the games that numb kids to violence and asked as a society "why do we normalize violence, but can't normalize mental health conditions?"
Dr. Vinod Srihari, a psychiatrist on the faculty of the Yale Medical School, runs a program of intervention for patients starting from age 16 to 35 in the early stages of psychotic illnesses.
Srihari said late adolescence and early adulthood is when many of the most serious conditions present themselves, which is the same time "societally we set people to fall out of (treatment) systems."
Shirhari said there are successful models in the United Kingdom and Australia. He said a focus on emerging adulthood will pick up on a lot of challenges around mental illnesses.
Editor's note: This story has been updated since it was first placed online. The statement from Sandy Hook Promise were added Tuesday.


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Does your world revolve around emails? Did you Google for information today? Did you seek Google Maps help to find a place that you were visiting? Did you order for food today? Did you check Facebook to find out what your friends were up to? Or use WhatsApp to communicate? Or book tickets to a movie or to travel? Did you use World Wide Web in anyway?
I'm sure you did. Today, the World Wide Web is ubiquitous and everywhere. It has expanded our vision as well as shrunk the world into our fingertips. We cannot imagine a world without constant and instant access to all the information at out fingertips. Our daily lives are filled with instances when we use WWW to communicate, access information, gain knowledge and essentially to survive.
The World Wide Web ('WWW' or simply the 'Web') is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as e-mail also does. The history of the Internet dates back significantly further than that of the World Wide Web.
Did you know that 1st August is celebrated as WORLD WIDE WEB Day?
The day is celebrated as an homage and honour given to the first time the Web was available to users – 6th August, 1991 – when Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau opened up the first web page explaining the World Wide Web project and giving information on how users could setup a web server, how to create their own websites and web pages, as well as how they could search the web for information.
From such simple and humble beginnings, today the World Wide Web has revolutionised the way we live, work, play, connect, learn and communicate. In fact, Instasafe owes its existence to the presence of World Wide Web. Without WWW, there would be no websites, no need for access, no need for security and hence no Instasafe.
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"I just want a little peace and quiet!" screamed a young mother. The problem is, children take time to grow up. Not only that, relationships take time to mature, troubles take time to resolve, and opportunities take time to develop.
Life never moves at the pace we prefer. Sometimes it moves so slowly we think time has stopped. Then next week or next month or next year, it moves so fast we spin out of control. "What is going on?" we cry. "Why can't things happen as I want them to?"
We need patience. Don't you just hate that word? Who wants to be told to "hold your horses," or "wait your turn," or "don't be in such a hurry!"
However, you've probably noticed, in marriage, patience is required. That's what Dr. Ross talks about in this podcast. Marriage, says Dr. Ross, is the one relationship that takes more time to mature than all others.
When it does mature, sweet it is; how together you feel; how at home you want to be. Have patience: He will become the husband you've always wanted. She will become the wife who meets all your needs.
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Are push notifications the future of effective marketing?Sarat Pediredla19/11/2014Thoughts
Traditional marketing has usually been about one way communication, relying on advertisements in media and channels with broad targeting based on generalisation of consumers.
In the age of Internet, smartphones and post-PC devices, consumers are constantly interacting with companies at a very deeper level.
Currently, e-mail marketing remains the most common method used by companies to reach their customers. However, the downside of email marketing is that the company needs to get access to the customers' email address and then target their marketing campaign towards them. Unfortunately, with the volume of e-mails an average person receives in this day, it becomes a challenge for a company to make sure that their marketing campaign gets the attention of the customer and is not discarded by the customer as a spam mail.
Some companies are utilising social features in a very creative way like the Marc Jacobs Concept Store, which utilises the ability of the customers to share information as a currency for purchasing the company's products. Social networks allow customers to directly interact with the company, but with the number of possible companies that are "Liked" on Facebook and "Followed" on Twitter by users, it becomes difficult for a company to grab the attention of a customer. Facebook walls and twitter feeds get filled up pretty quickly with noise and it's difficult for customers to keep track of what is being said.
The latest trend in marketing strategies adopted by companies is the development of custom mobile apps. Many companies have started looking at deployment of mobile apps to disperse information to customers and interact with customers. According to an infographic by Responsys, most consumers with smartphones download the application of a brand with which they have an association or liking towards.
This is where companies can make sure that highly targeted marketing information that they want to share with the customer can be pushed to their smartphones via the mobile app with the help of push notifications.
Push notifications allow the customer to instantly interact with the information at hand and marketers have found that the open rates on push notifications is 50% more higher than the open rates of emails sent to customers.
We believe it's time brands started integrating advanced mobile analytics and targeted push notifications into their marketing strategy and giving it the same attention & budgets as e-mail marketing. Whilst the management & delivery of push campaigns is largely a marketing activity, it is important that your app developers have a strategic understanding of how push can be used in the context of your app to engage & communicate with users.
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Filmcinebox for child and teenage refugees
How upsetting must it be to lose your childhood country? Leaving your family and friends behind, leaving your culture – familiar paths, odours, habits, the language you have grown up with? How do you make a strange country your new home?
Many foreigners come to Germany these days and struggle to get along here, in Germany, in Europe. We need to find ways to help them doing so.
Films can help finding access to different cultures and languages. The Filmcinebox CINEMANYA produced by the Goethe-Institut provides German films without dialogue, with German, Dari and Arabic subtitles or Dari and Arabic voice-over for educational film-work with child and teenage refugees.
We hope to support these children and teenagers in their first steps towards a new language and a new life.
ProjectThe Goethe-Institut provides 40 Filmcineboxes which can be screened for child and teenage refugee audiences. The selection was curated by Michael Harbauer, director of the Schlingel International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience.
The box includes 20 feature length films with Arabic, Dari and German subtitles or language versions. In addition, there are two animated and short film programs without dialogue. The box is supplemented by a booklet with educational instructions and suggestions how to prepare and discuss the screenings.
Cooperating partner is the German Federation for Films for Children and Young People (BJF), which is the largest organization for cultural work with films for children and young people in Germany. BJF members include cultural centers, youth clubs as well as teachers and film and media experts.
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In two seminars in the Goethe-Institute's headquarters in Munich the mentors learnt about working with the reference booklet and were trained in trauma treatment as well as preparation and moderation of film screenings with child and teenage refugees.
Cultural centers, schools, refugee camps and volunteers that are interested in a long term cooperation such as film days or workshops are requested to contact their nearest mentor. You find the contact details on our map of Germany or on our project partner´s website. Individual screenings cannot be granted at the moment due to licensing issues.
For the state of Berlin/Brandenburg there is a special cooperation for schools with the Initiative of Literature Berlin (LIN). For questions please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
PRIX JEUNESSE, a co-operation partner of the Goethe-Institut, offers a filmcinebox as well. The box "Children of the World" contains international television productions for a younger peer group (children up to 14). For these short television programs from different countries, language knowledge is not required as they are mostly nonverbal. Therefore subtitles or synchronization are not necessary. Organizations working with child refugees can order the filmcinebox free of charge for six weeks. For more information refer to:
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Many thanks to all the firms and partners which supported us kindly during the development of our filmCinebox. Moreover special thanks to all the artists, firms and institutions which granted the Goethe-Institut the non-commercial screening rights for Germany in vain.
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SamFilm, The Walt Disney Company Germany, Switzerland and Austria,
Constantin Film AG, Warner Bros. Entertainment GmbH, deutschfilm,
Senator Film, DCM, MFA+ Film Distribution, Lieblingsfilm GmbH /München,
Wild Bunch Germany, Barnsteiner, farbfilm verleih GmbH,
CLAUSSEN+PUTZ FILMPRODUKTION/Munich, Matthias Film, Universum
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