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May-06-08 COAH ADOPTS NEW THIRD ROUND RULES
TRENTON, N.J. – The Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) today adopted its revised third round rules and methodology at its monthly COAH Board meeting. Additionally, as a result of the over 4,800 public comments received regarding the new rules, the Board also voted on a series of amendments. The new rules, which go into effect on June 2, 2008, continue to use a growth share approach which bases municipal affordable housing obligations on market-rate residential and non-residential growth. The rules establish a need of 115,000 units of affordable housing through 2018 (up from 52,000 in the previous rules) and will play a key role in Governor Corzine's commitment to provide 100,000 units of affordable housing over 10 years. The complete list of amendments will be published in the June 16 NJ Register and will be open for a 60-day public comment period, which will end on August 15.
"Governor Corzine continues to stress the importance of providing quality affordable housing for New Jersey residents," said Department of Community Affairs Commissioner Joseph Doria. "These revised rules were the result of input and participation provided by various stakeholders, from housing advocates and municipalities to the building community. These rules not only comply with the mandates given by the court, but they also establish ways in which to provide affordable housing for the hard working men and women of New Jersey."
The rules establish a new growth share ratio of 1 affordable unit among 5 units and 1 affordable unit for every 16 jobs (previous ratios were 1 among 9 and 1 for every 25 jobs). Regional Contribution Agreement (RCA) amounts increase from $35,000 per unit to $67,000 to $80,000 per unit (depending upon region). The rules return to the previous age-restricted cap of 25% of a municipality's total obligation.
The revisions are the result of a January 25, 2007 New Jersey Appellate Court decision affirming many aspects of COAH's third round rules, invalidating others, and remanding certain issues to COAH for rulemaking. COAH unveiled the revised rules in December of 2007. During a 60 day public comment period, which ended on March 22, 2008, over 4,800 comments from 600 individuals and groups were submitted to COAH. COAH staff reviewed, analyzed and responded to all of the submitted comments.
As a direct result of this public input, COAH proposed several amendments to the new rules. They include: the deadline for municipalities to submit affordable housing plans to COAH has been amended to December 31, 2008; municipalities that approved affordable housing projects between 2004 and 2008 will receive a one-for-one bonus for each affordable housing unit approved; municipalities that include affordable housing units in smart growth areas near transit or those that include affordable housing units in redevelopment areas will receive a one-third bonus for every affordable unit approved; the number of jobs generated by warehouse construction will be reduced from 1.5 to 1 job per 1,000 square feet; COAH's vacant land analysis will be revised to incorporate new DEP spatial data to expand the definition of C-1 streams, remove environmentally sensitive lands from current sewer service areas and recompute the development capacity of lands supported by septic systems pursuant the pending DEP Water Quality Management Act Rule; and the use of recently released Highlands spatial and other data to recompute the development capacity of lands in the Highlands Planning Area. The revisions in vacant land analysis will result in a revised estimate of 1,012,692 acres of unconstrained vacant land in New Jersey.
COAH, an affiliate of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, facilitates the production of sound, affordable housing for low and moderate income households by providing the most effective process to municipalities, housing providers, nonprofit and for profit developers to address a constitutional obligation within the framework of sound, comprehensive planning.
Further information on COAH's revised rules is available by logging on to http://www.nj.gov/dca/affiliates/coah/.


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We outdid ourselves on the weekend, going for a 20 mile/32 kilometre bike ride.
We stopped at the 8.75 mile mark, intending to turn around, then thought, why not go the extra measley 1.25 miles and make it an even 20? Did we even remember that we had to go ALL the way back to where we parked???? I think not. lol
Boy howdy, were we exhausted! However, we did it, and that is something.
We had been so busy with going to Boulder and band stuff, we hadn't gotten out on our bikes at all on the weekend yet. The trees are turning and it is just so beautiful now, we wanted to enjoy the nice weather and take some photos.
So here are a few photos we took on the South Platte trail. I thought I was going to miss the Ontario colours, but it turns out we have the full palette here too. YAY!
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Eloy Santa Cruz Library1000 N Main St, Eloy AZ 85131(520) 466-3814
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Social distancing measures allow no more than 10 people at a time in the library.
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LIBRARYThe women of the Methodist Missionary Alliance establish the first lending library in Eloy at the Community Center sometime around 1947 or 1948. In 1952, the Professional Business Women's Club (BPW) of Eloy decided that a larger space and collection was required to serve the educational needs of Eloy's high school students. The BPW asked the local cotton farmers to donate bales of cotton to raise the money for a new structure and additional books. A new library building was erected at 624 N. Main Street in 1955, and the first librarian was Bob Long. A painting of the original building done by Ms Noe still graces the library's walls today. In 1972, using grant funds from the State of Arizona, an addition was constructed to the west to house the reference and Arizona collections. In 1987, another grant allowed the extension of the original building towards the south, in order to provide a juvenile and young adult area, as well as upgraded public restrooms and a kitchenette. By the end of the century, the library's collections and new technology additions had outgrown the current building's capacities. In the spring of 2000, plans were developed to rehabilitate the old Community Center, vacant for several years, and relocate the library to it's original home at 100 E. 7th St.In January of 2001, the library moved into its home on East 7th Street. Patrons formed a book brigade to help move the last of the library's collections down Main Street and into the freshly remodeled building. The main library area with its vaulted ceiling and exposed roof joists is architecturally unique to the Eloy area. In addition to the main library, the new building houses a children's library, youth area, a separate computer lab, and the APS Community Meeting Room, which was upgraded with a $20,000 grant from APS. The library has over 14,000 items in all formats, and 12 public access computers attached to a T-1 data line. Staffing consists of 2 librarians, 2 library assistants, & 1 library aide and the annual budget is around $210,000.
The journey continued in 2012 as Eloy Public Library moved again to a joint-use public/high school facility at 1000 N Main Street and adopted a new name: Eloy Santa Cruz Library in reference to the Santa Cruz Valley Union High School.
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NORTH BERWICK, Maine — A packed house celebrated the holiday season Saturday afternoon with the traditional Holiday Concert by the Air Force Band of Liberty from Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts. The annual concert was presented by Foster's Daily Democrat and Noble High School.
The Air Force Band of Liberty has performed holiday concerts in this area annually for more than 20 years, with only a rare, occasional exception. Capt. David Alpar, commander and conductor of the band, directed a varied program ranging from such recognized holiday favorites as Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite" to Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride." Encompassing the holiday traditions of various religions the band performed "Rhapsody for Hanukkah."
Traditional favorites included "Home for the Holidays," "Silent Night," "I'll Be Home for Christmas" and more. One of the more unique numbers had Santa Claus playing a difficult tuba arrangement of "Santa Wants A Tuba For Christmas." The audience showed their enjoyment of the concert with several standing ovations.
More than 900 holiday celebrants filled the Noble High School auditorium for the two-hour concert. Military budget cuts have the band slated for extinction as of June 2013. A number of military bands from throughout the country, including several others in the Northeast, are being eliminated.
Capt. Alpar thanked those attending for their loyal and consistent support over the years. A source familiar with the budgetary cuts explained shutting down the band at this point is inevitable unless Congress takes action to restore funding. He noted the budget cuts will affect many other areas of military activity.
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Connecticut Department of Social Services extends benefits for 15,500 low-income families facing cut off
HARTFORD >> Department of Social Services Commissioner Roderick Bremby has ordered a so-called protective extension of medical and food benefits for about 15,500 low-income families that are risk of losing their eligibility due to paperwork processing delays.
Bremby said Thursday that his order means children, families and adults with disabilities whose annual eligibility "redetermination" is due Sept. 1 will not be cut off from receiving Medicaid or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance. Those benefits will be extended for at least one month.
In July, DSS launched new technology designed to handle incoming paperwork. Bremby said the volume has since skyrocketed and the volume of applications, redetermination forms and other paperwork flowing into a new centralized document scanning center has caused processing delays.
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This has been a long time coming, but here is the trailer for David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis. Money, rats, future-retro hairdos, technology and gunfire! Based on a Don DeLillo novel, the plot unfolds thusly:
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
Pattinson looks better like this than in SparkleVamp mode, but dude, white limos are for prom night.


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The Roots currently occupy a strange yet comfy bifurcated existence as the hardest-working, most-sought-after band in hip-hop, and the resident music-makers on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Thankfully, the safety and security of a regular gig at 30 Rock (with benefits, no less!) has emboldened rather than stifled the group's raging ambition. The Philadelphia vets' 13th studio album, Undun, is the group's first concept album, and the culmination of everything it has worked toward musically and lyrically. It's a subtly assured magnum opus that broadcasts its aspirations from the mountaintops.
Conceptually, Undun resembles Christopher Nolan's Memento. It begins at the end, with the death of its hustling protagonist, and unfolds backward to reveal how he reached such an end. The ghostly instrumental "Dun"—with its distant echoes of anguished screams and heavenly strings— and the hypnotic "Sleep" kick the album off on an appropriately elegiac note. As befits a project about a dead man's shattered dreams, it's a haunted, shadowy album of regrets and retrospection. The backward structure and opening death lend a tragic air to even upbeat tracks like "Kool On," which swaggers joyously like a lost vintage track from Sly And The Family Stone.
Undun ultimately registers as a melancholy, exquisitely downbeat cautionary tale about the dangers of street life. Previous Roots masterpieces like Things Fall Apart and Phrenology were defined by aggressive, borderline-heroic over-reaching. With the tight, concise, ferociously focused Undun, however, the immensity of the project's ambition is matched by its seamless, masterful execution.


text: The Yreka Miners girls soccer team opens the 2012-2013 season on Friday and Saturday at the Foothill Winter Warm Up Soccer Invitational in Redding. The Miners face Gridley High at 11 a.m. and Foothill High at 3 p.m. at the Redding Soccer Park. On Saturday, they take on Anderson at 11 a.m. Last season, Yreka finished 2-11-1 overall. Third year head coach Brian Cowley said that while quite young, he believes this year's team, which currently has 22 players, has enough talent, especially on offense, to make strides this season. Cowley is excited to be competing in the Redding Invitational and said it will give him a better idea of the potential of this year's team. The Miners have several players who can score and move the ball down the field and Cowley believes that the offense will be on the strong side this year. On defense, he said that things are still a work in progress but they have made improvements at practice each day. This season, there are number of freshman girls who have looked solid in practice and should contribute, Cowley said. He said that this bodes well for the future of the program. A key returner is junior Jenna Turner. Early last season she suffered a broken collar bone and was lost for the year. Having her back will certainly help the squad, Cowley said. Nicole Cowley played in a Medford, Ore., based soccer league last spring, which helped her gain experience and should also contribute this season, Brian Cowley said. Other players Cowley said that should help this season include Kendall Nielsen and Kara Jackson. West Valley, which has been a very strong team in the Northern Athletic League has left. Cowley said that it appears a number of teams will be contending for the league crown this season. While still early, he believes that the Miners can certainly be in the mix this season. "Our goal is to win league," he said.


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LIJ may open summer clinic on Fire Island
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System could have a satellite office on Fire Island as early as July.
Ocean Beach officials, at a May 11 board meeting in Islip, announced that they were in talks with the Lake Success-based hospital system to bring an immediate care center to the village for the summer.
A spokesman for North Shore-LIJ confirmed that the health care system is scheduled to open a medical center there that would be open daily between May and September, during the village's busy months.
The office would be equipped to treat "non-life-threatening injuries and illness" and would be staffed by a physician.
The Ocean Beach immediate care center would not have the "same level of equipment" as an urgent care center, North Shore-LIJ spokesman Terry Lynam said. "If there's more serious care that would be needed, the idea would be to get the patients off the island to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore," he said.
Lynam said details, including services provided and hours of operation, are being finalized. Ocean Beach clerk-treasurer Steve Brautigam said earlier this month that the village would be paid $1,000 in rent by North Shore-LIJ, which would include the use of a second-floor suite at village hall.
Lynam said he could not disclose the financial details of the agreement since the plan is being finalized.
Brautigam said that in the past Ocean Beach has hosted a group of doctors and nurses who operate seasonally out of a village office, but that they did not pay rent to the village, and he decided to end his agreement with them this year.


text: The newly redesigned twin-turbocharged V-8 Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG is mean. It features 544 horsepower and 560 pound-feet of torque, the power is sent through the AMG Speedshift Plus 7G Tronic automatic transmission and a permanent all-wheel drive system with front, center and rear locking differentials. Aesthetic changes come in the form of a newly designed grill with chrome accents over black mesh that helps cool the inner workings of the V-8. Expect the G63 AMG to cost upwards of $125,000 USD.


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Biography: J. Alinder was born in Californian, but grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He developed an early interest in photography and became a freelance professional photographer while a teenager. Alinder received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Macalester College and completed two years of graduate work at the University of Minnesota, before becoming a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Somali Republic. He was photography advisor to the Ministry of Information in Mogadishu, Somalia from 1964 to 1966. Alinder spent the next decade (1970s) as a professor of art at the University of Nebraska. He has taught beginning through graduate level creative photography classes. Alinder is also a popular lecturer and workshop instructor. In 1977, at the invitation of Ansel Adams, he became the executive director of The Friends of Photography in Carmel, developed it into the nation's largest nonprofit photography organization. Alinder has written or edited some forty books on photography and he as been the curator or director of more than 150 exhibitions. After a dozen years, Alinder resigned from that directorship to return to being a full-time artist, and moved with his wife, Mary, to The Sea Ranch on the Northern California Coast in 1990. In that year they opened the Alinder Gallery in nearby town of Gualala. While specializing in original images by Ansel Adams, the gallery maintained an excellent selection of work by many other great photographers and also brought the work of deserving new artists to the public's attention.
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The following resources are useful for dancers of all levels, as well as tango professionals. Do you have favorite resources to share? Let us know!
About Tango Music
Tango music for dancing comes primarily from the thirties and forties. After that, the music became first more concert-style and less friendly for dancers, and then moved even further toward jazz in some instances. More recent recordings are either 1) imitative of the older styles or 2) Electronica. Some people like to dance tango to music other than tango music – Alternative.
Where to Buy Music
- Tangostore Corrientes and Callao, Buenos Aires, or Online! Very reliable
- Amazon You need to know what you're looking for. Some of the independent vendors on this site have been less expensive and quite reliable for me.
- Todo Tango Everything about Tango! Musicians, Singers, Poets, Dancers
- Polo Talnir (local SF DJ) firstname.lastname@example.com
Older Rhythmic
- Edgardo Donato (mp3) – RCA – Colección 78 RPM – Edgardo Donato -1933/1941
- Francisco Canaro (mp3) – Poema [canta – Roberto Maida]
Golden Era: Rhythmic
- Juan D'Arienzo (mp3) – Todo D'Arianzo… De FM Tango Para Usted
- Rudolfo Biagi (mp3) – Campo Afuera
- Ricardo Tanturi / Castillo (mp3) – Cuatro Compases
Golden Era: "Stretchy," Melodic
- Osvaldo Fresedo (mp3) – Osvaldo Fresedo y su Orquesta Tipica – canta: Roberto Ray
- Carlos Di Sarli (mp3) – Instrumental Vol. 1
- Ricardo Tanturi / Campos (mp3) – Ricardo Tanturi Canta Enrique Campos
- Angel D'Agostino (mp3) – Tangos De Los Angeles Vol 4.
- Pedro Laurenz (mp3) – Milonga De Mis Amores
- Alfredo De Angelis (mp3) – Adios Marinero (has some great valses) and Instrumentales Inolvidables
- Miquel Caló (mp3) – Yo Soy El Tango
- Osvaldo Pugliese (mp3) – Ausencia
- Anibal Troilo (mp3) – Del Tiempe Guapo (later, sweet listening music: Roberto Grela Y Su Cuarteto Tipic (mp3)
Tango Nuevo
- Piazzolla Rough Dancer (mp3) – & the Cyclical Night and The Montreal Jazz Festival Concert (mp3)
Neo Tango and / or Electronico
- Tanghetto (mp3) – Hybrid Tango
- Bajofundo (mp3) – Tango Club
About Tango Shoes
Locally, to start out, a place to buy basic dance shoes for both men and women:
- D'Lynnes, 1137 4th Street in San Rafael, Ca
Beginning men should wear leather-sole shoes. Light weight, lace-up shoes are best.
Beginning women can get character shoes at the dance store. They have a modest and supportive heel, ankle strap and closed toe. Sandals, flats and shoes without an ankle strap do not offer enough support. Later, when you are ready, you can invest in tango shoes. Subscribe to our newsletter to find out when Tango Con*Fusión holds their tango boutique with lightly used tango shoes and clothing at great savings. (Proceeds from the boutique help support their artistic endeavors.)
Shoes in San Francisco
- Jennifer Olson or (971) 219-7075.
You can set-up an appointment with her, and go to her house in the mission. She is very knowledgeable and has a lot of shoes to try on. She carries, Bandolero and Turquoise mostly – both newer brands from Italy. As well as some Comme Il Faut, and a few others.
Movies featuring Tango
Cuesta Abajo – Carlos Gardel
English title : Going downhill. New York 1934
Scent of a Woman
with Al Pacino, 1992
Just one dance scene.
Tango – (Carlos Saura)
by Vittorio Storano, 1998, Spanish w/ subtitles
Very stylized choreography, very visual. Twisted plot.
Tango Bar – Carlos Gardel
New York 1935 . Director : John Reinhard
Tango Bar
Castle Hill Productions
Tango Con*Fusion
by Auriel, 2005, Short documentary.
All woman Argentine Tango dance company in the San Francisco Bay Area during their first year of creation and performance.
Tango Magic
Hard to come by. Contact us for a loaner VHS copy
The Plague
Tango clip featuring Carolina Loti (partner of Pablo Veron in The Tango Lesson by Sally Potter) in this LUIS PUENZO screen rendition of LA PESTE by Albert Camus. With: William Hurt, Sandrine Bonnaire, Robert Duval, Raul Julia. Dialogue is in English, French and Spanish. It is re-set in an Oran (originally capital of Algeria) hypothetical South American city.
The Tango Lesson
by Sally Potter, 1997. VHS only, not DVD yet.
Great dance scenes, and a good story too.
Where (and when) to Dance Tango
Tango Mango Schedule of classes, milongas and special events.
Milongas in Buenos Aires This is a page of more detailed info and web links
SFLovesTango.com A wonderful local resource for everything about tango in San Francisco


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Aaron Ness
Bemidji Minnesota
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2nd round (40th overall), 2008
184 lbs.
Prospect Talent Score
Probability of Success
2007-08: Aaron Ness led Roseau with 72 points (28 goals, 44 assists), averaging 2.32 points per game. His 28 goals, 16 power-play goals and eight game-winning goals also led the Rams. Ness' 72 points led the entire state of Minnesota in defenseman scoring. He was also an astounding plus-67 this season as well. Ness was the first player in the storied history of the Roseau High School hockey program to win the coveted Mr. Hockey award. He was also named the 2008 Associated Press Minnesota High School Player of the Year, as well as earned All-AP First Team honors. Among his other accolades were selections to the Class AA All-Tournament team and the Pioneer Press All-State First Team. Most recently, Ness was a member of Team USA's bronze-medal winning U-18 squad that played in Russia. He was one of only two non-National Team Development Program players on the team. In the tournament, he posted six assists.
2008-09: Ness skated in 37 games as a freshman for the University of Minnesota. He scored two goals with 15 assists (second-most amongst Gophers defensemen) and was -10 with 16 PMs. Team-wise the season was disappointing – the Gophers finished fifth in the WCHA and failed to reach the NCAA tournament – despite the presence of 17 NHL draft picks on its roster.
2009-10: Ness' offensive production dipped as a sophomore at Minnesota as the Gophers finished under .500 for the first time since Coach Don Lucia took over in 1999-00. Ness scored 2 goals with 10 assists and was one of seven Gophers to skate in all 39 games. His +1 plus/minus was an improvement over the previous year.
2010-11: Ness made his pro debut with Bridgeport (AHL) after signing a three-year, entry-level contract with the Islanders in March 2011 following his junior season at Minnesota. In 13 games with the Sound Tigers, who finished last in the AHL's Atlantic Division, Ness scored 1 goal (a power play goal) with 3 assists and was -1 with 4 PMs. In 35 games for Minnesota (fifth in WCHA, 16-14-6 overall), Ness scored 2 goals with 12 assists and was +4 with 41 PMs.
2011-12: Ness made his NHL debut in February – appearing in nine games with the Islanders in his first pro season after being recalled from AHL Bridgeport. Averaging just under 17 minutes of ice time, he was an even plus-minus with no points and 2 penalties during his NHL stint. Ness was the second-leading scorer amongst defensemen for Bridgeport – scoring 5 goals with 22 assists – and was plus-eight with 36 penalty minutes. The Sound Tigers finished first in the Northeast Division but were upset by second-place Connecticut in the first round of the playoffs. Ness was minus-two with no points and 4 penalty minutes in the three-game series.
2012-13: Ness skated for the the Islanders' AHL affiliate in Bridgeport in his second pro season. He was the second-leading scorer among defensemen for the Sound Tigers, trailing only veteran Jon Landry (33 points). Ness scored 3 goals with 24 assists in 76 games and was -10 with 30 penalty minutes. The Sound Tigers missed the AHL playoffs after finishing third in the Northeast Division. Ness was with the Islanders during their playoff series with Pittsburgh but did not see any action.
Talent Analysis
Ness is an intelligent, instinctive offensive defenseman who has quick hands, tremendous speed and great on-ice vision. He is a fierce competitor who has the ability to make those around him better. His skating combines quick feet with smooth strides, great acceleration and can get up to speed very quickly. Ness also possesses the ability to make plays at high speeds – a quality that isn't commonly seen in high school defensemen. Ness utilizes his speed and quickness quite well on both sides of the puck.
Equally as impressive are his quick hands. Ness has demonstrated both great poise and great patience with the puck. His outstanding ability to move with and distribute the puck makes him an excellent quarterback on the power play. He can also make some beautiful tape-to-tape passes as well, and his decisions with the puck are also very good. Ness is not one to shy away from shooting the puck. He'll shoot as often as the opportunity presents itself and does it with a great shot and an ultra-quick release.
He does a very good job of taking away passing and shooting lanes, as well as stripping the puck from opposing players. His combination of great vision and ability to read and react to plays has helped to make Ness a defensive asset to his team as well.
Like all young players, adding size and strength will be crucial to Ness' success. Another area that should continue to develop nicely is his understanding of how to play in his own end, especially without the puck. While Ness has a very good grasp of the basics of playing the defensive position, continuing to fine tune and round out his overall defensive game will make him an even more effective and dangerous player.
Ness projects as an offensive defensemen and power play quarterback. He will play for Bridgeport in 2013-14.


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Kid Labor is a hazard and financial issue that causes impediment towards the improvement of the nation. Tyke work regularly makes a circumstance when the kids are compelled to work when they are required to think about and appreciate the guiltlessness of their immature age. In India, a large portion of the populace filling in as works in the building destinations, coffee bars, and so forth are regularly kids. This is an abhorrent practice followed in India where the youngsters are compelled to work in extremely cruel environment and their agonies know no closure.
A portion of the primary factors that have lead to the beginning of this kid work are as per the following:-
• Poverty is one of the primary factors that have lead to this kid work on the grounds that in a large portion of the ghetto locales of the nation there are such a large number of individuals who kick the bucket of craving and neediness. This is lead to an expanded hole between the rich and poor which eventually brings about tyke work.
• Often the legislature of the nation neglects to give all inclusive instruction to the tyke populace because of which the kids are compelled to work at an age when they owe to study and pick up training. A youngster when occupied with the financial exercises is denied of legitimate instruction.
• Child work is regularly abusing the kids just for monetary profits. Regularly the uneducated guardians sign up with servitude with the vendors because of their obligations. The kids are then compelled to work to just give the essential enhancements, for example, nourishment and apparel to their family.
• The intense interest for the untalented and untrained workers is regularly a noteworthy reason that prompts kid work. The youngsters are the ones who give a modest wellspring of work and this frequently is an appealing idea for the avaricious businesses.
• High absence of education rate among the country populace is one of the fundamental driver for youngster work. These individuals regularly don't understand the significance of training and in this way power their youngsters to go for work and help in the upkeep of the family. Thus, the youngsters are denied of fundamental right of instruction by their very own folks accidentally.
• The best nature of training is costly. In this way, the guardians who are in contemptible destitution are regularly incapable to send their kids to schools because of the staggering expense of instruction. They can't bear the cost of the secondary school charges and meet different costs of the schools. In this way, as opposed to sending them to schools poor people guardians are compelled to drive their youngsters into tyke work.
There are a few impacts of kid work just as which can eventually hurt the psychological, physical up degree of the youngster. A portion of the fundamental impacts of tyke work are as per the following:-
• Health issues related with the youngster is one of fundamental factor. The youngsters are regularly confined to bed and exposed to lethal ailments because of malnourishment and undesirable working conditions. The working conditions in the mines are regularly so unfortunate that the youngsters may get influenced to lifetime physical disease. This at last leaves a scar over their life that endures all over their lifetime.
• The kid work additionally brings about making a psychological injury in the youngsters because of the awful encounters they experience in their working environments. Frequently the kids neglect to shield themselves from the harassing, sexual abuse, and so forth and thus this makes a terrible encounter over their lifetime until the end of time.
• Children who are compelled to work at an early age are regularly denied of instruction. Along these lines, it brings about absence of training among the early young people of the nation. This influences the improvement of the nation in light of the fact that the youngsters can just aim of enormous dreams however are regularly not offered opportunity to seek after their fantasies.
The kid work can be diminished and annihilated to an enormous degree by actualizing a portion of the accompanying measures:-
• Universal and Free training can be given to the retrogressive and poor classes of the general public. This can be a propelling variable for those guardians who can't bear the cost of the expenses. Free dinners can be given in the schools to the individuals who can't manage the cost of multi day's feast.
• Demand for prepared and gifted workers can be expanded in the production lines and businesses. This can even more lessen the interest of kid workers and consequently the youngsters are allowed a chance to examine. More openings for work can be created in the work puts with the goal that joblessness can be annihilated and in this manner allow to the guardians to discover intends to teach their kids.
• Creating mindfulness among the ignorant society of the rustic regions of the advantages of instructing the youngsters through battles. The non-legislative associations can cause the country guardians to understand the significance of training for the upgrade of the general public and can actualize necessary free instruction in the towns.
In this manner the tyke work should be halted and killed totally with the goal that the security of the principal privileges of the kids is guaranteed. They should be allowed a chance strive for enormous dreams of their future. Since these are the young people that can prompt the improvement of the nation and can lead the nation reach to more prominent statures… !!


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You almost certainly do if you ever attended a Protestant Sunday School. Now go read one catechumen's realization of how and why it is heretical.
Ditto this other Protestant favorite.
And this classic one has always turned me off, ("always," meaning long before I became Orthodox) because Jesus here is so effeminate!
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Remember this Picture?
Posted by Anastasia Theodoridis at 3:08 PM
Labels: Christian Life, Other Faiths
5 comments:
- Cha said...
You may refer to these images "heretical" if you like, but we had a very large copy of the first print in our living room during my entire childhood.
And it left an impression upon me while I was growing up. It was the best way my parents knew to show in a visible and non-verbal sort of way to all who entered our home that we were Christians and that we loved Jesus Christ. My mother loved this picture (may her memory be eternal).
Many other people I know and love have these very images of Christ in their homes and offices and churches. Though they are not Orthodox, they are more Christ-like than I am and more Christ-like than many who call themselves lovers of Jesus Christ.
I have no desire to follow the link to see why they are heretical - or who says they are.
- April 10, 2008 at 5:10 PM
- JTKlopcic said...
Well, it looks like we have touched off a bit of a controversy -- kinda like a Protestant iconoclasm...
A few thoughts, if I may:
First, the modern photorealistic depictions of Jesus seem to be stemming from a literalist approach to the Gospels and Christianity. Ironically, though, doing so presents Christ in the same manner that Pilate and the Sanhedrin viewed Him, not beholding His divinity. "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes." (Mt 11:25) There is no revelation communicated through these images.
Secondly, there is nothing in these images that moves one to worship. In fact, there is nothing that really identifies the picture as being of Jesus. (In fact, the first one looks remarkably like a guy I knew in college.) As such, the image works more to inspire sentimentality than true worship. The best that one can discern from the picture itself is that the subject must have been a really nice guy.
Lastly, I think that some of us are a bit taken aback at how personally some have reacted to Abp Lazar's criticism of the artwork. It seems that critiquing the picture is interpreted as an attack on the personal piety of the people who display it. Maybe it's the word "heretical" -- change it to "heterodoxical (I made that up) and people would feel better?
It seems to me that on one hand, it's a serious thing to label someone or something as heretical, which seems to hover between "pagan" and "satanic" in modern Christian parlance (and often conflated with the other two). But, it is important to be able to make a distinction between an imperfect depiction of Christ and a theologically correct depiction. I am sure that the artist is a devoted Christian operating out of nothing but love for his Lord. However, that fact alone does not make his work immune from Christological flaws. Many devout people in and out of Scripture have held erroneous opinions that had to be corrected later. It's part of our fallen nature.
There are many who use images of Jesus in homes, offices, and classrooms to communicate the One they love and serve. Why not use the best available? I am sure that they would never stand for having mistranslations of the Bible hanging on their walls. Why should artwork be any different?
- April 11, 2008 at 10:49 AM
- Cha said...
My comments on this: http://transposzing.blogspot.com/2008/04/heretical.html
- April 11, 2008 at 12:23 PM
- Cha said...
All I am saying is who is asking anyone to venerate these images?
Nobody? No problem, then.
- April 11, 2008 at 1:32 PM
- Anastasia Theodoridis said...
I have to agree that to criticize a picture is (a) not to attack its creator and (b) not to attack people who love the picture. Let us please not confuse these things. I, too, know and love people, including Orthodox people, who have one of these pictures in their homes or businesses.
As I've written here before, "heretical" and "heresy" are not words I like to use. But they're not mine in this case.
Sorry, -c, for having offended you. Please forgive me.
- April 11, 2008 at 2:34 PM


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ETA: Figured it was about time to change the title ;P
ETA (04/20/10): The store has moved! Book-Off is now in a bigger space at 49 W 45th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues (and only a block away from Asahiya's old space, ironically enough). With the bigger space comes a bigger selection overall (though the Japanese CD and DVD sections feel roughly the same size), and there's now placards up in the games section with trade-in values for certain titles.
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The imagery of Pentecost may be important. Pentecost is a pilgrim-holiday also known as the Feast of Weeks or Shavuot. The holiday celebrated the firstfruits of the harvest. The Festival of Weeks was the smallest of the three pilgrim festivals, falling 50 days after Passover (seven weeks), the late spring / early summer. This festival included an offering of two loaves made with the wheat given in the firstfruit offering.
The point of the festival was "to declare God's ownership of the land and his grace in bringing forth food. According to a tradition found in the book of Jubilees, Pentecost was the day on which Moses was given the Law (cf. Tob 2:1, 2 Mac 12:32). This tradition is based on the belief that the Israelites arrived at Sinai 50 days after the first Passover (Exod 19:1). Some scholars (Knox, Snaith) have made a connection between this tradition and the gift of the Holy Spirit. Since Moses gave out the Law to Israel on this day, Jesus gives the Holy Spirit to the church. Fitzmyer thinks Luke was aware of the tradition since there are some indirect allusions to the giving of the Law in Acts 2, not the least of which is the image of fire descending (Exod 19:18).
It is at least possible to see the idea of "firstfruits" applied to the Holy Spirit. The new age has begun and the Holy Spirit has come for the first time. But we also need to consider two other potential "Pentecosts" in the book of Acts. In Acts 10 the Holy Spirit falls on Cornelius, a God-Fearing Gentile, and he speaks in tongues just like Pentecost. Peter makes this point clear in Acts 10:47, the Gentiles in Cornelius' home received the Holy Spirit "just as we have."
But there is a third reference to Pentecost in Acts 20:16. Paul wants to return to Jerusalem before Pentecost if possible. This was a dangerous journey, especially since Paul wanted to deliver the collection from the Gentile churches at Pentecost if at all possible. Offering gifts to the poor in Jerusalem the Gentile churches indicates they too have received the Holy Spirit. Paul's return to Jerusalem at Pentecost is calculated to highlight his "harvest" among the Gentiles. Three references to Pentecost are not unexpected since Luke repeats important events three times several times in Acts (Cornelius' conversion, Paul's conversion, the rejection of Israel, etc.)
Whatever the intended imagery, the day represents the largest crowd in the Temple area after Passover. Peter and the other apostles are able to preach to large crowds of biblically-minded Jews gathered to worship God in the Temple (Acts 2-3). Is there anything in Peter's sermon that makes some use of this Pentecost imagery? In other words, why is Pentecost the time God chose for the outpouring of the Spirit?
Bibliography: W. L. Knox, Acts, (NCB, Oxford: Clarendon, 1967), 80-84; N. Snaith, "Pentecost, the Day of Power," ExpTim 43 (1931-32): 379-80.


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Oh man, that's awesome! I took piano lessons my whole childhood…I think I would have practiced a lot more if I had a piano like that!
Natalie, it looks fantastic! And I like that you didn't completley tear the piano apart like most of the tutorials I've seen. I thought it could be done with out all that hassle, and you just proved me right! Not that proving me wright was the point, it just now let's me think of a fun color to do ours in =)
Did you sand it first? How did you deal with the splintering wood?
Fabulous!! We have an old piano that I would love to paint…but I'm scared. What size/kind of paintbrush did you use? And how did you do around the keys without taping off? BTW, your little Elfman is actually Robin Hood! ;0)
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My in laws are giving us their piano, which looks like the original version of yours! It's such an eyesore, but I want Eva to learn to play … I thought about painting it, but thought that was a "no no" … until this post!
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With the normally featured men's varsity eights field a bit slim this year, the women's varsity eights takes over the spotlight Saturday and Sunday for the 40th anniversary Crew Classic on Mission Bay.
Four of the nation's top five ranked women's crews and six of the top 12 will be competing for the Jessop-Whittier Cup both mornings.
The women's field is topped by defending NCAA champion and No. 1 ranked Virginia, second-ranked California, fourth-ranked USC (which will be looking for a third straight Jessop-Whittier Cup win) and fifth-ranked Washington. Also competing for the six spots in Sunday's championship race will be eighth-ranked UCLA and 12th-ranked Wisconsin.
The men's field will be led by perennial Copley Cup contender California, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of British Columbia, which doubles as a feeder program for the Canadian National Crew.
The heats for the Copley Cup will begin at 8:40 a.m. Saturday with the two heats in the Jessop-Whittier Cup commencing at 9 a.m. The featured championship races will be run Sunday at 9:25 a.m. (women's Jessop-Whittier Cup) and 9:40 a.m. (men's Copley Cup).
The elite collegiate eights are the top events in the two-day rowing regatta that will attract more than 4,000 rowers, ranging in age from 14 to 84, to the 2,000-meter course that finishes in the cove at Crown Point Shores.
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Verizon Wireless Thursday announced that it will start upgrading Samsung Galaxy S III smartphones on its network to the Android 4.1 operating system tomorrow.
Samsung had unveiled the upgrade of the smartphone to the so-called Jelly Bean version of Android in September, and various worldwide carriers began distributing it starting in late September.
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Verizon is the last of the major U.S. carriers to provide the Jelly Bean upgrade to its customers.
Sprint started rolling the upgrade out to U.S. users in late October, with T-Mobile USA following suit in mid-November. AT&T rolled out Jelly Bean via PC-based software in early December.
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What do you mean when you say 'Jesus Christ is the only Savior'?
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2011-01-21 01:59
According to the Bible there is no other name under the heavens except the name of Jesus for the salvation of man (Act. 4: 12). Christ Himself said, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life and no man cometh unto the Father, but by me" (Jn. 14: 6). Jesus Christ is not a local Savior, but the Savior of the world (Lk. 2:11; Jn. 4:42). The prologue of the fourth Gospel equates the incarnate Savior with the eternal Word (Logos) who was in the world even before the Incarnation (Jn. 1: 10). Therefore, wherever there is salvation, the Logos is at work. The Incarnation is the clear yardstick with which God and man is to be measured. Salvation of those who act according to the conscience or according to their knowledge of truth will be perfected beyond history by the same Logos-Christ (I Pet. 3: 19; 4: 6).
The teaching of the Fathers, "outside the Church there is no salvation" has also to be understood as outside the invisible Church known to the Trinity alone. The preaching of Christ is the God-given task of the Church to make Christ known to the whole of humanity that through Him all may have abundant life (Jn. 10: 10). Concerning the salvation of non-Christians read Rom. 2: 25-29; Mt. 25: 31-46; Phil. 2: 10. 'The scandal of particularity of Christianity, that in Jesus of Nazareth alone dwelt the fullness of Godhead bodily is not something about which we have to be apologetic. It is the real strength of the Christian doctrine that God has entered history and divided it into B. C. and Anno Domini (in the year of our Lord) and has the one necessary dependable criterion about perfect God and perfect man. Jesus Christ is the proper name of God. He is the fulcrum on which the lever of the Church has to lift the fallen world by the power of the Holy Spirit. He is the Sun of Righteousness whose light is being reflected by all saints of all religions of all time. He is the richest God who became the poorest Man on earth and is now adored as the richest and the poorest at the same time as the God-Man. Any impartial onlooker of the march of history can easily discern that history is His Story and that there is hardly any good in the world which is not related to Him, directly as Christ or indirectly as the Logos. Inspire of the wars that have been waged in the name of the Church, His healing touch seen in all the continents and islands of the world as schools, colleges, hospitals etc.


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LITTLE ROCK — The Obama administration's decision to abandon efforts to block the over-the-counter sales of an emergency contraception drug has conservative groups considering ways to stop non-prescription sales in Arkansas.
Abortion opponents said they are researching the issue and have discussed the possibility of asking the Legislature in 2015 to adopt age restrictions or an outright ban on the sale of Plan B One-Step, the so-called morning after pill.
"Do I have legislation in my hip pocket? No, I don't have anything," said Jerry Cox, director of the conservative Christian Family Council. "We really need to research this issue … to find out exactly what is being mandated and how much leeway a state has in saying, 'thanks, but no thanks.'"
Plan B has been available by prescription in the United States since 1999. In 2005, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit challenging a federal government policy to limit over-the-counter access to the drug to women over 18. Four years later, a New York federal judge ordered the federal Food and Drug Administration to reconsider the policy and to extend over-the-counter access to women younger than 18.
In a petition filed in December 2010, the center accused the government of dragging its feet in complying with the court order. The FDA subsequently announced plans to lift all restrictions on the drug, including age requirements, but Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius blocked the change.
Then on June 10, the Justice Department announced it would stop fighting the court order.
Cox said the decision means that "essentially, kids can get contraception now as easy as they can buy candy out of the store. That's what bothers me."
Cox said he and a number of conservative lawmakers met informally last week and broached the idea of developing legislation between now and the 2015 session that would prohibit the sale of the morning-after pill without a prescription or set an age limit for over-the-counter sales.
Rep. Andy Mayberry, R-Hensley, sponsor of Arkansas' 20-week abortion ban, attended the meeting and said later it was too early to discuss what direction any legislation would take.
Cox said the issue is sure to be discussed when he and state leaders of similar organizations meet at Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs, Co., at the end of the month to discuss social issues effecting states.
"We get together and just talk about what's going on and I figure this will come up out there at the meeting," he said. "I will probably get some ideas from some of the other national people that are going to be talking to us as well."
Jill June, CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, which includes Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and eastern Oklahoma, said she expects other states to try to legislatively limit or prohibit the over-the-counter sale of the morning-after pill.
"The scientists and advocates and the judge who looked at this, and the FDA, they have all agreed that this medication is perfectly safe," June said. "It certainly is safer than pregnancy and it should be be available."
She said the availability of emergency contraception will not only reduce unwanted pregnancies but also reduce the number of abortions.
"Some people who are talking about opposing access to this make the argument that it really causes an abortion, and that is absolutely false," June said. "Every scientist knows that … this prevents conception from taking place and if legislators in Arkansas are confused about that they need to talk to their high school science teacher."
Marianne Linane, director of the Respect Life office of the Catholic diocese of Little Rock, maintained that use of Plan B can result in abortion.
Linane, a nurse, acknowledged that the drug's primary indications are to prevent ovulation and inhibit the joining of male sperm and the female egg.
A third effect, she said, brings the drug into conflict with the church's anti-abortion policy in that it alters the endometrium, which may inhibit implantation of the fertilized egg into the uterus.
"It creates a hostile environment in the uterus. That's post-fertilization. All of the science says life begins a fertilization," she said. "That's, in effect, an abortion."
While the diocese has no official position on the drug, Linane said she has other strong objections to the Obama administration's decision as a nurse and women's advocate.
As a health issue, she said massive doses of hormones may not be are not good for women. As an environmental issue, she said recirculated hormones in wastewater degrades much slower than natural hormones.
Because the drug will be accessible over-the-counter to females of any age, Linance said she also objects to the lack of parental oversight.
"Parents do have a right, in fact they have an obligation, to know if their children are sexually active," she said, adding also that easy availability could enable sexual predators.
"It has been shown that the younger the girl is, the greater the age discrepancy between the girl and the person with whom she is having sex," Linane said. "It could lead 21 (year-old) or even older males to impregnate girls or just have sex with them and then provide them with the (morning-after) drug."
Mark Riley, executive vice president of the Arkansas Pharmacists Association, said pharmacies have the option, under state law, of refusing to sell a drug if they have a moral objection.
"There is a conscience clause in the regulations on pharmacy," he said. "Most often they just won't stock it but they will recommend someplace they know in the community that does have it."
He said objecting to the sale of a drug is uncommon and he did not know how many pharmacies have raised such objections, or for which drugs.
"We normally don't hear much about it, I don't know how widespread it is but the clause does exist," he said.


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Featured Letter: Time for Democrats to seize momentum
To the editor:
Grant Parpan's column last week walked us through the corrosive infighting that we've witnessed among the members of the all-Republican Town Board these past four years. He ended it with a wonderful quote from Republican Councilman Jim Wooten, who observed: "If I were a Democrat, I'd seize the momentum. I hate to say it, but it's true. They have a real opportunity here."
I agree with Mr. Wooten. But we Democrats have an advantage that extends far beyond voter disgust with the self-dealing government we have all had to put up with, to our great detriment. Our unquestioned potential to take back Town Hall is found more fundamentally in the highly qualified and selfless candidates who will appear on the Democratic line on Nov. 5: Angela DeVito for supervisor and Bill Bianchi and Millie Thomas for council.
These good people also have a unified Democratic Committee behind them – the strongest party organization I've seen in decades, led by our new town leader, Marjorie Acevedo, a dynamo with boundless energy and smarts. Our current supervisor — the modest, self-effacing and breathtakingly charming Sean Walter — is fond of referring to his opponents as "toast." This November, it will be Mr. Walter and his Republicans who will be toast.
John Stefans, Northville
Mr. Stefans is a Riverhead Town Democratic Committee member.


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Space shuttle Discovery will not now lift off on its final STS-133 mission to the International Space Station until 3 February at the earliest.
The venerable vehicle was grounded on November 5 when NASA discovered cracks in two of 108 U-shaped aluminium brackets, known as "stringers", located on the external fuel tank.
Subsequent repairs - involving patching up the stringers and reapplying protective external foam (see pic) - evidently proved unsatisfactory, since managers have "decided the analysis and tests required to launch Discovery safely are not complete".
The agency elaborates: "They are planning to conduct an instrumented test on the external fuel tank and structural evaluations on stringer test articles to determine whether the analysis is correct.
"Details and timelines for the tanking test are in work, but plans call for temperature and strain gauge measurements in the intertank region near the top of the tank during the test."
In summary, NASA will carry out tests on the stringers, both on site with Discovery and with duplicate components at its New Orleans manufacturing plant.
Shuttle program manager John Shannon admitted last Friday: "We've hit a point where there is no obvious answer to what occurred."
He did, however, add: "I have strong confidence this is a solvable problem."
The upshot of all this is the ISS will not be taking delivery of the converted multi-purpose logistics module Leonardo, now destined to become permanent extra storage at the orbiting outpost, until next year.
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Opened November 17, 1966, the Northland Theater was designed by architect Ted Rogvoy, and located at the Northland Mall. This modernistic-style movie house with its unusually-shaped curving and upturned roof could seat nearly 1,500.
The first movie screened at the Northland Theater was Hitchcock's "Torn Curtain". By the late-1960's, the theater had become a 70mm roadshow house, including a year-long run of "Funny Girl". Both the Northland Theater and Americana Theater, also in Southfield, fiercely competed as roadshow houses for many years, and the Northfield Theater would end up usually showing the better films most of the time.
The large original auditorium was twinned in 1976. A decade later, AMC Theatres acquired the Northland Theater, but only three years later, it was shuttered, due in large part to declining audiences and growing violence in and around the theater (a problem shared with the Americana Theater as well in the late-1980's).
Today, after standing vacant for years, the former Northland Theater operates as a mixed use live and movie venue, featuring East Indian entertainment, called the Millenium Theater.
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Ted Rogvoy was my great uncle. He was a man "ahead of his time" in many ways. My visits to his home were filled with great memories.
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Reiki - Carnbroe
Carnbroe is a neighbourhood in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. A former industrial village, Carnbroe is located southeast of Coatbridge and southwest of neighbouring Airdrie. Wikipedia
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East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, G75 9NL
Reiki Teacher offering Level 1, Level 2 Practitioner, and also Reiki Treatments with the use of a copper pyramid for increasing energy & vibrations [...]Distance: 10.63 miles.
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Paisley, Renfrewshire, Pa3 4bw
Relax with reiki healing energy Schedule your therapeutic in person or distance reiki session wherever you are to facilitate emotional and physical healing! Reiki Healing Reiki is [...]Distance: 15.97 miles.
Carnbroe Therapy Clinic
Carnbroe, Lanarkshire, ML54TR
Carnbroe Therapy Clinic offers various therapies and services to help you be the person you want to be. Services include. Reiki Hypnotherapy Herbalife Nutrition and skincare (always in [...]Distance: 0.45 miles.
Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, ML5 4DB
Anyone can benefit from a course of Reiki treatments,no matter what your age or your state of health,and beneficial changes can take place over [...]Distance: 0.97 miles.
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I am a well established and experienced therapist, practicing since 1995. My aim is to help you to overcome pain and achieve your [...]Distance: 1.47 miles.
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I am a Complementary Therapist educated to degree level. I studied CAM (Reflexology) at Edinburgh Napier University. I offer a range of therapies in [...]Distance: 1.93 miles.
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I provide Reiki healing therapy which can also be combined with Indian Head massage or seated acupressure massage. Therapies are provided in a spiritually [...]Distance: 3.21 miles.
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UNDP response to Soccer Tournament hosted by Ansar al-Quds club in JerusalemMay 2, 2013
UNDP response to Soccer Tournament hosted by Ansar al-Quds club in Jerusalem
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) had no role in the tournament, its naming or any other activity related to it. It was not informed about the activity in question.
UNDP's contribution to the Ansar al-Quds club was through a grant of USD 25,000, to finance the training and equipment of a soccer team for the club (rent of ground, coach, cameras, sports equipment….).
The UNDP logo in this event was used without any prior authorization from UNDP and is not, in any case, the official logo of the organization.
UNDP is asking the club, with immediate effect, to withdraw the UNDP logo from all public material, and not to use its logo for any events or activities, without its prior, explicit authorization.
UNDP will continue to make every effort to ensure due diligence on all beneficiaries of grants.


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Jay Bell named Pirates hitting coach; Rick Sofield and Dave Jauss also named to Major League Staff
The Pittsburgh Pirates today announced the following changes to their Major League Coaching staff: Jay Bell has been named Hitting Coach, Rick Sofield has been named First Base Coach and Dave Jauss has been named Major League Coach. The announcement was made by Pirates Manager Clint Hurdle and Senior Vice President, General Manager Neal Huntington.
Bell, 46, played 18 seasons in the Major Leagues, eight of which were spent in Pittsburgh from 1989-1996, and produced a .265 batting average, 195 home runs and 860 RBI in 2063 career games. A two-time All-Star, Bell retired as a player after appearing in 72 games with the New York Mets in 2003. While playing with Arizona in 2001, Bell scored The winning run in Game Seven of the World Series against the New York Yankees.
Originally selected by Minnesota in the first round of the 1984 June draft, Bell made his Major League debut with Cleveland in 1986 and homered on the first pitch he saw in his first big league at bat. He was acquired by Pittsburgh in March of 1989 and became the Pirates everyday shortstop a year later. In 1106 career games with the Pirates, Bell hit .269 with 78 homers and 423 RBI. He also produced a .282 average in 20 post-season games with Pittsburgh, which included a .414 (12-for-29) average during the 1991 N.L.C.S. against Atlanta. Bell still holds the Pittsburgh club record for most sacrifice bunts in a season (39 in 1990) and was a Rawlings Gold Glove Award winner and Silver Slugger winner with the Pirates in 1993.
After retiring as a player, Bell served the Arizona Diamondbacks as their Bench Coach in 2005 and 2006 before spending three seasons as a spring training advisor with the club. He spent the 2012 season as the Hitting Coach for the Southern League champion Mobile BayBears, Arizona's Double-A affiliate that was managed by Turner Ward.
Bell is currently coaching the New Zealand national team in New Zealand as the team attempts to qualify for the 2013 World Baseball Classic in March.
The 55-year-old Sofield spent the 2012 season as the manager for the West Virginia Power, Pittsburgh's Class-A affiliate in the South Atlantic League. Sofield brings more than 25 years of coaching, managerial and playing experience to the Major League staff. He will also oversee the club's baserunning and outfield efforts while replacing Luis Silverio, who has been named Senior Advisor, Latin American Operations.
In his new role, Silverio will be instrumental in the development of the club's Latin American players in the minor league system as well as those at the Major League level.
Jauss, 55, spent the 2012 season, his 25th in professional baseball, as a Special Assistant to General Manager Neal Huntington. He served the Mets as their Major League Bench Coach in 2010 after working in the same capacity with the Orioles in 2008-09 and Dodgers in 2006-07. Jauss also spent 10 years in the Boston organization and seven with Montreal after working six seasons as a college head coach.


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"A brooding, Dickensian novel with a touch of fantasy and a glimmer of hope. . . . As mysterious and timeless as a fairy tale." — Booklist (starred review)
Laura Amy Schlitz's Newbery Honor–winning Victorian gothic is a rich banquet of dark comedy, scorching magic, and bewitching storytelling. Clara Wintermute, the only child of a wealthy doctor, invites master puppeteer Grisini to entertain at her birthday party. When Clara vanishes that night, suspicion falls upon the puppeteer and his orphaned assistants. The three children — two penniless waifs and one pampered heiress — have been caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance she's determined to shed before it's too late.
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Newbery Medalist Schlitz delivers many pleasures—fully dimensional children, period details so ripe one can nearly smell them, and droll humor that leavens a few scenes of true horror. A highly original tale about children caught in a harrowing world of magic and misdeeds.
—Publishers Weekly
A brooding Dickensian novel with a touch of fantasy and a glimmer of hope. . . Vividly portrayed and complex, the characters are well defined individuals whose separate strands of story are colorful and compelling. Schlitz weaves them into an intricate tapestry that is as mysterious and timeless as a fairy tale.
Two orphans, a witch and a girl who laughs at death: Each shares the lens of protagonist in Newbery-winner Schlitz's fully satisfying gothic novel...Schlitz's prose is perfect in every stitch, and readers will savor each word.
—Kirkus Reviews
Victorian London could be a magical place: horse-drawn carriages, puppet shows, elaborate upper-class houses. Of course it could also be miserable: fog, filthy streets, shabby hovels where too many people live in too few rooms. Schlitz conjures both the magic and the mundane here. . . .Schlitz uses such evocative language that readers will practically smell dirty London and then be relieved by the crisp, cold air in the countryside around the witch's crumbling mansion. The characters are recognizable tropes: the witch is rotting from the inside out; the orphans may be dirty and ill-bred, but they have spirit and pluck; the little rich girl is actually sad and lonely; the skinny puppeteer and the overly dramatic landlady are recognizably Dickensian. Yet, they are so well drawn that they are never caricatures, but people whom readers will cheer for, be terrified of, or grow to like. The plot is rich with supernatural and incredibly suspenseful elements. Fans of mystery, magic, and historical fiction will all relish this novel.
—School Library Journal
Few books can be called both delightful and eerie - this novel is one. Utterly transporting.
—Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal Winner
Settle down; prepare for mesmerism: Laura Amy Schlitz is behind the curtain, ready to show us a story that has real magic lacing through it.
—Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and What the Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy
Thrilling and masterful. The characters are real humans, trapped upon the page as if by magic. The plotting is relentless . . . and then resolves into a perfect crystal. The book is beautiful. You will bark with laughter and you will cry. I did.
—Adam Gidwitz, author of A Tale Dark and Grimm
A wonderfully twisty, creepy melodrama with three heroes to love, two villains to hate, and then at the end — but I won't tell, except to say it's totally satisfying.
—Nancy Werlin, National Book Award finalist and Edgar Award winner
The book builds slowly and ends stunningly.
—Chicago Tribune
[A] superb gothic novel…Vivid and strange, this latest work by Ms. Schlitz—a Newbery Medal-winner—is, like a marionette show that the orphans see one night, a spectacle "sharp-edged, exquisite, and eerily alive."
—Wall Street Journal
This thrilling Dickensian novel weaves a tale of sorcery and magic that will mesmerize with its intricate plot and wicked but endearing characters.
As the author unravels the mystery, she explores the many levels on which the characters themselves serve as puppets. Schlitz proves herself a master storyteller as she skillfully maneuvers the strings of this gothic tale right up to the astonishing climax.
—Shelf Awareness for Readers
Middle-schoolers not quite ready for Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus can revel in this lusciously atmospheric title of rival magicians and the children caught in their crossfire.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Besides the rich language, setting and plot, SPLENDORS AND GLOOMS features an utterly delicious story that weaves its spell through the fortunes of innocent and not-so-innocent children, the cadaverous puppet master, a dying witch eager for revenge and dramatic action in a castle tower that will have readers as entranced as Grisini's audiences.
t is exceedingly rare to find an author who hits it out of the park, so to speak, every single time she writes. Ms. Schlitz has written six published works for children and not one has been anything but remarkable. As adept at fairy stories as fairytales, at straight biographies or melodramatic ghost stories, at long last we see what she can do with a Dickensian setting. Result: She does wonders. Wonders and splendors with just a hint of gloom. The sole downside is sitting and waiting for her next book. If it's half as good as this one, it'll be worth the wait.
—Fuse #8 Production (SLJ blog)


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In a strategy reminiscent of burlesque, Morningstar continued its slow tease on Tuesday with the announcement of its three nominees for the Morningstar Alternatives Fund Manager of the Year award.
The latest announcement followed the domestic-stock fund category last Thursday, the international-stock fund category on Friday and the fixed-income manager of the year nominees on Monday.
"There are currently 361 alternative mutual funds (as of Dec. 17) across several different categories," Nadia Papagiannis, director of alternative fund research at Morningstar, writes in announcing the nominees. "Almost 60% of these funds launched post-2008, and the total assets in all 361 alternative funds constitute less than 2% of the entire fund universe."
The 2012 alternatives fund manager of the year nominees are:
- Michael Aronstein, MainStay Marketfield (MFLDX)-"Unlike most funds in the long-short category, this fund weathered the entire 2007-2009 financial crisis (only 29 of the category's 83 funds were around prior to 2008)," Papagiannis writes. "From early 2007 through early March 2009, the fund lost 22.8%, relative to the S&P 500's 50% dive, by shorting financial and emerging-markets stocks early on. Then Aronstein invested in cyclical stocks and shorted long-dated Treasury ETFs in 2009 and 2010, benefiting from the stock market's recovery."
- Team, Calamos Market Neutral Income (CVSIX)-"What drives performance in Calamos Market Neutral Income is the same as what drives performance across Calamos' suite of convertible-bond funds–a deep research bench and decades of experience," she writes.
- Team, TFS Market Neutral (TFSMX)- Papagiannis notes this fund is currently the only alternative mutual fund receiving a Morningstar Analyst Rating of Gold."It's also one of the oldest in the market-neutral category, sporting an eight-year track record. The fund follows a quantitative small-capitalization equity arbitrage strategy, in a $1 long/$0.66 short ratio, looking for mispricing in three broad areas: fundamental data (earnings surprises, for example), 'follow the smart money' (insider buying, for example), and order imbalances (overbought or oversold stocks, for example)."


text: phill 19 Posted March 14, 2012 Report Share Posted March 14, 2012 I know this is an old post, but I (somewhat) recently had someone request I repost the pictures from my homemade trimming tools. So I blogged about it here and am putting it back up on the forum. Also, there are a couple more pictures on my blog as this forum wouldn't allow me to post all of them. Here goes! Make your own TRIMMING TOOLS!!!! Have you ever wanted to fashion your own trimming tools for trimming your pots? There are many different things you can use to trim clay, but the loop tool design is one of my favorites. This post will show you how I made my own loop tools using some found steel strapping and some wood. Materials: Steel strapping (I found mine in construction garbage from wood packing crates...keep your eyes peeled and you'll find some somewhere) Wood dowel for handle - diameter as thick or slightly thicker than the strapping width Wood dowel for in-handle anchors - get it the size of a drill bit you will use Tools Saw Wood glue Drill and bit Pliers or something to help bend strapping Let's do this! Step 1: Bend your strapping to the shape you please. I used a pliers to help bend my strap into different shapes. The simpler the better. I prefer triangular trimming tools. Make sure you leave enough metal at the bottom of the strap shape so you can sandwich them together and fit them into the wood handle and drill two holes in to anchor the strap in place. Step 2: Saw a line down the top of the dowel and sandwich the two ends of the strapping into the cut mark. Cut deep enough to fully seat the strapping Remember to leave enough metal and cut deep enough so you can drill two holes for the anchors Step 3: Drill two holes through the wood handle and strapping I found it was easier if you bound the handle with something like rope or a clamp. This makes it move less when drilling Drill all the way through both the handle and the strapping inside. I drilled my holes on top and below one another. If you have enough strapping, I bet three holes would anchor the trimming tool even better than two. Just sayin. Step 4: Glue small dowel anchors into place I found this easiest if the smaller anchor dowels were pre-cut to an already small length I used Gorilla glue as that is what I had. Feel free to use any wood glue or epoxy, whatever you have on hand. Better make sure it is waterproof though. If using Gorilla glue, don't forget the part about adding water to the surfaces for optimal bonding! Step 5: Set time, sanding, and finishing Allow the glue to set up and harden according to the package instructions Cut off any large anchor dowels hanging out and sand the whole handle smooth to your liking. If you want, apply a finish to your piece. I used a spray polyurethane, but you could use anything from mineral oil to paint. I happened to have poly on hand which made my choice easy. You can leave it raw if you want too, it will just get stained from clay and not look as nice. If you have a grinder or stone sharpener, feel free to grind away a bevel on the outside of the strapping on both edges. It's okay if you don't though, it will still trim clay, and will trim wetter clay better than drier clay. Afterthoughts: Easy to make and a lot of fun! Leave enough space for cleaning the tool out with your fingers in the corners... While you can make a bunch for around $15 total in glue, wood, and finish costs, these tools are not nearly as well made as something like a Dolan Tool which happens to be my favorite and they are only $10 each. The metal doesn't stay sharp for very long The wide width of the metal strapping is annoying with clay build-up Apart from these caveats, it is fun to make your own tools and I believe that the tools you make yourself can help add even more "you" flavor to your work. I found a tree branch the thickness of the metal and made some gorgeous handles by carving them with a knife. Get creative! Good luck everyone and have a blast! Pres 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites