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Dear Editor:
There is no doubt the incorporation people are motivated and have raised over $800,000. It's a fact that several persons are seeking to be a part of the proposed city to advance their careers. Others want a higher personal profile and will spend your money to get it. If Alamo is incorporated be prepared to attend meetings or suffer the consequences. Alamo is already losing one of its financial cows with the closing of Yardbirds Home Depot. You can rest assured that there will be more businesses that cannot afford to open their doors with the economy in such a bad down trend.
I hope the people who are in favor of incorporation give it more thought before casting their vote for incorporation. With incorporation we will inherit some of the largest problems we have ever seen. If the other cities are a guide you will learn more about parcel taxes, bond issues, city sales taxes, etc. You might also have additional lighting, curbs, and cute things like Lafayette; some are nice to have but all cost money. Along with incorporation come more offices, rules, ordinances and fees to match.
Vallejo has already filed bankruptcy, Rio Vista is on the verge of bankruptcy. Moraga and Orinda are not in a great financial safety zone at this time. Keep Alamo the way it is; we have a great police department with quick response, we have the Highway Patrol.
Why give all of this up? You know what you have but with incorporation you don't know what to expect. Again if it's not broken, don't fix it. Vote No on Measure A - save Alamo the way it is.
Tony Carnemolla, Alamo
Danville not unscathed by economy
Dear Editor:
I cannot believe the arrogance and/or ignorance of Chris Hopkins, Realtor ("Sacramento can't touch school parcel tax money," Jan. 23). Congratulations to him that his business is doing well. However, is he not aware that in the comfortable community of Danville people are losing their jobs, people are watching their retirement funds dwindle away with the constant downward spiral of the stock market, people are having their hours at work slashed because business owners would rather have their employees work fewer hours than having to fire them outright?
Is he aware that some parents are actually risking their retirement and using their retirement savings for their kids college education, because they can no longer financially contribute to both?
Does Mr. Hopkins live in such an insular world that he's not aware that Danville is a part of the real world, and is, in fact, living the same recession as the rest of America?
Just ask anyone at any customer-based business in town. Ask the person who cuts your hair. You'll probably hear what my husband heard from his barber that more and more customers are cutting their own hair in order to save a few dollars. Some of these businesses, which have been in Danville for a long time, aren't sure they'll be able to survive this downward spiral.
Please remove your blinders, Mr. Hopkins, and realize that there is no way a $350 parcel tax will ever be approved. Though you seem unscathed, many residents here haven't been so lucky. Mr. Hopkins, I hope you have your continued success, but please don't assume all of Danville's residents are so blessed.
Lisa Appelbaum, Danville
County not the devil
Dear Editor:
An Alamo incorporation opponent says the devil we know is better than the devil we don't know. I don't see Contra Costa County, Alamo's local government, as the devil. My experience with local government shows me the five members of the County Board of Supervisors are smart, knowledgeable, respectable, hard-working officials. But they are wrestling with problems far beyond the scope of issues important to Alamo - a $1.7 billion unfunded liability for employee benefits, a 2008 $1.3 billion loss in pension investments they must compensate with taxpayer dollars, and falling housing assessed valuations in other parts of the county.
Their choices are to cut services, to increase revenue-generating development - for which they must mitigate traffic impacts in developed areas with road and intersection widening projects - and to try to raise taxes in unincorporated areas. They've already cut the Sheriff's budget three years running, and they've tried to widen Alamo's downtown intersection to accommodate overflow freeway traffic.
The county, not the devil, is big local government trying to meet its responsibilities to its own constituents and thousands of employees. Alamo needs to incorporate as a small local government, with minimal employees, to meet its responsibilities to its own property owners and taxpayers.
Grace Schmidt, Alamo
Alamo must preserve what's left of charm
Dear Editor:
Alamo incorporation opponents claim that Danville is not a good model for a city. We in Alamo use the Danville Library, a county branch subsidized by the town so it will be open everyday. The Town of Danville has a popular senior program, which allows Danville residents to register one day early for its activities so often Alamo seniors don't have a chance to enroll. The Danville Community Center serves the residents well with programs and with rooms for activities plus the lawn area for gatherings such as the one for Pilot "Sully," Danville's hero. Danville has preserved the look of a charming small town. Alamo has lost nearly all of its small town look.
Perhaps if Alamo had been a town, the Alamo Elementary School, where Danville Boulevard and Stone Valley Road met, would not have been razed to provide office buildings. Perhaps the three large, beautiful redwood trees would not have been chopped down to provide room for those office buildings. That school and those trees might have become Alamo's town center and Alamo's signature. If Alamo had been a town, perhaps the pioneer home across the street would not have been razed to become medical offices but would have been preserved as a showplace along with the adjacent Indian burial ground.
Alamo lost much of its past due to development, approved by the county. All that is left of Alamo's history in the center of Alamo are the Quonset hut and the horse on top of Alamo Hay and Grain. I'll fight for those! After 42 years in Alamo, I would like Alamo residents to have control over changes, keep what we have and provide what will serve our residents.
Margaret Elliott, Alamo
Correcting flier 'facts'
Dear Editor:
Assertions in a Vote No on Measure A flier have no basis in fact. Opponents claim that declines in market values will result in a decline in Alamo property tax revenue. Property taxes are not based upon market value but on ASSESSED value. A detailed 2008 analysis shows that 75 percent of the sales resulted in an increase in ASSESSED value of $600,000 on average. Alamo property tax revenues are continuing to increase despite the economy because our ASSESSED values (valuation for taxes) are so much lower than market values. The low turnover in Alamo homes will ensure that property tax revenue continues to grow in a bad economy, even without allowing for the 2 percent per year increase built into Proposition 13.
For newly incorporated cities, Vehicle License Fee (VLF) revenues are completely unaffected by poor automobile sales and are driven by a formula set by state law (California Revenue & Taxation Code Section 11005). Menifee, a city in Southern California that just incorporated, recently received its first vehicle license fee check in January, exceeding the consultant's CFA estimate by over $1 million at a time when auto sales are falling through the floor. For the first five years of incorporation Alamo will receive more than 100 percent of its VLF allocation to aid in transition.
Opponents claim there is no provision for road maintenance. As noted in the fiscal analysis, the county will transfer close to $2 million in road funds to Alamo post-incorporation. Alamo road maintenance is funded through a combination of road taxes yielding about $1 million/year and Alamo will spend it to maintain its roads, as the county does now.
Yes, you can disincorporate. The procedure is laid out in state law (California Government Code Section 57400). Three California cities have disincorporated, the most recent in 1972.
We should debate the merits of Alamo incorporation based on facts, not on poorly researched analysis that can so easily be disproved. Visit www.alamoinc.org.
Chris Kenber
Campaign Co-Chair, Alamo Incorporation Movement
A Facebook fan
Dear Editor:
Just to give you a perspective from an over-40 that's been on Facebook for over a year, in response to your Diablo Views column Jan. 23. It is a great way to reconnect with your past. Since I'm originally from Canada, I have lost touch with lots of my friends over the years. Now I have a whole community of high school and even grade school friends.
Facebook applications make it really easy to keep track of your friends and family. I don't use it for friending strangers but I suppose some do. I like this social network far better than MySpace and Classmates. Apparently Facebook is the fastest growing IT social network for over 40s. Enjoy!
Heather Marchman, Danville
Grace for council
Dear Editor:
I support Grace Schmidt for Alamo Town Council because she has proven she understands how to get things done in the governmental system at hand. I witnessed her hard work in seeing that people in Alamo got the information about government they needed in order to keep the kind of community they want.
I worked with Grace last spring when she did research and discovered regional plans to expand Alamo's downtown intersection at Danville Boulevard and Stone Valley Road. She spent long hours explaining to me, my concerned neighbors and friends how the various government agencies work together to move projects like the "Ultimate Configuration" forward. We were able to take her information and get it out to Alamo residents, who strongly opposed the expansion. The result was that we were successful in getting the Ultimate Configuration off the list of projects eligible for funding by the Tri-Valley Transportation Council.
Grace is the type of person we need in our small town to serve the interests of the community.
Lorrie Tovani, Alamo


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MULTAN: Authorities in Punjab have issued a notification against the illegal construction of mosques and growing sectarianism in Bahawalpur district.
According to the notification, 45 mosques are currently being built without prior official permission. Of these, 29 are in Bhawalpur district, 12 in Rahim Yar Khan and four in Bahawalnagar.
Recent clashes between Shia and Sunni communities and Barelvi and Deobandi sects have prompted the provincial authorities to take steps to check the rising tide of sectarianism in the region.
The notification has been sent by the home department to the district administrations after a report compiled by a special branch of police in Bhawalpur. Around 697 religious extremists are also under the surveillance of the force.
Out of the 697 persons, 211 are listed in the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act, which means they are the most dangerous suspects.
These suspects cannot leave the area without informing the police first.
On the other hand, 177 mosques have been identified as being tainted by sectarian conflicts. Shia and Sunni communities are squabbling over the possession of some of these mosques, while Barelvis and Deobandis have their differences over the prayer leaders there.
Bahawalpur's District Coordination Officer Dr Naeem Rauf confirmed that they had received a notification and admitted that some of the mosques which had been demolished earlier were being reconstructed.
"We will develop a comprehensive list of mosques before we begin a crackdown," Dr Rauf said.
Sources said the mosques were being used as madrassas and that is why the home department was concerned about the illegally built places of worship.
The Senior Superintendent Police, Special Branch, Rao Saleem, claims 99% of these mosques are built on state property.
He added that the concerned department had been informed and action against miscreants would be taken soon. Local officials, who wished to remain anonymous, told Daily Express, that after the illegal construction of mosques, religious groups exert pressure on district officials and high-ups in the provincial government to allocate these lands to them for the same purpose.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 7th, 2012.

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More information about the City Girls' Amateur Sports Association can be found in the AWAP register.
'The Modern Queen of Love and Beauty is not she who sits in a decorated bower, watching the fight, crowning the victor, but she who competes in the Olympiad, often winner of the prize.' So said Margaret Watts, a founding president of the City Girls' Amateur Sports Association (CGASA) in 1928. Edith Robinson, a member of the Anthony Horden Athletics team, had just been selected to compete as Australia's first woman track and field representative at an Olympic Games and Watts was happy to point out that the CGASA had played a role in her getting a ticket to Amsterdam. Robinson had once been a member and had competed in competitions organised through them, as had been Philomena 'Bonnie' Mealing (Exchange Telephone Department), who had been selected in the swimming team. Proudly, Watts proclaimed that 'The establishment of the association has made it possible for Australian women representatives to attend the Olympic Games.'
In 1928, Margaret Watts (née Thorp) along with prominent welfare worker, Eleanor Hinder, and well known radio broadcaster Gwendoline Varley had good reason to regard with pride the achievements of the organisation they helped to establish ten years earlier. In 1918, sport for women was really a school girl and varsity affair, and a relatively elite affair at that. The opportunities available for young women to be involved in organised sport were limited. Several leading business houses, such as Farmers and Anthony Hordens Department Stores, for which Hinder and Watts respectively worked, had their welfare schemes which provided club activities and limited sporting outlets for their employees. Hinder and Watts worried about the girls who worked in smaller organisations and who didn't have the opportunity to participate. The interest shown in sport by the employees in their own organisations indicated to them that something needed to be provided for their benefit. If an independent organisation for girls working in any factory, store, office or domestic employment was established, then, according to Watts, ' all could participate in team games and competition matches, and a community code of health and comradeship could be realized, with a high standard of sport and service, enriching and re-creating the life of the City girl.'
'Re-creating the life of the City girl'; the desire to facilitate this transformation lay at the heart of their efforts. Watts and Hinder were welfare workers with a particular concern about the needs of women in a rapidly industrialising and unbanising Australia. Much had been said about the problems of 'the city boy' in modern times, less regard was paid to the problems of the city girl, especially in relation to vocational training and recreation. 'The girl is regarded as a temporary unit in Industry,' observed Watts, 'her work an incident before marriage. The boy's education, recreation and leisure time pursuits have first place.' The implications of this attitude for the resourcing of women's sport were obvious. 'Sports Grounds for the youngest girls in Industry are rare facts, every available piece of ground being allocated for boys' cricket or football.'
Furthermore, statistical evidence collated by Watts demonstrated that the period between leaving school and marriage, for most Australian women, was a long 'incident'. 'The average girl in Australia marries at twenty-five years of age, which means that she is at work some ten years,' Watts argued. 'When she leaves school and begins to earn her living, what she misses most in her new sphere are the organized games and the team spirit of her school.' Put simply, urban working girls missed companionship. Watts praised the efforts of organisations such as the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and the Girl Guide Movement in filling the void but she felt there was a need for more. 'When one reflects upon how unselfishness, team spirit and other fine qualities are bound up in games, one realizes that sport is a foundation in character,' she observed. Therefore, what the women of Sydney needed was an organisation 'of national purpose for the promotion of health and sport, comradeship and good citizenship.'
This organisation began in 1918 as a meeting of representatives of twelve affiliated business houses and doubled its membership in the space of five years. Annual fees for clubs and members were kept as low as possible, to make the association as inclusive as possible. Apart from organising competitions in the existing sports of hockey, cricket, tennis, rowing, swimming and athletics, the association was instrumental in establishing netball (then basketball) as an organised sport in New South Wales. A health clinic ran out of their offices and members organised an active social program with regular excursions into the country arranged. It even operated as a quasi employment agency. In 1929, the association, in cooperation with the Women's Unemployment Relief Council, opened a registration bureau to provide practical advice and guidance to unemployed girls. The government recognized that the networks the CGASA had developed between business and the community was actually second to none.
Membership also provided girls with the invaluable opportunity of learning organisational and administrative skills. Committee meetings were always well attended, and girls learned how to prepare and present reports and conduct the routine business associated with any business and club, such as minute taking, prioritizing budget items, setting policy, etc. Even this routine business was treated with enthusiasm, 'the reason being' according to Watts, 'that this routine business is pulsating with human interest'. So, apart from the opportunity to be active and make friends, involvement in the CGASA taught women valuable life skills. 'Consequent training in group leadership is of fundamental value,' Watts observed, not only to the individual but to the nation. 'Women's Health is the Nation's Wealth' was the CGASA motto.
One of its most ambitious undertakings was a Gwendoline Varley initiative. In 1922, the CGASA, in cooperation with many of the other important women's organizations of the day, such as the National Council of Women and the Feminst Club, organised what was 'The first Girls Week ever held in Australia'. The programme aimed to show the country the wide range of work and leisure time pursuits that young Australian women were involved in so that 'the part played by the girls in the development of tradition and ideals in Australia' could be better appreciated. The practical aim of the event was to raise funds to support the establishment of a women's sports ground. The event raised a reasonable amount of money, however, "being an organization to promote good health and citizenship, the appeal did not grip the public imagination as a Hospital or Disaster Appeal would have done.' It raised a lot of 'education' interest nonetheless.
The matter of a dedicated sports ground for the women of Sydney was, quite literally, a never-ending concern for the CGASA. Men's and boy's sport was always given priority access to the available playing fields and the high demand for the venues controlled by the Sydney University Women's Sports Association meant that waiting periods, especially on the weekends, were lengthy. Of course, the more women who became involved in sport, the more acute the shortage became. Various campaigns throughout the organisations life were greeted with initial enthusiasm by councils and other authorities with control over public land, but when it came to delivering, there was a large gap between words and actions. In 1922 they received a parcel of land of the Sydney City Council, 'a sandhill' that was still inadequate but a partial achievement, a least. But the battle for access to open space remained unresolved after the CGASA ceased to function.
It is difficult to pinpoint precisely when the CGASA dissolved. Available records suggest that the impact of the depression on this type of organisation, so reliant on discretionary spending for existence, was profound. As low as the registration fees were, they were still too much for many 'city girls' to afford, even those who were employed. The association fell badly behind in payment for venue hire; the goodwill of the Sydney University Women's Sports Association probably saw them stay afloat for longer than they might have otherwise. Fortunately, the structures the association established were strong enough to ensure that organised sport for women in the city of Sydney continued without its guidance. There were enough women trained in the basic of sports administration and active in other more financially sturdy organisations to ensure this was the case.
In it's short but active life, the CGASA played a vital role in establishing organised sport for women and girls outside the school system, and in so doing contributing significantly to the development of sport as a 'democratic' activity in Australian culture. Factory girls played hockey against the students at the University of Sydney; Farmer's office girls joined the cleaners in the basketball team. If an interest in sport is regarded as 'the great leveler' in Australia, then the CGASA clearly had a place in the development of that tradition.
Competition photograph, CGASA; Margaret Watts, President, CGASA
Images are reproduced Courtesy of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.


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Other Accounts of What You Read in Matthew 23
Understanding the Scriptures
Matthew 23
|Bid you observe (v. 3)
|Invite you to obey
|Grievous to be borne (v. 4)
|Tasks difficult to achieve
|Exalt (v. 12)
|Lift up above others
|Abased (v. 12)
|Brought down
|Suffer (v. 13)
|Devour widows' houses (v. 14)
|Take away the homes of widows
|Pretence (v. 14)
|Outward show
|Compass (v. 15)
|Proselyte (v. 15)
|Twofold more (v. 15)
|Twice as much
|Sanctifieth (v. 17)
|Makes holy
|Mint, anise, cummin (v. 23)
|Garnish (v. 29)
|Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers (v. 32)
|Finish the works begun by your ancestors
|Desolate (v. 38)
|Henceforth (v. 39)
Matthew 23:5—What Are "Phylacteries," and What Does It Mean to "Enlarge the Borders of Their Garments"?
Phylacteries are small boxes containing written verses from the scriptures, which some Jews wore on their arms or forehead. This tradition was based on counsel given to the prophet Moses in Deuteronomy 6:6–8. The reference to "borders" of their clothing was a tradition of putting tassels on the hem or corners of clothes in remembrance of God's laws (see Numbers 15:38–40). Those who wanted to be seen as especially righteous "enlarged" the part of the clothing that had the tassels so they were very noticeable or they wore very noticeable phylacteries.
Matthew 23:24—"Strain at a Gnat, and Swallow a Camel"
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Both gnats and camels were forbidden as food under the law of Moses. In order to prevent swallowing a gnat by accident, some Pharisees would strain all liquids before drinking them. Jesus used the exaggeration of swallowing a camel to say that the Pharisees were very careful about some little things while bigger and more important things were ignored (such as mercy, faith, and the spirit of the law).
Studying the Scriptures
Do either activity A or B as you study Matthew 23.
Make a Comparison
Divide your notebook page in half. From what you read in Matthew 23:1–12, list on one side of the paper what the Pharisees thought made them great. On the other side, list what Jesus said made a person great.
Stepping Stones of Woe
Woe is a word that refers to sorrow and suffering. Jesus said eight times in Matthew 23:13–16, 23–32 that woe would come to the scribes, Pharisees, and hypocrites. Each time, he described why they would experience this woe.
Make two "paths" in your notebook, such as in the accompanying illustration. One path leads to sadness and damnation (see v. 33) and the other leads to happiness and glory. First, fill in the path of woe by describing in your own words the eight things Jesus said the scribes, Pharisees, and hypocrites did. (The first is already written on the chart.) Then fill in the "Pathway to Happiness" by writing what a person who follows Christ would do instead.
Although Jesus chastised the Pharisees, He gave them many chances to listen to Him, and many witnesses were given to help them believe His gospel. Read Matthew 23:37 and explain what Jesus hoped He could do for those Jewish leaders.


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Squirrel Attacks 3 People In Senior Living CenterThe squirrel has fled the scene.
First Responders Save Squirrel With Yogurt Stuck On It's Head!This is adorable! It's awesome they actually saved this squirrel.
Dad Uses Squirrel To Pull His Daughters Tooth And It's Kind Of Awesome!We can't make this stuff up! This is awesome!
Squirrel Jumps Off 21-Story Building and Lives to Tell (VIDEO)How in the world did this squirrel get to this balcony on floor 21? Elevator? However it happened, he got down must faster than he went up.
Woman Gets Mad At Her Husband And Tries To Stab Him With A Squirrel
Leigh Ann: Woman Charged With Stabbing Husband With A Squirrel
Man Drives Car Into Water To Avoid SquirrelA squirrel in the road sends a BMW into a bay. Sounds like 50 Shades of Cray!
Man Hurt While Hunting Squirrels With A Bullet Taped To BB GunMan goes squirrel hunting with a bullet taped to a BB gun. This is going to end well for the squirrel.
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Home » News & Information » Press Releases » Brooke Isham Sworn In As Mission Director for Azerbaijan
For Immediate Release
Thursday, June 20, 2013
USAID Press Office
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dr. Brooke Isham was sworn in today as the new U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director in Azerbaijan. USAID Counselor David E. Eckerson administered the oath of office.
As Mission Director for Azerbaijan, Dr. Isham will oversee USAID programs and assistance in the country. These programs support Azerbaijan's reform process by promoting competition and pluralism in the society, laying the foundations for a sustainable market-based democracy.
A member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister Counselor, Dr. Isham most recently served as the Deputy Mission Director in Afghanistan. In this position, her responsibilities included oversight of the USAID economic growth and infrastructure portfolios, as well as USAID field operations in Northern and Western Afghanistan.
Dr. Isham began her career with USAID as an intern in 1993. Her first assignment was as a Program Economist in Mali from 1994 to 1995. From 1996 to 1998, she was a Project Development Officer and Deputy Program Officer in Central Asia. Dr. Isham served for five years in Russia, first as a Deputy Program Officer from 1998 through 2001, and then as the Director for the Office of Economic Policy Reform until 2003.
Following her assignments in Russia, Dr. Isham went to Jordan where she worked as the Director of the Office of Program Management until 2007. Her next assignment was the Deputy Mission Director of Sudan, a position she held until the end of 2009.
In 2010, Dr. Isham served as the Director of the Office of Food for Peace in Washington, D.C. Dr. Isham received a Ph.D. in commodity economics in 1992 from Stanford University after obtaining a master's degree in applied economics and a bachelor's degree in economics, both at Stanford University.
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One of my favourite trends of yester-year is the super cool and slick80s casual wear. For some its known as terrace fashion but this brings about confusion and a whole lot of negative connotations, as terrace fashion is closely linked to footballhooliganism!
Usually when people think of this trend, it conjures up images of council estates, violenceand a bunch of skinhead racists clad in Harrington jackets and Dr Martens!But they arein fact wrong!!
80s casual wear is all about looking sharp! This is achieved by minimal styling and clean lines; and amod-influenced hairstyle goes down quite a treat too! There are a numberof brands that come under the casual umbrella such as Lyle & Scott, Fred Perry, Stone Island, Fila… Ithink you get my drift.
And then we have Gabicci – definitely my favourite of all the casual brands! Gabicci isnt exactly new, infact its pretty ancient! Ask your parents andI bet they will take youon a nostalgic trip down memory lane.
The brand firstlaunched in the 1970s and after a brief hiatus, theyve come back even stronger with two collections – The Vintage and The Classic, so decide where you fall on the casual-o-meter and rediscover the beauty that is Gabicci!
So tell me when it all got started?
Our very first collection was the Autumn of 1973.Lets go back in time,give us some history on the brand.
The brand was born in a Soho basement in the summer of that year and fast becamean underground style leader through the northern soul scene. Later adopted by the 'Football Casuals' during the 1980s, the brand has since remained intrinsically linked to both football and music.
Have you got a favourite piece from the current collection?
The bold check woven shirt, style Mariner.What is your USP?Unlike most at the moment, we are not a vintage sports brand.We have a much smarter, sharper handwriting but still with genuine heritage.What are you trying to achieve at Gabicci?We want guys to go out in a clean, smart look, but feel great about what they wear.Give us an INDIVIDUALISM exclusive.
We have just supplied some stuff recently to Beady Eye, the new band formed by Liam Gallager and Chris Sharrock of Oasis.Where can we get hold of your stuff?We're stocked by retailers like Stuarts, Foot Asylum, Concept, Northern Threads, Mensroom, Sa-Kis and on line at ASOS and Mainline.Are there any other brands or designers that you particularly admire?
Paul SmithWhat can we expect from you guys in the future?In the short term more of the same really, but keeping on trend with colours and fits.What is your definition of style?For us it's the sharp but casual look synonymous with the brand.Whats the one style item you couldn't live without?
That'Äôs tough. As a girl, I'Äôm into accessories so it'Äôs probably a scarf .Where do you think the industry is heading?I think in terms of style direction, things are getting cleaner and sharper which obviously suits us fine.What was your biggest obstacle when creating the brand? I don'Äôt know because I'Äôm far too young to have been there, still I'Äôm glad they overcame it!If there is one item that every guy needs from Gabicci what would it be?Our bright cotton polo with the contrast piping – itsan absolute must.So there you go, straight from the horses mouth. For purchase enquiries, visit www.gabicci.comKeep it yours,Ayishat


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Dentist Scannell out to drill Crusaders
During the week Chris Scannell works as a dentist.
And now the Cliftonville striker wants to brush up on his goalscoring after netting two high profile goals in midweek.
Scottish giants Celtic were bitten by the Reds, with the north-Belfast side beating a travelling hoops side 3-0 at Solitude on Tuesday night as Cliftonville marked their 130th anniversary with a memorable result.
All that was confined to history very quickly as within a matter of minutes after the final whistle manager Eddie Patterson brought his men back down to earth, reminding them that this afternoon's Carling Premiership derby with Crusades at Solitude is much more important.
And it is a game that Scannell is keen to get his teeth into.
"As soon as we walked into the dressing room Eddie put the downers straight on us and said that's done, now Saturday's coming and that's what we've got to focus on," said Scannell, whose two headers against Celtic came from crosses provided by his brother Ronan.
"He's right, that's our bread and butter and we've got to look to get another three points after taking three points off them at Seaview earlier in the season.
"It was a great night on Tuesday and a good celebration for the club, but it wasn't so much about the football and who won or lost.
"It was about getting Celtic over, getting the stand open and celebrating the 130 years.
"The result was a back issue, we didn't care so much about that, rather than having a good time."
Nobody will be able to take Scannell's brace against Celtic away from him. What he wants though is to follow it up with more goals.
This season hasn't been quite as productive as last when he was a double Player of the Year, walking away with the Football Writers and Castlereagh Glentoran Supporters club's prizes.
Now his target is simple, to start hitting the target with a little more regularity.
"I couldn't hit a barn door for weeks, then I got one last Saturday to help us get a 3-3 draw at Coleraine and a couple of nice goals against Celtic," he said. "I was particularly pleased with the second one. It's about going on from there, both for me personally and for the team because we haven't got the results we would have liked over the last few weeks since we beat Linfield 4-0.
"We'll take confidence from the Celtic game. We went to Cork and put on a good performance and went on a run after that.
"There's no bigger opposition for us this season, hopefully now we can go on and get a results against the Crues."
The Reds challenged Linfield in the title race in both 2007 and 2008 before dropping away in the final weeks of the season.
So far in this campaign nobody has put together a run quite good enough to see them labelled as favourites to lift the Gibson Cup and that's why Scannell is still harbouring the hope that the crown can return to north-Belfast after a 12-year gap.
"The league is so wide open and you look at Linfield's result last Saturday against Crusaders and it tell you everyone is capable of beating anyone else in the league," said Scannell.
"You always look back at dropped points and goals here and there that cost you points and we don't want to be looking at too many of those.
"The team that gets a run together and gets some consistency will win the league. Over 38 games that's what you need."
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Rodolph Austin scored two penalties as Leeds United drew 2-2 in a friendly at Chesterfield.
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Science in Christian Perspective
Theistic Evolution: Some Theological Implications
Science is so influential today that Christians are tempted to adjust Christian doctrine to it by accepting theistic evolution as God's method of creation. Mans observations and interpretations are not infallible, and science has returned to once-rejected theories, so the present popularity of evolution should not deceive us. Hermeneutical principles applied to the types of literature in the Bible, the interpretations of Genesis by the Protestant Reformers, New Testament light on the creation account, the theological importance of the doctrine of creation, and the logical and practical effects of accepting evolutionary theory 'all combine to warn as of the spiritual dangers of theistic evolution.
Some men like to be different, but the average man is a notorious conformist. He likes to fit in with the general run of people. The way to win friends and influence people is to agree with them. Many believe that the best way to win people for Christ is to soft-pedal such controversies as evolution or, better yet, to adapt evangelical Christianity to the generally accepted theory.
There is no doubt that science has increased its impact and influence substantially. It cannot be ignored in our twentieth century western culture. We respect and even worship that which produces, and science has certainly produced in the society of which we are a part. Consequently the scientist has come to be regarded as an authority not only in science but in other areas as well, and this includes religion. And who would quarrel with a recognized authority? Rather than quarrel we ought to adjust and adapt.
There is another factor that cannot be ignored. The history of controversies between scientists and theologians has not been particularly flattering to churchmen. The evangelical Christian cannot help but be haunted by the ghost of Bishop Wilberforce at Oxford in 1860 and by the ghost of William Jennings Bryan at Dayton in 1925. We would do well to learn from experience, and experience in this case certainly dictates caution.
Certainly we ought to try to get along with our contemporaries: the Bible urges this. Ought we then to adjust and adapt Christian doctrine by accepting theistic evolution? This has been a popular way of reconciling
False Claims
Theistic evolutionists are also quick to point out that many facts and observations seem to point to evolution, and they argue that God would certainly not deceive us by creating a world that appears to have evolved when actually He finished it by fiat creation. Let us look at this claim. It implies that finding evidences which intelligent men interpret as indicating that evolution has occurred means either that it has occurred or that God created an earth that deceives. But there is a third possibility. It may be that the limitations of man's understanding and reason lead him to misinterpret the evidences which are present at this time level. Many people have interpreted the evidences of their sense organs as indicating that the earth is flat. For almost two thousand years intelligent men-among them some of the most capable scientists who ever livedinterpreted their observations of the solar system to indicate that the earth was its center. Would anyone today blame God for these faulty interpretations and accuse Him of creating an earth and a solar system that deceived ?
Others who urge evangelical Christians to adapt their theology to modem science by adopting theistic ev - tion suggest that we are fighting a losing battle in opposing evolution because science never moves back to accept a theory or a hypothesis which it has rejected. They tell us that the evidences which have accumulated have led science to move from the idea of sudden origins implicit in fiat creation to the idea of the gradual development of living things. Science, we are told, never returns to an explanation which was found wanting.
Yet science does return to rejected theories and hypotheses. Aristarchus of Samos developed a heliocentric theory which was studied, rejected in favor of Ptolemy's geocentric theory, and then developed afresh some seventeen centuries later by Copernicus. The theory of epigenesis was proposed by Aristotle and accepted by Harvey. Swammerdam and the early microscopists rejected it because of what they thought they saw with their newly developed microscopes and developed the theory of preformation only to have that theory rejected in favor of a return to the theory of epigenesis. Spontaneous generation was rejected in the light of evidences developed by Redi, Spallanzani~ and Pasteur. Today naturalistic evolutionists find spontaneous generation necessary to explain the origin of the first living matter from inorganic precursors.
Is it possible that evolution was God's way of creating.? Can we solve the evolution-Bible controversy by adapting Scripture to a theory of theistic evolution? First of all, we ought to point out that some evangelical Christians believe it is nonsense to speak of theistic and atheistic evolution. They believe the two adjectives have no business being used in connection with the noun "evolution." They say that we do not talk about theistic and atheistic chemistry or theistic and atheistic physics, and we ought not to talk about theistic and atheistic evolution. Evolution, they say, is a scientific theory. They argue that it has nothing to do with Christianity, and therefore it cannot be either theistic or atheistic. It is essentially this position that van der Ziel(7) takes when he says that science and theology are complementary.
This sounds like a rather plausible approach. It does away with the problem by denying that one exists. And the fact of the matter is that we don't talk about theistic and atheistic physics or chemistry or sociology or anthropology. What the proponents of this point of view are suggesting is the existence of a sharp dichotomy between science and Christianity. Science, they say, is concerned with the material, the here, the now; Christianity is concerned with a message of redemption, the spiritual, and the life that is to come.
Yet this sharp division is really too neat. It isn't possible to compartmentalize in this way. Christianity is very much interested in the material, the here, and the now. It has been least effective when it has concentrated exclusively on the spiritual and on the life that is to come. Too many Christians today are compartmentalizing, worshipping God on Sunday and mammon during the week. Too many Christians refuse to admit members of other races into their fellowship here and now, even though they admit that they shall be with them in the life that is to come. Any division of man into body, soul, and spirit is arbitrary and is done for the sake of convenience. A human being is one. He must be one in his life and in his thinking.
It is true that we do not speak of theistic and atheistic
chemistry or physics. But it also is true that we have
Christian chemists and physicists. Chemistry and physics do not play a direct role in the body of Christian
beliefs. The origin and development of all things, the
story which evolution purports to tell, does enter into
the body of Christian beliefs. Theistic evolutionists
recognize that a literal interpretation of Genesis cannot be accommodated to theistic evolution. For that reason they suggest that Genesis must be interpreted in
some other way. Some tell us that it is poetry, others
that it is saga, still others that it is myth. In any theological discussion of theistic evolution one of the first
topics that must be dealt with is the interpretation of
the first chapters of Genesis.
Genesis 1-11
Traditionally evangelical Christians have interpreted the Bible literally. This does not mean that it has been interpreted literalistically. Many criticisms that are raised against the Bible are due to the attempt to make it speak literalistically. Many ridicule the Biblical phrases "the four corners of the earth" and "the ends of the earth" and insist that this shows clearly that the Bible teaches a flat earth. Yet we have no problem with these phrases if we recognize that they are poetic imagery. Many of the criticized phrases occur in the Psalms or in one of the prophets.
A literal interpretation of Scripture recognizes that there may be different literary genres and that in any type of literature there may be figures of speech. The Bible is made up of historical books, poetic books, and prophetic books. These have their different styles. Prophecy, for instance, is made up chiefly of pictures and ought to be interpreted in this way. There are different ways of expressing things. New Testament quotations of the Old Testament are an example of this. In many instances we do not have direct quotation but rather indirect. For this reason the words are often not quoted exactly, and they need not be.
We must recognize, too, that within a historical book there may well be similes, metaphors, poetic expressions, allegories, anthropomorphisms, and hyperboles. But even these are meant to communicate a literal, historical truth.
Let us look at some of the possibilities for Genesis I to 3. Could these chapters be poetry? Smethurst(6) Sug gests that this is the case. Yet there is no evidence that this section is intended as poetry, because it does not have the characteristics of Hebrew poetry. Hebrew poetry was characterized, not by rhyme or rhythm,'but rather by parallelisms. A verse of Hebrew poetry is always double and sometimes triple. Look at one of the Psalms as an example. There you will find a phrase followed by a second phrase. The second phrase either repeats the same thought as the first phrase in a different way, or it adds to the original thought, or it gives the antithesis of the original thought,
Poetry is not confined to the poetic books. Genesis 25:23 is in the form of 'Hebrew poetry as is also Genesis 27:29. The poetic sections within the historical books generally are brief. When we examine Genesis 1 to 3 we find it does not show the characteristic parallelisms of Hebrew poetry. It does not fit the pattern which characterized Hebrew poetry. Genesis 1 to 3 gives every appearance of being a historical account.
Is it possible that this is saga or myth? The former is used to designate a historical occurrence but one which did not occur in the manner recorded. The latter is used to describe an account totally without historical foundation. Those who suggest these interpretations usually apply the scheme to the entire section from Genesis I through Genesis 11. Thus they suggest that the stories of the Noachian deluge and the tower of Babel as well as the story of the creation and fall are myth or saga rather than history. They are generally agreed, though, that Abraham is a historical character, and they believe that the rest of the Genesis account is history.
When we examine the end of Genesis 11 and the beginning of Genesis 12, we look in vain for any indication of a change of literary style or genre. It all seems to follow in the same style or pattern. There is no sharp shift like the one at the beginning of the poetic section of job, job 3:2. When we read through Genesis 11 and into Genesis 12, verse seems to follow verse and paragraph paragraph.
Interpreting these sections as myth or saga is an allegorical interpretation, and it is against just such an allegorical interpretation that the Reformers objected. The church of the Middle Ages had moved far from the literal interpretation. All sorts of interpretations were suggested, and the allegorical interpretation was sometimes regarded as even more important than the literal, historical interpretation. It was against this allegorical approach, which we have seen revived in neo-orthodoxy, that Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli protested. For instance, in commenting on the account of the creation of woman, Luther describes the various allegorical interpretations and then goes on to say: "Because these explanations are altogether allegorical, the historical and strict meaning of this passage must be sought and adhered te' (4, p. 132). In concluding his discussion of the fall, he says: "According to our ability we have treated all these facts in their historical meaning, which is their real and true one. In the interpretation of Holy Scripture the main task must be to derive from it some sure and plain meaning" (4, p. 231). Again in introducing chapter 4 Luther says: "The chapters which follow support our conviction; for nobody can fail to see that Moses does not intend to present allegories but simply to write the history of the primitive world" (4, p. 237).
But there is an even more striking reason for interpreting Genesis 1 to 3 literally. A general principle of Biblical interpretation is to let Scripture interpret Scripture. Particularly Christians like to let the New Testament throw light on the Old Testament. What has the New Testament to say about Adam and Eve? Theistic evolutionists usually argue that they are not persons but that rather they represent an evolutionary population, mankind in general. - This they must argue, for if man developed from anthropoid ancestors, it is inconceivable that a single male and a single female developed the status of Homo Sapiens(3). Rather we would expect to find a group, an evolutionary population, achieving that status. It is true that the Hebrew word "Adam" is sometimes used not for a single individual but for mankind in general, and theistic evolutionists argue that this is the case in Genesis.While Jesus does not refer to Adam and Eve by name, He does refer to the creation story. In one of His encounters with the Pharisees, He confounded them when they challenged Him on the subject of divorce by referring to the Creation account. He refers to it in such a way as to indicate that He accepts it as a historical account because He quotes both Genesis 1:27 and Genesis 2:24. (See Matt. 19:3ff and Mark 10:2ff.)
The Apostle Paul refers to Adam by name (Rom. 5:14; 1 Cor. 15:22; 1 Cor. 15:45; 1 Tim. 2:13f). Moreover, the whole argument in Romans 5 and I Corinthians 15 rests on the historicity of Adam, for Paul speaks of one Adam and one Christ. If Adam represents an evolutionary population, it is hard to see how the analogy fits. St. Paul refers elsewhere to the Creation account and treats it historically, not allegorically. In I Timothy 2:13 he tells us that Adam was first formed, then Eve. This makes sense only if the Genesis account is interpreted literally. It is biological nonsense to suggest that for a time there was a race of males and that only later did females evolve. St. Paul's reference to the Creation in I Corinthians 11:12 is also interesting. Here we have a very clear reference to the account of Eve's creation, because Paul says that woman is "out of" the man.Some Implications
Actually the doctrine of creation is an important one. Carl Henry has an excellent discussion in the Darwin Centennial Volume of the ASA (2). Man's whole relation to God depends on the fact that God is the Creator and man the creature. It is for this reason that Scripture goes into detail about the Creation. We owe God honor, worship, and obedience because He created us. Christianity is in a very real sense an authoritarian religion. When God speaks, man is to obey. The Ten Commandments are binding on all men not because they are the socially accepted way of living but because they are die commandments of the Creator.
The story of Creation is a part of the supernaturalism of the Bible. Most dyed-in-the-wool evolutionists, such as Simpson, object to any sort of supernaturalism and find the approach of a man such as Teilhard de Chardin, the Roman Catholic theistic evolutionist, unacceptable(5). Theistic evolution, while not denying God, removes Him at least one step. It suggests that He works exclusively through natural laws and that He is more or less out of touch with the world in which we live. The God of the evolutionist is very similar to Newton's watchmaker God. Indeed the watchmaker God is the prototype of the theistic evolutionist's God. Newton accepted miracles, but he believed that the age of miracles was past. )While he himself was pious, devout, and deeply religious, his suggestion that the universe is a machine and his implicit denial of God's role in preservation laid the foundation for much of the mechanism and materialism which characterizes modern science. In a very real sense evolution represents the application of Newton's mechanism to the biological world. Theistic evolutionists still proclaim God; so did Newton and his followers. But it was not long until other men came along, applied Occarn's razor, and eliminated God entirely, since He was no longer philosophically necessary. This has happened also in biology; the result has been the evolutionary humanism of Huxley and Simpson.
There are theistic evolutionists who still accept the miracles. Some, like Newton, accept all of them: some sort them out, accepting some and rejecting others. But still others join men like Bultmann to deny them all. They go so far as to deny the physical resurrection, believing that Jesus did not actually rise and that the meaning of the resurrection is spiritual.
The whole thrust of evolution, with its emphasis on fitness and selection, runs counter to the basic Christian ethic of love with its emphasis on brotherly love and responsibility for the care of the unfortunate and the unfit. In a Darwinian sense these ought not survive. If selection is to accomplish its purpose of improving the species, we ought to permit it to eliminate those who are less fit. It may be that we are weakening the race by permitting the unfit to survive. But who are we to judge fitness? Isn't it possible that those who are unfit in one respect are superior in another? And if we cannot judge fitness, how is an impersonal natural selection to make that judgment?
Christianity emphasizes the importance of the individual. You and I are important in God's eyes. He sent His Son to suffer and die for us, and He has written our names on the palms of His hands. He knows us by name: yes, He has even numbered the hairs of our heads. To the modern evolutionist the individual is unimportant; it is the group, society, that counts. If a choice must be made, it is the welfare of the group that must prevail. The rights of the individual must yield to those of the group. Christianity emphasizes the rights of both, and so does American democracy.Theistic evolution cannot be fitted with a literal in terpretation of Scripture. It can be accepted only by
1Dillenberger, John,
Protestant Thought and Natural Science,
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960.
2Henry, Carl F. H., "Theology and Evolution" in Evolution and Christian Thought Today, Russell L. Mixter, ed., and Rapids: Eerdmans, 1959.
3Key, Thomas D. S., "The Influence of Darwin on Biology" in ibid., p. 21f.
4Pelikan, Jaroslav, Luther's Works: Volume 1: Lectures on Genesis, Chapters 1-5, St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1958, p. 132.
5Simpson, George Gaylord, "Biology and the Nature of Science," Science, 139:87, 1963.
6Smethurst, Arthur F., Modern Science and Christian Beliefs, New York: Abingdon, 1955, p. 109.
7van der Ziel ' Albert, The Natural Sciences and the Christian Message, Minneapolis: Denison, 1960.


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The Cheyenne Chapter GPAA is a gold prospecting club located in Cheyenne, Wyoming. We are
a local chapter of the Gold Prospectors
Association of America. The GPAA is dedicated to providing a forum to exchange information, to giving recreational
and professional prospectors a voice in legislative matters, and to helping members in their pursuit for gold. As a
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August 1, 2017
Cheyenne Chapter GPAA Regular Meeting
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My eyes seem to always look tired and uneven especially from side views. They seem to be drooping which i feel is not normal for my young age. My eyes look tilted down and uneven from my side view and gives me the illusion of being sad. Also my upper eyelid looks like it's being weighed down by extra skin on top of it. Is there any type of surgery to help alleviate these problems with my eyes?
Is There Any Permanent Procedure to Correct Sad Looking Eyes? (photo)
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Upper eyelid surgery will brighten your looks.
Thank you for your photos. Your brow appears to be in an acceptable position. Your upper lids are what is giving you the tired look and this would be easily corrected by upper eyelid surgery. This would open the appearance of your eyes, correcting the sad look and making you look more refreshed,
Sad Eyes Corrected with Upper Eyelid Surgery?
You could benefit from a brow lift, upper eyelid surgery, and lower eyelid surgery, depending upon what is bothering you.
Procedure to correct sad looking eyes
An upper blepharoplasty procedure where excess skin and fat is removed from the upper lids will give a rejuvenation of the upper eyelids. To view other results similar to this, please see our photo gallery.
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Lower eyelid retraction
Though you have fullness of the upper eyelids, the "sad look" that you describe is mostly related to the position of the lower eyelid at the outside corners of your eye. Due to the downward slope of the lower eyelids, what is often described as lower eyelid retraction, the eyes appear "sad".
This can be addressed by lower eyelid retraction repair.
If you decide to explore this further, I would recommend consultation with an ASOPRS trained Oculoplastics surgeon. You can find one close to you on the ASOPRS dot org website.
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Upper Blepharoplasty and Possible Browlift For Sad Looking Eyes
You have extra upper eyelid skin and low set eyebrows. While you may ideally benefit from an upper blepharoplasty and a browlift, I would first have the extra eyelid skin removed and see how much improvement that provides. It alone may be satisfactory. Browlifts in men, while often beneficial, have a fine line between looking good and unnatural and I would wait and have the upper blepharoplasty prove that a browlift is needed secondarily.
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Is There Any Permanent Procedure to Correct Sad Looking Eyes...
The important thing to remember is that eyelids come in all shapes and sizes. Family history as well as your own genetic makeup contribute to how the eyelids will make you appear. It is extremely important for you to see someone who is highly experienced in performing not only eyelid surgery, but also browlift surgery. Sometimes, lifting the eyebrows can make the eyelids appear less heavy. So if they are raised, then an immediate improvement may be seen. Then, if there is any skin left over, it can be removed at the same time.
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Is There Any Permanent Procedure to Correct Sad Looking Eyes?
Yes, from the photos provided it appears that you have excess skin of the upper eyelids making the eyes appear tired. An Upper Eyelid Surgery or Blepharoplasty to remove ~ 50% of that excess would take the tired look away from the eyes without making the crease too open which is a female characteristic and one not attractive in a man.
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Yet another opinion on correcting sad eye look
For cases such as yours, I would start with only an upper lid belpharoplasty to remove some of the excess skin. A canthoplasty, which lifts the outer corner of the eye, is usually only done when it is lower than the inner corner. (Imagine a line going from the inner corner to the outer; if it angles downward to the outside, then maybe canthoplasty. Yours does not appear to.) Browlifts on men are a really tricky issue, and often just don't look good. It does not appear to me from the photos that your brow is too low.
Looking at your eyes I think you could benefit from an upper eyelid surgery with the addition of bilateral canthoplasty. This would lift your lateral canthus and reduce some of the white visible in your eyes laterally. This would help improve your look of "sadness."
Conservative forehead lifting is what corrects the sad tired look.
Conservative forehead lifting is what corrects the sad tired look. This has to be done very conservatively in males by a very experienced surgeon. Removing eyelid skin will NOT correct the look when the brows are low.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Centenary Stage Company Announces April Events
With spring right around the corner, Centenary Stage Company has exciting events planned. This April, CSC will be presenting the premiere of the new play, The English Bride, its annual Women's Playwrights Series, the Young Audience Series production of A Year with Frog and Toad, a week-long dance festival, and the finale of the 2012-2013 Family Fun Series a unique puppet show, The Lion's Whiskers.
CSC has the privilege of presenting a world premiere play written by a local playwright running April 5th through the 21st, The English Bride. A love affair, a bomb, an interrogation-who was using whom? Following a failed bombing attempt on an El Al flight out of London, the search for the truth becomes an elusive chase in the interrogation of the young Englishwoman and the Arab man with whom she has fallen in love. The English Bride is written by New Jersey playwright, Lucile Lichtblau, winner of the 2011 Susan Glaspell Award.
The annual Centenary Stage Company Women Playwrights Series returns with a line-up of new play readings and discussions on April10th, 17th and 24th at 7:30 pm. Started in 1992, this program supply's a working platform for women writing for theatre. The Series offers emerging playwrights a chance to work with professional directors and actors in a short rehearsal period, followed by a staged reading of the work in front of a live audience. Each presentation features refreshments for all, and lively "talk-backs" with the playwrights and cast following the performance.
Catskill Puppet Theatre will be wrapping up Centenary Stage Company's Family Fun Series sponsored by Fulton Bank on April 13th at 2 p.m. The Lion's Whiskers is a delightful musical adaptation of a traditional Ethiopian folktale featuring a charming cast of human characters and favorite African animals. The show features a multitude of masks and puppets ranging from three quarter life-sized to gigantic and is highlighted with shadow puppetry and original songs. Workshops will be available after the performance for children and their adults to learn some puppetry skills of their own.
Dance makes its way to the CSC stage this April. This annual dance festival at Centenary presents Umoja Dance Company, Moe-Tion Dance Theatre, Nimbus Dance Works and The Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company. The multi-cultural Umoja Dance Company on April 21st at 4:30 p.m. is a fusion of contemporary, modern and West African dance. Moe-Tion Dance Theatre on April 25th at 7:30 p.m. is a New Jersey based company known for their diverse repertory and site-specific work. Nimbus Dance Works on April 26th at 8 p.m. is Jersey City's premiere dance company. They focus on high-level dance and innovative ways of involving communities and audiences. The Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company on April 27th at 8 p.m. is acclaimed for their artistic excellence and range, as well as for their elegance and power, technical ability, versatility, and "inner fire."
CSC's Young Audience Series show, A Year with Frog and Toad (The Musical) remains true to the spirit of the original stories as it follows two great friends Frog and Toad. The performance will take place Saturday April 20th at 11 a.m. in the Little Theatre. Waking from hibernation in the spring, they proceed to plant gardens, swim, rake leaves, and go sledding, learning important life lessons including a most important one about friendship and rejoicing in the attributes that make each of us different and special.
The English Bride tickets range from $17.50 to $27.50 with discounts for students and seniors. Thursday night is Date Night with two for one rush tickets available at the door. Performances run from April 5th through the 21st and are 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. on Sundays with a Wednesday 10 a.m. matinees on April 17th and an evening performance on Wednesday April 10th at 7:30 pm with limited seating available. All performances are in the Edith Kutz Black Box Theatre in the Lackland Center at 715 Grand Avenue.
CSC's Women Playwrights Series is a free event, with reservations recommended. Dates are April 10th, 17th, and 24th at 7:30 p.m. The series will be held in the Sitnik Theatre in the Lackland Center.
Tickets for Catskill Puppet Theatre are $20 for adults, seniors and students and $17.50 for children under 12. The show will be in Sitnik Theatre in the Lackland Center on April 13th at 2 p.m. The workshop will be held after the show and is $18.50 a person, there is a limit of 50 people for the workshop.
Tickets for Dance Festival at Centenary shows range from $12.50 to $17.50. Umoja Dance Company is April 21st at 4:30 p.m. Moe-Tion Dance Theatre is April 25th at 7:30 p.m. Nimbus Dance Works is April 26th at 8 p.m. The Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company is April 27th at 8 p.m. All performances will take place in the Sitnik Theatre in the Lackland Center.
A Year with Frog and Toad tickets are $12.50 for adults and $10.00 for children under 12. The performance is Saturday April 20th at 11 a.m. in the Little Theatre at 400 Jefferson Street.
The Centenary Stage Company is a not-for-profit professional equity theatre, in residence at Centenary College, dedicated to serving as cultural resource for audiences of the Skylands Region with professional music, theatre and dance events and arts education programs throughout the year. Performance at the Centenary Stage Company are made possible through the visionary support of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the NJ State Council on the Arts, and CSC members, friends and sponsors, including Premier Sponsor Heath Village, Silver Sponsor Hackettstown Regional Medical Center and The Holiday Inn in Budd Lake, and Series sponsors, Fulton Bank, and Mamas & Café Baci.


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US theatrical: 14 May 2010 (General release)
You can't not like Dwight Howard. Whether pitching phones with Charles Barkley or mimicking Stan van Gundy, the guy is excellent, a straight-up charmer, all broad smiles, broader shoulders, and genuine good humor. So, when Dwight Howard walks into a scene in Just Wright, stopping by to visit his fictional NBA buddy Scott McKnight (Common), you're thinking, "Cool." But then, the boys start talking, and alas, it's not so cool after all.
The problem for this scene—like so many others in the movie—is that plot gets in the way of everything else, from relationships to rhythms. Here the plot drives the dialogue, as Dwight Howard smiles, asks Scott how's he's healing up from his injury, smiles again, then delivers the plot point that he's here to make: "There's a rumor going around the Nets aren't going to re-sign you." Errk. Scott looks mad, Dwight Howard looks sad, and with that, the scene's done.
Lucky for Scott, and the rest of us, he has a magnificent physical therapist, Leslie Wright (Queen Latifah). And when she walks into a scene, no matter how awful the dialogue and preposterous the plot, she's delightful. This means she very nearly overcomes her setup, which is that she's working with Scott, the best player on her favorite team, because his fiancée, Morgan (Paula Patton), sees him with a previous therapist (blond and prone to stroking his thigh) and worries. Yes, Leslie is actually a very good therapist (as the plot demands) and yes, Scott actually does appreciate her deep knowledge of all things basketball and in particular, all things Nets and Scott McKnight. But really, she has the gig because she's excellent. You know, like Dwight Howard, but with more practice acting.
Leslie's excellence does stop short of allowing her to recognize some very predictable problems. Per formula, her blindness is a function of her goodness, signaled by the usual cues: she's a tomboy, a good teammate (her work friends dote on her for a couple of one-minute scenes, so you can see this), a daddy's girl (her father Lloyd [James Pickens Jr.] has taught her all about cars and carpentry), and loving owner of a beat-up vintage Mustang named Eleanor. Not to mention, a loyal Nets fan (in this vivid fantasy, that's okay, because they're in the finals).
She's also loyal to Morgan, her "best friend" since childhood. Of all the movie's contrivances, this relationship is the most egregious. In place to serve as an obstacle to Leslie's romance with Scott, the gorgeous Morgan is a cheat and a gold-digger, and no one except Scott has any trouble seeing this. And everyone who does see it is fine with it, because everyone believes women have to trick men into marriage. Shoot, Morgan states it outright: when Leslie wonders why she spends so much time shopping and doesn't get a job, Morgan beams, "This is my job." And Leslie just smiles. Aw, Morgan! You're so cute when you're ugly.
The upshot is that Scott falls for Morgan (shorthand explanation: she lies about volunteering for a homeless shelter so he thinks she's good as well as beautiful) and Leslie accepts this as the way of the universe.
Let's consider what's wrong with this scenario. Forget for a minute that Scott—held out here to be a terrific catch because he's not only gorgeous, rich, and famous, but also smart and sensitive—is wholly idiotic when it comes to Morgan. Though he's held off marrying for years, he's so smitten by her performance that he proposes to Morgan within movie-minutes of meeting her, to the visible dismay of his wise mother Ella (Phylicia Rashad). Forget also that Leslie's own mother, Janice (Pam Grier), supports Morgan over Leslie. Overlook, of course, that Morgan looks perfectly made up at every minute, even when she first wakes up after a long party-night (like the Nets, she lives in a fantasy). And no one blinks at the fact that she's so selfish that she doesn't notice her supposed best friend's hurt feelings, in scene after scene.
Set aside all that. The major problem posed by Morgan is that she's symptomatic of what's wrong with romantic comedies. Much maligned recently, the genre has come a long way from the days when Jean Arthur and Katharine Hepburn were the smartest people in the room. Now, chick flicks demean chicks by definition. Confirming debilitating cultural stereotypes rather than using comedy to challenge them, today's romantic comedies offer up women in need of men. Everyone in Leslie's universe, including Leslie, believes she will only be happy if she lands a man, a goal that confirms Morgan's odious understanding of her "job." The difference is that Leslie's supposed to get hers by being nice and "authentic" (read: handy with tools, plus-sized, unconventionally beautiful, etc.). This "goodness" makes Morgan's artifice look "bad," so that no one is upset when Scott chooses Leslie over Morgan.
Why, oh why, does anyone put up with Morgan? What makes this formula go? Why does this movie (or Sex and the City or Twilight or The Back-up Plan) pass for entertainment "for women"? Some of us would rather watch Pam Grier, Phylicia Rashad, and Queen Latifah look out for each other. Or even see Dwight Howard, Rajon Rondo, and Dwyane Wade act like Common can lead the Nets to a title. At least that fantasy isn't insulting.
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The fight for the Jewish vote in the 2004 presidential election was one of the most hotly contested in memory. But four years later, it appears as if that dustup was nothing compared to the battle that is taking place this year.
In recent years, the Republican Party has sought to chip away at the Democrats' traditional stranglehold on the Jewish vote. But if the Republican approach got under the skin of Democrats in 2004, the campaign this year has driven them straight up the wall. This year, the Republican Jewish Coalition has run an extensive ad campaign which seeks to argue that Democratic candidate Barack Obama is unfit for the presidency because of what they say are unsavory associations, and questionable statements and judgment.
Though Democrats have responded with their own ads putting forth the case for Obama as a friend of Israel and right on issues of concern to the Jewish people, they are still angry enough about their foes' ads that they have decided to escalate the fight in other ways. As a result, the Obama campaign has signaled that its representatives will no longer debate against representatives of the RJC at community forums. In response, the Republicans have cried foul and say the Democrats are trying to repress the GOP point of view.
This might be a good moment to remind both sides that the ultimate judgment of the appropriateness and the cogency of either side's arguments and behavior belongs to the voters. Both should also remember that while these controversies are more about tactics than anything else, sometimes style becomes substance.
In the heat of political battle, it is difficult for partisans to remember that our common identity as Americans ought to supercede our party loyalties. Similarly, the differences between Republican and Democratic Jews must, even at moments like these, still be considered to be smaller than those things that unite us.
It would be a disaster if, even after the dust settles following the election, we still find ourselves a divided community, unwilling to listen to each other's arguments or to sit beside one another and discuss our differences. While election campaigns should be waged in a passionate manner, we hope both parties think long and hard about the consequences of their ever-broadening battle.


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The United States hosted a top level Iraqi interagency delegation to participate in the March 3-7 Iraq Business Week activities in Washington D.C. Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Rowsch Shaways led a 30+ member public and private sector delegation to network with scores of major U.S. firms and explore expanding business opportunities in Iraq, now the United States' 27th largest goods trading partner.
The delegation – which included Iraq's Minister of Trade and the Chairman of Iraq's National Investment Commission – addressed trade and investment challenges in Iraq, and discussed external financing options and their potential to assist in Iraq's development.
The trip culminated with a Ministry of Trade delegation visit to Houston, TX to explore establishing a trade facilitation office, and travel by the Deputy Prime Minister to New York City where he met with a number of additional U.S. firms.