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Injury impetus for new business
By Marcus Wright
Special to the Michigan Citizen
DETROIT — It would be hard to convince Sandra Mayberry there is no silver lining in clouds. Mayberry founded S&M Jewelry Designs after suffering a work-related injury. Mayberry opened S&M Jewelry Design at Gibraltar Trade Center on Jan. 24, 2010. She proudly shows the $20 bill from the first sale she made.
S&M moved to the Russell Bazaar in August 2010. Mayberry calls herself a loyal Detroiter and when the opportunity to move her business to Detroit presented itself, she didn't hesitate. Mayberry characterizes S&M as "The best of custom and retail jewelry sold at affordable prices." She said S&M also does conversions such as converting earrings for pierced ears to clip-ons.
She referred to it as guilt-free shopping. "We keep everything under $20," Mayberry said. "We do have a few pieces that cost $20 or more but most are $20 or less."
"We also provide jewelry designs for special events; weddings and bridal showers, and parties. We do lots of church events."
Mayberry worked for the Detroit Fire Department, EMS division, where she injured her ankle and had to have surgery. She was home, couldn't work and was bored. A friend came over and showed her how to make jewelry. Mayberry's daughter came home from college and began taking her to fairs where she could show and sell her jewelry.
Mayberry had really become interested and had been told because of her injury she would not be able to return to EMS. Her daughter went back to school and Mayberry asked her sister-in-law to work with her. "I started to work full-time and business was good," Mayberry said. "My customers are satisfied. They bring friends. When people say they are coming back, they do."
Mayberry said she would get more business if more people knew about the Russell Bazaar. "The Russell Bazaar needs more promotion. People go to Eastern Market when they hear Russell. We're actually on Clay," Mayberry said. "Still, I recommend Russell Bazaar for opening a business. It is an inexpensive way of gaining experience."
Mayberry said S&M shares space with a clothing booth which sells dresses, skirts and blouses. Usually when a woman buys clothing she is also looking for jewelry. Mayberry said the clothing booth is owned by woman who works full-time at another job. "When she's not here, we help her out, make sales for her," Mayberry said. "It has worked out very well for both of us."
Mayberry has lived in Detroit 41 years. She has three children and four grandchildren. "I'm very proud of my children and I love Detroit. My husband and I live in the first house we bought after getting married," Mayberry said. "Most of the people on my block are retired and we look out for one another."
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Ala. woman sentenced in child molestation case
DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a southeast Alabama woman accused of molesting a young boy has been sentenced to six years in prison.
Police say Samantha Victoria Bryant was accused of molesting a boy under the age of 12. Officials say Bryant was out on bond last week and was awaiting a probation hearing in the molestation case when she was rearrested and charged with 44 counts of child pornography possession.
The Dothan Eagle reported Tuesday that (http://bit.ly/13aIJ6g ) the Bryant and 51-year-old Ellison Dooling were accused of soliciting child pornography on the Internet.
Authorities say some of the images featured toddlers engaged in sex acts.
Authorities say Dooling was also charged with 44 counts of child pornography possession. It's unclear if he has an attorney.
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This isn't your granddad's pontoon
BY DALE BOWMAN email@example.com September 22, 2012 12:48AM
Updated: October 24, 2012 6:32AM
A construction guy working under a bridge (I think it was at Washington Street) over the South Branch of the Chicago River shouted: ''I love it. You're lucky.''
It's good to be reminded.
On a perfect summer day, I took my annual ride with staff from the Chicago-based National Marine Manufacturers Association. This summer was different. For the first time, the main boat NMMA had for its use was a pontoon boat. For a change, our trip was on the Chicago River system.
Both are apt. Pontoons and aluminum fishing boats are the strong segments in the boating market. And the Chicago River system is the hot waterway.
But this wasn't a putter-around-the-lake-on-vacation-in-Wisconsin pontoon; it was a stop-your-mama-and-make-her-stare-in-envy pontoon.
Premier Pontoons' 290 Grand Entertainer, with twin 300-horsepower Mercury Verado outboards, has some 300 square feet with a bar, grill, pop-up bathroom, tables everywhere, built-in steps, depth finder and a huge radio system.
''I've had people say their first apartment wasn't this big,'' NMMA president Thom Dammrich said.
The guy working the dock for Quay restaurant when they picked me up in Ogden Slip said: ''That is one of the few pontoon boats I have seen. It is pretty awesome.''
''With 600 horsepower, it will fly,'' Capt. Rob Newsome of DiscoverBoating.com said.
Newsome said he had it up to 45 mph, and it handled waves of several feet on Lake Michigan. No, this is not your granddad's pontoon.
''It is an attention-getter,'' Dammrich said. ''People make some connection.''
It isn't a boat for traditional motoring on Lake Michigan.
''But it is certainly a boat to anchor by the Play Pen or go up and down the lakefront,'' Dammrich said.
Or up the Chicago River.
''With the beauty of our lakefront, it might have caused us to have less [appreciation] of the river,'' Dammrich said. ''I still think there is lots of opportunity on the river.''
That's an accurate summary.
But I am conflicted. On one hand, I see that wine bars and cafés have replaced what used to be grungy fishing spots on the south side of the Chicago River's main stem downtown. On the other hand, there is something wonderfully vibrant about being able to dock and pick up good food (lobster rolls, gourmet cheeseburgers, flatbread) from Quay along the banks of Ogden Slip.
''It is interesting, the whole change in the mind-set,'' Dammrich said. ''They were dumping grounds. Now people have a new appreciation of them.''
By ''they,'' he meant the Chicago waterways.
Newsome took his time motoring us among the crush of water taxis, kayakers and barges along the main stem, the North Branch and the South Branch.
Past Marina Towers, Trump Tower (a monument to ego in the space of the former Sun-Times building), the Merchandise Mart, Wolf Point, the new offices of the Sun-Times and the old bridges down the South Branch.
''My favorite part of boating is how relaxed it makes you feel,'' said Colleen Kenny Richardson, who manages public relations for NMMA.
It was time. They dropped me off at Ogden Slip, and I stretched out my land legs while walking to the Metra station.
Boaters come from all levels of economy. DiscoverBoating.com
has a boat-selector button that helps people explore options based on needs and desires.


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The 11-year veteran blasted his 1,000th career hit out of Nationals Park, highlighting an explosive night for the previously anemic Nationals offense, as they stomped the Philadelphia Phillies (52-64) in an 8-5 victory.
Werth led the offense with his 3-for-5, three-RBI effort, as he prolonged his post-DL outbreak. Since coming off the disabled list on June 4, he is hitting .354 with 13 home runs and 38 RBIs.
The Nationals trailed by four runs early in the game, after a dreadful second inning by Taylor Jordan. But Werth's home run pushed the Nationals ahead in the seventh, and allowed them to complete their biggest comeback of the year.
The Nats sent 10 hitters to the plate in the seventh inning against the Phillies bullpen, drew three walks and notched four hits to score five runs.
Jordan allowed the Phillies to bat around the order themselves in their four-run second inning. He gave up five hits in that inning alone, one of which was a two-run homer to Darin Ruf.
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In their last two August series, the Nats were averaging three runs per game, and they are averaging 4.19 per game this season, which is third worst in the Majors. In the last two games, they have scored nine and eight, respectively.
Those inflated scores would be difficult to replicate night after night, but if the Nationals can amp up their run production even slightly as much as they have during this series, the remainder of their season will be a lot more fun.


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Chapter 2
Prejudice: Its Forms and Causes
[Revised: August 18, 2007]
Key Concepts
This chapter explores prejudice (attitudes). Prejudice is contrasted with discrimination (behaviors) in subsequent chapters.
Three general theories to explain the causes of prejudice. These theories view prejudice as based on:
The main drift of this section is the search for personality characteristics (a personality profile if you will) that would be predisposed toward prejudiced thought.
Prejudice refers to a positive or a negative attitude or belief directed toward certain people based on their membership in a particular group. The root word of prejudice is "pre-judge." It is "a set of attitudes which causes, supports, or justifies discrimination. Prejudice refers to a tendency to "over categorize." Prejudiced people respond to others in a more or less fixed way (Farley, 2000:18).
Farley (2000:18-19) calls attention to three kinds of prejudice.
1. Cognitive Prejudice
Cognitive prejudice refers to what people believe is true
2. Affective Prejudice
Affective prejudice points to peoples likes and dislikes
3. Conative Prejudice
Conative prejudice refers to how people are inclined to behave. Note that this is still an attitude because people don't actually act on their feelings. An example of conative prejudice might be found in the statement "If I were in charge I'd send all the Wallonians back to where ever they came from."
While these three types of prejudice are correlated, they don't have to all be present in a particular individual. Someone, for example, might believe a particular group possesses low levels of intelligence, but harbor no ill feelings toward that group. On the other hand, one might not like a group because of intense competition for jobs, but still recognize no inherent differences between groups.
Discrimination is a behavior (an action), particularly with reference to unequal treatment of people because they are of a particular group whether it be racial, ethnic, religious, or gender.
1. Personal / Individual Discrimination
Farley (2000:16) contends that individual discrimination can refer to any act that leads to the unequal treatment because of race or ethnicity that is directed at a specific individual.
- a home owner refusing to sell to a Jew
- a taxi driver refusing to pick up African American fares
- an employer paying Chicano workers a lower wage than white workers.
2. Legal
Robertson (1989:204) contends that legal discrimination is "unequal treatment, on the grounds of group membership, that is upheld by law."
3. Institutional Discrimination
Deliberate racial discrimination in virtually every form has been illegal for years. None-the-less discrimination is still prevalent in our society. Discrimination can occur within institutions in society.
Institutional discrimination is unequal treatment that is entrenched in basic social institutions. It refers to those practices in social institutions that favor one group over another.
Examples of Institutional Discrimination
Deliberate Institutional Discrimination
Unintentional Institutional Discrimination
Legal discrimination is, after all, illegal. Presumably, if one can document legal discrimination, one can remove such discrimination through the courts or legislatures.
Institutional discrimination, on the other hand, is much more insidious and, therefore, more difficult to rectify. Institutional discrimination resides within the fabric of society. Harrington (1984) poetically called institutional discrimination "structures of misery."
Eitzen and Baca-Zinn (1994:174) describe institutional discrimination as "the customary ways of doing things, prevailing attitudes and expectations, and accepted structural arrangements [that] works to the disadvantage [of the poor]." Institutional discrimination explains much inequality in gender (and race and ethnicity) found in the workplace.
A stereotype us a mental image, or an exaggerated belief, which assumes that whatever is believed about a group is typical for the entire group. Stereotypical thinking is unavoidable in social life and it is not automatically bad. "The essence of prejudicial thinking, however, is that the stereotype is not checked against reality. It is not modified by experiences that counter the rigid image (Farley, 2000:19).
One might note that even positive stereotypes are a mixed blessing. On one hand, positive stereotypes justify the use of more negative stereotypes. On the other hand, they provide unrealistic attributes that the individual has to try to live up to.
Prejudice probably resides within the individual. Some times, prejudiced people (i.e., those with antagonistic attitudes toward different groups) tend to be antagonistic toward any out-group.
The Hartley StudyIn a study by Hartley (1946) respondents were asked about their attitudes concerning a variety of ethnic groups, including "Danireans," "Pirraneans," and "Wallonians." The study found that those people who were antagonistic towards blacks and Jews were also antagonistic toward these other three groups. The catch is that none of the three groups exist! This suggests that causes of prejudice can be found in the characteristics of those who are prejudiced.
Three theories are pursued in this chapter to explain prejudice. One looks at personality, one at social learning, and one at social structure.
1. Adorno
Adorno contends that people are prejudice because their prejudice meets certain needs associated with their personality. People do not become prejudiced simply based on negative encounters with members of different groups. Further, he argues, prejudiced people tend to be prejudiced towards a wide variety of groups. Adorno contends that the tendencies to be prejudice is associated with a particular personality type -- the authoritarian personality.
If prejudice is associated with a personality pattern then a prejudice person should be prejudiced regardless of who or what the group is. To test this idea Adorno employed the "AS Scale" to first test whether individual were prejudice against Jews. Next he employed the "E-Scale to test for overly strong tendencies toward ethnocentrism. There was a .8 correlation between the two scales (Farley, 2000:21).
Farley (2000:21) notes that prejudice is not associated with conservatism. While conservatives show slightly higher rates of prejudice than do liberals, there are many examples of conservatives who are not prejudice and many liberals who are prejudiced.
Although Adorno did his studies in the 1940s, current research indicates the same patterns.
Ethnocentrism refers to a tendency to view one's own group as the norm. Other groups are not only viewed as different, but they are seen as strange and sometimes inferior.
Theodore Adorno contends that many prejudiced people have a distinct set of personality traits centered around conformity, intolerance, and insecurity. Farley (2000:23-25) lists 9 characteristics:
The authoritarian personality results from family environment. Parents are themselves "cold, aloof, disciplinarian, and themselves bigots" (see Farley, 2000:24) and people who have an authoritarian personality are prone to prejudice.
1. Conventionalism
There is a rigid adherence to conventional values.
- Obedience and respect for authority are the most important values children should learn.
- A person who has bad manners, habits, and breeding can hardly expect to get along with decent people.
2. Authoritarian Submission
Uncritical acceptance of authority.
- Everyone should have complete faith in some supernatural power whose decisions he obeys without question.
3. Authoritarian Aggression
There is aggressiveness toward people who do not conform to authority or conventional norms.
- An insult to our honor should always be punished.
- There is hardly anything lower than a person who does not have great respect and loved for his parents.
4. Anti-Intraception
There is an opposition to the subjective and the imaginative. There is a rejection of self analysis. If a person has a problem or a worry, it is best for him to not think about it and to keep busy with more cheerful things.
5. Superstitious and stereotypical thinking
- Some people are born with an urge to jump from high places.
- Someday it will probably be shown that astrology can explain a lot of things.
6. Concern with power and toughness
- Any insult to ones honor should always be punished.
- People can be divided into two classes the powerful and the strong.
7. Destructiveness and Cynicism
- Human nature being what it is, there will always be war and conflict.
- Familiarity breads contempt.
8. Projectivity
This refers to the outward projections of unconscious emotions. It is the belief that the world is a dangerous and wild place.
- Now that society has so many different people in it, individuals have to be careful who they make contact with least they catch some kind of disease.
- Much of our life is controlled by people in secret places (Conspiracy theory abounds).
9. Exaggerated concern with sexual Behavior
Sex crimes, such as rape and attacks on children deserve more than imprisonment. Those people should be publicly whipped.
In looking for the causes of prejudiced personalities Adorno explored childhood experiences of prejudiced and unprejudiced people. He notes that people with an authoritarian personality are unable to view their parents critically. They show an inability to release frustration against authority figures who are the source of the frustration.
- Very strict childhood generates feelings of frustration and aggression. This involves severe punishment and highly restrictive rules (Farley, 2000:26).
- At the same time children are taught strong rules about respecting authority. They are also taught about the justness and legitimacy of society's ranking system.
- This creates a situation where the child cannot release his/her frustration against authority figures.
- As a result of repressed frustration and aggression, a process of scapegoating and projection occurs where the aggression is taken out on people who are low in the individuals ranking system.
- To avoid shaming themselves and family, fault is found in groups that lie outside the family.
Adorno, borrowing from Freud, argues that people with authoritarian personalities have an unusually strong need to scapegoat and to project (Farley, 2000:25). These behaviors are the result of unique childhood experiences involving repressed drives.
1. Scapegoating (Displaced Aggression)
Blames one's troubles on someone else who is relatively powerless. This may occur when one group feels threatened, but are themselves powerless to act against the actual source of the threat (Farley, 2000:25).
Example: A fellow has a low level of education and can't find a job. Rather than acknowledging that his lack of education is the problem, he blames his inability to find a job on minorities and immigrants.
2. Projection
Projection is a similar concept where the individual denies particular characteristics in him/her self but notices them in others (2000:25).
Example: Continuing with the example above, the fellow with little education will not acknowledge his own educational deficiencies. Instead, he will call attention to others who do not have sufficient education.
The above discussion of prejudice is rather psychological. There is also the social context to consider when one attempts to understand prejudice. Social scientists who study social learning and conformity as causes of prejudice focus on the social environment within which people live. The social environment is important. One should note, adoption of prejudiced attitudes can occur throughout the life-cycle.
People learn to be prejudice through socialization processes like internalization, modeling, and reward and punishment.
Values are internalized as people encounter various agents of socialization. Attitudes and behaviors are learned within a social context where agents of socialization are important (Farley, 2000:29-32).
1. The Family
The family is probably the most important of the agents of socialization. Family is responsible for, among other things, determining one's attitudes toward religion and establishing career goals.
2. The School
This agency is responsible for socializing groups of young people in particular skills and values in our society.
3. Peer Groups
Peers refer to people who are roughly the same age and/or who share other social characteristics (e.g., students in a college class).
4. Work
5. The State
6. Media
The effect on prejudice of television and the movies is substantial. The media's portrayal of racial and ethnic groups may be a person's principal source of information. Therefore, if the media communicates primarily in stereotypes and the viewer has little opportunity for personal contact with members of that minority, the probability of the stereotype becoming the reality to the viewer is high.
Hollywood movies have thoroughly dehumanized the nonwhite world. The whites, who are the exploiters, consistently show up as the "good guys." Whites are portrayed as the bearers of civilization and all that is just and humane. Their superiority is taken as the natural order of things, and their "justified" extermination of the nonwhites provides a "happy" ending (Kitano, 1985:52).
The Media and Minorities
The Los Angeles Times (1979), assessed the state of minorities in television and focused on 1977 network newscasts and employment figures. Television drama continued in its failure to reflect the gender and racial/ethnic composition of American life. White males, for example, who comprised 39.9 percent of the population, made up 62.7 percent of the characters. Minorities other than blacks continued to appear only rarely in TV drama. The writer also deplored the fact that of the minorities who did get TV roles, about 50 percent appeared in the same handful of shows. These shows often placed minorities in ridiculous roles. "Television, there fore, serves as a creator and/or reinforcer of beliefs" (Kitano, 1985:52).
Farley (2000:29) notes that "if a child is exposed to one set of values over time, the child will eventually come to view that set of vales as the "natural way". This is especially true when the models are someone whom the child is especially close to like parents or close relatives.
All agents of socialization reward behavior and expression of attitude that conform to their norms and punish those that do not. These rewards and punishments are sometime very formal. Other types of rewards and sanctions are informal and impromptu (Farley, 2000:29).
The ASCH Line Experiment
The fact that people are perfectly willing to deny objective reality in lieu of conforming to group pressure is demonstrated by the Asch experiment.
During the Asch experiment, seven confederates are asked to state that a short line is longer than a long line. About a third of the subjects agreed with the confederates.
People will conform to prejudice attitudes as well as to a variety of other attitudes (Farley, 2000:31). People conform in order to gain group acceptance.
There is complex interaction between these two and it is often difficult to sort out the differences between the two.
Farley (2000:33-36) contends that there is a relatively strong relationship between ones social class and the level of prejudice. Higher levels of prejudice are seen in people of lower SES. There are a couple of logical explanations for this.
What is Socioeconomic Status (SES)?
Farley (2005:32) notes that nearly all societies tend to group themselves by socioeconomic status. SES is a concept which is rather complex. The average citizen may tend to group people according to simple criteria like income or wealth. SES is a more robust concept. Socioeconomic status (SES) calls attention the complex nature of social class. It is determined by an array of social and economic indicators. It is also subject to interpretation form various social perspectives.
1. Objective Measures
2. Subjective Measures
3. Reputational Measures
Most research indicates that people with higher levels of education score lower on most measures of prejudice.
One argument suggests that people with lower socio-economic (SES) backgrounds are more rigid thinkers. Farley (2000) argues that there is a relationship between prejudice and intolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. People of higher SES are often better educated and education is often seen as a way to breaking down oversimplified, stereotypical thinking. As we become better educated, we become better able to understand complex ideas and situations. (Farley, 2000:34).
The apparent relationship between education and prejudice may also be due to other effects. Perhaps people with higher levels of education people simply know how to respond with politically correct answers regarding racial and ethnic issues, thus masking their true feelings (Farley, 2000:34).
More Observations on Prejudice
Farley (2000:35) notes that our ability to handle complex thought is affected by other conditions besides educational levels. He notes that we tend to rely on stereotypes more when we are busy, overwhelmed, or even functioning at a nonoptimal time.
Another explanation resides in the relationship between status insecurity and prejudice. If, in fact, a person who is more status insecure is prejudice one can easily see why people from lower SES positions are more prone to prejudice.
Lower SES representatives of the dominate group are placed in more direct competition for resources with minorities. Lower SES members of majority groups experience a greater threat from minority competition.
Farley, John E.
1988 Majority - Minority Relations. (2nd Ed.) Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall.
1995 Majority - Minority Relations. (3rd Ed.) Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
2000 Majority - Minority Relations. (4th Ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall
2005 Majority - Minority Relations. (5th Ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall
Henslin, James
1999 Sociology: A Down-To-Earth Approach, (4th Ed) Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
2006 Essentials of Sociology, (6th Ed.) Boston: Allyn and Bacon.


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St. Patrick's Day Parade
Parade down historic Center Avenue, ending at Wenonah Park. Join us for this annual celebration of everything Irish!
Friday & Saturday, March 21-22
• "Welcome Spring" Open House Weekend •
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Monday-Sunday, April 7-13
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Cocktails in the City
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This event highlights all of Downtown's delicious eateries and pubs. Enjoy a night full of great appetizers and specialty brews!
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BENICIA – "I was born in the church and grew up in the church," Howard Burkhart says. "The pastor kept talking about people being lost and not having Jesus. When I was about seven, I realized I didn't have Jesus, so, on my own I prayed to receive Christ as my Savior. I was baptized shortly thereafter."
Howard is a church planting catalyst with the California Southern Baptist Convention (CSBC) Church Starting Group. His ministry includes planting churches among often-overlooked language groups, working with the deaf and hearing impaired, and coordinating "Basic Training for Church Planters."
"I was going to college and the church I attended started a deaf ministry, so I started to learn sign language," Howard recalled. "I went to seminary and found out about the huge need for missionaries for the deaf." While in seminary, Howard married his church's sign language teacher, Tina.
The combination of two experiences led Howard as a young college student to recognize that God was calling him to be a missionary: learning sign language and going to Israel as an International Mission Board (IMB) summer missionary. The IMB assigned Howard to a missionary compound where they ran weeklong day camps for kids. He spent his time there as a camp counselor and lifeguard. The camps attracted Arabic-speaking children and children whose parents worked at various international embassies in the area.
"As a summer missionary in Israel, I was exposed to many different cultures in an area where I was no longer in the dominant culture. I was very fortunate to be able to see that," Howard recalled. "The first day of camp, we registered children who lived in Nazareth and in Cana. I thought that was way cool!
"I fully enjoyed the cross-cultural aspect of things, too, which I had not done a lot of before," he continued. "I found out that I was comfortable doing that."
Howard attended the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, completing a degree in marketing and business administration. In 1984, after graduating from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary with a master of divinity degree, Howard accepted a position with CSBC and he and Tina headed for California.
While serving California Southern Baptists statewide, the Burkharts currently live in Benicia, in a home built in the 1800s. Howard is seeking to plant language churches in the San Diego area, start anglo and language churches in four associations in Northern California as well as the smaller people groups of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area such as Mongolians and Ethiopian-Eritreans. He has recently started working with the Filipino people.
"It's a lot of fun to watch a church planter start the process and walk along with that planter until that church is doing well. That's a lot of fun, and very rewarding!" Howard exclaimed.
"One of the challenges to my work is finding church planters," he continued. "If we had a dozen church planters tomorrow, we could start a dozen churches. Another challenge is finding partnering churches to come alongside a church planter on various levels of engagement."
Howard has helped start Romanian, Mongolian, Vietnamese, Ethiopian, Indonesian, Burmese, Japanese, Haitian, Brazilian, Hispanic, Chinese, Filipino, Deaf, and Deaf Korean churches. He taught seminary classes for the deaf for 15 years as part of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary's diploma program.
Howard and Tina have two children, Nathan and Victoria. Tina has master's degrees in deaf education and religious education.
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"Involvement gives people in the partnering church, who are spiritually gifted in certain areas, an outlet for ministry that they might not have in their own church. People in the partnering church get fresh ideas about being relevant in their own community. Certainly, the planting church benefits by having the help of a partnering church. I see it as a win/win/win situation.
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Today's announcements make it easier for companies of all sizes to go mobile – empowering employees to interact securely with any combination of people, data, apps and devices – then bringing it all together in a seamless, integrated experience for end users.
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Love the concept of this recipe, but shame on you Sono Bakery, a terrible recipe! As the former reviewer stated, WAY too much liquid, sorry to hear she wasted her fruit. I have experience with focaccia, so I did not use all the liquid, but still had to add flour to turn what was essentially a batter into a wet dough. The dough hook does not mix well with a Kitchen Aid, I think it would be best to use the paddle, at least at first for the dry ingredients. Recipe did not say to "dimple" the dough before baking as you usually do with focaccia, so I did it anyway. I will use this concept, but not this recipe! Very surprised that John Barricelli would have a recipe like this which is also in his Sono Baking Company Cookbook.
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To much liquid in recipe, did not want to add any more flour as I was not sure of an amount that would not ruin flavor. Do not waste your time trying this. I looked at similar ones after I tried this and liquid amounts are a lot less. What a waste of dried fruit.
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A cumshot all over her face we were waiting for...
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What a fuck-head. Why didn't he go down on her to get her all moist and lubed up before he tried sticking that big bat in her. She probably would have relaxed a little also.
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Gamely strapping on a pair of Lara Croft's party-size pistols, Angelina Jolie is ready for another go as the bodacious archaeologist-adventurer in ''Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life,'' the $100 million-plus sequel that opens in more than 3,000 theaters on July 25. ''This one is better,'' she earnestly promises. ''It took us a while to figure things out -- just figuring out how to use Lara's guns in the first one took us months. But this one has more action and the character is a lot more developed. It's smarter and sexier and a bit darker. The fans should be happier this time.''
Even the makers of the original ''Raider'' admit there was much room for improvement. ''The first one did not have a strong story, I'll be the first to admit it,'' concedes Lloyd Levin, a producer on both films. ''We should have made a better movie. But we learned from our mistakes and this new one is a better movie. For starters,'' he offers encouragingly, ''it's got a plot.'' Precisely what that plot involves is, for now, being kept top secret -- something about Pandora's box being real and a race across the world to unlock its terrible ancient powers -- but it doesn't matter. The important thing is Jolie liked it enough to squeeze back into Croft's camouflaged hot pants for another round.


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|WATERTOWN, CT-31 October 2013-103113HOLW01- A child holds up a digital fingerprint card at an Operation Kidsafe event like the one that will be held in Watertown Oct. 15 and 16. Operation Kidsafe
WATERTOWN Operation Kidsafe will be making free digital fingerprint records for children at Buick GMC of Watertown Nov. 15 and 16. The safety event will also feature information from the Fire and Police Departments.
Mark Bott, founder of Operation Kidssafe, said his organization has safeguarded more than 1 million children all over North America in 13 years.
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|Rep. Scott Conklin
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Conklin unveils transportation funding reform
HARRISBURG, May 15 – Centre County state Rep. Scott Conklin today unveiled a multi-bill package designed to address Pennsylvania's transportation funding shortfall, promote the expansion of alternative fuel usage and spur immediate job creation.
At a Capitol news conference, Conklin said he is introducing transportation funding reform legislation, which includes a measure that would collect revenue by instituting a natural gas severance fee, as well as implementing a business tax policy called combined reporting.
"We're missing out. Point blank," Conklin said. "Failing to collect revenue from two sources that are right at our fingertips is a missed opportunity. My plan would avoid the governor's plan that attacks the pockets of nearly every Pennsylvanian, especially middle-class families."
Conklin's plan would enact a severance fee based on the amount of natural gas extracted from a Marcellus Shale-related gas well within the Commonwealth. It is estimated that within the first year of imposing a severance fee of 5 cents per 1,000 cubic feet of natural gas extracted at the wellhead, an additional $111 million of revenue would be created.
In addition, by closing the so-called Delaware Loophole, which is created by large corporations using tax avoidance strategies to evade paying their fair share of taxes, Conklin said the state would receive $775 million in additional funding within one year of enactment.
"In just the first year alone, an additional $886 million could go to roads, bridges and mass transit systems," Conklin said. "Not one penny, not one dime of that would come from you, me or any Pennsylvanian. Can Governor Corbett say the same?
"His plan is balanced on the backs of working, middle-class Pennsylvanians. I have never seen a governor with such disdain for working people."
Conklin's second proposal would allocate revenue generated from a natural gas severance fee for the advancement of natural gas vehicles in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection would administer the funding through the Natural Gas Energy Development Program.
"This would allow the state to set aside funding to develop the infrastructure necessary to steer us to using a cleaner and more efficient fuel," Conklin said. "Adding natural gas compressor stations across the state is the first step toward incentivizing Pennsylvanians to buy a natural gas-powered vehicle. It's a ripple effect that could have innumerable financial and environmental benefits."
Conklin's transportation funding reform package also includes legislation that would change the weight restriction level for motor vehicles registered in Pennsylvania. Any construction vehicle that is retrofitted to use an alternative source for fuel purposes would be exempt from the maximum gross weight restrictions within 2,000 pounds of the current restriction.
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I thank you for your interest and visit and hope you will visit often to see what is new.
I'm flattered to inform you that I've been asked to do a presentation for the Ocean County Artists Guild Photography Group on Friday, May 10, 2013 from 7-9 pm. For more information please see this link: http://markschwallphotography.com/ocean-county-artists-guild.pdf
This presentation is free and open to the public. If you are in the area and interested please feel free to attend.
My presentation to the Red Bank Photography Club will be on April 1, 2013 instead of April 8th. It was my misunderstanding.
I've been asked to do a presentation for the Red Bank Photography Club. The meeting will be held at 7 pm on April 8, 2013 at the Red Bank Public Library. I hope that some of you can make it.
I recently authored an article about my experiences with photographing Bald Eagles this past autumn on the Susquehana River for a new photography website/blog at www.mylightshop.com. You can find the article here: Bald Eagles of Autumn on the Susquehana.
Superstorm Sandy was a catastrophic event for the New Jersey Shore as well as much of New York City and the rest of the Mid-Atlantic region. While federal agencies and other relief organizations work hard to help those who have had their homes damaged or lost everything in far too many cases, there are other needs as well including our parks and refuge system.
Since I live in Toms River, New Jersey and do a considerable amount of photography at Cattus Island County Park which is part of the Ocean County Park System, I have elected to donate 50% of all profits for a limited time from the sale of my images to the restoration efforts at Cattus Island. In addition to the flooding of the Cooper Center, their environmental and education building, and hundreds of downed trees blocking their hiking trails they lost almost all of their equipment including a small John Deere tractor used to maintain the trails and parks.
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ACTION ALERTMarch 6, 2012
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference took place from March 4-6, featuring key speeches by President Barak Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Iran was a key focus of the speeches, and of the meeting between Obama and Netanyahu at the White House yesterday afternoon.
Both leaders agree that a nuclear Iran is unacceptable and have refused to pursue a policy of containment. However, from their speeches and public statements, it is clear that they have differences over the imminent necessity to pursue military action against Iran.
President Obama said in his speech that he "will not hesitate to use force when it is necessary to defend the United States and its interests." However, he did emphasize in his meeting with the Prime Minister that, "We do believe that there is still a window that allows for a diplomatic resolution to this issue, but ultimately the Iranians' regime has to make a decision to move in that direction, a decision that they have not made thus far."
In Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech yesterday evening, he said, "Responsible leaders should not bet the security of their countries on the belief that the world's most dangerous regime won't use the world's most dangerous weapons." He added a few minutes later, "For six years, the international community has applied sanctions. That hasn't worked either. I appreciate President Obama's recent efforts to impose even tougher sanctions against Iran. Those sanctions are hurting Iran's economy. But unfortunately, Iran's nuclear march goes on. Israel has waited patiently for the international community to resolve this issue. We've waited for diplomacy to work. We've waited for sanctions to work. None of us can afford to wait much longer."
In the wake of these public appearances, Iran agreed to grant International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors conditional access to the Parchin Military Base—a site they were denied access to last month. In response to Iran's overture, the "P5+1" (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council: United States, France, Britain, Russia and China; plus Germany) have agreed to resume diplomatic negotiations with Iran. Israel reportedly has criticized reopening talks before Iran suspends all uranium enrichment, but the White House believes pre-conditions will harm any chance of diplomatic success.
Watch President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu's AIPAC speeches and read the transcript from their White House meeting.
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August 5, 2012
Phoenix -- ABC15 and the East Valley Tribune have entered into a partnership that will enable the station and paper to better serve television viewers, readers and online audiences throughout the state of Arizona.
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@pleonasm - That's good practice, but the other thing people need to keep in mind is that at some point they need to take the appraiser(s) at their word.
If more than one licensed appraisers have told you you're charging too much for a property, then you need to reevaluate what you really want. I've seen quite a few people sit on the market for months, or even years, because they were simply charging too much. Maybe they put more into the property than it was worth, or maybe they have too much of an emotional attachment and can't think of it in terms of realistic money.
It's a good idea to do this when you're about to start renovations as well, particularly if the aim is to improve the market price. You don't want to spend thousands putting in a pool, only to realize it didn't raise the price by that much.


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welcome,my you do have your hands full,my son has pdd nos and you'll find some great tips and stratagies here.Everyone i've chatted to have been really helpful.
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|Thu, 05-31-2007 - 11:50am
Welcome! That's alot of boys to chase after :). I have a son, Nick who is 5 who is ADHD with anxiety and we are having him evaluated for AS as well. This morning I could have fired up the blender with a nice cold margarita at 7:45! This is a great board, lots of knowledge and tons of great support! I am fairly new here too but already feel right at home. Nice to have you!
|Thu, 05-31-2007 - 8:52am
Hi Carey!
Welcome, glad you found us.
I agree w/ Amy, fight tooth and nail to keep him from being held back. the 'immaturity' is not going to catch up by being held back. The only way he's going to 'catch up' is with therapy and supports for his needs at school. School districts don't like to shell out money for things that don't improve their scores or their bottom line. fight for him to get what he needs.
I have 5 children, Warren 15 dx w/ ADD-NOS (lots of AS characteristics but not enough for an AS dx) also has sever allergies, eczema and asthma, Amelia 13 NT, Weston 10 ASD, Martha 7 just dx w/ dyslexia and short-term memory problems (possibly a auditory processing disorder, we're having additional testing next week), and Owen 5 probably ADHD but no official Dx.
Our son Weston had a VERY difficult 2nd grade year. His teacher wrote in his file that he'd never be able to learn in a mainstream classroom situation and that he should be moved to a full time SDC. We moved 1/2 way across the US over the next summer and amazingly, he was fully mainstreamed in the new school district with lots of supports and did very well. He's still fully mainstreamed and has been moved to gifted classes for math and language arts. He still is very 'immature' and has all the problems that a typical ASD child has, but he's able to handle it with good supports. He'll be in middle school in the fall-- we'll see what new things that brings.
|Thu, 05-31-2007 - 12:34am
Welcome, Carey!!! We're glad you found us.
You're not likely to find any delusional folks around here. (Well, except on nights when a couple of us get to drinking cyber alcohol...but that's another story entirely.) You'll find that a lot of us deal with not only a spectrum disorder, but ADD/ADHD, anxiety issues, etc. Many of the various disorders go and hand-in-hand with ASD's.
Okay, quick bit of advice before I head to bed...
Go with your gut, but...
If I were you, I would not let them hold your son back because of "immaturity" issues. I fought this same battle with my almost 10 year old son way back in kindergarten. Even though he was advanced academically, they wanted him to repeat because of immaturity issues. Well here's the reality, kids with PPD-NOS aren't likely to "catch up" on maturity. It just doesn't work that way for our kids. What typically ends up happening is they get bored out of their minds, and then you REALLY start to see behavior issues. Honestly, I think this is an admin. ploy to save money, or at the very least, just be really flippin' lazy! It's easy for them to say, "let's just hold him back" because then they don't have to spend the time or the energy to help your son be successful!
I fought the school tooth and nail, and in the end, our son stayed home for a year between K and 1st grade. (Obviously that's not an option for you, but I wanted to let you know what we did.) Looking back now, I regret having made that decision. I should've pushed the district harder to advance him to 1st grade. Now that he's finishing 3rd grade, he struggles with being bored by the classwork, and with not having any friends his own age.
Just my 2 cents...but I wanted to share.
Hugs To You~
|Thu, 05-31-2007 - 12:24am
Hey Carey,
Well yes, we do air our dirty laundry, lol....probably too much sometimes:) Goodness what a mess of boys (and I won't even go into the animals....what a lotta poop;) I hear you about those who think they shall suddenly find a "cure" for their child. Been there done that.
I remember reading a book once that likened Downs as being the opposite of Aspergers or pdd. But, honestly, I have no clue; I ook care of a lil' girl for a few summers with moderate Downs (she was 4, and 5 at the time). She was sweet but would still have a tantrum if she didn't get her "bic" cookie.
I have three kids, 2 boys and a girl. Liam (7) ASD/ADHD/Mood disorder-nos and Cian (4) at risk for Aspergers/Add, Roan (6 months 6 months-sems NT for now)
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