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hopkinspat necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 32 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
Bulldog Soccer Academy
Group of young soccer coaches from the New England area. Coaching focus on high school and college aged boys & girls.
Primary: Parents of kids (11-18 yrs old) interested in sending their children to a competitive, reasonably priced residential (overnight) soccer camp.
Parents actually pay the camp bill.
Secondary: Soccer players aged 11-18. If they are interested, they can convince their parents to sign them up.
Why Bulldog Soccer Camp?
* Experienced Staff
* Individual Attention
* Value
* Mixed ability of players in a competitive, fun environment
The goals of the site are:
1. Inform target audience on what the camp has to offer
2. Generate interest from parents/coaches (kids secondary) who are looking for a local camp for the weeks of July 7-11th.
3. User requests more information or registers for camp
* Home
* About
* Staff/Coachs
* Contact
* Register/Sign Up
* FAQs
Not of great importance but if you can come up with a quick, simple logo in the design that would be appreciated. Attached is a bulldog image you may want to include. Please don't feel the need to spend too much time on this. Will likely upgrade as part of a separate "logo" project.


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D3hoops.com has named Hope senior forward Will Bowser of Midland (Dow HS) to its national Team of the Week.
The weekly honor roll recognizes the top performances at each of the five positions from the previous week.
Joining Bowser on the national honor team are guards Matt Addison of Hardin-Simmons, Tex. and Brandon Irwin of Howard Payne, Tex., center Andrew Steloff of Oglethorpe, Ga., and forward David Golemnioski of SUNY-IT, N.Y.
Bowser was also honored as the MIAA Player of the Week for the third time this season and the fifth time in his career, sharing the honor with Kalamazoo's Joe Prepolec.
He scored 72 points in leading Hope to two come-from-behind victories that solidified the Flying Dutchmen's hold on first place in the MIAA race. He poured in a career-high 46 points in a 100-95 overtime win over Kalamazoo, and then added 26 points, including four free throws in the final 30 seconds, as Hope defeated Calvin, 76-70. Bowser made 22 of 39 shots from the field (56 percent), including 9 of 17 3-pointers (53 percent), and 19 of 22 from the free-throw line (86 percent) for the week. He added 10 rebounds and five steals in the two games.

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Frank-Walter Steinmeier | 01.02.2020
Federal President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum "Remembering the Holocaust: Fighting Antisemitism" at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem/Israel, on 23 January 2020.
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Mohammad Al-Issa and David Harris* | 01.02.2020
We come from very different backgrounds. One of us is a Muslim, born and raised in Saudi Arabia, a country where Islam is the official religion and the vast majority of the population shares the same faith. There is no local Jewish community and no direct connection to World War II.
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Ron Kronish | 01.12.2019
In recent weeks, in synagogue we have read the stories of the birth of Ishmael—a son of Abraham– who becomes the father of the Muslim people—and that of Isaac, another son of Abraham, who becomes one of the patriarchs of the Jewish People—in chapters 21 and 22 of Genesis, as part of the Torah portion known as "Vayeire".
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Daniel J. Lasker* | 02.11.2019
On the occasion of the anniversary of the murderous attack a year ago on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Daniel J. Lasker, Professor Emeritus of Jewish Thought at Ben Gurion University, wrote the following article on his uncle, Rabbi Dr. Herman Hailperin, who many years ago served as rabbi of that congregation for 49 years.
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Lisa Palmieri-Billig* | 01.11.2019
The European Day of Dialogue for Judaism observed this year in 88 Italian cities, in 15 regions all over the country had as its theme "Dreams: A ladder to heaven", based on Jacob's dream, in Genesis, of a ladder connecting heaven to earth, man to God, with angels walking up and down its steps
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Lisa Palmieri-Billig* | 01.10.2019
Don Giuliano Savina, named nearly one year ago by the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) as Director of its National Office for Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue (UNEDI) seems to have been born for this job – which for him is actually more of a calling than a job.
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Ron Kronish | 01.09.2019
Last week, I visited an injured Israeli Muslim bus driver in the town of Abu Gosh, just west of Jerusalem. Abu Gosh is a friendly Israeli Arab town, which has many wonderful restaurants visited by secular Israelis on Shabbat and holidays, and which runs two great music festivals a year. Many of the people whom I have known for years in Abu Gosh are actively involved in the Association for the Promotion of Tolerance and Coexistence in the Judean Hills, a non-profit organization in the area.
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Lisa Palmieri-Billig* | 02.07.2019
In recent months, a series of events in Rome highlighted the excellent state of Jewish-Christian relations today, leading many representatives on both sides to exclaim that they have never been so good before.
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Lisa Palmieri-Billig* | 02.05.2019
The Pontifical Biblical Institute, Cardinal Bea Center, Gregorian University Foundation, American Jewish Committee and Italian Bishops Conference unite to reassess history and stereotypes.
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Ron Kronish | 01.05.2019
As we approach the holidays of Passover and Easter, we are mindful that this used to be a time of great tension historically between Christians and Jews. "Good Friday"–the Friday before Easter– was often a time of anti-Jewish pogroms in medieval Europe, with the blood libel and accompanying violence haunting the Jews all over Europe for centuries.
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When floods swept through Sindh Province in northern Pakistan in September 2012, Haseena, a widowed mother of four, lost her home, her livestock and her means of making an income. In all, more than US$500 worth of her property was washed away or ruined – an almost insurmountable loss for a woman trying to raise a family in Sindh.
"Both of my goats were killed in the floods, and our home was damaged," said Haseena. She took children and headed at her sister's home in Shikarpur City, about 25kms from her village.
Before the floods, Haseena and her eldest daughter earned a living by selling hand-crafted caps, clothes and bed covers. However, in the months following the floods they were forced to borrow money from relatives and eat fewer meals to make ends meet.
It took four months for the flood waters to recede before Haseena and her family could return to their home. They found that many families in their village had been affected by the flooding, and as a result, they had no market for their newly stitched clothes and bed covers.
"I could not recover from that situation on my own. My house was still damaged and I did not have any livestock," she said.
She worked as a labourer on a local farm, earning a tiny income to meet some of her family's basic needs. She was unable to provide a healthy diet for her children, replace her lost livestock, or repair her home.
Emergency cash grants
The 2012 floods affected an estimated 4.4 million people across Pakistan and claimed 370 lives. Local economies were devastated. In all, more than 750,000 acres of crops were destroyed and more than 275,000 shops and homes were damaged.
Haseena's family was one of thousands in Sindh in desperate need of assistance. In February of this year, OCHA provided the American-based NGO the International Rescue Committee (IRC) with a $150,000 grant from its Emergency Response Fund (ERF) to help some of these families.
The ERF is a country-based pooled fund that provides NGOs and UN agencies with rapid and flexible funding to address critical gaps in humanitarian emergencies. Since its inception in Pakistan in August 2010, the ERF has provided more than $44 million to more than 193 projects, benefiting more than 5 million people.
With this grant, the IRC was able to provide cash assistance to more than 1,750 families in northern Sindh that were affected by the floods, short of food or vulnerable in other ways.
A sewing machine and a new start
The cash assistance came with a catch. In the months following the floods, many affected communities also faced serious health risks, including malaria, diarrhoea and respiratory infections. In response, IRC reached out to some of the most vulnerable families – including Haseena's – and offered them training in nutrition, health and hygiene and food preparation.
Cash grants were contingent on these training sessions being completed. Once done each family received $90. For Haseena, this was enough to buy a month's worth of food and a new sewing machine. This investment quickly helped her to pay off some of the debt she had incurred during her family's displacement.
"Before the grant was given to me, I used to earn up to PKR1,500 ($15) per month, but now my daughter and I earn 2,500 rupees ($25) or more using the sewing machine I bought," she said. "Today I stand as a confident mother and I am happy and extremely thankful for the support we received.


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Errata Editions On-Press: Day One
I'm now back in New York after a particularly tiring week printing books at the C+C Joint in Shenzhen, China. I arrived after a week in Paris with a slight cold so I was a little worried about being able to stand the five 24 hour days of straight printing. Unfortunately as you may have read, China now completely blocks blogging so I had to wait till I got home to post. Over the next week I'll be giving a recap on the week's events.
We started printing with our study of William Klein's Life is Good & Good for You in New York and I approved the first sheet within a half hour of arriving on site. last year there were a few issues to be hashed out before they could start putting things to press but this year we solved most all mysteries weeks ago.
For those of you who know the original Klein New York book from 1958, it is great but it has an odd flavor of printing. It was rotogravure and according to William Klein the printer in Switzerland gave him the limited choice of either "black or grey." Klein's choice of wanting rich blacks resulted in very a contrasty printing where often there is little or no detail in the deep shadows. For me this adds to the flavor and aggressive nature of the book but to some it could look primitive and crude.
Matching to my personal copy of the original which I had on hand, it was just a slight increase in the black levels of ink which made the first sheets look better. One of the things I have learned about offset since printing the first four of the Books on Books series is "wet versus dry" tonalities. As a traditional darkroom printer I expect my darkroom prints to "dry down" a little - that is, get a little darker. What I discovered with offset is that the dry sheets can wind up less rich and the blacks looking surprisingly lighter depending on the varnish. We use a slightly matte varnish over each duotone plate and when dry, it can reduce the richness of the black tonalities.
While I was on-press for the first books I kept sensing a need to reduce the amount of black ink on the pages because it looked too heavy when wet compared to the original book plates. In retrospect seeing how these dried, I had pulled back too far in some cases. So for this first Klein sheet I used my machine proofs made two months ago as a starting point since they are definitely dry and I wound up increasing the colorimeter black points to between 1.9 and 2. The result matched the original book accurately.
One thing for aspiring book makers is to consider spending the extra money to get an actual machine proof rather than one coming from a "proofing press." The machine proof is one that comes off the same kind of, if not the actual printing press that will eventually print your book. They are often in better register which was the problem with the first proofs I made for the first Errata books. this time I saw exactly what I could expect and plan for slight tonal changes etc.
People have asked repeatedly how I get the artists or estates to agree to let a work be a part of this series and the simple answer is - I just ask. For Mr. Klein I wrote a simple email to him. He responded that the project sounded interesting and after a few follow up phone calls we worked out the terms of how to proceed. Within our many conversations both on the phone and in person I discovered that Life is Good & Good for You in New York is a book which he would never reprint in its original form which is one of the deciding criteria for inclusion in my series. He told me that when he revisited the work for the New York 1955-56 book in the mid-1990s he felt that new book was going to be about the photography where the original, in his words, "was about graphic design."
Everything about the original book, the photos, the graphic design and even the printing which is far from perfect, add to the uniqueness of that book and make it the masterpiece that should be seen again. As a "street photographer" for me, it is a great honor that he would entrust me with this study of his groundbreaking work. It was even more exciting for me to have William send a couple scans of the original maquette and original contact sheets which I was able to use to illustrate the "making of" pages of my book.
This edition also includes the often missing caption pamphlet which was attached to the book via a string and metal t-bar clasp. The pamphlet contains many great graphic elements and Klein's wonderfully humorous captions. For the essay, William referred us to an existing but obscure piece written by Max Kozloff which he felt was the best thing written on him and this book, that has ever been done. Although we usually commission a new essay for each book, his insistence for this particular piece and its fullness in addressing all of the book aspects which we look for, made it a fine choice.
It is 6:00 am and I just finished approving the last of the duotone sheets from the Klein book. An exhausting day but a great start. 16 press checks and 16 cups of raw ginger tea. Now I am waiting for the phone ring to approve the first of the David Goldblatt In Boksburg book.


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