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i turned 300 from my first military paycheck into 25,000 dollars in what later turned out to be a penny pump n dump. That is when i got my start to investing.
Mine is ready. It's been a long few years here of me saying .05, soon the chance arrives.
buying on the way down is dangerous a dozen people like you have filtered through here saying the same thing .50 .40 .32 .25 .18 .15 ect now .10 same story lower numbers. Think a lot of them are ready to cut their losses first chance they get so any bounce will probably be cut short by exiting backlog.
This is important psychologically for a savy investor that is aware of the situation. I will personally cut even lower to .05 cents barring new developments becasue at that price I think it would be a good protection from the remaining 80M ready to fall on investors heads and puts a valuation where nano might actually be able to make some actual earnings from petri plates alone to justify that valuation. Any valuation over .03-.05 cents is completely built on highly speculative hope going forward for a major adoption and market shift in current medical device utilization practices form third parties which is pretty long shot imo.
The only logical reason to buy now is a fear that price reversal will be swift and sudden. Unfortunately the laundry list of stucks is a mile high, so any rally will sell off over time, if I am going to buy over .05 cents it will be because nano has a breakthrough chance with their multi well technology and if that plays out it may actually be a 2.00 stock like parents thinks. In that case i do no mind paying .30 or .50 cents and will gladly wait for the news and pay the premium to buy shares from stuck bailing after the announcement.
It sounds like a fetish. I get off the bbm.
After all the shenanigans we have been through in the past few years even offering to buy back for 1/10th of what I originally bought for is rather generous I might add.
I actually believed in nnlx back then like I did with SGLB. Then bret publicly stated he had no idea why the stock price was so high and he said he was worried about people getting hurt. that's when I knew I was snukered, and I dumped this wad before you could blink.
I bought over a million shares at .50-.55 and kicked off the big rally that got going that was a hoot. Dumped it at 1.15-.80 Have not had that much success since except with sglb.
I will not buy this yet because management has not proven anything with more pump pr's is a key signal or dump when there is no activity. Zero buys. You would think if a single person at nano or who knew bret believed the fluff piece at least someone would have bought some shares. They didn't. Tells me it may be pipe season coming again soon. If they issue new shares at .05 I will be a buyer.
you dirty #$%$, I hope you know call selling is why the stock market is so #$%$ up and stocks keep going down when they would be going up. luckily I bought those calls because I can sense when #$%$ are call scalping.
I think the day after the parents forecasts miss everyone on the board should get together and all buy nano stock maybe we can pump it up to .50 cents and start a feeding frenzy form momentum players
Right on Omar, I have heard some things form a bird. both good and bad for nanologix. Things are about to shake up here imo
That is what makes me consider buying back the stock soon. Probably after tax loss season.
waiting for it, we will see 4 imo before long
I see they moved their SGA expense to RD expense. LOL!
They don't do jack #$%$.
I guess this is to make the insiders robbing the company blind more palatable since they are "researching" and don't forget "developing"
If they narrow their targets they can get higher response, of course the drug would be less valuable. But they need to clearly describe and spell out what they drug intends to treat and make sure they have a good enough response rate in that population. Too me it just seems the market is not giving much value to the potential for this drug getting FDA approval. I saw a reversal story with anika earlier this year I banked huge on that one. The stock got hammed to 100m market cap, then one day they state things should probably get approved and it triples. Think something similar will happen here, as anika also had very attractive book value and lots of cash.
Do you have any details about the targeted populations? What type of targeting is this.
71.9 million USD in short term interest bearing notes.
And 7.5 million USD greenbacks.
6 million USD total liabilities.
market cap of only 107M USD with Price/Book of 1.3 (and that is mostly cash)
Negligible intangible assets no goodwill assets. Just hard green cash money.
hardly diluted any stock.
They have been running 353 million shares for several years, and recently decided to issue additional stock to raise more capital since they have sold 5,791,697 shares of stock for $11.5 million dollars.
above current market price
When is the last time you have heard of a company issuing new stock above market price
This company is also in medical trials with multiple new drugs in trial, seems worth a gamble can't see it going much lower with all that moeny and multiple drugs going through trials. I am buying ion this quick pullback someone dumped.
This POS can't get any traction it's stuck in a down channel probably retest 1.50
lol you actually thought i bought that, i was going for suckers to buy into my shorts.
Anyway this is the real deal, anyway thanks too your wise attitude i won;t be revealing the stock name, so good luck
This company has a huge amount of cash, green golden cash. In the form of
71.9 million USD in short term interest bearing notes.
And 7.5 million USD greenbacks.
This company almost has 0 ZERO debt. OK 6 million USD total liabilities.
AND a market cap of only 107M USD with Price/Book of 1.3 (and that is mostly cash) No intangible assets no goodwill assets. Just hard green cash money.
Over the last three years the company has hardly diluted any stock.
They have been running 353 million shares for several years, and recently decided to issue additional stock to raise more capital since they have sold 5,791,697 shares of stock for $11.5 million dollars.
When is the last time you have heard of a company issuing new stock ABOVE market price, a PIPE deal with a significant premium?? Not a discount. That speaks volumes about the confidence both the company and the market places into it.
This company is also in medical trials with multiple new drugs that have just released early results which are very positive. Based on what I have read about their current trial results, I expect some of their drugs to gain FDA approval in 8-16 months.
The stock trades under a buck ninety. And with a 107m market cap. The drugs that could gain approval could be used in nearly every hospital across the world with significantly milder side effects than chemotherapy ,and a much! wider treatment range for cancer types than most chemo treatments. Their new drugs work not by radiating the body but by inducing the body to naturally produce antibodies to fight the cancer, and several trials are ongoing currently.
I estimate the company only needs one or two of their drug suite to gain approval to gain a 1B+ market cap which would propel the stock towards $20 from the current under 1.9$ price.
I have looked over the companies you suggested. It got me thinking about some things but I will not buy yet


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Prune and Apple GalettesGalettes are very thin discs of flaky pastry which, unlike conventional tarts, have no sides. The concept is a good one because the pastry is barely there, yet it gives a light, very crisp background to all kinds of toppings, both savoury and sweet. There's no limit to what you can put on top of them – the combinations are endless, and you can serve them for a light lunch, as a first course, on a picnic or for a dessert. What I often do is freeze the pastry circles raw, interleaved with foil or greaseproof paper, so you can just whip some out for an impromptu meal any old time at all. If you don't have the right-sized cutter, just cut around a saucer of the same size. |
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Aside from "Happy Birthday" - and, let's face it, Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me, Maybe" - "The Star-Spangled Banner" is one of the nation's most familiar tunes. Yet singers have long scribbled the lyrics on their palms, and it seems Luke Bryan has followed suit.
The country singer appeared to glance at his hand while singing the national anthem at Tuesday night's All-Star Game. And some media outlets and YouTube videos caught on.
"Morning everyone. I really wanna explain the national anthem performance from last night," Bryan tweeted on Wednesday. "I had a few keys words written down to insure myself that I wouldn't mess up. I just wanted to do my best. I promise it was from the heart. If I offended anyone with my approach I sincerely apologize. Anytime I sing the anthem it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest."
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We've been speaking for weeks about the importance of eating healthy, organic food. What concerns many people is the cost of organic food. How can you and your family get the most bang for your buck? That is the question families are pondering as they try to save money while still enjoying healthy, organic meals. Here are some tips to help you and your family save money while eating healthy!
1) Shop at Trader Joe's! – What can you say about a store where their employees dress in Hawaiian shirts and they encourage you to bring your own bags? Well, they are among the cream of the crop when it comes to healthy grocery stores. For over fifty years, Trader Joe's has been putting out reasonably priced, "innovative, hard-to-find" products. You can always count on them to a feature a wide variety of organic products that will make your stomach growl with hunger and anticipation.
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WEYMOUTH, Mass. -- A man is facing a murder charge after allegedly killing his father on a Weymouth street Monday.
Neighbors said they often saw 20-year-old Michael Beaudry as he appears in Facebook pictures; walking the streets with friends in military uniforms, Nazi uniforms, even face paint and a swastika on his sleeve.
But it was much more troubling scene on the street outside Beaudry's home Monday after a neighbor recalled hearing screams.
"I looked out the window and a kid was holding his father's head on the ground," said Tommy Antonowicz, a neighbor. "I ran over there and there was blood pouring of his head…big cut this way, over the top. He's saying 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do it. I didn't mean to do it. Please, please don't die, don't die.' He was very distraught. Very, very upset."
Police say Michael Beaudry had beaten his 58-year-old father, Ronald, unconscious. Evidence markers scattered in the area marked items including a three-foot PVC pipe, camouflage hat, a small propane cylinder, a flannel shirt and a leather satchel or tool bag.
Neighbors said Michael Beaudry's fondness for dressing up and going off into the woods with friends to shoot guns and play army didn't seem scary.
Police said they have had some dealings with him before.
"At least two occasions over the past two years. None of them gave rise to a criminal activity," said Chief Richard Grimes, Weymouth Police Department.
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The School District of Menomonee Falls, Community Education & Recreation Department will use this blog to share information relative to upcoming events, classes, programs, workshops and seminars for people of all ages, from preschool to older adults. Jason Husslein, Recreation Supervisor, will post information and maintain this blog, along with contributions from other staff members. Residents are encouraged to e-mail questions of interest to firstname.lastname@example.com. Your questions may be answered in our blog.
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7-11 Lock-In Party Jam Fun Time Yeah! That is the name members of the Menomonee Falls Youth Council are giving this year's middle school lock-in. The lock-in, sponsored by the Menomonee Falls Community Education & Recreation Department Youth Council will be held Friday, May 9 at North Junior High from 7:00 to 11:00 PM. All students in grades six through eight living in Menomonee Falls or attending a Menomonee Falls school are welcome to attend. The cost is $5 per student ($2 if a member of Youth Council).
Activities include basketball, swimming, inflatable obstacle course, Gladiator Joust, sumo wrestling, one-on-one basketball, karaoke, video games, Brewer ticket raffle, prizes, concessions and more!
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How would you like to be the next American Idol? The Menomonee Falls Community Education & Recreation Department is offering two singing/music classes beginning this May.
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No experience needed, and everyone is welcome. Come sing in a group for health & fun. Julie facilitates in building a supportive venue for people who want to sing. Learn about singing, learn songs as a group, and learn part singing and chants. We'll also explore a wellness/health technique each week. Give yourself a gift - a sacred time to connect deep meaningfully with yourself and others through the magic of sound and your own voice. Register by May 21
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The SUMMER SPECTRUM program brings together FUN AND LEARNING! Choose from a variety of programs that are fun, challenging, and offer summer enrichment opportunities. Most classes are instructed by School District of Menomonee Falls teachers and staff. All classes are held at North Junior High.
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Wimbledon 1-0 LiverpoolThe FA Cup FinalWembley14 May 1988 Outsiders at 33-1 before the third round in January, Wimbledon turned the form book upside down to beat Liverpool, recently crowned League champions and one of the hottest favourites for years, in the 107th Challenge Cup Final before a shirt-sleeved 98,000 crowd in the stadium and about 250 million television viewers worldwide. It proved to be a day for unlikely heroes and Wimbledon, a non-League club just 11 short years ago and playing in the Fourth Division only five years ago, had two outstanding performers in goalkeeper Dave Beasant and midfielder Lawrie Sanchez.Beasant, 6 foot 4 tall, was responsible for two FA Cup Final 'firsts' as he became the first goalkeeper to receive the Cup and the first to save a penalty kick at Wembley. In fact no one had missed anywhere since Wallave for Sunderland in 1913.Wimbledon had lived dangerously at times but their luck looked to have run out in the 61st minute, when referee Hill pointed dramatically to the spot after John Aldridge had gone down as Goodyear came sliding in to deny the Liverpool striker a shooting opportunity. Beasant and his defence were adamant that the man had played the ball but the controversy subsided after Beasant had brilliantly turned Aldridge's spot kick round his left-hand post. It was Aldridge's first failure in 12 penalties and as he was substituted almost immediately, he must have looked back in frustration at another incident, in the first, when Beasant had foiled him with a spectacular one-handed save from point-blank range. As the ball looped into the air with the giant goalkeeper lying on his back on the goal-line, an upright John Barnes seemed certain to score, but somehow Beasant stretched up to palm the ball sideways for Jones to hack it away for a corner.Liverpool felt mightily aggrieved in the 35th minute, when Peter Beardsley broke awayfrom Thorn's illegal tackle on the edge of the penalty area and proceeded to coolly chip the ball over Beasant's dive and gently into the net, only to be called back and given ameaningless free-kick instead. Within two minutes Wimbledon had got the vital goal that ultimately won the Cup for this unfashionable team from a quiet London suburb. Full back Terry Phelen was jostled by Nicol near to the corner flag out on the left, and when Dennis Wise's right-footer from the free kick curled in towards the near post, Lawrie Sanchez - born in London with a father from Ecuador and an Irish mother - scored with a simple glancing header into the far corner. It was his first FA Cup goal and only his fifth all season.Wimbledon might have snatched a second goal just before the interval, but Terry Gibson's left-foot shot from a difficult angle cleared the bar after the leaping Grobbelaar had allowed the ball to drop behind him.Liverpool, in the quest for a second 'double' in three years, moved purposefully forward throughout the second half, but only in rare moments did Beardsley and Barnes look like producing something to save the day.Team DetailsWimbledon: Beasant, Goodyear, Phelen, Jones, Young, Thorn, Gibson (Scales), Cork (Cunningham), Fashanu, Sanchez, Wise
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Saturday, January 5, 2013
Sunset in the ethereal waves:
I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
the secret of secrets is inside me again.
— Anna Akhmatova
The faded, lovely soulfulness of winter — especially noticed from a lonely, gold-weeded pasture, cradled by powder-blue mountains, or walking at sunset through a tan-white-and-gray woodland, or along a bleak, dank, chill-clammy riverbank — is never mentioned in the ads.
It didn't likely get discussed, last month, at many holiday parties or in news reports or, probably, many school classrooms, science labs or church sermons.
How could it? You have to go find such things yourself, or be quiet and let them find you, so that "the secret of secrets" within yourself can wake up again, and unfold.
What secret?
Well, if anyone could say it, could hand it over directly and finitely, it would not be very secret, now would it?
But here's my willing-to-be-wacko guess.
The secret Akhmatova perceived is akin to that spark in the pit of every person — Meister Eckhart's "God-seed," the "daimon" of Socrates, the lovely "emptiness" of Jiddu Krishnamurti — fertile with a potential unfolding of the growth, truth, beauty and wisdom this universe is about.
It's the secret you felt inside you as a child — your particular original bit of the ancient exploding fireball, slowed down enough to give you — strange creature — a consciousness and free will that are utterly rare in space and time.
Sound incredible and weird? Well, it's quantum and astrophysics — weird-indeed research that, if we thought about it, could certainly shake humans out of our autopilot slumber, these days.
But it doesn't take the findings of quantum physics to recognize the miraculous, live-wire, secret-of-secrets light blazing in a person — growing stronger throughout a lifetime.
Cognitive-development researcher Joseph Chilton Pearce has worked for decades to convey the expansive potential of human consciousness, and under what conditions it most likely unfolds.
Intelligence initially wakes up in a child, he has written, in response to outer stimuli — stars in the night sky, jonquils in spring, birdsong and thunder, the lively vapors of moss, rocks, creek-water, sand, tree-bark or pine needles underfoot, running down the road with wind on the face or toiling with a shovel.
Life parked stagnant before a flat digital screen doesn't evoke the spectrum of nonverbal intelligence that the five senses can wake up — those initial doorways into the universe that we are, in fact, made of, conscious of and — most strangely — helping to unfold.
The universe is, after all, expanding — not least from within: and thus, within ourselves.
As this column has mentioned before, cognitive researchers find that humans are the one species whose awareness/understanding can continue growing significantly, long after pubescence — throughout a lifetime.
Perhaps because we're the creature given the strange gift of consciousness, we are the one species that never finishes growing up. And so we humans — ideally — keep growing, if we don't instead grow hard, petrified, despairing or bitter, set in autopilot ruts and reactions that never question themselves.
This continued unfolding, the lifelong reverence for "the secret of secrets" inside oneself and others, requires a kind of humble surrender and constant ego-erosion. Only this kind of childlike bend-ability, it seems, makes possible the practice of such scary, outgrow-yourself disciplines like "Love your enemy," or "Forgive," or "Return good for evil."
Psychologist James Hillman called it "growing down" — the humble task of adult human beings who have physically "grown up."
Each person, Hillman said, came into the world with a particular "acorn," that secret gift needed by this world and packed with potential.
Acorns grow by dropping down, getting "cracked-up," soft-shelled and annihilated into something bigger and, potentially, endless.
You've seen this growth in certain people — the kind with light pouring out of their eyes, who still feel awed by the beauty of a snowfall, the moon, photos of little eaglets, glimpses of backyard rabbits, great stories, astronomy, migrating butterflies — the kind of people who have grown down and deep with care for the whole world.
Millie Willis, a Roanoke hero of mine, was one of those people. Everyone around her noticed it — her joyful spark-fire, fascinated by other people's ideas, awed and wonder-struck by the vast universe and the tiniest flower, alike.
She — like Etty Hillesum, Albert Schweitzer, George Washington Carver, Peace Pilgrim and others of her kind — identified with and worked for the underdog and downtrodden, in her embrace of the whole universe.
Millie helped get legislation passed for housing the mentally ill, served in the League of Women Voters in the 1970s, actively opposed strip-mining — even loading up a bus full of concerned locals to go visit a West Virginia mine — and championed trees, birds, watershed protection, interfaith fellowship and schoolchildren.
"Mom cared about everything," her son Mike Willis told me.
Millie died at 89 this past week — the very hour that 2012 was unfolding into 2013.
Reflecting, I perceived that it was because of spiritual growers like Millie, throughout history, who yearned, worked and prayed for the good of the whole world, that humankind outlasted 2012, on a planet still viable enough to support our clumsy, continued efforts to evolve.
Because Millie herself grew down, an unusual acorn dissolving and taking root, her tree will keep unfolding long into the future, benefiting everyone in our growing-up universe.
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Pastor Creflo Dollar Denies Allegations of Choking His Daughter
Category: Praise Connect Written by Nicole Black
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Mega-church pastor Creflo Dollar was arrested Friday after allegedly choking and punching his 15-year-old daughter. In his first public appearance sense he was charged with misdemeanor counts of simple battery and cruelty to children, Dollar denied that the claims were true in front of his Atlanta congregation of 30,000 members before beginning his sermon.
He was arrested shortly after 1am when his daughter called the police and told a Fayette County sheriff's deputy that her father charged at her and then began punching and choking her after they got into an argument about her attending a party. His 19-year-old daughter also confirmed that the story was accurate.
Dollar told his congregation, which appeared very supportive of him, that he was wrongly arrested and that emotions got involved when he began to argue with his youngest daughter and the situation escalated from there, before he reassured them that he didn't physically harm his daughter in anyway.
Dollar is one of the most well-known and respected preachers in the metro Atlanta area because of the size of his World Changers Church International and other satellite ministry campuses around the U.S.
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Category: Praise Connect Written by Nicole Black
Community Resource Forum is a 501c3 nonprofit that began when Kenneth L. Scott convened a meeting of case managers from several non-profits and several community stakeholders, to conduct a vendor style expo for a site in Northeast Detroit. They saw that there was a need in our underserved communities for resources, that residents in those communities, were simply not privy, due to a lack of education, finance, technology and a host of other factors. They realized that by conducting that forum, that there was a need for them and that need could be met.
Shortly after the Forum's founding in October 2010, it established its mission: To empower, stabilize and transform our communities by supplying resources that contribute to the resident's quality of life via education, finance, health, housing, jobs, law, public safety, senior and veteran services, thus enhancing community awareness and increasing accessibility. It has since become a monthly series of expos and workshops with the aforementioned components, being the cornerstone of the forums.
Community Resource Forum works to collaborate with residents, block clubs, neighborhood associations, churches, schools, social networks, civic and community organizations, in order to connect them to the services of various nonprofits, for profits and government departments on one date, at one time, under one roof at their "No Family Left Behind" events.
As a result, Community Resource Forum will conduct monthly "No Family Left Behind" events throughout the year. The goal is to rotate these forums in different communities within the targeted cities of Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park. Scott said, "As we continue to increase our penetration into these communities and continue to align ourselves with various resources, our hope is that the underserved become better served by having accessibility to these resources".
We are bringing together over 50 service providers, nonprofits, for-profits and governmental agencies and departments; and conducting over 20 workshops that will help enhance community awareness and increase accessibility to resources that these communities would not be ordinarily be privy.
Join us Saturday, June 9, 2012 between the hours of 9:00am and 3:00pm, at Henry Ford High School, 20000 Evergreen Rd, Detroit, MI 48219, in Northwest Detroit, Kicking It off at 9:00am -10:00 am with Zumba Fitness, Gleaners Community Food Bank, Weight Watchers & FREE Healthcare Screenings (Exercise, Nutrition, A Health Plan & OnSite Health Screenings).
Among the services that will be provided, from 10:00am – 3:00pm are: GED Learning Labs, Career Schools Fair(For Those Seeking Certifications); DTE Bill Payment (DTE & THAW), FREE Onsite Healthcare Screenings (Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, Diabetes, HIV/ AIDS); Budget & Credit Fair (FREE Information From HUD & MSHDA Housing Counseling Agencies); College Fair, (Michigan Colleges & Universities and Historically Black Colleges & Universities); Homeownership Fair (Homeownership Is Back With The Detroit Association Of Realtors), Veteran Services Fair); Housing Options (Rental Information, Section 8, Weatherization; Senior Services Fair (AARP & Others); Housing Rehab Fair (City of Detroit & Others); Resume Writing & Interviewing Skills (Update Your Skills); Assistance With Online Job Applications & Free Email Addresses; Voter Education & Registration (Get Registered & Vote For 2012 & 2013 Elections); Criminal Record Expungement (Wayne County STEP Program); Ask The Lawyer (Child Support, Guardianship, Divorce, Social Security, Landlord/ Tenant Laws, Probate, Living Wills & Trusts); Community Organization Fair; and a Public Safety Fair.
For more information, please call (313)744-6352. Please visit us on Facebook, Community Resource Forum, Bringing Resources To Your Community"; follow us on Twitter @ nofamleftbehind; and log onto our web site, www.CommunityResourceForum.org.
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First Lemonade Day Detroit Workshop Presented By Huntington Bank
Category: Praise Connect Written by Nicole Black
More than 270 prospective business owners and caring adults collected at Second Ebenezer Church April 28 for a new business workshop. You might not consider an event with individuals laying on the floor coloring to be an important business seminar, but these new business owners were serious.
The festive afternoon was alive with children from toddlers to teens who were getting ready to be business owners for the day at the second annual Lemonade Day Detroit, June 9, 2012.
Lemonade Day Detroit is part of a national effort to teach children how to start, own and operate a business through the simple and time-honored act of running a lemonade stand. The goal is to have 5,000 entrepreneurs hit the streets of Metro Detroit. Children are encouraged to plan everything from their stand location to asking an adult for a monetary loan for supplies.
Presenting sponsor Huntington Bank and event organizers created the April 28 workshop with sessions for the children and their caring adults to answer questions and prepare participants. Booths were staffed by local business people and volunteers who taught attendees how to:
- Build Your Stand with Shuster Homes and Joseph Mosey Architecture
- Organize Your Business Plan and Budget with Huntington Bank
- Create Your Lemonade with Whole Foods
- Advertise Your Stand with The Yaffe Group
- Develop Success Strategies for Your Stand with JR Turnbull Communications
- Register for Lemonade Day Detroit
Huntington's business planning session was extremely popular with parents, but it was the advertising station and the ability to make your own poster that got the kids' attention. 10-year-old Nayanna Hollins of Detroit, who was making a sign with a "Sisters" theme with her little sisters, was just one of the dozens of motivated entrepreneurs on-hand who consider Lemonade Day Detroit an important stepping stone to big plans. "I'm going to be a performer when I grow up, but you don't have to go to college for that, so I'm going to be a doctor or a vet as back-up," she explained.
"Lemonade Day's mission is to arm our youth with tools that help them see that they can do whatever they want, and be successful," said Mike Fezzey, president of Huntington National Bank's East Michigan Region. "Lemonade Day helps walk children and caring adults through every step of setting up a business, and they are also learning life skills. Everyone needs to learn to balance a budget; who knew it could be fun?
"We're very grateful to Second Ebenezer Church for hosting our first workshop in its wonderful facility," he added.
Lemonade Day is a part of Prepared 4 Life, a nonprofit that provides experiential programs for children. This year Lemonade Day will expand to 29 cities and more than 200,000 children.
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National Baptist Congress is Coming to Detroit
Category: Praise Connect Written by Nicole Black
By Patrick Keating
The National Baptist Congress will hold its 106 annual conference at Cobo Center June 10-15, with Rev. Jim Holley, senior pastor at Historic Little Rock Baptist Church, serving as host pastor. According to conference organizer LaDonna Boyd, the theme this year is peace and prosperity in difficult times. The scriptural reference is John 14:27.
The National Baptist Congress was established in 1906 by Rev. Richard Henry Boyd, a former slave, who in 1896 had formed the R.H. Boyd Publishing Corp. Dr. T.B. Boyd III, LaDonna Boyd's father, is the current president and CEO.
"Every year our theme for the congress changes," LaDonna Boyd said, adding that the Congress does a traveling school of Christian education.
"So, every year we're in a different city, and we seek to provide the city with economic development and spreading the Gospel through presentations and classes. We have nationally-noted speakers who are coming, as well as entertainers."
She said they seek to always leave a city better than they found it. According to Boyd, some 5,000 people are expected to attend, and the conference will generate $5.5 million in revenues for the city. She said hotel, dining and tourism dollars make up a large amount of that revenue, though conference leaders are also encouraging guests to patronize various businesses throughout the city— especially African American-owned businesses.
She also said the Congress also offers scholarship programs to youth across the country.
Boyd also said that the National Baptist Congress likes to visit cities again (they were previously in Detroit 11 years ago), and that all the cities the Congress goes to are the ones where they have the biggest following.
"We like to make those commitments to cities that work with our conference, and always have pleasant experience," she said. "That's what mean by our economic development; just bringing a conference of this size into the city to spend dollars."
Asked if the Congress has any particular goals, and whether they vary from city to city, Boyd said they gave a general schedule they stick with.
"We can incorporate other things into that schedule if necessary," she said, adding that city officials and key individuals are invited to speak to the congregation and Congress youth, and to get the city involved and excited about the Congress' arrival.
She said the general goals of the Conference are to bring people out to hear nationally-known speakers and entertainers; and to offer them an array of classes. The Congress also always seeks to increase its membership numbers. That's a main goal.
This year's guests include Vickie Winans, Kierra "Kiki" Sheard, Dr. Dorinda Clark-Cole, Rev. Dr. Tellis Chapman, Rev. Dr. James C. Perkins and Rev. Dr. Wayne E. Croft.
Boyd said the Congress offers about 70 classes per year, as well as different seminars. She said the classes are mostly in theology. Courses are offered to people of all ages.
"We have a specific youth congress, and then we have our adult class offerings," she said. "For the adults we have classes like 'Why am I Baptist. We teach a class on world religion. One of our classes is called 'Experiencing God.' Another one is 'issues facing the 21st century family'; 'Survey of the Old Testament', and it goes on and on."
She said the classes are all Bible-based in addressing current issues within society.
She added that they have classes on marriage and parenthood, too.
Classes are only taught during the congress. There's no "campus", per se, though their offices are in Nashville.
She said most attendees try to do a little of everything offered during the conference.
"There are so many offerings," she said, adding that there's a full day of available activities.
"We, of course, encourage everyone to take part in the class sessions, and at least hear our morning assemblies," she said.
The first class starts at 7 a.m., followed by the general assembly at 9.
"It goes all day, and we actually close it out about midnight, because we have a late service that starts at 10 p.m. in the host hotel," she said.
Boyd said the overall mission of the National Baptist Congress is Christian education and leadership skills. She said the Congress has always been a resource for pastors and ministers and their congregations.
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Clergy, community and law enforcement tackle violence
Category: Praise Connect Written by Patrick Keating
Approximately 30 religious leaders joined with Police Chief Ralph Godbee, Barbara McQuade, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, and other community leaders in the community room of the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners on May 23 to announce the launch of Detroit Night Walks, a program designed to help prevent crime and stabilize neighborhoods.
"Too many people in our neighborhoods and in our communities are being preyed upon," said Pastor James Warfield of Mt. Vernon Missionary Baptist Church. "We want to reverse that trend and pray for and pray with our various neighborhoods."
Warfield, who is also a Detroit Police commissioner, said he, Bishop Edgar L. Vann II of Second Ebenezer Church and Minister James Booker have convened a powerful group of clergy to lead in this effort.
"We have a foundation of more than 30 churches who have answered this clarion call," Warfield said. "We are following the benchmarking best practice model the nationally renowned Boston TenPoint Coalition strategy, where clergy-led patrols in that city led to a 61.2 percent decline in crime."
Warfield added that we have all the power to drive the change that we need in Detroit.
"There is nothing so wrong with Detroit that collectively all our good cannot fix," he said.
Bishop Edgar Vann called Detroit Night Walks a true partnership between clergy, the community and law enforcement.
"This is the culmination of the process that has taken many months, and we believe that together we can change hearts, change minds and change lives."
Vann also said the group isn't evangelizing, but added that there's a spiritual component to crime prevention. He asked clergy from around the city to join with them.
Booker, a retired police officer, executive director of M.A.D.E. Men, and organizer of the Youth Voice Clergy Team of the Harriet Tubman Center, said that churches involved in this program represent 16 different zip codes within the city.
Booker added that, most importantly, these churches and their congregations represent the face of Detroit and the community.
Quentin McKinnon, chief of staff of the Youth Voice Executive Board, and a junior at Cody High School, spoke of being held up at a bus stop two years ago.
"I was startled, I was scared," he said of the effects of the robbery of his watch, his MP3 player and headphones. "Every day I had to plan ways to go home, switch the different streets and it was a scary experience."
Months later, Youth Voice came to his school, and he got involved with efforts to stem violence at the bus stops. He said people were being robbed every day.
McKinnon asked how many more will be hurt before Ceasefire is implemented.
"We need Ceasefire," he said.
McQuade, who said she was proud to be with youth leaders and clergy leaders who are saying they won't allow Detroit to be defined by violence, called Youth Voice a wonderful organization.
"It has brought young people together to empower them to be part of the solution," she said.
She noted that Ceasefire came about through the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention. The Department of Justice put together a program to bring together cities that have had challenges with violence, which is how she became involved.
"Detroit is not alone," McQuade said. "We certainly have intolerable levels of violence, but we're not the only city in America with these kinds of challenges. So the Department of Justice and the White House have brought together six cities, including Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, San Jose and Salinas, California, to share ideas about best practices and ways to reduce violence."
McQuade said Ceasefire, which has been successful in Boston and Chicago, is one of those great ideas.
"They have two very different models, and we looked at them, and we adopted the Boston model and are bringing it to Detroit."
She called it an intervention and prevention strategy to try to change that culture of violence.
"One essential piece of it is this Night Walks program," she said. "It's a wonderful way for the community to walk together in peace and say 'we will not tolerate violence in our community.'"
McQuade said one of the theories behind the Ceasefire model is that in big cities people feel somewhat anonymous and alienated, whereas people in small towns people feel accountable, because everyone knows everyone.
"Ceasefire tries to directly drill down on individuals to identify the people most responsible for gang violence and violent crimes," McQuade said.
She said the collective community won't tolerate people who victimize others.
The first phase of training for up to 500 clergy and lay persons took place on Friday at Second Ebenezer Church, followed by prayer rallies on Saturday.
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Brussels, 18 December 2008
On the occasion of International Migrants Day, Radio 1812 invites you to listen to a special interview (in English) with Mr. Prasad Kariyawasam from Sri Lanka. He is a member of the UN Committee on Migrant Workers and its former Chair. In the interview, Mr. Kariyawasam argues for the ratification of the Migrant Workers Convention and the need to use a rights-based approach when developing and implementing migration policies.
The interview is available on the Radio 1812 site and can be listened to and downloaded by clicking here: Courtesy: Radio 1812
Mr. Prasad Kariyawasam is presently the Additional Secretary in charge of Multilateral Affairs, South Asia and SAARC Divisions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka and the former Ambassador and the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in Geneva and New York.


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It's that time of year when many South Florida homes become free hostels and houses of refuge for northern friends and relatives escaping the winter cold and the ravages of Super Storm Sandy. While the average out-of-town guest is happy to toast on the beach, some are looking for more adventurous outdoor activities.
South Florida's seasonally cool temperatures, dry skies and lack of insects open up quite a few possibilities that were unthinkable a couple of months ago. Camping, cycling, riding on an airboat, and slogging through swamps are just some of the possibilities if you turn your back on the beach and head west.
"For wildlife, January and February are the peak times," said Maria Thomson, a 13-year veteran ranger at Everglades National Park's Shark Valley. "Alligators, wading birds. Taking the tram or riding bikes, the wildlife is right there. You don't have to use binoculars and telescopes and the wildlife doesn't seem to be bothered by it. Here in the Everglades, once you start to discover the magic that is in this ecosystem, you start to go 'wow.' "
Along with Shark Valley, which hosts an average of 110,000 visitors annually, there are plenty other local adventures that are relatively cheap, fun, and effective in getting houseguests out from underfoot that are best undertaken between now and mid-April. Here are some suggestions:
Options range from urban to primitive for spending a night (or several) at a campground in South Florida. You can go to sleep to the haunting hoots of barred owls or stay up and watch television in an enclosed cabana. Some areas allow pets. By day, you can walk out of your tent and never see another human being until nightfall, or you can walk out of your tent to an open field where scores of model airplanes and helicopters are buzzing overhead. Your choice.
• Larry & Penny Thompson Park: Situated only a five-minute drive from Zoo Miami in South Miami-Dade, this park offers hiking and horse trails, a swimming pool, horseshoe pits, playground, and a sand volleyball court in addition to tent camping sites for $16.95 per night (up to four people in a tent). There is a bathhouse with toilets, showers and a laundry room, and for those who need even more of a break from the great outdoors, a cabana with a television, books and games. You must bring your own camping equipment, but if you forget something — like the stakes for the tent —you can buy it at Wal-Mart about 20 minutes away in Florida City. No pets allowed. (Address: 12451 SW 184th St. 305-232-1049)
• Markham Park: This west Broward site is the perfect campground for the hyperactive and those not seeking solitude in the wild. Besides 88 full-service campsites (water, sewer, electrical hook-ups, restrooms with showers), this park offers enough activities to keep you busy for a month. You can: fly remote-controlled airplanes and helicopters at a special airfield; join amateur astronomers for stargazing through telescopes at night; practice shooting your gun or bow; ride your mountain bike on 10 miles of trails; play tennis and racquetball; exhaust the youngsters at a playground; and walk your pooch in the 3½-acre Barkham at Markham dog park. All this for $30 per night for Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach county residents, plus a $1 pet registration fee. (Address: 16001 W. State Rd. 84, Sunrise. 954-357-8868.)


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Marriage in crisis as husband eschews Christmas sex in favour of cash alternative
The 22-year union between Lionel and Marjorie Alwyn was reportedly under threat last night, as it emerged that Mr Alwyn had declined their traditional festive sexual congress and asked 'for the money instead'.
'Well what was I supposed to say?' said an outraged Mrs Alwyn, who had been led to believe that her festive fur-trimmed stockings and saucy Santa hat had been hitting the spot since the Berlin Wall came down. 'And it wasn't just that he was turning down a few hours of nookie with me in favour of some money in an envelope. It was that he only gave it a transferable value of twenty-five quid.'
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text: Meaford council has approved a Site Plan Control Application to will see a new car wash and laundromat business located on property near Meaford's OPP station. Council approved the Site Plan Control Application at its regular meeting held on Monday, September 10. The application dealt with property located at 336 Sykes Street North - the location of the old Meaford Tank Company. Next door to the location was once an auto shop/gas bar and at the meeting Meaford planning staff acknowledged that an application for a new gas bar for the neighbouring property was expected soon. The application came from a company called Clarmo and would see a new cash wash, pet wash, laundromat and eventually storage units on the property and another commercial building. Currently on the property are an existing industrial/commercial building and a single detached residence. The proposed cash wash/laundromat development is not related the potential new gas bar/station development that would be located on the property next door. The proposal would see the existing commercial/industrial and residential buildings on the property demolished to allow the new facilities to be built. The property is already zoned Highway Commercial and does not require zoning bylaw or Official Plan amendments to proceed. The proposed new car wash facility would include stationary wash bays and a fully automated car wash. Planning staff said the application was an appropriate use for the property and met all zoning requirements. Staff recommended to council that the application be approved. Council didn't have many comments about the application, although Deputy Mayor Harley Greenfield said he had concerns about a viable residential structure being torn down and replaced by strictly commercial buildings. Director of Planning and Building Services Rob Armstrong said that technically the residence on the property is in violation of planning regulations. "The house is a legal non-conforming use," Armstrong explained to council, noting that the ultimate goal would be for legal non-conforming uses to eventually disappear. "Our intent would be that use would eventually cease to exist," he said. Greenfield said that housing has become a significant concern across the local area and he was concerned about residential uses being lost. In response, Armstrong pointed out that Meaford's planning policies do encourage mixed use developments that include residential components above or behind commercial developments where appropriate. Armstrong said in this case he wouldn't recommend a mixing a residential use with a car wash facility. The approval of the application authorizes planning staff to reach a future Site Plan Agreement with the proponent for the development.


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Monday, January 02, 2012
Resolutions and Predictions
Some of the resolutions were the standard fare: exercise more, eat healthier. Some were fun: learn some magic tricks. Some were challenging: be nicer.
With the predictions, nobody seems to feel a calling to be a seer. Nobody wanted to guess the winner of the Superbowl or the presidential election - although Bill predicted that the winner would be somebody I, his wife, did not vote for. Yes, well, we shall see.
Most of us stuck with likely to happen predictions: that the gingerbread houses would be smashed (we generally do that on January 6th), that we would move to a new home, that we would have to resume schoolwork.
Billy predicted that he would have a new brother or sister this year. That's another likely prediction. I'm due mid-June!
It will be an exciting year, I'm sure.
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- Janine1/02/2012 9:04 AM
Congratulations! How exciting. Adding my prayers for an uneventful pregnancy.
ReplyDelete - Elizabeth M1/02/2012 12:06 PM
Congratulations! Wonderful news. Did Billy already know when he made his prediction?
I hope you have a healthy pregnancy and an extra-smooth move! - Anonymous1/02/2012 2:42 PM
Wonderful news to hear at the beginning of the year! How excited you must be!
Marylu I was just thinking about you the other day. I don't check blogs much (even my own!) and then I saw your comment and...CONGRATULATIONS! So sweet! I can't wait to see what this new one looks like. All of your kids are so funny and cute and have so much character. Blessings to your family and for your pregnancy!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!!! I traveled over New Year's and my google reader was full of over a week's worth of blog posts. I obviously just quickly perused them when I did read them because I missed the prediction coming to fruition! Your comment made me go: "Seven?" Name your kids and go back to see what I missed!! LOL!


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What Led to the Chicago Teacher Strike?
"The American Spectator" Senior Editor John Fund on the teacher strike in Chicago.
Sep 10, 2012
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With more on this John fund senior editor of the American spectator.
John great to see you.
I I have to say.
I think people look at this and they see that the pay -- they Chicago teachers are getting which is higher than any other school district in the country I believe.
It's -- shocking to see them abandoning these kids what do you make of it.
Well there -- a lot of good dedicated teachers in the Chicago system.
But the current union work rules and the current restrictions.
On them being good teachers make it very difficult to do the best job for the kids.
Something like 15%.
A fourth -- who are reading -- proficiency level in Chicago if you're entering a freshman high school class.
Only 56%.
Of the people who -- as freshman graduated seniors this is unacceptable.
Now having said that the average salary of a -- of a family in Chicago is 47000 dollars here.
But the average teacher salary is 76000.
Dollars a year and it doesn't even include benefits so there's clearly a -- we're spending too much money.
In the wrong areas and not getting good results I think if we had more choice in the system and by the way notice the charter schools.
And private -- parochial schools those kids went in today.
Exact by -- and I think you know people look at some of these other numbers teachers are only.
Paying 3% of their health care benefits in Chicago.
I mean it -- do you have this ironic situation where Rahm Emanuel the former advisor to the present a Democrat is now fighting with unions.
Over pay packages -- the reality where you know the reality meets the street.
On your ability to fund these expensive programs is the problem -- let's keep in mind here today that the negotiations were continuing for hours this afternoon.
Isn't problem with pay is it with benefits where is the sticking point.
Well I think it's ultimately something beyond the negotiation of this city.
And that's choice.
I think we need school choice.
This charter schools in Chicago or doing a pretty good job but -- far too few of them.
Parents need more choices.
Teachers need the ability to be good teachers and not be bound by union work rules and seniority rules you know just last year Gerri.
You know the teacher of the year in both Nevada and New York were fired.
Why would they fired because they were last on the seniority system the system doesn't make any sense.
So well I think we need to do -- yes we need to pay teachers well but we have to expect a lot from them including results better than 56% high school graduation.
Well one of the things the teachers are protesting -- teacher valuation process is they say it's not fair pop for them to be evaluated.
By the people.
Consuming their product I guess you could say I.
Don't we have to get some kind of market based metrics some kind of way of evaluating.
Teachers out there into the public schools so wouldn't approve them ultimately -- if -- can't afford the private school he canceled that a public school in get a decent education.
What the union and the teachers agreed to those -- valuation standards earlier this year now they're trying to take them back.
The bottom line is -- let's at least have them in place for awhile and judge teachers -- part in large part by -- the students perform.
And that's one way to judge -- no one is talking about firing teachers but we cannot get a for the teachers that need help but need more training in order to become good teachers.
We sure remind people that the Chicago Public Schools have a deficit some three billion dollars.
Over the next three years so this is a system -- has big financial problems.
-- Rahm Emanuel is calling this a strike of choice they are so close on money he says.
That the teachers -- just choosing to strike.
Is there.
Going to be some kind of wait a public employees public workers can come to some kind of middle ground.
With -- people who are managing the country's cities towns.
Public schools per you know fire departments.
To find common ground so that we can have systems that work.
Well it's inevitable because the cities are going bankrupt Illinois can't pay for its pensions.
Look mayor Emmanuel put on the table -- 16%.
Salary increase over four years.
How many of your viewers are getting a 16% increase guaranteed over the next -- years very few.
So this the teachers that the public employees are going to have to give back and also get some more flexibility so they can but not bound by these ridiculous rules.
And if we don't do that I can tell you we're we're gonna go we're gonna go to more privatization.
And believe me the public employees -- not -- like that.
Well John fund thanks for coming on tonight so it's great to see you appreciate your time banks.
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