 of Jesus. Place the pictures upside down on the table (make sure any writing on the back is covered or place the picture on construction paper if you can see the picture through the paper). Have the kids take turns turning over a picture and telling about the miracle in the picture.
Week 3: Have a Bethlehem dinner. This has actually become one of our family traditions because the kids love it so much. We sit on the family room floor with the lights out – only light from windows or candles – and eat foods that are similar to what they would’ve eaten in the time of Christ (we use carrots, cheese, summer sausage, pita bread or pita chips, hummus, grapes, etc). As we eat, my husband reads from the Bible the story of the birth of Christ and the kids sit so reverently and quietly while they eat and listen. Its one of our favorite parts of the Christmas season.
Did you make it through all 12 months? Let me know how it went or if you had a different fun lesson you used for any of these topics.
SISKIYOU – The SCSO conducted a large scale drug bust over much of the county on July 16 and 17. The focused operation involved a variety of law enforcement agencies.
Photo: “completely obliterated” wreck SONOMA — The press release states the that car ended up being “completely obliterated.” The beginning of the end started at 11:20 PM on July 21.
I just spent too much time drilling through those subthreads. The erasure, the comparing trans people to serial killers, the terrible burden of cis people putting up with being called cis, the OP being downvoted, that one joker mounting the most spirited defense of the scientific and only ever the strict scientific definitions of "male" and "female" when I haven't seen anyone outside the Fempire use the word "woman" in weeks... NOPE.   
  
 Abstract : The differentiated phenotype of chondrocyte is lost in pathological situations and after interleukin (IL)-1 challenge. Wnt proteins and the inorganic pyrophosphate (PP i) transporter Ank regulate the differentiation process in many cell types. We investigated the possible contribution of Ank and/or PP i to the maintenance of the differentiated chondrocyte phenotype with special care to Wnt signaling. Primary articular chondrocytes lost their phenotype upon IL-1 challenge, with cessation of type II collagen and Sox-9 expression. Ank expression and PP i transport were strongly reduced by IL-1, whereas Wnt-5a was the only Wnt protein increased. Transient overexpression of Ank counteracted most of IL-1 effects on Type II collagen, Sox-9, and Wnt-5a expression. When resting chondrocytes were transfected with a siRNA against Ank, this reproduced the phenotype induced by IL-1. In both cases, no markers for hypertrophic chondrocytes were detected. The conditioned supernatant from chondrocytes knocked-down for Ank contained Wnt-5a, which activated Tcf/Lef reporter plasmids and promoted translocation of-catenin into the nucleus without activating the c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) pathway. Supple-mentation with PP i compensated for most effects of Ank deficiency on Type II collagen, Sox-9, and Wnt-5 expression, both in IL-1 and Ank knock-down conditions. Phenotype changes induced by IL-1 were also supported by activation of the JNK pathway, but this latter was not sensitive to PP i supplementa-tion. Altogether our data demonstrate that the transport of PP i by ANK contributed to the maintenance of the differentiated phenotype of chondrocyte by controlling the canonical Wnt pathway in a Wnt-5a-dependent manner.
J. Biol. Chem.-2010-Cailotto-1...The San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, founded to present the ethnic dance companies in the Bay Area, includes performers from throughout Northern California with over 600 dance companies and 100 different genres. During its rich history, the Festival has celebrated and fostered appreciation for the diverse cultural communities in the Bay Area and Northern California. As the first multicultural, city-sponsored ethnic dance festival in America, the Festival has a responsibility and the honor to provide an outstanding opportunity for artists who seek to present the dance expressions of their cultural and ethnic heritages. Participants come from varied socio-economical backgrounds, representing a broad range of occupations and lifestyles and during the month long festival. Students, masters and groups from regions as varied as Senegal, Tobasco and Barangay all dance together on the same stage.
The four programs, one on each weekend of the month, feature 7 to 11 companies and are comprised of performers selected from an annual audition with World Arts West, the presenter of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. WAW’s mission is to support artists sustaining the world’s diverse dance traditions by providing needed services and performance opportunities and to provide the general public with opportunities to experience and learn more about world arts and cultures. The Festival plays a crucial role in California’s cultural ecology, highlighting the diverse heart and soul of San Francisco.ØG® [zerø gravity] is the lift and slide option which adopts the principle of passive magnetic levitation for the movement of doors. The frame, lifted up by powerful Ironlev® magnets slides, floating over a small track, without noise, without friction and without the need for electricity. With its technology, 0G® allows you to manually open and close large sliding doors with weights of up to 1000 Kg.
The system consists of a floor mounted levitation unit that contains the sliding rail, the magnetic skids and the beam connecting to the door and is accessible for maintenance through movable roof profiles that can have, in their visible surface, the same finishes as the floors, for perfect continuity between the interior and exterior of the building. Only an 8.5 mm gap, closed by brushes, remains visible in the floor as the door slides open, without any protrusion and, therefore, no chance of tripping. In the upper part of the ØG sash, mechanisms are provided in order to counteract the lifting thrust of the magnets and lower the panel, ensuring tightness and closure. The system does not require electricity, it works manually even with significant weights, over 1000 kg.
Police were investigating a possible domestic-related double shooting at a home in Miami Thursday.
Officials said officers responded to a home in the 2300 block of Southwest 16th Terrace and found a man and woman with gunshot wounds. Both were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center where their conditions were unknown.
A person believed to be the son of the man and woman told officers that his father shot his mother and then turned the gun on himself, but police said the circumstances surrounding the shooting remain under investigation.Take the CSP-SM class and complete your Path to CSP journey with the 3rd part of the Scrum Master's track of the Certified Scrum Professional program.
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