From Britney Spears' risque cover for Rolling Stone to Demi Moore showing off her pregnant belly on Vanity Fair, over the years, some of our favorite celebrities have graced magazine covers in photos that we could never forget. Do you remember them all?
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Are you interested in foster care or foster adoption or respite/relief care? Are you wondering if one of these paths is right for your family and how to get started?
If so, join Tapestry on Sunday, March 10, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm, in Room West D for a brief information meeting for anyone interested in knowing more about foster care, adoption from foster care or respite/relief care.?This meeting is a great opportunity to simply get more information about foster care and foster adoption that can help you decide what path might be best for you and your family.
For those wanting to move forward, training classes will be offered at Irving Bible Church in April.?Check the?Tapestry Events page?for more details.
For questions or more information contact Amy Monroe at?tapestry@irvingbible.org.
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Source: http://tapestryministry.org/foster-care-foster-adoptio-informational-meeting
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Pastor Kenneth Miller was sentenced to 27 months in prison, but released pending appeal. He was convicted last summer of helping a woman take her daughter out of the country to flee joint custody with her ex-partner.
Supporters of Kenneth Miller arrive at federal court on Monday, March 4, in Burlington, Vt. The Virginia Mennonite pastor has been convicted of helping a woman and her daughter flee the country rather than share custody of the child with her former lesbian partner.
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EnlargeA Mennonite pastor who helped a still-missing woman and her daughter flee the country ? and a custody fight with the woman's former lesbian partner ? joined his supporters in song Monday after being told his 27-month prison sentence could be put on hold while he appeals his conviction.
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Pastor Kenneth Miller was convicted last summer on a charge of aiding in international parental kidnapping, also called custodial kidnapping. He received his sentence Monday.
Mr. Miller was still wearing his prison jumpsuit when he left federal court in Burlington and met a crowd of about 100 supporters who came to Vermont from as far away as his home state of Virginia.
"I am grateful for the mercy of God," Miller said, before joining his supporters in singing a hymn, "Our God, He is alive."
During a two-hour sentencing hearing, Miller told U.S. District Court Judge William Sessions III he couldn't promise he would not commit a similar crime again. Last summer, a jury found him guilty of helping Lisa Miller and her now-10-year-old daughter, Isabella, travel from Virginia to the Canadian border and then on to Nicaragua via the Toronto airport.
Lisa Miller and Isabella are still believed to be hiding in Central America. They are not related to the pastor.
Kenneth Miller, 47, of Stuarts Draft, Va., said he acted out of conscience ? and a religious belief that finds the idea of same-sex marriage offensive?? after a desperate Lisa Miller came to him in September 2009. Miller said the woman pleaded for help escaping a custody agreement that mandated Isabella spend time with Lisa's former partner, Janet Jenkins of Fair Haven, Vt.
"I give myself unto you to do with me as you see fit," an obviously emotional Miller told the judge in a courtroom packed with the same supporters who later sang with him outside.
Judge Sessions said he admired Miller for the depth of his convictions, but he could not allow him to choose God's law over his country's, saying the pastor had helped deprive Isabella of Ms. Jenkins' love. "The horror of this cannot be overstated," Sessions said.
Assistant United States Attorney Christina Nolan said Kenneth Miller's actions were not those of someone full of love and compassion for other people ? particularly Jenkins ? as he and others have claimed.
"He didn't see her as a human being. He saw her primarily as a homosexual associated with the powers of darkness," said Ms. Nolan.
Lisa Miller and Jenkins were joined in a Vermont civil union in 2000, and Isabella was born to Lisa in 2002. The couple split in 2003, and a Vermont family court gave custody of Isabella to Lisa Miller with regular visitation for Jenkins.
Lisa Miller then returned to Virginia, became a conservative Christian, renounced homosexuality, and sought full custody. Two months after Lisa Miller and Isabella fled the country, a Vermont family court judge transferred custody of the girl to Jenkins, who was not in court Monday.
Kenneth Miller had been jailed since Jan. 24 for contempt of court after refusing repeated orders to testify before a federal grand jury seeking information about others involved in the flight of Lisa Miller and Isabella. At the end of Monday's hearing, Sessions released him from the contempt citation, saying additional incarceration was unlikely to compel him to testify.
Kenneth Miller's attorneys are planning to appeal. They argued the law that allowed Kenneth Miller to be tried in Vermont for a crime that neither occurred nor was planned in the state was likely to be overturned on appeal.
The judge said the appeals process could take years.
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Desperate times call for desperate measures.
That time-worn platitude might explain the growing embrace of so-called alternative investments, a category that includes hedge funds, inverse and leveraged exchange-traded funds, private equity, commodities, futures, floating-rate and private loans, structured products and a whole lot more.
According to a study from the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, retail alternative funds (those marketed to individual investors) accounted for 7% of all U.S. fund assets under management in 2011, up from 3% in 2005. Globally, that number is 10%, up from 8% over that same period. Worldwide, alternative investment assets grew by 14.2% annually over those seven years, compared with just 1.9% for non-alternatives. McKinsey projects that by 2015, alternative investments marketed to retail investors will compose 25% of industry revenues and more than 50% of revenue growth.
Is this offbeat trend a healthy one? Certainly, proper diversification can damp volatility, but that assumes that the investments are worthwhile and exhibit low or negative correlations. In some cases, and for many individual investors, the alternative investment asset class is a solution in search of a problem. And a potentially dangerous one at that.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), an independent regulator of securities firms, has warned investors to understand what they?re buying before diving into the alternative pool. A sad litany of fraud cases among alternative products recently was chronicled in a troubling The New York Times story. A whitepaper on the subject by attorneys Seth E. Lipner and J. Boyd Page also provides cautionary advice.
It would be regrettable if equity investors turned away from owning financially strong, fast-growing companies to cast their nets in uncharted or treacherous waters. Yes, most stocks have been trapped in a secular bear market since the dot-com bubble burst in early 2000. But the ongoing cyclical bull market in equities has been powerful and profitable; over the four years through February, the S&P 500 index was up roughly 120%. Many individual stocks have done even better.
For equity investors employing a proven long-term strategy, there is scant reason to shop elsewhere. Stay the course.
Source: http://blog.betterinvesting.org/investing/alternative-investments-go-mainstream/
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