November 27, 2024

The New Citizens Press

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Virtual Tourist: Five Great Non-Art Museums

Rina Risper06 mins

Orchard Street Tenement Façade.
 
The Tenement Museum preserves and interprets the history of
immigration through the personal experiences of the generations of newcomers who settled in and built lives on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, America’s iconic immigrant neighborhood
 
Photo by Keiko Niwa

 
 
Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York City, N.Y.
 
Although Ellis Island reveals that immigrants’ hardships continued upon arriving in America, few museums or landmarks illustrate the plight of immigrants in major metropolitan cities. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is such a place.

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Teenagers Lead Peaceful Protest at the Capitol

Rina Risper05 mins

Above: Malcolm Xavier Clay, 4-years-old attended the rally with his family.
 
Left:  Jamie Lynn Crawford,Todd “TJ” Duckett and Brianna Black stand in front of the Capitol during a rally focusing on youth. 
 
By Nadine Defensor 
 
LANSING, MI — Two 18-year-olds led a nonviolence rally at the capitol last month, to demand justice for Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African-American 17-year-old who was shot and killed in Sanford, Florida on February 26. 
 
The man who shot the teenager was neighborhood watch volunteer, George Zimmerman, who had told the police that he shot Martin in self-defense. 
 
Zimmerman has not been charged with a crime.

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Ask Tamara: It’s Not the Right Time to Go Back to School!

Rina Risper04 mins

Dear Tamara:
 
I have been thinking about going back to school for a couple of years now. But it seems like every time I get serious about it, something happens, or something comes up that prevents me from going. 
 
I just got accepted into a program and am not sure if I am going to be able to actually go. I just started a new job and would now have to go to school in the evenings. That means finding a sitter for my two sons. 

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The Kid’s Doctor: K2: Teens embracing new legal ‘drug’ to get high

Rina Risper06 mins

K2 is a mixture of herbal and spice products that are then sprayed with a psychotropic drug. 
 
By Sue Hubbard, M.D.
 
  I was seeing patients the other day when I spotted a teenage boy in the waiting room whom I’d cared for since birth (one of the perks of being a pediatrician). He’d come in over lunch with his mother, who wanted him to be screened for drug use. The mother had found a “pipe” in a pair of the boy’s trousers and was concerned that he was smoking marijuana.

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Takeover your own debt ceiling!

Rina Risper06 mins

Now that the super committee in Washington has not given us the confidence nor produced any savings for us – Americans; we must to take our finances in our own hands. It must be surgical and a complete takeover for the only entity that can help us now is God, himself. There are secretes that we can glean from the Bible to get us the upper hand for our financial future.

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Winning with Finances – The Fourth Principle of a Financial Takeover – Investing

Rina Risper010 mins

The last principle of the financial takeover series that we will discuss is investing. As we have seen in the past year, the stock market has been unstable, economies taken a major dip, and rising unemployment. What we thought was a sure bet is no longer one.

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Winning with Finances – Third principle of a financial takeover – Giving

Rina Risper09 mins

First it was stewardship, second it was budgeting. The third principle in the financial takeover series is giving. The concept of giving has been given a bad reputation in these economic times as most people are holding on to what they have. Some have dwindled giving to a self-motivated action. Giving has been viewed in many circles as an opportunity to get money, power, or fame. Is this right? Does it benefit the masses or does it benefit a certain group of people?  You have to look at the intent.

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Winning with Finances – Second principle of a financial takeover – Budgeting

Rina Risper08 mins

Most people change their life by appearance or by careers or even through a spiritual conversion. All of this is good if there is a vision. A vision for your life creates direction, purpose and mission. Changing your life happens in four distinct areas: personal growth, family, health, and career. If you focus or change your life in these areas, you will see a great change. Once you change any of these areas, you will change your financial future. 

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Winning with Finances – First Principle of a Financial Takeover – Stewardship

Rina Risper05 mins

What is missing from the financial talk today is the characteristic of stewardship. We can eliminate our financial worries if we can take the Bibles key point of stewardship. Psalm 24:1 declares that, “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” Everything we have on this earth is the Lord’s.

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New Non-Profit has partnered with a Large National Event to Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day –Turn the Volume Up on Peace

Rina Risper04 mins

Martin Luther King Jr.
 
Life’s Connections is a new non-profit organization located in Grand Rapids which opened its doors with a splash on 1.1.12, announcing our city’s participation in a national event to raise awareness about youth violence.
 
We want to make sure that our city is recognized on a national level with an event to raise awareness about this important issue.” says Executive Director, Danielle Muncey-Key. 

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