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Fatherhood workshop slated for Saturday - Marshall Democrat-News

After a successful first year of the fatherhood initiative, Powerhouse Community Development Corporation is beginning to develop the program even further.

On Saturday, Dec. 8, the organization will sponsor "Connecting with Your Kids," a Fathers Committed to Families workshop. According to organizers, this workshop will have several key topics, including participants identifying their fathering strengths and weaknesses, discovering how to connect with their kids and learning practical tips on how to be better dads.

"In that first year, we had about ... 45 or 46 participants," PCDC Director Charles Stephenson said of last year's 12-week program. "We've expanded it. Already, we've had ... 33 complete it so far" since July.

Additionally, nearly 150 fathers participated in the Dads Go to School program that took place this fall.

"We're now wanting to do more workshops ..." Stephenson said, adding these programs are open to the entire community.

Not only do organizers want to educate those looking to strengthen their fatherhood experience, they're hoping successful fathers will participate by becoming mentors for other men.

"Right now as we take them through the class ... 12 weeks is not enough to implement the transition," he said. "He's got questions at that point. We're hoping that as we're taking successful, loving, attentive, responsible fathers in the community ... that they will mentor some of the young men coming from probation and parole."

Some interested mentors have already begun planning group fatherhood excursions, such as fishing, playing baseball and other activities. Likewise, once-a-month father support meetings are being planned, and mentors will be able to communicate one-on-one at any time with those they're assisting. Mentors will go through a training program prior to being partnered with another father.

"Engage, educate, equip and empower. We want to do those four things," Stephenson said.

Saturday's workshop will include breakfast and lunch. Two guest speakers are also scheduled. One speaker is Jim Hargrave, a retired teacher who coached Marshall wrestling and football from 1965-1981, was named a Missouri Wrestling Hall of Fame Coach in 1988, and coached wrestling and football in Warrensburg from 1989-2006.

Another speaker will be Joe C. Meriweather, who played for the NBA for 10 seasons. Meriweather was a member of the Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks, New Orleans Jazz, New York Knicks and Kansas City Kings. He's now the CEO of 3C's Fatherhood Education Partnership, Inc.

"Connecting with Your Kids" runs from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church Family Life Center, 8 N. Odell Ave. in Marshall. For a registration form or for more information, call PCDC at 660-886-8860.

Contact Sarah Reed at
sreed@marshallnews.com

Source: http://www.marshallnews.com/story/1919968.html

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Netanyahu: Israel will keep settlement corridor

BERLIN (AP) ? Israel's prime minister brushed off international uproar over a planned new settlement project near Jerusalem, claiming Thursday that Israel will keep the area under any future peace deal in any case.

Israel's plans to build 3,000 new settler homes in the corridor east of Jerusalem triggered sharp criticism in Europe ? including from Germany, traditionally one of Israel's most stalwart allies. The move came after the U.N. General Assembly voted to support a Palestinian statehood bid ? with Germany abstaining rather than voting against.

Netanyahu's tough comments were the latest sign that he has no plans to step back from his plans to develop the area. On Wednesday, initial plans for the project were unveiled, though officials stressed it could be years before construction actually begins.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared anxious to downplay tensions between the two countries, saying after meeting Netanyahu that, as far as Israeli settlements on land that the Palestinians want for a future state are concerned, "we agree that we do not agree."

Palestinians say building settler homes in the so-called E1 corridor would make it impossible for them to establish a viable state in the West Bank.

Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a senior adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said it "is a red line, and there will be no solution in the presence of this project."

"After the decision of the U.N. General Assembly, every centimeter in Jerusalem and the West Bank is Palestinian land, and every Israeli settlement is illegal," he said.

Netanyahu offered no indication that his government might be prepared to backtrack. The contentious corridor is small, he told reporters, and "successive governments from Yitzhak Rabin on down to my predecessor, Mr. (Ehud) Olmert, have also said this would be incorporated in a final peace treaty."

Olmert wanted to keep the corridor under Israeli control under a final peace deal, but reportedly opposed any development of the area before a peace agreement is reached. A spokesman for Olmert did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

The Palestinians note that no agreements were ever reached.

The area could sever parts of the West Bank from east Jerusalem, their hoped-for capital. Linked to an existing bloc of settlements, the sprawling area would also drive a deep wedge between the northern and southern flanks of the West Bank, greatly hindering movement.

The unusually tense build-up to Netanyahu's long-planned trip to Germany, one of Israel's closest allies in Europe, reflected the increasing displeasure in Europe at his government's seeming intransigence, particularly over Jewish settlements on lands the Palestinians want for a future state.

Six friendly European countries summoned the local Israeli ambassadors to file protests, and the U.S. has condemned the latest settlement plans. On Wednesday, the Palestinians asked the U.N. Security Council to call on Israel to halt the planned construction.

In an interview with German newspaper Die Welt published on Wednesday, Netanyahu said that he "was disappointed, as were many people in Israel, by the German vote in the U.N." on Palestinian statehood.

"I took note of this," Merkel said at the two leaders' joint news conference at which she stressed anew Germany's commitment to Israel's security.

"We did not take the vote, and our position, lightly," Merkel said. "We are against unilateral measures, so we didn't vote yes ? that was very carefully considered. On the other hand, there is a certain amount of movement on the recognition of two states, which at many points in time we didn't have with the Palestinians."

Netanyahu stressed that despite the vote, Germany and other European countries have been among Israel's strongest allies and remain committed to helping ensure its security.

"I don't think that we lost Europe," he said of the vote.

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Associated Press correspondents Josef Federman in Jerusalem and Robert H. Reid in Berlin contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/netanyahu-israel-keep-settlement-corridor-114659660.html

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Addvocate, The Startup Led By UserVoice Co-Founder Marcus Nelson, Hires The YourTrove Team

Addvocate, a startup offering tools for businesses to encourage social media advocacy in their workforce, has hired the team behind social search service YourTrove. The two companies were working on somewhat related problems. Addvocate provides a system for pushing shareable content to employees while they're actually using services like Twitter. In other words, it replaces the email where someone has to ask, "Tweet this please!" which usually gets a disappointing response. YourTrove, meanwhile, was building a search engine that worked across users' social network accounts. However, Addvocate CEO Marcus Nelson (co-founder of UserVoice and former head of social media at Salesforce.com) told me that he didn't acquire YourTrove's technology, just the team.

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Egypt's Mursi back at palace after night of protests

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi returned to work in Cairo on Wednesday, although scores of protesters angered by his drive to push through a new constitution were still blocking one gate of the presidential palace.

The Islamist leader left the palace in the northern Cairo district of Heliopolis on Tuesday evening as tens of thousands of demonstrators surged around it, clashing briefly with police.

A presidential source said Mursi was back at work in the palace, even though up to 200 demonstrators had camped out near one entrance overnight. Traffic was flowing normally in the area where up to 10,000 people had protested the night before, and riot police had been withdrawn, a Reuters witness said.

The rest of the Egyptian capital was calm, despite the political furor over Mursi's November 22 decree handing himself wide powers and shielding his decisions from judicial oversight.

The Islamist leader says he acted to prevent courts from derailing a newly drafted constitution that will go to a referendum on December 15, after which Mursi's decree will lapse.

The Health Ministry said 18 people had been wounded in the clashes on Tuesday. While they fired tear gas when protesters broke through barricades to reach the palace walls, riot police appeared to handle the disturbance with restraint.

"Our demands from the president: retract the presidential decree and cancel the referendum on the constitution," read a placard hung by demonstrators on a palace gate.

The crowds had gathered in what organizers had dubbed a "last warning" to Mursi. "The people want the downfall of the regime," they chanted, roaring the signature slogan of last year's uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

But the "last warning" may turn out to be one of the last gasps for a disparate opposition which has little chance of stopping next week's vote on a constitution drafted over six months and swiftly approved by an Islamist-dominated assembly.

Facing the gravest crisis of his six-month-old tenure, the Islamist president has shown no sign of buckling under pressure, confident that the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies can win the referendum and a parliamentary poll to follow.

(Additional reporting by Tom Perry; Writing by Alistair Lyon; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-mursi-leaves-palace-police-battle-protesters-081635107.html

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