The Secret Life of the Brain 2of5 The Childs Brain A child’s brain is a magnificent engine for learning. A child learns to crawl, then walk, run and explore. A child learns to reason, to pay attention, to remember, but nowhere is learning more dramatic than in the way a child learns language. As children, we acquire language — the hallmark of being human. Link: The Secret Life of the Brain 2of5 The Childs Brain

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The site of a new auditorium for a local Jahovah's Witness congregation is under construction.

A crew of all volunteers is building the 10,000-square-foot structure.

A crew of all volunteers began work on a 10,000-square-foot auditorium for a local Jehovah’s Witness congregation.

Work on the “Double Kingdom Hall” began on Friday at 31640 Calle Girasol and is expected to finish on July 8, according to Scott Zeida, a spokesperson for the congregation.

The auditorium aims to give the 2,000 local Jehovah’s Witnesses a place to worship. Seven congregations — four English speaking and three Spanish speaking — will use the building at various times, Zeida said.

More than 1,000 people volunteered their labor to build the building, the spokesman said. “All Kingdom Halls are constructed by volunteer work,” he wrote in an emailed announcement. “Many are skilled tradesmen who give of their time, energy and resources. However, the majority are unskilled volunteers who receive on-site training in the trades associated with this project.”
When the site is finished, church leaders will invite the community to tour the facility, Zeida said.

Article by Peter Surowski on http://temecula.patch.com

<a href="http://www.news.jwbrothers.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/bossert.jpg”>A reputed slumlord who is part of the development team getting slammed over conditions at the moldy, asbestos-laden Chelsea Hotel is taking over the former “Waldorf-Astoria of Brooklyn.”

Developer David Bistricer confirmed he’s bought the landmark Hotel Bossert on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights from Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the publishing arm of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and plans to turn it back into a 302-room hotel.

He declined to reveal the purchase price but said the building’s original façade would be preserved and that he plans to have it running as a hotel again by 2014, pending city approvals.

Most of the rooms at the former hotel – where the Dodgers celebrated their only World Series title in Brooklyn before heading west – are now used as residences for Witness volunteers.

Bistricer is a principal in Clipper Equities, a junior partner in the Chelsea Hotel on West 23rd Street famous for musical and literary tenants like Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin.

Developer Joseph Chetrit is listed as the primary owner of the Chelsea Hotel, but Clipper Equities was also partner in the deal to purchase the site in 2011 for $80 million. With Bistricer staying behind the scenes, Chetrit has come under fire from tenants and politicians for allegedly turning the hotel into an unsafe dump to help drive out longtime tenants.

But Bistricer’s track record in Brooklyn is notorious. As owner of the 59-building Flatbush Gardens complex, he had more than 8,100 open violations in 2010 and even ranked among the city’s biggest slumlords that year, according to a list comprised by Public Advocate Bill De Blasio.

Bistricer’s shoddy upkeep of Flatbush Gardens and other properties was also a key reason why in 2007 then-Attorney General Andrew Cuomo fought to block a $1.3 billion bid by Clipper Equities to buy the nation’s biggest federally subsidized housing complex, Brooklyn’s Starrett City.

Bistricer declined to discuss his role at the Chelsea Hotel but said he got a bad rap for his work at Flatbush Gardens, adding he took it over when it “had 16,000 violations” and has managed to resolve most of them.

Judy Stanton, executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, said her group would take a “wait and see approach” on Bistricer until it has more information but said a hotel could improve the economy in the Montague Street shopping district.

Article by RICH CALDER on www.nypost.com

<a href="http://www.news.jwbrothers.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/TURKMENISTAN.jpg”>Aibek Salayev, 33, was accused of “distributing pornography”. Supreme Court upholds his conviction, which goes into effect immediately. He will go to the Karabogaz camp on the Caspian Sea. Another Jehovah’s Witness was sentenced to two years of hard labour for conscientious objection.

Ashgabat - For the second time in 2012, a Jehovah’s Witness has been sentenced to four years in a labour camp for “distributing pornography”. However, fellow believers told Forum 18 said that the charges against Aibek Salayev, 33, were fabricated to punish him for his faith. He was sentenced by Akmurad Akmuradov, the same Judge in the Dashoguz City Court who sentenced Jehovah’s Witness Navruz Nasyrlaev to the maximum two years in a labour camp for being a conscientious objector.

Local sources said that members of the security forces and police beat Aibek Salayev during his arrest and the following days “in the stomach, kidneys and head. As a result his face swelled up and he could not eat”.

Aibek Salayev’s fate is similar to that of Vladimir Nuryllaev, 39, who was sentenced in January to four years in prison for “distributing pornography” after a “secret trial” held in the capital without the presence of family or friends.

Salayev was convicted on 12 April. His appeal was rejected on 1 May. Turkmenistan’s Supreme Court in the capital Ashgabat upheld the conviction a few days later. Now he will purge his four-year sentence of forced labour in Karabogaz, Balkan, on the Caspian Sea.

The same judge who sentenced Salayev, Akmuradov of Dashoguz City Court, also sentenced Jehovah’s Witness conscientious objector Navruz Nasyrlaev on 1 May.

Nasyrlaev was given a two-year strict regime labour camp sentence under Article 219, Part 1, of the Criminal Code., which punishes anyone who refuses to serve in the armed forces in peacetime with a maximum penalty of two years’ imprisonment. It is believed the strict-regime sentence was imposed rather than a general-regime sentence because he has been previously convicted on the same charge.

Even though Turkmen authorities deny that anyone is punished on religious or political grounds, Turkmenistan continues to imprison Jehovah’s Witnesses for conscientious objection.

A United Nations committee also noted that the Central Asian nation does not legally recognise certain religions-it has also expressed concern that it has banned religious worship in private homes.

Ninety per cent of the population of Turkmenistan is Muslim, mostly Sunni. There are some Shia communities. Once numerous, Christians are about 9 per cent, mostly Orthodox.

Source: www.asianews.it

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