Carrie Ryan (born January 15, 1974) is an American author, working primarily in the field of Young Adult Fiction.
She is the author of the forthcoming literary horror novel The Forest of Hands and Teeth. A sequel, The Dead-Tossed Waves, is scheduled for release in Spring of 2010, both by Random House's Delacorte Press.
Born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina, Ryan currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina with her fiance J.P. Price. She is a graduate of Williams College, and a classmate of Graceling author Kristin Cashore. Before passing the bar, Ryan interned at the Greenville County Coroner's Office, taught SAT prep for The Princeton Review, and participated in a Mayan archeological dig in El Peten, Guatemala.
She completed The Forest of Hands and Teeth during National Novel Writing Month, her first foray into horror fiction.
She is the author of the forthcoming literary horror novel The Forest of Hands and Teeth. A sequel, The Dead-Tossed Waves, is scheduled for release in Spring of 2010, both by Random House's Delacorte Press.
Born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina, Ryan currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina with her fiance J.P. Price. She is a graduate of Williams College, and a classmate of Graceling author Kristin Cashore. Before passing the bar, Ryan interned at the Greenville County Coroner's Office, taught SAT prep for The Princeton Review, and participated in a Mayan archeological dig in El Peten, Guatemala.
She completed The Forest of Hands and Teeth during National Novel Writing Month, her first foray into horror fiction.
Sde Tzofim Yeshiva is a yeshiva for Baalei Teshuva in the city of Beitar, Israel.
goal
Baalei Teshuva encounter great difficulties on their journey, difficulties that are not limited to the inspiring journey to Yiddishkeit where they find that for which their neshama has been thirsting. A primary difficulty that they face after becoming Baalei Teshuva and marry is the lack of family, the lack of a natural support system.
Yeshiva Sde Tzofim[] has chosen to address this problem in a most innovative, wonderful way. Yeshiva Sde Tzofim, a Yeshiva that caters to Baalei Teshuva, is not just a Yeshiva. It is a Kehilla. The Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Oded Nitzani, himself a Baal Teshuva for over 30 years, realized that there was a pressing need to address the major problem facing his talmidim.
After spending several years teaching talmidim about Yiddishkeit, watching them take their first steps in shmiras hamitzvos and eventually becoming G-d fearing Jews, learned in Torah and impeccable about mitzvah observance, the time came for them to marry. After marrying girls of similar backgrounds they would embark on the next step in their journey, that of building families.
Slowly, it became clear to Rav Nitzani that his talmidim and their wives faced a seemingly insurmountable challenge.
They had married and began building families without a family support system or structure to assist them in overcoming the vicissitudes of life? It is relatively easy to be available for Baalei Teshuva when they embark on the idealistic path of Judaism. It is far more difficult, however, to take them to the finish line and help them truly feel part of Klal Yisroel,
They do not have family to support them, neither morally nor financially. They often have great difficulties finding their proper place within established charedi communities. These difficulties, coming after they have displayed such mesiras nefesh to become frum can often create a crisis in the lives of new Baal Teshuva families,
With the constant guidance and input of the Amshinover Rebbe, shlita, Rav Nitzani undertook a bold step to address this problem. He decided to establish his own Kehilla around the yeshiva.
The members of the Kehilla generally live in close proximity to each other. Rav Nitzani helps the yungeleit find jobs so they can be self supporting. The Yeshiva arranges set learning schedules for each of its graduates, who come morning and night, before and after work to learn and daven in the yeshiva.
There are shiurim for both spouses ensuring that their spiritual growth not stagnate after leaving full time learning in the Yeshiva. The Yeshiva also has separate boys' and girls' schools for the children of budding young families.
Source: Yated Neeman Feb. 28 2008
goal
Baalei Teshuva encounter great difficulties on their journey, difficulties that are not limited to the inspiring journey to Yiddishkeit where they find that for which their neshama has been thirsting. A primary difficulty that they face after becoming Baalei Teshuva and marry is the lack of family, the lack of a natural support system.
Yeshiva Sde Tzofim[] has chosen to address this problem in a most innovative, wonderful way. Yeshiva Sde Tzofim, a Yeshiva that caters to Baalei Teshuva, is not just a Yeshiva. It is a Kehilla. The Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Oded Nitzani, himself a Baal Teshuva for over 30 years, realized that there was a pressing need to address the major problem facing his talmidim.
After spending several years teaching talmidim about Yiddishkeit, watching them take their first steps in shmiras hamitzvos and eventually becoming G-d fearing Jews, learned in Torah and impeccable about mitzvah observance, the time came for them to marry. After marrying girls of similar backgrounds they would embark on the next step in their journey, that of building families.
Slowly, it became clear to Rav Nitzani that his talmidim and their wives faced a seemingly insurmountable challenge.
They had married and began building families without a family support system or structure to assist them in overcoming the vicissitudes of life? It is relatively easy to be available for Baalei Teshuva when they embark on the idealistic path of Judaism. It is far more difficult, however, to take them to the finish line and help them truly feel part of Klal Yisroel,
They do not have family to support them, neither morally nor financially. They often have great difficulties finding their proper place within established charedi communities. These difficulties, coming after they have displayed such mesiras nefesh to become frum can often create a crisis in the lives of new Baal Teshuva families,
With the constant guidance and input of the Amshinover Rebbe, shlita, Rav Nitzani undertook a bold step to address this problem. He decided to establish his own Kehilla around the yeshiva.
The members of the Kehilla generally live in close proximity to each other. Rav Nitzani helps the yungeleit find jobs so they can be self supporting. The Yeshiva arranges set learning schedules for each of its graduates, who come morning and night, before and after work to learn and daven in the yeshiva.
There are shiurim for both spouses ensuring that their spiritual growth not stagnate after leaving full time learning in the Yeshiva. The Yeshiva also has separate boys' and girls' schools for the children of budding young families.
Source: Yated Neeman Feb. 28 2008
Dan Gennoe (born 6th April 1975) is a London-based author, journalist, blogger and biographer.
Journalism
Gennoe has written about music and lifestyle for numerous British magazines, newspapers and websites including GQ, Esquire, Arena, FHM, Q Magazine, Mojo, Making Music, Seven, Notion, Fono, New Routes, Juice, Time Out, The Mail On Sunday’s Live Magazine, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, Dotmusic, ', Amazon.co.uk and Q4music.com.
High profile interviews have included rappers Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes, Jamiroquai's Jay Kay, Joss Stone, Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters and rock band Velvet Revolver featuring former Guns N' Roses Slash and Duff McKagan and sometime Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland.
He was founding Reviews Editor of underground music monthly Flipside when it launched in 1999, music editor for men's magazine Front and women's monthly Red and editor of short lived entertainment website VirtualVulture.com.
In 2006 he provided the sleeve notes to the band Jamiroquai's greatest hits album High Times: Singles 1992-2006 as well as sleeve notes for 2007's live DVD Jamiroquai - Live at Montreux 2003.
Books
In 2008 Gennoe collaborated with celebrity chef James Martin on his autobiogrpahy Driven: Cooking In The Fast Lane.
In 2009 he began work on what he's described as a 'sex, drugs and alimony memoir' Dope. Several fiction projects are also in the works.
Journalism
Gennoe has written about music and lifestyle for numerous British magazines, newspapers and websites including GQ, Esquire, Arena, FHM, Q Magazine, Mojo, Making Music, Seven, Notion, Fono, New Routes, Juice, Time Out, The Mail On Sunday’s Live Magazine, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, Dotmusic, ', Amazon.co.uk and Q4music.com.
High profile interviews have included rappers Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes, Jamiroquai's Jay Kay, Joss Stone, Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters and rock band Velvet Revolver featuring former Guns N' Roses Slash and Duff McKagan and sometime Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland.
He was founding Reviews Editor of underground music monthly Flipside when it launched in 1999, music editor for men's magazine Front and women's monthly Red and editor of short lived entertainment website VirtualVulture.com.
In 2006 he provided the sleeve notes to the band Jamiroquai's greatest hits album High Times: Singles 1992-2006 as well as sleeve notes for 2007's live DVD Jamiroquai - Live at Montreux 2003.
Books
In 2008 Gennoe collaborated with celebrity chef James Martin on his autobiogrpahy Driven: Cooking In The Fast Lane.
In 2009 he began work on what he's described as a 'sex, drugs and alimony memoir' Dope. Several fiction projects are also in the works.
Okinawan Hatha Goju Ryu Karate Do is pure Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate with Hatha yoga exercises done as a way of stretching the body and relaxation. This form of Goju Ryu was created in the 1970’s by three of Central New York's most famous karate practitioners; Master Frankie Mitchell, Master Oliver Cole, and Master Richard E. Brooks, of the Syracuse Spinning Cobras Karate Association in Syracuse, NY.
Shihan Frankie Mitchell (a current student of Grandmaster John Roseberry of the Sho-Rei-Shobu-Kan) and Master Oliver Cole were former students of Grand Master Frank Van Lenten and Peter Musacchio Sensei of the internationally renowned Central New York Family Fitness Karate school in Syracuse NY. After leaving CNY Karate, Shihan Frankie Mitchell formed the Syracuse Spinning Cobras Karate School of Syracuse, NY at Dunbar Center and at the YMCA.
Okinawan Hatha Goju Ryu is an effective form of Karate. It uses modern day approaches to self-defense and utilizes different types of approaches to urban combat. A Hatha Goju Ryu stylist is able to use anything as a weapon and is capable of handling oneself in any self-defense situation.
While Hatha Goju Ryu uses modern approaches to self-defense, it still maintains its traditional background of Chojun Miyagi's Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate-Do.
Shihan Frankie Mitchell (a current student of Grandmaster John Roseberry of the Sho-Rei-Shobu-Kan) and Master Oliver Cole were former students of Grand Master Frank Van Lenten and Peter Musacchio Sensei of the internationally renowned Central New York Family Fitness Karate school in Syracuse NY. After leaving CNY Karate, Shihan Frankie Mitchell formed the Syracuse Spinning Cobras Karate School of Syracuse, NY at Dunbar Center and at the YMCA.
Okinawan Hatha Goju Ryu is an effective form of Karate. It uses modern day approaches to self-defense and utilizes different types of approaches to urban combat. A Hatha Goju Ryu stylist is able to use anything as a weapon and is capable of handling oneself in any self-defense situation.
While Hatha Goju Ryu uses modern approaches to self-defense, it still maintains its traditional background of Chojun Miyagi's Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate-Do.