Across America people realize that shelter, clean water and sanitation are a life saving necessity for everyone. In a republic that admires the will of the people and lauds the representative democracy there are signs that the experiment is slipping into oblivion. More and more citizens are living in their refuse and beginning to act more and more like third world countries, where it is common for citizens to live outdoors. As these circumstances become common place and the enclaves of suburbia become more and more like ghost towns it is apparent that this broad experiment is failing.

We are slowly committing suicide and there are many who have embraced the notion that this way of life does not work. For many of the most oppressed people this way succeeded only when the White Europeans were back home in their governments of crowns and thorns. In many ways the American of today is living with the aim of sliding back to the ideals of the frontier, rough tumble and where life was cheap.

Drinking, gambling, violence, exploitation of lives, inability of many to subsist, is an ever-increasing barometer of the fall of America. The moral imperative of saving others and living in the best place on earth is slipping with the advent of more ruthless and unequal use of power and wealth.

What we have to accomplish in this next era is nothing short of a complete transformation of the way we do business. People have to begin to share, be simpler in their comforts, do without and live more intentionally. A plan for caring for people in a village could be the only means that we survive. Looking at models that exist elsewhere this calls upon each of us is to sacrifice and make out footprints small enough for us to encompass everyone. If we continue to expand industry and business practices of stockholders and boards we have nowhere to go. All of them will have to give up their financial empire for the survival of the earth.

We need 0 population growth by the end of the era. We have to stop military proliferation of arms. We have to live ascetically. If we fail in our efforts the environment will continue to rebel against our folly. Those who feel exempt from this scenario are going to awaken to a rude and terrifying world. Many people throughout the United States already sense that we are living out our last days.

Several organizations were involved in the effort to improve the quality of life for the residents. There were about fifty people who came from organizations throughout the community, and met at the District 6 Police Station. Commander Dilley was among the participants along with the area leaders, Joe Burnham at joe@genesisdenver.com and Liam Walsh at lchristopherw@yahoo.com, in case you want to join Neighbors On the Hill.

The point of this effort is to make the area safer by providing an alternative to people living in Capitol Hill. Unfortunately, there is not enough going on between residents to address the problems of graffiti, theft, trash, vandalism and public problems that create tension and upheaval. We need more efforts like this and across the Inter Neighborhood lines of the community. We have to engage more of the businesses and help to make Denver a place of small villages interconnected for the benefit of patrons and residents of the community.

We applaud the efforts of the City and County of Denver to rely on the neighbors to instill pride and public safety. Next time the other neighborhood organizations can come out and work together. We can all keep our homes safer and our neighbors informed through the efforts of Neighbors on the Hill.

If the problem was in Cherry Creek or in South Denver the issue would be solved already. All along the north side of the city in Council woman Montero and Madison's Neighborhoods there is a concentration of services for the people who are living on the edge. Why is there a greater density of low income housing, shelters, transitional housing and special housing in the vicinity north of Colfax and along Park Ave West to Brighton Blvd.? Is it because the neighborhood was always the location of the shelters, missions and soup lines? Is it because the boarding homes and flop houses pervaded one part of town and the rest of the neighborhoods said, "not in my backyard?"

The Curtis park Neighborhood, Ball Park Neighborhoods, the Denargo Market Neighborhood and the Capitol Hill and Five Points Business Improvement Districts are grappling with the realities of poverty and concentration of services on their corners even as gentrification sweeps aside all remnants of the former life of the central north corridor of Denver.

Another proposal would work well in the community called the Community Coalition. Fashioned in Phoenixville, Pa. it is modeled after a view that neighborhoods contain within their infrastructure, the where with all to solve their personal, human, social and environmental issues with stream lining the services to make essential use of community building.
There are theatres, banks, civic organizations like Citizen Advocacy, Open Hearth and Orion Communities dedicated to growing business relationships with the neighbors. The individual issues are taken on by Citizen Advocacy of Chester County, which pairs the person who needs any and all sorts of support, including "life Sharing," with the community coalition. Loans are made to people with disabilities to initiate businesses, blue prints for businesses share spaces and pair down the cost of rent and utilities. People genuinely feel their community is owned and supported neighbor by neighbor.

In an era where the government is unwilling to raise revenues and the costs of business continue to escalate, we need new paradigms. This one has been thriving for more than ten years. We need to hear what are the benefits of cooperation that include all interests and individuals. If we are to encompass the demands of a growing segment of disenheartened and strapped entrepreneurs and residents to solve their problems through government we have to include all perspectives and partners. The channels for this organizational structure create opportunity and the resources to change lives and enighborhoods. The era is far gone when anyone can "do their own thing."

To Learn more go to www.thecommunitycoalition.org or to citizenadvocacy1@aol.com, shelteringarmscc@aol.com, orionc@netcarrier.com, thecolonialtheatre@yahoo.com, or openhearthinc@verizon.net.

People in this nation are divided about the virtues of Hilary Rodman Clinton and her rival, Barack Obama. On Saturday morning there will be a delegation chosen for the Democratic National Convention. It is unfortunate that both of the Clintons have sought to press their personal agenda on the American public at the expense of moving forward in the rights of a democratic conversation of liberty and justice. In the second term of office of William Clinton, he showed a lack of fore sight in propelling us through a disgraceful episode of personal abuse of power in his relationship with Monica Wallensky. His lack of judgement, given his station as the executive and leader of the United States in part created the collapse of the party in supporting Al Gore as the candidate for president. The cloud that hung over the presidency would have dissipated with his departure from the stage of American politics the first time.

Again, Ms. Clinton has chosen to drag out, because it is her right as a citizen and candidate, this unending calamity of the due process of running as a candidate for the office of President of the United States. She intends to see this through, squandering millions and millions of dollars, but more over making it clear that once again the Democratic Party vacillates in choosing a vision and stepping forward to restore the social and economic balance of power throughout the nation and the world. Congratulations to all of those who see this as more than a personal foible of the Clintons.

Now with the convention less than 100 days away we are faced with a chance to set in motion a movement to sweep aside the old and limited vision of the past decade, if only hubris and the better of a person's judgement would abate and let us get on with the task.

Investing in the community is a series of ventures comprised of local commitments of workers and business associations to people. Citizen Advocacy has long been one of these enterprises. The local theatres and the association of business with the faith communities makes a commitment to local transportation and development caring for people with disabilities, special needs or personal problems. People band together creating job opportunities and commitment to life sharing, a concept that keeps the flame alive of independent living of people who need a meal, a friend, a caretaker, or a person to help with chores. The focus is on providing whatever service is needed and in making connections interpersonally over the course of a life time. Jobs are developed that can benefit the local workers while giving a boost to the sales and retail market of the local economy. In one place where these practices have been developed the umbrella partnership is called:

• The Community Coalition Chester County Phoenixville 19460 Chester ... Their mission is: Changing Peoples' Lives. What is consistent in all of the Community Coalition's efforts is the commitment to recognize and uphold the value of every person.
Member Organizations. Citizen Advocacy of Chester County, Inc. Open Hearth, Inc. Orion Communities, Inc. Sheltering Arms, Inc. The Association for the Colonial Theatre.

o www.thecommunitycoalition.org

o The purposes in these endeavors is making the lives of ordinary citizens merge by providing a safety net for the care and prosperity of all of the citizens. The organizations were founded by several people who came together with similar problems such as a lack of capital and connections to make the market place responsive to everyone.

Now with the economy in disarray there is an even greater need for these values to be developed and for us to support solutions for every citizen.

In Los Angeles there is an outreach team made up of people who have been homeless. Their work is to pick up people and care for them who are homeless. In order to join this outreach team you have to have been homeless a year and you earn a shirt that represents the team after working there on the street.

Incentives like a passport to shop already exist. Cleaning up neighborhoods by having a vigil to restore trust, connections and inter cooperating of neighbors will curtail drugs and dealing. The neighborhood will be safer and more friendly. The concept is to give a stamped passport to local businesses to hand out bonuses for shoppers and provide a basis to increase overall revenue five percent annually. Buy locally, hire locally at least twenty-five percent of the workers. Encourage the neighborhood faith community to buy the local products and services.

"The Housing which is Affordable dialogues" held a conversation about business and affordable housing in which we talked about the need for businesses to share the footprint of store fronts and create opportunities in which people live on the premises. Much of what we have created as Americans has been based on rugged individualism and not sharing wealth, opportunities or living with desire for all to succeed. In the concepts to come the car coop will replace owning a car and most people will live in a tight and close village, where the local economy supports everything from being green to sharing space. The residential and the commercial ventures will merge and the connections between those who are marginal and the faith community will develop ever increasing opportunities for a local economy, an economy of scale.

According to the demographer Dr. James Johnson from Chappell Hill, North Carolina State University, everyone will have to adapt to new concepts of competing for a market that makes it possible for people to work. Marketing to local community members in the faith community and the residential neighborhood will make it possible to support and sustain shops, for workers to shop locally and for the business community to share the same foot print.

There is no question that all work can be done for a third of the cost around the world, and that the sun never sets on industries that are located abroad. This does not have to impede our ability to care for the work place and the neighborhood. Every service that is needed can be offered close to home. Transit passes can be offered to local businesses and residents to enable them to do away with vehicles and help save precious resources. Everything that can be recycled can be turned into a local Enterprise. The fastest and most voracious growth of industry is small and efficient.

In the neighborhood of Capitol Hill we are changing the face of poverty by working together. The next meeting is at the office of Capitol Hill United Neighborhood is at the Tears MacFarlane House at 6 p.m. on Monday, June 23. The Housing and Homeless Committee will be expanding. This is an opportunity to create new alliances in the Business Improvement Districts and through inter neighborhood cooperation.

Langston Hughes: "An ever-living seed its dream lives deep in the heart of me."

I was teaching a class of kindergarten on decision making and social justice. I asked the children how they make rules about what they do and how they resolve disputes? Many times children have perspectives that are insightful and invaluable for us to follow. They made decisions naturally based on their relationships and, which took into circumstances the need to share. In fact they were extremely generous and forgiving. In disputes where there was a tie about what to do they chose to encompass both perspectives or to go ahead and do what each faction wished to do, without infringing on one another.

They also made a drawing in which they shared the canvass and created an integrated perspective that included everyone. The most interesting aspect of the pictures is that when one child drew his own honey comb drawing the rest of the group did not discourage his efforts. They had a robust tolerance for ambiguity.

It is too bad that our public leaders and officials have forgotten the golden rule of sharing. It is discouraging to turn on the news everyday and see the continued in ability for the members of the parties parrying for delegates and going to extreme measures to pummel the opponent.

It is not a coincidence that competition spawns failure and separation of people. In the Morehouse School of Medicine students share their studies and aspirations to succeed. Everyone who graduates is committed to working with the poor. Their interests are for the whole student body to make it.

Can we elevate the paradigm of our national leadership or for that matter this legislature to figure out a way for the people to benefit from the gifts and purposes of government? It is only by our cooperation that we can overcome adversity.

I have found that getting in shape works wonders for improving health, alleviating stress and making intimate encounters more gratifying.

People with poor images of their bodies often have diminished self-esteem making it difficult to feel desirable or sexually attractive.

Body image is a difficult subject to pinpoint considering it does not have standardized meaning for everyone. Many variables affect how one perceives his or her body. As a fitness professional here are a few ideas that I view of body image as:

How one feels about how they look (Self-Esteem,Mind)
How one sees them-self (Visual)
How one thinks others see them (Physical, Body)
How one feels in their body (Spiritual)
However, adding exercise could be the answer to quickly raising low self-esteem and/or enhancing strained body image.

For example, strength gains can be seen from resistance workouts in only 1 to 2 weeks after starting a program. Adding cardio, flexibility and sensible eating habits can bring about noteworthy improvements in as little as 6 weeks. Positive results from exercise occur quickly and could act as a catalyst toward helping people feel better about themselves---especially when the goal is to increase sexual attraction.

People with good body images are likely to enjoy better sexual activity. If you feel good about yourself, you are in a better position to feel good about relationships, including your sex life. Exercise is good medicine for body image and lovemaking.

Life is filled with stressors. Left unchecked, stress works havoc on health and sex life.

Many people just don't feel sexy when stressed because stress impairs physiological functioning. What's worst is many people are unaware when physiological circuits are overloading. Although sexual activity helps alleviate stress, a stressed-out mind makes it difficult to perform optimally.Proving that exercise is also a great way to help reduce stress.