Today marabouts can be traveling holy men who survive on alms, religious teachers who take in young talibes at koranic schools, or distinguished religious leaders and scholars, both in and out of the sufi brotherhoods which dominate spiritual life in Senegambia.

Today Kahoolawe can be used only for native Hawaiian cultural, spiritual, and subsistence purposes.

* Jerry Garcia — musical and spiritual adviser, guitar on " Today ", " Comin ' Back to Me ", " Plastic Fantastic Lover ", " In the Morning ", and " J. P. P. McStep B. Blues "

Today, the day-to-day Sherpas religious affairs are presided by lamas ( Buddhist spiritual leaders ) and other religious practitioners living in the villages.

Today the Mata Amritanandmayi Math is engaged in many spiritual and charitable activities.

Following his death in 1994, his eldest son, Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Halberstam, known as the Sanzer Rebbe, has been the spiritual leader of the Sanz community in Israel. Today Kiryat Sanz has a population of approximately 1000 families.

Today it is engaged in a wide variety of ministries: Catholic schools, literacy programmes, spiritual direction, counselling, managing shelters for homeless women as well as several aspects of the movement for greater justice and peace in the world.

Today, Walid Jumblatt is one of two principal leaders of the Druzes ( an influential religious community found in the Arab World, known for its internal solidarity, the highly spiritual and philosophical orientation, and its influential position in Lebanese politics ).

Today, the name Pendle remains strongly linked with the Quakers, giving its name to one of their centres for religious and spiritual study and contemplation in the United States.

Today its purpose is in working on the spiritual evolution of humanity by means of development and advancement of the individual being.

Today there are about 300 Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity who bring the Word of God, the latest trends in education or the healing hand of God to countless people in need of education or health care or spiritual direction.

Today the jewel of greater spiritual, religious, historic value and material with which counts the sanctuary, is the beautiful crown of gold and precious stones, concluded in a cross of diamonds that maintain two angels of solid gold, of seven edges of weight, that was concocted with the gold and alhajas donated by the Dominican Town for its Canonical and Papal Coronation, celebrated on the Altar from the Country the 15 of August of the year 1922

Today, the Milanese Apostolic Church has a Patriarch ruling the Church of Lombardia, and spiritual overseer of those Ambrosian Christians in Eastern Europe through the Archdiocese of Venice ( NE Italy, Austria ) Diocese of Dalmatia ( see in Ragusa, jurisdiction over Balkans and Greece ) and the West: Archdiocese of Turin ( jurisdiction on NW Italy, Switzerland ) Diocese of Ravenna ( rest of Italy ), Diocese of Lyon ( France ) and the expatriates ( Vicariate of the South America, with see in São Paulo ).

The booklets cover a wide range of topics and can be categorized as: Introductory Booklets ; Specific Teachings ( on the main topics of Buddhist doctrine, such as the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, dependent origination, the three marks of existence, kamma and rebirth, and so forth ); Meditation and Mind Training ; Dhamma Reflections ( more personal explorations of the relevance of Buddhist principles for spiritual understanding and practice ); Philosophy and Psychology ; Faith and Devotion ; Monastic Life ; Comparative Studies ; Buddhist History and Culture ; Buddhism and the World Today ; Translations from the Pali Canon ; Non-Canonical Buddhist Literature.

Today, the Kubraviyah is almost non-existent, but groups such as the Naqshbandiyyah and Yasawiyyah continue to practice similar Sufi rituals and ideas about analyzing spiritual visions.

Today the potential of spiritual tourism would support the growth goals of the Mayor of Jerusalem for 10 million tourists annually.

Today, to this great shrine of lord Rajarajeshwara arrive many people the world over to worship the lord and to seek his blessings in their endeavours and professions and for the spiritual fulfillment of life.

By the 1960s and 1970s, the style of film shooting and editing shifted to include radical angles that conveyed more subjectivity and intimacy within the scenes Today, the master shot is still an extremely important element of film production, but scenes are not built around the master shot in the same way that they were when professional filmmaking was in its infancy.

Today, a design team, no matter the scale of the equipment, is usually composed by a master designer ( the head of the team ) that will have the responsibility to take decisions about the way the creative process should evolve, and a number of technical designers ( the hands of the team ) specialized in diverse areas according to the product proposed.

Today, the best-known painters of the Dutch Golden Age are the period's most dominant figure Rembrandt, the Delft master of genre Johannes Vermeer, the innovative landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael, and Frans Hals, who infused new life into portraiture.

Today in the communities of the " western civilization " learning to play the djembe generally involves finding a master drummer and having private lessons or lessons for small groups of people.

Today there are several families of baji quan, including Han, Huo, Ji, Li, Ma, Qiang, Wu and the Wu-Tan branch from master Liu Yunqiao.

Today about 40 vases produced by the two master craftsmen in this style are known.

" Today the United States is practically sovereign on this continent and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition .... its infinite resources combined with its isolated position render it master of the situation and practically invulnerable as against any or all other powers.

Today, there are over 2, 000 members of the society organized into provinces for England and Scotland, the Americas, Wales and Australasia, each under a provincial master reporting to an international master-general.

Today, the addition of full-motion graphics from the CG and the animation of graphic elements by the CG blurs the line between " character generator " and " computer graphics ", combining the CG's ability to elegantly present graphics and video with the computer's ability to interface with game scoring and timing systems, to keep running totals of an athlete's performance on the field or the court and to derive statistics both for individual players and the teams involved, and to interface with computer systems located at other game venues or at a television network's master control central broadcast center.

Today, Costa continues to appear regularly on the panels of some of the world's most prestigious music competitions, while also delivering numerous master classes and giving regular tours.

Today () she gives master classes in Germany and abroad and is a sought-after juror for international singing competitions.

Today you can still find traditional master navigators — Poluwat and Pollap are considered to have some of the best navigators and ocean-going outrigger canoes in the Pacific.

Today Furtwangen University offers a broad selection of subject areas: Bachelor ( 16 ) and master programs ( 9 ) in the areas of computer sciences, technology, engineering, media, and business studies.

", while USA Today praises Sheldon by saying that he is " a master storyteller at the top of the game.

Today the Radha Soami Satsang Beas, is leading the way forward and encompassing all the teachings of the saints.

Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.

Today our surging strength is apparent to everyone.

Today the recreational boating scene is awash with heartening statistics which prove the enormous growth of that sport.

Today, the boat, on its trailer, is brought to the gear and loaded at the door.

Today, according to land economist Homer Hoyt, shopping centers and their associated parking lots cover some 46,000 acres of land, which is almost exactly the total land area in all the nation's Central Business Districts put together.

Today he is a major -- in the Regular Army.

Today Northern Vietnam is overtly Communist ; ;

Today Sukarno's government is heavily besieged by avowed Communists, and for all of its `` neutralist '' pretensions, it is a firm ally of Soviet policy.

Today, Africa is swerving violently away from the West and plunging, it would seem, into the Soviet orbit.

Today it is up for grabs.

Today many college bound students try to take a course in personal typing, as they feel a certain degree of mastery of this skill is almost essential for one who proposes to do academic work in college and a professional school.

Today the yearly import into the United States of locust bean gum is more than 15 million pounds ; ;

Today it is occupied by the French Embassy.

Today, by contrast it is a lively and colorful fruit, vegetable, and flower market.

Today Dogtown is the only deserted village in all New England that I know of.

Today however, the `` outsider '' is likely to have professional qualifications of the highest order ( otherwise the college would not be interested in hiring him ) and to be acclimatized to the democratic processes of the secular or state university.

Today, more than ever before, the survival of our free society depends upon the citizen who is both informed and concerned.

Today the cancer is gone.

Today, in the era of the integrated musical when an individual song must contribute to the over-all development of the show, it is understandable that a song, no matter how excellent it may be on its own terms, is cut out because it does not perform the function required of it.

Today, as Harrison's Principles Of Internal Medicine, a standard internist's text, puts it, `` The most common form of malnutrition is caloric excess or obesity ''.

Today anthropology is a global discipline, and anthropologists study all types of societies.

Today it is regarded as an archaism and replaced by the handheld calculator.

Today, Israel is a major arms supplier to the country.