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Preschool Ministry
SundayOur Preschool Ministry serves Infant through up to age 5 (but not yet in Kindergarten).
Through our Preschool Ministry, we have the exciting privilege of partnering with families as they introduce their little ones to God. We do that through Preschool Community Groups and Preschool Large Group Worship on Sunday mornings. During this time, we focus on helping them experience worship and introducing them to God's Word and how it applies to their lives.


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Well earlier today I went to Michael's to pick up those miniature bottles, and I have to make a corrections. They aren't made by Reflections, they're made by Jim Holtz Idealogy, and they're called corked vials.
Anyway, this is one of the first weekends where I haven't been out (and not able to make videos), so I'm taking full advantage of it!
I'll be uploading new video(s) tomorrow, so Happy Saturday night...even if you're at home.
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Friday, June 22, 2012
John Lyle
By Lesley Hauge & Sian Ballen
Photographs by
Jeff Hirsch
Furniture and interior designer
John Lyle
says that most of the things that have happened to him in life happened as "dominoes falling" although that does not mean that he has not worked to then make the kismet productive. His pieces, starting with his very first lamp, sell in places like Holly Hunt, but he did not start off as a trained designer, instead working some years in the fashion industry as an agent representing fashion photographers. It was a pleasure to listen to his soft Southern-inflected voice—he's from Jackson, Mississippi—and to laugh at his droll responses ("There's a lot of fear in design."). It was just as much of a pleasure to sit in his apartment that, while full of the slightly unsettling and fascinting objects and paintings he obviously loves, also manages to be colorful, cozy and elegant.
I liked the bit on your website where you describe yourself and your style as "artistic, luxurious, outspoken and a bit irreverent." I hope all those things are going to be on display today!
Well, many of them are around the apartment for sure and I do have a bit of an irreverent nature.
Do you think we're kind of losing irreverence and eccentricity in our corporate culture?
I think there's always going to be certain groups that want to take steps backwards. Maybe there's a big lasso of milquetoast going around … I can see that.
A fabric curtain divides the front entryway from the dining room. The triptych on the right is by Jo Tansen.
A pair of paintings done by New Orleans painter David Harouni hangs above a cabinet designed by John that also functions as his home office.
Lucite Klismos chairs from Leah stand near a stainless steel 'Scroll Table' designed by John Lyle, available in New York through Holly Hunt.
A giant clam stands next to an alien sculpture made by John out of old nuts, bolts and bicycle chains and a doll's head mold. A Thai carving was transformed into a lamp.
A head comes from Leah, at The Manhattan Art and Antiques Center.
The sculpture by a Chinese artist of small porcelain babies are from Leah.
I just feel that if you're a corporation or a huge company and you find something that works, then you're less inclined to want to experiment.
Many people like to stick with what they know. This apartment has had so many incarnations. It's always been a certain piece that catches my eye and completely makes me want to start over.
Can you describe the various incarnations?
When I first came here I was very devoted to Empire. The only piece left is a bureau. The first change from swags and bows was the very modern chandelier in the dining room. I took out a Georgian chandelier and put the modern one in and thought, "Wow, now everything looks wrong." My color palette was greys and yellows and mahoganies. Then I took a trip to Turkey … I said to myself, "I'm not buying anything and I'm
not going to buy a rug." So … I bought a rug and everything else in here turned dull.
Looking across John's living room. The hand-knotted silk rug was designed by John and made in Katmandu. In the foreground, a Danish inspired curved bronze 'Frederik Chair' by John is available in New York through Holly Hunt.
A bleached mahogany Empire chest stands between a pair of John's custom parchment bookcases.
John's small mother-of-pearl oval table stands next to his 'Frederik' chair in a corner of the living room.
A cubist style painting from an antiques store in Philadelphia hangs above the Empire chest. The 1930's clock made out of shagreen was bought at Mantiques in Chelsea.
A small cityscape covers an electric breaker box.
We interviewed Eve Ashcraft, the paint and color consultant, and she said the fatal thing to do is to go to a country like India or Morocco and you're taken by all the color. Then you come back and paint your New York apartment those colors and it just doesn't work.
You've painted your living room walls this color – what's it called? Hot salmon? The name alone would terrify most people.
I think that really is the name of the color. Most design decisions terrify most people. There's a lot of fear in design.
Ah, that might well be true. Did you set out to be a designer?
I really didn't. I suppose through my life there's been dominoes falling that I wasn't even aware were falling and that led me to it. I've always loved architecture and art and, in turn, furniture. One day I was looking for lighting and never could find anything I really wanted so I thought, "Why don't I make something of my own?" It was one lamp and it looked very much like an ancient Roman oil burner. Very naively I walked into a great showroom called LCS, at the time in 1985 it was the number one showroom in the country. I met with the owner's wife who took a look at the lamp and said, "We'll take you." She changed my life that day.
Looking into a corner of the living room, a carved wood Chinese scholar reads a book of poetry. The curtain fabric is from Mokum through Holly Hunt.
Looking towards a living room, the sofa and steel end tables were both designed by John. A giant spider sculpture from Privet House stands atop John's bronze and marble 'Terero' coffee table.
Italian alabaster jars stand atop the coffee table. The 'Edwin,' a round shagreen table with white bronze legs is nearby.
Had you done anything like that before?
Never. I represented fashion photographers. I was an agent. I was the guy with the portfolios, going to the ad agencies and then one day I said a thing you should never say to someone you are representing … a photographer came into my office and I said, "My heart's just not in this anymore." And it finished. It changed my life. Again a domino I didn't know was there. I think he [and all my other clients] realized the best thing for them to do was to find someone who really was into representing them. They told each other and when all those portfolios went away, I had to figure out what I wanted to do.
So was there a scary limbo period?
Yeah! I've had lots of scary limbo periods in my life! You have to be brave to get from Mississippi to New York!
In the living room corner, John's bronze 'Canon' lamp and 'Iridium' vase. The walls are in a Hot Salmon paint from Benjamin Moore.
Various books and favorite objects are arranged atop the living room book cases.
Looking across the living room into the dining room.
A blackamoor sconce hangs near John's ebonized wood and antique Mirrored Armoire. A plexiglass bench from The Stamford Antiques Center stands in front of John's armoire.
Why does it require bravery to move from Mississippi to New York?
I don't know why … I guess you do have to be brave. I moved to New York in 1980. I think when you're young you have a lot less fear – I've always tried to hold on to that fearlessness.
And have you managed?
It fluctuates. But lately I'm pretty fearless.
What would you attribute that to?
I think getting older and realizing that fear will only hold me back. Take a chance. If it fails, try again.
A view of the rear garden from the living room.
A colorful silk rug from Turkey provided inspiration for the apartment's color scheme.
A plexiglass Klismos chair from Leah stands near John's cabinet/home office.
John checking his cell phone. The painting is by Jo Tansen.
We're terribly anxious as a society.
Well, anxiety is one of my traits.
Do you know someone who isn't?
Well … no [
]. I feel like my father is not so anxious. He seems to have everything under control. In all these years he never cracks.
I suppose anxiety might be related to creativity but I'm not always sure about that correlation.
Yeah, if you sedate your anxiety then you don't come up with the creative things … but I don't know for sure either.
John's bedroom. The tufted slipper chairs are from an antique store in Middleburg, Virginia purchased 30 years ago and recently reworked. The leopard patterned Wilton carpet is from Stark.
The lush view from the bedroom.
An Empire chest of drawers stands next to John's custom steel four-poster bed. John designed the setee bench to fit between the foot columns.
An etching of David and Goliath was enlarged and set in a water-gilded frame. The walls are grass cloth from Phillip Jeffries. The wall sconces were purchased at the 26th Street flea market.
A hand-beaded snake stands next to John's tortoise eyeglasses.
A small painting by Claude Lawrence stands near John's glass gun collection. The rock crystal Buddha lamp is from Vincent Mulford antiques in Hudson.
Where do you make your furniture now?
I make the furniture in New York and some pieces I make in Mississippi and South Carolina. I get the exotic skins from South East Asia. I love shagreen and I went online because I thought, you know, "Where can I find these skins?"
How do they kill the stingrays?
They eat them—actually they're delicious—but honestly I don't see the killing part. I think they fish them, like ordinary fish. But they have farms. Have you ever eaten ray?
No, it has never occurred to me.
I just had one the other night. It tastes like a cross between fish and lobster, a wonderful texture. I ordered it a Le Singe Vert.
I've always found them very beautiful creatures.
That's true, they're very graceful. But they're not endangered. That's verboten for me.
A detail of the steel four-poster bed.
Fresh flowers stands next to an orange seashell and a jellyfish.
A large painting from an art gallery in the Hamptons and a cityscape hangs near the bedroom TV.
A rock crystal lamp from eBay stands atop a steel bookcase made by John some 25 years ago. The curved sari fabric lampshade reflects the gold hues of the curtain fabric from Jim Thompson.
Looking across the bed towards David and Goliath.
What was growing up in Mississipi like?
Which part of Mississippi are you from?
Jackson, Mississippi. It's all hot.
That's where
The Help
is set – what did you think of the book and/or movie?
I thought the book was great and I enjoyed the movie. I was very young when that was going on but I do remember some of these things. My family personally wasn't very proud of that time. Their reaction to the movie was tears. It wasn't a sterling time for humanity.
The kitchen painting is from an antiques shop in Sag Harbor. The rosemary coffee cake was baked especially for us! (JH got the recipe).
John hand-painted the sandstone kitchen floor.
A pair of paintings was a gift to John and his partner, Edwin Monell. The custom pistachio-colored vinyl walls are hand-painted by Surfaces in San Francisco.
The painting of a cup was a 50th birthday present to John from close and longtime friend, Elizabeth Bass.
A Lucite light stands near a bronze sculpture of Psyche by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
A painting of cactus flowers by Ecks Nesbitt hangs above the kitchen sink.
So tell me about this moment you call the "turn key" moment that is so significant to you.
Well as the overachieving little boy … trying very hard to please, I've had projects where people go away for the winter and there's an 11-bedroom summer house with not a stick of furniture in it that needs to be completely renovated: furnished, curtains, rugs, wallpaper, paint, accessories, glasses, linens, back-up linens, soaps … I have it all planned. And then, when I know they're coming, I'll have the fireplace going, the soup on the stove, the table set, the candles burning, music … and they walk in and it's their home. I'm not there for that. I'm sitting by the phone like this [
hunches forward
] "They
be there by now. I
they're going to call …" And they do. And I've gotten tears. That means a lot. I love to bring people to happy tears.
Do you have a summer house?
Not any more. I have just here. In the summer I play Camp Manhattan. You can get into any restaurant you want. I ride around on a vintage Vespa, so on weekends, the traffic's gone.
Yes, staying in Manhattan for the summer is one of the best kept secrets.
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KENTUCKY (12/18/2017) Have you ever wondered how Santa gets down the chimney? If so, our "Science Guy" Jason Lindsey and a kid scientist show us the science behind the trick.
- Hardboiled Egg
- Glass Bottle (Make sure the mouth of the glass bottle is slightly smaller than the egg.)
- Matches
STEP 1: Have an adult ignite five matches and immediately place the matches into the glass bottle or chimney.
STEP 2: Quickly place the egg or Santa on the opening of the glass bottle and observe. Describe the egg by its observable properties. Explain how the air inside the glass bottle can be used as a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.
The fire inside the glass bottle heats the air inside, causing it to expand, increasing the air pressure. Once the fire goes out, due to the lack of oxygen, the air inside the glass bottle cools and compresses, causing the air pressure inside to decrease. The higher pressure outside of the glass bottle pushes the egg or Santa into the glass bottle or down the chimney.
PLEASE follow these safety precautions when doing any science experiment.
- ALWAYS have an adult present.
- ALWAYS wear the correct safety gear while doing any experiment.
- NEVER eat or drink anything while doing any experiment.
- REMEMBER experiments may require marbles, small balls, balloons, and other small parts. Those objects could become a CHOKING HAZARD. Adults are to perform those experiments using these objects. Any child can choke or suffocate on uninflated or broken balloons. Keep uninflated or broken balloons away from children.
Jason Lindsey – Hooked on Science
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Hello to all our Imaginarium Designs readers. It's a pleasure to be back on the Imaginarium team
for another term. I have some super funky, freaky creations to share with you today.
Take a look at this page with Loolabelle's Freaky Peeps on it and Nat's pin wheels.
I sprayed the Freaky Peeps with white gesso and I love how they stand out amidst all the bright paint colours on the background and the pinwheels that are also painted in the same colours as the background.
How cool is this Freaky dude?! These are such fun characters and I thought they were perfect to scrap a page of my Teenager and I.
And I tried to keep things looking funky with a mix of Imaginarium Designs Alphas that I gave a quick spray with Charcoal Kaisermist to colour them.
My second page today feature another of my sons and a couple of my favourite pictures of him.
Hence the title, I love the mix of fonts in this title, adds a little interest to the phrase.
I used Distress paint to colour the phrase and then added clear embossing powder
for a little texture and shine. You can see further down I did the same with the circle border.
The stars I painted as well but I added some Crystallina Kindyglitz for a bit of sparkle.
Good old Kindyglitz hey? It never gets old. ;)
Thanks so much for stopping by the Imaginarium Designs Blog.
It's a pleasure to share these lovely Chipboard designs with you and hopefully inspire you to get creative with some of your own.
Cheers Leonie Neal-Dawson.


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|Looks like good ol' 90's fun doesn't it..
The big difference between 1990 and 2008 is probably the INTERNET. I used my google skills to find out as much as possible about the games I used to enjoy so much. I found many other people enthusiastic about the games and I found out there was much more...much much more. Little did I know that the few euros I spend in that charity shop would lead to a plastic addiction and many more euros to be spend on various Games Workshops products.
I started painting random 40K figures first, if I liked the model I wanted to paint on it and with time my painting skills improved. I then joined a gaming club where the 40K game was played and because I didn't have a playable army of my own I watched a couple of games and bought the "Black Reach" box set (one of the best ever released tbh). I painted the space marines first and started playing and I was hooked. I really liked the 5th edition rules and the simplicity of the game mechanics. I added more models to my army and later also started an Orks army. Both armies went up to 5000 points easily but then....6th edition and 7the edition quickly succeeded each other and the game changed dramatically. Some liked it some not so much, unfortunately I fall in the latter category. The new ally rules are not something I enjoyed. I liked 40K because every army has it's strengths and weaknesses. I also like the story behind the game and seeing tables with mixed and matches armies fighting together was too far fetched for my liking. I stopped playing and collecting 40K and switched to Bolt Action and Modern Wargaming with games like "Black Ops", "Spectre" and "Skirmish Sangin".
After being out of Games Workshops clutches for 3 years they pulled me back in. Completely out of the blue and totally unexpected. I was away for a short weekend without the kids. Enjoying a city I didn't know we found a games store and I picked up a White Dwarf for old times sake. At the hotel room we had to wait an hour before we would go out for dinner so I started flicking through the magazine. It was the Genestealer Cult special and I really liked the articles, models and art work around the GSC, it reminded me of my first games with miniatures; "Space Crusade". Maybe I'm just being sentimental or is it because I am getting older but I really wanted some Genestealer Cult models to paint. Later when I was home I did some research on the internet and found out that the GSC have a pretty strong codex and could field an army on it's own without allies or could go with Nids or Astra Militarum which are totally justifiable fluff-wise. Reason enough to start a new 40K army again....
On this blog I will keep track of my progress. I still build, paint and play other wargames too so I will upload here every now and then. Come back to check for new updates here every now and then or follow this blog.
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- It exposes how slow the incumbents have been to innovate. Google Fiber makes the cable-based ISPs look pathetic. It promises to offer speeds up to 1,000Mbps downstream and upstream, for only $70 a month. That's theoretically fast enough to download a high-definition movie in under a minute, although speeds could still be constrained by bottlenecks on the distribution servers or elsewhere in the network. Comcast's best home package offers 50Mbps downstream and 10Mbps downstream. All Google Fiber customers also get 1TB of free storage. If they buy TV service for an extra $50 a month, Google will throw in a $200 Nexus 7 tablet to be used as a remote control. Google is also giving away -- for free -- a package that offers 5Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream. Google even thumbed its nose at the incumbents with a slide showing how slowly Internet access speed has been growing compared with compute power and storage (see above) -- which is exactly what one would expect to happen given the lack of competition most broadband ISPs face in most parts of the country.
- Google used its hardware expertise. Google was able to get prices so low, in part, because it designed and built all the hardware for the system itself. This is a good reminder that although Google wasn't a consumer electronics company until recently, Google has actually been designing hardware for its data centers for more than a decade. It was this data center efficiency that allowed Gmail to offer way more free storage than competitors back in 2004.
- It paves the way for new business areas. For Google, the main business purpose of Fiber is to give people faster Internet access, so they'll spend more time online -- where they're more likely to use a Google product and click a Google-sold ad. But just like Gmail unlocked an enterprise business, Fiber could unlock a whole new business as an ISP and TV provider. This isn't a loss leader -- Google CFO Patrick Pichette said yesterday that Google intends to make money on it.
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Cummins Inc. (CMI) recently announced the introduction of the G Series platform, a global heavy-duty engine platform. It features an in-line six cylinder engine and will be available in 10.5 and 11.8 liter displacements. The G Series platform is expected to meet the global market demands and emission standards both on- and off-highway.
The G Series will be produced in Beijing Foton Cummins Engine Company from the first half of 2014. Cummins has used the latest technologies to provide exceptional performance and reduce costs for its customers. The company has used its expertise and market knowledge to design the engine platform for various markets across the world.
The initial G Series engines will run on diesel. It reduces a vehicle's engineering requirements and reduces its weight; thus increasing the power-to-weight ratio. The G Series engine weighs 1900 pounds, or 862 kg. However, the light weight doesn't compromise the structural strength of the engine.
In the on-highway markets, the G Series heavy duty engine platform will be launched as the Cummins ISG11 and Cummins ISG12. With power range from 290 to 512 horsepower (213 to 382 kW), the engine will abide by the emissions requirements in various countries across the globe while simultaneously providing fuel efficiency.
The engines abide by the Euro III, Euro IV, and China NS4 emission requirements. Cummins also said that it is also developing engines that will meet the requirements of Euro V, Euro VI and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (:EPA).
With all these features, Cummins ISG11 and ISG12 are the best solutions for heavy-duty trucks in long-haul, regional haul and vocational service, as well as buses, motor coaches, fire trucks, and recreational vehicles.
Cummins is a leading worldwide designer, manufacturer and distributor of diesel and natural gas engines, electric power generation systems, and engine-related components, fuel systems, controls and air handling systems. Currently, Cummins retains a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
Recently, Cummins's 5.0L V8 Turbo Diesel engine found it was way into Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.'s (NSANY) next-generation full-size Titan pickup truck. Columbus Engine Plant (CEP) of Cummins is being developed to produce the said engine, which is being integrated into Titan as part of a partnership between Cummins and the automaker. The partnership promises mutual benefit. While Cummins is expanding its business, Nissan is expected to win a larger customer base.
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I'm a MOSC. I'm a mother of small children. I SWS. I scream when stressed. But I CDQ. I cool down quickly. And my children are SDB. No, not silent but deadly. The other way around; super duper blessed.
If you're ready to be a parent then know that after being human, being a parent makes you the most vulnerable creation on Earth. Parents are all tripolar agents in disguise who are also composters, butchers, and game night players all at the same time. If you're ready to be a parent, place a half eaten apple, a chicken drumstick, yogurt cup, and a popsicle in random areas of your home and forget about them until you smell or step on something right before you go to bed, preferably 2 weeks later. Don't leave a cup next to the toilet because everyone knows an open toilet is an oasis for 1 yr olds…to drink from. And if they poop during bath time, it's best to scoop the poop out of the bath tub with a disposable cup and pour it straight into the toilet for flushing, then proceed to give your child another bath.
I'm a MOSC. I also SWS, but I CDQ, and I'm SDB to be part of the whole journey of these little servants of God. iA.
Ramadan is coming. I haven't fasted straight for 3 years now due to pregnancy and nursing. I have made intentions to fast this Ramadan. I'm excited. I'm stoked. I'm scared. What about you? Are you a MOSC or have experience? Have you got any tips I could use when I fall into weakness? Some dhikr? Please share. Allah is great. Billions of people around the globe are filling the air with excitement, joy, and happiness for a month in which we will obstain from eating, drinking, and for some, sleeping. Only the creator could constitute such irony.
ps. If you know any SMOSC, then know that you have encountered some super amazing people. Single Mothers of Small Children.
Now I must go and end this AOOA. Annoying Overuse Of Abbreviations. SALAM!


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Anthony Steinberg writes:
As Tony Stone, I will be presenting a weekly Jazz programme on soon to launch Soho Radio (website not yet active) which will be a community-based station for Soho with studios on Great Windmill St., broadcasting on its website & via Tune.
My programme "JazzTime", will be on air every Sunday evening 18.00-20.00 with various further repeats throughout the week alongside a listen again facility.
I am looking for guests to come on the programme in any of my three weekly sub shows:
- First half hour is going to be 'JazzTime On'... where a differnt guest each week talks about a aspect of Jazz that they are passionate about, have a good knowlage of & would like to bring to the attention of a wider audience & can pay a tribute to not only in words but through examples in music.
- Second show is 'JazzTime Treasured Tracks' a Desert Island Discs for Jazz where a guest brings in there favourite 10 Jazz albums, & we play a track from as many as we can.
- The last half hour will be 'JazzTime Session Sampler'. Involved in a gig at a Soho Jazz venue? Let me invite you to give us a sample of what your upcoming Jazz gig is all about.
People interested in participating should email Anthony.
Our standard disclaimer (based on paragraphs 8 and 9 of the T&C's of the Law Gazette) applies.


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There is now a wealth of evidence, much of it from the IRG, attesting to the fact that a proportion of individuals who later manifest schizophrenia show abnormalities in their early development. For example, Ailsa Russell and colleagues (1997) examined the childhood IQ of individuals who were seen at the Maudsley Children's Department, who then years later (in adult life) were diagnosed as having developed schizophrenia. Their childhood IQ was about 15 points lower than the population average. Since IQ did not fall further after the development of schizophrenia, the investigators provocatively entitled their paper "The Myth of Intellectual Decline in Schizophrenia"; this provoked a heated correspondence.
Mary Cannon and colleagues (1997, 1999) studied all schizophrenic patients who were born in Helsinki, Finland between 1951 and 1960.
This slide shows a class of school children from the largest elementary school in Helsinki in 1960.
Comparison of elementary school records (ages 7-11) for 400 cases and 408 controls revealed no differences in academic performance, but more cases failed to progress as expected to the academic high school system at age 11, and tended to remain on at the elementary schools to complete their education.
The preschizophrenic children also performed significantly worse on subjects involving motor co-ordination (sports and handicrafts). These findings suggest that cognitive and neuromotor impairments may precede adult schizophrenia and are consistent with a neurodevelopmental model. Ongoing work in this sample is examining the relationship between birth complications and later schizophrenia and identifying childhood predictors of symptomatology, outcome, suicidality and violence.
Immigration A series of studies from the IRG and others, have shown a markedly higher rate of schizophrenia in African-Caribbeans resident in the UK compared with their white UK-born counterparts (Bhugra and others, 1997). We have previously shown that this is in the absence of any increased risk to Caribbeans who remain in the West Indies. Of particular interest is that this increased risk is also found in the UK-born offspring of Caribbean migrants, discounting an explanation in terms of migration stress. We have also shown that there is a marked increased risk in the siblings but not the parents of this second generation, which suggests an environmental effect operating particularly upon this second generation.
Initial studies sought to ascertain any evidence of developmental disadvantage such as poor maternal nutrition, poor obstetric care, and possible maternal susceptibility to novel viruses. However, these studies have shown that, if anything, African-Caribbean schizophrenic patients in England have less evidence of obstetric risk than their white counterpart patients (Hutchinson and others, 1997). Current research focuses on the possible role of a paranoid reaction to social disadvantage and discrimination (Gilvarry and others,1997).


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MONTVILLE, NJ - When discussing the value of the Living Lessons presentations at Lazar Middle School this past spring, eighth grader Katie DeAngelis said it well, "When you are at an all-time low, there is always hope."
And hope was the theme of many, if not all, of the 50 speakers who spoke at the event.
The Living Lessons program: Voices, Visions and Values occurs at Lazar Middle School every other year which gives students an opportunity to hear speakers on diverse, challenging and touching stories designed for their grade level.
One of the presenters at the seventh biennial Living Lessons program was Eugenie Mukeshimana, a Rwandan survivor.
Genocide in 1994, how can that be? But that is what Eugenie Mukeshimana, eight months pregnant, and her husband woke up to one terrible morning in their hometown in Rwanda.
On April 7, 1994, Eugenie and her husband were getting ready for work like any other normal morning. The power had been out the night before, and they were unable to hear the nightly news. They didn't think much about it that morning until they opened their door that overlooked a busy street. There was no traffic in either direction. They had a bad feeling. And they were right.
Whatever was happening, they felt they would be safe a home. But at 11 o'clock that morning, they found out that the night before, an airplane carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down by Tutsi militants on its descent into Kigali, Rwanda.
The Rwandan people were ordered to stay inside. With the assassination, peace ended, and the genocidal killings began.
The radio station Eugenie and her husband were listening to said, "All Tutsis have to die. We have to clean the neighborhood."
Rwandan soldiers and police executed important Tutsi and moderate Hutu military and political leaders who might have assumed control of the nation.
For Eugenie the unbelievable thing that occurred was that these forces recruited and pressured Hutu civilians to arm themselves with any weapons they could find to kill, rape and hurt their Tutsi neighbors and to steal and destroy their property.
When a knock came to their door, they saw people they recognized from the community carrying guns and machetes. Though they recognized each other because they took the same bus together every morning, they told Eugenie and her husband since they were Tutsis, they had to be killed.
Eugenie and her husband offered them money and said tell them you killed us, and we will not show our faces outside. They told them that they would be back, and a few hours later some did come back but left. But then a third group came and asked for more money. They gave them all that they had. There was no way of getting to a bank. So they negotiated telling them they could take a few things from their home. They took everything of value. Eugenie and her husband knew that things were serious. They had to leave.
Faced with no place to go, they went to a house of a very close friend, who was a Hutu, and asked the wife if they could stay there. The wife was willing and prepared a snack for them. They were waiting for her husband to come home to eat the evening meal. When he entered, he was wearing the same type of clothes as the men who came to their house, and he was carrying a gun.
Eugenie explained to the students that only the military had guns. If you had one, it was given to you by the military, and you were trained by them on how to use it.
The friend's husband asked them what they were doing there. When he heard what happened to them from his wife, he said, "So." He said, "I am not saying you are bad people, but you are Tutsis. It's over. Get out of our house." Eugenie said that this was "very confusing" to her. These were her friends.
Eugenie explained to the students that as she was growing up as a young child there was no ethnic hatred in her community. Everyone got along. It wasn't until she left home to go to high school, which is like our college, where she learned of ethnic hatred. People would call her and her friends cockroaches.
When she described what happened at school, her father just told her that they were "obnoxious people" and don't let them bother you. Looking back at this, she believes that her father did not tell her of this ethnic hatred because he didn't want her feeling less of herself and wanted her to do well in school. Eugenie said that she is not sure this was the right thing to do, but she understands why.
An important element of the story is: What is the the Difference between a Huto and a Tutsi?
There is no easy explanation of the differences between a Hutu and a Tutsi. The difference was originally socio-economic as defined by the Belgian colonial government in 1933. They wanted to divide the population, so they said that if one had 10 or more cows, one was wealthy and considered to be Tutsi. If one had less than 10 cows, one was poorer and considered Hutu, but this tactic to cause jealousy did not work. So they devised another tactic that measured the noses of the local population. They said if one was tall and one's nose was long and thin, one was a Tutsi. If one was short and had a short nose, one was a Hutu. (Eugenie said, "This was crazy.") They then issued race cards identifying one as a Hutu or a Tutsi, and these Rwandan ID cards helped in the killing of the Tutsis in 1994.
An estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 Rwandans were killed during the 100 day period from April 7 to July 1994. It constituted about 70 percent of the Tutsi population.
Back to the Story...
Eugenie and her husband then found refuge in a nearby school building. They spent the night without talking because they were afraid of being caught. But they were filled with anger and so disappointed. Speaking about her friend's husband, she said, "He didn't even pretend to care." She added, "The anger became worse and worse and worse."
The next morning they heard gun shots. They knew they could not go home. They waited until night time, and Eugenie said that they had to go back to their friend's house. She was hungry and had never gone without food for a whole day before and now she was pregnant. They needed to find someone to help them.
When they got back to their friend's house, the husband explained the word "genocide" to them. There was no word for this in their language he said. "This was so hard to comprehend."
The husband explained that because the military knew that they were friends with Tutsis, they would come to their house to search for them. So Eugenie asked if he knew of anyone else who would take them in. She said, "Out of guilt, he agreed to this."
They eventually found someone to help them. She was separated from her husband. She was taken to one home and he another.
The home she stayed at had small children. The children were not to know that their parents were helping a Tutsi. Because of the genocide, all schools were closed, and the children were home all day. The parents tried to get them to go by the neighbor's house to play with their friends so Eugenie could go to the bathroom and have some comfort.
Eugenie was hidden under the children's bed. She said that she had "no shower, no clothes, no sleep." She was afraid that she would sneeze and give herself away.
She later found out that there were four other people hiding in the small house that consisted of two rooms and a bathroom. The four others were found and killed. The people who killed them knew them, but they did not know Eugenie. The family told them that she was a relative and a Hutu who got caught up in the turmoil, and her ID was stolen.
So they brought her to a home to get a temporary pass. It so happened that the woman who lived there was helping the military to kill Tutsis.
She was not allowed to stay in their home but was allowed to live in the outhouse in the backyard. And in there, in the middle of the night, without electricity and no one to help her, Eugenie gave birth to her baby girl.
(At this point in her story, she could tell the students all wanted to know if the baby survived, and she stated, "Yes, the baby did survive and is now 23 years old and doing well. "But her husband was killed. She was told that he was killed when he was trying to get back to her after he heard she had the baby. Her daughter was seven and a half when they came to the United States, and she does not remember anything about the genocide.)
To continue the story: The next morning after giving birth to her daughter the night before, she was found and brought to a killing site. The men who saw her said she looked like a ghost, and they didn't want to start the day that way.
Another man for some reason thought she had valuable military information for him. He wanted to take her and the baby. He told her that if she came with him, he would shoot them, but they wouldn't be tortured. So she went. When she got to his home, he had a lot of kitchen appliances that he had stolen from victims, and they made a deal. She would cook for him, and he wouldn't kill them. One day the man never came back, and she said, "And that is the only reason my daughter and I are alive."
In 2001, Eugenie moved to the United States on a school visa. She studied social work at the College of St. Rose in Albany, New York. She now is the founder and executive director of the Genocide Survivors Support Network, which is a charitable organization that helps genocide survivors rebuild their lives and to contribute to genocide prevention and advocacy.
When the talk was over, the students left the room quietly.
The following is from the Living Lessons: Voices, Visions and Values:
Eugenie Mukeshimana is a survivor of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis and the Founder and Executive Director of the Genocide Survivors Support Network (GSSN), a charitable organization with a mission to help genocide survivors rebuild their lives and use their voice to contribute to genocide prevention through education and advocacy.
In 2001, Eugenie moved to the U.S. to study social work at the College of St. Rose in Albany, NY. After graduation, she began her career working with families in custody battles in Albany.
She later moved to New Jersey where she first worked as an employment specialist for individuals with a wide range of disabilities and then as a case manager for homeless families.
Eugenie is a regular lecturer in special programs at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. She is also a frequent panelist and speaker on issues of genocide and other human rights violations. She is a recipient of the 2012 Columbia University Human Rights Advocates Program Fellowship.


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Highly rated. I have watched the BTCC since 95 and he was obviously one of the first real youngsters that broke through and got a factory drive when that was very difficult to do so. Lately tho i must say i dont know what has been going on. Does he just like to party now and has given up pretty much on motorsport?
One of the best in the business but seems to have a lot of fall outs with teams and i am wondering if his heart was really in it lately?


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Give Born Free a spin - it's a new offering from M.I.A.. It was dropped on Saturday, April 24th, 2010. M.I.A.'s rap artistry continues to improve with every release, something which is most definitely evidenced on Born Free. His ever-expanding catalogue is definitely better for it, and we're looking forward to the next piece of the puzzle - aren't you?
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Quotable Lyrics
"You could try to find ways to be happier
You might end up somewhere in Ethiopia
You can think big with your idea
You ain't never gonna find Utopia
Take a bite out of life, make it snappier, yeah
Ordinary gone super trippier
And split a Czech like Slovakia"


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Akron's major rubber companies have diversified so widely that none now derive more than 60% of their sales from tires. General Tire & Rubber Co., the smallest of Akron's Big Five in tire sales, is the most versatile of them all. It makes products as varied as missile motors, water skis and oxygen masks, owns a wrought-iron company and a bottling plant, has dipped into oceanography and water desalinization, and was recently awarded a contract by the State of California to investigate new methods of crime prevention. General has moved into so many unrelated industries that, with sales...
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Those who know me well will be aware that I suffer from a deep-rooted and near-pathological hatred of sausages. Tragically, I am part of a family who loves them, so this meal was originally made (with much reluctance and grumbling) as a result of prolonged nagging.
As it turned out, it's a good job that I was pushed. Sausages, I learned, are not Satan's choice of meat product after all but extremely easy to cook and delicious when baked in a vegetable casserole. All in all, it's been a bit of an eye-opener. Now I just need to work on the presentation...
2-3 tablespoons of olive oil
2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
2 onions, chopped
1 carrot, peeled and chopped
1 sweet potato, peeled and chopped
2-3 eating apples (I use Granny Smiths as they have a nice tang)
1 teaspoon mixed herbs or oregano (I vary this depending on what I have in the cupboard. Both work well).
1 tablespoon tomato puree
400g tin peeled tomatoes, chopped (more flavour than a tin of chopped tomatoes).
400ml vegetable stock made with 2 teaspoons of Marigold Bouillon
6-8 pork or vegetarian sausages (I allow 2 per person)
salt and pepper to taste
1. Preheat the oven to 200C (400F/Gas Mk 6). Heat the olive oil to a medium heat in a large, heavy bottomed pan and cook the sausages until browned (approx 5-8 minutes).
2. Remove the sausages from the pan and set aside. Add the onions, carrot and sweet potato to the pan and cook over a medium heat for approximately 5 minutes, stirring to ensure even cooking.
3. Add the garlic and herbs and cook for another 5 or so minutes.
4. Peel your apples, remove the cores and chop into chunks of about 1-2 cm.
5. Add the tinned tomatoes, tomato puree, apples and sausages. Add the stock and bring to the boil, stirring.
6. Transfer to an ovenproof pan, cover with a lid and place in the oven for 25-30 minutes. Check from 25 minutes onwards.
7. While the casserole is cooking, make mashed potatoes and green beans.
8. Remove the casserole from the oven, and season with salt and pepper. Serve with the beans and mash. Surprisingly delicious!
One of the great things about this casserole is that any leftover sausage-free sauce can be reheated as chunky soup the next day.
And, of course, any leftover ingredients will give you the bulk of what you need for Spicy Squash and Sweet Potato Soup. #allintheplanning


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Mayor Wheeler and Chair Kafoury Announce Innovative Supportive Housing Pilot
State and local agencies pair funding for housing and services for the first time in a targeted effort to innovate solutions to chronic homelessness.Read More…
Phone: 503-823-2375
fax: 503-823-2387
421 SW 6th Avenue, Suite 500, Portland, OR 97204
Portland City Council voted today to approve a real estate deal between the Portland Housing Bureau (PHB) and private developer Hoyt Street Properties (HSP) for more affordable housing in the Pearl District. HSP will sell the quarter-block site on NW Raleigh Street to the City at the below-market price of $1.3 million. PHB hopes to develop the property for very low-income family housing.
"We know that people thrive when they live in areas with opportunities," said Housing Commissioner Dan Saltzman. "We are glad to be moving forward to create more housing options for vulnerable families in such a key location. "
The deal was part of an ongoing effort undertaken cooperatively by HSP and the City to ensure that private development in the Pearl District includes housing options for Portlanders of all income levels.
Last fall, HSP and PHB jointly determined that HSP would fall just short of a 1999 goal to maintain 35% affordability in the housing developed on its 34 acres of land in the Pearl District. Despite having recently closed on the Abigail Apartments to build 142 units of affordable family housing, 30% of nearly the 2,000 units across 14 projects were affordable as of September 2014. Factoring in other housing projects in the design, permitting, or construction stage brought that figure to 28%.
The remedy, according to an agreement with the City, provided the opportunity for the City to acquire land from HSP for affordable housing at a below-market price. The City and HSP engaged three appraisers to arrive at a reduced purchase price—HSP agreed to reduce the price another $500,000 below that, bringing the final purchase price to $1.3 million —13% below the market value of $1.5 million.
"It can be a real challenge to match the pace of the private market in a boom like what we have seen in the Pearl District and throughout the River District," said PHB Director Traci Manning. "We are thankful to Hoyt Street Properties for the concessions they have made in this process to ensure that this area provides adequate housing options for all Portlanders."
The 10,000-square-foot site on NW Raleigh Street, between 13th and 14th avenues, is conveniently located near public transit and is the only one of HSP's available parcels on paved streets.
The deal is set to close on Friday. PHB expects to acquire the site before the end of April and begin soliciting a developer this summer.


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Solidarity Rally in San Jose
At 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 23, hundreds of working families started gathering at San Jose City Hall, 200 E. Santa Clara St., to show solidarity with city workers. They brought their sleeping bag to the rally and camped out until Friday, June 24 at Noon. Check out some of the photos below.
WHY: Don't let San Jose become Wisconsin!
Right now, the San Jose City Council is seriously considering a proposal to declare a fiscal and public safety emergency that would strip city workers of their benefits and take away their collective bargaining rights. This is incredibly similar to the attacks on workers rights in Wisconsin. Collective bargaining is a right we all need to defend.


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when they don't know what to say. You know like when I'm standing in the elevator at Hopkins and someone notices Joshua and gives me that "oh how sad" look. Or when you put someone on the spot and they have that confused "what are you talking about" look. Well I had on of those moments today where I knew I could cause one of those looks on a few people's faces and if you know me, you know that I took the moment and ran with it.
Today I had to take Adam to the doctor. He has a nasty cough and I thought maybe an ear infection. No ear infection but some gunky lungs so add another antibiotic to the medicine cabinet. Okay so I go into the doctor's office. I'm standing at the counter and the receptionist hands me a clip board with the forms attached.
Receptionist: and since it's National Breast Cancer Awareness month, here is a pink ribbon for you to wear.
Okay so you know it's coming right. Here it is. Here's my chance and the moment.
Me: Now did you hand out gold ribbons last month?
Both receptionists look completely dazed and lost.
R: Gold ribbons?
Me: Yes. Gold ribbons. The gold ribbons because September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness month.
R: We didn't know.
Me: Well given that you are a pediatricians office, I would hope that you would know and I will speak with the doctor about it.
R: Sorry.
Yep. They didn't know. Kind of like the rest of the world. Don't think it would matter anyway. No one seems to know that the gold ribbon represents childhood cancer. And why doesn't the world know? That's because the stupid media makes no point or effort to promote it. Guess no one wants to think about a child having cancer. Well tell that to the millions of parents out there who have a child with cancer. Tell us you don't want to think about it!
Now Anissa, I am off to write that letter for you!
Thursday, October 2, 2008
I love the look on people's faces
when they don't know what to say. You know like when I'm standing in the elevator at Hopkins and someone notices Joshua and gives me that "oh how sad" look. Or when you put someone on the spot and they have that confused "what are you talking about" look. Well I had on of those moments today where I knew I could cause one of those looks on a few people's faces and if you know me, you know that I took the moment and ran with it.
Posted by Ami Czorapinski at 8:18 PM
2 comments:
- brenda said...
To be a fly on the wall to see that one! You're right though. I am most dissapointed that a pediatrician's office missed up on that one, especially being in that line of the medical field! Scary thought. But, I'll bet that they don't forget that April is National Secretary's Day do they? Cause they know they're getting flowers or a free lunch from the bosses! That's why. I think you're right though, people would rather NOT think about the Children with the cancer because it's much sadder to think or possibly see a child in pain and dealing with the illness than it is an adult. It's easier for the real world to just pretend it doesn't exist. Not reality to you Mommies and Daddies though who live it daily. Just like I said, there's probably a lot of people who read your blogs to keep up with your daily happenings and don't post comments because they just don't know what to say to you guys about it. I just know from my own discussions with you, there's nothing we CAN say to you specifically. Nothing can stop what you're going through right now except the medications and treatments. But, like my father in law has always said, "never hurts to wave and say Hello to people, even if it seems senseless at that time".
- October 5, 2008 at 6:23 PM
- Anissa Mayhew said...
HOOORAHH! Go Ami, Go Ami!
Good for you. Whenever someone comes to my door or calls for a charity, I usually answer that if they send me a check for my childhood cancer charity, i'll send them one for whatever they're pimping. Usually a big dose of the shut-ups.
But way to swing one out of the park for our kids. I bet they don't forget that next year. We should plan to hit pediatrician's offices across the country and see if they'll promote with ribbons. since they're so quick to jump on breast cancer when the majority of their patients don't have breasts yet.
- October 5, 2008 at 9:15 PM


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Sharon Olds
The Space Heater - Poem by Sharon Olds
On the then-below-zero day, it was on,
near the patients' chair, the old heater
kept by the analyst's couch, at the end,
like the infant's headstone that was added near the foot
of my father's grave. And it was hot, with the almost
laughing satire of a fire's heat,
the little coils like hairs in Hell.
And it was making a group of sick noises-
I wanted the doctor to turn it off
but I couldn't seem to ask, so I just
stared, but it did not budge. The doctor
turned his heavy, soft palm
outward, toward me, inviting me to speak, I
said, "If you're cold-are you cold? But if it's on
for me..." He held his palm out toward me,
I tried to ask, but I only muttered,
but he said, "Of course," as if I had asked,
and he stood up and approached the heater, and then
stood on one foot, and threw himself
toward the wall with one hand, and with the other hand
reached down, behind the couch, to pull
the plug out. I looked away,
I had not known he would have to bend
like that. And I was so moved, that he
would act undignified, to help me,
that I cried, not trying to stop, but as if
the moans made sentences which bore
some human message. If he would cast himself toward the
outlet for me, as if bending with me in my old
shame and horror, then I would rest
on his art-and the heater purred, like a creature
or the familiar of a creature, or the child of a familiar,
the father of a child, the spirit of a father,
the healing of a spirit, the vision of healing,
the heat of vision, the power of heat,
the pleasure of power.
Comments about The Space Heater by Sharon Olds
Bill Grace (4/20/2016 12:03:00 AM)
Robert Leslie was a student of Victor Frankl in Vienna. His book from. that experience is: Jesus and Logotherapy. (Abingdon) Dr. Leslie shared one day with us in class a session he had witnessed where Frankl had sacrificed his dignity to make a great therapeutic interdiction. Olds celebrates this same power in poetic form. Could it not at least be possible that this is the great power of the cross? The hitch is that we must free ourselves from bourgeois convention to even begin to apprehend such an act be it from Olds's therapist or from a Victor Frankl. Bill Grace in Texas (Report) Reply
Colleen Courtney (5/15/2014 11:12:00 AM)
Poet tells such beautiful stories with her poetry. (Report) Reply
Bill Grace (10/23/2005 12:13:00 AM)
Fine celebration of a great isolation being broken. (Report) Reply
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Building is most often the cornerstone of a project. Supplies are on hand when a team arrives, so work begins immediately and a building is in place very quickly! We need skilled carpenters, bricklayers, and contractors. We also need unskilled 'muscle', to do other jobs like mixing concrete, carrying supplies, and pounding nails.
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Title: Angelfire (Angelfire #1)
Author: Courtney Allison Moulton
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Source: Purchased
Buy the Book: Amazon / Book Depository / Indigo
First there are nightmares.Every night, Ellie is haunted by terrifying dreams of monstrous creatures that are hunting her, killing her.Then come the memories.When Ellie meets Will, she feels on the verge of remembering something just beyond her grasp. His attention is intense and romantic, and Ellie feels like her soul has known him for centuries. On her seventeenth birthday, on a dark street at midnight, Will awakens Elli's power, and she knows that she can fight creatures that stalk her in the grim darkness. Only Will holds the Key to Ellie's memories, whole lifetimes of them, and when she looks at him, she can no longer pretend anything was just a dream.Now she must hunt.
Ellie has power that no one can match, and her role is to hunt and kill reapers that prey on human souls. But in order to survive the dangerous and ancient battle of angels and the Fallen, she must also hunt for the secrets of her past lives an truths that may be too frightening to remember.
So far this year I have read some fantastic debut novels, and Angelfire has now joined that list. It was a great story packed with action, romance, twists and turns that left me wanting more. I absolutely loved it!
Ever since school started up again, Ellie has been having strange nightmares and can't seem to focus on anything, especially in school. And as her seventeenth birthday gets closer, Ellie's nightmares appear to be coming to life. And then there's Will, the mysterious boy who just seems to appear both in her nightmares and in the real world. Ellie feels a connection to Will, like she's always known him, but she doesn't understand just how that could even be possible. But Will just might be the only person who can help Ellie understand what her nightmares mean and how to deal with them when they start coming to life. Ellie definitely needs to trust Will, especially if staying alive is something she wants to do.
Ellie is basically a superhero, but a very reluctant one. I loved that she didn't immediately believe everything Will was telling her. It was so refreshing not to have a protagonist who believes everything she's told, there is nothing more that annoys me more than that. Of course that is not the only thing I liked about Ellie, she was a pretty great character. Will was pretty dreamy if you ask me. I loved how loyal he was to Elli and didn't ever doubt her. The best part though, was seeing the relationship between Ellie and Will develop and blossom. Both struggled with it, but for me that only made it that much better and feel more real.
Courtney Allison Moulton wrote a wonderful story. It kept me guessing the whole way through and never saw what was coming next. Until I read Angelfire, I had never encountered reapers, and I loved finding out about paranormal beings and how their world functions. Though my favorite part of the story was how she weaved in the nightmares and the flashbacks. I didn't really think much of them at first but they turned out to be an integral part of the story. They really added more depth and I don't think the story would have worked as well without them.
Angelfire was a great and highly enjoyable read. Courtney Allison Moulton is a fantastic new writer and I can't wait to read what comes next from her.


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Bottle Stock's Wine Wrap Papers: The Perfect Packaging For a Wine Bottle
If you're gifting a bottle of wine, you might think the bottle itself is gift enough. But if you want an extra special presentation, I have just the thing: wine wrap papers from the newly launched Bottle Stock, a small shop based out of LA catering to design-minded wine lovers. Each sheet is cut to fit most 750ml wine bottles, and the paper designs are lovely and eye-catching!
The founder of Bottle Stock, Whitney Adams, works as a sommelier, wine writer, and blogger in Los Angeles, so she knows her stuff. She started Bottle Stock as a way to provide stylish and original wine tools and gift supplies for an industry "in desperate need of something fresh and sophisticated," as she wrote here. Besides wine paper wraps, Bottle Stock also sells things like pretty corkscrews and tie-dye leather coasters.
I think the wine wrap papers may be my favorite, though. They come in a set of three, one of each design shown in the photo above: Grape Leaf Drops, Alto Fragile, and Blue Arrow. I would love to have a few sheets around for the next time I'm headed to a dinner or housewarming party!
Buy It → Wine Wrap Papers, $10 from Bottle Stock
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Hey watch your hands!
We just meet and you are already trying to cop a feel?
On a scale of 1 to 10, you get a lousy 1.
"You only come in the shower if I invite you in!"
...and yet she'd happy for you to come in her mouth
whilst she squats down in the back of a jeep!
Double standards.


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After January 31, 2016, you or your family may only obtain health insurance through the private marketplace if you qualify for a Special Enrollment Period, 60 days following certain events such as loss of coverage, a birth, a marriage or other life change. See www.oregonhealthcare.gov for details or check with an application assister near you.
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The human body wasn't meant to be confined to a chair 8 or more hours a day. If you get headaches, tension, or you're like me and you have trouble with RSI, it's recommended that you take frequent breaks throughout the day and get the blood flowing. That can be hard when you're working in an office setting, though.
Here's a few exercises you can do at your desk from the book I always recommend to people having hand or wrist problems, It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome! RSI Theory & Therapy for Computer Professionals (all exercises can be performed without getting out of your chair):
- If you have lower back pain, or that area gets tense during prolonged sitting, try some pelvic tilts: roll "your pelvic area backward as if flattening your lower back against your chair, then back to the neutral position."
- Do shoulder shrugs and shoulder circles.
- Stretch your wrists and fingers often.
- Move your feet to get blood flowing down there by doing marching motions, kicking, and raising and lowering your heels (ankle pumps).
- Stretch your head, neck, and upper back, and roll your head in circles.
- Stretch your chest muscles by holding your hands behind your chair.
- Do nerve glides. (These are hard to explain--and you don't want me to try and draw stick figures--but the book goes into detail on how to do them and their benefits.)


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Featuring a number of options to custom plan your get-together, Stripper 101 offers the widest selection of extra perks for your party in Vegas. It's obvious why Stripper 101 is considered the Home of the Bachelorette. Check out the schedule below for this week's class availability. Feel free to call or email about more class time options when you book a group of 10 or more!
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When you're juggling several jobs, feeling starved of a decent social life and the weather's not been as 'spring-like' as you'd hoped, nothing cheers you up quite like having a good old natter with a couple of close friends; especially if it involves cakes. Today's delicious treats were coffee topped profiteroles and raspberry éclairs, both filled with lashings of fresh cream. Afternoon tea does not involve calorie counting, and it never should.
We always manage to have a laugh and cover a wide variety of topics; everything from dead pigeons to farting in the bath. In fact, I doubt that there's any subject we wouldn't be able to discuss, and I find that very liberating. In a world of political correctness gone mad, it's a relief to be able to 'tell it how it is' knowing you won't be judged. In fact, it feels so good that afternoon tea with friends should be available on prescription. It'd save the NHS millions.


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Bethany Witten
Twelve Moons Homebirth
1292 Forest Rd
Alstead NH 03602
(207) 274-0341
Bethany is a Certified Professional Midwife and New Hampshire Certified Midwife who was born and raised in southern Ontario, Canada and lives in a tiny house in Southern New Hampshire. Bethany began working towards life as a midwife in 2005. She first trained and volunteered as a doula and spent time as an intern at a busy birth center in El Paso TX before graduating from Birthwise Midwifery School. She completed her training as a student midwife here at the Birth Cottage in 2014 and stayed on as a staff member because she fell in love with the state, the women, and Eliot Witten, whom she married in June 2015.
She is proud of the friendly and accepting atmosphere at the Birth Cottage, and grateful for the team-oriented taff who share a commitment to providing client-centered care to a diversity of wonderful clients. Her primary goal, as a midwife, is to provide families with everything they need to feel respected, empowered and cared for in their experience of pregnancy, birth and parenting a newborn.
When not in the office or at a birth, Bethany can be found writing and editing for Midwifery Matters Journal, brewing herbal salves and remedies, growing organic vegetables, hiking mountains, dancing at your local contra dance and helping her husband lead groups of intrepid tweens on wilderness expeditions on the ocean and lakes of New England.


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Everyone has a favorite hunting rifle or cartridge; mine is the 35 Whelen. The beauty of the 35 Whelen is that it's a powerful medium-bore rifle cartridge that does not require a Magnum action. On these pages you will find 35 Whelen links and discussion, as well as discussion about hunting, hunting rifles, cartridges, gear, and more.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
2014 Hunt is Over
Sadly, I had to clean the 35 Whelen and lock it into the safe today. Hunting season 2014 is over. It started out in September when a good friend of mine, my son, and I decided to chase elk in Central Saskatchewan. My friend has lots of bull elk to his name, I've got a few, but my son had none. Between initially being too young to hunt, then a stint in Afghanistan with the Canadian Forces, he'd missed some wonderful hunts. Now he was with me again, Steyr 300 Win Mag in hand, and itching at a chance at an elk. We hunted for several uneventful days, then one evening a bull came to the call, and my son got his first elk.
Next came moose season. In Saskatchewan there are draw seasons and regular seasons. We didn't get drawn, so had to compete with everybody else in the regular moose season. It was mid October, and the moose were just about done calling; furthermore, too many bulls had been educated by hunters in the draw season which had preceded. Every time we set up a call, bull moose tiptoed just out of sight, despite our best efforts to set up shooters downwind of the caller. Then, everything fell into place.
One morning we set up a dawn call; and got nothing to respond or even sneak in. We moved about half a mile and ended up right in the moose palace. After my first call, a bull answered immediately and I could hear him crashing through water. Soon he was answered by another, then another. By the time the first shot rang out we had four bulls coming in. We ended up bagging two within 10 minutes of each other.
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I'm at a absolute loss.
I've been exercising alot and I'm having my BS swing from 120 to 46 in 20 minute just from bike riding. I'm not taking any fast acting insulin just 42 units of lantus once a day before bed. My a1c is 6.4. I don't understand why it's bottoming out so quick. I'm generally eating 72 carbs be for I go ride and it still won't help.
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In most cases, it's a balancing act with carbs, insulin and of course exercise, for the reasons mentioned by Type1Lou. There is no mystery, but keep asking questions, especially to your doctor, and get as informed as possible. It's a learning experience for most of us, and an open mind with a desire to learn will solve most situations encountered.
By exercising, you are increasing your body's sensitivity to insulin…so, when you exercise, you need less insulin than when you do not exercise. If you know ahead of time that you'll be biking, your doctor may suggest you take less Lantus the night before. I use an insulin pump and when I do a brisk 3 mile walk (45 minutes), I have to suspend my basal insulin delivery from 1/2 before the walk, during the walk and 1/2 hour after the walk to prevent a low blood sugar. Lantus provides you with your basal insulin. Definitely discuss this with your doctor before making any adjustments to insulin. You may not be allowing enough time for the food you eat prior to your ride for its glucose to get into your system…again, discuss with your doctor. I love using the pump because it gives me much more flexibility in dosing the insulin, both basal and bolus, depending upon what I'm doing. Prior to pumping I used Lantus and Novolog.
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"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way." - Bertrand RussellIn an unpublished article for Illustrated Magazine in 1952, eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that if he were to assert that there were a teapot orbiting the sun somewhere between the orbits of Earth and Mars, that people being unable to disprove his hypothesis did not mean that people should take his assertions to be true. He went on to explain that if, however, this teapot was taught as fact to every child every Sunday, that no doubt people would just accept this as "true", and that "teapot disbelievers" would be seen as heretics and hauled off to an asylum, a jail or even killed. This hypothetical teapot came to be known as Russell's teapot, and I have a diagram of it on a tee-shirt just like the figure below.
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Get organised online
Zoe Sutherland, a writer and lecturer in philosophy at Brighton University, on the best online organisational tools to help you cope with deadlines and stay in control of your work
The figure of the disorganised and ineffectual artist, academic or inventor is a well-known cultural cliché, one which emerges, at least in part, from the unique character of their work. The task of conceptualising and constructing an artwork, product or piece of writing can often seem a rather chaotic process, which is not particularly suited to the techniques of 'organisation' and 'time management' familiar to the business world. It is not always clear, for example, if and how artistic or academic projects can be broken down into smaller tasks or arranged into a methodical order, and it is often difficult to impose the same kind of deadlines upon them: you cannot always simply 'produce' thoughts and ideas on demand.
Indeed, imposing such organisational frameworks on art or design work can often feel inappropriate and can stifle the very process that creates it. However, this does not mean that organisational techniques are completely irrelevant. After all, the reality is that there are still strict external deadlines that have to be met, which requires a certain degree of self-organisation and internal deadline setting. Whilst some people may be able to work without imposing any structure or using any timetables, this is definitely not the norm. Playing the role of the romantic chaotic genius is just not conducive to finishing a large-scale project, even though the performance might yield small bursts of inspiration.
Over the past few years an abundance of online organisational tools have appeared on the web to help both individuals and groups to structure their projects and meet their deadlines. The basic convenience of having a centralised online system is that you no longer have to work with loose scraps of paper, sticky notes and to-do lists written on napkins and the advantage they have over simple online calendars, such as iCal, is that they are mostly designed to let you break down your project into distinct parts or stages. This is good because quite often, what is overwhelming about big tasks is that in their entirety they just seem insurmountable. Once you begin breaking them down into small steps that will lead to the completion of the final task it becomes easier to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
However, the more significant benefit is that such systems encourage you to make your task lists more public by sharing them with a wider network of people, such as colleagues, supervisors, parents or friends. In the absence of real imposed structure, some of these tools and applications can definitely help in making you feel a little more in control of what might otherwise be overwhelming workloads and can also prevent feelings of isolation. This applies as much to work in an art and design context as it does to anything else.
The free service is quite a basic example of an online organisational tool. It allows you to add projects and to break them down into separate tasks, each with their own deadline attached. Todoist seems like it would be most helpful in the case of there being one single task to complete which has clear and definite stages, such as an essay. However, the only thing that really distinguishes it from writing a list of things to do on a piece of paper is the fact that, much like iCal or the Yahoo calendar, it sends a 'daily digest' to your email account reminding you of those deadlines. If you are willing to upgrade to the premium service for $29 a year, various other features become available, such as the ability to attach reports, to track your progress, to add sticky labels according to theme and to access your information through ical.
This provides a similarly quite basic free service. It allows you to add and organise a variety of tasks depending upon whether they are due today, this week or just 'sometime', giving you the option to add exact dates and times for each deadline. You can highlight different tasks with different colours, allowing you to organise them according to what specific kind of task it is and you can also add notes, reports and tags, which help you to keep track of your own progress. It also gives you the option of linking it up to iCal.
Remember the Milk
Considerably more sophisticated, combining the formats of both an interactive diary and a social media forum. It allows you to compartmentalise the different aspects of your tasks, depending on whether they are for 'work' or 'study', your social obligations or simply remembering to buy the milk.The social media dimension encourages you to invite people to join and to set up contact lists and groups for the sake of sharing your to do lists. This is very helpful because it offers an external and social dimension, which can lend either the pressure or the support required to finish tasks, and can thus prevent procrastination and feelings of isolation.You can share or publish your lists, updating people with your progress or alerting the group that you have finished your section of the project. It advertises itself as helpful to teachers and parents in tracking student assignments. However, it would equally be useful in the case of university students, who can share their schedules with their supervisor. Constructing such a network of shared and public responsibility may just help to prevent the feeling of isolation that often results from such work. However, the ever-present looming threat of the 'postpone' option on each task might be too tempting for some.
Tom's Planner
As well as being a sophisticated schedule planner, Tom's Planner is essentially an entire website dedicated to various issues and techniques relevant to organisation, offering a range of articles and blogs on this topic. Recognising that distinct kinds of tools might be needed for different tasks, the site offers a variety of specialised templates that have been custom made by experts, depending upon what kind of thing needs organising—a wedding, a work project, a conference, a house rental, or web design. Tom's Planner uses Gantt charts, a kind of colourful bar chart that arranges both terminal and summary moments of a planned project. The schedules are extensive, allowing you to micro-manage each day of the project—down to each five minutes—and to share information with collaborators or import and export between different applications.The interface is very user friendly and allows for easy interactivity, operating with a 'drag and drop' function that allows you to very easily add, modify and extend tasks. Though this particular schedule definitely has an aesthetic you might expect to find in business, it offers the complexity necessary to manage large-scale tasks with many overlapping and connecting elements.
Solo is an online management tool specifically for freelance designers. It offers a 10 day free trial but then costs £5 a month to use. It is specially designed to allow you to zoom between either a broad view of the whole project or a wider time frame, to individual aspects or tasks or to specific weeks or days. This is useful for large intellectual or artistic projects, where it can often be difficult to hold the short term and long term deadlines together. The website is still in its early stages of development, thus it tells us that certain features such as document uploads, client log-ins, blogs and messaging are 'coming soon', but it has the potential to be a useful site that is simultaneously attractive and easy to navigate.
Zoe Sutherland is a writer and academic. She teaches philosophy at Brighton University.


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Interweave has compiled a wonderful series of Quilting Arts articles on handwork into a beautiful new ebook Hand Sewing.
What a nice surprise to find out my article on making felted wool ornaments from the first Quilting Arts Gifts issue is included.
There are also articles by Jane LaFazio, Victoria Gertenbach, Rose Hughes and Jude Hill, just to name a few.
Congratulations, Judy! I have always loved your felted ornaments!
That is awesome Judy!
well, my work seems to be on the cover, and i didn't even know till i came here, am i supposed to be notified or is it always a surprise?
Jude, I'm really surprised you didn't get an email from Vivika about it. Well, congratulations, your cover is gorgeous!
I wish you Peace and a new journey!!!! Peace, Mary Helen


text: I just purchased an iPad. I also purchased mobile me due to the iDisk functionality. I just need help with using this and understanding this device's capabilities. I know I can go to mobile me in the browser and upload documents. But how do I actually download those documents to the device (iPad) through the iDisk application? I purchased pages, numbers, and keynote. What are the various ways I get my documents onto the device and manage them. Opening, editing, e-mail, uploading to mobile me, etc. More questions to come.


text: COAHOMA COUNTY — Copies of the Coahoma County 10-Year Strategic Plan are now available. "The Strategic Community Plan for Coahoma County, Mississippi" is a long-range visioning document created over a 12-month period by more than 600 Coahoma County residents representing diverse sectors of the community. The purpose of the plan is to identify and promote the implementation of comprehensive community ...Read More »