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Churches & Religion
Beguinage (World Heritage)
The beguinage in Diest is one of the thirteen Flemish beguinages on the UNESCO World Heritage list. It was founded by Arnold IV (Lord of Diest) in 1253 and discontinued in 1796 under the French regime. Just as with other cities, the beguinage was built on inexpensive, marginal land outside the city centre. In this case, on the low, marshy terrain of the 'Begijnebeek' (brook of Beguine), tributary of the River Demer.
When you walk under the Rubensian gateway dating from 1671, you immediately feel the serene atmosphere and the enclosed character of the medieval Beguine life. The round arch Baroque gateway is embellished with two pillars while the niche at the top accommodates a statue of Mary, surrounded by garlands of flowers and angelic heads. A phrase from the Old Testament 'Comt in mynen Hof, Myn suster Bruyt' invites you to enter this enclosed garden. Solomon sings of the bride as an enclosed garden. Beguines see themselves as the bride of Christ.
Beguinage Church
The Saint Catherine church is a typical beguinage church dating from the fourteenth century. It was established with resources that were limited at the time and built with typical ironstone. A small Lantern tower adorns the Gothic church. This is dedicated to Saint Catherine, whose help was invoked for fire and skin problems. Saint Catherine church was recently restored and coated with lime plaster on the outside.
On the main altar you can see the painting 'The Adoration of the Shepherds' by Frans Francken de Jonge. The seventeenth-century pulpit and the beautifully embellished chancel closure were created by Jan Mason from Diest. The stucco adorning the wooden barrel vault of the chancel, transept and nave, dates from the eighteenth century.
City within the City
The beguinage was as it were, a city within a city.
Originally, it consisted of a hotchpotch of mud houses and buildings grouped around the church and along a few streets. In the sixteenth century, parish priest Nicolaas van Essche tried to bring some structure into it. He built a clergy house outside the gateway, had a wall built along the Vestenstraat (street) and a number of dilapidated houses demolished.
Major renovation of the beguinage began in the seventeenth century. First and foremost, safer houses had to be built from stone. The number of Beguines also increased, up to 395 in 1674. The beguinage, with its novices, resident children and service staff, soon had around six hundred residents. Therefore, most of the ninety houses and convents date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Today, artists have installed studios in a number of these. Noteworthy are the numerous Baroque door frames and the alcoves for saints. They reflect as it were, the great gateway.
The new houses were mainly built by individual Beguines. They only made temporary pledges and were permitted to have their own possessions. Poorer Beguines who couldn't afford their own house rented a room. And then a number of poorer Beguines shacked up together in convents. At the end of the seventeenth century there were nine residing Beguines in the 'Engelenconvent' (angelical convent). It now serves as museum of the 'Grauwzusters' (grey-robed sisters who lived in accordance with the Third Order of St Francis).
The Beguinage is freely accessible every day.
'Xaverius – Flemish centre for dining and table culture' – kitchen with herb garden: opened from spring to autumn, on the first Sunday of the month.
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Showing results for: Events > Migration & Ministry (Sept 2016)
Stories of migration in word and image
In this video of her closing plenary talk from the SWF Migration & Ministry conference, Janice Price challenges participants to consider how their responses to migrants might have been impacted.
Art installation: triptych
In this video of his talk from the SWF Migration & Ministry conference, artist Ric Stott discusses how his art connects with the conference theme. He introduces Firas from Iraq and Pride from Cameroon who speak about their experiences.
Migration and ministry conference poems
In this video, poet Lucy Berry reads poems to close the SWF Migration & Ministry Conference
Sanctuary and migration
In this video, Methodist minister Inderjit Bhogal reflects on the theme of sanctuary in relation to the conference theme of ministry and ministry.
Migration and mission
In this video from the SWF Migration & Ministry conference, Harvey Kwiyani reflects theologically on understandings of migration and the experience of migrants.

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Chris Pratt and Anna Faris can get a little competitive when it comes to parenting.
Appearing on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on May 12, Pratt spoke about raising his adorable 4-year-old son Jack ― from touring the world as a family to everyday moments at home.
Since both of Jack's parents are actors, it seems his bedtime stories get a little out of hand at times.
"We're strangely competitive with each other when it comes to entertaining him and getting into the voices and the characters," Pratt told Ellen, adding that he and Faris have to take turns reading and frankly, performing the stories.
"I'll read the left page, and she'll read the right page," he continued. "And I start affecting a little accent for the character and then she's like, 'Oh!' And she starts gesticulating and laughing, and before long, it's like we're completely not even paying attention to whether or not he's even [paying attention]."
At that point, Jack is probably sleeping, the talk show host joked.
"We're so competitive with one another, it's like 'I'm calling in my hair and makeup team. I've got my costume!'" Pratt added.
Still, the couple's bedtime story competition is all in good fun. Said the dad, "It was funny. We got a kick out of it."
Can they adopt all of us?


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When I was younger, I used to look around and be shocked at how boring adults were. At some point- according to legend- they had once been kids themselves. Why didn't they have more fun once they could drive and weren't limited by their allowance and didn't have to be in bed by eight?
Take restaurants, for example. Why didn't adults have fun restaurants? Like ones where all the waiters were ninjas, and lead you through secret passages to your table. They could drop out of the ceiling to ask if you were ready to order, and sneak up behind you when bringing your food. And they could all talk in fake Japanese accents and carry swords and maybe even a few could do magic like make fire appear in their hand, and then turn it into your dessert. To younger me, it just seemed obvious that there was a need for this sort of thing.
Luckily, someone else thought so too.
Ninja NY is a great time. The wife took me there for a birthday dinner, and all of the above happened at least once during the meal. Also, we heard the following exchange roughly every thirty seconds:
Ninja: "HAI!"
Customer: "AAAIIIEEEEEE!"
Good times. Good times.


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No riding today so I've delved into the archives (might just be a couple of related posts I think). Here's a bit of my early riding history for ya. The first pic is me sitting by the old man's old Kwaka two-stroke - believe it or not I actually was run to kindy sitting on the petrol tank a few times...
|Gimme a ride Dad!
|Yes, I am cool!
|Helmet on this time!


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There are so many ways to use them for delicious and healthy meals.
It is easy to do it and it only takes 2 ingredients: lemons and salt.
When you have fresh beautiful lemons, right from the tree is the best of course
The ratio i am using is 1 medium lemon: 1 teaspoon of salt.
I measure salt into a bowl by the ratio to lemons i'll be using for this jar, it takes about 6-8 lemons for a 1 quart.
Then i cut it from one end in fours, sprinkle with salt and squeeze into a jar.
It should look like this. The lemons should be submerged with lemon juice.
Then leave it on the counter for 3 weeks, after store it in the fridge, its good for at least 1 year. I had them after they been in the fridge for almost 2 years and were still good.
Before using them i chop a lemon or two into smaller jar so i have it ready. I use it for all kind of salads, salad dressings, sauces, fish cooking, fish saviche.
Have you fermented lemons?
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Wow. The holidays have come and gone (except for the New Year celebration!). Can you believe it? I hope your Christmases and Hanukkahs were fantastic! I was SO glad to see my family, even if it was just for a little while. In classic Carolyn style, I didn't take any pictures. Spending time with my mom, my extended family, and Sean's wonderful family was just the cheer I needed to make it through the rest of the year.
I hope you are lucky enough to have the rest of the week to relax and spend time with you families. Like many of you, I'm headed back to work today, but I really can't complain since I'm doing work I truly love with people who make it that much better. I know I've only been there a week, and that I had four days off for the holiday, but it's really been wonderful so far.
I have to work on decorating my office area soon. I usually prefer clean and streamlined, but I've never really had a cube to myself before (except at my internship at WUOT), so maybe I could add some art or fun little gizmos? We'll see!
I'm sad to report that I didn't get a dog this year for Christmas. Anyone who knows me knows I've only been badgering Sean for a dog for… ever. But that's ok, because I have three awesome cats… And Sean said maybe next year. But I'll probably try to sneak one in the house before then.
Still pushing for this guy!
Well, I have quite a few things to catch up on. I mean, the queue on my Google Reader is over 50! I hope your Wednesday is fabulous and continues the joy and love you feel on Christmas morning!


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Blo Pens The Magic Markers!
The popular arts and crafts toy from the 1990s is back! Create works of art from just blowing into the magic markers. Over the past few years many of the toys that I used to play with as a kid are making a comeback.
The Blo Pens are a great holiday gift option for those who have arts and craft lovers on their gift list. My oldest daughter has always been strongly into it and over the years there have been a number of different gifts for her that were based on the arts and crafts line.
Blo pens is something that she will totally enjoy because it combines a number of different ideas into one package. Not only does she have the option of using the pens as your standard marker, she also can blow into the end creating a spray gun impression. The stencils will be great to help her create new designs and overall I think the package will make her very happy.
Using these markers is easy. Simply use a stencil, blow into the pen and watch your art appear. Blo Pens can also be used as regular markers to create unique masterpieces. Blow soft strokes or hard strokes to make the colors stronger and watch artwork being created before your eyes.
Blo Pens Blaster Activity Set has a recommended price of $29.99 and is available across Canada at Toys 'R' Us, Indigo and Mastermind Toys as well as Amazon.
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Let's try and choose for your car the electrоnic watchdog.
There are 3 main types of car alarm systems that we offer:
1. One is the classicаl car alarm with the remote control. By pressing the button, the door locks are closed, and the car alarm system is activated. By pressing another button, the door locks are unlocked, and the car alarm system is disactivated. At attempt of breaking into the car, an alarm is triggered.
2. The next is the alarm with the two-way connection, wherе a small control panel already works as a receiver of the car alarm signal. At attempt of breaking into, the control panel starts giving the loud sygnal. How else would You know that the sygnal went off, when You were in the shopping centre?
3. And there is also the alarm without the additional control panel. Practically all new cars have already got a control for locking and unlocking the central car lock. This type of the new generation car alarms is connected to Your original control-key, so You don't need to attach one more control to the car keys.
Car alarm Secure Can, connected to your original remote cоntrol
If you already have the original remote control for the central lock, there is no need to attach one more control to the keys. This car alarm will be controlled from your original remote control. It matches ideally the car PC and easily adapted to any car model. This system is accepted by all Insurance companies in Estonia.
Cost with installation 269 €
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Immobilaizer SkyBrake DD5 is the most reliable immobilaizer, that is available in the market nowadays. Immobilaizer SkyBrake DD5 will be switched off automatically, if the electronic key is in the car. There is no need to take the key out of the pocket – just get into the car and start the engine!
Cost with installation – 249 €
Cost with installation – 249 €
Car alarm Eurosec
The control only has 2 buttons – open and lock. So, the system is simple in use, without unnecessary bells and whistles.
This is the perfect solution for car security, аs well as for the remote control of the central lock.
This system is accepted by all Insurance companies in Estonia.
Cost with installation 269 €


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For MONTHS, I've been sitting by the window watching old man winter reck havoc leaving hills of snow, whipping up violent bitter winds, and draining the color out of everything including my skin. This weather has been unkind to every folic on my body but the end of this torture has arrived and SUPER MAN SPRING has come to save us all. We had a beautiful break in unfriendly climate, so Shaka ( of ShakaZulu Photography) made the most of it buy grabbing brunch at Enzos before squeezing in a mini shoot.
I love discovering local treasures and since Enzo's right in my town It was a perfect place to chow down. I rocked my new faux leather jacket from Long Tall Sally, and since I had a few meetings later that day I threw my Aldo pumps (Similar here) in my tote bag ( here) polish off my look without having to rush home and changed in to my flats (Here) I think it's important to have pieces in your wardrobe that can translate into different settings and seasons. I'm looking forward to all of the beautiful events, blooming nature, and of course FASHION that comes with Spring and I look forward to sharing it with you guys!
Make sure to scroll down to check out the rest of the shoot and if you're a blogger looking for a resident photographer shoot an email to email@example.com
Outfit Details: *not white*Jacket : Long Tall Sally | Tote:Madewell | Top Similar Here : | Denim: Long Tall Sally | Shoes: (Similar Here) Sneaker (Similar Here)
Photo Credit: Shaka Zulu Photography


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Discover the Broads' Best kept secret
Nestled along the back row of our campsite, our 7 yurts all have fantastic views of the river Waveney and Carlton Marshes nature reserve. They measure 5m across and feature a double bed and sofa bed, plug sockets, plus an electric heater, wood burning stove and insulated roof to make cold evenings cosy. Each yurt sits on its own deck for sitting out on, or cooking.
Camping in a yurt is like regular camping, without the hassle of packing the tent – or putting it up and down! You do need to bring everything else which you'd bring on a camping holiday. We provide a double bed and sofa bed – but you do need to bring your own linen or sleeping bag.
To see a map of our entire camping/glamping layout, click here.
All our yurt prices include use of the swimming pool throughout your stay. Maximum pool capacity and fair use policy applies.
Our nomadic yurts are a great way of enjoying all the fun of camping without having to worry about putting the tent up or down. They measure 5m across and feature an insulated roof, a double bed & sofa bed (converts to two singles), plug sockets, an electric heater and even your own wood burning stove to make cold evenings cosy. There's room for your barbecue or camping stove on the decking in front. We provide the bed and mattress but please bring your own linen or sleeping bags.
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Command and Control
The world now has confirmation that the use of nuclear weapons was suggested as a possible option during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
That was 40 years ago and in another century, a time of far slower battlefield conditions than those encountered now. Developments then could be reckoned at least in terms of a day or so, if not longer. But such is the pace of modern warfare that decisions taken in the heat of battle have a much smaller window of opportunity in which to operate. So small are these windows that often, in order to function successfully within them, only machines and not human beings have the capacity to respond with the speed required.
However, with the possibility of a nuclear component again becoming a much more active topic in the overall 'discussion,' some thought might be given towards preserving that all-important human element where command and control procedures are concerned..
That should slow matters down to a absolute crawl, giving plenty of time to ponder upon whatever next moves might then be made available.


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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
List It Tuesday
It's another edition of List It Tuesday. Head over to artsyville to check out more lists.
A few weeks ago I went to see Blue Man Group and the show ended with a huge, blow-out dance party. Amid strobe lights, streamers, and the biggest beach balls I've ever seen, the audience was encouraged to "get off your ass" and participate in a communal booty shake. An anonymous voice listed every word imaginable for a certain body part while the words flashed on a giant screen. After a few dozen words the names started to get pretty ridiculous and funny, but it made me realize that there are a ridiculous number of slang words for the good old buttocks. Here is my list of some of the most common nicknames for the part of the anatomy that you sit on. These were right off the top of my head and all that I could fit on a page of my Moleskine. I probably use the term "butt" most often, but I remember my mother was rather fond of calling it a "fanny." Do you have a favorite nickname that I missed?
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
List It Tuesday
The wonderfully talented Aimee over at artsyville has declared today as the first "list it Tuesday." I love lists! I couldn't survive without my lists! While scanning a stack of Good Advice postcards, I realized that I had a list in there somewhere. I think I would call this the three most important accomplishments of my day...or any day for that matter. Hop on over to this artsyville post and read the comments section to check out even more lists. Then start planning your contribution for next Tuesday.
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Labels: doodling, good advice, lettering, list, mail art, pitt pen, postcard, watercolor
Saturday, October 16, 2010
IF - Spooky
There's nothing spookier than the unknown. When our eyes can't see what's out there, our minds conjure up the most terrifying things imaginable lurking in every dark corner. Hideous monsters. Ferocious bears. Ax murderers. Most of the time our imaginations are far scarier than any reality. When we shine a light in the direction of our fears, we usually find out there's nothing there. The same is true for anything unknown to us. The future. The economy. The security of our retirement savings. Don't you wish you had a flashlight that you could shine into the future and be reassured that it's not as spooky as you think? Well, you do. It's called faith.
"When you come to the edge of all the light that you have and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: either there will be something solid for you to stand on or you will be taught how to fly."
Take that, spooky!
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Labels: doodling, good advice, illustration friday, lettering, mail art, pitt pen, postcard, watercolor
Friday, October 8, 2010
IF - Transportation
I've been thinking a LOT about maps lately. I'm taking a class that focuses on creating artwork in a series and I've chosen maps as the theme for my series. I've spent the last few weeks fully immersed in maps—poring over maps, scanning maps, sketching maps, abstracting maps. I think my two favorite kinds of maps are topographic maps and street maps. With so many maps on my mind, a street map seemed appropriate for the Illustration Friday theme of transportation.
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Labels: doodling, illustration friday, maps, pitt pen, watercolor
Saturday, October 2, 2010
And The Winners Are.....
Everyone! Yep, I'm having an Oprah moment. You get art! And you get art! And you get art! It was really hard to choose just two of you so I think everyone deserves to be a winner.
Of course, only two people can receive the framed art offered in the blogiversary giveaway...but I will send everyone else who left a comment an original watercolor post card. Just send me an email and let me know your address and I will create something just for you. If you have a favorite quote or saying then send that along too. Or just say "surprise me!" and I will.
Here's where the framed quotes will be heading...
I've chosen Shenais to receive Oh Happy Day because she articulated so well the deeper message that those three little words represent. Even though I said it was just a happy little doodle in my post, she "got" it so now she gets it. Congratulations Shenais!
I've chosen Gianna to receive the Howard Thurman quote because of her sheer enthusiasm for quotes in general and this one in particular. She seems like someone who will "come alive" and inspire others to do the same. Congratulations Gianna!
Thank you again to everyone for visiting and for taking part in my giveaway! Please accept my offer to thank you personally with a little bit of mail art happiness. You can find my email address on my profile. I'm looking forward to hearing from you!
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Hard-Fi have announced yet more dates for their upcoming May UK tour.
The band will play a fifth night at London's Brixton Academy on May 18. Tickets for this date go on sale at 9am on February 4.
The band sold out the initial run of shows, which include their biggest ever gigs, in just fifteen minutes and were forced to add more dates on February 1.
These extra dates then sold out, forcing the group to add the additional night in London.
Hard-Fi's May UK tour will hit:
Manchester Apollo (May 7-8)
Edinburgh Corn Exchange (9)
Wolverhampton Civic Hall (10-11)
London Brixton Academy (14-18)


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Under the Friday night lights of Harvard Stadium, a football game finished with a final score of 112-112, but the final score didn't matter much to the athletes competing on the field. It was all smiles throughout the game, and though competitive, the football game was about much more than a win, loss or tie.
Tom Brady hosted his annual Best Buddies Football Challenge at Harvard Stadium on June 1, and it was a night of football and fun for the participating buddies, as well as the current and former Patriots in attendance. Julian Edelman, James White, David Andrews, Ted Karras, Tedy Bruschi, Troy Brown, Christian Fauria and Dan Koppen all joined Tom and Best Buddies on the field.
Tom launched passes downfield to his favorite targets – new and old – like Julian, Troy and the buddies who were more than ready for their moment to shine. The game brought out everyone's competitive nature. Ted Karras caught a pass and ran for a few yards. Tedy Bruschi tossed the ball to himself for a touchdown, and Julian was relentless, breaking up a pass to James.
"He consulted me a couple plays before, asked how hard I was going and I said I wasn't going to go that hard and then he did that. It's all fun and games though," James said with a smile. "He's a little flying squirrel. He gets very energetic. We're just having fun out here. It's a great event. It's about the buddies. It's good to see all the people coming out and supporting such a great cause."
For guys like James and Julian, Tom's Best Buddies Football Challenge is a highlight on their calendar. They've come out year after year and built relationships with the buddies who look forward to this event.
James got involved with Best Buddies because his uncle worked in the same building as Anthony Shriver, the organization's founder. Since then, he's been a regular, sharing laughs with buddies every year.
"It's always a special time, meeting the buddies again, seeing them run around and have fun, putting a smile on their faces," James said. "It's a great turnout, a great cause."
And though the game was for fun, James said the buddies came to play. They were tearing it up on the field, he said.
"I'm having a blast. They're doing better than me out there. It's fun," James said. "They're happy as can be. There's no better feeling in the world."
You can check out more photos from Friday's football challenge in the gallery below.
Patriots QB Tom Brady teamed up with current and former teammates during a charity football game for Best Buddies International at Harvard Stadium on Friday, June 1, 2018.


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In late April, the Southern History Project was invited to present No Citizen Shall be Denied at the William Winter Institute's conference, Civil Rights Literacy and the Common Good. When we broke from the immediate discussion of history curricula, the conference addressed broader themes of civil rights—recognizing the stories of the civil rights veterans who, as young children, integrated the high schools of Benton County, Mississippi.
The conversation turned to the South's historical amnesia—the absence of civil rights history in our schools and communities. It's well understood that we lose a part of the past when these young people's contributions are forgotten. But we also compromise our future when the conditions that circumscribed people's lives, sanctioned terrorism, and justified the hand-me-down books and second-class citizenship are termed heritage.
Amnesia seems the product of all of this, rather than the cause.
In adhering to old curricula and pedagogy of Southern classrooms, we are clinging deliberately to an old narrative. We are not simply forgetting. We are choosing a side and crafting a historical narrative tailored to that side.
In two years, both the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and the Museum of Mississippi History are expected to open their doors. It's unclear the divide between these histories, or how the artifacts will honor what separates and what unites both narratives. But as former governor Haley Barbour proudly stated, defining both museums will be Mississippi's—and the South's—"tradition of telling stories."
Barbour has received eloquent criticism in the past for his lopsided understanding of Mississippi's civil rights history. But he touches upon something here. If storytelling can put people in listening mode, we need to rethink who and what we teach.
A leader of this effort is Dr. Roy DeBerry, civil rights veteran and founding director of the Hill Country Project. Deberry is working to introduce the oral histories of fellow civil rights veterans into our classrooms. They are civil rights history, Mississippi history, and American history. And they honor the great tradition of telling stories, and compelling us to listen.


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- Lot Size: 0.24 acres / Zoning: Residential/CBD
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The modest-sized side-hall plan Traylor-Peacock House was built in 1895 and has three bedrooms and two baths. The property includes an adjacent lot bringing the total land to 0.24 acre.
The inviting front porch expands the width of the house with original posts and sawn decorative balustrade. The multi-gabled roof features decorative shingle work. Interior features include a single-run original stairway with turned balustrade, original mantels, and wood floors.
The Traylor-Peacock House must be lifted from its foundation for repairs and likely needs sill replacement/repair as well. The house requires a complete rehabilitation including all new systems, wiring, HVAC, plumbing, new roof with significant repairs, flooring repair and new kitchen and baths. It has been confirmed that the property contains lead paint. The Traylor-Peacock House is a contributing structure in the Goldsboro historic district.
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The lively town of Goldsboro (pop. 39,000), the seat of Wayne County, is the home of the Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. It is located in eastern North Carolina, 20 minutes from I-40 and I-95, one hour from Raleigh, and within easy access of North Carolina beaches.
Downtown Goldsboro Neighborhood Revitalization
Preservation NC has partnered with the City of Goldsboro and the Downtown Goldsboro Development Corporation to revitalize several neighborhoods in downtown Goldsboro. The neighborhoods will be transformed into a blend of residential historic structures and new homes that will include historic architectural details.
Homes range in size from 1,100 to 6,400 square feet and consist of a variety of architectural styles including Queen Anne, Victorian, and Italianate. The unique historic district includes residential and commercial structures.
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QUAD CITIES, (KWQC)– Good news for pet owners, as the FDA approved a new drug that will calm dogs who are anxious during storms or fireworks.
Local Veterinarians say they use drugs similar to this already to help dogs with anxiety.
Sileo is an oral gel for animals. Dr. Laura Bahns says the medication is placed on the animal's gums and will help them mellow out.
Bahns said this medication is coming out at the right time with summer bringing on the sound of thunder and fireworks.
She says many pet owners in the QCA have been making trips to the vet to prepare for the noisy Fourth of July weekend.
"First thing is don't take your pet to those places especially because that can just enhance their phobia," said Bahns.
She also recommends pet owners try out the "thunder shirt" which is worn by animals to give them a sense of security.
"Sometimes we start with thunder shirt first and if that's not enough we move up to the prescription medications," said Bahns.
If your in your home and the fireworks are upsetting your animal, Bahns recommends shutting the blinds and turning on the TV to drown out the loud noise.
She also recommends you take your dog to a doctor right away if they are showing signs of anxiety.


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Since the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari took over Aso Rock people have watched keenly the anticorruption fight. There are Nigerians who feel that the fight is biased and targets certain individuals, mostly from the opposition, and the fight is bogus as a result.
Buhari's critics feel that somebody like Rotimi Amaechi, the former Governor of Rivers State and Ahmed Bola Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos, are persons deemed to have been highly corrupt during their stints as governors, but whose issues the Buhari administration have chosen not to look into, for the mare fact that they helped his journey to the Presidency. Generally, former governors who are major agents of corruption in Nigeria, are seen not remain untouched by the administration.
Buhari did say, during his electoral campaign, that he will draw a line, and will not look into cases of corruption behind that line. Instead he will look only ahead of the line. This is because the filth behind is so overwhelming that taking time to clean all of it would end up consuming his time such that he will have little or no time for the other activities of nation building. But it could be true that President Buhari is been selective and overlooking glaring cases that should attract his attention. However, it said that governance is a process and not an event. This means that Nigerians succeeding Buhari as the President can always look into cases he failed to look into, either by omission of commission. The administration could also investigate the President, if it is deemed that his own administration was equally corrupt.
This column is personally of the view that the fight is a good start. Corruption is not a piece of furniture that one could just pick and toss away, especially in Nigeria where corruption has grown deep tap roots. If we consider corruption to be a hill that has to be pulled down, and someone comes around and takes off 60% of it, then we are making progress. This is because another person would come, and as long as he is committed to getting rid of that hill, he could bring his contribution towards its totally removal.


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Baker Ripley Neighborhood Center
- 2010
- Houston, Texas
- K-5 school, public library, business incubator, health/fitness center, art center, ampitheather, and public park
The campus of the Baker Ripley Neighborhood Center supports a large underserved and ethnically diverse population in the Gulfton/Sharpstown neighborhood of southwest Houston. The master-planning component of this project included six months of intense community engagement with residents to identify site assets and future needs.
Milton H. Latter Memorial Library Renovations
- 2016
- New Orleans, LA
- Library, Computer Lab, Offices, Reading Rooms, and Storage Space for the Milton H. Latter Branch and the Friends of New Orleans Public Library
Concordia was hired by the City of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to produce a Comprehensive Facility Assessment and Master Plan for improvements. The Master Plan recommended breaking the project in two phases, linked to available funding sources from FEMA, CDBG, and the City of New Orleans. Phase I included a full… Continue reading
Ashe Cultural Arts Center
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- Gallery and performance art center
Located in the heart of Central City New Orleans, the Ashe Cultural Arts Center renovation includes a lobby and marketplace for displaying African art and textiles, a performance and exhibition space, and office suite for the Ashe team. The design concept is based on oral tradition and storytelling in African culture.
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- New Orleans, LA
- Museum, art center, cafe
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I've been reading less political news lately. I'm trying to focus on building stuff and learning new ways to build stuff, and that's crowded most of the political feeds out of my reader. But I still do check in a little every day, and one thing I'm seeing a lot of is effusive praise for the defense budget reforms that President Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates have proposed. Here's where it's important to remember that Gates was President Bush's Secretary of Defense and that Barack Obama asked him to stay on.
Here's Matthew Yglesias on Gates yesterday:
This is the move that justifies the decision to keep Robert Gates on at the Pentagon. Any new Defense Secretary, no matter how brilliant, would have had to have spent his first three months in office building relationships with the top military commanders and focusing on filling out the DOD civilian staff. Only a Secretary who's already been in office could have the ability to propose sweeping change.
As Fred Kaplan reminded us yesterday, when Gates was nominated by President Bush in 2006, he recommended exactly the sorts of reforms that were announced this week. So now we can look back and consider the idea that President Obama offered Gates the opportunity to keep his job if he was willing to make those reforms.
Last November, few people seemed to think that Obama may keep Gates because they shared common goals. Here's Katie Couric expressing a common view you saw in the media — that Obama kept Gates to manufacture credibility on national security issues. Plenty of liberals suspected that keeping Gates was a way for Obama to backpedal on his campaign promises on Iraq — or that Gates would influence Obama to break those promises. Given the shape of things that have happened since, none of those theories have turned out to be correct.
Operating under the assumption that President Obama doesn't have a plan that serves his own goals rarely leads to solid analysis.


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A View On The Pew
Yesterday, the Jewish world was buzzing with reaction to the Pew Research Center Survey of U.S. Jews. The results seemed to indicate the American Jews are even more assimilated and apathetic toward the Jewish traditions than had been suspected. Intermarriage is up and synagogue affiliation is down.
I have to admit – I was not surprised. As someone who has worked for a Jewish educational organization for years, I've been aware of that it is increasing a challenge to find enthusiastic students and participants. Perhaps more specifically, I wasn't surprised by the Pew results because of the generation in which I was raised – Generation X.
When I began college at the University of Maryland at College Park in the mid-1990s, I found myself inundated with one cultural imperative – multiculturalism. All around me were signs and posters promoting cultures from around the world, but none encouraging students to explore, express or appreciate their own culture.
On my dorm floor, there were several Jewish students, most of whom had been raised with a strong Jewish identity, a limited Jewish education and a hope that they would eventually settle down with someone Jewish. Their parents were like my own – Jewish Americans who lived their lives surrounded by their own kind. My parents were both born and raised in Brooklyn, and they inhaled Jewish pride with every breath of their childhood. But had I, as a young adult, asked them why I should marry a Jew – I doubt they could have given me a truly convincing answer.
Twenty years later, as my peer group achieves, dare I say it, middle age, how can we be surprised that a generation inundated with the message of multiculturalism and armed only with a few years of after-school Hebrew school failed to connect to Jewish institutions or to transmit the significance of Jewish life to their children.
This was, of course, not everybody's story. I went the other way. I said to myself that if everyone was supposed to admire all the other people's cultures that I needed to first learn more about my own, to explore the traditions that had survived thousands of years, ages of persecution and years of wandering.
In the 1990s and 2000s, I was part of a unique movement of thousands of Jews independently deciding to become more observant. And while re continue to be young Jewish adults looking to learn more about Judaism, there has been a general shift away from religious exploration.
Becoming observant was no act of blind faith, rather is was a well-thought-out decision. I needed to immerse myself in Jewish life in order to understand the great personalities of Jewish history – like Maimonides, Rashi and the Vilna Gaon, all of whose brilliance was acknowledged by Jews and non-Jews alike. I wanted to connect to the way my great-grandparents and their grandparents and their grandparents had lived so that I might have something beautiful and unique to hand down to my children. And I wanted to understand the value of a lifestyle for which so many had given up their lives. My reaction to multiculturalism was to explore my own culture, to know myself.
I was not unique, but the people like me were a small subset of my generation. In all that talk of loving and accepting people, no one ever spoke of living a Jewish life as something one needed to choose. To my Jewish peers, being Jewish was just part of their list of identifying features. You know: I am an engineer, a New Yorker, a skier, a Jew.
In 1999, I began to work for the National Jewish Outreach Program (now known as NJOP). My boss, Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald, had one interest – getting Jews interested in being Jewish. He founded NJOP because he wanted to make certain that no Jew ever walked away from Jewish life without the ability to choose, because being uneducated about Jewish life means one never had a chance to choose Judaism.
For the last five years, I have had the privilege of writing Jewish Treats, a daily email that we subtitled "Juicy Bits of Judaism, Daily." The goal of these emails/blog posts is to bring a reminder into people's lives each day that Judaism is a thriving system of laws, customs, history and legend, and thus to encourage them to continue to stay active in Jewish life.
To me, its all about the choice of living Jewishly. It's about choosing to invest oneself in a world and a culture that, when you get to its barest ethos is (as the great sage Hillel said) about "Do not do unto others as you would not want done to you." Oddly, that's the most multicultural lesson of all – I'll respect you and you respect me.
My personal response to the Pew study is not surprise nor a call to arms. I am dismayed, of course, but what I really feel is a reinforcement of my commitment to live a fully Jewish life, to present a positive image of traditional Judaism and to provide my family with a love of tradition that will survive for several more generations.


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MKTG and TopSpin Charity Welcome Clients and Guests to MKTG's NYC Headquarters
To celebrate MKTG's new global Headquarters and to kick-off the football season, MKTG and TopSpin Charity welcomed clients, influencers and employees for a casual evening of fun, food and football! We streamed the NFL kick-off game and soccer player, Olympic Gold medalist, and World Cup Champion Alex Morgan even stopped by to say hello! Take a look at the photos from this amazing night below!


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After years of crafting comestible creations on his grill, Marlborough's Jonathan "Jonny" Blanchard is testing his culinary chops in front of some of the country's most famous chefs, as well as a national audience.
After years of crafting comestible creations on his grill, Marlborough's Jonathan "Jonny" Blanchard is testing his culinary chops in front of some of the country's most famous chefs, as well as a national audience.
Blanchard, a 28-year-old carpenter who grew up in the city, is one of the main cast members on "Master Chef," a reality show on Fox. Now in its fourth season, the show, co-produced by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, brings home cooks to Los Angeles to compete in elimination challenges until a winner is selected at the end of the season.
Blanchard, a graduate of Marian High School in Framingham, said he has always enjoyed cooking – especially cooking outdoors – and would always cook for his friends, but never expected to see his dishes make national television.
Blanchard said the whole experience happened on a whim – he would frequently cook dishes and post them to Facebook, where a friend who watches the show saw one and suggested he try out.
Blanchard said he went to an audition in Cambridge and soon enough ended up being selected in a field of 100 initial contestants to go to California for another round of auditions. When the list was culled to 40, he was still on it, so took a chance on a dish in order to try to wow the judges into putting him on the cast.
Blanchard said he concocted some lobster crackerjacks that the judges - Ramsay, restaurateur Joe Bastianich and chef Graham Elliot – liked, putting him in the field of 19 contestants. Since then, six contestants have been eliminated.
Blanchard said the experience was surreal. While he couldn't talk about episodes that haven't yet aired, he said one highlight of the episodes that have aired so far this season was meeting actress Jane Lynch when the contestants cooked for the cast of "Glee" in last week's episode.
In a phone interview Tuesday, Blanchard said his upbringing heavily influenced his cooking style now.
Both his father and his uncle worked at Wildwood Steakhouse and his family always had Patriots season tickets, which meant a lot of tailgating.
"I was brought up in the tailgating atmosphere," he said. "Cooking outside is about as good as it gets for me."
Blanchard said his family, friends, coworkers and girlfriend were all very supportive while he was away shooting the show and have enjoyed watching it, although Blanchard said he has mixed feelings about the Wednesday night show time no longer having to compete with Bruins games.
He said he also enjoyed getting to know all of his fellow contestants, many of who he keeps in contact with.
"It's kind of neat to meet these people from all over the country," he said. "It was definitely a great experience to be out there."
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Royal Baby: George Alexander Louis
Everywhere I go, I hear something about 'A Royal Baby' For a while I had NO idea of what everyone was talking about. Literally. Why? Well because not many people in my family were talking about it and normally I hear stuff from them. Anyway... Just recently, Kate Middleton and Prince William have had there first child. A baby boy. They have also just revealed the Princes name. George Alexander Louis.
Holiday Highlight: Part 1
So the holidays are about to end and to be honest, I wasn't very impressed with what I did really, ( Except for one little thing that happened ) Nothing much happened the first week, just a little trip to the mall. As for the second, I went............
SKIING AND SNOWBOARDING! Once again I got to enjoy the snow on Mt Ruapehu. But this time I got to get a look at the Turoa Ski Field. We were staying with a few friends at a house 20 minutes away from the snow! It was pretty cool and there were some beautiful views.
On the second day, I was woken up by an earthquake! I was pretty surprised being it was the first earthquake I have ever felt! Two other people had been woken up by it too. So I went and sat with them. Anyway, back to the snow. Today we were going up the mountain, but first we hired our gears. Along with everyone else, except for Zane, I got skis.
Soon we drove up to the mountain and when we reached the fourth parking spot we were above the clouds. There was an amazing view! In front of me there was a long line of clouds and just above them was the sun. After staring at it for a while we finally caught the shuttle to the Skiing and Snowboarding area.
Straight away, I got on my gears and skied down the mountain. After a while I decided to try and get Gabi to do it and in the end she did! It was really fun and I bet it was a great experience for my cousin. Since he has never ever touched snow. Getting closer and closer to the Magic Carpet I slowed down and joined the line. I hadn't been on the Magic Carpet in a while now. It felt good to be back!
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Monday, July 8, 2013
Little Red with a twist...
"Little Red? Little Red?" I heard my name echoing throughout the forest. Making my way over to a tall oak tree, I spotted a thin slit cutting through the bark. I ran my fingertips along the slit, when suddenly a golden reddish autumn leaf slowly floated down beside me. Instantly, I snatched it from the air. I pulled out my pen and wrote down a series of numbers across the leaf. Checking it twice, I slipped it into the slit on the tree.
Splitting open, the tree revealed a passage way. You'd think that nothing but wood and oak would be in a tree but surprisingly I found that the inside was lined with metal. There in front of me was a ladder leading downwards. Clutching on to the ladder I made my way down. I heard the tree door slamming shut and nothing but darkness filled the air.
Just as I reach the bottom of the ladder, once again I hear my name. "Little Red, we've been expecting you", "Sorry, I'm late Director M. What do you want me to do now?" I asked unwillingly. "Well, we have recent reports that Wolves Incorporated have sent their best agent, BBW the Big Bad Wolf on a killing spree, so I said to myself, why don't we send our best agent to do the job." "UGH! Really? Fine, where was he last spotted?".
Director M hands me a file containing all the information I needed to catch BBW. I take it, grab my red cloak and hood and head off. "Good Luck" says Director M. "Not gonna need it" I say while grabbing my gadgets.
Creeping through the woods, I see wolf prints in the grass and claw marks scratched against every tree. I follow the trees and find myself standing in front of my granny's little old cottage. Out of nowhere, it started to pour rain, the clouds were dark and grey, the raindrops were like sharp daggers piercing through my back.
I walk up to the red door, the red paint was clearly peeling off. Mold and weeds were growing through the cracks. KNOCK! KNOCK! I knock on the door. "Huh" I chuckle. It had been a long time since I've been there. 5 years ago, I was visiting her when the big bad wolf nearly ate her alive, luckily I was there to save her..
KNOCK! KNOCK! Once again, I knock but it's practically pounding now. Still no answer. In my frustration, I kick down the door. The unbelievable sight startled me, there in front of me on his knees was the wolf feasting upon my granny's limp lifeless body.
His claws were sharp like knives. Slowly walking up behind him, his long ears twitched. Immediately, his head creeks towards to me. Growling at my presence, he opens his mouth and blood drops from each one of his teeth. I whip my cloak off and reveal all my guns. In my hand I held two guns pointing directly at him.
"I'll shoot and I'll shoot and I'll blow your head off" I scream. Bullets started seeking through his huge body. "Grrrrr" he growls lying on his back. He jumps back on his feet and jumps on me, making me drop my guns. Using his claws, he attempted to slit my throat but I held his claws from reaching me. Stretching my arm, I reach for my gun. Struggling to hold the wolf and get the gun at the same time, the wolf managed to scratch my face..
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Sisters Shala (facing), 9, and Shawtel, 13, tumble in the backyard of their Concord home as their grandparents Helene and John Lorden smile in the background June 20. ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff
ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staffSisters Shala (facing), 9, and Shawtel, 13, tumble in the backyard of their Concord home as their grandparents Helene and John Lorden smile in the background June 20.
Helene Lorden and her granddaughter Shala, 9, embrace at their Concord home on Tuesday. ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff
ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staffHelene Lorden and her granddaughter Shala, 9, embrace at their Concord home on Tuesday.
Helene Lorden, 58, picks up grill meats for that evening's dinner with her husband and grandchildren in Concord on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff)
Shawtel (left), 13, shares a joke with her grandmother, Helene Lorden, as dinner is prepared at their home in Concord on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff)
Ezra, 15, stands at the back door as his grandmother Helene Lorden (right) and brother Avery, 18, sit in the backyard of their Concord home on Friday, June 23, 2017. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff)
Helene Lorden (left), 58, spends time with her grandsons Zaymen, 11, and Avery, 18, in their Concord home on Friday. ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff
ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staffHelene Lorden (left), 58, spends time with her grandsons Zaymen, 11, and Avery, 18, in their Concord home on Friday.
Helene Lorden, 58, grills hamburgers and hotdogs for dinner with her husband and grandchildren in Concord on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff)
Helene Lorden (center) and her grandsons Avery (left to right), Erza and Zaymen share memories as they sit outside their Concord home on Friday, June 23, 2017. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff)
Ezra, 15, rides a bicycle around the yard as Helene Lorden, 58, prepares dinner for her husband and grandchildren at their home in Concord on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff)
In Helene Lorden's living room, a big, inviting armchair is parked in front of the television. But the 58-year-old grandmother of five rarely gets to sit down and put her feet up.
Like thousands of other grandparents in the state, Lorden has custody of her five grandchildren – ages 10 to 18. She has been raising them for over a decade.
"I make sure they go to the dentist on a regular basis, go to school," Lorden said. "It's not an easy job, I have ups and downs. But I pull myself aside and think what they need."
On a recent Friday evening, her cramped, three-bedroom apartment in Concord's Royal Gardens was a flurry of activity. As her granddaughter Shawtel prepared for her dance recital, grandson Ezra hunted for batteries for his Xbox controller.
Outside, Lorden's youngest grandchildren rode their bikes and scooters on the network of paved paths connecting apartments in the housing complex. Empty pizza boxes sat on the kitchen table after dinner; Lorden's schedule was too packed to cook that night.
When she started her own family three decades ago, Lorden and her husband John only had one daughter. They didn't expect their family of three to someday swell to seven.
Now, prepping for mealtimes, helping with homework and driving to and from appointments consumes her waking moments. During the school year, she and her husband have just a few free minutes early in the morning before the kids get up, and after they go to bed at night. By the end of the day, Lorden is wiped out.
Her life is not how she pictured being a grandmother would be.
"We put our life on the back burner to give what these kids need," she said. "They want, want, want. I can't give, give, give."
As exhausting as her days are, she wouldn't have it any other way. Lorden's daughter struggled with drug addiction and gave up guardianship of her five oldest children to her parents.
"I raised my kids since they were babies," Lorden said, a term she uses for her grandchildren. "If I didn't take them, I'd be worrying."
Lorden is one of an estimated 10,000 grandparents in New Hampshire who are their grandchildren's primary caregivers. The growing number of so-called "grandfamilies" is driven by the state's exploding drug crisis and children who are left parentless due to overdose deaths or an addicted parent unable to care for them.
With the state's intense focus on expanding drug treatment and recovery, the children and families of those suffering with addiction are often an afterthought.
"I think sometimes the children are the forgotten victims of this whole opiate crisis," said Keith Kuenning, advocacy director for Manchester-based nonprofit Child and Family Services.
In many cases, children are left trying to cope with the trauma of their parents abandoning them or dying from an overdose. Many suffer from depression, anxiety and "reactive attachment disorder," a result of parental neglect and a lack of bonding between a child and parents.
The disorder manifests in kids who won't bond with their family members and don't show signs of affection like wanting to be hugged, said Mary Lou Beaver, director of nonprofit organization Every Child Matters in New Hampshire.
"You can't cuddle them and support them," Beaver said. "There's no hugs and kisses they can stand."
Sometimes children act out by misbehaving or being violent, hitting walls, and destroying things. Younger kids may regress with potty training and wet the bed again.
Many become fixated on making sure they know where their grandparents or guardians are at all times, because they are afraid of being abandoned again.
With so many kids packed into a small house, Lorden tries to make sure each grandchild gets time with her to talk about anything that's on their mind.
She takes them out for drives around Concord so they can privately confide in her, away from their siblings.
"I think they need that alone time to talk," she said.
Taking over caring for children just before retirement can prove a costly decision for many grandparents.
Rosemary and Denis Nugent of Antrim readily admit they are two of the lucky ones.
They moved up from Long Island to rural New Hampshire a few years ago with their 8-year-old grandson, and have been his primary caregivers for all but about six months of his life.
"I think from birth, I bonded with him more than the others," Rosemary Nugent, 64, said. "It was back and forth for a while, but more with us than with (their son)."
They are both semi-retired, working because they didn't like the lack of a daily schedule. Denis, 61, spent years operating buses for New York City transit, and gets a good pension.
Unlike many of the other grandparents they know in southwestern New Hampshire, "We're not digging into our savings each month," Denis said.
However, the Nugents didn't know they were eligible for benefits until they started attending a local grandparents meeting in Antrim.
"A lot of things we learned at our meetings," Rosemary said.
Their complaint about lack of information is a common one – advocates and Department of Health and Human Services officials agree there is not much in the way of outreach to grandparents.
"I think this is a big void," said Kuenning, at Child and Family Services.
Kuenning says the lack of a coordinated outreach effort is in part due to short-staffing and turnover at New Hampshire's Division of Children, Youth and Families, the beleaguered agency tasked with assessing whether abused or neglected children need to be placed elsewhere.
"With DCYF under so much stress, I think a lot of the information is not getting to grandparents about what resources are out there," Kuenning said.
Director of DHHS' Division of Family Assistance Terry Smith said he sees grandparents who need help with the intricacies of applying for food stamps and temporary assistance, or may not be aware that they qualify at all.
But the division doesn't do any formal outreach to families to advertise available resources.
"My concern is that when people come in, they may not be knowing the difference between applying for themselves or applying for the guardian," Smith said. "They can apply for TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) on behalf of the child alone."
One thing grandparents often don't realize is they can get more money from the state if they apply to become foster parents for their grandchild, rather than a guardian.
Often, grandparents are just trying to get guardianship done quickly, rather than go through a more time-intensive process to become foster parents. They become eligible for $16 to $20 per day from the state to take care of their grandchildren if they go the foster care route.
"It takes quite a bit more to become a foster grandparent than it does to be a guardian," Kuenning said. "If they adopt, they can lose their benefits."
Lorden's problem is that she simply makes too much money to qualify for food stamps.
She quit her job years ago to take care of the children and now lives on a disability paycheck. But there's a disadvantage to getting more disability money; Lorden's expenses don't get factored in to her overall income bracket, so when it goes up, she can lose out on other services.
"For grandparents, they should just automatically give us food stamps and help us," she said. "We're saving them money in the long run."
It's not as if she's completely devoid of benefits; two of her grandkids receive disability benefits and another gets money for food and clothes from the state.
But the cost of raising one grandchild – let alone five – is steep, and Lorden worries about money a lot.
These days, everything seems to cost more – Lorden's rent goes up every year, the cost of food for five kids herself and her husband gets into the thousands each month.
And with her kids growing up, the space inside her tiny three-bedroom apartment is rapidly shrinking. She wants to buy a house or a double-wide trailer, but isn't sure if she'll be able to afford the payments.
"I don't know what the future's going to bring me, I really don't," Lorden said.
"When they're out and on their own, we don't have nothing to retire with. It's all gone."
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A very disturbing report is coming out of China this morning, a report that says Christians in China are being told to put their faith in President Xi Jinping instead of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Not only that, but they are also being forced in some areas to take down images of Jesus and replace them with photos of Xi:
WAPO – Jesus Christ won't drag you out of poverty or cure your illnesses, but the Chinese Communist Party will, so take down those pictures of Christ and put up a nice photograph of President Xi Jinping.
That's what thousands of villagers in southeastern China have been told by local officials, in a sign of the growing cult of personality around the country's powerful leader, as well as rising pressure on Christian worship.
A social media account in Jiangxi province's Yugan county said villagers had "willingly" removed 624 posters showing Christian religious sayings and images, and replaced them with 453 images of Xi. The move, while still on a small scale, harks back to the personality cult surrounding Communist China's first leader, Mao Zedong, whose picture was in every home.
"Help turn those who believe in religions into believing in the Party" pic.twitter.com/dKXnmX1KK8— Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 (@Yaqiu) November 13, 2017
In the latest campaign, party members involved in poverty alleviation toured villages telling people how the party was supporting agriculture and removing poverty, "melting the hard ice in the hearts of religious believers" and "helping turn them into believers in the party."
Qi Yan, chairman of the people's congress in the township of Huangjinbu within Yugan county and the man in charge of the local poverty alleviation effort, told the South China Morning Post that villagers "should no longer rely on Jesus, but on the party for help."
"Many poor households have plunged into poverty because of illness in the family. Some resorted to believing in Jesus to cure their illnesses," Qi said. "But we tried to tell them that getting ill is a physical thing and that the people who can really help them are the Communist Party and General Secretary Xi."
Qi said the campaign has been running since March in Huangjinbu township, with more than 1,000 portraits of Xi distributed and hung in homes. Christians make up around one-third of the population there, with between 5,000 and 6,000 families, he said.
"Many rural people are ignorant. They think God is their savior," he said. "After our cadres' work, they'll realize their mistakes and think: We should no longer rely on Jesus, but on the party for help."
Chinese officials told people NOT to believe in Jesus…
DAILY MAIL – A pastor told Radio Free Asia that such poverty-relief activities were seen in Yugan county of Jiangxi Province, which has a large Christian community.
Christians in Huangjinbu town were told to remove pictures of Jesus Christ, Christian cross and other Christian items as the local government launched the campaign said to be aimed at tackling poverty issues.
Pastor Huang said in an interview with Radio Free Asia that the poverty relief was a scam.
'The officials told people not to believe in Jesus and told them to learn from president Xi and take Xi as a role model,' he said.
We reported a few weeks ago that China had returned to strongman rule that harkens back to the days of Mao Zedong. Now it appears they are also cracking down on Christianity once again as they have in the past and it is truly disgusting.
Not that it's ever been great there, but China has a horrible record in the 20th century of trying to brutally squash Christianity and it looks like those dark days might once again be upon us.
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Poet and children's author Wachtel views her mother's remarkable life, first recounted in The Story of Blima: A Holocaust Survivor (2005), through a creative new lens.
In 1941, Blima Weisstuch, the eldest daughter of a shoe merchant in Dombrowe, Poland, was abducted by the Gestapo before her mother's eyes, shattering forever a domestic Eden of fresh-faced sisters, quarreling brothers, ritual dinners and the warmth of a mother's embrace. Transported by cattle car with hundreds of other Jewish women to Grünberg labor camp, Blima is made to sew German uniforms and begins, slowly, to starve. Only a Catholic guard with a mothering instinct guarantees her survival by slipping her crusts of bread. Finally liberated and reunited with a brother, Blima marries a fellow Holocaust survivor, emigrates to Brooklyn and gives birth to Shirley, a coddled mother's girl, who eventually grows up to write this richly imagined memoir. Wachtel (In the Mellow Light, 2009) structures her story in flashbacks narrated by Blima, Shirley and Betty—the name Blima takes in America. Each woman's story propels the others' over five decades. Betty and her husband, Chiel, run a Laundromat and produce a son. Shirley marries and becomes a writer. As family tables are set, the past bubbles up until an aging Blima faces death. Among Wachtel's adroitly rendered scenes of Jewish domestic and communal life, of wartime Poland and 1950s New York, are several small masterpieces; a baby is accidentally dropped and dies, an apple is menacingly peeled in a labor camp, ice melts under a woman's exhausted body in a Polish forest, a father weeps openly over his failure to provide, matzos are broken and challah is dipped. Wachtel entwines the singular and the ordinary with quiet lyricism. In the end, the eponymous shoes are upstaged; it is food that beckons, vanishes and sates. From the raisin breads of the Old World to the tenderly saved chicken bones of the new, food binds mothers to daughters and women to the world. Wachtel tells us she cannot fathom the Holocaust. That food is love and manna is life—this she proves.
An evocative, moveable feast plumbing past and present with equal grace.


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Suggestion for a good -20 freezer brand? - (Mar/19/2010 )
We are looking for a new -20C freezer--nice one but not over 5k. What brand would you recommend?
get one from Sears, much cheaper from fisher, VWR,etc.
Go to your local elec-shop and get one there. We got 20 something -20, -40 and -80 freezers here at work and we always do that. there's no need to spend plenty of cash on a "lab" freezer box that doesn't go lower than -20. go to the pros when you're in need of -40 og -80.
Go to Sears - just make sure it's not frost-free.
The one we got from Sear's died in 3 years >< and the frost accumulate so much! That's why we are aiming for a better freezer...
We got a nice one from Home Depot. It didn't need to be too big and it didn't have the automatic defrost.
We did get a couple from another smaller distributor-- one of them worked well, but the other had issues. We were able to get the problematic one fixed easily enough, but it was an issue.
If you want the contact number for that distributor, send me a message and I'll pass it along.
Hope that helps!
How you guys think about Forma and Revco, the 2 big name brand?
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Well folks in November 2011 I blogged for the first time. (I am really shy when it comes to expressing myself it seems) Now, here I am trying trying again.
I have to say. I love this site. I know my journey to weightloss will take place while I am here. No matter what I don't give up. I may at times not be working this program to the best of my ability but I know this is the main tool that will bring me results while I continue through my trial and error.
I gained weight last year and I finally lost it again in September. I feel confident today that I can overcome my food issues. I heard this somewhere and for me it particularly rang so true. No matter what, you cannot out-excersise a bad diet. This is my problem, sweet and simple. I love fruits and I love vegetables and cook them for most of my meals. I also cook and consume all brown -- rice, pasta, bread. I eat good sized portions according to the recommendations but by the end of the day somewhere along the way, I will have picked 2 cookies, some ice cream, muffin, cake or whatever people offer that I say yes to instead of no. I know that I need to say no but somewhere I lose the resolve when it is in front of me. So no matter how much I exercised that day, how well I measured my portions, I destroy all my efforts in a slice of cake, and/or 3, 4 or 5 fun size candy bars which are around the office candy dishes. This is my main issue.
At this point, I feel a need to admit I have a sugar addiction. Admitting to this and surrendering is key, I am tired of this yo-yo cycle and I need to get off it. This is why I keep gaining and losing the same ten pounds. Today, is the day that I will say "not today". Just for today, I will stay away from the candy dishes and will can return the fun size candy bars people seem to want to leave on my desk just because.
Tomorrow I hope for good results as well but I can only concentrate on today so thank you to all my fellow sparkpeople. I am truly inspired by all of you, extremely grateful for your support and I hope the strength I gain from reading your comments, blogs, your successes, and spark people radio (which I love) will help me to effectuate the changes in my eating patterns.
I joined the Jumpstart Challenge, doing the video and elliptical workouts. I am tracking food everyday and feeling really good.
I will update you all over the weekend.
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Don't be shy, I loved your blog and I know I discovered that writing these blogs is very helpful as we work against our inner demons...like sugar! LOL
Yesterday I was watching a show I downloaded into I tunes. It is one of the weight of the nation shows from HBO (free tv episode downloads...check it out if you can) Anyway, the episode I watched while I exercised was the biology of weight loss and it was so good. It talked about the set point...not a new concept, but they did all this research following people in a hospital for month measuring all sorts of things and what they found was that we have our body fighting against us to get that weight back after we lose it and that along with the other factors is part of why we find ourselves not being able to pass up that cake or cookies etc. Now this could make us feel like we're defeated, but that's not the feeling that I got watching it. It somehow helps when I understand the reason. The woman they had in the program was found to require 300 cal a day less to maintain her weight loss than what would have been calculated simply....lightbulb moments...and she said she knows she has to struggle but she's doing it, keeping the weight off.
Anyway, if you get a chance check out the show and any of the other episodes, they are so good. And keep writing! It helps to keep us working together and together we are strong!
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I'm sad to report that reading about your sugar addiction made me think of the Weight Watchers dessert bar in the freezer. Proof that we dessert lovers can be triggered by almost anything, if she wants to be.
But.... I'm not going to go get it!
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One day at a time, forgiving oneself for any mistakes of yesterday, making one good choice at a time, and loving the good ones we made or even the slightly improved ones... is how it's done, long-term.
Thanks for the friend add... added you back. It's good to find kindred spirits.
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Lovely blog. Best of luck with freeing yourself from the sugar addiction. I like it that you say 'just for today'.
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Hello Kathy,
Retors d'Alsace by DMC is sold in # 5 # 8 an # 12 in different coulours. It is sold in skeins of 20 grams.Gorgeous thread, produced by DMC France and sold mainly in Italy.
However, there is also Anchor Ritorto Fiorentino sold in # 8 an # 12, in skeins of 45 gr, gorgeous thread, beautiful colours... and less expensive. A skein of # 8 gives contains 350 m and a skein of # 12 measures 550 m of lovely thread.
Both of these threads are sold in Italy, so I normally buy them from
Casa Cenina http://www.casacenina.fr/broderie/fils.html
Tombolo e Disegni http://www.tombolodisegni.it/ritorto.htm
I hope this has been of some help.
Kathy and Yolande
Thanks for telling us about this thread. It looks wonderful. Unfortunately Mary Corbett of Needlen'thread says DMC has no plans to release it in north America. I checked the internet and found French and Italian sources, and one British.
I assume that the Retors #12 would be comparable in size to pearl #12. Perhaps DMC doesn't want the retors to compete with their own pearl 12. It would result in lowering market demand for their pearl 12. I do have the impression that embroidery and needle work are less frequently practiced in north America than in Europe. grrrh
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