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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Feeling a bit Patriotic
I wouldn't call myself a Royalist, but when big things happen with the royals it does make me proud to be British. Just like the Royal wedding I had a few flashes of patriotism and created a few pieces as a memento for myself. This time with the Jubilee and an extra long bank holiday weekend I created for IndigoBlu. … Continue reading
Lollipop Tree by Alix
Hello! Hope you're all enjoying the lovely sunshine! As soon as I saw the new Tim Holtz Seasonal Inks set, I just had to have them! I made this card for Kay with the set -the colours go so well together. I used Lollipop Tree and Sarah's Choice and of course, my favourite twiddles! I coloured the base card with … Continue reading
Discover Your Passion Card
Hi everyone, as promised my first Youtube video for IndigoBlu. I would have loaded it sooner but I forgot about a show with my dance troupe so I had a little bit of a panic on my hands this weekend! I have had a couple of questions already regarding the back of my hand, it is a henna tattoo so … Continue reading
Owls!! by Alix
Hello! I thought I would show you my owly cards today. Both of them are made using theTwit T'woo stamp-don't you just love that little ivy twiddle? The first card has a background of Pan Pastels and flake. I used the Pastels over a Versamark stamped background, then flitterglu'd and flaked to add highlights. The owl was stamped and coloured … Continue reading
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Hello and a sneaky peek!
Hi everyone, my name is Clare Horner and I am absolutely thrilled to be the new addition to this fabulous family. I am Yorkshire born and raised and live in a small village in West Yorkshire with my partner and the four cats I rescued. When I am not creating things for Kay I look after my Mom's estate which … Continue reading
Poppy Heart by Alix
Hi there! I'm posting some samples to Kay tomorrow, so thought you might like a little look at some over the next week or so…. The first ones I thought I'd show you are both made with 'Poppy Heart'. I love this stamp; it's so detailed and colours up well. The first card has the heart stamped four times in … Continue reading
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Sewing mends the soul
I thought I would share a couple of cards I made this week using the brilliant 'Sewing Mends the Soul' plate and my new Pan Pastels. I love the sentiment on this first card and I thought it was perfect for a girly pink and black colour scheme. All the images on this card are embossed in black and I used Magenta Tint … Continue reading
a sneaky peek!
Hi there! Kay sent me this frame blank last week, and I thought you may like a sneaky peek before I send it to her tomorrow. I coloured it with diluted Wild Honey Distress Reinkers, then sprayed some Adirondack Raisin mister on one side. I then cut a circle of paper to fit the recess, coloured it with Antique Linen … Continue reading
Poppy One by Sarah McCrossan
Good Morning Bloggers, Hope that you are all enjoying the Bank Holiday Weekend? I know I am! So looking forward to Happy Stampers Next weekend, can't wait to see Kay and Alfie, catch up over a Gin and Tonic! lol Hope to see lots of our stamping friends there too! Thought I'd share a card with you this morning which … Continue reading
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a few more cards…
Sewing mends the Soul from the 'Time'stamp set love to create Here are a few more cards that didn't make on the show on Sunday- Kay sold out too fast!! Thanks for all the lovely comments-hope you like these too. Thanks for looking.xxx


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In 2013, Paul Cox's work was exhibited in a solo show,'A Journey Through His Art' in the Chris Beetles Gallery in London. The show was such a success that Paul Cox will be featured in this year's 'The Illustrators' exhibit with a collection of pieces that demonstrate all aspects of his work. Paul will be at the Private View of 'The Illustrators' on Tuesday November 24th between 6 - 8 pm, if you're in London stop on by!
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Lark is now 7 weeks old and has been such a happy baby…until this last week.
October 2013
Just five short weeks ago, I gave birth to my daughter, my Lark Story…life with her is more than I could have ever imagined.
And it happened like this…
After weeks and weeks of toni braxton hicks, horrible pelvic pain and lots of cramping, I went to my 39 week appointment. It would have been the first I had my cervix checked for progress. I was hopeful that all I'd been going through was going to show some sort of progress…now I know what they say, cervical dilation is not a 100% positive indicator of when labor will begin, since it can change in an instant, but I just knew something had to be happening down there. I was not going through all of this to have NOTHING happening!
Then it happened, the lovely exam (which was actually kind of painful)…showing ZERO progress! None, nada, zilch…I felt so discouraged. Everyone told me not to worry, that she'd come when ready. Yeah, yeah, yeah…I realize, but those last few weeks were tough and I was getting antsy. I was sent off, with an appointment for the following Monday that included a non-stress test and another exam, assuming I didn't have the baby over the weekend. I was sure I wasn't having her over the weekend.
I spent the next few days hiking staircases at work through the pain, eating spicy food and doing accupressure at my desk at work. Trying whatever I could to get my body moving. I didn't want to go past my due date, and I knew that was common for first-time moms.
On Friday, September 6, my mom flew in from Hawaii. The trip had been planned for some time and she was coming for the baby's birth and to help out for awhile. She had a hard time choosing dates to come since she didn't want to miss the birth. But my fear was this stubborn baby coming so late, that she'd have very limited time with her once she was born.
I drove down to Detroit to pick her up. An hour and a half drive, which I was nervous about, so I took my friend, Lisa, along…just in case. I left work at noon to head down there and texted James about feeling anxious about the ride. He reassured me I'd make it back with no problem. I felt slightly off that day, thanks to cramping and the dreadful pelvic pain, but I shrugged it off since it had meant nothing at my last appointment.
I was so glad to see my mom! It had been over a year and I missed her so much. We hugged it out and she rubbed my belly right there in the airport arrival gate area. Once we got her luggage and headed out of the airport, we decided a trip to Ikea would be fun, since she'd never been. We spent a couple of hours in there, laughing and having fun and buying a bunch of goodies, including a rocker since we didn't have one yet and would be needing one.
We grabbed some McDonald's on the way home because she hadn't eaten a full meal in almost 24 hours. Her total trip time was around 18 hours so it had been a really long day.
We got back home, spent some time catching up with James' mom, whom my mom had never met and was also in town in hopes she'd be seeing a baby sometime soon. It was getting late and we needed dinner. So we headed to one of our favorite restaurants for dinner. Now I have to add that every meal for about 2 weeks was my "last meal," so I was always ordering bad, greasy and filling food, just in case I wouldn't be able to eat for awhile BECAUSE THAT BABY WAS COMING ANY MINUTE! Like I said, every meal FOR WEEKS…with no baby in sight. So this night I ordered cheddar bacon pub chips and a giant coke. Then I helped my mom eat a chocolate lave cake. It was a GOOD meal!
We got home and laughed and chatted some more, until about 11:30 when my mom decided she was delirious enough and needed sleep so we could play and shop on Saturday.
Now I'll preface this by saying that my mom predicted I'd go into labor the night she got here because she'd have been up for hours and wouldn't be able to sleep for days…it was something we laughed about for weeks beforehand.
I went to bed around 12:30 and at about 12:45, I started having intense cramps and contractions. I laid there in the dark for a bit, wondering what it meant, thinking it was probably nothing…but they hurt and came in waves. I started to time them, just in case, and they were anywhere from 8 minutes to 2 minutes apart. I called James in to tell him what was going on since he was still awake, but asked him not to wake anyone up as of yet. I decided to time them for an hour and see what happened. He came in to check on me about an hour later and the contractions had kept going the whole time, pretty consistently. He decided to lay down and get some rest, just in case…everything was "just in case" at this point…I decided to get up and wash my face, and because it took my mind off of the pain I was feeling.
Previously, I thought I'd shower, fix my hair, blah blah blah, before going into labor, but when it's almost 2 am, all I desired was a clean face, clear of makeup that was, at this point, smeared all over my face. I also finished getting my bag together, which had sat, half-assed packed, for weeks. And now I found myself just throwing things together.
I felt like I had to pee, so I went to the bathroom and discovered I was bleeding. I woke James right away because it scared me and I wasn't sure what to do. I ended up calling the hospital to see what I should do, they transferred me to the OB on duty (who happened to be my favorite doctor) and he wanted me to come in and be checked right away.
I went upstairs and woke my mom to let her know. She decided she'd continue to rest while we went to see what was going on. James let his mom know and we set a plan that should I be admitted, she'd bring my mom and Brennan down to the hospital.
I still didn't think it was really "it."
We put our stuff in the car, but didn't even bring a car seat, which wasn't a huge deal, since we leave about 10 minutes from the hospital, but it was funny that we didn't think it was necessary at the time.
We parked and walked into the building…a couple of steps in the door….my water broke. I froze, legs squeezed together, because somehow I thought that would help stop the flow of fluid. James turned and looked, asking what was wrong and I said, "Either my water broke, or I'm bleeding out." A dude showed up in the lobby asking if we needed help and we clued him in, so he brought us a wheelchair. The feeling of your water breaking is a strange experience. It's like wetting yourself profusely with no control of your bladder, that shiz just keeps coming! It was like out of a movie or something, so cliche!
James wheeled me up to check in. All of the nurses kind of sat there, until one asked if she could help us, to which James replied, "I don't know, she wants to have a baby or something." They started check in and I got wheeled into the triage portion of labor and delivery, given an uber fashionable robe, and put in a really sterile and not-very-comforting room…alone…Since my water had broken, she gave me a plastic bag to put my clothes in. After an oh-my-god-that-must-be-a-mucus-plug trip to the bathroom (TMI, I know, but I'm just telling the story), I put on the robe, climbed up into the bed, leaking fluid all the way, and waited for the nurse. I had a nurse named Keshia, who turned out to be our favorite, and she got the monitors hooked up and called for a different nurse to come check me out. A young, male nurse showed up (just my embarassing luck), and walked me through the process, which included monitoring my contractions for about an hour (they were still consistent) and giving me an exam via speculum to swab me, to check if my water had really broken. I responded, "Seriously?!" because it's all I could think of. And he politely let me know that it was hospital protocol and needed in order to admit me. So as he's getting the equipment ready, Keshia is pulling out stirrups and helping me into them. One lift of my legs and the flood gates were open. I know this is likely grossing people out at this point, but it's key parts of the story. The male nurse turns back to me with the oh-so-lovely speculum in hand, both Keisha and I give him THE look…it's the same "Seriously?!" response, in look form. Keisha was basically like, listen dude, just swab the river that's pouring out…he did, and immediately said, "yeah, we're keeping you." He did a quick examination, stating that I was between 2 and 3 centimeters dilated.
I was fully admitted and taken to a delivery room, via wheelchair again, even though I could walk just fine, but the whole fluid issue was embarassing and uncomfortable and I felt better sitting…with a large towel stuffed you know where. As James wheeled me into the delivery room, there sat the empty table, where our new baby would lay, and I immediately felt a rush of emotions. This was real, and this was happening. My daughter was making her debut. After getting settled in, at what was now between 3 and 4 in the morning, James headed back to the car to get our stuff. In my moments of solitude, I counted minutes between contractions and had a million different thoughts going through my mind. I laid there, staring at the empty table, trying to take it all in and remember the moment. I felt ready, but also nervous and scared.
Keshia got me all hooked up to the machines, inserted the IV into my arm (damn it, that hurt! She did say she wouldn't lie to me and tell me it was just a small poke, she told me it was going to hurt. I respected her honesty!), and I could hear my baby's heartbeat…whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…I always loved hearing her heartbeat, safe inside of me. My favorite doctor happened to be on call that night, and I was ecstatic! I told him once before that I'd be so happy to have him deliver my baby. Everyone is surprised when I tell them he was my favorite. I saw a group of doctors, and he just stood out to me. Most women perceive him as cocky, but we saw eye to eye, with the same sense of humor. People don't often understand my sense of humor, which, I'm assuming, is what happens to him. But we clicked, and he had always been a favorite. And he brought us a cute, little white polar bear as a gift for the baby and set it in her empty bed.
He asked if needed anything for pain. I didn't. But he told me my options and also let me know that because my water broke, they couldn't check my progress much, because of the risk of infection. He said they'd check me again at the point I felt I needed medication. Some time had passed, we made phone calls, our moms and Brennan were on their way. I tried to shut my eyes and get some rest, but it was difficult and I just couldn't sleep. I continued to ride the waves of contractions, breathing my way through…that male nurse (I don't remember his name) came back and let me know that contractions had slowed too much and the doctor was considering pitocin. Not much later, that same male nurse came to let me know that pitocin was on order. I was terrified. My mom had a terrible experience with pitocin when I was born and I'd never heard anything positive. Not to mention, I was afraid of ending up in a c-section, thanks to labor not progressing. But the doctor was positive I'd have this baby on his watch, which ended at noon.
Now, I don't know exact times of events that happened…but pitocin was started, I kept contracting and riding them out, and kept leaking fluid all through everything, which became my biggest annoyance, above all else. James thought that was funny, being that I was in the pain of labor and my worry was leaking fluid. I kept a towel "there" pretty much the entire time.
Contractions were intense, to say the least, but proved to be nothing I couldn't handle. I'd heard people describe them as horrendous period cramps, which was somewhat true. But I was getting through them, with help from James, my mom and his mom. Some say to find something to focus on, a focal point of sorts, to get you through the pain. But my only focus WAS the pain. I found it easier to focus on the pain and where it was headed, knowing that it would peak and taper off. I settled into the pain with each contraction, breathing calmly. I had people telling me I was a pro at this, and was handling things very well. I was even surprised at myself throughout the entire process, never expecting to be this calm. It was just…happening…and I was coping. The best relief was from standing and swaying back and forth, sometimes leaning on the bed or table. Rock, sway, rock, sway, that's how it went for a long time. I also spent some time bouncing on a peanut-shaped birthing ball, which was amazing and also helped me out. I did end up with a bit of morphine two different times, to take the edge off and help me relax, to possibly get some sleep. Sleep never happened, but I was more relaxed.
The doctor had checked me prior to the first morphine dose (I don't even know what times I had the doses, once in the late morning, and once in the afternoon), I was still at a 3, but he reassured me that I was doing awesome and things were as they should be. Like I said before, his watch ended at noon…noon came and went…nurses switched over and our beloved Keshia, who we joked with all morning, had left, but promised she'd stop by and meet the baby when she came back at 7 that night, especially since she was dying to know her name. I was relieved to find out my other favorite doctor was now on call, who was a very sweet and young woman I really liked.
In the meantime, other family had shown up. James' stepmom, sister and our niece and nephew got there and were very excited about baby's arrival. I was so glad to have so much support. I always thought it would cause me too much anxiety to have a lot of people around, but it turned out I really enjoyed having everyone there.
By late afternoon, contractions were getting more and more intense, and I was shushing people when they came so I could concentrate on them, one at a time, knowing they'd peak and end, peak and end…baby's heartbeat was steady, but it was sometimes hard to find and because I felt better standing, the monitor would slip off all the time. But there was a moment, early in the morning, that the heartbeat took a dive. I remember Keshia came running into the room with a panicked look on her face, messing with the machine, and me, trying to assess the situation. James and I freaked out, but her heartbeat came back right away, strong as ever.
To say I was exhausted would be an understatement. I've never been so tired, and hadn't slept for more than a day. I was really feeling the effects of no sleep, plus the work it took my body to make it through each contraction. It had been hours, that seemed like days, and because they couldn't check my progress much, we were just left waiting…and waiting…I was still only comfortable while standing and swaying, but was getting weaker and weaker thanks to exhaustion, and holding myself up was becoming too much work. Nurses would come and go, check my contractions on the monitor and refill my giant cup of water. I was so thirsty. And so starving. I kept saying I couldn't wait to eat. The hospital plays a lullaby every time a baby is born. All day long, I could hear women pushing, and all day long, when that lullaby played, I wondered when it would be my turn.
At one point, a student nurse came in, wanting to ask questions, I sent her away. A little while later, she was back, asking the dumbest questions, like,"are you feeling any pain?" I gave her a look of death, sent her away again, then told James I couldn't take any more of her, so he asked our regular nurse to see that she didn't come back…ever again.
The exhaustion got the best of me. I felt my body giving up, but mentally, I knew if I weren't so exhausted, I could have kept going. I could have powered through. I kept an open mind for months, never writing a birth plan, because I knew everything was unpredictable. I wasn't trying to be a hero and have an unmedicated birth, but I wanted to try, if I could handle it. I also wasn't opposed to an epidural, but wanted to hold off, to see how I could manage on my own. But at some point, late afternoon, I just couldn't stand anymore, my body was just too tired. So I chose an epidural.
For a moment, I felt defeated, like I had given up. At one point I asked, "Am I doing the right thing?" I was reassured that I had been awesome, and powered through and shouldn't feel like I had given up. They checked me at that point, stating that I was at 5 centimeters, but could stretch to a 6. The anesthesioligst came in to prepare me, and luckily they allowed James to stay with me. I was relieved, because I'm terrified of needles and was in the beginnings of a panic attack. I sat on the edge of the bed, leaned forward like they instructed, holding onto James. I had tears running down my face as the pain came. It was not comfortable at all, and I could feel every bit of that tube being fed into my back. I was scared and crying, but within minutes, the pain was gone. And I was relieved that I could still move my legs, because it was a huge fear of mine that I be so numb, I couldn't move.
Once again, I tried to get rest. I drifted in and out of sleep, as family filtered in and out. James napped too, but nobody ever really got any real sleep. I don't even know how much time passed. All I know is that all of the pictures we took that day, which weren't many, started around 4:30 pm, shortly after the epidural. At some point, I had to lay on my side, for the sake of baby's heartbeat, and for my own comfort. I had my eyes closed and was just feeling all the pressure, without pain, waiting for the moment they said would come…the urge to poop…and that meant it was go time. Somewhere along the line, again, not sure of time, I felt the urge. The nurses were getting ready and preparing to check my progress. We let my mom know, since she was going to be in the room with us, and prepared Brennan, who I had also decided was to be present for the birth, positioned behind my head, OBVIOUSLY! No view of the "crowning glory" for him.
The nurse began the progress check after everyone cleared the room, like usual, except for James. But she was having a hard time figuring out how dilated I was. You see, I have this crazy bent cervix, and it's difficult for people to maneuver around in there sometimes. So the nurse was feeling a lopsided cervix and seemed really confused. She decided to call in the actual doctor for this one, since she was unsure. The doctor came in, inserted what felt like 10 fists and literally had to lay on her side in order to get the right angle to feel what was going on. She looked at the nurse, in what seemed like agreement, and informed us that was not a head, it was, in fact, baby girl's lady parts…and she was breech.
We were all shocked and told we'd need an ultrasound right away to confirm. Within minutes, an ultrasound machine showed up, doc began the scan and in an interested tone asked James if he could see that round shape on the screen, which I thought meant baby was a boy instead of a girl, but she was instead confirming that was her head, in the wrong place. Someone of the medical kind, I forget who, insisted she must have turned during birth, but I later found out it's unlikely that baby's turn during labor. She was breech at my 20 week appointment, but I was told that didn't matter since it was still early and she'd turn. The only other time it came up is when I asked at a later appointment if she'd turned. Doctor felt around and believed, but couldn't say for sure, that she'd turned. It was never discussed again and I didn't think to question it. But at the 16 hour mark of labor, we were baffled and confused as to why we didn't know this earlier. I was told they could call a different doctor to perform a breech birth, or I was given the option I had never, ever wanted and was in complete fear of…a cesarean section.
After 16 hours of labor and feeling more than exhausted than I ever thought possible, and also keeping baby's safety at the forefront, James and I both agreed to the c-section, without hesitation. I was terrified, scared to death, but ready to be done.
The nurse asked if she should schedule it at 7, when shifts changed, but the doctor insisted that she deliver her and ordered a "code 30," which meant baby would be out within 30 minutes. I guess I was somewhat oblivious to the excitement surrounding this decision, because I was pretty calm while nurses prepared everything. And while everything was rushed, I was just laying there, waiting for the next move. James got scrubs, nurses came running, machines were being unplugged. I guess in the midst of it all, our families freaked because on their end, it looked like an emergency situation when medical personnel came yelling "code 30" down the hall and rushing around. James informed them of what was going on, he was emotional, but reassured them and the baby and myself were fine, she was just turned the wrong way (stubborn girl, even in the womb!)
They wheeled my bed out of the room, like a movie, even running me into walls and doors. The operating room scared the shit out of me, in a major way. It was so bright and sterile and so uncomfortable. Because I had already had an epidural, a spinal wasn't necessary. I was just pumped with more medicine through the epidural. It felt really cold, and I felt really loopy. I remember asking if it was okay if I fell asleep, because the thought entered my mind that if I closed my eyes, I'd never wake up. But I never ended up asleep.
Doctor said they were going to check if I had feeling. I expected a "Can you feel this? Can you feel that?" type of scenario, but they asked me nothing, which scared me because I wondering how I'd know if I was numb enough if they didn't inform me. But whatever they did to me must have been confirmation enough because within seconds they signaled it was okay to cut and they brought James in. Oh, and our favorite nurse was back! Keshia was back on and was ecstatic to know she'd be assisting with our birth.
James stood the whole time and watched the whole surgery. The doctor let him know that if he felt sick and fainted, he was on his own. And at some point he said, "Why do I feel like I want a cheeseburger all of a sudden?" Knowing I was sliced open, I turned and gave him a dirty look and shook my head no. I obviously couldn't feel anything, but still managed to be terrified of what was happening beyond the curtain, and barely able to keep my eyes open. Then all of a sudden, I felt a huge relief of pressure that I'd had for months, and they announced our baby girl was here! They lifted her over the curtain to show me and I was shocked and amazed at her teeny, tiny size. James and I turned to each other, with tears in our eyes and I said, "Oh my God, she's so small!" They whisked her away. I could hear everyone talking about how small and estimating her weight, most guessing in the 5 pound range. James went over to see her and the nurses tended to her…at 6:52 pm, 18 hours after labor had started, on Saturday, September 7, 2013…our 6lb, 9oz baby girl was brought into this world…Lark Story Simon was brought over to me with James and she was so beyond beautiful. I was sad I wasn't able to hold her at that moment, but I was so glad she was here, and she was safe.
James was taken to recovery with Lark, while I was being stitched up. Which seemed to take FOREVER! I had a cold for a few days prior to birth, which was miserable and was aggravated during the c section due to laying flat. My nose became so stuffy, I could only breathe through my mouth, which gave me a horrible case of dry mouth and I was panicking about not being able to breathe because it was so hard to take in a breath. They couldn't give me water at all, so a nurse gave me a wet washcloth to suck on. Weird, I know, but it was the biggest relief.
They wheeled me into recovery, which was only supposed to be about 30 minutes and ended up being 2 and a half hours because I had a really high fever. Once in recovery, I got to hold her and breastfeed for the first time, which was difficult because I had the shakes really bad from both hormones and medication. We got her footprints in our baby book and just hung out there until getting the okay to leave. Others came and went while we were in there, and it was discouraging, especially knowing our families were waiting. But we enjoyed our alone time with our perfect baby girl, who was so alert and so damn cute!
Once given the "ok," they wheeled us to our new room. They nestled the baby in the bed with me. Later, I couldn't really recall much of the transfer from recovery to our room. I remember it feeling like it took forever, like they wheeled through an entire hospital to get there, and I remember a glimpse of family in the waiting room as we went by. Once in the room, I was so relieved it was over, and I was so happy to be snuggling my tiny princess. My mom, James' mom and Brennan were the first in to see her. We were all laughing and crying when, much to my surprise, all of a sudden there's a beautiful, sparkling ring in James hand right in front of me…I knew what it meant, and the tears started streaming down my face…I was crying, laughing, and saying, "ow, it hurts" all at the same time…it took him a couple or tries to get down on one knee, he was so emotional, which made me cry harder, and right then and there, the world stopped, at least for us…we just went through the most amazing experience, meeting our daughter, and now it was happening…7.5 years in the making…he was asking me to be his wife and complete our family…and our mothers and Brennan were there to witness every moment. It was beautiful and so magical and completely unexpected, in the best way! I managed to squeak out a yes, and he placed the perfect ring, my dream ring, on my swollen, IV hand and it was perfect. We just had a baby and were ENGAGED!
The birth of our daughter and his proposal was, by far, the best day of my life. While there were hard feelings about the outcome, knowing it could have been taken care of earlier had people checked her position earlier, I wouldn't change a thing. I was glad to have experienced the whole process. Had there been complications or health issues because of it, I would not have been so calm about the whole ordeal, but I was able to experience the entire process, minus the pushing, which was disappointing, but everything turned out perfect and our baby was healthy.
It wasn't how I thought it would happen, I didn't get the perfect pictures I thought I'd have taken, I didn't have makeup, like I stupidly thought I'd care about…I looked like hell, felt like hell, and could have eaten a horse…but our little bird, our little Lark, was here, in my arms, healthy and beautiful and I was also delighted to know I'd share her last name, sooner than I'd expected. I've never been happier. Being her mom, and soon-to-be James' wife is wonderful and more than I could have ever imagined.
Life is good.
|After the epidural…so very tired.
|Clearly done with pictures for the moment…
|eyes closed, in a room full of people…
|Being wheeled to the operating room…
|She's here!
|Worst picture of me…ever…but a reminder of what I'd been through in the last day…
Dearest little bean,
We took you to Ann Arbor for a fun day last week and up north last weekend for the first time. And you met lots of family and went to a baby shower for your new soon-to-be cousin. You're a great little traveler, but miss everything because you sleep through it! But you'll have plenty of time to enjoy life after you're all rested up.


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A domain transfer is not needed between two GoDaddy accounts, you can do an Account Change. Here are the steps. https://www.godaddy.com/help/move-a-domain-to-another-godaddy-account-822
Thanks for reply but, not transferring between two godaddy account.
My old host provider was one.com. I've canceled subscription with them, I have requested IPS TAG change to GODADDY which has been done.
I've then registered account on godaddy, when I try to do domain transfer via URL https://uk.godaddy.com/domains/domain-transfer to start and initiate some kind of process
it comes up " Domain is already registered here." What step am I missing?
Okay, I believe the transfer request needs to go in before the IPS TAG change. Contact support with your account details.
You first have to set your name servers from your old account to the account you need them to transfer to.
Go to GoDaddy and see if you find DNS that is where your name servers are. They are the servers that host your domain. Look like ns1godaddy xx. There is usually 3 all alike except the next one will be a 2 and the next a 3. You need to find these name servers and change them from where you were hosting and change them to the name servers from the company your moving too. It should also let you set a transfer to where you want them to go. I just went through this same thing myself. I have been marketing online for 3-4 years and was always able to do it on my own but now they make you wait 60 days after you buy them before you can transfer them to another host.
@barrylynChanging the nameservers or pointing a domain are not a requirement to transfer.
The 60-day hold is a security step for added protection. While you're still able to utilize the domain in this time, it is harder for something malicious to be done in the account as well as easier to restore if something does happen.


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Quercegen Pharmaceuticals LLC, producer of plant-based nutrients for the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries and marketer of Q-Force™, was notified that QU995™, The World's Purest Quercetin™, received GRAS ("Generally Recognized As Safe") notified status on November 22, 2010 under U.S. Food and Drug Administration GRAS Inventory number GRN 341. Read full Press Release
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My name is Keith Giles. I love to write so that people can know Jesus and experience His life in their own. So, I started this blog to help people understand who Jesus is, and how He reveals what the Father is really like. This is a safe place to talk about all those questions you've had about the Bible, and Christianity. It's also a place to learn how to put the words of Jesus into practice.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Most of my life I've understood this verse as being about Heaven. But recently someone pointed out to me that the phrase "my Father's house" is used by Jesus exclusively throughout the other Gospels to refer to the Temple.
For example, early on in Luke when Jesus is separated from his parents for three days they find him teaching in the Temple. When they finally find him Jesus says, "Didn't you know I would be in my Father's house?" (Luke 2:48-50)
Also, when Jesus clears the Temple of those who sell doves he declares, "stop making My Father's house a place of business." (John 2:15-17)
This makes a lot of sense in context as well if we look at what Jesus is speaking to His disciples about in this section of the Gospel of John. We find it's all about what's going to happen next, how to prepare for the coming persecution, etc.
If Jesus is speaking about the Temple here, and not about Heaven, then we need to try to re-read this section with new eyes.
Here's what I think Jesus is teaching His disciples here:
"In My Father's house are many rooms (dwelling places)" - Here Jesus is stating that in the Temple (which is now the Church) there is room for many people. Throughout the New Testament the Apostles talk about "dwelling places" where we (the people of God) find rest in our Lord and Savior. For instance:
"If anyone has my words and obeys me...we will come and make our house (dwelling place) with them." - John 14:23
The same word Jesus uses here for "house" He also uses in the passage about the "many dwelling places" in His "Father's house."
"Christ is the Lord over his own house, whose house we are if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end." - Hebrews 3:6
So, the idea that we, the Church, are now God's "dwelling place" is all through the New Testament.
Let's continue to look at the rest of the passage:
"if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you."
Here, I believe, Jesus is telling His disciples that He needs to go - to get out of the way - in order to make room for them (the Church) to grow as He has promised.
"If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also."
Jesus says that if He goes away, it will make room (prepare a place) for the disciples. He also says that where He is they will be also. Where is He going? To be with the Father. And as we've already seen, Jesus promised that "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode (dwelling) with him." (John 14:23)
Where does God dwell? In us - His Church. His Temple. His Father's House. The household of God is the Church.
"I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth." - (1 Timothy 3:15)
"So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household." - (Ephesians 2:18-20)
"You also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ." - (1 Peter 2:4-6)
This promise of Jesus to go away in order to prepare a place for the Temple to expand into the "many rooms" or "dwelling places" was fulfilled at Pentecost when Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and preached the Gospel of the Kingdom and thousands followed Christ in that day. And this promise is still ongoing today.
So, it may be that Jesus isn't promising us "mansions in Heaven" after all. In fact, most of the scriptures indicate that our eternal destination is to live here, on a New Earth, and reign with Christ forever.
"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God." - (Revelation 21:1-3)
I'm curious to hear what others think about this passage in John and whether or not you agree that Jesus is speaking about the Temple (His Church) when He speaks about His "Father's House" in John 14.
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I like what you are saying. Although I do find it to be a bit of a paradigm shift. I agree that what you suggest makes more sense concerning the context of the text. Jesus was specifically speaking about what would happen in the next few days.
My thoughts roam in the area of his crucifixion. Could that not be what he was referring to when he said "I go to prepare a place." In that what he would be doing when he "leaves" is preparing (doing what needs to be done) in order for all of his disciples to have a place in the house of God (inside him/his person/ the temple). Certainly that is what the crucifixion did. It fulfilled the law and put sin to bed forever while at the same time giving Christ the authority and ability (in becoming a life-giving spirit) to give eternal life (a place within him - the fathers house) to any person that so desired.
Another take on this I read recently was by Rob Bell. He explained this is marriage language. That a groom would go and add rooms to the parents home then when the rooms was finished come take his bride. If this is in fact true then Jesus is also describing the church as his bride.
I've been reading your blog for over a year and really enjoy your posts!
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Keith, I'm fascinated by what you say. I've been thinking recently about God's desire to dwell with his people which we see right through the OT (eg Ex 29:45-46), promised in the major prophets (eg Ezek 37:27) and now fulfilled in Jesus--Emmanuel, God with us. What you describe makes perfect sense and I think is a very possible interpretation of what, for me, has always been a slightly puzzling passage.
Okay…so , like I said, I am a newbie to your site and already I feel like this post or comment will stir the pot, but it is what it is. I'm glad you'll get to read it first and decide whether or not it is appropriate for what the Lord is doing through you here . I must say that I've been put in a position where I've proposed the thought you present here regarding heaven to friends. Uh…providentially or not, I presented it to a friend who had recently lost a loved one and I must say the unfolding consequence was not pretty What I found, as a result of seeking the Lord, is that we often chose our TRADITIONS over TRUTH because our traditions are COMFORTING and FAMILIAR. and we gravitate toward them—whether they are true and Biblical or not. So I asked myself lot of questions about the traditions we hold dear like: When is the TRUE Biblical Sabbath? Are Christmas and Easter REALLY Biblical holidays? What is the origin of these holidays? Was Jesus really born on December 25th? Should we really be eating bacon and sausage and shellfish? When I started to ask these questions God shook up my EVERYTHING. I wish that I could say that I have all the answers, but the important thing, I find, is that we would be willing to LISTEN and consider that the answer might be different from what we've traditionally understood. Will we seek the Lord and hear what He is saying or elevate our understanding and/or traditions above it? God is speaking and the challenge, I believe, is that His children will hear and receive what He is saying,. My fear is that we will choose rather, to agree with what we've already chosen in our hearts to be true. God help to chose HIS truth above all else.
Be blessed. I really appreciate the thing that the Lord is doing thru you. I was just dissovled by what you posted on the kingdom of God. God was teaching me this by the Spirit and I thought I had lost my mind. I read your post and thought, "Well at least there is one other soul out there that is as crazy as I am". So thanks for the fellowship in the insanity of truth!
- Ryne said...
Very informative blog!
It's certainly an interesting take on those passages and my inclination is to agree with you. I want to wrestle with it a little more but it makes sense within the context of heaven being a present reality rather than somewhere you hope to go one day.
Again thanks for the pst...
HI Keith,I believe your right on target. According to the interpretation in John 2:16,21,"My Fathers house" refers to the temple,the body of Christ,as God's dwelling place. At first the body of Christ was only His idividual body. But through Christ's death and resurrection,the body of Christ has increased to be His corporate Body, which is the church including all the believers who have been regenerated through His resurrection (1 Peter 1:3). In Christ's resurrection, the church is the Body of Christ which is the house of God (1 Timothy 3:15; 1 Peter 2:5; Hebrews 3:6). God's habitation (Ephesians 2:21,22), God's temple (1 Corintians 3:16,17). So today we, the Body of Christ, are the many dwelling places or abodes (Romans 12:5). This a adequately proven in John 14:23 "the Lord, the Father will make their abode with those who love Him." Warren Peterson.


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A friend of mine, Phil Williamson died last Sunday. Even as I'm typing this it seems unreal. Phil was 44 years old. I met Phil about 16 or 17 years ago when I wnt to work for his brother in what was then Williamson Cycles, a bike shop in Stockbridge, Edinburgh. I was into bikes then but was pretty inexperienced and needed a lot of help and guidance. Phil gave me that and much more. I remember him as a brilliant bike mechanic. I learned a tremendous amount from him and he was the first to teach me and encourage me to build my own wheels.
Phil was at the forefront of mountain biking in Scotland in the late 80s/early 90s and along with the rest of 'Team Moont', he could genuinely be called a mountain bike pioneer. Biking was in Phil's blood. There were times when I was riding with Phil when he made me realise how important it was to just get out there and put some miles in. No matter if you felt like it or not. I regret I've not followed that advice nearly as much as I should have over the past couple of years. I promise I'll do better Phil!
Sometimes when riding with Phil, it seemed like he was riding because he had to, not because he necessarily wanted to. It was part of him. I've been on rides with Phil when he arrived silently, did a ride without saying too much, packed up and headed home with barely 2 or 3 sentences uttered. It didn't matter. Phil was dong what he had to. He was riding.
I hadn't seen Phil for about 6 months when I heard the news of his death. The last time I saw him, he was on his bike and I'll take some kind of personal comfort from that. Keep riding Phil. We'll miss you.
I think it must have been a joke, but my request for someone to show me something nice from Eurobike spawned this monstrosity.
That should be against the law.
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I'm sure it's way better if you're actually there but I can't believe how uninspired I am by all the pics coming out of Germany this year. It's so bad that this Kona Paddywagon is about the best thing I've seen so far and it's boring now too. Please someone show me something nice!
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It's a Myford ML4 (I think) which they stopped making in about 1946 so I guess that makes it something like 60 years old. I know pretty much diddly-squat about lathes so if anyone has any useful information they'd like to share I'd appreciate some help.
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Fifteen years ago, it would not have been possible to create a fully functioning, mobile responsive and aesthetically pleasing website with no knowledge of HTML or coding. Today, this is not only possible, it's easy and inexpensive. In this guide, we'll cover how to create a website. Specifically we will focus on how to create websites in the following categories:
In most cases, we recommend using WordPress to create your website. However, if you are less technologically advanced or need a platform with a specific functionality, a different platform may be a better fit for you. If you go with a WordPress website, you'll have to pay for hosting. Bluehost offers web hosting for as low as $2.95 a month. Click here to check it out.
For each category, we will include instructions on how to create a website using WordPress, plus a guide for creating a site with a more category specific platform.
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Not only is WordPress the content management system that we use here at Fit Small Business, WordPress powers over 20% of websites today.
There's a reason WordPress is so popular:
- It's free. This is a big one, since everyone loves free things. The only cost associated with a WordPress site is the cost of hosting, which can be as low as $2.95 if you purchase a plan with Bluehost.
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- It comes with a huge support network. If you get stuck with your site, there are tons of people who are advanced at WordPress. You can hire a freelancer to help you out, or read one of the thousands of articles that bloggers have written about solving WordPress problems.
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Though WordPress has the perfect balance of customizability and ease of use for most people, some are looking for an even easier solution or an option with specific functionality. The following are a few reasons to consider a WordPress alternative for your business category:
- Less technologically savvy – There are website builders out there that are so intuitive that almost anyone can create a website in under 30 minutes.
- Need niche functionality – If you need an ecommerce store or ability to create separate pages for your real estate listings, it may make sense for you to choose a builder that comes with all the functionality you need in one place.
- Site not for professional use – If you are using the site for blogging purposes, for example, you may gain from using a platform with a built in network (such as Medium).
How To Create a Website: Breakdown By Category
We have created step by step guides for different categories. Choose the type of site that you are interested in creating to learn more:
How to Create a Business Website
Most people will research a business online before making a purchasing decision. Therefore, even if you have an offline business, it's imperative to have an online presence for your company.
Learn how to create a professional website using one of the options below, and ensure your site gives off a positive impression:
Option #1 – WordPress
In this guide, we'll show you how to setup your WordPress site in 5 steps. We walk you through the process while setting up our own website for a fictional bakery. This is the right guide for you if you are looking to create a 5-10 page website for your business with the following types of pages: home, about us, products, pricing, contact us, etc. The only cost associated with a WordPress website is the cost of hosting (as low as $2.95 per month using Bluehost), plus the possibilities for a WordPress website are endless.
If you just want to create a one-page website for your upcoming event or new product launch, view this guide.
Option #2 – Weebly
If you want an out of the box solution that you can setup with minimal instruction, then consider using the website builder, Weebly. Setting up a site using Weebly is fairly intuitive, but if you want guidance, read our instructions for setting up a Weebly website. While Weebly is a great option for the technical novice, it is more expensive ($12/month for our recommended plan) and not as customizable as WordPress.
How to Create a Blog
Starting a blog is a fun way to share your expertise on a particular subject with others. If done right, it can also be a substantial side or even full time business.
Option #1 – WordPress
Since WordPress was created as a blogging platform, it's a great option for creating your blog. In our guide, we'll show you initial setup steps, plus tips on how to market your blog once it's up and running.
Option #2 – Medium
Although you will not have your own website with Medium, it can be a good option if you want to be immediately connected to a network of other bloggers. People will be able to follow, share and like your posts within the platform.
How to Create an Ecommerce Store
If having an online store is essential to your website, you will definitely want to bear in mind the needs of an e-commerce store while creating your site. While WordPress has plugins for processing online payments and managing purchases, Shopify is an all-in-one e-commerce solution. Therefore, if the main purpose of your website is to have an online store, consider Shopify. If you want to sell products through your website, but you also have other intentions for your site, WordPress is the more flexible option.
Option #1 – WordPress
In this guide, we cover the many ways you can sell products on a WordPress ecommerce site, from adding simple "Buy" buttons on posts, to building store sections on blogs, to launching full-featured storefronts. We'll also cover ways you can use WordPress to keep your entire ecommerce operation running smoothly.
Option #2 – Shopify
Using a dedicated ecommerce platform such as Shopify is a great option for creating an online store. Shopify's all-in-one multichannel selling solution includes a full suite of web store, marketplace, social, and in-person selling tools. Store management is all-in-one, too. From tracking inventory to processing orders to printing shipping labels, you can do it all within Shopify's intuitive dashboard. View our comparison guide on three top dedicated ecommerce platforms to learn more. The downside to Shopify over WordPress is that it is more expensive, with their lowest priced plan costing $29 per month.
Real Estate Website
If you need to know how to create a website where you can post listings, integrate your MLS, and promote yourself as an agent, then one of the options below should work for you.
Option #1 – WordPress
WordPress is a great option for real estate agents. You can download a specialized real estate theme, or use plugins to get even more functionality, such as a plugin to create attractive property pages or a plugin to allow visitors to search your local MLS for properties. You can even integrate your MLS with IDX. Learn how to set this all up and more with our step by step guide.
Option #2 – Zillow Websites
For an all-in-one real estate website builder solution, try Zillow websites. With this builder, you can capture leads, include specific MLS listings wherever you want, add calculators, area walk scores, and much more. Plus, it's easy to use and is fairly low cost at $10 per month (free for Zillow premier agents). Though you can get most of the same features with WordPress, by using a real estate website builder, all of this functionality comes pre-packaged. Read what else a real estate website builder has to offer in our buyer's guide of three top options.
Bottom Line
At Fit Small Business, we have you covered. Whether you want a fully functioning e-commerce store, or a blog to chronicle your insights, we have the guide on how to create a website for you.


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Re: Stephen Boissoin (Canada)
HRCs: Canada's thought-police
By Rory Leishman
Issue: February, 2008
In subjecting Catholic Insight magazine to investigation on baseless charges of homophobia, the Canadian Human Rights Commission is once again trampling upon the very human rights and fundamental freedoms it is supposed to uphold. The sooner this oppressive Commission and its provincial counterparts are abolished, the better.
Catholic Insight is the latest in a long line of publications to run afoul of Canada's human rights commissions. Among the other victims are Maclean's magazine, The Western Standard, the Calgary Herald and the Saskatoon Star Phoenix. Some journalists have been so intimidated by Canada's human rights thought police that they no longer dare to publish anything that might offend the sensibilities of Muslim zealots, homosexual activists or any other group that qualifies for special treatment in the freedom-stifling, federal and provincial, human rights codes that have sprung up over the past 50 years.
Yet it's open season on the Catholic Church for anti-Catholic bigots. No Canadian human rights commission has ever reprimanded anyone for expressing hatred or contempt for Christianity. To the contrary, as the attack on Catholic Insight indicates, these commissions have specialized in attacking Canadians who uphold the traditional principles of Judeo-Christian morality.
In 2005, the Alberta Human Rights Commission placed Catholic Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary under investigation for opposing same-sex marriage in a pastoral letter and a column in the Calgary Herald. Following several months of harassment, the Commission dropped the case when the two complainants against him withdrew their charges.
Stephen Boissoin has not been so fortunate. After a five-year investigation, he was found on November, 30, 2007, by an Alberta Human Rights Panel to have expressed hatred and contempt for homosexuals in a letter to the editor of the Red Deer Advocate that he wrote in his capacity as a Baptist minister. Among the statements held against Boissoin was his warning : "From kindergarten class and on, our children, your grandchildren are being strategically targeted, psychologically abused and brainwashed by homosexual and pro-homosexual educators."
Such rulings have sent a chill through faithful clerics throughout the country. In testimony before the Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional affairs on July 13, 2005 , Marc Cardinal Ouellet, the primate of Canada, said: "A kind of climate is developing in which people no longer dare say what they think. Even from the pulpit, we feel threatened if we recall the sexual morality of the Church. That is also part of religious freedom. Even in our churches, these words are troubling, and we feel accused of homophobia, hatred of or hurting homosexuals."
Of course, not all clerics have reason to fear oppression by a human rights tribunal: Liberals who have embraced the gay rights ideology are quite safe. Indeed, some trendy clerics have abetted the human rights inquisitors in oppressing their faithful fellow Christians.
A notorious case in point is The Very Rev. Dr. Bruce McLeod, former moderator of the United Church of Canada. In 2001, he testified before the Ontario human rights tribunal against Scott Brockie, an Evangelical Protestant, who was subsequently found guilty of discriminating against homosexuals for having refused on religious grounds to print materials for the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.
It will ever be thus, it seems. Down through the centuries, faithful Christians have been persecuted by heretics who conform their thinking to the current pattern of the world rather than uphold that good and acceptable and perfect word of God as revealed in Sacred Scripture.
Father Alphonse de Valk, the editor of Catholic Insight, is made of stern stuff. He can be counted upon not to capitulate under pressure by the Canadian Human Rights Commission, but to stand firm in upholding the truths of Christian faith and morality as authoritatively expounded by the sacred magisterium of the Catholic Church.
And in doing so, Father de Valk should have the solid support of all Canadians who affirm the inalienable rights of all people to freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression. Certainly, conscientious Christians should never fail in their duty to defend and affirm the faith in public after the manner urged by Abraham Lincoln: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right."
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Canada Orders Pastor to Renounce His Faith
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In a decision that foreshadows the possible fate of Fr. Alphonse de Valk, Canada's leading pro-life voice among Catholic clergy, the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal has forbidden evangelical pastor Stephen Boisson from expressing his moral opposition to homosexuality. The tribunal also ordered Boisson to pay $5,000 "damages for pain and suffering" and apologize to the "human rights" activist who filed the complaint.
The complaint stems from Canada's debate leading up to state legislation recognizing so-called same-sex marriage. In 2002, the pastor wrote a letter to the editor of his local newspaper in which he denounced the homosexual agenda as "wicked" and stated that: "Children as young as five and six years of age are being subjected to psychologically and physiologically damaging pro-homosexual literature and guidance in the public school system; all under the fraudulent guise of equal rights."
The activist subsequently filed a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission — a quasi-judicial body that investigates alleged discrimination within the Canadian province. The government tribunal published its decision [http://albertahumanrights.ab.ca/Lund...edy053008.pdf] on May 30.
While agreeing that Boisson's letter was not a criminal act, the government tribunal nevertheless ordered the Christian pastor to "cease publishing in newspapers, by email, on the radio, in public speeches, or on the internet, in future, disparaging remarks about gays and homosexuals." Moreover, the tribunal's decision "prohibited [Boisson] from making disparaging remarks in the future" about the activist who filed the complaint and witnesses who supported the complaint. Many of Canada's religious leaders and civil libertarians have expressed concern that the government's human rights tribunals are interpreting any criticism of homosexual activism as 'disparaging'.
The tribunal also ordered Boisson to provide the complainant with a written apology for his letter to the editor. This last requirement threatens civil liberties in Canada, said Ezra Levant, a Jewish-Canadian author and lawyer. Levant, himself the target of an Alberta Human Rights Commission investigation, is facing the possibility the state may order him to apologize as well.
"Ed Stelmach's 'conservative' government now believes that if it can't convince a Christian pastor that he's wrong, it will just order him to condemn himself?" Levant wrote on his blog. "Other than tribunals in Stalin's Soviet Union and Mao's China, where is this Orwellian 'order' considered to be justice?"
"This is like a Third World jail-house confession — where accused criminals are forced to sign false statements of guilt," Levant wrote. "We don't even 'order' murderers to apologize to their victims' families. Because we know that a forced apology is meaningless. But not if your point is to degrade Christian pastors."
In essence, the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal is ordering to the minister to renounce his Christian faith, since his opposition to homosexuality is based upon the Judeo-Christian Bible. The case against Pastor Boisson has been watched closely by practicing Catholics in the country, especially as news spreads about the current Canadian Human Rights Commission investigation into Fr. de Valk reported on in this space last Wednesday. The Basilian priest and publisher of Catholic Insight magazine stands accused of promoting "extreme hatred and contempt" against homosexuals for having publicly defended the Church's traditional definition of marriage. Some of the allegedly hateful statements are quotations from the Bible and the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Fr. de Valk told Catholic Exchange.
Although Catholic moral teaching is generally more nuanced in its criticism of homosexuality, evangelicals and fundamentalist Protestants often appear to be used as test cases for the government commissions before targeting Catholics. Thus many Catholics fear the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal will attempt to use the Boisson case to muzzle Fr. de Valk from expressing the Church's traditional moral teaching, delivering a further blow to religious liberty and freedom of conscience in Canada.
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Court of Queen's Bench acquits Stephen Boissoin.
Oh well... supposedly non homo Darren Lund (http://www.canada.com/topics/news/st...5-7f2b79f3bad9) will not get $5000 for his hurt feelings and damages.
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This is one of my favorite Russian salads. This recipe for Russian Herring Under Fur Coat Salad, known as shuba, is a traditional Russian layered salad made of finely chopped pickled herring with sweet onions and dill mixed together, eggs, beets, carrots, potatoes and mayonnaise.
A Shuba is the Russian word for a fur coat, something definitely needed in the cold Russian winters! In Russian, the dressed herring salad is pronounced Selyodka Pod Shuboy. But you can call it Herring Under FuR Coat if you want. We also call it just Shuba.
Served at celebrations and special events like New Years, Christmas, and even weddings. A layered salad that eats like a meal, and so easy to make.
This recipe takes about 30 min to put it together and it serves about 6-8 people. It is a must for every Russian holiday or a weekend. This salad requires some time to assemble it, but I have made it really easy for you. Also it needs at least 4-6 hours for layers to soak after it is assembled. So make sure you have enough time before you plan to serve it. I make mine in the evening before I want to serve it and leave it overnight in the fridge covered. It's so good, I usually double the recipe.
The packaged herring can be purchased at your local Russian store. There are a few different brands that make herring, I got this one below this time. Make sure to check the expiration date when you buy it. I would not recommend buying it in a can or jar at a regular store, because then it has vinegar and sugar in it and it won't be good with this dish. Trust me.
The one thing that probably takes time is waiting for things to cook and then peel. Otherwise the assembly part is pretty fast. You can use my Instant Pot eggs recipe to boil your eggs.
Boil your potatoes and carrots together by covering them with water and cooking for about 20-35 minutes, the potatoes will take longer. I check the carrot top parts with a knife and take them out when they are tender. In a separate pot add in the beets, cover with water and they take about an hour to cook. Check with a knife and if they are ready take them out and let all the veggies cool completely. Hard boil the eggs for 10 minutes after they start boiling and let them cool in an ice bath. Peel and set aside.
While the veggies are cooking, cut up the fillets of herring into 4 strips and chop into small cubes. Cut up the sweet onion in small cubes along with dill and then mix together with the herring. Set aside.
This is the part I dislike most… peeling all the veggies. If you want, wear gloves when handling your beets, I'm ok with getting my hands dirty a bit. Peel the cooled potatoes and carrots and set aside until ready to grate and assemble.
Russian Herring Under Fur Coat Salad is often made in a casserole style dish, but I used a springform pan to showcase the different layers and colors used in the recipe. It really adds a wow factor to your table. People won't stop talking about your salad.
For my recipe, I prefer using my homemade mayo to add to the layers instead of store bought, the flavor is undeniably better. You can grab it from here, it takes less than a minute to make and it's so good. Ever since I started making my own mayo, I haven't ever looked back at the store bought stuff. Give it a try.
I know many people are turned off by the herring, while others love it. Like my husband for example. If you are not a fan of herring, you can substitute it with smoked salmon instead. But I figured I'd give you the original version first and then I can work on a salmon version next time in a different post. Sounds good?
This recipe for Russian Herring Under Fur Coat Salad, known as shuba, is a traditional Russian layered salad made of finely chopped pickled herring with sweet onions and dill mixed together, eggs, beets, carrots, potatoes and mayonnaise.
- 17.6 oz package herring, chopped into 1/2 in cubes or 1 lb smoked salmon
- 1 small sweet onion or half large one, finely chopped
- 4 medium yukon gold potatoes, boiled and peeled
- 3 medium beets, boiled and peeled
- 4 medium carrots, boiled and peeled
- 2 tbsp fresh dill plus a few sprigs for garnish
- 4 large eggs, hard boiled and peeled
- 1 1/2 cups homemade mayo or store bought
In one pot, place beets in boiling water (enough water to cover the beets). Boil 1 hour, or until soft when pierced with a knife. The cooking time varies depending on your beets. Some will cook sooner than others, so test all of them. When cooked, remove from boiling water and let cool to room temperature. Peel the cooked beets (I use gloves for this sometimes to prevent from your hands getting stained). Use a cheese grater, grate into a bowl.
In a separate pot, boil whole potatoes and carrots about 25-35 minutes, or until smooth when pierced with a knife. Don't overcook. When cooked, remove from boiling water and let cool to room temperature. Peel the cooked potatoes and carrots. It's easiest to peel carrots by putting a slit down the length of the carrot and peeling in a circle around the carrot. Grate into separate bowls.
Place 4 eggs in another pot of salted cold water and bring them to a boil. Once the water is boiling, cook for 10 minutes. When timer is done, place eggs in a ice bath. Let eggs cool to room temperature. Peel the eggs. Cut in half.
While veggies cook, take each herring filet and cut into 4 strips, then cut into 1/4 in cubes. Add into a bowl. Chop the onion as well and add to the same bowl. Finely chop 2 tbsp fresh dill, add to bowl and mix well. Set aside until ready to layer your salad.
Using a springform without the bottom part, place it on top of a plate that is slightly larger than the springform.
Add the grated potatoes, spreading evenly to the edges, but don't press down too hard.
Add in the herring, onion and dill mixture. Using the spoon spread it to the edges of the springform.
Add the grated carrots, spoon on half of the mayo, spreading evenly on top.
Add the grated beets, spoon on the other half of the mayo, spreading evenly on top.
Carefully grate the egg white part of the hard boiled eggs over the mayo layer, spreading evenly as you grate. Then grate in the egg yolk, you might have some eggs leftover, which is fine.
Garnish with fresh dill. Refrigerate for at least 4-6 hours or over night to chill the salad before serving. Release and remove the springform. When serving, cut like you would cut a cake and enjoy. Goes well with a cold beer.
TIP : You can prepare the boiled vegetables in advance and keep in the fridge until you are ready to grate and build the salad. As this salad needs to served cold, the refrigerated vegetables will allow you to serve it sooner after making it if you are short on time.
I use a springform to create the perfect round shape instead of a loose salad. When using it, make sure it's closed and when the salad is ready to be served release it and remove it from around the salad.
Try my HOMEMADE MAYO for this recipe.
If you give my RUSSIAN HERRING UNDER FUR COAT SALAD a try? Let me know what you think. Leave a comment and don't forget to take a picture and share it and tag it with #lenaskitchenblog on Instagram! I love seeing what you create.


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With several cities and townships across Mid-Michigan hauling away debris from December's ice storm, the catch is that residents have to get it to the curb first.
But for those unable to do that, the City of Lansing is offering assistance with debris removal on private property for those who live in qualified areas of the city.
Lansing has about $500,000 worth of federal grant money in the form of Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) to pay for the debris removal, which is why the assistance is only available to those who live within designated CDBG areas of the city.
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Council member Carol Wood said those who are interested in taking advantage of the assistance must apply by 5pm on April 21st through the city's Planning and Neighborhood Development Department.
"We have a number of people out there helping neighbors do this but then we have people out there who don't know their neighbors, don't know how to get assistance and so this is a way to help through that process," Wood said.
A liability waiver from the property owner will be required for the work crew to enter the property.
Homeowners can determine if they're eligible by checking the CDBG Eligibility Map at the link on the right of the page.
While Carter is grateful the program is available to assist her, as someone who has severe vision impairments, she was less than thrilled with trying to navigate the online map to determine if she lived in an eligible area.
"No matter how big I magnified it, you couldn't even read it," Carter said. "I couldn't even read the names of the streets and I had sighted people say they couldn't even read it so I don't know how anybody could figure it out."
Wood said there's a good chance most people will qualify because a majority of the city lies in the designated area. But for those who still don't the Lansing Neighborhood Council, a private organization, is also taking calls and requests using their own private funds and volunteers to assist with clean-up efforts.


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Picture: Matthew Underwood Mother Goose Parade party and dinner with the stars event held at the W hotel San Diego, California - 22.11.08
Former Zoey 101 star Matthew Underwood has been sentenced to probation on charges stemming from a raid on his Florida home earlier this year (12).
The actor was detained by cops at his house in Port St. Lucie in April (12) after they executed a search warrant and allegedly found him in possession of marijuana and with a 17-year-old girl in his bedroom.
The 22-year-old actor has now struck a deal with prosecutors and pleaded no contest to charges of possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, according to Tmz.com.
The website reports Underwood has been sentenced to 12 months probation, and ordered to participate in a substance abuse evaluation and report to a victim impact panel. He also has to pay around $150 (£94) in court costs.


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As Rep. Brian Mast, R-Palm City, hosts a town hall meeting tonight in Martin County, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has bought online ads that depict Mast and Russian President Vladimir Putin and highlight a Wall Street Journal article that says a former Mast consultant used information the Russians stole from the DCCC's computers in 2016.
The Journal reported last month that South Florida blogger and Republican operative Aaron Nevins was given stolen data on Democratic voters in Palm Beach-Treasure Coast District 18 by Guccifer 2.0, the anonymous hacker who has been linked to Russia. The article quotes consultant Anthony Bustamante, who worked on Mast's GOP primary campaign, as saying he received some of the information and "did adjust some voting targets based on some data I saw from the leaks" to alter TV ad buys and mail before the November election, in which Mast defeated Democrat Randy Perkins by 10.5 points.
Mast's campaign says it ended its relationship with Bustamante on June 30. But Bustamante received an $870 payment on Sept. 1 for robocalls aimed at Republican voters before the Aug. 30 primary. The campaign says Bustamante wasn't involved in TV buys or mail for the general election.
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Mast's 2016 campaign communications director, now a spokeswoman with the National Republican Congressional Committee, blasted the DCCC ads.
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