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Too many students in Chandos Road area?
A SURVEY has been launched to investigate the balance between the number of residents and students living within the Chandos Road area.
A SURVEY has been launched to investigate the balance between the number of residents and students living within the Chandos Road area.
The Chandos Road Community Association (CRCA) says that over the last 10 years, they have seen a large number of houses being bought by landlords to accommodate increasing numbers of students coming to Bristol.
They add that this rapid concentration of students has had a negative impact on the local community, with an increase in late night noise and disturbances, and has left them feeling outnumbered.
As part of their campaign to tackle disruptive behaviour, members of the association have been knocking on doors and speaking to occupants to establish the mix between permanent residents and students.
Once the information has been collated, the group aims to distribute information sheets explaining the benefits of considerate behaviour.
CRCA was established in the summer in response to a planning application to extend a house in the street to accommodate for more students.
The application, recommended for approval by case officers, was eventually turned down at a council committee meeting following a high number of objections from local residents.
Derrick Collier, local resident and member of CRCA, said: "We realised during the process that the council's planning department was basing decisions on out-of-date and limited population data.
"We therefore decided to create a survey for homes in the area [funded by a small grant from Bishopston, Cotham and Redland Neighbourhood Partnership] to establish the population mix, and what effect this has on residents."
He added: "The area around Chandos Road is a great place to live, and along with many others I enjoy what it has to offer. Having been here for many years, and having brought up a family, I'm committed to the area.
"However, over the last 10 years or more, I've seen a large number of homes bought by landlords and altered to house as many students as possible.
"Unfortunately, the lifestyle of students often doesn't fit well with the needs of typical working households - for instance, when sleep is disrupted by late night noise."
According to a report, 'Action for Balanced Communities', which has been compiled by the Cabot, Clifton and Clifton East Neighbourhood Partnership, with support from CRCA and other local community groups, student numbers are 40 percent higher than UoB predicted in its masterplan in 2006.
"At the heart of the problem is a failure of long-term planning," the report states. "The university has concentrated on delivering enough managed housing for first year students, [but] no consideration has been given to where these students might be housed in their second, third or fourth years.
"The problem lies in rapidly increasing numbers within certain areas, and the uncontrolled markets in housing and other services that are exploiting the student pound.
"Residents find themselves having to fight one planning application after another to try and keep the balance reasonably healthy and sustainable. Occasionally, we succeed, but more often than not the odds seem to be stacked against us."
A spokesperson from the University of Bristol said: "The university works very closely with the Students' Union, UWE, Bristol City Council and local residents associations to minimise any adverse impact that student may have on an area.
"We employ a Community Liaison Officer and a number of student ambassadors who run campaigns and support residents throughout the year under the collective 'Love where you Live' banner.
"Any local resident who is experiencing problems can contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com."


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An ostomy may be temporary or permanent. Temporary ostomies are created when the digestive tract must be allowed to heal without irritation caused by the passage of stool. The surgery allows the body's wastes (e.g., stool, urine) to be expelled through an opening created in the abdomen. Types of ostomy procedures include colostomy, ileostomy, and urostomy. The type performed depends on the location and extent of the disease or injury. A person who has had ostomy surgery is an ostomate.
The word "ostomy" is derived from Greek and means a surgically created opening connecting an internal organ to the surface of the body. Different kinds of ostomies are named for the organ involved. The most common types of ostomies in intestinal surgery are an "ileostomy" (connecting the small intestine to the skin) and a "colostomy" (connecting the large intestine to the skin).
An ostomy may be temporary or permanent. A temporary ostomy may be required if the intestinal tract can't be properly prepared for surgery because of blockage by disease or scar tissue. A temporary ostomy may also be created to allow a disease process or operative site to heal without irritation by the passage of stool. Temporary ostomies can usually be reversed with minimal or no loss of intestinal function.
A permanent ostomy may be required when disease, or its treatment, impairs normal intestinal function, or when the muscles that control the rectum do not work properly or require removal. The most common causes of these conditions are low rectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease. When part of the urinary tract isn't functioning, a urostomy may be required to divert the flow of urine. Cancer and irreversible bladder dysfunction are the most frequent reasons people have urostomy surgery. Birth defects, interstitial cystitis, neurogenic bladder, trauma or radiation effects also can create the need for a urostomy.


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300 leading women across the entertainment industry just launched a wide reaching campaign to combat sexual harassment and support disenfranchised women on the receiving end of unwanted advances. Entitled TIMESUP, the initiative does three key things:
- Provides a $13 million legal defense fund to help women in blue-collar jobs and farm work
- Drafts of legislation to punish companies that tolerate sexual harassment and to discourage nondisclosure agreements in such cases.
- Pushes to reach gender parity in Hollywood studios and talent agencies; and a call for women walking the red carpet at the Golden Globes to wear black as a sign of protest and solidarity.
This is an important step in the right direction, particularly in its support of women without the power or platform to stand up to abuse. The campaign was launched via a full page open letter in the New York Times. I just added my name to the Letter of Solidarity and donated to the TIME'S UP Legal Defense Fund. It feels like a powerful way to start the year.


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Reuben Abati
Here's the video that sparked the argument on twitter. Its clear the lady is enjoying her self, see the smirk on her face.
According to Reuben Abati, other prominent Nigerians who owned private jets went along with President Jonathan and used their jets as well so thats what caused all the confusion.


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First in his PJs and then…
…in his Sunday's best. These overalls were Pitt's as a baby. It was a vintage Easter!
I LOVE THOSE OVERALLS he is so cute and getting so big.
He is just too adorable in these pictures! I wanna kiss his face!
So adorable. I love the overalls. I wish I had some like that for Owen & the bunny ears are too cute.
Emmett, you are perfect!


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Baba Booey, President of Lifebeat
Gary makes a case for AIDS awareness
Late in the show, Howard hoped Gary would serve Lifebeat well as its new President--the charity's mission of AIDS awareness is important: "A lot of people think AIDS is kind of cured, but they don't realize people are [still] dying from it."
Gary agreed: "There's a whole generation of people who are like, 'Oh, if get AIDS, I can take the cocktail and be fine.' But it's not fine. At all."


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Anyway, I always make a lotto exception around the holidays when the nice folks at the lottery board release appropriately-themed tickets to mark the occasion. Partly this is because of the festive-ness of buying lottery tickets covered in jack-o'-lanterns, shamrocks or Santa Clauses and partly this is because a little voice in the back of my head insists that a person is far more likely to win fistfuls of dough with a holiday ticket than they would be with a plain old everyday ticket. I don't know why the voice in the back of my head thinks this. Too much smack, probably.
Today was Hallowe'en lottery ticket buying day (Hope you didn't forget. It was on all the calenders.) so why don't you play along with me and we'll call it a post-
First up is the $1.00 'Creepy Cash' card. Which feature three different designs. The jack-o'-lantern seen above, a zombie and something else I've forgotten. I was determined to get the jack-o'-lantern and, if I had to, would have bought three tickets in order to get it, but luckily it was the next one on the role. Already Lady Luck is on my side! Now let's see... 'Match 3 like prizes, win that prize.' I can do that-
Ladies and gentlemen, let's play HalloWin! This one is a little more complicated, but you can win up to 10 times so it seems an even trade off. Plus, I love how the top prize is $13,000. A very Hallowe'en-y sum. Let's see what my winning numbers are-
12 and 1. Nice enough numbers I suppose. Whatever, I don't particularly favor one number above another. I'll take what I get. Although... wait a minute. 12 and 1? 12 and 1 makes 13! $13,000 is the top prize... my winning numbers add up to 13... it has to be a sign! Oh my God, I'm about to win $13,000!!! I can't believe this! $13,000! No one's ever handed me over anything close to $13,000 at one time before now! Wow! I think I have to sit down for a minute. I know that $13,000 isn't a huge amount of money nowadays, but it's nothing to turn up your nose at either! I mean, the things you could do with $13,000! I could clear out my Amazon wish list! I could finally get around to paying for that Soloflex I bought two years ago which might in turn inspire me to actually open up all those boxes that Soloflex came in. I could spend the winter some place warm! I wonder how many weeks in Hawaii I could swing on 13,000 bucks? I wouldn't have to stay in the Kamehameha suite of the Hanapepe Hilton or anything, I will be spending the days laying on the beach after all. And as for meals, I'll sup on the coconuts and papayas that fall from the trees and land at your very feet. And poi. How expensive can poi be? Of course, if it was a little bit more than $13,000 I would donate part of it to any one of the many different charitable organizations that I give to on a regular basis. Like... uh... the foundation for... the um... well, it's tacky to talk about one's philanthropic endeavors. $13,000 just isn't enough to really bother trying to divvy up for donating purposes though, is it? Now if it was, say, $26,000 then I'd be glad to slip a little toward some worthy cause or the other, but the top prize is only $13,000. Hey, wait a minute! Get a pumpkin symbol and you win twice the prize shown? A pumpkin symbol? Hey, I have a blog named after pumpkins! It's another sign! OH MY GOD! I'm about to win $26,000!!!


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Colin's monster fall walleye!/
We are sliding into the best river fishing of the season! We just landed our first monster walleye of the year. This beautiful walleye is in the top ten fish I have personally seen. People dream of setting the hook on such a big fish!
Colin and his father got out for a day of river fishing with us and did they turn it on. We boated this dandy of a fall eye, along with a 18lb jackfish and a couple over the 10lb mark. Not bad for a day of fishing! I will say that after Colin and his father caught these great fish it was time for a bite to eat. I seen in the corner of my eye of his cooler was a banana! I could not believe it, I truly believe banana's are bad luck on a fishing boat. But the myth is busted on my boat after what I had seen!
We are slowing wrapping things up for the season. With two more weeks of fishing trips booked we will hopefully be tying into some great fall fish! With the walleye schooling up we are catching great numbers, along with some great size. I will say it's been great to see a lot of young fish in the river. I know people want to catch the big guys! But it's the little guys that become the river hogs. Saying that, handle all fish with care when releasing.
Good luck to all! Keep the shining side down and your hooks sharp!
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We had the midwife home-visit on Monday, most everything was gathered together, and I had been saying for a couple weeks that March 28th sounded like a good day for the baby to be born. But I didn't think it really would happen!
Early the morning of Friday, March 27th, I woke up around 4 am– no big deal, I had been waking regularly almost every night for a couple weeks – but this time I was having minor contractions. Not enough to get me out of bed, but enough for me to look at the clock in between. They were between 3 and 7 minutes apart from what I could remember, but I suspect I was falling back asleep between some. After about an hour and a half, I fell asleep for good and woke to my alarm going off for work. No contractions. I got up, went to the bathroom and saw bloody mucous in my underwear. I didn't have "bloody show" or loose my mucous plug with Wes's early labor, but I knew that this was the bloody show. I debated for a while what to do – call Karen, the midwife? Go to work? Not go to work? After a shower with still no contractions, I decided to go to work and call the midwife from there. I waited until about 10 am to call and when I spoke to her she sounded pretty confident that the baby would be born soon – in hours or days. I'm an optimist, but also a realist, so I asked "But it could still be weeks, right?" and she said "yes, there's no guarantees, but I think it'll be soon. Take it easy today, try to rest, don't worry about everything you haven't gotten done, and call us right away if anything changes because we'll be about an hour away following up after another birth the day before."
Take it easy, easier said than done… I went about my usual work day, which today included lunch with my boss and 2 clients. I didn't have any regular contractions throughout the day until about 3 pm – well after lunch, thankfully. Around 3, I started noticing contractions again, and by 3:30 I knew they were somewhat regular and uncomfortable enough for me to stop walking and wait for it to pass. I did my timesheet and left work, feeling a bit guilty because there was still a lot to do – but hey – I could do it next week – right?
On the drive home I called Ben and he started timing the contractions – 6 min apart – pretty regular. Not intense – but noticeable. When I got home I sent Ben to work as planned and decided what to do next. I called Susanne and told her I was having contractions and she said to bring Wes up to play for a while so I could rest. She had plans at 7:30 pm but would keep him until then, at least. On the way to drop him off (a whole 2 blocks away) I had to walk slow and stop during one contraction. After I got back home I called Karen, the midwife, and told her what was going on. She asked me to call her when things progressed or if I felt I needed them closer to me. I also called Neeka, our doula, to give her an update. Neeka said she was coming right over, but I said – no – to wait a while – that I was going to try to rest alone for a couple hours.
Well – I couldn't rest. So I decided to at least make the bed with fresh sheets and the plastic mattress cover and another set of sheets on top. We had planned to do this over the weekend, but now seemed like a better time. Doing this through contractions was pretty tiring. I had to stop and rest and be in a comfortable position for each one, so I tried to rush in between them to get as much done as possible. When I was finished I folded the diapers that were piled on the changing table, then went downstairs. I gathered some food and other supplies we had around the house that I knew would be useful during the labor and birth, then I played some records (I started with Bob Dylan), close the drapes, and walk around, enjoying the solitude. The contractions were feeling more intense and I was feeling like I wanted company, so around 7:00 pm I called Karen again and asked her to come. She said she would be there in an hour. I also called Neeka and asked her to come soon, and finally I called Ben at work and asked him to come home soon too. Ben made it home first – all full of adrenalin and ready to go. I calmed him down, told him to grab a shower, and come hang out with me. Neeka arrived shortly after and we caught up on how I was doing. Karen called to say that she was stuck in traffic because of a sinkhole on the highway but found a detour and would be there soon. I called Susanne and told her I was having more intense regular contractions and that everyone was on their way. She said she'd keep Wes as long as he was happy then come over with him.
When Karen and Laura, her student midwife, arrived we talked about how I was feeling and what had already happened. Laura examined me and after a conference with Karen and me asking what the numbers were, told me I was 4-5 cm dilated. They said if I was comfortable with it, they would go to town to grab dinner while I kept laboring, then come right back – but to call if anything changed.
We were all talking and laughing and excited about me being in labor. I was still a bit in denial, thinking that the contractions might stop anytime and it would all be a false alarm. Karen kept assuring me that this is it. I had thought I wanted a quiet, calm, serene environment to labor in, but we played records, talked, laughed, and hung out. I walked around downstairs, upstairs, in the hall, in the kitchen, stopping to slow dance with either Ben, Neeka, or whatever I could find to lean against – the rocking chair, counter, wall, changing table. I ate a banana and part of a pb&j at some point, and drank lots of apple juice. I could still talk, laugh, and move comfortably between contractions, but they were requiring a lot more focus from me, and I often found myself going into a quieter room when they started. My back was also feeling a bit sore and Neeka was trying different techniques to relieve some of the pressure. The heating pad and massage felt great, as did leaning over the birth ball. Leaning on the ball also seemed to space out the contractions, so after a few long intervals, I got back up and started doing the stairs again – which brought them on even more frequently. Karen and Laura got back and hung out with us. Susanne came over with Wes around 11 pm and settled in with a couple books and a video.
Around midnight, Neeka asked if I wanted to try some counter pressure for my hips to help with my back. Essentially she would squeeze my hips from the side in an attempt to relieve some of the back pressure. So with the next contraction she did, and pop – my water broke! A big gush followed by several small gushes. It was clear, warm, and wet all over my legs. I thought it was great that the counter pressure trick could do that! I slowly made my way upstairs to change and had several way more intense contractions on the way. Karen and Laura had been lying down in the spare room and got up when they heard us. I think they got everything set up at that point, knowing it would soon be time to birth. Once my water broke I remember thinking"OK, I guess this is really it – no going back now!"
Once upstairs I felt no desire to go back downstairs. This was probably around 1 am because I remembering asking if it was tomorrow yet and hearing the answer - yes. I labored in the hall for a while – leaning on the birth ball, on a chair, on Ben, on the wall. I had an urge to vomit, and Laura gave me a homeopathic remedy to avoid throwing up, but before it had dissolved I threw up several times into a waste basket. I think I was entering transition. I could barely speak, and had to focus all of my energy on breathing out with each contraction – breathing out, relaxing my shoulders, opening my bottom. I had asked Ben earlier to tell me to relax and when he said it I could immediately feel my shoulders drop, my focus turning to opening and being in the moment and letting my breath out.
At one point, while Karen was resting in the spare room, Wes really wanted to find her – he kept asking "where is Karen, where is she?" We were trying to keep him out of there so she could get a bit of rest, which she would need, especially if my labor ended up going all night. But eventually, we heard her say "Wes, I'm in here, do you want to come in?" So for the next 15 min or so we listened to the most entertaining conversation between Karen, trying to coax Wes to sleep, and Wes, who loves to talk and ask questions. I was laughing between contractions – it was very distracting, and so funny! I can't remember much of what they actually talked about but at one point Karen asked Wes if he knew how the baby would come out and he said "from down here" as I imagined he pointed between his legs, "like in the videos you gave us" he said. We had watched 3 birth videos with Wes to prepare him for some of what he'd see.
I got tired kneeling on the floor and got up and moved into the bedroom. I think everyone was in the bedroom with me, but I am not sure. I was focusing and the contractions were coming more frequently. I wanted to stand with one leg up on a stool or chair, but when I did Wes threw a fit because he wanted the stool. Eventually Ben took him out of the room, and as I found out later, out of the house. It was almost 3 am, and they walked the street while Ben tried to calm Wes down. When they came back in, Ben got Wes to fall asleep on the couch and Ben joined me back upstairs.
While they were gone I moved from standing to lying down on the bed. My legs felt so tired, my body felt so tired, everything felt so tired. I wanted to rest. I laid down and said "I'm taking a little break" and either I stopped contracting for a few minutes, or I imagined I did, and I got a couple minute refresher. Looking back, I think this was another sign of transition, I almost felt like giving up, but I didn't say so – I just vocalized that I needed a rest. After the rest I felt like I could go again, and then, almost instantly I felt like I needed to vomit again. As soon as I spoke it everyone scrambled to find something to throw up in, but it was too late, and I threw up on the bed next to me. Luckily there wasn't much in my stomach at that point and there wasn't much to throw up, so they just covered the wet spot with a towel or something and that was that. As I was throwing up I felt strong pressure – almost pushing-like. Later, Karen said that last bout of vomiting probably opened my cervix the remaining way and put me into the pushing stage. I had decided earlier, before labor began, that I wouldn't push until I absolutely felt like my body needed to. I didn't want to waste energy pushing if I wasn't ready, nor did I want to have additional swelling or pressure afterward from pushing without being fully ready. While vomiting I felt the first possible I-feel-like-I-need-to-push feeling. I still tried to not push right after that though.
So when Ben came back in he was next to me on my left side, Neeka on my right, Laura and Karen at my bottom. I was on my back but leaning on my right hip with my left knee bent. I started shivering and having different, more intense, feeling-like-pushing contractions. I feel like Laura must have covered me, uncovered me, opened and closed the window, and turned on and off the heat a thousand times because I kept feeling hot then cold, then hot again. Neeka had brought a cool washcloth that I rubbed all over my face. But I was still shivering too. It began raining outside and I wanted the window open to hear the rain better. After who knows how long (probably 10-20 min, I guess now, knowing the general timeline), the shivering stopped. I felt like I needed to shift sides, to be on my left hip instead of my right. This took great effort on my part to shift my body. I think it took 2 contractions to complete the shift. When I was shifted my right knee was up, my left leg bet and lying flat, and I was on my left hip. I really felt an urge to push then. I tried it with a couple contractions, and I remember saying "I forgot how to push" and hearing Karen say "Just follow your body, you're doing great, you'll know what to do" or something like that. I was holding (squeezing super tight better describes it) Ben's hand and occasionally Neeka's hand too.
Then I felt a good strong contraction and I felt like I jumped on the wave of it heading down a long narrow canyon. I visualized something in the southwest, red bedrock, steep sided walls, tiny river down below, and I flew through the canyon. I pushed. And pushed. I made a low "ahhhh" sound, deep within my body, flowing along the wave in the canyon. I felt like it vibrated my body and helped move the baby along. I felt something large move in my body, and something smaller too. I heard "That's it, that's a great push." When that wave was over I asked if I pooped, and someone said yes, and I said "Oh man, Wes will be so disappointed he missed it" and everyone laughed. Wes had really wanted to see me poop while pushing! Then the next wave came and again I felt like I just went with it and pushed with all my might and as I was pushing I could feel the bowling-ball head move farther down! It felt great to feel the progress of the head descending and to know I was doing it and it was almost over!
Neeka reminded me gently that I had wanted to take off my shirt while pushing so the baby could be placed on my bare chest, so over the course of the next two wave-pushes we got my shirt and necklace off. She also massaged my right leg because I kept getting a cramp in it – super annoying and distracting too. But then I think it was only one or two more pushes and I heard "That's it, slowly, easy" and felt the strongest stretching. Not burning or local pain like a ring of fire like others describe, but I knew I was stretched to my farthest point and that the head was either out or almost out. I asked, "is the head out?" and someone said "yes." I could feel the baby kicking me inside, almost helping me to keep pushing it out, and so I jumped back on the same wave and kept on pushing. It felt like only another second and I felt a huge relief and the slippery thing shoot out of me. It was out! I was done! The baby was born! 3:17 am. March 28, 2009.
Laura handed him up to me and I just held him close and was so ecstatic! After a couple minutes she said. "let's cover him up" and out a blanket over us, and after a minute I said, "did you say him?" and asked Ben to take a look and tell me what it was. He said, "it's a boy!" Zachary Thomas Painter Chandler. Zac. He was sunny-side-up. Born face facing up, not down. That explained the back pressure I felt during labor, but even then it hadn't seemed excruciating like I had heard from others.
Neeka went to get Wes, she ended up carrying him up from the basement because he did not want to wake up. She and Ben tried for what seemed like a long time to try to rouse him, all he would do is lay down and try to go back to sleep. So we let him. We had planned for Wes to help cut the cord after the placenta was delivered, but he slept through Ben cutting it. Also, the placenta was slow in coming, so we cut the cord first, then while Ben held baby Zac, Karen and I focused on getting the placenta out and getting me to pee.
About an hour after the birth, both were accomplished and I was tucked back into bed, freshly made and ready to rest. Baby Zac was weighed – 7 lbs 5 oz – diapered and handed over. We looked at each other and snuggled while everyone wrote notes and gave Ben and I instructions to get through the next day. Then the midwives would be back on Sunday to check on us. Everyone left us at around 6 am.
We slept to about 9, when Wes came walking in, peeking around – remembering something special had happened – but not quite knowing what. I whispered "Wes, the baby was born", and he snuck up into bed with us and saw his baby brother. "It's a boy, it's baby Zac." Wes said "But I forgot to cut!" meaning the umbilical cord. I said, "I know buddy, you were sleeping, we tried to wake you, but you wouldn't wake up." And then he checked out his baby brother – looking him over, touching him gently, giving him kisses. My two boys.
I wrote this birth story one week after Zac was born. In his first week we discovered him to be a great nurser, a sleeper, alert when awake and interested in looking around, and an all around easy-going baby so far. I had almost-engorged breasts for 3 days and a sore right nipple for a few days, but that's the extent of my post-childbirth complaints. I had a very minor perineal tear that didn't require any stitches, and that I can't even feel now, almost no swelling, and my bleeding has pretty much stopped. I've been confined to the upstairs of our house per strict orders of the midwife, and only snuck down once to take Zac to the pediatrician on day 5. I think the ease of the birth, shortness of pushing, and confinement upstairs to rest and make milk have made my recover go so well. In another couple days I'll be back in the swing of things, but for now I'll keep reading, typing, nursing, sleeping, and eating, and enjoying new baby Zac.


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Drunken Sufis' latest LP, Pala Pala arrived January 20th, 2017 on lathe-cut vinyl, limited-edition cassette, and digital download via Bad Friend Records (Travis Morrison, The Caribbean). With the wake-up call of its first chord, Pala Pala signals the raw urgency of a new beginning. The wild polyrhythms and riffs that follow sound downright triumphant. There's heady ambition afoot, but it's delivered with an open excitement that turns contagious.
Like Lightning Bolt's most colorful moments, or the high-speed adventures of Parts & Labor, Drunken Sufis push their instruments into the great unknown, tirelessly chasing the high of a new discovery. Blazing headlong through fast-and- heavy post-rock, Pala Pala collapses into a wash of homemade field recordings and melted keyboards. Sharply-arranged sound collages (remember The Books?) return to cosmic prog-punk, and Drunken Sufis keep moving. The non-vocal music leaves space for thrilling spontaneity, reckless drumming, and even guest spots-- Inokentiy Aksentiev and Craig Schenker add caterwauling sax, and Chris Cochrane (John Zorn, Collapsible Shoulder, Marc Ribot) lends otherworldly guitar. Where their last record, Cotton Candy Cluster Bombs, brought bite-size chunks of free-rock, Pala Pala dives deeper; the band stretches outward like Tortoise or This Heat, but they still sweat with the spastic energy of Brainiac or Deerhoof. A lesser band might lose itself in so many ideas, but Drunken Sufis surge forward with pure conviction. The line-up currently features John Thayer (drums, electronics), Craig Schenker (sax), Tommy Siegel (guitar, bass), Dave Cohen (keyboards), Keith Rigling (Electronics).
Abstract Human is a new duo from true heads Mike Bernstein and Maya Miller (Double Leopards / Religious Knives) - Heady sounds, heavy vibes, and hollowed worlds.
Creative movement therapist Juliana Ponguitá Forero (of the Nancy Havlik Dance Performance Group) joins sound artist Nate Scheible in a debut collaboration at Rhizome.
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A few more final photos from my recent trip to LA / Las Vegas with Erica for a styling job we did. Southern California is so spread out and eclectic. There are beaches, mountains, industrial areas…they've pretty much got it all.
If you were able to catch my last post, you know I am on another road trip at the moment (it has been amazing so far). Had a great time at SXSW in Austin, spent a beautiful evening at the Nottoway Plantation in Baton Rouge, and am currently enjoying our final night in New Orleans. Tomorrow we head to the Smoky Mountains and then to Nashville.
Lots of fun photos I cannot wait to share, but until then, be sure to keep up with me on Instagram! x
*head to toe: Topshop hat, JOYPEACE fringe top, Everlane cashmere sweater, Rebecca Minkoff crossbody bag via Paula & Chlo, vintage cutoffs, Zara booties


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Greetings fellow Skillshare Community,
Stop Motion like a Boss! is now posted on Skillshare; click on this link to check it out https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Stop-Motion-Like-a-Boss%21/740957768/classroom/discussions?via=teaching&enrolledRedirect=1
Enclosed is the draft on my Stop Motion course. Feel free to check it out and use it as reference material.
Course Info:
This course will teach you the basics of Stop Motion Animation. It's a fun and energetic course and you'll learn the basics skills to get you up and running with your own animation project.
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Last week was my son Shayaan's 4th birthday..Since he likes fresh fruits, I made this trending cake decorated with fruits to make him happy. This is an easy to make hot milk sponge cake layered with custard cream.
For the cake:
2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup milk
4 tbsp unsalted butter
For Custard Cream:
1 cup milk
4 tbsp custard powder
4 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 cup whipping cream
For the cake:
- Preheat oven to 180 degree celcius. Grease and butter 2 rectangular trays / tins and line them with a parchment paper.
- In a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt and keep it aside.
- Heat milk and butter in a pan until the butter melts. Keep aside but keep it hot.
- In a large bowl, beat the sugar, eggs and vanilla extract with an electric mixer or whisk until light and fluffy.
- Whisk in the flour mixture and hot milk-butter mixture.
- Divide the batter into two prepared tins, spread it evenly and tap the tin on the counter to remove air bubbles.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes until cake springs back when touched on top. The top will be browned and edges will come away from the tin.
- Cool in tin for 5 minutes and then carefully invert out, remove parchment paper and cool completely on a wire rack.
For Custard Cream:
- Add custard powder in a small bowl and mix it with 1/4 cup of milk and keep it aside.
- In a pan, boil remaining milk adding sugar. Add custard mixture to this and cook for a minute until the mixture boils and thickens.
- Transfer into a bowl, cover with cling film such that it touches the custard and refrigerate until cooled.
- In a bowl, add whipping cream and whip till stiff peaks form.
- Once the custard cools completely, beat the custard until creamy and smooth.
- Add custard to the whipped cream in two portions and whip again until the stiff peaks form. (Add coloring of your choice if you wish and mix).
- Transfer the cream to the piping bag fitted with a round nozzle.
Assembling the Cake:
- Make a stencil of the number (or letter) you want the size of the cake.
2. Place the stencil on top of the cake and cut with a sharp knife. Do the same with the other layer of cake.
3. Then place a cake layer on cake board. Start piping dots with cream all over the cake in even lines.
4. Carefully lay the other cake layer on top aligning it properly. Then again pipe the cream on top.
5. Decorate it with berries, kiwi fruits, edible wafer flowers etc (you can use macarons, any aother fruits, chocolate etc..).
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Are you aware that mung bean (munggo in Filipino) is the healthiest of all the beans in the legume family? Probably not! You may have heard a lot of times from the elderly folks whenever they complain of arthritis that its pain is aggravated by indulging on too much mung beans which is 100% lie. Ayurveda, an alternative medicine in India that makes use of natural sources to promote a satisfactory health and well-being, has been advocating for centuries the regular consumption of mung bean soup for cleansing the body from any kind of toxin.
Mung bean is indeed the most underrated of all legumes for the following reasons:
Foods high in protein are not necessarily complete with amino acids, which makes it the least acidic of all the beans in the world. There are only two amino acids in mung bean making it the easiest to digest of all proteins.
It is very alkaline such that it hosts a vast amount of Potassium and a fair quantity of Calcium, Magnesium, and Zinc.
A cup is also packed with fiber that helps combat constipation and is suitable for people with diabetes and high cholesterol. However, when taken in excessive amount, beware of its ability to cause diarrhea for people with weak digestion of protein.
Unlike most beans, it contains the lowest level of oligosaccharide — a carbohydrate responsible for flatulence.
People with Trimethylaminuria (TMAU) can benefit from eating it everyday because these legumes contain a safe amount of niacin (Vitamin B3) responsible for the prevention of bad breath, mouth ulcers, chronic fatigue, depression, and digestive ailments like diarrhea and constipation. The niacin content also helps prevent choline build-up in the body to prevent the TMAU-afflicted patient from smelling like fish and other weird odors.
When sprouted the amount of Vitamin C in it increases. Sprouting multiplies the plethora of health-giving benefits of the beans. YouTube has a lot of video tutorials to help you get you started with sprouting.
Based on studies, edible legumes contain saponins that are beneficial for the maintenance of a strong immune system against cancer, fungal, and other systemic infections.
It acts as a coolant for the body's heat, especially during summer.
Yogis recommend a regular diet of mung beans for their weight loss programs.
The beans may not need to be soaked before cooking. However, you may need to soak them overnight or sprout them if you intend to eat them during your menstrual days to lessen the amount of the iron inhibitor they call "phytic acid."
India's famous mung bean recipe "kitchari" is commonly eaten during fasting while detoxing.
Itin is a blogger, virtual freelancer, and a social network junkie. She wants to educate the medical practitioners worldwide about the existence of some weird health conditions and self-proven remedies for a variety of maladies. She hopes that more people will be aware of TMAU (fish odor syndrome), so that they will put more effort into researching for a possible cure. You can email Itin via itinbcalvo(at)gmail(dot)com for criticisms, queries, article writing projects, or product reviews.
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EP 145 The Local Church - High of Low View? 12-63
Are you a church hopper? How do you decide what church to attend? Are you committed to your church family or do you easily jump to the "next show in town?" How do you demonstrate your commitment to a local church? How does God view the local church? How does God demonstrate His love for the church. This Old Testament story about the Danites and Michal and Laish and the Sidonians gives us an opportunity to consider our own view of the church and Dr. Betters challenges us to determine if it is high or low. What is your view of the church? And how do your decisions reflect that view?


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By Beth Ann Gaglione
Many signs tell us that we have a homeless program larger than we would ever want to believe. However, we continue to hide from the problem with food drives and coat collections. When will we stop believing in the myth that we can cure hunger with our canned goods and move on to providing solutions that really work?
The homeless myth our society lives with allows us to simplify a complex problem. It is a way of looking at the world, being the determinant of meaning. What we need to do is order to look at the world in a more realistic sense is to challenge the myth.
I am not suggesting that we stop giving what we can to help the homeless through a transitional period. I do believe that our charitable donations are well needed. And by no means am I suggesting the same kinds of solutions that Representative Newt Gingrich has recently announced, which include cutting most of the funding programs designed to help the impoverished, therefore leaving it up to community people whom, he says, "know best" how to solve their problems.
What I am suggesting is that we, as a society, stop thinking that our McDonald's gift certificates are going to end hunger and that our old coats will keep 300,000 people warm at night. Knowing that institutional change is incremental, we cannot wait for our lawmakers to come up with solutions. If we do, they will probably only provide the same
Kinds of "band-aid" solutions the Bush/Reagan years provided to our homeless population.
We need to form a social net for people who will inevitably fall through the cracks of the system. To do that, we need to identify why we let people fall through the cracks in the first place. In addition, we must identify the problems that the homeless and potential homeless population endures. Finally, we need to examine the kinds of programs that work and consider ideas that will begin building the social net.
The biggest mistake we have made in approaching homelessness in binding ourselves to the fact that individuals have individual needs. Therefore, we must build a system in which each person can receive the individualized attention (in order to address his or her) problems. In order to identify changes needed, we should understand the true needs of a homeless person.
Social scientists have been able to agree upon three major problems that individuals within the homeless population may at one time suffer from. Preeminently, at least 30 percent of our homeless population suffers from various forms of extreme mental conditions. However, most also agree that the state of homelessness itself causes mental dilapidation.
Homeless people run an extremely high risk of abusing alcohol or drugs, regardless of whether they suffer from mental disorders. According to research done by
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 20 to 45 percent of the homeless population suffers from alcohol-related problems. Alcoholism and drug abuse was seen as the only cause of homelessness in the 1040s when indigents were seen as "drunk men." Now, alcohol abuse affects men, women, and adolescents on our city streets.
The scarcity of low-cost housing leaves poor people with only one option of housing: to become a renter. If a household living on $5,000 a year to spend 3- percent a month on housing, they would only be able to allot $125 per month to housing. In reality, the typical poor renter spent $266 a month on their housing needs, more than double the highest amount affordable according to HUD. Not only are these people supposed to overcome mental and physical ailments, but they must be fiscal geniuses in order to survive on $5,000 a year.
Mental illness, alcohol abuse and scarce low-cost housing are far from the only problems that a homeless must face. However, the social service community concerned with homelessness seems to agree that these three issues are the most prevalent among homeless people.
The cause of homelessness are a phenomenon of the changes taking place in America society which have left many individuals without the family and community support systems on which they have relied heavily on in the past. For this reason, "the problem must be viewed as defying immediate solution but is one which commands community-wide effort over a long period of time" (momeni, 1990.p178). We must provide the impoverished with social services net dispensing preventative measures, programs that work, and an attitude toward the problem that reflects an understanding of the true meaning of homelessness. If care-providers have already bought into the myth that we must give the coats off our backs as the only solution, then we have already failed.
In order to put an end to homelessness, we must shatter the myth. The myth says that the only way we can really help the homeless is to give to others, as we would want for ourselves. However, we have already defined the problems as too severe for any food drive to fix. We need to realize there are many other things we need to do as a society that would be more beneficial than charitable service efforts. Changing people's attitudes could be a first step.
Copyright NEOCH and the Homeless Grapevine Issue 10 – May – July 1995


text: Big Snow in Boone! January 6, 2010 The week before Christmas we had a big snow (for us - 15 inches)! Here are some pictures: In the foreground is our almost buried Honda. Behind is Caleb shoveling the driveway! This is Kathryn (almost 2 yrs) inserted into the snow. Bethany, Caleb, and Hannah buried Josiah.


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A-G rolls past Seahawks in 61-0 opener
AYDEN -- The 2018 high school football season kicked off Friday night as the Ayden-Grifton Chargers hosted the Southside Seahawks of Chocowinity. The only thing hotter than the on-field temperature at game time were the Chargers themselves, as they dominated on both sides of the ball.
Led by a three-touchdown performance by Michael Webb and two scores by Ray Darden, Ayden-Grifton rolled to a 61-0 . The lopsided victory helped to avenge a 26-0 loss last year against Southside to open the season.
"This was a learning experience for us. We said that we had to watch turnovers and we had five of them tonight. We have to eliminate them if we want to be successful this year," Southside coach Jeff Carrow said.
The game started perfectly for the Chargers when a kickoff was mishandled by the Seahawks. AG's Tyler Brown fell on it and recovered it on the 19-yard-line. Four plays later, Darden stormed through a big hole in the middle for a 12-yard touchdown run on fourth-and-two.
"It's always a great thing to start a game off like that," A-G coach Paul Cornwell said. "We've spent a lot of time on special teams. We feel that can carry the game. We were very successful with that last year. We try to do the little things right and it pays off for us. We blocked a punt, kicked extra points well with a new kicker and recovered a kickoff fumble. The guys took a lot of pride in that."
On the Seahawks' first possession, they were knocked back a yard on their first ground attempt. On their first pass, Jeffrey Gunter nearly intercepted the ball. On the very next play, Vito Boyd recovered a fumble for the Chargers. Blake McLawhorn would soon find Gunter in the end zone for an 8yd reception to put Ayden-Grifton up 14-0.
When the Chargers got the ball back, they wasted no time in scoring. On second down, Webb took a handoff from McLawhorn and swept to the left side. He stormed down the field, diving into the end zone for a 52-yard touchdown.
"It was a switch call and I saw it late. I was just able to jump onto the ball," Webb said. "Our intensity was on fire tonight. We came out and had some exciting special team plays and played great on defense."
The Chargers started up the second quarter with an interception on a tipped ball. However, on the return, the ball was fumbled and recovered by Webb. A minute later, Webb found the end zone again for Ayden, this time on a 15 yd run to the right.
The Seahawks finally found some life and began to move methodically down the field. Southside quarterback Will Warren fired off a pass that was intercepted by Webb on the 1-yard line and was returned to midfield. A late hit tacked on another 15 yards for the Chargers. The drive was capped off with an 8yd run by Blake McLawhorn. The Chargers closed the half with a 25-yard pass by McLawhorn to Webb to put Ayden-Grifton up 41-0.
"The intensity was good. The challenge is always to keep them hungry after halftime. These guys showed a lot of maturity and kept playing hard to the final whistle," Cornwell said.
A 70-yard touchdown run by Webb to open up the second half was called back for a holding penalty. Darden answered it with an 80 run on the next play to start the running clock. Darden would end up leading the team with 146 yards and two touchdowns.
"That one was called back and I hoped to get the ball back because I wanted to take it to the house and grab that score back for us," Darden said. "We had a lot of guys bringing their A-game tonight. Webb stepped it up. The seniors played hard tonight, but the young guys played hard too. Great game."
The Chargers started the fourth quarter in the red zone after driving down the field to end the third. Backup quarterback Josh Wright would put the ball in on a 14 yd run. Wright would score a second touchdown in the closing minutes of the game on a 17 yd run. He would end the night with 45 yards rushed on three carries.
"The line helped me out a lot," Wright said. "The running backs had some great plays to set me up. The line opened up some holes and I was able to get right in there. It feels great to be a part of a game like this and contribute for the team."
"Josh has all the tools we need for this team. He's playing behind a senior, but he knows the expectations for him are the same for everyone else and he plays hard," Coach Cornwell said.
RUSHING: Southside: Brinkley 5-21, Wright 4-15, Haywood 1-12, Warren 4-12, Mayo 7-2, Clark 1- -1, Campbell 2- -3, Stallings 1- -9
AG: Darden 8-146, Webb 2-69, Wright 3-45, Cannon 4-24, McLawhorn 5-23, Boomer 2-14, Connell 1-7, Crossen 1-2, Best 1-1, Brown 1- -4
PASSING: Southside: Stallings 1-4 32, Warren 1-5 21
APA: McLawhorn 3-6 58
RECEIVING: Southside: Wright 2-53
AG: Gunter 2-33, Webb 1-25


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It was time to break out the lighter bedding, which is why I had Pete up on the stool reaching the high shelf as I passed up to him the winter wares. Towels and sheets we have long stopped using were taking up plenty of space, and it occurred to me that it was time to ditch the old stuff. Why not pass it onto those nice people who take bag loads of outgrown toys and household goods practically every week?
I stopped myself, though. Eldest would be heading off to college "soon," followed the next year by Daughter. Four years later, and I'd be sending off Youngest as well.
"Soon," of course is relative.
Eldest isn't even headed off to high school until August. But "soon" has a way of coming far too soon, as I remind myself far too often.
Hell, we will have saved likely nothing in the way of actually paying for college. But at least we will have saved bedding for them.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Saving for College
2 comments:
- Tara R. said...
We did a little saving for college - bedding, towels, kitchen stuff... but when the time came, the College Kid was not impressed with her 'used' school fund. Just find your scholars a rich roommate who already has all the stuff they need.
- April 4, 2011 at 1:34 PM
- Eluciq said...
i am going with the rich room mate who might adopt your child and pay for their college...god knows we wont be able to afford college...i am thinking i might save an appliance box or two, bedding & towels and offer up the bridge as a nice place to live under...oh dear...soon will come soon enough for sure!
- April 4, 2011 at 6:41 PM
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First Saturday of Each Month
Men of all ages are invited to join us for breakfast, devotion, prayer and fellowship. The Men's Prayer Breakfast is held in the Fellowship Hall at Beachside Baptist Church every first Saturday of the month.* You do not need to be a member of our church to participate. You won't even have to cook!
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Good morning! It has been a whole week since I posted last and so much has gone on since then! For the holidays, I was fortunate enough to spend it in Indiana with my entire family. It was great being with loved ones and reconnecting with old friends. For the New Year, I was able to spend a few days down in warm south Florida with good friends. Now, I am back in New York, just in time for a huge winter storm! Anyhow, yesterday was a day of reflection and forward thinking for me. With the changes in my life in 2013, I really wanted to put some thought into what made me happy and what did not and to make a pledge to do and think more positive in 2014. Here are some great quotes that I came across that struck a chord with me and hopefully they will help you to think more positive as well! Happy New Year and all the best to come!
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Ashe '68 VR Film Headed to Sundance 2019 Festival
Ashe '68 VR film to premiere at 2019 Sundance Festival, in New Frontiers section.
"For over a decade, New Frontier has pushed the boundaries of the possible, illuminating the potential of technology and storytelling. These independent cross-media artists create new realities for, and with, their work — and the results inspire."
-festival founder Robert Redford
How Arthur Ashe Paved The Way For Political Athletes
a 1-hr discussion on NPR's A1
Raymond Arsenault Historian; author, "Arthur Ashe: A Life"
Rex Miller Documentary creator and producer, "Ashe '68 Virtual Reality Experience"
Caitlin Thompson Publisher and co-founder of Racquet magazine, an independent quarterly about tennis; @caitlin_thomps
Charlie Pasarell Best friend of Arthur Ashe; former tennis player for Puerto Rico; a founder, National Junior Tennis League
CBSNewYork. (2018, September 9).
Arthur Ashe Remembered As Tennis And Civil Rights Hero, 50 Years After US Open Win
WCBS News, NY feature on Ashe and the exhibition
The New York Times: What's New, and What's Free, at the 2018 U.S. Open; A Louis Armstrong Stadium with a roof, a serve clock, Hawk-Eye on every court and a plethora of free events are among the features as the tournament celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Sports Illustrated
360 VR Experience with Arthur Ashe
at the 1968 U.S. Open
A 360-degree, virtual reality video and rare collection of photos by John G. Zimmerman show Arthur Ashe's journey to becoming a tennis icon and the ordinary events that led up to his remarkable milestone in Forest Hills.
The Makers Of The Ashe '68 Documentary Project On Arthur Ashe's Legacy
Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis by Carl Bialik on Apple (podcast)
Released 07 September 2018
Four of the people behind the Ashe '68 documentary project—creator and producer Rex Miller, co-documentary director Woody Richman, VR director Brad Lichtenstein, and exhibition producer and designer Bill Sullivan—join Thirty Love host Carl Bialik from the US Open to talk about Ashe's legacy, finding footage of the 1968 US Open champ, and re-creating the Forest Hills setting for Ashe's championship match on the 2018 US Open grounds.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
NY Sports Day, August 26, 2018
The Week That Was: The US Open Hits The Big 5-0
by Lloyd Carroll
All those attending this year's US Open should make it their business to catch the Ashe'68 VR Experience at the Chase Indoor Pavilion. By putting on a virtual reality headset you are transported to the US Open's original home, the West Side Tennis Club, where Arthur Ashe has just defeated Tom Okker to win the very first US Open in 1968.
Director (Brad Lichtenstein) has carefully blended original footage of Ashe being interviewed by the likes of Howard Cosell,… with reenactments that were staged recently at the West Side Tennis Club. Rising American tennis player Chris Eubanks portrays the then 25 year-old Arthur Ashe.
While at the exhibit be sure to pay attention the blown-up black & white photos on the walls. My favorite is that of Ashe talking to a teen attendant in the cramped West Side Tennis Club locker room who is wearing a Forest Hills High School gym t-shirt.
The Jerusalem Post. (2018, September 13.)
Arthur Ashe and the Jews
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"It did a neat job in seven minutes of covering his rise and how he found his voice." She is pleased that a longer documentary about Ashe will premier in 2019.
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You might expect a medical mentor to be someone who knew, from day one, that he or she was bound for the field.
But the students benefiting from the knowledge of Dr. Chad Garven are learning from someone who, for a long time, didn't want to go into medicine – and, now that he's practicing it, can speak in-depth on the appeal and importance of helping people.
Setting out on a different path
For Dr. Chad Garven, medicine was a field he long knew he didn't want to pursue. Garven may have been raised by a doctor, but the Cleveland native packed his bags for Marquette University in 2003 with no intention of following in his father's footsteps.
"I thought I would always end up doing something different than medicine," says Garven.
"Science, initially, was always something I thought I was capable of. But I enjoyed the stories of why people do what they do; things that history focused on." - Dr. Chad Garven
As a history major, Garven started getting involved with a group of students at Marquette who were planning medical service trips to Honduras. He began to realize there were stories to be heard in medicine and history alike.
"I fell in love with the work and, during my time in undergrad, was a part of developing an organization called Global Brigades," says Garven. "I grew to love medicine in its ability to manage not just a cough or a rash, but deal with the patient's whole story – what brought them to the office that day, what their families are like, why they make certain health decisions."
And just like that, Garven changed the course of his life and career. He would go on to attend medical school at Wright State University, while simultaneously earning his master of public health degree. After completing his family medicine residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2015, Garven returned to Cleveland with his wife, Bridget, to work at the Tremont location of Neighborhood Family Practice (NFP).
An incredible wealth of knowledge
Garven fills many roles at NFP. First and foremost, he is a full-time clinical physician who sees patients every day. He also works closely with EPIC, the electronic records service that NFP utilizes, in the Provider Builder program.
"(This) is a program that puts providers through some of the back-end training that EPIC requires its technical support people to go through, (which) allows providers and tech support to use the same language when describing changes to the system," says Garven. "Often, electronic health records have nonclinical support staff trying to best-guess the implementation on the clinical side. This program attempts to bridge that gap."
Though Garven is involved in these other aspects of NFP, he truly enjoys paying forward all of the mentorships he's received over the years by mentoring the next generation of physicians. As head of student experiences at the practice, Garven helps to coordinate medical and nurse practitioner student rotations with several schools in the area, including Case Western Reserve University, Ursuline College and Northeast Ohio Medical University.
"I've had a variety of mentors in my career path through Dayton, Ohio, and Charleston, South Carolina, that have provided me with an incredible wealth of knowledge in my brief career," says Garven. "With them in mind each day, I view it as my responsibility as a newly certified family physician to provide that same experience to any medical student I work with at NFP."
The Ohio Academy of Family Physicians Foundation recognized Garven with the 2017 Family Physician Mentorship Award, thanks to a nomination from one of his students.
"I was honored to receive the award. It was a nomination by a particular student who spent two years with me early in her clinical training," says Garven.
"It's always nice to hear such great feedback, reassuring the student experience NFP is able to offer is worthwhile and impacting future generations of providers that will hopefully choose to work in a similar location." - Dr. Chad Garven
But it's not just the students who benefit from these mentoring relationships. Garven finds that working with students constantly reminds himself of his own ambition, enthusiasm, and passion for helping others.
Creating a medical home
NFP has cared for the underserved in the Cleveland area for decades. As a comprehensive primary care setting, not only can patients seek primary medical care at NFP, they can visit the dentist who is in the office daily, consult with behavioral health services or even deliver a baby with one of the midwives on staff.
"Neighborhood Family Practice, truly, can become a home for these patients, and they can have most of their needs met here without ever having to go to a new office," says Garven.
One underserved population, in particular, has sought out NFP as a safe space. The majority of newly-settled refugees in the Cleveland area have their initial medical visits at NFP. A welcoming place for these patients, most continue to utilize NFP for all of their primary care.
More than anything, Garven is glad to be home in Cleveland with his wife and their 1-year-old son, Jack. His passion for teaching medicine is matched by his passion for spending time with family, traveling and Cleveland sports.
"We both have lived away from the Cleveland area for many years and are now happy to be back," says Garven.
"I'm a die-hard Cleveland sports fan. I can talk to anyone, anywhere about the Indians latest playoff run, the consistent disappointment of the Browns or the night the Cavs won the title in 2016." - Dr. Chad Garven
Jenny Wise is a contributing writer. Feedback welcome at firstname.lastname@example.com.
About the Expert
Chad Garven, MD, MPH completed his undergraduate degree at Marquette University. He earned a master of public health and his medical degree from Wright State University. Dr. Garven completed his family medicine residency in 2015 at the Medical University of South Carolina and returned home to Cleveland to practice family medicine at Neighborhood Family Practice.


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All members receive our informal Trolley Fare newsletter and a six-ride pass upon joining and at each renewal. Members also elect directors at the annual meeting each January. Lifetime members recieve a special membership card and unlimited rides on Car 21.
For more information on joining our Society, please fill out and mail us
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If you enjoy meeting people, want to learn more local history, have fun showing kids the thrill of riding the rails, or simply want to be a part of our unique, living history organization...the trolley is the place for you! We are an all-volunteer group that operates on weekend and holiday afternoons from May through September. Each operating day requires two conductor/motorman crews, one starting at Noon and the other at 2:30 pm. On holidays, we also open the restored depot in City Park to handle the increased patronage and sell souviners.
We currently have openings for new volunteers in both operation and maintanence. Training begins each year in April. Open topics below for more info.
As a new volunteer, we'll teach you how to safely operate a fully restored, antique streetcar or learn the art of being a trolley conductor. Senior motormen and conductors provide classroom training covering the basics of operation and interacting with people. They'll work with you during hands-on sessions on the car, first without passengers, then on regularly scheduled runs. After the initial training, you can complete the hands-on training at your own pace, until you are ready to "test out" as a qualified motorman or conductor. To keep our proficiency up, we conduct annual safety re-qualification sessions for motormen.
After you are certified to operate or conduct, you can request an account on our online schedule so you can reserve work shifts on the car. Each weekend day includes two work shifts: Noon-2:30 pm and 2:30-5 pm, ensuring that eight volunteers get to work on the car each weekend. You can schedule up to two shifts on the car each month during our May thru September operating season. You'll probably find that showing our visitors what it was like to ride a trolley is more fun than work.
Once you are a qualified motorman or conductor, you will join the ranks of a select few in the USA who are keeping up the art of working on a real electric trolley. Although our annual training session occurs in April, we're happy to accept new volunteers any time during our operating season.
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Giving your villa the finishing touch
It can be a daunting task to design and furnish a villa from scratch but the interior design experts at Esprit Décor have worked with Royal Westmoreland clients since 2008 helping each transform their villas into dream homes.
Having furnished and styled both Joe Calzaghe's and Wayne Rooney's properties, Esprit can help put the wow factor into your furnishings and create a villa interior that suits your lifestyle and taste.
Platinum Life catches up with Esprit Décor Director Ricky Christian to ask about the services the firm provides....
Ricky said;
"We work one-on-one with clients to develop their own signature style. Our executive designer, Susanne Hoidal is proud to say that all interiors we create are bespoke. We offer complete interior design services, including furniture, accessories, lighting, art, rugs, bedding, and window treatments. The level of the designer's involvement is completely up to the home-owner. In previous projects we have customized our level of service from furniture planning only, all the way to a complete turnkey product.
"We start working on projects early on in the construction process (six to 12 months from completion date) allowing ample time for planning, layout, and selections. We either meet the client in person or have a long telephone chat to discuss their overall design style and vision.
"We have also worked on refurbishments for Royal Westmoreland clients and enjoy working on these just as much as the new construction projects. In tropical climates we usually choose natural fabrics and fibres which perform very well in the environment and aim for an elegantly casual feel. Linen, cotton and sisal are examples of some of the natural materials used in upholstery fabrics and floor coverings, while "Sunbrella" fabrics are manufactured to withstand the outdoor elements.
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I Wasn't Prepared for Toddler Life
I wouldn't say that I would want to trade in my sweet 15 month old for a newborn, but now that Dylan is a certifiable person with very strong opinions about everything life is.....interesting.
We haven't reached the full "on the ground howling in frustration" temper tantrum, but we are so close that it is getting scary. I find myself bargaining, bribing, hiding in the bathroom for long periods of time, and doing a few things that I swore we wouldn't do when we became parents. (Sesame Street/Elmo may be a car staple now)
Everyone is so focused on those first few months with a newborn (and don't get me wrong they were hard) that I feel like seasoned veterans forget to tell you that now is the time that you need that actual manual and a third person in your home to get everything done and stay sane.
Sometimes I think my child is legitimately insane. "Apple" can mean so many different things that I often feel like I am on a game show hoping to offer the right response before the timer goes off.
Pineapple? No. Apple? No. Applesauce? Yes. Applesauce in the pouch? No. Applesauce in the bowl? Yes. Applesauce in the blue bowl? No. Applesauce in the green bowl? Yes. Can we sit in our chair to eat it? No. Oh, you just want to sit right there on the floor that was just cleaned? Cool, yeah let's do it.
Speaking of "clean." My house is clean for the approximate 5 hours that Dylan is at school after the cleaning people come on Wednesdays. There is literally no way to keep up with the mess, no matter how many bins and crates you buy to contain the toys.
And do not even get me started on Little Miss Independent. Why is it that you don't want me to change your shirt or your diaper (EVERYDAY) when I can't go to the bathroom alone? Why do you insist on taking FOREVER to walk down the hallway at school when you know mommy has a 9AM conference call and refuse to let me just pick you up to make it go quicker?
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Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
In this challenging passage, Jesus invites us to forgive others as we have been forgiven. We typically like the first half of this clause a lot more than the second half! We are good at being forgiven, but not always great at taking the step to forgive others. And yet this is a central Christian call. The message of forgiveness is something Jesus teaches, preaches, and lives out until his dying breath. The command to forgive others is strong in Jesus' sermons. In fact, right after the Lord's prayer, Jesus says, "For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins." (Matthew 6:14-15). It's almost as if Jesus is saying, "can you hear me now?!!!"
Forgiveness is important to God and vital for our salvation, but it's tricky and we often miss the mark. We replace true biblical forgiveness with tolerance, leading to long-term grudges and a lack of trust within the Christian community. Since trust is essential for flourishing relationships and ministry, churches especially suffer due to a lack of forgiveness in the family.
How do we go about this then? How is it even possible to forgive others as Christ has forgiven us? Two strategies are: (1) learning to see others as a mixture of both good and bad tendencies; and (2) striving to avoid judging others based on the worst thing they've done.We explored the following quote from Richard Rohr to help us out:
…two thirds of Jesus' teaching is directly or indirectly about forgiveness! To forgive, you have to be able to see the other person – at least momentarily – as a whole person, as an image of the Divine, containing holiness and horror at the same time. In other words, you can't eliminate the negative. You know they've hurt you. You know they did something wrong. You have to learn to live well with paradox, or you can't forgive. The trouble with so much conventional religion is the cultural attitude of, 'well, I'll forgive them when they've earned it, when they've proven themselves.' That's not forgiveness, that's a deal! God loves you precisely in your obstinate unworthiness, when you're still a mixture of good and bad, when you're gloriously in flux. (Richard Rohr, The Divine Dance: Trinity and Your Transformation, 134).
Can we learn to love one another in our common "obstinate unworthiness?" Can we learn to accept the human experience of paradox, and not judge one another on the worst of what we've done? Forgiveness (our own and others) depends on it. May God bless us as we seek to forgive as we have been forgiven.
Sixteen backpacks full of non-perishable items will be picked up by students at Fir Grove, and half of those families have also asked to receive fresh foods (milk, eggs, butter, bread, meat). Thank you, Westside, for your generosity in supporting these students and families through what may otherwise be long, hungry breaks!
This week, the Human Resources, Neighbor Connections, and Community Leaders teams all met. Thank you to everyone for your faithful service and commitment to being the hands and feet of Jesus, and seeing Jesus in the face of those you meet. If you haven't yet joined a team, please consider joining one!
Next week we will look at the powerful phrase, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one." We will explore what it means to be delivered from evil and how we can experience true redemption from the evil that exists in our world through the work of the devil.
Those who met in the adult auditorium class were blessed to engage in a great class led by Jasper Bawcom. Jasper helped us think through prayer and invited us to reflect on the differences between public and private prayer. What does it mean to pray without ceasing? Given our common definition and understanding of prayer, is that even possible? Jasper helped us think through a new definition of prayer and offered this intriguing question, "What if prayer is noticing God and recognizing holy moments?" Thanks to Jasper and please join us next week as we talk about how to pray when God seems silent, and consider questions of why we pray in the first place.


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This baby blue crewneck is melting, ya know because it's becoming hot again.
This sweatshirt comes all the way from Europe, in a limited edition color wave. The high quality Euro fabrics make this one a bit more expensive, but it's worth it. Bet.
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This is the from the heart of Stephanie Toma, who experienced her first time in Haiti with us this year! Read below about her experience!
After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, all everyone would ever talk about is Haiti. I heard of friends going to help and always thought to myself that what happened in Haiti must have been tragic. Imagining myself and my loved ones in their shoes, my heart grieved for the Haitian people. However, I never thought that I would one day be on my way to Haiti. I was convinced that the "mission field" was never "my thing" or "calling". It was not until this year that the Holy Spirit revealed to me the purpose of a mission field. It is not only going out to other countries but something we, as Christians, should do daily. We should be on a mission to help restore and renew this broken world. Seeing pictures and videos from The Tower of Refuge melted my heart. I felt uncomfortable with myself, and felt a desire put in my heart to get out of my comfort zone (even if it meant not showering every day) and to go out and help. After the first meeting with the Tower of Refuge (and the group I would be going to Haiti with), I felt even more inspired and moved to go to Haiti. As time went on, and meetings passed, I do have to admit I started to feel a bit anxious about going. First, I never left the country or my family for so long before. On top of that, I did not think that such a great and Holy God could use such a sinner as myself to go and tell other sinners the message of the Gospel. With each meeting that passed, I felt more and more distress. I was instructed that we would have to do VBS with the orphans (I am horrible at teaching), give a testimony (I have the worst stage fright), and go to the mountains in Haiti and spread the message of the gospel (I had no idea where to start and what to even say). I have never had to do these things in my life and it was way out of my comfort zone. I was full of fear and anxiety; I didn't know what to do. However, it is so easy to give up and back out when worry and despair come into our lives. During that time, I was reading a book, Battling Unbelief by John Piper, and thought to myself what perfect timing to start such a book. I learned about resting in Jesus and the hope for future grace, and that the root of worry comes from inadequate faith and failure to trust all that God has promised to be for us in Jesus. 1 Peter 5:7 (ESV) reads, "..casting all your anxieties on Him because He cares for you" and 1 Timothy 6:12 (ESV) reads, "to fight the good fight of faith". Jesus is our only hope. I prayed that the Holy Spirit would guide us in Haiti and in everything that was to come, and this gave me such comfort and hope. Knowing the Lord would be faithful, I realized that my worry was absolutely useless knowing He holds the world in His hands; in everything that happens there is a reason and He is supreme over all.
Upon our arrival in Haiti, I was surprised. I was expecting the airport to be a lot worse, and it wasn't as bad as I pictured it. I have heard of how poor other countries are but it wasn't until we got out of the airport that I was able to see how broken, yet beautiful Haiti was. Only then did I believe that it is only by God's grace that I am so fortunate to live where I live. During our time in Haiti, we visited the sick, the poor, the blind, the deaf, we fed the less fortunate, and spoke to people about the gospel. And in seeing all that, it reminded me of how desperate we are for Christ. I was also blessed to meet all the orphans that Pastor Medit and his wife Gelda look after. Being in Haiti was very humbling for me. The orphans and people from the church carry themselves in such an admirable way. They are very selfless and eager to help you and make you feel comfortable. When they pray they recite verses from the bible together, they memorize hymns; they don't let anything distract them during this time. You can see the radiance on their face when they talk. After observing the pastor and his wife, I have to say, they are very hard working people. From the moment they rise to the moment they fall asleep, they are continually helping the orphans or people in the community. Leaving Haiti was very emotional for me. I had but a week with the orphans and the community, yet my heart grew so attached! I am back home now and I thank God for protecting our group in Haiti. Haiti has inspired me to someday open up my own orphanage. Whether it is here in America or in another country, only God knows. I will trust in Him to lead and guide me where He wants me to go. With that said, my desire and prayer for you is that in seeing our pictures and videos and reading these short testimonies you may be motivated and encouraged to help restore and renew this broken world by either visiting other countries or even being where you are now believing and living as if Gods reconciling work is true in every space we find ourselves in. God be with you today, tomorrow, and forever! Bondye beni ou!


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The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies – London
7pm - 10pm (Film + Lecture)
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*Pilot season: monthly classes from January to June 2015, Second Thursday of the month, 8 January, 12 February, 12 March, 9 April, 14 May, 11 June
London Underground: Death Line
Instructor KIM NEWMAN
Kim Newman will screen and talk about Gary Sherman's 1972 British horror film, Death Line (aka Raw Meat), one of the first British horror films to compete with the wave of stronger, more politicised American splatter movies that came in the wake of Night of the Living Dead.
A series of disappearances on the London Underground Railway are traced back to the inbred, cannibal descendants of navvies trapped by a cave-in during the building of the tunnels. A human monster (Hugh Armstrong) who looks like a scabrous tramp haunts the Piccadilly Line, picking off and eating the odd commuter, trying to keep alive his diseased wife. Tea‑drinking copper Inspector Calhoun (Donald Pleasence) is called into the case with his sidekick sergeant (Norman Rossington) when the latest victim (James Cossins) turns out to be a high-ranking civil servant fresh from a neon-lit sleaze spree in Soho, and has to cut through bureaucratic red tape (represented by Christopher Lee in a bowler hat). Meanwhile, down in the tunnels, the last of the monsters lives out his pathetic, horrid leftover life, expressing himself through the only words he knows, 'mind the doors'. It includes a wonderful, apparently improvised drunk scene from Pleasence and a breathtaking 360º pan around the cannibals' dripping, dank, corpse-strewn underground lair.
Less makeshift than a lot of its rivals from the 1970s, it has solid, witty dialogue, a memorably funky music score and the sort of urban legend premise that people will swear is based on truth rather than new-minted for the movie. American writer-director Gary Sherman also made the cloying New Seekers 'I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke' ads, and used his share of the fee from that to finance this gutsy, gritty debut. The discussion will highlight the film's political subtext, transgressive use of cannibalism as metaphor and for shock value, black humour, performance styles, relationship with American and other British films on similar subjects (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Frightmare) and exploration of London lore and locations. The Horse Hospital is just round the corner from Great Russell Street Station, so attendees who come by tube will pass through the film's main setting before and after the class.
About the instructor:
Kim Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. His fiction includes The Night Mayor, Bad Dreams, Jago, the Anno Dracula novels and stories, The Quorum, The Original Dr Shade and Other Stories, Life's Lottery, Back in the USSA (with Eugene Byrne), The Man From the Diogenes Club, Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the d'Urbervilles and An English Ghost Story under his own name and The Vampire Genevieve and Orgy of the Blood Parasites as Jack Yeovil. His non-fiction books include Nightmare Movies, Ghastly Beyond Belief (with Neil Gaiman), Horror: 100 Best Books (with Stephen Jones), Wild West Movies, The BFI Companion to Horror, Millennium Movies and BFI Classics studies of Cat People, Doctor Who and Quatermass and the Pit. He is a contributing editor to Sight & Sound and Empire magazines (writing Empire's popular Video Dungeon column), has written and broadcast widely, and scripted radio and television documentaries. His stories 'Week Woman' and 'Ubermensch' have been adapted into an episode of the TV series The Hunger and an Australian short film; he has directed and written a tiny film Missing Girl; he co-wrote the West End play The Hallowe'en Sessions. Following his Radio 4 play 'Cry Babies', he wrote episodes for Radio 7's series The Man in Black ('Phish Phood') and Glass Eye Pix' Tales From Beyond the Pale ('Sarah Minds the Dog'). He scripted (with Maura McHugh) the comic book miniseries Witchfinder: The Mysteries of Unland (Dark Horse), illustrated by Tyler Crook; it's a spinoff from Mike Mignola's Hellboy series. His official web-site is at www.johnnyalucard.com. His forthcoming fiction includes the novels The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange and Angels of Music . He is on Twitter as @AnnoDracula.
The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies is pleased to announce the opening of its London branch on January 8th, which will be based at the heart of the city's underground culture, the Horse Hospital.
In its pilot semester, running from January to June 2015, the Miskatonic Institute will offer monthly lectures exploring the more obscure corners of horror and fantastical cinema, which will be taught by established writers, directors, scholars and programmers. It aims to be a nurturing environment for horror fans and scholars that will inspire intellectual curiosity and critical debate in a friendly atmosphere, as well as build a community around shared enthusiasm for the genre.
Among the topics to be discussed are Jesus Franco, landscapes in horror, classroom safety films and sado-masochism. Instructors include prominent horror expert Kim Newman, author of Nightmare Movies and Cat People; horror and exploitation writer Stephen Thrower, author of Nightmare USA and Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco; Kier-La Janisse, author of House of Psychotic Women and founder of Spectacular Optical Publications; Mark Pilkington, author of Mirage Men and director of Strange Attractor Press; Jasper Sharp, author of Behind the Pink Curtain and director of the documentary The Creeping Garden; Virginie Sélavy, founder of Electric Sheep and editor of The End: An Electric Sheep Anthology.
These classes will introduce participants to less well-known aspects of the horror and fantastical realm, equip them with a more sophisticated critical apparatus as well as provide historical perspective. It will explore how this vital area of cinema delves into the sources of our fears and desires, and dramatizes the most unsettling aspects of our relationship to the natural and social world, as well as to others. It will also examine how the genre has created some of the most wildly inventive sonic and visual forms in cinema.
Named for the fictional university in H.P. Lovecraft's literary mythos, The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies is a non-profit, community-based organization that started in Montreal, Canada. Founded by Kier-La Janisse in March of 2010, Miskatonic Montreal now operates under the leadership of co-directors Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare and Kristopher Woofter. Miskatonic London operates under the co-direction of Kier-La Janisse and Virginie Sélavy.
The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies welcomes donations.