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Along with your interest in volunteering, understanding what we can offer, what you may get out of the experience, and many other things will help to ensure that your volunteer experience is beneficial for everyone.
If you know which area you wish to volunteer in and you do not require support with identifying your goals, you may fill out the application and return it to the Volunteer Coordinator who will then get in touch with you to discuss the current volunteer options available.
If you are uncertain about your goals or which placements might work best for you, you can meet with the Volunteer Coordinator who will work with you to identify suitable placements and goals that fit your needs.
If you need support filling out any forms, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator.
Most locations will require a Criminal Record Check prior to accepting volunteers. They may also require a vulnerable sector check, depending on the population they serve. For example, Criminal Record and Vulnerable Sector Checks are necessary to volunteer at the ILRC.
There is no fee to obtain these, if they are submitted by an organization for volunteering. You may submit it with your volunteer application or fill it out when you meet with the Volunteer Coordinator.
Please Note: The ILRC does not discriminate based on whether or not a person has a criminal record. Persons with a history of criminal activity will be placed based on the details of the report.
Many organizations will require more screening, such as resumes, references, and interviews. While this can be intimidating, it's often a smooth and practiced process, and the ILRC is willing to support you if you run into any barriers.
There is no maximum or minimum age requirement for volunteering with the ILRC. Though, we may request that our younger volunteers be accompanied by an adult family member or friend; we cannot promise direct supervision. Age requirements for other organizations will vary.
Your role at the ILRC would depend on the work you want to do, the skills you have, and the skills you want to build. While we try our best to find our volunteers the perfect fit, we often have to work around multiple schedules, limited capacity, and the popularity of certain volunteer roles. This is often true for many organizations. But, if we cannot meet your needs at the ILRC, we would be happy to help you find volunteer work elsewhere.
The real question is: where do you want to volunteer? Most community, and some private, organizations provide opportunities for people to volunteer. And even those who don't, may be open to trying something new. An effective way to find a volunteer location is to think about the kind of work you want to do, and the skills you want to build, and find a place that would allow you to do it. The Volunteer Coordinator can support you through this process.
While it is great that you care enough to seek us out, we will need to speak to your family member directly. As we operate under an independent living philosophy, it is important to us that our consumers make their own informed decisions. As such, we will need to hear from your family member that they are interested in volunteering, what experience they have, and what they are looking for.
If your main goal is finding a way for your family member to socialize and share experiences with others with disabilities, consider having the person check out our Peer Support.
Yes. A flexible schedule would provide us with more options regarding the kind of work you can do. However, regardless of when you are available, we can help you seek out volunteer work that meets your needs. For example, if you can only volunteer on weekends, we can connect you with an organization that is open during those hours.
Yes, we can, depending on the need. That's our specialty! At the ILRC we love to help people break down barriers. If you have any obstacles to volunteering, let us know and we will do all we can to help you find a way around them.
Unfortunately, the ILRC does not have the capacity to provide personal supports that would normally be carried out by a support worker or family member. Examples of these include toilet-related supports, support with eating meals, etc. If you use supports in other areas of your life, you will most likely need to bring those supports to your volunteer placement as well.
Every volunteer with the ILRC receives our general volunteer orientation to the centre. This covers out history, what we do, our expectations, and various other important pieces of information. From there, training will depend on the type of volunteer work you will be doing. Training within other organizations will vary.
Having volunteer work to add to your resume is a good thing, and improves your chances of gaining employment everywhere. Whether or not that is at the ILRC will depend on if we are looking for employees, the skills we're looking for, and whether your volunteer work was relevant to the job opening. However, having familiarity with the centre and the people there will help!120
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Hello and thanks so much for stopping by today. Deb here again to share another project for our July challenge theme of Anything Summer. For today's project, I made a card using Southern Ridge Trading Company's Leafy Frame and Retro Bike chipboard pieces. Riding your bike along a path lined with flowers and green leaves certainly says summer to me!
I started out with a piece of scrapbook paper from my stash that had some glittered flowers and swirls on it (sorry but I don't know what paper line it is from, it was a gift from a blogging friend). I gently tattered and inked the edges of the paper with Vintage Photo Distress ink and mounted it onto a white card blank.
I sprayed the Retro Bike with Heidi Swapp White Colour Shine spray and then did a couple of small spritzes with Salty Ocean Distress spray. While it was still wet I sprayed again with Picket Fence Distress spray and quickly heat dried so that just a bit of the blue peeked through here and there.
The Leafy Frame was coloured with Mowed Lawn Distress ink and while the ink was still wet, I sprinkled it with clear embossing powder and heat set it. The frame was then painted with Ranger Glue 'n Seal and sprinkled with Mowed Lawn Distress Glitter and set aside to dry.
Three tiny Maya Road metal roses were coloured with Stonewash alcohol ink.
Two Jenni B paper flowers were sprayed with Salty Ocean Distress spray and then sprayed again with Heidi Swapp White Colour Shine spray. I just wiped the spray off of the pearl centers while the sprays were still wet and gently dried the flowers with my heat gun.
And then the card was assembled. I adhered the Leafy Frame to the scrapbook paper and then placed the Retro Bike inside the frame along the bottom edge.
The blue paper flowers were adhered to the corners of the frame and I added some small leaves that I die cut with the Tiny Tattered Florals leaf die from cardstock coloured with various shades of green Distress inks.
I stamped the sentiment (from a Studio G clear stamp set #VC0053) with Jet Black Archival ink and clear embossed it.
And finally I added the Maya Road metal roses into the basket on the Retro Bike along with some more Tiny Tattered Florals leaves.
This card would be suitable for birthdays or even for a graduation or congratulations on a new job.
You could also incorporate it into a scrapbook layout with pictures of your families bike riding adventures this summer!
Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:
Other Supplies Used:
- Tim Holtz/Ranger - Vintage Photo, Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint and Bundled Sage Distress ink; Mowed Lawn Distress glitter; Stonewashed alcohol ink; Salty Ocean and Picket Fence Distress spray; Glue 'n Seal; Clear Embossing powder; Jet Black Archival ink
- Tim Holtz/Sizzix - Tiny Tattered Florals die
- Heidi Swapp - White Color Shine spray
- Maya Road - Vintage Trinkets Mini Antique Metal Roses
- Jenni B - Paper Flower Pearl WH
- Studio G - Clear Stamp VC0053
- Miscellaneous - Glitter scrapbook paper; scissors; paper cutter; E6000 glue; card blank; ruler; paint brush; tape runner
Hope that you have been inspired to join in our July challenge, Anything Summer, you have a chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca - a $20.00 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! Can't wait to see what you link up, happy creating!
Deb xo

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Warning: this is an incredibly long post, but there's a ton to cover. If you're interested, all the product links are at the very bottom of the page with the price breakdown. No princesses were harmed in the making of this blog post.
Who can guess what these two things have in common?
Give up?
Well, how about this:
Remember when we changed the locks last weekend? We must have been tempting fate by spending money on something home-related that wasn't absolutely necessary. As in, we could have lived with annoying locks for a while longer if we knew we were about to spend $$$ on a new door.
Last Thursday Mr. Great Indoors was weed-eating next to the back patio when a piece of pea gravel shot up and hit our sliding glass door. Keep in mind that I've hated this pea gravel since the moment we moved here and we have often discussed plans to put in nice, thick pavers in place of our awkward little walkway (think pea gravel with a few round stepping stones like these leading around the side of our house. At least the holly bushes are under control now). I suppose the pea gravel must have had it out for us, too, because it made an instant crack in the exterior pane of the stationary side on our sliding glass door, and then proceeded to crack into a million little pieces for the next few hours. It is awe-inspiring, is it not?
Thankfully, the cracked glass stuck together for a few hours until Mr. GI opened our side door and a piece fell out... then another and another... until we had a little fun knocking all of that junk off.
It was really beautiful down there on the ground (I hummed "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" for most of the night), so my mom suggested we corral all the clean stuff together in a vase, hence the top picture above. And I couldn't get a good picture of it, but the next morning the light shone off the broken glass and shimmered on our dining room ceiling. It really was a beautiful accident. But still not cheap.
Thankfully, the rock only shattered the exterior pane of glass on the non-moving part on our sliding door, so we didn't have to come up with a temporary solution or rush out and grab a door that night. So we did a little research at Lowe's and Home Depot (and Craigslist, but nothing much there), looking at both sliding glass and French doors. When we first moved into the house, I was 100% sure that we would switch to French doors as soon as we could afford it. But after living in the space for two years, I was torn about what to do. We weighed the options (like the fact that sliding glass doors took up less floor space, and that French doors would allow us to move big stuff in/out of the house without any issue) and ultimately decided on French doors. There wasn't a ton of price difference (about $40), but it really was the practicality of being able to throw open both doors that did it for us, coupled with the fact that the sliding glass doors in our price range were UGLY. I was a little worried about furniture placement for dinners at our house (since two sides of the table are doors and the other two sides are walkways to said doors), but we'll figure that out when the time comes. And Home Depot ended up having prettier options for about the same price (the second time in less than a week), so we made the trek across town to grab one of theirs.
So here's how we did it.
1. Grab a good friend with a truck and transport the door nervously and veeerrrryyyy caaaarrreeefulllly for eleven miles. Arrive, thanking your lucky stars, with door intact.
2. Demolition time! Remove all trim inside and outside surrounding current door. This is the fun part, especially when you're using a Wonder Bar (get it? wunderbar....?).
We've definitely got some repair ahead of us when we paint the dining/living room combo. We weren't sure if this peeling stuff was wallpaper or just several layers of paint stuck to the old trim. Either way, gross.
3. Unscrew the door and frame, then remove them!
4. Play mime in the empty door hole. This is a required step.
5. Square and (re)secure framing.
This picture reminds me that I forgot one stop on our house tour-- the homemade bike rack!
6. Take a break that may or may not involve adult beverages. It's all about morale, folks. And give the dog something to keep him occupied. Chewy's well-trained enough that he never tried to dart outside during the project, but it was still nice not to have him underfoot.
7. Caaarreeeffullllyyy remove the door from your trailer and move it to your door hole.
8. Level everything up and screw the door into the framing.
That's our internet cable draped above the door; our solution for having a phone jack on one side of the door and power outlet on the other side. We usually keep it hidden behind the curtain rod. :-)
9. Install door handles.
We opted for a lever-style door knob (just a hall/closet knob without a lock) to make it easy when going back and forth with full plates of food from the grill. Then we got a deadbolt to match what we just bought (grr), which Home Depot matched to our current keys at no extra cost. It's really nice now to have three exterior doors all keyed the same way, since our sliding glass door exterior key was long gone and we could only lock it from inside. Hooray!
10. Caulk and insulate.
We used Great Stuff to insulate around the door. It turns out the window/door type is a lot easier to work with than the exterior Great Stuff. We accidentally used too much at first, but it was really simple to razor off the extra and peel it back.
11. Ponder trim.
I swear I didn't stage this photo. We were reusing the old trim (thankfully!) but needed to work around the new hinges. So Mr. GI decided to put wood between the wall and the trim to give the hinges enough clearance.
12. Install/reinstall exterior and interior trim.
13. Paint trim.
I'm not actually left-handed, but I forgot to take a picture on the other side of the trim. Oops. :-) My real life-saver in this job was my paid-a-few-bucks-for-it-in-high-school paint brush. It was super easy to paint that new trim right next to the door. Two coats and done!
14. Enjoy your new door! And don't forget to thank your help with lunch. :-)
Disclaimer: I took these pictures before the trim was painted (so you can definitely see the trim on the left and right sides that is fresh wood), and we hadn't rehung the curtains. Houses are ever-evolving never-finished creations, so why shouldn't the posts about them be? ;-)
We've gotten used to our new door (reached the wrong way for the door handle a few times), but poor Chewy hasn't caught on so quickly. Hopefully he'll figure it out soon enough. And we'll have to come up with a solution for our interior door mat; originally it was directly inside the inside-swinging door, but that doesn't leave enough room to wipe your feet. So I'm thinking about doing something like this to stitch together a few cheap-o door mats from IKEA. I also haven't decided on painting the doors themselves. They came primed, but I'm kind of okay with keeping them as is for a little while.
From start to finish, this project only took about four hours (plus another few hours of driving around to compare prices, actually pick up the door, and go back for more materials). Here's the moolah breakdown:
- Masonite French door: $372.36 (minus $53 because Home Depot didn't reserve us the right door so we ended up with a door that had some minor dings and defects. I wish I could have seen my hubby fight that one tooth and nail.)
- New Kwikset door knob and Defiant deadbolt: $39.53
- Trim materials: $33.84
- Paint and supplies: $22.41 (exterior) and on hand (interior)
- We lost a receipt at some point, but it just had little stuff like caulk and our Wonder Bar.
- Total: $415.14
An unexpected project, that's for sure, but Mr. GI says it's the easiest one to date in this house, and it certainly updates the house significantly. Any one else have a fun story about surprise home improvements? Or pea gravel?


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A Big Bang
9 July 2001
Saw the remains of an explosion last night. This is not an unemployed person's I- am- easily- amused exaggeration: this was a genuinely big bang.
My buddy Christine's a reporter for the Herald-Sun. At the moment she's on the midnight-till-dawn police-beat. Each night she loads up with a police-radio scanner, several mobile phones, fags, and cash. The scanner tells her where to go. The phones she uses to call the police-beat reporters of other news organisations. The cash is for coffee and grub. Most nights not much happens–a few burglaries, a cat gets stuck up a tree, maybe a house fire. (If there's smoke inhalation, it might get run as a brief; otherwise it's not news, and you're out of luck.)
Brad's been wanting to go see what Chris does for quite some time. Last night, after playing some Backgammon with some fine & friendly people, we hooked up with Chris about 3.30. She was on her way to Pascoe Vale South for a fire: four shops on fire, she told us, debris all over the road.
When we got there, the fire was over. (She's not seen flames, ever.) But there were three fire engines on the road, more than that in police cars, various uniformed folk wandering about, debris on the road, and a few clumps of by-standers. Four shops were completely black inside, and there were broken windows a hundred meters down the street.
Chris quizzed the by-standers. What can you tell me about the bang?, she asked. Whenever witness are asked to describe some event, they often describe it in terms of some other event they have no personal experience of. Why is this? Last night we heard that the explosion was like a truck coming through the window, an aeroplane crashing into the backyard, or–most dramatically–"like Armageddon." Are any of these descriptions an improvement upon "gas explosion"?
Chris's story was on the front page of the PM edition; I got some photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. (4) is of Chris interviewing Peter Robertson, the owner of the funeral parlour. He got interviewed (for TV) because he had a cute dog. The ABC cameraman later remarked that he'd wished Peter had said the bang was loud enough to wake the dead.


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Christie and Evans & Sutherland dazzle audiences, engage students, at refurbished Ohio planetarium
Closed from 2004 to 2014, the reopened Center of Science and Industry (COSI) planetarium in Columbus, Ohio, is drawing over 100,000 visitors annually, thanks to the efforts of the Columbus community, the COSI Team, and two leading-edge cinema technology companies, Evans & Sutherland and Christie. The state-of-the-art planetarium installed Evans & Sutherland's Digistar 5 system and two Christie®D4K2560 projectors to simulate intergalactic journeys and visualize the latest scientific discoveries.
"Upgrading to the Digistar 5 system with the Christie projectors was huge for us,"
says Kate Storm, director of theaters, COSI. "This system does everything we ever wanted a planetarium to do or wished it could do." The immersive experience employs wireframe models as well as fully rendered images, increasing the level of engagement.
"With the Christie projectors, and the Digistar 5, you can get into great detail and we have 'wow' moments where we leave the Earth and audiences see the big blue marble of the planet," says Storm. "We can now fly out to the stars and planets and where things are in the universe. The projectors are amazing."
And because of the Christie projectors and Digistar 5's flexibility, the planetarium features a "Science Now" component where new discoveries, such as gravitational waves, can be shown within hours instead of weeks.
"The technology in the planetarium allows us to create and develop unique content," says Storm. "We created a custom show meeting Ohio's learning standards for fifth graders in Columbus city schools during specially designed field trips. The feedback was incredible. Teachers and administrators told us the students could visualize and explain the concepts when they returned to school."
Christie Digital Systems USA, Inc., a global visual and audio technologies company, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ushio, Inc., Japan. The company is recognized as one of the most innovative visual technology companies in the world.


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Welcome back for this weeks word!
This weeks word is : Black
I'm afraid that I cannot show youy my Uncluttered little room yet, we have been shredding papers and things all day - it's like the more we do, the more remains! Mayb e tomorrow!
Looks like noeone has found an "uncluttered " yet, never mind, black should be easier !
Have a fun week with this, and I'll see you soon.


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Description:Riona, a gentlewoman of faith, discovers that her plan to help the disadvantaged includes not only the plague orphans in her charge, but the arrogant, handsome adventurer who feels honor-bound to save her and her lands by marrying her -- with or without her consent.
Lord Kieran of Gleannmara depends on nothing and no one save his wit and skill with steel, but soon a deadly twist of fate forces him to acknowledge his need not only for the lady Riona and her worrisome entourage, but for her Lord as well.
My Opinion:I love Linda Windsor's books. I always like the messages she has in her novel's and how she presents them. The characters in Riona are great and so realistic; with Kieran being so bull-headed when it comes to his belief in God and Riona's love for Kieran but being repulsed for the longest time at the thought/mention of marrying him.
I thought it was funny how anytime Riona was nice to Kieran he took that as pretty much her consent for marriage, and then she would get all mad and frusterated with him again. However, for some reason I didn't get into the romance very much. Don't get me wrong, it has a lot of romance in it and it was good, it just wasn't my favorite.
Also, at the end of the book I got a little confused. I wasn't sure why when Leila was being healed Riona and Kieran couldn't see what was happening but everyone else could. All in all, it was an okay read.
Rating: 3 1/2 Stars


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FDR Was a Great Leader, But His Economic Plan Isn't One to Follow
One evening in the 1930s, a 13-year-old named William Troeller hanged himself from the transom of his bedroom in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
William's father was laid up in Kings County Hospital awaiting surgery for an injury he'd suffered on the job at Brooklyn Edison. A federal jobs program was paying William's older brother Harold for temporary work. But the amount wasn't nearly enough to make ends meet. Gas and electricity to the family's apartment had been shut off for half a year. Harold told a New York Times reporter that both hunger and modesty had driven William to act. "He was reluctant about asking for food," read the headline in the paper.
The surprising part of this story is not that it happened; most Americans know that after the 1929 stock-market crash, hard times sometimes led to suicide. The surprising part is that William Troeller killed himself not in 1930, when Herbert Hoover was president, but in 1937, in Franklin D. Roosevelt's second term. The New Deal was almost five years old, but the economy was not back. In fact, the country seemed farther from recovery than before. A new sense of futility was overcoming Americans. The British magazine the Economist sneered that the United States "seemed to have forgotten, for the moment, how to grow."
The date matters, because our new president has made it clear that his model is Roosevelt. Barack Obama has spoken of creating 3 million jobs with his stimulus plan. As a new president in 1933, Roosevelt spoke of creating "one million jobs by October 1" through his spending packages. At about $850 billion, Obama's stimulus represents about 5.9 percent of gross domestic product. The spending programs of Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration amounted to almost precisely the same share. Then as now, the country was in what we might call an "illions" moment, when a nation contemplates federal spending of a magnitude previously unimaginable. The only difference is that today, we're discussing trillions instead of billions.
It's reasonable that a new executive in a downturn would want to evoke Roosevelt the leader. Like no other president, Roosevelt inspired those in despair. He kindled hope with his fireside chats on a then-young medium, radio. The new president gives radio talks, but they are also made available on this era's young medium, the Internet.
But Roosevelt the economist is unworthy of emulation. His first goal was to reduce unemployment. Of his own great stimulus package, the National Industrial Recovery Act, he said: "The law I have just signed was passed to put people back to work." Here, FDR failed abysmally. In the 1920s, unemployment had averaged below 5 percent. Blundering when they knew better, Herbert Hoover, his Treasury, the Federal Reserve and Congress drove that rate up to 25 percent. Roosevelt pulled unemployment down, but nowhere near enough to claim sustained recovery. From 1933 to 1940, FDR's first two terms, it averaged in the high teens. Even if you add in all the work relief jobs, as some economists do, Roosevelt-era unemployment averages well above 10 percent. That's a level Obama has referred to once or twice -- as a nightmare.
The second goal of the New Deal was to stimulate the private sector. Instead, it supplanted it. To justify their own work, New Dealers attacked not merely those guilty of white-collar crimes but the entire business community -- the "princes of property," FDR called them. Washington's policy evolved into a lethal combo of spending and retribution. Never did either U.S. investors or foreigners get a sense that the United States was now open for business. As a result, the Depression lasted half a decade longer than it had to, from 1929 to 1940 rather than, say, 1929 to 1936. The Dow Jones industrial average didn't return to its summer 1929 high until 1954. The monetary shock of the first years of the Depression was immense, but it was this duration that made the Depression Great.
This outcome is worth reviewing, component by component, for what it suggests about individual Obama administration projects. The first of these would be ambitious spending on infrastructure. Obama has said that he wants to "put people to work repairing crumbling roads, bridges and schools." In addition, he would like to modernize 75 percent of government buildings, as well as equip tens of thousands of schools with new technology.
Roosevelt, too, proceeded boldly on infrastructure. The budget of his Public Works Administration was so large that it shocked even the man who ran it, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. Sounding a bit like Republicans today, Ickes said of his $3.3 billion allowance: "It helped me to estimate its size by figuring that if we had it all in currency and should load it into trucks, we could set out with it from Washington for the Pacific Coast, shovel off one million dollars at every milepost and still have enough left to build a fleet of battleships."
New Deal public-works spending did have a short-term effect, creating jobs and economic activity during Roosevelt's first term. Americans took heart at the sight of schools, swimming pools and auditoriums rising in nearly every county in the country. FDR so pumped up the federal government that 1936 was the first peacetime year when it spent more than states and towns. A master of timing, he even managed to get unemployment down to a low of 13.9 percent in November of that year, the month of the presidential election. The voters rewarded him by giving him 46 of 48 states.
But many of the jobs that the early New Deal produced were not merely temporary but also limited in economic value. It was in these years that the political term "boondoggle," to describe costly make-work, was coined. It came from "boondoggling," the word for leather craft projects subsidized by New Deal work-relief programs. As was the case for the Troeller brothers, work-relief earnings were usually not sufficient to offset other Depression losses.
After the 1936 election, Roosevelt found himself appalled at the budgetary deficit he had run up and turned frugal. Infrastructure spending slowed. Monetary authorities feared inflation and doubled reserve requirements at banks. The "Depression within the Depression" of the Troellers' time began. This cynical cycle -- spend on construction, hold election, tighten, confront new joblessness -- is familiar nowadays, especially in Latin America. But then, to Americans, it came as a bitter surprise.


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Teddy Bear Clinic will introduce children to the emergency room
experience in a fun and educational setting. "Come meet us before you
need us," shared Paula Stabler, RN, Director of the Emergency
Department. "Visiting the hospital emergency room can be a stressful
time for both children and parents. The Teddy Bear Clinic provides an
opportunity to interact with the emergency department staff and touch
the equipment that may be used during a real visit without the angst
that can occur when you visit us during an emergency."
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to touring the emergency room, children will serve as the "parent" of
the teddy bear while accompanying them through the Teddy Bear triage
area, where the bears will be weighed, measured and receive a cast for
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"Children who are
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prescribed a nebulizer treatment at home as part of their care plan. The
machine does make noise and can be initially scary for a child. The
Teddy Bear Clinic is a great way for kids to be exposed to a nebulizer
machine for the first time and to see that it's not so scary after all,"
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The Teddy Bear Clinic also features a story time,
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Sunday, 8 February 2015
Flower fiddlers and painted plants
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- Anonymous8 February 2015 at 14:24
I share your distaste of this kind of thing. I remember seeing it for the first time with heathers dyed in garish colours. I didn't understand it then and I don't understand it now. I am a nursery stock producer. Selling my plants through garden centres. Essentially I do the same thing now as I was doing 30 years ago. Rooting the best plants I can. Potting them and selling them to garden centres. The industry doesn't really work like that any more though. It's global now. Cuttings are often taken in Costa Rica, rooted in Israel and potted in England. It's no longer good enough to produce a few hundred thousand plants and hope that you can make a living. There is a great growing conveyor with foreign material coming in at one end and the garden centre customer at the other and when there is no one in the garden centre then it's the DIY shed or the supermarket to take up the never ending supply. I don't put my plants onto benches until at least mid Feb simply because there is no footfall but by the end of January most benches are stocked high with spring bulbs that were shoved three to a pot on a machine in November then fiished with a lovely big picture label. Most of these are destined for the skip for they flower and go over in a gnats crotchet and are usually supplied sale or return. They are there to claim the space. They are there so that when the old fashioned guy arrives in March with a van full of beautiful, peat free, British grown alpines and herbs at their peak. It's too late I've missed the bus.It's in the same ball park as what you were talking about. A poor product, a tin fiddle, something that is destined only to lower the expectation of what a plant can be. Shoved under the faces of unwary shoppers that just want to bring something home. I'm appalled . However the only way forward is to educate. Blogs like yours need to be shared and spread around as much as possible. It's hard because sometimes you find that even people in the trade fail to understand where you are coming from but hopefully we can get the message out there.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you for taking the time to read and leave a comment. I'm glad industry professionals also feel the same and want to highlight the problem. I know who I'd prefer to buy from. Keep up the good work and I'll try my best to highlight such issues in future. I only wish I knew who you were!Delete
I agree totally with Mr.Anon (above). The smaller, local, producers usually have a better product which will grow well and last a lot longer. The vast majority of plants sold at Garden Centres go to people who have very little idea about what they are buying, and the plants last a few weeks before being replaced with something else - preferably blooming when purchased so that it "delivers" immediately!ReplyDelete


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BURROUGHS HIGH — With its summer league season dwindling down, the Burbank girls' basketball team is looking to finish strong in hopes of repeating last year's memorable, and record-breaking, run.
And with four starters returning, Coach Bruce Breeden is optimistic that his team will be ready for another fine campaign.
Not looking too far ahead, though, Tuesday afternoon's tilt with Saugus in the team's latest summer league game at Burroughs High saw the Bulldogs play to a sloppy in the first half before putting it together in the second half en route to a 40-24 victory.
"We came out in a zone in the first half, and the girls got a little lazy," said Breeden, who coached the Bulldogs to the CIF Southern Section Division 1-A semifinals and to the program's first bid in the state tournament last season. "We switched to man-to-man in the second half and got turnovers, run outs and easier baskets."


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Tice Hairstylists has wall knocked down 29 times in 53 years
A hairdresser in Norfolk has blamed bad drivers after the wall outside his shop and home was knocked down for the 29th time in 53 years.
Barry Tice, 75, will need to pay about £150 for the repairs outside his salon in Wisbech Road, King's Lynn, after it was damaged on 31 August.
Mr Tice was out and had hoped a nearby camera had recorded what had happened but said it was not working.
"It is not the road that is the problem, it is the drivers," he said.
In total about £10,000 has been spent on repairs at Tice Hairstylists.
About four years ago a car ploughed into the shop front, blocking it off for weeks.
Mr Tice, who has worked as a hairdresser in the town for 60 years, said someone could have been "killed" when the car crashed into his shop.
It was estimated the vehicle was travelling between 65 and 70 mph when it hit.
"The car engine ended up stuck in between the front seats," he said. "I was in my kitchen and it sounded like a bomb going off."
Mr Tice said he had fought for a camera to be installed three years ago on the road to monitor traffic.
He said he will have to pay for the latest repairs out of his own pocket as the excess cost on his insurance is £500 due to the number of incidents at his property.
"It is another setback but it wouldn't have been so bad if the camera had been working," he said.
Norfolk County Council, which is responsible for traffic management, said it had not been made aware of any problems on the stretch of road outside Mr Tice's shop and home.


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I'd add that greater than healthcare wants reformed. Our meals provide, and for some lack of access, is a part of the issue in relation to dealing with our health. Our cities are designed unfriendly to pedestrians and bikes. In Europe, they get loads of train as part of their every days life by walking and biking to work. They do not should carve out extra time to go to the gymnasium. But we are built with suburb housing in a single location, work and outlets in one other.
The plain drawback here is that the cash market is lifeless. Making people pay, and store, is unrealistic. Relying on how much water you give the plant at a time, where the plant is, what size pot the bonsai is in, and how a lot water the plant needs this time of 12 months, it will possibly take wherever from half a day to a full week for the soil to almost dry out. When he dropped me off at home, I knew, with certainty, that my life would by no means once more be the same. I knew that I needed this person in my life day by day, with out exception. That appears the worldwide customary in 2016 relating to their considerations. There's simply an excessive amount of money to be made on this enterprise to worry about such piddling annoyances as maimed and lifeless patients.
It is vitally important they remain calm the whole time. Make sure that there are not any loud noises or other interruptions to startle them. If they're startled and attempt to drag apart they will damage themselves. The canine separate naturally when the swelling goes down. Can we afford her vet payments? Yes, regardless of the very fact they're a killer and we must re-prioritize some issues. The necessary level is that this isn't a U.S. vs. Canada issue, it is a U.S. vs. each industrialized nation difficulty. I do know lots of people deliver up the problem of protection spending, but if Israel can manage to pay for both security and health, I'm pretty sure the U.S. is up to it.
A number of days after giving him the antibiotic as instructed, whereas observing no enchancment, I decided to place a mix of coconut milk and coconut oil into his bottle. And in the event you're having trouble placing those different issues aside and accepting a Walmart / Southwest airways mannequin for health care, imagine how unlikely it is that the department of health and human companies will pressure that model to emerge through its regulatory power. It is not just contraception and abortions; all medical care is a extremely private resolution. It's your body in any case. And any means you slice it, the UHC you have been waiting for will reduce the private a part of your medical care decisions. Have faith and endurance. God is able to do all things, He will destroy all of the cancer cells and restore you to good health.


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Monday, September 15, 2014
Mega Mini Month Madness
As SAL's are ALWAYS more fun with others I am opening this for anyone to join. I know a couple of people expressed an interest so anyone who would like to join please leave a comment or email me.
There are going to be a few rules attached:
1. You must post on your mini progress once a week in the month of October. It doesn't matter what day so long as you have 5 posts by the end of the month
2. They can be any mini projects you like, no themes attached but please do keep them to mini projects, as in ornament/card sized projects
3. Those without a blog are free to join in, you can email me the pictures of your progress and I will post them on your behalf but please be aware that the 5 post rule also apply.
4. For those who join in and post their mini progress each week I will do a drawing at the start of November for a €25 voucher (or equivalent in your local currency) for an online store of your choice so long as they do e-vouchers.
I will do another post with a sign up once I have an idea of the amount of interest.
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I've been debating putting together a few ornaments this year, this might give me some motivation!ReplyDelete
Yay! I'll be stitching along for sure! Would cards qualify too?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2014 at 3:41 PM
I would like to join you please.
Lovely Smenbunny in your previous post.
Oh, yes, please. This should give me the motivation needed to get a dent in my pile of cover- and mini kits. Do biscornus count as well? I've got one that was half done before i lost the chart and it went into the Ufo pile...ReplyDeleteReplies
Biscornus do indeed count as they are nice and small. So glad to have you joining in.Delete
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I'll join you. It should be fun.ReplyDelete
Ooh. I'm new to cross stitch blogging and I have a few ornaments I'd like to get done by Christmas so this sounds fun :)ReplyDelete
I'll have to think on it, but love the idea!!ReplyDelete
I would love to join you. Would the starts that I just posted on my blog count as mini?ReplyDelete
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It is too tempting to pass up.ReplyDelete
Drat it all, I shouldn't but I'm in. They'll be much needed breaks from my HUMONGOUS projects.ReplyDelete


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With all the intense competition in the Compact System Camera market, I wonder what can make someone purchase one camera over the other? In other words, what one company needs to do in order to gain an advantage over its competitors? I am paying a lot of attention on what's going on in the Interchangeable Lens Camera market. I find it very fascinating to see how technology evolved and what each company has to offer each year. In this article I will focus on the MILC market, rather than the Interchangeable Lens Camera market in general (inc. DSLR and other ILC cameras).
Today, I went to looks at BCN Ranking website to see which MILC are at the top 10. Here are the results:
- Panasonic Lumix GF5 (White Kit)
- Panasonic Lumix GX1 (Black Kit)
- Olympus PEN mini E-PL2 (Champagne Gold, dual lens Kit)
- Olympus PEN mini E-PM1 (White, dual lens kit)
- Nikon 1 J1 (White, dual lens kit)
- Sony NEX-5N (Black, dual lens kit)
- Olympus PEN Lite E-PL3 (White, dual lens kit)
- Sony NEX-7 (Black, kit)
- Panasonic Lumix GF3 (Black, kit)
- Nikon 1 J1 (White, kit)
The results are for July 2012.
BCN Ranking is based on data collected from various retail stores nationwide. I takes into consideration the sales volume of various products (more info here).
The results are very interesting. We can see that Panasonic has 3 cameras at the top 10, Olympus has 3 cameras at the top 10, Nikon 2 cameras and Sony 2 cameras at top 10. Panasonic is leading with two models (GF5 and GX1) at both first and second position, following by Olympus E-PL2 in the third place.
We can also see that Nikon 1 J1 is in a very respectable position (5th and 10th ranks). Olympus and Panasonic conquer the top 4 positions and this actually reflects the domination of the Micro Four Thirds in the Mirrorless market. I was actually quite surprised to see that Nikon 1 is doing so well, and I am happy for Nikon that this is the case. It seems brand reputation speaks louder than sensor size. I also consider the fact that Nikon 1 announced much after Sony NEX cameras, so again, nice achievement for Nikon there.
The Panasonic GF5 is at the first positioning, and let's not forget that this it was announced in April 5, 2012, the newest camera in the top 10 BCN Ranking list for July 2012. Panasonic is certainly going the right path. The Olympus OM-D E-M5 is way out of the Top 10, but that's mainly due to its higher price tag, not because it's less of a camera. The Nikon 1 J1 is also very popular, taking two places there.
There MILC market is very interesting and I am eager to see how this will change next month (August 2012). Don't forget to subscribe (see rss link in the sidebar) to our feed and get the latest reviews and news directly to your favorite RSS reader.
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The word that Rome has granted the American hierarchy's request to establish the order of deacons in this country comes as welcome news. By this act an important feature of the Roman Catholic ministry is restored to it. The origins of the order of deacons go back to the apostles themselves. The splendor of its service can be seen in much of the history of the early Church.
A need for more laborers is evident in the American vineyard, where 5,000 towns and 671 counties are presently without the services of a priest. There is thus great promise in the newly restored diaconate. At the same time, problems are not hard to anticipate. Not the least of these will turn on the relationship of the order of deacons to the priesthood.
Historically, the diaconate became a temporary stage for candidates en route to the priesthood. Although diakonia, service, was itself the very meaning of Christian authority, in a Church that grew increasingly stratified the diaconate came to be looked upon as lacking in status. It was seen not so much as another way of serving, but as a step up the ladder. There may be a continuing temptation to contrast the deacon with the priest and so arrive at a negative identity for the diaconate.
Such a contrasting deprives the order of deacons of its own intrinsic worth and distinctive ministerial importance. A negative identity immediately invites the laity to look on the deacon as a dilution, a quasi-priest who could not find it within himself to go all the way. It also invites the rest of the clergy to treat his services as those of a lackey for his masters.
A possible problem of another sort is suggested when one reads the passage from Vatican II's Constitution on the Church (§ 29) that provides for the restoration of the diaconate, as well as the papal motu proprio that outlines a plan for implementing this provision and the American Bishops' announcement giving the local particulars. Their tenor would at times lead one to believe it is not the priesthood that may threaten the diaconate, but the diaconate that could threaten the priesthood. Extreme caution is demanded, for instance, concerning marriage and the deacon. The history of debate at Vatican II reveals that some bishops feared lest the deacon's vocation should come to appear more attractive and deter men from entering a celibate priesthood.
Problems, however, do not outweigh the many clear advantages to be hoped for from a viable order of deacons in the American Church. There is the obvious advantage of added manpower. There is also the importance for the laity of direct experience of a ministering diaconate. They could come to isolate Eucharistic ministry from the many other services performed at present by the priest and thus better appreciate its centrality. They could experience ministry at the hands of a man whose professional life was other than that of a full-time clergyman. They could overcome their unfamiliarity with a married clergy.
In addition, restoration of the diaconate might foster in the Church a healthy pragmatism about ministry and encourage a certain flexibility in experimenting with forms of ministry. Finally, it could also be a moment for the restoration of the meaning of all Christian ministry as service rather than status.


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Olympic Peninsula Wedding • Sneak PeekAugust 4, 2011
Did somebody say Washington? Lord knows I love that place. And this summer I had the incredible pleasure of photographing one of my most favorite couples at the Lake Crescent Lodge on the Olympic Peninsula. Few places on this Earth compare to the Majesty of the Pacific Northwest, so photographing a wedding here is a true gift.
Katie and Travis said their vows on a somewhat chilly summer day overlooking a most beautiful scene. What follows is a quick little teaser of some favorites. The full gallery will be posting soon.


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How to Remove Lower Belly Fat
Visceral fat, the kind that accumulates in the belly, increases your risk of health problems more than fat on any other part of your body, according to the Harvard Medical School publication "Harvard Women's Health Watch." Excess belly fat increases your risk of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and certain cancers. Despite popular belief, abdominal exercises won't eliminate belly fat. Several factors contribute to belly fat, including lack of exercise, poor eating habits and unchecked stress. You can get rid of belly fat through a combination of regular exercise, good nutrition and lifestyle choices that reduce stress. Consult with your doctor before starting a diet or exercise program.
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Eating more calories than you burn results in excess belly fat. To lose weight, you need to eat fewer calories, burn more calories, or ideally, do both. A combination of diet and exercise speeds up weight loss. To lose one pound of weight, you need to reduce and/or burn 3,500 calories. Creating a 500-calorie deficit each day results in a loss of one pound per week. But avoid cutting too many calories as not eating enough can lead to poor health and slow your metabolism. Men should eat at least 1,800 calories a day and women no fewer than 1,200 a day, according to guidelines from the American College of Sports Medicine.
Exercise not only burns calories, it offers other health benefits such as improved heart and lung functioning, better mobility and more energy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends a minimum of 75 to 150 minutes a week of cardiovascular activity to maintain good health or 300 minutes to lose weight. Strength training doesn't burn fat directly, but it builds muscle, which increases metabolism and leads to greater residual calorie burn. When weight training, hit all of the major muscle groups including the legs, arms, back and abs. Performing abdominal exercises won't get rid of the belly fat, but they will tone and sculpt the abs.
It's not just how much you eat that impacts weight loss, but what you eat as well. The higher the quality of food you eat, the better your health and the fuller you'll feel. Each meal should include lean protein, whole grains, and fresh fruit or vegetables. Include monounsaturated fatty acids, which have been shown to reduce visceral fat and lower food cravings in each meal as well. Olive, canola, safflower and soybean oils; olives; nuts; flaxseed; avocado and dark chocolate contain monounsaturated fats. Smart snacking is a healthy part of a diet plan -- think fruit, vegetables or raw nuts.
Stress Control
A study at Yale University found that non-overweight women suffering from stress were more likely to have high levels of cortisol and excess belly fat. The hormone cortisol regulates the use of carbohydrates, proteins or fat for energy. It can lead to fat storage around organs and increase visceral fat in the belly. It can also stimulate the appetite, causing you to eat too much.You can reduce stress through regular cardiovascular exercise, which has the added benefit of burning fat. Eliminate unhealthy behaviors that can exacerbate stress such as smoking and consuming alcohol. Learn calming techniques such as deep breathing or meditation. Find enjoyment by spending time with friends or engaging in a hobby.
- Harvard Medical School: Belly Fat Worse Than Hip and Thigh Fat
- Harvard Medical School: Abdominal Fat and What to Do About It
- BMI Calculator: Calorie Needs To Lose Weight
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: How Much Physcial Activity Do Adults Need?
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- Diabetologia: Substituting Dietary Saturated for Monounsaturated Fat impairs Insulin Sensitivity in Healthy Men and Women: The KANWU Study
- American Heart Association: Monounsaturated Fats
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How a Bishop is Chosen
The process of How a Bishop is Chosen is set out in the ELCIC's Administrative Bylaws (Part VI, Section 3. b, c, g). This chart is designed to illustrate those bylaws in a schematic form for easy reference.
The election of a bishop proceeds without oral nominations. If the first ballot does not result in election, it is considered a nominating ballot.
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The blouse and skirt are from Anthropologie, Miu Miu sandals and Fendi sunglasses.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
The blouse and skirt are from Anthropologie, Miu Miu sandals and Fendi sunglasses.
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It is the idea of what should be paid to a worker. The wages which are set by market drivers of demand and supply and are also justifies by requirements for the job like expected experience, educational qualifications and skills. It is the level of wages which is high enough to incentivise workers and low enough for employers to profitably offer the job.
It is difficult to actually calculate the exact value of the justified wage level as there are different methods and people may value different requirements for a job in a different manner. The difference in justified wage level and minimum wage level is dependent on the policy and priorities of the state, the level of unemployment and the state of economy.
For example, the level of justified wage for a car wash mechanic with 2 years of work experience may be $15 during normal times. But in recession, the wage level they get might drop close to the minimum wage.
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How To Get Istanbul ?
Turkey demands an official entry visa from the citizens of some countries. Before your departure to Turkey it is better to check with a Turkish Consulate in your country to determine if you need a visa. In some cases, you can obtain a visa upon arrival at Ataturk Airport.
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Almost all international airlines have convenient direct flights to Istanbul from all over the world.
Turkish Airlines, which has been carrying passenger and cargo since 1933, today has a fleet of 134 aircraft and flies to a total of 103 destinations, 26 domestic and 77 international. It has consolidated its position on the international platform by linking the Caucasian countries and the Turkish Republics in Central Asia, as well as the Middle Eastern and Asian countries, with Europe, Africa and North America; through the service network hub in Istanbul. Turkish Airlines is a member of star alliance.
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The road network throughout Turkey is extensive, with motorways, dual carriageways and numerous three-lane highways. Drivers bringing cars into Turkey must show their registration documents and driving license at the point of entry. If arriving from Europe, visitors must have a Green Card (available from insurance companies) as well as appropriate insurance. Driving is on the right. Seat belts are mandatory and driving after consuming alcoholic drinks is prohibited. The speed limits are I20km/h on motorways, 90km/h on main roads and 50km/h in towns.
By Intercity Coach Services
Coach services to all parts of Turkey are reliable, reasonably priced and convenient. Istanbul's International Bus Terminal located in Esenler, about ten kilometers from the city center, serves all international and domestic lines. Most of the leading intercity coach companies provide free shuttle services from central Istanbul to the terminus. These leave a couple of hours before the scheduled departure time of the coaches from Siraserviler Caddesi in Taksim, which is also where the ticket offices are located. Visitors can book tickets here any time before departure.
Major European cities such as Frankfurt and Vienna are also well serviced by Turkish coach lines, and there are daily bus connections between Athens and Istanbul via Thessalonica.
By Rail
There are trains from Sofia, Belgrade, Bucharest and Budapest(connections from Munich and Vienna) to Sirkeci Station in Istanbul. Main services are:
There are two main stations in Istanbul: Sirkeci Station on the European and
Haydarpaşa Station on the Asian side. These historic station buildings are
nostalgic gateways to the city. Both stations are well equipped with restaurants,
newspaper kiosks, waiting rooms and ATMs. Both stations are conveniently located.
Haydarpaşa Station on the Asian shore is connected to the European shore by
ferry to Karakoy, and Sirkeci Station is a short walk or taxi ride from Eminonu
ferry terminals. Suburban trains also run from Sirkeci and Haydarpaşa stations.
By Sea
The Bosphorus Strait divides Istanbul's Asian and European shores. Central Istanbul and the historic walled city are on the European shore, which is itself divided by the natural harbour of the Golden Horn (Haliç). Tiny fishing boats and day cruisers share the Bosphorus with enormous international cargo ships, navy vessels, tankers and giant luxury liners from Europe. The two largest quays, Eminonu and Karakoy, are on opposite sides of the Golden Horn and linked by the Galata Bridge. Karakoy is where luxury cruise ships headed for the Aegean and Mediterranean dock, as well as smaller CIS vessels. Local ferry services mainly depart from Eminonu, Karakoy, Besiktas and Üskudar. International ferry services to Turkey;


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Watching the Colour Drain from the Butcher Boy's Face
Gabriele Annan
- Lost by Hans-Ulrich Treichel, translated by Carol Brown Janeway
Picador, 145 pp, £10.00, January 2000, ISBN 0 330 39093 7
'We all have at least one terrible friend. Each one of us is someone's terrible friend.' The epigram was coined by a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge called Jack Gallagher, You could adapt it to the present mood in Europe by saying: 'Asylum seekers are a menace. Each one of us is someone's menacing asylum seeker.' It doesn't even have to be a Gypsy; it could just be the retired couple fleeing from Guildford who have bought the Tuscan farm across the valley from yours. The asylum-seeker scenario is one of the subtexts in Hans-Ulrich Treichel's economical, cynical, pitiless and very funny novella.
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Love in the Spotlight
Valentine's Day has now come and gone and taking part in this shoot-out was the closest I came to taking part in the spirit of the day. I've read blogs where women commented how unromantic their partners are. It's not just the men, let me tell you. When it comes to what seems to be the modern romantic view of love, I'm way out of step. But, as our prompt said, I definitely can't (and don't) deny feeling love.
In fact looking at this weeks contributions has left me a bit soft and mushy (and that doesn't happen often!). Even a little dreamy. I've had no experience with snow scenes but I think they must be incredibly hard to photograph. Rebecca's dreamy road looks perfect to me. I can well imagine that one could love looking at a scene like that.
It seems right that churches should have featured prominently as a place people love about their town. I've chosen Ruth's temple to feature. Her love for it showed in her words and in the images. It really is charming and I appreciated the story of the temple, its origins and its beliefs.
Valentine's Day can bring a sadness, when it reminds one of a love lost. Barb lived that reality with the memory of a much loved pet.
Our next weekly theme is eating and drinking in my town. A paragraph or two with photos featuring your favourite cafe, coffee shop or restaurant and that tells us why it appeals to you? (Barb)
Our weekly spotlighter is Mersad
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Sharing Place
Then the righteous will answer him, "Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink?" … And the king will answer them, "Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me." Matthew 25: 37, 40
The Sharing Place at St. Paul Lutheran Church offers bags of groceries or ready-made meals to needy people on the last two Saturdays of every month, 8 am to noon. We serve nutritious food to over 500 families and individuals per month. Volunteer today! Use our convenient online form to sign up.
Any indigent person who lives in the state of New Jersey, is welcome to receive food at the Sharing Place. We ask for documents proving identity, address if any, identity of persons in the household, and income. (A welfare card fulfills all these requirements.) No referral is necessary.
The Sharing Place is held in the parish hall behind the church building. We have a large indoor waiting area and a system of numbers so that clients are seen in the order in which they arrived. The line begins early. Clients must arrive before noon to be served.
We need 15-20 volunteers each Saturday of operation to fully staff the Sharing Place. Many volunteers are members and friends of St. Paul Church, but many come from the neighborhood and from community groups. Some volunteers carry boxes of food, but there are lighter jobs too, including packing bags or making baloney-and-cheese sandwiches. We also need volunteers to unload the food truck on the third Wednesday of each month, approximately 8:00 am. If you would like to help our indigent neighbors by serving at the Sharing Place, please use our online form to sign up. If you have questions, contact the church office at 201.963.5518.
The Sharing Place feeds some 6,000 families and individuals annually. The NJ State Food Purchase Program and USDA commodities help stretch our food dollars. The Community Food Bank of New Jersey provides one-stop shopping for all our food needs. Our primary funders are the Jersey City Office of Community Development and the Hudson County Office of Community Development. Additional funders include the Appaloosa Group, Bayonne Community Bank, the Tower Group, the Ethical Community Charter School, Let's Celebrate, Shoprite, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Recently several organizations given us the proceeds of food drives. A big thank-you goes to the Ethical Community Charter School, Lakeview Day Camp, Jersey City Public School 25, Struleman and Brioglio Physical Therapy, and Yoga in the Heights.
To make a donation or learn more, call 201.963.5518.
Food Drive Wish List
The Sharing Place appreciates all donations, whether cash or food. Here is a list of food items that are most useful to our needy neighbors:
- Shelf stable milk such as Parmelat
- Canned vegetables and fruit
- Cold cereal or oatmeal
- Juice in plastic bottles (no glass, please)
- Peanut butter and jelly
- Macaroni and cheese
- Pasta and sauce
- Baby formula
- Baby food jars
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To make sure your food drive has maximum impact, contact 201.963.5518.


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Palm Beach County's public schools will remain closed for the rest of the week as the school district reckons with widespread power outages, malfunctioning air-conditioners, fallen trees and a scattered work force.
Two days after Hurricane Irma blew through, Schools Superintendent Robert Avossa announced Tuesday that it would be impossible to open schools this week given the extent of the power disruptions and other logistical issues and that he hoped to resume classes on Monday.
"Our schools will not be ready to return to service this week," Avossa said in a statement. "A majority of schools remain without power or working air conditioning systems. We anticipate reopening schools on Monday."
After Irma, 75 percent of the county's public schools were without power, and another 20 percent had malfunctioning air-conditioning systems, administrators said. The school district declined to release updated figures Tuesday or answer questions about school conditions, but Avossa said in a text message that there had been "some progress."
The schools are also awaiting food deliveries from private vendors, and hundreds — possibly thousands — of teachers remain out of state after evacuating the area in advance of Hurricane Irma.
Avossa had said Monday that he was hoping to reopen schools by Thursday. But on Tuesday he acknowledged that that timeline "may have been overly optimistic." He said FPL was now telling him that power could not be restored to all schools this week.
The announcement was greeted with relief by many teachers and parents.
"I think Monday is what most teachers had hoped for," said Justin Katz, president of the county teachers union. "Other than the personal reasons — having evacuated and trying to travel back, home electrical outrages and potential damage — the schools have to be fully operational before teachers and students return."
Maintenance and cafeteria workers have already been summoned back to work. On Tuesday, the school district directed teachers to report to their schools on Monday morning.
Meanwhile, maintenance workers, repair crews and administrators fanned out across the school district's more than 180 campuses to deal with the storm-slammed facilities.
While the school district reported no major structural damage to its campuses, many took a beating from the heavy winds and rains. Several schools experience "significant leaks," Avossa said, and fallen trees and temporary flooding appeared to be common.
At Watson B. Duncan Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens, a large oak tree lay fallen across the school's entrance Tuesday morning. The road to Waters Edge Elementary west of Boca Raton was flooded midday Monday. During the storm in Delray Beach, Atlantic High School's courtyard filled with inches of rain, although school officials said they had cleaned it up by Monday.
Wellington High School fared better than some, with a few damp ceiling tiles but little more besides fallen branches and damaged trees.
Tuesday morning, Principal Mario Crocetti worked to ready the campus along with a team of maintenance workers, sawing a damaged tree that partially blocked a school entryway.
He'd been through similar routines on school campuses after three hurricanes passed through the county in 2004 and 2005, but he said he hoped this would be his last. He plans to retire early next year.
"This is my last rodeo," the veteran principal said.
Avossa said that the delayed re-opening would not affect the Thankgiving week holidays, which are slated on the school calendar as potential makeup days.
"I want to assure everyone that we will not take time from previously scheduled holidays, including our time at Thanksgiving and Winter Break, to make up for these days that have been missed," he wrote.
While saying he hoped to reopen the county's more than 180 public schools by Monday, he raised the possibility that classes could be delayed even longer if power is not restored in time.
"If the schools have the electricity, we will be ready to greet everyone on Monday," he wrote.


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