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JERUSALEM — Israel faced intense international condemnation and growing domestic questions on Monday after a raid by naval commandos that killed nine people, many of them Turks, on an aid flotilla bound for Gaza.

Turkey, Israel’s most important friend in the Muslim world, recalled its ambassador and canceled planned military exercises with Israel as the countries’ already tense relations soured even further. The United Nations Security Council met in emergency session over the attack, which occurred in international waters north of Gaza, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was flying home after canceling a Tuesday meeting with President Obama.

With street protests erupting around the world, Mr. Netanyahu defended the Israeli military’s actions, saying the commandos, enforcing what Israel says is a legal blockade, were set upon by passengers on the Turkish ship they boarded and fired only in self-defense. The military released a video of the early moments of the raid to support that claim.

Israel said the violence was instigated by pro-Palestinian activists who presented themselves as humanitarians but had come ready for a fight. Organizers of the flotilla accused the Israeli forces of opening fire as soon as they landed on the deck, and released videos to support their case. Israel released video taken from one of its vessels to supports its own account of events.

The Israeli public seemed largely to support the navy, but policy experts questioned preparations for the military operation, whether there had been an intelligence failure and whether the Israeli insistence on stopping the flotilla had been counterproductive. Some commentators were calling for the resignation of Ehud Barak, the defense minister.

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“The government failed the test of results; blaming the organizers of the flotilla for causing the deaths by ignoring Israel’s orders to turn back is inadequate,” wrote Aluf Benn, a columnist for Haaretz, on the newspaper’s Web site on Monday, calling for a national committee of inquiry. “Decisions taken by the responsible authorities must be probed.”

The flotilla of cargo ships and passenger boats was carrying 10,000 tons of aid for Gaza, where the Islamic militant group Hamas holds sway, in an attempt to challenge Israel’s military blockade of Gaza.

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The raid and its deadly consequences have thrown Israel’s policy of blockading Gaza into the international limelight; at the Security Council on Monday voices were raised against the blockade, and the pressure to abandon it is bound to intensify.

Israel had vowed not to let the flotilla reach the shores of Gaza, which Hamas, an organization sworn to Israel’s destruction, took over in 2007.

Named the Freedom Flotilla, and led by the pro-Palestinian Free Gaza Movement and a Turkish organization, Insani Yardim Vakfi, the convoy had converged at sea near Cyprus and set out on the final leg of its journey on Sunday afternoon. Israel warned the vessels to abort their mission, describing it as a provocation.

The confrontation began shortly before midnight on Sunday when Israeli warships intercepted the aid flotilla, according to a person on one boat. The Israeli military warned the vessels that they were entering a hostile area and that the Gaza shore was under blockade.

The vessels refused the military’s request to dock at the Israeli port of Ashdod, north of Gaza, and continued toward their destination.

Around 4 a.m. on Monday, naval commandos came aboard the Turkish ship, the Mavi Marmara, having been lowered by ropes from helicopters onto the decks.

At that point, the operation seems to have gone badly wrong.

Israeli officials say that the soldiers were dropped into an ambush and were attacked with clubs, metal rods and knives.

An Israeli official said that the navy was planning to stop five of the six vessels of the flotilla with large nets that interfere with propellers, but that the sixth was too large for that. The official said there was clearly an intelligence failure in that the commandos were expecting to face passive resistance, and not an angry, violent reaction.

On Sunday, before an Israeli raid, activists held a news conference aboard the Mavi Marmara, part of a flotilla taking aid to Gaza. Credit Erhan Sevenler/Anatolian Agency, via European Pressphoto Agency

The Israelis had planned to commandeer the vessels and steer them to Ashdod, where their cargo would be unloaded and, the authorities said, transferred overland to Gaza after proper inspection.

The military said in a statement that two activists were later found with pistols taken from Israeli commandos. It accused the activists of opening fire, “as evident by the empty pistol magazines.”

Another soldier said the orders were to neutralize the passengers, not to kill them.

But the forces “had to open fire in order to defend themselves,” the navy commander, Vice Adm. Eliezer Marom, said at a news conference in Tel Aviv, adding, “Their lives were at risk.”

At least seven soldiers were wounded, one of them seriously. The military said that some suffered gunshot wounds; at least one had been stabbed.

Some Israeli officials said they had worried about a debacle from the start, and questioned Israel’s broader security policies.

Einat Wilf, a Labor Party member of Parliament who sits on the influential Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said that she had warned Mr. Barak and others well in advance that the flotilla was a public relations issue and should not be dealt with by military means.

“This had nothing to do with security,” she said in an interview. “The armaments for Hamas were not coming from this flotilla.”

The fatalities all occurred aboard the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish passenger vessel that was carrying about 600 activists under the auspices of Insani Yardim Vakfi, an organization also known as I.H.H. Israeli officials have characterized it as a dangerous Islamic organization with terrorist links.

After the Israeli raid, a speedboat escorted the ship, now with Israeli forces on board, to the port of Ashdod. Credit Menahem Kahana/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Yet the organization, founded in 1992 to collect aid for the Bosnians, is now active in 120 countries and has been present at recent disaster areas like Haiti and New Orleans.

“Our volunteers were not trained military personnel,” said Yavuz Dede, deputy director of the organization. “They were civilians trying to get aid to Gaza. There were artists, intellectuals and journalists among them. Such an offensive cannot be explained by any terms.”

There were no immediate accounts available from the passengers of the Turkish ship, which arrived at the naval base in Ashdod on Monday evening, where nearly three dozen were arrested, many for not giving their names. The base was off limits to the news media and declared a closed military zone.

The injured had been flown by helicopter to Israeli hospitals. At the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv, relatives of injured soldiers were gathered outside an intensive care unit when a man with a long beard, one of the wounded passengers, was wheeled by, escorted by military police.

Organizers of the flotilla, relying mainly on footage filmed by activists on board the Turkish passenger ship, because all other communications were down, blamed Israeli aggression for the deadly results.

The Israeli soldiers dropped onto the deck and “opened fire on sleeping civilians at four in the morning,” said Greta Berlin, a leader of the pro-Palestinian Free Gaza Movement, speaking by phone from Cyprus on Monday.

Israeli officials said that international law allowed for the capture of naval vessels in international waters if they were about to violate a blockade. The blockade was imposed by Israel and Egypt after the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007. Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, said Monday that the blockade was “aimed at preventing the infiltration of terror and terrorists into Gaza.”

Despite sporadic rocket fire from the Palestinian territory against southern Israel, Israel says it allows enough basic supplies through border crossings to avoid any acute humanitarian crisis. But it insists that there will be no significant change so long as Hamas continues to hold Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured in a cross-border raid in 2006.

The Free Gaza Movement has organized several aid voyages since the summer of 2008, usually consisting of one or two vessels. The earliest ones were allowed to reach Gaza. Others have been intercepted and forced back, and one, last June, was commandeered by the Israeli Navy and towed to Ashdod. This six-boat fleet was the most ambitious attempt yet to break the blockade.

Correction: June 4, 2010

An article on Tuesday about the deadly Israeli naval commando raid on an aid flotilla that had attempted to defy Israel’s blockade of Gaza referred incompletely to the governance of Gaza by Hamas, the militant group that opposes Israel’s existence. While Hamas took over Gaza by force in 2007, as the article said, the group’s representatives had won elections there in January 2006, defeating the more moderate rival Palestinian group Fatah. Subsequent tensions between Hamas and Fatah forces in Gaza led to open fighting, and Hamas routed Fatah from Gaza in June 2007.

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But, first, wish her happy birthday. She turns 16 years old on Thursday.

She asked me to call her Brianna in this column because she worries that it could impede her plans to become a lawyer if I use her real name. Brianna, who grew up in New York City, is smart, poised and enjoys writing poetry.

One evening when she was 12 years old she got into a fight with her mom and ran out to join friends. “I didn’t want to go home, because I thought I’d get in trouble,” she said, and a friend’s older brother told her she could stay at his place.

Brianna figured she would go home in the morning — and that that would teach her mom a lesson. But when morning arrived, her new life began.

“I tried to leave, and he said, ‘you can’t go; you’re mine,’ ” Brianna recalled. He told her that he was a pimp and that she was now his property.

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The pimp locked her in the room, she recalled, and alternately beat her and showed her affection. She says that he advertised her on Backpage.com, the leading Web site for sex trafficking in America today, as well as on other Web sites.

“He felt that Backpage made him the most money,” Brianna said, estimating that half of her pimp’s business came through Backpage.

Backpage accounts for about 70 percent of America’s prostitution ads (many placed by consenting adults who are not trafficked), according to AIM Group, a trade organization. Backpage cooperates with police and tries to screen out ads for underage girls, but that didn’t help Brianna.

Nicholas Kristof Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times

Backpage is owned by Village Voice Media, and significant minority stakes have been held in recent years by Goldman Sachs and smaller financial firms such as Trimaran Capital Partners and Alta Communications. My research shows that representatives of Goldman, Trimaran and Alta, along with a founder of Brynwood Partners, all sat on the board of Village Voice Media, and there’s no indication that they ever protested its business aims.

When I wrote recently about this, these firms erupted in excuses and self-pity, and in some cases raced to liquidate their stakes. I was struck by the self-absorption and narcissism of Wall Street bankers viewing themselves as victims, so maybe it’s useful to hear from girls who were victimized through the company they invested in.

I met Brianna at Gateways, a treatment center for girls who have been sexually trafficked. It’s in Pleasantville, 35 miles north of New York City, on a sprawling estate overseen by the Jewish Child Care Association. Gateways is meant for girls ages 12 to 16, although it has accepted one who was just 11 years old. Virtually all the girls have been sold on Backpage, according to Lashauna Cutts, the center’s director.

Gateways has only 13 beds, and Cutts says that the need is so great that she could easily fill 1,300. “I have to turn away girls almost every day,” Cutts told me.

The public sometimes assumes that teenage girls in the sex trade are working freely, without coercion. It’s true that most aren’t physically imprisoned by pimps, but threats and violence are routine. The girls typically explain that they didn’t try to escape because of a complex web of emotions, including fear of the pimp but also a deluded affection and a measure of Stockholm syndrome.

Once, Brianna says, she looked out her window — and there was her mother on the street, crying and posting “missing” posters with Brianna’s photo. “I tried to shout to her through the window,” she remembered. But her pimp grabbed her by the hair and yanked her back. “If you shout, I’ll kill you,” she remembers him saying.

“If I tried to run, I thought he might kill me, or I’d be hurt,” she said. “And, if I went to the cops, I thought I’d be the one in trouble. I’d go to jail.”

Pimps warn girls to distrust the police, and often they’re right. Bridgette Carr, who runs a human-trafficking clinic at the University of Michigan Law School, tells of a 16-year-old girl who went missing. A family member found a photo of the girl on Backpage and alerted authorities. Police raided the pimp’s motel room and “rescued” the girl — by handcuffing her and detaining her for three weeks.

That mind-set has to change. Police and prosecutors must target pimps and johns, not teenage victims. Trafficked girls deserve shelters, not jails, and online emporiums like Backpage should stop abetting pimps. Sex trafficking is just as unacceptable in America as in Thailand or Nepal.

And let’s all wish our expert, Brianna, a joyous “Sweet Sixteen” birthday!

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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Public Star Party at Griffith Observatory August 29

If you’ve got a budding little astronaut in your family, there is a not to be missed event upcoming at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, CA! This coming Saturday August 29, 2009 from 2:00pm to 9:45 pm the Los Angeles Astronomical Society is hosting the monthly star party. Admission is free and there will be ample opportunities for all members of the family to take a look at the sun, moon, planets and other celestial objects! There are a number of telescopes available and plenty of amateur astronomers to have conversations with. Arrive early to allow for enough time to view the sky through the telescopes before they cut off the lines for the evening (9:45pm). For more information go here.

Happy stargazing!

Where: Observatory Sidewalks and Terraces
When: 2:00-9:45 p.m. Saturday August 29, 2009
Cost: Free Admission

*Also note that a large asteroid has been confirmed to be safely passing close to the earth on August 30, 2009. Should be a great weekend for Astronomy/Space fans!

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Heart of Danger

Autor: Rice, Lisa Marie

Editorial: Harper Collins

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Heart of Danger :

Ghost Ops. A small unit of super-elite soldiers so secret only two men know of their existence. Betrayed by their commanding officer while on an antiterrorist mission, the team is massacred. Only three survive - and find themselves framed and disgraced. But en route to the court martial, they escape . . . and disappear.

Beautiful, brilliant, and determined, Dr. Catherine Young is on a mission to find a man who has vanished into thin air. Walking into a high-tech hideaway bearing an essential message to Tom "Mac" McEnroe, Team Leader of the betrayed Ghost Ops force, is the most dangerous thing she has ever done. The soldier she encounters is frightening and suspicious, but her senses reveal the man underneath: tough, honorable, and so breathtakingly masculine Catherine feels weak in his presence . . . But to surrender to Mac's passionate desires would put her life in dire jeopardy. Catherine has a gift that enables her to see into the heart of others - and looking into Mac's is like staring into the very heart of danger itself.

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Bib Fortuna

Many recognize Bib Fortuna as the worm-headed guy standing at Jabba’s side in Episode VI. He is a Twi’lek with a long life – and he hates Jabba more than anyone could.

Forced away from the Twi’lek society for trafficking Ryll, a drug, Bib Fortuna tried to break into business bought failed to gain trust no matter where he went, until he met with Jabba and joined his gang. He can be witnessed at the Boonta Eve Classic during which Anakin Skywalker races, awakening Jabba after the second lap. He would return to his planet seeking revenge, killing his mother and destroying several towns. For Jabba the Hutt’s birthday, Fortuna procured a rancor, which pleased the Hutt enough to make Fortuna a majordomo, a chief in the crime family.

During the Clone Wars, the Confederacy of Independent Systems, otherwise known as the Separatists, set up a secret mining vacility in Hutt space, at which Bib worked. This angered Jabba, drawing the eye of the Republic and the Jedi. Obi-Wan Kenobi and another Jedi named Keelyvine Reus. Reus, a human female, quickly captured the Twi’lek but was unable to get any useful information from him. She had to escape when attacked by Sith assassin Asajj Ventress, leaving Bib Fortuna cuffed to a pipe.

Five years prior to the battle of Yavin, Fortuna recruited a number of past minions to kill Jabba. This turned sour, and Fortuna accidentally ended up killing the rest of the conspirators. Jabba commended him for this. Five years after Yavin, Bib Fortuna and Luke Skywalker met briefly, with Skywalker freeing one of two slave girls Fortuna had procured. Skywalker tried to convince the Twi’lek to side with the Rebel Alliance, and Fortuna nearly agreed.

After the events of Episode VI, Bib Fortuna escaped on a private skiff and returned to the palace to take command. His brain was removed from his body and placed in a spider-droid. He convinced the monks that had done so to place his brain in the body of a different, younger Twi’lek with extensive connections and funding. He began rebuilding Jabba’s criminal empire, finally free of the giant slug.

Bib Fortuna in Episode I
Bib Fortuna in Episode I

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Bib Fortuna was played by Michael Carter, and voiced by Erik Boauersfield (who also voiced Admiral Ackbar). The character’s original title was the “High Beeser of Hoth.”

We hope you’ve enjoyed this description of a classic Star Wars character! Come back later for more fun fan information!


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State Representative Jim Butler (R-Oakwood) today announced the passage of Senate Bill 38, legislation that works to ensure transparency, improve accountability and protect taxpayer money in  regards to legal situations and contracts between state and private attorneys.

“Senate Bill 38 ensures that when the Attorney General chooses to hire private attorneys to represent Ohio and its citizens, the reasons for doing so, and the results, are transparent,” Butler said. “It will also ensure that future litigation initiated by the state is in the public’s best interest.  I have worked closely with Senator Seitz on this legislation, and I would like to thank him for his leadership on this important issue.”

The bill would prohibit the state from entering into a contingency fee contract with a private attorney without written consent from the Attorney General that confirms that the representation is cost-efficient and that it works for the good of the public. Among the components in the bill is a $50 million cap on contingency fees, exclusive of reasonable costs and expenses. Any contingency fees exceeding the $50 million cap would require approval by the state’s Controlling Board.

Additionally, this bill guarantees that the public can view contingency fee contracts between state and private attorneys online at the Attorney General’s website until at least three year’s after they expire. The Attorney General will also be required to submit an annual report to the Senate President and Speaker of the House, which would outline the use of private attorney contracts.

Senate Bill 38 now awaits consideration by the governor.

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Rep. Hambley Applauds Bipartisan Passage Of Biennial Budget
Am. Sub. H.B. 64 cuts taxes, helps small businesses and provides a balanced approach to funding Ohio's schools

State Representative Steve Hambley (R-Brunswick) today applauded the House passage of Amended Substitute House Bill 64, the biennial state budget bill that allocates funding to schools, community projects and government initiatives, as well as providing significant tax relief to all Ohioans and small businesses in the state.

As part of Am. Sub. House Bill 64, Ohioans will see a sizable tax cut totaling $1.2 billion over the biennium with a 6.3 percent across-the-board income tax reduction beginning this year, lowering the top rate to just under 5 percent—the lowest it has been since 1982. The bill prioritizes small businesses by permanently instituting a 75-percent tax deduction for the first $250,000 in income, ensuring that businesses can grow and create jobs. A commission has also been created in the legislation to discuss further tax reform for the benefit of Ohioans and Ohio businesses.

The House’s budget plan has received support from various business groups and interested parties for its business-friendly tax initiatives. Some of these groups include the Buckeye Institute, Americans for Tax Reform, the Council of Smaller Enterprises, the Ohio Farm Bureau, the Ohio Society of CPAs, the Ohio Manufacturers’ Association, the National Federation of Independent Business/Ohio (NFIB), the Greater Cleveland Partnership, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants.

On the issue of school funding, Am. Sub. House Bill 64 appropriates $950 million in state-aid—increasing the executive proposal by $270 million. The school funding component of the bill ensures that no school will see a decrease in state funding over the next two years.  Additionally, the passed legislation allocates funding to make up for dollars lost because of the TPP and KWH reimbursement phase-out.

“Even before I was a member of the House, I pledged that school funding and tax reform would be my highest priorities,” said Representative Hambley. “I am pleased to have worked with the caucus to guarantee that districts like Medina, Highland and Cloverleaf Local School Districts were held harmless from the proposed changes in the school funding formula.  The Ohio House built upon the proposals in the Governor’s budget and made sure we are reducing taxes while ensuring all our local school districts of equitable and predictable funding.”

Pertaining to higher education, the budget bill prohibits colleges and universities from charging an overload fee to students for taking more than a certain number of credit hours. Provisions in the bill also require colleges participating in the College Credit Plus Program to offer an associate degree pathway and fund the Workforce Grant Program.

With a focused approach on guaranteeing that Ohioans are able to get the health care they need, the budget proposal develops a plan to assist individuals who need help getting off government aid by implementing cost transparency measures, requiring the Department of Medicaid to seek waivers to allow for savings accounts and work requirements, and requiring a report of clinical care and outcomes of the Medicaid expansion population to be examined by the General Assembly.

Other provisions in the bill include:

  • Creating the Ohio Military Facilities Commission, which would provide state funding to military installations in Ohio to ensure that they are prepared for the upcoming BRAC

    • Supporting rape crisis centers with an additional $500,000 per year

    • Providing an additional $2.75 million per year to Ohio food banks

    • Creating the Health Food Financing Initiative to support access to healthy food in underserved areas

    • Maintaining TANF funding for the Ohio Pregnancy and Parenting Support Program

    • Earmarking $750,000 per year to the Ohio Legal Aid Fund to provide representation to economically disadvantaged veterans

    • Providing $1.25 million to the Secretary of State to mail absentee ballot applications to Ohio voters

    • Making a $10 million capital appropriation to begin work on the rehabilitation of the Buckeye Lake dam and requiring all contracts including incentives for early completion

    • Establishing the Defense/Aerospace Workforce Development Initiative and appropriating $10 million per year to strengthen Ohio’s aviation industry

    • Forming the Local Government Safety Capital Grant Program to provide up to $100,000 to help local governments pay for public safety-related capital costs

    • Extending safe harbor provisions to teachers and students through FY’17

    • Appropriating funds to the Resurrecting Lives Foundation for traumatic brain injury programs

Am. Sub. House Bill 64 will now head to the Senate for further consideration.

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Fish Oil and Depression, Mental Health

OXFORD, UK. The Cochrane Library, a prestigious medical think-tank dedicated to the development of evidence-based medicine, has just released a review of the evidence concerning the use of polyunsaturated fatty acids (fish oils and evening primrose oil) in the treatment of schizophrenia. A wide- ranging literature survey revealed 4 studies that met the Library's stringent quality measures. The most recent study (Shah 2000) included 30 newly diagnosed schizophrenia patients who were not on antipsychotic drugs at the beginning of the trial. The patients were randomized to receive either a placebo or a daily dose of eicosapentaenoate (quantity not specified). At the end of the 12 weeks all the patients in the placebo group needed to be placed on antipsychotic drugs. Only 9 of the 15 patients in the active treatment group needed these drugs after the 12 weeks.

Fish Oil vs Evening Primrose Oil

Another study (Peet 1997) compared evening primrose oil supplementation with placebo in 43 schizophrenics. The patients' mental state was not improved in either the placebo or the treatment group after 12 weeks. A third study involving 29 schizophrenics compared supplementation with fish oil to evening primrose oil and found fish oil superior.

The researchers conclude that fish oils may be useful in the treatment of schizophrenia and that medical doctors should not discourage their patients from taking fish oil supplements. They add that fish oils seem to be well tolerated and free of adverse effects.
Joy, CB, et al. Polyunsaturated fatty acid (fish or evening primrose oil) for schizophrenia. The Cochrane Library, Issue 4, 2000

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Wednesday, July 19, 2017

The Great Outdoors at Home

Morning everyone.

With the oddest start to summer around here weather wise, it feels late to be posting this but at the same time like summer just began. I was talking in store to a customer last week that her brain was in back to school mode already because the weather did a little flip and it went cool and rainy instead of the hot and humid we are so used to. It's funny how a few days can readjust your thinking and trick you in to rushing headlong into the next season. It just also wouldn't be very Canadian if we weren't constantly talking about the weather and the effect it is having on us. Personally I love summer, the heat, the sun, bring em on. As long as my a/c works at night to sleep, lets heat er up.

Speaking of heat er up. I'm out on the patio at home today. I actually am as I write this sitting on my new outdoor recovered sofa but we are going to wander around the patio here as well. Trevor and I did quite a bit of work out here changing things around this spring to function better, gain space and invest in the future I guess we'll say.

First things first. We got a new table. Well we didn't actually "get" a new table. We built the sucker and it isn't going anywhere because it weighs a freakin' ton.

i hunted around a bit for a new table for out here but
a] they were too small
b] looked cheap for our price range or
c] were just gorgeous but out of the budget for what i wanted

Trevor, I think I have mentioned before is an HVAC mechanic and in his travels and on jobs he comes across things and brings them home knowing that we may have a use for them. He was working in a very old building locally in the winter and these massive wood beams were just being thrown out so home they came in the van and in our shed they sat until....

We came up with the idea to turn them into table legs. We purchased the threshing floor top from a local wood shop, I sanded it smooth and added 4 coats of outdoor varathane for protection. Trevor cut and sanded and sanded and sanded the table legs until they were as level as possible and we built this table in place.

it may not look too big in the photos but it is a massive piece of furniture. we added almost 1.5 feet from our other table. lots of room for our wicker chairs to fit comfortably and lots of room for food, drinks, good times and occasionally to function as my desk when i refuse to work in the house.

for reference this was the old table last year. it's been repurposed in our garage aka my sewing workshop as a bigger and better cutting table

a good view of legs of this beauty. also our new rugs. similar to the previous rugs we had as still black and jute colour but more modern graphics. the previous set lasted 9 years from home depot so I'm hoping we will get a good amount out of this set as well. these were the safavieh brand from lowes.
it also looks like we might be missing a chair at the end of the table?

there is a chair missing because almost all of the time there is a cute little high chair with a mini me sitting in it. i could have brought the 6th chair out for the photos and styled it all up so you thought that chair was always out here but the reality of it is this year, that's just not the case. we bought the stokke tripp trapp high chair after reading all the reviews for different chairs. i wanted something that would look nice with our home not willing to compromise on huge amounts of style but i also wanted a chair we could pull up to the table so Emma learns to eat with us and not in the corner on her own. this may not work for everyone but it is working great for us. she sits with us at the table during dinner and won't know any different. we have busy lives and that little peanut gets carted around with us everywhere so we want her to be able to adjust to sitting with the "big people" just as easily as in her play areas.

i used the same old chicken feeders for succulent planters this year just without the grate on top. the white fibreglass lantern is from the shop as well as the gold planter and agave plant.

i chose to do a different blue tone pillow on every chair out here. i used faux down inserts so they are a lot softer and squishable to lean against making for comfy back cushions instead of ones that get thrown on the floor.

the other new investment we made on our patio this year was a new sofa. we previously had an old wicker one here that needed a new cushion and honestly just wasn't long enough to be comfortable to lay on. shopping for sofas also went down the same route as the table. most of the love seats under 1000.00 were plastic, or wicker and all looked the same. the ones in this style i was looking at in teak etc were pushing 3000.00.
i found this loveseat at canadian tire [moderna collection] on sale for a really good price. $500.00.
only downfall, i hated the colour of the cushions.
the style was right, the colour of the wood right. i read the reviews and apparently in full sun this set could fade or split from wear and tear however on our covered patio i knew this wouldn't be an issue. the fading fabric i could see happening as it was just covered in a cheap poly but since i know someone that sews i figured i could fix that right up.

here's what it looks like right out of the box. honestly i think they made a mistake with that fabric choice as it does nothing to make the frame of the sofa stand out and it could have been done better right from the get-go.

i chose to recover the sofa in a real sunbrella fabric that will last for years in a light tone with brown flecking. it is called parchment frequency for anyone looking for the same. i am also planning to slipcover the seat cushions of these black chairs just haven't gotten around to it yet.

the black chairs are from ikea and i made these long bed pillow size back cushions for added comfort. square standard pillows are always too low on this style chair and tend to be more uncomfortable than useful so i made a new style.

the third and final notable change on this patio this year was we removed the potting bench dresser thing that stood in this area under the flowers sign. it was bulky and deep and took up a lot of space to just hold pots. nothing against potting benches as i love them and moved this one on to my front porch but this patio just needed the breathing room. i had Trevor hang 4 rectangle metal planters on the wall and i loaded them with greenery. it looks high maintenance but in actuality it is beyond low maintenance. i water them 3 times a week and with the humidity they just keep growing. no muss no fuss. my motto today apparently.

nothing like shade loving greenery.

So thanks for visiting. Time to finish my coffee and get to sewing as remember that headlong rush into the next season? Well as a retailer thats actually my life. Pendleton wool pillows anyone? Give it a few months, then you'll be ready.

Have a great day,

  1. So fun to see your baby! What a cutie. You are so very lucky.

  2. I don't know how you do it all! Baby, business, gardening, house, sewing…your energy amazes me! I love the changes on your patio. You improved the look of that couch immensely. Those metal wall planters are awesome. And I love all the quiet greenery all over the place. Looks very restful. Thanks for sharing. Such inspiration!

  3. GORGEOUS! I could spend many hours enjoying your patio. And I agree with Karen: your baby is adorable!

  4. I was at the shop yesterday hoping to see baby and sharing some of my ideas with your best worker buddy. I bought a big glass lidded jar too but that's another subject...
    She has your eyes Meg and she is adorable!!! She appears to be very well fed too.
    Susan x

  5. Love your patio and your baby is just too cute.

  6. I love everything about your home, so unique and wonderful and I just thought I would take the time to tell you that! Do you have any recommendations for caring for your air plants? Mine were doing so well and then one by one started drying out and dying, don't know what happened.....

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Winter Woolies

The teddy coat; the only thing you need to keep warm this winter. We have seen them everywhere from Max Mara to Shrimps to the high street. And you don't need to break the bank to pull off the teddy trend; this cosy beauty is a steal at £45!

This caramel coloured dream is so warm and cosy, whilst still being a flattering style and not puffing you out too much. I paired mine with this gorgeous cable knit with a twist. I love the chunky lace up detailing on this jumper, it just makes it that little more playful and less 'librarian'.

I kept with the beiges with this look, pairing it with my Zara suede skirt and breaking it up with a bit of black in the form of over the knee boots and my Chloe-esque tassel bag. Over the knee boots are a great way to stay pretty warm in this weather whilst still being able to wear a skirt and keep those tights at bay. You can shop my look below!

Coat - Missguided  Jumper - Missguided  Skirt - Zara (similar)  Bag - Mango  Boots - Shoe Geeks  Glasses - Prada

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  1. That coat was only £45?! I know what I'm buying on payday now!
    A Story of a Girl

  2. I love that coat and how you've styled it with similar tones! The tassels on that bag make it that much more interesting also x

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My 2015 beauty favourites!

Here are my 2015 favourites! Better late than never ;) I saw a couple of girls making this kind of post and it triggered me to do the same because I want to share with you my opinion. And it made me look back at my makeup learning process in the past year. I've really grown in the past year: discovered new products and lots of brands and learned new techniques. Started a blog mainly about beauty and my Art/design journey. Can't wait to see what 2016 will bring!

My favourite items listed below:

- Nyx photo loving primer -
- Benefit Pore fessional -

I've made a post about this Benefit product before and for me this is the best pore filler I used so far, didn't really tried a lot of pore fillers but I just read a lot of reviews and hoped for the best! Since I have huge pores I think this one fills it very good.
The Nyx primer is said to be a lot like the Smashbox primer (which is a very good one they say). I am already convinced! I tried several primers and I seem to swipe em off my face everytime I put foundation over it. But with the Nyx primer is different, it's so soft and smooth and it blends your face!

- Estée Lauder Double Wear maximum cover camouflage makeup-
- Estée Lauder double Wear stay-in-place makeup foundation -

I tried a lot of foundation that will cover my bad acne skin and make it look smooth. I tried a lot of high end products: Dior, YSL, Guerlain etc. They were all good foundations, but didn't give me the high coverage I wanted. So when I found out about Estée Lauder this became one of my favourite brands! The Double Wear maximum coverage foundation is THE BEST I ever tried! I covers up EVERYTHING! I use it as a concealer because it gets too cakey for the whole face. So just put it on the imperfect spots.
The Double Wear stay-in-place foundation also has a high coverage, higher than normal foundations and that's also what I like. You can also compare it easily with a drugstore foundation.

- Estée Lauder Double Wear stay-in-place flawless concealer -

Also one of the best concealers I tried so far. There are still a couple of brands I want to try out. I've tried a lot of drugstore concealers and they sucked and didn't give me the high coverage I wanted. This one does give a high coverage and also covers the dark circles undereath your eyes perfectly! I also use it for contouring: making the zone around my nose and under my eyes lighter.

- Sleek Makeup Face Contour Kit -

I haven't really tried a high end contour set because I think they are expensive. But I'm ver curious and I will try them eventually :)
I read I lot of positive reviews about the Sleek contour kit and I really am satisfied with the results this contour kit gives me! It's a powder for contouring and highlighting but there are no midtones available. But this is all I need for now! If you're looking for an affordable contour kit this is the best one!

- Hema Satin blush powder -

This is a dutch drugstore brand that also has it's owen makeup collection. I was looking for a blush that is not too warm, reddish or orange. Most of the blushes I tried were that way. I wanted a midtone brown color and I think the Hema blush gives me the perfect brown color. The perfect affordable blush!

- Rio Rosa Mosqueta, chilean rosehip seed oil.

I discovered this product at a health fair. I read a lot about rose water and rose seed oil. When I saw this I had to try it! It's not a well- known brand I think, I asked a lot of people about this and nobody heard about this brand. They are not so commercia and I hope it stays that way. This product needs to be as pure as possible without the bullshit marketing around it.
Anyway I always use this oil befor I go to sleep and the next morning my skin is reborn and feels so soft. The acne is mostly gone and also the redness in my face. PERFECT product!!
Also good for stretch marks and scars.

- Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Pomade -

Best brow product!! I've improved my brow look with this product. You can easily make your eyebrows natural or more dramatic. Practice makes perfect and when your good with this brush you will get the PERFECT brows. Finish the look with a brow highlighter.

- L'oreal Volume Million Lashes -

I use this mascara for a long long time, been buying it over and over again. Never though my favourite mascara would be a drugstore one! I've tried a lot of high end brands like Chanel, YSL, Benefit etc but they don't make a difference! This L'oreal mascara is as good as a high end mascara! When I buy a high end brand I always combine it with the L'oreal. It's just been my favourite mascara for ages!

- Mac Cosmetics Matte lipsticks-

Best matte lipstick everrrrr!!1 The colors match the packaging and are very pigmented. You have a lot of choice with different colors. Just perfect, no need for more words!!!

- P2 Perfect Look lipliner -

I have many different colors of these lipliners and they don't dissapoint me: the colors match the packaging, they are very pigmented and stay in place even whe I eat something. I didn't try high end brand lipliners because I think they are expensive. But I did try a lot of drugstore products and I like this one best!

- &otherstories nail polish -
- (DM) Trend it up Double Volume & Shine nailpolish-

I bought &otherstories last month and I adore all the colors they have! Quality is not great but because of the pretty neutral colors I like it.
Trend it up is a DM drugstore brand which is my favourite drugstore! I love the quality of the nail polish and they have pretty colors.
I don't really have high standards of nail polish, I only think the color and coverage is very important.

These were all my faves! Hope I gave you some good advice/tips. If there are good products I should try for this new year let me know in the comment down below.


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Locality Name : Kakredi ( कक्रेडी )
Tehsil Name : Sirmour
District : Rewa
State : Madhya Pradesh
Division : Rewa
Language : Hindi and Devanagari,dravidian,agariya
Current Time 05:06 PM
Date: Wednesday , Dec 13,2017 (IST)
Time zone: IST (UTC+5:30)
Elevation / Altitude: 306 meters. Above Seal level
Telephone Code / Std Code: 07660

Assembly constituency : Semariya assembly constituency
Assembly MLA : Neelam Abhey Mishra
Lok Sabha constituency : Rewa parliamentary constituency
Parliament MP : Janardan Mishra
Serpanch Name :
Pin Code : 486445
Post Office Name : Semariya
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Kakredi is a Village in Sirmour Tehsil in Rewa District of Madhya Pradesh State, India. It belongs to Rewa Division . It is located 50 KM towards North from District head quarters Rewa. 20 KM from Sirmour. 503 KM from State capital Bhopal

Kakredi Pin code is 486445 and postal head office is Semariya .

Deukhar ( 10 KM ) , Hardoli ( 11 KM ) , Baraha Mudwar ( 11 KM ) , Bhadra ( 11 KM ) , Ragauli ( 12 KM ) are the nearby Villages to Kakredi. Kakredi is surrounded by Jawa Tehsil towards East , Manikpur Tehsil towards North , Mau Tehsil towards North , Gangev Tehsil towards East .

Rewa , Chitrakoot , Satna , Mauganj are the near by Cities to Kakredi.

Demographics of Kakredi

Hindi is the Local Language here.

Politics in Kakredi

INC , BSP , BJP are the major political parties in this area.

Polling Stations /Booths near Kakredi

3)Bamhani Ajmer
4)Bagadha Pidihan

By Rail

There is no railway station near to Kakredi in less than 10 km. How ever Rewa O A Rail Way Station is major railway station 47 KM near to Kakredi

Colleges near Kakredi

Yamuna Prasad Sastri Snatkottar Mahavidyalay Semaira
Address : Semaria Post Semaria Tahsil Semaria Dist- Rewa M.p 486445

Schools near Kakredi

Ms Mainaha
Address : mainaha , sirmour , rewa , Madhya Pradesh . PIN- 486001 , Post - Rewa
Ms Nandanipur
Address : nandnipur , sirmour , rewa , Madhya Pradesh . PIN- 486001 , Post - Rewa
Ms Baraha (chachai)
Address : baraha w.12 , sirmour , rewa , Madhya Pradesh . PIN- 486448 , Post - Sirmour
Ms Patana
Address : patana , sirmour , rewa , Madhya Pradesh . PIN- 486448 , Post - Sirmour

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Bus Stand

Sirmaur; Madhya Pradesh 486448; India
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Basaman Mama Dev Mandir

Rewa Rd; Purwa; Madhya Pradesh 486445; India
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Devi Mandir

Hardua; Madhya Pradesh 486445; India
19.4 KM distance      Detail

Shiv Mandir

Harduaa Gaon; Rewa Simriya Road; Madhya Pradesh; India
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Rewa Rd; Semariya; Madhya Pradesh 486445; India
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Harshraj Shukla(Science Guru)

sirmour; Rewa; Madhya Pradesh; India
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CHC Sirmaur

Sirmaur; Madhya Pradesh 486448; India
18.3 KM distance      Detail

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Radheshyam Fuel Station ESSAR

MP SH 9; Godaha; Madhya Pradesh 486446; India
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Govt P.S. School Bhadra

Gram Panchayat Bhandra; Near Tamash River; Bhadra; Madhya Pradesh 486447; India
11.8 KM distance      Detail

Sirmaur; Madhya Pradesh 486448; India
18.1 KM distance      Detail

Aryodaya Public School

near atraila; MDR; Naubasta; Madhya Pradesh 486447; India
18.8 KM distance      Detail

Parwati ITI

Sohawalkhurd; Madhya Pradesh 486556; India
21.9 KM distance      Detail
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Near Cities
Rewa  49 KM near
Chitrakoot  53 KM near
Satna  60 KM near
Mauganj  78 KM near
Near By Taluks
Sirmour  19 KM near
Jawa  21 KM near
Manikpur  29 KM near
Mau  41 KM near
Near By Air Ports
Bamrauli Airport   85 KM near
Khajuraho Airport   150 KM near
Varanasi Airport   193 KM near
Kanpur Airport   206 KM near
Near By Tourist Places
Rewa   49 KM near
Kaushambi   57 KM near
Satna   62 KM near
Kalinjar   85 KM near
Allahabad   92 KM near
Near By Districts
Chitrakoot   39 KM near
Rewa   48 KM near
Satna   62 KM near
Kaushambi   79 KM near
Near By RailWay Station
Manikpur Jn Rail Way Station   24 KM near
Dabhaura Rail Way Station   25 KM near

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       Lehal Khurd
          Punjab >> Sangrur >> Lehragaga

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Locality Name : Lehal Khurd ( ਲੇਹਲ ਖੁਰਦ )
Tehsil Name : Lehragaga
District : Sangrur
State : Punjab
Language : Punjabi
Current Time 05:06 PM
Date: Wednesday , Dec 13,2017 (IST)
Time zone: IST (UTC+5:30)
Elevation / Altitude: 227 meters. Above Seal level
Telephone Code / Std Code: 01676

Assembly constituency : Lehra assembly constituency
Assembly MLA : Rajinder Kaur Bhattal
Lok Sabha constituency : Sangrur parliamentary constituency
Parliament MP : Bhagwant Mann
Serpanch Name :
Pin Code : 148031
Post Office Name : Lehragaga
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Lehal Khurd current Weather
Current Temperature is 16 °C

Humidity: 76%
Wind : From NW at 4 kph
observeed on Wed Time: 13:58:17
Lehal Khurd Weather Forecast for Next 3 days
8°C to 20°C
8°C to 22°C
7°C to 22°C

                      About Lehal Khurd

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Lehal Khurd is a Village in Lehragaga Tehsil in Sangrur District of Punjab State, India. It is located 42 KM towards South from District head quarters Sangrur. 1 KM from Lehragaga. 149 KM from State capital Chandigarh

Lehal Khurd Pin code is 148031 and postal head office is Lehragaga .

Khandebad ( 2 KM ) , Arakwas ( 4 KM ) , Lehragaga ( 4 KM ) , Rampur Jawaharwala ( 4 KM ) , Bhutal Kalan ( 5 KM ) are the nearby Villages to Lehal Khurd. Lehal Khurd is surrounded by Andana Tehsil towards East , Sunam Tehsil towards North , Jakhal Tehsil towards South , Patran Tehsil towards East .

Tohana , Patran , Sunam , Budhlada are the near by Cities to Lehal Khurd.

This Place is in the border of the Sangrur District and Fatehabad District. Fatehabad District Jakhal is South towards this place . It is near to the Haryana State Border.

Demographics of Lehal Khurd

Punjabi is the Local Language here.

Politics in Lehal Khurd

INC , SAD are the major political parties in this area.

Polling Stations /Booths near Lehal Khurd

1)Lehal Khurd

HOW TO REACH Lehal Khurd

By Rail

Lehra Gaga Rail Way Station , Gurnay Rail Way Station are the very nearby railway stations to Lehal Khurd. How ever Patiala Rail Way Station is major railway station 80 KM near to Lehal Khurd

Colleges near Lehal Khurd

Swami Vivekanand College Of Education
Address : Balran-lehra-road
Jasmar Singh Jaje College Gurna
Address : Leharagaga To Jakhal Road

Schools in Lehal Khurd

Gms Lehal Khurd
Address : lehal khurd , lehragaga , sangrur , Punjab . PIN- 148031 , Post - Lehragaga
Malwa Public School
Address : lehal khurd , lehragaga , sangrur , Punjab . PIN- 148033 , Post - Moonak

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Tohana  26 KM near
Patran  26 KM near
Sunam  27 KM near
Budhlada  28 KM near
Near By Taluks
Lehragaga  1 KM near
Andana  21 KM near
Jakhal  23 KM near
Sunam  23 KM near
Near By Air Ports
Ludhiana Airport   122 KM near
Chandigarh Airport   140 KM near
Simla Airport   205 KM near
Muzaffarnagar Airport   207 KM near
Near By Tourist Places
Sangrur   40 KM near
Mansa   48 KM near
Fatehgarh-Sahib   71 KM near
Patiala   79 KM near
Bathinda   102 KM near
Near By Districts
Sangrur   40 KM near
Mansa   48 KM near
Fatehabad   60 KM near
Barnala   64 KM near
Near By RailWay Station
Lehra Gaga Rail Way Station   3.5 KM near
Gurnay Rail Way Station   4.3 KM near
Govindgarh Khkr Rail Way Station   9.3 KM near
Jakhal Jn Rail Way Station   14 KM near
Tohana Rail Way Station   25 KM near

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Chanukah With the Liberal Caucus

Last night on December 7th, Ellen Scheinberg and Brooky Robins attended a Chaunkah party at the Legislature Building hosted by the Ontario Liberal Caucus. This was the first time they have held this type of event and it was a splendid affair. Monte Kwinter (MPP,York Centre) and Dr. Eric Hoskins (MPP, St. Paul's) the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, co-hosted the reception.

Monte Kwinter at the Provincial Legislature.

There was a large group in attendance that included senior UJA Federation lay people such as Elizabeth Wolfe (Chair, UJA Federation) and David Spiro (Chair, Committee of Public Affairs for UJA), all of the CJC staff, some UJA Federation staff and many other community leaders. There were also major philanthropists there as well such as Joe Lebovic.

A number of the Liberal MPPs, besides Kwinter and Hoskins, attended as well. We had the opportunity to chat with Michael Colle (Eglinton-Lawrence), David Zimmer (Willowdale), Tony Ruprecht (Davenport) and Linda Jeffrey (Bampton-Sprindale), the Minister of Natural Resources. Everyone was very friendly and and in good spirits. I particularly enjoyed my conversation with Linda, since she came across as being very open and willing to reveal some of the interesting challenges she was confronting today.

The Chanukah ceremony began with a brief opening speech by Dr. Hoskins, followed by an address by Monte Kwinter. Monte introduced Rabbi Goldfarb from Holy Blossom Temple, who recited the prayers for the lighting of the menorah. The honour of turning the lightbulbs on the electric menorah that they had was given to Premier Dalton McGuinty. He did a commendable job pronouncing "chag Sameach" and seemed to enjoy this role.

Premier McGuinty greeting the crowd.

After the ceremony, the crowd continued to mingle and enjoy the wine and hors d'oeuvres that were available. Everything was delicious, however the Legislature could truly benefit from my bubbie's latke recipe. Their latkes were a little too moist in the middle and lacked the crispyness that most of us appreciate. Given that this is their first year hosting a Chanukah event, I suspect that they will address this concern and refine their recipe, so that those who sample their latkes will be taken back to the Kensington Market era and the delicacies that were enjoyed in restaurants like United Bakers and Goldenbergs.

On the whole, I would rate this Chanukah party very high and felt it was a very successful reception. The Liberals have been very committed to supporting Jewish initiatives and voicing their objections against anti-Israel and anti-Semitic propoganda and actions within the province. In turn, Monte Kwinter has made great efforts to promote education about the Holocaust, by taking part in the Yom HaShoa event and briging that important issue into the Legislature each year. They should certainly be commended for their responsiveness to these issues and support.

Russian Veterans Initiative

The Archives is currently working on a project that involves interviewing approximately 20 Jewish veterans who served in the Russian military during the Second World War. They are all living in Toronto at this time and many were given medals for their bravery.

Ontario Jewish Archives, accession #2010-11/11.

Grigoriy Genin giving a lecture to a group of soldiers in 1945 outside the village of Kefermarkt, Austria.

Ontario Jewish Archives, accession #2010-11/11.

Len Pearl is responsible for conducting the video interviews. He is relying on state of the art technology, employing a green screen background and HD footage. The interviews will be used in the future for programming and exhibitions implemented by the OJA along with the Canadian Jewish Museum that will be constructed within the next few years.

In addition, the OJA has been acquiring photographs, documents and artifacts from the veterans and scanning items in cases where the individual is not comfortable donating their treasures. As a result, we have acquired wonderful photographs of their lives in Russia before the war, medals, certificates, honours and other items. Since this group was not very well documented by the OJA in the past, this project will help document the many important stories and adventures of these heroic veterans, ensuring that the interviews and records are well preserved for future generations to enjoy and appreciate.

Mount Sinai Hospital Plaque Ceremony

On the 17th of November, Mount Sinai Hospital held a reception and ceremony to reveal the historic plaque that Heritage Toronto created to commemorate this important Jewish institution. The OJA was responsible for the selection of sites -- which were reviewed and approved by the HT Board -- as well as the review of the text for the plaque and contribution of photographs.

The event was held at the MoRoCo chocolate shop and restaurant located across the street from the original hospital situated at 100 Yorkville Avenue. The CEO of Mount Sinai along with Dr. Gross, designer Brian Gluckstein and Eric Slavens, the board member of Heritage Toronto who initiated this program, delivered speeches. Special mention was made of the fact that Dr. Harry Arthurs, the former Dean of Osgoode Law School and grandson of the founder of Mount Sinai Hospital, Dorothy Dworkin, was present. Since he is a great friend of the OJA, we made sure to notify him about this event and were extremely pleased that he could come. Eric Slavens also graciously thanked Ellen Scheinberg for her contribution to the plaque and role in the program.

Rebecca Carson (HT), Dr. Ellen Scheinberg, Dr. Harry Arthurs and Brooky Robins

The ceramic plaque is quite beautiful and includes four black and white photographs of the early building, the hospital, Dworkin and her Ezras Noshem Society and a doctor examining a patient during the 1920s. This institution was extremely important to the community, since it fulfilled the crucial function of providing kosher food and services in Yiddish to Jewish patients. Since other hospitals would not hire Jews at that time, it also provided work for Jewish doctors who wanted to remain in Toronto and practice medicine. Everyone was quite pleased with the design and content of the plaque and the Mount Sinai board in particular were thrilled that their hospital was being recognized.

Recently the building was demolished, but the original facade was preserved and is now the entrance for Teatro Verde, a commercial and condo complex located in the heart of Yorkville. Since this is the only remnant left of the original edifice, the plaque will help provide the historical context needed to reveal its rich history and importance to the city of Toronto.

Remembrance Day Ceremony at Lipa Green

On November 11th the OJA organized a Remembrance Day event at the Lipa Green Centre in the Tamari Family Hall. We were fortunate to have approximately 55 veterans in attendance, many of whom arrived in uniform with their medals, accompanied by family members. Although most of them served in the Canadian forces during the Second World War, we also had a significant number in attendance who were part of the Allied forces or the Machal during the War of Independence. A record number of Lipa Green Centre staff, in the range of 90 people or more, was also present. A few of the veterans revealed that they had never been to this building before and all expressed how pleased they were to be invited to take part in the Federation ceremony.

Carol Kassel and David Green

The ceremony began with a message from UJA Federation President, Ted Sokolsky, welcoming everyone and discussing the importance of honouring our veterans. He also informed the crowd about a new program that Federation is launching to support Jewish veterans in need. He was followed by Norm Gardner, from the Jewish War Veterans of Canada, who delivered the main address. Cantor David Rosen from Beth Radom Congregation gave a moving version of the prayer for fallen soldiers, as well as the Canadian and Israeli national anthems.

There was an informal reception held after the ceremony. This provided us with the opportunity to chat with the veterans and discuss new programs, such as the oral history initiative and Jewish Museum project, that are in progress.

OJA's Home Movie Project

The OJA has been working on a home movie project for the past year. We have been actively collecting home movies dating from the 1920s until the 1950s that document Jewish Toronto. The archival films have been digitized to make these wonderful depictions of early Jewish life in Toronto more accessible. The footage documents themes such as simchas (weddings, anniversaries, bar mitzvahs), recreation, Jewish camps, travel and important events within the community.

One of the largest collections that the OJA possesses is that of Dr. A.I. Willinsky, one of the first Jewish doctors to practice in Toronto and an early photography and film enthusiast. His films document the construction of Holy Blossom Temple in 1937 as well as his family's activities, adventures and travels. You can view clips from our films a number of films from our collection on our YouTube channel

For those who are interested in donating home movies to the Ontario Jewish Archives or learning more about the home movie project, please contact the OJA.


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Working Loose

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
— Bruce Lee

Over the summer, I had the good fortune to take a tennis class to learn new things about a game I love. I went into it all ready to show the instructor my wicked ground strokes! I clenched down, gripped the racket and literally tried to kill the ball. After about 75% of my shots went into the net or way outside the lines, I got frustrated. What the hell was going on? During a break I asked the instructor what she thought the problem was. She immediately told me that I was working way too hard. My grip was too tight and I was losing all my power with my supposedly intense stroke.

WHAT? I’ve always thought that staying loose meant that you weren’t taking things seriously. The more clenched, busy, and proactive I could be, the better. The more I focused on meeting others’ needs, the more I would be liked.

The delusional belief behind all of these thoughts went something like this…. the harder I work, the more worthy I am. I must push and overextend to be good enough.

And this belief has brought me success…I did well in school, built a successful career, and have a wonderful family and friends. But as I woke up to this toxic message, I realized that every time I overextended in dance, I got hurt. When I tried too hard to connect with people, they backed away. When I put others’ needs first, I often misread what they actually wanted, and almost always ended up abandoning myself.

This way of living was tiring, leaving me achy and burnt out! And the worst part is that it was blocking the support that wanted to come into my life.

So, since that fateful day on the tennis court, I’ve been experimenting with my coach’s principle of working less to have more power. It is so subtle, but when I practice it one small choice at a time, I find many opportunities every day to loosen my grip on life and experience flow. The benefits are instant and available to all of us.

What working LOOSE looks like:

-WAIT. I try not to act until there is a genuine and actual reason to do something. When I feel an idea emerge, I write it down and it helps me determine whether it’s driven by fear or urgency, or if it truly comes from my heart. When I have clarity, I can prioritize.

-RELEASE. When I do not know the solution to a problem, I release it for a while instead of ruminating and forcing an answer prematurely. Asking for help from my higher self and then turning over the problem brings enormous freedom.

-ACCEPT SUPPORT. I say yes to help and embrace compliments when I receive them. A tight grip is often critical and unforgiving. Accepting kindness from others helps us to be more loving with ourselves.

-STAY IN THE MOMENT. When I’m working with a client or a group, I work hard to stay open and present instead of always thinking about the next topic, or how I could or should respond.

-REST. I take breaks and let myself relax when the time is right instead of filling every second with something practical.

-HONOR COMMITMENTS. I start on time, end on time, and honor my boundaries. These simple commitments are within my power, and they give me something I can always feel proud of.

-DETACH FROM OUTCOMES. Before I offer help, I consider whether the person really wants help, or if I am offering it because it makes me feel better -- and more in control -- to fix things. Offering support and then letting go is a liberating way to truly help others.

Working LOOSE does not look like:

-Planning for people when they do not need my help.

-Overextending and doing extra to look good or seem more worthy.

-Jumping into action too quickly for the short-term satisfaction of feeling productive.

-Judging others for their decisions when they differ from mine and forgetting that everyone is on their own path!

-Staying busy when others around me are chilling and enjoying themselves.

My questions for you are:

Where can YOU loosen your grip on life a bit?

Where can you harness your energy and resist the temptation to overextend?

Where in your day do you silently accept more responsibility or work than is really necessary?

How many relaxing little breaks can you build into your day?

Where can you say “yes” to more help and accept compliments?

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Choriocarcinoma  is a fast growing cancer that occurs in a woman’s uterus.  The extremely rare form of cancer starts in the tissues that will normally become the placenta. It is a type of  gestational trophoblastic disease.

It usually occurs during pregnancy. A baby  may or may not develop with this type of pregnancy .

The cancer may occur after a normal pregnancy . However it usually occurs after a hydatidiform mole which is  a mass or growth that grows in the womb at the beginning of pregnancy . This abnormal mole tissue can continue to grow even after it is removed and can turn into cancer. About half of women with this type of cancer had a hydatidiform mole  or molar pregnancy.

This type of cancer can also occur after a miscarriage , ectopic pregnancy or a genital tumor.

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One of the possible symptom is irregular vaginal bleeding in a woman who recently had a hydatidiform mole or pregnancy . Other signs include irregular vaginal bleeding or pain.

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After diagnosis , you will be carefully examined to  make sure the cancer has not spread. Chemotherapy is the main treatment option, Hysterectomy and radiation treatment are rarely done.

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But first, let's talk about Jim Morrison.

Charlie Crist wants to pardon The Doors' front man for his conviction on charges of indecent exposure and profanity.

Why not? Such a crusade seems just about right for Gov. Lightweight.

I mean, sure, we have real, live people sitting in jail for crimes they may not have committed — people whose innocence has been championed by expert legal minds. And Charlie won't lift a finger to look at those cases.

But start talking about a dead celebrity and suddenly Gov. Spotlight is interested.

At this point, I could remind Charlie about Florida's shameful record of imprisoning the innocent and all the living people whose cases he has refused to even review.

I could remind him that groups like the Innocence Project have begged him, for instance, to simply look into Brevard County cases where dozens of people were convicted with testimony for a supposed dog-handling "expert" who was later exposed in court as a fraud.

But I've already done that. So have many others. And Charlie — along with Attorney General Bill McCollum — turned a deaf ear towards those issues of justice.

I no longer suffer delusions that Charlie might actually do the right thing for the right reason for regular Floridians.

No, he'll pursue the case involving a dead celebrity … the one that might get him on Entertainment Tonight or on page A3 of The New York Times, which is where this story ran Thursday.

Fortunately, our next Attorney General, Pam Bondi, has vowed to look into the cases involving boring old non-celebrities who may be wrongly rotting away in prison.

So, Charlie, if it's only the dead glitterati who light your fire, knock yourself out.

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Credit for efficiency. One good thing about the new lopsided legislature: They're efficient. In past years, legislatures have dallied for weeks. But on Tuesday, new Speaker Dean Cannon and Senate president Mike Haridopolos convened a session, made history by overriding eight of Crist's vetoes, and got out. You may not like their actions. But at least they were quick about it.

Good luck, Bill. Without much hubbub, Bill Sublette made history this week when he was sworn in as Orange County's first countywide elected school board chair. I like Sublette. I think he's passionate about schools and kids from different backgrounds. He's well-versed. And, unlike many politicians, he's more of a thinking man than ideologue. I also like that Sublette has set a goal of improving the system's graduation rate. That may sound obvious. But for too long some school officials have focused as much on excuses as results. I hope Sublette and the other board members, who are saying the right things about working together, are successful — and strong enough to stand united and tall against the Tallahassee forces that constantly try to short-change our schools, teachers and children.

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a solution looking for a problem. Having a distribution for each architecture is good enough for almost all cases. And certainly for enough that the demand for this feature just isn't there.

I can see one use for fat binaries that multiple distributions don't solve: Hosting /usr on NFS in a heterogenous hardware environment.

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You can have as many usr directories as you want, and remote machines can mount the one that fits the architecture at hand.

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Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu Over at the Goodbye, Microsoft web site, Brad R. takes Ubuntu to task for abandoning dial-up modem users. Apparently Ubuntu no longer includes the GnomePPP dial-up package in the distribution, without which you can't get online via dial-up. It gets better: if you do have some way to connect, when you download something from the Ubuntu repository, the first thing Ubuntu does is update its 16+ megabyte repository index. Happy waiting! Brad concludes that "Ubuntu is for broadband users only."
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Drat.. couldn't resist..

Not likely what they meant but I've often felt the same way; comparing equal objects. The Windows repository is Windows Update. Looking at the Ubuntu repository, Windows Update pales by comparison. Especially when you consider what benefit Microsoft could provide the end user if they used the repository properly. Seems that MS is actually trying to do so with the new app store for Windows8 so we'll see how it works out.

Yes a lot of half working programs or programs that are already available for Windows.

And yet also a ton of solid working programs that are not available for Windows. But, you have a specific personal agenda to promote so; hate on good sir!

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The Windows repository is Windows Update.

There are countless independent "repositories" for Windows software: File Hippo, Steam, SourceForge....

Collectively, their program libraries are enormous --- easy to find and easy to use.

The first impression a Windows user is likely to have of the Ubuntu Store is "Pathetic."

There is much that will strike him as antiquated or bizarre:

The default install of Chromium, for example, does not support audio and video.

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2005-08-18 File Hippo, Steam, SourceForge

Of those only Steam qualifies as a repo in this context.

The default install of Chromium, for example, does not support audio and video.

You know how you lose an argument? You start to make things up and pretend they're facts. Chromium (and Chrome) supports both audio and video by default.

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The first impression a Windows user is likely to have of the Ubuntu Store is "Pathetic."

I wouldn't be so sure of that. Given how the major smartphone platforms have sold users on the idea of an "app store" over the past few years, I'd say they might just feel right at home there. Sure, it's not the 100,000 apps the big phone OSes have, but who needs 1000 fart apps or 7000 ringtone apps for their desktop PC? Pure numbers mean nothing if they don't fit the purpose.

Given too that the vast majority of apps in the Ubuntu store are completely free to download and use, I'd say Windows users would find relief from the onus of sifting through dozens of malware-infested "free" programs for that platform, looking for the golden trifecta of truly freeware, fully functional, malware-free apps.

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Are all those software sources accessible through a single package manager?

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I don't know if it'll parse or not but what me and my customers use for third party updates is Ninite..

You don't even have to know what version you have, it'll skip anything you check if you already have the latest version. Between it and WSUS Offline I can get a machine from a blank drive to a fully loaded and ready to sell Windows machine in under an hour and a half, with only 2 clicks from me about 1 hour in. couldn't be simpler.

As for him "hating" you seem to be forgetting that how EXACTLY is a user supposed to magically know which are good and which are half baked junk? Play software roulette? Spend hours in the forums which will just send you around in circles as half will always say its great and the other half say its poo?

Its not hate to point out when something is broken and frankly half baked software shouldn't even be IN the repos in the first place, the fact that so much of it is just helps to illustrate the fact that the whole repo idea needs to be rethought. A handful of guys simply can't provide QA and QC on that many packages, its just not possible. again don't know if it'll parse as links always seem to be hit and miss for me but here is an excellent article by one of the RH devs saying the whole system needs to be tossed, that "Linux is paying now for mistakes made 20 years ago" and he does make some VERY valid points.

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Estrogen is the primary sex hormone in females, responsible for female fertility and regulating many functions of the body. Estrogen deficiency is an expected part of the menopause which normally occurs at the average age of 51 for women. Sometimes estrogen deficiency occurs before the menopause. The symptoms of estrogen deficiency are listed below, as are some natural remedies that can help with the symptoms.

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There are many signs that the body’s estrogen levels are too low. The most common of these are:

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As already mentioned, it is expected and normal for menopausal women to have declining estrogen levels. However, this can occur with women who have not yet entered the menopause. Some women, in particular athletes undergoing intensive training, can experience the cessation of periods which is linked to estrogen deficiency.

Pre-menopausal estrogen deficiency needs to be immediately investigated.

There are some serious conditions that can be associated with low estrogen levels such as thyroid disorders, some cancers and some genetic diseases. It is therefore necessary to eliminate these possibilities in pre-menopausal women before the deficiency is treated.

In most cases this will take the form of estrogen or hormone replacement supplements until the body returns to its normal cycle.

Estrogen Deficiency in the Menopause

The menopause is the period in a woman’s life when estrogen levels are falling, but also fluctuating quite erratically, and eventually estrogen production from the ovaries will cease altogether.

The menopause can be a very distressing time for some women due to the wildly fluctuating estrogen levels within the body.

Most of the symptoms for estrogen deficiency are the same for both pre-menopausal and menopausal women. However, mood swings and sometimes intense emotions are associated more with the fluctuating levels of estrogen rather than just the deficiency of them.

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1.) Black Cohosh – a centuries old traditional medicine which contains an agent that is thought to mimic estrogen.

2.) Licorice – helpful in regulating hormone imbalances.

3.) Organic Maca – hailed as a little miracle by menopausal women. This tuber has been used as a food source and natural remedy by the Peruvians for centuries. Unlike other natural remedies which externally replace estrogen, this plant will stimulate the body to produce its own correct levels.

For further information on all of these natural remedies see this article.

The menopause is an inevitable occurrence for all women once they reach a certain age. As previously mentioned the average age is 51 but it can occur much earlier (and later) in some women. If you are exhibiting symptoms of estrogen deficiency and think you are not yet menopausal it is wise to seek medical advice immediately. In most cases the estrogen deficiency is temporary and can be treated very easily.

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With people filling the streets of St. Louis in protest following the acquittal of Jason Stockley, the former police officer who shot and killed Anthony Lamar Smith in 2011, it is undeniable that police violence is a problem in the United States. However, while public forms of police violence are widely criticized, there is another dimension that is largely overlooked—the violence of incarceration.

Spending time in jail or prison cuts people off from their communities, resulting in what is called social death. This describes the isolation experienced by a person who has few and damaged relationships. Another part of social death is facing legalized employment discrimination because of time spent behind bars.

Studies conducted by the Federal Bureau of Justice found that 76.6 percent of people released from prison in 2005 were rearrested within five years. What’s more, over half of those individuals were rearrested by the end of the first year. Imprisonment clearly does little to prevent or address the causes of crime.

Using prisons as the primary institution for dealing with social problems is barbaric, and it makes society worse. Mass incarceration does not solve social problems; it is a social problem.

Rather than imprisoning anyone who deviates beyond an arbitrary standard—a standard that is much stricter for the poor and people of color; rather than devastating communities by creating a population of disenfranchised, socially isolated men and women who must forever struggle under the label ‘criminal’ even after they’ve paid their supposed debt-to-society; rather than ignoring the material and social conditions that inextricably link crime and poverty, not to mention the inequality in sentencing for rich vs poor defendants, we must work to actually redress social ills.

We must move beyond childish notions of punishment and retribution, choosing instead the values of restorative justice.

We must look to organizations such as BYP100, Critical Resistance and Incite! among others that have long been working to create a better system.

We must abolish prisons, jails and the prison industrial complex, and we must fundamentally change policing so that rather than being an institutionalized force of oppression and violence, what remains will be an accountable group that actually does protect and serve all communities.

It is necessary that some institution exists to deal with violent crime, preferably through prevention rather than punishment, but it is not necessary that it be as gargantuan as the current system. Violent crime makes up only 13 percent of the crime rate in Texas, which is to say that if we found a more equitable way of distributing property (the other 87 percent of crimes are against property (e.g. stealing), we could drastically reduce the prison population.

Prison abolition is no more naïve a project than was the abolition of slavery, in fact it is a continuation of the same struggle; it carries the same moral imperative. Prisons and jails are racist, classist institutions that are central to the civil rights movement in our time. Abolition is not a dream; it is a necessity.

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