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The bright new world of quilting
\"It's not your grandmother's quilting world,\" [Meg Cox] says. \"It's a totally different animal. People today come at quilting with a completely different intention. They don't come at it to make bedcovers, they come at it to make art. And with the tools and technology out there, they can start with almost no training and make a quilt that can knock your socks off.\" Cox ought to know what's available out there. A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal and the author of two previous books on domestic arts, Cox brought her considerable reporting skills to the research for her newest book. She interviewed 20 famous quilting masters. She visited all the Web sites listed and talked with all of their authors, \"so I knew they wouldn't be gone tomorrow.\" She chased down fabrics, wrestled with software and enrolled in classes in an effort to take the full measure of quilting today. \"Most of the quilting books were `How To' books or project books. There was nothing that covered the whole gamut,\" says Cox, whose mother taught her to quilt. \"One of the reasons for doing this book is that it explains a lot of things that experienced quilters know that could take you a while to figure out. And then my goal in writing the first chapter was to write it so that you couldn't not go out and take a quilting class.\"
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Faith for the Far Away and Everyone Else
IF THERE WERE any doubts among the faithful about the appropriate use of cameras to livestream services, celebrations and funerals to off-site congregants, those doubts were quickly dispelled at area synagogues by experiences like these: * A homebound grandmother, unable to travel from France to attend her granddaughter's Bat Mitzvah in Philadelphia, watches the entire celebration and sees both the granddaughter and rabbi turn to the camera and address her during the ceremony; * A local temple's \"Prayer for Our Country\" service honors, in real time, a serviceman and congregant deployed in the Middle East with a \"live\" salute by congregation veterans; * A young woman who works for the United States government and is unable to be home during the High Holidays rigs a bank of televisions at a national security agency with Temple Sholom in Broomall's livestream feed, and a group of Jewish employees gather together to watch it. Kids on college campuses are viewing it, parents with toddlers who can't find coverage for their children, seniors in their homes. Other concerns about the technology centered on whether livestreaming would reduce the number of congregants at Shabbat and other services, or replace the feeling of community invoked by worshipping together.
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Almost All Pennsylvania Schools Now Teach About Holocaust
LOCAL THREE YEARS AFTER a bill prioritizing Holocaust instruction in Pennsylvania schools was signed, the state Board of Education reported that a commanding 90 percent of schools now provide age-appropriate education on the Holocaust, genocide and human rights violations as a standing part of their curricula. Through the state Department of Education, Act 70 made educational guidelines, free resource materials, a website and free training available for all schools through Holocaust and human rights organizations and volunteers. \"The advisory committee worked carefully and thoughtfully with the Department of Education on the Act 70 guidelines, using the guidelines of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as inspiration, in the hope that the quality of Holocaust, genocide and human rights violations education in Pennsylvania would be as much a focus as increasing the number of students reached.
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The Case of the Homeless Monument Perplexes Springfield Township
\"The marker was found several years ago by our police department at an intersection that shares a municipal border with Cheltenham Township and the City of Philadelphia, along the roadside,\" said Michael Taylor, assistant manager of Springfield Township. [...]they asked the Public Works Department to store it on a temporary basis.\" \"If they have a death certificate for a family member, or a plot or a deed where it was located, or a police report that had reported it missing, then the police department would verify it.
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Eyal David Sherman, Who Overcame Adversity, Dies at 36
After he completed Nottingham High School with honors in 1999, Eyal began taking classes at Syracuse University, accompanied at every stage by his mother, from his first semester through his graduation nine years later with a degree in fine arts and a talent for painting by holding a fitted paintbrush in his mouth. When they did nearly three years ago, Eyal enjoyed a quality of life he was not able to indulge in snowy Syracuse, with museum visits, trips to the Philadelphia Zoo and walks around the city. To honor Eyal, the Sherman family has formed a foundation that aisms to provide quality of life for those in the disability community, focusing in particular on his interests: sports, the arts, music and Jewish life.
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Friday Nights at Richboro Temple to 'Rock' the Sabbath
[...]Miller was so enthusiastic that she emailed Ohev Shalom about the idea while still abroad. [...]author Isaac Bashevis Singer told the world during his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1978, \"Yiddish has not yet said its last word.\" Because Yiddish is not part of the Sephardic Jewish culture, Ohev Shalom will present a Sephardic Shabbat in November. \"Since we have every age, every background, every kind of family structure, and many unique individuals, we want them all to be able to look across the aisle and bond over the fun.\"
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A Paddle With One Eye on the Sharks
There are puffy white sea urchins like little couch pillows and Hawksbill turtles that dart away. [...] the occasional smallish shark. SUP is a form of an ancient Polynesian sport that was repopularized in Hawaii in the early 2000s by surfers with brand names like Laird Hamilton and Gerry Lopez who were looking for a way to train when the surf was flat.
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A Paddle With One Eye on the Sharks
IF John would just raise his arms skyward, I would have a better view of him streaking across the Narrows, northward toward Tortola, leaving me far enough behind that I have to squint to see him. He wants to cross the 1.5-mile strait on his paddle board, abandoning United States...
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