I enjoyed last Sunday's episode of "The Sunday Magazine."
I also enjoyed Wednesday night's episode of "Ideas" about the school cars.
Liked the discussion on "Ontario Today" yesterday about siblings.
CHCH, don't blame the people, i.e. your potential viewers, for why you have to cancel your Saturday evening newscast.
Interesting the Kitchener Rangers are now going to be on two community stations.
This is our training bulletin for CELA users for the months of September and October. All our webinars are free for CELA patrons. We will be adding other webinars to this list throughout the fall.
This webinar will provide a basic introduction to the Envoy Connect player, a portable, affordable and easy-to-use device to listen to CELA's audiobooks. This webinar is for both library staff and CELA patrons who want to learn more about this device.
This webinar will cover:
· Basics of the Envoy Connect Player: what it is, how it works, etc.
· How to manage books on the Envoy Connect with the CELA Connect software.
· Where to find learning resources or purchase the player.
To register for the online Zoom webinar please select the link below and fill in the registration form. To attend by phone, please call the Contact Centre at 1-855-655-2273.
This hour long interactive conversation gives CELA users an opportunity to ask questions related to using CELA’s library services. We encourage you to bring your questions and learn from CELA staff, as well as to share experiences with other CELA patrons in the audience. This Q&A aims to support how you access the books, magazines and newspapers in CELA’s multiple format collections for people with print disabilities.
To register for the online Zoom webinar please select the link below and fill in the registration form. To attend by phone, please call the Contact Centre at 1-855-655-2273.
Join us for a live webinar introducing Accessible Reading Canada, a new way for CELA patrons to enjoy CELA audiobooks using Alexa-enabled smart speakers. This 60-minute session will walk you through how to use voice commands to search, browse, and listen to audiobooks from your CELA Direct to Player Bookshelf using the Accessible Reading Canada Alexa skill.
This webinar will cover:
After the presentation, there will be a Q&A session to ask additional questions. This session will be recorded.
To register for the online Zoom webinar please select the link below and fill in the registration form. To attend by phone, please call the Contact Centre at 1-855-655-2273.
To register for a training session, select the link with the webinar date and time. (You will need to adjust the times for your region - all times given on the website are in Eastern Time.)
Once you have registered, you will receive your own individual link to join the webinar, with the option of adding the information to your calendar.
Recorded versions of previous webinars are available on our Webinar recordings page.
For information on upcoming patron webinars, see the Webinars for you page on the CELA website.
We hope you will join us. Please contact CELA if you have any questions.
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Dear CELA User CELA is pleased to announce a new addition to our magazine offerings. As a pilot project a few of our popular magazines are now available as audio magazines, created using an AI voice. With AI voice technology, we are able to offer readers access to a human-sounding audio magazine shortly after the magazine is published. We will run this pilot project for one year using 5 magazines: Canadian Living, AppleMagazine and Newsweek in English and Lire and Coup de Pouce in French. All these magazines are also available in other formats if you prefer not to use the AI voiced option and we will continue to offer our popular 11 human-narrated magazines. You can find a list of the AI voiced audio magazines on our magazines page. In our catalogue you can search for the magazine title and filter the results using magazine, and DAISY audio options. Use the data added filter to narrow your results even further. You can subscribe to any magazine on the Magazine subscriptions page under My Account to receive new issues on your bookshelf as soon as they are available. AI voiced magazines are DAISY audio files and can be read in the same way you would access any other audio books or audio magazines, including in Dolphin EasyReader, on DAISY players, and Envoy Connect. Our goal with this pilot project is to determine if this option is one our users enjoy, and will use. To do this, we are launching a survey which requests feedback on our magazines in general, and on the AI voiced magazines specifically. If you are interested in providing feedback our survey is available and open until September 21, 2026. We know how important human narration is to our users and that in some cases synthetic audio can be a deciding factor about whether or not users choose to read certain materials. The AI voiced narrations give us an option to improve the experience of users when human narration isn’t possible or effective. For magazines, especially news based magazines, it’s important that users have timely access in order to stay informed and read the content when it is relevant. Our hope is that our users will engage with these magazines and provide us with honest feedback about the experience. We anticipate that CELA users will have questions about this new option. You can find more information, including answers to some important questions on our blog. To find AI voiced magazines, please visit our magazine page. We look forward to your feedback. |
New York Post
The No. 2 complication of the explosive diarrhea outbreak isn’t what we expected
By McKenzie Beard
Published Sep. 3, 2026, 11:50 a.m. ET
Americans’ poop problems aren’t over yet.
An “explosive diarrhea” parasite had thousands of people glued to the toilets this summer — while countless others began steering clear of fresh produce for fear of catching the nasty bug.
Now, weeks after the stomach-churning outbreak made headlines, doctors are warning of an unexpected side effect of the Cyclospora scare — and, unfortunately, it also involves No. 2.
This time, however, the problem isn’t going too much. It’s not going at all.
Rather than expelling “pure water” nonstop, as many people with cyclosporiasis have reported, a growing number of people trying to avoid the infection are dealing with painful constipation.
“When you go from eating salads and fruit regularly to cutting it out completely, your fiber intake takes a significant hit and this can impact your bowel movements,” Dr. Rabia de Latour, a gastroenterologist who works with MiraLAX, told The Post.
That’s because fiber, when paired with enough water, gives stool the bulk and softness it needs to make a smooth exit.
“When you deprive your gastrointestinal tract of the fiber, this can result in constipation and harder, difficult to pass stools,” de Latour explained.
In more severe cases, she said stools may become smaller and lose their usual shape, even taking on an appearance similar to “rabbit pellets.”
Federal health officials are still digging into the Cyclospora outbreak that tore through 20 states this summer, sickening thousands, hospitalizing hundreds and killing at least two people.
The source was traced back to tainted iceberg lettuce supplied to chains like Taco Bell by Taylor Farms de Mexico, with contaminated greens also turning up in bagged salad kits at major retailers.
Taylor Farms pulled all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico off US shelves in July and issued a recall — but by then, the damage to America’s trust in the produce aisle was done.
Widespread fear of infection, paired with confusing early guidance from health officials, led many to stop eating fruits and vegetables altogether, since Cyclospora is highly resistant to chemical disinfectants and practically impossible to rinse away entirely.
The nasty stomach bug can survive being frozen or even doused in bleach. The only way to actually kill it is cooking food to at least 158°F.
“I have a lot of friends and acquaintances reaching out to me seeking guidance on what is ‘safe to eat’ with the ongoing cyclospora outbreak,” de Latour said. “Many of them spent weeks avoiding almost all fruits and vegetables.”
That can backfire fast.
“Food moves through our entire gastrointestinal tract to be broken down, digested, absorbed and waste byproduct produced (poop), taking anywhere from 24 to 72 hours total,” de Latour said. “If you were to make a large adjustment to your diet, results could be seen in this similar time frame.”
The good news is that the offending lettuce is past its shelf life and out of circulation, so de Latour expects new cases to keep dropping.
“That being said, Americans are still experiencing food anxiety and hesitancy and many people are still avoiding iceberg lettuce when precut and bagged,” she noted.
For the still-nervous, de Latour suggests eating spinach or getting whole heads of iceberg from a farmers market — and washing it from a farmers market. She would also avoid other foods that have historically been linked to cyclosporiasis like snow peas, raspberries, parsley and cilantro.
Once you start eating fiber again, de Latour said stools should bulk back up and constipation should ease within 24 to 72 hours — but if not, you can try an osmotic laxative
“If you continue to experience symptoms despite this intervention and there is longevity to your symptoms, there might be more to your constipation beyond dietary influences and you should seek medical attention to have it thoroughly worked up,” she said.
Daily Mail
Midwest mom outraged after restaurant owner kissed her toddler at her birthday party before blowing out CANDLE on youngster's ice cream cup
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By VICTOR HELLER, US REPORTER
Published: 12:29 EDT, 3 September 2026 | Updated: 12:37 EDT, 3 September 2026
A Kansas mom was outraged after a man kissed her two-year-old daughter when the family was celebrating the toddler's birthday last week.
Cassie Berrios, 23, shared a disturbing video of her daughter's second birthday party during which the restaurant's 'equity holder,' John Arnold, suddenly came over and kissed the toddler on the cheek before blowing out her birthday candle.
Berrios wrote on Facebook that Arnold 'approached my TODDLER enjoying her moment by putting his arm around her, called her beautiful and attempted to give her a kiss on her innocent lips, something I myself as her mother do not even do.'
'Luckily in that moment my daughter moved her head in the opposite direction causing him to kiss her on her right cheek but still very near her lips,' she added.
One of the girl's concerned relatives quickly wiped off the child's cheek after she was kissed before the mother allegedly confronted the man, telling him to stop kissing other people's children.
According to Berrios, Arnold 'responded by clearly ignoring what I just said and attempted to touch her again but failed as I was guarding her, in response he told me to “go f*** myself."'
Following the verbal conflict, Arnold left the bar with another woman who witnessed the whole encounter but allegedly did not interfere.
The mother accused the man of being drunk but said workers told her that he didn’t have too much to drink while at the bar.
'The staff of the restaurant did not seemed [sic] surprised by this man's gross actions and were very quick to inform us that he was the Owner of Stearman Restaurant,' the mother wrote.
The man is believed to be the chief operating officer of A&M Management Group, which runs several restaurants in the surrounding Wichita area like the Stearman Airfield, Deano's Grill & Tapworks, Oak & Pie, Deano's on Pier 37 and Morgan's Steakhouse.
A Facebook page for the businesses posted that 'an incident occurred on Friday, August 28th at Stearman Bar & Grill that involved an unpleasant interaction between one of our equity holders and a guest.'
'The safety and satisfaction of our customers is our highest priority. We are taking steps to ensure that this type of conduct does not happen again,' it went on.
'Our team strives to be a part of the community that provides good food & service at reasonable pricing every day. Please be assured that the actions of one individual are not a reflection of the goodwill and hospitality of our other 400 incredible employees.'
The Daily Mail has reached out to Berrios's family and Arnold for comment.
IFAD and Bank of Kigali sign US$12 million financing agreement to expand access to finance for Rwanda's farmers' organizations
Kigali, Rwanda, 4 September 2026. The International Fund for Agricultural Development, Bank of Kigali and Aceli Africa announced today that they are partnering to strengthen agricultural financing in Rwanda through a new financing agreement that will improve access to finance for farmers’ organizations and smallholder farmers, supporting increased productivity, resilience, and inclusive growth across the country’s agricultural sector . This investment will support the Farmers' Organizations Financing Programme – Rwanda (FOFP-R), a blended finance initiative that is mobilizing a total of US$21 million, combining the US$12 million in IFAD financing with an additional US$9 million in co-financing from Bank of Kigali.
The initiative is expected to strengthen approximately 215 farmers organizations, provide financing to around 172 of them, and benefit more than 35,000 smallholder farmers, particularly women and youth, across key agricultural value chains such as maize, rice, cassava, dairy, and horticulture.
"The significance of Farmers' Organizations Financing Programme РRwanda represents a broader shift towards innovative financing solutions. Innovation goes beyond technology; it is also about finance, institutions, partnerships and entrepreneurship. FOFP-R is expected to reduce risk, attract additional investment and expand opportunities for rural entrepreneurs, farmers' organizations and small-scale producers," said IFAD Vice-President, G̩rardine Mukeshimana. | ||
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Agriculture employs more than 70 per cent of Rwanda's population and contributes approximately 25 per cent of the country's GDP. Despite its central role in livelihoods and economic growth, access to finance remains a major constraint for the sector, with agricultural lending accounting for only a small share of total credit in the country.
Farmers' organizations play an important role in aggregating production, facilitating access to inputs and markets, and linking farmers to financial services. Rwanda's farmers' organizations have grown steadily in number in recent years, yet around 70 per cent of their financing needs remain unmet, constrained by weak governance, limited collateral, inadequate financial records and low financial literacy, all of which increase lenders' perception of risk.
"Farmers' organizations are the backbone of Rwanda's agricultural economy, yet they have long been underserved by traditional financing. Through this partnership with IFAD, Bank of Kigali is bringing innovative, inclusive financing solutions to the people who need them most — combining capital with the technical support these organizations need to strengthen their governance and financial systems. This is what innovation in banking should look like: not just new products, but new ways of reaching the farmers who power Rwanda's economy," said Dr. Diane Karusisi, Chief Executive Officer of Bank of Kigali.
IFAD's US$12 million financing package comprises a US$9 million loan, a US$1.8 million grant for risk sharing and a US$1.2 million technical assistance grant that will strengthen the governance, financial management and digital capacity of farmers' organizations, while equipping Bank of Kigali to build the tools and expertise needed to serve these organizations sustainably.
The initiative benefitted from a US$6 million allocation to IFAD from the Business Investment Financing Track (BIFT) – a financing tool of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) that offers multilateral development finance institutions access to flexible grant and concessional finance to implement financial innovations that address the unique investment needs of smallholder farmers and early stage micro-, small- and medium-sized agribusinesses in low-income countries.
“This innovative finance solution offered by the BIFT will support more inclusive capital markets in Rwanda to help the most vulnerable working in the agri-food sector – including smallholder farmers, women, and youth – make transformative investments for their future,” said GAFSP Head Shobha Shetty.
Note to editors This Non-Sovereign Operation has been financed from the IFAD Private Sector Trust Fund and benefited from financial support from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) and the Government of Canada, demonstrating strong commitment from development partners to advancing its objectives.
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We've got a lot of mosquitoes around for September.
A couple weeks ago, at my friend's trailer, there was a dragonfly on my chair.
An acquaintance of mine has a daughter who lives in Georgetown. The daughter sent her mother a picture today indicating they've got a fair number of snails there.
In this sermon, Pastor Aaron Vriesman provides an introduction to and overview of Paul's first letter to his spiritual son Timothy.
I would disagree with what he says about the latter half of chapter 2 as well as seminaries.
Elizabeth, Robert and Elly
