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It's all change at the Bush: first a new space and now a new artistic director. As Josie Rourke hands over to Madani Younis, her final commission proves a suitably impressive end to her successful tenure at this little West London powerhouse.
Our New Girl is a piquant satire on middle-class neuroses that's also an odd and riveting picture of the pitfalls of parenting. Its author Nancy Harris serves up a rich stew of ideas (perhaps even too many) as she addresses truth and secrecy, blame and sacrifice.
At first glance Hazel Robinson has an enviable life: she has a smart London home, a job that's more like a hobby, and a bright, curious child.
Her husband Richard earns good money as a cosmetic surgeon; he makes up for the shallowness of this by doing volunteer work in Haiti.
Yet soon we see the flaws in Hazel's existence. In Kate Fleetwood's detailed interpretation, Hazel emerges as brisk and brittle, a businesslike control freak. Somewhere within her are intelligence and compassion, but she spends her days irritated by her son Daniel, struggling with a second pregnancy and surrounded by an increasing stock of Sicilian olive oil. She's also maddened by Annie, a nanny just arrived from Ireland, who seems to have a deep fund of patience and wisdom.
Annie tries to introduce fussy, fidgety Daniel to new foods and a fresh notion of discipline. When Richard returns from abroad, he bonds with Annie, which infuriates Hazel further. Although the geometry of the relationships is in some ways very much as we suspect, in others it's surprising. "We don't keep secrets here," says Richard. But everyone does.
In Charlotte Gwinner's sure-footed production, every performance is perfectly balanced. Mark Bazeley is uncanny as Richard, who thinks he's a model of reason but is cheesy and patronising.
Denise Gough makes Annie sympathetic and interesting, and there's plausible, sensitive work from Jonathan Teale as Daniel, who is an ambiguous mix of devil and angel.
It's Fleetwood who dazzles, though. She is magnetic, whether conveying Hazel's tensions and monstrous temper or suggesting her lost, spectral quality. Harris's peppery writing has created the perfect vehicle for her.
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In subsequent versions of the suit, the team replaced the water tubing with simple pockets that held refrigerated gel packs. These gel packs were not as effective at keeping patients cool, but they were far less costly and less cumbersome than the tubing, which had required a motorized pump attached to a belt. The gel packs also allowed young patients more freedom of movement than the tubing, adding a level of independence to their new outdoor activities.
NASA helped SPF further enhance the suits' safety by using lapped seams with non-overlying stitch lines, which prevent light from entering through seams. According to Del Rosso, this lap stitching is used in some NASA pressure garments to prevent stitch holes from compromising suits' protective qualities.
After deciding on the fabric blend and overall suit design, the Johnson team collaborated with SPF and the Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia (HED) Foundation (later called the Sarah Moody Foundation), in Hampton, Virginia, to provide over 1,000 suits to patients with severe light sensitivities and heat disorders. These disorders include the namesake HED, a lack of sweat glands that can lead to severe and sometimes fatal heat exhaustion; Xeroderma Pigmentosum, in which the DNA cannot repair ordinary skin damage caused by sun exposure; and polymorphic light reaction syndrome (PLRS), severe skin blistering caused by exposure to ordinary sunlight. Patients with neurological pain caused by neuropathy and multiple sclerosis also benefit from the cooling effects of the suits.
In the fall of 1997, Breese, Del Rosso, Dotts, and Johnston accompanied PLRS patients Ryan and Kyle Richards as the boys experienced their first time in the Florida sun, on a family trip to Walt Disney World that would not have been possible without the cool suits. Calling the trip one of the highlights of his life, Breese is proud of having worked with NASA to design the UV-blocking fabric and looks forward to future collaboration. "If it weren't for NASA's development of their space suits with the cooling vest technology," Breese says, "none of this project could have happened."
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In 2009, SPF's 20th year in business, ordinary beachgoers are now benefiting from the NASA and SPF partnership. The UV-blocking fabric, first used to help protect the most sensitive patients from damaging sun and heat, is now being used in swimwear and clothing for the public.
SPF categorizes its UV-blocking fabrics into two main categories: Solarweave and Solarknit, which include lines of woven or knit fabrics, respectively. The NASA fabric is incorporated into the Solarknit products, which have more stretch while still providing UV protection. The NASA collaboration, Breese says, allowed them to create a comfortable fabric that has the benefits of both the UV-blocking ability of a knit and the breathability and elasticity of a weave.
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A Hot Hawaiian Tropic Zone Grand Opening
Lauren Conrad and Audrina Patridge were among the many celebrities spending Saturday night in Las Vegas for the grand opening of the Hawaiian Tropic Zone.
Located in the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, the new spot welcomed their A-List guests by serving up food and drinks, accompanied with a performance by Hawaiian musical group Don Tiki.
According to a press release: "Hawaiian Tropic Zone boasts sexy modern décor, alluring dining room, mouth-watering menu items, the largest video wall in Las Vegas, full bar, water wall entrance, outdoor patio seating area with spectacular views of the Vegas Strip, cat-walk stage for the nightly entertainment featuring beauty pageants by the Hawaiian Tropic Zone models and cabaret dance performances, as well as live a DJ appearing nightly."
Joining LC and Audrina for the festivities were Carmen Electra, Kevin Dillon, Mario Lopez, Penthouse Pet and Playboy Playmate models, Stacy Keibler, and Emmanuelle Chriqui, among others.
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Family Sunday..
Every Sunday we have family dinner at my brother's house. Last Sunday was special, he celebrated his birthday and also the birth of his daughter Caitlin. He invited family and a few of his closest friends. It was a fun afternoon with lots of catching up and lots of food.
basa fillets with mustard and cream sauce
vermicelli spring rolls with scallops and shitake mushrooms
fried pork money bags
My sister in-law wanted to make my brothers cake. He wanted a kids cake so she made a Frog. I think its a top effort for someone that has never done it before.
Filipino parties are always full of desserts so with the cake we also had almond jelly with lychee's, chocolate covered strawberries and leche flan with lime rind to cut through the sweetness.


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GENEVA – The World Trade Organization's Appellate Body has issued a ruling that broadly backs the arguments of Japan and the European Union over the Canadian province of Ontario's preferential treatment for local firms in promoting renewable energy.
The final decision issued Monday by the Appellate Body confirms Japan's victory, which already had been largely acknowledged in a December report drafted by a WTO dispute settlement panel. It is the first appellate ruling at the WTO relating to a renewable energy dispute.
Ontario introduced a provincial feed-in tariff program in May 2009 to promote power generation through renewable energy sources.
The provincial government allows companies to take part only if they meet certain local content levels for solar and wind power equipment, and all electricity generated through renewable energy is sold to power companies at fixed rates.
The local content requirement has blocked Japanese makers of solar panels and other equipment for green power generation from landing supply contracts.
Arguing that the program discriminated against overseas products and was effectively tantamount to subsidizing local producers — in violation of WTO trade rules — Tokyo took the case to the global trade body in September 2010, and asked the Canadian government to review Ontario's feed-in system.
After Ottawa rejected this request, Japan called on the WTO in June 2011 to set up a dispute-settling panel. The panel was established the next month, and the European Union that August also filed a complaint with the WTO against Ontario's feed-in tariff program.
The dispute settlement panel released a report last December supporting Japan's claim, but Canada filed an appeal with the Appellate Body in February.
In its report Monday, the Appellate Body confirmed that Ontario's feed-in tariff program discriminates against foreign products. But due to a lack of evidence, it turned down Japan's argument that the system amounts to a subsidy scheme for local firms.


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Not everybody's a fan of TV funnyman James Corden — certainly not the City PR living near his Belsize Park pile where builders are in six days a week. "Not being able to get a lie-in beyond 8am on a Saturday — that's not funny," the American says.
Making a song and dance about G4S
G4S's new boss Ashley Almanza announced grandly a "strategy update" at a Capital Markets Day, but it would help if the troubled security services firm actually had a little new strategy to announce. As Almanza put it at least three times during a half-hour conference call: "The core strategy remains the same." Doh!
After the scandals and woes that have hit G4S, Almanza spent much of his time banging on about its "corporate values". So a good time to release a new corporate song, surely? For G4S is the famed firm behind the tune with lyrics: "You love your job and the people too,/ Making a difference is what you do… Because the enemy prowls, wanting to attack,/ But we're on the wall, we've got your back… G4S! Protecting the world, G4S! So dreams can unfurl."
The song mysteriously went off YouTube last year, although a tech nerd posted it again. But when City Spy asked about a new G4S song, the answer was: "No… though that is the best question we've heard all day."
* Pay-TV giant BSkyB is burnishing its image for corporate social responsibility by launching the Sky Academy at its west London headquarters, to train young people in sports and creative skills.
The mentoring scheme is being backed by David Beckham and Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill, with the aim of helping and inspiring one million young Britons by 2020. Sky is 39% owned by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox group but has been keen to stress its British credentials by investing in UK-made programming and in areas such as cycling and the environment.
So no-one will be more delighted about the Sky Academy than James Murdoch, who chairs Sky's Bigger Picture committeee, its corporate social responsibility initiative. He stepped down last year as Sky chairman in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal but remains a (very low-profile) non-executive director as part of his role as number three within Fox. With an eye on the bigger picture, presumably.
* This is the first line of engineering group Weir's latest update to the City: "The Weir Group announces the continuation of positive order input trends in the third quarter of 2013, with the diversity of the Weir portfolio and execution of our strategic priorities continuing to mitigate against ongoing end-market challenges." Couldn't Weir and PR advisers Brunswick have made it sound a little less, er, weary?Reuse content


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Alan Pardew must be back at his office at Benton preparing for the pre-season, which will start up in a couple of weeks time, and he has again been interviewed in the Chronicle today.
Alan Pardew – doing everything we can
Alan was asked about how the transfer dealings are coming along:
"The key signings, the strikers, are obviously the toughest ones to get over the line." "They kind of hedge their bets a little bit and we have got a little bit of that going on."
"They will all start securing up when pre-season is back in swing and they are focused on clubs." "That's when we start to see real activity."
"We're doing everything we can at the moment to be in the loop with the ones that we want to be in the loop with, and hopefully we will get the signings we want."
We have signed Jack Colback and Ayoze Perez at the moment, but we were expecting a lot more players to have been signed by now – but Newcastle seem to have been knocked back by a number of our top targets.
The unfortunate thing about that is we will have to go down the list of our targets, and our signings will not be our top ones.
And we need to get some strikers in quickly since Papiss Cisse, who is still recovering from a broken knee-cap, is the only senior striker we have at Newcastle at the moment.
Loic Remy, Shola Ameobi and Luuk de Jong all left, and Papiss didn't particularly have a good goal-scoring season last term either.
We have been linked with Hertha Berlin striker Pierre-Michel Lasogga, Burnley's Danny Ings, Borussia Dortmund's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Heerenveen's Alfred Finnbogason, Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette, Enner Valencia of Mexican club Pachuca, and long term target Bafe Gomis, but no success yet in the striker department.
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Most Occidentals think freckles are cute but not that cute. Most Asians think even less of them and consider freckles more of a blemish to be covered.
According to an article by Alene Dawson in the Los Angeles Times, such sentiments are changing fast, thanks in at least small part to actress Lucy Liu, perhaps the most famous Asian actress to flaunt her freckles with pride.
In non-Asians, sun damage has a way of bringing out fine wrinkling at even young ages. That's not quite so true in Asians, who instead react to sun damage with more pigmentary build-up that can take on various forms, including the suddenly hot freckle.
Freckles are clusters of melanin triggered by sunlight and can range from a delicate sprinkling across the nose to almost total body coverage. According to Dr. Jessica Wu, an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at USC School of Medicine, "freckles are a sign of sun damage, regardless of age or the color of your skin." The more you have and the bigger and darker they are, the more serious your degree of damage.
"Anyone with freckles, regardless of skin tone, should be more careful about sun protection," warns Dr. Wu. Short of staying inside or never going out without a hat and long sleeves, your best bet is the regular use of a good sunscreen.
While freckles can be removed with non-invasive skin treatments like chemical, laser, or intense pulsed light skin peels and prescription bleaching creams, they can also be hidden by makeup. In the past, many of Asian descent chose thick concealers that tended to make the skin look chalky.
Now that freckles are joining the ranks of "cool," there are other cosmetic options to consider, like use of a light-reflecting powder that lessens the color while letting the freckle shine through in all its glory.
While going bare is now totally modern, don't forget and step out without the sunscreen. Makeup artist Brett Freedman who works with actresses like Lucy Liu offers some good tips and recommendations here.
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The Heritage Minutes DVD15.00 CAD
The Heritage Minutes are dramatic interpretations of pivotal events in Canada's history. These 60-second vignettes commemorate notable Canadians, achievements in innovation, and instances of perseverance and bravery. They are intended to entertain, educate and encourage further research into our nation's past.
This new DVD collection brings together all of the classic Heritage Minutes (including, for the first time, the Military Minutes produced in 2005), as well as the new Minutes produced since 2012.
Run time: 78 minutes
|Track 1
|Lucille Teasdale
|Women, Heroes
Humanitarian and visionary Lucille Teasdale was one of Canada's first female surgeons. She went to Gulu, Uganda to practice medicine and to help those in need. By the time of her death in 1996, she received numerous international honours including the Order of Québec and the Order of Canada. Lucille Teasdale's extraordinary selflessness and humanitarian determination make her one of Canada's most remarkable women.
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|Laura Secord
|Pre-Confederation, Military, Women, Heroes
Most Canadians know the name of Laura Secord, although they may be a bit fuzzy on the subject of her heroic trek that saved the British and Canadian forces at the Battle of Beaver Dams during the War of 1812.
Laura Ingersoll Secord was the young wife of James Secord, a settler in Queenston, Upper Canada. The War of 1812 was very personal to Laura. Like her husband and many others in Upper Canada, Laura had been born in the United States and had relatives across the line. But she was fiercely loyal to the British Crown, and was committed to the defence of the colony.
|Track 3
|Pre-Confederation, Indigenous History
Centuries ago, the Iroquois nations found a way to establish peace and unity among themselves. Even today, they rediscover the source of their peace in the story of Peacemaker. It is said that somewhere in "the land of the crooked tongues," the region that is now eastern Ontario, an old woman had a dream that a messenger from the Great Spirit was standing before her.
|Track 4
From the fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord !
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|John Cabot
It is ironic that England's claim to North America, the claim that is responsible for the creation of Canada as we know it, rests on the discoveries of an Italian sea captain.
|Track 6
|Jacques Cartier
|Pre-Confederation, Indigenous History
After Columbus landed in the Western Hemisphere in 1492, European rulers sent explorers across the Atlantic to the Americas to claim territory and discover riches. The Spanish, Portuguese, English, Dutch and French all wanted a piece of the "New World" for themselves. Sometimes we forget that the "new world" was not new at all, but the ancient home of many people who were called "Indians" by the Europeans. Jacques Cartier came from the French court of King Francis I to explore North America. In 1534, on his first voyage, he explored the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
|Track 7
|Jean Nicollet
In the first years of the 17th century, the beaver pelt trade created a heated rivalry among the French, English and Dutch in North America. The European powers vied for alliances with the Indigenous peoples. While the English and Dutch tried to attract Indigenous people to their trading posts, the French chose a different approach - travelling to where the First Peoples lived, learning their languages and customs, and converting them to Christianity.
|Track 8
Is there anything more Canadian than maple syrup? "Sugaring time," that brief space between winter and spring when the snow starts to melt and the sap begins to flow in the maple groves evokes romantic images of our pioneering past. Despite the technological advances in farming techniques, production of maple syrup remains largely a "family operation," essentially unchanged from its traditional past.
|Track 9
|Governor Frontenac
"I will reply from the mouth of my cannons..."
Heroism can take many forms. Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac, is the kind of swashbuckling hero who leaps out of history. At least, that is the image of the man that comes to us from his portraits and the romantic accounts of his exploits.
|Track 10
|Hart & Papineau
Through the tireless efforts of Benjamin Hart, the Legislative Assembly granted Jews the right to erect a new synagogue and to keep registers of births, marriages and deaths within their community.
|Track 11
|Étienne Parent
The Conquest of 1760 raised problems of coexistence between the Canadiens and the British, two peoples who differed in language, religion, and legal codes as well as in attitudes and customs. The Constitution Act [1791] attempted to provide a solution by splitting the colony into two parts, Upper Canada for the Loyalists (which became Ontario) and Lower Canada (which became Québec) for the Canadiens, allowing the two peoples to develop through representative institutions.
|Track 12
|Baldwin & LaFontaine
PROVINCE OF CANADA 1841 - Canada's existence owes much to the partnership of two moderate reformers: Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin.
Trained as a lawyer, LaFontaine began his political career with election to the Lower Canadian Assembly when he was twenty three years old. Tall and portly, LaFontaine was respected as a man of ideals whose love for French Canada was readily apparent.
|Track 13
|Responsible Government
Our governor general controlled by an elected assembly, instead of by us. It's a Canadian idea!
Individual women and men can achieve great things when they break with tradition. But history shows that nations, too, must forge new paths to realize their ideals.
|Track 14
In the 1850s, many Québec families adopted Irish orphans, their parents dead from ship's fever on the Atlantic crossing
The Irish and the French Canadians share a part of history that goes back more than 150 years, at a time when waves of European immigrants were flooding into Canada, most of them arriving first in Québec. One tragic episode occurred in 1847.
|Track 15
|Underground Railroad
|Human Rights, Pre-Confederation
Between 1840 and 1860, more than 30,000 American slaves came secretly to Canada and freedom
|Track 16
|Joseph Casavant
|Arts and Culture
We are pleased to inform you that we have just opened a workshop intended for the manufacture of Organs and Pipes for Churches, Chapels, Concert Halls and the like.
This was how, in November 1879, Claver and Samuel Casavant announced the opening of Casavant Frères in Saint-Hyacinthe, near Montréal. Though their interest in research and technological innovation, as well as a keen business sense, had led the brothers to launch this most prestigious organ factory, it was a blacksmith with a passion for music who first dreamed the dream years earlier.
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|The Paris Crew
In 1867, just weeks after Confederation, a lighthouse keeper and three fishermen from Saint John, NB took the sporting world by storm. The place was Paris, France and the event was the World Amateur Rowing Championship, part of the International Exposition.
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|Saguenay Fire
The spring of 1870 came so early to the Saguenay region and was so dry that the farmers of this region in northeastern Québec hurriedly ploughed their fields so that sowing could be finished by early May. These unusual conditions, however, set the stage for one of the worst disasters ever to befall the region.
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|Jennie Trout
|Human Rights, Women
The names of women are conspicuously absent from the lists of famous Canadian medical pioneers. During the 19th Century, while male physicians and surgeons were exploring new treatments and innovative medical procedures, Canadian women were struggling for the mere right to practice medicine. For them, acceptance into a medical school was a major achievement. The two women most responsible for breaking down the barriers and advancing medical training for women in Canada were Emily Stowe and Jennie Kidd Trout.
|Track 20
|Sitting Bull
|Indigenous History
From 1850 until his death in 1890, Sitting Bull symbolized the conflict between settlers and Indigenous culture over lifestyles, land and resources. Sitting Bull led the Sioux resistance against U.S. incursion into Indigenous lands, resistance that often ended in battle. After the most famous battle at Little Big Horn, in which General George Custer's forces were completely annihilated, Sitting Bull left the United States for the Cypress Hills in Saskatchewan.
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|Les Voltigeurs de Québec
|Arts and Culture
Our history is full of discoveries and occasional surprises - the origin of "O Canada!" is one example. Although officially proclaimed Canada's national anthem in Ottawa on July 1, 1980, "O Canada!" was introduced in Québec City a hundred years earlier, on June 24, 1880, and was subsequently adopted as the patriotic anthem of French Canadians!
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|Joseph Tyrrell
By the time young Joseph Burr Tyrrell was sent to survey the Alberta badlands, he had already proven himself to the scientist-explorers of the Canadian Geological Survey, those unheralded heroes who mapped the vast territories of Canada in the last century.
In June 1884, 24-year-old Tyrrell and his assistant were paddling their canoe between the steep banks of the Red Deer River. In the layers of ancient rock, the geologist found seams of coal, outcroppings of one of the largest coal deposits in North America. He also discovered something even more amazing.
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|Sir Sandford Fleming
The Nineteenth Century was the Age of Steam, an era when technical innovators like Sandford Fleming transformed the face of the industrial world and took on the stature of national heroes. This Historica Minute captures the energy and spirit of the dynamic chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway who surveyed the first rail route across Canada, designed our first postage stamp, and successfully championed the Trans-Pacific telegraph cable which was laid from Vancouver to Australia.
|Track 24
|Rural Teacher
On an August day in 1885, Prince Edward Island painter Robert Harris paid a call on Kate Henderson, the teacher of the one-room school at Long Creek, P.E.I. As Miss Henderson told the story of how she had "laid down the law" to the men who sat as school trustees and "talked them over" about her unconventional teaching methods, Harris had the inspiration for his masterpiece, "The Meeting of the School Trustees." Now the painting and the story behind it come to life in a Historica Minute that honours Kate Henderson and the many other rural teachers of Canada's past.
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By the late Nineteenth Century, the railroad had connected eastern Canada with the West Coast. The train offered new access to the vast western prairies - thousands of hectares of fertile soil.
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Until well into this century, most Canadians were born at home and the only professional hand guiding their arrival into the world was the midwife's
The first midwife began her practice, so the saying goes, nine months after God placed two women and one man on the earth. The office of midwife, which literally means 'with wife,' is an ancient one. Throughout history, babies were delivered with the assistance of a midwife. At least until the 20th Century, women controlled the process of childbirth in all cultures.
|Track 27
Basketball fans have come to expect the impossible from the fast, powerful giants who dominate the game today. The phenomenal feats of Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson would have amazed Dr. James Naismith, the modest Canadian who invented the game 100 years ago when he hung a peach basket on a gym wall.
The centenary of Naismith's invention was commemorated by a postage stamp, issued on October 25, 1991. This Historica Minute dramatizes the first clumsy efforts of Naismith's un-enthusiastic gym class to play the new game.
|Track 28
|Sam Steele
Superintendent Sam Steele of the North West Mounted Police was no stranger to action. The big, burly Mountie had helped rid the west of whisky traders, policed the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and averted war between Indigenous people and white settlers in British Columbia. At last, as commanding officer at Fort Macleod, married, with three children, he thought he might settle into peaceful retirement.
|Track 29
|Frontier College
"Whenever and wherever people shall have occasion to congregate, then and there shall be the time, place and means of their education." - Reverend Alfred Fitzpatrick, 1920
|Track 30
The wind howled and icy rain pelted down as the fragile kite swung desperately in the gale over the Newfoundland cliffs, tugging at its 180-metre wire. It was midday on December 12, 1901, and Guglielmo Marconi sat anxiously in the small, dark room on Signal Hill.
|Track 31
|Grey Owl
|Indigenous History
Archibald Belaney perpetrated one of the 20th Century's most convincing hoaxes. Known to the world as "Grey Owl," he convinced everyone that he was a Canadian-born Indigenous author and became one of Canada's most popular and famous personalities. Grey Owl's British origins came to light shortly after his death and the ensuing public outcry ignored his significant contributions as a conservationist. A generation after his death though, Grey Owl is remembered as a champion of our natural heritage, who helped create a legacy of awareness and protection for Canada's forests and wildlife.
|Track 32
|Valour Road
|Military, Heroes
WORLD WAR I was known as The Great War, a name that referred to its international scale, its massive mobilization of men, munitions and supplies, and its terrible toll on human life. Some say that the young country of Canada came of age in this war. Canadians won glory in the Royal Flying Corps, where Billy Bishop and Raymond Collishaw survived long enough to become aces of the air, and Roy Brown downed the Red Baron. However, it was also in the gruesome war of the trenches that Canadians demonstrated their endurance and courage.
|Track 33
|Military, Arts and Culture
Few Canadian black bears have achieved the literary renown of "Winnipeg," Captain Harry Colebourn's pet black bear. Lasting fame came to Winnipeg after a boy - Christopher Robin - and his father - A.A. Milne - saw Winnipeg at the London Zoo.
|Track 34
|Human Rights
"They say that for every mile of railway, one Chinese man died," the old man tells his granddaughters. The story of the Chinese people who came to British Columbia in 1882 to work on the final link of the Canadian Pacific Railway is the subject of the Historica Minute Nitro. The experience of these Chinese immigrants, who risked their lives performing the most dangerous jobs on the railway [for half the wages of white labourers!] is only one chapter in the history of the Chinese in Canada.
|Track 35
|John McCrae
|Military, Arts and Culture
On December 8, 1915, Punch magazine published a poem commemorating the dead of World War I. "In Flanders Fields" was written by John McCrae of Guelph, Ontario, after his experiences in the trench warfare around Ypres, Belgium.
|Track 36
|J.S. Woodsworth
|Human Rights
"I submit that the Government exists to provide for the needs of the people, and when it comes to choice between profits and property rights on the one hand and human welfare on the other, there should be no hesitation whatsoever in saying that we are going to place the human welfare consideration first and let property rights and financial interests fare as best they may." - J.S. Woodsworth, 1922
|Track 37
|Halifax Explosion
"What do you think you're doing?" shouted chief clerk William Lovett as train dispatcher Vince Coleman turned back towards the office. "We've only got a minute or two left! Anyone in the office won't stand a chance, and you're a married man with a family to think of!" But Vince Coleman was thinking about the passenger trains speeding towards the threatened harbour. He had to stop them.
|Track 38
|Joseph-Armand Bombardier
For years now, business surveys have acknowledged Bombardier as the star performer among Québec companies. This tribute is no doubt based on the unique management style and technological flair of North America's leader in the heavy transportation industry. It also honours the heritage begun by the determined, visionary founder of this small empire, the man who never stopped inventing, perfecting, and producing all-terrain vehicles: Joseph Armand Bombardier.
|Track 39
|Emily Murphy
"The world loves a peaceful man," declared Emily Murphy, "but it gives way to a strenuous kicker." Murphy herself was a strenuous kicker, one who opened the path of reform in the legal landscape of Canada.
Emily Murphy began her career as a writer of sunny, patriotic travel sketches, which she published under the pseudonym Janey Canuck. Known for its liveliness and humour, her writing also expressed serious concern for the welfare of women and children. Increasingly she found herself speaking out frankly and publicly on behalf of the disadvantaged.
|Track 40
Superman leapt from comic books to radio serials in the 1940s, and on to the television screen by the 1950s. At the beginning of each episode a breathless announcer proclaimed that the caped superhero would once again defend "Truth, Justice and the American Way." Who would have thought that this great American hero was a Canadian creation?
|Track 41
|Myrnam Hospital
Myrnam, Alberta 1935
It was snowing outside and the three-bed "service station" that acted as a hospital for Myrnam was overflowing with seventeen patients. It wasn't the first time the little hospital located two hundred kilometers east of Edmonton - had been filled past capacity. Something had to be done.
|Track 42
|La Bolduc
|Women, Arts and Culture
The Great Depression tested the endurance of working men and women. Despite these hard times, Mary Travers-Bolduc made ordinary people like herself laugh with her witty songs of everyday life in the 1930s.
|Track 43
|Indigenous History
For thousands of years, the Inuit peoples have hunted and fished the Canadian arctic. They did not build permanent settlements. Instead, they adapted their living conditions to the seasonal changes in the northern climate and to the behaviour of the animals they hunted.
|Track 44
|Wilder Penfield
Dr. Wilder Penfield had a passionate desire to unlock the mysteries of the human brain. He revolutionized the techniques of brain surgery and made major discoveries about human cognition, memory and sensation.
Penfield's medical exploration began with the causes and treatment of epilepsy, which was considered incurable. In 1935 he set up the Montréal Neurological Institute, which brought together surgeons and scientists for co-operative projects in the research, diagnosis and surgical treatment of brain disorders.
|Track 45
|Agnes Macphail
Agnes Macphail began her career as a country schoolteacher. Interested in agricultural problems, she became a member and active spokesperson for the United Farmers of Ontario. Her move into politics stemmed from her desire to represent the farmers of her region. In 1919 women gained the right to run for Parliament, and Macphail was elected in 1921, the first federal election in which women had the vote.
|Track 46
|Sports, Science/Innovation
Laughter echoed down the halls of the Halifax Herald office. Senator William B. Dennis, editor, had just scanned the sports page of a New York paper. "The New York Yacht Club," the item read, " has announced postponement of the race scheduled for today because of a twenty-three-mile-an-hour gale." The America's Cup race, the darling of yachting enthusiasts, was delayed because of winds that would barely tickle the sails of a Nova Scotia saltbank schooner. A Lunenburg skipper would yawn at the prospect of setting out in such a light breeze.
|Track 47
|Emily Carr
|Women, Arts and Culture
"There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wilderness, the Western breath of go-to-the-devil-if-you-don't-like-it, the eternal big spaceness of it. Oh the West! I'm of it and I love it!" "Contrary from the start" was the way Emily Carr described herself in her autobiography. She was a naughty child, an impatient and rebellious young girl, and a young woman who scorned the tidy conventions of the very proper Victorian society of Victoria, British Columbia.
|Track 48
|Pauline Vanier
|Military, Women
The lives of Georges Vanier, his wife Pauline, and their son Jean are evidence that individual commitment can make the world a better place. The Vanier family is an outstanding example of social commitment and accomplishment in our century.
|Track 49
|Marion Orr
|Military, Women
Owing to the male-biased Service regulations of the time, the wishes of Canadian women pilots to fly with the RCAF during World War II were generally shot down. Nevertheless, as least one Canadian woman managed to fly military aircraft. Marion Orr paid for her own flying lessons in 1941, then went off to England where she got a position with the Air Transport Auxiliary ferry service, moving combat planes between airfields. By October 1944 she had accumulated 700 flying hours on 67 different types of planes.
|Track 50
|Maurice "Rocket" Richard
December 28, 1944 was moving day for 23 year old Maurice Richard. All day he hefted furniture - including a piano - into his new house. That night he scored 5 goals and 3 assists to lead the Montréal Canadiens to a 9-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings, setting an NHL record. During Game Seven of the 1952 Stanley Cup final against Boston, an injured Richard, squinting through blood from an earlier blow, scored the tie-breaking goal to win the Cup. He received a four-minute standing ovation, the longest in Montréal Forum history.
|Track 51
|Jackie Robinson
The 1997 baseball season belonged to the memory of Jackie Roosevelt Robinson, the African American who broke Major League Baseball's colour barrier fifty years earlier. In commemoration of Robinson's courage, integrity, and determined excellence as a player and as a model for young people, every major league player wore a Jackie Robinson insignia, and Robinson's uniform number, 42, was retired by every team in the National and American Leagues.
|Track 52
|John Humphrey
|Human Rights
Eleanor Roosevelt called it "the Magna Carta of Mankind." Pope John Paul II described it as "the Conscience of Mankind." Adopted by the United Nations on December 10, 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognized fundamental rights and freedoms throughout the world, and influenced national legislation, including the Canadian Bill of Rights and our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
A Canadian commemorative stamp was issued on October 7, 1998, marking the 50th anniversary of the Declaration and honouring its author, New Brunswick-born John Peters Humphrey.
|Track 53
|Avro Arrow
|Military, Science/Innovation
Canada's greatest aeronautical achievement was the CF-105 jet fighter, and the subsequent cancellation of the project in 1959 still remains a story of political intrigue and controversy.
The CF-105, or Avro Arrow as it was known, was a supersonic jet interceptor developed by A.V. Roe of Canada. Faster and more advanced than any other comparable aircraft, the Arrow was designed to carry air-to-air nuclear-tipped missiles to destroy Soviet bomb attacks over the Canadian North.
|Track 54
|Arts and Culture
In 1953, entrepreneur Tom Patterson and artistic director Tyrone Guthrie transformed Stratford, Ontario, from a small railroad town into the Canadian home of Shakespearean drama. The Stratford Festival attracted international recognition and served as the prototype for dozens of other Canadian festivals including the Montréal Jazz Festival and the Toronto Film Festival. From the opening performance of Richard III, held in a leaky tent, Tom Patterson started a phenomenon that Canadians continue to treasure.
|Track 55
|Paul Émile Borduas
|Arts and Culture
Thirty years after the Group of Seven produced their symbols of Canada, French-speaking Montréalers began to seek an artistic language to convey the complex reality of their changing society. Under the leadership of painter Paul-Émile Borduas, this group of artists laid the foundations for a social and artistic revolution.
|Track 56
|Le Réseau
The end of the Second World War brought a boom to Canada. Business thrived and people built new homes. The demand for telephone communication exploded, yet the telephone companies were not equipped for the challenge. What was needed was a new invention, and a person with the energy and vision to turn that new technology into a reality.
|Track 57
|Maurice Ruddick
|Human Rights, Heroes
While Maurice Ruddick rode the trolley to begin his afternoon shift, he sang "The Shiek of Araby" in his lusty baritone. This did not surprise his fellow miners, for Ruddick, one of the few black men employed at the Springhill mine, had quite a reputation for his singing. On the afternoon of October 23, he was cheerfully thinking of his tiny seven-day old daughter, his twelfth child.
|Track 58
|Jacques Plante
Jacques Plante broke with tradition and changed the face of hockey forever.
Jacques Plante was to become one of the National Hockey League's greatest goalies, but was never one to rest on his laurels. He would dare to be different and go against the game's "macho" traditions by wearing a protective face mask, and developed a very personal style of play in front of and behind the net.
|Track 59
|Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian professor of English literature who burst into world prominence as a media guru in the 1960s. Working with the ideas of Harold Innis, another Canadian communications expert, McLuhan popularized the idea that our technologies have a profound effect upon our lives, culture, and history.
|Track 60
|Arts and Culture
The creation of a new flag stirred a national debate. Many Canadians were strongly attached to the Red Ensign, the British Union Jack and Canadian coat-of-arms on a red field. It had been used, officially and unofficially, for generations. For many veterans and their families, it was the banner under which Canada had gone to war.
But Prime Minister Lester Pearson believed that the time had come for a national flag "which could not be mistaken for the emblem of any other country and which...would be a strong unifying force" for Canada.
|Track 61
|Expo '67
|Arts and Culture
There was much to celebrate in the year of Canada's Centennial, but its crowning achievement was Expo 67, one of the greatest birthday parties in history. One of the most successful international exhibitions of the 20th Century, Expo 67 gave Montréal the opportunity to show itself as an international city and proved once and for all that Canada had come of age.
|Track 62
|Nat Taylor
|Arts and Culture
People love to go to the movies; the most difficult part is often deciding what movie to see at the local cineplex. But multiple movie theatres are a relatively recent innovation, and the man who single-handedly changed the way we go to the movies was a Canadian, Nat Taylor. He even invented the now globally used word 'cineplex'.
|Track 63
|Water Pump
The image of a woman in traditional dress, balancing a huge water container on her head, has become a common symbol of the picturesque life in the developing world. Yet this image also points to the harsh conditions that still exist in many parts of Africa, Asia, and South America, where villagers walk miles every day to bring water back to their homes from rivers, lakes, and local water holes. As populations have soared, those bodies of water have become depleted and polluted, often spreading cholera, dysentery, and other water-borne diseases.
|Track 64
|Nellie McClung
|Human Rights, Women, Heroes
Nellie McClung was a political activist. She was also a charmer with a gift for oratory and a delightful sense of humour. Her spirited leadership rallied others to the cause of women's suffrage in Manitoba in the early 20th century.
|Track 65
|Louis Riel
|Human Rights, Indigenous History
What thoughts ran through Louis Riel's mind as he stood on the scaffold, waiting for the trap door to open to his death? Perhaps he thought about the turmoil that surrounded him, a turmoil that still surrounds the controversial Métis leader today. Even now, Louis Riel is a hero to many, a visionary, the fiery leader of a downtrodden people. To others he is a madman, a traitor, or a misguided zealot.
|Track 66
|Maple Leaf Gardens
At the corner of Carleton and Church Streets is one of Canada's national treasures, the Maple Leaf Gardens. For almost 68 years, the Gardens, as it was known, hosted a variety of events and was the home of one of the "Original Six" hockey teams, the Toronto Maple Leafs. Perhaps more significantly, it was the scene of many cherished Canadian moments.
|Track 67
|Andrew Mynarski
|Military, Heroes
Pilot Officer Andrew Mynarski was the mid-upper gunner of a Lancaster bomber, attacking a target at Cambrai, France, on the night of 12 June 1944. The aircraft came under fire from an enemy fighter. The pilot ordered the crew to bail out. In an act of heroism, Mynarski remained onboard the fiery plane, determined to save his friend.
|Track 68
|Mona Parsons
|Military, Women
Mona Louise Parsons was born in 1901 in Nova Scotia. Although Parsons never wore a uniform, she was willing to lay her life on the line for her country and for freedom. And she very nearly lost her life when she was arrested by the Gestapo near Amsterdam in September 1941, for assisting downed Allied airmen.
|Track 69
|Tommy Prince
|Military, Indigenous History
Thomas George Prince was born 25 October 1915 at Petersfield, Manitoba. He was one of 11 children born to Harry and Elizabeth (née Desjarlais) Prince of the Brokenhead Band. He was a descendant of Peguis, the Saulteaux Chief. In 1920, the family moved to Scanterbury, Manitoba, on the Brokenhead Reserve.
|Track 70
|Vimy Ridge
|Military, Heroes
One of the greatest battles in Canadian history was the battle at Vimy Ridge, which began on 9 April 1917. Canadian bravery and valour led to the tremendous victory for the entire Allied Force and was considered a turning point of WWI.
|Track 71
|Osborn of Hong Kong
|Military, Heroes
Canada's role in World War II stretched beyond the battlefields of Europe. Canadian troops fought on land, in the air and on the seas in France, the Netherlands, Italy, North Africa and Hong Kong. It was in Hong Kong that Warrant Officer John Osborn, the Company Sergeant-Major, sacrificed his own life to save the lives of others.
|Track 72
|Home from the Wars
Following World War II, after having served their country for the long, horrible years of the war, service personnel wanted only to re-establish their civilian lives and set up households with their families. The return of more than a million Canadians to peacetime life created a housing demand that the private sector could not meet. The federal government was challenged to meet the need for a rehabilitation program to assist ex-service members. Social housing in Canada has its origins in the demand for such a program.
|Track 73
|Dextraze in the Congo
|Human Rights, Military, Heroes
Canada has a long history of international peacekeeping and has been part of every major peacekeeping operation. Although the UN has been involved in missions since 1948, Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson popularized the term "peacekeeping" in the late 1950s. Pearson's efforts won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957.
|Track 74
|Juno Beach
On the evening of D-Day, musician and broadcaster Johnny Lombardi boosts morale on the edge of a Normandy beach by entertaining the troops with a rendition of a familiar Canadian song.
|Track 75
|Richard Pierpoint
|Human Rights, Pre-Confederation, Military
Richard Pierpoint was born in Bondu (now Senegal) in 1744. In 1760, he was captured and brought to America where he was sold to a British officer. After more than 20 years in America, he won his emancipation by fighting as a member of Butler's Rangers in the American Revolution.
|Track 76
|Queenston Heights
|Pre-Confederation, Military, Indigenous History
13 October 1812 was a fateful day for the Six Nations of the Grand River. British forces, including about 160 Six Nations warriors, were assembled at Fort George at the mouth of the Niagara River in anticipation of an American invasion, which came upriver near the small Upper Canadian village of Queenston. John Norton and John Brant, along with several other leaders and warriors, hurried to the scene, only to learn that General Brock had been killed and that the Americans had taken the Heights overlooking the village.
|Track 77
|Winnipeg Falcons
The Winnipeg Falcons, a team of Icelandic-Canadian hockey players once rejected by their hometown league, won the very first gold medal in Olympic hockey in 1920. The triumph of the Winnipeg Falcons is a story of perseverance over adversity and of underdogs beating the odds.
|Track 78
|Sir John A. Macdonald
Macdonald wasn't just the founder of a nation that otherwise, almost certainly, would not have survived. He shaped a nation that has gone on to thrive to a degree exceeded or matched by very few among the near 200 nations around the planet. If Macdonald were told this today his likeliest response would be to shrug and then turn his attention to his plans for the next election campaign.
— Richard J. Gwyn
|Track 79
|Sir George-Étienne Cartier
[Cartier] was as bold as a lion. He was just the man I wanted. But for him, Confederation could not have been carried.
- Sir John A. Macdonald
|Track 80
|Nursing Sisters
|Military, Women, Heroes
Canada's wartime history is filled with stories of bravery, and the nursing sisters who served with the military during the North West Rebellion, the South African War, the First and Second World Wars, and the Korean War were certainly among the most courageous. While carrying out official duties, dozens died from enemy action and disease during their service.
|Track 81
|Terry Fox
Following a bone scan on 4 March, 1977 to investigate severe pain in Terry Fox's right leg, his orthopedic surgeon's worst suspicions were confirmed – Fox had osteogenic sarcoma, a type of bone cancer that often starts in the knee. Because the cancer spreads quickly, doctors felt Fox's best chance for survival was amputating his right leg, followed by chemotherapy.
|Track 82
|Viola Desmond
|Human Rights, Women, Heroes
On the evening of 8 November 1946, Halifax businesswoman Viola Irene Desmond (née Davis), made an unplanned stop in the small community of New Glasgow after her car broke down en route to a business meeting in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Told she would have to wait a few hours for the repair, she decided to see the movie The Dark Mirror, starring Olivia de Havilland, at the Roseland Theatre. Desmond requested a ticket for a seat on the main floor ("One down, please.").
|Track 83
|Chanie Wenjack
|Indigenous History
At age 9, Chanie Wenjack was sent to the Cecilia Jeffrey Residential School, near Kenora, Ontario. Chanie ran away from school at age 12 and died during his attempt to return home. His death sparked the first inquest into the treatment of Indigenous children at residential schools.
Chanie grew up in Ogoki Post, on the Anishinaabe Marten Falls Reserve in Northern Ontario, where he lived with his family until he was taken from them to attend residential school in 1963. Once there, he was given the name Charlie by the staff, and this became the name by which he was commonly known.
|Track 84
|Naskumituwin (Treaty)
|Indigenous History
Treaty 9, also known as the James Bay Treaty, was signed between the Government of Canada and Cree and Ojibwa nations in 1905. One of 11 numbered treaties signed in the post-Confederation era, it covers most of present-day Northern Ontario.
The process of ceding land to the government began in Upper Canada before Confederation, and many of these early treaty negotiations encompassed the hunting and fishing rights of Indigenous groups. After Confederation, Sir John A. Macdonald began implementing the numbered treaty system to open up the western provinces for settlement.
|Track 85
|Kenojuak Ashevak
|Women, Arts and Culture, Indigenous History
More about Kenojuak Ashevak.
|Track 86
|Edmonton Grads
|Women, Sports
They would go on to become the most successful team in Canadian sports history.
Archival photos courtesy of the Provincial Archives of Alberta.


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- Combine coriander and cumin in a small saute pan and toast over high heat until fragrant.
- Transfer to a spice grinder, add ground turmeric and garam masala, and grind till very fine. Transfer into a bowl and mix with garlic and ginger.
- Transfer half the spices into a different bowl and mix with 2 containers of Liberte Greek Plain yogurt and salt.
- Coat the quail thoroughly, cover and refrigerate.5. Heat the olive oil in a 6-quart sauce pan over medium heat. add the onion, cardamom and red pepper flakes. Cook stirring until the onions have softened, about 5 minutes.6. add the remaining spices and cook stirring for another 5 minutes.
- Add tomatoes and their juices. Bring to a boil and cook stirring over medium heat until flavor concentrates, about 15 minutes.
- Add coconut milk, bring to a boil and cook stirring often until the sauce thickens, about 45 minutes.
- Preheat the grill to manufacturers' specifications. Grill the quail on both sides over very high heat until well browned, about 5 minutes per side.
- Transfer the quail into a sauce. Gently stir in the chopped herbs and remaining 2 containers of Liberte Greek Plain yogurt. Bring the whole thing to a simmer, and do not boil.
- Transfer to a serving platter, garnish with herb leaves and serve immediately.
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The impact of leadership on Library quality: Outcomes of a benchmarking project between ATN libraries
Levinge, Leanne C. & Tang, Karen (2006) The impact of leadership on Library quality: Outcomes of a benchmarking project between ATN libraries. In ALIA 2006 Biennial Conference: CLICK '06, 20-22 September 2006, Perth, Western Australia.
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In the context of a university library, 'quality management' encompasses planning, service evaluation, performance monitoring, client satisfaction, continuous improvement and, most importantly, the relationships and interactions between these.
This paper will discuss the outcomes of a benchmarking project undertaken in 2005-2006 by the university Libraries of the Australian Technology Network (LATN), which aimed to establish best practice in quality management within ATN libraries.
While the project achieved its objective of establishing best practice, its outcomes have also highlighted that leadership plays a key role – from the conception to the embedding – in a library's quality management program and 'culture of quality'.
The influence of the library leader (university librarian or equivalent) is unequivocal in the effectiveness of a library's quality management program. Outcomes of the LATN benchmarking project also illustrate that the leadership displayed by others is pivotal in the success of a library's quality management program.
All Library staff (including a library's assigned 'quality officer'), supervisors and managers, and a university's various central administration groups, can each display initiative and direction in the area of quality management and thereby influence – in various ways – the structure, success and future development of a library's quality management program.
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Switched receptacle wiring problem.
Three cables (nine separate wires) come into the outlet box. One cable supplies power, another cable carries that power on to other outlets, and the third cable goes to the wall-mounted switch. This is a middle of the run installation. All of the romex lines are 2 wire. There is no red wire.
I have the white wire within the cable that goes to the switch made hot and marked black at the outlet box. I have pigtailed all of the black wires together omitting the white wire that is marked black. The hot pigtail wire is attached to the lower brass screw of the outlet. The white wire marked black tape goes is on the upper brass screw of the outlet.
The tab between the two brass terminals of the outlet is broken.
The white wire of the romex going to the outlets down the line is on the lower silver screw and the white from the romex hot line is on the upper silver screw.
After the outlet and switch were wired and the circuit turned back on, I had power on both wires at the switch and at the plug with the black pigtail, but not to the plug with the white wire. The black and white at the switch are hot, but neither dies when the switch is turned on or off.
I changed out the receptacle to a different one, with the tab broken in both situations. And I changed out the switch to be sure also with the same result.
The same situation occurred if I reversed the black pigtail and white wire going to the switch on the outlet, whichever plug has the white wire that goes to the switch doesn't have power.
Is it possible that the white wire at the switch is hot because it's is getting power from the black wire at the switch that is attached to the feed in the outlet box, but when it leaves the switch and returns back to the plug it's damaged inside the wall causing it to be dead on arrival at the outlet?
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She @ the Shore, Welcome to the forum (sounds like NJ)
See if this helps? That is if I understand your problem.
The above drawing will work. However it has code violation. You must reverse the white and black wires going to the switch.
The white must carry power to the switch and the black must carry switched from the switch.
Joed is correct on this one due if someone get the netrual and switched conductor {if not remarked } and turn on the switch .,,,, :huh::censored: { you can fill the rest in what you want to say in here} you have instat short circuit { as someone in this forum called a scuide {SP} switch }
Normally I used red or bleu marker to remind that is remarked white cable.
(Note here this rule allowed with cable only not the indivual conductor smaller than #6 { 16mm²} cannot be remarked only on larger one it allowed }
My apologies to joed, Marc, sheshore and anyone else who saw my mis-labeled black and white conductors to the switch.
I revised and edited my circuit in post #2 of this Thread
Switched receptacle wiring problem
I have to admit my error.
When I found the box with three romex lines in it, I assumed that was the receptacle that was switched.
It turned out I was wiring a receptacle to be switched that had no switch loop to the switch!
I just couldn't believe it when I figured it out. And that an electrician switched the receptacle just 3 feet down the wall from the switch. What is the point of that!
I have it worked out now, thanks to everyone for your time and kindness in attempting to help me with this one.
Nina in FL
Thanks for correcting your photo with correct verison.
I think I should suggest that we ask the moderator in this fourm to have all the photo in one area so any readers can referced it can able look up real quick due the picture worth a thousand words.
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Toasted-Coconut Basmati Rice
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- 4 1/2 cups water
- 4 ounces basmati rice (2 1/4 cups)
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- 3 cardamom pods, gently crushed
- 3/4 cup slivered almonds
- 3/4 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
How to make this recipe
In a large saucepan, bring the water to a boil. Stir in the rice, salt and cardamom pods and cover. Reduce the heat to low and cook for 15 minutes without removing the lid. Remove the saucepan from the heat and let stand, covered, for 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a medium skillet, toast the almonds over moderate heat, stirring, until golden, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a plate to cool. In the same skillet, toast the coconut until golden, about 4 minutes. Transfer to the plate with the almonds.
Using a fork, fluff the rice. Remove the cardamom pods. Stir the toasted almonds and coconut into the rice and serve.


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plan without selling your home, vehicle, etc.? We just a month or two ago got out of a lease (which I know is a no-no), so I cannot get rid of this vehicle. My husband drives a 96 pickup , dd drives a 94 honda accord, and my vehicle is a 06 used pilot. We owe around 74k on our house, 30k home eq, and the car(which I am embarassed to say what I owe on it) , and 2 cc, under 4k. I have been working on snowballing cc payments and have a small EF, paid all cash for Christmas,
I just wondered if anyone else has done it this way.
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We did. We didn't sell any 'big' things. We stayed in our home, kept our cars and snowballed those payments and paid everything off that way. It can surely be done. Keep up the good work and just be sure to really learn those expensive lessons (like leasing cars, etc..) then it's not money waisted, it 'educational expenses'....01-08-2007, 02:11 PM #3
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Yes, we're currently doing the TMMO without selling anything. Honestly, we don't really have anything to sell. We share a car, a paid for 2001 Hyundai Accent. We do own our home, but we've only been here for 3 years and there's very little equity in it. So we're just doing it with cutting our expenses, sticking on a budget, and working whatever extra we can.Sponsored Links Remove Advertisements01-08-2007, 02:18 PM #4
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We are also doing the TMMO and so far so good, we dont have any car payments and right now only a mortgage, we have a small EF which we are working on increasing. We just filed our income tax so that took care of our $2800 in CC's DH has. We personally dont sell anything to pay off debt, except a few things on ebay here and there but I use that extra $$ to fund my EF, unless I get a couple thousand dollars then it goes towards debt. (I only wish I had something that high in value besides our car and home).
Just keep your head up high, set and stick to a budget, it works, no more leasing cars and this is from me personally but try as hard as you can to get rid of the home equity, it's almost all interest, yuck! (We had one and got rid of it quickly).~TRACY~*
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I, too, am planning on doing TMMO without selling any big-ticket items. (For me, that would only consist of my car.) I plan to start selling on ebay and working overtime whenever possible. I will also use any "bonus/extra" income to pay down my debt.01-08-2007, 05:14 PM #6
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We just started this the 1st of Jan and we are doing fine so far. We are not selling anything at this time. We are going to have to buy a car but I don't have enough to pay cash for one and I have to be honest I don't want one that I can pay cash for. We have only one credit card and it is homedepot and we only owe right around $387 on it, We plan to trade in the explorer and put $3000 down on the car (with tax money) and we will pay extra each month so we can pay it off sooner. We are going to fund the EF slowly but also plan to use income tax money for it also.
We have been in our home right around 3 years and we might sell in a few years but not right now. Our goal is to pay off more here so we have more money down on something else or whatever we decide to do.
I think that it just has to do with us not eating out a lot (we are on day 8 of eating at home and for us that is major) and also not buying things we don't need. We are begining frugal with groceries and everything else also.
Good luck I am on a waiting list at the library for Total money makeover book. But the car thing is something I had to give in on with my dh and that is fine I will pick my battles and that is not the one for now. But he did agree we will pay at least $100 more on it a month since we have no other cc to pay on.
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We rent an apartment, are paying on one car and own a 1985 outright. We have already gotten rid of everything in moves etc. so nothing left to sell. I added 70 to one bill and am snowballing as we can. I made each payment even (224.65=230) so added a few dollars to each.01-09-2007, 12:23 AM #8
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I am doing the Total Money Makeover without selling anything. The only thing I have to really get paid off is my car. My goal is to get rid of this car payment in two years. Do still have a mortgage. I'm working on my EF right now. Did have a $1.000 in EF, but a few emergencies came up so have to start on that again.01-09-2007, 10:29 AM #9
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Not selling anything here either. Nothing to sell- lol! My car is paid for ('99 crown vic) and I am hoping to have a little something set aside by summer to pay cash for a car for DS. He plans to work at the mall or movie theatre. Both are less than a mile from the house so he could walk, but the car will also be used to get himself and sister to and from school this fall.
I am snowballing my debt (two cards down and two to go). Every spare penny goes into EF and debt reduction. I feel a little more at ease doing it this way rather than putting 100% toward debt reduction.01-09-2007, 10:45 AM #10
We did. We followed alot of the plan but broke a few of the rules. Worked a-ok!01-09-2007, 07:00 PM #11
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Been on the plan 16 months now. I sold a little of the debt. We started with $56k in non-mortgage debt and were only able to sell enough to get rid of $14k of the debt, the rest of the $42k is up to us. Am currently down to owing just under $16k and have 6k in my EF (storm clouds). The plan works! You can do it.
If you wanna keep the debt and just pay it off, that's your personal decision. I mean, you are the one having to stick it out and who it might take longer to get stuff paid off, that's your choice.
We'll be here right along with you and keep supporting you!!01-11-2007, 02:13 PM #12
We are doing the Dave Ramsey plan now and do not plan on selling anything unless it is the house (hopefully not). We are tightening up the budget a lot and even though we have had several emergencies lately, we have used our EF for them and not put extra on credit. It will take longer than Dave suggests, but we will still accomplish our goal!01-11-2007, 05:52 PM #13
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I've been working on the Dave Ramsey thing with my family for a year. We didn't sell anything big, just plugging away moth by month. I had a list of debts and now I'm down to the van and then the house. Once you get a few things paid off and start to snowball more it really seems like you are getting somewhere. I just called in and bumped up my van payment to $700. It won't take long now! I hate that van payment. I do get discouraged often but reread his books and listen to his radio program and you'll do great!01-12-2007, 10:06 AM #14
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We are doing a modified DR plan without selling anything. We don't have anything to sell since we don't buy anything. We have 2 small children and their clothes, toys, and other stuff are hand-me-downs from cousins/friends who purchase expensive things for their kids. Other than our regular jobs, we are focusing our energy on raising our kids and investing in our small business.
Six months ago, I owed over $25,000. Today, I owe $1,000. Since I don't have anything to sell, I threw everything $ I had on this debt including salary, consulting, tax returns, savings, etc. I plan to use my 2006 tax return to wipe out the remaing $1,000 before March 1 (when the rate changes from 0% to 11%). DH has several debts still to pay from a past life and his balance is going down slowly BUT surely. We didn't increase our debts except for DH having to purchase a truck (which he pays from his side jobs).
With my debt almost gone, I'm increasing our mortgage payments by $500 per month starting Feb 1 and using the remainder of my snowball to getting rid of our home-improvement loan by December this year.
When I get discouraged, I read passages from the TMMO book and visit FV.
If someone would have told me last year that this time I would be almost CC-debt free, I would have laughed hard. I am really excited about our future.
Snowballing by itself works!!! Just stick to it like you have tunnel vision.
Sounds like your doing real well as is. We're here to keep you afloat.& mom to:
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CC1: $39,658 on 12/02/08 PAID IN FULL
CAR: $10,000 on 11/03/11 PAID IN FULL
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BS6: $0/210,000 mortgage PIF
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Looks like there are a lot of us following his plan loosely. I too haven't sold any big items. I only really have my car and I really like my car. I debated for a while about selling it but I figure that would just slow me down so it's a no go. I drive too much to have an unreliable car and at least I know this one is reliable.
I also sold a bunch of stuff on ebay/half.com earlier in the year but that was before I really started following the plan so I don't count that. There are a few more things around here I could sell but I'm ok with the progress I'm making. I figure it may be a few more months before I'm out of debt but I'm will to stick it out.
Now if I didn't have much of a snow ball or something, I would probably re-evalutate. But as it is, typically I'm able to send around $200 a month extra to debt above minimums. Once I get through August that number will jump up to $700 a month with my car paid off and two of my credit cards paid off. Once I started seeing the progress I could make, I got really fired up.
Good Luck however you are following the plan. The important thing is to have a plan and stick to it. I figure every payment I make no matter how small takes me that much closer to being out of debt.
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stupid water heater!
can anyone help. my husband and i are trying to replace the prv on our stupid water heater. But we can't get the old one to come off. My 240 pound husband was hanging from the pipe wrench and the thing still won't come unstuck! is there a trick to it?
What size pipe wrench are you using? How old is the heater? Do you have hard water in your area?
Those valves should pop off with very little effort.
it's a 10 grip pipe wrench. the water heater is 15-20 years old.
and yes we have hard water!
A good run for a water heater is ten years so this thing is living on borrowed time. The hard water will also have caused the valve to seize in place. It probably can be moved however a 10in wrench is next to useless for this. I would normally use a 24in, maybe an 18in. If you don't have another wrench I would recommend putting a pipe or something over the handle to get some more leverage but what brand is the wrench? If it isn't Ridgid or Lenox you may end up snapping or bending the wrench possibly injuring yourself in the process. One thing you could try is using the drip leg to get some leverage and move the valve. Don't pull it too hard though as you don't want to bend it.
ok we'll try that. would p b blaster help?
If you have PB blaster give it a try. I don't believe the stuff does what it claims but some swear by it. Let us know if it came off. Or is it new water heater time?
Just a note: if the thread has seized real bad, aplication of more leverage might:
a. snap off the threaded portion off the PRV
b. mangle the thread of PRV socket on the heater.
Either way, it'll be new heater time. Which it is already anyway - 15-20years on hard water puts this one on its last legs.
That's what I got at in the first post. Try and turn the thing, if it breaks off, it was time for a new heater anyway so you aren't any worse off.
An 18" pipe wrench and hammer does wonders.
The question I have is WHY are you replacing the PRV??
If its blowing water, its probably a sign of overheat/failure anyway.... And with the age noted its probably time for a new tank.
thank you to every one for the advice!
the p b blaster worked! I was amazed, personally. we're still not getting enough hot water, but at least it's not pouring on the floor now. if we can get 3 more months out of this one it'll have been worth the aggravation! Also, the bigger pipe wrench worked wonders too. my hubby said screw it, this stupid wrench isn't workin! I'm goin to lowe's. 40 minutes later, the prv was replaced and no more leak!
Thanks so much guys.
You're giving the PB Blaster a lot of credit that the larger pipe wrench deserves.
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If I'd paid more attention to what danvm said above, I might have saved a lot of frustration today. Since I didn't I'll just repeat it: This version of the XBee doesn't just "improve on the data protocol", it's completely different. As I understand it, the original XBees work for simple point-to-point communication straight out of the box, more or less. (You need to set source and destination addresses, but it's easy.) To make two of these talk to each other, you need to flash one with the "coordinator" firmware–which requires the X-CTU program, which is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, 2003 only.
I'll give that a try before sending these back, but I suspect I'd be up and running by now if I'd gotten the old XBees instead.
Update: I flashed one (on windows xp, grumble grumble) with the coordinator firmware (the other came with the latest client firmware) and they're talking to each other as soon as I plug them in. So.. Maybe that rant was a bit premature. :)
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Re: Re: weird behavior when plotting multiple functions in 6.0
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> Hello all,
> Here's my attempt at a workaround, defining a plotting function which
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> of Options[Plot] in the rules for the mock Plot[] call, and removed
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Your method looks like it works, but what is wrong with something based on:
If your f[] is very expensive to evaluate and you don't want to
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