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17 September 2008
Brain Watkins House Museum
When Mount Tarawera erupted ash blackened the Tauranga sky. At the Brain house on Cameron Road the family's horse was brought inside and given shelter in the hallway. With the outbreak of WW1 family legend has it that treasure was buried under the foundations for safe keeping. Forty years later Bessie Brain and a gentleman friend were tragically struck and killed by a car outside the front gate.
Indeed the Brain Watkins House Museum has many stories to tell. However, opportunities for sharing these stories have largely been restricted to a few hours a week, when the house is open to the public. The owners of the property, the Tauranga Historical Society, a volunteer charitable organization, want to change this and are focused on future proofing the house museum.
Society president, Shirley Arabin believes prioritizing the conservation needs of the collection and the recent installment of fire and security systems is central to this. However, equally important is provision of access to the house and collection. "I am excited that Brain Watkins House will be featured on NZMuseums as a recent survey shows our visitors are mainly local or from overseas. The website will open up the collection and house to the rest of New Zealand".
The Society has initially chosen to highlight the hats, a small but beautiful part of the Brain Watkins collection. Many of the forty-six hats were made by Bessie Brain, a Tauranga milliner. More textiles are tucked away in boxes, drawers and cupboards throughout the house. They are a wonderful reflection of the continuous occupancy by members of the Brain family and reveal the social history of a middle class home in New Zealand, and in particular, the lives of the women in it.
Learn more about the Brain Watkins House Museum.
Image: Four of the Brain sisters (from left to right), Ada, Alice, Esther and Bessie, Brain Watkins House Museum


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As things stand, the Huawei Watch is one of the most expensive Android Wear devices around, but that looks set to change.
Established timepiece forger Tag Heuer has teased an Android Wear device of its very own, stating that it will officially be revealed to the world on 9 November.
The teaser reveals very little of the watch itself, though we've adjusted the brightness and contrast to try and reveal as much as we can. At best, we can confirm that it's circular, has a crown, a number-engraved bezel, and what is likely to be a black leather strap option.
Oh, and it also came with a #connectedtoeternity hashtag, so yeah... whatever the hell that means.
Tag Heuer's CEO already revealed the company's plans for a smartwatch last month, stating that it would hit shelves for around US$1800 (RM11,550). Painful, but not surprising.
Rumours have suggested that the watch will have a 40-hour batter life, be powered by Qualcomm's Quark processor, and will run on a newer, Marshmallow version of Android Wear.
We'll just have to wait until 9 November for all the facts, so stay tuned.

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Earlier this week the Boston Business Journal reported that Mayor Marty Walsh is looking to increase Boston's housing goal from building 53,000 units to 69,000 new units (a 30% increase) by the year 2030.
Back in 2014 the city of Boston's population was just under 660,000 and was expected to grow to just over 700,000 by 2030. But with Boston's population growth has forced the city to revisit their initial forecast and revise their population estimate to approximately 760,000 residents by 2030.
The neighborhoods that the Mayor would like to focus on building new housing includes Sullivan Square, Newmarket and Widett Circle, the Fort Point Channel, Suffolk Downs, Readville and Beacon Yards. The mayor is also boosting the number of affordable-housing units goal to 15,820, which (if met) would mean Boston would have approximately 70,000 new income-restricted units.
You can read the full article from the BBJ here.


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Address: 15 Byron Close, Newark NG24 4DX
Asking Price: Offers Over £140,000
Property Type: 4 Bed Terrace House
Estate Agent: Edlin & Jarvis
Condition: Ready to Rent
Rent Range: £625-675pcm
Yield: 5.79%
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Address: 36 Milner Street, Newark NG24 4AA
Asking Price: £140,000
Property Type: 3 Bed Mid Terrace House
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Rent Range: £550-600pcm
Yield: 5.14%
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Address: 32 Bailey Road, Newark, NG24 4EW
Asking Price: £140,000
Property Type: 3 Bed Terrace House
Estate Agent: Newton & Fallowell
Condition: Some Minor Work Required
Rent Range: £550-600pcm
Yield: 5.14%
Comments: Open plan living will appeal to families plus plenty of off street parking. I'd consider changing/removing the wallpaper in the kitchen and certainly the bedroom carpet and wallpaper. #24 sold for £113k in March which was neutral throughout.
Address: 93 Goldstraw Lane, Fernwood. NG24 3FD
Asking Price: £139,950
Property Type: 3 Bed End Terrace House
Estate Agent: Purple Bricks
Condition: Ready to Rent
Rent Range: £575-625pcm
Yield: 5.36%
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Address: 15 Heron Way, Balderton. NG24 3DD
Asking Price: £135,000
Property Type: 2 Bed Semi Detached House
Estate Agent: NOW Homes
Condition: Ready to Rent
Rent Range: £525-575pcm
Yield: 5.11%
Comments: This has been on and off the market a lot over recent years, it's a popular location but the house or the price isn't working for people. Check the consumer unit and boiler as these will be getting old now if they've not been done yet. Bed 2 wallpaper makes the room feel small.
Address: 77 Hatton Gardens, Newark NG24 4BU
Asking Price: £132,500
Property Type: 2 Bed Terraced House
Estate Agent: Newton & Fallowell
Condition: EPC Too Low to Rent
Rent Range: £545-595pcm
Yield: 5.39%
Comments: Really well presented property and in a nice spot too however, it's an EPC F so it's not legal to let. Get yourself a copy of the EPC off the register to see whether you're able to pay for the required improvements before committing.
Address: 22 Hine Avenue, Newark NG24 2LH
Asking Price: £130,000 – £140,000
Property Type: 2 Bed Semi detached House
Estate Agent: Newton & Fallowell
Condition: Needs some minor updating
Rent Range: £525-575pcm
Yield: 4.93%
Comments: Update the master bedroom and the kitchen tiles if you can justify it. Low maintenance garden and parking are nice additions.
Address: 81 Hawton Lane, New Balderton, Newark. NG24 3DH
Asking Price: £129,950
Property Type: 3 Bed Terraced House
Estate Agent: Alasdair Morrison
Condition: Needs Updating Throughout
Rent Range: £575-625pcm (once completed)
Yield: 5.77% (once completed)
Comments: Property is dated throughout, 3 bed end terrace on Stafford Ave in similar condition sold in May for £115k. This property seems to be very pricey for the size, condition and location.
Address: 12 The Brewhouse, Castle Brewery, Newark NG24 4AF
Asking Price: £120,000-£125,000
Property Type: 2 Bedroom Ground Floor Duplex Apartment
Estate Agent: Jon Brambles
Condition: Ready to Rent Service Charge: £3500 PA Ground Rent: £125 PA
Rent Range: £625-675pcm
Yield: 6.3% (inc SC and GR)
Comments: Very spacious apartment in a popular location, one parking space can cause issues and the limited parking. Have carried out 3 let only's for this apartment with families being the most interested due to the size.
Address: 26 Sawyers Close, Newark, NG24 2HF
Asking Price: £110,000
Property Type: 2 Bed Terraced House
Estate Agent: Edlin & Jarvis
Condition: Ready to Rent
Rent Range: £500-550pcm
Yield: 6%
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[Poem] Blessed By the Damned | Rohit Roy
Diabolic a plot so deep,
A thousand moons seen,
Conspicuous at birth,
Yet so sensual at butchery
Now at desolation I perceive,
The filth I hold,
Malus its script deciphered,
Antagonized existence eternal,
Wretched those smirk,
Agonize in pain
Forlorn the state,
Murder so inherent,
Massacred the righteous,
Soon to be forgotten
As I kill they beg for mercy,
Entrails spread open,
Is what I give them,
Ripped to be tortured,
Stabbed till the wounds show,
Perverse the suffering,
Consumed by ill faith,
A rubeus river slithers with their life away,
The unholy monolith of Tartarus its creator,
The Athame used to puncture and slaughter,
Relentless the blows,
Sickening the cries,
Symbolic this ritual of assassination
A grief stricken ballad being sung,
Psithurism to my ears,
Ripe is this flesh,
Once was mine,
Behold this creation,
Blessed by the damned.
Rohit Roy is basically from Kolkata and a student of Mechanical Engineering. Literature has always given him peace beyond words, as long as he can remember he has always had the thirst for penultimate knowledge. And he believes as Roman General Once Said "What we do in life, Echoes in Eternity".


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June 02, 2012
BENEFITING: The Childrens Village of Sonoma County
EVENT DATE: Jun 08, 2012
Hello family and friends!
The 39ers are changing to world one life at a time and one day at a time. We are reaching out to all of you because we need your help. We have chosen to support the Children's Village in Santa Rosa by raising $10,000 to help fund the build of 4 new houses for foster children. Most children who are placed into foster care, move continuously and siblings are often separated. The mission of The Children's Village of Sonoma County is to provide nurturing, stable family homes in a multi-generational, enriched environment for children and their siblings in foster care. The children have a home that is theirs until they are reunited with their own family, adopted or become an adult. 4 new houses will provide a home to 24 more children.
We have received a tremendous gift from the Jordan Winery Foundation, they have offered to match up to $25,000 of donations we generate! Every dollar you donate will become 2, so please join us in supporting this amazing organization and help build new houses for kids.
There are multiple ways to make a donation:
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This Time, With Feeling: Telling Your Heritage Story
Your Heritage Story
If you're telling a heritage story, it's important to include meaningful, emotional things about your parent's life that are personal to you. I'll give you an example from my own life.
In this photo of my late mother and me, part of the reason that she looks so happy is because my Mom had mobility problems, and could only fly out from Boston to see our family once a year. So the times that we flew out to visit her each year were truly special occasions! The sheet music behind her in this photo was some that we played and sang each time our family visited. Cole Porter was a big favorite of hers. Mom and I also loved Broadway shows, and she started taking piano lessons when she was 65. Amazing, right? Finally, Mom was still able to wrap her left arm around my waist in this photo. It makes me sad to think of how the stroke she had 10 years later would prevent her from doing that again.
There are many stories within each of your family photos! And only you and your family members can make sure that they're not forgotten. What is one special thing that you recall about one of your parents?


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2014 Journal: just a few notes
2014 Journal: just a few notes . . .
How the years fly by! Seems only yesterday we were shepherding teenagers, and welcoming new babies. Libby and I are a year older, and things have been relatively quiet for us. Libby had a scare with a pulmonary embolism that hospitalized her for nearly a week but there was no way it was going to keep her down. She went through endless tests, then was discharged to my tender care with an oxygen generator and a new easy chair. She's doing well and as feisty as ever—still working hard as Dominion Genealogist for the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada.
I got over my bout with bladder cancer, thanks to a doctor's careful care and several hospital examinations. I amuse myself by writing, shopping, cooking for the two of us and working on a new project—a website—which my son Seaghan helped me set up. It's still in the formative stage, but if any of you care to look you'll find it at www.georgesplace.ca. I have just a couple of entries in it at the moment, but I will be adding more in the new year, including my Alaska Travel Diary (which was one of the high points of my industrial life), and my poetry "Closer to the Flame".
I enjoy hearing from all of you, especially on Facebook. I hear regularly from my granddaughters Coral (Casey's daughter) and Cristiona (Seaghan's daughter) Another favorite correspondent is Peter Loy-Hancocks, whose foreign adventures and garden ventures I greatly enjoy. He is also a great photographer and has given me some fine shots of the many places he visits. My friend Harold Morrison (we went to school together in Hamilton, Ontario now 80 years ago), has a website called "Harold Says". Seaghan is helping him, too, and Harold is a faithful Facebook user.
I have two other people I enjoy hearing from, and never thought I would ever make contact with. One is Ila Lawton, who was the daughter of our next-door neighbors in Scarborough. She is now living in Kingston, and active in the theatre, and promoting women's issues. The second is Gary Freeman (who once dated my daughter) and is now not only a garrulous Facebook user, but a senior executive for Corus Entertainment in Calgary. Our contact began by accident one day when he answered a comment I had made on a Facebook page. And that's what keeps life so interesting—hearing from people you thought you had lost track of forever.
Sorry to seem to be loading up this not with what might seem like trivia—but the older you get, the more confined your circumstances, the more you appreciate how valuable social media have become. I not only use them to communicate with my friends, but the world at large, and I actively participate in many political causes through them. I think the social media, taking them seriously, are one of the most important aspects of our new democratic society. Used properly they can prevent our politicians from making asses of themselves (and us), and keep us in regular contact, especially in those things that matter most to us.
As for the rest of my family—briefly—Casey is still with Shoppers, as is his wife Kim, and both are doing well. Coral, their daughter, is still helping people plan winter vacations at Ski Canada.
Seaghan's wife Sandi has survived a very bad year with throat cancer. She went through some very difficult days with chemotherapy and radiation, but thankfully now seems to be on the mend and is back at work, part time. Seaghan is building websites for customers, and is about to be involved in a co-production on the life of Sir John Franklin. I don't see much of his children Cristiona, Mike, and Stefan, but all are on Facebook and we touch one-another from time to time.
Shannon, Arastou, Roya and Emma have moved from living with Arastou's uncle, and are now just as stone's through away from Libby and I—across the golf course that separates our house from the apartment building where they live. Both the girls are now in high school and right into the thick of things. We see them regularly, and both girls are becoming attractive and intelligent young women. No one is ever going to put them down!
And so, dear friends and relatives, another year draws to its close. Let us pray that 2015 will be a year of peace and prosperity, and that the year will see the cessation of hostilities wherever they occur. Libby and I send you our warmest wishes for success in all your ventures.
George and Libby
2014: Just a few notes
So why is stronger better?
Have you eve noticed that once a substance comes into use, humans somehow feel that the stronger the substance, the better?
Take sugar, for instance. When it was first discovered it was regarded as a natural sweetener. Then came rock sugar, a handier form to use because it came in a lump and you could chip off a piece for sweetness instead of pressing sugar cane to extract the sweet liquid.
But humans wanted even more sweetness, so they came up with cane syrup and molasses. Sweet, sweet sweet,, but storable in glass jars and ladled out carefully spoon by spoon. Then we sought even more convenience so we came up with brown sugar, one step down from molasses, and refined sugar–dry, sweet, easily storable, and available in a variety of forms from coarse to fine grains, to powder.
And that still wasn't sweet enough so we came up with glucose and fructose, the ultimate sweeteners with which we have given ourselves and epidemic of diabetes. At each step of the way, stronger became, in our minds, better.
Or take coffee. When first discovered it came as a coarsely ground bean. Then we discovered that grinding the beans finer gave us a stronger tasting brew. Finally we ground it so fine that it became espresso that was so strong we could only drink it a demi-tasse at a time. And just for laughs we decided to take the caffeine out it it and called it decaffeinated coffee, as if that made it stronger but safer.
The same thing is true of tomatoes. First the fruit, then the slices, then the dices, then the slurry, and finally the tomato paste. Each step made the final product stronger and stronger for the limited space it took.
I never felt that stronger was better. Stronger was stronger as far as I was concerned. And stronger did not necessarily lead to safer or better. It often led to more harmful and dangerous. We seem to never be able to let well enough alone, but always seek to improve and strengthen the characteristics of the substances we use or consume.
Apply that same thinking to atomic bombs. First we learned to release the enormous energy of the atom. Then we wanted it stronger so we went to the hydrogen atom. Then we wanted really strong but "safer" so we invented the neutron bomb with the delightful characteristic that it kills any and every life form it touches, including insects, but leaves everything else intact. Imagine an earth full of empty buildings. What a charming thought, but that's where we're headed.
Our constant pursuit of the stronger, which we ironically call the "purer" is going to destroy us in the end. Stronger is not better. For lack of a better word, is is worser. I just hope we realize it in time.
Sunday morning in Toronto
I had a Tim Horton's morning today. For all those of you who do not know what Tim Horton's is, it's the biggest coffee house chain in Canada, originally started by a famous hockey player who alas, never lived to see the results of his investment. He died in a car crash at a very young age. But the chain prospered, and was eventually sold to a big American company with other chains to its credit. In Canada, however, it has remained true to its identity, and is the quintessential place for meeting Canadians from all walks of life. Coffee and a donut is a Canadian ritual.
My morning began slowly. Daylight Saving Time. I forgot to turn the clock back, so I enjoyed an extra hour of dawdling while I reset my bedside clock and checked my Facebook messages. A lot of them this a.m.
Then I decided to get breakfast. I often go to Tim's in the morning, especially if I don't feel like cooking, and this morning it was raining hard, so I decided to forego my own cooking and visit the coffee house instead. When I got there, I bought a paper, the Sunday edition of the Toronto Star. I always carry my iPhone, but Tim's has this annoying habit of logging you in to their wifi network complete with ads and other extraneous commercial info, so I usually forget it while I'm there.
Much to my surprise, the paper contained not only an edited version of the New York Times news section, but the Times Book Review section, which used to be my bible. I haven't read it in years, but I immediately looked to see if it contained any mention of Elin Peer, Wendy Douglas, or Francesca Vance. No such luck. But I'll keep looking.
My breakfast order was typical, but involved Tim's unique ordering experience. I get a large dark-roast coffee, double cream and triple sweetener, a back-bacon breakfast sandwich, and an apple pie fritter. The attendant who takes my order I've had before. She doesn't speak English very well, so ordering becomes a comedy of errors.
She (and even the attendants who do speak English) don't understand the word "triple" very well, so I hold up three fingers and say loudly "three sweeteners." I don't know why I say it loudly–probably because I think if I say it loudly someone who doesn't speak English very well will understand me better. As in, "Do I make myself clear?"
I always feel like a fool when I do this. I have tried to stop myself from doing it. But if I speak normally I just get blank looks, and Tim's is always noisy in the morning. Strangely, I never have trouble with the breakfast sandwich or the apple fritter, although I sometimes have to repeat "biscuit" loudly several times because she's so used to people saying "muffin" that it takes a while to register.
Finally my order comes, so I put it on my tray, and find the only open table in a crowded restaurant on a Sunday morning. And then I people watch surreptiously from behind my paper.
First thing I notice is that I'm the only one reading an actual paper. Everyone else is busy on their phones, tablets, or computers. Yes laptops. I swear some of the Chinese men use Tim's as their office. The students use it as a homework haven, and the rest are either surfing or talking to relatives or bsuiness associates–yes, even on the weekend. But not everyone is iphoning.
Across from me is a table with eight Greek men I have seen here before. They talk intensely among themselves, laugh frequently, and I am sure are busy solving the problems of Greek society in Canada. There many Greeks here, probably as many as live in Athens. I don't understand a word of their discourse, but I don't care. They're just Canadians of Greek origin having a fine time at Tim's.
Next to me is a table with two women. They are an interesting pair. First, I can tell because I caught a few words from them in English before they switched to another tongue. They are Muslim.
The contrast between them is startling. One is hooded, dressed almost entirely in black, although I could see a pair of blue jeans sticking out from the bottom of her costume. The other is as modern as The Gap. She is clothed in a red athletic outfit with grey piping and gray sneakers. The outift is the height of fashion for such clothing. She is strikingly beautiful with a neatly coifed sort of pony-style bun. Her hair is dark, but beautifully shiny.
They appear to be close friends, but since many Muslims in Canada stick with old world costumes, the difference is remarkable. They sit as long as I read my paper, and I can't help wondering if they represent the old and the new in Muslim culture in Canada. I sort of hope so.
I remember when the Italians first started immigrating to Canada in the 1950s. The women all wore the shapeless black garments that were the rule for women in their homeland. Then the second generation came along, and the third and now we're into the fourth. No more black. Italian women are as chic as the runways of Paris, New York, and Milan. And many of them are very beautiful.
The same thing will happen with Muslim women, and the nonsense about banning burkhas and head scarves in Quebec will vanish. There may be a few who will still cling to religious mores, but gradually, as the generations change, so will their clothing.
My son-in-law is Iranian born. Men in Iran frequently wear large beards. In Canada in the 21st century it's the exception to see one with as beard. Customs change with the environment and culture. When in Rome . . . So my lesson for this Sunday morning is clear. Quit worrying about language, and clothing. It's not worth the effort. Change is coming, and it will come as fast as the next generation. Just watch what's happening in Tim's. It's the melting pot of the nation.
I remember a scene from Elin Peer's book The Protector. In search of his wife, Magnus goes to the Motherland to find her. Does he retain his giant beard and leather clothing? No, he dresses like a Motlander. He hates it, but he knows that he must fit in if he's to succeed. I talked about Hadiya in a former rant. She dressed like a lawyer to fit in. When she left the law she dressed more informally and comfortably. She may not realize it, but she still fits in. Those who must dress for the law are in a cultural straight jacket. I'm glad Hadiya got out of it.
Bitches about 21st century picky things
If it's the little things that matter, it's also the little things that sometimes drive me nuts. I'm speaking about things that don't really matter but somehow put a kink in my customary rituals. One of those things for me is labels on clothing.
I don't know much about women's underthings, but ever since I've been a boy I have been buying the same kind of men's underwear, specifically jockey shorts. Now I know you don't want to hear about my jockeys, but forever and a day they have always had labels sewn into them to tell you what size they are.
Didn't matter whether they were Jockeys, Fruit of the Loom, Denver Hayes, or whatever, they always had cloth labels that said what size they were. I've worn some shorts for years and washing after washing, I know the labels still say the same thing.
Then, all of a sudden, they didn't have cloth labels any more, but printed labels. Cost saving, right? Sure, but after about three washings the size information disappears. Why is that important? Because, like a true male, I cannot remember from purchase to purchase what size I wear. If I can't remember what size I wear I inevitably buy a size or maybe two sizes too small, which after I've opened the package I can't return because in most Canadian stores there is no return on undies
You would think the size would somehow be engraved on my memory, but oh no. It's one of those trivial things I can't be bothered to store in a grey cell somewhere, with the result that I am constantly mis-sizing. Before I could just look at a label before I went to buy, and get it right every time. Grrrr!
Another thing that bugs me are the "best before" dates on food. I religiously look for these labels (the result of years of domestic training) but I know in my heart that no matter what they say they will NOT be best before the dates shown. I have bought best before cream with a date that shows it to have a month to go, only to open it and find it curdled. I can return it, of course, and I often do. But what use are the dates when you have no idea how long the product has been on the shelf.
Next on the list of picayune things that rustle my psyche are the tiny little labels on fruit. I know they're bar codes to help the dumb cash registers tell what the cost of the fruit is, but my intestines must now surely be cluttered with self stick labels saying "McIntosh Apple 9052" or "Pear Bartlett, 3214". And if I remember to peel them off, it takes ages to get my fingernail far enough beneath the label to get rid of it.
I know I'm whining, but isn't it possible just to buy fruit by the gram or kilogram or ounce and pound, rather than by the individual label? There's a scale at every cashier's wicket. And just think of the extra labor affixing all those tiny labels to every apple, pear, pomegranate, or avocado that's grown. Farmeers can't find enough labour to pick the ferschlaggen crop, without having to label everything.
The more I write the more I can come up with the little things that irritate me. We have some great technology in the 21st century–just not in labelling. Sorry for the rant. I think I'd better quit while I'm ahead. Peace!
Unusual friends, unusual circumstances
I went to my lawyer today for some help with some routine legal matters. He told me he thought I was looking exceptionally well, and that started a conversation which turned into a real revelation, both about him and me.
His comment for some reason started me talking about Peer's Peeps, about the exchanges I have had with Elin and some of you. Then we got onto the subject of Hadiya Rodriguez, the lawyer about whom I wrote s few days ago.
Frankly, I didn't know whether or not I was on dangerous ground. My lawyer is black, a very large middle-aged white-haired person of Caribbean origin to whom I had gone to settle my wife's estate. His name is Caleb Emmanuel Irish, and he has the most mellow, soft-spoken voice of anyone I know. It is so memorable that even my daughter speaks of him fondly because she remembers his treatment of her during our previous legal encounters.
I shouldn't have worried. Turns out he is a remarkable man. But then, I always knew that without knowing the details.
In the course of our conversation he told me he had come to Canada at the age of 16 or so, with the express purpose of going into law. He landed in Montreal in October ( a cold month there) with the express purpose of signing up to the McGill Law School, a prestigious Canadian institution with the same kind of reputation as Harvard. What an impossible dream!
But the thing he told me was that he was focused and determined to geet a law education. In the course of seeking employment he was offered a job in the Canadian Arctic, at a small Cree village by the name of Poste de Baleine, which just means Whaling Post. The government functionary reluctantly offered him the job because as he said, "You're from the tropics. This is October. You won't want to be in the north from the tropics." Emmanuel asked what the pay was. It was six or seven times what normal pay was at that time, but his immediate reply was, "I'll take it."
So he went north, and spent a year and a half among the Cree, living alone and saving his money (there was nothing to spend it on) for his law-school tuition. He emphasize to me that he was focused, and that though he had the opportunity to extend his northern stay and make even more money, he was determined to get his law education.
So he went back to Montreal and enrolled. Three years at McGill Law School, then then the inevitable struggle to article with a law firm for at least a year, without which he could not be called to the bar. We glanced somewhat over the difficulties he must have faced finding an articling position, but the gist of it was that it was every bit as difficult as it had been for Hadiya, with the added difficulty that he was one of the first black people to attempt this in Montreal.
The long and the short of it is that he succeeded, and now has his own law firm in Toronto. I don't know much else about his background, but it turns out that he is going to have a book of poetry published in December,, and has promised me a copy. I will share with you when that happens.
I told him about my attempts to stamp out racism, and my own efforts to purge my language of the subtle racist undertones I did not even realized I had. The really good thing about our conversation is that it was just that–a conversation between two mutually understanding adults with no hint or racism in the exchange. I came away feeling not only good about the exchange, but promising him one of Elin's books. I feel I need more such exchanges before I can even feel confident that I am making inroads on the racist substrate of our Canadian society.
The watched pot never boils. Oh yeah?!
When I occasionally put on a large pot of eggs to hard-boil, I love to watch the water come to a boil. That might seem silly–an octogenarian watching a pot of water come to a boil. But to me it seems so fundamental. It's one of the miracles of nature that is so common we never think about it at all.
But I think about it. I think of how humans must have first discovered that boil. I use wonderful stainless steel pots. I wonder what kind of containers my ancient ancestors used. I wonder what kind of eggs they cooked, where they came from, how they preserved tem. The whole process is so basic, and it must have taken millennia to perfect–and yet here it is–perfect and simple, on the top of my gas stove, over in minutes.
When the boil first begins, nothing seems to happen. It's sort of like waiting for your computer to boot up. Then there might come a slight disturbance to the surface of the water. It seems to go smooth, get glassy, and brace itself for something to come. Then minute streams of tiny bubbles begin to rise up from around the side of the eggs. They gradually get larger and larger until bigger bubbles burst to the surface. I know that's the beginning of the boil. If I keep watching, those large bubbles combine again until they almost disappear and the water begins to roil.
The eggs don't move around much, although from the turbulence of the water you would expect them to. When they reach that state, I follow Martha Stewart's advice and turn off the heat, put the cover on the pot, and let it rest for exactly 13 minutes. She and Julia Childs both agree this is the best way to hard-boil eggs. It leaves them without that green ring that surrounds the yolks if you boil them too long. The eggs come out looking perfect, and will keep for quite a while in the fridge before they're gone.
I think watching water boil is like seeing the story of mankind through aeons of time. Two simple atoms, hydrogen and oxygen combine to make water. I think of how our bodies are mostly water. I wonder how my ancestors discovered the boil, and how they used it. Watching water boil is not simple or silly for me. It is the story of humanity in a pot.
Before I quit, I'd like to leave you with a method of peeling eggs I discovered on the Internet. It is so simple to do it rivals the simplicity of boiling. I have watched Martha Stewart on TV trying to peel a hard-boiled egg. Shs is pretty good at it, but even she can't pull it off flawlessly every time. My method will take all the stress out of peeling eggs. Are you ready?
Take a mason jar, the half-quart size will do fine, but any reasonably-sized jar will work. Drop the egg into the jar. Half-fill it with water. Put your hand over the top and shake vigorously. Empty out the water, take the egg out and peel it. ,The shell is so perfectly broken that once you start to peel the egg the shell will virtually come off in one piece attached to the membrane that originally surrounded the egg.
The reason it works is that the water is able to penetrate the shell and separate it from the egg itself. It only takes a second, and it's just another reason why water is so important to life. Try my method. You'll be amazed at how well it works. Have a good eggy day!
Thoughts on Remembrance Day
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. How appropriate for remembering.
I received a Remembrance Day note from my local civic councillor this morning which reminded me of how close we still are to the sacrifices made for us by those who serve in our armed forces. Jim Karygiannis, the councillor for my voting ward in Agincourt, lost five cousins and relatives to a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, that benighted country that is still in the Stone Age. Except that these Stone Age people have access to guns and explosives. It's like a bad science fiction novel, except that it's real, and now.
At almost the same time I read a fatuous piece in the local paper about how we should wear the remembrance poppy. Apparently we are dissing our veterans if we don't wear it on the left side, above our hearts. Only appropriate to wear it for the first eleven days of November. Allowable to wear it for other remembrance ceremonies like Air Force and Navy Day, or days of mourning for police, fire, and civic functionaries.
A more facetious piece of twaddle I have rarely encountered. I wear the poppy year round on my cap; stuck on the sun visor of my car; above my desk; any place I can so I really NEVER forget the sacrifices made for our democracy. Remembrance and cenotaph ceremonies are all very well, but we tend to watch or participate in those rituals–then forget them for the rest of the year.
I, too, lost friends and relatives: in the First World War at Gallipoli and in France; in the Second World War in the Battle of Britain; and in Burma. They were all young because war devours the children of our race, scarcely ever the elderly as collateral damage. It takes the best, the brightest, the most fundamental young people of our society, and it never gives them back.
When I'm driving down the street I give thanks that in this country, at least, there aren't explosives waiting by the side of the road to blow me to kingdom come. I think of the vets who have returned home with terrible memories of the sorties they've been on, and with PTSD (what an oxymoron that is–Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome). Inability to sleep, stress on young families, sometimes even suicide because they can't escape the events of the battlefield. It almost seems sacrilegious to give thanks for persons who endure such torment.
Then to read a fatuous piece of journalistic prose exhorting me to wear the poppy only at approved times and in approved places. It is to weep.
So I ignore such strictures. I know they come from those of small minds and less knowledge. I'm too polite to call them ignorant, but I'm tempted. I'll just go on remembering in my own way, and never forgetting that war never solves anything except the whittling down of a society by unnatural means. I will remember. I will never forget.
The gales of November
The first gale of November tore through Toronto last night, ripping the last leaves from the trees and depositing a thin crust of snow on everything as it passed. As I lay snug in my bed under my warm Swedish duvet from Ikea I listened to the wind roaring through the pine trees that line the golf course next to my home, and thought of the sailors on the Great Lakes still sailing between our inland ports with cargoes of grain and ore.
November is the month when many of Canada's worst Great Lakes maritime disasters occur. I still think of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, one of our mightiest lake carriers, overtaken by a monster wave in Lake Superior and sent instantly to the bottom with 49 lives snuffed out as a result. Gordon Lightfoot, one of our best known folk singers wrote a haunting song called The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald that somehow finds its way to the air waves each November to remind us that our treasured inland lake paradises can also be a graveyard for unsuspecting souls.
November also brings the Hunter's Moon. My beloved son-in-law Arastou is a hunter. I'm not particularly fond of that activity myself, preferring my wildlife wild and free. But I have come to realize that sincere hunters often contribute as much as they take, and that the good ones hunt not just for meat for the table, but also to conserve our wildlife. They do not kill indiscriminately.
What they contribute is seen at our cottage. Arastou and his hunting pal Dave between them have set out nearly a dozen wildlife cameras, and what they have revealed has astonished even me. Our cottage is only a few hundred miles north of Toronto, on the shores of Geaorgian Bay, overlookinmg Christian Island at the southwest end of the bay, not far from Wasaga Beach. It sits on a bluff overlooking the bay that in itself tells a story.
In prehistoric times that bluff was once the shore of Georgian Bay itself. It's 400 feet high, and that tells you just how much water it must have held back then. The area is also historic in nature. In recent time it was first visited by Champlain when he was exploring what he called "The Great Sweetwater Sea." He held a mass at Caraghoa, not far from our cottage, in 1615.
The cottage lies in the Township of Tiny, so named by Governor Simcoe's wife, an intrepid female adventurer who, with her husband, the first governor of Upper Canada, named three of the townships in Simcoe County Tiny, Tay, and Floss, after her three pet dogs.
The area was also home to the Huron Indians. The Jesuits had established a mission to the Hurons in the 1600s called Ste. Marie Among the Hurons. They tried to christianize the natives, but were repelled by the Iroquois who had been enemies of the Hurons for many years.
Why? It was all about trade. The Hurons separated the Iroquois from a tribe of Indians known as the Tobacco Indians. Tobacco was like cocoa orl gold today. The Hurons controlled the trade.
As a result, two of the Jesuits–Brothers Breboeuf and Lalement were killed by the Iroquois, who drove the Hurons from their land to their last stand on Christian Island. There they established Fort Ste. Marie II, but it was not to last.
The last Hurons left the area headed for Montreal to the site where their descendants still live today. I have no proof, but I suspect a lot of this happened in November.
A footnote to this is that Ste. Marie Among the Hurons is the setting for what today is known as The Huron Chistmas Carol. It begins: "'Twas in the moon of wintertime, when all the birds had fled/ That mighty Gitchee Manitou sent angel choirs instead", and is a haunting carol about the birth of Christ told for natives who knew nothing at all about christianity. No matter how youi feel about converting natives, the carol evokes the sacred nature of the birth of Jesus, whose country was so far from Huronia it beggars the mind.
When you think of the distances the Hurons travelled to escape their enemies, ed, it must have been a terrifying migration. But those Indians were used to using the Georgian Bay waterways as their highway, so what to us might seem like a stupendous journey to them must have seemed ordinary.
But back to the hunting. Arastou often hunts with a crossbow. He is very good at it, and very, very careful about how he hunts. He has built himself a blind up a tree in the forest near where he has, in the summer, set out a salt lick. That may seem like a dirty trick, but animals need salt, and it preserves many more than are killed.
And actually there are not that many killed. Occasionally Arastou bags a wild turkey. Once he bagged a stag. But I suspect he just likes sitting up in his blind, whether in rain or snow, appreciating the silence and the freshness of the atmosphere. He often needs a break from the pressure of his job, which is to keep the entire bus fleet of North York on the road so peoole can get too work on time.
He and his friend Dave's cameras have revealed an astonishing plethora of wildlife in what is actually a semi-settled area. His cameras have revealed a family of black bears, a female, a half grown cub, and a big male who all come to take their share of the salt lick. There are foxes, coyotes, and hordes of wild turkeys, which have only been introduced into the area recently. There was even a ful-grown moose captured byu his lenses, something very unusual this far south.
There are many white-tailed deer, and Arastou spotted a ten-point buck on his recent November expedition. One of the most amusing episodes he filmed was of the male bear stamping his foot and trying to drive off a porcupine attempting to monopolize the salt lick. He has evben filmed a wolf with his cameras, as well as pheasants and owls.
I have vacationed on Georgian Bay since I have been 20, and never seen the amount of wildlife that I know are around the cottage. I realize now that animals are not stupid. They watch us more closely that we watch them. They are instinctively clever, and do not blindly walk into the sights of a hunter's bow or gun. I used to be dead set against any hunting of any kind, but Arastou has shown me a different kind of hunter, and frankly, I applaud his avocation. He is doing more for wild animals by simply showing us how they exist than any hunter is doing by taking meat. As long as that continues to be the case, I will support his pursuit.


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Seth Masket is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Denver. He writes on Colorado politics, the role of interest groups in developing partisan agendas, and the impact of campaign field offices on electoral results, among other things. And, if you watch a film released by Citizens United, the conservative group behind the Supreme Court decision that tore down many of the limits on big money in politics in 2010, you will probably leave with the misleading impression that Professor Masket thinks that Latino immigrants are streaming across the Mexican border in order to help steal elections for Democrats.
As Masket explains at the Monkey Cage, this came about because he was approached by a filmmaker who claimed that he was "doing a documentary on Colorado politics and wanted to ask me some questions on campaign spending and demographic shifts in the state." During Masket's interview with the filmmaker, the professor made two uncontroversial claims about Latino voters — "Latinos have not only been increasing in their potential to vote, but they've been voting increasingly Democratic over the last 10 years in Colorado."
Unbeknownst to Masket, however, the filmmaker was working on a film called "Rocky Mountain Heist," which is co-written and hosted by conservative pundit Michelle Malkin. The film's central argument is that "a secretive group of leftist millionaires and billionaires" transformed the once conservative state of Colorado into a place where "homeless vagrants smoke pot in public parks, war is waged on the state's energy industry and gun ownership is under assault."
According to Masket, his quote about Latino voters is sandwiched between "an insinuation by Tom Tancredo that the Obama administration is essentially recruiting Democratic voters via undocumented Mexican immigration, and a paean by Michelle Malkin to her Filipino parents who 'immigrated here legally. It wasn't easy. They learned English, they learned our history, they followed our rules.'" All of a sudden, Masket's innocuous and objectively true statement about the partisan preferences of a particular demographic becomes corroborating evidence supporting Tancredo's conspiracy theory.
Ironically, Masket says that he did not even learn that his quote had been used in this way until he testified as an expert witness against Citizens United in a case involving this very film. During cross-examination, former Solicitor General Ted Olson, who represents Citizens United, asked Masket if he was aware that he was in the film. Masket adds that he would have "declined the initial interview if I'd known it would result in this kind of film."


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(2nd LD) 3.9 magnitude quake strikes central S. Korea, no damage reported
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SEOUL, July 21 (Yonhap) -- A 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck the central South Korean city of Sangju, North Gyeongsang Province, on Sunday, with no damage or injuries reported, the weather agency said.
The quake occurred at 11:04 a.m. in Sangju, 270 kilometers southeast of Seoul, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA).
"No damage is expected but many people might have felt the tremor," said a KMA official.
Tremors from Sunday's quake were felt across the country, with 279 emergency calls reporting vibrations, according to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety.
Residents in the nearby city of Daejeon and other counties said they felt a vibration, with some saying they heard a loud sound, the ministry said.
The quake did not affect the operations of nuclear power plants or radioactive waste disposal facilities, according to the nuclear plant operators.
There are currently 24 commercial reactors operating across the country.
The tremor is the third-strongest this year. A 4.3 magnitude earthquake hit the east coast near the city of Donghae on April 19, and a 4.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the southeastern city of Pohang on Feb. 10.


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Soliswiss Council
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Glitter Eyeshaddow NOT FDA APPROVED in USA
Color Additives and Cosmetics
FDA just called us back. Glitter Eyeshadow is NOT FDA approved by ANYONE SELLING IT IN THE USA!
We can pay $2000.00 or $3000.00 by submitting a FDA petition showing safety testing, asking for FDA to approve glitter in eyeshadow.
However, particle size of glitter, metal or plastic ingredient used to create glitter and the eye area..... we don't believe will pass the muster to pay that price, sigh.
Anyone using glitter eye makeup that buys it and gets it in the eyes causing eye damage, can sue any company selling it and their INSURANCE can DECLINE to pay due to it NOT being legal to sell in the USA as an FDA approved eye makeup!
If the FDA hasn't approved the ingredient for cosmetics, it ISN'T legal to sell and NOT covered in the USA. A glitter eye makeup lawsuit can totally DESTROY any cosmetic company in the USA.
So, we won't be selling it.
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Who Defines Style, Beauty and Makeup Trends
Who Defines Style, Beauty and Makeup Trends?
You might think it is the cosmetic, fashion, publishing and media world, right? WRONG! YOU DO!Although they greatly influence the look and style trends through media and marketing, it is the consumer product purchase that ultimately sets the trend.
If the consumer doesn't purchase the product being marketed, the product marketing strategy or product is changed or completely done away with.
Gone are the days of making your own lipstick stains using food coloring mixed with equal parts of melted Shea butter, Bees Wax and Coconut oil to make a pretty lipstick stain that cost very little to do at home. If you want a red stain, Use red food coloring, a mauve stain, mix red food coloring with blue food coloring until you reach your desired shade.
Cosmetic companies charge a fortune these days for products using ingredients to make their products water proof or make a product have a desired effect. In reality, your usually paying to buy the Brand Name, not the actual product.
There are necessary ingredients in many products. The main necessary ingredients any cosmetic sold commercially should use are broad spectrum, non-paraben preservatives.
Preservatives are used in cosmetics to prevent the growth of harmful bacteria and mold, in order to protect both the products and consumers.
Pparaben preservatives have been linked to breast cancer and reproductive issues. So, Lori G Ashley® - www.lorigashley.org along with many cosmetic brands don't use paraben preservatives in products.
Many consumers buy the Brand Name instead of concerning their self with the product ingredients. This goes to my point of who actually sets the trend. If the consumer took the time to buy the product based on the ingredients instead of the brand names, many brands would not be able to charge ridiculous prices. Imagine a world where you actually paid for the product and not the brand name!
We are determined to look our best, or even change our looks! Beauty really is defined in the eye of the beholder externally. We color our hair, try to find ways to cover up imperfections and make our wrinkles disappear. Hyaluronic acid, vitamin A (a.k.a.Retinol) greatly reduce our pores and wrinkles over use in time or cosmetic filler injections. Makeup foundations cover our imperfections. The use of silica powder (Silicon Dioxide) creates an illusion of HD effect for a flawless skin look. In reality, it is a visual illusion. But, isn't that what we are trying to achieve with makeup?
But, how much makeup is too much? You set the trend, so, you decide! When deciding, determine the purpose and event. Is it every day wear? Is it a wedding event? Is it hot outside? If it is every day wear, I personally wouldn't want to wear any type of makeup that is going to be on a substantial amount of time that prevents my pores from being able to sweat. Our pores become clogged when we rub makeup into them. Pores inability to sweat due to waterproof makeup likely result in blemishes too. Hence, airbrush makeup. We blow it on and go about our day.
Not all airbrush makeup is the same. If your wearing airbrush makeup every day, I suggest water based airbrush makeup. Setting sprays can set mineral airbrush makeup as well as silica powder. In the summertime, silica powder also helps to keep your makeup set as long as your not setting in 100 degree weather with a high humidity factor. If your going to be in a wedding where there is hot weather or in hot weather for a while, I would recommend you use a silicone airbrush makeup. But, I wouldn't recommend using any waterproof makeup every day. Unless your one of the lucky people in life who's skin doesn't have an issue with break outs from makeup.
We all age. The modeling industry uses makeup to make little girls look older. Older people use makeup to try and look younger. It is a crazy world we live in. If you look at the photos of models 50 to 30 years ago, then look at them now, their appearance is drastically changed. What I have found to be striking with many of those models is, most of them have wrinkles, yet embrace them!
Fashion recycles. The look of the 40's and 60's came, went and returned. The same with makeup. Bright red lips to neutral colors and back to bright red lips again. Black eyeliner to colored eyeliner and back to black again. Smokey eyes with the use of eye shadows to bold colors to neutral colors and the cycle repeats. What is the determining factor for all of these looks? You the consumer!
Consumers want to throw on their makeup as quick as they can. Rarely do consumers think about what effect the products they are using will have on their skin 10, 20 or even 30 years from now. Cosmetic companies know this. A cosmetic company has one true goal, to make money.
As the person that sets the trends through the power of purchasing, set the trend for healthy, beautiful skin! Instead of buying without looking at the ingredients or buying what is quicker to apply, buy what is good for your skin!
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Did the Russians have 'jerrycans' during early war? Specifically, early WWII. 1939 ~ 1941 era. Perhaps cans of own design? And, if so, of what design were they? Perhaps captured cans?
The reason I'm asking is because I have a few spare 1/16th scale jerrycans and I'm working on a 1/16th scale KV-2 and I'm wondering if it would be appropriate to put a few of them on the tank. They're generic, unlabeled cans of the following design:


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On Monday, the Government introduced its Prisons and Courts Bill. As a member of the Justice Select Committee we have been scrutinising the Government's thinking regarding this Bill and we have come across several areas that we find worrying and with questions still left to be answered.
1. Independence of Prison Governors
2. Changes to small claims
3. The Government's failure to tackle violence in prisons
It is now the case that 76 of the prisons in our estate—some 60%—are overcrowded, and have been deemed to be overcrowded by the prisons inspector. We have seen an increase of 39% in the number of deaths in prison custody over the last year alone, while there has been a 32% increase in self-inflicted deaths. There has also been a massive increase—22%—in the number of self-harm incidents reported. We have seen an increase in the number of assaults by prisoners on staff and on fellow prisoners. There has been an increase in the number of psychoactive substances found in prisons. There has been an increase in the number of mobile phones found in prisons, and, therefore, an increase in the number that are getting into prisons. Sadly, there has been a reduction of some 6,335—26% in the number of prison officers in the past seven years.
I believe that those facts are linked. We have fewer prison officers and the same number of prisoners—prisoners who, for a range of reasons, are more difficult and more challenging and, in many cases, have been convicted of more violent offences. The reduction in prison officer numbers has a real impact on the other statistics. While I do not object to the aims of clause 1 —indeed, I support them—I think that we need to think about what they mean in practice, and about how the White Paper is linked to them. Read more "Prisons and Courts Bill"


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Date(s) - Thursday, May 10, 2018
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Fruit & Spice Park
The Monthly meeting of the South Dade Garden Club takes place on the second Thursday of the month at the Fruit & Spice Park community room at 24801 SW 187th Avenue, starting at 7pm.
Hosts for this evening are: Pearl and Krystal Ingleton and Saralee Silverglade.
Subject: The Fascinating Process of Pollination
Our gust speaker is Barbara McAdams, Urban Horticulturist Program Specialist for the University of Florida Extension office in Homestead, speaking on birds, bees and other pollinators.
Pollination is the transfer of pollen from a male part of a plant to a female part of a plant, enabling later fertilization and the production of seeds, most often by an animal or by wind. Pollinating agents are animals such as insects, birds, and bats; water; wind; and even plants themselves, when self-pollination occurs within a closed flower. Pollination often occurs within a species. When pollination occurs between species it can produce hybrid offspring in nature and in plant breeding work.
Club leaders continue the tradition of sharing the love and appreciation for the abundant tropical species of South Florida, and the spirit of camaraderie among its members. As always, members and guests are welcome. Refreshments will be served after the program. Meetings are free and the public is welcome to attend. Bring a friend.


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Understanding why resilience is so important and what is needed to develop it for successful lives.
Understanding just what resilience is and why it is so important in achieving their success.
Being in the right place for opportunities.
Supporting them in finding their passion and the things they enjoy and understanding why this is so important for successful lives.
Understanding the power of purpose in building resilience and how to find it.
The importance of finding and using a support team.
A goal without a plan is a dream. How effective planning leads to high achievement.
Developing self believe and confidence.
Without energy and effective action there can be no resilience or success.
The 7Ps are explained through a series of short videos for teachers.
Each lesson includes a detailed lesson plan, student worksheet, PowerPoint and in some cases video and can be adapted to meet your needs. You can use the lesson plans fully or take some of the exercises included and add them to your own lessons…the choice is yours.
Having undertaken these lessons the students will
All lessons have been written to be delivered in one or more hour periods and are adaptable so they can be delivered in smaller chunks suitable for tutor/mentor time or shorter lessons. Depending on the depth to which the lesson is taken and the ability range of the students you may want to extend some lessons beyond the time suggested.
All lessons have extension or home learning tasks and the programme has sufficient material to run over a whole school year (around 100 hours).
Alternatively, the lessons can all be run independently and are suitable to be delivered by non-specialist and cover staff. You can use them to support or run alongside existing programmes or to enhance a project you are undertaking or to support learning in a particular area or subject. They also lend themselves to being used as enrichment days, where you can use groups of lessons to support a full or half days activities.


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Let the memory of Josie be with us forever
- 67 years old
- Born on June 10, 1944 .
- Passed away on March 3, 2012 .
This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, Josie Raigosa 67 years old , born on June 10, 1944 and passed away on March 3, 2012. We will remember her forever.
I knew josie for a short while through my brother jovani and she was a greatlady. Their a great memory of her back on December 1987 when i was in labor her and my dad,brother,stephanie were partying at my hse and i was told they had a great time. God bless that short whileni knew her she will be missed but nvr forgotton


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Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005
The Authority
Sections 32 and 37.
1. In this Schedule, except where the context otherwise requires, "member" means a member of the Authority, including the chairperson.
2. (1) The seal of the Authority shall be authenticated by the signature of—
( a) the chairperson of the Authority or other member authorised by the Authority to act in that behalf, and
( b) the Chief Executive or a member of staff of the Authority authorised by the Authority to act in that behalf.
(2) Judicial notice shall be taken of the seal of the Authority and every document purporting to be an instrument made by, and to be sealed with the seal of, the Authority (purporting to be authenticated in accordance with subparagraph (1)) shall be received in evidence and be deemed to be such instrument without further proof unless the contrary is shown.
3. Subject to this Act, a member shall hold office on the terms and conditions (including terms and conditions relating to remuneration and allowances for expenses) that may be determined by the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance.
4. A member shall be appointed by the Minister in a part-time capacity and shall hold office for 3 years and a member whose term of office expires shall be eligible for reappointment.
5. A member shall not be eligible for reappointment where he or she has served 2 terms of office.
6. A member may resign from office by written notice given to the Minister and the resignation shall take effect on the date specified in the notice or on the date on which the Minister receives the notice, whichever is the later.
7. The Minister may remove a member from office—
( a) if the member becomes incapable through ill-health of effectively performing his or her functions,
( b) for stated misbehaviour, or
( c) if the member's removal appears to the Minister to be necessary for the effective performance by the Authority of its functions,
and the Minister shall cause to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas a written statement of the reasons for any such removal.
8. A member shall cease to be and shall be disqualified from being a member where the member—
( a) is adjudicated bankrupt,
( b) makes a composition or arrangement with creditors,
( c) is convicted of an indictable offence,
( d) is sentenced to a term of imprisonment by a court of competent jurisdiction, or
( e) is disqualified or restricted from being a director of any company (within the meaning of the Companies Acts 1963 to 2003).
9. (1) The Minister may appoint a person to fill a casual vacancy which arises in the membership of the Authority due to the death, resignation, disqualification or removal from office of a member and the person so appointed shall be appointed in the same manner as the member who occasioned the casual vacancy.
(2) A person appointed to be a member under this paragraph shall hold office for the remainder of the term of office of the member who occasioned the casual vacancy.
10. (1) A member of the Authority who is—
( a) nominated as a member of Seanad Éireann,
( b) elected as a member of either House of the Oireachtas or to be a representative in the European Parliament, or
( c) regarded pursuant to Part XIII of the Second Schedule to the European Parliament Elections Act 1997 as having been elected to the European Parliament to fill a vacancy,
thereupon ceases to be a member of the Authority.
(2) A member of the staff of the Authority who is—
( a) nominated as a member of Seanad Éireann,
( b) elected as a member of either House of the Oireachtas or to be a representative in the European Parliament, or
( c) regarded pursuant to Part XIII of the Second Schedule to the European Parliament Elections Act 1997 as having been elected to the European Parliament to fill a vacancy,
thereupon stands seconded from employment by the Authority and shall not be paid by, or be entitled to receive from, the Authority remuneration or allowances in respect of the period commencing on such nomination or election, or when he or she is so regarded as having been elected, as the case may be, and ending when he or she ceases to be a member of either House or that Parliament.
(3) A period referred to in subparagraph (2) shall not be reckoned as service with the Authority for the purposes of any superannuation benefits, gratuities or other allowances payable on death, retirement or resignation.
(4) A person who is for the time being entitled under the Standing Orders of either House of the Oireachtas to sit in the House or who is a representative in the European Parliament shall, while he or she is so entitled or is such a representative, be disqualified from becoming a member of, or from employment in any capacity by, the Authority.
(5) The Authority shall not employ or otherwise retain in any capacity a person who would otherwise be disqualified under this paragraph from becoming a member of the Authority.
11. (1) The Authority shall hold such and so many meetings as may be necessary for performing its functions but in any case shall meet not less than once in every 3 months.
(2) The arrangements referred to in paragraph 15 may, with the approval of the Minister, provide for the discharge, under the general direction of the Authority, of any of its functions by a committee of the Authority.
12. The quorum for a meeting of the Authority shall be 6 or such greater number of members as the Authority may from time to time determine.
13. At a meeting of the Authority—
( a) the chairperson shall, if present, be the chairperson of the meeting, or
( b) if and so long as the chairperson is not present or if the office of chairperson is vacant, the deputy chairperson of the Authority shall be chairperson of the meeting, or
( c) if and so long as the chairperson is not present or if the office of chairperson is vacant or the deputy chairperson is not present or the office of deputy chairperson is vacant, the members who are present shall choose one of their number to be chairperson of the meeting.
14. Every question that is to be decided at a meeting of the Authority shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting on the question and, in the case of an equal division of votes, the chairperson of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
15. Subject to paragraph 12 the Authority may act notwithstanding one or more than one vacancy among its membership or any deficiency in the appointment of a member that may subsequently be discovered.
16. Subject to this Act, the Authority shall make arrangements for the regulation of its proceedings and business.


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I am a member of the Meadow Brook Concours dElegance Selection Committee and in conjunction with this am the head of the Antique Motorcycle Class, which is a new addition to our event (www.meadowbrookconcours.org).
The 2007 Concours will take place on August 5 on the campus of Oakland University in Rochester, MI. The 2007 event will be exceptional in that it will be the first year that antique motorcycles will be shown on the field; we expect the addition of motorcycles to be overwhelmingly popular.
The focus of the 2007 motorcycle class is 4 cylinder motorcycles. As a major U.S. Concours event, we felt it important to distinguish the antique motorcycle class by focusing prominently on a particular make, style or theme similar to the way in which the car classes are structured. The 2008 feature will be sidecars and subsequent events will include board track racers, trikes and others.
For the 2007 event, we are assembling the largest gathering of 4 cylinder motorcycles ever displayed on a Concours field; our goal is 40 4s and it is with the interest and participation of enthusiasts such as you that we will achieve that goal. We expect the assemblage of 4s to be well covered by the media and this coverage will certainly continue in future years as we assemble classes of motorcycles not often seen and rarely seen in multiple numbers.
It is important to note that there is no entry fee associated with this event.
I strongly encourage anyone who may have an interest in participating in this event to contact me as soon as possible so that your information can be added to database. It is the participation of enthusiasts such as you that will make this event an incredible success!
Leslie Dreist
AMCA Member #11400
IMCA Member #6448
Meadow Brook Concours dElegance Selection Committee
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Global Next Generation Centrifuge Market Pegged to Reach Nearly US$ 1,380 Mn by 2025-End Growing advancements in medical and clinical field has spread awareness about requirement for better healthcare system. Governments across the globe are making amendments in research & development, and diagnostic activities, and taking initiatives for developing access to care. These factors are expected to drive growth of the global next generation centrifuge market. Global next generation centrifuge market is projected to register 6.1% CAGR during the forecast period 2017 to 2025, according to a report by Persistence Market Research (PMR). The market is estimated to reach nearly US$ 1,380 Mn in revenues by 2025-end. PMR's report projects North America to remain dominant in the global next generation centrifuge market, with revenues pegged to surpass US$ 500 Mn by 2025. Europe is estimated to be secondlargest market for next generation centrifuge during the forecast period. This market growth in Europe is primarily attributed to factors such as growing number of life sciences companies, and soaring application of centrifuge for DNA extractions in forensic science. In addition, market in Asia Pacific (APAC) is expected to exhibit highest CAGR through 2025. Refrigerated centrifuge will remain the most lucrative product in the global next generation centrifuge market. Revenues generated from sales of refrigerated centrifuge is poised to reach nearly US$ 1000 Mn by 2025-end. Among two types of refrigerated centrifuge viz. refrigerated benchtop and refrigerated floor standing, the former is projected to exhibit a comparatively higher CAGR through 2025. Academic and research organisations will remain the highest end-users of next generation centrifuge. Demand for next generation centrifuge from these organisations is projected to expand at 7.6% CAGR through 2025. Biopharmaceutical companies are expected to be second-largest endusers of next generation centrifuge by 2025-end. In contrast, demand for next generation centrifuge from diagnostic centers will remain sluggish during the forecast period. Download Report Table of Content, Figures, and Tables @ http://www.persistencemarketresearch.com/market-research/next-generation-centrifugemarket/toc With soaring expansion of life sciences sector, several small- and medium-sized companies are focusing on increasing their presence in the market. These companies are adopting strategies such as new innovative product offerings coupled with more complex technologies, for differentiating their products from existing ones in the market. In addition, companies are focusing on introduction of systems with advanced features to cater increasing requirement of centrifuges. These factors are estimated to propel growth of the market. Increasing research & development activities in pharmaceutical industry has driven the demand for next generation centrifuges in production and quality assurance (QA) processes. Moreover, utilisation of advanced techniques such as next generation sequencing is on the rise, for studying patterns of infectious diseases in cancer patients. This further propels the demand for next generation centrifuges in molecule extraction and diagnosis procedures. A sample of this report is available upon request @ http://www.persistencemarketresearch.com/samples/11644 However, high costs are involved in initial setup and installation of floor standing centrifuges, coupled with service and repair costs. Organisations face challenges owing to limited financial supports. In addition, utilisation of next generation centrifuges depends on the availability of robust medical platforms and facilities. The aforementioned factors are expected to restrain growth of the global next generation centrifuge market during the forecast period. Key market players identified in PMR's report include Eppendorf, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Danaher Corporation (Beckman Coulter), NuAire Inc., Corning Inc., Hettich GmbH & Co.KG, Qiagen, Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd. Browse Complete Report @ http://www.persistencemarketresearch.com/market-research/nextgeneration-centrifuge-market.asp About Us: Persistence Market Research (PMR) is a third-platform research firm. Our research model is a unique collaboration of data analytics and market research methodology to help businesses achieve optimal performance. To support companies in overcoming complex business challenges, we follow a multi-disciplinary approach. At PMR, we unite various data streams from multidimensional sources. 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Pressure injuries are an international patient safety risk and may cause
the patient severe pain (some have likened it to sitting on a hot stove plate),
increase the time they need to be in hospital and may cause them to have
increased care needs when they return home.
In the year 2015 – 2016, 4,313 patients developed pressure injuries in
public hospitals.
At Epworth, we take pressure injuries, which develop in hospital,
seriously and investigate each one to identify any learnings or opportunities
for improvement that can enhance the care we provide. These learnings are then shared across the
organisation through our Group Pressure Injury Committee. This Committee's role
is to ensure that the care we provide is evidence based, best practice and
At Epworth, we strive to help keep you safe from pressure injuries. We
achieve this through a number of initiatives, including:
This means that since June 2014, the percentage of patients who have
developed pressure injuries during their admission has been trending down. We participate in external benchmarking with
the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) every 6 months. Since 2014, Epworth's rate of pressure
injuries was better than the average rate reported to ACHS in 6 of the 8
reporting periods.
Between Jan and June 2018, Epworth has continued to see improvements and
for every 1000 admissions, 1 – 2 patients sustained a pressure injury during
their stay.
Key initiatives implemented to reduce the risk of our patients
sustaining a pressure injury:
Pressure Injury Bundles. In 2017,
Epworth HealthCare introduced the pressure injury bundles to the ICU. This
project's aim was to increase staff awareness and product accessibility to
ensure prompt and appropriate management of our patients who were at risk of
developing or had developed a pressure injury.
Back to Basics Project. In 2018,
Epworth introduced the Back to Basics Project – an intensive awareness and
education campaign focusing on the SSKIN slogan as well as implementing the
Pressure Injury Bundles throughout the organization. Overall, this project
aimed to improve staff knowledge regarding risk assessment and management of
patients at risk of or for any that had developed a pressure injury.


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VRL Logistics Ltd. - Automating Toll Payment Checking Over SMS
01 Challenge
Manual reconciling bank statements with toll paymentsLearn more
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Virtual long number for receiving payment details over SMSLearn more
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Automated Billing ReconciliationLearn more
VRL Logistics Ltd. is the largest logistics and transportation company in India. Founded in 1976, VRL has a fleet of nearly 4000 transport trucks, over 400 tour buses, and nearly 1000 branches and franchises across India. VRL Logistics Ltd offers courier services, priority cargo, parcel service, air charter services, and warehousing solutions. Transportation and logistics is a complex business. Beyond the normal challenges of managing their tremendous fleet of vehicles, they were facing an even greater challenge with one of the most mundane parts of transportation: paying and accounting for tolls.
Manual reconciling bank statements with toll payments
The VRL logistics Ltd. finance department had a challenge reconciling bank statements with the automatic tolls their vehicles were automatically charged on the roads. There was no automatic reconciliation between what the bank said was paid and what was charged. For VRL Logistics Ltd, this meant that employees had to manually check bank statements against toll charges to make sure the company wasn't being overcharged for highway tolls. The process was labor intensive and prone to mistakes.
Virtual long number for receiving payment details over SMS
VRL Logistics' IT department created a custom component in their ERP system to automatically reconcile the bank statements with toll charges as they came in all enabled with SMS. After the new component was implemented, every time a vehicle was automatically charged on the highway, within a few seconds VRL Logistics Ltd receives an SMS message with all the payment details. The message is triggered by Electronic Toll Collection system the moment the vehicle exits the highway. SMS message is sent via a Virtual Long Number (VLN), containing payment details, exit time, and toll name. The ERP system receives the SMS and can automatically match that payment with their bank statements.
Automated Billing Reconciliation
Before automating billing reconciliation, VRL Logistics Ltd needed 15 people from the finance department to manually compare bank statements with the information about when and where tolls were paid. Now with the new ERP component, bank statements and toll charges are reconciled automatically, all with data sent via SMS, which is an important improvement in their internal processes, facilitating their operations and growth.
Infobip made a vast improvement to our internal communications. By fully automating one of the most cumbersome aspects of our billing process, the platform enabled us to operate with maximum efficiency.


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We first published John Graves in Texas Monthly in 1974. It was a selection from Hardscrabble, his book about his life on the place he and his wife Jane and his daughters Sally and Helen carved out of, and into, the limestone and scrub brush of the Upper Brazos country.
William Broyles
William Broyles is a native of Baytown and was the founding editor of Texas Monthly. He then went on to create the television show, China Beach, and to write scripts for a number of films, including Cast Away, The Polar Express, Jarhead, Unfaithful, and Apollo 13, which he co-wrote with Texas Monthly writer Al Reinert. Broyles graduated from Rice University and has an M.A. from Oxford University. He also served with the Marines in Vietnam, was the editor in chief of Newsweek magazine, and is the author of Brothers in Arms. He lives in New Mexico.
Articles by William Broyles
Jan 24, 2013 — By William Broyles
Forty years (and more) of the exuberant, eclectic neighborhood where I was born, grew as a writer, and found inspiration for the early pages of this magazine.
Jan 21, 2013 — By William Broyles
Along the Houston Ship Channel the water is eight feet high and risin'.
Jan 20, 2013 — By William Broyles
The King Ranch saga: how one family conquered, tamed, loved, toiled on, and fought over a great piece of Texas.
Jan 20, 2013 — By William Broyles
TALK OF CHANGE AND REFORM has been in the air since the Sharpstown scandals more than perhaps at any time in our state's history. Such talk is welcome, and, as most of us apparently felt in the last elections, mandatory. One imagines that talk of reform came as uncomfortably, but…
Jan 20, 2013 — By William Broyles
At the core of the King Ranch is the vaquero tradition, the centuries-old culture of horsemen and cattle that began on the central plateau of Spain. Richard saw how that culture could transform the Great Plains, and in the 1850s he made a recruiting trip to Mexico. The families he…
Jan 20, 2013 — By William Broyles
Robert E. Lee advised his friend Richard King to build his permanent home at the highest point on the surrounding prairie, a little rise on the banks of Santa Gertrudis Creek. The first building was a tiny adobe jacal built of mud and sticks. The one-story house that replaced it…
Jan 20, 2013 — By William Broyles
Ranching ultimately comes down to managing land and water. The King Ranch is blessed with much of the former and almost none of the latter. Before it was divided among Richard and Henrietta King's five children in 1935, the King Ranch was bigger than Delaware. Now it's only bigger than…
Jan 20, 2013 — By William Broyles
Bob Kleberg had a problem. Brahman cattle from India were tough enough to survive in the South Texas climate, but they were too tough to eat. And fat English cattle like Herefords and Shorthorns suffered the traditional fate of the English in the tropics: they degenerated into a stupor and…
Jun 30, 2008 — By William Broyles
Why we should end the war in Iraq.
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