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The Moon
Y Lleuad
God hinders us – being wise –
In a multitude of ways.
Lovers, lorn and benighted,
Limp on unrequited.
Longing for woman’s lightness,
Lust-struck, dazzled sightless,
Slave to Ovid’s muse, I stray
Where I dare not go by day:
Lunatic scheme! Sore my plight!
Lost by day and foiled by night!
Luck eludes me, though I swoon,
Love her! Thwarted by the moon!
Waiting in the woods, the murk
Would have aided amorous work
Were it not as bright as day.
Why! Cold moonlight will betray
What seemed a foolproof scheme! Grief
Will get me, like a doomed thief:
Waxen moon, maiden’s minder,
Winter-whitened man-blinder!
Baleful, glowering, candle-white,
Blooming Blodeuwedd of night!
Planet wan, a watery waste,
Parish of the ever-chaste!
Half a month, by her rhythm –
At home in her dark heaven –
Will make her wan, pale to wane:
One fortnight clear to wax again,
Then half and half she wavers –
The maid withdraws her favours –
Tide-stirring, bright and wide:
The ghost-sun, the starlit Bride.
No thief ever found a worse
Gift. Moonlit night: burglar’s curse.
Eiddig slips out of his bed
At the raising of her head:
She assists the churl to scare
This suitor in his twiggy lair.
Fine florin, Eiddig’s friend,
Finding star-strewn ways to wend,
Far too wide, her chalk-white face
Flowering for the wind’s embrace.
Faithless, to this lover’s cost,
Frigid scatterer of frost,
Faceless foe! My love must hide:
Fear will keep her locked inside.
Fickle circle, fair of flight,
Flawless in the moonlit night.
Candle of the world, she’ll know –
Canny creature – where I go,
Compassing the wind-wide world,
Casting light as men are hurled
Callously across the sky,
Careering onward as we die.
Caressed by lightning, bright rim,
Circle of the cauldron’s brim,
Cold lamp in an azure sphere,
Queen of gleaming atmosphere.
Day of a base-metal sun
Drives me out, and I must run,
Dart for shelter, ere the dawn
Draws me down for Eiddig’s scorn.
Darken but a little, moon –
Do but this – I’ll make her swoon
With love-words! Saints, angels, hark!
Would to God that it were dark!
Enough it is that light holds sway
Twelve hours every day.
Good God who made the light,
Grant a lover’s gift of night!
Source material: Poem by Dafydd ap Gwilym, paraphrased by Giles Watson. Of all Dafydd’s poems, this is the one which draws most heavily on the lore and language of the pagan Celts, but with characteristic brilliance, he subverts the tradition by transforming a riddling hymn into a diatribe, and transforms it again at the end into a wickedly wayward Christian prayer. The moon, which might in other circumstances be the subject of Dafydd’s praise, invites his scorn because it has cast its light on his hiding-place in the greenwood, where he had hoped to have his tryst with Eiddig’s wife. The entire poem is, of course, a witty and ironic meditation not only on the rhythmic nature of the phases of the moon, but on the changeability of womanhood, and his skill as a poet is evidenced by the deftness with which he alludes to the relationship between the lunar and menstrual cycles. Indeed, it could be argued that Eiddig himself is more or less superfluous as far as dramatic tension is concerned: there are plenty of hints here that, under the moon’s influence, Dafydd’s beloved is not in an amorous mood tonight in any case. The reference to Blodeuwedd – the miraculous maiden of the Mabinogion, conjured out of flowers and then transformed into an owl as a punishment for an adulterous and murderous affair – is more subtle in the original, where the line in question reads “Blodeuyn o dywyn dydd” (“Is the bloom of the day’s radiance”). In an attempt to echo the incantatory tone of the original, I have preserved the heavy alliteration of Dafydd’s line-openings, although not always with the same sounds. It is worth noting that the longing for darkness to cover one’s misdoings, combined with a similar incantatory tone, is a feature of the speeches Shakespeare attributed to Macbeth and his wife – although their transgressions were of a bloodier nature. This paraphrase was written on the night of the Full Wolf Moon – the brightest full moon of the year – at the end of January, 2010: a happy coincidence which certainly facilitated the work.
Corn bales dot the landscape of this farm in Berks County, Pennsylvania. In my never ending quest to fine tune my film development workflow I switched to a Beseler 8x10 color print developing drum on a Uniroller 352 auto-reversing rotary base for my 4x5 film development. I was getting uneven development always on a single sheet when I was trying the Mod54 insert in the older screw-top Paterson tank on the rotary base. Although the Beseler drum only handles four sheets at a time instead of the Mod54 six sheets, it is nearly foolproof and I've been able to use 80% less developer, stop bath, fixer and distilled water with each batch which is a huge advantage. I also have a Beseler 11X14 drum that takes eight sheets of 4x5 but I think I need to locate or fabricate a missing sheet spacer insert for that drum before I use it for developing. Going forward, the Mod54 insert will be used mostly for processing the double-sided Fuji HRT-30 X-Ray film I still have left.
4x5 for 365 Project details: greggobst.photography/4x5-for-365
Technical details:
Sakai Toyo 4 1/2 x 6 1/2" (half-plate) large format metal field camera with 4x5" film back.
Fujinon-W 210mm F5.6 lens in Copal B shutter.
Arista EDU Ultra 200 (re-branded Fomapan) B&W Film, shot at ISO 160.
1/30th second at F32.
Developed in Adox Rodinal 1:50 dilution for 7 minutes, 20 seconds @ 20 degrees Celsius using Beseler 8x10 color print drum placed on Unicolor Uniroller 352 auto-reversing rotary base.
4x5" negative scanned with Epson V600.
"A" is for accident. The road to the left is a swooping curve. Over the years I've seen more than one car up on the bank of the house next door when they keep sliding around the bend. I overheard the van owner say that he was stopped for cars on the road and she came around the corner fast. I ventured out today after all our bad weather and people were driving very fast for the conditions. The road snow is packed down to icy like stuff.
Over-processed look is brought to you by NIK Colour Efex Pro that I downloaded for a trial. It is actually really good and easy to use. Does anyone out there use NIK software???? Comments????
In Ontario there is no such thing as "accidents". They are called collisions as all are preventable.
This saved me from doing a snow angel.
From now on I will likely get my numbers mixed up even with my foolproof labelling system.
6C46 trundles on to Sellafield.
The pyramidial lumps which we can see are solidified slag from the Moss Bay works of the Workington Iron & Steel Co. which were tipped from chauldron wagons worked along the Cleator & Workington Junction Railway's Moss Bay branch and which came in handy as a makeshift sea defence.
Not foolproof though as the erosion which is undermining the former C&WJR embankment testifies.
When the wannabe princess showed up at the palace door to escape from a passing rain shower, the Queen offered her a room for the night. While the suspect princess was dining, the Queen went to personally arrange the guest chambers. She made sure to bring along a pea, and then ordered her servant to acquire 20 mattresses. Thus operation Detect-a-True-Princess was begun. The Queen knew her plan was foolproof. The servant wasn’t so sure, but mostly just dreaded having to drag 20 mattresses away again in the morning.
Chassis n° 379
Coachwork by Roussile & Fils - Bergerac
Les Grandes Marques du Monde au Grand Palais
Bonhams
Estimated : € 90.000 - 110.000
Sold for € 184.000
Parijs - Paris
Frankrijk - France
February 2018
- Majestic survivor of formal coachwork design
- Simple ownership history
- Sympathetic older restoration retaining original interior
- History of long distance tours
Although it was Karl Benz who first made the motor car a viable proposition with his primitive slow-revving engines and designs, those were left on the starting blocks when Panhard brought in the Système Panhard, a design that was to mould the future of the motor car for the next century, and when De Dion Bouton introduced their fast-revving engines in the last decade of the 19th Century. Early rear-engined De Dion Boutons, gave way to a new generation of front-engined cars for the 1902 season, again single-cylinder models with atmospheric inlet valve and mechanical exhaust valve. De Dion's gearbox was virtually foolproof for the first-time car driver, the fast-revving engines were supremely reliable, and De Dion back-up and service was second-to-none.
But as with modern technology things moved quickly and the company had to move with the times, by the turn of 1904/5 an inline four cylinder was offered, being simply four individual pots on a common crankcase. Next the radiator was moved above the chassis in the style made fashionable by Mercedes and with it the 'alligator' or 'coal scuttle' bonnet was retired. The gearbox too would follow fashion and move to a side control mechanism, by the time De Dion fielded their Peking-Paris team in 1907. The model AX as offered here represented the evolution of the first four that was introduced, on a slightly longer more substantial frame and with magneto ignition. As a bare chassis it cost 11,500 French Francs more than twice the price of their single cylinder car which was still offered, and with formal coachwork, 40-50% could reasonably be expected to be added.
As can be seen from the variety in the collection, Jacques Vander Stappen took great interest in coachwork and its design, particularly in its earliest days as it transitioned from coaches and railway carriages to cars. The De Dion Bouton presented here is one of very few surviving cars of any marque that retain Double Berline coachwork, a design which owes much to railway carriages more than cars, and literally took its name from having two coaches perched together in tandem. Those carriages being separate entities with a fixed division. Perhaps the most famous survivor of this external style is the famed 'Corgi' Rolls-Royce, sold world record price car of the marque sold by Bonhams in 2012, but that differs in that the interior compartments are not separated. Another survives on a Silver Ghost built by Fuller of Bath, there is one in the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart on a 60hp, and of course Bugatti would copy this style in convertible form on one of his Royales, but they are certainly few and far between.
The regal De Dion Bouton here is a lesser known example which has resided in Continental Europe all of its life. Very little is recorded about its coachbuilders, Roussille Fils of Bergerac, nor for whom they built this majestic piece, however it is unquestionably a wonderful automobile that would have made quite a statement in its day. From the condition of its interior it is clear that its use was relatively modest and from the documentation on file we know that however brief its original commission was, it was clearly laid up relatively early on, until it was discovered by noted collector Eugene Segers in the early 1960s. Photos of the car show its slumber incarcerated in a French barn, then its subsequent careful refurbishment. Aside from its technical specification which pinpoints its year of construction to 1907, during the sympathetic restoration that it received, a business card was beneath the upholstery in the rear compartment stating that the bodywork was supplied in March 1908.
During its restoration, its headlamps were replaced with large BRC, but it would seem that otherwise the car remained as it had been found and was new. The upholstery appears to have been cleaned at this point rather than replaced. At this point, the bold BRC headlamps it now wears were fitted. Once finished the De Dion was then put on the road and campaigned in and around Europe, including journeys such as the 1961 run from Brussels to Paris and Madrid and The Polar Tour, as attested by plaques in the front cabin.
Segers must have prized the car and it was not until his passing that the car was sold by his son Philippe, in 2001, when Mr. Vander Stappen was able to secure it for his collection. Over the course of the last few years its use has been far more modest than its busy 1960s life and at present the water pump has been removed, suggesting that this needs attention, as well as general recommissioning.
The car is a quite remarkable period piece, in its technical aspect it shows the transitional De Dion Bouton model with separate cylinders as they moved from their ubiquitous hugely successful single cylinder automobiles to multi-cylinder production, while the coachwork is a snapshot of how some chose to be conveyed in the early days of the motorcar and its state of preservation places it in an even rarer category.
Is there should be any festive occasions to taste this most famous Indian sweet? not at all. Usually it is prepared during Diwali, Navratri, Raksha bandhan and given as gift pack to others to celebrate the festivals. I can bet that this is the most easiest sweet with very few ingredients, without loads of ghee and very less effort. The most easiest sweet but the costliest ones in shops. I have prepared this kaju katli recipe / kaju barfi recipe so many times, as it’s my daughter’s favourite and it’s always a foolproof recipe for me without any flops. Before trying the recipe, please read the tips carefully and go ahead. Try this sweet for your loved ones during this weekend and have a great time.
Recipe Link: asmallbite.com/kaju-katli-recipe-kaju-barfi-recipe/
ODC2: Dislikes
Actually, I don't really dislike pigeons...they are lively and often lovely to watch as they fly over the city. I am always moved by the dedication of some to feeding them and helping them survive through difficult weather conditions, as this shot shows, taken near Notre Dame in Paris.
BUT, I don't like hosting them on my balcony, for the obvious reasons...when they did come, they came in noisy droves...cleanup was difficult and time-consuming. After reading about all sorts of means of stopping them from alighting, I found what has been, until now, a foolproof method which harms none: I have a doorstop of a lady swinging a golf club which I put on a little table facing the area they like to roost in. I think they're afraid she's looking at them, so they don't stop there any more...that way, we're all happy!
On most Sundays we indulge by having eggs for breakfast.
Usually its scrambled, sometimes, French toast or soft boiled.
A variety we don't do is "Hemendeksz" (as the Hungarians call it), basically a 'sunny side up' with ham. It always amused me how terms brought in from other languages can get bastardized.
Today it was different, I prepared the two eggs for soft (horror of horrors I use the microwave method, which is almost foolproof).
But my beloved felt that the one egg will not suffice. Faced with this Solomonian dilemma, I whipped up the third egg and divided it equally between the two containers.
It was delicious!
Now I need a name for the soft with scrambled on top variation.
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams.
The Volomat is a Selective Exposure Meter - Photometer
The Regula is foolproof, climate proof.
The Photina is available in true Reflex models and in non-focussing view-finder models.
“What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.”
“You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.”
“Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.”
“Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.”
“So, if consumers are like roaches, then marketers must forever be dreaming up new concoctions for industrial-strength Raid.”
“A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies. Essentially, what we've been debating over—certainly since the Great Depression—is what percentage of a society should be left in the hands of a deregulated market system. And absolutely there are people that are at the far other end of the spectrum that want to communalize all property and abolish private property, but in general the debate is not between capitalism and not capitalism, it's between what parts of the economy are not suitable to being decided by the profit motive. And I guess that comes from being Canadian, in a way, because we have more parts of our society that we've made a social contract to say, 'That's not a good place to have the profit motive govern.' Whereas in the United States, that idea is kind of absent from the discussion. So even something like firefighting—it seems hard for people make an argument that maybe the profit motive isn't something we want in the firefighting sector, because you don't want a market for fire. ”
“Culture jamming is enjoying a resurgence, in part because of technological advancements but also more pertinently, because of the good old rules of supply and demand. Something not far from the surfaces of the public psyche is delighted to see the icons of corporate power subverted and mocked. There is, in short, a market for it. With commercialism able to overpower the traditional authority of religion, politics and schools, corporations have emerged a the natural targets for all sorts of free-floating rage and rebellion. The new ethos that culture jamming taps into is go-for-the-corporate-jugular.”
“The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling. Just as ecologists define ecosystems by the presence of certain "indicator species" of plants and birds, torture is an indicator species of a regime that is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections.”
“In Venezuela Chavez has made the co-ops a top political priority, giving them first refusal on government contracts and offering them economic incentives to trade with one another. By 2006, there were roughly 100,000 co-operatives in the country, employing more than 700,000 workers. Many are pieces of state infrastructure – toll booths, highway maintenance, health clinics – handed over to the communities to run. It’s a reverse of the logic of government outsourcing – rather than auctioning off pieces of the state to large corporations and losing democratic control, the people who use the resources are given the power to manage them, creating, at least in theory, both jobs and more responsive public services. Chavez’s many critics have derided these initiatives as handouts and unfair subsidies, of course. Yet in an era when Halliburton treats the U.S. government as its personal ATM for six years, withdraws upward of $20 billion in Iraq contracts alone, refuses to hire local workers either on the Gulf coast or in Iraq, then expresses its gratitude to U.S. taxpayers by moving its corporate headquarters to Dubai (with all the attendant tax and legal benefits), Chavez’s direct subsidies to regular people look significantly less radical.”
“When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty.”
“The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.”
“What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up. ”
“The American Society of Civil Engineers said in 2007 that the U.S. had fallen so far behind in maintaining its public infrastructure -- roads, bridges, schools, dams -- that it would take more than a trillion and half dollars over five years to bring it back up to standard. Instead, these types of expenditures are being cut back. At the same time, public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. The well-off, meanwhile, will withdraw into gated communities, their needs met by privatized providers. ”
“Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be shocked when Halliburton overcharges for everything from towels to gas, when Parsons' sub, sub, sub-contractor builds a police academy where the pipes drip raw sewage on the heads of army cadets and where Blackwater investigates itself and finds it acted honorably. That's just corporations doing what they do and Iraq is a privatized war zone so that's what you get. Build a frontier, you get cowboys and robber barons.”
“Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street to see the group as "superconsumers," able to carry consumer demand all on their own.”
“Like Russia's gangsterism and Bush's cronyism, contemporary Iraq is a creation of the fifty-year crusade to privatize the world. Rather than being disowned by its creators, it deserves to be seen as the purest incarnation yet of the ideology that gave it birth.”
“Protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage of the reconstruction were part of a vast protectionist racket whereby the U.S. government had created their markets with war, barred their competitors from even entering the race, then paid them to do the work, while guaranteeing them a profit to boot - all at taxpayer expense.”
“Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and backpacks, and Sony personal CD players and head for school.”
“It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer products can coexist with free public health care, with public schools, with a large segment of the economy -- like a national oil company -- held in state hands. It's equally possible to require corporations to pay decent wages, to respect the right of workers to form unions, and for governments to tax and redistribute wealth so that the sharp inequalities that mark the corporatist state are reduced. Markets need not be fundamentalist.”
“It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving door between corporate and political elites who combine their power to eliminate workers as an organized political force. The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.”
“During the Cold War, widespread alcoholism was always seen in the West as evidence that life under Communism was so dismal that Russians needed large quantities of vodka to get through the day. Under capitalism, however, Russians drinks more than twice as much alcohol as they used to - and they are reaching for harder painkillers as well.”
“Political solutions-accountable to the people and enforceable by their elected representatives- deserve another shot before we throw in the towel and settle for corporate codes, independent monitors and the privatisation of our collective rights as citizens.”
“This is not the time to be looking for ways to dismiss a nascent movement against the power of capital, but to do the opposite: to find ways to embrace it, support it and help it grow into its enormous potential. With so much at stake, cynicism is a luxury we simply cannot afford.”
“McDonald's, meanwhile, continues busily to harass small shopkeepers and restaurateurs of Scottish descent for that nationality's uncompetitive predisposition toward the Mc prefix on its surnames. The company sued the McAl an's sausage stand in Denmark; the Scottish-themed sandwich shop McMunchies in Buckinghamshire; went after Elizabeth McCaughey's McCoffee shop in the San Francisco Bay Area; and waged a twenty-six-year battle against a man named Ronald McDonald whose McDonald's Family Restaurant in a tiny town in Il inois had been around since 1956.”
“In 1991, Disney forced a group of New Zealand parents in a remote country town to remove their amateur renditions of Pluto and Donald Duck from a playground mural; and Barney has been breaking up children's birthday parties across the U.S., claiming that any parent caught dressed in a purple dinosaur suit is violating its trademark. The Lyons Group, which owns the Barney character, "has sent 1,000 letters to shop owners" renting or selling the offending costumes. "They can have a dinosaur costume. It's when it's a purple dinosaur that it's illegal, and it doesn't matter what shade of purple, either," says Susan Elsner Furman, Lyons' spokesperson.”
“Authoritarian Communism is, and should be, forever tainted by those real-world laboratories. But what of the contemporary crusade to liberate world markets? The coups, wars and slaughters to instill and maintain pro-corporate regimes have never been treated as capitalist crimes but have instead been written off as the excess of overzealous dictators, as hot fronts in the Cold War, and now of the War on Terror. If the most committed opponents of the corporatist economic model are systematically eliminated, whether in Argentina in the seventies or in Iraq today, that suppression is explained as part of the dirty fight against Communism or terrorism - almost never as the fight for the advancement of pure capitalism.”
1) “I think, absolutely, there’s room for tremendous amount of discussion [about capitalism]. The problem is the media doesn’t want to have that discussion.”
2) “It’s very important to get my ideas out there. I hate the idea of self-censorship. I hate the idea of cutting off information.”
3) “All the work I do is an attempt to correct the narrative… to fill in the huge hole of the narrative… — the fairy-tale version of history.”
4) “You’re not in touch with people out of your bubble… just in your own community you can get out of your comfort zone.”
5) “Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.”
•• www.buzzsawmag.org/2010/04/09/top-5-naomi-klein-visits-it...
“People without memory are putty.”
•• www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/419.Naomi_Klein
The Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein on the Rise of Disaster Capitalism => www.democracynow.org/2007/9/17/the_shock_doctrine_naomi_k...
•• Why Capitalism Needs Terror: An Interview with Naomi Klein => www.naomiklein.org/meet-naomi/interviews/why-capitalism-n...
•• Quotes from The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein => bbbooksss.blogspot.com/2011/02/shock-doctrine-by-naomi-kl...
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From Christmas cookies and pancakes to chocolate cake and sandwich bread, The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion will be there to guide home bakers every step of the way. Every kitchen comes equipped with a fundamental, dependable cookbook classic such as Joy of Cooking or Better Homes & Gardens New Cookbook. Now bakers have a modern classic of their own. From leavening, mixing, proofing, and kneading, through shaping and baking, the experts at King Arthur Flour lead you through hundreds of easy and foolproof recipes from tricky yeast breads and sourdoughs, to trendy flatbreads and crackers, to family favorites such as pancakes and waffles. They also present fried doughs, quick breads, batter breads, biscuits, quiches, cobblers and crisps, cookies, cakes, brownies, pies,
1983 (part 2 of 3)
May 2, 1983
A new van, valued at $17,000, was donated to the City of Kanata by Kanata Realty Limited. The vehicle would be used by small non-profit groups within the City. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:23.
May 2, 1983
The Dunrobin Community Association held a well attended Annual Meeting. Officers for 1983 were Dale Murphy, John McDonald, Lou Armitage, Wayne Kilrea, Jean Azulay, Ruth Kennedy, and Dorothy Stanton. A motion was passed directing the DCA to take the necessary steps to become incorporated as a non-profit organization. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:14.
May 3, 1983
It was announced that the Parks and Recreation Department received a federal grant to support their Children’s Summer Workshops. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:7.
May 5, 1983
Trustee Hal Hansen stated that he was optimistic that the addition to Katimavik School would proceed, despite the lack of decisive action by the Carleton Board of Education the previous week. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:1.
May 5, 1983
John Harkness, the new City of Kanata engineer, announced that he intended to make Kanata his permanent home. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:1.
May 5, 1983
The largest inter-city competition ever held in Canada was well under way. The Great Canadian Participaction Challenge was a highlight of National Physical Activity Week. Kanata had already accepted a participation challenge from the City of Saskatoon. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:1.
May 5, 1983
In his weekly column, Alderman Des Adam explained recent fraud allegations and an investigation by the City auditor and solicitor. He later defended the role of Kanata City Council in a letter to the Editor, and particularly questioned a previous Kanata Standard editorial criticizing Council’s reaction to the issue. Kanata Standard, April 28, 1983:3; Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:2.
May 5, 1983
The Kanata Theatre announced its 1983-4 season, which included Hayfever by Noel Coward, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Dangerous Corner by J.B Priestly, and The White Liars and Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:8.
May 5, 1983
The Kanata Library proclaimed May 16-21 as Amnesty Week. This provided for the return of overdue library books, “no questions asked” and at no cost. Books worth $3,309.75 were outstanding at the time. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:8; Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:6.
May 5, 1983
The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 593, Bells Corners, sponsored a campaign to raise over $8,000 for physiotherapy equipment for the Geriatric Day Hospital at the Queensway-Carleton Hospital. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:9.
May 5, 1983
The new executive for the Glen Cairn Co-op Nursery School was announced. Serving on the executive were Jan Caldwall, Suzanne Mercier, Jan Lockhart, Dawn Carrick, Lynda Healy, June Corie, Debbie Shuto, Marlene Boersma, Janice Merryweather, Marie Brownell, Paul Brownell, Sandra May, and Kathryn Jeffries. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:12.
May 5, 1983
In response the Earl of March’s seminars during their Nuclear Awareness week, Toronto Mayor John Hasek flew to Kanata and spoke to the students at the Earl of March. T. James Stark, president of Operation Dismantle, also attended. Hasek felt obliged to convey his concern over anti-cruise missile positions, and pointed out in his speech that unilateral disarmament would “destabilize” the world. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:6,14.
May 8, 1983
City representatives, including the Mayor, marked the installation of signs giving Old Highway 17 the new name of “March Road.” Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:5.
May 9, 1983
Stan Katz was announced as the new Superintendent of Personnel for the Carleton Board of Education. He had been Acting Director of Education since 1980. Kanata Standard, May 12:31.
May 10, 1983
Kanata City Council rejected a request from the Carleton Roman Catholic School Board to share the cost of construction of a bus bay at Georges Vanier School. The estimated cost was $10,000. Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:1.
May 11, 1983
Three Carleton Board of Education officials spoke to parents regarding post-nursery school French options. Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:1,40.
May 11, 1983
A Kanata Esso station worker was robbed by three or four people after he was forced off Regional Road 12 near Fallowfield Road. The men, who were armed and fired shots, made off with the day’s receipts. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:1.
May 11, 1983
Regional Council adopted a Planning Committee report on the conservation lands, indicating that the South March Highlands and the Constance Creek area would be designated as a marginal resource category. Des Adam explained in his column that this would allow for development following an environmental impact study. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:3.
May 11, 1983
The staff and students of W. Erskine Johnston opened their production of Oliver to a full house. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:10.
May 12, 1983
Several Kanata residents were honoured at a patents award dinner for Bell-Northern Research scientists. Kanata winners were Len Charlebois, Sorin Cohn-Sfetcu, Jack Dyment, Ernst Munter, Brian Osborne and Bill Trumble. Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:1.
May 12, 1983
Tridel Corporation withdrew its application for rezoning of the area west of Young Road near Highway 7 to permit an apartment complex on the site. Paul Niebergall stated that it was “understood that Tridel is now developing new plans for the site which will hopefully be more acceptable to the locals.” Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:3.
May 12, 1983
Seven-year-old Kanata Beaver Dave Brooks won a provincial poster contest. Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:20.
May 12, 1983
The Kanata Sailing Club announced that it would sponsor a recreational sailing program for 9-16 year olds. Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:29.
May 12, 1983
Laurie McDonald Savoie wrote on the building boom in Kanata, and explained that a combination of low interest rates and an improving economy were important factors contributing to a large increase in housing starts expected for Kanata in 1983. Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:36-7.
May 13, 1983
The Kanata Theatre Group ended its season with A Romantic Comedy. Wendy Doyle wrote that this production “was a fitting end to another season of excellent entertainment by the Kanata Theatre Group.” Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:9.
May 13, 1983
The Kanata Teen Centre held its first Parents’ Night in the Glen Cairn Community Centre. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:11.
May 16, 1983
Earl of March High School students began an archaeological search of BhFx-1, The Nathaniel Scharfe site north of the overpass in Kanata. The site was originally the home of Nathaniel Scharfe, and included a home, barn and dump. Kanata Standard, May 26, 1983:4.
May 17, 1983
Kanata City Council revealed that taxes in 1983 for most residents of Kanata would rise 11.57 percent. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:1.
May 17, 1983
City staff presented an initial report on video arcades to Kanata City Council, which concluded that a video recreation centre was not a permitted use in the General Commercial Zone of Glen Cairn Community Zoning By-law. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:1.
May 18, 1983
Eleven thousand Kanata residents, about 57 percent of the population, took part in the Participation Challenge. Kanata placed fourth in the Challenge against cities of similar size. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:1; Kanata Standard, May
26, 1983:1.
May 19, 1983
The Beaverbrook Branch of the Kanata Library displayed March heritage items loaned from Audrey Richardson, Wilfred and Lena Ives, and members of the March Historical Society. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:7.
May 19, 1983
Lumonics Inc. announced a net profit for the three months ended March 31, 1983 of $505,000, a 28 percent increase from the previous year. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:19.
May 19, 1983
Kanata students fared well at the Ottawa Valley Track Meet at Mooney’s Bay. Competitors included Earl of March and A.Y. Jackson students Joey Barnabe, Brett Hodel, Cathy Murphy, Phil Hughes, Scott Henna, Marc Olesen, and Kevin Waller.
May 20, 1983
The Hazeldean Lions Club was given an official City flag by Mayor Marianne Wilkinson. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:21.
May 24, 1983
Deciding on the configuration of pathways near the Town Centre was a contentious issue in a Kanata City Council meeting. The issue was deferred to staff for further study. Kanata Standard, May
26, 1983:1.
May 26, 1983
The scheduled events for the upcoming annual Mayfair celebration were announced. Mayfair began in 1966. Kanata Standard, May 26, 1983:9.
May 26, 1986
Hazeldean/Bridlewood District Commissioner Phyllis More was honored at a dinner for the work she had done for the local Guides. Guide Leader Beryl Morris took over the position. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:23.
May 27, 1983
Four scouts from A Troop achieved the highest level in Boy Scouts, the Chief Scout Award. They were Christopher Hickman, Peter Tomashewski, Murray Westmore, and Patrick van Abbema. Kanata Standard, June 23, 1983:6.
May 28, 1983
The 17th annual Mayfair parade ran through the streets of Kanata. Ivan Percy stated that the 20-float parade was bigger than the previous year. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:1.
May 31, 1983
The Kanata Indoor Pool Committee gave a slide presentation to Kanata City Council and the public, where it was related that there was growth in leisure pool development in other areas. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:1.
June 1, 1983
The Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association awarded Ron Maslin and Chris Lowrie with Man and Women of the year. A new Executive was also elected, which included Barbara Farmer, Hillel Kaslove, Larry Demchuk, and Tom Rimmer. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:1,9; Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:5.
June 1, 1983
The Kinsmen Club of Kanata elected a new executive for 1983. This included Lloyd Bowler, Ken Sharland, Gerry Umbach, John Whalen, Greg Moloney, and Jim Coulas. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:21.
June 1, 1983
Representing the City of Kanata, Sheila McKee unveiled a plaque to mark the official opening of Phase II of the Kanata Software Centre. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:1.
June 2, 1983
Des Adam warned against overspending by Kanata City Council. He stated in his regular column that the city “should not be spending money on the expectation of future growth.” Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:2.
June 2, 1983
It was announced that Kanata City Council had renewed a contract with the Youth Services Bureau for another year. This municipally funded program worked with children between the ages of eight and fifteen. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:3.
June 2, 1983
Stan Rogers, 33, nephew of Alderman Charlie Rogers died in an Air Canada DC 9 fire. Rogers was a well-known folk singer. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:20.
June 5, 1983
The Kanata Golf and Country Club hosted the first Pro/Am tournament of the 1983 Ottawa Valley Professional Golf Association. Host Professional Gerry McKee had a clean sweep of the event, shooting a 68 to win top Professional honours. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:15.
June 5, 1983
Bonnie Joe Loewen, 13, of Glen Cairn fell out of the back of a van and suffered a fractured skull. She was taken off of the serious injury list the next day. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:1.
June 5, 1983
At a regional track meet in Oshawa on May 10, 10 of 13 Earl of March students qualified for the OFSSA in Kitchener. The Earl of March track team was quite successful at the OFSAA meet. Among the competitors were Kanata’s Cathy Murphy, Joey Barnabe, Phil Hughes, Scott Hanna, Kelly Armitage, Elyse Chan, and Brett Hodel. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:1; Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:1.
June 6, 1983
Two Kanata residents, Dave Conway for Mitel Corporation and Martha Webber, were presented with Environmental Awareness Awards at the York Street Theatre. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:4.
June 7, 1983
Aldermen Eva James and Paul Niebergall attempted to link problems on Rothesay Drive and Dorey Court with a new development by Iber Homes in Glen Cairn. James moved that lights on Rothesay Drive be repaired before the site plan agreement for condominiums on Castlefrank could be signed. Niebergall tried to link problems in Dorey Court to the proposed condominium project, based on the complaints of some of those homeowners and unfinished work by Iber. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:1.
June 7, 1983
Kanata City Council proposed modifications for its Official Plan for Conservation Lands in Rural Kanata to fit with a new Amendment 12 to the Regional Official Plan. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:1.
June 8, 1983
At a March Rural Association meeting, it was announced that some renovations to the Old Town Hall may have to wait until 1984. However, as June Gibbs pointed out, the South March Women’s Institute hoped to hold meetings in the hall by September. Kanata Standard, June 16, 1983:1.Kanata Standard, June 16, 1983:
June 9, 1983
The Carleton Board of Education announced that it may have to give up another parcel of land in Kanata due to lack of funding from the Ministry of Education. Trustee Hal Hansen stated that the CBE staff were going to do a feasibility study on the growth problems in Kanata. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:1.
June 9, 1983
Alderman Des Adam suggested in his column that Kanata City Council, the City Treasurer, and other department heads begin work on the 1984 capital budgets. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:3.
June 9, 1983
Mayor Marianne Wilkinson announced that it was the 10th anniversary of Kanata’s Mitel Corporation. She stated that Mitel was the largest single employer in the City of Kanata, and had “played a major role in making this area Canada’s ‘Silicon Valley.’” Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:3.
June 9, 1983
It was reported that Earl of March mathematics teams for Grades 12 and 13 did very well in math contests sponsored by the University of Waterloo. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:4.
June 9, 1983
Laurie McDonald Savoie wrote about the rapid development in the Kanata area. She emphasized that the City of Kanata was always committed to good planning and developed along the residential community theme. She added: “While it is apparent that growth is not only inevitable but planned and desired, and that the municipality will never be like Topsy who just grew, the best laid plans, as they say, have a way of seldom being foolproof.” Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:21.
June 14, 1983
A public hearing was held regarding a proposed golf course by Metcalfe Realty along the Old Carp Road and the Huntley Townline. There seemed to be general approval of the project. Kanata Standard, June 16, 1983:1.
June 14, 1983
Kanata residents attended a Kanata City Council meeting to support the staff recommendation for Natural Environment Areas. Kanata Standard, June 16, 1983:1.
June 16, 1983
The Kanata Standard announced that Dennis Finlay and Janice Forbes would join the newspaper as editors of the paper. Kanata Standard, June 16, 1983:3.
June 16, 1983
Twenty-two Guides from the 2nd Hazeldean Guide Company were presented with their Citizen badge on the Floor of the House of Commons. They were the second Guide Company to receive this honour. Kanata Standard, June 16, 1983:11.
June 16, 1983
A new board of Directors was elected at the Kanata Standard Annual General Meeting, including Ron Andoff, Fred Boyd, Maureen Locherer, Gordon Marwood, Ivan Percy, Sandra Racine and John Tweedie. The company Officers for 1983-4 were Ivan Percy, Gordon Marwood, Paul Whitlock, Sandra Racine, Judy Findlay, and Alan Sewards.
June 21, 1983
Approximately 50 Bridlewood residents attended a Kanata City Council meeting to express their concerns regarding accidents at Eagleson Road and Cadence Gate. Kanata Standard, June 23, 1983:1.
June 21, 1983
A main issue at a Kanata City Council meeting was the proposal for the development of Huntsman Park. The plan was that the park would contain a scrub ball diamond and children’s play area. Kanata Standard, June 23, 1983:1.
June 22, 1983
In the middle of the afternoon, a fire struck a Dunrobin stable, owned by James and Susan Davies of Cotswold Stables. Firemen arrived in time to rescue a horse from a burning building. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:1.
June 23, 1983
Mayor Marianne Wilkinson announced that Campeau Corporation had “indicated that they would like to expedite development of industry in the Kanata area following the general theme presently found in California [Silicon Valley].” Wilkinson stated that she and Alderman Lund would visit California to gain first-hand knowledge of the region. Kanata Standard, June 23, 1983:3.
June 23, 1983
It was announced that Kanata student Scott Simser won $300 in the 1983 Alexander Graham Bell Scholarship Awards. Kanata Standard, June 23, 1983:9.
June 23, 1983
Mario and Mike Borsato and Peter and Tom Bouzanis opened the March House Restaurant, located at the corner of Klondike and March Roads. Kanata Standard, June 23, 1983:19.
June 23 1983
A public meeting was held in an attempt to deal with a rezoning issue in Katimavik and discuss Campeau’s proposed zoning changes in Blocks Q, R, and S of the Katimavik-Hazeldean Community. Residents attending the meeting were concerned with the possible increase in density and increased probability of rental units being built. No consensus was reached at this gathering. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:1.
June 23, 1983
Kanata City Council received and accepted the resignation of Jim O’Leary, Treasurer of the City of Kanata. O’Leary left to take a position in Ottawa. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:1.
June 23, 1983
Reverend Frank Stiles was awarded the Royal Windsor Cross, given for his 20 continuous years of outstanding and meritorious service, far beyond the call of duty, to Canadian veterans and their families. Kanata Standard, July 14, 1983:13.
June 24, 1983
Kanata resident Keith Woleston was awarded a Bravery Decoration by the Governor General, on the recommendation of the Canadian Decorations Advisory Committee. Woleston was involved in a violent struggle in his taxi with a man holding him at gunpoint. He received the Star of Courage at an Investiture at Rideau Hall, Ottawa. Kanata Standard, February 3, 1983:9; Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:2.
June 25, 1983
The Kanata March Horticultural Society held its first flower show of the year. Lenore Fentiman won the B.J. Roberts Cup for the second time. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:7.
June 26, 1983
Kanata youth, 13-year old Kevin Chiswell, was named Most Promising Student at the Canadian Annual Music Pageant Festival. Kevin played the Spanish guitar. Kanata Standard, July 21, 1983:9.
June 28, 1983
Kanata City Council approved a $78,000 upgrading project for Pumphouse Park in Glen Cairn, which would include receiving grading, topsoil, new grass seed and a variety of trees. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:9.
June 28, 1983
Kanata City Council denied J. Perez Construction an excavation foundation permit for the corner of McCurdy and Castlefrank for 144 apartment units. Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:1.
June 30, 1983
Alan Sewards wrote in an article in the Standard about Kanata creating its own police force due to its increase in population. Sewards stated that Kanata was currently well above the size of community normally policed for free by the Ontario Provincial Police. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:1.
June 30, 1983
Des Adam, in his weekly column, expressed his opinion on the need for a Chief Administrative Officer in Kanata and wrote: “I had hoped that Kanata could have done without the need of a Chief Administrative Officer. What I have observed lately at council reinforces the need for such a position.” Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:3.
June 30, 1983
Paul Niebergall, in his weekly column, stated that he had received a number of calls from people in the Hazeldean Ridge area concerned about the manner in which Del Corporation was commencing work in the subdivision around the connecting link of McCurdy Drive. This bordered a pond that was a local landmark and environmental site. Wendy Doyle reported that Kanata residents lobbying had ensured that Young Pond on Young Road would be maintained and not “swallowed up by a subdivision planned by Del Corporation.” City Planner David Krajaefski said that Del decided to include the pond as a feature in their plans. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:3.
June 30, 1983
It was announced that a Bridlewood park would be “Pony Park,” a name suggested by three different contestants in a Name the Park Contest. The three winners were Erin Brown, Lorraine Gardner and Jennifer Hunter. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:4.
June 30, 1983
The Kanata Public Library received six new Polaroid Cameras for loan to library cardholders. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:8.
July 3, 1983
Harold Craig, former Reeve of March Township, died at the age of 68. Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:7.
July 4, 1983
The Kanata Hydro Electric Commission appointed Guy Cluff as General Manager of Kanata Hydro. Kanata Standard, September 15, 1983:1.
July 5, 1983
In a Kanata City Council meeting, Des Adam chastised Mayor Wilkinson for taking on too much. He also questioned information provided to Council by the Mayor, claiming that she sometimes used “misleading and manipulative” information. Des Adam later stated, in March Notebook, that in his opinion Kanata could not afford to be without a Chief Administrative Officer. Part of his concern was in the Mayor taking control of too many areas and spreading herself thin. He also stated: “There is a frequent complaint that the mayor is interfering in the day-to-day operation of the administration of the city. Before the CAO left, he requested that Council ask the mayor not to attend department head meetings because of her constant interference. Since the CAO has left, the department heads have requested that the mayor not head the meetings. The mayor insists on attending. Is everyone wrong but Madam Mayor?” Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:1,23; Kanata Standard, July 14, 1983:2.
July 7, 1983
Leslie Jones reported that Kanata’s three-year-old pedestrian overpass would need $70,000 worth of repairs. Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:1.
July 7, 1983
On behalf of the March Historical Society, a letter to the Editor was written emphasizing the need to foster the name of “March” in the community. He wrote: “We propose that for historic reasons the geographical area of what was March Township, excluding the city proper, should be referred to simply as March.” Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:2.
July 7, 1983
John Allen reported that the Canada Day celebrations were an “unqualified success,” and that particular thanks should be given to Sheila Silver for her efforts as coordinator. Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:7.
July 7, 1983
It was reported that Kanata resident John Bennett, 17, won a silver and bronze medal in the 1982 Shell Cup Canadian Cross Country Ski Championships. Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:15.
July 7, 1983
The Ontario Minister of Labour appointed a conciliation officer to help with negotiations between the City of Kanata and inside workers. The main stumbling block was the membership of the newly formed local. Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:15.
July 7, 1983
Lismer Crescent residents gave their consent for the City to begin park upgrades behind their homes; $10,000 was allocated for the work. Kanata Standard, July 14, 1983:1.
July 8, 1983
Crain Real Estate opened in Kanata. It was the 7th real estate firm in the area. Kanata Standard, July 14, 1983:6.
July 14, 1983
Wendy Doyle reported that the Ontario Municipal Board was close to issuing its decision regarding Amendment 12 to the Regional Official Plan. Doyle stated: A decision by the OMB will end a four-year saga of public information meetings and bickering between landowners, City Council and Regional Council.” The difficulty arose when landowners voiced concerns of the designation of conservation lands. Kanata Standard, July 14, 1983:1.
July 14, 1983
Kanata resident Jack Donohue coached the Canadian Men’s Basketball Team that won a gold medal in the World University Games in Edmonton. Kanata Standard, July 14, 1983:1.
July 14, 1983
Paul Niebergall, in the Katimavik-Hazeldean Report, first reported that the promise by Del Corporation to protect Young Pond during development was not kept. He commented: “I was down to look at the pond last Monday night and I can assure you that all that remains is a very small mud puddle and a complete loss of whatever wildlife might have been in the area.” Wendy Doyle later reported that Set Corporation, hired by Del, had prematurely “pulled the plug” on Young Pond. It was previously determined, due to lobbying by residents, that the Pond was to be a feature of the subdivision. Kanata Standard, July 14, 1983:3; Kanata Standard, July 21, 1983:1.
July 14, 1983
The Atomic Energy Control Board announced that it granted a license to Atomic Energy of Canada Limited for the operation of its new radioisotope processing facility in Kanata. Kanata Standard, July 21, 1983:1.
July 19, 1983
Caroline McIntyre presented Kanata City Council with a petition to end the use of 2,4-D, a herbicide used in the control of weeds. Council accepted the petition without comment, and later referred it to staff for further study. Kanata Standard, July 28, 1983:1.
July 19, 1983
Kanata City Council approved money for a Leisure Centre Study. Kanata Standard, July 28, 1983:1.
July 19, 1983
Kanata City Council gave J. Perez Construction approval for a 144-apartment complex at Castlefrank and McCurdy. Kanata Standard, July 28, 1983:1.
July 19, 1983
Several residents attended a Kanata City Council meeting to confront representatives of Del Corporation over the issue of Young Pond. The pond was prematurely drained after assurances that it would remain a feature of the new subdivision. Many were concerned with the effect of wildlife in the pond. A public meeting to further deal with the issue was set for August 10. Kanata Standard, July 28, 1983:1-2.
July 21, 1983
Mayor Marianne Wilkinson, in her Commentary, discussed her trip to California’s Silicon Valley. She stated that she hoped that new developments by Campeau Corporation in the Kanata North Business Park could integrate some of the ideas they saw in California to “ensure that the businesses in Kanata benefit from the type of beautiful surroundings that we saw in California.” Kanata Standard, July 21, 1983:2.
July 21, 1983
Digital Corporation landed two major contracts, valued at $20 million. Kanata Standard, July 21, 1983:3.
July 21, 1983
Mitel Corporation announced that sales for the 13 weeks ending May 27 showed a loss of $4,496,000, or 12 cents per share. Kanata Standard, July 21, 1983:3.
July 26, 1983
A rather enthusiastic meeting was held to discuss the possibility of creating a Kanata Arts Council. Kanata Standard, August 4, 1983:1.
July 28, 1983
Wendy Doyle reported that construction for a new Co-op housing project began, which entailed building 64 two, three and four bedroom garden homes on Castlefrank Road. Kanata Standard, July 28, 1983:1.
July 28, 1983
Wendy Doyle reported that Louise Reynolds was leaving the community. Reynolds, one of Kanata’s “hardest working and most active community volunteers,” moved to Mississauga to be closer to family. Kanata Standard, July 28, 1983:5.
July 28, 1983
It was reported that Kanata residents Barb Saberton and Rob Weiler brought home a medal from the Canadian National Roller Skating Championships. Kanata Standard, July 28, 1983:10.
July 29, 1983
Two Earl of March students, Yvonne Scorupinski and Mary Lynn Nyenhuis, were aboard a train to Paris when it derailed. They were uninjured. However, four Ottawa girls were killed in the accident. Kanata Standard, August 4, 1983:1.
July 31, 1983
Reverend Douglas Heard gave his last sermon in Kanata before relocating to Cobourg, Ontario. Kanata Standard, July 28, 1983:13.
August 2, 1983
During a Kanata City Council meeting Mayor Marianne Wilkinson stated: “I’m fed up, and I’ll be actively seeking other employment.” Earlier in the meeting the Mayor and Alderman Adam had a series of battles that came to a head over the issue of purchasing a car for the Mayor’s use. Ron Boyd reported that the Mayor said that she was continually being stabbed in the back by Council and exclaimed “especially this guy,” as she pointed accusingly at Alderman Adam. Adam responded: “I’ve never stabbed you in the back; I’ve always stabbed you in the front and I will continue to do so.” The Mayor said it was the most difficult Council she had experienced in 14 years, that she would seek other levels of government for work, but that it would take time and they would just have to put up with her awhile longer. Kanata Standard, August 4, 1983:1,3.
August 2, 1983
A subdivision plan proposed by Cadillac-Fairview that would significantly increase the size of Bridlewood was submitted to Kanata City Council. Kanata Standard, August 11, 1983:1.
August 2, 1983
Some Kanata residents participated in the Canadian Pony Club National Tetrathlon Championships. Carol Stamper and Meredith Curren were on the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Valley Region team, which placed 4th overall. Rob Stamper placed 7th in the individual competition. Kanata Standard, September 15, 1983:23.
August 3, 1983
It was announced at a Carleton Board of Education meeting that construction would begin on a $1.9 million extension of Katimavik Elementary School. This followed seven months of negotiations with the Ministry of Education, which had earlier rejected the Board’s request due to lack of funds. Kanata Standard, August 11, 1983:1.
August 4, 1983
Gordon B. Thompson was awarded the first Fellow Emeritus by Bell-Northern Research Ltd. Thompson was internationally recognized as a communications philosopher, a provocative thinker on the nature and future of communications, and on its impact on economic and social structures. Kanata Standard, August 4, 1983:11.
August 5, 1983
Kanata residents Bill and Emily Harris celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Kanata Standard, July 21, 1983:4.
August 10, 1983
Approximately 30 people attended a meeting to deal with the issue of Young Pond. Alderman Niebergall agreed that a misunderstanding led to the premature draining of the Pond, which was to be a feature of a new subdivision development. Biologist Bill Thoreau stated that wildlife would return to the Pond if it was lined and refilled, though the numbers would depend on the type of park development that followed. Kanata Standard, August 18, 1983:1.
August 11, 1983
An open letter to Kanata residents from Mayor Marianne Wilkinson was published in the Standard. The letter dealt with an earlier statement by the Mayor in a Kanata City Council meeting of her intent to resign and seek other employment. Wilkinson wrote: “It was with great sadness that last week I announced to Council that I would be resigning as Mayor of Kanata as soon as I could find alternative employment. The statement was made out of complete frustration and with deep regret, as I do not wish to resign.” Kanata Standard, August 11, 1983:1.
August 11, 1983
Bob Kingham, in his As I See It column, commented on recent problems in Kanata City Council and stated: “What we have been witnessing in recent months, however, is NOT HEALTHY - not for Council or the City of Kanata.” He further urged the Mayor to complete her term and not resign as she had indicated was her intent. Kanata Standard, August 11, 1983:3.
August 11, 1983
Paul Niebergall, in his Katimavik-Hazeldean Report, commented on the recent problems in Kanata City Council. He felt that the participants in this type of behavior succeeded in bringing Kanata’s public affairs “unfavorable attention of all the Ottawa - Carleton region and created a significant discomfort to city staff which could only view with dismay this public demonstration of colic by those who pretend to provide mature policy direction.” He added: “Personally I feel that Marianne Wilkinson has much to contribute to the progress of our City in the balance of her term, but to act effectively she will have to earn the trust of all members of Council.” Kanata Standard, August 11, 1983:3,16.
August 11, 1983
Eva James, in her Glen Cairn-Bridlewood Report, commented on recent problems of Kanata City Council and wrote: “it is rather unfortunate that personality clashes and struggles for power have gotten so out of hand” and that “I cannot believe that the resignation of the Mayor will solve the City’s problems and I hope she will reconsider.” Kanata Standard, August 11, 1983:3.
August 11, 1983
Nearly 100 local teenagers attended the Kanata Teen Centre’s Coffee House in the Glen Cairn Community Centre. As Leslie Jones stated, the result was “an entertaining melange of local talent.” Kanata Standard, August 25, 1983:23.
August 16, 1983
Mayor Marianne Wilkinson made a statement in a Kanata City Council meeting and informed Council that she would fulfill her obligations made to the residents of Kanata and reconsider a previous statement of resignation as Mayor. Kanata Standard, August 18, 1983:1,13.
August 16, 1983
Kanata City Council was presented with the terms of reference for a Management Study of the structure of the municipal bureaucracy, including the Chief Administrative Officer position. Alderman Lund was concerned that the study would delay dealing with the CAO issue. Aldermen commented that the CAO position should be removed from the study, as Council could decide on that issue without the aid of a study. Council passed amendments to speed up the timetable of the study. Kanata Standard, August 25, 1983:1.
August 16, 1983
Kanata City Council approved the naming of several parks in the Katimavik area. Many were based on recommendations of the Katimavik-Hazeldean Community Association. Kanata Standard, August 25, 1983:1,25.
August 16, 1983
The Heritage Club sponsored one-day trip to Kingston for Kanata Seniors. Kanata Standard, August 25, 1983:4.
August 18, 1983
Paul Niebergall, in the Katimavik-Hazeldean Report, stated: “In my mind, the Young’s Pond incident demonstrated another instance in which Council’s control of the developer proved to be illusory.” Niebergall expressed his concern that the Young Pond issue was indicative of the lack of policy and the granting of foundation permits before the final details of the builders’ plans were made available to the City’s planning department for review and revision. Kanata Standard, August 18, 1983:3.
August 19, 1983
The City of Kanata and its unionized public employees signed their first contract. The employees became unionized and gained membership in the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in December, 1982. The new contract standardized working hours, gave employee flexibility, and replaced a sick leave program with an Income Protection Program. Kanata Standard, August 25, 1983:1.
August 21, 1983
Two Kanata men, Blair Medynski and Mike Azulay, were injured in a car accident at the intersection of March Road and Klondike Road. Both men suffered minor injuries. Kanata Standard, August 25, 1983:1.
August 22, 1983
The Ontario Municipal Board passed Amendment 12 to the Regional Official Plan after four years of controversy over land designation. The Amendment substantially reduced the amount of land designated as conservation in 1979, which was when the Regional Official Plan was passed. Kanata Standard, September 8, 1983:1.
August 27, 1983
The heritage of Kanata and surrounding areas was celebrated in the Central Canada Exhibition’s Heritage Village program. Kanata’s display was organized by Alderman Sheila McKee. Kanata Standard, September 1, 1983:1,23.
August 30, 1983
Tom Carroll of the March Rural Association appeared before Kanata City Council to protest a proposed upgrade to the 2nd Line Road, based on the fact that the 5th Line Road was in more urgent need of repair. Council agreed on further study. Kanata Standard, September 8, 1983:1.
August 30, 1983
Kanata City Council approved the Kanata Indoor Leisure Pool Feasibility Study terms of reference and decided to seek a consultant for the study. Kanata Standard, September 8, 1983:1.
August 30, 1983
Kanata City Council agreed to allow a Council meeting to be shown on television once a month on the Ottawa Cablevision station. Kanata Standard, September 8, 1983:3.
August 30, 1983
Mayor Wilkinson gave her report to Kanata City Council on a meeting with the minister regarding policing in Kanata. It was estimated that establishing a police force would cost $1.2 - 1.3 million along with a $300,000 provincial grant. Kanata Standard, September 15, 1983:1.
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Covid deaths no longer overwhelmingly among unvaccinated as toll on elderly grows
Experts say numbers show importance of boosters — and the risks the most vulnerable still face
Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.
The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised — who are at greatest risk of succumbing to covid-19, even if vaccinated — having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.
The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post. The data is based on the date of infection and limited to a sampling of cases in which vaccination status was known.
As a group, the unvaccinated remain far more vulnerable to the worst consequences of infection — and are far more likely to die — than people who are vaccinated, and they are especially more at risk than people who have received a booster shot.
Tracking the coronavirus vaccine
“It’s still absolutely more dangerous to be unvaccinated than vaccinated,” said Andrew Noymer, a public health professor at the University of California at Irvine who studies covid-19 mortality. “A pandemic of — and by — the unvaccinated is not correct. People still need to take care in terms of prevention and action if they became symptomatic.”
A key explanation for the rise in deaths among the vaccinated is that covid-19 fatalities are again concentrated among the elderly.
Nearly two-thirds of the people who died during the omicron surge were 75 and older, according to a Post analysis, compared with a third during the delta wave. Seniors are overwhelmingly immunized, but vaccines are less effective and their potency wanes over time in older age groups.
Experts say they are not surprised that vaccinated seniors are making up a greater share of the dead, even as vaccine holdouts died far more often than the vaccinated during the omicron surge, according to the CDC. As more people are infected with the virus, the more people it will kill, including a greater number who are vaccinated but among the most vulnerable.
What to know about the omicron variant and subvariant BA.2
The bulk of vaccinated deaths are among people who did not get a booster shot, according to state data provided to The Post. In two of the states, California and Mississippi, three-quarters of the vaccinated senior citizens who died in January and February did not have booster doses. Regulators in recent weeks have authorized second booster doses for people over the age of 50, but administration of first booster doses has stagnated.
Even though the death rates for the vaccinated elderly and immunocompromised are low, their losses numbered in the thousands when cases exploded, leaving behind blindsided families. But experts say the rising number of vaccinated people dying should not cause panic in those who got shots, the vast majority of whom will survive infections. Instead, they say, these deaths serve as a reminder that vaccines are not foolproof and that those in high-risk groups should consider getting boosted and taking extra precautions during surges.
“Vaccines are one of the most important and longest-lasting tools we have to protect ourselves,” said California State Epidemiologist Erica Pan, citing state estimates showing vaccines have shown to be 85 percent effective in preventing death.
“Unfortunately, that does leave another 15,” she said.
‘He did not expect to be sick’
Arianne Bennett recalled her husband, Scott Bennett, saying, “But I’m vaxxed. But I’m vaxxed,” from the D.C. hospital bed where he struggled to fight off covid-19 this winter.
Friends had a hard time believing Bennett, co-founder of the D.C.-based chain Amsterdam Falafelshop, was 70. The adventurous longtime entrepreneur hoped to buy a bar and planned to resume scuba-diving trips and 40-mile bike rides to George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate.
Bennett went to get his booster in early December after returning to D.C. from a lodge he owned in the Poconos, where he and his wife hunkered down for fall. Just a few days after his shot, Bennett began experiencing covid-19 symptoms, meaning he was probably exposed before the extra dose of immunity could kick in. His wife suspects he was infected at a dinner where he and his server were unmasked at times.
A fever-stricken Bennett limped into the hospital alongside his wife, who was also infected, a week before Christmas. He died Jan. 13, among the 125,000 Americans who succumbed to covid-19 in January and February.
“He was absolutely shocked. He did not expect to be sick. He really thought he was safe,’” Arianne Bennett recalled. “And I’m like, ‘But baby, you’ve got to wear the mask all the time. All the time. Up over your nose.’”
Jason Salemi, an epidemiologist at the University of South Florida College of Public Health, said the deaths of vaccinated people are among the consequences of a pandemic response that emphasizes individuals protecting themselves.
“When we are not taking this collective effort to curb community spread of the virus, the virus has proven time and time again it’s really good at finding that subset of vulnerable people,” Salemi said.
While experts say even the medically vulnerable should feel assured that a vaccine will probably save their lives, they should remain vigilant for signs of infection. As more therapeutics become available, early detection and treatment is key.
When Wayne Perkey, 84, first started sneezing and feeling other cold symptoms in early February, he resisted his physician daughter’s plea to get tested for the coronavirus.
The legendary former morning radio host in Louisville had been boosted in October. He diligently wore a mask and kept his social engagements to a minimum. It must have been the common cold or allergies, he believed. Even the physician who ordered a chest X-ray and had no coronavirus tests on hand thought so.
Perkey relented, and the test came back positive. He didn’t think he needed to go to the hospital, even as his oxygen levels declined.
“In his last voice conversation with me, he said, ‘I thought I was doing everything right,’” recalled Lady Booth Olson, another daughter, who lives in Virginia. “I believe society is getting complacent, and clearly somebody he was around was carrying the virus. … We’ll never know.”
From his hospital bed, Perkey resumed a familiar role as a high-profile proponent for vaccines and coronavirus precautions. He was familiar to many Kentuckians who grew up hearing his voice on the radio and watched him host the televised annual Crusade for Children fundraiser. He spent much of the pandemic as a caregiver to his ex-wife who struggled with chronic fatigue and other long-haul covid symptoms.
“It’s the 7th day of my Covid battle, the worst day so far, and my anger boils when I hear deniers talk about banning masks or social distancing,” Perkey wrote on Facebook on Feb. 16, almost exactly one year after he posted about getting his first shot. “I remember times we cared about our neighbors.”
In messages to a family group chat, he struck an optimistic note. “Thanks for all the love and positive energy,” he texted on Feb. 23. “Wear your mask.”
As is often the case for covid-19 patients, his condition rapidly turned for the worse. His daughter Rebecca Booth, the physician, suspects a previous bout with leukemia made it harder for his immune system to fight off the virus. He died March 6.
“Really and truly his final days were about, ‘This virus is bad news.’ He basically was saying: ‘Get vaccinated. Be careful. But there is no guarantee,’” Rebecca Booth said. “And, ‘If you think this isn’t a really bad virus, look at me.’ And it is.”
Hospitals, particularly in highly vaccinated areas, have also seen a shift from covid wards filled predominantly with the unvaccinated. Many who end up in the hospital have other conditions that weakens the shield afforded by the vaccine.
Vaccinated people made up slightly less than half the patients in the intensive care units of Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California hospital system in December and January, according to a spokesman.
Gregory Marelich, chair of critical care for the 21 hospitals in that system, said most of the vaccinated and boosted people he saw in ICUs were immunosuppressed, usually after organ transplants or because of medications for diseases such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.
“I’ve cared for patients who are vaccinated and immunosuppressed and are in disbelief when they come down with covid,” Marelich said.
‘There’s life potential in those people’
Jessica Estep, 41, rang a bell celebrating her last treatment for follicular lymphoma in September. The single mother of two teenagers had settled into a new home in Michigan, near the Indiana border. After her first marriage ended, she found love again and got married in a zoo in November.
As an asthmatic cancer survivor, Estep knew she faced a heightened risk from covid-19, relatives said. She saw only a tight circle of friends and worked in her own office in her electronics repair job. She lived in an area where around 1 in 4 residents are fully vaccinated. She planned to get a booster shot in the winter.
“She was the most nonjudgmental person I know,” said her mother, Vickie Estep. “It was okay with her if people didn’t mask up or get vaccinated. It was okay with her that they exercised their right of choice, but she just wanted them to do that away from her so that she could be safe.”
With Michigan battling back-to-back surges of the delta and omicron variants, Jessica Estep wasn’t able to dodge the virus any longer — she fell ill in mid-December. After surviving a cancer doctors described as incurable, Estep died Jan. 27. Physicians said the coronavirus essentially turned her lungs into concrete, her mother said.
Estep’s 14-year-old daughter now lives with her grandparents. Her widower returned to Indianapolis just months after he moved to Michigan to be with his new wife.
Her family shared her story with a local television station in hopes of inspiring others to get vaccinated, to protect people such as Estep who could not rely on their own vaccination as a foolproof shield. In response to the station’s Facebook post about the story, several commenters shrugged off their pleas and insinuated it was the vaccines rather than covid causing deaths.
Immunocompromised people and those with other underlying conditions are worth protecting, Vickie Estep said. “There’s life potential in those people.”
A delayed shot
As Arianne Bennett navigates life without her husband, she hopes the lesson people heed from his death is to take advantage of all tools available to mitigate a virus that still finds and kills the vulnerable, including by getting boosters.
Bennett wore a music festival shirt her husband gave her as she walked into a grocery store to get her third shot in March. Her husband urged her to get one when they returned to D.C., but she became sick at the same time he did. She scheduled the appointment for the earliest she could get the shot: 90 days after receiving monoclonal antibodies to treat the disease.
“My booster! Yay!” Bennett exclaimed in her chair as the pharmacist presented an updated vaccine card.
“It’s been challenging, but we got through it,” the pharmacist said, unaware of Scott Bennett’s death.
Tears welled in Bennett’s eyes as the needle went in her left arm, just over a year after she and her husband received their first shots.
“Last time we got it, we took selfies: ‘Look, we had vaccines,’” Bennett said, beginning to sob. “This one leaves me crying, missing him so much.”
The pharmacist leaned over and gave Bennett a hug in her chair.
“He would want you to do this,” the pharmacist said. “You have to know.”
Lenny Bernstein contributed to this report.
Methodology
Death rates compare the number of deaths in various groups with an adjustment for the number of people in each group. The death rates listed for the fully vaccinated, the unvaccinated and those vaccinated with boosters were calculated by the CDC using a sample of deaths from 23 health departments in the country that record vaccine status, including boosters, for deaths related to covid-19. The CDC study assigns deaths to the month when a patient contracted covid-19, not the month of death. The latest data published in April reflected deaths of people who contracted covid as of February. The CDC study of deaths among the vaccinated is online, and the data can be downloaded.
The death rates for fully vaccinated people, unvaccinated people and fully vaccinated people who received an additional booster are expressed as deaths per 100,000 people. The death rates are also called incidence rates. The CDC estimated the population sizes from census data and vaccination records. The study does not include partially vaccinated people in the deaths or population. CDC adjusted the population sizes for inaccuracies in the vaccination data. The death data is provisional and subject to change. The study sample includes the population eligible for boosters, which was originally 18 and older, and now is 12 and older.
To compare death rates between groups with different vaccination status, the CDC uses incidence rate ratios. For example, if one group has a rate of 10 deaths per 100,000 people, the death incidence rate would be 10. Another group may have a death incidence rate of 2.5. The ratio between the first group and the second group is the rate of 10 divided by the rate of 2.5, so the incidence rate ratio would be 4 (10÷2.5=4). That means the first group dies at a rate four times that of the second group.
The CDC calculates the death incidence rates and incidence rate ratios by age groups. It also calculates a value for the entire population adjusted for the size of the population in each age group. The Post used those age-adjusted total death incidence rates and incidence rate ratios.
The Post calculated the share of deaths by vaccine status from the sample of death records the CDC used to calculate death incidence rates by vaccine status. As of April, that data included 44,000 deaths of people who contracted covid in January and February.
The share of deaths for each vaccine status does not include deaths for partially vaccinated people because they are not included in the CDC data.
The Post calculated the share of deaths in each age group from provisional covid-19 death records that have age details from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. That data assigns deaths by the date of death, not the date on which the person contracted covid-19. That data does not include any information on vaccine status of the people who died.
Because really, who hasn't had this problem: there you are After the Cataclysm, and suddenly you find that the person you were with Before the Cataclysm is either dead or no longer fertile. The human race is trying to repopulate, and you're still sitting at home trying to figure out where to meet a fertile mate, and how to make things work. What's a Survivor to do?
Clearly FutureMate is the answer - and you know you can trust them, because they're run by the Government. Using hundreds of measures of compatibility, FutureMate samples the DNA of its members and matches them up using their foolproof voice-matching and gene-binding technology. With Government incentives for successful matches and fruitful unions, FutureMate is the right answer to your fervent questions.
Their handy survey packet includes instructions on how to meet your Future Mate - see what they did there? - and features suggestions for Things To Say To Your Date, as well as tips and secrets of successful relationships. Did you know, for example, that talking to your Future Mate before starting a relationship can make you more likely to find a successful match? FutureMate's statistical analysis reveals this and other startling facts, which they freely share with their membership.
Matt and Pam host a New York chapter meeting of FutureMate at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg. The evening is looking mighty successful when the party is interrupted by a Nightwalker security breach; in this image, taken earlier in the program, they discuss some of the match traits used to pair up eager FutureMate candidates.
Money devices created by mankind to magnify the power of humans to do mostly egregious, destructive acts such as wage war and exploit natural resources in order to make nations powerful and a few rich. This illuminating history is told by Niall Ferguson, a Scotsman and a Harvard professor, who despite all the terrible mismanagement and failure he must relate, still believes that such a capitalistic money system is the best way to distribute resources, at least preferable to feudalism or central planning. So many assumptions are made about this system being for the greater good of society that reading the book was as tricky as wading through an issue of The Economist.
The author was favorably interviewed on NPR and his mission to educate people about our financial system seen as an honorable one, which was why Catherine bought the book. And given how so much of this history is being extrapolated to fuel conspiracy theories it is good to know the actual sequence of events. For instance, conspiracy theorists claim that the Rothschild family is so powerful today that they control not only banks, but numerous heads of state in an effort to create a New World Order designed to enslave citizens of the Western world. This is about as useful as claiming that Bill Gates created Windows to control PC users and thus the world. Wickipedia notes that the Rothchild conspiracy story was used by the Nazi's to generate anti-semitism.
The financial roots of anti-semitism goes back to the beginning of the story of money. Ferguson gives an explanation of how usury (loaning money at interest) was considered a sin by the old testament (though nothing is said about why that was the case). Jews were restrained by the sin of usury, but were allowed to loan money at interest to strangers, i.e. Christians. Money owed became synonymous with the outsider, and thus the hated other. Already money was making adversaries of the family of man.
At the time of Napoleon there were two systems of increasing the money supply—steal it through the plundering of an enemy or go into debt. The British prevailed because they invented bonds to allow governments to borrow from their citizens, force them, in some cases, to buy bonds, but apparently didn't force them to keep them. Along with bonds came traders to bet on the likelihood of that bond being paid off. The Rothschilds bet cunningly on the outcome of wars, thus the family also became associated with the ability to wage war. Bond markets set interest rates for the economy as a whole. Thus countries failing in some way are twice punished by investors wishing to get rid of its bonds which then causes interest rates to rise making money more expensive to borrow. This is how the bond market comes to control the decisions politicians make i.e. cut state spending or spend more.
Conspiracy theory claims that governments create financial crisis to scare the populace into accepting increased government power by, for instance, allowing governments to create a central bank which gives them even more control. I had wondered about this, but history shows that central banks were created early in the game by the Dutch in 1609 to insure currency stability and a way to exchange the many different currencies. Local banks betting on the solvency of a local industry i.e. agriculture would see their fortunes rise and fall with every crop failure. This kept people closely associated with their local resources which is a good thing for protecting the Commons, cultivating resilient seed stock and diversity of crops and industry per Vandana Shiva's Earth Democracy, but not a good thing at all for investors. And it is for the benefit of investors that lots of money must be created and made ever ready.
Conspiracy theorists do not seem to find fault with the creation of Corporate Companies with their many rights of personhood and none of responsibility. That territory is left to the Leftists. Ferguson describes the Company as another component of the ascent of money due to its power to raise enormous sums of money for private ventures. These ventures were mostly about financing ocean voyages to bring back booty from abroad. Which led to colonialism and the use of military to enforce British law overseas. Thus imperialism to protect investors from foreigners defaulting on their loans and thus not upholding their end of the business agreement. British law also forced opium on the Chinese market where opium was illegal. Fergusson does not find fault with the ascent of money for having financed such injustice, but seems to lament the rise of revolt in colonialized countries. After all, these countries benefited from such development as they would never have seen otherwise. Fergusson does make a point of comparing the current globalization to the colonial era.
Investment in corporations created stock markets and thus the volatility of stock market bubbles which caused international financial system meltdown when they burst. Fergusson attempts to explain why mismanagement on the part of government monetary policy made things worse, but he excuses the creation of bubbles in the first place as part of the territory of investor enthusiasm. He does mention that "only the Soviet Union, with its autarkic, planned economy, was unaffected". New word: autarkic. Fergusson does not concern himself with discussion of pros and cons of the Soviet System.
He does, however, shed much light on the creation of the welfare state as a form of risk management afforded by the government as opposed to private insurance. The encompassing, cradle to grave, government care covering health, education and everything else, he notes, is exemplified by the Japanese who were driven by a need to ensure a supply of healthy soldiers during WWII. Post-war the population was then persuaded to be as productive as possible which brought Japan the international success it has enjoyed. The same welfare system was the downfall of Britain, he laments, because a culture of individualism just did not indoctrinate the Brits with a desire to be productive and they were inclined "to game the system". (They wanted to be artists and activists protesting nukes while living off the dole.) Capitalism he notes, needs the carrot of serious wealth and the stick of serious hardship to force people to make capitalism work as it's supposed to.
The author brings us up to date on all the latest financial instruments and how hedge funds hedged themselves into oblivion with all their fancy foolproof equations. The only problem is people and their irrational human behavior he seems to conclude, never once considering that systems foster certain societal behaviors and keep people from engaging in such greed as is inevitable when enormous wealth is possible. While fear and feelings of insecurity cause people to wreck the marvelous capitalist system, destroying banks with bank runs and markets with panic. Much text is devoted to what governments should have done with proper monetary policy to control these panics and failures because, after all, a proper relationship between government policy and market shenanigans is what is key to the success of this system.
Much text is also devoted to countering complaints from the Left that monetary policies of the World Bank and IMF caused countries to eat their own in order to join the party of globalization. He also takes on the story of Chile. Fergusson is clearly on the side of Milton Friedman and his Chicago boys having brought financial stability and therefore democracy to Chile while Marxist policies had failed to rescue the welfare state, plagued as it was with sky high inflation.
The story of money seems inevitably to be a vehicle for an author's agenda. In this book it is done with a combination of moral relativity and the sin of omission. Nothing is said of the impact of greed on the environment, only that the industrial revolution could not have happened without an expanded supply of money. And though it is admitted that war cannot happen without financing this is not a problem that a man of finance need concern himself.
I have a firmer grasp, now, of the components of this complex financial machine, but it would seem that this is one of those complex systems of modern society that is beginning to offer diminishing returns.
An excellent example why you should always have an Olympus Mju-II with you. There is no camera in the world so fast and so foolproof. Don't know if purists would count this as street photography (ugh, color, ugh, flash!), but I most certainly do. Lowlands festival 2011, we were going back to the camping, I was tired and the Mju-II was dangling from my wrist. Suddenly: This. I made an instant snap without thinking. I wouldn't have been able to focus my Leica M2 or Nikon FM quickly or accurately enough, even with a flash mounted. If I would have had my D200 with me, the AF would just hunt and hunt and hunt and miss. My Sony NEX-3 would miss this shot, because start-up is too slow. There you have it, a tiny plastic throwback from the nineties, with pesky, obsolete film in it, beats them all. Other high end compacts? Before the Mju-II I had a Yashica T4. That couldn't even focus accurately in blazing broad daylight. The Mju-II has been in my bag since 2001. It has seen 5 generations of SLR and mirrorless cameras come and go, has seen the transition to digital and a brace of P&S (or should I say POS) competition. In all these years, nothing has come close to what it can do. It's the camera I have been using the longest and will probably use until they stop making film or if I shuffle off this mortal coil, whatever comes first.
Lowlands 2011 - roll 6
Guinevere Fouroux can't help a tiny smile--for the first time, things seem to be working in their favor, even this little bit. She looks up at Forge, then nods after a moment, in silent agreement. She looks back at Elise's question. "Even if they are human?" she adds. "I know you and I would be free to move around, but with weapons?"
Forgetten Tomorrow glances at Guin. "You probably won't be able to-- Oceanic shipping crates...fill them with armor and people..have Oceanic or someone on your staff bring them in with you..." He would light up a fresh cigarette with a few quick hand motions and he took a long drag off it exhaling over his head.
Elise Capalini's expression darkens some then--the idea of Guin going. It doesn't sit right at all. "Are you kidding?" she asks softly, without malice. She shakes her head. "No--Guin, you can't possibly be thinking of going--against a military force in a heavily guarded prison."
Forgetten Tomorrow glances at Elise and then back to Guin and he shrugged his shoulders. "Elise, you can either take her with your group or she is coming with mine."
Guinevere Fouroux cants her head, mind starting to spin. "How familiar are you with the layout? It's one thing to bring the crates on the boat, but then what? Can we smuggle them over? Sneak them in?" She freezes at Elise's words, blinking at her in silence for a moment. "Of course I'm going."
Elise Capalini looks at the two of them. "And what, have one more person to worry about and potentially rescue?" She looks at Guin, not unkindly. "You learned to shoot a gun how many days ago?"
Forgetten Tomorrow shook his head slowly. "I don't know anything about the layout and I won't until some time later....Guin. You are going." He looks at Elise then with a long and meaningful stare. "But you are taking my bullet proof vest...and a few other pieces of gear." He looks at Elise and he rolled his eyes. "Do you -really- think the only thing you are going to need are guns and cats." He shook his head slowly then and he took a step towards her slowly then. His body loomed and his eyes would narrow. "It isn't up for discussion. You need humans to even get *close* to the LDC."
Guinevere Fouroux understands, logically, Elise's point. But staying behind is not something she's even willing to consider. Not for a moment. She glances up at Forge, at his offer, and nods, but turns her attention back to Elise. "I don't want anyone worrying about me. I may have just learned, but I can. I'll do what I have to do." Forge's support is surprising, and she stares at his back. Latching onto his point, she adds quickly, "It's not all about shooting people. I have no problem doing so, not in this, but Elise... please don't ask me to stay behind."
Elise Capalini stands her ground when Forge approaches her. "You don't tell me what to discuss," she says in a near growl, then looks back to Guin. "The UAC won't care you're human. You support hybrids, you're worthless to them." She breaks off, knowing she's getting nowhere. "You shouldn't go," is all she says.
Forgetten Tomorrow glances over at Damian as he approaches and he gives the man a nod of his head. "Shouldn't and won't are decided different things... Guin, Elise- do you know Damian. Damian-- Elise, the Matron. Guin, the girl scout..."
Damian Rigaud walks up digging for a smoke "Clawin any of us up isn't goning to change that matron.." he nods all around as the intro are made
Elise Capalini looks at Damian evenly. "We're acquainted."
Guinevere Fouroux hears someone approaching, but her eyes remain on Elise. "They may not know I do, on sight. I've never spoken publicly. Never been a target. I doubt I'm on any most-wanted posters." She shakes her head. "I'm not asking anyone to look out for me. I understand the risk and I accept it."
She trails off, at Forge's introduction, and looks back, nodding at Damian. "Hello," she says softly.
Damian Rigaud looks around "I have less than a full story.. who are they and why the select abductions?'
Aravasha Yiyuan stands quietly behind Damian listening
Forgetten Tomorrow glances at Damian for a moment and then back to Elise "I believe we are done until we have more information, yeah?" He looks over at Damian and he held up one finger "Just a moment.." he turned to look at Guin and he would lean in and whisper to her slowly then. Before turning to look at Elise again and giving her a smooth smile "If you see Laz tell him to contact me..." He would glance over at Damian "We have a mutual friend who is working as an agent-- they are UAC they are in the Levithian Detention Center..a number of neko and blantly pro-hybrid supporters..."
Aravasha Yiyuan ponders something silently
Damian Rigaud arches an eyebrow "that handles the who.. but I only have half the why.. does the UAC want Midian purified or some such nonsense?"
Guinevere Fouroux lets Forge fill in Damian and Vasha--at least, she's fairly certain that was the woman's name--her attention still on Elise, willing her to understand. She's startled by Forge's whisper, but nods. "I've already texted Laz and gave him your number, Forge," she says, then, still holding Elise's eye. "The weapons... do you want me to get those now?"
Forgetten Tomorrow shrugged his shoulders "The why is a bit...murky...considering Marina was shot and they have done nothing to treat her wounds...I'd say they plan to kill them...perhaps make a statement? " He shrugged his shoulders then "either that or we are going to start getting ransom notes...however, I don't trust them enough to do it in a timely manner...do you?"
Elise Capalini looks at Forge, wondering if she's just been dismissed from his presence. She stays put, her jaw tightening. This plan was bad, on so many levels and taking Guin inside only made Elise queasy.
Damian Rigaud shakes his head.
Aravasha Yiyuan looks from behind Damian and askes in a voice just slightly above a whisper....where was the initial attack started?
Damian Rigaud inhales the smoke "Thats a good question where was marina .. the park.. when she was taken?"
Damian Rigaud begins to come to a disturbing conclusion as his face darkens in expression. "I think its experimentation.. "
Aravasha Yiyuan touches Damian arm gently to get His attention
Damian Rigaud inclines his head to Aravasha
Elise Capalini looks to Forge. "What kind of weapons are you supplying?" she asks.
Aravasha Yiyuan: ..that..Humans First ..woman..she also conviently cancelled her rally ...in the park
Forgetten Tomorrow nodded his head slowly then as he tossed his long forgotten cigarette and he would bring his hand into his jacket and he pulled out a new one and he lights up "We have a forward plan and then a backup plan. However, Elise seems to think it is all a bad idea...perhaps instead we'll get a guitar and sing a few gospel diddies..." He pauses then and he looked at Elise "go get that armor prepped and we'll come by for pickup..." he looked at Damian "we are doing a small forward movement and if that doesn't work...a larger backup plan..."
Forgetten Tomorrow tilted his head to the side and he would pause for a moment "I don't know where Marina was.." he glances over at Taladis and waits for an explination "I'd assume they started over here by the bunker..unless someone knows something I don't?"
Damian Rigaud nods to Aravasha. and then to Forge "Fair enough.. what do you need done?"
Forgetten Tomorrow glances at Damian for a long moment then as he took a drag off his cigarette his entire body relaxed for a moment "I'd like you to come with Taladis and I...and a few others-- a small team..5 people..2 in UAC uniforms that Elise has graciously offered to supply...with Taladis as a prisoner...then two more will start a diversion..explosions and the rest on the side of the building....hopefully we'll be able to keep the guards at bay long enough that you'd be able to get the lot of them free...."
Guinevere Fouroux's hands tighten on her arms, alternating between being thankful to Forge and, again, wanting to kick him. "We're never going to be able to come up with something foolproof," she says flatly. "Two plans--they could work to our advantage. One they might expect, but a second on its heels? Perhaps not." She's not sure what she sees in Elise's expression, but finally lifts her eyes to Forge's. "She asked about the weapons," she says softly. "What weapons can you give us?"
Taladis Tower just leans on the railing all the same, the green eyes of the cat having drifted off while they spoke the entire time. He finally glanced back, rolling the cigar in his mouth in thought as he grumbled out of the side of his mouth, "Marina was at the entrance of the park. I saw the signs of the scuffle after it had happened. The park cameras caught the fight, but the MPD has the tapes already, I think. But it was clearly Marina's blood on the ground.. I know her scent rather well." His tone still seemingly gutteral, the growling echo following his words. He looked at Forge after he spoke again, reaching up to pull his cigar out of his mouth, "And hopefully in the meantime, I can find out exactly how many people are missing."
Elise Capalini looks evenly at Forge. "I never said the plan was bad. I had one specific concern," she says, looking then at Guin. She stares at her, knowing that if she were in the woman's shoes, she'd do the same, but that doesn't make it any easier. "What weapons?" she asks again, for they were already given a duffle bag full last night.
Taladis Tower wrinkles his nose as he looks at Elise, half wondering why she thought bringing Guin along was a bad idea, and half wondering why it was even an issue. The dark cat looked at the group, and carefully regarded Guin as a warrior might. His tail flicking behind him as he folded his arms over his chest.
Forgetten Tomorrow glances at Taladis "Marina, Pera, Eamon, Masha, Quentin whomever that is, some strange neko girl, and a few others...I'll check my phone history in a moment..." He glances at Elise. "Gernades-- white phosphorus...and we have a number of other things...Guin and I will have to go through it..."
Damian Rigaud nods "Alright.. " he smiles "I am not gonna sk how you got the uniforms.. " he says to Elise "Lets do it.."
Taladis Tower just wrinkles his nose after a moment, as he looks at Elise once more and tilts his head slightly as he speaks out of the side of his mouth with that gutteral tone again, "Why do you have an issue with her.." He noses towards Guin, "Coming along?"
Elise Capalini smiles at Damian. "We got the gear with our wit and charm, naturally."
Forgetten Tomorrow grinned a bit and he took another long drag off his cigarette then and he would look at Damian again curiously tilting his head to the side "I have a small boat...not really meant for the cross sea journey however it is possible..though it only hold 4 people..do you know where we could get 1 or 2 more small vessels?"
Elise Capalini looks back at Tal and doesn't answer. She's already spoken her piece on that; too bad if he was distracted by thoughts of Marina being captured. She draws out her PDA to send a message to Kiri at the den about the armor.
Damian Rigaud nods "I can get ahold of a speed boat.. seats 4 .. have you tapped the smugglers in town?"
Guinevere Fouroux blinks at the laundry list of weapons from Forge, impressed... and a little disturbed. She looks to Taladis, and says calmly. "I'm not a fighter. I know only self-defense. I'm decent with my dagger but only learned to fire a gun a few days ago. I'm a potential liability. She's right to be concerned." She smiles tightly. "It doesn't change my mind, but she's right."
Taladis Tower just looks at Elise, and wrinkles his nose - pulling the cigar from his mouth and letting out an annoyed puff of smoke. He wasn't quite paying attention, though he looked at Guin as she spoke up. He just blinked a few times, "She is right. An amateur is dangerous." He growled lowly as he glanced at Forge, but it seemed that the man had already made plans around her coming anyhow. The dark cat glanced off to the side once more as his ears twitched.
Elise Capalini thinks about the early days in her friendship with Guin, sparring with their daggers behind the church. God, but that seems like a long time ago. Her ears flatten at Tal's low growl, and her tail flicks. "I'm being told that one set of armor is a little banged up--but she say's it'll hold."
Forgetten Tomorrow shook his head slowly and he chuckled a bit. "The smugglers....ain't exactly fond of me..and I can't get ahold of anyone in that two-bit operation anyway...if you think you can do better please go for it..." He would count and considering for a moment. More then enough to get the teams in...not enough to get them all out. He glances at Taladis. "An amateur -is- dangerous...however, I have a few special uses for her..." Obviously Forge's wheels were still turning. He glances over at Taladis. "Want to see if Charles is in or should we look elsewhere for 2 more bodies.." He looks over at Damian again and he gave a lopsided grin. He shrugged his shoulders "1 set is a little banged up? Well..that will be fine...we need it for a costume.."
Taladis Tower just pulls his cell phone out at Forge's words and presses a few buttons, not going to press the issue further, since Forge seemed to have it worked out in some manner or another.
Aravasha Yiyuan looks around Damian again and speaks softly..how can i help
Guinevere Fouroux exhales, slowly. "None of us are professional military operatives, unless I missed something. I'm an amateur, yes, but I'm not helpless, and I don't expect anyone to give me any special consideration." She looks sharply to Forge, a little wary of the idea of having a 'special use,' but looks back to Elise with a sigh. "I respect you and Laz's experience, and as much as possible I'll follow your lead. But please don't try and leave me out of this."
Taladis Tower just growled all the same when she said that, "I'm about as professional as you'll get in this city when it comes to skill. That's why I'm the trap." He rolled the cigar over into the opposite side of his mouth, "I just hope they don't run a damn blood scan on me." He seemed to mutter the last part as he watched the waters flow, and some sort of .. fish frog waddle through the waters of the pit. He quirked a brow at that, and just proceeded to blink repeatedly.
Elise Capalini hears Guin's words and nods slowly. It's the thought of her being harmed, she thinks; the thought of letting that happen the way she let Eamon be taken happen. "Trying to leave you out only means you go with Forge...or sneak over on your own...and those are definitely *out.* If you're coming, you come with Laz's team. He commands it--you do as he says, and we all get back in one piece." She still doesn't want Guin there; but it's clear she's not budging, so she'll go with rules firmly in mind.
Guinevere Fouroux sees something shift in Elise's expression, and her shoulders ease, the tiniest bit. She nods at her parameters, and tries a small smile. "Thank you," she says, though doesn't deny that the other options Elise had laid out were possibilities had she refused. "And I meant what I said. No special consideration. I'm not going just to get in the way. You do what you have to do."
Apologies for posting so much type, but this was one of my favorite scenes of the whole thing for a few reasons and I couldn't decide where to trim!
This is one of my Tiny True Stories. I didn't cook all the time, and when I did I didn't always use Glad® ClingWrap but it took me over 50 years to notice these little side flaps (not quite a circle but close) that could be pressed inward. They fit inside the cardboard roll from both the left and right side of the box. They're not foolproof, but when used carefully, they do hold the roll inside the box moderately well while the wrap is pulled gently out to a proper size. I don't know if Saran Wrap has a similar gimmick, nor when Saran Wrap came on the market. But I learned that Glad® ClingWrap came on the market in 1966. The more I do photography, and I have loved it since I was 10, the more I notice things like this. I'm posting this as is, but I'm off to research if the ClingWrap name joins together or has a space or a hyphen or what. Inquiring Minds want to know this stuff. If I can get it right, I like to. I discovered it is Glad® ClingWrap.
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Chassis n° 379
Coachwork by Roussile & Fils - Bergerac
Les Grandes Marques du Monde au Grand Palais
Bonhams
Estimated : € 90.000 - 110.000
Sold for € 184.000
Parijs - Paris
Frankrijk - France
February 2018
- Majestic survivor of formal coachwork design
- Simple ownership history
- Sympathetic older restoration retaining original interior
- History of long distance tours
Although it was Karl Benz who first made the motor car a viable proposition with his primitive slow-revving engines and designs, those were left on the starting blocks when Panhard brought in the Système Panhard, a design that was to mould the future of the motor car for the next century, and when De Dion Bouton introduced their fast-revving engines in the last decade of the 19th Century. Early rear-engined De Dion Boutons, gave way to a new generation of front-engined cars for the 1902 season, again single-cylinder models with atmospheric inlet valve and mechanical exhaust valve. De Dion's gearbox was virtually foolproof for the first-time car driver, the fast-revving engines were supremely reliable, and De Dion back-up and service was second-to-none.
But as with modern technology things moved quickly and the company had to move with the times, by the turn of 1904/5 an inline four cylinder was offered, being simply four individual pots on a common crankcase. Next the radiator was moved above the chassis in the style made fashionable by Mercedes and with it the 'alligator' or 'coal scuttle' bonnet was retired. The gearbox too would follow fashion and move to a side control mechanism, by the time De Dion fielded their Peking-Paris team in 1907. The model AX as offered here represented the evolution of the first four that was introduced, on a slightly longer more substantial frame and with magneto ignition. As a bare chassis it cost 11,500 French Francs more than twice the price of their single cylinder car which was still offered, and with formal coachwork, 40-50% could reasonably be expected to be added.
As can be seen from the variety in the collection, Jacques Vander Stappen took great interest in coachwork and its design, particularly in its earliest days as it transitioned from coaches and railway carriages to cars. The De Dion Bouton presented here is one of very few surviving cars of any marque that retain Double Berline coachwork, a design which owes much to railway carriages more than cars, and literally took its name from having two coaches perched together in tandem. Those carriages being separate entities with a fixed division. Perhaps the most famous survivor of this external style is the famed 'Corgi' Rolls-Royce, sold world record price car of the marque sold by Bonhams in 2012, but that differs in that the interior compartments are not separated. Another survives on a Silver Ghost built by Fuller of Bath, there is one in the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart on a 60hp, and of course Bugatti would copy this style in convertible form on one of his Royales, but they are certainly few and far between.
The regal De Dion Bouton here is a lesser known example which has resided in Continental Europe all of its life. Very little is recorded about its coachbuilders, Roussille Fils of Bergerac, nor for whom they built this majestic piece, however it is unquestionably a wonderful automobile that would have made quite a statement in its day. From the condition of its interior it is clear that its use was relatively modest and from the documentation on file we know that however brief its original commission was, it was clearly laid up relatively early on, until it was discovered by noted collector Eugene Segers in the early 1960s. Photos of the car show its slumber incarcerated in a French barn, then its subsequent careful refurbishment. Aside from its technical specification which pinpoints its year of construction to 1907, during the sympathetic restoration that it received, a business card was beneath the upholstery in the rear compartment stating that the bodywork was supplied in March 1908.
During its restoration, its headlamps were replaced with large BRC, but it would seem that otherwise the car remained as it had been found and was new. The upholstery appears to have been cleaned at this point rather than replaced. At this point, the bold BRC headlamps it now wears were fitted. Once finished the De Dion was then put on the road and campaigned in and around Europe, including journeys such as the 1961 run from Brussels to Paris and Madrid and The Polar Tour, as attested by plaques in the front cabin.
Segers must have prized the car and it was not until his passing that the car was sold by his son Philippe, in 2001, when Mr. Vander Stappen was able to secure it for his collection. Over the course of the last few years its use has been far more modest than its busy 1960s life and at present the water pump has been removed, suggesting that this needs attention, as well as general recommissioning.
The car is a quite remarkable period piece, in its technical aspect it shows the transitional De Dion Bouton model with separate cylinders as they moved from their ubiquitous hugely successful single cylinder automobiles to multi-cylinder production, while the coachwork is a snapshot of how some chose to be conveyed in the early days of the motorcar and its state of preservation places it in an even rarer category.
The make-up shot from Saturday's workshop. I like to start with this one as it's fairly foolproof (!) and works well to demonstrate how to measure 3 lights with 2 relative to the key.
www.theage.com.au/national/chasing-the-dragon-20090726-dx...
Chasing the dragon
JOHN SILVESTER
July 27, 2009
Police seeking to stem the flow of heroin into Australia say it is just a matter of time before another drug courier is executed overseas. John Silvester reports.
IN AN imported suit and designer sunglasses, the Vietnamese man is at once young and flashy and the epitome of self-styled personal success. He has that cool confidence suggestive of a young executive on the make — or a luxury car dealer before the global financial crisis rearranged the world.
But the young man doesn't work for a company — at least not one found on any Corporate Affairs register. He is a recruiter — in more conventional corporate terms a "headhunter" — who works in Melbourne's western suburbs with a tempting pitch. His job is persuading the gullible that he can offer them the chance of a lifetime that includes money, travel and adventure. He tells his marks what they want to hear — that his system is foolproof. He will buy them a return ticket to Vietnam and they can visit friends and relatives while being paid handsomely for a working holiday.
All they have to do is stop at a nondescript property in Ho Chi Minh City and pick up between three and five 80-gram capsules of heroin — each carefully pre-wrapped in a double coating of condoms and balloons. Then an assistant will help them insert the pellets into body cavities before they make the 10-hour return flight to Melbourne.
Once they arrive with the cargo each recruit will be paid $6000 per pellet — a bottom line of $24,000 per load. Aged 22, the young man is a self-taught expert at identifying people with financial problems, often brought about through uncontrolled gambling habits. He is an equal opportunity employer discriminating neither by age or sex. His potential employment pool ranges from men in their early 20s to women in their mid-60s.
And there is no shortage of candidates, with police saying they have identified more than 100 who have made the trip. They also say that with unemployment on the rise and borderline businesses on the precipice, the number of willing recruits will increase.
The recruiter is well briefed. His network includes loan sharks who specialise in hooking on to problem gamblers. Those in debt see the trip as a get-out-of-jail card. For many it will be exactly the opposite. What the recruiter neglects to mention is the opportunity of a lifetime may mean exactly that — life.
According to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 25 Australians are now held in Vietnamese prisons for heroin smuggling. Five are to stand trial while 20 have been sentenced to death or to jail terms varying from 20 years to life. All are of Vietnamese descent and eight are from Victoria.
Since 2003, the Federal Government has successfully made pleas to the Vietnamese President to have seven death sentences commuted.
Senior Foreign Affairs officials say it is likely that an Australian caught smuggling drugs in Vietnam will eventually be executed.
A DFAT briefing paper states, "We cannot presume to always be successful in arguing against the death penalty for Australians, particularly when Vietnamese nationals are being executed for the same crimes."
There are strong indications Vietnamese authorities are beginning to tire of the perceived double standards, particularly since some Western governments do not argue against Vietnam's death penalty.
Bui Tai Huu, a US student from Long Beach City who was wanted in Victoria over a murder in Springvale, was executed in Vietnam after he was caught with heroin.
An Australian woman, Jasmine Luong, 33, from Sydney narrowly avoided death by firing squad when a final plea from the Australian Government saved her life.
Luong was found guilty of attempting to smuggle 1.55 kilograms of heroin into Melbourne in her shoes and luggage. Her punishment had been upgraded after she appealed against her life sentence for heroin trafficking.
Some South-East Asian governments have refused to listen to pleas for clemency. Melbourne man Nguyen Tuong Van was executed in Singapore in December 2005 after he was caught three years earlier with 396 grams of heroin at Changi Airport in 2002, travelling from Cambodia to Australia.
And in 1986 Australian drug traffickers Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers were hanged in Malaysia.
The head of the Victoria Police's drug taskforce, Detective Inspector Doug Fryer, believes it is inevitable that Australians will be executed in Vietnam for heroin trafficking.
DFAT has become so concerned at the number of Australian citizens arrested in Vietnam on drug runs that it conducted an education campaign warning of the risks.
The campaign, which ran for six months in Melbourne and Sydney, targeted the groups most likely to be recruited by the syndicates. It included advertisements on SBS, ethnic radio and in Vietnamese newspapers.
While local Vietnamese leaders welcomed the program, the drug rings have found no shortage of recruits.
Police have identified seven heroin syndicates with bases in Melbourne that use the same supplier in Vietnam.
Often the syndicates will place several couriers on one flight, working on the basis that if one is caught, another will pass through customs with the packages. The couriers are expendable. The line of supply is not.
On June 4, 2006, Australian Federal Police arrested Vietnam Airlines pilot Van Dang Tranas at Sydney International Airport with more than $540,000 concealed in his cabin luggage.
The Australian Crime Commission money-laundering Taskforce Gordian found that he had smuggled $6.5 million out of Australia in less than 12 months. He pleaded guilty and in 2007 was sentenced to a minimum of two years' jail.
It is alleged that crime syndicates used the Long Thanh Money Transfer Company in Footscray to launder more than $93 million.
But for the big seven heroin rings, not every trip is flushed with success. Sometimes the couriers lose their nerve mid-flight and dispose of their expensive cargo via the plane toilet.
Police have grabbed couriers at Melbourne Airport only to find they have become drug-free — apparently in mid-air.
Detective Inspector Fryer said the syndicates operating in Melbourne are primarily using the same heroin wholesaler from Ho Chi Minh City.
The bullet-shaped pellets come prepared in standard form — with condom and balloon wrapping and filled with 80 per cent pure heroin.
Australian Crime Commission figures show the number of heroin seizures at the Australian border increased from 300 in 2005-06 to 392 in 2006-07. The weight seized increased by 79 per cent from 45.6 kilograms to 81.7 kilograms over the same period.
The ACC found that "South-East Asia remains the primary point of embarkation for consignments of heroin to Australia and is expected to remain so for the immediate future".
Police say that a worldwide increase in opium poppy production, coupled with an economic downturn, could lead to further increases in demand and supply for heroin in Australia.
In February 2009 the ACC reported: "There has also been a gradual increase in reported heroin availability."
Detective Inspector Fryer says that due to police intelligence gathering the drug taskforce was devoting more resources to investigating heroin syndicates.
He says that in the past 12 months police had arrested key figures connected with four of the seven known Melbourne syndicates. "There is no doubt there are others still operating," he says.
A taskforce made up of drug taskforce detectives, Customs and Border Protection officers, Australian Federal Police and Australian Crime Commission investigators has been set up to target the seven known syndicates and to identify others that have moved into the lucrative trade.
One of the syndicates has recruited 40 couriers and a second has 35 prepared to make regular trips to Vietnam to collect heroin.
International departure records show that some of the couriers have made five trips in the past six months.
And some of the more experienced ones have studied Customs procedures to minimise the chances they will be selected for a search.
Police say that on a flight of 300 passengers there can be several mules working for different syndicates.
On February 28, police arrested four drug smugglers from one Melbourne flight. The following day another two were arrested when they flew into Perth. They had planned to fly to Melbourne on a domestic flight.
Detective Inspector Fryer has taken the unusual approach of issuing a public warning that known couriers will be arrested and searched if they make any further trips.
But he also says that as police are sharing intelligence with the Vietnamese authorities, the couriers are risking arrest before they return and could be executed.
THE main organisers usually insulate themselves from the business, but one senior member narrowly escaped a death penalty due to a spur-of-the-moment shopping spree. She had just left the hotel room at the Hai Long 2 Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City shortly before a police raid. Two of her couriers, a woman, 28 and a man, 25, were not so lucky and were arrested in possession of 20 heroin pellets containing nearly 1.5 kilograms of the drug. They are yet to face trial, but are likely to face the death penalty.
According to Vietnamese police, one confessed to smuggling 18 packages of heroin to Australia in previous trips. The Melbourne woman, although suspected of being the controller, could not be charged and fled back to Australia. She has since been arrested in Melbourne.
For the heads of the syndicates, the profits are staggering. Each time a courier arrives undetected in Melbourne with four pellets, the syndicate stands to make more than $130,000 if it on-sells at a wholesale rate. At street prices and purity, the profit would be more than $700,000.
No wonder one female suspect was seen living the life of a high roller at an Australian casino. Many people play card games at casinos, but few can afford $50,000 a hand.
John Silvester is a senior writer.
Here it is, the secret to cooking this healthy meat like a gourmet chef!!
(Click "All Sizes" for the bigger readable size)
This marinating process makes kangaroo steaks taste better than beef fillets - at half the price. This marinade softens the meat and removes the sharpness which is sometimes a bit harsh in kangaroo meat.
Almost foolproof, as long as you don't overcook the steaks!!
Watch this space for the perfect red wine/mustard jus for dressing the steaks!
Weathervane Playhouse in Akron, Ohio, presents " Don't Dress for Dinner" -- a comedy by Marc Camoleti and adapted by Robin Hawdon
Directed by Marc Moritz
See it live on stage May 1 to 18, 2014
For more information, visit www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/dont-dress-for-dinner-2014-0...
ABOUT THE SHOW
Bernard is planning a romantic weekend with his chic Parisian mistress in his charming converted French farmhouse, whilst his wife, Jacqueline, is away. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook to prepare gourmet delights, and has invited his best friend, Robert, along, too, to provide the alibi. It's foolproof! What could possibly go wrong? Well…suppose Robert turns up not realizing quite why he has been invited? Suppose Robert and Jacqueline are secret lovers, and consequently determine that Jacqueline will NOT leave for the weekend? Suppose the cook has to pretend to be the mistress and the mistress is unable to cook? Suppose everyone's alibi gets confused with everyone else's? In this hilarious farce, an evening of hilarious confusion ensues as Bernard and Robert find that they must improvise at a break-neck speed!
THE CAST
RICHARD WORSWICK
Bernard
SCOTT DAVIS
Robert
MITCH MANTHEY
George
BERNADETTE HISEY
Jacqueline
DEDE KLEIN
Suzanne
ASHLEY BOSSARD
Suzette
(All photos in this Flickr set were shot for Weathervane Playhouse on April 30, 2014, by Scott Diese.)
Weathervane Playhouse in Akron, Ohio, presents " Don't Dress for Dinner" -- a comedy by Marc Camoleti and adapted by Robin Hawdon
Directed by Marc Moritz
See it live on stage May 1 to 18, 2014
For more information, visit www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/dont-dress-for-dinner-2014-0...
ABOUT THE SHOW
Bernard is planning a romantic weekend with his chic Parisian mistress in his charming converted French farmhouse, whilst his wife, Jacqueline, is away. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook to prepare gourmet delights, and has invited his best friend, Robert, along, too, to provide the alibi. It's foolproof! What could possibly go wrong? Well…suppose Robert turns up not realizing quite why he has been invited? Suppose Robert and Jacqueline are secret lovers, and consequently determine that Jacqueline will NOT leave for the weekend? Suppose the cook has to pretend to be the mistress and the mistress is unable to cook? Suppose everyone's alibi gets confused with everyone else's? In this hilarious farce, an evening of hilarious confusion ensues as Bernard and Robert find that they must improvise at a break-neck speed!
THE CAST
RICHARD WORSWICK
Bernard
SCOTT DAVIS
Robert
MITCH MANTHEY
George
BERNADETTE HISEY
Jacqueline
DEDE KLEIN
Suzanne
ASHLEY BOSSARD
Suzette
(All photos in this Flickr set were shot for Weathervane Playhouse on April 30, 2014, by Scott Diese.)
***Found out she puts Vodka in her pie crust!
Anyway..... we all had a great time:-)
I googled Why put Vodka in pie crust? and here's the reason:
www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/detail.php?docid=11482
*** I did not print out their recipe, but here's the info about the Vodka, of which they use more Vodka than Stacie***
"Foolproof Pie Dough
From America's Test Kitchen Season 9: The Best Blueberry Pie
WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS:
Unless you’re a practiced pie baker, it’s hard to get the same results every time. We wanted a recipe for pie dough that rolls out easily every time and produces a tender, flaky crust.
The first step was to determine the right fat. As with our basic dough, a combination of butter and shortening provided the best balance of flavor and tenderness. Once again, the best tool to cut the fat into the flour was the food processor. To ensure same-sized pieces of butter time after time, we eliminated the pieces entirely and made a paste instead. Rather than starting with all the flour in the processor, we put aside 1 cup of flour and processed the remaining 11/2 cups with all of the fat until it formed a unified paste. We added the reserved flour to the bowl and pulsed it until it was just evenly distributed. Finally, we tackled the tenderness issue, which is partially determined by the amount of water added. In order to roll easily, dough needs a generous amount of water, but more water makes crusts tough. We found the answer in the liquor cabinet: vodka. While gluten (the protein that makes crust tough) forms readily in water, it doesn’t form in ethanol, and vodka is 60 percent water and 40 percent ethanol. So adding 1/4 cup of vodka produced a moist, easy-to-roll dough that stayed tender. (The alcohol vaporizes in the oven, so you won’t taste it in the baked crust.) (less)
For one 9-inch Double-Crust Pie
Vodka is essential to the texture of the crust and imparts no flavor—do not substitute. This dough will be moister and more supple than most standard pie doughs and will require more flour to roll out (1/4 cup must be used to prevent the dough from sticking to the counter). "
**Although if you roll out the dough between parchment paper... more flour is not needed. I it just does't stick!****