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Obituary
Barton Alan Katsilas, 59, of Millcreek, a doer and giver, a husband and family man, an authentic and honest soul who made better those around him, left this earthly plane Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021.
Cancer forced Bart’s journey earlier than he would have chosen, most certainly leaving him with the hope that his friends and family listened to his advice, given to his final days, that they should live, laugh, enjoy family and friends, and be kind.
He is survived by his wife of 34 years, Lucille B. Katsilas, who will be forever grateful she went on that blind date; daughters Antonia L. Katsilas and Alexandra D. Katsilas; grandson Fenix Meik; brothers Scott Katsilas and Stephen Katsilas; and sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews and cousins. He was preceded in death by his father, George; mother, Gloria; and brother, Jeffrey.
Bart was born Oct. 24, 1961 in Salt Lake City and attended Skyline High School. He worked at Crescent Electric Supply for 26 years.
Bart’s mind worked in ways others could only dream of, always planning his next project in a happy, purposeful way, understanding the joy of a task well done. His hands were always at work, fixing TVs, computers, websites, cars; what appeared a smoke break usually proved the moment he was mulling his next effort, such as the day he decided a tree grown askew and dangerous simply had to come down right away, and he did it.
Everything had a place and order for Bart, and at the center of his universe was his family, for whom he would do anything. He loved concerts with wife Lucy, camping with daughter Toni, drives with daughter Alex, and long talks with them all.
To know Bart was to watch him hold court, telling stories in his slow, measured way to their inevitable funny ending, because Bart could see and appreciate humor in life. He enjoyed an ability to laugh, to enjoy, to sometimes be silly, because what’s a life without fun, he said.
Bart’s ability to listen was legendary, his calm voice offering advice and observation; he could open his heart without judgement or expectation, just his ever-present willingness to embrace and help.
A drummer and lover of music, Bart loved to rock out to Jethro Tull, or sing along with his daughters to Kansas. He loved his vehicles - cars had to be Chevys and trucks had to be Fords. He treasured drives into the mountains with his family. He loved Utah, was proud to call it home, and enjoyed hiking, camping, fishing, and four-wheeling. One of his favorite places was with his family on their deck, watching the sunset or spotting satellites.
The family wants to thank everyone who helped Bart and Lucy during his valiant cancer fight, including St. Mark’s Hospital, Utah Cancer Specialists, Utah Vascular and Interventional Specialists, and Quality Home Health and Hospice. In his final days, as Bart worked through a checklist of what to do and said what he wanted to say, he left a model of kindness for us all.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, services Friday at Holbrook Mortuary will be private. Everyone is invited to watch the funeral service online at www.HolbrookMortuary.com, to watch the funeral scroll to the bottom of Bart’s obituary page on the mortuary website on Friday at 2:00 pm, the services will remain available to watch for 90 days. Interment will be at the Elysian Burial Gardens.
Donations can be made in Bart’s name to Cancer Bites SLC via PayPal or Venmo, or to Utah Cancer Specialists, Intermountain Medical Center, 5131 South Cottonwood St., L2, Murray, Utah, 84107.
Brief History of Mt Gambier – the second city of SA after Adelaide (region population nearly 35,000, urban 28,000).
Lieutenant James Grant aboard the Lady Nelson sighted and named Mt Gambier in 1800 after a Lord of the Admiralty. The first white man to traverse the area was Stephen Henty of Portland in 1839 when he sighted the Blue Lake. He returned with cattle and stockmen in 1841. He later claimed that had he known the lake and volcano he had discovered in 1839 was in SA he would have immediately applied for an 1839 Special Survey. But Henty thought he was squatting on land in NSW and he was not an official SA settler so the government ordered him off the land in 1844. Thus the first official white settler of the South East and the Mt Gambier district became Evelyn Sturt, brother to Captain Charles Sturt, who took up an occupational license in March 1844 and a property he named Compton just north of the present city. In April 1844 Governor Grey and a party of assistants including the Assistant Surveyor General Thomas Burr and artist George French Angas explored the South East naming Robe and doing the first surveys. Evelyn Sturt became the first to have an occupational license to squat and the first purchase freehold land near Mt Gambier which he did in 1847- a section of 77 acres when 80 acres was the norm. He left the district in 1854 selling his freehold land to Hastings Cunningham who in 1855 subdivided some of this land thus creating the town of Gambierton. The town lands were adjacent to the site of the first police station selected near what is now Cave Gardens by the government in 1845. A small bush inn also operated at this spot. The first streets were named after early locals such as Evelyn Sturt, Compton, Ferrers and Crouch (built the first general store before the town was created) etc. The town grew quickly because of the mild climate, fertile soils, plentiful water and the influx of settlers from across the border in what was to become the colony of Victoria. Cunningham himself was a great benefactor and donated land for the first school in 1856. In 1861 the town name was changed by act of parliament to Mt Gambier. The Hundred of Mt Gambier (along with three other hundreds) was declared in 1858 and began the closer settlement of the South East.
Unlike other areas of SA the South East was seen as paradise for pastoralists and the optimistic pastoralists flocked to the area with their flocks in 1845. The large runs locked up the land and prevented farmers from settling in the region except for the fertile lands around Mount Gambier. Here small scale farmers had small properties and grew potatoes, hops, and later had dairy cows as well as growing wheat and oats. Land acts in the early 1870s designed to break up the big runs only partially succeeded in the South East where most station owners bought up their lands freehold. It was after 1905 before the big pastoral estates were really broken up for farmers and closer settlement, except for near Mt Gambier. Apart from Evelyn Sturt the other early white settlers of the South East in 1845 were Alexander Cameron at Penola, John Robertson at Struan, William Macintosh and George Ormerod at Naracoorte, the Austin brothers at Yallum Park (later John Riddoch), the Arthur brothers (nephews of Governor Arthur of Van Diemen’s Land) at Mt Schanck( now Mt Schank) and the Leake brothers at Glencoe. In fact in 1845 nineteen leasehold runs were taken up in the South East with a further thirty runs in 1846 and most had several 80 acres sections of freehold land near the main homestead. Most had got to the South East from Casterton and Portland in Victoria as the swamps near the coast were too difficult to traverse except for the country near Robe. Many of the estates were huge. Evelyn Sturt on the Compton/Mt Gambier run had 85 square miles as well as his freehold land; Robertson had 135 square miles at Struan; George Glen (and William Vansittart) of Mayurra had 110 square miles; the SA Company had 159 square miles on the Benara run; the Leake brothers had 194 square miles on Glencoe; Hunter had 56 square miles on Kalangadoo; Neil Black of Noorat Victoria had 45 square miles on Kongorong run and 101 square miles at Port MacDonnell and the Arthur brothers had a huge run at Mt Schanck. By 1851 almost 5,000 square miles of the South East was occupied by Occupational License and most licenses were converted to 14 year leases in that year. A third of all leasehold land in SA was taken up in the South East because of its higher rainfall and suitability for pastoralism and a third of all sheep in the colony were in the South East. When Hundreds were declared in the South East in the late 1850s and early 1860s pastoralists bought up the land. In one case John Riddoch of Yallum Park owned the entire Hundred of Monbulla. Another pastoralist W. Clarke who had purchased Mt Schancke station from the Arthur brothers in 1861 owned SA land valued at £1.25 million when he died in 1874 and he had 120,000 acres freehold in Victoria, 75,000 acres freehold in SA( Mt Schank) and 50,000 acres freehold in each of NSW and Tasmania! Mt Schanck was changed in Schank in 1917 when German place names in SA were changed as Schank without the second “c” is an old English name!
In the 1850s Mt Gambier was a shanty village as the South East was a region of large pastoral estates and little agricultural farming and very low population numbers. It was far from Adelaide and remote and it was only after the Princeland episode in 1862 with the threat of possible secession to a new state that the Adelaide government began to invest in the South East and really encourage settlement there. The Border Watch newspaper was established in 1861, the Mt Gambier Hotel opened in 1862 and the Mt Gambier Council was formed in 1863.By the early 1860s Mt Gambier had almost 1,000 residents making it one of the largest towns in SA after the copper mining centres of Burra, Kadina and Moonta. By the 1881 SA census Mt Gambier had 2,500 residents making it the biggest town outside of Adelaide. In 1865 four iconic historic buildings were erected-the Courthouse, the Gaol, Christ Church Anglican and the Post Office and Telegraph Station. The flourmill which later became the Oat Mill opened in 1867 as wheat farmers had now taken up lands around the Mount. Mt Gambier was growing into a fine prosperous looking town with churches, stores, banks, hotels and fine residences. In the 1870s the rural population increased dramatically with tenant potato farmers on Browne’s Moorak estate and intensive hop growing in several localities such as Yahl and OB Flat and Glenburnie etc. Also in 1876 the first commercial forestry was started at the behest of George Goyder. A tree nursery was established on the edge of Leg of Mutton Lake in 1876 on a site selected by George Goyder himself. A stone cottage for the first nurseryman Charles Beale was constructed and it survived until demolished in 1969 but the nursery closed in 1929. The nursery propagated eucalypts, Oak, Elm, Ash, Sycamore, and North American pines. Pinus radiata was first grown at Leg of Mutton Lake and was being dispersed to other areas by 1878. Pinus canariensis was also grown in the 1880s. Pinus radiata is now the most commonly grown commercial forest tree in SA and Australia. Also in the 1870s the first hospital was erected and Dr Wehl, the town’s doctor for many years was in residence.
In the mid 1880s the first rail line was laid as the railway lines pushed out from Mt Gambier to Naracoorte. The service to Naracoorte began in 1887 and connected on with the line to Bordertown and Adelaide. By 1897 a railway connected Mt Gambier to Millicent and the port at Beachport. The railway line across the border to Heywood and Melbourne was not completed until 1917 as the SA government resisted a line that would take goods and passengers from Mt Gambier to Port Melbourne rather than to Port Adelaide. Mt Gambier railway station used to be a hive of activity with daily trains to Adelaide and an overnight sleeper services several times a week. Passenger trains to Mt Gambier from Adelaide stopped in 1990 after Australian National took over the SA railway network. Freight services stopped in 1995 and the railway line and station was formally closed. The railyards and other buildings were cleared in 2013.
The Buandik Aboriginal People.
The Buandik people are commemorated in a city street but by little else. Yet they were resilient and determined fighters opposed to the white settlement of the South East. Their occupation of the Mt Gambier district stretches back to around 20,000+ years but their dated occupation from archaeological sites goes back to about 11,000 years with their myths and legends including stories about volcanic activity at Mt Gambier. The last volcanic explosions were about 4,000 years ago. Both Mt Schank and Mt Gambier were important places to the Buandik for ceremonies, hunting, access to water and stone implement making. A government report in 1867 noted that the Buandik people in government care were few in number mainly sickly and elderly. The younger people had presumably moved out into the white community. But back in the 1840s the Buandik were a force to be reckoned with. There are no common stories of Aboriginal massacres but white pastoralists certainly retaliated when sheep were stolen. On Mt Schank station the Buandik were so troublesome that shepherds would not venture out to care for sheep alone and the Arthur brothers gave this trouble as their reason for them selling the run in 1845. In 1845 the government established a police station at Mt Gambier, which the Protector of Aboriginals visited, to ensure that pastoralists did not massacre the Buandik.
William Vansittart and Vansittart Park.
Vansittart Park has been a focal point of Mt Gambier since 1884 for activities such as family picnics, political rallies and speeches, bike racing, band rotunda concerts, bowling greens, sport oval, grandstand (1927) and Anzac memorial services. But who was William Vansittart? He was an Anglican reverend from England (Vansittart is a noble and political Anglo-Irish family in the UK) who arrived in SA in 1847 as a young bachelor. He was never licensed as a minister in SA but he developed his passions for making money and horse racing here. He mixed with the elite of Adelaide like Sir Samuel Davenport, the Governor and was a friend of Hurtle Fisher and he was Master of the Hounds. In 1850 he purchased 35 acres at Beaumont where he built Tower House and 80 acres at Mt Gambier. He imported a thoroughbred horse from Hobart called Lucifer. Ironic that a minister of religion would have a horse called Lucifer! His horses raced in Adelaide, Salisbury, Gawler, Brighton and Clare as well as in Mt Gambier and Penola. In 1851 he also took over the 110 square mile 14 year lease of Mayurra run with George Glen of Millicent. In 1852 he returned to England for a short time and on his return he purchased more freehold land bringing his estate to around 800 acres. Not long after in 1854 his horse shied, he was thrown against a tree and died of head injuries but he died intestate with an estate worth over £10,000. Glen bought out his share of Mayurra; the Beaumont house and property was sold in 1867 as were his race horses and his brother Captain Spencer Vansittart eventually inherited the Mt Gambier property. In accordance with William’s wishes 115 acres were set aside to provide income for a scholarship for boarders at St Peters Boys College which happened from 1859. Later in 1883 Spencer Vansittart offered 20 acres to the Mt Gambier Council for a memorial park at the “nominal” sum of £400 which hardly seems “nominal”. The Council raised a loan and purchased the land and the park is still enjoyed by the city’s residents and visitors. Captain Spencer’s widow sold the last package of 300 acres of land in 1912 thus ending the Vansittart links with Mt Gambier. The Vansittart scholarship is still available for boarders from the South East and is operated by a group of College trustees.
Some Historic Buildings in Mt Gambier and a town walk.
Your town walk is basically straight ahead along Penola Road towards the Mount itself which becomes Bay Road( the bay is at Port MacDonnell) once you cross Commercial Street which is the Main Street. There are just a few diversions to the left as you face the Mount. The coach will collect you at the Mount end of the walk near the Old Courthouse.
If you a good walker check out the fine houses in Jardine Street at numbers 1, 7, 9, 11, 12, 17 and 22. They range from cottages to Gothic and turreted mansions including the home of Jens the hotelier. This detour will add another 10 minutes to the walk if you elect to do it.
1.Catholic Covent. Sisters of Mercy setup a convent school in 1880. This wonderful convent was not built until 1908 in local dolomite stone & limestone quoins. Note the fine stone gables with small niches for statuary, the well proportioned arched colonnades and upstairs oriel windows – the projecting bay windows with stone supports. This is one of the finest buildings in Mt Gambier. The convent closed in 1986. Now Auspine.
2.Wesleyan Methodist Church Hall/Sunday School. Across the street is pink dolomite neo-classical style Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Hall. Hundreds of children attended Sunday School in those days. It opened in 1904. It is now commercial offices. (If you want to walk up Wyatt Street beside the Sunday School and turn right at second street which is at Gray you will see the old two storey Methodist Manse at 101 Gray St. It was built in 1868 and sold 1941. As you turn into Gray Street the Salvation Army Hall is on your left. Allow 10 minutes for this detour before returning to Penola Road).
3.Methodist Church now Liberty Church. A Gothic large church built in 1862 by the Wesleyans. Opened by minister from Portland. Additions made 1877 with new entrance. The old lecture hall and Sunday School was beneath the church. Note the buttress on corners and sides. Became Uniting Church 1977 and closed 1994 when services moved to St Andrews Presbyterian Church. Behind the church (walk through the car park) in Colhurst Place is LLandovery two storey mansion now a B&B. Built 1878 for a flour and oat miller who had his mill in Percy Street.
4.St Paul’s Catholic Church. This impressive Gothic church with huge tower with crenulations was opened in 1884 and will be open today. There are 1966 extensions to the rear of it. The Presbytery is behind the church facing Alexander St. it was built in 1901 when the church was free of building debt. The first thatched bush church was built in another location in 1855. From 1857 the priest was Father Julian Tenison Woods, explorer, academic, horseman etc. A second church opened in 1861 in Sturt St and is now demolished. It closed in 1885 as this church opened. The bells came from Dublin. The church fence and gates built 1936.
5.The Mount Gambier Club. Across the street is the Club. It was built in 1904 for a local distiller as chambers for lease. The wealthy pastoralists of the South East formed an exclusive men only club in 1913 and it has used the upper floor of Engelbrecht’s chambers ever since. They purchased the whole building in 1920. The Club is a beautifully proportioned classical style building with pediments, balustrades, window entablature, and perfect symmetry. Look down the sides and you can see it is made of Mt Gambier limestone blocks.
6.Mt Gambier Caledonian Hall. Next door is the Scots Club. Its prominence signifies the Scottish links of many Gambier residents. The hall was opened in 1914 and opened by the former Prime Minister Sir George Reid, another Scot. It has classical features but is rather ugly and neglected these days. It is now a night club.
7.The Trustees Building. Next to the Caledonian is the Trustee Building erected in 1958. Its blue and bone tiled façade is typical of 1950s architecture yet the rectangular appearance has a slight classical look about it. It is on the SA Heritage Register. Accountants now occupy it.
8.Turn left into Percy Street and go along here beyond KFC for one town block to the next corner for the Oatmills (now a coffee shop and cinemas). Milling and brewing were two of Mt Gambier’s prime 19th century industries. The 4 storey complex here was started in 1867 for Welsh Thomas Williams who eventually had five flour mills. His mill was called Commercial Flourmills. A new owner converted the mill from wheat milling to oat milling. A new oatmill was built in 1901 and operated until 1975 producing Scottish porridge oats. The mill has now been restored with café, shops and cinemas. Return to Penola Rd.
9. Mt Gambier Hotel. No hotel could have a more remarkable origin than the Mt Gambier. An African American John Byng built a weatherboard hotel near here in 1847. The third licensee Alexander Mitchell, another Scot, took it over and moved the hotel to this corner site in 1862 as an impressive two storey hotel which was unusual at that time. The western wing was added in 1883 and balconies affixed in 1902.
10.Cross towards the Mount with the traffic lights then turn left into Commercial Street East.
11.Mt Gambier Town Hall. Marked as the Riddoch Gallery this fine Venetian Gothic style building is impressive with its coloured stone work contrasting well with cement rendered horizontal lines and vertical panels around windows and doors. The upper windows are mullioned with stone divisions between the glass. It was built in 1882 with the clock tower added in 1883 after a donation. The first Council meeting was in 1863 with Dr Wehl as chairman held in a hotel. Later the Council hired a room at the Foresters Hall and then they purchased this site in 1868 with a weatherboard room. This was used until 1882.
12.Mt Gambier old Institute. The Literary Institute was formed in 1862 and a foundation stone laid for a reading room/hall in 1868 by John Riddoch. The single storey institute opened in 1869. The upper floor was added in 1887, so that it would match the new Town Hall. It is built in a similar style- Venetian Romanesque as the windows and rounded and not arched as with a gothic structure.
13.Captain Gardiner Memorial Fountain 1884. The fountain was presented by Captain Robert Gardiner the grandfather of Sir Robert Helpman (his name was originally Helpmann). The fountain was made in Melbourne .Gardiner was also a benefactor of St Andrew’s Presbyterian -he donated the pipe organ in 1885.
14.Jens Hotel. After demolishing an earlier hotel (the 1847 hotel of John Byng) Johannes Jens had the first section of his Jens Hotel built on this corner in 1884. An almost identical eastern wing was erected in 1904 and the Spanish Art Deco section in 1927. Turn right here and go behind the Town hall to the Cave Gardens.
15.Cave Gardens. This spot was an early water supply. A garden was created in 1893 and then improved and reconstructed in 1925. This sink hole has recently been upgraded again and it is lit at night.
16.Post Office. This important communications centre was erected in 1865 as a telegraph office/post office. This is till one of the finest buildings in Mt Gambier and a rare example of the Georgian style for the city. . The single storey side wings were added in 1906 in a sympathetic style. It is still the main city Post Office.
17.Norris Agency Building. This superb Italianate building was completed in 1900 as chambers for businessmen. Owner was Alexander Norris who died in 1917. The façade is pink dolomite with cement quoins and unusual lined decoration work above the windows and door each contained within a triangular classical pediment.
18.Farmers Union Building. Another classical style building built when this style was out of fashion in 1914.Erected for Farmers Union as a large two storey building. It has none of the grace of the Norris building next door. FU was formed in 1888 in Jamestown by Thomas Mitchell, a Scot and others to provide cheap rates for grains, seeds and superphosphate but in the early 1900s they branched into products for dairy farmers and the marketing of milk products. The Mt Gambier district had plenty of dairy farmers. It is now owned by a Japanese company Kirin but it still markets its chocolate milk drinks as Farmers Union. Upper floor has double pilasters (flattened pillars) with top volutes but little other decoration.
19.Savings Bank Building on the corner. The former Savings Bank in Gothic style is unusual for commercial premises in Mt Gambier. It is constructed of weathered local limestone and was built in 1906. Note the different cut stone for the foundations, simulated turrets on the corners and by the door to break the façade appearance and the stone line above the lower window which then divides the façade into equal thirds.
20.Macs Hotel. This hotel was built in 1864 and is largely unchanged except that the upper floor was added in 1881. The first licensee was a Scot named John MacDonald. The double veranda supports are very elegant.
21.Roller flourmill now a painted hardware store. Built 1885 as a steam flourmill in pink dolomite. Note the small 12 paned windows set in much larger indented niches in the walls on the northern wall. (Sturt St.)
22.Christ Church Anglican Church and hall. Dr Browne of Moorak donated half the money for the construction of Christ Church in pink dolomite and with an unusual gabled tower. Church and tower completed in 1866. Adjacent is the Jubilee Hall built in 1915, destroyed by fire in 1951, and rebuilt exactly the same in weathered local limestone blocks with the original foundation stone still in place. It has the single Gothic window in the street facing gable and a crenulated square tower. Adjoining it is the 1869 Sunday School with the narrow double pointed Gothic windows. It was extended in 1892. The lychgate is more recent as a memorial to a regular church goer, Margaret French who died in 1927.
23.The old railway station just visible along the rail lines to your right. The first rail line was to Beachport in 1879 and the second to Naracoorte (and so to Adelaide) in 1887. Portland and Melbourne line opened 1917. A spur line to Glencoe was completed in 1904. First station was erected in 1879. It was demolished for the erection of the current station in 1918 which is similar in design to those in Tailem Bend, Bordertown, Moonta etc. Bluebird rail cars started on the Mt Gambier run in 1953 when the old 3’6” gauge line to Wolseley was converted to 5’3”. The last passenger service to Adelaide finished in 1990 and the station closed for freight in 1995. The railyards were cleared in 2013 and the future of the station is bleak. The rail lines to Beachport and Glencoe closed in 1956/57.
24.The Old Courthouse, 42 Bay Rd. It has a great low wall suitable for sitting on. This well designed Georgian style Courthouse opened in 1865 and the similarly styled side wings were added in 1877. The front veranda, which is not Georgian in style, was added in 1880. In 1975 the Courthouse was granted to the National Trust for a museum. The adjoining new Courthouse opened in 1975 at the same time. Note the “blind” windows to the façade but the same rounded Georgian shaped, 16 paned windows on the sides.
The Blue Lake, Mt Schank and Volcanoes.
The jewel in the crown of Mt Gambier is undoubtedly the volcanic cone, the crater lakes especially the Blue Lake and the surrounding Botanic Gardens and parklands. The Botanic Garden on the north side was approved in 1872 but nothing happened about plantings and care until 1882. The first pleasure road through the saddle between the Blue Lake and the Valley Lake was created in the 1861 as a more direct road to the then newly created international port named Port MacDonnell. That is why the road is called the Bay road. Surveyor General George Goyder explored the lake surrounds himself in 1876 when he selected the site for the government tree nursery. Later the government established the first sawmill on the edge of the crater reserve near Moorak homestead in the early 1920s. The Centenary Tower was initiated in 1900 to celebrate the centenary of Captain Grant sighting Mt Gambier. It took several years to complete and was opened by the Chief Justice of SA Sir Samuel Way in 1907 but it was completed in 1904. The whole complex is a maar geomorphological formation which originated during a volcanic era about 28,000 years ago but in a second phase of volcanic activity 4,000 to 6,000 years ago the cones and lakes of Mt Gambier were created along with the cones of Mt Schank and Mt Burr near Millicent. Mt Gambier was the most recent volcanic explosion in Australia. The crater lakes are: Blue Lake, Valley Lake, Leg of Mutton Lake and Browne’s Lake (dry). The Blue Lake is linked to the aquifers beneath the deep layers of limestone which underlay the entire South East. Blue Lake is about 72 metres deep and some of the water in it is estimated to be about 500 years old but it is mixed with rain runoff each year as well. The Lake provides the water supply for Mt Gambier. Deep in the lake are examples of the oldest living organisms on earth- stromatalites. The lake changes colour from grey to vivid blue each November and reverts in the following April. The change in colour is related to the position of the sun and reflected light from suspended particles in the lake which reflect blue green light rather than brown grey light. Secondly the suspended matter only occurs because the water near the surface rises in temperature in the spring and it is this which causes the particles to precipitate out of the water. The precipitated matter settles on the bottom of the lake ready for a new cycle the following spring. Like the Blue Lake various sink holes in the district have linkages to the underlying aquifer through the layers of limestone too and they include Cave Gardens, Umpherstone, Piccaninni Ponds, etc.
Moorak Station and Tenison Woods College.
Moorak station as originally known as Mount Gambier Station established by George Glen in the 1840s. The leasehold was later taken over by David Power who in turn sold it to Fisher and Rochford who in turn sold the estate as freehold to the Scottish Dr William Browne who had established Booborowie run with his brother in 1843 north of Burra. The Browne brothers dissolved their partnership around 1865 and John went to live at Buckland Park and William took up residence at Moorak. William had purchased Moorak Station in 1862 and built the grand Moorak homestead in impressive Georgian style onto a smaller house there. William died in 1894 and the Moorak Estate passed to his son Colonel Percival Browne who was to disappear on the ill-fated voyage of the new steamer the Waratah in 1909 which disappeared during a storm off Durban, South Africa. Also on that voyage was Mrs. Agnes Hay (nee Gosse) of Mt Breckan Victor Harbor and Linden Park Estate Adelaide and some 200 other poor souls. Around 1909 the Moorak Station was subdivided for closer settlement and in the 1920s the Marist Brothers purchased the homestead with a little land for their and monastery and opened the Marist Brothers Agricultural College for boys in 1931. That college in turn merged with the Mater Christi College in 1972 to become Tenison College. (Mater Christi College had been formed in 1952 by the merger of the St Josephs Convent School (1880) and St Peters Parish School but the primary section of St Peters broke away in 1969 from Mater Christi College and formed a separate St Peters Primary School. This primary school in turn merged with Tenison College in 2001 to form Tenison Woods College!) The College name commemorates the work of Father Julian Tenison Woods who arrived in Mt Gambier in 1857 to work in Penola and Mt Gambier. It was he who encouraged Mary MacKillop to take her vows and establish her Sisters of St Joseph.
Dr Browne’s manager of Moorak Estate in 1868 introduced hops as a viable crop in the South East and large quantities were grown for about 20 years. Other early experimental crops grown included tobacco, cotton and flax. Dr Browne and Moorak were also important in the potato industry. Dr Browne leased around 830 acres to 20 tenants for the express purpose of growing potatoes. He was keen to emulate the British aristocracy although he was a good Scot with being a manorial style landlord with tenant farmers. Potatoes were also grown from the early years at Yahl, OB Flat and Compton near Mt Gambier. The potatoes were carted down to Port MacDonnell and shipped to Adelaide for consumers. As one of the major wool producers of Australia William Browne contributed roughly half of the funds for the erection of Christ Church Anglican in Mt Gambier. The Moorak estate consisted of around 11,000 acres of the most fertile volcanic soil in SA with another 2,000 acres in a nearby property, German Creek near Carpenter’s Rocks. Dr Browne ran Silky Lincolns on Moorak for their wool as Merinos did not fare well on the damp South East pastures. About 2,000 acres was in wheat, about 2,500 acres was tenanted to other farmers and around 4,000 acres were in lucerne, clover, rye and other pasture grasses. William Browne returned to live in England in 1866 so his sons could attend Eton and military training colleges there. He made regular trips to SA about every second year to oversee his many pastoral properties here. When he died in 1894 he left 100,000 acres of freehold land in SA to his children who all resided here as well as leasehold land. He was an extremely wealthy man. Son Percival took control of Moorak. Before Percival’s death Moorak Estate was partly purchased by the SA government in 1904 for closer settlement when they acquired around 1,000 acres. After Percival’s death a further 6,300 acres was acquired for closer settlement and the remainder of the estate was sold to other farmers. The government paid between £10 and £31 per acre for the land. Percival Browne was highly respected in Mt Gambier and a reserve around the Blue Lake is named after him. The fourth of the crater lakes of Mt Gambier is also named Browne’s Lake after the family but it has been dry for decades. In 1900 Colonel Browne planted the ring of English Oaks around what was to become the oval of the Marist Brothers College.
Moorak.
There is a memorial by the station to William Browne as founder of the Coriadale Sheep Stud. The great Moorak woolshed was demolished in 1939. The Union church which opened in 1920 was used by the Methodists and the Anglicans. It is now a private residence. Moorak hall was opened in 1926. New classrooms were added to the Moorak School in 1928 and the first rooms opened in 1913. The cheese factory in Moorak opened in 1913 as a cooperative and was sold to Farmers Union in 1949. They closed the factory in 1979. Most of the cheese produced at Moorak went to the Melbourne market. The first cheese maker at Moorak was trained at Lauterbach’s cheese factory at Woodside. Moorak was one of a circle of settlements around Mt Gambier that had butter/cheese factories. These towns were: Kongorong; Glencoe East; Glencoe West; Suttontown; Glenburnie; Mil Lel; Yahl; OB Flat; Moorak; Mt Schank; and Eight Mile Creek.
Yahl.
In the 1860s this tiny settlement was a tobacco, hop and potato growing district and it persisted with potatoes up until recent times. Today Yahl is little more than a suburban village of Mt Gambier with a Primary school with approx 120 students. The old government school was erected in 1879. It had a Methodist church built in 1880 which operated as a church until 1977 and it had a large butter factory which had opened in 1888. The butter and cheese factory was taken over by the OB Flat cheese factory in 1939 and the two operated in conjunction with each other. The OB Flat cheese factory closed in 1950 and all production moved to Yahl. The factory finally closed in 1971. The township of Yahl also had a General Store and a Salvation Army Hall which was built in 1919.
Sink Holes: Umpherston Gardens and Cave Gardens.
James Umpherston purchased land near Mt Gambier in 1864 which included a large sink hole or collapsed cavern with a lake in the bottom. He was born in Scotland in 1812 and came to SA in the 1850s with his brother William. William purchased his first land at Yahl in 1859. James Umpherston was a civic minded chap being a local councilor, a parliamentarian in Adelaide for two years and President of the Mt Gambier Agricultural and Horticultural Society for 13 years. When he retired from civic life and farming in 1884 he decided to create a garden in his sinkhole. He beautified it and encouraged visitors and even provided a boat in the lake for boat rides. Access was gained by steps and a path carved into the sinkhole walls. However after he died in 1900 the garden was ignored, became overgrown and was largely forgotten in 1949 when the Woods and Forests Department obtained the land for a new sawmill at Mt Gambier. By then the lake had dried up as the water table had fallen over the decades. In 1976 staff, rather than the government, decided to restore the Umpherstone gardens. The cleared out the rubbish that had been dumped in the sinkhole, restored the path access, trimmed the ivy and replanted the hydrangeas and tree ferns. In 1994 the Woos and Forests Department handed over the land around the sinkhole to the City of Mt Gambier. It was added to the SA Heritage Register in 1995.
Photo taken by Herwart Schneider and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
September 1972
F-BTOV
Vickers 952 Vanguard
746
Europe Aero Service (EAS)
F-BTOV has reached its parking positions, propellers still turning. This Vanguard was noted at Riem in September 1972, September 1974, January 1975 as well as January and February 1976. Note the Monarch Airlines Britannia parked in the distance.
Information from airliners.net - thanks to Richard Vandervord:
First flying on 6.6.1962, this Vanguard takes the honour of being both the last of 44 to be built and the last to perform a passenger service, in late October 1987 (Jakarta-Medan-Jakarta). Firstly CF-TKW with TCA and sold by Air Canada to EAS as F-BTOV 4.1972, operating their final Vanguard pax flight Orly-Perpignan on 8.1.1981; to Merpati Nusantara Airlines as PK-MVH in May that year. Sold back to EAS for spares and ferried to PGF 12.1987. Remains apparently moved to a location in the Pyrenees near Spanish border for use as a rescue trainer (presumably scrapped by now).
Registration details for this airframe:
www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/F-BTOV/906938
This airframe as F-BTOV with EAS at LBG in September 1974 (later colours):
www.flickr.com/photos/105925977@N03/26377510378
This airframe as F-BTOV with EAS in 1979 (final EAS colours):
www.flickr.com/photos/24101413@N03/45254840031
This airframe as PK-MVH with Merpati Nusantara Airlines:
www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/37486736536
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
This is Ryan, and the contrast between him and my previous stranger couldn't be more extreme.
I discovered a new location for encountering strangers, maybe not the best location as far as settings or backgrounds go but a real dream as far as meeting people that are happy to stop for a while and chat. So this was my first encounter there and having seen this nice green wall was determined to look out for someone with a striking hair colour or clothes to contrast with it, but when I saw Ryan his immaculate appearance, clothes and jewelled poppy meant I had to approach him. A very brief introduction and he offered a handshake straight away, he was relaxed, confident and more importantly happy to take part, and then it all fell in to place as he told me he is Butler of the year and was on his way to collect his employer and family from the airport.
Whilst still required to know traditions such as which side to serve the port from, being a butler is closer to being a PA or manager these days and Ryan is convinced that he has the best job in the world. I guess it is also testament to his skill that without any effort he made me feel the most relaxed I have done in an encounter for ages and genuinely delighted to meet him.
And for those interested his diamanté poppy - which really sparkled in the sunshine - is available from M&S!
Ryan, if you do find this shot I hope you approve and thank you so much for taking the time to stop and chat.
This picture is #68 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
A jury has found Kyle Rittenhouse for shooting three people, killing two of them, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on the night of August 25, 2020. They found him innocent of all six counts. Rittenhouse, then 17 and a minor, said he was in Kenosha to offer his services as a medic during riots and protests after the shooting of Jacob Blake by Kenosha police. He brought with him a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 rifle (an AR-15 semi-automatic). A friend bought his gun because Rittenhouse was a minor.
Others have rehashed the innocent verdicts on all six counts. However, only one seems to be beyond reasonable doubt, Count 6: Possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18. Kyle Rittenhouse was underage, carrying a semi-automatic rifle on the streets of Kenosha during the evening of August 25. While Wisconsin is an “open-carry” state where it is legal for adults to carry firearms openly, state law prohibits minors from doing so. He should have been found guilty on that count. A minor should never have been carrying that gun. So why wasn’t he found guilty of this charge? According to Wisconsin law, it’s only illegal for minors to carry short-barreled rifles and shotguns less than sixteen inches long. Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed this misdemeanor because Rittenhouse’s Smith & Wesson was longer than sixteen inches, and the jury never had a chance to consider the charge.
No matter the verdict, his actions have a chilling effect on those of all colors who want our voices heard and will protest peaceably to do so. The verdicts do not end the contested debate about gun control or the shooting of Blacks by the police. Police officer Rusten Sheskey shot and seriously injured Blake, an African American. Sheskey shot Blake seven times when Blake opened the driver’s door to his girlfriend’s rented SUV. The officer said that he believed he was about to be stabbed by Blake, who was carrying a knife. After the deaths of so many Blacks by the police, the shooting of Blake is a continuation of our country’s systemic racial turmoil. Whether one believes Kyle Rittenhouse was innocent or guilty, one cannot divorce his actions from this huge social problem. It continues and will do so until we implement significant changes in policing.
On Sunday, November 21, 2021, 60 Minutes interviewed Yale social scientist Philip Atiba Goff, who has spent the last 14 years advising police forces on reimagining their work. Given the unfortunate title, “Defund the Police” has become a flash point between Whites and Blacks and between the police and the people they protect. “Defund the Police” was a marketing nightmare and doesn’t convey clearly what its founders meant. “Defunding” comes across as punitive and sets up the usual partisan triggers.
Several RAND Corporation research papers say we often overburdened police with tasks more suited for other professionals better trained to deal with social issues such as homelessness, mental health, and drug abuse. States and cities could reallocate police budgets to other service providers, allowing departments to focus on their primary jobs: major crime. Goff, who is CEO of the Center for Policing Equity, “analyzes police data, 911 calls, arrests, and traffic stops, to help cities reduce racial disparity and the use of force.” He calls this Reimagining the Police. This is a much more apt phrase to describe the process. And it’s one that many city police forces are starting to address seriously.
From the outset of the investigation and his arrest, Second Amendment advocates and the right have used Rittenhouse as their poster boy for a society gone awry. As Politico writer Meridith McGraw wrote, “Well before he was acquitted on the five counts he faced, Rittenhouse had found absolution elsewhere. A wide swath of conservatives had turned his case into an example of a social justice system run amok and Rittenhouse himself into an avatar of Second Amendment virtuosity. They treated the trial outcome as vindication, perhaps divine.”
Supporters set up legal defense funds, and they printed t-shirts with his image and the slogan, “Don’t Tread on Me.” Congressman Matt Gaetz has offered him a House internship. And Tucker Carlson and a Fox News film crew were on location within Rittenhouse’s defense team. But not all Republicans find this comforting. Strategist Gregg Keller sees the right turning Rittenhouse into a hero. But he cautions, “I think given the situation he found himself in, what he did appears to be justified—but I would stop short of lionizing him as a hero, a 17-year-old kid who found himself in that situation.”
The way the right is using Rittenhouse is disgraceful. Is he mature enough to understand the ramifications of his actions? Will society allow him to try? He killed two people. As a parent of young adults, I’m very aware their minds aren’t fully wired yet to grasp the maturity required to be an adult. (Of course, some adults are failing at it too—I’m looking at you, Matt and Donald Jr.) Placing him in the limelight won’t help him. And pushing him to the forefront of these social debates by others with their own agendas is self-serving.
The trial verdict is in. But the future of Kyle Rittenhouse isn’t yet. Give the man a chance to live with and process the events where he was a willing participant. Let him grow up. In Carlson’s documentary, Rittenhouse voices his support for Black Lives Matter. Let’s see how he shows that support. Ultimately, let him decide without the influences of the media and the Gaetz’s and Carlson’s of the world.
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This ex voto painting appears on the side of a wooden chest from Oaxaca. A spear fisherman thanks the Virgin of Guadalupe for saving him from a shark
I was so glad to see this little guy today! He was hopping around this pine tree at breakneck speed. I was lucky to get this glimpse of him.
a well known face at these events. A cos player I think. At the Kisaragi-Sai (A BrisAsia Festival event)
Composition is an art or science?
Should you follow the rule of thirds and find the golden mean and that is it?
Composition is to find the most pleasing arrangement of all elements in the scene. The first question is however what to include and what to exclude.
Bootie went missing last few weeks ago. My wife and I are so happy to see him again.
I took a picture of him at the door of my home after he finished the meal we offered to him.
I included the wheel of my car in the scene. Am I right?
Have a great day and great week to come!!
VILLE VALO from HIM
Custom Taeyang by Sheryl Designs
MODIFICATIONS:
Remake Lips
Replaced acrylic eyes
©2007-2010 Sheryl Designs Eyemech Modification
Mariette Himes Gomez chose two overscale, out-of-focus photographs silk-screened on Lucite by artist Seton Smith to hang opposite the mirror in this classically-proportioned living room.
Photo by Pieter Estersohn, from Rooms, by Mariette Himes Gomez.
"... Here's a thing you cannot do
He did it anyway
Just to prove it was not true"
~ Karine Polwart ;; Holy Moses
Flickr always seem to over sharpen my plant shots, I might fix it later or tomorrow, but there should be a way to turn it off.
I got the results from my exams, they were fine, I just feel (know) I could have done better.
"If the wealthy ever gave him gifts of money, he either distributed it for the needs of the poor, as I have mentioned, or else used it to ransom any who had unjustly been sold as slaves. Many of those whom he had ransomed in this way later became his disciples; and when they had been instructed and trained, he ordained them to the priesthood."
– from St Bede's 'Ecclesiastical History', concerning St Aidan of Lindisfarne.
Stained glass by Charles Connick from Grace Episcopal Cathedral in San Francisco.
Keep him in your thoughts tomorrow at 4pm EST. He goes for an abdominal test at hospital. It has been such a roller coaster with his health past year...we are trying everything we can...and want our boy well. isn't he cute!!! thank you in advance for your good wishes . (i am so sorry not on flickr often enough....).
I tried to walk away and just let him deal with whatever he had gotten himself into. It was just a shark, and this guy was from the ocean. He must have dealt with worse, like giant squid or raging narwhals.
That's when I saw bullets flying into the tank. He wasn't in the water as a trap, he jumped in there to escape. Shooting Aquaman in an aquarium would be like shooting fish in a barrel!
Always prepared for a good diamond liberation operation, I tried my glass cutter. No good, the tank was too thick, but it did give me an idea. I etched out a deep X in the glass, then swung the display stand as hard as I could.
Thunk!
No good. Aquaman seemed to finally take notice and gave the glass a good blow where I had etched. Gallons of water poured out at once along with Aquaman and several species of marine life.
Typical scene : A teenager is supposed to babysit her younger brother but tells him to play video games while she invites people over. Unfortunately, their parents are back early which sets in motion a series of events.
As soon as the dog starts barking, the teenagers sneak out the back. They wait for the parents to enter before leaving the premises. Meanwhile, the sister urges her brother to run upstairs and get to bed. That's when he learned why his parents always ask him to put away his roller skates. Will they both get grounded?
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Newsweek: Obama better represents Catholics than does the Pope
WSJ: Unemployment Up from 4.8% to currently 9.5% (20% in MI) and expected to rise
Obama flies pizza chef to Washington, DC from St. Louis to cater a party for him and his pals at White House.
Obama: "We are out of money"
Obama: "Its Working"
Facts: Government has nationalized AIG, Chrysler, GM, Citibank and has its eyes set on Health Care
This administration and congress has already outspent all previous 43 presidents combined
"Stimulus" is spent on bailing out failed social experiments and entitlement sinkholes by state governments controlled by "progressives"
House passes largest Tax Increase in the History of America - they aim to tax the air we breathe
Charitable donation levels and business investments down as tax levels increase
Obamas plan vacation at Martha's Vineyard
Obama promised unemployment would not exceed 8% - now its 9.5% and rising
Obama said it was mandatory that the 10 to 20 trillion dollar (with debt servicing) "stimulus" was passed right away or we are doomed - it was voted on and passed without those voting in the affirmative for it even reading it.
Once passed, the vast majority of the "stimulus" spending is deferred to 2010 which coincidentally is an election year for the politicians who voted for passage. An inference is that the only crisis was the socialists getting reelected after their policy of fascism failed to turn around the economy. A study of history will reveal their concern - no fascist/socialist enterprise has been successful at improving the quality of life for its citizens at any time in human history. No civilization has successfully taxed and spent its way out of a recession in the history of humanity.
Those who hold America's debt are frantically calling for a "world currency", knowing full well, that the certain forthcoming hyperinflation in America will significantly devalue the US Dollar and their investments will then be worth pennies on the dollar.
Now, Obama says that health care must be nationalized right away or we are doomed.
Now, Obama says that Sotomayor must be confirmed right away or we are doomed.
Now, Obama says that Cap and Trade (destroy and nationalize the energy sector) bill must be passed right away or we are doomed.
Now, Obama says that trillions of dollars of new taxes must be passed right away or we are doomed. These new taxes are on top of the trillions of dollars in new taxes that were already included in his "stimulus" bill and budget.
Is there a pattern? Does "we" refer to his constituents or perhaps himself and his political cronies?
No civilization has reversed a downward unemployment spiral by shrinking its private sector and growing its government bureaucracy.
The countries who have tried the fascist/socialist experiment are now moving back to more capitialistic free market policies - why? because shrinking their private sector and burdening it with increased government confiscatory/redistribution policies created misery in the form of unemployment, loss of individual freedom, lower quality of life and medical care rationing, shortages and misery.
Biden: We have to keep spending money to keep from going bankrupt.
Obama: We must pass nationalized health care so we can reduce costs. (We must do it now or we are doomed)
CBO Chief: Health Bills To Increase Federal Costs
White House wants more power to set Medicare rates
wiki.answers.com/Q/Name_and_explain_two_effects_of_price_...
When thinking about price controls, think of the supply and demand curves and remember that with a price control, it is impossible for a price to get into equilibrium. With that in mind, we can identify two problems that result from this.
1. A shortage/oversupply of the good. If there is a price ceiling, you have a shortage (a la gasoline during the price controls of the 70's.) If there is a floor, you have overproduction (a la ethanol. Which, granted, is subsidized, but that is effectively like a price floor). *Note* also consider the housing markets where rent control is present.
2. An inefficient allocation of resources. With ethanol being subsidized, we witnessed a massive increase in the price of corn. The market did not want this, and thus we saw an inefficient allocation of resources.
Should National Health Care pass in this country, I will not know where or when I will die, but I will know how - substandard medical care, denial of care, lack of r&d due to price controls and rationing emposed by the government - all based on decisions by bureaucrats, actuaries, accountants and political appointees who I do not know and who do not know me or my specific needs or wishes ... and more importantly do not care ... they care only about passing the next government audit cycle for cost control.
PLEASE STOP THIS TYRANNY
Analysis of Health Care Bill HR 3200 Print E-mail
Thursday, 06 August 2009 20:28
Below is a detailed, line by line, analysis of the Health Care bill (HR 3200) by CADC’s advisory board member, Mat Staver of the Liberty Council, and Dean of Liberty University School of Law.
Obama Health Care Plan Details
HR 3200 currently under consideration in the House of Representatives
*HC = "Health Care"
* Pg 22 of the HC Bill MANDATES the Government will audit the books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure!!
* Pg 29 lines 4-16 in the HC Bill - YOUR HEALTH CARE IS RATIONED!!!
* Pg 30 Sec 123 of HC Bill - THERE WILL BE A GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get
* Pg 42 of HC Bill - The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your benefits for you. You have no choice!
* Pg 50 Section 152 in HC Bill - HC will be provided to ALL non-U.S. citizens, illegal or otherwise
* Pg 58 HC Bill – Government will have real-time access to individual’s finances and a National ID Health Care Card will be issued!
* Pg 59 HC Bill lines 21-24 Government will have direct access to your banks accounts for electronic funds transfer.
* Pg 65 Sec 164 is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in unions and community organizations (ACORN).
* Pg 72 Lines 8-14 Government is creating a Health Care Exchange to bring private health care plans under government control.
* Pg 84 Sec 203 HC Bill - Government mandates ALL benefit packages for private health care plans in the Exchange
* Pg 85 Line 7 HC Bill - Specs for of Benefit Levels for Plans = The government will ration your health care!
* Pg 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill - Government mandates linguistic appropriate services.
* Pg 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18 The government will use groups i.e., ACORN & AmeriCorps to sign up individuals for government Health Care Plan
* Pg 85 Line 7 HC Bill - Specs of Ben Levels 4 Plans. #AARP members - Your health care WILL be rationed
* Pg 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill - Medicaid Eligible Individual will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice.
* Pg 124 lines 24-25 HC No company can sue the government on price fixing. No "judicial review" against this government monopoly.
* Pg 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill - Doctors/ #AMA - The government will tell YOU what you can make.
* Pg 145 Line 15-17 An employer MUST auto enroll employees into public option plan. NO CHOICE
* Pg 126 Lines 22-25 Employers MUST pay for health care for part-time employees AND their families.
* Pg 149 Lines 16-24 ANY Employer w/ payroll 400k and above who does not prov. pub opt. pays 8% tax on all payroll
* Pg 150 Lines 9-13 Businesses with payroll between 251k and 400k who do not provide public opt pays 2-6% tax on all payroll
* Pg 167 Lines 18-23 ANY individual who doesn’t have acceptable health care according to government will be taxed 2.5% of income.
* Pg 170 Lines 1-3 Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay).
* Pg 195 Officers & employees of HC Administration (GOVT) will have access to ALL Americans' financial and personal records.
* Pg 203 Line 14-15 HC - "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." Yes, it says that.
* Pg 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill Government will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors, low income, poor affected.
* Pg 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill - Doctors, it does not matter what specialty you have, you’ll all be paid the same.
* Pg 253 Line 10-18 Government sets value of doctors' time, prof judg, etc. Literally value of humans.
* Pg 265 Sec 1131Government mandates and controls productivity for private health care industries.
* Pg 268 Sec 1141 Federal Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
* Pg 272 SEC. 1145. Treatment of certain cancer hospitals – Cancer patients - welcome to rationing!
* Page 280 Sec 1151 The government will penalize hospitals for what government deems preventable readmissions. (Incentives for hospital to not treat and release.)
* Pg 298 Lines 9-11 Doctors that treat a patient during initial admission that results in a readmission-Government will penalize you.
* Pg 317 L 13-20 PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. Government tells Doctors what/how much they can own.
* Pg 317-318 lines 21-25, 1-3 PROHIBITION on expansion- Government is mandating hospitals cannot expand.
* pg 321 2-13 Hospitals have opportunity to apply for exception, BUT community input required. Can you say ACORN?!!
* Pg335 L 16-25 Pg 336-339 - Government mandates establishment of outcome based measures. Health Care the way they want. Rationing.
* Pg 341 Lines 3-9 Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans (Part B), HMOs, etc. Forcing people into Government plan.
* Pg 354 Sec 1177 - Government will RESTRICT enrollment of special needs people!
* Pg 379 Sec 1191 Government creates more bureaucracy – Tele-health Advisory Committee. Health care by phone/Internet?
* Pg 425 Lines 4-12 Government mandates Advance [Death] Care Planning Consultion. Think Senior Citizens end of life.
* Pg 425 Lines 17-19 Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney. Mandatory!
* Pg 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3 Government provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in death.
* Pg 427 Lines 15-24 Government mandates program for orders for end of life. The government has a say in how your life ends.
* Pg 429 Lines 1-9 An "advanced care planning consult" will be used frequently as patient's health deteriorates.
* Pg 429 Lines 10-12 " advanced care consultation" may include an ORDER for end of life plans. AN ORDER from Government.
* Pg 429 Lines 13-25 - The government will specify which doctors can write an end of life order.
* PG 430 Lines 11-15 The government will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life.
* Pg 469 - Community Based Home Medical Services=Non-profit orgs. Hello, ACORN Medical Services here!!?
* Pg 472 Lines 14-17 PAYMENT TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORG. 1 monthly payment to a community-based org. Like ACORN?
* Pg 489 Sec 1308 The government will cover Marriage and Family therapy. They will insert government into your marriage.
* Pg 494-498 Government will cover Mental Health Services including defining, creating, rationing those services.
* PG 502 Sec 1181 Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research Established. – Hello Big Brother – Literally.
* Pg 503 Lines 13-19 Government will build registries and data networks from YOUR electronic medical records.
* Pg 503 lines 21-25 Government may secure data directly from any department or agency of the U.S. who have any of your data.
* Pg 504 Lines 6-10 The "Center" will collect data both published and unpublished (that means public and your private info).
* PG 506 Lines 19-21 The Center will recommend policies that would allow for public access of data.
* PG 518 Lines 21-25 The Commission will have input from Health Care consumer reps – Can you say unions and ACORN?
* PG 524 18-22 Comparative Effectiveness Research Trust Fund set up. More taxes for ALL.
* PG 621 Lines 20-25 Government will define what quality means in health care. Since when does government know about quality?
* Pg 622 Lines 2-9 To pay for the Quality Standards, government will transfer money from other government Trust Funds. More Taxes.
* PG 624 "Quality" measures shall be designed to assess outcomes and functional status of patients.
* PG 624 "Quality" measures shall be designed to profile you including race, age, gender, place of residence, etc.
* Pg 628 Sec 1443 Government will give "Multi-Stake Holders" Pre-Rule Making input into Selection of "Quality" Measures.
* Pg 630 9-24/631 1-9 Those multi-stake holder groups include unions and groups like ACORN deciding health care quality.
* Pg 632 Lines 14-25 The Government may implement any "Quality measure" of health care services as they see fit.
* PG 633 14-25/ 634 1-9 The Secretary may issue non-endorsed "Quality Measures" for Physician Services and Dialysis Services.
* Pg 635 to 653 Physicians Payments Sunshine Provision – Government wants to shine sunlight on doctor but not government.
* Pg 654-659 Public Reporting on Health Care-Associated Infections – Looks okay.
* PG 660-671 Doctors in Residency – Government will tell you where your residency will be, thus where you’ll live.
* Pg 676-686 Government will regulate hospitals in EVERY aspect of residency programs, including teaching hospitals.
* Pg 686-700 Increased Funding to Fight Waste, Fraud, and Abuse. Do they mean like the government with an $18 million website?
* PGs 701-704 Sec 1619 If your part of health care plan isn’t in Government Health Care Exchange but you qualify for Federal aid, no payment.
* PG 705-709 SEC. 1128 If Secretary gets complaints (ACORN) on health care provider or supplier, government can do background check.
* PG 711 Lines 8-14 The Secretary has broad powers to deny health care providers/ suppliers admittance into Health Care Exchange. Your doctor could be thrown out of business.
* Pg 719-720 Sec 1637 ANY Doctor who orders durable medical equipment or home medical services MUST be enrolled in Medicare.
* PG 722 Sec 1639 Government MANDATES doctors must have face-to-face with patient to certify patient for Home Health Services.
* PG 724 23-25 PG 725 1-5 The same government certifications will apply to Medicaid and CHIP (your kids).
* PG 724 Lines 16-22 Government reserves right to apply face-to-face certification for patient to ANY other health care service.
* Pg 735 lines 16-25 For law enforcement, proposes the Secretary-HHS will give Attorney General access to ALL data.
* PG 740-757 Government sets guidelines for subsidizing the uninsured (That's your tax dollars people).
* Pg 757-762 Federal Government will shift burden of payments to Disproportionate Share Hospitals (DSH) to States. (Taxes)
* Pg 763 1-8 No DS/EA hospitals will be paid unless they provide services without regard to national origin.
* Pg 765 Sec 1711 Government will require Preventative Services including vaccines. (Choice?)
* Pg 768 Sec 1713 Government – Nurse Home Visitation Services (Hello union paybacks).
* Pg 769 11-14 Nurse Home Visit Services include economic self-sufficiency, employ adv, school-readiness.
* Pg 769 3-5 Nurse Home Visit Services - "increasing birth intervals between pregnancies." Government ABORTIONS anyone?
* Pg 770 SEC 1714 Federal Government mandates eligibility for State Family Planning Services. Abortion and State Sovereignty.
* Pg 789-797 Government will set, mandate drug prices, controlling which drugs brought to market. Bye innovation.
* Pgs 797-800 SEC. 1744 PAYMENTS for graduate medical education. The government will now control doctors’ educations.
* PG 801 Sec 1751 The government will decide which health care conditions will be paid. Can you say RATION!
* Pg 810 SEC. 1759. Billing Agents, clearinghouses, etc. req. to register. Government takes over private payment system.
* Pg 820-824 Sec 1801 Government will identify individuals ineligible for subsidies. Will access all personal financial information.
* Pg 824-829 SEC. 1802. Government sets up Comparative Effectiveness Research Trust Fund. Another tax black hole.
* PG 829-833 Government will impose a fee on ALL private health insurance plans including self-insured to pay for Trust Fund!
* PG 835 11-13 fees imposed by government for Trust Fund shall be treated as if they were taxes.
* Pg 838-840 Government will design and implement Home Visitation Program for families with young kids and families expecting kids.
* PG 844-845 This Home Visitation Program includes government coming into your house and telling you how to parent!!!
* Pg 859 Government will establish a Public Health Fund at a cost of $88,800,000,000. Yes that’s billion.
* Pg 865 The government will MANDATE the establishment of a National Health Service Corps.
* PG 865 to 876 The NHS Corps is a program where doctors perform mandatory health care for two years for part loan repayment.
* PG 876-892 The government takes over the education of our medical students and doctors.
* PG 898 The government will establish a Public Health Workforce Corps to ensure supply of public health prof.
* PG 898 The Public Health Workforce Corps shall consist of civilian employees of the U.S. as Secretary deems.
* PG 898 The Public Health Workforce Corps shall consist of officers of Regular and Reserve Corps of Service.
* PG 900 The Public Health Workforce Corps includes veterinarians.
* PG 901 The Public Health Workforce Corps WILL include commissioned Regular and Reserve Officers. HC Draft?
* PG 910 The government will develop, build, and run Public Health Training Centers.
* PG 913-914 Government starts a health care affirmative action program thru guise of diversity scholarships.
* PG 915 SEC. 2251. Government MANDDATES Cultural and linguistic competency training for health care professionals.
* Pg 932 The Government will establish Preventative and Wellness Trust fund- initial cost of $30,800,000,000 billion.
* PG 935 21-22 Government will identify specific goals & objectives for prevention & wellness activities. That means controlling YOU!!
* PG 936 Government will develop "Healthy People and National Public Health Performance Standards" Tell me what to eat?
* PG 942 Lines 22-25 More government? Offices of Surgeon General -Public Health Svc, Minority Health, Women’s Health
* PG 950- 980 BIG GOVERNMENT core pub health infrastructure including workforce capacity, lab systems, health info sys, etc.
* PG 993 Government will establish school based health clinics. Your kids won’t have a chance.
* PG 994 School Based Health Clinic will be integrated into the school environment. Say government brainwash!
* PG 1001 The government will establish a National Medical Device Registry. Will you be tracked?
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5
JESUS THE OVERCOMER
Dr. Felix Ruh, a Jewish doctor in Paris, had a granddaughter who died of black diphtheria. Vowing to find out what had killed her, he locked himself in his laboratory for days and emerged with a fierce determination to prove, with his colleague, Louis Pasteur, the germ theory of disease. The medical association had disapproved of Pasteur and had succeeded in getting him exiled, but he hid in the forest near Paris and erected a laboratory for his forbidden research.
Twenty beautiful horses were led out into the forest to the improvised laboratory. Scientists, doctors and nurses came to watch the experiment. Ruh opened a steel vault and took out a large pail filled with black diphtheria germs, which he had cultured carefully for months. There were enough germs in that pail to kill everyone in France.
The scientist went to each horse and swabbed its nostrils, tongue, throat, and eyes with the deadly germs. Every horse except one developed a terrific fever and died. Most of the doctors and scientists wearied of the experiment, and did not remain for what they thought would be the death of the remaining horse.
For several more days this final horse lingered, lying pathetically on the ground. While Ruh, Pasteur and several others were sleeping on cots in the stables, the orderly on duty had been instructed to awaken the scientists should there be any change in the animal's temperature during the night. About two a.m., the temperature showed a half degree decrease, and the orderly wakened Dr. Ruh. By morning the thermometer had dropped two more degrees. By night the fever was entirely gone, and the horse was able to stand, eat and drink.
Then Dr. Ruh took a sledgehammer and struck that beautiful horse a deathblow between the eyes. The scientists drew blood from the veins of this animal that had developed the black diphtheria but had overcome it. They drove as fast as they could to the Paris municipal hospital, and forced their way past the superintendent and the guards. They went into the ward where three hundred babies lay, segregated to die from black diphtheria. With the blood of the horse, they inoculated every one of the babies. All but three lived and recovered completely.
The blood of an overcomer saved them. The blood of an Overcomer has also spiritually saved many people. He too had to die to bring life to others.
RESPONSE
Today I will repeatedly praise Jesus for the blood He shed as an Overcomer for my sin.
PRAYER
Thank you, Lord, for sacrificing Yourself, an Overcomer, so that I might have abundant and eternal life.
Standing Strong Through The Storm:
A daily devotional message by SSTS author Paul Estabrooks
© 2011 Open Doors International.
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I have shot this gent before, he saw my stuff on Flicker, and he was willing to let me shoot him againg!! Wow!
Original File: Doug_2634.PSD
I went out for a walk in the forest this morning looking to spend some time feeding the tame chickadees and nuthatches. I was also hoping to relocate the tame male Hairy Woodpecker I encountered two weeks ago. I didn't relocate him, but I did encounter this tame Downy Woodpecker who readily hopped on my hand a couple of times for a share of the nuts and seeds the chickadees and nuthatches were excitedly snatching up. I have only had a Downy Woodpecker come to my hand like this a couple of times over the years, most of those times being within the last few months. It appears that there is a trend towards this species becoming tame. A couple of years ago having a White-breasted Nuthatch come to my hand like this was unheard of, but now they will readily come to my hand at several of our conservations areas. I wonder if the same thing will happen with Downy Woodpeckers? Maybe a couple of years from now having a Downy come to my hand will be an everyday experience when I go to the forest. Unlike the chickadees and nuthatches, who grab a seed and fly off within a second or two, this woodpecker sat on my hand and pounded away at the peanuts for up to half a minute, occasionally missing and striking my bare hand with her chisel-like beak. That hurt! On one visit she clung to my wrist and just sat there for half a minute or so watching the torrent of chickadees of nuthatches before grabbing one of the large shelled peanuts and making off with it. She then spent the next couple of minutes unsuccessfully trying to get it open. Aside from this 20 minute feeding frenzy, which came upon me suddenly and ended just as fast, there were surprisingly few birds around the forest this morning. Areas of open water were completely frozen over and there weren't even many squirrels around. An hour after this feeding frenzy ended I returned to the same area hoping to have more encounters with this tame Downy and I couldn't even find a single chickadee. I did note a few small flocks of winter birds flying over: Bohemian Waxwing, White-winged Crossbill, and a singleton Pine Siskin. But none in the forest itself. No sparrows either. I had my video camera handy when the Downy was coming to my hand and the following video shows two visits by the Downy.<p><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6Z7kHQaXNBs?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6Z7kHQaXNBs?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></p>
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This was so cool - he was walking the horse through the barn and the light in
front of him was so bright that I had to go with B&W on this - ended up as
one of his faves!