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ICT: Harnessing Their Power to Build a Sustainable Canada
It's a Wednesday morning in 2025. As you enjoy the last few minutes of sleep, data gathered from sensors in your mattress help make adjustments to the time of your alarm, and gradually turn on the lights in your room. When your alarm does sound, you are already nearly awake. Making your way to the bathroom, you brush your teeth using a paste that requires no water or rinsing — a now near-universal practice. As you look into your mirror, an integrated display shows real-time traffic information and several suggested routes to work by car and transit. However this morning, unusual congestion on the road has made the computer suggest catching a ride with a co-worker. As you dress, and get ready for the day, your smartphone notifies you when your colleague is drawing near. You walk outside and are picked up 15 seconds later.
Although this scenario takes place over 10-years in the future, the interconnected role that information and communication technologies (ICT) could play in our lives is truly within our grasp.
ICT have the power to fundamentally transform how people live, work, and communicate with one another.
However, how can a society harness these new and emerging technologies in such a way that it can lead to sustainability?
Enabling Sustainability in an Interconnected World, a new report from the Council of Canadian Academies, looks at this question and identifies opportunities and current practices from Canada and around the world that are taking advantage of the potential power of ICT.
Prepared by a 13 member expert panel and led by David Miller, President and CEO of WWF-Canada, the panel concludes within the report that there are substantial opportunities for ICT to promote and support sustainability that build on current Canadian strengths and capacities, but that Canada is a long way from realizing their full potential.
Opportunities identified in the report vary from small-scale to large-scale, and centre on six areas that relate to the daily lives of Canadians.
- Environmental monitoring: Using reliable sensor networks for timely and accurate environmental health data and how it changes over time.
- Smart interconnected utilities: Implementing smart grids for electricity and water to minimize environmental impacts, reduce costs, and ensure service reliability.
- Smart interconnected buildings and neighbourhoods: Using ICT applications such as building control systems to improve electrical efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Smart interconnected mobility: Using ICT applications to strengthen connections between individuals, businesses, and other goods and services to improve daily life in areas like public transit.
- Smart interconnected production: Implementing ICT into manufacturing (i.e. smart motors) or agriculture (i.e. irrigation) to improve various processes and overall efficiency.
- Healthy people and healthy communities: Using ICT to help address social challenges, help communities adapt to a changing climate, and enable new forms of participatory decision-making.
Canada has already demonstrated leadership in ICT in a number of ways. From innovative networks for research and knowledge such as the NEPTUNE sensor network, and the CANARIE research and innovation network, to being the home for various higher education institutions that specialize in ICT research, Canadians can be proud of the contributions the country has made.
Yet despite these achievements, a number of important challenges exist:
- Canadian business lags behind other peer countries in ICT investment;
- Canada is not ranked highly in terms of ICT penetration and diffusion among individuals; and
- Access to high quality broadband internet is varied, with inadequate connectivity in some rural areas, among others.
However, many promising practices currently exist in Canada, and around the world, that can help to address these challenges.
For example, broadband policies in Australia and Germany have set ambitious targeted goals for minimum internet speeds to connect their populations digitally and provide excellent internet access.
In Vienna, Austria, ICT has been integrated into public transport for user engagement and direct marketing, making the city a prime example of an innovative transit system.
Demonstration projects can also be an instrumental way to harness ICT. The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability at the University of British Columbia provides data and support for ongoing research projects on sustainable building performance, and facilitates the interplay between the building, its sub-systems, and its inhabitants.
To realize success, connecting technologies together and coordinating policies and systems will be important. An integrated approach to ICT adoption will allow planners and others to build a strong foundation for an innovative and sustainably progressive society.
While some may think of ICT as gadgets meant to entertain, they are so much more than that. These devices, applications, systems, and platforms have the ability to transform our lives, improving efficiency and communication.
If the potential of ICT are fully realized, 2025 may come sooner than you think.
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Photo taken in 1893 of a classroom interior at Cookstown Public School with students seated at their desks. The teachers, Miss Addie Ferguson and Mrs. W.F. Moore, who were substituting for Mr. W.F. Moore and Miss Elder, are pictured standing at the back of the classroom. The three boys standing along the wall next to the teachers were from a different classroom in the school. They are Frank Coleman, Joe Griffith, and Bill Jebb. Pictured in the far left column of benches, from left to right and front to back are: Bill Gilroy, Leonard Ross, Sam White, [?] Campbell, Carrie Armstrong, May Coleman, Lulu Armstrong, [?] Hungerford, [?] Patterson, and his sister [?] Patterson (directly in front of Miss Ferguson). Second Column, from front to back: O. Mayhew, Billy Moore, Lulu Phillips, [?] Platt, Libby Agnew, Aggie Thompson, Lou Sherman, son of Joe Ross, [?] Patience, Billy Copeland, [?] Grove (mostly obscured), Bobby Coleman, Maggie Thompson, daughter of Joe Ross, Carrie Cook, and [?] Campbell from Sandhill Farm. Third column: Maud Cook, Maud Stewart, Marion Christie, Harry Bryson, Milt Sherman, Will Griffith, Sam King, [?] McLellan, Nina Moore, Clara Sherman, May Banting, Bob Banting, Harrison Ayrest, and [?] Patience. Note the photos of Sir John A. Macdonald and Queen Victoria at the back of the classroom. The boys are all dressed in trousers and long sleeved shirts or coats with the girls in long sleeved dresses.
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At the entry to PortMiami, across the street from the Freedom Tower, a massive globe may soon shine atop an 80-story high-rise. Or, perhaps two inward-leaning condo and office towers could be built instead.
Other possibilities for this prime piece of Biscayne Boulevard include a shimmering 680-foot "Gateway to the Americas," and two condo and hotel towers rising from a cantilevered cultural center filled with $60 million in artwork.
What gets built depends on Miami Dade College.
This week, the college released previously confidential proposals submitted by four developers seeking to turn a 2.6-acre Biscayne Boulevard parking lot into an iconic — and profitable — cultural center. The college sought the proposals in the fall after receiving an unsolicited public-private-partnership offer for the site last year by art collector Gary Nader.
Miami Dade College's purchasing office told developers they wanted projects to include a 3,000-seat conference center, 1,600-seat performing arts theater, and a museum around 100,000 square feet in size. Just about everything else was left up to the private sector.
Projects came in last month, but only the names of the developers were released. Their bids were unsealed Monday, revealing the following:
Gregg Covin Development/Oppenheim Architecture
Miami developer Gregg Covin and local architect Chad Oppenheim partnered to design a roughly $500 million project that joins two 57-story towers at their base and at their peaks, in the shape of an "extruded quadrangle." The towers would be built with an exoskeleton of post-tension concrete slabs, with a skin of glass.
Oppenheim designed the towers when the college first solicited bids for the site in the late 2000s, an effort that was aborted. The idea was for the building to look like a "Gateway to the Americas," and to frame the Freedom Tower rather than obscure or dwarf it.
"It's very unique, very iconic," says Covin, the developer behind Ten Museum Park and 1000 Biscayne. "That's how you know it's a good design. Chad originally designed this 10 years ago and it still looks cool today."
The 2.6-million-square-foot structure includes a 1,600-seat theater, a 3,000-seat conference center, and a 100,000-square-foot museum encapsulated in the podium. Community spaces include a 52,000-square-foot sculpture garden, 37,000-square-foot outdoor plaza and 75,000 square feet of covered, outdoor balconies.
Covin estimates the cost of the public portion of the project at about $150 million and proposes to build the cultural center under a guaranteed maximum price. Unlike the other proposers, Covin is proposing to build the project on a fee-based arrangement, and without condos — which he says are "inappropriate" for a project owned by a state-funded college.
Instead, Covin's towers include 940,000 square feet of market-rate apartments, as well as a 300-room leisure hotel. The project also includes 300,000 square feet of "trade-oriented" office space.
Nader + Museu LLP
Gary Nader, a prominent art collector, set off the college's competitive solicitation when he sent Miami Dade College an unsolicited proposal this summer to build out its parking lot. Nader partnered with FR-EE Architects, Brasilinvest and Sofran Group's Roberto Rocha to propose two condo and hotel towers and the cultural center the college desires.
He and his team say their approximately $500 million project is unrivaled, in large part because he has offered not only to build a seven-level, cantilevered museum and cultural center, but also to fill the 238,000-square-foot college facility with $60 million worth of art pieces he says he will donate to the college. Emilio Estefan is also designing a 1,600-seat theater, and the center includes 30,000 square feet for a "culinary experience."
Bill Riley, an attorney for Nader's team, said other developers — who were given 90 days by the college to design competition for his proposal — would simply "deliver an empty shell to the college."
"We're not just a condominium builder, which I think you'll find in the other proposals," Riley said. "We're trying to create a destination."
In order to finance their project, Nader's team would have the college transfer ownership of its land and would then create a special-assessment-based community development district in order to float bonds to finance the public portion of the complex. Nader + Museu LLP would possibly seek property tax rebates to help with the financing, and would contribute $20 million to the college upon the issuance of CDD bonds.
The team also proposes to pay the college $40,000 per condo unit in its first tower and $60,000 per condo in its second tower, after completing all condo sales.
Pi Art Tech and Trade Center at MDC
Led by Jorge Brugo of Axis Realty Trust, Pi Art Tech and Trade Center proposes to build a $668 million tower with a circular podium packed with a 168,000-square-foot museum, a 2,400-seat auditorium and 3,800-seat convention center — the largest public facilities offered of any of the proposals. All the structures involved, including an 80-story tower mounted by a seven-story globe on top, are circular in design, an ode to the mathematical symbol pi.
The size of the theater and auditorium can be modified to fit larger and smaller gatherings. Art collector Ella Cisneros Fontanals has endorsed the project and would house the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation — or CiFO — at the museum, according to the proposal. It's not clear if CiFO would move from its current home on North Miami Avenue, or host works in both locations. The pedestal would be lined with 60,000 square feet of retail space. The roof of a parking structure would be the scene of an "art maze."
The proposed tower includes 41 units of "ultra high-end" condos, and 820,000 square feet of office space. The project would be branded as a trade hub through a partnership with the World Trade Centers Association.
The bottom three levels of the tower would be reserved for the college's school of business. There is also space for tech startups.
Brugo allows for multiple options for the financing of the public and private portions of the project. He did not respond to email or voicemail.
Related Group
Where Pi Art Tech differentiates itself from its competitors by going larger with public spaces, Related Group has done the opposite. In its proposal — referred to as ACME, for arts, culture, museum and education — Related notes that the college's aspirations for cultural facilities are "impossible" to match in size and needed to be rethought.
Related — an MDC alumnus whose CEO Jorge Perez has his name on the art museum down the street — proposes to build a $673 million project with a 45,000-square-foot museum topped by a 36,000-square-foot sculpture garden on the roof. The project also includes the 3,020-seat ACME Hall, and a 33,750-square-foot multi-functional performance space that can shrink and grow through the use of sliding acoustic walls and blackout curtains.
Related's smaller museum was considered by the college, which said proposers could design a space that would work with exhibition space in the Freedom Tower. Together, the two facilities would combine to create more than 80,000 square feet in exhibit space.
Designed by Arquitectonica, the project's two towers lean in slightly, as if they were two raised arms. One 75-story tower houses 350 condo units. The other is an office tower with 39 stories and 500,000 square feet of leasable space. At its top, the office tower includes a 10,000-square-foot private club accessible to college faculty and leaders. The project also includes a 100-key art boutique hotel and a 9,000-square-foot restaurant.
Related contemplates financing the public portion of the project in part through naming rights, sponsor equity and $40 million in property-tax rebates. The college would transfer its property into a land trust, and own the public portions of the project. The private portion of the project would be financed through equity and a construction loan. Miami Dade College would receive roughly $5.3 million in income through a percentage of sales from condos expected to sell for roughly $850 a square foot.
At a meeting by a college selection committee earlier this month, Roman Martinez, Miami Dade College's purchasing director, said all four projects met requirements under the competitive solicitation in order to be considered. Developers are expected to present their proposals next month, and a session to select a developer is scheduled for the morning of March 28.


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What's been the most pleasing aspect of the test this week in Bahrain?
Lewis: It's been impressive to see us start the first of the two tests here in Bahrain with good mileage and reliability, especially when you see how difficult it is for everyone with the new regulations. The team can be very proud of their efforts after so much hard work back at Brackley and Brixworth.
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The team have caused a few of the numerous red flags so far, does that concern you?
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The week ahead in the stock market faces a barrage of potential catalysts as the month of June begins. This should provide for a wild ride considering that the stock market is still near record highs, and is trying to consolidate its gains.
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The Golden Poodle award goes to all the people who helped return Coco, the 16-year-old Poodle, to her family 770 miles away.
A Neanderthal award goes to the woman who picked up the lost Coco, took her home 770 miles away and then turned her out when she realized Coco was not a puppy.
Another Golden Poodle award goes to all the people who looked for and supplied a forever home for the odd couple, Gizmo the Chihuahua and Duke the Pit Bull, so they could stay together.
Another Neanderthal award goes to the family of Gizmo and Duke who neglected and abused them before abandoning them to a high kill shelter.
Further evidence that there are a lot more good homo sapiens
than knuckle dragging Neanderthals.
The Lizard Brain award goes to former Subway spokesman and motivational speaker Jared Fogle. Once wealthy and respected, he will forever be thought of as a felon and a pervert.


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Beautiful Exquisite Equestrian Property in the Cream Ridge that has and offers all you can ever want and lots more. An amazing 22 acre property farm assessed but not in or part of farmland preservation. Completely gated and fenced in property with an asphalt driveway and parking area. Enter this beauty through eye catching wrought iron gates and down a long asphalt driveway. As you continue to walk the property you will find yourself with a 3/4 acre fully stocked fishing pond with a water fountain in the middle and a gazebo on the pond's edge in a romantic setting for those clear sky nights. From the pond you can make your way down a park trail over a concrete bridge and enjoy a beautiful meadow and the wildlife that it attracts. Once you make your way out of the meadow you will find yourself within the serenity of twin tennis courts, basketball court & putting green. Continue walking the property down your own private trail with gate access that leads you to the second and third holes of the Gamble Ridge Golf Course. The adventure does not stop here. In addition, this property includes a meticulously maintained four bedroom and four full bath ranch style farm house with almost 3,200 square feet of living space. This home features a spacious kitchen with garage and outdoor access, formal dining room with sliding doors out to an outside deck, living room/great room, family room/den or study with fireplace, master bedroom with full bath and fireplace and two additional spacious bedrooms and full bathroom all on the main level. Florida room has a hot tub and fireplace. Furthermore, this home similarly features a finished basement with a huge recreation room with a fireplace, fourth bedroom, full bathroom, laundry room and plenty of storage space. The outside of this beautiful home features a spacious outdoor deck, an outdoor screened in kitchen with all the bells & whistles that a culinary chef would require, a heated pool and water fountains that light up at night, tennis courts and basketball courts all equipped with lights for night enjoyment and entertainment. Savor the majestic views and serene privacy from the deck as the property backs to golf course and farmland preservation. The same pride of ownership extends to the farm areas. Horse stables, barn, utility vehicle barn, storage barn, hen house, dog run and riding ring. All of this beauty and nobility within minutes of NJTP, 195, Horse Pk of NJ, 60 mins to NYC 40 mins to PHL
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Nick whipped this up tonight and it was delicious!
- 2 chicken breasts
- 1 turnips (the root part)
- 1 golden beet
- 1 red potato
- 1 apple, unpeeled, cut into eighths
- Brussels sprouts
- Olive oil
- Rosemary, thyme, salt, pepper
- Mixed seasoning
- Whole grain mustard
- Butter
Skin and dice turnip and beet. Dice potato. Cut brussels sprouts in half. Season with rosemary, thyme, salt and pepper, then toss in olive oil. Arrange on baking sheet (place the brussels sprouts flat side down); bake for for 25-30 minutes at 450.
Meanwhile, season some chicken breasts with whatever mixed seasoning you have on hand (Nick used Trader Joe's everyday seasoning) plus salt and pepper (depending on how much salt your mix uses). Heat some olive oil in oven proof skillet. Brown breasts for three minutes on one side; flip them over, then place chicken in the oven for 9-10 minutes alongside the root vegetables (we continued using separate pans).
When chicken is ready, remove from pan and keep warm. Return pan to stove; put in 4-5 apple slices and let them brown in drippings. Deglaze pan with 3/4 cup chicken broth; reduce for a few minutes. Add a pat of butter and 2 tbsp whole grain mustard.
Add root vegetables until well-coated (and extra broth if it seems dry). Put the chicken on a serving platter and arrange veggies with sauce on and around the breasts.
This would also be good with a carrot and/or parsnip thrown in.
Bon apetit!


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My plate has been bountifully full these past few months, going about making good on my personal commitment to be apart of the good I want to see in the world. With that being said, I have already made ready a small box for Operation Gratitude. As this is my first year doing it, I hope to make it a regular activity. I am happy that this in many ways doesn't only benefit myself as far as staying a bit slim, but also helps our servicemen/women and helps to provide a living example/reminder to my kids the importance of sharing. I know that last one was a bit cliche, but I do hope that its something my kids will look back on in their childhood and decide for themselves to be a light.
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Ramblings from a craft addict about soap making, DIY picture frames & things pertaining to the craft industry (and more).
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
2012 Magic Christmas Elf: Idea #3
In my first elf post for 2012, I mentioned the elves are arriving inside personalized pillow cases this year. The pillow case will also include a holiday outfit for each grand kid. Pictured are the finished pillow cases with the iron-on transfers purchased on Etsy.
I've been hiding upcoming elfcapade items under my bed. Unfortunately, I am finding that is not such a good idea. The grandson's like to play with action figures in NeeNee's bedroom and hiding bad guys under the bed is creating a security breach in my hiding location.
Stay tuned for my ongoing 2012 elfcapade ideas.
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text: |It occurred to me that I have not posted pics of the new horse trailer. It's a 4Star that I ordered exactly how I wanted. Took three months from the day I ordered it until delivery. It is taller, wider and longer than my old beloved 1993 Featherlite. It's a walk through and instead of having saddle rack, etc. mounted permanently in the dressing room, I purchased an organizing system and had it installed. You can move all the stuff around at will, as everything attaches to a grid system. Love it!


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Educational Practices Abroad
The HE system in Greece is currently undergoing wide ranging reforms as a result of legislation passed in 2007 as part of the Bologna agreement. The changes have caused considerable unease and are the subject of much discussion in the press and media.
A fuller picture of the undergraduate experience in Greece can be found in the Greece report and in the Greece presentation
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The key issues that emerge from this research are:
- HE is theoretically free at Public Universities, participation at 60% is one of the highest in the EU. Competition for places at over-subscribed reputable institutions is fierce but the private sector is growing.
- Access to HE is via the highly competitive national Pan-Hellenic exams, grades awarded determine the HE options.
- Students prepare for several years, the use of private tuition and 'cramming' schools is commonplace. The emphasis is firmly on memorisation, encouraging the perception of learning as simply the amassing and retention of facts.
- In public universities text books (in Greek) are provided free; they are often written by the lecturers specifically for the course without any formal editorial process or peer review. For the students they become very much 'the book of the course'.
- Assessment is usually by exam, coursework is rare and there is little systematic feedback on results. Most students direct their energy into learning the text book to achieve success in the exam.
- The narrow focus of study and concentration on memorisation mean that students tend to be ill equipped for independent study and lack a critical or analytical approach.
- Students learn in large groups (sometimes several hundred) in lecture format. There is little or no direct interaction with the lecturers who are seen as distant and removed; students rely on their peers for information and support.
- There is a culture of repeated retaking of courses or exams in order to improve the grade. The 2007 legislation limits the maximum length of study to double the normal 4 years plus 2 semesters, and exam resits to once unless special approval is sought.
- Greek students tend to live as dependents at home during UG study, this and the high level of graduate unemployment contribute to a lack of urgency to complete and move on.
Having said this, a small proportion of Greek students are involved in research projects with tutors in smaller institutions which requires them to engage with a wider range of sources and at a higher level. These students are likely to have excellent skills for independent learning. The key is not to make assumptions.
This is a picture of the results of a particular piece of research in selected parts of a large country. However, it suggests important implications for how we teach international postgraduate students. The limited time available on Masters programmes particularly to help international students develop appropriate academic abilities and attitudes suggests that programmes need to be carefully designed with the needs of these students in mind.
What follows is a list of questions which can act as a checklist for auditing existing programmes or in planning new provision:
- What assumptions about academic skills are built into this programme?
- Students are used to gaining information from reading from textbooks, journals, academic texts, professional journalism
- Students have the skills to evaluate the quality of arguments and evidence in the materials they read
- At a conceptual level students understand the conventions of academic debate and argument, and how their own essays and dissertations need to conform to those conventions
- At a practical level, students understand how to read academic writing, using contents pages, indexes, and discrimination in selection of text
- Students are clear about what they can expect and not expect from the academics who teach them
Are there opportunities for students from different cultures to contribute their knowledge and experience to the programme, rather than being viewed only as problematic and exceptional?


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Yesterday I witnessed at very close quarters the death of a wild creature that I had come to know well. He was a fiery little cock Wren whose territory included our garden. Although he only weighed the same as a 20p piece but he possessed a huge personality. Anne and I came to know him well and witness many of the dramas of his life through the winter spring and summer until yesterday when he was killed by a male Sparrow Hawk in our garden.
Last autumn I put two bat boxes up in a big Ash tree on the edge of the garden. As the winter days began to close in I noticed that a male Wren was roosting in them. At last light he would sneak quietly up to the tree and then squeeze up into the box through the slit in the bottom. During winter storms I would sometimes lie in bed listening to the wind and rain battering against the window and picture that little Wren nestled dry and protected in the bat box.
We watched him build his first nest of the year in the Ivy clad cliff just outside our kitchen window flying tirelessly back and forth countless times carrying moss and grassy stalks. Then we watched him trying to attract a female, filling the garden and our kitchen with his song. When a beautiful little female turned up he went into overdrive increasing the volume of his song and opening his wings wide to impress her. It worked and she began to carry fine fluffy seed heads and feathers into his nest to make the final lining before laying her clutch of eggs there.
We never saw the chicks from that nest although the eggs definitely hatched because both parents carried food to it for over a week. Maybe that nest failed or maybe we were away on the couple of days when the chicks actually left the nest, we will never know.
The pair built another nest someway south on the same cliff. We never found exactly where it was because it was not in our garden. We had begun feeding the birds small mealworms from a pot. Our courtyard filled up with Blackbirds, Dunnock, Great Tit, Blue Tit, House Sparrows, Robin and of course our pair of Wrens. They all had hungry chicks in the nest so the courtyard was a flutter from dawn to dusk. Although the smallest visitors our Wrens had by far the strongest presence. The cock Wren was a very noisy bird, filling the garden with his beautiful song. I am always amazed at the sheer volume of song that is generated and broadcast from a Wrens tiny body. He might only weigh the same as a 20p piece but in terms of decibels he was the biggest bird around. Some research has found that ounce for ounce a Wren's song is 10 times louder than a cockerel's crow.
He built another nest and the pair went for a second breeding attempt. He was everywhere singing at the top of his voice. He seemed to be repaying us for keeping him supplied with mealworms by converting their energy into song. If the mealworm pot emptied the cock Wren would sit on the open kitchen door peering in, singing and scolding at us, it was deafening inside a room. If we didn't take the hint he would fly into the kitchen to get more for himself. He was so inquisitive and would search around through the pile of boots on the floor or go into our cupboards looking for goodies like spiders. We both felt the privilege of sharing our house with him. He wasn't alone in this and one morning we had 3 species (Blue Tit, Blackbird and Wren) in at the same time raiding the mealworm container just inside the door.
Then one morning I heard the high contact calls of juvenile Wrens coming from the cliff top bushes. The second brood had fledged and were out and about. Now the normally noisy cock went into overdrive. He escorted the two chicks everywhere, always in sight of them but not to close, unless of course he was taking an item of food to feed them. What puzzled me is that he kept up a constant rattling chatter of calls which couldn't fail to draw attention to him. He also seemed to me to be perching in more open and visible places than he had before. Wrens are usually rather skulking and stick to cover so this new behaviour was puzzling as it made him very visible and must have increased his vulnerability to predators. The female wren was an attentive parent but remained her usual quiet unassuming self.
I could tell who was who because the two chicks are a little darker and smoother looking than their parents. Both chicks stayed deep in cover for the first couple of days but became more confidant and visible as they got older. The family were our constant companions because they loved the mealworms we put just outside the kitchen window.
Yesterday afternoon I went up into the garden and as usual could hear our cock Wren churring and chattering. He was sitting in the top of a buddleia bush in his usual confidant way. My path took me past where he sat perched jauntily on a vertical twig. I was only about 4 meters away from him when he left his perch and flew down towards a blackberry thicket.
What happened next is etched on my memory in slow motion. From out of nowhere a larger much faster shape appeared and crashed into the thicket in pursuit of the Wren. A moments thrashing around in the brambles and a male Sparrowhawk emerged with our cock Wren held tightly in its feet. He flew past me no more than 3 meters away and as he passed I could clearly see our little Wren hanging below him. He was still alive, his head hung down and his beak was wide open. That is the image which sticks so vividly with me. I shouted "You Bastard" as he passed, which was a pretty pathetic thing for a lifelong naturalist to do.
The garden seems very empty and quiet now he's gone. It probably sounds ridiculous thing to say but that tiny bird filled the garden with his restless energy, beautiful song and huge personality. We had come to know him as an individual and shared many of the dramas of that little guy's life through the cold wet winter, this year's successful breeding season and his sudden death. I am not ashamed to say that I miss.
His mate and their two young chicks are still coming to feed from the mealworm pot just outside our back door. It feels good to be able to help them.


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**DO NOT PURCHASE THIS EXPANSION KIT WITHOUT PURCHASING THE MURDER AT THE GRAND GATSBY SPEAKEASY MURDER MYSTERY GAME AND EXPANSION PACKS #1-2.** This is an expansion pack including 12 additional characters (5 female, 7 male) for the 1920s Murder Mystery Game 'Murder at the Grand Gatsby Speakeasy.' (See the character list below). This document should be printed in addition to the original Murder at the Grand Gatsby Speakeasy Murder game kit and Expansion Pack #1 and #2 (see below). This is not a complete 'stand alone' game - it is only to be purchased if you are needing up to 12 additional characters for the 'Murder at the Grand Gatsby' murder mystery party game. This is the instant download version of the expansion pack - no waiting, no shipping fees.
It is optimal to order the expansion pack #1 and #2 in addition to this one, as the characters are added onto the suspect list in order. However, this will not affect game play - it is only optimal. In other words, your invitation and Your Mystery Party guest pre-game site will include all available players - even ones you may not have purchased from expansion packs #1 and #2. You do not need to cast the roles that you are purchasing in their entirety - the optional players may be played in any combination. However, you should add the expansion packs in order so you don't have extra players on your suspect list. It's okay if you do have extras, but to be 'optimal', add the expansion packs in order of occurrence.
Warning: do not assign players from expansion packs #1-2 if you haven't purchased those expansion packs. These players are added to the list in order of occurrence, so if you are only purchasing expansion pack #3 with the main game - you must realize that on both the free invite and the YourMysteryParty.com guest pregame site (link below) - the expansion pack #1 and #2 players are included on the list.
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Today is a two-for ladies and gentleman. That's right! Here at World of Weasels, TODAY ONLY, our special is Two Posts, 1 Day, 0 laughs!
I was surfing the blogs, checking the stats and Smallest Weasel came to cuddle up with me. Boy Weasel was walking past and I thought I would tell him about the Flat WeaselMomma project and show him the pictures of Flat WeaselMomma trick or treating with BadMomma. I thought he, if anybody, would appreciate the concept. He feigned interest for about 2.3 seconds( less than 2 photos ), looked at me funny and said "That's nice Mom, but I have stuff to do" in the most patronizing way a 12 year old can.
I'm okay with this. I still have Smallest Weasel, who loves to look at pictures.
Me: Who's that? (pointing at Flat WeaselMomma)
SW: That's you!
Me: yup, see this lady(BadMomma)? I went trick or treating at her house.
SW: Was that when you were a kid?
Me: No, it was last night.
SW: ( looks at me funny ) does she live in our neighborhood?
Me: No, I didn't go to her house for real. That's just my picture. I sent it in the mail. I am just pretending to visit her. And last night I got to go trick or treating with her. I even had a costume. And I got to have a Kit Kat. Isn't that funny?
SW: (as dead pan as the best straight man comedy has ever seen) Um, Mom. That's not funny.
Perplexed, she looked at me and said, "Mom, why are you laughing?"
If you would like to host Flat WeaselMomma and blog about it (but are not yet on the list), just let me know in the comments.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Nobody Around Here Understands Me
11 comments:
- Melisa said...
Nothing like a kid to keep you grounded. If it makes you feel any better, my kids don't think I'm very funny that often either. :)
- November 1, 2008 at 11:06 AM
- Tom said...
Humor is a muscle that must be developed. Keep up the exercises. They'll get with the program eventually.
- November 1, 2008 at 2:34 PM
- Bad Momma said...
Try explaining why you are carrying a photo of a Flat Weaselmomma around and taking photos with her! Apparently not everyone knows the story of Flat Stanley.
And then there's the issue of telling people about "Busy Dad", "Weaselmomma", and all the rest of my blog friends.....We sound a bit Gansta. And a bit odd. I've had more than one person tell me I need to "get a life!".
Blog friends are real friends, right???? It's not unusual to have a friend show up for a visit in your mailbox? ....
My kids have been giving me strange looks too.
- November 1, 2008 at 3:05 PM
- Terri@SteelMagnolia said...
- November 1, 2008 at 5:58 PM
- The Father of Five said...
I'm behind the times here, but I'll get on the list and see that Weaselmama makes it to...
THE MALL OF AMERICA! (blech...)
- November 1, 2008 at 8:36 PM
- Sabrae said...
What we think is funny and what the kids think is funny is totally different! lol
- November 2, 2008 at 4:34 AM
- Weaselmomma said...
@ Melissa, At least we entertain ourselves, lol.
@ Tom, Time to go all Rocky III on this crowd.
@ BadMomma, I'm surprised nobody called the cops.
@ Terri, Thank you. It's nice to make somebody laugh.
@ FOF, Consider yourself officially on the list. If You take me to MOA we have to do the coaster. But I would rather go squirrel hunting in the back yard with the kids. You could even pin on little G.I.Jane Barbie clothes!
@ Sabre, I thought I was totally immature enough for them to get.
- November 2, 2008 at 7:22 AM
- terri said...
I often get that perplexed, "I don't get it" reaction from my family in regards to my blogging activities. It's the price we pay sometimes. Others just don't understand our creative side!
- November 2, 2008 at 4:51 PM
- Big Bad Daddy said...
I Love watching movies with the girls and seeing the puzzled expressions on their faces when we laugh at stuff they don't get yet. After a few viewings ThingOne starts laughing on cue, even though she doesn't know why it's funny.
I sure hope Flat WeaselMomma has her mittens packed for her snowboarding trip in the Great White North, we'll also make sure she gets her fill of Canadian Beer!
- November 2, 2008 at 5:01 PM
- Nap Warden said...
Funny stuff!
- November 3, 2008 at 6:45 AM
- Cheffie-Mom said...
How much fun! My daughter and I brought along a Flat friend of ours on a trip to France in May. The videos we took are hilarious! I'll have to post them on my blog. (:
- November 3, 2008 at 7:20 AM


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EMMA MALUIKEAO MOLAKA AKIONA, 97, of Honolulu, died Oct. 25, 2001. Born in Honolulu. Last of the founders of Papakolea Homestead and longtime Aloha Week and Ulumau Village volunteer. Survived by sons, Maurice, Albert Sr. and Arthur; eight grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; 43 great-great-grandchildren. Visitation from 5 p.m. Monday at Kaumakapili Church; service 6:30 p.m. Burial 2 p.m. Tuesday at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl. Arrangements by Moanalua Mortuary.
WILLIAM "BILLY" BACARRO SR., 41, of Mililani, died Oct. 23, 2001. Born in Honolulu. A supervisor with Roberts Hawaii School Bus. Survived by wife, Norene "Rena"; son, William Jr.; daughter, Trena; parents, Alfredo and Natividad "Angie"; brothers, Alfredo Jr. and Renny; sisters, Rita Moribe, Rowena Farias and Roxanne Ladao. Visitation 9:30 a.m. Monday at Mililani Mortuary mauka chapel; service 11:30 a.m. Burial 12:30 p.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Casual attire.
LORRAINE GERALDINE CASTRO, 80, of Honolulu, died Oct. 25, 2001. A member of the Camoes Players. Survived by husband, Alfred; son, Leslie; daughter, Alaine; four grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; sister, Elvera Maria. Mass 5 p.m. Saturday at St. Stephen's Catholic Church. Arrangements by Borthwick Mortuary.
HELEN HIILEI CHING, 79, of Waipahu, died Oct. 31, 2001. Born in Honolulu. A nurse retired from Waimano Hospital. Survived by sons, David "Junior" and Kelii Ching; daughters, Rowena "Cissy" Tiqui and Faye Ching; brother, Chris Williams; sisters, Maude "Buddy" Rice, Olivia "Via" Kepa and Margaret "Lani" Rule; nine grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren. Service noon Saturday at Zablan Beach, Nanakuli. Casual attire. Arrangements by Moanalua Mortuary.
DAVID COY, 43, of Honolulu, died Oct. 22, 2001. Born in Cincinnati. Hawaii Medical Service Association resource manager, and concert director and board treasurer with Waikiki Beach Chaplaincy. Survived by wife, Cynthia; daughter, Jennifer; son, Matthew; parents, Donald and Patricia; brother, Ronald. Visitation 3 p.m. Sunday, at Duke Kahanamoku Beach, Hilton Hawaiian Village, adjacent to Atlantis pier; memorial service 4 p.m. No flowers; donations to Coy Children's Educational Fund. Aloha attire. Arrangements by Williams Funeral Services.
BEATRICE SHIZUE DEVOSA, 85, of Honolulu, died Oct. 23, 2001. Born in Hawai'i. A member of the First Assembly of God Church. Survived by sister, Helen Yonamine; nieces and nephews. Private service held. Arrangements by Borthwick Mortuary.
RAYMOND ESTRADA, 54, of Wailuku, Maui, died Oct. 22, 2001. Born in California. Survived by daughter, Mona. Private family service to be held at a later date on the Big Island. Arrangements by Nakamura Mortuary.
MASAYO FUJIWARA, 88, of Wailuku, Maui, died Oct. 30, 2001. A meat wrapper retired from Maui Supermarket. Survived by sons, Richard and Robert; daughter, Mildred Abe; 12 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; sister, Fukie Kodama. Visitation 9 a.m. Friday at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, Kahului; service 10 a.m. Arrangements by Nakamura Mortuary.
MARILYN JEAN HENRIE, 77, of Kailua, died Oct. 28, 2001. Born in North Dakota. A member of Faith Baptist Church. Survived by sons, Robert and Darryl Jr.; daughter, Diane Cunningham; brother, Thomas Beiseker; two grandchildren. Inurnment 10:30 a.m. today at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl. No wreaths. Casual attire. Memorial donations to Faith Baptist Church. Arrangements by Borthwick Mortuary.
KENNETH TSUTOMU IBARA, 84, of Wahiawa, died Oct. 18, 2001. Born in Wahiawa. A federal retiree and member of Wahiawa Hongwanji. Survived by wife, Toshiko; daughter, Joyce Higashi; sister, Kimiko Ibara; three grandchildren. Private memorial service held. Arrangements by Mililani Memorial Park & Mortuary.
JAYNE NOBUE IWAI, 56, of Honolulu, died Oct. 28, 2001. Born in Honolulu. A Queen's Medical Center registered nurse and member of Seicho-No-Ie. Survived by son, Christopher Oleson; mother, Shizuko Iwai; brothers, Jason and Nelson Iwai. Visitation from 5 p.m. Wednesday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary; service 6 p.m. No flowers. Aloha attire.
GREGORIO BUMANGLAG LONGBOY, 83, of Honolulu, died Oct. 26, 2001. Born in San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. Retired from Maluhia Hospital. Survived by wife, Juana; sons, Jerry and Alex; daughters, Florencia Stackel and Melinda Longboy; brother, Federico; sister, Salamona Duldulao; two grandchildren. Visitation 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Nuuanu Mortuary; service 7 p.m. Visitation also 8 to 9:15 a.m. Thursday at Our Lady of the Mount; Mass 9:15 a.m. Burial at Valley of the Temples Memorial Park.
PUI YIU LUM, 93, of Honolulu, died Oct. 24, 2001. Born in China. Survived by daughter, Gisele Lau; sister, Won Sin Chong; six grandchildren; four great-grandchildren. Taoist service from 9:30 a.m. Monday at Borthwick Mortuary. Burial 12:45 p.m. at Diamond Head Memorial Park Cemetery.
THOMAS YING JUN LUM, 77, of Honolulu, died Oct. 28, 2001. Born in Honolulu. A sheet-metal worker retired from Mass Transit Line. Survived by wife, Amelia "Ami"; sons, Steven and Bruce; daughter, Pamela Koja; two grandsons; brothers, Benjamin, Raymond and Herbert; sisters, Dora Wong, Clara Lum and Katherine Wong. Visitation from 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Borthwick Mortuary; service 10 a.m. Burial 11 a.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park Cemetery. Casual attire.
MARY COSTA MALDONADO, 90, of Honolulu, died Oct. 31, 2001. Born in Honolulu. Survived by sons, Herb, Donald and Ralph Schreiner; 10 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; sisters, Christine Ehlen, Gloria Shea and Angeline Crosby. Visitation 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Borthwick Mortuary; service 9:45 a.m. Burial 11 a.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park.
FRANK ROBERT "BOB" MEYER III, 72, of Kailua, died Oct. 31, 2001. Born in San Diego. Former executive director for Windward YMCA. Survived by wife, Lois; sons, Paul and Don; daughter, Donna; two grandsons; sister, Madolyn Hannah; hanai son, David Young. Memorial service 9 a.m. Saturday at Kailua Beach Park. No flowers. Casual attire. Memorial donations to Windward YMCA. Arrangements by Ultimate Cremation Services of Hawai'i.
MASAKO NAKAISHI, 89, of Honolulu, died Oct. 8, 2001. Born in Kohala, Hawai'i. A retired Pagoda Hotel housekeeper. Survived by sons, Dennis, Calvin and Milton; daughters, Betty Hirano, Judith Kokubun and Linda; six grandchildren; great-grandchild; brother, Kenichi Yoshida. Private service held. Arrangements by Nuuanu Mortuary.
TOMIYO NISHIHARA, 85, of Hilo, Hawai'i, died Oct. 23, 2001. Born in Hilo. Retired Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corp. employee. Survived by son, Leslie; daughters, Shirley Matsunaka, Helene Carvalho, Cindy, Ethel Mitsumura, Sharon Yamamoto and Jean Sindt; 17 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren. Private services held. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary, Hilo.
WAIPAOKALANI PHILLIP NISHIMURA, 18, of 'Aina Haina, died Oct. 27, 2001. A 2001 graduate of The Kamehameha Schools. Survived by parents, Guy and Kelly; mother, Yvette Sakurada; brother, Ikaika 'O Ahuna; half brother, Mikey Sakurada; grandparents, Shige and Patsy Nishimura and Phyllis Duchene; great-grandparents, William and Qunny Kamealoha; stepgrandmother, Mildred Itakura. Visitation 4 to 5 p.m. Wednesday at Bernice Pauahi Bishop Chapel on the Kapalama campus of The Kamehameha Schools; service 5 p.m. Aloha attire. Arrangements by Bothwick Mortuary.
EMIKO OKURA, 74, of Honolulu, died Oct. 27, 2001. Born in Honolulu. Retired city land abstractor. Survived by husband, Toshio; son, Glen; daughters, Marsha Sasaki and Sandra Uyeno; brother, Shigeru Tatsuno; sisters, Aiko Tatsuno and Evelyn Poentis; three grandchildren. Service 6 p.m. Monday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. No flowers. Casual attire.
CLETE P. PATTERSON, 36, of Honolulu, died Oct. 22, 2001. Born in Lynwood, Calif. Former bank teller. Survived by father, Baab; brother, Jay; stepmother, Leilia. Memorial service 2 p.m. Sunday; location, call Debbie Trigilio, 735-9561. No flowers; donations to St. Francis Hospice. Casual attire. Arrangements by Ultimate Cremation Services of Hawai'i.
YOSHIE "BETTY" QUE, 80, of Kealakekua, Hawai'i. Born in Waiohinu, Hawai'i. A housewife. Survived by son, Clarence; daughter, Helen; brother, Takumi Shirakawa; sisters, Kayano Koike, Nancy Yokota and Sumie Hamamoto. Private service held. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary-Kona.
EKELA HAL?'IMAILE SHINTANI, 62, of Kekaha, Kaua'i, died Oct. 26, 2001. Born on Ni'ihau. Ni'ihau School of Kekaha employee and Ni'ihau shells lei maker. Survived by daughters, Amy Kahale, Gloria Shintani and Ku'upuamaiole Candy Gaspar; sisters, Alina Kanahele and Emela; seven grandchildren; one great-grandchild. Visitation 9 a.m. Tuesday at Borthwick Kauai Mortuary in Koloa; services 11 a.m.; burial to follow at Kekaha Hawaiian Cemetery. Aloha attire.
MARY ANN SNIFFEN, 61, of Wailuku, Maui, died Oct. 29, 2001. A 2nd Circuit Court file clerk. Survived by husband, Daniel; daughter, Terri "Te'a" Sniffen-Keaweehu; sons, Ikaika and Todd; sister, Mildred Wencil; brother, Chris Christenson. Private family service at a later date. Arrangements by Ballard Family Mortuary.
FLORENCE KIMIKO YASUDA MESAKU TYAU, 82, of Honolulu, died Oct. 28, 2001. Born in Kona, Hawai'i. Retired federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms secretary. Survived by daughter, Barbara Tamura; four grandchildren; two great-grandchildren. Service 10:30 a.m. Monday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary; inurnment 1 p.m. at Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery. No flowers. Casual attire.
ALFREDO "POPE" ALVARO VERDADERO, 69, of 'Ewa, died Oct. 21, 2001. Born in Mana, Kaua'i. Retired from Oahu Sugar Co. Survived by wife, Josephine "Jo"; son, Alfred; daughters, Mila, Debra, Wanda Winstead and Joette; 11 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; brothers, Gregory Gatioan and Ricardo; sisters, Juanita Alop, Christina Acohido, Rosal Nebrija and Nancy Viloria. Visitation 6 to 9 p.m. Monday at Mililani Memorial Park Mortuary, Mauka Chapel; service 7 p.m. Visitation also 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at the chapel; service 10:30 a.m.; service 10:30 a.m.; burial 11 a.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Casual attire.
JOHN WORONA, 90, of Kihei, Maui, died Oct. 26, 2001. Born in the Ukraine. A retired real estate salesman. Survived by wife, Olga; daughter, Mary Ann DeMoss; son, Daniel. Private family service held in California. Arrangements by Ballard Family Mortuary.
WILLIAM THEODORE YAMAMOTO, 74, of Pearl City, died Oct. 24, 2001. Born in Huelo, Maui. Retired Leeward Community College lecturer, and part-time Makaha Country Club bookkeeper. Survived by wife, Lillian; daughters, Lilette Subedi and Melanie; grandson, Stephan Subedi; hanai daughter, Heidi Young-Chen; hanai granddaughters, Ashley and Nicole; sisters, Abbie Ajifu, Mele Pereza, Emmaline, Noreen, Wervlyn Wong, Trevlyn Pauler and Gladys Henthorne; brothers, Clarence Yamamoto and James Smythe. Private memorial service held. Arrangements by Mililani Memorial Park Mortuary.
ALBERT SADAYUKI YOSHIKAWA, 78, of Honolulu, died Oct. 22, 2001. Born in Waialua. Retired city Emergency Ambulance Service attendant and paramedics supervisor. Survived by wife, Helen; daughter, Gay Yoshikawa-Zialcita; sons, Alan, Bert, Clayton and Dean Yoshioka; eight grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; brothers, Fred and Hank; sisters, Jane Koga, Clara Doi, Mae Nitta and Edna Takesue; stepsister, Jane Kagawa. Visitation 5 p.m. Tuesday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary; service 6 p.m. Casual attire.


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|A Centennial Memorial
To The Norway Soldiers
Who Served Their Country
During The Civil War
Research and data by Donald L. McAllister
Published in the Annual Report of the
Municipal Officers of the
Town of Norway, Maine
For The Fiscal Year Ending
December 31, 1964
|When the Confederate States of America fired on Fort Sumter on April 12,
1861, Norway was a prosperous and growing Town of 1982 inhabitants.
Norway sent down to the war more than a third of its adult male population.
Maine furnished thirty-two regiments for the was and the commanding officer
of three of them came from Norway.
5 Lieutenants
10 Captains
44 different commissions in all
Norway had one Brigadier-Genereal, two brevet Brigadier Generals, one brevet
Major General, three Colonels, one Chaplain, one Assistant Surgeon and one
Regimental Quartermaster.
No citizen of Norway enlisted either in the Cavalry or Light Artillery. All but
two enlisted in the Infantry. The two mentioned enlisted in Heavy Artillery.
One of the very first soldiers to give his life in the Civil War was Sumner
Henry Needham. He was born in Norway, moved to Lowell, Massachusetts.
He was a member of the 6th Massachusetts Regiment. He was killed by a
mob as the regiment was passing through Baltimore.
Forty-four gave their lives for the cause. Ten of them fell in battle and seven
more died from wounds received in action. Twenty-seven died from disease
incident to military life.
Norway Civil War Roster
Charles R. Atwood, Co B, 32nd Regt. (Killed at Petersburg, July 30, 1864)
George L. Beal, Co G, 1st Regt. Colonel of Co G, in the 10th Maine Regt.
Jonathan Blake, Co G, 1st Regt. Captain of Co G, in the 10th Maine Regt.
Marcus Bartlett, Co G, 10th Regt. (Wounded at Antietam and died at
Smoketown, Md.)
Kenneth S. Bartlett, Co G, 10th Regt. (Wounded at Cedar Mt. Died at
Culpeper Court House, Virginia)
Caleb C. Buck, Co G, 1st Regt.
David L. Butterfield, Co G, 1st Maine, Co H, 23rd Regt.
Lucius I. Bartlett, Co G, 10th Regt. (Imprisoned at Libby Prison)
Frank J. Bradbury, Co G, 10th Maine
Isaiah M. Burnell, Co F, 14th Maine (Died in service)
Ephraim H. Brown, Co F, 17th Maine
Edward W. Bumpus, Co F, 17th Maine (Died in service)
Uriah W. Briggs, 1st Lt., Co F, 17th Maine, promoted to Captain
Granville M. Burnell, Co G, 29th Maine (Drowned on his way home to Norway)
Fitzroy Bennett, Coast Guard
Hezekiah E. Brown, Co B, 32nd Maine, Co B, 31st Maine (transfer)
Frank L. Berry, Co G, 1st Maine, Co F, 17th Maine, transferred to Veteran
Reserve Corps
Sumner W. Burnham, Co C, 17th Maine
James Crocket II, Co G, 10th Maine, Co G, 29th Maine
Horace Cole, Musician Co E, 5th Maine. Served in Navy as Engineer USSS
Isaac C. Cross, Co I, 5th Maine Regt.
Grosvenor Crockett, Co G, 1st Maine, Co G, 14th Maine
Charles C. Cole, Sergeant Co F, 17th Maine. On Discharge served with Coast
Asa G. Charles, Corp. Co F, 17th Maine
William C. Cole, Co G, 29th Maine
William F. Cox, Co H, 23rd Maine, Co B, 32nd Maine. Taken prisoner.
Discharged and later joined Co F, Maine Coast Guards.
Alonzo B. Crockett, co G, 29th Maine
Charles B. Callahan, Co G, 29th Maine
Philo S. Cherry, Co G, First Maine
Joseph Crockett, Co G, 5th Maine
Jere Dempsey, Co G, First Maine, Co G, 10th Maine
Charles W. Dinsmore, Co G, 10th Maine, transferred to 10th Maine Battalion,
then to Co D, 29th Maine. Taken prisoner.
Alvin Davis, Co G, 14th Maine (Died in New Orleans)
James Danforth, Co H, 23rd Maine
Horation B. Downer, Co D, 1st Maine Heavy Artillery. (Killed at Petersburg)
Claudius M. Favor, Sgt. in Co G, 1st Maine Co, 29th Maine. Later served as
2nd Lt in Captain Cobb's Company at Fort McClary.
John F. Fitz, Corp. Co G, 1st Maine, Sgt. Co G, 10th Maine Co, 29th Maine
Wallace Foster, Co G, 1st Maine, co G, 14th Maine, Co G, 29th Maine
Archelaus Fuller, Corp. Co G, 14th Maine. Transferred to 14th Maine Battalion
Joseph Faulkner, Co B, 5th Maine. (Dropped from rolls General Order 162)
George Foster, Co G, 14th Maine (Reported missing)
George W. Frost, Co G, 14th Maine (Died in New Orleans)
David Flood Jr., Co G, 14th Maine. Transferred to 14th Maine Battalion
John C. Frost, Co G, 14th Maine
Weston Frost, Co G, 14th maine
Mark F. Frost, Co H, 23rd Maine (Died in Service)
Gilbert L. Fisk, Co H, 23rd Maine; Co B, 32nd Maine (Killed at Petersburg)
William E. Frost, Co H, 23rd Maine
Nathan Foster, Co H, 23rd Maine Co B, 29th Maine. Died in service
Levi C. Fogg, Co H, 23rd Maine; Co B, 32nd Maine. Died in service
William H. Foster, Co H, 23rd Maine; Co G, 29th Maine. (served as wagoner)
David F. Frost, Co B, 29th Maine. (Died in service)
Edward Flood Jr., Co B, 32nd Maine
Eliab R. Frost, Co I, 32nd Maine. (Died from wounds)
Lucius D. Fisher, Co B, 30th Maine (1st Lt.)
Nathaniel G. Frost, Co G, 32nd Maine
Albert C. Gammon, Co G, 10th Maine
Atwood Gammon, Co A, 29th Maine
Andrew P. Greenleaf, Captain Cobb's Company at Fort McClary; Co A, 29th
Maine (Killed at Cedar Creek)
Solomon Greenleaf, Co G, 10th Maine; transferred to Co B, 10th Maine;
transferred to Co E, 29th Maine
Wellington Hobbs, Musician, Co G, 1st Maine; Co F, 17th Maine; Co H, 17th
Maine, Captain (Killed at Petersburg)
William F. Hale, 1st Maine; 10th Maine
William F. Hill, Co G, 1st Maine
J. Frank Hobbs, Co G, 1st Maine; Co G, 14th Maine. Discharged as Captain.
Charles Hall, Co G, 10th Maine
John G. Hayes, Corp, Co G, 14th Maine (Died in New Orleans)
Chandler Hutchinson, Co G, 14th Maine (Died in service)
Albion L. Hutchinson, Co G, 14th Maine
David L. Holden, Co G, 14th Maine
Daniel Holt II, Co G, 14th Maine
Harrison B. Holden, Co G, 14th Maine (Died in New Orleans)
Austin C. Hayes, Co G, 14th Maine (Killed at Baton Rouge)
Henry Herrick, Co G, 14th Maine
Calvin Holt, Co F, 17th Maine (Died in service)
Henry A. Hutchinson, Musician, Co H, 23rd Maine
George Whitehouse, Co H, 23rd Maine
Charles L. Hathaway, Co H, 23rd Maine
Nathaniel P. Hall, Co B, 32nd Maine
Lorenzo D. Hobbs, Wagoner, Co B, 32nd Maine
Benjamin G. Holt, Co B, 32nd Maine
Joseph H. Herrick, Co G, 32nd Maine; transferred to Co G, 31st Maine (Taken
Francis W. Hill, Co F, 17th Maine
Granville P. Jordan, Co G, 1st Maine
Asa D. Jordan, Co I, 5th Maine
Timothy Jordan, Co G, 1st Maine
Porter G. Jordan, Co F, 17th Maine
Isaac H. Jordan, Co F, 23rd Maine
William P. Johnson, Co G, 29th Maine
Amos C. Judkins, Co F, Coast Guards
Henry M. Judkins, Co B, 32nd Maine
Josiah P. Lovejoy, Co. G, 14th Maine
John H. Lovejoy, Co D, 16th Maine; Co G, 29th Maine (Killed at Cedar Creek)
Lewis Lovejoy, Co H, 23rd Maine; Co I, 32nd Maine
Samuel Lord, Co I, 32nd Maine
Joseph E. Long, Co G, 29th Maine
Henry R. Millett, Co G, 1st Maine; 2nd Lt, Co G, 10th Maine; 1st Lt, Co G,
29th Maine, Captain, Co E, 29th Maine
Frederick R. Merriam, Co G, 1st Maine
James L. Merrill, Co G, 10th Maine
Charles Matthews, Co G, 10 Maine
Ezra A. Merrill, Co G, 14th Maine (Died of wounds received at Cedar Creek)
David A. Morse, Co G, 14th Maine (Died at New Orleans)
William D. Merrill, Co F, 17th Maine; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps.
Edward F. Morse, Co F, 17th Maine
Fessenden Mills, Co C, 17th Maine, wounded at Gettysburg and died of
Charles F. Millett, Co G, 10th Maine; Co F, Maine Coast Guards
Franklin B. Morse, Co G, 29th Maine
Charles H. McIntire, Co K, 30th Maine (Taken prisoner)
James Merrill, Co M, 1st Maine Heavy Artillery (Killed at Petersburg)
William F. Merrill, Co F, Maine coast Guards
Willard H. Mallett, Co C, 32nd Maine; transferred Co B, 31st Maine
Andrew M. Merriam, Co G, 14th Maine
Benjamin F. Morse, Co E, 10th Maine
Harrison Noble, Musician, Co G, 10th Maine, Co G, 29th Maine
Amos F. Noyes, 1st Lt., Co G, 14th Maine; Capt., Co H, 14th Maine; Capt.,
Co B, 32nd Maine. During the summer of 1864 he commanded the 32nd Regt.
Francis M. Noble, Co G, 14th Maine
William H. Noble, Co G, 14th Maine; Co H, 23rd Maine; Co B, 32nd Maine;
transferred to 31st Maine
Charles M. Pressey, Co G, 10th Maine (Killed at Antietam)
Charles D. Noble, Co F, 17th Maine
William O. Needham, Co G, 32nd Maine
George E. Needham, Co G, 14th Maine (Died at Ship Island)
Joseph L. Oliver, Co F, Maine Coast Guards
Darius F. Pike, Co G, 10th Maine
Daniel Pike, Co G, 14th Maine (Died in prison)
Rufus C. Penley, Co I, 5th Maine
Charles Pike, Musician, Co B, 29th Maine
Albert E. Pike, Co F, Maine Coast Guards
Henry Rust, Jr., 1st Lt., Co G, 1st Maine; Capt., Co G, 10th Maine; Lt Colonel
of 13th Maine Regt., promoted to Colonel of 13th. Discharged as
Francis H. Reed, Co H, 23rd Maine
Leonard D. Randall, Co H, 23rd Maine; Co B, 32nd Maine; transferred to 31st
Calvin Richardson, Co H, 23rd Maine
Jason F. Rowe, Co F, Maine Coast Guards
Charles S. Robbins, Co C, 10th Maine
George W. Sholes, Co G, 1st Maine
William H. Smith, Co F, 9th Maine (wounded)
Josiah H. Smith, Co G, 14th Maine (Died in service)
Freeman H. Shackley, Co H, 23rd Maine; Co B, 32nd Maine; wounded at
Petersburg and died shortly after his return to Norway
Henry S. Shattuck, Co H, 23rd Maine
Luther L. Sampson, Co H, 23rd Maine
Charles Thompson, Co G, 1st Maine, 10th Maine Regimental Commissary
Sergeant promoted to Quartermaster. Quartermaster of 29th Maine Regt.
Henry Tucker, Co G, 14th Maine
William W. Twombly, Co F, Maine Coast Guards
Osmond Towne, Co B, 32nd Maine (Died in service)
Cyrus S. Tucker, Co F., 17th Maine, detached as Brigade Saddler
William W. Virgin, Colonel of 23rd Regt.
George W. Verrill, Co C, 17th Maine, promoted to 1st Lt., later to Captain of
Co E, 17th Maine
William W. Whitmarsh, Co G, 1st Maine; 2nd Lt., Co G, 10th Maine; Capt., Co
G, 29th Maine
Hannibal S. Warren, Co G, 1st Maine; Co F, 17th Maine
Benjamin F. Whitcomb, Co F, 14th Maine (Died in service)
Orrington Wilkins, Co G, 14th Maine
Levi A. Whitcomb, Co F, 17th Maine (enlisted on quota for Paris). Reported
missing following the battle of Chancellorsville
Samuel S. Yates, Co G, 10th Maine. Served as wagoner
Charles A. Young, Co H, 23rd Maine
Captian Cobb's company of Volunteer Militia
The company was enlisted for sixty days, it was mustered April 27th, 1864
and discharged 9 July 1864.
Sylvanus Cobb Jr., Claudius M. Favor, Henry Tucker, James M. Favor, Arthur E.
Denison, George A. Cole, Wallace Foster, Benjamin G. Barrows, James G. B.
Bradbury, Charles B. Cummings, James C. Drew, William D. Earle
Charles J. Edgecomb, William E. Frost, Edwin Fisher, Atwood Gammon, Abram
Green, Andrew P. Greenleaf, Joseph F. Herrick, George F. Howe, Frank H.
Hamlin, Levi E. Holden, George F. Leonard, William F. Merrill, William A.
Merrill, Hiram Merrill
Charles F. Millett, Charles M. Mallett, Benjamin H. Noble, Edwin J. Newhall,
Charles S. Penley, Isaiah V. Penley, Scott Partridge, Frank H. Reed, Oliver
Shackley, Edward F. Stevens, Clarence M. Smith, John Tucker, and Rodolphus
Norway Men In Service Out Of State
E. Wright Bisbee was promoted to Capt. of his company in a Massachusetts
Aaron W. Brown served in a Massachusetts regiment and died at Falmouth,
William A. Evans of the 28th Massachusetts was killed at Spottsylvania.
Stidman Bennett, Wagoner in 1st Massachusetts Regt., died at Mt Pleasant
James L. Merrill, Sergeant in the U. S. Signal Corps. Died at Norfolk, Virginia.
Other Norway men who served in Massachusetts regiments were Henry O.
Beal, Henry T. Merrill, James Merrill, Joseph H. Newhall, Charles E. Newhall,
and Charles A. Smith
Stephen C. Yeaton served in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment.
Daniel S. Morse enlisted in the regular army and Daniel Latham, George F.
Latham, and J. C. Davis served in the United States Navy.
Service History of Maine Volunteers
First Maine Regiment of Volunteers
Company G: Used to defend Washington, D.C. during the First Battle of Bull
Fifth Maine Regiment of Volunteers
Company G (This was one of the regiments in The Army of the Potomac).
Mustered into service 4 June 1861.
First Battle of Bull Run, Peninsular Campaign, Antietam, Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Cold Harbor, North Anna River.
Ninth Maine Regiment of Volunteers
Mustered into service 21 September 1861.
Service was mostly given in the south.
South Carolina, Battle of Cold Harbor, Petersburg.
Thirteenth Maine Regiment of Volunteers
One Norway officer, colonel Henry Rust Jr. was the commanding officer.
Tenth Maine Regiment of Volunteers
Most of the men whose duty terminated in the First Maine enlisted to serve in
this new regiment.
Sent to guard and inspect railroad cars and lines on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. Reconnaissance duties Luray Court House, Sandy Hook, Flint Hill,
Warrenton, Battle of Cedar Mountain, Second Battle of Bull Run, Antietam,
Guard duty at Maryland Heights.
Mustered out of service 8 May 1863.
Fourteenth Maine Regiment of Volunteers
Company G. Mustered into service in December 1861 for three years.
Battle of Baton Rouge, Siege of Port Hudson.
Returned to Washington D. C. to join Sheridan and his and his troops on the
famous "excursions" into the Shenandoah Valley to meet General William T.
Battles: Opequan and Cedar Creek
Mustered out of service 28 August 1865
Seventeenth Maine Regiment of Maine Volunteers
Companies F and C. Mustered into service 18 August 1862.
Battle of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg (Second days Battle),
Wapping Heights (in pursuit of General Robert E. Lee), Locust Grove, Mene
These battles and campaigns were carried on in connection with the Third
Army Corps. The Third and Second Army corps were then consolidated, to be
known as the Second Army corps.
Wilderness, North Anna River, Petersburg, Spottsylvania Court House, cold
Harbor, Richmond.
The Seventeenth Maine then returned to Washington, D.C. for the Grand
Review at the end of the war.
Eighteenth Maine Regiment of Volunteers (Became the First Maine Heavy
Defense of Washington
Spottsylvania Court House
After Spottsylvania Court House the Regiment became part of the Second
Army Corps.
Twenty-Third Maine Regiment of Volunteers, William A. Virgin, commanding
Company H. Mustered into service 29 September 1862
Duty: Guard the crossings of the Potomac.
Engaged in mo major skirmishes.
Missed involvment in Battle of Gettysburg, because their enlistments were up
on the 27th of June.
Twenty-ninth Maine Regiment of Volunteers
Company G. The commanding officer of the 29th Regiment was General
George L. Beal.
Sabine Cross Roads, Battle of Fisher's Hill, Battle of Cedar Creek, Battle of
Regiment took part in the final Grand Review.
Later ordered to the south to assist in administration of military government
and Freedmans Bereau. General Beal was military governor of the South
Carolina Military District.
Thirtieth Maine Regiment of Maine Volunteers
Red River Campaign
Regiment served mostly in the south.
After the war the Thirtieth Maine was on duty in Georgia until 20 august 1865
when it was ordered home to be mustered out of service.
Most of the men re-enlisted from the 13th Maine Regiment of Maine
Thirty-second Maine Regiment of Maine Volunteers
Mustered into service in February 1864.
This was the last regiment raised for service in Maine.
Most Norway men served in Company B.
The regiment was held in reserve during the Battle of the Wilderness and
Cold Harbor.
Because of the large numbers of casualties suffered at Fort Hell (Battle of
Petersburg) the Thirty-seconds was consolidated with the Thirty-first Maine
Company B, Thirty-first Regiment took part in the capture of Petersburg and
took pursuit of the Rebel Army.
Mustered out of service 15 July 1865.


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1048 SKI ACCESSORIES Direct-a-ski For Arctic Cat, Polaris, SkiDoo-BRP & Yamaha, improves ski stability and direction • MADE IN CANADA BY MOTOVAN • Made from 1/4" high-density polyethylene, attached at tail for added strength • Offers excellent steering stability in icy, rutty trail conditions • Adds ski nose protection along with super slippery flotation • Sold in pairs and includes all necessary hardware Fork close end 008-9001 Black $5.02 008-9001B Blue $5.02 008-9001TL Teal $3.57 008-9001PK Pink $3.57 008-9001RD Red $3.69 008-9001OR Orange $3.57 Uni-ski features The Uni-Ski from MTV is a very unique composite ski made for real life trail riding rather than racing. It is designed to give exceptional performance in difficult conditions often found in heavy traffic areas or in poor weather. Evolved from our famous Ski Pro-Tector covers, the Uni-Ski has a very strong and thick plastic sole that is more resistant than most metal skis while sliding better on all surfaces. It does not stick to wet snow, ice, debris, rocks, etc. We also incorporated our direction stabilizing Direct-a-ski fork system into the mold to tame overly sensitive (zigzagging) steerings and we gave the ski some flex for better handling in bumps. An exclusive five position pivot adjuster enables the rider to customize the steering balance and feel. The ski's aggressive profile will sometimes require a bit more effort at very slow speed but rewards you with exceptionnal steering precision and control. We designed this product with versatility and affordability in mind. It is sold in two parts: • The ski assembly (sold in pairs) with frame. • Variety of colors available (see list) • The attachment module (sold in pairs). Hardware included. All parts are interchangeable on all applications except for the small attachment module. This reduces inventory and cost drastically for dealers while increasing availability and selection to the customer. A full line of spare parts requires very little money and space. The components are simple and strong, designed to take the abuses of trail riding. All metal parts are powder coated or plated for corrosion resistance. The Uni-Ski should prove to be one of the best accessories to hit the market in recent years. It turns poor handling snowmobiles into safe, confidence inspiring machines when set up properly or ultra-precise, sensitive racer-like steering, all in one attractive package. See what it can do for your sled! Made in Canada. Warranty: 3 month warranty against defects in materials and workmanship.
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I will start with my favorites of Will...he is almost seven now and I am sure I could find one or ten from right now that I love...but these are two of my all-time all-timers!
This is Caroline at her first birthday party. She LOVED her cake and did not have to be shown what to do with it. She still, to this day, loves dessert the most. I love this picture with the light shining on her face that illuminates that little bitty piece of cake on her forehead.
Can't wait to see everyone else's pictures!