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There are many immigration stories on the web, but there is not much I could find on what happens after landing on Canadian soil, what precisely you need, how long does it take etc. I hope this post will help all the people who consider participation in International Experience Canada programme. So, this post is not going to be about technology. Maybe I will make Sundays non-tech days? Who knows…
Last Tuesday I have arrived at YVR, after 15 hours in transit, with two-hour delay. According to IRCC website, on arrival I should say I have come to work to the border officer and present whole bunch of documents – originals of all the documents submitted in the online application, insurance and bank statements I have enough funds to sustain myself at the beginning and buy a return ticket, if I do not have one already (I did not) and a landing card. You have to fill a landing card out in the airplane, except for Vancouver, where you can easily get a prefilled one printed out from the kiosk, after arriving at the airport.
No one was able to explain me, even after sending an inquiry to IRCC, whether I need to print out a photo, which I uploaded to the online application. How the work permit would look? If it was some sort of an ID card, then photo could be useful.
I know all of it now and I will explain it to you.
I have prepared all the required documents, as well those that I was not sure whether they are required, like e.g. a photo. After arrival, I took out an envelope where I kept everything, my passport and then… realised I still have long way to go.
I had to climb the stairs up. Escalator was out of order and I did not feel like waiting for the lift. Then I had to walk all above the surprisingly empty departures. After that, stairs down brought me to arrivals. I have been carrying my backpack, carry-on suitcase, blanket from the airplane, my coat (it was too warm to wear it) and the envelope with documents, which I was focused on not losing… This added to my natural clumsiness brought me close to disaster.
After getting the landing card from the machine (btw, machine communicates in multiple languages, so no reasons to worry if you are not comfortable with any of the official languages, i.e. English and French), not sure what did they mean as liqour (like, how many alcohol content percentage?) I proceeded to the queue. I have lost grip on my carry on suitcase, which obviously fell on the floor and it took me a minute or two to get everything back in order. During this time, the queue was obviously blocked. I have said an f-word, to which a female officer somewhere responded "Move on people! You're in the goddamn customs!".
So after reaching the first desk, I have been moved to another queue, from which I have been asked to pick up my luggage from the carousel and… move on to the third queue at immigration. So I found a cart, picked up a luggage and proceeded to immigration, where I was asked to park my cart in a designated spot. It was hard time for me to fit in that spot, my bags almost fell out of the cart and the nice lady who was in charge of keeping an eye on the parked carts had scared eyes. It seemed she was wondering whether she should escape.
I have proceeded the room with another queue. Even though I am very far from being racist, I have to admit it felt somewhat uncomfortable to be the only white person in that queue. When my time came, I was asked to come to one of the counters. Behind it there was an immigration officer, which turned out to be really good looking lady.
Here I need to make a disclaimer that someone's looks do not affect my business decisions and the previous comment serves only informative purposes.
I tried to smile, despite tiredness, and said politely "Good afternoon, ma'am!". I have produced my passport, landing card and Port of Entry Invitation Letter (a print-out of a pdf you receive once IRCC accepts your permit application). I have been asked to sit down and wait, while the officer went somewhere out with my documents. She returned after few minutes with my passport and work permit printed. She asked to check whether the information on the permit are correct.
Work permit is nice looking, letter-sized (slightly wider than A4) piece of paper. Unfortunately it does not have a form of ID and no, it does not contain a picture. For some reason, she did not ask me for any other documents I was requested to prepare, but it does not mean you would not be asked too! I take no liability!
All details were correct but my mailing address. Since my application I have moved two times and informed IRCC on that. After pointing this out to the officer, she responded "It doesn't matter. Now you're resident of Canada anyway. Just be nice and that's it.".
I kept reading the permit and arrived at the following disclaimer:
Multiple hours of transit hit my brains, I guess, and I responded "I promise, I won't work in sex trade.". She gazed at me, together with her workmate, who just came to her counter, and, after few seconds, said "Well, we were actually wondering about that. It could be quite problematic for us if you did.". For some reason I fired "No worries, I'm not really good at it.". The officer and her workmate burst out laughing and kept doing so for few long minutes, getting attention from all other officers at their counters.
"Thank you for making my day", she said and I was let to go. Both officers waved at me when I was leaving the room. I managed to safely pick up my cart with luggage, left the baggage hall (on exit, I needed to return stamped landing card).
I hope this helped you understand what is going on when you land in Canada to start your IEC adventure! In the next post on bureaucracy, getting necessities to start enjoying your life in Canada, i.e. sinful SIN, SIM card, bank account and local ID. Follow me on Facebook, Twitter and Medium to be up to date!
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When Japan's Asahi Group acquired Australian bottled water company MountainH20, they announced ambitious plans to grow the business and double the workforce. Three years after the company set up a bottling plant in Albury-Wodonga, 50% of the workers at the factory are still stuck in insecure casual employment.
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Bicycle building project – into the abyss with a Flying Scot
Been thinking of having a go at this for about a year now. A couple of things, pushed me nearer and nearer the edge of diving into my first bicycle building project.
Having an interest in history, watching the TV programme about Guy Martin (The Boat that Guy Built), reading Hilary's post on fixing her rear cassette, and encouragement from my very own 'Shed Man'.
Guy Martin is more well known on the Isle of Man for his TT racing, if you get the chance, to watch the new movie about the Isle of Man TT TT 3D – "Closer to the Edge" it is a brilliant piece of film work, even folk not that interested in motorbikes (me) will find it a really good watch. Guy has a huge fan club here, and he doesn't just ride TT superbikes, he also rides and supports the Isle of Man End to End Challenge www.manxe2e.org a 75km mountain bike challenge ride at the back end of summer. Guy is a highly respected visitor to our island.
Guy is a man of many talents, and making and building stuff is just one of them. He has a real passion for history too and painstakingly researches what he builds. Difference being of course, is that he is an expert in the field of spanners and hammers and I in am a total beginner.
So, how much DO I know about this project – bicycle building that is.....?
Well, absolutely nothing, and what do I know about bicycle history exactly... about the same! I know the front end of a bike and its rear end. I know what brakes are, and how to repair a puncture... er, rephrase that... how to REPLACE an inner tube. Thats a bit different isnt it? Regarding cycling history, I understand the horse came before the bicycle, and that at some point in history the bicycle changed social history, by getting working folk about a bit better if they could not afford a horse. (Except that VERY early bit, when only the gentry had a hobby horse).
This little blog of mine is hopefully, going to demonstrate how to go about building a bike from a beginners perspective, 'cept I shall assume the reader has access either to a very basic bicycle repair manual, or Google. 🙂 Where would we be without Google!
Firstly to build a bicycle you need to find your frame I suppose.
And, which frame should you choose?
This bit alone took me some time deciding upon. Its a bit of a personal thing, is the frame choice. A bit like buying a good woman perfume, don't bother, give her the cash so she gets what she likes! I know of some very well known brands of bicycle, namely Hetchins of course, Mercian, Bates, Chas Roberts. Price of frame was the first hurdle. The frame HAD to be second hand. And well, if going for a second hand frame it should be old – oldish depending on rarity, too rare = too expensive. Too old = too much restoration to do, and perhaps the bicycle will not be up to Audaxing and long distance riding. It has to be a road bike or a good Audax type bike suitable for long distance and perhaps some touring, to a bit of a utility gal.
I didn't want a modern frame, as I intended to get it painted to my own colour choice, and if possible, the bicycle must be marketable when Im done as I already have 2 road bikes and I have no intention of parting with either of them. This bicycle build was to keep me occupied, out of the fridge, away from the computer (Other than blogging or researching of course) and to learn all about putting a bicycle together from scratch. Its an educational tool for me.
Anyway, out of the blue popped this littl' lady from that famous auction site:
I believe she is a foxy 'Flying Scot'.
She came up at a reasonable affordable price, importantly of course she is the right size for me, perhaps a trifle large, but then again, she is a project. She arrived in great order, super dooper packaging, I think her previous owner might be a cycle dealer or such as her box was new, and looked like it was specific for bicycle frames.
Here are some more pictures to drool over, and I have my first fistful of questions!
Close up of the head set, and badge.
BB my cat in the rear of pic! He loves to be on or near me 🙂
The red seat tube seems to have a lot of decals on it. Frankly, I hate the bikes colour and intend to change it for something a bit more classical looking... not sure what just yet.
Lug work and seat stays close up. (Black... yugh...)
Now I have posted this, because according to my research, the frame number should be on here. I think somewhere beneath the black it is, but its very very faded. I have been unable to trace the bicycles age properly, but I have some leads. If anyone can read the number, I would be very grateful.
Bottom bracket, looks in great order (according to my 'Shed Man' that is...) I wouldn't have a clue!
I believe I have a real Flying Scot. (Which is nice) Believe, because I have found the owner who had the bicycle before it appeared for sale on the auction site, and the that seller was an expert in their field. Secondly I have no reason to doubt the auction seller from whom I purchased the frame from and thirdly, I have found that the auction seller is asking a forum about Flying Scots, asking the EXACT question about the bicycle frame's age as I am.
There is a Flying Scot Bicycle Group on Flickr, and I found these pages of information from that site. I do hope the original owner does mind me re-printing it here, I will edit it out should they ask me to.
It seems my frame does not have the typical number. Assuming I have the right number – which I shall add is very faint, but it is on the bridge of the front fork as well as on the BB. It reads, I think as 1961/5. There is supposed to be a letter here as well, it should be K, but its not present. Cannot make out the number on the drop out at all.
So I am hoping the bike frame was built in 1961. But to be honest I am not 100% on this as yet.... More research to do.
Nice tangs (Tang is the lovely workmanship on the bridge of the fork, joining the fork legs to the bridge), the fork bridge also has the number 1961/5 stamped into it, faded and plugged with black paint.
If anyone can help with any information on bicycle building projects, please feel free to do so. The more information I get the better. The frame is in ace nick. No rust spots whatsoever. No lumps anywhere. No dings, no filler (Shed Man had a good look!), and nothing to feel ashamed about. The threads on both the steering and the BB are fine and dandy.
I'm rather chuffed.
OK – what happens next?
I need to find a frame restorer. I want the frame de-blacking, and stove enamelling back to her just out of the factory finish in a classic colour. Black, is simply not a female colour and I want it changing. Assuming the frame gets sent back all done etc and photographed and shown off on here... What is next?
In the mean time, some historical research is coming on here next.
AND look at what has just popped up! This site has been down for some time, now its back and what great timing too!
I have emailed, and maybe they can shed some light on her age before I start anything else.


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Why does everything end up in baby's mouth?
Has your baby left you at wits' end, what with the shoes, toys and sweaters—and everything in between—making their way into her mouth? Rest assured that every baby does this, and it's totally normal. In fact, it's a prerequisite to being a healthy infant.
"The brain is a novelty-seeking organ," explains Jill Stamm, Ph.D., co-founder of the New Directions Institute for Infant Brain Development and an associate clinical professor of psychology in education at Arizona State University in Tempe. "Everything is new to babies. They need to know: Can I eat it, or can it eat me? Can I use this thing, or is it potentially harmful? They have to gather information about everything; it's what their brains require."
But why does everything end up in the mouth? It all has to do with those little sensory- seeking things called neurons. "The mouth and hands have the most neural real estate"¨in the entire body," says Stamm, who is the author of Bright from the Start: The Simple, Science-backed Way to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind from Birth to Age 3 (Penguin Press). In other words, babies get the most sensory input from those areas. That's also why so many suck their thumbs, even in utero—they're engaging both neuron-rich areas at once.
While there can be great variability in when babies meet their milestones, most should begin mouthing objects by about the age of 3 months, when they've mastered hand-to-mouth control. This (admittedly long) phase will last several months, until the brain moves on to other challenges. "When a child is starting to articulate with words, she often stops putting everything into the mouth because it is busy doing other things," Stamm says. If your baby isn't grasping and mouthing objects by 6 months, bring it to your pediatrician's attention.


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Security is an issue no matter where you live or in what, and condominiums are no exception.
From Weiser Lock Corp., a lock manufacturer, come some ways to be safe in your condo building.
It should go without saying, but be mindful of others, even when you're inside your building, says Weiser expert Steve Kolobaric. Pay attention when walking in stairwells, meet your neighbors and know the general layout of the building, he said.
If the front entrance to your condo requires a key pass, don't think it's rude not to hold the door open for someone just behind you.
"Just think: If they're a tenant, they should be happy that you're not letting unknown people into the building," Kolobaric said.
Did you change your front-door lock set when you moved in?
"Not only could the past owner still have copies of the key, but so could his friends or your neighbors," he said.
Changing your lockset will take about 20 minutes and give you the peace of mind of knowing who has the key to your front door.
It sounds simple, but keep your doors locked at all times, Kolobaric said. Most burglars gain entry to homes through unlocked doors. Even if you're just running to get your mail or down the street for a coffee, there's no reason not to lock up.
Don't be tempted to "hide" a key outside your unit, either. There are fewer good hiding spots than you think, and burglars know where to look, he said.
Alert your building supervisor about any burned-out lights in the common areas, such as the lobby, parking garage or hallways, Kolobaric said.
If you notice anything out of the ordinary, such as open or broken windows, malfunctioning doors or door locks, or anything that could be a security concern, notify your building supervisor, he said.


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THEY ARE yet to hit Australia's mainstream legal community, but legal VAs, or virtual assistants, are hot property for time-pressed and cash-strapped lawyers.
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Work includes typing of dictation and transcripts, information gathering, and bookkeeping. "But it could be anything," said Kirsten Edwards, whose business First Legal Support Solutions operates out of a Brisbane suburb.
The US is the largest market for VAs, followed by Canada, Great Britain and Australia, according to a survey done by Brenners Information Group in California. But despite a world-wide registration of only 5,000, VAs are on the march. Last Friday was International Virtual Assistants Day, and over the weekend the world's first three-day online VAs convention was held online.
Lynn Carroll, a Colorado-based legal assistant who runs her own business, Carrollegal, was operating her own online booth, where visitors could click on and open brochures, and log on for IP phone conversations. "I think legal virtual assistants are going to take off," she said. "People have been working the technological kinks out for a while, and now we just have to let the attorneys know we are here for them."
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Does anyone else find it weird that we go from an Ice Ribbon match with cute little girls and the nice lady Emi to lighttubes?
Wait a second...so after Saki establishes that she can be a winner, she loses her next match and has to clean toilets. Boy, there's establishing championship credibility for ya.
Couldn't they just do a good clean face v face match?
2. Dump Matsumoto defeated Kikutaro (6:48) with a Body Press.Yes, the oldest woman in joshi (older than Jaguar) still "works" occasionally. This match probably did not earn many Meltzer snowflakes.
Emoto seems like an odd one.
I am almost sure that Dump is younger than Jaguar. I think she's Lioness Asuka's age....
The Ayakos went to Muga World Pro Wrestling.Muga World, 03.11.2007Kasukabe City GymnasiumSaitama, Japan1,600 Fans2. Ayako Hamada def. Ayako Sato (12:31) with the AP Cross.The fans who took these pics said it was a good match though "unrelated" to Muga World. And that the crowd got into it and even through out some cheers.And I know it's Saitama, but this photo is not good for Muga. For their sakes let's hope this fan got there early...
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VR-Zone reviews AMD's Radeon R290.
This fall has been one of the most interesting seasons on record for consumer graphics card launches.
After September's #gpu14 event from Honolulu, AMD released the R9 280X, R9 270X and R7 260X. Nvidia countered with a hastily put together "way its meant to be played" event in Montreal, where it unveiled the soon to be released GeForce GTX 780 Ti — meant to counter AMD on the high end.
Nvidia's problem right now is not necessarily technical; arguably its cards this generation are superior if only by a slight edge. Nvidia's problem is it can't compete on price-performance. It's been encircled by the more competitively priced AMD cards.
This leads to the R290. It's the centerpiece of AMD's price-performance stratagem, coming in at $399 for gamers who don't want or need the 290X's power and $549 price tag.
The lower price point of the R290 means AMD has made a few performance cuts. AMD has cut out four compute units from the GPU and has trimmed the stream units and texture processors. While this means a noticeable change in benchmarks, for most gamers this will mean nothing, aside from the inability to play demanding titles like Battlefield 4 at the highest settings at 4K.
Double digit increases
VR-Zone benchmarked the R290 against the GTX 770 Classified.
For the most part the R290 was able to provide double digit speed-margins over the GTX 770. The exception being with Batman: Arkham City, which is optimized for Nvidia cards. It should also be noted that the R290 appears to require a longer "warm up" time compared to the GTX 770.
It should also be noted that these tests were done on the new drivers AMD sent out, not the original set that shipped with the card.
Like the R290X, the R290 also has a heat problem. During testing the heat hovered around 95-degrees and the fan was clearly audible. This may not be an issue with some aftermarket boards with better coolers, but it's an inexcusable problem with AMD's card.
This leads to the defining problem with the R290: while from a price-performance standpoint on paper, the card excels. But during real-world testing, the flaws emerge. AMD's acoustic problem is what stops the card from getting more than a mid-range score on our review.
- Excellent for budget gamers looking for a card with a great price-performance ratio. Supports AMD's next-gen tech like Mantle and True Audio.
- The card runs loud and hot. This impacts performance and might reduce the long-term lifespan of the card.
Benchmarking was done by the VR-Zone Chinese team.


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UM coach Katie Meier confident ahead of Thursday ACC tourney opener
Some coaches might be feeling a bit uneasy entering the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament on the heels of three losses in the past four games. But not University of Miami coach Katie Meier.
In fact, while dissecting tape of Sunday's loss at No. 14 Florida State, Meier's eyes lit up upon seeing Erika Davenport block a shot, and get a long pass to Adrienne Motley, who sank a three-pointer on the other end.
"I saw that, and I wrote in the edit notes: 'This team can win the ACC Tournament,' " Meier said. "You may think I'm crazy, but I really believe it. We can win, if we play with that passion and emotion.''
Meier is trying to keep the three losses in perspective.
The 21st-ranked Hurricanes lost to three of the top 15 teams in the nation — No. 2 Notre Dame (28-1), No. 7 Louisville (24-6) and No. 14 Florida State (23-6). The loss to the Seminoles was by just three points. Miami led that game for 31 minutes.
The Fighting Irish are the top seed in the ACC Tournament, which begins Wednesday in Greensboro, North Carolina. Louisville is the second seed and FSU is the fourth seed.
Miami is the No. 5 seed at 22-7, and plays its opening game Thursday at 11 a.m. against the winner of Wednesday's game between North Carolina and Pittsburgh.
"The two top teams, Notre Dame and Louisville, handled us pretty well, but I still believe we can win it if we have that fire and drive," Meier said.
She challenged her team to step up its intensity after being completely overpowered 79-51 at home by Louisville last Saturday. The team responded against the Seminoles.
"There are a lot of great teams in the ACC, but we're a great team, too,'' Meier said. "We just need to get that great back. You've got to peak at the right time. You wouldn't say we're peaking coming off a loss, but we definitely got our energy back.''
Leading the way for the Hurricanes is junior guard Adrienne Motley, who on Tuesday was named a First Team All-ACC selection by the league's Blue Ribbon Panel.
The fifth-leading scorer in the ACC at 15.8 points per game, Motley has posted at least 12 points in 24 of 29 games, with 17-plus on 17 occasions. She also leads the Canes with 43 steals.
"Once again, Adrienne has proven to be one of the best players in the nation's top conference," Meier said. "She has elevated this program every year she has been at Miami and has constantly pushed her teammates to improve their games as well. We are all so excited for her to be recognized, as she is such a humble young lady who only celebrates team awards."
Motley, who is from Newport News, Virginia, is the fourth UM player to be voted All-ACC, along with Tamara James, Shenise Johnson and Riquna Williams. She is one of just three players in the top 12 in the conference in scoring, three-point percentage and field goal percentage.
Other key players include Jessica Thomas — 11.6 ppg and 104 assists — Keyona Hayes (5.6 rebounds per game) and Dutch freshman center Emese Hof, who averages 5.5 rebounds and has a team-high 31 blocks.
ACC women's basketball tournament
When, where: Wednesday-Sunday; Greensboro (North Carolina) Coliseum.
TV, radio: RSN (Wed.-Fri.), ESPNU (Sat.), ESPN (Sun.); WVUM (90.5 FM).
Top seeds (in order): Notre Dame, Louisville, Syracuse, Florida State.
Miami outlook: No. 21 UM is the No. 5 seed and got a first-round bye. It opens at 11 a.m. Thursday against the winner of Wednesday's Pittsburgh-North Carolina game. UM beat both teams this season, defeating Pitt 79-55 and UNC 76-61.


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The inside of Molly's car smelled like coconut suntan lotion and cigarette smoke. I quickly realized that once those initial smells sink in, there is then a hint of nachos. Plastic beads hung in a rainbow of color from the rear view mirror which wore a fuzzy pink leopard cover. Molly bent her lanky body over the steering wheel as she cranked the engine. "It hasn't run right since it some chuckleheads stole it this summer. I parked behind Coco Bananas. Stupid. My dad's gonna get me a new one when he comes back from China."
"Why is he in China?" I mumbled out the questions as fumbled with the stubborn seatbelt that was sticky to the touch.
"Interesting you ask why he was there before when is he coming back." Molly's full lips twisted into a grin.
"What about that is interesting?" I rubbed my fingers together trying to avoid the urge to ask my mom if she likes her. The problem with talking to the dead, is that once you start it becomes really hard to stop. The turquoise waves of my hair peeked at me from a corner of the side mirror.
"You wondered about the person instead of a new car. Everyone else I've told that story to are more curious about the car." She slid on bright blue sunglasses, that when settled into position took up more than half of her face. Who the hell was this girl? I had never met anyone who had aroused so many questions.
"I don't like cars. I've successfully avoided driving them so far." My voice comes out clearer than it has in months, I hardly recognized the loose vowels.
"You don't have your license?" Molly's pursed her purple painted lips.
"Nope. Don't want it." I shook my head as I focused how relaxed my shoulders suddenly are.
"That's silly."
"The whole idea makes me nervous."
"Freedom and uncertainty make a lot of people nervous." She laughs to herself, then glances over to me nervously then shifts the car into reverse. She cast her eyes behind us.
I sat there silently as her words sunk into me.
"Gave you something to think about?" Molly said to me as she drove through the parking lot like her pants were on fire. I pressed my foot against the dirt encrusted Batman floor mats wishing I had the power to use the break pedal.
"Perhaps rabbit," I muttered.
"Thanks for taking off with me," she pushed out a heavy breath. "The few months have been total shit, so I don't why I'm so surprised that Arron dumped me. Of course, my boyfriend would break up with me. The ass was only with me because I was a model." She shakes her head at her own words. The car jerks to a stop. "Can you believe that he is already dating Crystal? Who by the way was one of my best friends. At least that is what I thought."
"You were a model?"
"Yep. Dear mommy had me posing for pictures before I was out of the womb."
"That's intense." I dug my finger tips into the leather interior as Molly accelerate to sixty the moment the light turned green. I was completely terrified, and I loved it. Somehow being scared was so much better than being sad.
"You're telling me. If my mother's goal was to make me completely out of touch with everything that makes someone functional she has certainly succeeded."
She talked about her mom in ease, because Molly didn't know me as the girl who's mom died of cancer. I was just some girl who was stuck going to the same stupid group. We were both misguided and given up on. A sense of pride filled my legs.
I giggled as Molly continued to go on. "Make a note if you ever become a mom, don't try to create a supermodel."
"Okay, I'll make a note."
Molly pushed her sunglasses back, taking her red hair with them. Her eyes glanced at my from the side as she also kept some of her focus on the road. It took forever to get anywhere because there was a major traffic light every block, it felt like.
"Why did you stop?"
"I almost died from an eating disorder. My mom taught me home to puke on demand when I was twelve."
"Oh shit."
"Yep. I live with my aunt and uncle now."
"I live with my step dad and his new wife."
"Sucky adults really suck."
I laughed out loud at this. "You smoke pot?" I asked. There was weight gone from the shoulder for the first time in entirely too long. It felt so freeing.
"Does a monkey like bananas?"
"Not all mokeys eat bananas."
"Probably true, but doesn't mean you don't get my meaning."
"I got it," I mumbled back as I dug into my bag. "How do you feel about j rides?" I asked as I pulled out my small tin of pre-rolled joints. I learned how to roll joints for my mom. I took all her medical weed and rolled joints so she could have one whenever. When you watch someone you love slowly die, you want to do everything you possibly can do for that person while you can no matter how trivial. Time is precious. It's a saying that is so over used the weight of the words are gone completely. But, the saying couldn't be more right.
"I'm a subscriber," Molly's voice squeaked as she said this, which I remember that somehow cemented how awesome I thought she was.
"Cool beans," I said as sparked one of the fatter joints.
"That's my cue to get on the highway," Molly said with her words wrapped in a laugh.
The wind rushed between small cracks in the windows. Molly turned up some screaming music. As the angst poured from her speakers, I leaned backed into the leather seat feeling like a teenager for the first time in a long time. I had checked out of being a teen when I found out mom was dying. I wanted to completely cash in all the time I possibly could with her. I think now in a lot of ways having her as my only focus contributed to the destruction of me because everything I had was wrapped up in her needs and her comfort. If I could go back I would do it all the same. I knew I didn't want to regret the time I didn't spent with her.
Thick smoke filled my lungs, then slowly released.
"See, isn't this better?" Molly asked, her voice time pitches higher and happier than it was the neglected parking lot.
"Oh yeah, not sure what the repercussions will be."
"Nay, worry about that later." Molly looked the joint carefully fro finger tips and brought it to her lips. Music, wind, and pot smoke surrounded me in padded bubble. My insides weren't toxic. "So, I crashed out as a model and am forced to do the group. I just took my GED so maybe I'll do junior college once I put myself back together again."
"How long has it been since you stopped modeling?" My finger grazed hers as I retrieved the joint. Her blue painted fingernails made my bare nails seem plain and uninteresting.
"Four months since I almost died. One month since I've been out of the rehab place."
"Long, weird story." Molly coughs on an inhale. "So," she continues to choke a little bit, then clears her voice, "So, why are you in a group?"
"I smoke pot and don't go school. My guardians don't know what to do with me. " A pang of guilt for not mentioning mom puled at the tips of my toes.
"So neither of us belong there. We can start a list of things we have in common."
"Man, life sucks. I knew it did since I was five and my mom slapped me in the face for getting my dress dirty."
"I found out a little later." The lack of trees was hard t ignore. I think a lot of people are used to a lack of green and growth, but I can't stop worry about my lack of oxygen I'm probably getting.
"Well, I think everyone finds out eventually."
"Yeah, I'm beginning to think the same thing." Heat tells me the paper is close to burning my finger tips. "It's kicked."
"There, drop it in the soda bottle." Molly pointed her long, skinny finger at the bottle in the cup holder closest to me.
As I follow her directions Molly peals off the highway. The Garden State Squares, a mall that has accrued three additions in six years, and as of last November has a sixteen theater movie pavilion. In the eyes of anyone over the age of twelve thought it as the heart and pulse of Northern New Jersey. It was our watering hole. All the high schools in a twenty minute radius, spent time at The Squares, which made the entire area feel incredibly too small and incestuous. Everyone knew everyone, or at least that's what I thought.
My head smacked against the headrest in reaction to Molly's ripping into a space. A pleading male voice screamed the words, "I don't know where to find me," in her speakers as my stomach eased back into it's rightful place.
"You are hard on those pedals," I said almost laughing, which I remember thinking was amazing.
"Well, that's why they are there right?" She asked as she climbed out of the oversized, highness and poorly treated SUV.
I followed closely behind her as we transversed the uneven pavement of the seemingly never-ending parking lot. The mall entrance was barely in sight. The harsh cold whipped against any exposed skin. By Thanksgiving it was painful to be outside.
As we hustled up the small staircase that passed through one of the eight parking garages, a set of large glass doors were framed by people I'd never seen before. Three girls all in black sat on small wall with a pile of bracelets and earrings in front of them. They all were completely focused on their horde and not at all on their surroundings.
"Best shoplifters around. They take orders too." Molly said matter of factly, then pointed at four boys all with band t-shirts and jeans that were tighter than mine. "Great to hook up with, all of them." Molly waved at them. A boy with blue hair and dark tan skin waved back. He winked at me. I could help but chuckle to myself. I felt as though Molly and I just walked into an entirely different world. A circle of boys stood to the left of the doors. They are knocking around a bright yellow hacky sack around. Another collection of unfamiliar faces clicked on their phones not taking note of anything of the world they were physically in.
"It's been forever," a female a little taller than Molly strolled up. She wore a long black trench coat and plaid pants underneath it. Black braids hung around her face resembling a lion mane.
"Yeah, well I can't stand seeing certain people, ya know?" Molly shrugged, then found me with her eyes, "This my new favorite person, Elliot. Elliot this is my x twice removed, Tori."
"One of many," Tori's lipped curled into a smirk. "Cool name."
"Well, we are gonna head inside before my boobs fall off. Good seeing you. You look beautiful." Molly smiled as she slid her arm around my shoulders.
We walked inside, instantly getting smacked by a strong mix of greasy food and over-priced fragrances. Molly let her arm drop to her side. My mind replayed her saying I was her new favorite person.
"Follow me, let's go have some fun." She pointed to a guy working at the taco stand, "I know where we can get some free food."
My head was in such trance from free-taco-Sal, to all the stores we went in and out of, that I didn't think about the possibility of the group calling the house when I didn't show up. Of course, they would. This annoying realization slapped me in the face the moment I walked through the overly nice door when I saw Glen. His expression was the closest I've seen to resembling fire. It was funny to think how Molly and I were just talking about there would be no way they'd know because we timed it perfect.
"Where the hell were you?" Glen scowled when he demanded the answer.
Brian and Matilda ran in from the living room. "Don't worry I took care of Tilly."
"Thanks bud. That's a cute name for her." I wrapped my arm around his small body.
He smiled up at me.
"Elliot." Glen's voice trembled.
"My friend broke up with her boyfriend and she asked me to go to the mall with her." I kept my voice stable.
"That's it?" Glen's anger seem to defuse. "What friend?"
"Molly. I met her at group." I felt a smirk begin to beg for an appearance, but I had to fight it. Smiling at Glen always made him angrier.
"Great! She's making friends with drug addicts," Joan walked into he room. Amelia's yogurt-covered face was turned up into a severe frown. Her little hands clutched onto Joan's shirt.
"Well, you send me there, what do you think's gonna happen?" Joan made my head hurt. I hated everything she stood for and everything she did. What kind of person helps to cheat on someone's dying wife.
My stomach started to clench. The light and fearless feeling I had with Molly began to fade away.
"She has a point." Glen said, no longer fuming. "You can't just bum around the mall all day, though. That's not going to get you any where."
"How is that group for drug addicts going to help me?"
"The point was to help you kick the pot you are smoking," Joan wined.
"That's now how that works," I shook my head annoyed that she was even pretending to parent me.
"No more group. There's a new plan." Glen said this looking at Joan and not me.
"What is it?" Joan and I asked in unison.
"Two choices. Either go back to school, or job and therapy"
Joan throw her free hand up and walked out of them room.
"I'll get a job," I said as I thought, at the mall.
I was reorganizing my photos for the third time that month, both family pictures and pictures of strangers I've collected over the past year. I rarely took pictures of objects but thought about picking it up. The sounds of the rest of house were completely hidden behind headphones I wore. I found that if I listen to music loud enough, it felt like I was somewhere else.
A message popped up in the corner of the screen. Pete's profile picture of his head in a beer box always made me chuckle, it doesn't matter that I've seen it a hundred times.
Pete: How was group?
I smiled and typed. Didn't go. Made a new friend. She's crazy, but I think you'll like her.
Pete: Is she a drug addict?
Me: No, an ex-model.
Pete: Is anyone at the group a drug addict?
Me: Oh, yes definitely.
Pete: Are you grounded? You can't get grounded. I need you at the show.
Me: You need me to take pictures.
Pete: No, I also need you. You are my good luck charm. Who the hell needs a habit foot what I've got you.
I couldn't help put feel like I'd had just been wrapped in a warm blanket. Pete always made me feel safe. That's the idea of best friends, right? Comfort is a benefit.
Pete: You should invite her to the show.
Me: I have to find out her number. Glen pulled me out of the group.
Pete: No shit? What is your next torture.
Me: Get a job, and try therapy again.
Pete: That's not terrible. You should come back to school.
Me: I can't Pete.
Pete: I miss you at school.
Me: I miss you.
Pete: Wanna come over and watch River Kids Force. I just downloaded season six.
Me: Will you feed me?
Pete: Of course.
Me: Can I bring Matilda?
Pete: Works for me.
Me: Unlock the back door for me.
Pete: You are gonna have to walk through the front door of my house at some point.
Me: Pete.
Pete: Okay.
Me: See you in ten.
Pete: Nice!
I turned off the monitor screen and leaned back in my chair. The wooden spools dug into my spine. My shoulders felt fighter. My chest didn't hurt as much as it had been. My eyes gently closed as my day sunk into me.
Matilda's cold nose touched my hand. I opened my eyes to look at her and saw the ends of my mom's strawberry blonde hair floating behind the curtains. The weight was back. My stomached turned. And, just like it all came back. For the first time, I didn't want to think about mom I just wanted to be happy, or I even settled for not in pain.
"Let's go for a walk Matilda," I cooed at her.
She stood up and wagged her tail. I patted my leg as I made a desperate flea for the hallway. It's possible staying in motions helps.
Copyright 2016 Jayme Beddingfield
*Note: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to anyone is entirely coincidental.
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When you look at a printed document of whatever sort you will notice that the page is made up either of text, images, or both. You can identify what is text and what isn't because you know what text looks like and you know how to read text.
The computer doesn't work that way. When you have an electronic version of a document it can look exactly the same as the printed copy that you just looked at with text and/or images. What you see as images, the computer also sees as images but what you see as text the computer may see as text but it may instead see the text as an image. This is because the computer uses different methods to store text and images and the method that is used to store images can also store text.
So why don't we store all of our page content as images rather than as text? We don't because the computer can store text far more efficiently than it can store images. Text stored as images would take up much more space than the equivalent text stored as text. Also the text editors on your computer (word processing, dtp software, etc.) work with text stored as text. You need a graphics program to edit images and as you can tell from my article on Replacing Text in a Graphic the process of editing text stored as images is also a relatively involved process.
Given the larger space required for storing text as images and the difficulty in editing it, the question now arises as to why we would ever want to store text as images rather than as text? There are several reasons I can think of why you would store text in images.
The most obvious is that your image requires labels on various parts of the image in order for the image to be properly understood. It is a relatively simple matter to add these text labels into your image in the appropriate locations. To place the image on your page and then place the labels (as text) into the correct positions in such a way as to ensure that they stay there is almost impossible. If you do succeed then the information that needs to be stored so as to correctly position all of the text labels may take up much more storage space that if you had taken the simpler approach and inserted the labels into the image in the first place. The text may be more difficult to edit at a later date but chances are that you'll never need to do this. Image labels are much better handled as a part of the image rather than as separate text.
What about text as an image rather than as labels in an image? As you know, text exists with various fonts, font sizes, etc. and it is this information that needs to be stored with the text in order that the text can display properly if the text is stored as text. These attributes of the text can be readily changed in a text editor to change the size and appearance of the text. If the text is stored as a graphic then the appearance of the text is fixed based on the text attributes that you specified when you created the text image. You cannot later edit the text image to change the text attributes. This may sound like a disadvantage but there are a couple of advantages to this as well. One of these is text effects. You may not want just plain text (of whatever font, size, colour, etc.) you may want to add some special effects to your text. Depending on which editor that you use to edit your text you may be able to include some effects but you are then relying on that software to reproduce the effect later. If you incorporate the text effects into the text stored as an image then that image will always display those effects regardless of the software used to display it and many more text effects can be achieved (see for example the article on Textured Text - you can't achieve the effect shown at the bottom of that page without storing the text as an image).
Because text stored as a graphic does not rely on separately stored attributes, text stored as images is also more portable than it is as text. Provided that the image format is one that is readable on another computer (see Choosing a Graphics Format) then the text can be displayed on that computer and printed out with the exact same appearance as it had on the computer that created it (subject only to differences in screen and printer resolution). With text stored in a text file then the receiving computer must have the exact same fonts available as on the originating computer as well as compatible software that can read the text file in order for the text to appear the same on both computers (the only exception is when you Embed Fonts in a PDF). Even then, other considerations may result in the text having a different appearance.
Where the text is there as content (ie., to provide the reader with information) then the appearance of the text is of lesser importance and any differences between the appearance on one computer and another don't matter. There are times where the text is not only there as content but where the appearance of the text also has importance (eg., for text in a company logo). Where the appearance of the text is as important as what the text says then storing the text as an image is an appropriate alternative. When you do this you need to consider how much of the text that you will store as an image and how much can be stored as text as storing as an image takes up a lot more space. This is of particular importance where the document containing the text image is to be transmitted electronically where the transmission time will increase along with the file size.
There is one other time when you will need to handle text stored as an image and this is when you capture text into your computer using a scanner. Scanners do not understand the difference between text and any other images on your page. The entire page is an image as far as they are concerned. What you need to do after capturing the page as an image is to process that page with software that can recognise text in images. This type of software is called Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. This type of software will examine the image of your page and identify and convert those sections of the page that it recognises as text into actual text. Depending on your OCR software the rest of the page may also be converted into a number of smaller images thus maintaining the appearance of your page. (Adobe Acrobat is one program that can do this for you). One thing that you will want to watch for once you have converted your page to text with your OCR software is that you use the Save As option in that software to save the text version of the page rather than the Save option as most programs speed up the save option by only saving the changes to the end of the existing file. Saving the text version as changes to the end of the file containing the image version makes for an even bigger file than the original image. Using Save As (even if you keep the file name the same) will discard the single image version of your page and only keep the much smaller text version.
There are times when storing text in or as images is appropriate and times when it is not. You need to consider the alternatives so as to produce documents efficiently in terms of how difficult that they are to create and edit, how much storage space that the resultant document will take up on your system, and how portable that the document is to other systems.
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First Report: Sacramento to Chicago Aboard Amtrak's California Zephyr.
The California Zephyr arriving in Sacramento. The first minor glitch was when sleeping car passengers were directed to wait where the front of the train would come to a stop. Ah, but it turned out that the two sleepers were all at the rear of the consist, resulting in a long walk in the hot sun. It was, in fact, 98 degrees when we boarded.
This is Donner Lake, as the train winds its way eastward through the Sierra Nevada mountains, still in California. Just out of the picture to the right is where the Donner Party camped during that awful winter of 1846. When spring came and the snow melted, the stumps of trees they cut down for firewood were 12 feet high.
The next day, somewhere in the Nevada desert between Elko and Winnemucca, the Zephyr went into an emergency stop. A pickup truck ran through this intersection and right past those men who were frantically waving flags in an effort to stop him. They were part of a large work crew laying new track. According to the conductor, "We damn near killed that dumb son of a bitch!"
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Vista Home Health and Hospice provides medical care and emotional and spiritual support to terminally ill patients and their families. A team of highly trained nurses, social workers, pastoral ministers, nurse's aides and volunteers work under the direction of the patient's physician and the medical director. The team's ultimate goal is to work together to ensure the patient's varied and complex needs are met.
Vista Home Health and Hospice can provide the important element of quality time that is so necessary when one is faced with a terminal illness. During such a time, the need to connect with others for support, understanding and human companionship is only heightened. Vista Home Health and Hospice is available to help guide individuals and their loved ones through this difficult time.
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May 1st, 2011, 10:52 pm
You know you suck at updating when....
VG Cats updates twice in the time between your updates. I apologize for that. But we did finally update and I personally really like this comic. Ray's drawing are awesome. On another note I don't think we are capable of updating twice a week, so I think we are going to update once a week from now on. I'll post news when we decide the schedule.
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Hello, I really like your comics, and I'm just letting you know that if you added an RSS feature I would follow your comics, as it is I'm just to lazy. If you have further questions feel free to email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
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I'm tired of hearing about that game.
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May 3rd, 2011, 8:42 pm
that artist knows nothing about it neither
Yea, seriously I never played TF. Had to research before drawing lol :P
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I Laughed
I really liked it, and as a person who plays TF2 all the time can say you hit the nail right on the head :)
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Disney and Imax have agreed to add dozens of giant 3-D screens to the February 27th wide release of "Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience" says Reuters.
This means there will be upward of 1,100 3-D venues playing the latest teens-and-tweens concert film, including 55 Imax venues.
A year ago the studio managed a first-weekend haul of $31 million for its "Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert" from less than 700 3-D screens.
All the "Jonas" playdates are being promoted as "one week only" engagements though success in the non-Imax venues could spur Disney to add an additional week to the pic's run.
IMAX however is scheduled to begin showing Warner Bros.' "Watchmen" the following weekend which makes the extension impossible on IMAX.


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In a move that has greater symbolic significance than mere real estate hopscotch, Galapagos Art Space, the pioneering bar and performing arts space that helped put Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on the cultural map, is moving a few neighborhoods down the East River, to Dumbo.
Galapagos, which has played host to a broad array of New York's musicians, dancers, theater artists, performance artists, fine artists and burlesque dancers during its 12-year existence, is scheduled to move into the space, a 102-year-old, 10,000-square-foot former horse stable at 16 Main Street, in the spring or summer of 2008.
The building is owned by Two Trees Management, which more or less created the neighborhood of Dumbo and owns 2.5 million square feet of real estate there. Galapagos was wooed by Two Trees, which also owns the space occupied by St. Ann's Warehouse, just around the corner from the new Galapagos space.
The deal is a mutually beneficial one. The Dumbo area, and its landlords, get a new cultural destination and the buzz and spike in property values that come with it.
"Adding a cultural aspect to the neighborhood is a really important thing," said Jed Walentas, a partner in Two Trees. "Because we own such a big piece of the neighborhood, we can afford to take a long-term, big-picture view."Continue reading the main story
Meaning that Galapagos, under the favorable terms of the 15-year lease, comes out a winner too.
"We're doubling our size and halving our rent," said Robert Elmes, who started Galapagos in 1995, when it opened in fits and starts on North Sixth Street, which at the time was notable mainly for the rancid smell of nearby meat-processing plants.
But Williamsburg has changed a bit in the intervening years. It has long since become an established, even respectable neighborhood of fashionable restaurants and expensive condos. The rent increases have followed.
The monthly rent for the Galapagos space had increased to $10,000 a month in December 2005, Mr. Elmes said, and the landlords were asking for a 30 percent increase next month.
He began looking elsewhere, seriously considering moving to places as close as Bushwick and as far away as Berlin. (A move to Dumbo was discussed and dismissed about 10 years ago).
In the meantime, Two Trees was trying to invite a cultural organization to put down roots at the former Board of Education building at 110 Livingston Street, in downtown Brooklyn. Mr. Elmes looked at the building in October, but then began conversations about the space in Dumbo. (Mr. Elmes said that after renovation the building would be the first performance space in New York City certified as "green" under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards set by the United States Green Building Council.)
At the same time, Mr. Elmes was also talking more with other arts organizations in Brooklyn about a host of issues, including how to keep artists from leaving New York.
Out of those talks rose the idea of an informal advisory board for Galapagos, consisting of Karen Brooks Hopkins, the president of the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Susan Feldman, the artistic director of St. Ann's Warehouse; and Ed Townsend, a former chairman of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.
The board will give Galapagos advice on staying afloat and active financially. The three institutions will also be able to work more efficiently with artists, like the performer Cynthia Hopkins, who move between the venues.
In Williamsburg, Galapagos Art Space will continue its full schedule until the weekend of June 17, with plans to operate intermittently throughout the summer. Whether Dumbo will prove as fertile as Williamsburg has been remains to be seen, but Mr. Elmes said he was confident.
"We've successfully pioneered a neighborhood in the past," he said.Continue reading the main story


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2015 AGM and launches of 2015 volume
As Boris Gorelik, the editor of our 2015 volume, An Entirely Different World: Russian Visitors to the Cape 1797-1870 can be in Cape Town only in January 2016, we would like to hold our 2015 AGM then, to coincide with the launch of the volume. The details of our AGM and launch are therefore as follows: The AGM will be held at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday 28 January 2016 at Ravenswood House, 10 Hatfield Street, Gardens (see attached map A). Parking is available in and around Hatfield Street. The AGM will be followed at 6.45 p.m. by the launch of the volume, at which Boris Gorelik will be the main speaker. If you are unable to attend this launch, please join us at a public launch of the volume on Friday 29 January 2016 during the UCT Summer School at 1 p.m. in the cafeteria area in Leslie Social Sciences Building on UCT's Upper Campus (see map B below).
Please RSVP by 18 January 2016, indicating which launch(es) you will attend.
MAP A: Ravenswood House, 10 Hatfield Street, Gardens (venue for AGM and book launch at 5.30 p.m. on 28 January 2016).
Directions: from Southern Suburbs take M3 (De Waal Drive) to traffic lights a little before the entrance to the Mount Nelson Hotel. At the traffic lights (where there is an Engen garage), turn right into Hatfield Street. Ravenswood House is about 100 metres down the road on the left.
Directions from central city: drive up Plein Street towards the mountain, cross Roeland Street (where Plain Street becomes St John's Street), pass St Mary's Cathedral on your left and then (about 400 metres further on) the Jewish Museum and the Great Synagogue are on your right. At this point St John's Street becomes Hatfield Street. Continue towards the mountain to near the top of Hatfield Street; Ravenswood House is on your right).
MAP B: Leslie Social Sciences Building Cafeteria on UCT's Upper Campus (venue for book launch at 1 p.m. on 29 January 2016).
See map at www.uct.ac.za/images/uct.ac.za/contact/campusmaps/big/uctuppercampus.jpg
Cafeteria is at C3 on this map. Park at Parking Area P11, P12 or P14.
We have had to change our office hours – as we notified you in October. In future, the VRS office at the Centre for the Book, 62 Queen Victoria Street, Gardens, will be open on Mondays from 9.30 to 1.30 and on Wednesdays from 9.30 to 12.30. Emails and phone numbers will stay as they are at present. Also, we would like to introduce a new staff member, Jackie Loos, who will be in the office on Wednesdays. Some of you may know her from the column she writes for the Cape Argus: "The Way We Were". We are happy to have her and her wide historical knowledge, on board!
Position Vacant
As our longstanding administrative assistant, Cora Ovens, plans to retire at the end of January 2016, we invite applications to fill this position from 1 February 2016. Skills required include computer literacy (including website maintenance and Facebook updates), minute-taking, administrative and financial knowhow, newsletter compilation, liaison with members, printers, bookshops and editors, organization and joint operation of stalls at conferences and book fairs and supervision of volunteer and casual staff.
The position requires at least 8 hours of office work per week, primarily in the VRS Office in Queen Victoria Street in central Cape Town. Parking on site is provided.
Further details about the post are available at www.vanriebeecksociety.co.za
Applications (which should include a brief CV) must be submitted to: The Chair, Van Riebeeck Society, P.O. Box 15151, Vlaeberg 8018 OR c/o Centre for the Book, 62 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town, 8001 OR to: email@example.com by no later than 6 January 2016.
Increase of subscriptions
With great reluctance Council has decided that the annual subscription will have to be raised to R230 p.a. in 2016 to cover increased postal, administrative and printing costs. We regret this unavoidable step.
New members
Nell Kruger from Prince Albert (gift sub from her brother, J P Grobbelaar); Aletta de Jager from Prieska; Chris Job from Waterkloof Ridge; Andre Eva Bosch from Fish Hoek; John Spyker of East London; Jannie Mouton from Stellenbosch; David Fleminger from Highlands North, Jo'burg; Lovell Fernandez of Vredehoek; Anton Nel from Matieland, Stellenbosch; Mathys van Vuuren of Tableview; Danie van der Merwe of Langebaan; Martin Williams of Port Elizabeth; Dr Carla Tsampiras from Sea Point; Dr Kent Fedorowich from Bristol, UK; Wynand van der Walt of Grahamstown; Michael Wensley from New Germany; Elizabeth Lombard from Paarl; Marmaduke Louw from Ladysmith; Hendrik Jacobus Cloete from Onrus River; Mr Al-Ameen Kafaar of Sybrand Park; John Giles of Muizenberg; Anthony Holness of Ramsgate; Stephan Aldrich of Hermanus; Michael Jones of Johannesburg; Dean Dart of Kuilsriver; Warren Du Plessis of Klawer; Tim Dunne of Cape Town; John Logan of Cape Town; Betty Gillespie of Cape Town; Christo Pretorius of Arcadia; Robert de Beer from Newlands, Cape Town and François Jordaan from Vermont, Cape.
In memoriam
Dr Johannes de Villers Graaff (a life member); Mr D V Larsen; Mrs J E van Schalkwyk; Mrs S L Mitchell; Mr William Katz; Mr P W van Schalkwyk; Mr J H Adendorff (a life member); Dr Auriol Batten; Mr B F Lutz.
Nameless subs!
I should like again to plead with those of you who pay your subs via Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) to make sure that you put your name in the Beneficiary field. It is really difficult for me to receive a payment from "membership 2015" or "2015 ledegeld" etc – it means I have to phone the bank, log a query which can often take days, to find your name and/or phone number and pay over R20 for it!
Our reprint for 2016 will be a continuation of the 2015 reprint, viz. volume II of Isaac Nathaniel's Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa, volume 2, Reprint series I, vol 17). We shall be sending out order forms for this reprint together with our annual subscription invoices early next year.
Books by members
Batrice Law has published Building the Mother City: Cape Town 1880-1930. In the Steps of A.B. Reid Master Builder and City Councillor". The price direct is R250 plus postage if that is necessary. Contact the author direct: e-mail address: email@example.com, phone number: 021 795 0052
Ralph Goldswain has produced a new edition, The Chronicle of Jeremiah Goldswain: 1820 Settler. He has presented Jeremiah's journal word-for-word but modernised the text by putting it into conventional current English. The book is available from the publishers, 30 Degrees South (http://www.30degreessouth.co.za/) and all online booksellers. It can also be ordered from your local bookshop.
Members might also like to know of the recent publication of a book on the War of the Axe in 1846, which features an essay by the editor of our 2013 volume, Dr Jeff Peires: M Godby: Battleground - Charles Bell's Drawings of the War of the Axe, 1846, with an essay by Jeff Peires. It is published by Primavera Publishing and is available at local bookshops or from Primavera Publishing (email@example.com).
The following publications are offered to members of the VRS at 20% discount:
Hermann Giliomee comp. : Buhr van die Bokveld: ' 'n Sprankelende intelligensie'. 176p. (An anthology of the work of a brilliant Afrikaans journalist, who lived from 1900-1940). R180 + R20 postage.
Luc Panhuysen: Ontdekkingsreisiger of soldaat? Die verkenningstogte van Robert Jacob Gordon (1743-1795) in Suider-Afrika. 189p. + 38 pages in colour. (A lively description of Gordon's four exploratory journeys, made on behalf of the VOC). R225 + R20 postage.
Ione Rudner: Ten paces behind: a family saga. (364p.). (The story of Jalmar and Ione Rudner, amateur archaeologists). R200 + R20 postage.
Orders/Enquiries: email@example.com. Africana Publishers, 190 Pinewood Village, Pinelands 7405. Tel 021 532 7590; 083 415 7678 .
Compiled by Cora Ovens & Howard Phillips. Afrikaans by Chris van der Merwe.
Van Riebeeck Society, P O Box 15151, VLAEBERG, 8018, South Africa.
Centre for the Book, 62 Queen Victoria Street, CAPE TOWN, 8000, South Africa.
Nonprofit Organization Registration Number 094-832-NPO
Tel: +27 (0)21 423-8424 Fax: 086 670 9828
Email: email@example.com Website: www.vanriebeecksociety.co.za


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Chicago Children's MuseumWebsite Map
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This multicultural kids' haven at Navy Pier is filled with blocks, mechanical waterfalls, foam-rubber flying machines, paints, clay and more. The newest permanent exhibit, "Big Backyard," combines technology and art to create towering flowers, large insects, giant toadstools, a wall mural of the city skyline and other whimsical outdoor sights and sounds that change with the seasons. In "Play It Safe," kids learn about house, yard and auto safety inside a 1,300-square-foot Chicago-style bungalow.
Engineering-related exhibits include the "Inventing Lab," where kids design flying machines out of foam rubber, then put them on a vertical conveyer belt that carries them to the ceiling and surrenders them to gravity. In "Waterways," kids can borrow raincoats to help build a dam on an imitation waterfall, examine the workings of a waterwheel and fit pipes over jets of water.
For kids who prefer the natural world, there are several animal exhibits. The museum also has a re-created dinosaur expedition site and a small aquarium with Lake Michigan fish. The centerpiece of the museum is the "Climbing Schooner," a three-story-tall replica of an 1850s sailing ship that kids can climb on.


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Statutory Direction to Refuse Extraordinary Measures
The Natural Death Act 1988 (NT) provides for a Direction to Refuse Extraordinary Measures ('Direction'). The purpose of the legislation is to 'give legal effect to directions against artificial prolongation of the dying process' through the use of extraordinary measures in cases of terminal illness. 'Extraordinary measures' include measures intended to prolong life through replacing or maintaining bodily functions that are otherwise incapable of independent operation.
There is no statutory advance health directive for other forms of non‑terminal illness, though common law principles apply (see below).
Requirements of a Valid Direction
In order for a Direction to be valid:
- it must be made and signed by a person 18 years or over of sound mind;
- it must be in the form prescribed by regulation; and
- it must be witnessed by two 'authorised witnesses'.
Legal Effect
If the Direction is validly signed and witnessed, a medical practitioner responsible for treatment has a duty to act in accordance with the Direction, once they are aware of its existence. This duty exists unless the treating medical practitioner has reasonable grounds to believe that the person has revoked, or intended to revoke the Direction, or was not capable of understanding the nature and consequences of the Direction at the time it was made.
Common Law Advance Health Directives
The Natural Death Act does not affect the right of a person to refuse general medical or surgical treatment (as opposed to extraordinary measures). This means that the common law continues to operate with regard to advance directives in the NT.
An advance health directive may be valid at common law if all of the following conditions are satisfied:
1 Capacity: The adult must have had capacity at the time the advance health directive was made and was able to communicate the decision in some way.
2 Voluntariness: The directive must be made voluntarily without coercion or undue influence.
3 Specificity: The adult intended the refusal to apply to the specific situation that later arose.
There are no formal requirements at common law that that mean an advance health directive needs to be in writing and be witnessed, though these elements will be persuasive in suggesting that the directive has been made and meets the requirements.
Natural Death Regulations 1988 (NT)
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Here is a new photo of the old "Fish Room" taken a few days ago courtesy of Kevin Munro who is a fisherman and moderator for the web site "trawlerphotos.co.uk"
The whole of the deckhead has been stripped of layers of rust and the whole lot painted with anti rust paint and lots of bathroom gloss paint which is anti fungal.
All the frames and hull planks have been treated with timber preservative. If you look at some of the very early photo's you will see what a vast difference there is .
Thursday, 24 July 2008
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MIranda Lambert looked lovely at the Country Music Awards this year. We love the way she dresses… and accessorizes; including those sweet shoes!
Spent Rounds Designs Features Up-cycled Spent Ammo – Gift Ideas
One of the most unique jewelry designers in the South uses up-cycled spent ammo to craft one of a kind statement pieces. Check this out.
Great Gifts for Gun Gals
Home defense gun has great gifts for gun gals. Birthdays, weddings, Mother's Day. Hurry! There are shipping deadlines to meet.
.22LR Fire Power Against A Fully Charged Fire Extinguisher – WHAT?
A .22 long rifle versus a fully charged fire extinguisher. The famous Plinkster tests the .22LR fire power. Watch this enlightening demonstration.
12 Gauge Shotguns Do This to Books & Bottles
Find out why 12 gauge shotguns are such a favorite to so many even with these drawbacks.
3 Items Used Daily Invented by Women – Happy International Women's Day
Women still change the world! You'll be surprised by which 3 items used daily were invented by women. In honor of International Women's Day, we present…
5 Ways To Hide Your Valuables In Plain View
Learn the unique 5 ways to hide your valuables, including firearms and ammunition, in plain view.
"You Had Me at 9 Mil…" Valentines for Gun Owners
This year, give jewelry valentines for gun owners that will express your appreciation of the love you share for each other, as well as your shared hobby.
She Wanted To Buy A Gun – Funniest Video Ever
This is the funniest video ever but profound in the truth it presents. This lady just wanted to buy a gun, right?


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Hearts Ladies boss Grant Scott has urged his side to take advantage of Hamilton Academical's low confidence levels when the teams clash tomorrow.
The Accies have endured a nightmare start to the new season after losing all five of their opening fixtures and shipping 21 goals in the process.
A victory for Hearts tomorrow at King's Park, Dalkeith (2pm) would likely push the Jambos towards mid-table in the Scottish Women's Premier League, although manager Scott has warned his side they may need to show patience.
He said: "Hamilton has been a Premier League side for a number of years and we will gave them all the respect they deserve.
"They've lost some key players from last season – we will look to capitalise on their lack of confidence at the moment and we will certainly be disappointed if we don't take anything from the match.
"That said, we cannot simply turn up and assume it will just happen for us. We need to be focused, disciplined and have faith that our game plan will get us what we want."
Elsewhere, Hutchison Vale host Inverness City at Saughton Sports Complex (1pm) and manager Andy Enwood is hoping they can carry on with the same level of performance that earned them a draw away to Aberdeen.
He said: "We lost all three games against Inverness last season so we want to put that right and have identified this game as one we need to win.
"Our performance against Aberdeen has certainly helped the girls' confidence levels after some disappointing results, and if we can keep that same level of intensity, I will be pleased."
Meanwhile, SWPL Cup finalists Glasgow City and Hibernian meet on league business tomorrow (Excelsior Stadium, Airdrie, 4pm) with both looking to maintain their 100 per cent winning starts to the campaign.
Hibs boss Chris Roberts admits the league takes priority over cup football this term, saying: "We have two massive league games before the final and they are our complete focus.
"There has been a big rivalry between City and Hibs over the years and with the potential of two Champions League places being up for grabs this season, we cannot afford to look further ahead than our next game."
Finally, victory for Spartans tomorrow at Ainslie Park (1pm) would see Debbi McCulloch's girls leapfrog fourth-placed opponents Aberdeen.


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Process optimization – Keeping costs under control
ALMAMET regularly carries out safety trainings in its manufacturing facilities and at its customers. Safety concepts are developed upon request.
In cooperation with its customers, ALMAMET develops custom-tailored products and solutions.
Specific know-how, many years of experience and a comprehensive knowledge of the market are an ideal basis for ALMAMETs consulting services. The goal is to optimize costs and to provide solutions for desulfurization problems.


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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Marbeclinic Marbella
Our Complementary and Alternative Therapies, by experienced and highly qualified professionals.
Alternative medicine, alternative therapy, complementary medicine or natural medicine are all different terms to name various procedures used in order to cure people, but do not belong to the field of conventional medicine. Complementary medicine refers to healing practices and products that work in conjunction with traditional medicine. For example, a cancer patient receiving chemotherapy may also undergo acupuncture to help manage chemo side effects like nausea and vomiting. Alternative medicine differs in that it is not used as a complement to, but rather as a substitute for traditional therapy and should not be used in case of disease that needs medical treatment, but still can be very useful treating for example stress symptoms, sleeping problems, anxiety, depression, lack of concentration, etc.
Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine and a key component of traditional Chinese medicine.
Health benefits of acupuncture include relief from chronic pain, arthritis, anxiety, insomnia, depression, migraine, nausea, postoperative pain and obesity. Acupuncture is one of the most widely used alternative medicines throughout the world, and in simplest terms, acupuncture is the practice of penetrating the skin with small needles at specific points on the body.


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Close to the Villa Martin golf course, these brand new spacious detached villas are built to the highest quality. There are plots available from 300 square metres in the attractive area of Villamartin, Orihuela Costa, and the price includes a private pool. The property is just 5 minutes from both the beaches of La Zenia, and close to the brand new open air shopping mall, La Zenia Boulevard, the largest on this stretch of coast line.
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Figurative Paintings of Women - Contemporary Representation of Femininity and Sensuality
Often walking hand-in-hand with controversy is the sensual female form, Russian born, Belgium based - artist Olga Gouskova certainly knows how to capture an audience with her paintings of beautiful and stylish women. Gouskova's women are sexy, melancholic and mysterious, with a powerful physical intensity and a subtleness of form which almost makes you want to caress them. Her female figures do in fact caress themselves, almost as if to emphasize the preciousness of the female body - the eternabasedl source of life and love. The sinuous lines convey vibrations, memories, ambivalent feelings and deep emotion by means of the positions and expressions of the figures. Her paintings are about feelings and states of mood, about dreams and expectations. And she express it through the female portrait. In every painting she tries to capture part of the mystery of the female personality by combining the beauty of the physical with the intensity of the mental.
Her contemporary approach to pose, dynamic composition and colour produces paintings that are modern, proud, vibrant and uniquely individual. When painting, Gouskova uses two different techniques. She draws the body with sepia pencil to make it look almost real - warm and soft, giving it a feeling of physical intensity and a subtleness of form, outline and volume. For the rest of each painting she uses acrylic and all kinds of pens to draw lines and small decorative details. She doesn't paint the volume, using instead flat washes of colour. The lines and patterns make the composition dynamic and complete.
Olga Gouskova was born 28 July 1974 in Moscow, Russia. She grew up in Belarus.
1985-1992 Byelorussian Art lyceum, Minsk, Belarus
1996 immigrated to Belgium. Since 2002 she lives, loves and works in Bruges.
Contemporary Paintings of Women © 2013 Olga Gouskova. All rights reserved.