Nevada City councilmembers struck down an appeal from Verizon Wireless on Wednesday night for its application to install wireless infrastructure in the downtown historic district that was denied by the city's Planning Commission in Sept. 2016.
Nathan Giguiere, an employee with Epic Wireless representing Verizon, said the company is still searching for an appropriate site to install cell antennas in an effort to boost coverage in downtown Nevada City.
Full Report in The Union HERE.
A new study from RootMetrics has revealed that U.S. adults seem to care more about cell phone reception than the quality of neighborhood schools when buying a home.
The survey of 2,000 Americans found that 60% rank good school districts as important, compared to 76% who called out mobile service—the same proportion that ranked hospitals as essential.
Even more important? Ninety-six percent listed crime rate, 90% local taxes, and 84% amenities like shops, parks and restaurants.
Though respondents in all age groups (even those most likely to include parents of young kids) said cell service was more important than school district, older adults unsurprisingly tended to rank hospitals as increasingly more important.
Millennials are hooked on smartphone technology as witnessed everyday at restaurants, in traffic, and on public transportation. A new study by Zogby Analytics brings to light just how intense this obsession is.
According to the study, 87% of millennials say their phones never leave their sides. The first thing that 80% of millennials do every morning is reach for their smartphones, and 78% spend more than two hours a day texting, surfing, talking, and tweeting.
Millennials love the ease and speed of using their smartphone camera as a tool to get things done. About 60% say that everything will be done on mobile devices within the next five years.
More than 1,000 people between the ages of 18 and 34 were surveyed. One of the biggest features millennials say they love about their phones is the camera, which they use for more than just taking selfies. About 90% of the people surveyed reported using their smartphones to take pictures at least once a week.
More importantly, millennials use their phone for businesses — shopping, banking, and more. Almost 50% use their smartphones to access businesses at least once a day.
How long will the millennials hang around Nevada City to shop with crappy cell phone service? Maybe the City Council has an answer?
Increasing broadband access will be a boon to small-town economies by keeping local businesses competitive and attracting new residents. In a recent study by the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, it was found that areas with one to three broadband providers experience a 6.4 percent higher employment growth rate and a 2.4 percent increase to the population growth rate compared to areas without broadband, both vital factors in maintaining a healthy community.
Our economy is increasingly becoming dependent on access to high-speed internet connections.1 Access to the internet brings unprecedented economic opportunities for users, especially for people living in remote areas, for whom the internet opens a window to the world. The internet, and access to it, has changed our world in such a profound way that for many people, life without it is unimaginable. While most Americans are able to connect to the internet in some form today, many Americans can't log on at the high speeds needed to realize the full potential of the internet. Americans living in remote, rural, and tribal communities, in particular, tend to have less access to the highspeed broadband internet connections that many newer technological innovations require. There are also affordability divides that prevent many individuals from getting online or accessing adequate speeds at home. While broadband internet access has increased over time, there remains a digital divide in access to and adoption of high-speed internet. Closing this gap must be a priority, and will take a substantial federal investment to do.
Sixty-one percent of California's rural residents do not have access to broadband!
The U.S. Senate and House Democrats unveil one of the critical tenets of their new economic agenda – "A Better Deal on Universal High-Speed Internet." The Senate and House Democrats will say that far too many Americans – many of them located in rural communities – lack the access to the high-speed, high-quality Internet that they need to succeed in a 21st Century economy. This vital component of the Democrats' Better Deal agenda proposes to bring high-speed, affordable Internet to every American by investing $40 billion in federal dollars to build the kind of broadband infrastructure that will finally connect rural communities. The Democrats' plan would also upgrade the nation's critical safety infrastructure and create accurate maps of areas that lack adequate Internet access in order to ensure rural Americans are not left out. The Democrats will be joined by a medical professional from Tennessee, who relies on high-speed Internet access to save patients' lives and bring healthcare to rural communities, via Skype.
Live Stream here at 9:45 Pacific Time, 12:45 Eastern Time.
The bill was passed the Assembly and Senate and sent to the Governor's office for signature at 5:30 on 21 September. The Governor has until October 15th to sign or veto the bill.
The California Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA California), the California State Association of Counties (CSAC), the League of California Cities (League), the Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC), and the Urban Counties of California (UCC) are a coalition of local, representing nearly every Californian, that overwhelmingly OPPOSE SB 649.
Despite promises made by the wireless industry, the sponsor of SB 649, this bill fails to deliver on its most basic promises. Fundamentally, SB 649 seeks to eliminate public input, full local environmental and design review, mandate the leasing of publicly owned infrastructure and eliminate the ability for local governments to negotiate leases or any public benefit for the installation of "small cell" equipment on taxpayer funded property.
This Public Notice serves as notice that Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) Chairman Ajit Pai has appointed members to serve on two Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC) working groups, Competitive Access to Broadband Infrastructure and Removing State and Local Regulatory Barriers.1 The members of these working groups are listed in Appendix A. The selection of members for the Streamlining Federal Siting working group is in progress, and final selections for this group will be announced at a later date.
The BDAC is organized under, and operates in accordance with, the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA).2 The BDAC's mission is to provide advice and recommendations to the Commission on how to accelerate the deployment of high-speed Internet access.3 The BDAC held its first meeting on Friday, April 21, 2017.
If the Federal Government steps in State and Local Regulations could be null and void and telcos will get unfettered access to the infrastructure needed to host the small cell towers, including attaching the cell sites and antennas to existing buildings, light poles and power poles. Stay tuned, this going to be a very interesting year for telecommunications and local control.
Your thoughts on this issue are most welcome in the comments.
Slow Fiber in Nevada County — FCC Help on the Horizon?
Union Columnist George Boardman reports that Spiral's fiber-optic network has been delayed again.
Nevada County's long-promised high-speed fiber-optic network has been delayed again, and John Paul, CEO of Spiral Internet, is not making any promises about when groundbreaking will occur and the first customers will receive service.
Perhaps Paul has concluded that he is no good at making predictions. As recently as May, he told the Economic Resource Council that high-speed internet access would be available to its first customers in late fall.
Then there was February, when he said the first customers would be online by late spring.
Of course, in October of 2016, Paul predicted service by spring of this year.
Lack of such connectivity guarantees an area will be left behind as the economy increasingly demands that companies compete not just with their neighbors next door, but with the entire world.
And when the state Public Utilities Commission approved $16.7 million is taxpayer funds for the project in December of 2015, Paul said groundbreaking would take place in spring of 2016, with some homes getting service in fall 2016.
The most telling part of the column was the reason for the delay.
It has taken over a year to complete the environmental report. Now Spiral can begin the network design, which will have to be approved by the county and city of Grass Valley before permits can be issued. Paul expects that process to take a few months.
Earlier this summer I was talking with the Chief Engineer at CalNet who was awarded funds for three projects by the Public Utilities Commission several months before Spiral received their funding. They were just getting started on the first of the three projects, having just won approval for their project CEQA Report. It took a whole year for an environmental approval for the first broadband network. They are still working on the second and third project environmental report.
Adopting their usual posture of leading from behind, the supervisors prefer to let others solve the problem instead of providing the leadership required to come up with an innovative solution — like, for example, creating our very own high-speed communications utility.
The county could create its own public utility with the specific task of bringing high-speed communications to the county. Startup costs could be funded by a bond issue that would be retired with profits generated by the utility. And instead of spending a lot of time and money trying to acquire rights-of-way, the utility could make a deal to run its equipment along NID land. The same people who need water also want high-speed internet service.
I agree with Boardman's statement with one NID exception discussed below. The County could have created a public service company and build out broadband, competing with Comcast and AT&T and the wireless providers like SmarterBroadband, like the Mid-Atlantic Broadband Communities Corporation(MBC) MBC owns and operates 1,800 route miles of fiber … MBC supports a 100GB research network in Virginia for the Mid-Atlantic Research Infrastructure Alliance. More on the MBC in future posts, as they have teamed with Microsoft to develop TV Whitespace networks for areas not covered by their fiber networks.
The FCC has taken note of the delays caused by state and local regulatory barriers like Spiral has been experiencing and will again as they apply for construction permits.
The NID exception. The idea of using NID right away was explored by the ERC's Telecommunication Resources Committee, and according to NID, any communications conduit would have to be 6 feet from any treated waterline. Thus separate ditches would have to be dug, negating any cost savings of using a single ditch. NID did not embrace any overtures to cooperate with fiber-optic telecommunication companies.
Your views on the delay are most welcome.


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Q: Obtaining odd p-values and no p-values after running bootstrapped regresions From this set of toy data:
> dput(ryder)
structure(list(tcount = 1:43, margin = c(7L, 2L, 6L, -1L, 6L, 4L, 10L,
2L, 7L, 1L, 4L, -3L, 5L, 5L, 14L, 7L, 15L, 0L, 5L, 6L, 10L, 5L,
6L, 9L, 1L, -5L, -2L, 0L, 1L, 2L, -1L, -1L, 1L, -3L, -9L, -9L,
5L, -1L, -1L, -5L, 6L, -7L, 10L), tcount = c(1L, 0L, 1L,
    0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L,
    1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L,
    0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L), home = c(12L, 12L,
    12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 24L,
    32L, 32L, 32L, 32L, 32L, 32L, 32L, 20L, 28L, 28L, 28L, 28L,
    28L, 28L, 28L, 28L, 28L, 28L, 28L, 28L, 28L, 28L, 28L, 28L,
    28L, 28L, 28L, 28L, 28L), europe = c(0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L,
    0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L,
    0L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
    1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), log(size) = c(1.07918124604762,
    1.07918124604762, 1.07918124604762, 1.07918124604762, 1.07918124604762,
    1.07918124604762, 1.07918124604762, 1.07918124604762, 1.07918124604762,
    1.07918124604762, 1.07918124604762, 1.07918124604762, 1.07918124604762,
    1.38021124171161, 1.50514997831991, 1.50514997831991, 1.50514997831991,
    1.50514997831991, 1.50514997831991, 1.50514997831991, 1.50514997831991,
    1.30102999566398, 1.44715803134222, 1.44715803134222, 1.44715803134222,
    1.44715803134222, 1.44715803134222, 1.44715803134222, 1.44715803134222,
    1.44715803134222, 1.44715803134222, 1.44715803134222, 1.44715803134222,
    1.44715803134222, 1.44715803134222, 1.44715803134222, 1.44715803134222,
    1.44715803134222, 1.44715803134222, 1.44715803134222, 1.44715803134222,
    1.44715803134222, 1.44715803134222)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA,
-43L))

I fit this simple OLS model
> fit=lm(margin~tcount+home+europe+log(size), data=ryder)
> summary(fit)

Call:
lm(formula = margin ~ tcount + home + europe + log(size), data = ryder)

Residuals:
    Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max
-10.748  -2.169  -0.074   2.299  10.270

Coefficients:
            Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept)  -12.256      6.200   -1.98   0.0554 .
tcount        -0.140      0.126   -1.11   0.2720
home           4.560      1.251    3.64   0.0008 ***
europe        -5.404      2.545   -2.12   0.0403 *
log(size)      5.928      2.406    2.46   0.0184 *
---
Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

Residual standard error: 4.1 on 38 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.505, Adjusted R-squared:  0.453
F-statistic: 9.68 on 4 and 38 DF,  p-value: 1.69e-05

from which I ran 10,000 bootstrapped simulation runs in order to check the robustness of the data and the OLS model estimates
> library(car)
> bsfit=Boot(fit, R=10000)
> summary(bsfit, high.moments=TRUE)

Number of bootstrap replications R = 10000
             original    bootBias  bootSE   bootMed  bootSkew bootKurtosis
(Intercept) -12.25579  0.02599064 5.38548 -12.45522  0.171672     0.175865
tcount       -0.14018 -0.00046868 0.15927  -0.13212 -0.186160    -0.054056
home          4.55964 -0.03996191 1.27603   4.52944 -0.061641     0.092715
europe       -5.40431 -0.06915570 2.92813  -5.48657  0.047148    -0.037596
log(size)     5.92844  0.00163010 2.44069   5.97726 -0.056764     0.133190

> with(bsfit, pnorm(abs((2*t0 - mean(t) - 1) / sqrt(var(t)[1,1])), lower.tail=F)*2)
 (Intercept)       tcount         home       europe    log(size)
8.100632e-06 9.706015e-01 7.471309e-02 5.510074e-02 2.198957e-02

and produced a histogram plot of the bootstrapped estimates

My problem here is twofold:

*

*The OLS and bootstrapped coefficients for 'home' are clearly statistically significant as they're 3.5 times their accompanying standard errors. This is also confirmed by the graph above (left panel, middle row), which clearly shows the BC(a) 95 per cent confidence intervals do not contain 0. Despite all this, the p-value is computed as 7.471309e-02 = 0.07471309 and therefore not clearing the p < 0.05 level. This doesn't make sense to me. What's going on here? What am I missing?

*When I run 100,000 bootstrapped simulation runs, I obtain the following, for example:
> bsfit=Boot(fit, R=100001)
Loading required namespace: boot
> summary(bsfit, high.moments=TRUE)

Number of bootstrap replications R = 99996
             original    bootBias  bootSE   bootMed  bootSkew bootKurtosis
(Intercept) -12.25579  0.03307437 5.41265 -12.37263  0.153903     0.224639
tcount       -0.14018 -0.00075596 0.16045  -0.13575 -0.165944    -0.019430
home          4.55964 -0.05710058 1.28518   4.51742 -0.061580     0.033152
europe       -5.40431 -0.06963547 2.95430  -5.49223  0.022428    -0.010192
log(size)     5.92844  0.00198483 2.45264   5.94888 -0.040956     0.173644

> with(bsfit, pnorm(abs((2*t0 - mean(t) - 1) / sqrt(var(t)[1,1])), lower.tail=F)*2)
(Intercept)      tcount        home      europe   log(size)
         NA          NA          NA          NA          NA

I get no p-values for my coefficients at all! The same obtains when running 15,000, 25,000, 50,000 and 1 million simulation runs. Is there some sort of cut-off threshold above which you never get p-values? If there is, I've not been made aware of it! (Indeed, it even happens occasionally when running 10,000 simulations a second or third time.)
I'd be extremely grateful to anybody who can give some clear-minded insight as to why all this is happening, as well as some solutions.

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VY Global Growth (VYGG) to Liquidate Trust
VY Global Growth (NYSE:VYGG) announced in an 8-K this afternoon that it intends to liquidate its trust after being unable to identify and combine with a target that meets its investment criteria.
The SPAC will cease all operations and redeem all of its outstanding shares for $10.06, effective as of October 6. VYGG's trust account holds approximately $578,512,536.17, which includes approximately $3,512,536.17 in interest and dividend income (excess of cash over $575,000,000, the funds deposited into the trust). In accordance with the terms of the agreement, VY Global Growth expects to retain $100,000 of the interest and dividend income from the trust to pay dissolution expenses.
In a letter to shareholders, VYGG noted how current market conditions and the recent SEC proposal have created a challenging environment for SPAC transactions. Chairman Alexander Tamas and CEO John Hering wrote:
"As market conditions began to shift in mid 2021 and especially into 2022, the market conditions for SPACs as a path for high quality growth companies to enter the public markets became very challenging. Heightened oversight of SPACs by the SEC has impacted the deSPACing process, further affecting investor appetite for deSPACs."
Tamas and Hering also made a point that traditional IPOs, not just SPACs, have been struggling in this market. "Since VYGG launched, the SPAC index (Defiance Next Gen SPAC ETF) lost over 44% of its value, tech SPACs lost even more of their value (down 56%) and over 80% of traditional technology IPOs since October 2020 are trading below issuance price," they said in the shareholder letter.
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MEDFORD MAN PLEADS GUILTY IN COUNTERFEITTING AND THEFT SCHEME
by Samuel Goldberg
Here is another tale of an free enterprise gone bad. The gent is from Medford. He is 28 years of age and his name is Casey Kolenda (albeit hereinafter, the "Defendant").
According to the Boston Herald's story on the subject, found here, the Defendant has pleaded guilty to making and selling counterfeit Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority passes. In return for his plea of guilt he was sentenced to three years in prison. The specific charges he plead to were seven counts of counterfeiting.
The victory announcement was made by Attorney General Maura Healey, who's office prosecuted the case.
"This scheme resulted in significant revenue loss for the MBTA and was patently unfair to riders who paid the full cost of their transit passes," Healey said in a statement. "Schemes such as this one, in which an individual commits crimes for personal gain at the expense of the public, will not be tolerated."
Transit Police Chief Kenneth Green added, "Let this serve as a strong reminder that the MBTA and the Transit Police will not tolerate fraud…Hardworking, honest, fare paying MBTA customers deserve and expect our full attention to such criminal behavior. The successful prosecution of this case is the result of a collaborative partnership between Transit Police detectives and the Attorney General's office."
According to the Commonwealth, the investigation into the Defendant's activities revealed that he "orchestrated a scheme to fraudulently create counterfeit $70 monthly MBTA subway and bus passes, known as 'LinkPasses,' between October 2013 and March 2014…electronic data stored on the LinkPass magnetic strip e was copied using a magnetic stripe reader, also known as a 'skimmer.' That data was then downloaded onto the magnetic stripes of hundreds of MBTA stored-value cards that were purchased for as little as five cents at ticket kiosks."
In terms of damages, the MBTA says that the Defendant is responsible for more than 60 counterfeit MBTA passes in circulation during the above-mentioned time period. Investigators estimate that the lost revenue attributable to the counterfeit tickets made and sold by the Defendant was in excess of $225,000.
Attorney Sam's Take On "Victimless Crimes" That Actually Have Victims
There are various ways that this this case could have been prosecuted. One question is whether the Defendant could have accomplished all this by himself. I anyone acted jointly with him in the scheme, no matter how small a role that person played, both could have found themsevles facing conspiracy charges as well. In such a case, each could be held responsible for what the other did in the furtherance of that conspiracy.
…Or become a witness for the prosecution and simply bury the former cohort.
I find that many such "quick-starters" figure that if the intended victim of a potential scheme is a big busienss or agency, then it is really a victimless crime. After all, they have enough money, don't they?
Well, one might wonder if the MBTA is so wealthy when one reviews its performance this past winter.
But, I suppose, I digress.
The important thing, as far as this blog's subject matter, is concerned, is that the Commonwealth doesnot view it this way. In fact, it allows the prosecution to wear the "we protect society itself" hat when it busts such activities. In other words, it is taken quite seriously.
You see, when one steals from a public agency like this, any loss is made up by the taxpayer or the customer who sees fares get higher.
Or just watches the agency's infastructure weaken further.
Did I mention this past winter?
At any rate, do not expect the prosecution to take anything close to a "Robin Hood-esque" attitude in such, or any, matters.
I remind you that the Sherrif of Nottingham, for those who know the story, was law enforcement.
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The Sundays @ Noon Concert Series takes place in the beautiful Sculpture Gallery at the Hugh Lane Gallery.
The first concerts took place in October 1975 - The Complete Bach Violin Sonatas performed by Therese Timoney (violin) and Gillian Smith (keyboard). Funded by the Goethe Institut this mini-series eventually led to the establishment of a regular Sunday series.
This series of free weekly concerts continues to present the best of Irish and International music and musicians.
Concerts normally run from September to June and Admission is Free.


FactoryBean for Hessian proxies. Exposes the proxied service for use as a bean reference, using the specified service interface.
The service URL must be an HTTP URL exposing a Hessian service. For details, see the HessianClientInterceptor javadoc.


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Q: Looking for tutorials on iPhoneCoreDataRecipes App I am finding it very difficult to grasp how the Views are loaded and wired with the TabBarController in the iPhoneCoreDataRecipes App.
Does anyone have any pointers on how to learn the concepts presented in this Apple sample App?
I have read the other items on Apple developer site.
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {
   recipeListController.managedObjectContext = self.managedObjectContext;
   [window addSubview:tabBarController.view];
   [window makeKeyAndVisible];
}

My understanding of the above
Line 2: Populating the list controller?
Line 3: Adding a Sub view to the tab controller view?
If my understanding of line 3 is correct, where are the other views, Unit Conversion, added to the tabcontroller?

A: A tab bar controller requires a list of view controllers. I haven't seen this specific sample, so it may be taken care of by the first line. However, normally you would do the following:

*

*Instantiate all view controllers:
UIViewcontroller *viewControllerTab1 = ...
UIViewcontroller *viewControllerTab2 = ...
UIViewcontroller *viewControllerTab3 = ...

*Add them to the tab bar controller:
tabBarController.viewControllers =
  [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
     viewControllerTab1,
     viewControllerTab2,
     viewControllerTab3,
     nil
  ];

*Then you would add the tabBarController's view to the window as a subview, followed by window makeKeyAndVisible (lines 2 and 3). These are not specific to the tab bar, they just add the tab bar view to the main application view, like you would any other view controller.
You may also either specify the UITabBarItem details here, or on the view Controllers. You should do it here so that you don't run into any problems with the tab bar items not showing up. I.E.
viewControllerTab1.tabBarItem = [UITabBarItem init...]

A: Actually:
Line 2: is passing a reference to the managedObjectContext to the recipeListController. A managedObjectContext is a CoreData structure. It includes a reference to the persistent store (often, but not always, a file on disk [SQLite]) and a managedObjectModel (file in the project). This context allows you to make queries against your object model, which has been persisted to the database. (Since this example is recipes: "Fetch all recipes that require the ingredient "Flour"). But since this is not (strictly speaking) a direct database query, the "things" that are returned are objects, not rows in a recordSet. you will only find references to managedObjectContexts in CoreData applications.
Line 3: Has been explained above. This is adding a subview to the application's window, and then assigining the tabBarController.view to that subview. It is assumed that the tabBarController has been previously populated with the appropriate viewControllers.
Hope that helps.

A: That code smells like the window and the tab controllers are all being loaded in the NIB.  Everything is already "wired" up by this point, and all it is doing is setting the window's sub-view and making it key.
This might help.  Make a new tab-based application in XCode, and look at what it does.  It will have both NIB-loaded and code-defined views in there so you can see the difference.

A: I think what you are looking for is the same issue I ran across where the view are being loaded in Interface Builder, not the code.
So the steps are:
1: Open mainwindow.xib
2: set the View Mode to column view

3: open the tab bar controller and navigate down to the tab element

4: set the class of the identity

I kept trying to connect the main tab itself, but you need to be more specific!
Hope this helps!


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<?php

/**
 * This is the model class for table "banner".
 *
 * The followings are the available columns in table 'banner':
 * @property integer $id
 * @property string $nombre
 * @property string $creado_en
 * @property integer $creado_por
 * @property string $modificado_en
 * @property integer $modificado_por
 *
 * The followings are the available model relations:
 * @property ImagenBanner[] $imagenBanners
 */
class Banner extends MkActiveRecord
{
	/**
	 * @return string the associated database table name
	 */
	public function tableName()
	{
		return 'banner';
	}

	/**
	 * @return array validation rules for model attributes.
	 */
	public function rules()
	{
		// NOTE: you should only define rules for those attributes that
		// will receive user inputs.
		return array(
			array('creado_por, modificado_por', 'numerical', 'integerOnly'=>true),
			array('nombre', 'length', 'max'=>255),
			array('creado_en, modificado_en', 'safe'),
			// The following rule is used by search().
			// @todo Please remove those attributes that should not be searched.
			array('id, nombre, creado_en, creado_por, modificado_en, modificado_por', 'safe', 'on'=>'search'),
		);
	}

	/**
	 * @return array relational rules.
	 */
	public function relations()
	{
		// NOTE: you may need to adjust the relation name and the related
		// class name for the relations automatically generated below.
		return array(
			'imagenes' => array(self::HAS_MANY, 'ImagenBanner', 'banner_id'),
		);
	}

	/**
	 * @return array customized attribute labels (name=>label)
	 */
	public function attributeLabels()
	{
		return array(
			'id' => 'ID',
			'nombre' => 'Nombre',
			'creado_en' => 'Creado En',
			'creado_por' => 'Creado Por',
			'modificado_en' => 'Modificado En',
			'modificado_por' => 'Modificado Por',
		);
	}

	/**
	 * Retrieves a list of models based on the current search/filter conditions.
	 *
	 * Typical usecase:
	 * - Initialize the model fields with values from filter form.
	 * - Execute this method to get CActiveDataProvider instance which will filter
	 * models according to data in model fields.
	 * - Pass data provider to CGridView, CListView or any similar widget.
	 *
	 * @return CActiveDataProvider the data provider that can return the models
	 * based on the search/filter conditions.
	 */
	public function search()
	{
		// @todo Please modify the following code to remove attributes that should not be searched.

		$criteria=new CDbCriteria;

		$criteria->compare('id',$this->id);
		$criteria->compare('nombre',$this->nombre,true);
		$criteria->compare('creado_en',$this->creado_en,true);
		$criteria->compare('creado_por',$this->creado_por);
		$criteria->compare('modificado_en',$this->modificado_en,true);
		$criteria->compare('modificado_por',$this->modificado_por);

		return new CActiveDataProvider($this, array(
			'criteria'=>$criteria,
		));
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the static model of the specified AR class.
	 * Please note that you should have this exact method in all your CActiveRecord descendants!
	 * @param string $className active record class name.
	 * @return Banner the static model class
	 */
	public static function model($className=__CLASS__)
	{
		return parent::model($className);
	}
}

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On the eve of International Womens Day, we celebrate a powerful woman and iconic artist. Sketch different sides and interpretations of Frida Kahlo. From passion and pleasure, to pain. Paint and sketch portraits of our two models as they channel the spirit of Frida.
Duo poses and longer tableaux from models CARLA TOFANO and MAYA PETROVNA HILCISIN, portraying a double dose of Frida to inspire your drawings. Plus still life of flowers, fruit and Frida inspired props to capture the colour and drama of her character and artwork.
Tickets includes drawing materials and a special alcoholic drink from the Looking Glass Cocktail Club bar. Please bring paper/sketchbooks. Feel free to bring easels. A3 mountboard drawing boards to lean on provided. Over 18s only.
Photos: Maya Petrovna Hilcisin as Frida by photographer Kristina Soljo (haircut image) & Carla Tofano (skirt image).


Project C4OPE is a program designed to connect families who share the experience of a loved one who has died of an opioid overdose, survived an overdose, or are at high risk for overdose. Palm Beach County leads the state in opioid-related overdose deaths, with more than 600 recorded in 2017 alone and more than 5,000 total opioid overdoses recorded in 2016.
Families in the opioid crisis from across Palm Beach County are invited to connect at various locations across the county. Project C4OPE is an opportunity for you to express your needs and wants around the topic of opioid overdose. The meetings are free and open to the public with an advance reservation.
Please visit the grief and family support group near you.
Find a monthly gathering near you and let us know you are attending.


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"Jim Hayes: See Me" – available for purchase at Lulu.com
"[W]hen he wrote 'See Me,' it meant that not only had you screwed up, it meant that he believed in you. You were too good to be mediocre, and he would not let you do that to yourself." – Jim Gregory
This book is a tribute to former Cal Poly journalism professor Jim Hayes, whose reporting, teaching and writing coaching career spanned more than 60 years. Our collection of anecdotes, loving tributes and heartfelt notes of thanks was made possible by the original contributions of its authors, inspired by a Facebook page called "We Love Jim Hayes." The page was founded several years ago by Cal Poly alumnus Mark Looker, and in the months preceding Jim's death in June, 2014, it morphed into a living tribute to Jim.
V i V A C E 4: Tribute to Jim Hayes (V i V A C E Literary Magazine) (Volume 4) – available for purchase at Amazon.com
"When Jim sent me an email in February about his terminal illness, I called him immediately. He asked me when ViVACE would be out and his next story published. At that point, I vehemently expedited the issue, so it would reach him before his passing. With the blessing of the Hayes family, I prepared a special issue of ViVACE gathering together accolades, along with a compilation of Jim's short stories previously published in ViVACE 2009, ViVACE 2, ViVACE 3. When ViVACE 4: Tribute to Jim Hayes was completed and available on June 1, I was elated that Jim was able to recognize its publication. He passed away on June 10." – Christine Neilson, Managing Editor/Publisher
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The Menifee Union School District is proposing to build a new middle school (Middle School No. 4) within the Audie Murphy Ranch subdivision (which was subject to previous environmental review). Middle School No. 4 consists of approx 17.6 acres of land located east of Audie Murphy Rd and south of Destry Dr in the City of Menifee. The proposed school is tentatively planned to be located within a single building with controlled entry points. The proposed school includes an estimated 45-50 classrooms. The master plan site capacity is 1,300 students in grades 6-8, and a staff projected to be approx 70. Flexible spaces are planned for both open structure and highly structured instruction. A centrally located Multi-Purpose Room will facilitate variable-sized group and/or team teaching exercises.


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Anyone planning to pick this game up? from the reviews i saw i'll definitly going to get it!
It has a really good review, but I have a knack for sucking at Rpgs .
Though this one seems inviting almost friendly, might actually try it.
looks interesting. i'll get it tomorrow!
i love the style! and i love the gameplay!
and yeah, the main character is the typical japanese emo. WRYYYY!?!?!
I read the review...but I don't understand this game. Explain, anyone?
Neku Sakuraba, a 15 year-old boy with a hobby for music and graffiti, wakes up in what seems to be the Shibuya shopping district of Tokyo, Japan. With no idea why he's there, he opens his hand to realize he is holding a strange black pin. After flipping it with his hand, the thoughts of the people surrounding him began to flow into his head at once. Surprised, Neku discovers he is able to read the minds of others, and assumes it has something to do with the black pin he is holding.
A cellphone starts to ring in his pocket, and he can't tell whether it is his or not. A text message appears: "Reach 104. You have 60 minutes. Fail, and face erasure. -The Reapers". After discovering he can't delete the message, a timer of 60 minutes imprints onto his right hand. Neku is in Shibuya to play the "Reapers' Game" which spans a total of 7 days. All Players of the Reapers' Game have a black pin with a skull embedded on it. The Reapers' Game has certain rules, which prevent him from leaving the Shibuya district. If Neku doesn't complete the game, he will be stricken from existence along with Shiki Misaki, a girl who is another Player in the game. Shiki and Neku forge a pact to work together with her for the week.
The Reapers monitor the duo's actions and invite them to dangerous and difficult tasks. In order to survive, Neku and Shiki have to defeat the "Noise", physical manifestations of people's negative thoughts and feelings. The Noise are based on animals such as pigeons, wolves, and bears and can also take the forms of objects and historical monuments in Shibuya. Neku's psychic talents are essential not only to gather clues and hints from the people, but to also detect the Noise that sweep through the roads of Shibuya. During their week in Shibuya, Neku and Shiki run into other people who have become involved in the Reapers' Game.
Sounds insane....and actually really interesting.
Although I feel starved for an RPG right now, I cant say this one looks like my style. I'm getting a gimicky vibe from it.
Heard the main character completely ruins the game, I've decided not to buy it for that reason alone, those type of characters really annoy me, and I'm not sure I could sit through that. Is he really as bad as I've heard?
just ignore the emo'ness. Put your thumb on his lines of text because you won't miss something importaint. Nothing of great importiance leaves his mouth. just ignore him, its a good game.


Blogger Boss needs to decide what this is going to say about how crazy her life is & how she loves coffee & walks with her hubby.
Life is truly good at keeping us on our toes!
This week we got to experience that again, as we are being thrown for a loop.
Tuesday evening Hubby went to play volleyball and when he jumped to spike a ball, he heard a loud pop, followed by him collapsing on the floor.
He called and asked me to pick him up, feeling that he should go see a Dr, since his knee cap was 2 inches above its original location.
I went to pick him up and found him sitting in a wheel chair.
After several hours at ER (I went home to take care of our baby who was running a high fever), I picked him up at 3 in the morning.
He had a brace around his knee and crutches to help him move forward. It was a fairly big project to get him in to the car!!
His leg has to be kept straight and he has some long legs!! We did eventually figure out a way to get him in and went home to catch some rest.
Wednesday I got the kids on the bus and asked our oldest daughter to please stay home for the day to help care for baby, since I had to be able to bring Hubby to the hospital to see an orthopedic surgeon. Baby was still running a high fever (she has roseola), so I really didn't feel like bringing her along.
We saw the surgeon and got confirmed what we had feared, my hubby had broken his knee tendon.
Yesterday (Thursday) he had surgery to have his tendon repaired.
He was able to come home only a few hours later.
Now he has a long recovery ahead of him. At this point it's easier to say what he CAN do than what he can't. He's stuck on the couch and fortunately he can work from there!!
The hardest part for him to accept is that he won't be able to work on our house. The surgeon said the recovery usually takes 6-12 months, so our life will be adjusted in many ways and some of our plans we had, will most likely change.
For now we are thankful that the surgery went well, that he has work he can do while being bedridden, and that he's healthy otherwise.
We need to focus on taking one day at the time and find comfort in knowing that things happen for a reason.
We sure need prayers for strength and patience during this time.
I asked my oldest daughter to redesign my blog- update it a little bit. So, in short, this place is going to look a little crazy until she gets things tidied up and looking cute. Stay tuned!
Here life has been going on in a less than slow manner.
We've been busy with fun stuff though, so no complaints coming from this corner!
The weather has been amazing too, so life has been great!
I have truly enjoyed this summer, and one of the huge perks about this summer is that we didn't MOVE!!
We did start building a house though, but I feel rather chill about it.
It will go the way it goes, at the pace it takes.
Life's too busy for me to get too worked up about it.
I bet having built a few times, under a lot more stressful circumstances, helps too.
I have learned to keep things in perspective.
I told my hubby this morning how excited I am to see what this next year brings.
We know that we are building a house, and I am having lots of fun planning the kitchen, coordinating colours and floors and choosing styles and designs of anything from door handles to roof shingles!
And trying to not get too carried away, but keeping things within a realistic budget.
The footings are done and this week the basement walls will be assembled (we are building the basement out of ICF blocks, in other words, styrofoam blocks with concrete poured inside them. This will provide us with a climate stable and waterproof basement. The basement will only be about 4 feet below ground level, so we'll fit full size windows in the rooms.
What else?? I travelled down to Windsor/Detroit with 4 of the kids a few weeks ago. We went for a weekend and visited my sister-in-law who was home alone with their 4 youngest (Hubby's brother's family) and also attended Confirmation at church and visited other friends. Such a fun trip!!
We have also had my husband's sister with family here for a visit, so we finally got to see their adorable, identical twin girls.
There's nothing like cousins hanging out together, they all had so much fun!
Between our family, her family and hubby's brother's kids, there were 24 kids between ages 11 months (the twins) to 18 (oldest grandkid to my in-laws just turned 18 last week)!!
It's a half time job keeping up with who's where and with who and what they are doing!
So much fun and lots of memories made.
The kids are counting the days till school starts, 22 more days to go!
I am glad they are excited to go back.
Our 3rd daughter will be starting high school, and she's ready to take this next step towards growing up.
So, it's suddenly July and the last month was a blur of activity.
We have done our fair share of house prep and planning, our 3rd daughter graduated with much pomp and circumstance from elementary school, there was a work trip for my hubby that I went along for (just one night), we've had visitors and over night company, and guess what?
I think I'm going to subscribe to this beautiful weather for a long time, it feels SO good!! Visiting the gorgeous beaches, playing in the park, swimming in our pool, eating ice-cream, tanning on the deck...we've done it all.
Last night the digger arrived and today they are excavating our lot and house building is starting within a short amount of time! Still seems a bit weird that we are actually building again, but also really exciting.
I just wanted to leave a brief update to let you all know what's going on at the moment, and I'll try to keep updating as the house project advances.
Our life is usually pretty busy.
The last few years have been especially so.
As many of you know, we've moved overseas twice and moved twice in addition to that, since summer 2010.
We built a house in Finland, and before that we had a house that was built for us, but that we finished the basement, deck, fence, driveway and yard on. Our first home was a tiny shoe box that we lived in for 3 years that we did some major renovations on, while living in it.
Anyway, with life being so full of constant change, you get a bit addicted to things happening on a regular basis.
This last year included a new baby, a move, hubby starting his own business and lots of snow.
Not sure what the snow had to do with this, but it was worth adding.
I have maintained that "We are not making ANY big decisions or changes for at least another year!".
So, since we are fairly crazy and often forget what we just "decided" only a few days ago, we bought a lot!
So yeah, we are building a house! Chop, chop, here we go again!! Wish us luck!
On a side note I'd like to add that our friends that had the apartment fire are doing really well. The husband has made some remarkable steps forward in the last 24 hours, and we have much reason to Thank God for this. Please keep them in your prayers.
We went on a trip this past weekend. On Saturday we attended a wedding (it was beautiful!) and I realized that our 7 year old daughter only brought her high top sneakers along for the trip, so no dressy shoes to wear for church.
We enjoyed some really warm days during our time away, however, with 10 people in our Suburban, and no AC, we did't enjoy driving a whole lot.
I got frustrated upon returning home, to literally freezing temperatures (think, snow in the air).
I could go on and on, but you probably get the picture.
Our days are filled with these luxuries.
"This coffee isn't that great!"
"How did you manage to wreck ANOTHER pair of pants?"
These are things that are a real annoyance at the moment, and I think we wouldn't be human if we never complained or vented for vain reasons.
But what if one morning your whole life was turned upside down between going to bed and sunrise?
What if a fire caused this change?
What if you lost almost everything you had to this fire?
What if your spouse was in critical condition from hot, toxic smoke inhalation?
I'm not saying we should walk around in fear all day, waiting for something terrible or sad or scary to happen. That's not a way to live life. God wants us to be happy and enjoy the life he blessed us with. But isn't it easy to get caught up in all the little silly things?
Isn't it easy to compare oneself to others in many ways. They have more of this, they have a nice car, how could they afford that house? How are they raising their kids? Why this and why that?
Well, so far I haven't received any medals for doing so great.
I have however been blessed with a lot. In every aspect of the word.
That's why this terrible fire that changed our dear friends lives in just a few minutes, have been such an important reminder for me.
It is hard to write about this accident, and I sure hope that this dear lady who lost so much will be OK with me writing this. I know she'll read this at some point and she'll shake her head and think I'm silly for writing this, but I will write it anyway.
This lady IS one of the sweetest, most thoughtful and gentle persons I have ever met.
She is quick to smile, laughs easily, has a fun sense of humor and is liked by everyone that knows her. I have never heard a bad word spoken about her.
When I moved to Canada she was one of the people who really helped me feel welcome, always making a point to talk to me.
Now, seeing her in this sad and heavy trial, she is inspiring me again.
I saw her this weekend and she still had her amazing spirit intact.
She happily went through all the bags with donated clothing, amazed by the generosity of her friends. She felt like it was Christmas!
She told some funny stories and we had some good laughs.
Her heart is heavy though. Her traveling companion is in the hospital. In lots of pain. My husband and I went there and it hurt to see him in pain, heavily sedated.
It must be so, so hard for her to see him like that.
Times like these help keep things in perspective. You realize what matters. I have had a few trials that affected me like that during my marriage. When our 3rd daughter was diagnosed with diabetes at age 2, and she barely made it. When I suffered my miscarriage at 20 weeks.
I look back at those times and realize that the pain is still there. Those days and weeks were hard. But despite sometimes wishing things would have turned out different, there's a part of me that's so thankful for those trials. Without them I would have never experienced the amazing outpour of love and care. So many prayers, thoughtful cards, text messages, phone calls, gifts etc, somehow I wouldn't want to have NOT had those trials, since I learned so much from them and in the end they strengthened my faith.
I hope, wish and pray our dear friends, who are now going through such a hard time, one day can look back and say "Despite it all, I wouldn't have wanted it any other way!"
So, today I will try to remind myself to appreciate my health, the sunshine, my lukewarm coffee, sticky floors and loud kids.
Things could truly be harder. Much, much harder.
I hope I have enough time to compose a little something.
I realized exactly a whole month went by since my last entry, and although nothing too earth shaking has taken place since then, I figured I'd at least say a polite "Hello!".
Guess what? The snow is gone. Yup. True story. It sure didn't look like it had plans of leaving, at all, ever. But it did!! (Let's all give the snow a round of applause for realizing that it was time to bid farewell, for this time).
I have spotted spring flowers. Yup. Just like that. They hardly gave the snow enough time to depart, before they decided to greet us with their lovely selves. Thank you, spring flowers, for arriving, you made me very happy.
We are still enjoying temperatures around freezing, but we have also had a few "heat waves" when the kids enjoyed wearing just short sleeved shirts outside!!
They have had time to ride their bikes, play soccer and football and other sports.
I have had time to enjoy driving on bare roads and taking walks, feeling pavement under my feet!
So, I guess we can safely say that the arrival of spring has been the most important happening in the last month! I appreciate all seasons, really I do, but between you and me, I think winter overstayed its welcome this year. It can be a bit rude like that.
What else? Our adorable baby is walking, started a few weeks ago, and it's SOOO cute!! She'll be ONE on May 3rd. And no, I have no clue where that time went. I do know that we have enjoyed her so very much though. So much so that my old self is almost catching a case of the baby fever. Almost.
Hubby has been blessed with more work than he has time for. When you are running your own business, the most assuring feeling is knowing you have enough work ahead of you, so we are feeling very blessed. And the fact that he works from home sure is an extra bonus. We have traveled some lately, and he just brings the laptop along and works while I drive! Pretty neat!
Oldest daughter is doing well, between 11th grade, work and boyfriend. She dreams of moving out soon, and I am getting ready for her departure! Nothing is happening yet, but maybe this summer! I used to wonder how you as a parent get ready/prepare for your children moving out/growing up. Well, now I know. Them becoming teenagers, never being home in the first place, and acting like a 3rd adult in the house (but not paying any bills), help.
I love her so much and we have such nice visits, but at some point, your little princess becomes BIG! And this new, bigger child, needs to try her own wings, and I want her to do that. Not so I can say "See!, it's not that easy!" (well, maybe a little bit because of that too...), but because LIFE!! You need to learn to stand on your own two legs, and I feel that she's very ready to do so, making her own mistakes, forming her own habits. So whenever it happens, I'm ready to send her on her merry way!
Daughter number 2 is doing so, so well, but we have our ups and downs. I just found out some things she'd done when she wasn't feeling so well. (last fall) Things that made me sad, upset and surprised to hear about. It's one of the worst feelings as a parent to find out stuff that your child has done, and you feel like everyone else knew, but you. I don't want to seem like the kind of parent who thinks that MY kid could never do wrong. I know they can. I know I did. But it's still hard when you realize that bad things happen.
Fortunately all is taken care of and she corrected what she did wrong, what more can I ask?
In school she's gone from failing 2 classes (pre adhd medication), to being in the top of her class!! (post medication). Quite amazing!, and I'm so happy for her.
She literally LOVES going to school.
So, over all, she's doing amazing. Her mood is great, almost all the time, she's way less anxious, and she just seems HAPPY!!
The rest of the gang is chugging along. 2 more months of school, and we hope to enjoy a LONG, nice and waaarm summer. I'm eyeing the pool, waiting for the last layer of ice to melt away. We have lots of stuff going on in the next few months, our 3rd daughter will be graduating from elementary school, and in the fall we'll have 3 kids in high school! Weird how fast they grow up.
Good thing we have our little girl as a reminder of the baby years, otherwise I might have already forgotten about the night feedings, dirty diapers, teething etc. But just like the seasons change, so does our life, and I'm doing my best at enjoying these years, since I'm starting to realize just how fast they go by!
Hi, I'm a happy and busy mom of 8 kids. Here I write about our everyday life, to share with our friends and family who are spread out around the world!


The primary goal of the IIT Fellowship Program is to broaden and enrich the professional development experience of a diverse group of graduate students by placing them within an environment, James Madison College, with an established tradition in excellence in undergraduate teaching. Students selected for this full-year program will work with JMC faculty to engage in structured discussions on pedagogy and practice, course design and curriculum development. In addition, fellows will have an opportunity to investigate questions concerning the intellectual coherence and viability of interdisciplinary teaching and learning. In this latter work, they will have opportunities for general interactions with JMC undergraduates. In addition, fellows will be encouraged to integrate their work in the IIT fellowship with the University Certification in College Teaching Program.
Selected fellows will engage in regular meetings with other fellowship recipients, with JMC faculty, and with JMC students. Fellows are also expected to attend select classes and curricular events in the College on a regular basis. Additionally, fellows will conduct individual or collaborative projects on interdisciplinary undergraduate teaching and mentoring, including Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) projects, and to share their findings in public venues such as electronic portfolios, conferences, and peer-reviewed journals. Fellows are expected to commit approximately 10 hours monthly to the fellowship and will receive $5000 to help support project expenses and/or travel to a conference to share their findings.
The IIT Fellowship Program is for doctoral students with an interest in interdisciplinary inquiry and undergraduate teaching. Although in prior years, the IIT program has been limited to specific colleges, the program welcomes applicants from all colleges whose teaching areas would be relevant to a college of public affairs. Applicants should be enrolled full-time in a program leading to a PhD, have previous teaching experience, be in good academic standing, and making progress on their degrees. Preference will be given to students currently in their second and third years of doctoral study. Applicants should submit the attached application form, a CV, and a brief essay that describes their interest in and previous work with interdisciplinarity, as well as their specific interest in the IIT program. Awards will be made to individuals who, in the judgment of the review panel, have demonstrated academic achievement, interest in interdisciplinarity and undergraduate teaching, and engagement with issues in public affairs.
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Area residents named to dean's list for the Spring 2019 semester at Quinnipiac University
HAMDEN, Conn. (June 14, 2019) – The following area students were named to the dean's list for the Spring 2019 semester at Quinnipiac University:
Holmes, NY – Alexandra Colbert, Rebecca Plotkin
Millbrook, NY – Tyler DuBois
Patterson, NY – Alicia Brancato
Pawling, NY – Tyler DeVito
Stormville, NY – Ashling Sherry
To qualify for the dean's list, students must earn a grade point average of at least 3.5 with no grade lower than C. Full-time students must complete at least 14 credits in a semester, with at least 12 credits that have been graded on a letter grade basis to be eligible. Part-time students must complete at least six credits during a semester.
About Quinnipiac University
Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls 7,000 full-time undergraduate and 3,000 graduate and part-time students in 110 degree programs through its Schools of Business, Communications, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, Law, Medicine, Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences. Quinnipiac consistently ranks among the top regional universities in the North in U.S. News & World Report's "Best Colleges" issue. Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review's "The Best 381 Colleges." The Chronicle of Higher Education has named Quinnipiac among the Great Colleges to Work For(r). For more information, please visit qu.edu. Connect with Quinnipiac on Facebook at facebook.com/quinnipiacunews and follow Quinnipiac on Twitter @QuinnipiacU.
Dutchess County Department of Human Resources Recruitment Announcement, Microcomputer/Word Processing Support Assistant
Visitation for Judge James F. Reitz


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James' sisters
Another draft post written before I found out who Bill Doe really was.
This shows you not to make hypothesis.
CAMPBELL – James Campbell, 39, returned soldier, of 844 Bannatyne avenue, died Sunday in General hospital after a short illness. The funeral will be held at 1.30 p.m. Wednesday from Mordue Bros.' funeral home to Elmwood cemetery. Besides his mother, with whom he lived, Mr. Campbell is survived by a brother, Alex, and a sister, Kathleen, also at home. Four other sisters also survive: Mrs. D.R. Gilchrist, Camp Borden, Ont.; Mrs. James Moorcroft, Vancouver, B.C., and Mrs. R. Toole and Mrs. J. Jones, both of Winnipeg.
Four other sisters also survive:
Mrs. D.R. Gilchrist, Camp Borden, Ont.;
Mrs. James Moorcroft, Vancouver, B.C.,
and Mrs. R. Toole and Mrs. J. Jones, both of Winnipeg.
Who were James' sisters?
According to the ship's manifest…
Tina 23 (Christina?)
Margaret 12
Jessie 6
Kathleen 1
Now according to the 1921 census
Tina is not listed so she was probably married to D.R. Gilchrist. Usually siblings are listed by age in obituaries.
Charlotte who is next in James' obituary could have been married to James Moorcroft.
Just plausible…
April 30, 2017 Pierre Lagacé	2 Comments
How I met Anna Campbell? Update
This is a short intermission. It's about Anna not Charlotte M. Campbell.
This post has received lots of comments since I posted it. The last comment is most interesting.
http://wp.me/pExNc-5jP
This is the comment Jeffrey Campbell wrote.
I have undisputable proof, with documentation, of some very important details with regards to William Campbell and his wife, Marie.
First, I have paperwork which proves William Campbell was a member of the 78th Regiment of Foot, or Fraser's Highlanders. This paperwork places William together with Major James Abercrombie of the 78th.
Secondly, I also have paperwork which will prove Marie Josephte Chartier (b. 1732) to be the daughter of Louis Chartier and Marie Madeleine Lefebvre dit Boulanger. This will finally put to rest any theories about Marie being the daughter of anyone else.
Finally, I have definitive paperwork which lists William's full name as Alexander William Campbell. I find this quite compelling, because this is the first instance where we see a different forename for him.
All documentation is archived on the LDS website, http://www.familysearch.org, located on William's personal 'Memories' page. William's PID# is: KP3R-TZJ.
Or, you can contact me directly and I'll be happy to email anyone these recently discovered documents from the Quebec National Archives.
This is the proof he sent me in a PDF form.
Campbell & Chartier Inheritence 1793
To contact me so I can contact Jeffrey…
April 29, 2017 Pierre Lagacé	Leave a comment
Charlotte Campbell, 13
I wrote this draft post before I found this picture last night.
I don't know much more about Bill, but I know much much more about Charlotte and her two brothers James and Alexander.
Both were World War One soldiers.
Charlotte came to Canada in 1911 with her siblings. James is there but not her parents who had emigrated before according to the 1921 Canadian census.
Census information are often wrong. Census takers rely on what people tell them… Names, age, occupation, when they immigrated.
I know for a fact that Charlotte emigrated to Canada from Scotland not in 1910 but in August 1911. She arrived in Quebec City aboard S.S. Grampian.
Both her parents came to Canada in 1907.
Too be continued…
Charlotte M. Campbell ( – March 1986)
Birth: unknown
Death: Mar., 1986
Elmwood Cemetery
Greater Winnipeg
Plot: 11-G0177
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Campbell&GSfn=Charlotte&GSmn=M&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1986&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=122648931&df=all&
Her older brother James led me to her grave.
James Campbell 1896-1935
Bill isn't Bill Campbell. This is Charlotte's brother James. I found his file on Archives Canada. You can read it here…
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=84802
The search for Bill is still going on. Questions still remain unanswered. One is why Charlotte mounted this album?
She was a stenographer in 1921 according to the 1921 census.
She emigrated from Scotland in August 1911 arriving on the Grampian. In 1927 she was 28 years-old which would fit the pictures we have of this mysterious smiling woman in 1928 or 1929.
Bill and Charlotte seemed pretty close…
Were Bill and Charlotte married? Or just very good friends?
I will look into it next week.
G-CASL
Nice shot of a floatplane!
G-CASL was a Fokker Super Universal.
Charlotte pasted it in the album with these other photos.
The year is 1927 if it's true of course.
It was on this page.
I am not right now able to identify the other aircraft. I think the one at the top is a Vickers Vedette. At the bottom it's a floatplane.
I know it's not an Avro 552A.
So I might need some help.
Maybe I can find something here.
Fokker Super Universal floatplane, G-CASL of Western Canada Airways Co., Rottenstone Lake, Saskatchewan, 1929. (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3390454)
de Havilland DH.60 Cirrus Moth on floats. (RCAF Photo)
de Havilland DH.60 Cirrus Moth (89) Reg. Nos. G-CYWV, WW, WY (later 212), G-CYXE-G-CYXI, G-CYYG-G-CYYS, G-CYYW-G-CYYY, 55-58, 64-91, 102-107, 117-122, 151-168, 223, A113 (ex CF-CCV), A114 (ex CF-ADA), DH 60M Gipsy Moth (2), (Serial Nos. 27, 28), DH 60GM Genet Moth for a total of 91 aircraft.
Now could this picture had been taken in 1929 at Rottenstone Lake, Saskatchewan?
With this one?
This is how I found Charlotte M. Campbell last night.
Just by accident…
The Winnipeg Tribune
James Campbell, 844 Bannatyne ave., sustained bruises and abrasions about the head and body when he was struck by a car while crossing Main st. between Market and James. He was taken to the General hospital. Condition good.
Alex. Campbell, 844 Bannatyne ave., was cut over the right eye when the car in which he was a passenger went into the curb at Coburn st. and Warsaw ave., early Sunday morning. Glaring headlights of a car coming in the opposite direction were blamed, for the mishap.
Then I found two obituaries in 1935…
James Campbell, 39, returned soldier, of 844 Bannatyne avenue, died Sunday in General hospital after a short illness. The funeral will be held at 1.30 p.m. Wednesday from Mordue Bros.' funeral home to Elmwood cemetery. Besides his mother, with whom he lived, Mr. Campbell is survived by a brother, Alex, and a sister, Kathleen, also at home. Four other sisters also survive: Mrs. D.R. Gilchrist, Camp Borden, Ont.; Mrs. James Moorcroft, Vancouver, B.C., and Mrs. R. Toole and Mrs. J. Jones, both of Winnipeg.
CAMPBELL – On Dec. 8, 1935, at the Winnipeg General hospital, James Campbell, of 844 Bannatyne Ave., in his 40th year. Funeral service Wednesday, 1.30 p.m., in Mordue Bros. Funeral Home, 183 Donald St. Interment in family plot Elmwood cemetery. (Winnipeg Free Press, December 10, 1935, page 20)
From there I began searching for that family in Canadian censuses. Stay tuned because I won't keep you on the edge of your seat.
Good Read Redux
797 pages!
Bush Pilots in Uniform
RCAF pilots wore air force blue, saluted, drilled, and otherwise observed the eternal military verities, even though their day to day working lives for most of the interwar years were spent on civil flying operations. The future air marshal and chief of the air staff, C.R. Slemon, recalled that 'I never thought of a weapon; I never saw a weapon or fired a machine gun or whatever. We were just as busy as we could be doing purely civil government flying. We began to get some military training all along there were military elements, but they were tiny in comparison to the civil government air operations." 'We were,' another officer recalled, 'bush pilots in uniform.'
Training these 'bush pilots' to fly was the RCAF's primary military function in the I920s and early 1930s. Air force training remained concentrated at Camp Borden until Trenton was opened in 1931. As far as practicable, training methods were modelled on those used by the RAF for individual flying and ground instruction, and, later, for service or unit training. British course syllabi and training manuals were employed, and officers and airmen sent to RAF courses for advanced and specialist training flying instruction, army co operation, photography, armament, air navigation, wireless, explosives, and aeronautical engineering. In time these specialists formed a nucleus of instructors with which the RCAF staffed its own schools.
Recruiting and training airmen, mechanics, and tradesmen had initially proved difficult. When the RCAF became part of the permanent force many skilled men employed as civilians by the Air Board declined to join up, and others were overage or medically unfit. They were not easily replaced. Little in the way of formal instruction for airmen existed in the early years, and the RCAF depended on enlisting men who already possessed related trades qualifications. The recruit then entered into an apprenticeship to learn fitting, rigging, and other skills on the job. He gradually acquired more specific aviation experience and through specialist courses was able to improve his technical grade. Military subjects were injected along the way. In 1927 the RCAF completed arrangements with selected technical training schools to recruit students. Those successful in a trial summer course at Camp Borden were enlisted in the rank of 'boy' for further service until they reached eighteen years of age. As they gained experience, however, many were actively sought by civilian firms with offers of higher pay.
Part One: Between the Wars
When Wing Commander G.M. Croil commanded Camp Borden in 1928-9, he complained that 'If they do not actually approach them whilst here they do so by letter after their departure from this station and go so far as to pay the sum necessary for the airman to purchase his discharge.
There was less difficulty attracting officers for the air force. CAF regulations had stipulated that pilot and flying officers would be required to retire at age thirty, flight lieutenants continuing for an additional two years. Officers in these ranks comprised the bulk of the early force's commissioned officers, most of them veterans in their mid twenties, so there was little problem at first. When new pilots were needed, a training scheme aimed at university students (which had to be deferred for a year during the reorganization) went into effect in 1923. Candidates were required to be members of the Canadian Officers' Training Corps [COTC], enrolled as degree students in applied science or engineering, under twenty-one, and unmarried. The course of instruction consisted of three terms in consecutive years during the university summer break from May until August. While at Camp Borden the pilot trainees were granted temporary commissions as provisional pilot officers in the non permanent force and received $3.00 a day during the first term, $3.50 the second, and $4.00 the final term. Quarters, rations, uniforms, travelling allowances, and medical and dental treatment were provided. All those successfully completing the course were to be appointed RCAF pilot officers, but with no guarantee of a permanent commission. The terms of the training plan, indeed, emphasized that there would be only a limited number of such appointments. Those not wishing, or not offered, permanent commissions were eligible for appointments to the non permanent force. Alternatively, they might be transferred to the reserve of officers, which meant that they would have no further direct contact with the RCAF unless called up in time of emergency.
The pilot training programme was scheduled to start with thirty cadets but, because of a late start, undergraduates across the country were not informed of the scheme until too late in the 1922-23 academic year. As a result only nine trainees reported to Camp Borden for the first course on 15 May 1923. One was forced to drop out a month later for medical reasons. The others completed the first term of training at the end of August. Six returned for the second term; four qualified for their wings in December of that year and were awarded commissions in the permanent force. Two of the graduates were subsequently killed in aircraft accidents and one resigned his commission. The fourth was Pilot Officer C.R. Slemon.
The initial flying training scheme produced the first new air force pilots trained in Canada since 1918. Later, to meet shortages, a number of trained flyers were granted short service commissions, and some university graduates in engineering and applied science courses were enlisted directly. Serving non commissioned officers [Ncos] provided another source. The first NCO pilot course began in February 1927, and over the next five years thirty of forty-five students attained wings standard. When this scheme had been proposed, Group Captain J .S. Scott enquired about the RAF's experience with NCO pilots. His liaison officer in London reported that "The scheme is working most satisfactorily.
The standard of Airmen Pilots is just about the same in the Royal Air Force as that of the Short Service Commissioned Officer Pilot, but Airmen Pilots in relation to those officers appear to take things rather more conscientiously. Canadian experience was equally favourable.
In the early phases of pilot training, a great deal of time was spent on ground subjects: the theory of flight, basic areonautical engineering, air pilotage and map reading, aerial photography, meteorology, as well as military organization, administration, drill and physical training, and signalling. Flying began with the student seated in the back of an Avro 504K. The instructor, calling instructions through a speaking tube from the front seat, guided his pupil through a controlled programme over several days, introducing him to the aircraft's flying controls, the basics of level flight, stalling, diving, gliding, take offs and landings, turning in the air, standard procedures for engine failure and forced landings. Finally the student flew alone. Instructions in side slips, cross wind landings, aerobatics, and low flying followed, all leading to wings standard. Once qualified, the new pilot went to Vancouver for a seaplane conversion course.
There he mastered the different controls on flying boats and floatplanes, practised landings on heavy seas and glassy calm surfaces, and was introduced to marine navigation, wireless, engine, float and hull maintenance, and the use of carrier pigeons. He was about to become, after all, a bush pilot; a difficult and lonely job where he was dependent upon only his training and self reliance.
From Camp Borden and Vancouver most new pilots went directly to one of the air force's sub bases scattered throughout the northwest where they began forest patrolling, the staple of the man's civil flying operations during the 1920s. As we have seen, the Air Board had been highly successful in demonstrating the productive contribution that aircraft could make to the forest industry. Conserving woodland resources with fire patrols was potentially of enormous economic importance. Forest production in 1920 totalled more than $300 million; forests covered almost one million square miles, about half in timber, the rest in pulpwood. Fires regularly destroyed huge sections of forest cover, the equivalent of one third the annual consumption of standing timber and an additional 1.3 million acres of young growth. Traditional means of forest protection had proved marginally effective at best. In some regions ground systems included lookout towers, telephone networks, fire lanes, guards, and prepositioned equipment and pumps. To an ever greater extent, however, the foresters of the early 1920s still relied on foot, horse, or canoe patrols. Some ranged two to three hundred miles, but unless fires were visible from the waterways or routes used, they were almost impossible to detect. The provincial forester of Manitoba estimated that up to 75 per cent of the forest fires in his area of responsibility remained unobserved or unreported. By contrast, regular air patrols could easily cover vast expanses. 'Even the Ottawa Valley lumberman, than whom no more conservative animal exists, is convinced of the soundness of our ideas,' J.A. Wilson wrote early in 1923. 'Two years ago he did not admit that there was such a thing as an aircraft; one year ago he treated them as a joke; six months ago he was inclined to violently oppose the idea that they were any use and now he admits their presence in the scheme of things but, of course, still objects to their cost even though he sees every year millions of dollars of timber burned, a large proportion of which could be saved by adequate protection.
Costs varied from region to region. The Ontario Fire Service concluded that the $125 per flying hour it subsequently paid for detection, suppression, sketching, and survey was amply justified. The federal Department of Forestry projected the cost of protecting its 120 million acres of woodland in the northwest by aircraft at one cent per acre. It judged this reasonable. Foresters reluctantly accepted higher initial expenses because 'an era of high costs is a necessary preliminary to organization on a permanent basis.' The cost effectiveness of aircraft patrols had to be reckoned in the same light as ordinary fire insurance, the premium being measured against the potential economic return.
The aircrews' work included detection, reconnaissance to assist ground firefighters, and the movement of ground parties and equipment. The emphasis given to each task varied by region. In British Columbia an extensive rural telephone network provided the basis for a ground detection system so that in normal circumstances aircraft only supplemented ground crews during peak fire seasons. Their greatest contribution was in transporting fire crews and equipment to remote locations. In Alberta, where few landing sites were available on the forested east slopes of the Rockies, air patrols concentrated on detection. Their introduction in 1920 had been well timed. The dominion forestry service had been about to make a major capital investment to construct an extensive network of ground lookout towers. The foresters were very quickly convinced that aerial surveillance would be more cost effective. Over the foothills, wireless equipped landplanes were able to communicate with their High River base, which in turn had a telephone link with the forest service. Once the location of a fire was plotted, the district forester could move his ground crews to the scene. Initially, patrols covered only the Waterton Lakes and Rocky Mountain Park areas, but they were gradually expanded to include the Bow River, Crow's Nest, and Clearwater reserves. By the mid 1920s, there was also a sub base at Grand Prairie in the Peace River district."
The British Columbia and Alberta patrols were important, but they were soon dwarfed in scope by those in the vast forests of the northern Canadian Shield. The Department of the Interior, the responsible department, concluded in 1923 that this area provided the best conditions for the use of aircraft, and 'it is in these regions that their greatest value in fire protection can be secured. In April 1924 the Departments of National Defence and the Interior formed a joint committee to prepare a detailed plan for extending aerial fire protection to the 120 million acres of forests between the Ontario border and the valley of the Athabaska River in Alberta. They proposed a five year expansion programme, adding sub bases annually at locations ever further west. The project began in the 1924 flying season. Once the aircraft were in place each spring, the district forest rangers, after considering weather conditions and the fire hazard, would recommend patrols in specified areas. When a pilot spotted a fire he contacted local rangers, either by wireless or message drop. Supression aircraft might also be sent with crews and equipment. If the fire were spotted before it had time to get out of control, chances were that it would be contained.
Vickers Viking Amphibian and the Smith Brothers on YouTube
The Smith brothers recently won the coveted 10,000 prize for flying from England to Australia. But the Smith brothers were not content to rest on their laurels. They planned another and a bigger venture-a round-the-world flight. For this they were going to use a Vickers amphibian called the Viking. Their old colleague Bennett was to be the mechanic. On 13 April 1922 all three were to go up on a test flight. Ross and the mechanic arrived on time. But a fog rolled down. It held up Keith, then on his way to the aerodrome. Fearing if they delayed any longer the conditions would be too bad for the flight, Ross and Bennett took off. What happened aloft no one else will ever know. But as Keith arrived on the aerodrome, it was to see the Viking hurtling down to death and destruction. So, in harness, died one of Australia's greatest sons and his trusted mechanic.
The Vickers Viking was a single-engined amphibious aircraft designed for military use shortly after World War I.
Crew: One: pilot
Capacity: 2 passengers
Length: 34 ft 0 in (10.36 m)
Wingspan: 50 ft 0 in (15.24 m)
Height: 15 ft 1 in (4.60 m)
Wing area: 594 ft² (55.2 m²)
Empty weight: 3,750 lb (1,701 kg)
Loaded weight: 5,600 lb (2,451 kg)
Powerplant: 1× Rolls-Royce Eagle piston engine, 360 hp (269 kW)
Maximum speed: 102 mph (164 km/h)
Cruise speed: 90 mph (144 km/h)
Range: 450 miles (724 km)
Service ceiling: 9,000 ft (2,743 m)
Rate of climb: 400 ft/min (121 m/min)
Wing loading: 9 lb/ft² (44 kg/m²)
Power/mass: 0.13 hp/lb (0.22 kW/kg)