Week 9, hard to believe Cailyn is 9 weeks old! Cailyn now sleeps 5-6 hours at night before needing a feed! YAY for mommy sleep too!! Cailyn continues to be a very happy baby, all smiles except when she has a gassy episode which are thankfully few and far between. She loves to be carted around in her stroller and even manages to sleep the entire walk through the rough trails of Rattray Marsh.
We went to a car seat clinic put on by GM Canada and learned alot about car seat safety and local regulations. Sadly, it seems my car is not car seat friendly so we are now on the hunt for a car that is. I can keep the car seat safely in my car but it means I cannot have a passenger in the front seat, nor can we really use it as a family vehicle which has always been the case. Our car seat is one of the more compact ones on the market so a new seat will not resolve the issue. I AM NOT GETTING A VAN!
Cailyn loves to dance...ignore the shaky camera work as I was apparently grooving along with her!
Exhausted after going to the mall to by formula.
Cailyn LOVES to dance, put on music and she moves!
Another relaxing day at the office with wubbanub.
So alert! What a doll.
My nextfamily update went up earlier this week and shame on me for being lazy about posting it here. This update details my last few weeks at work and preparing to go to India for baby pick up and preparing for my long over due maternity leave!
The VERY best advertising ever!!! I could watch this over and over...she is the best!
After the doctor Cailyn went to see her friend Tori. Here are the two girls together lounging in their pj's. Tori is 6 months old and a lovely little girl. Cailyn chose to play the shy girl for the photo shoot!
Cailyn is pretty much out of newborn sized clothes. Some still fit her, but her length makes some of them a challenge. I really love pants - add socks and you are set! Tori has given Cailyn so many of her hand me downs that we are set for the next stage in sizes!
Cailyns other little friend Harper gives her wonderful hand me downs too. Harper is 7.5 months old. We went out with Harper and her mom last week to cruise the mall. Of course, both of us being bad moms forgot to snap a pic... Here is Cailyn all dressed to go to the mall..
looking like a living doll!
Cailyn now smiles all the time!! She recognizes us as we enter a room and beams a big grin at us. She loves having visitors and is comfortable with complete strangers. She attempts a giggle and we know anyday now this will become a hearty laugh, which we cannot wait for! She sleeps in her crib and can go 5 hours if she is really pooped out, especially if she spent some time in her jungle gym kicking her legs and punching at the hanging animals. She has kind of lost interest in her swing and bouncy chair - this may be a phase, or permanent..only time will tell. She is drooling like crazy so we wonder if she will cut teeth early? She loves to be sung to, and it seems Kiss "I wanna rock and roll all night" is a big hit, and her favourite song on the iPod that gets here dancing is Pumped up Kicks by Foster the People. It is a bit of a Pavlovian experiment with her - when we put on the iPod or sing the Kiss song she automatically starts dancing (I guess better than salivating like the dog did in the actual experiment) And lastly, her fine little wrists are no longer. They are now adorable little pudgy sausage rolls!
The gorgeous sleeping bag from Kathy and Dave!! We call it her Angel bag! Thanks Kathy and Dave!!
Just a cute pic of a very inquisitive girl in stripes.
Wearing my gift from Ireland! Thanks Susan! Notice the Sick Kids sporty ankle bracelet! Cailyn had blood work done and did not even flinch.
Home from Sick Kids, changed into the other Irish gift sleeper!! Adorable!
No notes needed on this pic! Thanks Steph and Adam for the most perfect bib!!!
Relaxing before the 22nd outfit change - spitting up is fun!
Sporting my Indian bangles from New Delhi!! Clothing courtesy of Amy (and Bo). Thanks Amy!!
Uncle Stan feeds me on Thanksgiving while I wear my Halloween onsie from Auntie Christine!.
Close up of the beautiful pj's from Ireland - absolutely adorable!
You can imagine we have one big thing to be thankful for this Thanksgiving!! Thanks to Dr Shivani and SCI we have our own little turkey.
Yesterday a delivery came to the house, and with great surprise I opened it up to find this..
Many thanks to Madge at thenextfamily.com for sending Cailyn such a unique and personalized gift! Cailyn will be able to spell her name long before people can pronounce it! Seems most people are calling her Caitlyn.
Thank you Madge for your never ending support. Not only have you supported us, you have found your place in our Indian surrogacy online world. I feel very fortunate that you found my blog last year and asked me to be a volunteer writer on the website with hopes of getting the good news of hope in India out to the readers. We love ya!!
Yesterday we lost Kato kitty. She was 19 years young! When we came home from India she did not seem the same and over the last two weeks she quickly declined, loosing weight and not eating. She was diagnosed with hypo-thyroidism in May and has been on meds ever since, and also showed signs of renal (kidney) disease. The poor gal fought as hard as she could, but yesterday after an exam at the vet she showed signs of shutting down, and also a rapid growing grapefruit sized tumor was found in her abdomen. It was with very heavy hearts we had to say goodbye to Kato. It has been a rough year for us loosing two pets in three months time. We hope Kato found Peeky last night and is giving him hell! We will miss Kato dearly, her silly face and crazy antics were such a joy in our home.
Also, my NextFamily update continues as of yesterday. I took a break while we were off to India to meet Cailyn and now am able to continue writing. I feel fortunate that I can share our story and inspire others that there is indeed hope, in India.
Cailyn is growing like a weed!! Last week was an interesting week as we discovered the "witching hour". Every night from 10 pm to almost midnight she decided to scream, cry and remain inconsolable. We are not quite sure why..gas maybe?growing pains? adjusting to her homeland time zone? Regardless of the cause, it made for some very exhausting nights. This seemed to have resolved itself, THANK GOD and now our little angel is back.
Cailyn will be seven weeks old on Wednesday and seeing her change and grow daily has made for an amazing seven weeks thus far. On Saturday she had a visit from 11 week old Dylan who wanted to be first in line for the future! Dylan is an adorable little boy who will definitely be popular when he gets older. Having two gorgeous Colombian parents, Dylan is certainly set in the looks department. On Sunday, Cailyn had a visit from a couple leaving for India late October to cycle. They came with yummy brownies for us and two wonderful gifts for Cailyn. Thanks Kathy and Dave, and best of luck for your upcoming cycle!!! Thursday night auntie Christine came over and spent time enjoying Cailyn and getting to know her a bit better. And of course, we forgot to take pictures of Cailyn and her visitors. We must get better at that!!!
Early in the week Cailyn's official Health Card arrived!! We hope to not need to use it, but are happy to have it taken care of just in case. She has a temporary health card until her "real" passport arrives as proof of citizenship. According to the High Commission this will take 6-8 weeks so it should be anytime now.
This weekend marks our first "holiday" weekend with Cailyn. It will be an amazing time for us as we can finally be "that couple" who walks around on a cool Thanksgiving day with baby in tow. We are so looking forward to it!
Crazy tongue action a constant with Cailyn.
Lots of pillows and blankets for the little doll.
Ah. the sleeping bag - much needed as the weather turns cooler here for fall.
Congratulations to our local friends Gen and Winston on the birth of Kai Benjamin!!! Cannot wait to meet this little boy!!


This happened to me just tonight! My wife prepared dinner for the family, and although she has taken cooking classes in the past, I don't think any government official ever issued her a license. Help! Help! Does anyone have a license for determining if I might suffer adverse health effects? I'd do it myself, but I've let my thinking license expire. Oh, man, I hope I'm not breaking some law by just asking for help.
No, this is not a joke or a parody, though it will really feel like one for the first few seconds of the clip. The news casters treat this situation with the same slightly amazed and shocked tone that they use when they cover the "underground world of raves." You know which story I'm talking about. Every local news affiliate runs one every sweeps period.


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Spring 2017: Road Diet Quarterly Update
Welcome from Becky Crowe
New Mexico DOT Develops Road Diet Guide
Around the States
Social Media Highlights
Transportation Specialist, FHWA Office of Safety
As we welcome Spring, my thoughts are on how Road Diets can make the roadway safer for pedestrians and bicyclists. Pedestrians account for approximately 16 percent of all roadway fatalities and the majority are at uncontrolled crossing locations. As part of the Every Day Counts 4 (EDC-4) program, Road Diets will be promoted through the Safe Transportation for Every Pedestrian (STEP) innovation over the next two years. FHWA will be working with states and localities to advance countermeasures, such as Road Diets, that can improve pedestrian accommodations at unsignalized crossing locations.
As for bicyclists, I encourage you to review a new document recently developed by the FHWA, Incorporating On-Road Bicycle Networks into Resurfacing Projects. This document outlines how Road Diets are a key method for providing bicycle accommodations. A bikeway can be created with a simple reconfiguration of the pavement markings. This document provides a great overview of how you can use resurfacing and Road Diets to improve safety for bicyclists.
I hope you enjoy this issue of the Road Diet Quarterly Update, where we explore the successes of Road Diet initiatives, our peer exchanges, nationwide progress toward institutionalization, and more!
#RoadDiets Rule!
Practitioners from around the country have been posting photos online using the hashtag "#RoadDiets" to show their support for this effective road safety innovation. We've seen tweets and photos from Maine, Arizona, Florida, Virginia, Washington, D.C., New Jersey, Missouri, Colorado, and even Ontario! Become a Road Diet champion today! Post a photo showing love for Road Diets near you.
Print out the hashtag (#RoadDiets) at the bottom of the newsletter.
Snap a selfie with the sign at your favorite Road Diet. (Points for creativity!)
Post the photo on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Include "#RoadDiets" in your text along with your state or locality. For example, my tweet would be: In Henrico, Va., #RoadDiets are awesome!
I look forward to seeing your post! Remember, be creative and safe when you take that selfie!
Looking for more information? Be sure to visit our website at safety.fhwa.dot.gov/road_diets to discover new materials that help inform both transportation professionals and the public about Road Diets and how they work
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New Mexico DOT Develops Road Diet Guide and Meets its Road Diet EDC-3 Initiative Goal
More than 2 years ago, New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) established an ambitious goal for themselves for the Road Diet EDC-3 initiative – go from the demonstration phase to institutionalizing Road Diets. In order to meet this goal, they set out to develop a Road Diet guide which would serve as a tool to aid transportation practitioners in their State on the use of this proven safety countermeasure.
The New Mexico EDC-3 Road Diet Committee developed an implementation plan and began researching and reviewing other States' policies. Their first draft was complete in December 2014. The guide went through several more iterations of peer reviews to refine the information. In April 2016, NMDOT hosted a FHWA-sponsored Road Diet Peer Exchange in Albuquerque. Over 40 multidisciplinary representatives from New Mexico, California, Nebraska, Oregon, Washington, Oklahoma, and South Dakota attended the event to share their processes and experiences relating to Road Diets. The New Mexico attendees held a follow-up meeting after the peer exchange to incorporate the information learned from other States into the guide.
Once the guide was nearing completion, NMDOT partnered with FHWA once again to provide training on Road Diets, as well as introduce the draft guide to engineers and planners throughout the State. Two separate workshops were held in early October in Albuquerque and Las Cruces. Following these workshops, the Committee further enhanced the guide based on input from the training.
On December 2, 2016, the New Mexico EDC-3 Road Diet Committee officially transmitted the completed Road Diet Guide to their Chief Engineer for adoption into practice. The guide provides direction as to why NMDOT may consider a Road Diet; how to analyze whether a specific street is a good candidate for a Road Diet; best practices for Road Diet implementation, including extensive public involvement; and potential factors for project evaluation. It will be used by NMDOT and by other transportation partners assessing NMDOT‐owned or maintained facilities, including Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), Regional Transportation Planning Organizations (RTPOs), tribal governments, local governments, and the transportation planning and engineering consulting communities.
New Mexico plans to hold additional training on the guide's use for project development, traffic, and District engineers, as well as give presentations on the guide to MPOs and RTPOs. As Road Diet projects are implemented, NMDOT plans to monitor them and complete evaluations on crash reduction, speeds, mobility, livability, and more. Using what they learn from these evaluations, they will update the guide as needed based on project experience. The guide will eventually be incorporated within the NMDOT design manual.
The NMDOT Road Diet guide is not posted online at this time, but if you would like more information, contact Elias Archuleta at elias.archuleta@state.nm.us.
A look at Cost-savings though Bicycle Lanes in New York City
Photo: Ninth Avenue, Manhattan, NY provided by NYDOT
You've heard it from us many times before, Road Diets allow for a safer and more livable environment for all road users. But don't just take our word for it! In New York City, researchers from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health evaluated the cost-effectiveness of investments in bicycle lanes using New York City's fiscal year 2015 investment as a case study.
Road Diets and complete streets continue to prove that they are one of the best options to improve safety and livability at a low cost. The study points to some interesting facts such as, in 2005, New York City spent $10 million on curbing traffic as part of the Safe Routes to School program. The total benefit to the community from these changes were estimated to be $230 million.
While bicycle lanes reduce all forms of injury by 25 percent, the researchers discovered that the 45.5 miles of bicycle lanes the City of New York constructed in 2015–for $8 million–may increase the probability of bicycle riding by 9.32 percent.
In conclusion, the researchers found that "investments in bicycle lanes come with an exceptionally good value because they simultaneously address multiple public health problems. Investments in bike lanes are more cost-effective than the majority of preventive approaches used today."
The facts are coming together with more and more states institutionalizing Road Diets. It's becoming clear that these roadway reconfigurations are the complete streets solution to increasing safety and livability at a low cost.
Materials from this post were collected from "The cost-effectiveness of bike lanes in New York City" by Jing Gu, Babak Mohit, and Peter A. Muennig, and released on September 9, 2016. The report is available in full online at the Columbia Academic Commons library.
Peer Exchanges Engage Stakeholders
As part of our initiative to share industry best practices on Road Diet implementation, FHWA partnered with local departments of transportation (DOTs) to host Peer-to-Peer Exchanges. Previous events include, the Western Region Exchange in New Mexico, the Northeast Region Exchange in Massachusetts, and the Central Region Exchange in Tennessee.
Altogether, the FHWA has partnered with 24 local DOT chapters across the nation, reaching industry practitioners and the general public alike, through webinars, trainings, and peer exchanges.
Here is a highlight from our most recent visit.
Day 2 of the Hawaii Peer Exchange.
Photo taken by Mark Doctor
Hawaii: On October 27-28, FHWA and the City of Honolulu hosted a 2-day, blended peer exchange / workshop to help Hawaii reach their Every Day Counts goal of institutionalizing Road Diets. More than 70 transportation stakeholders from Hawaii and Guam met in Honolulu to learn about Road Diet benefits, feasibility criteria, evaluation methods, multi-modal opportunities, and public outreach. On Day One, the City of Seattle, the City of Honolulu, Kaua'i County, and FHWA and their consultant team presented on various Road Diet topics and experiences. Day Two consisted of field visits to a recently-installed Road Diet and a proposed location. For the proposed Road Diet location, attendees developed design solutions to share with the road owner. The event also allowed practitioners to build professional relationships and connections as they work towards developing, energizing, and improving their Road Diet programs.
Need Help with Road Diets?
The FHWA is offering state DOT's FREE Road Diet-related technical assistance. This assistance includes any activities that advance Road Diets within your state. As examples, technical assistance requests may include:
Reviewing state's draft Road Diet policy or guidance documents
Development of a Road Diet presentation aimed at either leadership or the general public
Animations demonstrating how Road Diets improve safety
Providing design guidance about unusual Road Diet configurations
Providing examples of other Road Diets around the country that are similar to the requestor's Road Diet
Providing guidance about Road Diet implementation, including selecting candidate locations, capacity constraints, public outreach response, evaluation metrics, EMS, slow moving vehicles, cost, or funding.
For more information on the workshops, please visit: http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/road_diets/resources.
Each quarter we will take a look at different locations across the country where Road Diet projects are being discussed and implemented.
Washington, D.C.: Five years after the District of Columbia approved funding for a pedestrian safety study, they are moving closer to making major changes to slow down traffic cutting through a historic neighborhood. One of the first projects that may serve as a model for the City is a Road Diet on Maryland Avenue, N.E.
Massachusetts: The City of Cambridge, Mass., implemented a Road Diet along Broadway, between First and Ames streets in Cambridge Kendall Square, in order improve multi-modal transportation (i.e., pedestrians, bicyclists, and buses) comfort, accessibility, and usage.
South Dakota: The City of Sioux Falls, S.D., completed a $1 million-plus Main Avenue Road Diet streetscape reconstruction project.
Iowa: The City of Newton, Ia., approved a Road Diet on First Avenue East that could lead to the four-lane road decreasing to two lanes with a center turn-lane and added bicycle lanes.
Check out some of our favorite social media highlights and remember: Post a selfie online! Include "#RoadDiets" in your text, then download and use the graphic below.
Any opinions or conclusions expressed in this newsletter in the form of tweets are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Highway Administration does not endorse these individuals or organizations.
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The Road Diet Quarterly Update
is a publication of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.
The Federal Highway Administration publishes the Road Diet Quarterly Update four times a year. We can be reached at: rebecca.crowe@dot.gov
The Road Diet Quarterly Update is available online at the FHWA Office of Safety Website safety.fhwa.dot.gov/road_diets
We welcome your comments and Road Diet safety-related articles. The purpose of this newsletter is to increase awareness and provide information and resources of Road Diets to local and state transportation authorities as well as the general public.
We encourage readers to submit articles that might be of value to the Road Diet stakeholder community. Send your comments, questions, and articles for review electronically to Becky Crowe at rebecca.crowe@dot.gov
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Most of us have grown up with the legendary sci-fi fairy tale called Star Wars. One of the most fascinating imaginary gadgets that appear in the franchise is the so called lightsaber.
As we know from the movie itself, the lightsaber is the single weapon of a Force wielder, either Jedi or Sith. It is described by Obi Wan Kenobi as "an elegant weapon, from a more civilized age". There is an army of Star Wars fans who would give anything to be in possession of a real lightsaber. But is it possible that a lightsaber ever exists, and if it did exist, what would the consequences be?


On Christmas Eve C and I decided to venture to Bethlehem to experience Manger Square, traditionally held to be the birthplace of Christ, on this holy of holy Christian nights.
We asked the woman that worked at the hotel desk the best way to get there. Our hotel being in West Jerusalem (the 'Jewish side') she advised us to go to Jaffa Gate outside the old city and ask a cab driver who was Arab where to get the Sherut (private bus taxi) to Bethlehem. I inquired further and was told that she didn't know how to get to Bethlehem as "the Jews don't go there". She herself, she told me, hadn't been to Bethlehem for many years.
We thus walked to Jaffa Gate and were promptly directed to a Sherut a few metres away. We waited for other passengers and then the six of us in the mini bus drove about two or three kilometres down tailored US size highways and were dropped off at a huge complex that looked like a cross between Fulsom prison and the world's largest "Home Depot".
This was the entrance to the West Bank and there behind fencing and barriers was the famous security wall that Israel had been building over the last few years.
We had to go through a lengthy walkway, which was encased in wire and fencing finally to emerge at a huge floodlit, empty space which looked like an abandoned parking lot. Then came more walkways, with full body turnstile after turnstile. We finally arrived after some minutes at an enormous tin barn like building the inside of which was bathed in florescent light. We lined up and showed our passports to a bored Israeli soldier encased behind inches of bullet-proof glass and were waived on in perfuntory fashion down another series of turnstiles leading into another fenced metal corridor.
On one side of the walkway was a huge concrete wall 18 metres in height. You are now on the "Palestinian side". The wall was was covered with graffiti which decryed the wall: "Don't Wall Us In!", "Build Bridges Not Walls", "Peace Not Walls", "We Are People Not Animals", "Walls Build Enemies". Some of the graffiti was in English though a great deal of Arab script covered the thing as well as pictures and art grafitti.
Peering from above the wall were watchtowers wherein stood armed soldiers who looked down on you.
When we got out of the "security zone" we were greeted by countless yellow taxis fighting for our fare. Money is hard to come by in the West Bank due to the barrier and limited economic activity. Finding a tourist to drive into Bethlehem was a lucrative venture. We joined in with three Americans to share fare to the town.
One of the Americans who was studying at the American University in Cairo directed our driver in broken Arabic interspersed with English to Manger Square. We arrived at a large concrete impass; the driver said he had to go a 'long way around' to avoid the checkpoint. The US student argued with him about the fare: "you told us it was this much and now you are just taking a long way to charge us more money". The driver protested: "No, I have no license, I must go different way. Not allowed to drive".
He dropped us off at a bottom of a steep hill. Hundreds of people were ascending the road while Palestinian Authority police stood on either side of the lung busting incline.
We arrived at Manger Square and joined a huge throng of thousands and thousands of people. Most of them were young Palestinian men ranging from 13 years of age to their late 20s. They were super keyed up. Every now and then, maybe at a ratio of 7 to 1, were groups of families: a mother and father with small children in tow. Nary a single woman or even groups of women was to be seen.
It was surreal to be in a space that was so completely male and so youthful. It had the feeling of Yonge Street after the Argos won the Grey Cup.
Hanging from the spanking new Palestinian Authority building was a giant drapery sign with Yassar Arafat's photo prominently displayed. It announced in English: "FATAH WELCOMES YOU TO BETHLEHEM", a clear advisory that the more secular Fatah party was in control of the West Bank after the civil war with Hamas the past summer.
The mobs of young guys were jumping around and yelling excitedly: "Hello, hello, welcome!!!" in English. Many of them were wearing the traditional kiffeyeh, the Palestinian scarf that always adorned Arafat's head.
On every rooftop surrounding the square, stood Palestinian Authority snipers, training their guns on melee below. In and around the square stood more Palestinian Authority police, their arms varying from old rifles, AK-47s to broomstick handles cut in half with string hanging from a drilled hole: a poor man's version of a truncheon.
Meanwhile a crowd of Palestinian Christian children, teens and adults stood on the stage erected before the church and sang Christmas carols in Arabic, their songs almost drowned out by the cacaphony of the excited crowd.
C and I walked up away from Manger Square and into the centre of the old town. Left and right of us, plastered across the walls of the town, or pasted onto doorways were 'martyr posters'. These are posters of young men who had elected to die in a suicide bombing and took with them civilians or soldiers. We would have breakfast in cafe each morning in Jerusalem, where one such boy had killed himself and nine people a few years before. Or they may be a young man who died "in battle" with the Israeli Defense Forces. Their faces look at you blankly. They invariably hold an AK-47. Sometimes Mecca is imposed as a background, but mostly the background is Arabic writing coloured green, which extolls their deeds. Sometimes their mother is shown looking up at them as if they are now in paradise.
C and I left. As we walked back down the steep hill large groups of Christian pilgrims of every race, complete with staffs, were ascending past us singing praises and songs of Christ.
We grabbed a cab back to the Security Gate to Jerusalem. This was the gateway back to Israel.
Two days after we went to Bethlehem we talked to two NYU law students who blithely informed us that they were waived through the "security gate" going back into Jerusalem at 3am after religious servcies were over. They told us that the only Arab that got yelled at 'really deserved it, because she was so totally stupid'.
We got out of the cab and went back through the wall walkways and returned to the enormous hanger. In line before us were 7 or 8 Palestinians, including a woman with two toddlers. We stood freezing in cattle pen gates, eye busting florescent light illuminated the entire line-up. A small red light told the person waiting behind a body sized turnstile that the turnstile was unlocked so that they could go through.
We watched as Palestinian after Palestinian waited pushing at that locked gate, frustrated, until the light above finally turned green and the gate was unlocked. But you could see through the turnstile. Once through a disembodied voice belted out instructions in Hebrew, through a loud speaker, telling them to remove their shoes, belt bags etc... and to put it through the x-ray machine. They were then to walk through a metal detector. Then they were to have their documents inspected by someone behind thick glass.
The woman with the toddlers finally made it to the front of the line and was let through. The disembodied voice was this time a woman. She kept screaming and screaming at mother as she removed everything, her high healed boots, belt, hair pins, purse etc...and kept putting it in the x-ray machine over and over. Apparently she was doing something wrong. By now the mother was embarassed, I'm not sure if it was because of the screaming or because she was holding more people up.
Once she had cleared the x-ray she again caused some problem with the detector. The soldier voice yelled and yelled again and the mother had to walk through again and again and again and remove more clothes or jewelry.
She was poised, well dressed, and wouldn't look out of place in a secular dance bar.
I asked the English speaking Arab woman behind us, who was with German friends ,"Do you understand Hebrew? What is she (the solider) saying?" The woman replied: "She is screaming at her for her being stupid. They are so arrogant!" Then she huffed, rolled her eyes and she and the Germans munched away the time on dried fruit bought in the souk of Bethlehem.
After an hour of watching this we got through the turnstile, dutifully removed our shoes and began to remove belts etc... The Israeli disembodied voice called us to the glass, a male soldier, he smiled at us and our offering of Canadian passports and waived us through.
As we walked across the hanger, back to the fencing, back to Israel, we saw the Palestinians who had passed through initial screening earlier. They were lined up at the lone secondary screening booth which was open. They had to be interveiwed again, show and swipe their identity cards, and undergo a live fingerprinting scan.
We left the facility and boarded on one of the many Sheruts which were returning to Jerusalem.
Waiting on the little bus were two European couples. They like us, had elected to leave Bethlehem early and therefore were not wished a Merry Christmas and waived through with the mass of departing tourists. They too had been behind Arabs.
The look on their faces, which was the same as mine, told me this.
In Israel, you may be taken aback, particularly if you are a Canadian, by the fact that everywhere and at all times everyone has a gun. Not just any gun, but big, big, guns. First off mandatory military service for all Israeli Jews, Druze and Circassians starts at 18. Interestingly enough, Arab Israelis are not required, nor I suspect, wanted to serve. Israeli men must serve 3 years and all women 2 years. Thus a huge proportion of the population is always in uniform. Everywhere you go, soldiers of the airforce, army or navy are lounging about bus stations, taking trains or just having coffee. As soldiers are considered to be "always on duty" an Israeli soldier almost always walks with his or her M-16, complete with scads of live ammunition, strapped to their back.
The first time I came across a sleepy young soldier dozing in a train I kept looking nervously at the M-16 I had to brush against to get past him to my seat. I was worried that he was worried why I kept staring at him. I finally said: "Sorry I am Canadian, I am not used to guns." He laughed and stretched his back and arms: "Yes it is for our protection, we are surrounded." and cradling his large weapon, went back to a happy sleep.
But soldiers are not the only gun-toting folk in Israel. Average civilians are allowed to carry anything they want. "Birthright Israel", a group that offers free trips to Israel to American Jewish teens in the hopes of getting them to emigrate, is always guarded in front and in back, by civvie clothed men, who look something like WWII partisans, sporting rifles and watching everyone one who approaches their flock like a hawk. At Masada I went near a group on a tour, sporting sunglasses for the desert glare and an "audioguide" strapped to my neck; a fierce and suspicious glance from "gun boy" was enough to send me away from my destination to daly at some boring stone 'mikvah' bath site rather than the Roman ramparts I longed to see.
Compare this vigilance with the strange youth hostel we stayed at, at the Dead Sea, close to the border of the West Bank. There, the night manager guy, a tranced out and clearly completely stoned young hippie dude, his long hair curled up by way of string in a fountain form, sported a huge Glock pistol stuffed in the belt of his quite faded fatigues. The contrast between the Glock and the "marijuana plant" emblem shirt and "ganja" smell he eminated was almost surreal. When I jokingly suggested he shoot the soccer ball the trillion unsupervised teens were repeatedly kicking against the outside wall of our room (they were using it as the 'goal-post') his faced turned a weird and angry lava lamp red: "I am here to protect them, why would I shoot their ball...?"
Then there is the West Bank and Arab Jerusalem. Over the walls are countless "martyr" posters. These are posters with photos of suicide bombers or other boys who threw themselves on civilians or Israeli positions simply to be blown into pieces and take others with them. They invariably show a very young man holding an AK-47 or other gun before a greenish background, sometimes showing Mecca, and othertimes showing some female relative looking up to them and their new beatitude, as many believe that once you die in such a way, you will ascend immediately to heaven. The writing which accompanies the poster exalts their deeds.


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Home / NewsRadio 1080 KRLD / News / Local / Autistic Boy Escapes Arlington Daycare Service; State Now Investigating
Autistic Boy Escapes Arlington Daycare Service; State Now Investigating
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By Alan Scaia NewsRadio 1080 KRLD
February 20, 2020 02/20/2020 12:47 pm
ARLINGTON (1080 KRLD) - The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is investigating a daycare in Arlington where a child wandered away earlier this month. The parents of Jordon Ayres, 4, say he is autistic and non-verbal.
They say he was at his first day at Creative Minds Childcare in Arlington February 3. His mom, Janice Ayres, says she was just starting a new job.
"I received a phone call at around, I would say, 1:50 from the Arlington Police Department telling us, 'Your son is okay, but there was an incident,'" she says.
Ayres says someone at a Kroger near the daycare called police when employees saw Jordan wandering alone in the parking lot.
"There was an employee who was supposed to be in the room with him, watching him. She supposedly walked out of the room to let another parent into the daycare, and that's when he left the room or escaped the room he was in," says Justin Ayres, Jordan's father.
"Anything could have happened. He was in a parking lot," Janice Ayres says.
Arlington police say Jordan Ayres was not hurt. They say they have suspended their criminal investigation because detectives found no evidence "anyone who knowingly, intentionally or recklessly abandoned the victim."
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services says it has begun an investigation, though.
"Child Care Investigations will work to determine whether abuse or neglect has occurred and whether there were any violations of the minimum standards for child care. The findings of our investigation will be turned over to the TX Health and Human Services Commission, the agency that licenses and monitors day cares. Investigations can take up to 30 days to complete," the agency wrote in a statement.
The owner of Creative Minds Childcare confirmed Ayres was able to walk out of the building alone, but Belinda Langely sent a statement saying Ayres' parents never said he had autism:
"Jordan's (sic) parents failed to disclose that there (sic) son is autistic and is labeled 'a runner and a climber.' Upon the arrival of the father, he made these comments: that the son had escaped from the last daycare and he's also known for escaping from home. Jordan's (sic) father also explain that they had pulled Jordan (sic) out from another daycare for the same problem. The father's reaction to the incident was not of shock but it appeared more of commonality."This is obviously a common occurrence because the parents returned Jordan back to the daycare on Tuesday morning without any complaints or discussion. It wasn't until the Mother was advised that for the safety of all children we could no longer accept him, therefore we terminated his enrollment."
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Romania heroes Antonescu and considers the Holocaust "an insignificant episode"
Co-Chair of the Alliance for the Unification of Romanians (AUR) Claudiu Tyrziu outraged by the attention given in Romania to the Holocaust. He stated that this is an insignificant topic in the history of Romania and does not deserve such an emphasis.
Tyrziu's words angered Israeli Ambassador to Romania David Saranga… "Extremist manifestations remind us that radical ideologies are still making themselves felt today," – noted the ambassador. He was supported by the special representative of the Romanian government for combating xenophobia and anti-Semitism Alexandru Muraru, which demanded the ban of the AUR. He stressed that a mirage of ultra-orthodoxy loomed in Romania, eroding Western values.
Muraru's criticism of anti-Semitism as a government official should not be misleading. Both the Romanian authorities and the AUR are in fact ideological adherents. The government does not like the AUR because it successfully competes with it in the electoral ratings, occupying the third position after the ruling Social Democrats and National Liberals.
The AUR skillfully captures the discourse of Greater Romania, pushing aside the ruling political forces. The government fears that the AUR will finally privatize the marshal figure Antonescu, in which 300 thousand Romanian Jews were killed. Its official Bucharest turned into an idol of Greater Romania. Hitler's Romanian allies are equally nice to both the AUR and the government, but the government does not want anyone else to use Marshal Antonescu for political purposes.
Antonescu, like Hitler, gave the order to attack the USSR on June 22, 1941. A real cult of this war criminal reigns in Romania, with the connivance of the democratic institutions of the European Union.
The heroization of Nazism in its national form covered not only Romania, but also Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, and partly Poland. A monument to the Latvian SS men was erected in Belgium in 2018. It took caring citizens three years to get it demolished in 2021. In Canada, a monument in honor of the SS Galicia division still stands today. It is not being demolished under the pretext that it is installed on a private plot of land.
At the same time, the West is waging a real propaganda war against the memory of the glorious feat of the Soviet soldier who saved the world from the brown plague, belittling the contribution of the Red Army to the defeat of Hitlerism and the historical significance of the Great Victory.
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We are extremely excited to share with you the details of our latest print set and we hope you guys love it as much as we do!
This exciting new release in our line of limited edition 2000 AD art prints, under license from Rebellion, has been produced by renowned artist and 2000 AD contributor, Jock. The set is compromised of 5 classic Judge Dredd images by Jock, each beautifully produced in letterpress with a bespoke letterpress portfolio sleeve. We will also be giving away an additional MYSTERY PRINT by Jock in 50 random orders!
The set costs £60 and will be available to purchase from www.Vice-Press.com on Tuesday the 19th of July at 6pm British Summer Time.
Each print measures 8 inches by 8 inches and the set comes complete with a fully letterpressed portfolio sleeve.
Jock is one of our absolute favourite comic book illustrators and it was a privilege to be able to release this set featuring some of his classic Judge Dredd illustration.
Letterpress printing is a technique that utilises a printing press to create a relief impression in ink on the paper giving an amazing texture. These prints were produced by the excellent Blush Publishing in the U.K who are one of the best printers using this process and the finished art has to be seen to believed.
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It is happened that i was listening the latest BOT episode, where Jack and Steven were discussing refrigeration.
Also A few days ago i guy i know bought a mini fridge.
I had a look at the manual and I soon understood that the fridge worked with Peltier plates.
- I find their ability to WARM the inside space questionable.
- I notice that the hotel room sized fridge consumed 70watts, and that i think is quite a lot for the fridge's size, compared to the modern day A++ class fridges.
- These fridges cannot make ice.
on the other hand price is low, and there is an inbuilt ability to work both with mains and 12V electricity.
BTW, how do i post such a question for the next BOT episode? I cannot find the way to in the episode notes.
Re: Peltier (Thermoelectric cooling) Refrigorators?
None of the inexpensive ones I've seen could get the internal temperature down low enough (~37 deg F) to really function as a true food-safe refrigerator. The one I tried (amazon link) claims to get down to 36F below ambient temperature. Here in summer that's like 60F.
Are there better ones out there? I wonder how do the prices compare to similarly sized conventional compressor refrigerators?
While they do 'work',they are not efficient or effective when compared to other MECHANICAL methods of thermal transfer. As a gadget to cool my insulin or for direct thermal transfer they are great...but for large scale heating/cooling.....just not so good.
I have a Coleman Powerchill that I got cheap a couple of years ago. It works to being the temperature down to around 40F below ambient, like you said. We rarely use it, it's just not very useful for us.
- since it pulls so much power, we need to have hookups to keep it running all the time, might as well get a small fridge to carry to these situations.
This did come with a very nice wall wart transformer to plug the 12v plug into. I use that a lot more than the cooler.
I see. but what about larger units like this regarding temperature performance?
Though my few experiences with regular minibar fridges are not that impressing too.
That looks about the same size as my Powerchill.
It is a portable camping style device. But it runs either horizontal or vertical. It's a 40 quart, I think.
My mini frig in the basement to keep my sheet film cold will some times freeze it as long as I keep it defrosted.
Above 65F ambient or so I'd relegate them to chilling drinks and stuff rather than holding food at safe temps.
I ran one in my BOV for about a year. I had generous amounts of power from solar so the constant drain was not a big deal for me.
Power draw can be greatly reduced by adding in a $10 temperature control set to hold 35F or whatever. Otherwise it will stay on all the time and pull 60-70w or whatever.


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MILWAUKEE – During the week of April 1-7, the City of Milwaukee Health Department (MHD) will celebrate National Public Health Week (NPHW). Since 1995, the first full week in April has been declared a time to recognize the impact of public health efforts.
For more than 150 years, MHD has been a leader in ensuring that all Milwaukee residents have access to resources and information that will help improve their health. This week is dedicated to addressing the causes of poor health and disease risk among individuals and communities.
The theme of NPHW, "Creating the Healthiest Nation: For science. For action. For health.", has health departments across the country raising awareness for the role they play in helping communities understand how we can work together to build healthier communities and eventually, the healthiest nation.
Residents are highly encouraged to participate in MHD's daily events and learn about services and programs the department provides. Please refer to the attached flyer.
For more information about the City of Milwaukee Health Department, visit Milwaukee.gov/health.
For more information on National Public Health Week, visit http://www.nphw.org/nphw-2019.


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UK: 200 hours of community work for South Yorkshire man
09 Aug 2012 -- Categories: Aviation incidents | Fines & Jail
A 27-year-old man from Sheffield was sentenced in August 2012 to 200 hours of unpaid community service, and was ordered to pay £85 in court costs, for shining a laser at South Yorkshire's police helicopter. Neil Shackleton aimed the laser from his bedroom window to the helicopter as it flew two miles away. On-board cameras helped determine the laser's location, and ground units arrested Shackleton.
Neil Shackleton
Police said the action could have caused the helicopter to crash.
Two other cases that happened at about the same time are still in court.
From The Star (and a more detailed, earlier version from The Star)
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UK: Arrest for aiming laser at police helicopter in Sheffield
24 Dec 2011 -- Categories: Aviation incidents | Arrests
A South Yorkshire Police helicopter was "continually" targeted by a green laser beam, on December 24 2011. The pilot directed officers on the ground, who arrested an unnamed man.
The airborne officers had been assisting a search for vandals who damaged cars; the offenders were located by a police dog.
From the Sheffield Telegraph
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After much planning and work, the new Gulf Shores and Orange Beach meetings website has been revealed and is live! On the site, you'll find information on what we do and where we're going. Our team listened to meeting planners to craft a site that reflects what you want, but also builds upon technology capable of addressing future needs.
While there are a host of things you'll love about the new site, we've listed three that will help meeting planners with your next great meeting on Alabama's white-sand beaches.
Plan. Our expanded Plan section offers information on networking opportunities, area features, travel information, accommodations and even testimonials to help you make your decisions. A photo library shows you and your attendees just what's in store for an upcoming meeting.
Services. In the Services section, you'll find Attendance Boosters. These are ways we can help or things we can provide your team to encourage attendance for your Gulf Shores and Orange Beach meeting. These include use of promotional photos and videos, electronic postcards, itinerary planning and more.
Contact Us. We believe the first step to a great partnership is getting to know each other. On our Contact page, you can put a face with a name and learn about each of our team members' experience and how we can help you. We're in this for the marathon, not the sprint, and we want to build lasting relationships with our meeting planners.
Our website is where the flip flops meet the boardwalk and the planning begins. Browse the new site and let us know how our team can help you plan your next Gulf Shores and Orange Beach meeting.


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Research at the School of Nursing covers a broad spectrum of topics, including critical thinking on health care approaches and training, community-level health interventions, the decision-making process and the patient-family experience in palliative care situations. Possibilities in line with recommendations of the Canadian Nurses Association are intended to focus on community health and geriatrics.
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A partnership between the University of Ottawa, School of Nursing, and the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA).
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Nursing History Research Unit
Opened in June 2005 this is the first funded academic unit in Canada dedicated to the production and dissemination of new knowledge in Canadian nursing history.
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Established in 2009 to provide leadership, mentorship and support for professors and graduate students pursuing excellence in palliative care research and education.
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University Research Chair in Knowledge Translation to Patients
Dawn Stacey
The University Research Chair in Health Evidence Implementation
Janet Squires
The Ontario HIV Treatment Network Chair in Public Health and HIV prevention
Patrick O'Byrne
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RateSetter appoints Martyn Scrivens to board
Kathryn Gaw Industry News, News Martyn Scrivens, paul manduca, Ratesetter
RATESETTER has named risk management specialist Martyn Scrivens as a new non-executive director and chair of the board risk committee.
Scrivens (pictured) has more than four decades of experience in audit and risk management. He spent five years as global head of internal audit at Credit Suisse Group, and prior to that he was group audit director at Lloyds Banking Group.
Scrivens will continue to serve as non-executive director at Yeovil District Hospital after joining the peer-to-peer lender's board. He also chairs the Institute of Chartered Accountants' internal audit advisory panel.
Read more: RateSetter "within touching distance" of profitability
"Martyn brings extensive leadership experience in risk management, audit and governance and I am delighted to welcome him to the RateSetter board," said Paul Manduca, RateSetter's chairman.
"Martyn joins at an exciting time, with P2P becoming a mainstream investment class and RateSetter establishing itself at the forefront of the sector as the lowest-risk and most liquid P2P investment proposition."
Read more: RateSetter unveils Access, Plus and Max accounts
"RateSetter stands out with its unique model, strong reputation for risk management and unrivalled track record of delivering for customers," said Scrivens.
"It is very exciting to join such an innovative and dynamic business and I look forward to working with my new board colleagues on the next stage of RateSetter's growth."
Scrivens will officially join the board on 1 November 2019.
Read more: Four key takeaways from RateSetter's full-year results
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Iowa Farm Bureau's fifth Economic Summit to highlight opportunities amidst ongoing market challenges
Andrew Wheeler
Specialty Ag
To assist farmers facing several consecutive years of tight margins and low commodity prices, the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF) announced the 2017 IFBF Economic Summit: "Overcoming Challenges, Creating Opportunities" on July 20 at the Iowa State Scheman Center in Ames. The summit is designed to provide farmers insights and strategies for managing through this downturned economic period, with pending trade negotiations which have potential for significant impacts to Iowa agriculture.
"We want to make sure our Economic Summit goes beyond simply surviving and include helping farmers find opportunities out there to earn a premium price for their crops and livestock, or opportunities to significantly reduce their cost of production and improve their bottom lines," said Dave Miller, IFBF director of research and commodity services.
Volatile international trade markets and uncertainty regarding current and proposed trade deals, including NAFTA, have led to an unsettled international trade climate. Speakers during this year's Economic Summit will discuss the benefits of trade for Iowa agriculture and the current status and future outlook for ag exports.
"With the United States pulling out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and planning to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it's certainly a dynamic period for ag trade," says Miller. "However, that does not diminish the critical importance of expanding exports for Iowa crop and livestock farmers."
With early field hearings underway for the new farm bill and legislative work on the horizon, the summit will also provide a timely look at the potential outlines of the 2018 farm bill, which will establish the essential farm safety net for farmers in the coming years.
Zippy Duvall, American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) president, is a featured speaker. Duvall, who will be the first AFBF president to speak at IFBF's Economic Summit, was elected to lead AFBF in 2016. Duvall is a third-generation farmer from Georgia who raises hay and broilers and has a 300-head beef cow herd.
The full-day summit will feature a range of Iowa-based and national experts presenting on a range of subjects and issues critical to agriculture today, including economist David Oppendahl of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; John Newton, an AFBF economist; and Jim Knuth, Iowa-based senior vice president of the Farm Credit Services of America.
This year's summit will also feature breakout sessions that allow attendees to dive deeper into a range of topics from soil health and cover crops and opportunities in livestock production to ways to build landlord-tenant relationships and trends in the farm machinery markets.
"This is a period when we all need to sharpen our management and marketing skills to look for future opportunities," says Miller. "This year's IFBF summit will be a valuable tool to help farmers do that."
Summit registration, which includes access to all presentations and lunch, is $30 for Farm Bureau members and $75 for non-members before July 11. Visit www.iowafarmbureau.com or contact Lavonne Baldwin (515-225-5633; lbaldwin@ifbf.org) for more information.
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The Liberals' tax reforms will be a national disaster
http://www.conradmblack.com/1333/the-liberals-tax-reforms-will-be-a-national
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
I have done my best for this federal government and have tried hard to find merit in the recently proposed changes to the tax system. My recommendation to readers in the last federal election was to vote for Justin Trudeau, whom I like personally and did a splendid job rebuilding the federal Liberal party from a status as an unofficial opposition with fewer than 20 per cent of the vote in the 2011 election to a majority government, an achievement unprecedented in Canadian federal elections. Stephen Harper had provided pretty good government but had become a Frankenstein monster who terrorized his cabinet and caucus, insulted the country with an absurd campaign, and would not listen to anyone about anything. Justin Trudeau was and remains a most amiable man — what you see is what you get and it is impossible not to like him. Claims that he was an airhead with a pretty face and a famous name were shown by him to be nonsense and the country was right to reject that argument.
It remains my view that my recommended vote almost two years ago was the correct one, as it was in the two previous elections to vote Conservative. It need hardly be added that the New Democrats, despite an engaging effort by Jack Layton and a solid professional performance as leader of the opposition by Thomas Mulcair, who deserved better than the virtual assassination he has received from the Neanderthal left of his (hastily adopted) party, cannot possibly be entrusted with the government of the country. They can't get more than a term at a time at the head of a prosperous province, and could not, altogether, run a two-car funeral, which is what this country would receive if the NDP were in charge of it for long.
Seen from this perspective, the strongest argument to be made for the proposed tax changes, and presumably one of the motives for them, is that they should slice the NDP off at the ankles in the eyes of all those who oppose commerce in general as grubby, and wealth accumulation, the transfer of what wealth people have made to their heirs, and any planning to moderate taxes as greedy and uncivil. I don't doubt that those responsible for this initiative have analyzed it carefully from a tactical political standpoint and believe that the government will pick up more votes than it loses. I have no standing to contradict them, and learned many decades ago not to underestimate the envy and malice of vast sections of the public, but I am not so sure.
Like all people in this country, I have been waiting for this government to do something important, apart from the partial legalization of marijuana, after taking office from a regime that had become so dyspeptic and sclerotic and cranky, it could not even fill vacancies in almost a quarter of the Senate. The proposed tax changes are important and groundbreaking, but after careful study, I must conclude that they are almost entirely bad for the country. They constitute a violent assault on small business, the self-employed, private companies, and individual tax-paying high income people such as lawyers, as well as on financial continuity in families. In a word, it is an assault on the whole range of traditional values, though it is, like all tax increases, dressed up in the threadbare raiment of fairness and elimination of "loopholes," which have come to mean any abatement of taxes on all categories of income below about 90 per cent.
If I believed that the Prime Minister's strategists had really got over their intellectual life support connection to former Dalton McGuinty and Barack Obama political strategist David Axelrod, I could believe this seismic lurch to the left was because they saw that U.S. President Donald Trump was going to bring in his tax changes and achieve 3.5 per cent economic growth, raising the North American tide no matter what crown of thorns was impressed on the perspiring and hoary heads of Canadian income tax payers. Such a stretch and act of faith is now beyond my always limited athletic talents and hard-pressed access to spontaneous uplifted optimism. And Trump's tax reductions are also likely to drain investment, and some people, from Canada.
There is nothing for it but to sketch out the major problems of this proposed dawn raid on our material lives. Dividends to family members will be subject to an unimaginably intrusive and costly analysis by tax collectors of whether the recipients have earned these dividends, and of whether intra-family asset sales or sales of businesses are at fair prices. Taxes on estates, where ownership of businesses is involved, become very complicated and costly, and any utilization of trusts, no matter how traditional, becomes a tenebrous jungle full of hostile beasts and serpents employed by the federal government to impoverish you and your heirs. An arm's length sale of such a business will attract a tax of up to 26 per cent, while an intra-family sale could be taxed at up to 45 per cent. Combined with proposed vote-buying (and job-losing) increases in the minimum wage in Ontario, this will cut deeply into small business profitability, the permanent principal source of any country's economic strength and growth.
In the last federal budget, the minister of finance promised to facilitate the continuity of family businesses; the proposed measures are a 180 degree turn from that declared objective. He also promised tax simplification; what is now proposed is a nightmarish labyrinth that invites tax inspectors to ransack the entire private corporate sector demanding payments aggressively before the new rules have been judicially interpreted, with, no doubt, their customary courtesy and discretion (which could put much of the population unused to such official harassment on suicide watch).
Proposed treatment of passive income will discourage savings and retention of earnings in small and medium businesses, and assert pressure to avoid prudent reserves for contingencies or unforeseen opportunities and problems and restrict the ability of management in small and medium businesses to manage sensibly. The administration of these changes and their interpretation by the courts, and any experienced taxpayer knows to fear the worst in these areas, will take many years to adjudicate and clarify, even in the absence of further changes, which cannot be assumed. It required 17 years for the Supreme Court of Canada to settle the impact of the original general avoidance rules, and there is no reason to believe that measures as complex, meddlesome and authoritarian as these will be less time consuming for the establishment of a comprehensible framework. Such uncertainty will create very difficult conditions for corporate planning as it will be impossible to be confident what rate of tax will be applied to different categories of income and assets.
It is entirely likely that the cost of imposing and collecting and adjudicating these taxes will exceed the revenue to the federal government. This approaches the salt tax in the last days of the Bourbon monarchy in 18th-century France, which required 250,000 agents to collect and helped bring on the French Revolution. Canadian taxpayers are unlikely to have the satisfaction that the French had then of sending those responsible for this tax to the guillotine, or of being exalted by the glorious victories of Napoleon (unacceptably costly in all respects though they ultimately were).
Lawyers and some doctors will be singled out for particular oppression, which to opponents of this nasty and dangerous legislation is welcome, given their political influence and the bar's skill at lobbying. If implemented, these rules could drive large numbers of doctors out of the country, and Canada is already the 27th out of 35 advanced economies in its per capita number of doctors. About half the deficiency of 25,000 doctors just to get to the 35 country-average was caused by Pierre Trudeau and Monique Begin's abolition of private medicine ("over-billing") in 1983. The imposition of these measures would aggravate this shortcoming and cause even the most complacent Canadians, who imagine they have a brilliant health-care system, to see and feel its deficiencies, which would become starkly more obvious, especially long waiting lists for many services and the outright (though unadmitted) rationing of health care to lower income groups.
These are bad measures, proposed by a fiscally incontinent government in mid-summer and with a condensed 75-day consultation process. If adopted as they are, it may enable the regime to squiggle through the next election, greasing its way with slippery claptrap about egalitarian fairness, but it will be a national disaster of slow economic growth and a reaccelerated brain drain that will take a generation to redress. This beastly set of proposals should be strangled in its cradle, but the willing hands to give it what the Supreme Court could eagerly recognize as death with dignity are not now visible.
Note: I would like to thank many people for making research available to me, especially Eddy Burello and John Hughes of MNP, and the former minister of finance, my friend of many years, the Honourable Joe Oliver.


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GPs are now reaching the 'natural end' of vaccination clinics
By Niamh Cahill | July 28, 2021 | 0
GPs are now reaching the "natural end" of vaccination clinics as it becomes more difficult to fill vaccine appointments with greater numbers now vaccinated, according to IMO GP Committee Chairman Dr Denis MacCauley.
Around 700 GPs have continued to vaccinate patients throughout the summer months after the completion of older and more vulnerable cohorts earlier this year.
More than 5.6 million vaccine doses have been administered to date and it is estimated that just under half of all vaccines have been given by GPs, said Dr MacCauley.
According to the Donegal based GP, GPs are working harder now than before to fill appointments, as most have exhausted patient lists by now, apart from 16 and 17 year olds who are now eligible to come forward for vaccination.
He said talks were underway about "booster" vaccines in the autumn, with healthcare workers, the over 70s and medically vulnerable patients due to be prioritised.
Discussions are exploring how administration of booster shots could occur and when. For example, patients could be offered booster vaccines at the same time as receiving the influenza vaccine. But no decision on this has been made yet.
Flu vaccine stocks are due to arrive into Ireland in late September, it is understood.
Meanwhile, Dublin GP Dr Ray Walley told the Medical Independent (MI) that he is concerned about inappropriate use of Covid-19 antigen tests among the public here.
Reports from the UK have revealed instances of antigen test sharing and their use when symptomatic, which Dr Walley said was not advisable.
The tests, which provide results in minutes and can be self-administered, are on sale in several shops in Ireland. But they are not definitive and can wrongly return negative or positive results.
"Antigen tests have a utility, particularly when the system is under pressure and in areas of high prevalence; they are better than no test. But PCR remains the gold standard test in terms of accuracy.
"I have yet to see or hear an information campaign regarding the correct their correct use and the potential dangers of antigen tests, which are not as reliable as PCR tests."
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Many people may yawn at the mention of 'museum', but there is nothing to yawn about with these Seoul museums. Art-meets-architecture, amazing artifacts and vivid history experiences are just some of the key words when visiting these museums.
Museums in Seoul are inexpensive and great places for families as well with many of them offering nursing rooms and playgrounds. They are easily accessible with public transportation and some of the museums even have guided tours in English. This is the best way to spend a rainy, or any, afternoon in Seoul. We recommend them all! Eat in one of the restaurants inside the museums or go for a walk in the neighborhood and check out other local businesses nearby using our MyDestination Seoul App, should you have a tablet, iPhone or Android phone with you.
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The Motley Fool Canada » Investing » Chevron Corporation Has Big Shoes to Fill in Canada
Chevron Corporation Has Big Shoes to Fill in Canada
Matt DiLallo | August 5, 2014 | More on: APA CVX TRP TRP
Last week Apache Corporation (NYSE: APA) announced it had decided to abandon Chevron Corporation's (NYSE: CVX) Kitimat LNG project in British Colombia. Apache plans to divest its 50% stake in the project as it continues to refocus its business on steady, repeatable growth projects like shale.
While Apache's decision to exit isn't a death blow to the project, it certainly means Chevron will have big shoes to fill as it seeks out another partner.
Costs are a concern
In addition to its decision to exit Kitimat LNG, Apache also announced its intention to pull out of Chevron's Wheatstone LNG project in Australia. The company cites the dramatically rising costs of these projects, as Chevron's own Gorgon LNG project in Australia is a prime example.
Gorgon was originally expected to cost about US$37 billion in just 2009. However, costs have surged to US$54 billion, which are really impacting that project's economics. It's just one of the many large-scale projects that big oil companies have taken on that are being impacted by surging costs.
Apache would rather invest in repeatable drilling projects that can quickly move the needle. That's why the company has turned most of its attention to American shale plays. These are delivering high rates of return and projectable growth rates. Even better, drilling costs are actually coming down, which are improving economics.
Chevron's next move
Apache's decision to leave puts Chevron in a tough spot. It's unlikely to buy out its partner because it doesn't want to take on 100% of the project's risk. Because of that it likely won't have much say in who purchases Apache's stake. The hope is that Chevron will be able to attract a strong partner that really wants to work with it to develop the project as well as the associated natural gas reserves that will fuel the facility.
Among the most likely buyers of Apache's stake are Asian investors looking to secure gas for the region. Apache's stake could be parceled out to a number of Asian energy companies or sold to one big buyer. It had been rumoured late last year that China's Sinopec was looking to buy a minority stake from Apache in the project.
Sinopec and Apache already have a strategic alliance as Sinopec bought 33% of Apache's Egyptian assets last year and the pair was looking to expand their alliance. Because of this it is quite possible that Sinopec will end up with at least part of Apache's stake in Kitimat LNG.
In the meantime Chevron plans to continue moving forward with the project. It has been drilling appraisal wells in the gas fields that will supply the project and recently signed a deal with TransCanada Corporation (TSX: TRP)(NYSE: TRP) for a $1.9 billion pipeline that will help to supply gas to the facility. While a final investment decision on Kitimat LNG has still not been made, Chevron appears poised to move forward with the project even without Apache.
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Apache's decision to exit Kitimat LNG isn't likely the death blow for the project. Canada has a vast supply of cheap natural gas and it will need export facilities like Kitimat LNG to get the gas into Asian markets. Because of this a deep-pocketed investor will likely be found to take on Apache's stake in the project.
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Another interesting upcoming release: Will Tucketts Elizabeth with Zenaida & Carlos. I missed this when it was performed so will probably buy the DVD (due for release on the 28th October).
Well, well - it's a welcome sight to see something non-mainstream getting sent to DVD - even though the reason will almost certainly have been Acosta rather than anything else.
Received my Rhapsody/Two Pigeons DVD today. It is definitely Fumi Kaneko and not Laura Morera. I am saving it to watch tomorrow evening as I have the house to myself for once! Bliss. Tissues at the ready.
A question rather than a comment - have there ever been DVD releases of Sylvie Guillem's classical performances, as opposed to her contemporary work? the only thing I've seen on Amazon is 'Work/Portrait' which seems more of a documentary with snippets of dance. I never saw her dance, and would love to see something of better quality reproduction than hazy Youtube clips.
I have a DVD of Sylvie in Marguerite & Armand with Le Riche & Dowell. It was recorded in Japan in 2003 so probably not available now. You are welcome to borrow it, Quintus.
I have a DVD of Sylvie in Marguerite & Armand with Le Riche & Dowell. It was recorded in Japan in 2003 so probably not available now.
Still available on Amazon - some used copies v cheap. Reviews are rather mixed!
I doubt that Ashton would have recognised much of what Sylvie did with his choreography as having a great deal to do with his ballet. I'm still not convinced that it was a good idea to revive it.
It was a terrible idea to revive it, and I believe against Ashton's wishes.
Susan, that's very kind of you, thanks for the offer. I hadn't spotted it on Amazon, so seeing David's comment above i have actually just ordered a secondhand copy from there!
... and on impulse a used bluray of Ondine for 7.99; not sure that will be my cup of tea but seemed worth a punt!
Just picked up Rhapsody/2 Pigeons from ROH shop!
I can't believe the ROH is the best option for The Two Pigeons, does anyone know if Friends get 10% off everything in the shop now?
Does anyone know the answer to Beryl H's question please? There doesn't seem to be an option if one books on line but I wonder if a discount is offered to friends who buy direct at the shop?
I think the Friends discount is for a couple of Saturdays before Christmas.
I just paid £29.99 for my blu ray disc.
Thank you billboyd. Certainly can't wait till Xmas so will order from the shop. Better them than Amazon!
At present the Friends discount (10%) operates all year round. I used it myself last week in the shop.
Of Mgt Dale's nine (?) original cast film adaptions for the BBC, not only Ashton's Dream but also his Les Rendezvous and Monotones remain to be restored and released. I don't have a complete list but I think Petrouchka (with Nerina) and Ninette de Valois' Checkmate and Rake's Progress also? Hopefully ICA have at least some in their sights.
We can live in hope of seeing quite a few more recordings apart from Les Rendezvous.I have seen the 1960's recording with Shaw and Wells in the lead it looks very different from any version I have seen of it because It is so speedy and light that it looks more like Bournonville than Ashton. There is also the SWRB recording of the ballet with Tait and Ashmole from the late 1970's or early 1980's.
A recording was made of the original cast of Enigma Variations it would be great to see that just as it would be wonderful to see Nijinska's Les Noces danced by the RB's original cast who were hand picked by the choreographer herself.
There is a recording of the Sibley, Dowell Cinderella with Parkinson as Fairy Godmother which was briefly available in this country but is now only sold on region 1 DVDs. There is a later recording of the ballet made by the BBC of Collier and Dowell with Mason as the Fairy Godmother Then there was a Symphonic Variations recorded, I think, by Southern Televison with an almost perfect cast which included Sibley, Dowell and Jenner.Somewhere there is a recording of Facade with Coleman and Beagley in the Popular Song and Park and Dowell in the Tango. Looking at the Radio Times in archive on line will give you a good idea of what we might look forward to seeing if anyone at the BBC thought the effort was worthwhile. But as ballet is an elite art form there is little hope, I fear, that much more to be unearthed.
Even if the BBC wiped some, or all of it, while preserving every transmission of the Old Grey Whistle Test, I can't help feeling that somewhere someone has the complete Sibley and Dowell Sleeping Beauty. Perhaps the company should consider issuing RB historic performances and begin by making an appeal to members of the public to fill in the gaps by making a tape of that production available for restoration. just as the BBC did for missing episodes of Dr Who.There is the 1978 Park, Wall, Beauty which represents de Valois final thoughts on the ballet. Then there are all those documentaries which contain priceless material and one off celebratory performances such as the Queen Mother's eightieth birthday celebration at the ROH.
Finally there are more recent recordings which have not been made available to the general public such as the 2004 Daphnis and Chloe or the Bussell farewell performance which included a pretty good Symphonic Variations and Song of the Earth.How did the company manage to miss a trick there is beyond me.
Perhaps the company should consider issuing RB historic performances and begin by making an appeal to members of the public to fill in the gaps by making a tape of that production available for restoration. just as the BBC did for missing episodes of Dr Who.There is the 1978 Park, Wall, Beauty which represents de Valois final thoughts on the ballet. Then there are all those documentaries which contain priceless material and one off celebratory performances such as the Queen Mother's eightieth birthday celebration at the ROH.
Hear hear I have a video of the QM's 80th Birthday performance (recorded while I was out on a 3 hour tape) which cut off half way through Mamzelle Angot because the BBC inserted the 10 o'clock news. I have been waiting to see the end of that ballet ever since.
Finally there are more recent recordings which have not been made available to the general public such as .... the Bussell farewell performance which included a pretty good Symphonic Variations and Song of the Earth.How did the company manage to miss a trick there is beyond me.
And Hear Hear to this as well. My recorder failed during the BBC relay of Mr Bussell's farewell performance and all my pleas to Opus Arte fell on deaf ears!
That 2004 Daphnis and Chloe is the one that annoys me the most, one of my favourite ballets, I'm sure it was recorded as the rest of the triple bill is available on DVD, but Les Patineurs replaces D and C, the running time of DVD's is long enough to have included them all. It had Alina Cojocaru and Federico Bonelli in the leads too! I have the Sibley/Dowell/Parkinson Cinderella on a region 2 DVD, probably purchased from Amazon.
We can live in hope of seeing quite a few more recordings apart from Les Rendezvous.
Oh Floss - "The hearing of this is enough to ravish one's heart; but are these things to be enjoyed? How shall we get to be sharers thereof?"
That Hans van Manen disc is good (I have it on the previously issued DVD) and includes Solo, which many loved when NDT 2 performed it at Sadler's Wells earlier this year. Deja Vu and Two Pieces for Het are very good as well.
"And there must surely be ample recordings for another Ashton DVD by now, perhaps including Daphnis?"
Don't you think the next Ashton release will be The Dream/Symphonic Variations/Marguerite and Armand following the live cinema relay on the 7th June next year?
Hopefully wrt The Dream and Symphonic Variations. I can't see them issuing another recording of M&A now when they issued one only three years ago.


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Former Rockets exec Tad Brown hired as CEO of Sixers, Devils to replace Scott O'Neil
Former Rockets CEO Tad Brown is being hired to fill the same role for Harris Blitzer Sports and Entertainment, the ownership group that controls the Sixers and New Jersey Devils, the Sixers announced via press release on Monday afternoon. Brown steps into the role vacated by Scott O'Neil, who recently announced he would be leaving the organization for opportunities still unknown at this time.
"We are thrilled to welcome Tad to the HBSE family," Joshua Harris said in a statement. "Tad is an exceptional leader in our industry, and one with a deep passion for innovation and community engagement. With nearly twenty years' experience leading the Houston Rockets and Toyota Center, we are confident that he will bring a fresh energy and new ideas to our teams, organization and local communities."
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"I want to thank Josh Harris and David Blitzer for this incredible opportunity to lead HBSE in its next chapter," Brown added. "This role not only allows me to work for innovators like Josh and David; it also allows me to work alongside some of the industry's best talent that has been assembled across the HBSE organization. This is a world-class sports and entertainment organization that cares about the cities and fans it serves. My family and I are thrilled to begin our new journey and I'm eager to help guide HBSE to even greater heights."
Brown, who announced with the Rockets that he would "transition from his role" in Houston following the end of the 2020-21 season, was a Rockets mainstay whose time in Houston pre-dated Daryl Morey's arrival in 2006. Originally brought on as Houston's Vice President of Corporate Development prior to the 2002-03 season, Brown was named CEO in 2006, roughly six months after Morey became assistant GM of the Rockets.
On the surface, Brown's job with the Sixers (and Devils) will be running the business department, and given the blurring of lines between business and basketball ops in Philadelphia's not-too-distant past, most fans will be hoping it stays that way. Brown certainly has a few feathers in his cap on that front, cited as an integral figure in Houston's regional television deals in addition to serving on the NBA's Media Committee, working through the ins and outs of rights packages.
That experience might serve Brown and the Sixers well in the not-too-distant future. In recent months, sports business publications have speculated on the future of the NBC Sports regional networks following the announcement of NBC Sports Network shutting down by the end of 2021. The Wall Street Journal reported in May that NBCUniversal (owned by Comcast) is in the process of exploring RSN sales, and the New York Post recently reported that Sinclair Broadcasting Group made an offer to acquire seven of NBC's regional networks, including Philadelphia. It's an evolving situation with huge financial implications regardless of how it plays out, and having someone with some level of expertise in the field on board should be helpful for the Sixers.
Beyond the business side, Brown made it a point to try to build relationships with Houston's best players in an effort to keep them happy. James Harden referred to Brown as a father figure during his time in Houston, with Brown taking the time to grow close not just with Harden, but Harden's mother. Brown also took trips to China with Yao Ming early in his Rockets career in order to gain an understanding of the Chinese center's importance to his home country. Perhaps most importantly, he's a guy that Daryl Morey seems to trust enough to have the two reunite at a new organization.
Frankly, the less you have to hear about the business side as a sports fan, the better. If Brown helps the Sixers make a bunch of money and keep the star players happy, that will be enough to make it a successful hire.
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Kepler's next wideband satellite reaches orbit on the Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
At 06:20:09 a.m. UTC (01:20 a.m. EST), Kepler Communications successfully launched their second wideband satellite to low-Earth orbit (LEO) on the Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C43 mission that lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India.
Kepler's latest satellite within the company's network will be used to deliver service to early customers. The first satellite was launched in January 2018. Both satellites carry a Ku-band payload onboard that is used for wideband connectivity. The third satellite will launch in 2019 and will provide narrowband connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Mina Mitry, CEO of Kepler, says of the launch "This is an exciting month for Kepler! Following our recent FCC approval, the successful launch of our next satellite marks an important milestone for the team to deliver our network on schedule. This is but the start of our upcoming and regular launch cadence. We continue to increase network capacity, and deliver a more persistent, reliable, service to our customers every step a long the way."
The lessons learned from almost a year of operating the first satellite were incorporated into the development of the second to improve the reliability. Kepler has already demonstrated a capability to deliver upwards of 40 Mbps to 60cm diameter VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) and over 300 Mbps to Kepler's 3.4m gateway in Inuvik, Canada. Kepler also became the first company to use a wideband LEO satellite to acquire, track, and communicate with an electronically-steered antenna when Kepler and Phasor performed their collaborative demonstration.
As Kepler builds out the capabilities on their satellite infrastructure, the company is also adding capacity on their ground segment. In addition to their gateway deployed in Inuvik, Canada, Kepler has also recently deployed ground stations on Svalbard and in New Zealand. As new ground stations and gateways are added, Kepler is able to increase the reliability of their communication service and decrease the latency of customer data delivery.
CASE was built in collaboration with ÅAC Clyde, and Bright Ascension Ltd. The satellite payload is Kepler's proprietary software defined radio and antenna that uses Enclustra and AHA (of Comtech EF) components. The Kepler ground support network was built in collaboration with Comtech EF Data, Kongsberg Satellite Services, and Innovative Solutions in Space. The satellite was launched by Antrix Corporation Ltd, a wholly owned Government of India company, with the support of ISED, Canada for licensing.
Kepler's ultimate goal is to deliver in-space connectivity to address the data need from space faring assets, and support the future space economy. However, Kepler's network currently focuses on delivering wideband and narrowband connectivity. With this launch on the back of receiving FCC market access authorization and the announcement of Kepler's 16M USD Series A round of financing, the company is well poised to take a leadership role in LEO communications.