While we have most definitely moved away from our unschooling roots (that never really seemed to take root in our homeschool!). I still like to try and keep learning as hands on and as interesting as possible.
I have found that my kids learn best when we take what we've read about and build upon it.
1. Field trips! We all LOVE field trips and I am continually on the lookout for new places that we can go and explore together. In the meantime we keep visiting some of our old favorites whenever we want to take a break from our books.
2. An art project-- my boys don't always enjoy getting messy with art but every now and then we try a new project that they just LOVE. That's why I never stop trying to get them to do art with me.
3. Watching YouTube videos or a movie-- while my kids not always pay as close attention to my reading or a book they are reading they will sit and watch movies and videos any day. I know they are listening and watching too because they are often eager to share what they have learned with other.
4. Science experiments that bring those concepts to life-- I have heard from lots of moms and students that science is hard to teach and it's boring.. but it's wonderful if you incorporate lots of hands on experiments! We're currently working our way through 100 days of art and are having a great time learning art in a more hands on way.
5. Building something (think 3-d maps or models of just about anything)-- We've made brides out of Lego's, cell models out of food, salt dough maps, play dough houses from around the world, and the list goes on and on. Having kids construct what they are learning about helps cement what they have learned with something they have made with their own hands. Learning doesn't get more personal than that.
6. Games!-- Both video and board games are great ways to engage middle school students in learning. My kids have recreated things like Percy Jackson's ship or a medieval castle in Minecraft. We've played the complex chemistry game Ion, and we have two full closets full of games that we enjoy playing.
7. Traveling-- This is my personal favorite way to enrich learning for any students. I just love any excuse to travel! But seriously, kids learn so much through travel. We often visit new museums, historical places, and even just try out new foods my kids otherwise would turn their noses up. Visiting a new place is a great way to bring what you are learning about to life.
We happened to be visiting Nashville, Tenn. when we were reading the Percy Jackson series and the boys insisted we stop to see the Parthenon.
8. Take something apart to see how it works-- much like building there is a lot that can be learned through deconstruction. When our VCR dies or any household gadget that we can not fix (or it would just be cheaper to replace) we give the boys the option of taking it apart to see how it works. These things are just going to end up in the trash anyway so why not let them see what's inside? Usually just a few simple tools are needed and they learn so much.
9. Take a class-- We have taken some truly phenomenal classes together. The boys have sit on a college lecture about plate tectonics where they were encouraged to use a computer to follow along, we've taken painting classes, our local children's museum offered hands on engineering classes, we've taken an oceanography class where we went out on a real ocean research vessel. There are some truly great classes out there offered and geared towards homeschooling families and we've found that most of them are taught by enthusiastic instructors who really know their stuff.
10. Cook up something in the kitchen-- Learning about a new geographical region? Whip up a recipe native to where you are learning. Learning about a time in history? Make a meal using ingredients of that time period. Learning about fractions? Pull out a family recipe and have your kids double it! Learning about science? Research how different "chemicals" react and bake a cake. The possibilities are endless and as a bonus you're also teaching valuable life skills. My boys enjoy helping out in the kitchen and I look for ways to bring that into our traditional school day.
What are some ways you like to bring lessons to life?
These are all great ideas!!! Love your blog and my nieces and nephews always enjoy the activities!
Right?! We just love science!! But I seem to be in the minority; most homeschooling families love teaching history and avoid science... I'd teach science over history any day!
Awesome ideas!!! You are so creative.


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If you're a parent, chances are as the school year comes to a close you're already looking to the fall; figuring out the best education options for your kids. With social troubles on the rise in many of our nation's public schools and the budget crunches making tuition more difficult for many families to meet, more and more parents are taking a second look at homeschooling as an option.
This feature with Kevin Swanson, Executive Director of Christian Home Educators of Colorado and Director of Generations with Vision, and Christopher Klicka, Senior Counsel of the Home School Legal Defense Association, takes a look at some of the questions facing those making this important decision.
Kevin Swanson's book: Upgrade: Ten Secrets to the Best Education for your Child is an excellent resource for parents wrestling with education questions, whether homeschooling or not. It is available through his website.
Christopher Klicka's book: Homeschool Heroes is a wonderful overview of the many struggles early homeschooling pioneers faced to make it possible today. It is available through the HSLDA website.
For more information about the ICHE Annual Convention, click here.
Some reports (like this one from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy) claim that as many as 1 in 3 young adults have admitted to the activity–which has led to a number of well publicized cases as law enforcement wrestles with how to respond to the issue.
A recent article claims that the activity is no more significant than "spin the bottle" or "playing doctor." This piece features a conversation with Karl Benzio, Executive Director of the Lighthouse Network, looking at the claims of the new study as well as some of the spiritual and emotional issues that can result from sexting.
This feature highlights a conversation I had recently with Gary Brady, Pastor of Childs Hill Baptist Church in London, England. We spoke about his book which examines this concept of regeneration and what it means for the follower of Christ.
Gary's book: What The Bible Teaches About Being Born Again (Evangelical Press, 2008) is available through CBD.
There are hundreds of thousands of Christian missionaries serving all around the world, faithfully involved in the work of the Great Commission. While we may hear some of their stories through an occassional Mission's Conference or prayer letter, we don't hear their testimonies often enough. In the coming months I hope to more frequently highlight how God is at work through His faithful servants all around the world.
Recently, I had an opportunity to sit down with Peter Mead, Minister at Large with Operation Mobilization. He and his family are based in London and are involved in the Great Commission through discipleship and training efforts. He spoke to me from a quiet hallway at the Renaissance Hotel near Heathrow Airport.
In a few months I hope to air a second feature with Peter on the importance of sound teaching and preaching. If you'd like more information about that side of Peter's ministry, you can visit his resource website: www.biblicalpreaching.net.
I am grateful to Peter for his willingness to pick me up from Heathrow Airport, arranging a meeting place for our interview, and for introducing me to steak and ale pie at the White Hart Inn…thanks so much.
What makes for effective church growth? There are a lot of differing perspectives on the issue. This feature is a conversation with Mark Driscoll, senior pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, WA. He believes that sustained church growth has less to do with church programs and more to do with our commitment to the word of God.
Click here for more information about the Gospel Coalition.
Last month, Mark Elfstrand of WMBI's Morning Show interviewed well known atheist Christopher Hitchens about his book: god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, new in paperback.
This conversation with Bryan Oneal, Assistant Professor of Theology at the Moody Bible Institute, looks at a few of the claims found in the book.
If you'd like to hear the complete 22-minute conversation with Bryan, click here.
Stephen Hays has a great review of the book, available through the Chalcedon Foundation.
Answers in Genesis has written an interesting article about the "new atheists" entitled: Why Do the Atheists Rage?
There are times in the life of a congregation when, for the health of the body and the testimony of Christ, a member should come under church discipline.
This conversation with Matt Schmucker, executive director of IX Marks and an elder at Capital Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC, takes a look at this difficult topic and explores why a commitment to church discipline is crucial for the effectiveness of the local church.
The March 2009 issue of Tabletalk magazine features his article on this topic entitled: Something Different. If you'd like more information about Tabletalk magazine, click here.
Chances are that sometime over the next 2 months you are going to attend a wedding. June is the most popular month followed closely by the month of May. By the end of the year, more than 2 million couples will tie the knot. This report is on a new book that takes a look back at 12 Christian couples from Church history and what we can learn from their letters for our marriages today.
Dr. Michael Haykin is professor of church history and biblical spirituality at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY, where he also serves as director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies.
His book, The Christian Lover: The Sweetness of Love and Marriage in the Letters of Believers (published by Reformation Trust) is available through the Ligoneer website.
To download an mp3 of today's feature, click here.
Sunday is Mother's Day; while many women find great fulfillment in motherhood, there are times when it can be discouraging as well. One challenge many mothers face is bringing a sense of peace into their home.
The conversation is based on her article: Help! How can I have Peace in my Home? from the October 2008 issue of the magazine. Nancy has generously provided an electronic version of the article that can be downloaded here.


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PITTSBURGH - Antonio Brown doesn't have much of a relationship with his father. But the Steelers wide receiver knows all about his dad's accomplishments as a football player.
"He's the greatest player in the history of the Arena Football League," Brown said.
Eddie Brown played 10 seasons in the AFL (1994-2003) with the Albany Firebirds, who became the Indiana Firebirds in 2001. He finished with 935 career receptions, 12,736 receiving yards and 303 touchdown catches.
"I only got to see my dad play just once," said Antonio Brown, a sixth-round pick in the 2010 NFL Draft. "I remember he scored four or five touchdowns that day. He was something else."
Antonio Brown never got to know his father well because his parents separated during his childhood days in Miami, Fla. The estranged couple decided it was best that Antonio remain with his mother.
Eddie Brown, who's now a high school football coach in Kansas City, never saw Antonio play until this year's Super Bowl.
This past season as a rookie, Antonio Brown caught 16 passes for 167 yards during the regular season. During the playoffs, he caught five passes for 90 yards. He had a 58-yard reception late in the fourth quarter that set up the game-winning touchdown in the playoff win over Baltimore. He also had a key 14-yard reception late in the fourth quarter in the AFC Championship Game win over the New York Jets.
Antonio Brown also returned a kickoff 89 yards for a TD in an early-season win at Tennessee.
"I'm proud of what my father did in the Arena Football League," Antonio Brown said. "He was great player in that league. I just hope that someday I can put up numbers like he did in the NFL."


The lower court's final ruling in the Vergara case has pushed it into the race for State Superintendent of Public Instruction as the latest proxy fight between supporters of reform and protectors of the status quo.
Tom Torlakson, the incumbent, is urging the state to appeal.
Marshall Tuck, the challenger, is urging the state not to appeal.
Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu's final ruling in Vergara vs. California, released yesterday, affirmed his decision in June that five California laws governing teacher tenure, seniority and dismissal violate the state constitution by denying students access to a quality public education.
As a political issue, it creates another fault line in education policy, dividing proponents of reform who are seeking to hold teachers more accountable for classroom success and those who view the court ruling as another assault on public school teachers, whose jobs are difficult enough with crowded classrooms, larger numbers of students from poverty and growing numbers of students who don't speak English.
It's ideally suited for a statewide election in which the challenger has a background in the reform movement and the incumbent is a strong union supporter.
Torlakson, who was named a defendant in the case and is supported by the teachers unions that joined Vergara as co-defendants, was widely expected to favor an appeal.
"School districts have always had the power to dismiss those who do not measure up, and this year I helped pass a new law that streamlined the dismissal process, while protecting the rights of both teachers and students.It is disappointing that the Court refused to even consider this important reform," he said.
Prior to the final ruling Torlakson had remained vague about his intentions regarding an appeal. The deadline on filing means he must make a decision before the November 4 election, making it an obvious issue for Tuck.
Already, he has. His staffers are citing polls conducted in the aftermath of the Vergara trial that suggest voters agree that the state's two-year tenure period is too short to determine whether a teacher is truly effective and that the dismissal process for ineffective teachers is too long and expensive for public school districts.
Further, he has created an online petition to engender public support to urge the state to drop any plans to defend "a failing system in need of major change" by appealing the Vergara ruling.
*Adds LA Times report, saying the state has appealed.


Chevrolet will have a new crossover to offer soon but before they unveil it, GM released a new teaser of the vehicle.
From what we can see, the vehicle looks similar to the Chevrolet Blazer but smaller. The vehicle was fitted with a slender grille along with slim headlights with integrated LED daytime running lights.
The new teaser image also showed that the vehicle will have an upward sweeping shoulder line, sloping roof, slender mirror caps and more. GM did not reveal the name of the vehicle in the image but most people believe that it is the 2020 Chevrolet Trax model.
If this is true, that means we might be learning more about the upcoming Trax soon inlcuding the powertrain. The previous model was powered by a 1.4 liter turbocharged four cylinder engine that offered about 138hp and 148lb ft of torque. Then engine will also be fitted with a six speed automatic transmission.


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We are looking for ....Photos, Morning Reports, After Action Reports and other documents including those of units that may have been near the coordinates LON: 12.77634, LAT: 41.58113 on the approximated dates of death 03/15/1944 - 05/25/1944. Some unit information related to the recover location may encompass: 30th and 7th Inf.


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Offices, Centres and Facilities
Niagara Region Headquarters
1815 Sir Isaac Brock Way
(Formerly 2201 St. Davids Rd.)
Thorold, ON
Visit Niagara Region Headquarters
Childcare Centre
Branscombe Childcare Centre 6271 Glengate St. 905-356-7677
Fort Erie Childcare Centre 94 Catherine St. 905-871-7706
Port Colborne Childcare Centre 214 Steele St. 905-835-2394
St. Catharines Childcare Centre 179 Carlton St. 905-684-9927
Welland Childcare Centre 25 Bruce St. 905-735-2665
Community Service Office
Administration Community Service Office 1815 Sir Isaac Brock Way 905-984-6900 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Fort Erie Community Service Office 469 Central Ave. 905-354-3561 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Niagara Falls Community Service Office 5853 Peer St. 905-354-3561 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Port Colborne Community Service Office 92 Charlotte St. 905-734-7975 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
St. Catharines Community Service Office 234 Bunting Rd. 905-641-9960 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Welland Community Service Office 250 Thorold Rd. West 905-734-7975 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Administration Economic Development Office 1815 Sir Isaac Brock Way 905-980-6000 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Bridge Street Residential Drop-off Depot Landfill 1300 Bridge St. Fort Erie 905-871-3887 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Humberstone Landfill 700 Humberstone Rd. Welland 905-735-8261 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Niagara Road 12 Landfill 7015 Concession 7 Rd. West Lincoln 905-309-0123 Closed
Walker Residential Drop-off Depot Landfill 2800 Thorold Townline Rd. Thorold 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Long Term Care Home
D.H. Rapelje Lodge Long Term Care Home 277 Plymouth Rd. 905-714-7428
Deer Park Villa Long Term Care Home 150 Central Ave. 905-945-4164
Gilmore Lodge Long Term Care Home 50 Gilmore Rd. 905-871-6160
Linhaven Long Term Care Home 403 St. 905-934-3386
Northland Pointe Long Term Care Home 2 Fielden Ave. 905-835-9335
T. Roy Adams Centre for Dementia Care Long Term Care Home 403 St. 905-934-3364
The Meadows of Dorchester Long Term Care Home 6623 Kalar Rd. 905-357-1911
The Woodlands of Sunset Long Term Care Home 920 Pelham St. 905-892-3845
Upper Canada Lodge Long Term Care Home 272 Wellington St. 905-468-4208
Provincial Offences Courts
St. Catharines Provincial Offences Courts 71 King St. 905-687-6590 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Welland Provincial Offences Courts 445 East Main St. 905-687-6590 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Public Health Offices
Thorold / St. Catharines Public Health Offices 1815 Sir Isaac Brock Way 905-688-8248 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Mental Health Program Public Health Offices 3550 Schmon Pkwy. Unit 2 905-688-2854 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Fort Erie Public Health Offices 1264 Garrison Rd. Unit 12 905-871-6513 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Niagara Falls Public Health Offices 5710 Kitchener St. 905-356-1538 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Welland Public Health Offices 200 Division St. 905-735-5697 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Public Works Building Maintenance Station
Niagara Falls Public Works Building Maintenance Station 4343 Morrison St.
St. Catharines Public Works Building Maintenance Station 68 Church St.
Welland Public Works Building Maintenance Station 5 Lincoln St.
Public Works Facility
Environmental Centre Public Works Facility 3501 Schmon Pkwy. 905-980-6000 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Pelham Yard Public Works Facility 1495 Victoria Ave. 905-892-5355 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Smithville Transportation Yard Public Works Facility 3114 Thirty Rd. RR 14 905-957-3358 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Thorold Transportation Yard Public Works Facility 3557 Thorold Townline Rd. 905-227-7270 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Welland Transportation Yard Public Works Facility 745 Doan's Ridge Rd. 905-735-1924 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Fort Erie Sewage Treatment Plant 1 Anger Ave. Fort Erie 905-871-2264 Jan. - Sept: 7 a.m. - 7 p.m., Oct. - Dec.: 6 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Grimsby Sewage Treatment Plant 160 Lake St. Grimsby 905-945-3089 Jan. - Sept: 7 a.m. - 7 p.m., Oct. - Dec.: 6 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Niagara Falls Sewage Treatment Plant 3450 Stanley Ave. Niagara Falls 905-354-2754 Jan. - Sept: 7 a.m. - 7 p.m., Oct. - Dec.: 6 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Port Colborne Sewage Treatment Plant 30 Prosperity Ave. Port Colborne 905-834-6973 Jan. - Sept: 7 a.m. - 7 p.m., Oct. - Dec.: 6 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Port Dalhousie Sewage Treatment Plant 40 Lighthouse Rd. St. Catharines 905-935-8315 Jan. - Sept: 7 a.m. - 7 p.m., Oct. - Dec.: 6 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Port Weller Sewage Treatment Plant 27 Lombardy St. St. Catharines 905-934-4800 Jan. - Sept: 7 a.m. - 7 p.m., Oct. - Dec.: 6 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Sexual Health Centre
Fort Erie Sexual Health Centre 1264 Garrison Rd. Unit 12 905-688-3817 By appointment only. Call 1-800-263-5757 to book.
Niagara Falls Sexual Health Centre 5710 Kitchener St. 905-688-3817 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
St. Catharines Sexual Health Centre 277 Welland Ave. 905-688-3817 8:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Welland Sexual Health Centre 200 Division St. 905-688-3817 Closed
Decew Water Treatment Plant 2700 DeCew Rd. St. Catharines 905-684-5353
Rosehill Water Treatment Plant 300 Rosehill Rd. Fort Erie 905-871-3551
Grimsby Water Treatment Plant 300 North Service Rd. Grimsby 905-945-2840
Niagara Falls Water Treatment Plant 3599 Macklem St. Niagara Falls 905-295-4831
Port Colborne Water Treatment Plant 323 King St. Port Colborne 905-834-3363
Welland Water Treatment Plant 4 Cross St. North Welland 905-735-7420
Map to Regional Headquarters
Office Addresses and Phone Numbers
Commonly Called Numbers

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1. Select the number of brackets that you wish to purchase. Cost is $10.60 per bracket.
2. As you complete your purchase, click on "Add special instructions for the seller" and input your email address.
3. After your payment is accepted you will receive an email message from w3me11@gmail.com inviting you to join the Beta Lambda Group hosted by CBS Sports. Then you will create an account and set up your bracket(s).
The winner of March Madness Brackets for Babies will get half of the monies raised, and the other half will be donated to the March for Babies. Bracket entries are accepted until 11 a.m. ET on Thursday, March 21, 2019.


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"Locally Owned; Serving with Dignity, Compassion and Excellence"
Jane Elizabeth Morrison, 55, of Jefferson, Wisconsin lost her battle with cancer on June 14, 2018 at 1:40am. Jane fought for 6 difficult years with multiple myeloma under the expert care of Dr. Natalie Callander and her team at UW Madison Hospital.
Jane was born to Ronald and Grace (Stephans) Osley on April 8, 1963 in Lacrosse, WI. She graduated from Faith Baptist Christian School and earned her Associate Degree from Western Wisconsin Technical Institute.
Jane met the love of her life, Clayton Morrison, in 1981 at Pillsbury Baptist Bible College. The two were married on June 29, 1985 and enjoyed 33 wonderful years together.
Jane worked as a Probate Paralegal at Miller & Ansay, LLC (formerly Miller Law Office) for over 30 years. She loved her job, the people she worked with and the people she worked for. Miller & Ansay became like a second home to her and her family.
Jane's only desire in life was to have a warm loving family unit. She was blessed with: 5 Children Matt, Clayton both of Lynchburg, VA, Kristin (Drew) DeLozier, their Son Trey (*and one on the way) of Jefferson, WI, Callie, a 2018 graduate of Jefferson High School, and Derek her 11-year-old son, affectionately referred to as her furnace. Derek spent many evenings cuddling with mom as she fought fierce cold spells during her fight with cancer.
Jane's whole heart was with her family, and if everyone was together it made for a perfect day. Her infectious and contagious laugh will never be forgotten by those who knew her.
Jane was a born-again Christian who faithfully served at Calvary Baptist Church in Jefferson. She looked forward to and knew that one day she would be called home to heaven.
She is survived by: her Mother Grace Brown; Father Ronald (Rose) Osley; Brother Mark Osley; Step-Brothers Scott (Kim) Brown and Jeff Brown; Half-Sisters Laurie (Scott) Schroeder and Debbie (John) Weaver; and Half-Brother Brian (Shannon) Osley.
Jane is preceded in death by her Step-Father Robert Brown.
A funeral service will be held at 11:00AM on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at Calvary Baptist Church of Jefferson with Rev. Randy Arbogast, Rev. Rich Akins, and Rev. Larry Morrison presiding. Visitation will be on Monday, from 5:00PM to 7:00PM at Calvary Baptist Church and on Tuesday from 9:00AM until the time of service at the church. She will be buried at Ebenezer Moravian Cemetery in Watertown.


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Wall Street Journal headlines re privacy
Give us this day our daily invasion of privacy...
Sat, July 13, 2019 FTC Approves Roughly $5 Billion Facebook Settlement
The Federal Trade Commission voted this week to approve a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook over a long-running probe into the tech giant?s privacy missteps.
Privacy anyone?
Fri, July 12, 2019 U.S. Companies Learn to Defend Themselves in Cyberspace
By deploying dozens of specialized defense tools against hostile hackers, 'cyber-resilient' firms are minimizing their digital risk.
Thu, July 11, 2019 Google Contractors Listen to Virtual-Assistant Conversations
Google said contractors are listening to customer audio recorded by the company's virtual assistant, a disclosure prompted by a media report that adds to privacy concerns associated with the voice-operated devices.
Thu, July 11, 2019 Apple Pulls Walkie-Talkie App After Glitch Creates Eavesdropping Vulnerability
Watch app disabled as tech giant addresses security flaw potentially letting users listen in on iPhone calls.
Fri, July 5, 2019 Congress, Internet Players and Section 230
The internet community hasn't helped Congress fix policy problems when they do show up. That's why Sen. Josh Hawley and others feel compelled to offer solutions on free speech, privacy, antitrust, etc., even if the solutions are highly imperfect.
Wed, July 3, 2019 Shopping Centers Exploring Facial Recognition in Brave New World of Retail
As their struggle with store closings persists, some U.S. mall owners and retailers are stepping up their use of technology that recognizes people's faces but stops short of identifying and recording them.
Tue, July 2, 2019 Square Faces Lawsuit Over Misfired Medical Receipt
A California man accused Square Inc. of violating privacy laws after the payments company mistakenly forwarded a digital receipt containing details of his medical history to one of his friends.
Mon, July 1, 2019 Lawmakers Set Their Sights on Facial Recognition
As the technology has become more widespread, critics question whether it threatens privacy -- or if it is accurate enough to be reliable
Fri, June 28, 2019 How a Big U.S. Chip Maker Gave China the 'Keys to the Kingdom'
Advanced Micro Devices revived its fortunes through the deal, and sparked a national-security battle... Last week, after years of friction, the Commerce Department issued an order that effectively bars several Chinese entities -- including AMD's partners -- from obtaining American technology.
Thur, June 27, 2019 Facebook Knows a Lot About You. So Does Your Internet Provider.
Internet-service providers are deciding whether to use data about their customers' web habits to sell ads. AT&T mines surfing habits as part of a broader advertising operation.
Wed, June 26, 2019: NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time
The National Security Agency collected data about calls and text messages that it wasn't authorized to obtain last year, in a second such incident, renewing privacy concerns about its phone-surveillance program.
Tue, June 25, 2019 Chinese Hackers Hit Cell Networks
Hackers believed to be backed by China's government have infiltrated the cellular networks of at least 10 global carriers, swiping users' whereabouts, text-messaging records and call logs.
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A number of industry watchers have voiced concerns that touchless mobile payment solutions will not truly find widespread adoption until Apple (AAPL) joins the fray and adds the functionality to its popular iPhone line of smartphones. While Apple has yet to give any indication that its smartphones will support NFC-based mobile payments in the future, one firm is confident that the market will soon take off like a rocket.
In a report issued on Friday, market research firm ABI Research predicted that dollars spent using NFC mobile payment systems will break the $100 billion mark in 2016. Payments made using the touchless technology payment tech will total just $4 billion in 2012 according to the firm, but will balloon to $191 billion annually in 2017.
Sealy's colleague John Devlin acknowledged that there are some significant barriers to adoption right now, but he remains optimistic.
In the United States, Google's (GOOG) Google Wallet remains the most widespread NFC mobile payment solution but it has not yet found success. Isis, an NFC-based mobile payment system backed by Verizon (VZ), AT&T (T), T-Mobile and other large companies, is set to launch in the coming months.


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Q: bind_param Failing But Echo the bind_results return what I want? Error Messages Present:

Fatal error: Call to a member function bind_param() on a non-object in /var/www/New/API/Constants.php on line 22

Updated with entire constants.php
Here is my code on constants.php:
session_start();
if (isset($_SESSION['real_name']))
{
    $username = $_SESSION['real_name'];

    $InnerJoinQuery = $STD->prepare("
    SELECT Users.ID, Users.Password, UserInformation.LastName, UserInformation.Firstname, UserInformation.DOB
    FROM Users
    INNER JOIN UserInformation
    ON Users.ID = UserInformation.UserID WHERE Users.Username = ?");
    $InnerJoinQuery->bind_param("s", $username);
    $InnerJoinQuery->execute();
    $InnerJoinQuery->bind_result($UID, $Password, $LastName, $Firstname, $DOB);
    $InnerJoinQuery->fetch();

    $_SESSION['UID'] = $UID;
    $_SESSION['Password'] = $Password;
    $_SESSION['Firstname'] = $LastName;
    $_SESSION['LastName'] = $Firstname;
    $_SESSION['DOB'] = $DOB;
}

    echo $UID."
".$Password."
".$LastName."
".$Firstname."
".$DOB;

But:
echo $UID."
".$Password."
".$LastName."
".$Firstname."
".$DOB;

Returns;

5
  xxx
  Gill
  Daryl
  211094

also:
print_r($_SESSION);

Array ( [real_name] => InhumaneSlayer [Password] => xxx [UID] =>
  5 [Firstname] => Gill [LastName] => Daryl [DOB] => 211094 )

Th above is expected output
Which is expected? So bind_param is failing but bind_results is gathering the right information?

A: Make this:
    @session_start();
$username = $_SESSION['real_name'];

if (isset($username))
{

to this:
session_start();
if (isset($_SESSION['real_name']))
{
    $username = $_SESSION['real_name'];

............
$InnerJoinQuery->bind_param("s", $username);

Have you checked the session to be sure this is being set. and i think you have first and last name backwards:
$_SESSION['UID'] = $UID;
$_SESSION['Password'] = $Password;
$_SESSION['Firstname'] = $LastName;
$_SESSION['LastName'] = $Firstname;
$_SESSION['DOB'] = $DOB;

try to echo:
echo $_SESSION['UID']."
" ;
echo $_SESSION['Password']."
" ;
echo $_SESSION['Firstname']."
" ;
echo $_SESSION['LastName'] ."
" ;
echo $_SESSION['DOB'] ."
" ;
echo $_SESSION['real_name']."
" ;

A: If this is your full page, how are you getting $STD which I presume is your connection variable.
if you are including the database and this page from a different page.... include your database file.
Change:
session_start();
if (isset($_SESSION['real_name']))
{

To:
include "YourFile";
session_start();
if (isset($_SESSION['real_name']))
{

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I joined Vision Quest Coaching in fall 2005 with the intent of learning the art of group riding. I had previously been a runner for a number of years and gave it up in the mid-90s (too many Advils for too few miles). I started to attend spin classes and ultimately bought a hybrid bike to ride for exercise. I grew to enjoy biking.
Soon I tested a carbon frame road bike, fell in love with it and continued riding on my own. I ventured into group riding and initially found it alternately exhilarating and terrifying with many riders offering suggestions, tips and advice, but having no context or foundation to sort out the good from the bad (riding at 20+ mph, 12 inches off a wheel...trial and error seemed out of the question). I felt VQ would be the place to accelerate the learning curve and offer an environment and coaching to learn the art and science of riding in a group.
I came to VQ for the group skills and stayed for the program and friendships. VQ has been instrumental in offering coaching, actionable advice and training for group riding and has allowed me the luxury of learning group skills while developing proper training habits. The programs at VQ have been challenging while still managing to provide a safe and consistent method of instruction within the framework of good riding practices designed to keep riders as safe as possible. The community at VQ is very attractive and positive and operates, not just on a meritocracy of skill, but effort. Any VQ athlete, no matter the skill or ability, who is willing to make the effort to undertake the work necessary to meet self-prescribed goals will find support, help, advice and encouragement from the highest elite level athletes and coaches as well as from the mere mortals.
The process at VQ is highly respected and those who embrace it and take ownership of it are rewarded many fold by not only progressing toward individual training goals but learning the power of the group and the importance of teamwork and cooperation. VQ can be an intimidating environment until one realizes it's all about the effort and energy you bring to a workout or ride. And in time that in turn will bring results and a great sense of accomplishment.


In 2014, 541,000 Americans finished running a marathon – an all time high.
This past year several dozen of my acquaintances have also completed marathons. (They all say this bestseller – Born to Run – inspired them.) My facebook feed is on the weekends often nothing but finishing lines and bib numbers and hash tags about soldarity, perseverance, and the glory of marathoning.
I am super happy for my friends. Don't get me wrong. I think – if my friends and the half a million other people who run marathons are happy and healthy – that their perseverance, their accomplishments, and their resulting pride and joy are super awesome.
I just will never be one of them.
Perhaps it goes without saying, but probably the main reason I won't be running a marathon any time soon is that I don't like running.
Sure, the sense of accomplishment might be nice, but the actual act of running itself doesn't give me the pleasure it seems to be able to give some of my friends.
Now, the reason I brought this up is this that, unfortunately, I think a lot of people who run, or who aspire to do marathons, are like me. They don't like running.
They simply think that they should like running, or maybe they shouldn't, but they do it anyway. Usually this is for the sake of weight loss. Sometimes it is for feelings of social validation, or self-worth.
If you are one of these people, that is, if you don't like running but force yourself to do it, I ask you to reconsider. Perhaps think about accepting yourself and your pleasures as they are, and seeking another activity that you enjoy. If it needs to be an activity chock full of challenges or with a high degree of social acclaim (as marathons are), you can still find that in pretty much any sport. Meet Up groups and at your local gym are great for finding communities for cycling, for rock climbing, for dance, for pilates, for yoga, for kayaking, or for whatever other activity feels right for you.
Even if I enjoyed running, I'm not sure that I would want to subject it to long distance runs on a regular basis, and particularly not over an extended period of time.
While the panic over cardiac arrest and death as a marathon runner appears to be slightly overstated (that is – it seems as though most people who suffer deaths as runners already have underlying cardiovascular disease) – running can still cause stress on the body.
Exercise requires the secretion of the stress hormone cortisol.
Cortisol spikes are fine in short bursts. If you elevate them chronically, as people do with long distance running and especially if doing it multiple times a week – then it can become a serious problem.
Chronically elevated cortisol is associated with immune system dysregulation, an impairment in fighting off diseases, chronic systemic inflammation, digestive issues, IBS, leaky gut, heart disease, hypothyroidism, anxiety, and depression.
This is a serious concern for all people.
Women, however, have one yet greater set of concerns: the hormonal response to running.
The female body can get pregnant. But if it gets pregnant at a time of famine or stress – then it is at a much higher risk of dying than it would be otherwise. Pregnancy is a highly demand period of a woman's life and the body takes this very seriously.
In order to prevent you from becoming pregnant at the wrong time, the female body developed an ingenious trick: it shuts down reproductive function in response to stress – both physiological and psychological. This means that hormone production shuts down, thyroid function slows down, and fat burning slows down.
Without healthy hormone production, you can suffer symptoms such as adult acne, low libido, poor sleep, mood swings, depression, anxiety, and weight gain. Because this is important to note – not only does the body want to stop you from starving, but it is also going to try to hang on to as much fat as possible.
The more you over-exercise (read this post to find out if you overexercise), the slower and slower your metabolism will get. Your thyroid production will slow. This causes weight gain, but can also cause fatigue, brittle hair and nails, and feeling chronically cold.
Of course – if you are a chronic long distance runner – and you love it – you can most likely help prevent yourself from suffering from these things. You can make up for this by making sure you eat plenty of calories and plenty of carbs, and especially after your long runs.
Marathons take time. They take effort. They take commitment. They take gusto. They take physical exhaustion.
Unfortunately, we all have a limited amount of energy to expend. And this energy comprises all the kinds of energy we could expend – mental, emotional, physical. We are creatures with a gas tank, and we have to use it sparingly, making sure that we don't overuse the gas until we are running on fumes, and stuck that way.
These days, I simply don't have an abundance of emotional energy. I spend so much of my life and time doing other things, such as working, writing, dancing, and teaching dance–not to mention managing my dysfunctional kidneys and the stress associated with that–that I simply do not have the emotional reserves to undertake such an endeavor. Nor do I anticipate I will ever do so. I don't feel the call to engage in this public challenge the way so many other people do.
I simply feel emotionally demanded of and called elsewhere – so that is where I shall go.
If you are unsure about running a marathon, I invite you to be okay with that, too.
And with that – I bring my list of reasons I will never run a marathon to a close. I know it's a short list – but they are all very important and I think very deep points.
I am curious about your own relationship with running and with marathons. Did you have any health setbacks while running? Any emotional struggles? Or do you love it and can't wait until your next marathon? I'd love to hear all about it! Don't forget that I have absolutely nothing against marathons for other people… they're just not for me!
loved this post! these are my reasons as well. i would never run a marathon though i am sure people really do love it.
I love running, especially long, slow runs on a beautiful day. Running allows me to enjoy nature, clear my head, and feel recharged. I loved marathon training — the sense of accomplishment of following the plan and hitting the targets. Yet, of the 5 marathons I completed, I absolutely hated 3 of them, loved the trail marathon, and loved most of the NYC Marathon until the last few miles merely because it was NYC Marathon. I will not do another marathon, though I continue to do plenty of half marathons and shorter distance races as well as obstacle course races. Did I feel that marathoning was healthy? Not particularly, and I was very careful to eat well and rest during the intense weeks of training. These days, I still run, because I love it, but I do a fair amount of weight training and obstacle specific training. I pay attention to what my body says for the most part, which can be difficult sometimes. It takes a lot of practice to analyze the body's cues and to follow them.
Basically, find what you love and do it. I know a lot of people who don't like running, and I don't see any reason why they have to run. People tell me I should do a triathlon, and I just don't want to, so I won't. Same idea.


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Thread starter Tam
Eyewitness Account of Pentagon Attack
By Terry Morin
An eye-witness account of the aircraft impact into the pentagon and subsequent rescue efforts...written by a former USMC aviator working as a contractor at the BMDO offices at the old Navy Annex.
Friends, Family, and Fellow Americans,
As many of you know, two SPARTANs were in locations on Tuesday to witness the attack on the Pentagon. Many people have asked me to share the events of that day. So, while fresh, here are my memories of that fateful day.
I had just reached the elevator in the 5th Wing of BMDO/Federal Office Building (FOB) #2 – call it approximately 9:36 AM. I was already trying to make some sense out of the World Trade Tower attacks having heard about them on the radio. The news was sketchy, but the fact that it was a terrorist attack was already known. I then realized that I was wearing sunglasses and needed to go back to Lot 3 to retrieve my clear lenses.
Since it was by no means a short walk to my car, I was upset with myself for being so distracted. Approximately 10 steps out from between Wings 4 and 5, I was making a gentle right turn towards the security check-in building just above Wing 4 when I became aware of something unusual. I can't remember exactly what I was thinking about at that moment, but I started to hear an increasingly loud rumbling behind me and to my left. As I turned to my left, I immediately realized the noise was bouncing off the 4-story structure that was Wing 5.
One to two seconds later the airliner came into my field of view. By that time the noise was absolutely deafening. I instantly had a very bad feeling about this but things were happening very quickly.
The aircraft was essentially right over the top of me and the outer portion of the FOB (flight path parallel the outer edge of the FOB). Everything was shaking and vibrating, including the ground. I estimate that the aircraft was no more than 100 feet above me (30 to 50 feet above the FOB) in a slight nose down attitude. The plane had a silver body with red and blue stripes down the fuselage. I believed at the time that it belonged to American Airlines, but I couldn't be sure. It looked like a 737 and I so reported to authorities.
Within seconds the planecleared the 8th Wing of BMDO and was heading directly towards the Pentagon. Engines were at a steady high-pitched whine, indicating to me that the throttles were steady and full. I estimated the aircraft speed at between 350 and 400 knots. The flight path appeared to be deliberate, smooth, and controlled.
As the aircraft approached the Pentagon, I saw a minor flash (later found out that the aircraft had sheared off a portion of a highway light pole down on Hwy 110). As the aircraft flew ever lower I started to lose sight of the actual airframe as a row of trees to the Northeast of the FOB blocked my view. I could now only see the tail of the aircraft.
I believe I saw the tail dip slightly to the right indicating a minor turn in that direction. The tail was barely visible when I saw the flash and subsequent fireball rise approximately 200 feet above the Pentagon. There was a large explosion noise and the low frequency sound echo that comes with this type of sound. Associated with that was the increase in air pressure, momentarily, like a small gust of wind. For those formerly in the military, it sounded like a 2000lb bomb going off roughly ½ mile in front of you. At once there was a huge cloud of black smoke that rose several hundred feet up. Elapsed time from hearing the initial noise to when I saw the impact flash was between 12 and 15 seconds.
Many of the FOB people had been looking at the news reports flowing out of the attack on the World Trade Center Towers, going about their normal work routine as they watched. Maybe half or a bit more already knew of the New York attacks. However, within seconds of the impact -- less than a minute after the FOB flyover -- several thousand people started exiting the FOB.
People poured through the vehicle security checkpoint, crossing Columbia Pike into the FOB parking lot. As people were leaving the building in a very rapid manner, emergency vehicles, police, fire engines and ambulances were racing to the scene. They began arriving within 3 to 5 minutes of the impact.
Several military officers were standing in the middle of Columbia Pike, essentially directing traffic and holding the pedestrians back so that emergency vehicles could get through. The looks on their faces were somewhere between shock, terror, horror, and confusion. Many were crying. Many were stunned. Some were yelling to clear the area, move away from the buildings. Concern was that we might be the next target. Some were indicating that people should go home, but most just stared in silence at the burning West Wing of the Pentagon. Some cars were leaving the compound as well as the parking lot, but very few. Many tried to make phone calls to family or to home offices to say they were safe, but within minutes of the attack the sheer volume of traffic clobbered cell phones and other lines of communication. Those that got through needed patience and persistence.
As groups of friends and co-workers gathered to look on, immediate declarations of anger, frustration, dismay came out. We stood in the parking lot for approximately 15 minutes when a call came out for help. What must have been a hundred people moved in the direction of the Pentagon together and without hesitation. I saw Vicki Aardema, Chris Avvisato, John Schessler, and former SPARTAN Jen Metzler all walking down to the scene. As we got closer and crossed over the now empty roads, the devastation could be seen through the smoke and flames. It was just unbelievable. The police started to turn people away from the site. FBI agents were already there and had declared the whole area a crime scene. Declaring a crime scene prevents people from getting in that are not police, fire or medical type personnel. I was allowed to proceed because I witnessed the event. Ultimately, I believe that only Jen Metzler and myself made it to the scene, but I didn't run into her for the rest of the day.
Rescue and Recovery
After I shared a couple of things that I had seen to a local law enforcement official -- what I will call a perimeter policeman -- he hustled me off to an FBI agent named Mike. He took what I would call a ¾ statement, then told me to go to the Command Post (CP) and wait. Someone else would want to discuss what I saw. At that point I met a young African American who was standing next to Mike, the FBI agent. He had streaks of blood on his T-shirt and was wearing bandages on both arms. Apparently he had been standing in the Control Tower for the Helo Pad that was approximately 200 feet to the North of the actual impact point. He still looked as though he was in shock, but indicated that he had witnessed the impact. I then confirmed that the aircraft had been flown directly into the Pentagon without hitting the ground first or skipping into the building. As he and I were walking in the direction of the CP, medical supplies started to arrive. A van pulled up and they asked for volunteers to unload. Items in the van seemed to have been loaded very hurriedly: individual packs of 4x4 gauze, irrigation fluid, IV and oxygen equipment, wooden stretchers. Medical folks were trying to get a handle on it. Get the stuff out and get it organized. Nurses were cracking the organizational whip: IV stuff here, fluid there, get those litters out of the way. About that time, we got the first of 4 or 5 calls to take cover. Reports had been received of other aircraft coming in for what could be a subsequent attack. At about the same time the upper floors on the Pentagon caved in and collapsed. I didn't see it, but many in the crowd acknowledged the event.
We picked up the supplies and moved them under a concrete overpass with a small tunnel of about 100 feet or so of coverage. I saw a couple of injured folks, but they appeared to be in good hands – injuries did not seem from a distance to be life threatening. After a couple of the follow-on attack scares, many of us were formed up into 4-man stretcher teams. Approximately 30 teams were formed. We were moved up to the scene and given rubber gloves. We were taken in several directions, but finally landed about 300 feet west of the Helo Pad out on Hwy 110. They had set up the medical people under the trees, putting the three levels of care in a line. Dead and dying were on the North end, triage and serious in the middle, walking wounded on the South end. Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics, Flight Surgeons, EMT's – every brand of medical professional – were everywhere. Hwy 110 became a staging point for ambulances, and police vehicles. Fire trucks had already been moved into position to fight the fires that were proceeding to the left, right, and into the center of the Pentagon. Every time we moved up to try and take people out, the fires would flare-up making it impossible to put non-professionals with no equipment into the building. That said, there were not enough firemen to simultaneously fight the fire and do stretcher duty, so they asked us to hang tight.
After about three hours, the officials started to become concerned about the volunteers. It was hot and most of us had been standing or working in the sun for the entire time. That's when an unbelievable amount of supplies started to show up. Gallon water jugs, bottled water, Gatorade, soda, snacks -- you name it and it was there. The volunteers started to unload and stage the supplies. Several of us started to build a forward water station for the firemen. Only a few of the bottles were cold, so ice was being brought in to help that situation. We used cardboard boxes to hold the drinks and the ice as best we could, there being no large coolers available. Three of us started carrying the cold water bottles and snacks down to the firefighters that were staged in small teams. We were actually inside the crime scene area (because of all the pieces of the aircraft and building lying on the ground). The firemen were appreciative, as the heat inside the building generated from the 8,500 gallons of jet fuel was, in their words, "unbelievable." It was reported that at least three of the fireman had to be given IV fluids due to the extreme heat. After about 20 minutes a local policeman came over and made us vacate the water station (inside the crime scene designated area) because it was obvious that we weren't law enforcement.
For the next three hours we waited to be called up to help bring people out. At about 3PM, we were formed into 12 man teams, reissued gloves and masks, and briefed by authorities on how to do the job. At this point, we were going to enter the Pentagon, but not too far. Because the fire was still burning, the structure was not safe for deeper penetration by non-professionals. The idea was that the firemen would bring the bodies to us and we would carry them out. Within 15 minutes of that briefing, a 3-Star Army Lt General gathered us up. He announced that the Old Guard from Ft Myer was being brought in to replace us within 3 hours. The 12 man litter teams continued to wait in place until the Old Guard arrived.
The mood was somber and filled with frustration, anger, and shock. People wanted to get inside to help those injured or trapped. Those immediately outside the Pentagon were not being told of the scene inside, so there was some perceived jerking around going on. It wasn't until later that it all fell into place. In the moments where the action slowed, discussions revolved around who was where, what they were doing, and what they saw. I heard a lot of questions: Who was in the office spaces? How many people on the aircraft? What type of plane? Was it an airliner? Do we know or have any word on the dead or injured? How did the aircraft hit? Did it fly in or did it hit the ground first? A thousand more questions waited.
I met some real Americans that day. The following are just a few of the people that I met and short stories about them. No last names:
Chris: He was one of my many litter partners. A young Army SSgt who is the Chef for the Army Chief of Staff. At one point, when we didn't have masks to wear, he took off his T-shirt and proceeded to tear it up so we could be a little safer.
Christina: She works in Air Force Intel. She was my water station partner. Energetic, just wanted to be a part of the solution. Carried full boxes of water and ice, as well as snacks to the firemen. She also jumped in to organize the snacks so the firemen and the medical people could find what they wanted.
Larry: Air Force 2 Star General. Was the senior officer present on the scene for the Air Force. Larry was coordinating people counts and Air Force volunteer actions on the ground. He was taking several reports and discussing what people had seen and heard. For most of the day, he stood with most of us as a litter team member. Later that evening, I gave him a ride home since the Metro was not stopping at the Pentagon.
The Marine Colonel: As we were standing there in the hot sun, a Marine Colonel had stepped into line to serve as a litter team member. He was wearing Alpha's with a barracks cover. That means he was dressed up in the green coat with all of his decorations. As he stepped into line, he very carefully took off his coat and cover (hat) and laid it on the concrete median there on Hwy 110. He then took off his tie and rolled up his sleeves. The entire time I was around him, off and on, I didn't hear him speak a word. Other young Marine Officers were standing around him, giving him reports on what they knew and had heard. The thing that struck me the most was the look on his face. "Resolve" is the word that comes to mind. Calm, Focused Resolve.
Ken: A retired Army Officer who is now serving as part of the Army Personnel Office. He was knocked to the floor in the impact/explosion. The smoke was so thick he had to crawl a ways in his escape. His section was the most heavily hit. He lost several friends and co-workers. Ken was there the entire day, despite his own ordeal. I also dropped him off at his car that night.
Reggy: He is an Army Major. He was my partner for going into the Pentagon. One goes down, your partner brings you out. I fear he had the worse end of that deal.
Sgt Maj: From the Army, he was coordinating the 12 man litter teams. When he got to me, he said, "Sir, are you sure you're up to this." I told him I was and gave him a quick "Arugha." He smiled and we pressed on.
An Army 2 Star General and An Army 1 Star General: In our 3rd or 4th run for cover due to possible follow-on attacks, my Company picked up the bill for a couple of minutes on my cell phone. These gents had not yet got local phone calls out to their wives yet to let them know they were alive. There were also a couple of more calls for them to report to the ops centers. It turned out that the 1 Star was the son of a Four Star Army General that I had served with in Korea in 1985 and 1986.
3 Star Army General: Grayed hair gentleman that would have qualified as a southern gentleman by the way he carried himself. He spoke in a forceful, clear, and compassionate manner. He appeared to be the on-scene commander. He moved about taking reports and apparently directing the military and volunteer actions there on scene. His last words to us after announcing that the Old Guard would relieve us were, "thank you all for being here, and God Bless each of you."
There were 3 Flag Rank Officers, several O-6's from all the services, and a multitude of others (civilians, contractors, and others) that made up the volunteer ranks. No one argued. Everyone did whatever was asked without a second thought. There must have been 30 Chaplains and men of the cloth (not just military) there. Every now and then one would be called up for help, but they too were put into a group so they could respond to the individuals or bodies being brought out. In addition to that, I saw several mingling with the entire team, medical, volunteers, and others, ministering to the pain and shock that was there. Civilian nurses, paramedics, and other medical personnel showed up with logos from several of the local hospitals. Some of the woman nurses were older, but you should have seen how they got up and over the concrete Highway barriers with full dresses and skirts on, sometimes on their own, sometimes with assistance. Teamwork was everywhere.
I'm not sure how to end this, because there is no ending yet. I don't have any patriotic soundbyte, just a deep love for our country. Only now am I beginning to fully realize what I saw and experienced. Words like "surreal," "shock," "disbelief," "frustration," and "anger" comes to mind, but I don't yet have a dominant, overwhelming feeling. Like many of you, my anger quotient is heading to overload. I don't know or understand the lesson that we were supposed to have learned. I'm not sure I'll ever understand.
Closer to home (Fredericksburg), we lost two people. One female government employee who is a neighbor and another father who worked in the Pentagon. His daughter goes to school with my sons Mike and Sean. That said, I know that as horrible as it was at the Pentagon, it does not come close to the magnitude of horror, destruction, and death that was experienced in New York. Regarding Pennsylvania, I can only say as a former Marine Aviator, who served on a couple of accident boards, aircraft accidents are never good, but thank God for their heroism.
I still have more questions than answers. I love that our country has come together. I'm sorry that it took this to do it. Thanks to all of you who contributed your sweat on that day, to all of you who gave blood, to all who responded to relief drives, to all those who called us in Washington to ask after our welfare. Thanks for caring. Hug the ones you love. Be there for each other and God Bless America.
Terry Morin, September 2001
Care to explain Terry's version of events Sham? It is stories like Terry's and hundreds of others that make your opinions more than hard to believe. THEY ACTUALLY SAW THE PLANE UNLIKE YOU. :roll:
Good idea for discussion.
Terry Morin is a marine aviator and has therefore been considered an "expert" witness in favor of the official story since he believes the plane hit and ironically thinks what he witnessed disproves the "conspiracy theories" when the opposite is true.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread424192/pg1
So Terry Morin is now a confirmed north of Columbia Pike/Over the Navy Annex witness fatally contradicting the official data and physical damage.
http://s1.zetaboards.com/LooseChangeForums/topic/343512/1/
But even without Morin we still have 10 confirmed and corroborated witness accounts supporting the north side flyover.
http://s3.invisionfree.com/CIT/ar/t137.htm
So no matter how you slice it Morin does not support the official story.
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum/lofiversion/index.php?t11917.html
FBI Hides 85 Pentagon Videos And 9/11 Truth
http://www.rense.com/general69/91185.htm
I posted Terry's account in his own words he plainly says it was a Aircraft/ PLANE that flew about 100 feet over his head. Then I looked at another site and guess what I found.
Pentagon Attack Witnesses
When the Pentagon was attacked around 9:49 AM, traffic was stalled on the highway directly to the west of the targeted section. It is probable that hundreds of people witnessed some part of the assault.
Theories that a missile instead of a jetliner attacked the Pentagon on 9/11/01 have been strenuously promoted by Thierry Meyssan and others. But not a single witness claims to have seen a missile, against dozens who identified the attack plane as a large jetliner. A 757 would be almost impossible to confuse with a missile, even at a high speed.
French researcher Eric Bart compiled an extensive body of eyewitness accounts. A theme of the accounts is a sense of disbelief.
e x c e r p t
title: it was a plane bomb
authors: Eric Bart
Among 9/11 oddities : the Pentagon scene.
Witness disbelief
A plane ?
"My brain could not resolve the fact that it was a plane because it only seemed like a small hole in the building. No tail. No wings. No nothing". - Steve DeChiaro
"It just went 'pfff'. It wasn't what I would have expected for a plane that was not much more than a football field away from me" - John O'Keefe
"A huge jet. Then it was gone. Buildings don't eat planes. That plane, it just vanished. There should have been parts on the ground. It should have rained parts on my car. The airplane didn't crash. Where are the parts? There was a plane. It didn't go over the building. It went into the building. I want them to find it whole, wedged between floors or something. I want to make it make sense. I want to know why there's this gap in my memory, this gap that makes it seem as though the plane simply became invisible and banked up at the very last minute" - Skarlet
"It was in the air one moment and in the building the next... I still have a hard time believing it" - M.K.
A missile ?
"It was so eerily similar to another experience during the Gulf War - a missile strike that killed a Marine in my unit" - Phillip Thompson
"For those formerly in the military, it sounded like a 2000lb bomb going off" - Terry Morin
"A bomb had gone off. I could smell the cordite. I knew explosives had been set off somewhere" - Don Perkal
"Most people knew it was a bomb" - John Bowman
"It smelled like cordite, or gun smoke" - Gilah Goldsmith
"I knew it was a bomb or something" - Mike Slater
site: eric.bart.free.fr/iwpb/
As a whole, the body of eyewitness accounts is fairly consistent. It supports both aspects of the official story, such as the approach and crash of a 757-like jetliner, and aspects beyond that story, such as the detonation of a bomb. 9-11 Research analyzed the accounts in Eric Bart's compilation to find strong support for several elements:
title: Pentagon Attack Eyewitnesses: Topical Excerpts
authors: Jim Hoffman
large jetliner [The plane that swooped down on the Pentagon was a twin-engine jetliner]
moment of impact [The plane appeared to explode into a huge fireball upon or just before impacting the Pentagon.]
explosive detonation [An explosive detonation, producing a strong concussion and leaving the smell of cordite, accompanied the attack]
other aircraft [A C-130 followed the jetliner up to the crash site and flew away.]
approach details [The plane clipped lamp-posts, banked to the left, and had its flaps up.]
site: 911research.wtc7.net page: 911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/witnesses/index.html
The eyewitness evidence suggests that there was more to the event than officials have admitted. It is doubtful that the crash of a jetliner would produce a sharp explosive concussion, emit the odor of cordite, or result in explosions seemingly before impact, as several accounts and the pattern of damage to the Pentagon's facade suggest.
On the other hand, this evidence contradicts theories that the attack aircraft was something very different from a 757, such as a missile or Global Hawk drone. Not surprisingly, proponents of such theories have cherry-picked atypical eyewitness accounts while ignoring the larger body of eyewitness evidence, and used excerpts of witness accounts out of context. An example of the latter is the use of Mike Walter's statement about a "cruise missile with wings".
Now talk about Cherry picking and taking what Terry said out of context one would think Terry Morin thought it was a bomb and not a PLANE like he clearly stated in his statement. Then you have the cherry picked Phillip Thompson's eyewitness account.
But this is the full statement
Thompson, Phillip
. . . on my way to work Sept. 11, I saw an American Airlines jet come overhead and slam into the Pentagon, . . .
I was sitting in heavy traffic in the I-395 HOV lanes about 9:45 a.m., directly across from the Navy Annex. I could see the roof of the Pentagon and, in the distance, the Washington Monument.
I heard the scream of a jet engine and, turning to look, saw my driver's side window filled with the fuselage of the doomed airliner. It was flying only a couple of hundred feet off the ground -- I could see the passenger windows glide by. The plane looked as if it were coming in for a landing -- cruising at a shallow angle, wings level, very steady. But, strangely, the landing gear was up and the flaps weren't down.
. . . The fireball that erupted upon impact blossomed skyward, and the blast hit us in a wave. I don't remember hearing a sound.
It was so eerily similar to another experience during the Gulf War . . .
"COMMENTARY: Familiar feelings as the unimaginable unfolds," by Phillip Thompson, Military.com, 9/11/02
I think we all know who has been providing us with the cherry picked news bites. :wink:
Pentagon Eyewitnesses
Analysis of the Pentagon Attack Eyewitness Accounts
Given the geography of the Pentagon's surroundings, and the traffic jam that brought thousands of cars to a near-standstill on the highways on its west side on the morning of September 11, 2001, hundreds if not thousands of people must have witnessed some aspect of the attack. Accounts of scores of these witnesses were recorded in the form of press interviews and reports on websites.
On this page, we first look at the picture created by the body of eyewitnesses as a whole, and then scrutinize the evidence more critically to address questions of bias and fraud:
Trends in witness data
Questions of witness fraud
Questions of witness contamination
Anyone who reads the collections of Pentagon witness accounts such as Eric Bart's is likely to be impressed by the broad agreement among witnesses on aspects of the event -- the low-angle approach of a large jetliner followed by a huge explosion and billowing smoke. Some proponents of theories excluding a jetliner have amplified inconsistencies and bizarre details in the accounts, while ignoring their agreement.
Joël v.d. Reijden created the following summary of the frequencies of specific observations in the eyewitness reports described in the compilations by Eric Bart and SomeGuyYouDontKnow33.
about 89 The amount of eye witnesses I gathered who stated they saw an object crash into the Pentagon. The vast majority of the still available ones.
at least 45 The amount of eye witnesses who reported seeing a plane and described it with words like: 'airliner', 'big', 'silver', 'roaring', etc.
at least 23 The amount of eye witnesses who specifically said they saw an American Airlines jet. In all cases a large jet.
at least 22 The amount of witnesses who reported the noise of the plane was very loud to deafening.
at least 17 The amount of eye witnesses who stated they saw a plane running down light poles when crossing the highways.
at least 12 The amount of eye witnesses who stated they saw and heard the plane increase its throttle at the last seconds.
at least 11 The amount of eye witnesses who stated they saw a C-130H flying 30 seconds behind a jetliner.
at least 5 The amount of eye witnesses who specifically stated they saw the plane had its gear up.
at least 2 The amount of eye witnesses who stated that they saw a small corporate jet, without doing any creative interpretating [sic] of the witness accounts.
at least 0 The amount of eye witnesses who stated they saw a missile. What the person thought he heard isn't relevant!
at least 0 The amount of eye witnesses who stated they saw a military jet fighter at the time of the crash.
at least 0 The amount of eye witnesses who stated they saw a Global Hawk at the time of the crash.
at least 3 The amount of witnesses who reported the sound of the plane was quite noiseless. (One of them acknowledged it was the shock)
at least 1 The amount of eye witnesses who stated they saw the plane had it's gear down. (Indirect, said a wheel hit a pole)
at least 25 The amount of witnesses who have said something that might point to the use of explosives or incendiaries. (White flash, powerful blast waves which blew people through the air, molten glass, burning aluminium, [sic] spreading debris over hundreds of yards back to where the plane came from, including 2 engines, the missing plane itself, etc.)
A quick look at this summary indicates overwhelming support by the eyewitnesses that a large jetliner crashed into the Pentagon.
One of the most frequent arguments used to dismiss the body of eyewitness evidence in order to deny that a jetliner attacked the Pentagon is that the majority of witnesses have connections to the military or the press, and therefore their accounts are suspect. However, given the proximity of most of the witnesses to the Pentagon and nearby military-related facilities, it's only natural that most of the witnesses would be involved with the military in some capacity. Several reporters for USA TODAY witnessed the event because offices in the USA TODAY building in Arlington, VA had a view of the Pentagon's west side.
Regardless of the number of witnesses with connections to the military or press, there are a substantial number of witnesses with no apparent connections, and the accounts of both groups are substantially in agreement. If one studies the breakdown of witnesses by observation detail, there is no obvious correlation between observation and witness type.
Even if one assumes that scores of witnesses were coached to lie or for some other reason lied to support the official story, one would have to assume the absurdity that all the other people who happened to glimpse the aircraft due to their being slow-moving traffic on the highways west of the Pentagon -- at least hundreds of people -- saw fit to remain silent about having seen something other than a jetliner.
A more compelling question raised in regard to the veracity of witness reports of a jetliner is the observation that witnesses could have either adjusted their accounts to fit later reports regarding the Pentagon attack, or that their first perceptions were biased by prior reports of a jetliner crashing into the South Tower. However, there is a limit to the degree to which perceptions can be biased by context. With the exception of the two accounts of a commuter jet -- both by witnesses distant from the event, every account that mentions the attack plane is either consistent with or describes specific features of a twin-engine jetliner such as a Boeing 757. But the most common types of aircraft mentioned by the non-jetliner theorists are a missile, a cruise missile, a Global Hawk, a fighter jet, or A-30 type military jet. It is not reasonable to suppose that all of these witnesses could have been influenced by reports to re-interpret the sighting of such an entirely different type of aircraft as a jetliner, for a number of reasons:
No witness reports sighting a military plane or missile, or a plane with features inconsistent with a 757, such as no wings, wings attached to the top or middle of the fuselage, one engine instead of two, or engines attached to the tail section.
Most broadcast media did not begin reporting that a jetliner crashed into the Pentagon until about two hours after the attack. Several of the accounts may have been collected from witnesses before those reports were broadcast or before witnesses heard reports.
Of the eyewitnesses who identified the model of the aircraft, as many named a Boeing 737 or Airbus A-320 as named a Boeing 757, the type of plane that AA 77 was. The media-contamination theory does not explain the naming of a plane that is not a 757 but looks like one.
There is broad agreement among witnesses on specific details of the approach of the aircraft, such as its clipping lampposts, banking to the left, adding power at the last second, and flying with its flaps up. Such a level of observational detail would seem irreconcilable with witnesses grossly altering their recollections about the type of aircraft to fit the official story.
Some of those details, which are not explained by the much less specific news reports, are inconsistent with the types of aircraft proposed by non-jetliner theorists. For example, missiles, cruise missiles, and Global Hawks do not have flaps.
No Pentagon witnesses admit to reinterpreting their original impressions to fit the official narrative. This starkly contrasts with numerous examples from oral histories of emergency responders to the WTC attack admitting to retracting their initial conclusions of explosives and demolition to fit the official gravity collapse explanation.
A LEAST ZERO eyewitnesses saw a missile, and not ONE eyewitness has changed their version of the event since they first gave their account of the event. Now Do you think you have anything that would convince me all there eyewitnesses were programmed to lie and that those that witnesses it from the highway would just keep quiet while the media reported something they knew was incorrect? See this is why your claims don't make sense, to many people witnessed what happen and nobody has come forward to claim they saw something different than what the official story is. A PLANE HITTING THE PENTAGON.
Cherrypicking Tam, it's what they do. They're experts at it and that's what it takes to actually believe the dribble they promote.
They ignore mountains of evidence and cling to the weakest of shreds. I'll give you a example of how Shamu's mind works. Somehow convince him that a jetliner struck the Pentagon and he'll then hang his hat on the following comment:
Terry Morin: The flight path appeared to be deliberate, smooth, and controlled.
Well, there you have it folks. Controlled. Remote-controlled, of course as there were no videos of the 19 cavemen actually boarding the plane. Mossad, there were 40 of them arrested on 9-11 you know, they did it, they controlled that plane remotely into the Pentagon.....yada yada yada.
Honestly Tam, if I thought this was all a childish, trollish act on the part of these loons, just yanking our chains for the fun of it, I'd have a good laugh and say, yeah, okay, ya got me. Ya fooled me.
But they're as serious as heart attacks and some of them are dangerous....murderously dangerous in their hatred, fear, and paranoia of the government and Jews.
http://911truth.wetpaint.com/page/Debunking+the+North+of+Citgo+Theory
CIT interviewed Mr. Paik on at least two occasions. On one occasion Craig Ranke drew a flight path and had Mr. Paik sign it. The animated image below was taken from the filming of his testimony by CIT. They named this file Edwardpointsnorth.gif, but note that he is NOT pointing North at all. He points parallel to Columbia Pike visible in the background. That is approximately a 0720 heading corresponding along a path EXACTLY to where the next witness observed the aircraft. Edward Paik's full testimony can be view at www.thepentacon.com. The next witness was Terry Morin, a Navy Department employee or a Navy Contractor who was located at the South side of the Navy Annex adjacent to the Security Check Point located along the perimeter fence (it is clearly visible in the Google Earth photo). His position is also annotated in the chart below. His position has been misrepresented by CIT with several on line graphics in order to fit with the North of Citgo (NoC) theory. He stated very clearly where he was located and that position is annotated in the chart below. Here is his testimony:
"The Attack I had just reached the elevator in the 5th Wing of BMDO/Federal Office Building (FOB) #2 – call it approximately 9:36 AM. I was already trying to make some sense out of the World Trade Tower attacks having heard about them on the radio. The news was sketchy, but the fact that it was a terrorist attack was already known. I then realized that I was wearing sunglasses and needed to go back to Lot 3 to retrieve my clear lenses. Since it was by no means a short walk to my car, I was upset with myself for being so distracted. Approximately 10 steps out from between Wings 4 and 5, I was making a gentle right turn towards the security check-in building just above Wing 4 when I became aware of something unusual. I can't remember exactly what I was thinking about at that moment, but I started to hear an increasingly loud rumbling behind me and to my left. As I turned to my left, I immediately realized the noise was bouncing off the 4-story structure that was Wing 5. One to two seconds later the airliner came into my field of view. By that time the noise was absolutely deafening. I instantly had a very bad feeling about this but things were happening very quickly. The aircraft was essentially right over the top of me and the outer portion of the FOB (flight path parallel the outer edge of the FOB). Everything was shaking and vibrating, including the ground. I estimate that the aircraft was no more than 100 feet above me (30 to 50 feet above the FOB) in a slight nose down attitude. The plane had a silver body with red and blue stripes down the fuselage. I believed at the time that it belonged to American Airlines, but I couldn't be sure. It looked like a 737 and I so reported to authorities. Within seconds the plane cleared the 8th Wing of BMDO and was heading directly towards the Pentagon. Engines were at a steady high-pitched whine, indicating to me that the throttles were steady and full. I estimated the aircraft speed at between 350 and 400 knots. The flight path appeared to be deliberate, smooth, and controlled. As the aircraft approached the Pentagon, I saw a minor flash (later found out that the aircraft had sheared off a portion of a highway light pole down on Hwy 110). As the aircraft flew ever lower I started to lose sight of the actual airframe as a row of trees to the Northeast of the FOB blocked my view. I could now only see the tail of the aircraft. I believe I saw the tail dip slightly to the right indicating a minor turn in that direction. The tail was barely visible when I saw the flash and subsequent fireball rise approximately 200 feet above the Pentagon. There was a large explosion noise and the low frequency sound echo that comes with this type of sound. Associated with that was the increase in air pressure, momentarily, like a small gust of wind. For those formerly in the military, it sounded like a 2000lb bomb going off roughly ½ mile in front of you. At once there was a huge cloud of black smoke that rose several hundred feet up. Elapsed time from hearing the initial noise to when I saw the impact flash was between 12 and 15 seconds. The Reaction Many of the FOB people had been looking at the news reports flowing out of the attack on the World Trade Center Towers, going about their normal work routine as they watched. Maybe half or a bit more already knew of the New York attacks. However, within seconds of the impact -- less than a minute after the FOB flyover-- several thousand people started exiting the FOB."
Source: http://www.coping.org/911/survivor/pentagon.htm
I have plotted his described position below. Also, the graphic from Google Earth shows the various positions depicted in the numbers chart below. So now, we have seen the testimony of Edward Paik and Terry Morin who place the aircraft flying parallel to Columbia Pike. There is no problem with this portion of the testimony as it was stated, without CIT's spin. There are some problems with CIT's interpretation and spin of these witnesses testimony.
BTW LB Sham told us it was a Missile that hit the Pentagon what do you think when all the eyewitnesses/mass media claim it was an AIRPLANE?
All you can do is try stop the damage loons like this can spread. You will never convince them but as long as you can stop them from recruiting people with their cherry picked "FACT" :roll: the less damage they can do.
So everybody who isn't a conspiracy theorist believes the official 9/11 story is true and the government and media are holy.
Where can we find the official 9/11 story?
lightninboy said:
LB, would you not agree that it weakens your arguments to constantly feel the need to put words in the mouths of others?
Absolutely NO ONE here has said the government and media are holy...NO ONE.
Remember: A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.
As for your other question, I'd say the best accounting of the 9/11 story I've read was the 9/11 Commission Report. Have you read it in its entirety? No, it's not perfect, but it's generally complete and unbiased from what I read.
9-11 Commission Report.
http://www.9-11commission.gov/
So you think everything in the 9-11 Commission Report is 100% accurate.
What if I could find one thing wrong in it?
Ha! That should blow your "Everything in the 9-11 Commission Report is 100% accurate" argument out of the water!
Where did anyone say it was 100% accurate. What WW said was
CHerry picking and putting words in other peoples mouths is not the way to make your arguments. :wink:
You're willing to settle for a 9-11 Commission Report which you KNOW is not accurate??!!
It's not unbiased.
Just stop putting words in peoples mouths. :wink:
You really can't help yourself, can you. LB, you do realize, don't you, that it's intellecutally dishonest to keep saying that others said XY, or Z when they clearly didn't say those things?
Constantly displaying intellectual dishonesty in a discussion results in others not taking you seriously or soon coming to believe that you're a troll and a liar.
Thanks Tam.
I'm beginning to wonder if this trait is something that commonly runs amongst these guys. Look at LB. He can hardly respond to a post without making a straw man argument of some sort, grossly misstating what the other guy said, or just flat going off on a tangent.
Then there's Shamu. Ask him for a link to the source of XYZ assertion and he'll link you to a youtube video where the guy says ABC. How many times have I asked Shamu if he's even watched the link he posts? What I'm afraid is happening is that he has watched it but doesn't comprehend what's being said.
Odd couple those two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFz7gLz7CVk
shaumei said:
And here comes the youtube evidence. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
No evidence of a plane :roll:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread79655/pg1
Just where do you think the wheels, seats, parts of the airplane body, black boxes, and the DNA from the flight passengers came from Shamie?
And please explain the EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS of the event that all say it was an AIRPLANE. and please don't cherry pick out statements and take them out of context like your youtube buddies do. :wink:
What's a troll? Isn't what I post what Political Bull is for? Or is Ranchers.net officially pro-MSM and pro-Beltway?
In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.
Since staying on topic seems to be a challenge for you, I thought that perhaps you were just a troll. If not, then I'm left between believing you're not serious or that you're a liar.
Which should I choose?
I recall seeing something in a link I posted that there were some airplane parts in the wreckage but they didn't match the model of the plane and Terry said he thought it was an American Airlines 737 but American Airlines had no 737s and Mossad must have painted a used plane to look like an American Airlines plane.
Aren't there EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS who didn't see an AIRPLANE?


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Buildings Associated With Freemasons On Vancouver Island – Victoria – Temple Lodge, No.33, Duncan, B.C.
As part of our Vancouver Island Masonic History Project we are compiling a list of Vancouver Island Buildings Associated With Freemasons.
This page on Vancouver Island Buildings Associated With Freemasons – Victoria, B.C. is currently UNDER CONSTRUCTION. We will be adding more buildings as we do additional research.
This historic building at 901-905 Government Street in downtown Victoria was originally built in 1858 as Victoria's first brick hotel.
It was purchased by Stephen Jones, circa 1900. In 1913 Stephen Jones added a new structure to the rear of this building at 602 Courtney Street. Both buildings are still legally consolidated for tax purposes and both are listed together on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.
Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue, 1461 Blanshard Street, Victoria, B.C.
Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue, 1461 Blanshard Street. Built in 1863.
Victoria Freemasons laid the cornerstone in 1863. Lumley Franklin, Victoria's second Mayor and a Charter member of B.C.'s first Masonic lodge, was Congregation Emanu-El President and raised funds for the building's construction.
1117-1129 Wharf Street was once the business premises of Robert Paterson Rithet's firm, R.P. Rithet & Company.
1117-1129 Wharf Street was the business premises of R.P. Rithet & Company, owned by Robert Paterson Rithet, a member of Vancouver & Quadra Lodge No. 2.
Designed and built in 1876 by for Reverend (later Bishop) Edward Cridge and the Reformed Episcopal Church by architect John Teague, a member of Victoria-Columbia Lodge No. 1.
Designed and built in 1878 by architect John Teague, a member of Victoria-Columbia Lodge No. 1.
There was a major addition to the west end of the building in 1909.
Victoria City Hall – designed and built in three stages between 1878 and 1891 by architect John Teague, a member of Victoria Columbia Lodge No. 1 in Victoria.
John Teague also served as Mayor of Victoria.
530-540 Johnson Street – built in 1879 by Giacomo Bossi, a member of Vancouver & Quadra Lodge No. 2. Giacomo Bossi used it as the Grand Pacific Hotel. 530-540 Johnson Street is listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.
Designed and built in 1885 for the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association by architect John Teague, a member of Victoria-Columbia Lodge No.1 in Victoria.
1003 Vancouver Street was designed and built in 1885 by architect John Teague (1883-1902), a member of Victoria-Columbia Lodge No. 1, for Charles Hayward (1839-1919), a member of Vancouver & Quadra Lodge No. 2.
Both John Teague and Charles Hayward served as Mayor of Victoria.
1003 Vancouver Street is listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places and the Victoria Heritage Registry.
Gyppeswyck, originally the home of Alexander Alfred Green, designed by architect William Ridgway Wilson and built by contractor George Mesher. Now part of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
1040 Moss Street, now part of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Gyppeswyck, now known as the Spencer Mansion, was built in 1888 for Alexander Alfred Green (a Freemason) by architect William Ridgway Wilson (a Freemason) and building contractor George Mesher (a Freemason).
Also see 1210-1216 Broad Street, which was built for Alexander Alfred Green in 1889 by architect/builder Thomas Trounce, a Past Grand Master.
This Heritage Building at 1401 Government Street/606-614 Johnson Street in downtown Victoria was built in 1888 as a store for Edward G. Prior's hardware business, E.G. Prior & Co.
Prior Building, 1401 Government Street/606-614 Johnson Street was built in 1888 by architect Leonard Buttress Trimen for Edward Gawlor Prior (1853-1920), who used it for his hardware business, E.G. Prior & Co.
Edward Gawlor Prior was a member of Victoria-Columbia Lodge No. 1.
This building is listed in the Canadian Register of Historic Places.
Also see 620 St. Charles Street.
1210-1216 Broad Street – built in 1889 by architect/builder Thomas Trounce (a Past Grand Master) for Alexander Alfred Green (a member of Victoria Columbia Lodge No. 1). The building was later used by Robert Burns McMicking and Edgar Crow Baker (both Past Grand Masters), who set up Victoria's first telephone exchange in this building.
1407 Government Street was built in 1889 by the Brackman-Ker Milling Company, which was owned by David Russell Ker, a member of Victoria-Columbia Lodge No. 1.
Also see 1420 Broad Street, built by the Brackman-Ker Milling Company in 1907.
566-570 Yates Street, Victoria, B.C. Built for Lewis Lewis by architect Thomas Hooper in 1891. The "L.Lewis" on the cornice refers to Lewis Lewis.
Designed and built in 1891 by architect Thomas Hooper for Lewis Lewis (died 1904), a member of Vancouver & Quadra Lodge No. 2 in Victoria.
Duck's Building, Broad Street, Victoria, B.C. Built in 1892 for Simeon Duck.
Duck's Building at 1314-1322 Broad Street was built in 1892 by architect William Tuff Whiteway (a Freemason) for Simeon Duck (1834-1905), Past Grand Master of B.C.
The Board of Trade Building, 31 Bastion Square, Victoria, B.C. Designed by architect Alexander Maxwell Muir in 1892.
Board of Trade Building, 31 Bastion Square, Victoria B.C.
Designed and built in 1892 by architect Alexander Maxwell Muir, a member of Vancouver & Quadra Lodge No. 2 in Victoria.
Thomas Shotbolt's former store, now 585-587 Johnson Street, Victoria, B.C.
Designed and built in 1892 by architect John Teague for Thomas Shotbolt, who used it for his drug store. It was originally a two storey building, with an upstairs apartment for Thomas Shotbolt's family. The second storey was removed in the 1950's.
Thomas Shotbolt was a member of Victoria-Columbia Lodge No. 1.
Designed and built in 1894 by architect William Ridgway Wilson for Hewitt Bostock, a member of Victoria-Columbia Lodge No. 1.
Renovations were done to the house in 1915 by Victoria architect Samuel Maclure.
Simon Leiser's former warehouse at 524 Yates Street in Victoria was converted to condos in 2011.
This building at 524 Yates Street was built in 1896 by architect A.C. Ewart as a warehouse and office for Simon Leiser & Co., a wholesale grocer.
Simon Leiser (1851-1917) was a member of Vancouver & Quadra Lodge No. 2 in Victoria.
The building was renovated into condominiums is 2011.
727-729 Yates Street was designed and built in 1897 by architect John Teague for real estate investor Dr. F.W. Hall.
1770 Rockland Avenue, built in 1905 by architect Samuel Maclure for Biggerstaff Wilson, a member of Vancouver & Quadra Lodge No. 2.
Also see 1407 Government Street, which was also built by the Brackman-Ker Milling Company.
855 Pemberton Road, Victoria, BC. Built in 1906-1907 for Alfred Cornelius Flumerfelt , a member of Victoria Columbia Lodge No. 1.
Also see 906 Pemberton Road.
713-715 Johnson Street was built in 1908 by architects Thomas Hooper and C. Elwood Watkins for William James Mable, who used it for his carriage making business, Mable Carriage Works.
William James Mable was a member of Victoria Columbia Lodge No. 1 in Victoria.
532 Herald Street, built in 1908-1909 as a warehouse for Wilson Brothers. It is now condominiums.
532 Herald Street and 536 Herald Street were built in 1908-1909 for Wilson Brothers and B. Wilson Co. respectively. Biggerstaff Wilson, a member of Vancouver & Quadra Lodge No. 2, was a principal of both companies.
Also see 1770 Rockland Avenue.
532 Herald Street (left) and 536 Herald Street (right), built in 1908-1909 for Wilson Brothers and the B. Wilson Co. Biggerstaff Wilson was a principal of both companies.
532 Herald Street and 536 Herald Street were built in 1908-1909 for Wilson Brothers and B. Wilson Co. respectively. Biggerstaff Wilson, a member of Vancouver-Quadra Lodge No. 2, was a principal of both companies.
512-514 Fort Street was built in 1909 by architect Francis Rattenbury as an investment property for David Russell Ker, a member of Victoria-Columbia Lodge No.1.
512-514 Fort Street is listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.
Simon Leiser's house at 1005 St. Charles Street, Victoria, B.C.
1005 St. Charles Street was designed and built i910-1911 by architect Samuel Maclure for Simon Leiser, a leading figure in late 19th and early 20th century Victoria business.
Simon Leiser was a member of Vancouver & Quadra Lodge No. 2 in Victoria.
This building is on the City of Victoria Heritage Registry.
Simon Leiser was also instrumental in the construction of the Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton Street, in 1913.
906 Pemberton Road, Victoria, BC. Built in 1910-1911 by architect Samuel Maclure for Edward and Lola Grierson. Alfred Cornelius Flumerfelt moved here when he married Lola Grierson in 1926.
Alfred Cornelius Flumerfelt was a member of Victoria-Columbia Lodge No. 1.
Also see 855 Pemberton Road.
The Central Building was built in 1911 by architect Jesse Milton Warren for Thomas Shanks McPherson, a Past Master of Victoria-Columbia No. 1.
620 St. Charles Street was built in 1911 by architect William Ridgway Wilson for Col. Edward Gawlor Prior., a member of Victoria-Columbia Lodge No. 1.
Built in 1911 for David Russell Ker by architect William Ridgway Wilson.
Originally called the Executive Building but became much bettter known as Wellburn's Grocery, which was founded and operated by Matthew B. Wellburn.
Built in 1912 as the family home of Matthew B. Wellburn, who lived in this house until his death on 1969.
919 Fort Street was built in 1912 as an investment property by Thomas Catterall, one of Victoria's leading contractors and builders.
Thomas Catterall was a member of Vancouver & Quadra Lodge No. 2 in Victoria. He seems to have built 919 Fort Street for himself.
1320-1324 Blanshard Street was built by architect Thomas Hooper for Max Leiser, a member of Vancouver & Quadra Lodge No. 2 in Victoria.
The building originally opened in 1913 as the Kaiserhof Hotel, a German themed hotel and restaurant.
1320-1324 Blanshard Street is listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places under the name Kaiserhof Hotel.
Royal Theatre – 805 Broughton Street – the primary figure behind planning, financing and building the Royal Theatre was Simon Leiser (1851-1917), a member of Vancouver & Quadra Lodge No. 2 in Victoria. The Royal Theatre was formally opened in 1913 by B.C. Premier Sir Richard McBride, who was also a Freemason.
The Royal Theatre is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.
600-610 Courtney Street in downtown Victoria was built in 1913 for Stephen Jones, a Victoria hotelier who also served as Grand Master of B.C. & Yukon in 1924-1925.
It was built as an addition to 901-905 Government Street, which was also owned by Stephen Jones. Both buildings are legally consolidated into a single building and are listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.
The McPherson Playhouse was built in 1914 by architect Jesse Milton Warren for Thomas Shanks McPherson, a Past Master of Victoria-Columbia Lodge No. 1.
We will be adding more buildings to this page in due time.


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Berthais is een geslacht van weekdieren uit de klasse van de Gastropoda (slakken).

Soorten
 Berthais egregia (A. Adams, 1863)
 Berthais instricta (Martens, 1903)
 Berthais sundaica Thiele, 1925

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 Berthais intertexta synoniem van Berthais egregia
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