Ah, the blessings and the bane of learning a new craft technique!
I'm talking about making iron-on appliqué embellishments with a cutting machine, and attaching them to fabric.
These projects are to celebrate the upcoming St. Patrick's Day festivities.
This is the bag pattern from a previous post, when I made a Valentine's Day [sort of] tote bag, using the pattern from Sew News. The main difference, besides the theme of the holiday embellishments, is the fabric of the bag. For the previous project, I used a cotton canvas remnant. But when I went to Joann Fabric to buy some more of it, I couldn't find it in the store. I could have substituted duck cloth or twill or denim, for a similar, but not the same weight and feel. This fabric looked and felt very similar to cotton canvas, while it was on the shelf in the Utility Fabrics section of Joann's. But it was cheaper and was 100% polyester. And once made into a bag, the fabric had a few noticeable differences.
Difference #1: it seems to be more wrinkle-prone than cotton canvas.
Difference #2: you have to use a different method to adhere iron-on appliqués to it, than you would with cotton. Cricut Easy-Press 2 Interactive Reference Guide recommends that you use their brand Iron-on Protective Sheet when applying the iron-on embellishment. I had never seen or heard of it, so I didn't have one of those, but I did have a Teflon sheet that I sometimes use for applying Wonder Under. So I used that. Also, the temperature needs to be a little lower than cotton. Yup, I can vaguely recall using an iron on certain man-made fabrics and literally melting the fabric into a sticky goo.
Here are some finished, decorated, shirts for celebrating St Patrick's Day.
Put them in the bag and go!
I looked in the fabric stash, and of course I had a suitable remnant just the ideal size to make two of these for our recliners in the TV room. Bright red, already quilted cotton and a green plaid little piece of cotton with a coordinating red stripe. Instead of trying to machine embroider the quilted fabric, I decided to stitch the Santa motif onto a thin piece of red fabric I found, that had slits all over it from something. Maybe it was involved in a knife fight? Or someone at the fabric store opened a box of bolts with a razor blade and slashed it? Or the fabric has been in the stash so long it just shredded from age?
It is a pretty close color match to the quilted cotton, so I just appliquéd it on with a satin stitch. And, I was able to use the mirroring function on the Viking to make two opposite-facing images of the Santa motif, which I bought from Embroidery Library.
I cut the plaid fabric into 5-inch-wide strips, sewed all the pieces into one long strip, then folded the strip in half and pressed it. The idea was to make it like bias binding, except I didn't cut it on the bias, but rather, the straight grain. I knew better: bias would have been ideal, but I'm too lazy to want to try to cut fabric at the perfect 45 degree angle. Too many opportunities for it to get screwed up, and I'm done when it comes to dealing with more holiday stress! Then I folded each loooooong end of the binding strip under about 1/2″ and pressed them under.
Next step, after binding, was sewing on some Velcro strips to attach the headrests to the backs of the chairs. The sticky-back strip will go on the chairs.
Meanwhile, although it's chilly outside, gorgeous flowers are blooming in the yard.
Feeling very thankful for this time, this season, this holiday! What is it like in your winter wonderland? What is making you happy?
So far, almost every day since the beginning of October, the temperature has gone up to at least 80° F. But the nights are cooler. Which means I want to have enough blankets on hand.
Blankets are passive accessories until late at night when one is freezing in bed–then they turn into proactive warriors, intent on guarding and protecting you from the enemy.
The center panel features a big appliqué of a cello (eyeballed and cut) and some musical note appliqués cut using Accuquilt templates, ironed on to the fabric using Pellon Wonder-Under, then machine-sewn around the edges with a satin stitch. I chose colors for the note appliqués, from some American Made brand cotton fat quarters, that matched up with the colorful musical notes on a black background in the fabric I planned to use as the nearest border.
Buffalo-check plaid is very popular this year. I made one of these in blue also, both with matching satiny-fabric backings because–they love it, it is ideal woobie-fabric.
Best as a precaution to keep those fabric dyes from bleeding onto each other. I'm not worried about the American Made Cotton bleeding, but some other fabrics–you don't know.
We've been taking a break from blogging and vlogging, and it sure gives me a different perspective on life!
Changes in lifestyle–such as living through the aftermath of a hurricane, losing your vision, retiring from a high-paced career, or getting sick–can take a toll on the ol' creative process.
Documenting our every creation adds a level of stress to each project. I like blogging; it's Show and Tell for the Digital Age. But not having to immortalize an item via posting it, can sure be freeing. If the project does not live on in my [limiting] descriptive words, it still lives on as what it is: a creative accomplishment, a spark of ideas, a sense of wonderment, a nod for practical uses, shared audacity that might elicit a smile.
It is lying on top of a king-size bed, so it is pretty massive, the biggest quilt I've made from scratch, so far. The backing is 108″ wide cotton fabric from JoAnn's, one large sheet of fabric with no seams down the center. The binding is a discontinued color of Wright's Quilt Binding: I bought three 3-yard packages of it on clearance and I used all of it but maybe 6 inches. Whew! It looks gray in the picture but it's actually a grayish light blue-green color.
Which is better, cotton or polyester?
It used to be cotton all the way, however, there are so many cool polyester fabrics, it would be a shame to miss out on them. Am I right?
The idea for this Santa blanket came from looking through my fabric stash. The stash includes a big box of polar fleece, minky, minky dot and velour-type fabric remnants, mostly polyester or cotton-poly blends. Our local JoAnn store will roll up some fabric remnants for sale at 50% (sometimes 75%) off.
Most apparel remnants are less than a yard, but most Home-Dec items, including blanket-type material, can be a yard or more. I figure that one yard of fabric 50 to 60 inches wide is a good size for a lap quilt or a baby blanket. If less than .8 of a yard, it would look better pieced with some other fabric.
The main part of this Santa blanket is a high-pile red minky that's velvety soft on both sides. I think it's the ideal fabric for a soft blanket. The edges are trimmed with thick bands of white minky dot fabric sewn on right-side edge to back edge of blanket, folded over and sewn down, which are supposed to be reminiscent of the trim on Santa's hat and suit.
The next is a takeoff on the Santa blanket, except the center part is pieced and backed. The top is made of 3 pieces of flannel (flannel is a cotton fabric) in red, black and white. The top was sewn, right sides together at two edges, to a piece of red minky dot fabric (polyester). Actually, the back is two pieces; I had to add a strip because the back wasn't quite big enough. The big fabric cylinder was then turned inside-out. Then two wide strips of black minky dot fabric were sewn on the two ends with still-raw edges, folded over and sewn down, à la Santa blanket above.
I wasn't very happy with the way it looked constuction-wise, so I decided this one is going to be kept on our couch, ain't nobady's business if I do. If I decided to give this as a gift, I probably would have put a layer of polyester batting in the center and quilted it together.
If not tacked together in the center (which this one isn't), these layers of fabric will probably crackle with electricity when you shake out the blanket. I always worry about stuff like that. For instance, you see along the selvage, on really cute children's pattern flannel and other fabrics, the buzz-kill warning: Not to be used for children's sleepwear.
You can google this and find that there are several points of view: that some of these fabrics could catch fire easily. But then, commercial pajamas for kids have chemicals in them to serve as flame-retardants to the fabric in case it does catch on fire. I can remember my kids wearing sleepers that, when they'd been washed about a zillion times, really did crackle and spark with static electricity when they were romping around in them. Wonder if the flame-retardant chemicals washed out after a while? Wonder if the chemicals contributed to eczema? Wonder if shaking out these blankets full of static electricity could cause a fire?
And while we're on the subject of polyester fabrics, there's a new contraindication going around: shellfish are eating little pieces of plastic that they find in their natural habitats, which are in turn passed on to us at the dining table. Researchers have found that one source of the tiny plastic particles in seafood is run-off water in which polyester clothes are washed. Here's one article.
We could wall ourselves off from all polyester and acrylic contamination: wear only organic fibers, eat only organic foods, wash with soap that doesn't contain exfoliating pellets of man-made whatever. Or maybe it's too late for that? Maybe it's a step in the ultimate direction of The Singularity, where mankind becomes one with machine…it starts with our food sources ingesting plastic, and then little by little, those plastic components creep into our metabolisms, our anatomies, our selves?
I think I like cotton better.
Decorating for the holidays: I'm all for simplifying!
Last year, the kittens were less than a year old at Christmas, and we knew that if we brought an 8- or 10-foot tree into the house, it would get crazy in here. This year, Ponyboy has beefed up to about 16 lbs and when the three cats go racing around the living, dining room, and kitchen, he can be a formidable projectile. So we don't think we're ready to go back to a real tree, and got the plywood cat-loving tree we made previously, down from the attic.
The coffee table needed some bright color…lucky for me, I had a cache of remnants that would fit the bill.
I started out with a whiteish piece of fabric, which I thought might work for a center square to machine embroider something on. I ended up giving this Urban Threads design a go: it's a dirigible-driven sleigh for a steam-punk Santa. Then I squared up the fabric to the design, trimming the block to about 9 inches.
Of all the suitable remnants I had lying around in the hoard, I chose a bright red glitter cotton one, a polyester plaid shot through with gold metallic threads, and a polyester shiny metallic green fabric with diamond-patterned raised stitching.
Jackpot, of course I picked the one that was wide enough. I pinned it, right sides together, to the pieced and stitched top, sewed around the perimeter, leaving a fist-size opening, then turned the inside out and pressed the edges. Then I stitched around the edge of the finished square.
On the wall above the mantel in back, is what Skip calls…the Family "Palm" Tree.
His hands, neck and arm were shredded (dog bite?) and one arm was limp from lack of stuffing. And one shoe was beginning to separate from its ankle.
Job #1 was to repair the gaping wounds.
I've had plenty of time to think about it. This project has been on the docket for a pretty long time, but it occasionally got covered up by a pile of fabric or a stack of mail, so it was out of sight, out of mind. Finally I picked up a hand sewing needle and found some thread that was close to this skin tone, and went to work.
After I fixed up his body, a thought occurred to me. "Dude, what happened to your clothes?" He had no comment. I figured, why not make him something to cover up with?
First set of pants bombed. The clodhopper feet were too big to squeeze through the skinny pant legs. The revised pair had velcro closures on the inseams. These pants are made from the actual several inches of pants legs that I cut off a pair of Skip's pants [see prior blog post from 2015: Modern Hemming].
I confess, I've never been a whiz at making doll clothes. This quick-and-dirty "minimal effort" little project had me grinding my teeth as the tiny seam allowances sent fabric down the throat plate hole into birds' nests that had to be cut from underneath to extricate them. I had a feeling that the previous clothes on this toy had something to do with the gaping slash on his neck; that the simple task of playing dress-up resulted in the doll's near-decapitation. But although I don't have a workable intuition about making clothes for this guy, I admire the workmanship that must have gone into making him. The meticulously fringed, pieced hair style, his embroidered facial features and chin-scruff, and his slouchy posture all give true representation of the "real" character [You know he's not real, right? He's a cartoon]. And then again, he was mass-produced.
Somebody somewhere came up with a plan for toys like this to be created and then mass-produced. I imagine somewhere, a factory is probably humming with machines 24 hours a day, sewing goofy smiles and eyebrows lifted in surprise on cloth faces, adding darts on ankles and outlining fingers in little plush hands. The line supervisor gets an order from the shipping department saying: "Ten thousand more Shaggies" and proceeds to upload the manufacturing process specs.
I did find this enlightening video on You Tube about toy designer Longia Miller, who I now hold in highest esteem! From watching the video, I see that her sewing machine is making use of a throat plate that has a tiny hole, down which it would be fairly impossible for a fabric to slip.
You gotta love the visionary minds of the toy designers and makers, demanding realism, durability, safety, and worthiness of entertainment value to be built into our children's playthings.
Been busy and my little projects are humble! But I've had other things to do.
While shopping at JoAnn's, I spotted a bolt of that extra-wide (108″) fabric that can be used as backings for large quilts, without having a seam. So I slashed the quasimodo comforter, removed the hump of bunched up batting and the nasty backing, and replaced both with something new. I thought of my grandmother, who told me that when she was young (in the Great Depression) they would cut the worn bedsheets down the middle and then re-sew them with the outer sides now seamed together in the middle. Waste not, want not!
For quilting, I loaded it up on the king-size Grace frame, and I mostly traced over the embroidery on the satin top, and experimented a little with the Qnique. I didn't care about making it perfect.
I still haven't mastered getting the bobbin tension right with the Qnique.
If you look closely at the quilted back of this table runner, you can see the ugly bobbin stitches.
This Fourth of July table runner was made from a cute little remnant, a remnant piece of fusible fleece for batting, and a collection of red, white and blue remnants die cut into tumbler shapes with an Accuquilt template. Binding is Wright's double fold bias tape.
Are you watching fireworks tonight? Be safe.
Google "Mermaid Blanket" and, would you believe, you'll get way over nine million results!
Mermaid blankets were one of the "it" gifts for Christmas this past year, for a girl toddler, teen or tween relative. Some were knitted, crocheted, and sewn from fabric. I didn't jump onto the trend wagon, but I saw on Social Media that many big and little girls were posing with their fishtail blankies for the camera.
I found a couple of remnants that might go together as a cute mermaid blanket. What do you think?
This size blanket is for a tiny four-year old. The blanket sheath is a polyester teal metallic mermaid fleece, 57 inches wide, remnant of .972 yard. The tail fin is from a remnant that I've had in the stash for eons, no idea where it came from. It's a stiff, satiny, iridescent fabric that looks pink from one direction and purple from another. The saran-wrap looking flap on both sides of the tail is a Bumi Pearlized sheer lilac remnant just less than a yard in length.
No pattern was used in the creation of this project. I just folded the pink/purple fabric, double, in half and sketched a tail fin shape on one side so that the fold was down the center of the fish tail, then cut it out. Thus, the tail was symmetrical on both sides. Then I unfolded it and seamed it together on all sides except for the opening at the top. Then I turned it inside out and pressed it, so that the edges carried that fishy curve.
It would have been perfect if the pearlized fabric was the same size, so I could have just duplicated it and made a casing for the purple satin. But the pearlized remnant was smaller than the finished tail. So I played with the idea of attaching the pearly fabric as a ruched flap on either side of the tail, so it would flutter and swish like a real fish's tail swerving around in water. Maybe a hair-brained notion, but there it is.
After ruching the sheet of pearl in several places (centers, sides, and diagonally at corners), I cut a slit in the top fold, and since the slit ended up being a few inches longer than the tail side of the blanket, I sewed a basting stitch around the edges of the slit and drew it together, pulling on the basting thread, until it matched the size of the satin tail. Then I sewed the pearl fabric on to the satin tail at the top. Turning the blanket fabric inside out, and matching it up to the opening of the tail, with right sides of blanket and tail together (a fabric sandwich of blanket, wrong side up, on top; pearl right side up, in the center; and satin, right side up, on the bottom) sewed tail to blanket in a 5/8″ seam, making sure the pearl material was lying flat at the seam line inside.
It's still a little chilly at night. This can be a toddler blanket or a grown-up foot warmer. Or maybe the kids can use it as a costume for Let's Pretend, maybe a little kid version of Cosplay.
While technically not a quilt, it is a blanket that is pieced together so it's pretty close…happy #NationalQuiltingDay and hope to see how others celebrated the day as well!


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We set out to address some of the biggest sustainability challenges globally
The asset management units of insurance groups develop their business under special conditions. The business philosophy of the parent companies is of great significance. This has an impact on risk affinity, asset class allocation and also on the transformation of processes towards sustainable and/or impact-oriented portfolio management. Hans-Jürgen Dannheisig, co-issuer of EXXECNEWS INSTITUTIONAL, talked about this with Jonathan Dean, Head of Impact Investing at AXA Investment Managers in London.
Jonathan Dean
ENI: First a personal question: What significance does the increasing understanding of sustainability have for you personally and in your career?
Dean: My first exposure to sustainability came through my studies when I ran a research project on Sustainable Development. Many years later, I am now seeing the same principles manifest themselves in my career as an asset manager. These are two paths that traditionally would never have crossed; however, it shows the importance sustainability has taken in all of our lives today, both personally and professionally. Sustainability topics have transcended their original fields and now affect our decision making as consumers; how we raise our children…and in my professional case, how we make investment decisions.
ENI: What are the particular challenges and drivers of an asset manager in an insurance group with regard to the development of impact investing?
Dean: Impact investing strategies are extremely important for asset owners, such as an insurance company, where they can be a powerful tool to align the use of assets and their proceeds to create positive outcomes for society and the environment. This begins with a risk management exercise to ensure ESG risks and sustainability are considered in portfolio management, but impact investing goes further by actually identifying problems linked to society or the environment and investing in solutions which materially address them.
Finding a close alignment between the asset owner and asset manager is extremely important when designing and delivering an impact investing programme. Some of the key areas for collaboration include:
Investing in solutions to large scale problems through an impact investing strategy can help mitigate the risks an asset owner, such as an insurance company, has on its core business
Large scale impact investing programmes are very visible and are therefore a meaningful representation of how an asset owner and asset manager can communicate their values and purpose to stakeholders
If the first two topics can be achieved whilst delivering market rate returns on the assets invested, then impact investing certainly demands its position in any allocation exercise
ENI: How did you start the "journey" to a systematic process in your company and where are you today?
Dean: At AXA IM Alts, our overarching impact mission is to empower what we value – the planet we inhabit and the people we serve. Through our impact investing activities, we aim to address the needs and aspirations of underserved people by providing access to essential goods and services and protecting the natural environment in which communities are based and earn their livelihood.
We will invest in commercial, scalable, solutions that aim to widen access; reduce costs; improve the quality of life and general well-being of underserved beneficiaries in relation to these critical basic needs. Our investments will also leverage on technology and other innovations to enable access at scale to basic needs and essential services.
From there, we implement our investment strategy to align with our mission and impact objectives by focusing on specific themes. Through our four strategies, we address specific underserved areas of the market and empower emerging economies through tailored investing. Building on ten years of experience with impact investing at AXA IM Alts, the strategy has expanded to cover all aspects of impact investing, aligned with the UN's SDGs and the associated targets and indicators.
ENI: What are the biggest challenges when implementing an impact strategy?
Dean: As impact investors, we set out to address some of the biggest sustainability challenges globally, including principle adverse impacts such as climate change and decreasing biodiversity, gender inequalities, socioeconomic imbalances, amongst others. A lot of our work is focused on underserved emerging markets, which can bring with it additional challenges such as data quality, logistical hurdle on travel, local currency volatility, and geopolitical tensions.
However, being active managers, we have a strategic approach to address these challenges, which in turn creates investment opportunities and positive societal impact in these markets. By meeting the challenges of today and tomorrow, we believe we will create long-term value for all our stakeholders, and we are taking steps now to transform this conviction into action.
Through active investment and ownership, we are doing our part to effect meaningful change and create the future we want to be part of. Across the AXA IM Alts impact strategies, we are fully committed to integrate ESG considerations into our investments in the following ways:
Defining the investable universe through negative screening: Our sector exclusion and ban lists include coal, tar sands, palm oil, munitions & UN Global compact controversies
Integrating ESG factors into decisions: We thoroughly assess all sustainability risk across all our current and future investments through applying our proprietary ESG scoring methodology to determine the dedicated score of each investment relative to our internal benchmark
Integrating ESG into ownership: We manage and optimise sustainability risk by integrating ESG performance targets for all our strategies into annual business planning
ENI: What role does impact investing play in the context of broader sustainable investing?
Dean: At AXA IM Alts, ESG and sustainability is engrained into every aspect of our decisions making across all of our strategies. Our ESG strategy is not abstract or theoretical but instead is about the real actions we are taking today, whether deciding where to invest or creating the built environment of the future.
Underneath our broader ESG umbrella, impact investing plays a crucial role. Through our impact investing strategies, we quantify the direct positive influences our investments have had on underserved societies. This enables us to also determine the gaps in our focus areas to ensure we are meeting our impact objectives and are aligning with the broader business in terms of ESG initiatives.
ENI: What are your current projects on this?
Dean: Through the four strategies, we have a wide range of ongoing impact projects. In April 2020, we launched our fourth impact strategy, focused on health. The first milestone for the strategy was a partnership with Global Health Advisors (GHIA). This strategic partnership aimed to increase access of low-to-middle income beneficiaries in developing countries to innovative and quality healthcare solutions that improve health outcomes, by investing in a range of companies and projects focusing on pharmaceuticals, vaccines, medical devices, MedTech, digital health and healthcare delivery models.
Another winning project we have invested in is a 13.9 million US-Dollar series C round for US-based medical device developer, Alydia Health, focused on addressing postpartum haemorrhage. Alydia is developing a state-of-the-art intra-uterine device to facilitate contraction of the uterus and thereby stop bleeding after childbirth. Through this investment, we are working to improve maternal health outcomes, reduce global maternity mortality rate, and extend use of devices to low- and middle-income countries. This project also aims to empower all women and girls to further the gender equality agenda.
ENI: What are your plans for this year and the following years in terms of further developing a sustainable/impact-focused offer for external and internal customers?
Dean: Today we are focused on managing our existing portfolios to optimise both the financial and impact performance of our companies and projects. We are also engaged on value creation exercises across AXA IM Alts and AXA Group to bring strategic insight and support to specific initiatives in our portfolios particularly in climate, healthcare and financial inclusion.
We are constantly assessing the opportunity-set and development of sectors which are in scope for either our social or environmental impact strategies – and we expect to continue developing products across these themes as the urgency to act and find scalable solutions to climate change and social inequalities continue to increase.
Jonathan Dean is Head of Impact Investing at AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) in London. Working as part of the AXA Group, the asset manager AXA IM has over 2,400 employees and manages 866 billion euros in assets, 568 billion of which are ESG-integrated.
www.axa-im.com
The German translation of the interview was first published in EXXECNEWS INSTITUTIONAL issue 08/2021.
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slate parent rock
It is made up of clay minerals. Peridotite consists mainly of the mineral olivine, according to the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory website. Rocks change during metamorphism because the minerals need to be stable under the new temperature and pressure conditions. This along with its chemical inertness and thermal stability make slate useful for many purposes. Shale is USUALLY the parent rock to slate and phyllite. Create your account. Slate is not formed, but was formed, a rock can't grow but a rock is what a rock is, Slate is not a crystal, it can't be grown, it is but a Rock and Rocks do not grow, unless something attaches itself to the rock, say LAVA, then it will grow in size but it will be of a different element all together. Which tectonic plates form the boundary near the... Why do most earthquakes occur along tectonic plate... Are igneous rocks considered secondary, since... How are plate tectonics and volcanoes related? IF SO, YOU MAY WANT TO CHECK OUT OUR OTHER SITES. Did you know that metamorphic rocks have parents? Learn metamorphic rock identification with free interactive flashcards. Any type of rock—igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic—can become a metamorphic rock. Shale is the parent rock. Our experts can answer your tough homework and study questions. Slate is a fined grained metamorphic rock. Shale is sometimes the parent rock to schist - other rocks such as basalt and other volcanic rocks can also be transformed into schist. Slate Parent Rock: Shale or pelite. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Slate is foliated and easily splits into thin, flat, parallel planes. Click to Shop ourrocks, minerals, educational materials! The parent rock of slate is always sedimentary, and usually shale (mudstone). All rights reserved. Quartz is a type of igneous rock. Meaning that it has been subjected to the least amount of heat and pressure (low-grade metamorphism). Marble is an example of a metamorphic rock. Typically, the "clay-size" particles are made of clay minerals (illite, smectite, kaolinite, and chlorite). Shale can metamorphose into slate, phyllite, schist or gneiss depending on the degree of heat and pressure it is exposed to.Slate is the least metamorphosed of this group. INTERESTED IN MORE? Slate is a low grade type of metamorphic rock. Slate Slate is a low grade metamorphic rock generally formed by the metamorphosis of mudstone / shale, or sometimes basalt, under relatively low pressure and temperature conditions.Clay minerals in the parent rock metamorphose into mica minerals ( biotote, chlorite, muscovite) which are aligned along foliation planes perpendicular to the direction of pressure. Knowing the parent rock helps us classify these rocks, and we can further classify them by their texture. And conglomerate is one of many sedimentary rocks. All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved. The original clay minerals in shale alter to micas with increasing levels of heat and pressure. Regional Metamorphism: Definition & Differences, Unconformities in Geology: Definition & Types, Volcanic vs Plutonic Igneous Rocks: Definition and Differences, How Scientists Study Earth's Interior Structure, Detrital & Chemical Sedimentary Rocks: Definition & Differences, Upper Mantle: Definition, Facts, Temperature & Composition, What is Relative Dating? The parent rock for slate is shale. Although metamorphic rocks typically form deep in the planet's crust, … It can be hard to imagine at first that all these very different looking rocks can come from the same sedimentary parent, but we know that they do. The changes can be applied to either sedimentary or igneous rock. Beginning with a shale parent, Barrovian metamorphism produces a sequence of metamorphic rocks that goes through slate, and then through phyllite, schist, and gneiss. Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. Slate is composed of micro crystals. © copyright 2003-2020 Study.com. Shale refers to a fine grained rock or a clastic sedimentary rock that is … It is similar in appearance to mudstone and shale due to the low grade of metamorphism but can be distinguished by its slaty cleavage and more dense, compact nature. Slate is a metamorphic rock with a dull luster.The most common color of slate is gray, but it can also be brown, green, purple, or blue.Slate is formed when a sedimentary rock (shale, mudstone, or basalt) is compressed. Services, Locating Igneous Rocks: The Relationship Between Igneous Rocks & Tectonic Plates, Working Scholars® Bringing Tuition-Free College to the Community. There are three main types of rocks: igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. Marble Hornfels is a metamorphic rock formed by the contact between mudstone or other clay rich rock, and a hot igneous body, and represents a heat altered equivalent of the original rock. Slate is a fined grained metamorphic rock. Slate is derived from it's parent rock, which is shale. It is associated with regional metamorphism do to mountain building. These parent rocks can be any type of rock, meaning they can be igneous, sedimentary or even other metamorphic rocks. Slate is composed mainly of clay minerals or micas, depending upon the degree of metamorphism to which it has been subjected. Phyllite has fine-grained mica flakes in a preferred orientation, whereas slate has extremely fine clay flakes that achieve a preferred orientation, and schist has large flakes in a preferred orientation. Gneiss is a medium to course grained metamorphic rock.. Shale is the typical parent rock. It is used for roofing shingles, floor tiles, pool tables and laboratory benches. Shale is the parent rock. Plate Tectonics and the Location of Mineral Deposits, Bowen's Reaction Series: Crystallization Process & Magmatic Differentiation, Contact Metamorphism Vs. "Metamorphism" means the process of changing form. Low Grade (Higher than Slate) Parent Rock: Shale or Mudstone: Metamorphic Environment: Low grade regional metamorphism along a convergent plate boundary: Previous: Metamorphic Rock Home Page: fossilicious.com - Our online fossil and mineral rock shop.fossils-facts-and-finds.com - An educational site about fossils. Slate is a fine-grained metamorphic rock with perfect cleavage that allows it to split into thin sheets. It is made up of clay minerals. It is made up of clay minerals. Hornfels is not a rock that is "deposited". - Law of Superposition, Principles of Original Horizontality & Cross-Cutting Relationships, Radiometric Dating: Methods, Uses & the Significance of Half-Life, Plate Boundaries: Convergent, Divergent, and Transform Boundaries, Types of Volcanoes: Shield, Cinder Cones & Composite Cones, Major Plates of the Lithosphere: Earth's Tectonic Plates, What is Chemical Weathering? You've likely encountered slate on a building or an old chalkboard. Become a Study.com member to unlock this Shale does not show distinctive layering. Among foliated metamorphic rocks, it represents a gradation in the degree of metamorphism between slate and schist. Phyllite, fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the reconstitution of fine-grained, parent sedimentary rocks, such as mudstones or shales. Basalt Volatiles are those chemical substances, including water and carbon dioxide, that easily turn into gas or fluid and are mobile enough to move in and out of solid rock inside the earth. Slate can also contain abundant quartz and small amounts of feldspar, calcite, pyrite, hematite, and other minerals. As we will now shed light on their differences, it will become quite clear that they have many dissimilarities. Shale, Get more from rocksandminerals4USign up for our newsletter, Copyright © 2006-2019 | rocksandminerals4u.com | Shale can metamorphose into slate, phyllite, schist or gneiss depending on the degree of heat and pressure it is exposed to. Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. - Definition, Process & Examples, Earth's Internal Layers: Crust, Mantle & Core, Astronomy 101 Syllabus Resource & Lesson Plans, UExcel Earth Science: Study Guide & Test Prep, Praxis Earth & Space Sciences - Content Knowledge (5571): Practice & Study Guide, CSET Science Subtest II Earth and Space Sciences (219): Test Prep & Study Guide, FTCE Earth & Space Science 6-12 (008): Test Practice & Study Guide, Holt Science Spectrum - Physical Science with Earth and Space Science: Online Textbook Help, Physical Geology Syllabus Resource & Lesson Plans, NES Earth & Space Science - WEST (307): Practice & Study Guide, ILTS Science - Earth and Space Science (108): Test Practice and Study Guide, Ohio State Test - Science Grade 8: Practice & Study Guide, Introduction to Earth Science: Certificate Program, Biological and Biomedical Rhyolite Granite Instead it is a rock type that forms when an existing rock is metamorphosed. Sign up for Lesson Plans, discounts & more! Sandstone It forms from sandstone that has come into contact with deeply buried magmas. Grade: low; Parent Rock: clay-rich mudstone or shale Obsidian Start studying Parent Rocks Of Metamorphic Rocks. Metamorphic rocks are those which have been changed from one form to another by the high pressure and temperature environment of the Earth. Slate is a product of regional metamorphism. Slate is a metamorphic rock whose parent rock is Shale. Over time, slate may transition into other metamorphic rocks, such as phyllite or schist. Choose from 500 different sets of metamorphic rock identification flashcards on Quizlet. A variety of sedimentary, igneous, and Foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering, but instead is in planes perpendicular to the direction of metamorphic compression. Meaning that it has been subjected to the least amount of heat and pressure (low-grade metamorphism). Phyllite has a marked fissility (a tendency to split into sheets or slabs) due to the parallel alignment of platy minerals; it may have a sheen on its By signing up, you'll get thousands of step-by-step solutions to your homework questions. The parent rock for schist is phyllite. Peridotite Properties. Gneiss, Conglomerate Pumice, Quartzite Mudstone is made up of silt- and clay-size particles. Parent Rocks and Protoliths. Slate is a metamorphic rock that is composed of microcrystals. Slate is a low-grade foliated metamorphic rock formed by regional metamorphism. | Privacy Policy. Slate, fine-grained, clayey metamorphic rock that cleaves, or splits, readily into thin slabs having great tensile strength and durability; some other rocks that occur in thin beds are improperly called slate because they can be used for roofing and similar purposes. Now, they're not parents like your mom and dad, but they do come from parent rocks. Olivine contains iron and magnesium and is usually green and glassy-looking. All that is needed is enough heat and/or pressure to alter the existing rock's physical or chemical makeup without melting the rock entirely. Slate is another common metamorphic rock that forms from shale. answer! Schist Mudstone is the parent rock of slate. Slate: Texture: Foliated; Very fine-grained: Composition: Chlorite, Plagioclase, Quartz: Index Minerals: Color: Bluish-gray: ... Metamorphic Grade: Low Grade (Low P - Low T) Parent Rock: Shale or Mudstone: Metamorphic Environment: Low grade regional metamorphism along a convergent plate boundary: Previous: Metamorphic Rock Home Page: Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news. Metamorphic rocks form from pre-existing rocks ("parent rocks") due to changes in either temperature, pressure, or volatiles within the earth, often by a combination of all three. This rock is subjected to a greater degree of heat and pressure than slate, and also has larger crystals. Limestone, a sedimentary rock, will change into the metamorphic rock marble if the right conditions are met. Quartzite looks similar to its parent rock. Earn Transferable Credit & Get your Degree, Get access to this video and our entire Q&A library. ... Quartzite is much harder than the parent rock, sandstone. The original rock that was metamorphosed is usually referred to as the "parent rock" or "protolith". Slates parent rock is shale Stop 6 This rock looks very glassy and smoothish from BIO 101 at Morgantown High School Limestone Sciences, Culinary Arts and Personal Serpentinite and soapstone, two types of rock, share the same parent stone. Gneiss has the greatest degree of metamorphism in this group. Breccia Phyllite is a type of foliated metamorphic rock created from slate that is further metamorphosed so that very fine grained white mica achieves a preferred orientation. Metamorphic rocks are classified according to their texture. Study 7 Parent rocks of metamorphic rocks flashcards from Shelby S. on StudyBlue. The chief composition of phyllite consists of … Phyllite The easiest way to differentiate the two is distinctive layering. Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Slate is the least metamorphosed of this group. As for gneiss, the level of metamorphism here is so high that almost any rock composed of several minerals (not limestones or sandstones) can be transformed into gneiss. Many people confuse them as one but that is not true. Two rocks that are quite similar are shale and slate. Shale being the parent rock, is metamorphosed to become a fine grained phyllite, consisting of clay minerals. Shale can metamorphose into slate, phyllite, schist or gneiss depending on the degree of heat and pressure. Parent rock, also referred to as substratum, refers to the original rock from which something else was formed.It is mainly used in the context of soil formation where the parent rock (or parent material) normally has a large influence on the nature of the resulting soil.For example,clay soil is derived from shale while sandy soil comes from the weathering of sandstones. Answer to: What is the parent rock of slate? SLATE. Lutgens and Tarbuck provide a useful table of some of the varieties of metamorphic rock. The need for stability may cause the structure of minerals to rearra…
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Last week we took a look at the value of the trait integrity. Even thought the 'ship of state' has a captain…president… that has been chosen based on experience and value held within the 'ownership' …citizens…he must rely on a crew that is competent and not afraid to speak up when the 'course' is in question…congress, judiciary, and cabinet. Failure by any can lead the 'ship' into dangerous 'shoal waters'. We will now take a look at what happens when any one of the 'crew' fails in responsibility and integrity, ignoring the valid charts that have been presented.
Due to the steady incorporation of key elements from the democratic, oligarchic, anarchic, and totalitarian forms of our system, America has now become a nation where the personal opinions of leaders supersede fixed laws. The result is government lawlessness, and the evidence of it is abundant. In 2012 alone more than 3,800 new federal laws were added to the books, but only 127 of them went through Congress in the traditional manner specified! by the Constitution; the rest were passed by federal agencies without any direct action by Congress [Shannon Bream,"Regulation Nation: Gov't Regs Estimated to Pound Private Sector With $1.8T in Costs", FoxNews.com, December 6, 2013]. Some 38,000 such laws have been enacted in the past decade [Penny Starr, "Under Obama, 11,327 Pages of Federal Regulations Added", CNSNews.com, September 10, 2012], and 81,000 since 1993 [Christopher Santarelli,"Overreach? 81,000 Rules Issued by Feds Since 1993", The Blaze, May 29, 2013]. The current costs to comply with these bureaucrat-written federal laws costs each American family $14,678 per year [Santarelli,"Overreach?"].
Not only do unelected bureaucrats write federal laws imposing their will on Americans, but those bureaucrats are also largely unaccountable…there is almost no action so egregious that it can cause them to be fired. This fact has been repeatedly demonstrated in recent years. Once some push to the limits their lack of integrity they just retire and live comfortably protected by a corrupt government system. In May 2014 the US House passed a bill by a margin of 390 to 33 to change the process so that bad government employees could finally be dismissed. Unfortunately the Senate refused to even take up the measure, choosing instead to continue protecting bureaucrats from accountability.
IRS abuse of power revealed in January 2013 targeted innocent individuals for unprecedented government harassment because of their standing up to and questioning government practices. This harassment not only resulted in no firings but many of the violators actually received performance bonuses [Fox News Insider,"Shocking Report: IRS Handed Out Nearly $100 Million in Bonuses Since 2009", May 16, 2013]. In June 2013 the federal government through the National Security Administration was found to be operating a secret campaign to eavesdrop on virtually every technology-aided private conversation that took place in America. It is not just federal bureaucrats who think of themselves above the law. In New York City in 2012, eight hundred government payroll educators were paid by the city…tax payers…$22 million for doing absolutely nothing. Their charges were "breaking rules, abusing kids, failing to provide students with a decent education". Some of these teachers languished in the infamous 'rubber rooms' , being paid, for years awaiting disciplinary action [Ben Chapman,"Troubled City Teachers Still Bouncing Around the Supposedly 'Rubber Rooms' as City Waste $22 Million a Year", New York Daily News, October 16, 2012].
Under our original republican form of government, the Constitution had made clear that the courts were not permitted to make public policy. But it is not just government bureaucrats who regularly display lawlessness; the judiciary does as well. They hold themselves to be make! rs of law…consequently above it. On public tours of the US Supreme Court, tour guides routinely announce to assembled groups, "This is the building from which all the law in the land emanates." What about Congress? Some judges now so disdain their oath to uphold the Constitution that in recent decisions they have even declared, literally, that the Constitution itself is actually unconstitutional.
The Constitution explicitly requires that presidential appointees for powerful government posts…including 'czars'…must be approved by the senate before they can serve. The current president openly scorns this requirement and has ignored Senate approval for 80 percent of the powerful 'czars' he appointed [Wikipedia,"List of US executive branch czars"]. The president takes an oath that "he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed". He has openly announced his refusal to execute scores of federal laws…all because they do not align with his own personal beliefs [Welfare Reform Laws; Immigration Laws; Conscience Protection Laws; Education Laws; Federal Health Care Laws; Military Defense Laws…too many references to include here]. "Executive orders" designed to detail how laws are to be carried out by the executive department are now used to make laws.
Congress is not 'clean'. It also practices lawlessness such as when it passes onerous laws to restrict and regulate the people but then exempts itself from those laws ['Whistle! blower' laws do not apply to Congress; OSHA laws; workplace requirements of the Civil Rights Act; Americans with Disabilities Act; Age Discrimination Employment Act; Fair Labor Standards Act; Equal Pay Act; Family and Medical Leave Act; Freedom of Information Act; anti discrimination training; and others] [Numerous references]. Congress will sometimes hide unpopular and often oppressive acts from the people by use of omnibus bills. An omnibus bill is one that covers everything…a single law that combines numerous subjects that are completely unrelated. They are used to pass controversial and even disliked measures that would never survive if considered individually. Unpopular bills are frequently rolled into 'must have' bills…military spending for example. Thus unpopular bills become law [GovTrack.us]. Clearly, much of what occurs in government is deliberately hidden from the people, lest they find out and object.
Is it any wonder that our 'ship of state' has found itself in such a dangerous situation that extrication may be close to impossible. Everyone is in charge and no one is in charge. It will take generations to get the ship out of the 'shoal waters'. I see the church as the 'harbor pilot' who comes aboard and gets things organized again with emphasis on Biblical acceptance of responsibility, integrity, right and wrong decision making, respect for God's laws, and understanding of the great nation God has given us. He is the Great Pilot of all life. If we will only listen He will get us out of these 'shoal waters' and back into 'safe harbor'. Next week we will take a look at "integrity deficit" in our nation.


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Mathew Dunbar Millar1
Joyce Elizabeth Chapman1
F, #15452, b. 27 September 1916, d. 1 September 2003
Joyce Elizabeth Chapman was born on 27 September 1916 at Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada.1 She was the daughter of Frederick William Chapman and Lillian Slade Ball.1 Joyce Elizabeth Chapman married John Allison Davidson in July 1953.1 Joyce Elizabeth Chapman died on 1 September 2003 at Vista, San Diego Co., CA, at age 86.2 She was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, ON, Canada.3
June 1921 York, York South, On, Canada "Joyce" age 4, b. ON, with parents, etc.4
[S903] Find A Grave - A User-Contributed Listing of Cemeteries and Memorials; Find A Grave Founder Jim Tipton, 2009; online at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gs&, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Toronto Municipality, ON, Canada.
John Allison Davidson1,2
M, #15453, b. 16 February 1902, d. 29 August 1962
John Allison Davidson was born on 16 February 1902 at Dalmellington, Ayr, Scotland.2 He married Joyce Elizabeth Chapman, daughter of Frederick William Chapman and Lillian Slade Ball, in July 1953.1 John Allison Davidson died on 29 August 1962 at Toronto, ON, Canada, at age 60.2 He was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, ON, Canada.3
Mary Eileen Chapman1
F, #15454, b. 2 April 1918, d. 11 June 2001
Mary Eileen Chapman was born on 2 April 1918 at Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada.1 She was the daughter of Frederick William Chapman and Lillian Slade Ball.1 Mary Eileen Chapman married Frederick Lloyd Post.1 Mary Eileen Chapman died on 11 June 2001 at age 83.2 She was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, ON, Canada.2
June 1921 York, York South, On, Canada "Mary" age 3, b. ON, with parents, etc.3
Frederick Lloyd Post1
M, #15455, b. 24 June 1919, d. 1 November 1995
Frederick Lloyd Post was born on 24 June 1919.2 He married Mary Eileen Chapman, daughter of Frederick William Chapman and Lillian Slade Ball.1 Frederick Lloyd Post died on 1 November 1995 at age 76.2 He was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, ON, Canada.2
Eric Earl Chapman1
M, #15456, b. 8 August 1925, d. 1 August 1978
Eric Earl Chapman was born on 8 August 1925 at Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada.1 He was the son of Frederick William Chapman and Lillian Slade Ball.1 Eric Earl Chapman died on 1 August 1978 at Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA, at age 52.1 He was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, ON, Canada.2
Joan E. Barron1
Stephen Harold Chapman1
M, #15458, b. 19 December 1929, d. 27 January 2015
Stephen Harold Chapman
b. 1929 Toronto ON Canada
d. 2015 CA
Stephen Harold Chapman was born on 19 December 1929 at Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada.1 He was the son of Frederick William Chapman and Lillian Slade Ball.1 Stephen Harold Chapman married Hilda Rein Johnson, daughter of Colburn Johnson, on 4 July 1953 at Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada.1 Stephen Harold Chapman died on 27 January 2015 at Mission Viejo, Orange Co., CA, at age 85.2,3 He was buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles Co., CA.2
Photo courtesy of Pam.2
Children of Stephen Harold Chapman and Hilda Rein Johnson
Stephen Chapman2
William Chapman2
Doug Chapman2
[S903] Find A Grave - A User-Contributed Listing of Cemeteries and Memorials; Find A Grave Founder Jim Tipton, 2009; online at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gs&, Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles Co., CA.
Hilda Rein Johnson1
F, #15459, b. 11 July 1926, d. 6 November 2014
Hilda Rein Johnson
b. 1926 Corwall ON Canada
d. 2014 Laguna Hills CA
Hilda Rein Johnson was born on 11 July 1926 at Cornwall, ON, Canada.2 She was the daughter of Colburn Johnson.3 Hilda Rein Johnson married Stephen Harold Chapman, son of Frederick William Chapman and Lillian Slade Ball, on 4 July 1953 at Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada.1 Hilda Rein Johnson died on 6 November 2014 at Laguna Hills, Orange Co., CA, at age 88.2 She was buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles Co., CA.2
Children of Hilda Rein Johnson and Stephen Harold Chapman
[S3533] Stephen Chapman, "Stephen Chapman Family Tree," database made available on-line courtesy of Stephen Chapman, https://www.ancestry.ca/family-tree/person/tree/86779276/person/320195697026/facts, database put on-line 3 Aug 2019.
George H. Hayfield1
M, #15460, b. September 1871
George H. Hayfield was born in September 1871 at England.2 He married Katherine (????) circa 1895.
Child of George H. Hayfield and Katherine (????)
Thomas Harry Hayfield1 b. 18 Dec 1898, d. 30 Jan 1969
[S133] "US WW1 Draft Registration Cards", National Archives and Records Administration micropublication, 1917-1918. M1509, 20,243 rolls, Washington DC; on-line at Ancestry.com, accessed through www.ancestry.com, Bayonne, New Jersey, serial number 4525, Order No. A4120.
[S12] 1900 (June 1) U.S. Census, Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey, 2nd Precinct, ED 159, sheet 11B.
Katherine (????)1
F, #15461, b. February 1874
Katherine (????) was born in February 1874 at Beaver, Beaver Co., OK.1 She married George H. Hayfield circa 1895.
Child of Katherine (????) and George H. Hayfield
Frederick T. Quirk1
M, #15462, b. 20 December 1864
Frederick T. Quirk was born on 20 December 1864.1 He married Minnie Castle.
Child of Frederick T. Quirk and Minnie Castle
Alfred Richardson Quirk1 b. 14 Oct 1893
[S105] 1901 (31 March) Canada Census, Toronto, York, Ontario, Ward 3, H-1, page 10.
Minnie Castle1
F, #15463, b. 3 November 1864
Minnie Castle was born on 3 November 1864.2 She married Frederick T. Quirk.
Child of Minnie Castle and Frederick T. Quirk
William Greaves1
William Greaves was born on 30 December 1858 at England.1 He married Elizabeth (????)
Child of William Greaves and Elizabeth (????)
William Greaves+1 b. 30 Sep 1885
[S105] 1901 (31 March) Canada Census, Toronto, York, Ontario, Ward 5, C-24, page 1.
Elizabeth (????)1
Elizabeth (????) was born on 13 July 1867 at England.1 She married William Greaves.
Child of Elizabeth (????) and William Greaves
Franklin Good1
Franklin Good was born on 13 December 1857.1 He married Mary Hahn.
Child of Franklin Good and Mary Hahn
Harold Franklin Good+1 b. 25 May 1891
[S105] 1901 (31 March) Canada Census, Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, D-8, page 2.
Mary Hahn1,2
Mary Hahn was born on 2 November 1858.1 She married Franklin Good.
Child of Mary Hahn and Franklin Good
Murray Alexander E. Goodman1
M, #15468, b. 10 December 1902, d. 25 May 1903
Murray Alexander E. Goodman was born on 10 December 1902 at Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada.1 He was the son of Charles Ellsworth Goodman and Margaret Ann Ball.1 Murray Alexander E. Goodman died on 25 May 1903 at Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada.1 He was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada.1
Gabe Hill1
Gabe Hill married Sula Dodd.1
Child of Gabe Hill and Sula Dodd
Myrtle Martha Hill1 b. 20 May 1910, d. 20 Sep 2011
[S3536] Christina Ferraro, "Sonner/Morgan Tree," database made available on-line courtesy of Christina Ferraro, https://www.ancestry.ca/family-tree/person/tree/103479519/person/192027456210/facts, database put on-line 5 Aug 2019.
Ross Milton Goodman1
M, #15470, b. 30 March 1908, d. 23 August 1931
Ross Milton Goodman was born on 30 March 1908 at Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada.1 He was the son of Charles Ellsworth Goodman and Margaret Ann Ball.1 Ross Milton Goodman was baptized on 5 July 1908 at St. Mary Magdalene Church, Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada.1 He died on 23 August 1931 at St. Catharines, ON, Canada, at age 23; (Special Dispatches to the Globe and Mail): "St Catharines. Aug 23. - One man lost his life and two other young people narrowly escaped death in a motor accident on the Niagara Stone Road, between St Catharines and Niagara-on-the Lake, Saturday evening. Ross Goodman of 421 Palmerston Boulevard, Toronto, who ran into a 20-foot-2-inch hollow section of pipe-railing from a culvert, died in the General Hospital this morning. Goodman and his two friends John French, 922 Bathurst Street, and Miss M. Cornell of 100 Withrow Avenue Toronto, had been at the Niagara-on-the-Lake golf links and were returning home in Goodman's open runabout. All three were in the front seat. Tracks on the road show, the police say, that the car careened sharply and struck the metal railing of the culvert a glancing blow. This evidently knocked the coupling loose, throwing the released end against the radiator. The rail shot through the dashboard, through the body of the driver, Goodman, through the back of the seat, and brought up on the edge of the rumble seat. The car ran into a large willow tree, twenty feet from the other end of the culvert, and throwing out French and Miss Cornell, who escaped with a few bruises, it turned over into the ditch. Farmers and others who were attracted first saw the long metal bar protruding from the car, but were unaware of the nature of the accident. The bar was removed and the injured man helped out. He was able to say a few words. He was rushed to the hospital by Dr. Burnfield of Niagara-on-the Lake. Later a long nail was found in the right rear tire, which had released the air and was primarily the cause of the accident. The case was taken in charge by County Traffic Officer Claude Tufford, but the city and Provincial Police also assisted. Today Coroner D.V. Curry visited the scene and made a full investigation. It is not likely that an inquest will be held."1 He was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada.2
12 June 1911 Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada "Ross" age 3, b. ON, with parents, etc3
June 1921 Toronto, ON, Canada "Ross" age 13, b. ON, with mother, etc.4
[S213] Charles E. Goodman, "Toronto ON Ball Family email 03," e-mail to David G. Ball, 10 Jan 2006, Plot K, Section 8, Lot 1.
[S201] 1911 (1 June) Canada Census, Toronto North, Ontario, Ward 5, ED 4, p. 10.
[S2138] 1921 (1 June) Canada Census, Toronto West, ON, Canada, Ward 5, p. 9.
Jean Bernice Smyth1
F, #15471, b. 19 July 1913, d. 28 June 1994
Jean Bernice Smyth was born on 19 July 1913 at North Bay, ON, Canada.1 She was the daughter of George Smyth and Mary Inglis.1 Jean Bernice Smyth married Clifford Ellsworth Goodman, son of Charles Ellsworth Goodman and Margaret Ann Ball, on 8 August 1953 at Huntsville, ON, Canada.1 Jean Bernice Smyth died on 28 June 1994 at Oshawa, ON, Canada, at age 80.1
George Smyth1
George Smyth married Mary Inglis.
Child of George Smyth and Mary Inglis
Jean Bernice Smyth1 b. 19 Jul 1913, d. 28 Jun 1994
Mary Inglis1
Mary Inglis married George Smyth.
Child of Mary Inglis and George Smyth
Robert Bollinger1
Colleen Anne McCormick1


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Trump Heads To Israel And Will Be First Sitting President To Visit Western Wall
Published May 21, 2017 at 3:31 PM PDT
As you've already heard, President Trump is in Saudi Arabia today. The next stop on his overseas trip is Jerusalem. Now the president has said he wants to help make the ultimate deal, peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. So all sides have been looking at his trip for weeks anxious to see what kind of signals he'll send with every place he visits. NPR correspondent Daniel Estrin is with us now from Jerusalem to tell us more. Daniel, thanks so much for speaking with us.
DANIEL ESTRIN, BYLINE: Sure.
MARTIN: So what is on the president's itinerary?
ESTRIN: Well, he's going to be doing the things that visiting U.S. presidents tend to do when they come here. He's going to be eating dinner with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He'll be meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem. He'll visit Israel's Holocaust Memorial.
But then he's also going to be doing some things that are more unusual for a U.S. president. He's going to be visiting some of the most symbolic sites of Christianity and Judaism, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher which is, according to Christian tradition, where Jesus was crucified and entombed and resurrected. And then he's visiting the Western Wall which is a major Jewish holy site, a remnant of the ancient Jewish temple complex which stood in Jerusalem about 2,000 years ago.
MARTIN: Now, I understand that just the planning for the visit has had some controversy attached to it. Am I right?
ESTRIN: You're right. I mean, every step you take here can be controversial and disputed because the land is disputed. And I think probably the most delicate part of this visit is going to be his visit to the Western Wall. Trump is going to be the first sitting U.S. president to go there. Obama visited there, but he visited as a senator, not a president.
And all of that sensitivity is because the Western Wall is on land that Israel captured from Jordan 50 years ago, and that is a part of the city that the Palestinians want for a country of their own. And the U.S. has not wanted to take sides in that dispute. So part of this controversy over Trump's visit to the Western Wall is that the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu wanted to accompany him there. And U.S. officials said no. They wanted to avoid sending a signal that the U.S. recognizes Israeli sovereignty in that very sensitive spot.
MARTIN: Now, President Trump said in Saudi Arabia today that he thinks peace between Israelis and Palestinians is possible. Can we expect any new initiatives or any particular steps forward in the peace process during this visit?
ESTRIN: So what's new is that the Israeli Cabinet made some gestures today toward the Palestinians. Trump has wanted to see Israel promote economic growth for the Palestinians so the Israeli Cabinet voted to ease up on Palestinian movement restrictions to allow Palestinians in the West Bank to build in some areas that they've been restricted in building. You know, remember the Israelis and Palestinians haven't had peace talks in a long time. And Palestinian activists are calling for demonstrations during Trump's visit to the West Bank. So trust on both sides is very, very low. Trump realizes that, and so he's not coming here to start peace talks.
MARTIN: Can you give us a sense of what each side hopes to get out of this visit? What do the Israelis hope will come out of this visit? What do the Palestinians hope will come out of this visit?
ESTRIN: I think they both just want it to go smoothly. Everyone here is looking for positive optics. Both sides want to claim a strong relationship with the White House. And so very early in Trump's presidency, I think, they just want Trump to go home happy.
MARTIN: That's NPR correspondent Daniel Estrin joining us from Jerusalem. Daniel, thank you so much.
ESTRIN: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
Daniel Estrin is NPR's international correspondent in Jerusalem.
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Keen walkers can enjoy even more of Onekawa Te Mawhai Regional Park thanks to the generosity of an Eastern Bay of Plenty couple.
In 2016 Judy Lewis and Ross Pierson, whose land adjoins the 26.8ha park, offered to sell a 9.4ha portion of their property to Bay of Plenty Regional Council. The regional council approved this proposal in September 2016 and the purchase was completed in January.
New tracks will be built in keeping with Ross and Judy's vision that the land would be incorporated into the park and allow for the development of further walks in the park. Currently there is a single walking track through the park, which allows for a loop walk returning via the beach.
The regional council manages the park in conjunction with Ōpōtiki District Council and the Upokorehe Hapū. Both these partners have expressed enthusiasm for the extension to the park on the grounds that it will provide further recreational and cultural learning opportunities.
"As far as our community outcomes are concerned, the addition of further coastal walking opportunities, for which there is considerable demand in the district, would help bring more visitors to Ōpōtiki," says Ōpōtiki district councillor Lyn Riesterer. "We are keen to support any initiatives that increase the attractiveness of Opotiki for our visitors. This also impacts positively on our overall economic development.
"The regional park has grown by increments because forward-thinking people felt it was the right thing to do and could see the bigger picture that will benefit so many generations to come," she says.
Bay of Plenty Regional Council prioritises securing land where the features on that land are unique and help define the special character of the Bay of Plenty, or where land is under threat. "The purchase prevents the possible subdivision of the parcel, which contains two possible house sites adjacent to the current park boundary. Houses on these would detract considerably from the aesthetic value of the park," Tim says.
Onekawa Te Mawhai Regional Park, on the headland between the Ohiwa Harbour and Bryans Beach, was opened by the Upokorehe hapu and the Bay of Plenty Regional Council in 2010. It is valued for its rich Maori cultural history, significant archaeological features and views to Kōhi Point, across Ohiwa Harbour, towards East Cape and, on a clear day, to Mt Maunganui and Maungapōhatu. It's well worth a visit. The main entrance is near Ōhiwa Holiday Park and is signposted from SH2.


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Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories
by: Michael Kerr (author) James Hannah (author) Robert Sampson (author) W.R. Burnett (author) Jack Adrian (author) Norbert Davis (author) Benjamin Appel (author) Jonathan Craig (author) Gil Brewer (author) H.A. DeRosso (author) William Cole (author) Raoul Whitfield (author) Frederick Nebel (author) Paul Cain (author) Daniel Mainwaring (author) Brett Halliday (author) Ross Macdonald (author) Raymond Chandler (author) Elmore Leonard (author) James Reasoner (author) James Ellroy (author) Leigh Brackett (author) Ed Gorman (author) James M. Cain (author) Jim Thompson (author) David Goodis (author) Chester Himes (author) David Alexander (author) Lawrence Block (author) Dashiell Hammett (author) Bill Pronzini (author) Margaret Maron (author) Evan Hunter (author) Andrew Vachss (author) Helen Nielsen (author) Faye Kellerman (author) Mickey Spillane (author)
What are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? "Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing and sex," said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blond, a jealous husband, and, of course, a tough-but-tender P.I. the likes of Sam Spade or Philop Marlowe. Perhaps Raymond Chandler summed it up... show more
What are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? "Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing and sex," said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blond, a jealous husband, and, of course, a tough-but-tender P.I. the likes of Sam Spade or Philop Marlowe. Perhaps Raymond Chandler summed it up best in his description of Dashiell Hammett's style: "Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it....He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes." Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind, with over half of the stories never published before in book form. Included are thirty-six sublimely suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolutiuon of this quintessentially American art form, from its earliest beginnings during the Golden Age of the legendary pulp magazine Black Mask in the 1920s, to the arrival of the tough digest Manhunt in the 1950s, and finally leading up to present-day hard-boiled stories by such writers as James Ellroy. Here are eight decades worth of the best writing about betrayal, murder, and mayhem: from Hammett's 1925 tour de force "The Scorched Face," in which the disappearance of two sisters leads Hammett's never-named detective, the Continental Op, straight into a web of sexual blackmail amidst the West Coast elite, to Ed Gorman's 1992 "The Long Silence After," a gripping and powerful rendezvous involving a middle class insurance executive, a Chicago streetwalker, and a loaded .38. Other delectable contributions include "Brush Fire" by James M. Cain, author of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Raymond Chandler's "I'll Be Waiting," where, for once, the femme fatale is not blond but a redhead, a Ross Macdonald mystery starring Macdonald's most famous creation, the cryptic Lew Archer, and "The Screen Test of Mike Hammer" by the one and only Micky Spillane. The hard-boiled cult has more in common with the legendary lawmen of the Wild West than with the gentleman and lady sleuths of traditional drawing room mysteries, and this direct line of descent is on brilliant display in two of the most subtle and tautly written stories in the collection, Elmore Leonard's "3:10 to Yuma" and John D. MacDonald's "Nor Iron Bars." Other contributors include Evan Hunter (better known as Ed McBain), Jim Thompson, Helen Nielsen, Margaret Maron, Andrew Vachss, Faye Kellerman, and Lawrence Block. Compellingly and compulsively readable, Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is a page-turner no mystery lover will want to be without. Containing many notable rarities, it celebrates a genre that has profoundly shaped not only American literature and film, but how we see our heroes and oursleves.
ISBN: 9780195103533 (019510353X)
Publish date: May 29th 1997
Anthologies, Mystery, Detective, Crime, Noir, Short Stories
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Journal of the Chemical Society C: Organic
Unsaturated compounds containing nitrogen. Part I. The synthesis and disproportionation of 1-chloro-azines, and their reactions with nucleophiles
W. T. Flowers, D. R. Taylor, A. E. Tipping and C. N. Wright
A general method is described for the synthesis of 1-chloro-azines, ArCCl:N·N:CHAr′, from the corresponding aroylhydrazones of aromatic aldehydes by treatment with thionyl chloride. 1-Chloro-1,4-diphenyl-2,3-diazabuta-1,3-diene disproportionates into benzaldazine and 1,4-dichloro-1,4-diphenyl-2,3-diazabuta-1,3-diene in refluxing ethanol, and similar disproportionation reactions of other azines are discussed. The reaction of 1-chloro-1,4-diphenyl-2,3-diazabuta-1,3-diene with Grignard reagents provides an alternative route to ketoaldazines, PhCR:N·-N:CHPh, and its reaction with ammonia gives, besides the expected 1-amino-azine, PhC(NH2):N·N:CHPh, benzaldazine, and 3,5-diphenyl-1,2,4-triazole, probably by disproportionation and elimination of ammonia.
J. Chem. Soc. C, 1971, 1986-1991
W. T. Flowers, D. R. Taylor, A. E. Tipping and C. N. Wright, J. Chem. Soc. C, 1971, 1986 DOI: 10.1039/J39710001986
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Laura Ingraham goes off on George W. Bush for his complete and total silence 'when Obama was taking a wrecking ball' to our country for 8 years, but is now criticizing Trump on foreign soil.
On the Ingraham Angle tonight, Laura says the election of Donald Trump in 2016 was a repudiation of Barack Obama and George W. Bush. She also points out that W is still sore that Trump crushed Jeb in the primary.


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The Quarantine Stream: 'Hail, Caesar!' Doesn't Get The Credit It Deserves As A Great Coen Brothers Movie
By Ben Pearson/June 20, 2020 10:00 am EST
(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they've been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)
The Movie: Hail, Caesar!
Where You Can Stream It: Netflix
The Pitch: In 1950s Hollywood, a studio fixer named Eddie Mannix must solve several crises around the lot, including the fact that a big star is kidnapped, a starlet finds herself pregnant, and a British director is furious that his comedy of manners has been saddled with a Western star who can't shake his twangy accent to save his life.
Why It's Essential Viewing: I remember lots of my colleagues being mixed about Hail, Caesar! when it was first released in 2016, but four years later, I still think this belongs in the top tier of the Coen Brothers' storied filmography. That's something of a controversial statement considering just how incredible the top tier of their work is (Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Raising Arizona, Inside Llewyn Davis, etc), but now is the perfect time to join me on the "Hail, Caesar! is great" side of the fence.
The film is clearly a love letter to this period of Hollywood history. But while the Coens and their collaborators perfectly captured the details of the period and were able to flawlessly recreate the style of cheesy westerns, Busby Berkeley-inspired choreography, biblical epics, and Gene Kelly-style musicals in the fake movies within this movie, Hail, Caesar! is ultimately a refutation of the nostalgia that infects so much of the way we can often think about that era. By making its fake movies purposefully kinda suck, the Coens are scuffing up some of the rosiness of the rose-colored glasses we sometimes put on when looking back in time.
Like many of the Coen Brothers' movies, this one is bursting with religious themes and ideas, and its commentary on communism vs. capitalism (the fictional movie studio at the center of the story is called Capitol Pictures) is worth a second look. There are several layers of richness to peel if you're willing to do the work, but if you're not interested in engaging with Hail, Caesar! on that level, it also works wonderfully as simply one of their funniest films of the past decade. George Clooney is excellent playing another grade-A moron, but future Han Solo actor Alden Ehrenreich broke out in a big way as Hobie Doyle, the yokel who's been cast in a fancy upper-crust drama but cannot hide his Southern drawl. The scene where he comes face to face with Ralph Fiennes' snooty director character, Laurence Laurentz, is worth the price of admission alone.


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Heroes Of the Past Vs Heroes of Today
A friend sent this story. I have read it many times before, and love it. Told by a man who was a son of one of the marines who planted the flag on Iwo Jima in WWII.
This is why I stand and hold my hand over my heart
Each year I am hired to go to Washington, DC , with the eighth grade class from Clinton, WI where I grew up, to videotape their trip. I greatly enjoy visiting our nation's capitol, and each year I take some special memories back with me. This fall's trip was especially memorable.
On the last night of our trip, we stopped at the Iwo Jima memorial. This memorial is the largest bronze statue in the world and depicts one of the most famous photographs in history — that of the six brave soldiers raising the American Flag at the top of a rocky hill on the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, during WW II.
Over one hundred students and chaperones piled off the buses and headed towards the memorial. I noticed a solitary figure at the base of the statue, and as I got closer he asked, 'Where are you guys from?'
I told him that we were from Wisconsin . 'Hey, I'm a cheese head, too! Come gather around, Cheese heads, and I will tell you a story.' (It was James Bradley who just happened to be in Washington , DC, to speak at the memorial the following day. He was there that night to say good night to his dad, who had passed away. He was just about to leave when he saw the buses pull up. I videotaped him as he spoke to us, and received his permission to share what he said from my videotape. It is one thing to tour the incredible monuments filled with history in Washington , DC , but it is quite another to get the kind of insight we received that night.)
When all had gathered around, he reverently began to speak. (Here are his words that night.)
'My name is James Bradley and I'm from Antigo, Wisconsin My dad is on that statue, and I wrote a book called 'Flags of Our Fathers'. It is the story of the six boys you see behind me.
'Six boys raised the flag. The first guy putting the pole in the ground is Harlon Block. Harlon was an all-state football player. He enlisted in the Marine Corps with all the senior members of his football team.. They were off to play another type of game. A game called 'War.' But it didn't turn out to be a game Harlon, at the age of 21, died with his intestines in his hands. I don't say that to gross you out, I say that because there are people who stand in front of this statue and talk about the glory of war. You guys need to know that most of the boys in
Iwo Jima were 17, 18, and 19 years old – and it was so hard that the ones who did make it home never even would talk to their families about it.
(He pointed to the statue) 'You see this next guy? That's Rene Gagnon from New Hampshire. If you took Rene's helmet off at the moment this photo was taken and looked in the webbing of that helmet, you would find a photograph…a photograph of his girlfriend Rene put that in there for protection because he was scared. He was 18 years old. It was just boys who won the battle of Iwo Jima . Boys. Not old men.
'The next guy here, the third guy in this tableau, was Sergeant Mike Strank. Mike is my hero. He was the hero of all these guys. They called him the 'old man' because he was so old. He was already 24. When Mike would
motivate his boys in training camp, he didn't say, 'Let's go kill some Japanese' or 'Let's die for our country' He knew he was talking to little boys.. Instead he would say, 'You do what I say, and I'll get you home to your mothers.'
'The last guy on this side of the statue is Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian from Arizona . Ira Hayes was one of them who lived to walk off Iwo Jima . He went into the White House with my dad. President Truman told him, 'You're a hero' He told reporters, 'How can I feel like a hero when 250 of my buddies hit the island with me and only 27 of us walked off alive?'
So you take your class at school, 250 of you spending a year together having fun, doing everything together. Then all 250 of you hit the beach, but only 27 of your classmates walk off alive. That was Ira Hayes. He had images of horror in his mind. Ira Hayes carried the pain home with him and eventually died dead drunk, face down, drowned in a very shallow puddle, at the age of 32 (ten years after this picture was taken.
'The next guy, going around the statue, is Franklin Sousley from Hilltop, Kentucky . A fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. His best friend, who is now 70, told me, 'Yeah, you know, we took two cows up on the porch of the Hilltop General Store. Then we strung wire across the stairs so the cows couldn't get down. Then we fed them Epsom salts. Those cows crapped all night.' Yes, he was a fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. Franklin died on Iwo Jima at the age of 19. When the telegram came to tell his mother that he was dead, it went to the Hilltop General Store. A barefoot boy ran that telegram up to his mother's farm. The neighbors could hear her scream all night and into the morning. Those neighbors lived a quarter of a mile away.
'The next guy, as we continue to go around the statue, is my dad, John Bradley, from Antigo, Wisconsin , where I was raised. My dad lived until 1994, but he would never give interviews. When Walter Cronkite's producers or the New York Times would call, we were trained as little kids to say 'No, I'm sorry, sir, my dad's not here. He is in Canada fishing. No, there is no phone there, sir. No, we don't know when he is coming back.' My dad never fished or even went to Canada. Usually, he was sitting there right at the table eating his Campbell 's soup. But we had to tell the press that he was out fishing. He didn't want to talk to the press.
'You see, like Ira Hayes, my dad didn't see himself as a hero. Everyone thinks these guys are heroes, 'cause they are in a photo and on a monument. My dad knew better. He was a medic. John Bradley from Wisconsin was a combat caregiver. On Iwo Jima he probably held over 200 boys as they died. And when boys died on Iwo Jima , they writhed and screamed, without any medication or help with the pain.
'When I was a little boy, my third grade teacher told me that my dad was a hero. When I went home and told my dad that, he looked at me and said, 'I want you always to remember that the heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who did not come back. Did NOT come back.'
'So that's the story about six nice young boys.. Three died on Iwo Jima , and three came back as national heroes. Overall, 7,000 boys died on Iwo Jima in the worst battle in the history of the Marine Corps. My voice is giving out, so I will end here. Thank you for your time.'
Suddenly, the monument wasn't just a big old piece of metal with a flag sticking out of the top. It came to life before our eyes with the heartfelt words of a son who did indeed have a father who was a hero. Maybe not a hero for the reasons most people would believe, but a hero nonetheless.
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thehonkinggoose, on 16/10/2017 at 5:02 pm said:
Those boys were in Japan fighting against the Axis powers, fighting against Nazi-ism. Now Trump is fanning the flames of Nazis, by not condemning them and calling them out. When he says "make America great again" they hear "make America white again". What good are all those lives lost in WWII if Nazis are allowed to resurrect their outmoded racist beliefs today?
Grumpa Joe, on 16/10/2017 at 8:50 pm said:
Am I wrong that white supremacists like Trump? No, they talk about their support for him, and his support of them, in their own publications. I think that does dishonor our fallen heros.
Grumpa Joe, on 16/10/2017 at 11:36 pm said:
I think that Trump is trying to be president to everybody even the koo-kkos like Antifa and white supremacists much like Obama represented all genders no matter how strange a condition nature dealt them.
thehonkinggoose, on 16/10/2017 at 11:39 pm said:
Trump has publicly denigrated POWs, women, and disabled people. I really don't think his message is one of inclusiveness.
Don't you think we expect too much from a president? It has to be hard to be so perfect in everything one says every minute of everyday on every subject, and satisfy all of our demands. It doesn't matter if it is Obama, or Trump, or Bush, we want them all to be perfect, but the reality of it is they are just mortals subject to the same screw ups as anyone of our fellow men.
LOL I'm not a Democrat or a Republican so I don't have a dog in this race. But… Trump is taking Presidential screw ups to a new level. Throwing paper towels to hurricane victims? Telling a military widow her husband knew what he signed up for? He is so out of touch, so conceited. It's hilarious. I hope people can appreciate the humor of the situation. Laughter makes it easier to bear.
Hang in there, by the end he may be your dog.


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