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BlackBerry KEYone review
The BlackBerry KEYone currently has an Informr score of 7.6 out of 10. This score is based on our evaluation of 53 sources including reviews from users and the web's most trusted critics.
Excellent physical keyboard
Sharp display
All-day battery life
Plenty of storage
Decent camera
What's bad
Weak low-light camera performance
Odd screen ratio for video watching
Poor gaming performance
The BlackBerry KEYone is the company's latest attempt to prove that physical keyboards (and their brand) aren't dead. While their earlier efforts have impressed some, they have yet to release an option that made a mainstream splash.
Does their latest release keep enough BlackBerry around to satisfy long-time fans while providing modern touches that will lure in avid smartphone users?
The reviews are rolling in and we've scoured what the experts are saying to bring you this summary—Let's get started!
The phone features a mostly metal design with a textured rear panel. Reviewers were all quick to point out that this phone looks like a BlackBerry. It's thicker and heavier than most flagship competitors, but reviewers didn't mind.
PC Magazine summed up opinions well, saying, "The KeyOne has a solid heft to it and a textured, grippy back. It'll stay in your hand, and it's well-balanced so when you shift your hand to focus on the keyboard, it doesn't feel like it's going to tip over."
The only design complaints found were a few mentions of trouble with one-handed use.
Heading around front, you'll see the obvious difference between this phone and most others. Beneath the 4.5-inch 1080-by-1620 IPS display you'll find a 4-row physical keyboard.
Reviews of the display were mostly positive. Some found that the screen was dimmer than other phones. However, color and clarity received top marks. Pocket-Lint said, "While contrast isn't as impressive as it might be from an AMOLED panel, it's still decent. What's more, colours are natural and look good."
But, if you're looking to play games or watch videos, you might consider other options.
The first issue is the screen's resolution. Due its 3:2 ratio, reviewers noted that most videos featured black bars at the top and bottom. So you won't be able to enjoy the full-screen experience available on most phones.
For games meant to run in landscape orientation, the odd resolution can cause problems as well.
It's clear that BlackBerry means the phone to be a productivity and communications tool—not a gaming and entertainment platform. This shows as well in their choice of processor. While the 2GHz octa-core Snapdragon 625 processor and 3GB of RAM offered reviewers smooth use in everyday apps, emails or web browsing, performance in games was questionable.
PC Magazine said, "This is clearly not a gaming phone; it's a messaging phone." However, if you don't need high-end performance, Pocket-Lint noted, "For the most part, the KeyOne is a relatively lag- and stutter-free experience."
The phone ships with Android 7.1 Nougat and 32GB of internal storage. If you need more space, support for microSD cards makes it easy and affordable to add up to 256GB of storage.
To keep things running long into the night, BlackBerry went with a 3,505mAh battery. Reviewers had zero complaints about battery endurance. Mashable said, "I easily made it through a day and half and sometimes almost two days while doing all the things I'd normally do on my iPhone." Should you find yourself low on power, QuickCharge 3.0 support offers an 80% top-off in just over 30 minutes.
One of the weakest points of past BlackBerry models is the camera. Reviews show they've improved things with the KEYone. The phone includes a 12MP rear camera with phase detection autofocus and an 8MP front-facing shooter for selfies. Reviews for both are good in adequate lighting. But, as with many smartphones, as the light fades, so does quality.
9to5Google summed up camera opinions well, saying, "Shots in less-than-ideal lighting have lots of digital noise and the colors don't pop as much. It's certainly the best camera on a BlackBerry, but it's not the best camera you can buy today."
If you're considering a BlackBerry, you're probably looking for a physical keyboard. And reviews for this one are great. They've included gesture based controls that allow you to use the keyboard as a track pad. There's also per-key shortcuts to put virtually anything on your phone a button press away. There's even a fingerprint scanner in the space bar that reviewers loved. The only reviews that didn't like the keyboard didn't like physical keyboards in general.
Overall, the biggest complaint about the phone is its price. While you get a premium look and feel with the KEYone, performance is closer to the mid-tier market. Despite this, you're paying a flagship price.
PC Magazine summed up opinions well, saying, "What you think about the KeyOne rides entirely on something that can't be measured through tests or benchmarks: It's whether you've moved on from hardware keyboards."
All in all, this really is one of the very best phones you can buy. If typing is important to you it should be near the top of your list.
- Nick Ross, Good Gear Guide
The BlackBerry KEYone is a phone for business users and beyond. The keyboard is great, the design is strong and it will keep going for days, but having that keyboard means some compromises with the screen.
- James Rogerson, 3G.co.uk
You're stuck for choice if you want a keyboard phone, but the KEYone Black is an improvement on its predecessor that makes the lack of choice easier to bear.
- Alex Kidman, finder.com.au
As a standalone device, the BlackBerry KeyOne is a good phone. However, throw competing smartphones into the mix at the same price point and it's difficult to recommend the KeyOne.
- Sameer Mitha, Digit
The KEYone is still first and foremost an enterprise-only phone and the keyboard just adds a third dimension to the whole thing. BlackBerry is even pitching it that way, and the fact that it lives up to its reputation -- of offering classic BlackBerry reliability and productivity -- should attract c...
- Saurabh Singh, India Today
BlackBerry released the KEYone on April 28, 2017.
The KEYone price will vary depending on retailer, age, special offers and whether or not it's purchased with a service plan. If purchased with a 2 year service contract for example, you would likely pay much less for the phone itself up front. You can compare BlackBerry KEYone prices from around the web here on The Informr.
Where can I download the KEYone manual?
We've got you covered! Download a free PDF copy of the BlackBerry KEYone user manual here.
BlackBerry backs up the KEYone with a 1 Year parts & labour warranty.
I have KEYone problems. Where can should I go for support, replacement or repairs?
If your KEYone has problems and is still within its warranty period, you could contact BlackBerry support or the retailer you purchased the phone from. You'll find BlackBerry's contact information here. If your phone is off warranty and needs repair for a physical problem such as a broken screen or bad battery, you should visit an authorized service centre or a local phone repair shop. You can also connect with others in The Informr Community Forum to find and share answers to questions.
BlackBerry KEYone Manual (PDF)
The BlackBerry KEYone's screen size is 4.5 inches with 1080 x 1620 pixels resolution.
There is a Qualcomm 8953 Snapdragon 625 Octa core 2 GHz processor (CPU).
The phone runs on the Android 7.1 Nougat (Update Available: 8.0 Oreo) operating system (OS).
You can take photos with the phone's onboard 12+ megapixel camera.
Internal memory is 32 GB. An external, MicroSD, MicroSDHC, microSDXC (up to 2000 GB) expansion slot is available for increased storage capacity.
The phone is powered by a Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion), 3505 mAh battery. BlackBerry's performance ratings are 1241 minutes, 659 minutes Wi-Fi surfing.
BlackBerry KEYone Specs
Model: BlackBerry KEYone (US v2) BlackBerry KEYone (US v1, Canada) BlackBerry KEYone (EMEA)
USA, Canada, UK, India
1700/1900/700/2100 /800/850/1800/2600/2300/2500 MHz
1700/1900/700/2100 /800/850/900/1800/2600/2300 MHz
Android 7.1 Nougat (Update Available: 8.0 Oreo)
Qualcomm 8953 Snapdragon 625 Octa core 2 GHz
AC Charger, Manual
Black, Bronze
MicroSD, MicroSDHC, microSDXC (up to 2000 GB)
ƒ/ 2
4x digital
Auto focus, Effects, Face detection, Geotagging, Image stabilization, Multi-shot, Panorama, HDR
3GP / 3GPP, 3G2 / 3GPP2, H.264 / AVC, MPEG-4, ASF, DivX, XviD, AVI, MKV
Image stabilization, Wide Selfie
AAC, AAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, eAAC+, MIDI, MP3, MP4, OGG, QCP, WMA Pro, WAV
3GP / 3GPP, 3G2 / 3GPP2, ASF, AVI, DivX, H.264 / AVC, MKV, MPEG-4, XviD
Other Names (AKA): BlackBerry DTEK70, Mercury
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One of the cheapest flagship models around
Nick Ross from Good Gear Guide ( 30 Jan 2018 00:00 )
Clearly aimed at business users
James Rogerson from 3G.co.uk ( 25 Jan 2018 00:00 )
The darker, leaner BlackBerry
Alex Kidman from finder.com.au ( 27 Nov 2017 00:00 )
Looking to attract the audience it once had
Sameer Mitha from Digit ( 16 Aug 2017 00:00 )
Work more, do more
Saurabh Singh from India Today ( 11 Aug 2017 00:00 )
The KEYone is still first and foremost an enterprise-only phone and the keyboard just adds a third dimension to the whole thing. BlackBerry is even pitching it that way, and the fact that it lives up to its reputation -- of offering classic BlackBerry reliability and productivity -- should attract consumers at the end of the day.
Targeted at the business users or those who loved physical keyboard
Srivatsan Sridhar from Fone Arena ( 04 Aug 2017 00:00 )
Overall, the KEYone offers good performance, has a really good camera, comes with a physical QWERTY keyboard and the battery life is good as well. If you can manage the small display, hybrid SIM and can spend the amount, go for it.
Strictly for Blackberry Fans
Heena Gupta from Gadgets Now ( 02 Aug 2017 00:00 )
Blackberry KEYone is a pretty good mobile for all the Blackberry lovers out there who want an Android smartphone. It is a complete package, it comes with latest Android, Blackberry's classic keypad and its security enhancements ensure that your data remains safe.
Awkward marriage of hardware and software
Jamshed Avari from NDTV ( 01 Aug 2017 00:00 )
This is a unique smartphone and can't really be judged as an equal with others in its price class. It clearly targets a niche, but what's unknown at this point is whether the target audience is big enough. Even if there are people who like the idea or the memory of a physical keyboard, will they...More
This is a unique smartphone and can't really be judged as an equal with others in its price class. It clearly targets a niche, but what's unknown at this point is whether the target audience is big enough. Even if there are people who like the idea or the memory of a physical keyboard, will they be willing to accept the tradeoffs that this phone demands? In a universe of sleek metal phones with borderless screens and curved glass everywhere, the KEYone is a bit of a brute and we're not sure we would like this as our primary phones, even though we can really make use of its productivity features.
A good one and maybe the best to ever carry a BlackBerry logo on it
Nandagopal Rajan from The Indian Express ( 01 Aug 2017 00:00 )
For those who loved a BlackBerry once and would love to go back to one, the KEYone offers a great option. It is a phone that works and is really up to the task for 2017. However, for me the biggest USP of the BlackBerry is a skill I have forgotten. Yes, I have realised that I really struggle now...More
For those who loved a BlackBerry once and would love to go back to one, the KEYone offers a great option. It is a phone that works and is really up to the task for 2017. However, for me the biggest USP of the BlackBerry is a skill I have forgotten. Yes, I have realised that I really struggle now with a physical QWERTY keyboard and long to touch the touchscreen to get the words out. I just hope, BlackBerry's core audience also does not suffer from this issue. Then BlackBerry might have a bit problem.
Keyboard-packing workhorse
Ryan Whitwam from The Wirecutter ( 11 Jul 2017 00:00 )
The BlackBerry KEYone is the only modern Android phone with a physical keyboard. It offers excellent build quality, better battery life than the Pixel or the Galaxy S8, and a clean version of Android with added BlackBerry features. The KEYone isn't as fast as the Pixel or the S8, and the pr...More
The BlackBerry KEYone is the only modern Android phone with a physical keyboard. It offers excellent build quality, better battery life than the Pixel or the Galaxy S8, and a clean version of Android with added BlackBerry features. The KEYone isn't as fast as the Pixel or the S8, and the price is a little high considering the midrange specs, but this is the keyboard-bearing phone some people have been waiting for. It's the only real option if that's what you want.
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AspenCore, publisher of EETimes, EDN and other outlets serving the electronics design market, is closing its Boise, Idaho, office and consolidating the work to Denver, Colorado as part of a wider restructuring of the business. Sources close to the company told us that there will be around 20 job losses. Graham Kelly, previously VP of Operations Read more...
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B2B electronics media guest commentary: Busting trust
Author: Alix Paultre, editorial director, Power Systems Design: One of the things to love about publishing is its open access to the industry. In fact, a crank call as a child that went well with Isaac Asimov (too long to describe here) is what got me enamored with journalism in the first place. I have Read more...
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2016 marks my 32nd year running a B2B technical content marketing and PR agency so when I visited New York last December and caught up with a couple of veterans from the publishing side it was interesting to hear their views how marketing communications and publishing strategies have developed in the last few years, and how they're likely to change in the future. Read more...
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Patrick Mannion, VP and Group Brand Director at UBM Americas (which includes the division previously known as UBM Tech), was laid off earlier today as the company looks for further cost reductions. Despite his marketing-style job title, Patrick is one of the best known and most respected names in electronics journalism. In recent times he steered content strategy for UBM's flagship electronics Read more...
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Veteran electronics writer and editor, Ron Wilson, has left UBM Electronics less than two weeks after being named content director for Test & Measurement World and DesignCon. We understand he's gone to Altera, presumably in a technical writing/editing role. UBM is said to be making a new senior editorial appointment soon, but we don't yet Read more...
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After only 5 months at Hearst, Patrick Mannion rejoined UBM as content director for EDN and DesignLines on May 18. Prior to his surprise jump to Hearst's Electronic Products in December last year, Patrick had been with EETimes since 2000. In another editorial change, Ron Wilson will now be EDN's editor-at-large, run the Practical Chip Read more...
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Sarah Stockley
Sarah Stockley is a Senior Associate in the International Arbitration team with a particular focus on disputes arising out of the energy and technology sectors.
She has resolved disputes for clients in a variety of forums including international arbitration (with particular experience of ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL and HKIAC Rules), English High Court Litigation and the DIFC, and mediation.
Recognised as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers.
Acting in an UNCITRAL arbitration in a dispute between two major oil companies concerning the operation of a sole risk clause in a joint operating agreement relating to a production block in South East Asia (London seat).
Acting for the claimant in ICC proceedings in relation to a contract for the drilling of oil wells onshore in Oman (Paris seat).
Acting for a subsidiary of a Middle Eastern State investment company in LCIA proceedings concerning a contract for the fabrication of a steam turbine and the corrupt procurement of that contract.
Acting for the claimant in LCIA arbitration proceedings against a former USSR state in relation to both breaches of an investment agreement and a bilateral investment treaty (London seat).
Acting for a BVI claimant in LCIA arbitration proceedings concerning the breach of a settlement agreement related to an oil and gas production block offshore Nigeria. These proceedings included the successful obtaining of an order staying proceedings brought in contravention of the arbitration agreement, as well as an interim order of over US$50 million in security for part of the amount in dispute.
Acting for a U.S. company in LCIA arbitration proceedings concerning access to proprietary waste coal to liquid fuel technology (London seat)
Acting for the claimant U.S. company in an ICC arbitration against a fund of a Middle Eastern state, in a dispute relating to an agreement for the exclusive exploitation of scrap metal stockpiles (Dubai seat).
Acting for the claimant in an ICC arbitration concerning a gas sales agreement in Pakistan (Singapore seat), including the supervision of defending challenge proceedings in both Pakistan and Singapore.
Acting for the claimant in ICC proceedings involving the failure to pay sums owing under a Drilling Rig Services Contract (Paris seat).
Acting for the respondent in a HKIAC arbitration concerning a contract for the drilling of hard minerals (Hong Kong seat).
Acting for the claimants in two UNCITRAL ad-hoc arbitrations (including defending challenge proceedings and subsequent disputed enforcement proceedings in the Indian courts) concerning profit sharing and taxation matters under a Product Sharing Contract against the Government of India (Kuala Lumpur seat).
Acting for the claimant consortium in an UNCITRAL ad-hoc arbitration under a Production Sharing Contract against the Government of India, concerning the recovery of certain construction and development costs (Kuala Lumpur seat).
Acting for a generic drug manufacturer in ten ad-hoc arbitrations against an insurance tower in a denial of coverage claim (London seat).
Representing a private equity fund in various interrelated DIAC arbitrations against a former management team who had taken confidential information. These actions also involved related proceedings in the UAE civil and criminal courts.
Representing a Russian claimant in LCIA London arbitration proceedings concerning the fraudulent sale of a dairy farm business, including related challenge proceedings in the English courts.
Acting for a Mauritian investor in bilateral investment treaty claims against India, in relation to the cancellation of telecoms licenc
Acting for a private equity fund in an UNCITRAL arbitration brought in relation to breaches by Ecuador of its bilateral investment treaty with the US, concerning the seizure of two mobile power barges.
Representing a private equity fund in DIFC Court proceedings (both first instance and Court of Appeal) against an individual who had corrupted the management team of one of its project companies.
Defending two Brunei corporations in a claim before the English High Court relating to interests in hydrocarbon fields; this matter included a successful application on behalf of our clients under Section 9 of the Arbitration Act.
Defending a major Indian conglomeration in relation to proceedings for the seizure of an oil rig.
Defending accusations of corruption and bribery in relation to the obtaining of international services contracts in the former USSR.
Suing a Russian company in the English High Court for breach of guarantee obligations supporting a US$300 million loan.
Defending a US listed company against a Serious Fraud Office investigation related to violations of international sanctions and the Iraq 'Oil for Food' scandal.
Acting for a BVI respondent in a mediation concerning a contract for the provision of drilling rig for oil and gas exploration.
Representing a generic drug manufacturer in a suite of ten ad-hoc arbitrations (with side mediations) against an insurance tower in a denial of coverage claim (London seat).
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"Rising Star", London Super Lawyers and Rising Stars, 2015.
Contributor, "The Guide to Energy Arbitrations," Global Arbitration Review, January 2019
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Description: Roberto takes care of himself, and keeps his thick hair cut short. He also sports a thin mustache, which he keeps clean. He has a thin body frame, but he is very lithe and powerful-looking, with extremely toned muscles. His powers manifest themselves in a red anima barrier, which looks as though transparent red flames cover his body at all times when he is wearing his costume. His costume looks very much like what one would think a luchador looks like, but Roberto spent many hours hand-sewing his costume, and it shows. His costume is primarily crimson, with accents of golden yellow. Like many luchadores, he goes without a shirt, but the pants of his costume are long, and a simple eagle design in gold runs up the right leg of his costume.
History: Roberto grew up in the metropolis of Mexico City, Mexico, and lived a fairly pleasant childhood. He went to a nice school and had very few problems growing up. Roberto's father would always take him to see the luchador fights, despite his mother's chagrin, and soon, Roberto was in love with the sport. He trained himself throughout most of his childhood and teenage years, and at the age of 18, entered the ring. He exploded onto the luchador scene and soon rose to stardom. In his signature match with El Segador, The Reaper, Roberto lost the match terribly, and was on the mat in minutes. He blamed himself for the loss, and threw himself into a deep depression that lasted many years. He hung up his mask, and vowed to never return to the ring again. He had never lost a single match, and his spirit was crushed. He went out into the real world, the one beyond the bright lights of the stadium, and got a white-collar job, where he worked, unhappily.
When he came home from work one night, he stopped by the closet where he hung his costume so many years before, and hesitated. He opened the door to the closet, and there his costume sat, and the bright red that glowed in the ring had faded. Roberto suddenly felt compelled to put his old costume on, and he suddenly felt a great surge of strength enter his body. He looked down at his hands, and they were covered in a mystical red fire that didn't singe his skin. Roberto ran from the room and stepped outside, feeling the same pride he had felt when he was back in the ring. Then he noticed he was hovering steadily higher, and he looked down to see the red anima field glowed behind him, like a contrail. He smiled to himself, and took off. The rest is history.
Personality & Motivation: Roberto's motivation for becoming a superhero is he feels he must protect his people with his great power. Although he may seem over-the-top at times, he feels very strongly that those who can, must do, and hates when people waste their talent.
Powers & Tactics: As his powers are suited for close-combat, Roberto fights his opponents head-on, and with the ferocity of an eagle.
I love the backstory, but what descriptor do his powers have? Magic? Mutant? Psionic?
His Grapple modifier should be +16.
His flat-footed defence should be +5.
His knockback should be -5.
Adds up. Why is his Reflex so high, but all his other Dex-based stuff so low?
Please format like all other sheets, with the skills listed down the page.
Why is his Diplomacy and Sense Motive so high? Some reason for him being so good at it in the backstory to justify it maybe?
Adds up, but again, list in the correct format. Uncanny Dodge also needs a sense type chosen for it.
See above. Please list Immunity as Immunity 9 (life support), and ditto with Super-Senses.
What does Detect Alignment detect? If it's D&D Alignments, that's not useful, as no listed PCs have listed alignments and assigning them just opens alignment debates.
Why does he lose his powers without his mask?
Sorry if I didn't go into detail enough about this, but the ultimate dishonor in masked wrestling is to have one's mask removed, so I figured that would be a unique power loss for him. It's kind of based on the Dumbo effect in the Paragons book, his powers are always on, but the effect his mask has on his confidence is psychosomatic. His powers are largely mutant based, so he always had the genetic potential to become a superman, but his grief in losing the match caused his mutation to come later. I guess...you're right about the Diplomacy and Sense Motive, but his costume "makes" him a great leader and diplomat, although I didn't explain that very well at all. And the whole Alignment thing was simply so he could determine who was good or evil, not really as a lawful good or chaotic good.
"Detect Alignment" may still be too broad. I've seen "Detect Divine" and "Detect Infernal" (in Book of Magic), but not "Detect Outsider", and D&D Paladins only Detect Evil.
Sorry, all I meant was for my character to have the ability to see who is "good", meaning not a psycho murderer, and evil, in the most white and black sense. I mean, if you've killed a bunch of people, he'll see you as evil, but if you're like, a firefighter that saved a kitten from a tree, you'd be inherently good.
After re-reading the section on Super-Senses, "Detect Alignment" would just detect whether or not something has an alignment, not what the alignment is.
And since we're not using an alignment system here, it's not going to be that helpful anyway. You can tell pretty easily who is Good and who is Evil; in the case of characters who can disguise themselves, you could get Vision Counters Illusion & Detect Hidden (Super-Senses 3), and/or lots of Sense Motive.
Ok, looks good. Couple of quibbles.
Also, alphabetise the whole feats section. We know he's a master luchador from his background, we don't need it listed as a separate sub-divider for his feats.
Why do I need to put them on my sheet if I've already told you? And he tries to use Diplomacy before he scares people.
Edit: They are, in fact, Mutant.
Because we'd rather look through the actual sheet, not the 2 pages of commentary.
Also; is the Anima effect on his Enhanced Strength?


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About Brandon Novak
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From the outside, Brandon Novak's life looked to be something that anyone would want.
He got to travel the world skateboarding and was getting rich off of doing stupid stuff with his friends. He even starred in a Gatorade commercial next to Michael Jordan. Although many people would have been quick to switch places with the MTV celebrity, behind the scenes, Brandon Novak was a heroin addict and falling fast.
After multiple overdoses and several stints in rehab, nothing seemed to stick for Brandon. He suffered relapse after relapse and his own mother gave up hope of him ever staying sober. So how did this down-and-out junkie finally turn his life around?
Brandon Novak's Rise from Rock Bottom
Although Brandon was going through the motions of getting sober, he wasn't fully accepting of it. It wasn't until he changed this mindset about his addiction that Novak finally turned his life around for good.
The thirteenth time Brandon went to rehab, he may have been at one of his lowest points ever in his life. His 25 years of addiction had left him broken down, homeless, and with little left to his name. In his previous attempts at treatment, Brandon had leaned on his fame and fortune despite his glaring heroin problem that threatened both. He didn't want to listen to others and wasn't willing to take any advice because he had been so successful in the past. Although Brandon had accomplished a lot in his life so far, this stubborn attitude was stopping him from quitting heroin for good.
Finally, as Brandon made his way to that thirteenth treatment center, something clicked in his mind. He realized that although he had enjoyed a life of fame and fortune before, with the direction his life was headed in now, he didn't have all the answers. His life had fallen a long way since the glory days in the spotlight. He was now homeless, struggling to get by on the streets, and slowly killing his mother in the process. When Brandon was finally able to accept that he didn't know as much as he originally thought, he also saw the high price of his heroin habits. With this harsh reality now glaring him in the face, heroin was no longer the escape Brandon had craved; it was now a horrible reminder of how much he had lost and who he was hurting. With this new perspective, Brandon was more accepting of help and treatment finally stuck. It was the first of many steps, but Brandon turned his life around for the better, and everyone needs to begin somewhere.
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Once you go cleaning paste you'll never go back!
This paste is so versatile it can literally be used in any room in the house to make it sparkle.
Baking soda gently but thoroughly scrubs clean, while Figgy's liquid cleaning soap (castile) lifts grease and grime revealing seriously clean!


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The 16-year-old Craig Gilner tells the story. Craig tries to live as a teenager, but he is a normal teenager but he may be in a violent confrontation with the requirements of an exotic teenager, realizing he is in a suicidal state. After a while, Craig himself threw himself into a psychiatric clinic for psychological treatment immediately after it happened to return to a new beginning.
Actors: Keir Gilchrist,
Keir Gilchrist 28 September 1992, London, England, UK
Dana DeVestern,
Dana DeVestern
Lauren Graham,
Lauren Graham 16 March 1967, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Jim Gaffigan,
Jim Gaffigan 7 July 1966, Chesterton, Indiana, USA
Karen Chilton,
Karen Chilton
Zach Galifianakis,
Zach Galifianakis 1 October 1969, Wilkesboro, North Carolina, USA
Aasif Mandvi,
Aasif Mandvi 5 March 1966, Bombay, India
Jared Goldstein,
Jared Goldstein
Alan Aisenberg,
Alan Aisenberg 18 March 1993
Zoë Kravitz,
Zoë Kravitz 1 December 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
Thomas Mann 27 September 1991, Portland, Oregon, USA
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Director: Ryan Fleck ,
Ryan Fleck 20 September 1976, Berkeley, California, USA
Anna Boden
The Spectacular Now
The Art Getting By
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl


We have thought of adding an On-wallet P2P Chat Feature to ease communication among the NavajoCoin aka SummerCoinV2 enthusiasts and investors and also share information with regards to Navajo Node updates and keep information flowing with regards to the same , it was mostly intended to support Navajo Anonymous Technology and dispatching of relevant information among the investors as well as NavajoCoin aka SummerCoinV2 holders.
You now have the ability to choose a preferred Navajo Node for the transaction to be routed through apart from the one's hard-coded one's and at your own discretion.
SummerCoinV2 (SUM2) added to http://bitscoinshop.com.br/en/ as a payment option!
You can now buy & sell goods at this website using Your SUM2.
You can see here the first screenshots of the new Navajo client. We will give the Community more updates in incoming days, including the Anonymous Technology.
You can expect more sneak peaks every 2 days and follow developments on the timeline.
To Everyone Looking up at SUM2 aka NAVAJO! I have spent the last few days and weeks and every minute of the day without breaks working even amidst my health concerns in perfecting this coin , so that you can put your faith and trust on it, for it to become not something we are merely expecting it to be , but something better and beyond our expectations and it will be! With you!
The swap report is late and is due tomorrow because we have not yet resolved all the problems encountered by people on a personal basis.
The delay of the beta tests is due to personal reasons coupled with the need for more groundwork on the coin. Along with that we have decided to release the beta to the public as well as a fully working release instead of partial updates.
The beta test will be a testcoin run separately and will include a full working system; the full Navajo system will be integrated into this beta testcoin. The reason for the beta tests is to study the performance on a large scale and network. The Beta testing will be open for all.
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT - NAVAJO ANONYMOUS TECHNOLOGY AND TIME PLAN - THE UNBREAKABLE CODE!
*Transaction is sent with only 1 Confirmation Required and the user on the other end will recieve the transaction within 3 confirmations on the Network.
*This Transaction cannot be traced back to the Sender by the receiver nor a 3rd Party.
*The User Will Have the Ability to choose if he wishes to keep all of his transactions Anonymized or a Selected Few.
*You are Open to sign up to be a beta tester and beta testing will start at the end of a period of 14 days , since there people yet to swap to SUM2 and I have dedicated most of my time to that.
*Currently Navajo is in its Alpha testing phase where I'm currently testing one of it's important features which is double encryption features which you will get a taste of once released.
*Please send me a PM if you would like to be a part of the Beta Testing network and you are certainly most welcome to be a part of this revolution.
*I'm into full-time development of this and trying to give you as much as information possible without giving out things that will jeopardize the project as well as giving it away to competition.
In RETROSPECT OF ALL NAVAJO CODE TALKERS!
Named after the great Navajo code talkers and in retrospective of the same and recognizing their efforts and contributions as well as the sacrifices made by the Navajo heroes in the World War II with the unbreakable Navajo code that was used to encrypt highly classified military information and commands and decrypt the same , which was undecipherable by the the enemies and became a reason for the victory over them.
SUMMERCOIN WILL BE USING A SIMILAR AND A HIGHLY SOPHISTICATED STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY TO CATER TO THE PURPOSE OF TODAY'S TRANSFERRING OF INFORMATION P2P OVER THE BLOCKCHAIN, HIGHLY ANONYMOUS AND SECRETIVE.
A Salute to the Last of the 29 Original Navajo Code talkers.
I do not know what you might have been hearing about other coins and other Anonymous technologies but We have a purpose at SummerCoin that is to get everyone switched to SUM2 because we want everyone to benefit from the enhanced features that Summer will be offering to you! Starting off with Navajo Anonymous Technology , the future of SummerCoin has been envisioned and Secured!
SWAP YOUR SUM1 TO SUM2 ASAP!
WE HAVE STARTED THE SWAP PROCESS, PLEASE SEND YOUR COINS , MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THE SWAP INSTRUCTIONS TO THE DOT , COINS SENT WITHOUT THE SUM 2 WALLET ADDRESS ON THE TRANSACTION COMMENT WILL BE REJECTED , PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK!
Below are full transaction records of the coins swapped over.
SummerCoinV2 - It's SUMMER ALL YEAR ROUND - STRONGER AND FASTER!
ANOTHER CHANCE FOR YOU TO GET ON THE TRAIN IF YOU MISSED EARLIER ON!
This decision was taken by the SummerCoin Foundation and as a fresh start for everyone involved with a stronger blockchain and a stronger community as never before!
Which means for every SummerCoinV1 , you will receive 1 of SummerCoinV2!
What is proof of stake? How does it work?
How to mint if your wallet is locked?
How to see coin control?
IF YOU LOVE SUMMER PLEASE SUPPORT IT BY HAVING BELOW ON YOUR SIGNATURE!
Re: [PRE-ANN] [SUM2] SummerCoin 2.0 - SUMMER ALL YEAR ROUND -! DON'T MISS THIS !
So this is basically a new coin?
Cool, great idea, can't wait for launch!
http://sum2.pool.mn/ will soon be ready for mining!
New coin with the ability to swap your SUM coins to SUM2!
Nice work. I will send all SUM on summer foundation to developer for his good job done. Anyone disagree ?
Seems fair. Planning on a mac wallet, faucets, multi pool etc? Possibly with a bounty?
Ok. Need more foundation investor to agree. Will need to agree on things as a foundation. Me and strugg is a yes. Maybe need a couple more yes I will send those SUM immediately. If no other investor agree or disagree , I will send those coin. It will happen before end of coin swap so that developer can swap for coin.
Meanwhile , for those who wish to support development of summer coin, feel free to donate to the address on my signature. All SUM collected goes to summer foundation and will eventually be rewarded to developer for his work.
I will send coins to either the Foundation or directly to the DEV, after I have earned my stake.
Will SUMv1 be alive after v2 launch ?
Or we all must think its abandoned and forget about it ?
And IMHO 7 days POW is too fast. Give it at lest 10-15 days !
There is another coin called BEECOIN, currently being swapped to BEECOINV2, because of better algorithm, POS and coinage. After the swap BEECOIN will be non existent, because they would have all been swapped to BEECOINV2.
The same fate awaits SUMv1, after complete swap to SUMv2.
Tell the dev, so that he can adjust block rewards, so that more people can board the plane, before TAKE OFF!
Soopy, reviving coins is kind of your thing right? How do these things usually pan out?
great, price of v1 is already going up!
So, i will have double sum v2 than i own on sum v1?, how will be them distributed?
I'm guessing you own BEECOIN? How did the switch pan out? And what influence did it have on the price?
Yes, As stated in the OP the dev will explain how the switch will happen. He has experience in swapping coins so I'm confident it will go without much problems.


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Tag Archives: criddle/vane
My Houses page features 41 classic Manitoba homes in 21 communities. There are a few instances where prairie houses overlap with artistic vision creating an entirely new way of seeing the architecture and the land. Today I feature two such sites, both of which succumbed to fire for very different reasons.
Criddle/Vane Homestead
The Criddle/Vane story is unique among prairie settlement. Eccentric Percy Criddle loaded his wife, mistress and nine children up and moved them from the finery of London to the bald Canadian landscape in 1882. Years of hardship ensued. Four more children were born on the homestead. The family had wide and varied interests – music, art, sports, astronomy, entomology – and pursued them all with vigor making the site a hotbed of artistic and scientific activity for decades. About 1900 Percy built a huge two story wooden house with eight bedrooms on the second floor. It stood for 115 years on what is now Criddle/Vane Provincial Park. Alas, arsonists set the old pile on fire in June 2014 and nothing remains of the structure. Luckily I had shot several videos of the houses. This report is a tour of the house's interior. Four a more complete tour of the park check out this report.
The Doll House by Heather Benning
As a succinct statement on the collapse of the family farm Saskatchewan artist Heather Benning created The Doll House in 2007. She modified a long abandoned wooden frame farm house on Highway #2 just east of the Saskatchewan border. This report provides detail on the project along with its destiny.
Filed under 12 days of christmas 2015, Architecture, Art, Art Actions, Houses, Parks
Tagged as criddle/vane, heather benning, the doll house
Achieving Geezerhood – Reid's 2014 Year-End Review
Geezerhood
Somehow life managed to transport me to age 65 this year placing me firmly in the category of senior citizen. Of course, I resist that as much as possible while still getting the geezer discounts and pensions that accrue to me. Turns out, for me, 65 is the new 45. I originally told friends 65 is the new 40 then I started comparing myself to some 40-year-olds I know and realized I needed to adjust my figures.
It's become obvious from The Long View that there are at least two kinds of age: the number of years I'm around which is relevant to the system as my part of the herd, and age as a state of awareness which is relevant to me as an individual and the growth I accomplish in this life. Both need to be honoured.
The Mighty Avenger accompanied/enabled me on my 14,000 kms of summer travel, alas, for the final time. Dodge has decided to discontinue making Avengers so my moving persona will be overhauled next year when it comes time for Mother Enterprise to birth me a new vehicle. I will miss the Avenger. Over the past five summers I've driven ten different Avengers, all basically the same. Sitting in the car was as familiar as sitting in my living room. The performance was consistent car to car, year to year, as was the service I received at Enterprise.
Personal Creative
My large video project The Lonesomes: 16 Prairie Stories wound up on YouTube after many unsuccessful attempts at getting it into film festivals. YouTube has the individual stories plus the entire work. Along with the sixteen short videos, I posted the script and the backstory for each story on my blog. This was the year I went after free wild samples big time, downloading hours of free images and sounds from sites like freesound.org and archive.org. This provided the basic content for a few dozen short videos which I call absurd found art. One example I'm especially fond of is called The Curve. I downloaded a short black and white video clip of a curve in a road and added the muffled sound of people walking. I decribed ten spontaneous stories of events that happened at this curve. The parameters of the descriptions were easy: each had to contain a number. I combined the stories with the video and an hour later had my piece. It needed an intro. The images of the red curtain rising and falling is perfectly absurd. Click the picture below to watch The Curve. It's 3:45 long. Incorporating found material I created four short videos using my flash fiction stories as narratives. Click the pics to watch. Itinerary Item 1:35 Grass of the Apocalypse 1:17 I Am Aspen Smoke 4:38 God is At Home/Atomic Prayer 4:53 Along with my found art and other video documentations this year, I have been compelled by The Muse to write my coming-of-age in a small town in the 1960s novel, now almost complete. The working title is Some Stuff. My hometown provides the physical layout for the town in the story. None of the characters, including mine, bears much resemblance to anyone in particular. Instead the characters are composites of aspects and traits I've noticed over my life. I've never embarked on a project this intense or complex. It requires me to spend five to eight hours a day writing. Backed up with a solid outline, the thing starts to write itself after awhile. Characters become overly familiar and take on a life of their own. I see them at the coffee shop or grocery store. A couple of characters have suggested their own destiny to me, some quibble about a line of dialogue I have written for them, other characters will join in the debate. It's a long conversation that goes on in my head which I empty out daily, spattering it across the pages. No matter how good or bad a character is, I am responsible for every one of them; they live and die by my key strokes. Despite that, I find the characters sometimes use me as their conduit to get the words on the page. I just type what they tell me to.
Criddle/Vane house
Over the past five years I've devoted an enormous amount of energy and time studying the Criddle/Vane family and their incredible story of survival as pioneers on the Canadian plains. Their reasonably intact homestead has been a constant source of inspiration as I followed their story with the intent of it becoming a screenplay one day. Regular readers of this blog know the homestead is a favourite haunt of mine. I visited the homestead on Monday, June 23 with my cousin Vonda who had never been there before. The house had recently been boarded up (above) so no access inside was available. I've felt for some time this would be an excellent idea, at least to protect it somehow. Two days later on Wednesday June 25 arsonists burned the 120 year old Criddle/Vane house to the ground. The crime remains unsolved. The sign on the left is located about three miles south of the turn-off to the Criddle/Vane homestead. Although the house is gone, documentation of it exists in several ways. One of them is my 3:55 video tour of both floors of the interior of the house which I shot in 2013. I haven't returned to the homestead this year. I can't really bring myself to see it without the eight-bedroom house towering over the remains of the family's history, the enormous amount of wood the place required and the glories and tragedies the house contained. It makes me angry that more protection wasn't given to the place; the threats to it were real and obvious. Another effect of the loss has been a dulling of my interest in heritage. Over the years my endeavors have been quite scatter-gun all over the province, dabbling in this and that. Moving past that I decided to focus my heritage energies on one location and try to make a difference there.
Carberry
Deciding where to focus my energy and intent was quite easy. I just picked the place with the best heritage stuff outside of Winnipeg – Carberry. I'd helped promote the first Carberry Heritage Festival in 2013 by writing a media release for them and documenting the festival. In 2014 I was much more involved in the festival, attending planning meetings and promoting the event. A family emergency prevented me from attending the 2014 festival but it was deemed a success by organizers and the next festival is August 7 and 8, 2015. Check out the festival website. It wasn't just the heritage buildings and unique history that attracted me to Carberry, it was and still is the people. I've met some of the nicest, most sincere people of my life in Carberry. When I go there I am reminded of growing up in Shoal Lake – the leisurely pace of life, the friendliness of people even to strangers, the lack of most of the crappy things about urban life and the sound and vibration of trains going through town. Carberry heritage people are very appreciative of my contributions. In addition to building the festival website, this year I also wrote and designed a walking tour book of Carberry that features 45 heritage places. I'm still working on some design features for the book but hope to have it available for the summer of 2015. Possibly the Carberry town council will help fund the book then the local heritage organizations can sell it as a fund raiser. I'll keep you posted.
Winnipeg's Grand Old Schools
One of my heritage interests has always been Winnipeg's grand old schools, the ones built in the first half of the 20th century. Over a decade ago I did a freelance series for the Winnipeg Free Press on the schools, even writing and designing a book on the subject that no one wanted to publish. This year I updated the school features and posted them on my Schools page. Earl Grey School (left) was my alma mater for the series which I explain in the article. The other schools already posted are Isbister/Adult Education Centre, Ecole Provencher, Luxton, La Verendrye and Laura Secord. I am posting them in chronological order by the year they were built. I expect to post six to eight school features a year. In addition to the old schools that still stand, I feature ten schools that have been demolished with pictures and descriptions. Along with posts on Winnipeg schools, the Schools page has articles on many rural schools, architect J. B. Mitchell, spiral fire escapes, live-in custodian suites in schools, William Sisler, the first junior high school and much more. I had a teacher mom and I have posted her Grade 11 exams from 1930 along with the rules of conduct teachers of the era were expected to follow. Coming soon is a feature on some of the teaching materials Mom used in the 1930s when she taught in rural Manitoba.
Favourite Spots
Besides Carberry and the nearby Camp Hughes, two of my favourite spots this year have been Beaudry Park and Alexander Ridge Park. Beaudry is a small provincial park on the bend of the Assiniboine with some hiking trails and picnic areas. It sports a bit of original tall grass prairie. Situated just west of Headingley, the park is perfect for an afternoon's relaxation to bask in the sun or sit in the shade and work on some details of my novel. Alexander Ridge Park (left) is halfway up the escarpment just west of Miami, Manitoba. The view of the vast lake bed below is spectacular making the 75 minute drive from Winnipeg well worth it. This year the park added a new lookout tower and a washroom. I spent many long hours working out details of the book at the park. I took a couple of old buddies to enjoy the view. Afterward a drive up onto the top of the escarpment wending my way back to the city.
Culturebound
I have a short list of artists of all stripes with whom I will gladly go wherever they want to take me. Musically Tom Waits is on my list, cinematically Federico Fellini and fully completely Dali. Obviously I have tendencies toward the surreal. I miss Fellini's fantastic visions and not having a new Fellini film to look forward to. To remedy that I seek out filmmakers with similar artistic motives and motifs finding two this year. I have already posted about The Color of Pomegranates (1968), a surrealistic telling of the life of Armenian poet Sayat Nova by Russian director Sergei Parajanov. Released the year before Fellini's Satyricon, the film creates similar trance-like imagery. The image on the right is from the film. This year I discovered a more recent film The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza, 2013) that celebrates Rome as enthusiastically and humourously as Fellini's portrait of the city in Roma (1972). Well-known and well-loved writer Jep Gambardella, handsomely portrayed by Toni Servillo (left), has just turned 65 and attends party after party in his honour between which he reminisces about his life in Rome and his love affairs while interviewing a parade of odd characters for a book. Director Paolo Sorrentino, who also wrote the screenplay, often goes full homage to Fellini as in the early scene with the nun on a ladder half obscured by a lemon tree followed by a murmuration of black birds across a chem trail. At the 37 minute point there is a scene in a hallway of two men grieving for the same dead woman that is breath-taking! Modern Rome and Old Rome mesh in delightful ways: Jep's apartment looks out onto the Colosseum and a performance artist does her bizarre act at the ancient Roman aqueduct. Jep's friend Stefano has a case that contains the keys to Rome's most beautiful buildings so we accompany them on a long nighttime jaunt through empty museums, palaces, promenades and incredibly ornate rooms, filmed with a definite shout-out to Fellini's brothel scene in Satyricon. The sources of humour in The Great Beauty are the same as Fellini's: bureaucracy, politicians, sexuality, religion. Jep interviews a 104-year- old saint (her feet don't touch the floor) whose minder says the most outrageous things about her. At Jep's dinner party in the saint's honour, a flock of flamingos show up on his balcony (above) followed by the saint's odd reaction. The Great Beauty won the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 2014. If you like witnessing unlikely things you've never seen before, The Great Beauty provides two hours and twenty minutes of it, every moment striking and unusual. It's not for everyone but it could be for you. Netflix has it in Italian with English subtitles. Watch the trailer. Other new movies I enjoyed included St. Vincent, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Guardians of the Galaxy (yes, I admit it!), Gone Girl, On the Road and The Hobbit. I've just come from seeing The Hobbit in 3-D D-Box. D-Box is where the seat moves and rumbles coordinated with the screen action. It added four bucks to my ticket price but nothing to the movie, immediately becoming more distracting than enhancing. The only time D-Box gave me a convincing sensation of the action was when people rode horses. The Hobbit was terrific fun. Martin Freeman has the perfect Hobbit face. Two movies I especially enjoyed mastered very specific cinematic techniques to tell their well-written stories. Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) has Michael Keaton (left) as a washed-up movie superhero trying to make a credible comeback on Broadway. Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone and the rest of the cast are marvelous as is the script. The entire movie appears to be one long take, i.e. one uninterrupted shot with no editing. Credit and, hopefully, some awards should go to cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki for the seamlessness of the movie. The stylish technique created a floating sensation for me that lasted the whole film. If you missed its first run, see it during its Oscar run in theatres. Birdman trailer. Locke takes place entirely inside a car at night and the only actor we see is the driver. That might sound tedious but write a well-oiled script that uses modern telephone technology in a new and inventive fashion to tell the story then hire one of today's best, though somewhat unknown, actors and the result is riveting entertainment. British writer/director Steven Knight (he created TV show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?) is responsible for the story and the vision and actor Tom Hardy (above) is the driver. The car never stops so the film unfolds virtually in real time. Hardy says near the beginning he's ninety minutes away from London and he arrives almost exactly ninety minutes later. Considering he has only his chest and above to act with as he talks to various people on his hands-free car phone, Hardy easily overcomes the limitation and makes the role utterly convincing. During the shoot, Hardy caught a head cold which is incorporated into the drive as one more way his life is unraveling. Tom Hardy is under-appreciated even though he's been in Inception, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Lawless (amazing role) and The Dark Knight Rises. Next summer he is Mad Max. Maybe then he'll get the recognition his talent merits. Watch Locke trailer.
Thanks to Netflix I watched the British TV series Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch as the title character and Martin Freeman as Watson (left). This is Sherlock for the 21st century and it's a hoot with three seasons done and a fourth on the way. Its fun trailer. A fascinating series called Rectify with Aden Young as a newly released prisoner returning to his hometown has two seasons under its belt and returns in the spring. Netflix also has Lie To Me, one of the last series Linda and I watched together. Tim Roth reads facial expressions and body language to determine who's lying and who isn't. Educational and fun.
National Public Radio in the U.S. produced a 12-part podcast called Serial that revisits a real 15 year old murder by interviewing all the principals and seeking out new information on the case. Beautifully written and voiced by Sarah Koenig with very high production values I highly recommend it. Serial is available here.
Late in the year I discovered a German throwback band called the Baseballs (right) who capture the genre's brash fun. Their original songs are often pastiches of numerous hits from the 1950s and 60s. They also rockabilly up some modern songs. On the player below hear the Baseballs jumped up versions of Leona Lewis's Bleeding Love, Alicia Keys' No One and Robbie Williams' Angels.
2014 at readreidread.com was a very good year with almost 80,000 views from 160 countries. I created 132 posts during the year and uploaded 679 pictures to my blog. This year-end review will be my 1010th post. Here's how my blogging life went month by month.
I started the old schools series with Earl Grey School (left) in all its glory. I posted an article from elsewhere on ways to rebel in the Matrix and added an absurd cut-up video called What He Rebels Against.
Though I eliminated my Fiction page because WordPress is a crappy forum for almost everything now, I posted a short fiction called Bad Men Who Love Jesus. I profiled Isbister School now the Adult Education Centre and offered a feature on the 1948 Reavis Report on the future of schools and education in Winnipeg.
Ecole Provencher was the next old school feature. This month my large video work The Lonesomes: 16 Prairie Stories (right) was posted on my blog and also on my YouTube channel. You can read the scripts and backstory here and watch the video here. I posted on movies about the Beats made in the 21st century.
We had spring flooding in Manitoba this year that caused Spruce Woods Park to be closed for a while. I did three on-site reports. The next old school is Luxton in Winnipeg's North End. I documented the ten years of my radio career with pictures and charts in a post called Read Reid Radio.
I reported on my first Spirit Sands hike of the year, my train trip to Dauphin and the awakening of the garter snakes at Narcisse in a post called Snakes Without Ladders. I re-reported on Kevin Richardson and the lions shot with a GoPro camera. An amazing story!
I reported on my visit to the Criddle/Vane homestead discovering the house had been sealed off (left). Two days later the house was burned to the ground by arsonists. I posted a short fiction piece called Watching the River Flow, a life-changing conversation between a husband and wife
More flooding at Spruce Woods Park with on-the-spot video and pictures. The Cooks Creek Medieval Festival was held this year and I have a full report plus video. I helped promote the Carberry Heritage Festival this year and posted often about it.
A major attraction at the Medieval Festival was the Prairie Caravan Tribal Belly Dancers. I offer some background on the troupe and video (right) of one of their festival dances. The heritage festival in Carberry was a success prompting a third year. Check out the Carberry Heritage Festival website for the latest information. More short fiction What Ever Happened To the Squareaway Children – Grindel, Cheyenne, Colloquia.
An offshoot of my rooting around for found footage online I created a daily short video series called The Good Old Days which started last month and accounted for the rest of my posts this month. See two samples: Five-horse, one man swather and stooker :55 and Cigarettes, Oh Boy 1:18
I celebrated John Cleese's birthday, offered a new short video called Tesla As a Boy. I did a feature on a 1960s radio contest where CKY (left) tried to get a town to change its name to Seekaywye. I report on Marshall McLuhan's 1977 visit to Brandon. La Verendrye School is next in the schools series and a new found video Guitar Concerto.
I posted the feature on Birtle Indian Residential School which I shot in June when my friend Mark and I went for a drive in western Manitoba. I created two more found videos – Just This and Oasis in Space which uses the sound poetry of Kurt Schwitters as its audio. I found some TV commercials Federico Fellini produced in the late 1960s including one for Campari. Five versions of one song – The Chokin' Kind – rounded out the month.
I kicked off the month with a feature on Winnipeg 1910 to 1919 which tied into Laura Secord School. I found some lovely old calendar art from the 1920s which got me curious about calendar art in general. On the 124th anniversary of his death I posted two short fictions about Sitting Bull with an added bit of film this year. Then I started the 12 Days of Christmas – a daily look at one of Carberry's wonderful heritage buildings. The series was very popular. Party hats (right) from the 1930s was a timely post. Over the Christmas holidays, due to hundreds of Facebook links, my post on the Vickers Viscount airplane in Garland from 2013 generated thousands of views giving my blog its best day ever and second best month ever.
I'll give the last picture and the last word to my namesake Ezra Reid Scholl who's just turned two. The little guy enriches my life beyond measure. I revel in watching him grow and change and learn. Among the many things Ezra has taught me so far is there is no better reason to make a silly fool of yourself if it makes a two-year-old laugh. This picture is Ezra at 17 months. Below that is a one-minute video mash-up I did of Ezra being extra cute. Click the pic. Happy New Year!
Filed under Architecture, Art, Blog Life, Carberry, Education, Flood, Heritage Buildings, Heritage Festival, Momentous Day, Museum, Music, Schools, The Lonesomes, Year-End Review 2014
Tagged as birdman, cky, criddle/vane, sherlock, sitting bull


Two high school seniors, Anna Dysert and Phil Boisvert, from The Cambridge School of Weston (Massachusetts) traveled in November to Quebec City on a formidable mission. As the U.S. delegates to The World Youth Parliament for Water, they and 75 other students from 27 countries converged to accomplish something adults have yet to do: draft and approve a vision for global water management.
Thanks to the students' efforts, the world now has its first Fresh Water Act, a document that will be taken to The World Assembly of Water Wisdom in Kyoto in March 2003.
For both Dysert and Boisvert, working with teens from other nations and coming to a consensus about a global issue of such magnitude was a pivotal experience.
"This may very well have changed what I want to do with my life," said Dysert, whose vocal musical talent has always been her main focus, but who is now considering studying international relations.
"It was incredible to put our dream into a piece of paper and have world leaders put it into a global proclamation," added Boisvert, who is expanding what he learned at The World Youth Parliament into a senior research project.
The Act establishes clean, fresh water as a fundamental human right, and delcares its management essential to the political stability of the world. Specifically, the Act calls for countries to enact legislation and implement water management policies, create systems of sustainable water resource management, ensure equitable distribution of fresh water, set up an oversight committee (similar to the United Nations) to negotiate conflicts, and set up an international fund to assist water-deprived countries. If approved in Kyoto, the document will be disseminated to world governments for enactment.
Engaging students at a young age in the prudent management of the world's water supply is the expressed goal of The World Youth Parliament for Water, an initiative of The International Secretariat for Water, sponsored by UNICEF and UNESCO. The premise is that today's teens will be the ones to inherit the crises of water mismanagement and waste so it's imperative they're knowledgeable and involved.


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Q: How can I inherit from a function without bollocksing the ability to use the 'name' property? In javascript, it seems like if an object inherits from a function, it simply can't use the name property. I've tested this in node.js, and its likely true in various browsers. E.g.:
var A = function() {}
    A.prototype = function() {}

var x = new A()
x.name = "bob"
console.log(x.name) // logs blank

It seems almost absurd that you can't override properties given in an objects prototype (ie __proto__) in this case. Am I going crazy?

A: Well this isn't because of the function but because there is a descriptor
in the prototype for that name with writable false. Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(function(){}, "name").writable === false
If you create a described unwritable property normally, the same happens too:
function A() {

}

Object.defineProperty( A.prototype, "name", {
    value: ""
});

var a = new A()

a.name
//""
a.name = "bob"
//"bob"
a.name
//""

You need to go through the Object.defineProperty to do it:
Object.defineProperty(x, "name", {value: "bob"})
x.name
//"bob"

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How To Choose The Right Country For Your Overseas Move
by Kathleen Peddicord
in How to, Retirement/Living
Why did Lief and I move to Ireland 20 years ago?
Why did we decide to base ourselves in Paris seven years later… and then in Panama City four years after that?
How, that is, should you choose where in the world to chase your dreams of a new life overseas?
Another early Overseas Opportunity Letter classique, originally published in March 2008, provides some guidance…
How To Choose The Best Place For You To Live Or Retire Overseas
Jay Snyder and his wife chose Granada, Nicaragua (where they're building something extraordinary).
Tuey Murdock recently settled in Nicaragua's capital, Managua, and sends rave reviews of her new life in paradise.
David Finzer chose Uruguay, which he compares to "Eisenhower's America" and insists is one of but four places in the world where any sensible soul would hang his hat given any choice (the others, according to David, are Croatia, Slovenia, and Panama).
Mike Sager says he can't understand why anyone would live anywhere other than Ecuador, where he's been savoring the beach life on the cheap for the past year-and-a-half.
Lee Harrison retired young from a life in New York to build a new one in Cuenca, Ecuador… then, three years later, he and his wife decided to continue farther south. Today, they divide their time between Montevideo and Punta del Este, Uruguay.
Alex and Judith considered the whole world when they decided it was time to leave London, where they'd been spending time for many years. After months of exhaustive research and weighing the pluses and minuses of dozens of countries, the relocation destination that ranked squarely at the top of their list?
Panama.
Paul Keppler settled last year on Croatia's Istrian peninsula.
Bill and Akaisha don't want to settle anywhere. As Akaisha explains, "We just finished up a year in Thailand and have come back to Arizona. Right now, we consider Chiang Mai, Thailand; Chapala, Mexico; and Arizona our three 'home bases.'
"In the 18 years since we retired, we've spent about 30% of our time in the States. The rest of the time we're on the road, using Chiang Mai and Chapala as travel bases."
Paul and Vicki Terhorst, the George and Martha Washington of cashing out early, have been likewise perpetually on the move for coming up on a quarter-century, since they retired at the ripe age of 35. Last year, though, they decided to establish a base in one of the places they most enjoy spending time. They built a house in Cardales, about an hour outside Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Following a primarily business agenda, Lief and I moved a decade ago to the southeast coast of Ireland. Six years later, when our daughter asked if she could attend high school not in Waterford, Ireland, but in Paris, France, we began dividing our time between the two.
As I write, this time giving equal due to both our business and our personal agendas, we're preparing for another international relocation… this time to Panama City.
If you could live anywhere, where would you live?
It's a question worth considering seriously, because the truth is, you could.
No matter your current circumstances—be you 30 or 70… single or married 40 years… with children or not, young or grown… active business interests or passive investments to manage… a million dollars' worth of assets or nothing like it—I promise you: I know others with similar life stories who have taken the leap and who are, as you and I consider the possibilities right now, already living their dreams in their chosen Shangri-las.
To get from where you sit now to where you'd like to be, you've got to do two things.
First, get up.
As Bill and Akaisha Kaderli point out in their book "The Adventurer's Guide to Early Retirement, a Common Sense Approach":
"A body in motion tends to stay in motion. A body at rest tends to rot."
Second, figure out where you'd like to be.
This is where the trouble starts. The more you open your mind to the possibilities, the more confused you're likely to become. How did Alex and Judith choose Panama over the dozens of other countries they considered carefully?
Why did Jay Snyder and his wife decide to spend their time and their money in Granada? What's Paul Keppler doing in Istria?
I'll let each of them tell you their stories themselves, over time, in these dispatches. In each case, the reasons have something to do with business and investment… and something, as well, to do with fun and adventure. But, without exception, the common denominator is that they all wanted a change… a chance to start over, to try something else, to be someone new… to enjoy a richer, fuller quality of life.
It's cliché, on the one hand, but, on the other, it's the only point worth making… the only agenda worth remembering: You've got one shot. Make the most of it.
I'm preaching to the choir, of course, and you know as well as I do the fundamentals of this conversation. You've got to consider cost of living (and of real estate), health care, telecommunications and other infrastructure, ease of coming and going and of getting around once you're in the country, taxes, the local language, the safety of the cities, the stability of the government, and the weather… these are the boxes to check… or not.
And that's one approach to take when trying to answer the question I posed earlier.
Assuming you could live anywhere, one way to find out where you should go would be to create a spreadsheet. Into the rows and columns, you could place checkmarks. No, Nicaragua does not have reliable infrastructure… yes, Mexico is easily accessible from the States… etc.
Or you could create a ranking system. Panama is accessible (give it an 8 or 9 out of 10) but not as accessible as Mexico (10), while New Zealand is on the other side of the planet (2).
Lief and I have done this work, as has, each in his own way, everyone I've introduced you to in this email… and you should, too.
Then, when you've finished the exercise, toss your spreadsheet aside. You've got to allow for the things that can't be plugged into it. Unless you lack any adventuresome spirit or romantic soul whatsoever, this isn't a question that number-crunching can answer for you. At least not completely.
Take Waterford, Ireland, for example. It spreadsheeted much better a decade ago, when Lief and I first established residency there, than it does today.
Back then, before "Rip-off Ireland," it was still affordable. Real estate values had been climbing for a decade already at that point, but they were still reasonable on a world scale.
Foreign residency was possible in several straightforward ways, and it could lead to citizenship. And as foreign residents, we paid tax in Ireland only on the money we remitted to Ireland. Americans abroad, we mitigated our U.S. tax bill with the help of the foreign earned income exclusion, then we brought into Ireland (and therefore paid Irish taxes on) only the money we needed to live on each year. Talk about tax-efficient.
Today, the cost of living on the Emerald Isle is absurdly high (even Waterford can be more expensive than Paris), and the country's real estate bubble is the stuff of urban legend. They've made it tougher for foreigners to take up residency (in an effort to curb the migration from Africa and Eastern Europe). And they've changed their tax laws so that foreign residents are today taxed on worldwide income. Yikes.
Ten years ago, Ireland would have come out tops in most anyone's rankings. Today its score would be less impressive. Especially when you remember the bad weather and the broken-down infrastructure.
Yet, my position on Ireland hasn't changed. I enjoyed our life in the country when we began it more than 10 years ago… and I'd consider returning today.
Lief wouldn't—the new tax laws are too much for him to stomach—but I maintain that one can't organize his entire life according to tax code.
For me, Ireland's appeal, 10 years ago and still today, has to do with its history, its pastoral landscapes, and its country charms… the castles, the gardens, the Georgian style…
Things that are hard to rate and rank.
Paris boasts the world's best health care (according to the World Health Organization), world-class infrastructure, four seasons, and more entertaining and pleasing ways to spend your time than any other place on earth.
I appreciate those things, of course, but my reasons for considering Paris one of the best places in the world to call home are less quantifiable. I like being in Paris because it's beautiful and ever-changing in ways you've got to pay close attention to recognize. Paris is a city you can know well and still delight in discovering anew every morning.
On paper, Panama City is hard to beat. Affordable cost of living; good medical facilities (I can vouch for these from personal experience); good infrastructure, especially for the region; an approach to taxation that is as good as it gets for foreign residents… and reasonable options for becoming one in the first place.
Yet, Panama City isn't for everyone. It's hot, humid, and dirty. Its expanding population struggles morning, noon, and night to travel back and forth on the city's one main thoroughfare. Don't try to drive in this town if you can't control your temper. Remember, this is a developing nation… and growth can be painful.
I'm aware of all these things, and still I'm looking forward to our move to Panama City this summer, in part because the cost of living will allow me to have help around the house and a driver (almost a necessity)… in part because our tax life will become again very efficient…
Mostly, though, I'm as excited about this move as I have been about our others over the past decade because I appreciate the energy in Panama right now.
This country is at a turning point in its history, pushing full steam ahead toward developed world status. Hard to be at rest and rotting in a place working this hard and moving this fast to make something of itself.
I feel fortunate that I'll be able to be a part of it for a while.
Kathleen Peddicord
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How I Created A Life And Business For Myself Overseas (And You Can Too!)
Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live, retire, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on these subjects. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 21, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.
Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland... then to Paris, France... next to Panama City, where she has based her Live and Invest Overseas business. Most recently, Kathleen and her husband Lief Simon are dividing their time between Panama and Paris.
Kathleen was a partner with Agora Publishing's International Living group for 23 years. In that capacity, she opened her first office overseas, in Waterford, Ireland, where she managed a staff of up to 30 employees for more than 10 years. Kathleen also opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France.
Kathleen moved on from her role with Agora in 2007 and launched her Live and Invest Overseas group in 2008. In the years since, she has built Live and Invest Overseas into a successful, recognized, and respected multi-million-dollar business that employs a staff of 35 in Panama City and dozens of writers and other resources around the world.
Kathleen has been quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television (including Bloomberg and CNBC) and speaks regularly on topics to do with living, retiring, investing, and doing business around the world.
In addition to her own daily e-letter, the Overseas Opportunity Letter, with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.
Her newest book, "How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad," published by Penguin Random House, is the culmination of decades of personal experience living and investing around the world.
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The Society of Chinese Accountants and Auditors ("SCAA") is an incorporated body of professional accountants in Hong Kong established since 1913. There were less than a hundred members 50 years ago and about half thousand members 10 years ago. Nowadays, SCAA has over 1,000 ordinary members who are practising accountants and representing a significant number of practising firms of accountants, most of which are small and medium sized, in Hong Kong.
As a result of the steady increase in number of Chinese owned limited companies, most of which kept their accounts in Chinese. The Hong Kong Government was contemplating a revision of the existing Companies Ordinance, 1911, with a view to stipulating that their books be kept in English.
Because of the many latent difficulties to be involved, a representation headed by the late Honorable Chau Shiu Kee (who is the father of our Honorary Permanent President, Sir T.N. Chau) was made to the Authorities to reconsider their proposal.
Afterwards, a committee for the purpose of advising the Registrar of Companies on the qualification of Chinese applicants for recognition as auditors under the Companies Ordinances, 1911 and 1913, was formed by the Hong Kong Government and Mr Chau Shiu Kee was one of the members of this committee.
The Government established taxation department collecting war tax, resulting in a growing demand for auditors. The Society steadily grew in strength and stature, having on the outbreak of war a membership of over 40. In 1942, the name of the Society was changed to our current name "The Society of Chinese Accountants and Auditors".
The Society was re-established shortly after the war, and since then, thanks to the enthusiasm and leadership of successive Presidents, Vice-Presidents and Council Members, the Society has been influential in the profession and our voices are always attended by the government officials.
In 1949, Sir T. N. Chau, Honorary Permanent President, Mr J. M. Wong, J.P., Past President (1913-1932), Mr W. S. Wong, Ph. D., F. F. I. A., Sc., Past President (1948-1954) and Mr W. S. Tam, Past President (1955-1956) were appointed as Panelists of Part II Authorised Auditors Advisory Committee, who were responsible to review the statutory auditors' examination.
In 1963, the Society was granted and assigned the desired Arms and Crest unto the Society, to be borne and used forever hereafter by the Society on seals or otherwise according to the Laws of Arms. The Grant is recorded with pride as an indication that the Society has reached a significant stage in its history. The Armorial Bearings of the Society is recorded at the College of Arms, London.
In 1971, the Society was incorporated and the word "Limited" being omitted by Licence granted by Registrar of Companies under delegated powers.
The Society started to admit qualified accountants working in CPA firms as Affiliates and overseas practising accountants as Overseas Members since 2007 and 2013, respectively.
In 2013, the Society celebrated its 100th Anniversary of the 1913 founding. To mark this milestone, the Society launched a year-long series of celebration activities, beginning with "SCAA 100th Anniversary Logo Competition" and "2013 SCAA Spring Cocktail Reception and 100thAnniversary Kick-off Ceremony". The celebration reached a memorable climax at the "SCAA 100th Anniversary Gala Dinner", over 1,300 guests, government officials and friends from Hong Kong and China joined us and celebrated together. As the year approached its end, the Society drew the curtain closed on the celebration with "SCAA100th Anniversary Centenary Cup".
In December 2014, a resolution was passed in an Extraordinary General Meeting removing the requirements of working in CPA firms for Affiliates.
All our ordinary members must be a practising accountant at the time of being admitted. Up to the end of 2014, there are approximately 4.4 thousands practising accountants in Hong Kong, while the Society has over 1,000 ordinary members who are practising accountants. In other words, the Society's ordinary membership has covered ~25% of the practising accountants in Hong Kong.


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Hong Kong Successfully Hosts the 18th World Congress of Chinese Medicine for the First Time
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The 18th World Congress of Chinese Medicine (WCCM), one of the world's largest academic events in the field of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), was successfully held in Hong Kong for the first time at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on 4 December 2021.
Officiating guests including: the Hon Mrs. Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the People's Republic of China (6th from left), Mr. C Y Leung, GBM, GBS, JP, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the People's Republic of China (4th from right), Mr. Tan Tieniu, Vice Director of Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong S.A.R. (4th from left), Professor Sophia Chan Siu-chee, JP, Secretary for Food and Health of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People's Republic of China (3rd from right), Dr. Chui Tak-yi, JP, Under Secretary for Food and Health of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People's Republic of China (3rd from left), Dr. Ronald Lam, JP, Director of Health of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People's Republic of China (2nd from left), Dr. Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, former Director-General of the World Health Organization (2nd from right), Ms. Feng Jiu, Permanent President of Hong Kong Registered Chinese Medicine Practitioners Association (5th from left), Mr. Tommy Li Ying-sang, Chairman of the Federation of the Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Chinese Medicine Traders Association (1st from right), and Professor Lyu Aiping, Dean of School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University (1st from left) joined hands to kick off The 18th World Congress of Chinese Medicine.
The 18th World Congress of Chinese Medicine
Thanks to the bidding efforts of the Hong Kong Registered Chinese Medicine Practitioners Association, which is a member of the Hong Kong Convention Ambassador (HKCA) programme, initiated by the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB), in collaboration with the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS), the hybrid event attracted more than 2,000 TCM academics and experts, generated over 3.8 million views from over 60 countries and regions.
As physical gatherings resumed for the first time since the pandemic started, WCCM provided a platform for participants to engage in meaningful dialogue, covering TCM practices, benefits, opportunities and challenges, and the development potential of TCM.
Mr. Ma Jianzhong, President of WFCMS, said, "We are pleased to host this edition of WCCM in Hong Kong for the first time. Embracing Chinese philosophy and culture, Hong Kong is the ideal place for academic and cultural exchanges to explore the way forward for furthering the global development of TCM, and its role in combating the pandemic through collaboration between practitioners and public sectors."
Mr. Sang Binsheng, Vice President and Secretary General of WFCMS added, "Hong Kong is renowned for being the 'World's Meeting Place' thanks to its globally accessible and convenient transport network, large-scale world-class venues, facilities and professional services. We look forward to gathering again in Hong Kong and navigating the future of TCM development together."
With its unrivalled fundamentals, Hong Kong is the core international city in the Greater Bay Area, a super-connector in the Belt and Road Initiative, and the ideal platform to promote TCM on the global stage.
HKTB Executive Director Mr Dane Cheng said, "Hong Kong enjoys unique geographical and cultural advantages, and is the ideal destination for international conventions. Many such events have taken place recently, demonstrating Hong Kong's ability to host large-scale global events safely and efficiently. Apart from TCM, Hong Kong will continue to leverage the city's advantages as an East-meets-West showcase to promote the very best of Chinese heritage."
The congress received extensive support from government and industry bodies. The National Administration of TCM and the Hong Kong Food and Health Bureau acted as advisors, and it was organised by the WFCMS, along with the Hong Kong Registered Chinese Medicine Practitioners Association and the WFCM (Hong Kong) Council Members Association as local hosts.
Hong Kong – A World-Class Medical Convention Hub
Hong Kong is a cultural melting pot, bringing together the best that the world has to offer, demonstrating the true definition of 'East meets West', even in the field of medicine. With its high global professional standing in medical science, Hong Kong plays a bridging role to contribute to the further development of TCM, as well as many Western medical disciplines.
This winter, the city will also play host to key medical conventions, including the International Annual Congress of the Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia (ELSA) 2021, and the Hong Kong International Dental Expo and Symposium (HKIDEAS) 2021, both of which are led by Convention Ambassadors of the two organisations under the HKCA programme.
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