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Solar for 650,000 Victorian homes – could yours be one of them?
The Andrews government's Solar Homes announcement has generated a lot of interest and questions. Here's what we know so far.
By Anne Martinelli Efficiency Campaigner
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The Andrews government's announcement of solar for 650,000 Victorian homes has generated a lot of interest and quite a few questions. Victorians are keen to find out how they can get involved and get solar panels on their rooftops.
Here's a quick summary of what we know about the Solar Homes program so far. (For more details, visit the program's website at solar.vic.gov.au.)
Yes, if your household income is less than $180,000, your house is worth less than $3 million, and you install solar panels on or after 19 August 2018.
The government has announced a large-scale commitment to installing solar panels on the roofs of 650,000 Victorian homes over ten years. The scheme will start with a 50 percent rebate for any solar panel system under 10kW, up to a maximum rebate of $2225.
This $2225 figure is roughly half the cost of an average 4kW system, which was mentioned in the announcement. But the rebate applies to other system sizes, not just 4kW.
This is an ongoing scheme and the state government regularly announces available solar panels, hot water or battery rebates here.
Victorian households are eligible to receive the solar panel rebate if they:
Have a combined household income of less than $180,000 per annum before tax
Are an owner-occupier of a home valued at under $3,000,000
Do not already have a solar panel system installed
Choose a Clean Energy Council (CEC) Approved Product and use a CEC Accredited Installer
Have had an eligible solar panel system installed on or after 19 August 2018; and
Engage an installer who can provide a statement that they have not received a WorkSafe infringement notice in the past three years.
WHAT ABOUT THE SOLAR HOT WATER REBATE?
There is also a $1000 rebate available for installation of solar hot water systems, but you can only access one of the rebates – solar panels or solar hot water.
The government is also providing a $1000 rebate on solar hot water systems for 6000 households. Victorian households are eligible to receive a Solar Hot Water Rebate if they:
Have a combined income of less than $180,000 per annum before tax
Are replacing an existing hot water system
Have had an eligible hot water system installed on or after 19 August 2018
Choose a product that is on the Clean Energy Regulator's 'Register of approved solar hot water heaters' (for Solar hot water); and
Engage an installer who can provide a warranty on installation and a statement that they have not received a WorkSafe infringement notice in the past three years.
Households will only be eligible for one rebate under the Solar Homes package. This means a household that accesses a solar hot water rebate cannot also claim a solar PV rebate.
WHAT ABOUT RENTERS AND SOCIAL HOUSING?
Community housing providers are eligible to apply, but landlords are ineligible.
Only owner-occupiers who meet the eligibility criteria can apply for a solar panel or solar hot water rebate, so this rules out landlords and renters. But not-for-profit community housing providers are eligible to apply for the solar panel or solar hot water rebate on behalf of their tenants.
WHAT ABOUT SAFETY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE?
The program includes extra funding for accreditation of 4500 electricians and other quality assurance requirements.
The program includes $9 million to support accreditation of 4500 electricians to install solar panel systems. The eligibility criteria for accessing rebates also require that accredited products be used and be installed by Clean Energy Council accredited installers who can provide a statement that they have not received a WorkSafe infringement notice in the past three years.
WHAT IF I ALREADY HAVE SOLAR?
If you were an 'early adopter' of solar and meet all the other eligibility criteria, then you can claim a rebate for a new or expanded system.
An early adopter is defined as a solar system that was installed before the commencement of the Premium Feed-In Tariff (PFIT) on November 1, 2009. If your household doesn't meet this definition of an early adopter, then the solar rebate cannot be used to expand an existing solar panel installation.
But households that have already installed solar are eligible to apply for a solar hot water rebate.
WHAT ABOUT BATTERIES?
In 2019-20, the Solar Homes program will be expanded to include 1000 rebates of up to $4838 for a solar battery system. Installing a battery can help a typical household save up to $640 a year.
Victorian households are eligible to receive a battery rebate under the program if they meet the following criteria:
The property must be in a growth suburb
At least 10 per cent of homes in the suburb must have solar panels
They must live in an area where the electricity grid can cope with the additional power the battery will provide
They must not already have accessed a solar panel or hot water rebate
Here is a map of eligible areas.
WILL THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AFFECT THE SOLAR FEED-IN TARIFF?
Not directly – the feed-in tariff is set by the Essential Services Commission.
From 1 July 2018, customers on the current minimum feed-in tariff have been receiving either 9.9 cents per kilowatt hour (c/kWh) or a time-varying feed-in tariff. There is a chance that higher uptake of solar by households could result in a lower feed-in tariff, reflecting the lower value of solar energy at times of the day when solar panels generate power as more systems come online. That's why Environment Victoria is also calling for the government to support the roll-out of household battery systems, to help even out the peaks and troughs of energy supply and demand that influence power prices. But regardless of what happens to the feed-in tariff in future, the 50 percent rebate should ensure households still come out ahead.
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Home Glass Ceiling Social Impact Move Over Chicken McNuggets: A Story About a New Heritage Poultry Farm
Move Over Chicken McNuggets: A Story About a New Heritage Poultry Farm
Cynthia Jaggi
"You are what what you eat eats."
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Although born and raised in San Francisco, Carla always knew she wanted to be around animals. At 15 years old, she got her first job as a Veterinary Assistant and continued to work in the field through high school and college.
However, during college she developed a strong interest in journalism and ended up a corporate copy editor in San Francisco. It wasn't long before she realized corporate life didn't agree with her, and she longed to do more physical, outside work. Inspired by reading about the existing food system, animal treatment on factory farms, and her long history of being surrounded by animals, Carla made a choice that is becoming increasingly popular: rather than make small changes to the food system by eating local and supporting sustainable farmers, she decided to become the sustainable farmer.
In time, she saved money, quit her job, and started a series of farm internships that took her to farms in four states in as many years. It was her first taste of farm life and she immediately realized that this was the life she wanted. Through word of mouth and the farming network World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF), she found inspiring mentors who were happy to share their wealth of knowledge and skills with a farming novice.
In between restoring farm houses, milking cows, and cleaning chicken coops, Carla decided she wanted to work on her own land. By some stroke of luck (or fate?) she found a couple in Oregon who invited her to live and start a farm on their 20 acre property.
Enter Mountain Bed Farm. Located 30 minutes south of Portland in Sherwood, Oregon, Carla is now working hard to turn raw land into a farm that will provide high quality, nutrient dense food to the local community.
Carla is particularly interested in raising heritage poultry as an alternative to the Cornish Cross genetic hybrids that dominate the existing food system. "The Cornish Cross are bred for fast growth at all costs," she explains. "They often break their legs and have heart attacks because they grow faster than their bones and organs can keep up. Heritage poultry are not only naturally healthier, happier animals, they taste better!"
To explain the benefits of diverse foods, "think of a grocery store tomato," Carla explains. "They all look the same and are mealy, bland, and basically taste like cardboard," she says with a laugh. "But get an heirloom tomato and your farmers market, or better yet grow one in your backyard, and the second you bite into it you'll understand why heirlooms are worth saving."
"People are starting to realize that we're missing out on something, on variety," Carla says.
Like an heirloom tomato, heritage poultry breeds have long histories, unique flavors, and characteristics that make them all around hardier birds. Around Thanksgiving, sales of heritage turkeys soar as consumers begin to understand not only the historic importance of preserving rare breeds, but how much better they taste.
Carla plans to start a breeding program with chickens, quail, ducks and geese to offer eggs and meat of exceptional quality, and a little bit of history as well.
Like the heirloom tomato, heritage poultry preserve genetic diversity in food and taste better that the average chicken sold at the grocery store. As Carla explains, "in any grocery store you'll find the same chicken. We provide an experience in flavor that you simply can't get at the supermarket."
What are these better tasting breeds? Dorking, an "ancient breed" that consistently wins taste tests as well as Dominiques and Faverolles, known for laying delicious eggs. Carla is getting guidance from the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, which promotes the preservation of threatened breeds and genetic diversity in livestock.
For Carla, it's not just about taste – it's also about the way the animal is treated in its lifetime. Increasing journalistic reports on the state of the food industry – and the animals shuttled through to slaughter on industrial scales – horrified her.
Providing a healthier lifestyle and improving the food system go hand in hand for Carla. Cornish Cross chickens, she feels, are a good example of how mainstream agriculture uses just one highly specialized breed that doesn't allow for any genetic diversity.
"Without genetic diversity, we're putting our food system at risk. Diseases are constantly evolving, and our factory-farmed animals are not. All it would take is one illness to start making these birds sick, and it would spread like wildfire. We'd be screwed. It's not something people talk about often, but it's a conversation we need to start having soon."
Carla's not sure how many other farms are raising heritage livestock breeds, but she knows they're out there, just not as many as she hopes there one day will be. "It's not just about providing an alternative," she says. "It's also about inspiring people to eat better and think critically about their food buying choices."
Carla prides herself on this and other values. "I try to take my environment into consideration literally from the ground up," she says. "I believe that if we feed the soil using natural methods like organic matter and crop rotations, the soil will do a better job of feeding our plants, and our plants will do a better job of feeding our animals and ourselves."
So how does this city girl manage an entire farm? She's hoping to one day be able to hire help, but for now she's stuck with five of the laziest horses you'll ever meet and one reluctant "farm" cat, Zilah, who spends most of her time lounging in her electric blanket. Zilah will be supervising the development of a line of organic catnip toys and treats, mostly by taste testing.
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In September, PayPal, the internet financial services giant, permanently banned right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars website for promoting hate.
A month earlier, Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify banned Jones, who helped spread conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attacks and the Sandy Hook school shooting. Twitter followed suit weeks later.
With each social platform giving way, Jones lost amplification for his message. But PayPal's break with Jones was different. It was the first business-to-business e-commerce platform to block Infowars from making financial transactions—and generating direct revenue—from its own customers because the site had promoted "hate and discriminatory intolerance." Now, Jones is suing PayPal over the ban.
Having taken a stance on Infowars, PayPal has waded into the moral debate on how much extremism a company should tolerate on its platform. And it isn't alone. An analysis by The Logic shows that several companies—including WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Stripe and Canada's own Shopify—continue processing transactions for extremist or hate groups, as defined by the Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC), a U.S.-based non-profit.
While responsible investment portfolios have so far been largely limited to environmental and anti-gun concerns, the head of Canada's Responsible Investment Association says he hopes e-commerce companies will change course so that portfolios that avoid hate groups won't be necessary.
WooCommerce—which, in 2015, was acquired by Automattic, the parent company of open-source blogging software WordPress—has at least 10 extremist groups or individuals using its software to sell their wares. These include the white supremacist National Policy Institute, the far-right militia Oath Keepers, the anti-LGBT Family Watch International and David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
Mark Armstrong, a spokesperson for Automattic, said the company doesn't host the sites themselves, but did not deny that they use the platform. "WooCommerce is downloadable software, much like Word, Photoshop, etc., so it's likely to be used with a variety of different web hosts or payment processors," said Armstrong.
Last year, Shopify was subject to both public and internal pressure—including a letter from employees to company CEO Tobi Lütke and staff resignations—for providing services to far-right media publisher Breitbart News Network, which it continues to do. It is also the e-commerce platform of choice for The Rebel, the Canadian far-right media publication.
While Shopify made changes to its terms of service to exclude the sale of certain kinds of firearms earlier this year, Lütke has maintained that Breitbart has not violated the company's terms of service.
One Shopify employee, who spoke to The Logic on the condition of anonymity, said they agree with Lütke.
"I understand, to some degree, the rationale behind not cutting off Breitbart or The Rebel, as you could say they are media and that they have been legitimized by conservative politicians," they said.
They did, however, take issue with the fact that Shopify is used by the Proud Boys Store, where the far-right men's organization—identified as a hate group by the SPLC—sells its branded merchandise. "I do not understand management's lack of concern that we are a service provider for actual hate groups," said the Shopify employee.
Shopify is also used by Generations, another organization identified as a hate group by the SPLC. The head of Generations, Kevin Swanson, advocates for the execution of gay people. The organization also offers "educational" materials for sale that include homophobic literature and books that decry feminism, abortion and transgender rights.
Two other Shopify employees also told The Logic they believe the company is wrong to allow such groups on the platform.
Shopify did not reply to requests for comment. In its terms of service, the company reserves the right to delete stores it finds "offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene, or otherwise objectionable," though Lütke reiterated in a blog post this year that the company leans toward the stricter terms of legality as to what it allows.
In recent years, funds and portfolios that offer environmentally or gun-free "socially responsible" investments have become increasingly popular, although hate groups have yet to receive similar attention.
"The rise of social and political extremism is concerning on many levels, and there are certainly investors who would be concerned to know that some companies in their portfolio may be supporting hate groups," said Dustyn Lanz, CEO of the Responsible Investment Association, whose members include CIBC, RBC Global Asset Management and Desjardins.
Lantz said he is unaware of any specific investment products that screen out extremist because the profile of the issue has only taken hold in recent months.
The company said it reviews accounts based on these parameters and takes action if it believes a seller has violated them, but declined to discuss specific customers.
Stripe, which is used by anti-Muslim advocacy group Act for America, did not respond to a request for comment. BigCommerce, which is used by Swedish white nationalist website Red Ice, also did not reply to a request for comment.
Infowars is still able to make money by selling products on its web store using the e-commerce platform Magento, which was acquired by Adobe for US$1.68 billion in May. Adobe and Magento did not reply to multiple requests for comment.
One expert said there is a potential solution for e-commerce companies caught in a bind over whether to allow hate groups to use their platforms. Richard Warman, a human rights lawyer who worked for the Canadian Human Rights Commission and specializes in internet law as it relates to hate groups, said there is nothing illegal about e-commerce firms allowing their platforms to be used by extremists, but that instead, the "morals of the owners and shareholders" are at play.


The House Appropriations Committee yesterday released legislation that would provide discretionary funding for the federal government through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year. The bill includes $73.5 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services, a $2.8 billion increase from FY 2016. The National Institutes of Health would receive a $2 billion increase, while the Health Resources and Services Administration would receive a $6 million increase for rural health programs and $5 million increase for the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program, among other provisions. Congress is expected to pass the legislation before the continuing resolution funding the government expires Friday night.


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Craig Payne, American boxer, Died at 55
Craig Payne was born on May 22, 1961, and died on April 7, 2017.
He was an American former boxer.
Payne was best known for winning the ABA Championship (Amateur Boxing Association) in 2003.
He is a 1979 graduate of Chillicothe (Ohio) High School, won the National Golden Gloves in 1983 beating a young Mike Tyson.
He also defeated Cuban boxing legends Teofilo Stevenson and Félix Savón.
Craig Payne passed away at 55 years old.
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SharePoint is more valuable when everyone uses the platform as intended and to the fullest. With wide and deep usage, organizations will not only access all of SharePoint's business benefits, but also achieve healthy returns on their investments.
It all starts with understanding that change management for user adoption is as important as project management for deployment, the human side is as essential as the technical side.
Not only that, but organizations will maximize favorable outcomes when they initiate deployment and adoption activities at the same time and execute them concurrently.
Waiting to adopt SharePoint after it is deployed is not ideal.
When deploying SharePoint to end users, companies tend to focus all of their efforts on the project management for deployment and put off — or sometimes simply neglect — the change management for user adoption.
The IT team often just makes sure that everything works, and then someone sends end users a link to tutorials — the expectation being that everyone will just watch the tutorials and start using the platform. That approach ensures adoption of the platform will fail.
Employees don't break old working habits and form new ones on their own. It is crucial to plan both the technical side and the human side of a SharePoint rollout at the same time, and to pursue both with the same diligence.
The typical adoption process begins with an effort to identify the tools and processes that employees currently use. It is preferable to carry out those activities while the new platform is being configured. That way, every decision the tech team makes will be informed by input from end users.
Minimize the tendency to use adoption program templates.
Such an approach also minimizes the number of changes and adjustments needed after launch, ensures that everyone looks forward to the launch and maximizes participation in user adoption activities.
When laying out governance policies, IT teams tend to focus on the administrator's need for central control and convenience, neglecting the needs of end users. That is unlikely to happen if inputs from end users are taken into account.
To come up with governance policies that don't include arbitrary limitations, you should first talk to end users — they might, for example, suggest that you to enable a valuable feature that you had planned to disable. However, things like that will happen only if you configure SharePoint and consult with end users at the same time, not sequentially.
Too often, IT teams build systems based on assumptions, resulting in complex solutions with options that end users don't understand. For example, common tools like a site request form or a site creation workflow can be made to include items and steps that have no utility to the actual work processes in your digital workplace. Also, IT may build systems with an abundance of custom code when simple low-to-no-code tools would work just as well.
Only by talking to multiple teams in multiple departments and by understanding their existing tools and processes will the IT team be able to build SharePoint solutions that are better alternatives to what employees are already using.
If you want to build user-inspired systems, engage in the exercise of discovery while systems are being built, not afterward.
It is common to take a user adoption program that delivered great results in one company and employ it in another company — with significantly inferior results. That happens because different companies have different dynamics and different cultures.
When you talk to end users, you gain insights that you can draw upon to configure SharePoint accordingly. Beginning with that configuration, you can then customize the rest of the steps in your user adoption plan and change the template to fit your company's specific needs.
Taking care of deployment first and adoption later is a suboptimal approach that can make it harder to solve unforeseen problems.
When rolling out SharePoint, your deployment project will generally be more effective if it is informed by insights obtained from some already-completed user adoption activities. In other cases, the opposite may be true.
To make things more manageable and maximize the likelihood that your organization will use SharePoint to the fullest, look for ways to carry out both deployment and adoption in parallel, step by step. You will find that the long-term benefits make it worth the effort.


We bought our tickets online with special 50% off discount because we are a member of Kleenheat. But you also can buy ticket at the gate. If you don't want to queue then I suggest you better buy it online. Although being the first day of the festival plus it's week day, there was not that crowded when we got there. $5 fee for parking so get your coins ready.
If you love plants you must try to go to this garden festival. Wear your comfy shoes because the area is huge. And don't forget to bring hat and water. There are many food stalls too so you don't need to worry about your tummy.
Since tomorrow is the last day of school, I think this festival is a perfect way to kick off school holiday fun with the kids with free entry for the under 18's and loads of daily activities in the Go For 2 & 5 Kids Education area .
So, Perthians don't miss this event, four huge days ahead ending this Sunday, April 14 at McCallum Park.
pretty sure i won't sit there!
Kalau di Jakarta ada mirip acara itu, namanya Flona (flora dan fauna) di lapangan banteng, Jakarta Pusat tiap setahun sekali.
Aduh cakep-cakep banget. Ini cuaca di sini udah mulai membaik, saatnya bercocok tanam lagi, tapi paling mentok nanam lavender yang banyak buat ngasih makan lebah.
Iya cakep2 pengen beli semuaaaa😝😝 Kalo di Iteland taneman tropis hidup ga Ail? Mungkin jadi indoor plants ya?
Kecil banget kesempatannya untuk hidup. Nanam cabe tahun kemaren aja jadi kerdil, gak mau gede.
Tanaman winter di halaman juga banyak yang hancur karena tahun kemaren banyak storm.


Anyone who decides to live in the Sixteen 35 Residences will enjoy close proximity to key amenities and facilities necessary for comfort. The schools around the residences are very close with a lot of them within a 1Km radius around the residences. If you take a drive from the location, you can also get to the Orchard Road in a few minutes. The Orchard Road is quite popular as the Shopping Belt of Singapore. The Paya Lebar Business Hub and Paya Lebar MRT interchange are also a five-minute walk from the residence. The Sixteen 35 Residences can also be connected from some of the major highways in Singapore like the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway, Seletar Expressway, Pan Island Expressway, and the Central Expressway. Other areas which can be accessed in a few minutes while driving include the Kallang Sports Hub and the Central Business District.
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Ostrich and Boer Goats from Africa, Donkeys from the Mediterranean, Deer from Europe, Miniature Goats from Nigeria, Ducks from China, Sheep from St. Croix, Lorikeets from Australia, Stingrays from Florida, Bunnies from all over, and Redneck Owners from Oklahoma. Get a hands-on and up close interaction with lots of different animals.
Let's face it – there really isn't Ocean Front Property in Arizona so us desert dwellers can experience one of the most docile ocean critters right here. Besides, they are just really cool!
Our stingray feeding goes on constantly throughout the day so you don't have to worry about the timing. Enjoy feeding when you make your way to Stingray Bay. We have the friendliest rays around!!!
Feed a living dinosaur right out of your hand if you are a thrill seeker! Don't worry – you can also feed the ostrich safely through feed chutes provided or take advantage of the feeding dock for great pictures.
Kissing the Ostrich is not advised! Rooster Cogburn lost a front tooth doing this!
The Rainbow Lorikeet Forest is a 5,000 sq. ft. tropical paradise in the desert. These beautiful birds land on you and drink nectar out of a cup you hold. Amazing experience and one of the favorite interactions.
Boer Goats are the feature in the "Hole in the Wall Gang" and the "Goat Penthouse". Here is your chance to race your friends to get feed to the goats waiting in the sky or get that Goat Kissin' picture you have always wanted!
The Fallow Deer eat right out of your hand. Safe and fun for even the youngest Pilgrims. They do like to lick your hand however!
Come scratch some big ears at Little Donkey Town, USA. The Miniature Donkeys eat right out of your hand. Keep your eyes open for one of our stars, Smiley the Donkey!
Our Cabbage Patch Kids are the Nigerian Dwarf Goats. Feed them in their very own playground. Watch out for Sherbert, our escape goat, as she wanders around the ranch looking for new friends.
Quackville, USA is home to Pekin Ducks. Everyone has fed ducks but not too many have done it out of their hand. If you have the courage to try it you will go away laughing hysterically. Don't worry – they don't have teeth!
Who could have a BAA BAA bad day when these adorable sheep jump up on the wall to greet you?
Enjoy feeding the parakeets without being in the enclosure with them. Perfect for those folks that are a little uncomfortable with birds sitting on their head.
Hurdles are no problem for our bunnies as they hop over to greet you for some hand feeding. This will surly warm the heart of all ages.
Hold your breath when every 15 minutes our ducks diver to the bottom of the tank chasing food.


KLIA, 9 January 2018: Malaysia Airlines will be reinstating direct flights between Kuala Lumpur and Brisbane effective 6 June 2018.
The four times weekly service will be provided using an A330-300 with up to 290 seats. The airline will be operating every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.
MH135 will depart Kuala Lumpur at 9.50am and will arrive Brisbane at 7.55pm the same day. The return flight, MH134 will depart Brisbane at 11.20pm and arrive Kuala Lumpur at 5.50am the next day.
Malaysia Airlines Chief Executive Officer, Izham Ismail, said, "Malaysia Airlines need to be agile in order to respond quickly to market demands and we are very excited to be re-instating Brisbane back to our network. Brisbane is strategically placed, in close proximity to many of Queensland's tourist destinations, which will facilitate our growth plans focusing on key business and leisure cities".
"Malaysia Airlines has had a long presence in Queensland since the commencement of our operations into Brisbane on 31st October 1990. We are happy to be returning to Brisbane offering convenient connections on Malaysia Airline's global network," Izham added.
The Hon. Kate Jones, Minister for Innovation, Tourism Industry Development and Commonwealth Games, said through the Queensland Government's Attracting Aviation Investment Fund, Tourism and Events Queensland and its partners have again been able to secure an important airline on an important route, giving travellers another way to come here and further enhancing the reputation of Brisbane Airport.
"Malaysia Airlines is a renowned global airline and Kuala Lumpur is a thriving international hub which means a new gateway has been opened for thousands of travellers to come to Queensland to experience the Great Barrier Reef, our world-heritage listed rainforests, our iconic beaches and the outback," Minister Jones said.
Today Malaysia Airlines' operations between Kuala Lumpur and Australia covers Sydney (twice daily), Melbourne (twice daily), Perth (daily) and Adelaide (4 times a week).
Tickets to Brisbane will go on sale from 9 January 2018 on Malaysia Airlines website at www.malaysiaairlines.com.
In conjunction with the opening of this route, Malaysia Airlines will kick start its New Year Deals campaign from today with promotional all-inclusive return fares on Economy Class to Brisbane from RM2,009, Seoul from RM1,259, Tokyo from RM1,419, Auckland from RM2,239 and other destinations. The sale ends on 14 January. Travel period is from 16 January to 31 May 2018, with the exception of Brisbane from 6 June to 31 October.
To grab this promotion, customers can visit the airline's preferred travel agents, via mobile app or its official website.


Who does the data across my sites belong to ?
The site data belongs to the company using FINALCAD, and the collaborators who have acquired the data.
Can I see the data of another site if we are in the same group ?
That depends on your user level. The application manages the access authorizations to different organizational levels.
Can I access the whole of my site data ?
Yes. From your slides but also from the GETMYDATA app.
I can also compare sites one from another as FINALCAD standardizes the date, defects and processes in order to make them compatible across sites.
Where is my data housed ?
It is housed on your tablets before synchronization and is encrypted on them. Then it is automatically synchronized on central servers sited in Europe and ultra secure.
Do you need FINALCAD to extract specific information and analysis?
You can easily access the whole of the data stocked on a tablet. If you want to compare several sites and algorithmically set your data, FINALCAD's GETMYDATA app eases the aggregation and standardization of data. It allows you to extract all data you need in several clicks.
Does my data risk being known to my competitors or partners ?
Of course not, FINALCAD is formally engaged in the data utilization chart and puts security processes in place to prevent all forms of pirating.
Can FINALCAD use my data ?
Of course not. It's confidential and managed as such by FINALCAD. FINALCAD just has an anonymous right to exploit all the data in order to have usable global indicators for all to benefit from best practice..
Is there a risk that my data could be exploited in a named or recognizable way in a published FINALCAD study ?
The FINALCAD Construction Study includes data from over 1000 sites in an anonymous way, so it's impossible to recognize any particular site. It derives from a set anonymous algorithm that allows the publication of benchmarks that the construction world cruelly lacks today..
Why is FINALCAD unique in its means of managing site data ?
It's because the importance and confidentiality of data has been managed in the app and legal plan from day one. Data partitioning, access authorization management, security and confidentiality are at the heart of our applications.
What happens if the data synchronization is interrupted or happens badly using my mobile tools?
It's all been considered, FINALCAD will resynchronize it the moment communication has been reestablished.
What happens if I lose or break my mobile device ?
FINALCAD can provide you with one reloaded together with all the data present in the app that were there since the last synchronization and in less than 2 working days.


McDavid, O. C., 1911-1998. Letter from Capt. O. C. McDavid to Inez McDavid, regarding a close encounter with the Japanese Army - Page 1 front. April 20, 1944. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. April 26, 2019. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/mcdav/item/161/show/159.
McDavid, O. C., 1911-1998, Letter from Capt. O. C. McDavid to Inez McDavid, regarding a close encounter with the Japanese Army - Page 1 front, April 20, 1944, Captain O.C. McDavid World War II Letters, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries, accessed April 26, 2019, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/mcdav/item/161/show/159.
Description This two page typewritten letter by U.S. Army Captain O.C. McDavid to "Darling" is dated April 20, 1944 from "Somewhere in New Guinea". The letter recounts the capture of Japanese soldiers along a road McDavid had previously ridden.


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Birth of Musicologist Francis Llewellyn Harrison
Francis Llewellyn Harrison, better known as "Frank Harrison" or "Frank Ll. Harrison" and one of the leading musicologists of his time and a pioneering ethnomusicologist, is born in Dublin on September 29, 1905. Initially trained as an organist and composer, he turns to musicology in the early 1950s, first specialising in English and Irish music of the Middle Ages and increasingly turning to ethnomusicological subjects in the course of his career. His Music in Medieval Britain (1958) is still a standard work on the subject, and Time, Place and Music (1973) is a key textbook on ethnomusicology.
Harrison is the second son of Alfred Francis Harrison and Florence May (née Nash). He becomes a chorister at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1912 and is educated at the cathedral grammar school and Mountjoy School. A competent organist, he is deputy organist at St. Patrick's from 1925 to 1928. In 1920, he also begins musical studies at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, where he studies with John Francis Larchet (composition), George Hewson (organ) and Michele Esposito (piano). In 1926, he graduates Bachelor of Music at Trinity College Dublin and is awarded a doctorate (MusD) in 1929 for a musical setting of Psalm 19. He then works in Kilkenny for one year, serving as organist at St. Canice's Cathedral and music teacher at Kilkenny College.
In 1930, Harrison emigrates to Canada to become organist at Westminster Presbyterian Church in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 1933, he studies briefly with Marcel Dupré in France, but returns to Canada in 1934 to become organist at Knox Presbyterian Church in Ottawa. In 1935, he takes a position as organist and choirmaster at St. George's Cathedral in Kingston, Ontario, as well as taking up the newly created post of "resident musician" at Queen's University at Kingston. His duties include giving lectures, running a choir and an orchestra, and conducting concerts himself. His course in the history and appreciation of music is the first music course to be given for full credit at Queen's. He resigns from St. George's in 1941 to become assistant professor of music at Queen's in 1942. During his years in Canada he still pursues the idea of remaining a performing musician and composer, winning three national composition competitions: for Winter's Poem (1931), Baroque Suite (1943) and Night Hymns on Lake Nipigon (1945).
On a year's leave of absence from Queen's, Harrison studies composition with Paul Hindemith at Yale University, also taking courses in musicology with Leo Schrade. In 1946, he takes up a position at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, and then moves on to Washington University in St. Louis as head of the new Department of Music (1947–1950).
In 1951, Harrison takes the degrees of Master of Arts (M.A.) and Doctor of Music (DMus) at Jesus College, Oxford, and becomes lecturer (1952), senior lecturer (1956), and reader in the history of music (1962–1970) there. In 1965, he is elected Fellow the British Academy and Senior Research Fellow at Oxford. From 1970 to 1980, he is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, retiring to part-time teaching in 1976.
Harrison also holds Visiting Professorships in musicology at Yale University (1958–1959), Princeton University (spring 1961 and 1968–1969), and Dartmouth College (winter 1968 and spring 1972). He also briefly returns to Queen's University at Kingston as Queen's Quest Visiting Professor in the fall of 1980 and is Visiting Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh for the calendar year 1981.
Harrison's honorary titles also include Doctor of Laws at Queen's University, Kingston (1974), Corresponding Member of the American Musicological Society (1981), and Vice President and Chairman of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society (1985). At Queen's also, the new Harrison-LeCaine Hall (1974) is partly named in his honour.
Harrison dies in Canterbury, England on December 29, 1987.
In 1989, Harry White appreciates Harrison as "an Irish musicologist of international standing and of seminal influence, whose scholarly achievement, astonishingly, encompassed virtually the complete scope of the discipline which he espoused." David F. L. Chadd writes of him "He was above all things an explorer, tirelessly curious and boyishly delighted in the pursuit of knowledge, experience and ideas, and totally heedless of artificially imposed constraints and boundaries."
Since 2004, the Society for Musicology in Ireland (SMI) awards a bi-annual Irish Research Council Harrison Medal in his honour to distinguished international musicologists.
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Birth of George Salmon, Mathematician & Theologian
Rev. Prof. George Salmon, distinguished and influential Irish mathematician and Anglican theologian, is born in Dublin on September 25, 1819. After working in algebraic geometry for two decades, he devotes the last forty years of his life to theology. His entire career is spent at Trinity College Dublin.
Salmon, the son of Michael Salmon and Helen Weekes, spends his boyhood in Cork, where his father is a linen merchant. There he attends Hamblin and Porter's Grammar School before attending Trinity College in 1833, graduating with First Class Honours in mathematics in 1839. In 1841 he attains a paid fellowship and teaching position in mathematics at Trinity. In 1845 Salmon is additionally appointed to a position in theology at the university, after having been ordained a deacon in 1844 and a priest in the Church of Ireland in 1845.
In the late 1840s and the 1850s Salmon is in regular and frequent communication with Arthur Cayley and J. J. Sylvester. The three of them together with a small number of other mathematicians develop a system for dealing with n-dimensional algebra and geometry. During this period he publishes about 36 papers in journals.
In 1844 Salmon marries Frances Anne Salvador, daughter of Rev. J. L. Salvador of Staunton-upon-Wye in Herefordshire, with whom he has six children, of which only two survive him.
In 1848 Salmon publishes an undergraduate textbook entitled A Treatise on Conic Sections. This text remains in print for over fifty years, going through five updated editions in English, and is translated into German, French and Italian. From 1858 to 1867 he is the Donegall Lecturer in Mathematics at Trinity.
In 1859 Salmon publishes the book Lessons Introductory to the Modern Higher Algebra. This is for a while simultaneously the state-of-the-art and the standard presentation of the subject, and goes through updated and expanded editions in 1866, 1876 and 1885, and is translated into German and French. He also publishes two other mathematics texts, A Treatise on Higher Plane Curves (1852) and A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions (1862).
In 1858 Salmon is presented with the Cunningham Medal of the Royal Irish Academy. In June 1863 he is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society followed in 1868 by the award of their Royal Medal. In 1889 he receives the Copley Medal of the society, the highest honorary award in British science, but by then he has long since lost his interest in mathematics and science.
From the early 1860s onward Salmon is primarily occupied with theology. In 1866 he is appointed Regius Professor of Divinity at Trinity College, at which point he resigns from his position in the mathematics department. In 1871 he accepts an additional post of chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
Salmon is Provost of Trinty College from 1888 until his death in 1904. The highlight of his career is likely when in 1892 he presides over the great celebrations marking the tercentenary of the College, which had been founded by Queen Elizabeth I. His deep conservatism leads him to strongly oppose women receiving degrees from the University.
Salmon dies at the Provost's House on January 22, 1904 and is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin. An avid reader throughout his life, his obituary refers to him as "specially devoted to the novels of Jane Austen."
Salmon's theorem [ru] is named in honor of George Salmon.
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Death of Adam Loftus, First Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Armagh, and later Dublin, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1581, dies in Dublin on April 5, 1605. He is also the first Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.
Loftus is born in 1533, the second son of a monastic bailiff, Edward Loftus, in the heart of the English Yorkshire Dales. He embraces the Protestant faith early in his development. He is an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he reportedly attracts the notice of the young Queen Elizabeth, as much by his physique as through the power of his intellect. Although this encounter may never have happened, Loftus certainly meets with the Queen more than once, and she becomes his patron for the rest of her reign. At Cambridge Loftus takes holy orders as a Catholic priest and is appointed rector of Outwell St. Clement in Norfolk. He comes to the attention of the Catholic Queen Mary, who names him vicar of Gedney, Lincolnshire. On Elizabeth's accession in 1558 he declares himself Anglican.
Loftus makes the acquaintance of the Queen's favourite Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex and serves as his chaplain in Ireland in 1560. In 1561 he becomes chaplain to Alexander Craike, Bishop of Kildare and Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. Later that year he is appointed rector of Painstown in Meath, and evidently earns a reputation as a learned and discreet advisor to the English authorities in Dublin. In 1563, he is consecrated Archbishop of Armagh at the unprecedented age of 28 by Hugh Curwen, Archbishop of Dublin.
Following a clash with Shane O'Neill, the real power in Ulster during these years, he comes to Dublin in 1564. To supplement the meager income of his troubled archbishopric he is temporarily appointed to the Deanery of St. Patrick's Cathedral by the queen in the following year. He is also appointed president of the new commission for ecclesiastical causes. This leads to a serious quarrel with the highly respected Bishop of Meath, Hugh Brady.
In 1567 Loftus, having lobbied successfully for the removal of Hugh Curwen, who becomes Bishop of Oxford, and having defeated the rival claims of the Bishop of Meath, is appointed Archbishop of Dublin, where the queen expects him to carry out reforms in the Church. On several occasions he temporarily carries out the functions of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and in August 1581 he is appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland after an involved dispute with Nicholas White, Master of the Rolls in Ireland. He is constantly occupied in attempts to improve his financial position by obtaining additional preferment, and is subject to repeated accusations of corruption in public office.
In 1582 Loftus acquires land and builds a castle at Rathfarnham, which he inhabits from 1585. In 1569–1570 the divisions in Irish politics take on a religious tinge with the First Desmond Rebellion in Munster and Pope Pius V's 1570 papal bull Regnans in Excelsis. The bull questions Elizabeth's authority and thereafter Roman Catholics are suspected of disloyalty by the official class unless they are discreet.
Loftus takes a leading part in the execution of Dermot O'Hurley, Archbishop of Cashel. When O'Hurley refuses to give information, Francis Walsingham suggests he should be tortured. Although the Irish judges repeatedly decide that there is no case against O'Hurley, on June 19, 1584 Loftus and Sir Henry Wallop write to Walsingham "We gave warrant to the knight-marshal to do execution upon him, which accordingly was performed, and thereby the realm rid of a most pestilent member."
Between 1584 and 1591 Loftus has a series of clashes with Sir John Perrot on the location of an Irish University. Perrot wants to use St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin as the site of the new University, which Loftus seeks to preserve as the principal place of Protestant worship in Dublin, as well as a valuable source of income for himself. The Archbishop wins the argument with the help of his patron, Queen Elizabeth I, and Trinity College, Dublin is founded at its current location, named after his old college at Cambridge, leaving the Cathedral unaffected. Loftus is named as its first Provost in 1593.
The issue of religious and political rivalry continue during the two Desmond Rebellions (1569–83) and the Nine Years' War (1594–1603), both of which overlap with the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604), during which some rebellious Irish nobles are helped by the Papacy and by Elizabeth's arch-enemy Philip II of Spain. Due to the unsettled state of the country Protestantism makes little progress, unlike in Celtic Scotland and Wales at that time. It comes to be associated with military conquest and is therefore hated by many. The political-religious overlap is personified by Loftus, who serves as Archbishop and as Lord Chancellor of Ireland. An unlikely alliance forms between Gaelic Irish families and the Norman "Old English", who had been enemies for centuries but who now mostly remain Roman Catholic.
Adam Loftus dies in Dublin on April 5, 1605 and is interred in the building he had helped to preserve for future generations, while many of his portraits hang today within the walls of the University which he helped found. Having buried his wife Jane (Purdon) and two sons (of their 20 children) in the family vault at St. Patrick's, Loftus dies at his Episcopal Palace in Kevin Street "worn out with age" and joins his family in the same vault. His zeal and efficiency are commended by James I upon the king's accession.
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Birth of Arthur Aston Luce, Professor at Trinity College
Arthur Aston Luce, professor of philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, and also Precentor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (1952–1973), is born in Gloucester, England on August 21, 1882. He holds many clerical appointments, including Vice-Provost of Trinity from 1946 to 1952. He is widely known as an authority on the philosopher George Berkeley. His fellowship of Trinity College from 1912 to 1977 is a record.
Luce is the fourth son of the Reverend John James Luce and Alice Luce (née Stubbs). He is educated at Lindley Lodge School and Eastbourne College. He enters Trinity College, Dublin in 1901. He obtains his BA in 1905, BD in 1908 and MA in 1911.
Luce's earlier work focuses largely on theological matters within Christianity. His academic career is interrupted by World War I, in which he serves with the 12th Royal Irish Rifles. He is awarded the Military Cross in 1917. After the war, he publishes "Monophysitism Past and Present" (1921) which deals with the nature of Jesus and his relationship to the world. The following year, he publishes his Donnellan Lectures on Henri Bergson where he examines issues in psychology and evolution as well as religion.
From the 1930s, Luce becomes interested in the Irish philosopher George Berkeley. He feels many of the previous studies of Berkeley are in many ways inadequate and sometimes wrong. His unearthing of new sources on Berkeley as well as better ways of interpreting existing sources guide his work in this direction. He stresses the role of the French monk Nicolas Malebranche on influencing the thought of the young Berkeley. Prior to his Berkeley and Malebranche (1934), Berkeley had been seen almost solely in the patrimony of John Locke and empiricism.
Berkeley's mature philosophy is given lucid exposition by Luce in his 1945 work "Berkeley's Immaterialism". Along with Thomas Edmund Jessop, he edits The Works of George Berkeley (in nine volumes, 1948–1957).
Luce is not only a Berkeley scholar but comes to be a believer in Berkelianism itself. In "Sense without Matter" (1954) he attempts to bring Berkeley up to date by modernising the philosophers vocabulary and putting the issues Berkeley faced in today's terms.
Berkeley's personal reputation among historians and the public is also an area which Luce feels needs correcting and updating. Some studies of Berkeley had contributed to his reputation as a dreamer or a loner who often hid his real views. Luce's "Life of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne" (1949) takes aim at this picture of Berkeley and, by careful use of often new sources, paints a more grounded picture of the man.
In 1918, Luce marries Lilian Mary Thomson, with whom he has three children. Tragically, his wife and young daughter drown in 1940. His elder son, Professor John Victor Luce (1920–2011), is also an academic at Trinity and also serves as vice-provost.
Luce dies in Dublin on June 28, 1977 shortly after an assault by a man who has an antipathy towards clergymen.
Categories: Education, Irish History, Literature & Poetry | Tags: Arthur Aston Luce, Christianity, Donnellan Lectures, Dublin, Eastbourne College, Empiricism, England, George Berkeley, Gloucester, Henri Bergson, Jesus, John Locke, John Victor Luce, Military Cross, Nicolas Malebranche, Philosophy, Precentor, Royal Irish Rifles, St. Patrick's Cathedral Dublin, Thomas Edmund Jessop, Trinity College Dublin, World War I | Permalink.
The Flight of the Wild Geese
Patrick Sarsfield sails to France on December 22, 1691, leading 19,000 of his countrymen to enter the French service in the first phase of the military denuding of Ireland known as the Flight of the Wild Geese, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on October 3, 1691, following the end of the Williamite War in Ireland.
More broadly, the term "Wild Geese" is used in Irish history to refer to Irish soldiers who leave to serve in continental European armies in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, or even, poetically, Irish soldiers in British armies as late as World War I.
Irish recruitment for continental armies dries up after it is made illegal in 1745. In 1732 Sir Charles Wogan indicates in a letter to Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, that 120,000 Irishmen have been killed and wounded in foreign service "within these forty years." Swift later replies, "I cannot but highly esteem those gentlemen of Ireland who, with all the disadvantages of being exiles and strangers, have been able to distinguish themselves by their valour and conduct in so many parts of Europe, I think, above all other nations."
It was some time before the British armed forces begin to tap into Irish Catholic manpower. In the late eighteenth century, the Penal Laws are gradually relaxed and in the 1790s the laws prohibiting Catholics bearing arms are abolished.
Thereafter, the British begin recruiting Irish regiments for the Crown Forces – including such famous units as the Connaught Rangers. Several more Irish units are created in the 19th century. By 1914 specifically Irish infantry regiments in the British Army comprise the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, the Irish Guards, the Royal Irish Regiment, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Rifles, the Royal Irish Fusiliers, the Connaught Rangers and the Royal Munster Fusiliers. With the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922 five of the above regiments are disbanded, with most of the remainder undergoing a series of amalgamations between 1968 and 2006. The United Kingdom still retains three Irish regiments: the Irish Guards, the Royal Irish Regiment, and the London Irish Rifles.
Sarsfield is honored to this day in the crest of County Limerick. The Flight of the Wild Geese is remembered in the poetic words…"War-battered dogs are we, Fighters in every clime, Fillers of trench and of grave, Mockers, bemocked by time. War-dogs, hungry and grey, Gnawing a naked bone, Fighters in every clime, Every cause but our own."
(Pictured: 'Irish Troops Leaving Limerick', 1692, (Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris & New York, c1880), Artist Unknown)
Categories: Early Modern Ireland (1536-1691), Irish History, Wars & Rebellions | Tags: British Armed Forces, Charles Wogan, Connaught Rangers, Continental Europe, County Limerick, Flight of the Wild Geese, France, Irish Catholic, Irish Free State, Irish Guards, Jonathan Swift, London Irish Rifles, Patrick Sarsfield, Penal Laws, Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Royal Irish Fusiliers, Royal Irish Regiment, Royal Irish Rifles, Royal Munster Fusiliers, St. Patrick's Cathedral Dublin, Treaty of Limerick, United Kingdom, Williamite War in Ireland, World War I | Permalink.
Death of Erskine Hamilton Childers, 4th President of Ireland
Erskine Hamilton Childers, Fianna Fáil politician who serves as the 4th President of Ireland, dies on November 17, 1974. He also serves as Tánaiste and Minister for Health from 1969 to 1973, Minister for Transport and Power from 1959 to 1969, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs from 1951 to 1954 and 1966 to 1969. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1938 to 1973.
Childers is born on December 11, 1905, in the Embankment Gardens, London, to a Protestant family originally from Glendalough, County Wicklow. He is educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and the University of Cambridge. In 1922, when Childers is sixteen, his father, Robert Erskine Childers, is executed by the new Irish Free State on politically inspired charges of gun-possession. After attending his father's funeral, Childers returns to Gresham's, then two years later he goes on to Trinity College, Cambridge.
After finishing his education, Childers works for a period in a tourism board in Paris. In 1931, Éamon de Valera invites him to work for his recently founded newspaper, The Irish Press, where Childers becomes advertising manager. He becomes a naturalised Irish citizen in 1938. That same year, he is first elected as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for Athlone–Longford. He remains in the Dáil Éireann until 1973, when he resigns to become President.
Childers joins the cabinet in 1951 as Minister for Posts and Telegraphs in the de Valera government. He then serves as Minister for Lands in de Valera's 1957–59 cabinet, as Minister for Transport and Power under Seán Lemass, and, successively, as Transport Minister, Posts and Telegraphs Minister, and Health Minister under Jack Lynch. He becomes Tánaiste in 1969.
Fine Gael TD Tom O'Higgins, who had almost won the 1966 presidential election, is widely expected to win the 1973 election when he is again the Fine Gael nominee. Childers is nominated by Fianna Fáil at the behest of de Valera, who pressures Jack Lynch in the selection of the presidential candidate. He is a controversial nominee, owing not only to his British birth and upbringing but to his Protestantism. However, on the campaign trail his personal popularity proves enormous, and in a political upset, Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland on May 30, 1973, defeating O'Higgins by 635,867 votes to 578,771.
Childers quickly gains a reputation as a vibrant, extremely hard-working president, and becomes highly popular and respected. However, he has a strained relationship with the incumbent government, led by Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave of Fine Gael. Childers had campaigned on a platform of making the presidency more open and hands-on, which Cosgrave views as a threat to his own agenda as head of government. Childers considers resigning from the presidency, but is convinced to remain by Cosgrave's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Garret FitzGerald.
Though frustrated about the lack of power he has in the office, Childers' daughter Nessa believes that he plays an important behind-the-scenes role in easing the Northern Ireland conflict, reporting that former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill meets secretly with her father at Áras an Uachtaráin on at least one occasion.
Prevented from transforming the presidency as he desired, Childers instead throws his energy into a busy schedule of official visits and speeches, which is physically taxing. On November 17, 1974, just after making a speech to the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in Dublin, Childers suffers a heart attack. He dies the same day at Mater Misericordiae University Hospital.
Childers's state funeral in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin is attended by world leaders including the Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (representing Queen Elizabeth II), the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Opposition, and presidents and crowned heads of state from Europe and beyond. He is buried in the grounds of the Church of Ireland Derralossary church in Roundwood, County Wicklow.
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Birth of Walter Frederick Osborne, Landscape & Portrait Painter
Walter Frederick Osborne, impressionist and Post-Impressionism landscape and portrait painter, is born in Rathmines, Dublin on June 17, 1859.
Most of Osborne's paintings are figurative and focus on women, children, the elderly, the poor, and the day-to-day life of ordinary people on Dublin streets, as well as series of rural scenes. He also produces city-scapes, which he paints from both sketches and photographs. A prolific artist, he produces oils, watercolours, and numerous pencil sketches. He is best known for his documentary depictions of late 19th century working class life.
Osborne is the second of three sons of William Osborne, a successful animal painter who specialises in portraying horses and dogs for the then prosperous Irish landlords. He is educated at Rathmines School and at the Royal Hibernian Academy school. He learns from his father that there is money to be earned from painting animals. He produces quite a few, including of children with their pets, notably his 1885 A New Arrival, and a series of impressionistic works on cows.
Osborne wins the Taylor Prize in 1881 and 1882, the highest student honour in Ireland of the time, while studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He is influenced by the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens, and the French realist, plein-air painter, Jules Bastien-Lepage, as well as Berthe Morisot.
In 1883, Osborne moves from Antwerp to Brittany where he paints his famous Apple Gathering, Quimperlé, now in the National Gallery of Ireland. Soon after, he moves to England where he works alongside Nathaniel Hill and Augustus Burke at Walberswick. During his period he often returns to Dublin to make preparatory sketches for what becomes his most renowned series, of the everyday lives of the city's poor. Although highly regarded today, these documentary, street paintings are not commercially successful, and Osborne supplements his income through portrait paintings of the middle class, which are not as artistically satisfying.
In 1886, he is elected to the Royal Hibernian Academy and receives many commissions for portraits. This is an important source of income, as he has no private means of his own. After his sister dies he is involved in looking after her daughter, and his own parents become increasingly financially dependent on him.
In 1892, he returns to Ireland to live in the family residence, and he also keeps a studio at No. 7 St. Stephen's Green. He spends a considerable amount of time painting outdoors, in Dublin around St. Patrick's Cathedral or in the country. He is well liked in social circles and counts the surgeon Sir Thornely Stoker, brother of Bram Stoker, among his best friends.
Osborne's mother becomes ill in the early 1900s, and Walter spends significant periods caring for her. In 1903, while gardening, he overheats himself and catches a chill, which he neglects, and which develops into pneumonia. He dies prematurely from the illness at the age of 43 on April 24, 1903. He is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin.
Some critics have suggested that at the time of his death he is on the brink of his artistic maturity. His final work Tea in the Garden, a fusion of naturalism and impressionism, remains unfinished at his death and is now in the collection of the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. Today his work is highly sought after by collectors.
Categories: Arts & Music, Irish History | Tags: Antwerp, Augustus Burke, Berthe Morisot, Bram Stoker, Brittany, Common Cold, Dublin, England, Hugh Lane Gallery, Impressionism, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Mount Jerome Cemetery, Nathaniel Hill, National Gallery of Ireland, Peter Paul Rubens, Pneumonia, Post-Impressionism, Quimperlé, Rathmines, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Royal Hibernian Academy, St. Patrick's Cathedral Dublin, St. Stephens Green, Walberswick, Walter Frederick Osborne, Watercolours | Permalink.
Erskine Childers Elected Fourth President of Ireland
In a political upset, Erskine Hamilton Childers defeats Tom O'Higgins by a very narrow margin and is elected as the fourth President of Ireland on May 30, 1973.
Incumbent president Éamon de Valera is 90 years old and constitutionally barred from seeking a third term. His party, Fianna Fáil, seeks to get former Tánaiste Frank Aiken to run for the presidency, but he declines. Under pressure, former Tánaiste Erskine H. Childers agrees to run. The odds-on favourite is Fine Gael deputy leader, Tom O'Higgins, who had come within 1% of defeating Éamon de Valera in the 1966 presidential election.
Childers is a controversial nominee, owing not only to his British birth and upbringing but to his Protestantism. However, on the campaign trail his personal popularity proves enormous. In a political upset, Erskine H. Childers wins the presidency by 635,867 votes to 578,771.
Childers, though 67, quickly gains a reputation as a vibrant, extremely hard-working president, and becomes highly popular and respected. However, he has a strained relationship with the incumbent government, led by Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave of Fine Gael. Childers has campaigned on a platform of making the presidency more open and hands-on, which Cosgrave views as a threat to his own agenda as head of government. He refuses to co-operate with Childers' first priority upon taking office, the establishment of a think tank within Áras an Uachtaráin to plan the country's future. Childers considers resigning from the presidency, but is convinced to remain by Cosgrave's Foreign Minister, Garret FitzGerald. However, Childers remains detached from the government. Whereas previously, presidents had been briefed by taoisigh once a month, Cosgrave briefs President Childers and his successor, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, on average once every six months.
Though frustrated about the lack of power he has in the office, Childers plays an important behind-the-scenes role in easing the Northern Ireland conflict as former Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill meets secretly with Childers at Áras an Uachtaráin on at least one occasion.
Prevented from transforming the presidency as he desires, Childers instead throws his energy into a busy schedule of official visits and speeches, which is physically taxing. On November 17, 1974, just after making a speech to the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin, Childers suffers a heart attack. He dies the same day at Mater Misericordiae University Hospital.
Childers's state funeral in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, is attended by world leaders including the Earl Mountbatten of Burma (representing Queen Elizabeth II), the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Opposition, and presidents and crowned heads of state from Europe and beyond. He is buried in the grounds of the Church of Ireland Derralossary church in Roundwood, County Wicklow.
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This is a tough one Courtney; especially without actually seeing the damage in person. A document we found on an architectural website might yield some good advice, but it does go a little against conventional wisdom for most aluminum sided travel trailers. At least from the manufacturer's perspective.
The article recommends an "abrasive cleaning pad" be used on the exterior of aluminum-cladded building sections to remove pitting. These are the pads used for cleaning tile and are generally a white "non woven" pad similar to those found on the back of a household sponge. The key is the color of the pad; white! If the pad cannot be found at your local grocery store, they are usually available at one of the big box stores or at an industrial hardware supply store. Be sure the pad is white. These pads are sold in other colors and they vary in abrasion depending upon the color and possibly the manufacturer. For consumer use, the product is usually called simply, a tile scrubber.
As to the root cause, I'm wondering if you frequent the seashore or park the coach near a pool? Salt in the air and pool chemical vapors are very hard on aluminum surfaces regardless if they are painted or anodized.
Though contradictory to the owners manual, I'm thinking a mild abrasive pad soaked in vinegar will effectively remove those dots if they are salt or chlorine related. That architectural article suggested a small test application first. Try a small area on the roof or the underbelly where it won't be seen as readily. If it successfully removes the raised dots, try another small section. Remember, this is to be done in small sections so as to control the application. Once completed, the area should be given an overall "acid" bath with the vinegar and then washed with a soap and water solution and then finally rinsed with clear water and dried. Afterwards the aviation polish can be reapplied or I would suggest Protect All, which is much easier to apply. The worst-case scenario is the necessity to replace the infected panels with new ones.


Cork Independent - Velo Coffee is coming to a shelf near you!
Velo Coffee is coming to a shelf near you!
Cafe Velo owner Rob Horgan.
Cork business Café Velo is one of eleven food and beverage producers that earned their place on the shelves of SuperValu stores this month.
Velo Coffee produces hand roasted coffee and one of the secrets to their success is that they are tapping into years of knowledge having sourced their roaster from Probat, a German company that have been making roasting equipment since 1868.
Velo Coffee owner Rob Horgan attended a Food Academy Programme run with the backing of the Local Enterprise Office (LEO) in 2017. This training programme is supported by both Bórd Bía and SuperValu and its aim is to prepare small food producers to become suppliers to SuperValu.
Operating out of a café under the same name on Georges Quay, the extension of their brand is an exciting development.
"Participating in the SuperValu Food Academy Program was the best decision we made when looking at a new branded food offering. The course accelerates the focus on your entire production process and seeing Velo Coffee on the shelves in SuperValu last week made the dream a reality," said Rob Horgan from Velo. In this, he joins fellow Cork city companies Smoke House Sauces and Oh Naturelle.
Mary Kate Mageean, SuperValu's Food Academy Project Manager said: "As the number one supporter of the Irish food industry, we source from over 1,800 suppliers and we're proud to now have a total of 350 small Irish food companies well on the road to success, with their products on shelves in SuperValu stores around Ireland."
If attending a Food Academy Start Programme appeals to any budding entrepreneurs out there, the next programme will begin during the year.
Find out more information by getting in the contact with the Local Enterprise Office, Cork City at 021-4961828 or info@leo.corkcity.ie.


You can jump-start your vehicle with confidence by following this advice and using a good set of jumper cables. If your car won't start, you may want to jump-start it so you can drive it to a... Jumper cables would start it, the battery was fully charged. Unfortunately I found no option but replacing the battery. I now have dual terminals, top terminals in case my side terminals break. Unfortunately I found no option but replacing the battery.
How to Start a Car with a Dead Battery Without Jumper Cables?
How to Start Car Battery Without Jumper Cables – Tips to Know! Whether you own a manual or automatic transmission car, there're different basics for starting each type of engine. To know the tips according to your car's type, explore the information below.
Onan generators may be "jump started" with jumper cables in the same way automobiles can be started, but safety measures should be performed to prevent injury or fatality. The battery in your Onan generator can be charged with jumper cables.
We'd recommend steering clear of cables with anything less than a 400-amp rating, but when you're trying to start your car, you don't want to worry about whether your jumper cables could be a weak link. Consequently 500-amp cables should give total peace of mind, while anything beefier is overkill unless you plan on jump starting a Jumbo Jet. Note: this is if you're in the UK.
Jumper cables are a means of restoring voltage to a car's battery, which on its own is not sufficiently storing enough power to engage the starter.


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HA! Robert Oscar Lopez mentions me in truly bizarre amicus brief to 5th Circuit
Actually, I don't often write to anyone and claim anything about anti-equality activist Robert Oscar Lopez and his odd approaches to reasonable discourse. Instead I just show his own verbatim and sourced words (with most of the links pointing back to his very own site, in fact) and let people judge for themselves, which I will do again right now:
-- Claims the LGBT rights movement has "become an engine of world-historical evil": "When you see a movement as unprincipled and ruthless as the gay lobby is, you must be clear that you have an enemy. The gay lobby is not your friend. Any friendliness from them is likely manipulation and subterfuge. Remember: your end goal is to pour burning coals on his head, not to have tea and crumpets and reminisce about the good old days when you were classmates at Dartmouth. When they invite you to dinner with the kids they conceived with a surrogate, they are trying to brainwash you, as they've already brainwashed the kids. Remember that."
-- Claims "The Gay Movement is an International War on Black People"
-- Says that by siding with the majority to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor failed to connect the dots between same-sex parenting and slavery: "Incidentally, through my Puerto Rican roots I am also the descendant of African slaves, as I would guess Sotomayor might be as well. The scars inflicted on the survivors of slavery are tied to the fact that our ancestors were bought, sold, and robbed of a link to our biological roots. This is precisely what gay parenting does to kids through baby farming, adoption on demand, insemination, and surrogacy. You don't solve the historical trauma of such uprooting by vindicating the purveyor of the trauma -- in the case of slavery, white negreros, and in the case of same-sex parenting, gay activists who selfishly placed their desire for a family over children's needs for a mom and a dad. Slavery isn't the only past crime against humanity that offers warnings against shielding "parents" from scrutiny of their deprivation of children's roots. Did it protect the children born as slaves to keep slavery legal? Does it protect children deprived of their fathers to make it legal for the lesbians who have sequestered them to continue excluding them from contact with their fathers? Is the wise Latina awake? Paying attention? Just not connecting the dots? Hello!!"
-- Directly compares gay parents to slaveowners: "Slavery is the buying and selling of children. In US history, people whose families weren't large enough to work their own land paid slave owners to breed their male and female slaves, then bought their babies and raised them, presumably as beloved members of their family. Gay couples are no better when they arrange such things, even if they lie to themselves and say it's for love. To love a child you have to love yourself and the other biological parent; it all goes hand in hand. Otherwise you're being selfish and abusive. You are selfish and abusive in the way you put forth fraudulent arguments to justify the sale of human chattel and give over to modern slavery in the name of gay liberation."
-- Accuses a lesbian couple fighting in court for marriage of "us[ing] their special-needs children as propaganda to force gay marriage on a state"
-- Writes of gay men and their sex lives: "I have often wondered if a very large percentage of gay men have chronic PTSD that one would expect of rape victims."
-- In open letter to a theoretical lesbian couple with a child, refers to same-sex parenting as "this crime": "Why engage in debate with me at all if you are going to limit our vocabulary to brainless platitudes like "my family counts," "my family exists," and "I am as good as you"? Do you plan to keep your daughter in this Orwellian state of dumbed-down doublespeak for her entire life, lest she suddenly realize that you deprived her of a dad and spent much of her childhood trying to deflect blame for this crime onto other people?" Adds: "Do you ever plan to apologize to the girl you are raising for violating her basic human rights, severing her from her father and denying her a father and controlling her for your own quest for validation?"
-- Equates same-sex adoption with "cultural genocide once used against blacks and Indians": "The gay community is now entirely allied to the cultural genocide practices once used against blacks and Indians, since they are determined to say that, in the words of Nancy Polikoff, genetics doesn't matter as long as an adoptive couple can sway the powers that be to award them children. It all feels new and shiny to the gay community, because to them it's a way to overcome past inequality. But they are repeating the same genocidal practices of the past."
-- Yet another slavery comparison:"Gay marriage has caused slavery to return to the United States and the nation's courts and lawyers are ignoring the 13th Amendment. We are failing as a society."
-- Without any evidence, claims that the late Tyler Clementi probably "had liaisons with men who were older than eighteen and committing statutory rape."
-- Described the anti-bullying "It Gets Better" project as "expressly designed for delivery to vulnerable minors in a state of potential nervous breakdown;" added that the late Tyler Clementi's parents "need to step up and show true courage; rather than allow their son to be exploited by the very same subculture that actually caused his death, they need to take the LGBT movement to task."
-- Slurs same-sex parents as "slavers buying children from poor surrogate mums overseas": "The testimonials from happy children of same-sex couples are obviously handpicked and staged to maximize the value of propaganda, but a gullible populace won't ask what isn't being printed or broadcast. A gullible populace prefers ingesting whatever is printed or broadcast. 'Love' is a meaningless mantra, like 'nobody is really listening to your phone calls' or "we need drones for national security purposes" out of the mouth of Obama; but in a country where people are swayed by Obama's silky voice, why would people not be swayed by gay couples saying, 'we aren't slavers buying children from poor surrogate mums overseas, we love our kids'?
-- Claims the Human Rights Campaign "abets chattel slavery in the form of gestational surrogacy"
-- Claims Disney Channel show featuring lesbian parents is meant to "anesthetize us to cruelty"
-- Says of LGBT activists: "Dear God, these wacko LGBT full-body totalitarians don't know when to stop. They must control ALL forms of government record-keeping, ALL possible conversations between doctors and patients, ALL lessons in EVERY classroom, ALL jokes made in EVERY military barracks, ALL tweets, ALL florists and cake-bakers and photographers and....Dear God, they are taking over the whole world!!!! God help us."
-- Says neighbors should intervene in lesbian households "to make sure the kids don't turn out totally screwed up": "Listen, lesbian moms out there -- cut the crap. You went out of your way to place helpless children into a fatherless home. You knew your household was going to be controversial. You shouldn't have created this situation in the first place. Now that you created it, we all have to make the best of it. Your loved ones and neighbors should be intervening in your household to make sure the kids don't turn out totally screwed up."
-- Claims gay people who use reproductive assistance are "re-pathologizing" homosexuality: "If it's normal to engage in homosexual relationships then you can't justify using sperm banks or surrogacy to procreate, in cases where a gay man's testicles are functioning perfectly and a lesbian's uterus and eggs are fit for action. The fact that you're not interested in matching functioning testicles to a functioning uterus because you're gay is supposed to be NORMAL; if we start involving medical treatments for you, then you are reinforcing the notion that homosexuality is a defect. That undoes the whole de-pathologizing move of forty years ago."
-- On same-sex parenting: "Lesbian moms allow the sources of their children's sperm to run off and be unbothered, saying to themselves, 'those two dykes will care for my kid, shit, I don't owe the world anything.' Gay dads are just two pairs of men running off to live in a world of men, avoiding the hassles and PMS and demands of the women who bear them children. Both forms of same-sex parenting pass on more broken family ties, cause more erasure, sever children from their origins, and teach men to be fatherless and feckless all at once."
-- Accuses "the gay lobby" of "pushing internationally to bring back chattel slavery in the form of gestational surrogacy" and "carrying out a systematic cover-up of the community's global pederastic sex trade"
-- Claims "support for gay marriage means supporting the view of children as COMMODITIES FOR PURCHASE, otherwise known as SLAVES."
-- In downright nasty (and vulgar) take on Edie Windsor's forty year relationship, Lopez reduces her shared decades with her late wife as being all about sex: "So it goes with Edith Windsor and the woman she was having sex with. She went to the Supreme Court and demanded that American taxpayers reward her for having lesbian sex by issuing her a back check for $300,000+. This is what civil marriage is based on. The country pays you to have sex. When it's a man and a woman having sex, it makes sense -- we need men to have sex with women so that we procreate. Why do we need Edith Windsor to have sex with another lady? What is the public interest in their sex life? They have the freedom to engage in sex because after Lawrence v. Texas, anti-sodomy laws have been deemed unconstitutional. So it's not possible for the state to prevent Edith Windsor from jumping into the sack with another sexy senior female and using dildos, dental dams, frottage, or whatever stimulating activities might send them into erotic thrall. They are free to do that. Once they are legally married, however, and they want the state to pay them for this mutually gratifying sexual activity, they are now no longer free to stop having sex. If Edith and her partner were to keep their clothes on for twenty years and not even do anything erotic at all, her partner could sue for divorce and claim sexual neglect. They would have to go to divorce court. Judges would have to know facts and figures about how they serviced or didn't service each other's erogenous zones."
-- Equates same-sex parents with abusers: "So the kid is basically a victim of two gay adults, who are now (without realizing it) rubbing it in the kid's face. 'See! Everyone says what I did is okay! You have NO reason to complain!' This is the way abusers often treat the people they abuse: They send flowers and apologize, justify themselves, make their victims feel it's all in their heads, publicly force their victims to say they're happy and nothing's wrong...I hate seeing kids be exploited and placed in traumatically uncomfortable positions. I hate seeing them be crushed into submission with the emotional tricks of abusive adults."
-- Claims surrogacy, adoption, and other paths same-sex parents take toward parenting recall "many of the worst vices against humanity that have been committed in past eras"
-- Published fiction books bashing gay life
-- Blames America's LGBT rights movement for other nation's draconian bans on homosexuality: "If we do not clean up what's going on in our own backyard, we will only make the problem worse, increase the alarm overseas, and incite ever-increasing levels of antigay backlash. No, I am not excusing antigay backlash that goes this far -- but I am saying that we can't ignore what's happening at home because, in fact, the best way for us to help counteract the antigay backlash overseas is to reform our own gay lobby and inspire other nations with examples of a country that can find a reasonable middle ground of acceptance and support for homosexuals, rather than blatant antigay repression on one end, or the tyranny of LGBT social engineering on the other end."
-- Says "I think polygamy is far preferable to same-sex marriage because at least there is a father and a mother in a polygamous household, irrespective of how many additional fathers or mothers there might be."
Robert Oscar Lopez [GLAAD CAP]
But now check this out. Lopez has filed an amicus brief with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in hopes of stopping same-sex marriage there, and I'm actually in the bizarre filing:
Robert Oscar Lopez Amicus Brief by Equality Case Files
(h/t: Joe.My.God.)
People can find countless links that define you as anti-gay? Um, that's because you are, Bobby—and aggressively so. You seem to be the last one to know that, due to some reasoning stream that is almost impressive for its sheer lack of self awareness, but that ability to accept your chosen lot in life doesn't make it any less so.


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Carpenters Retiree Turns Satisfying Career Into American Dream
Retired Local 1185 member John Wicklund aspired to see America. He figured that this itch to traverse the country began around 2000 and stayed with him until March 1, 2010, when he retired from the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters and set out to begin his long-held ambition. In 2011, after a summer of volunteering for the Kankakee State Park, Wicklund set out in earnest by volunteering in Oregon for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS).
"Oregon has been one of my favorites," Wicklund reminisces. "The weather was miserable, but overall it was wonderful. We went out there and I thought I was going to be a beach bum, but the water is 48 degrees, the wind is coming on hard, you're standing in the wet sand for five hours a day and it was very cold. But the Oregon coast is a beautiful, beautiful place."
Wicklund, his wife Sandi and their dog Auggy travel the country by towable RV, staying in campgrounds and volunteering through Volunteer.gov for USFWS, the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers to name a few. Sometimes he leads tours and shares information on the history of the area, or a destination's flora and fauna, often focusing on birds—a personal interest of Sandi who enjoys setting up spotting scopes for tourists to view nesting birds, eagles, owls and various water fowl.
In 1968 John Wicklund began his apprenticeship with the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters, though it wasn't his first consideration.
"At 17, my mother and sister said 'Oh, ya gotta go to college, you're going to get drafted,' so I went to college for one semester and said, 'This stinks.'" Friends suggested that he get into the trades. He was already good at working with his hands having built bird houses since he was 6 years old.
After leaving in 1977 for Kentucky to spend time with his family he returned to Illinois in 1986 to rejoin the Carpenters union. Wicklund recalls working for Martin Flooring as his career was winding down and work opportunities were tight due to the recession. In December 2009 he was informed by the company that it wouldn't have any additional work until August the following year. This helped prompt him to call it a successful career in March 2010 and go out and buy a Ford 350 and begin looking for a trailer to pull.
When speaking with Wicklund for this story he was with his wife in Knoxville, Tennessee, upgrading from a 35-foot trailer to a 37-foot beauty that will still enable them to camp in their state parks of interest while on the road. The Wicklunds usually bid on three or four volunteer opportunities of interest through
Volunteers.gov and take the first one that is offered. They'll be in Louisiana this winter and already accepted a position in Texas for next winter.
Wicklund worked in the residential arena with A&D Tile for about 17 years before moving back to commercial work. He went through the INSTALL program and spoke highly of it, its warranty program and the training.
"I could go into these big box stores such as Target or Wal-Mart and straighten out anybody's mess."
INSTALL certified installers have completed a minimum of a four-year flooring apprenticeship and have been trained in residential, commercial and health industry installations.
Even retired with travels comprising a great deal of his and Sandi's lives, Wicklund still tries to navigate his way to Local 1185 in Lisle, Illinois, while coming from or going to his next destination.
"We try to pass through at least once and sometimes twice a year on our way to summer and winter volunteer spots depending on the dates of the local meeting," Wicklund said. "Many of the brothers I've worked with over the years also attend. So I get to check up on how they're doing, their health, talk about their kids and grandkids…. It's a good time."
Wicklund's career with the Carpenters has positioned him well for life after flooring for the union.
"We live rent free and can save for six months out of the year. We have an investment in the trailer and a pickup truck to haul it. We're going to do this as long as we physically and mentally can. And we'll have enough to eventually buy a small place in a suburb away from a big major city but close where we still have medical facilities. My (supplemental retirement fund) savings are sitting in there growing. Between my pension and Social Security I don't need to touch it. In a couple of years maybe I'll start taking it out but right now it's just sitting in there growing."
In striving for a comfortable retirement Wicklund made a commitment to himself, his employers and the end users while on the job.
"I've worked with a lot of guys over the years who didn't want to work the overtime. They'd have an opportunity to work overtime but they'd say, 'I ain't working this weekend, it's summertime.' Time and a half. Double time. You're crazy. Go ahead and take it. Put it in the bank.
"In my last few years I always took apprentices with me on jobs. You've got to give these kids something to do. Let them make mistakes. They're not going to be big mistakes. A journeyman professional knows how to fix the mistakes. You still walk off the job knowing that it's completed professionally." On mentoring, Wicklund believes that "it's the most important thing there is." He learned a lot from some of the older guys.
"My mistakes as well as my successes got me where I am today, and I'm happy where I am today."
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