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Widow's grief as murdered PC is laid to rest with honours
Last updated at 15:57 02 July 2007
Hundreds of mourners have gathered to pay their final respects to a policeman stabbed to death last month after answering a 999 call.
Fellow officers, civilian colleagues and members of the public joined the family and friends of Bedfordshire PC Jonathan Henry, 36, for a funeral service at the Holy Ghost Roman Catholic Church in Luton.
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Led by PC Henry's widow, Mary, on the couple's second wedding anniversary, mourners packed into the modern church in which they were married, to hear a service taken by Monsignor Kevin McGinnell.
PC Henry's coffin was received into the church with full police honours last night, where his baby daughter, Maggie, who turned one last Thursday, was taken to say goodbye to her father. The little girl did not attend today's service.
Representatives from all 43 UK forces were also in attendance, along with a number of local dignitaries.
The officer's wife entered the church alongside the priest, followed by Pc Henry's mother, Dina, father, Alex, and his brothers and sisters.
Nineteen police officers, in full uniform, formed a guard of honour for the family as they entered the church.
PC Henry was stabbed on June 11 as he struggled with an armed attacker in Luton town centre, less than two miles from the church where his funeral was held.
He had been on duty for just 30 minutes when he was called to a report that two window cleaners had been stabbed as they worked in George Street at around 7.15am.
The officer, who had been with the Bedfordshire force for three years, was fatally injured as he moved in to try to arrest a suspect.


Call of the Forsaken has been announced to launch on October 8th and Township Rebellion is in full farm mode but eagerly awaiting the new content to be ready for slaying. As our family is finishing up the remnants of Rain of Fear that have slipped through the cracks, or in some cases been procrastinated until the end. We look forward to what is the best part of an expansion in many eyes, The Race. The initial push that starts with groups unlocking the raids hopefully this time we won't have to rely on Ormus's short legs sprinting up the ramp as the last seconds tick down before a zone repop to complete a mission. Though moments like this can be stressful they are part of what makes an expansion launch fun, there is always an unexpected turn or two which down the road will bring a smile to our faces. Once our day long adventure ends with the raids open and ready, comes a short lull as our members filter into the guild hall and stand ready for the call to move out. The real fun will have arrived! I for one am totally ready for the next chapter. Are you?
Below are some fun pictures of our TR family to get you through until the launch!


Episode #115: On this show, I share with you some of my experiences at this year's outrageously awesome NSA conference including snippets from Oscar winning screenwriter, David Seidler's keynote.
This year's conference took place in beautiful Fort Worth, Texas. I speak with a few of my old friends whom I met at last year's conference, chat with some new friends, talk about a few sessions and how shame plays a role in stuttering. I also try out laughing yoga and share some comedy from the stuttering community's own Jody Fuller and Nina G.
The title of today's show was inspired by the sheer courage I witness in my fellow stutterers. As Aman explains in his article (see above), and as David Seidler described in his keynote, no matter the level of severity, we tackle the social punishment and face the suffering which come our way every time we speak. I am inspired by everyone who I meet at the NSA conference.
The children who stutter are fortunate to be learning the benefits of loving their stuttering. I see my younger myself in the stuttering teens who will soon become leaders in the world. I am constantly inspired by the courage and friendliness of my peers of all ages, backgrounds, professions, and level of stuttering severity.
This show is dedicated to you, my awesome stutterer. You rock!
This show is also dedicated to the parents, siblings, spouses, girlfriends, boyfriends and friends of stutterers who are patient with us and understand that we only need a little bit more time than the average person to use our voices. You rock!
Dani Thanks for bringing us ,the taste of the NSA convention,especially the words of David Seidler(i think i will translate them to Hebrew,and post them on my blog.Your recording is the only one recording of something live from the convention ,i found).
And B.T.W-It will be great if Hanan will tell in our Hebrew Forum about his experience.
Thanks Ari great work like always!
I have video of Seidler's speech at Friends. Just haven't had time to do anything with it yet.


Alexander J.E. Bradley hails from Australia but now lives in Paris where his irrational fear of being at street level takes him to the heights and depths of the capital. It is on the rooftops 30m above Paris, or 30m below the streets in the Catacombs where you will find him happily snapping away. Photographer, filmmaker, producer - this mustachieod chap in his early thirties has many caps, and many talents. In his own words, Bradley's influences include, "dreams, fashion, clowns, chocolate and whiskey."
Anni is a Finnish photographer and videographer with a background in architecture. She did, however, find that to be a little bit tedious so she quit her job, moved to Paris and gave in to the long lasting love affair towards the visual image. Ever since she has become adept behind the camera, be the image still or moving. Her history as project architect does come handy when managing the complex schedules and numerous practical hurdles that come along with every project.
Loïc graduated his MASTER II Image & Sound (Sound Department) at IUP SATIS in Aubagne, France, in 2007 and has not stopped working since. Specialising as a Sound Editor, Designer and Mixer. His credits and achievements include working on the French Presidential Election for Canal+ and working with Fuji TV at the Châteaux de Bordeaux. In addition to this Loïc has worked on feature films, numerous short films and over 50 promotional clips for Intel, Oracle, DDB, SFR, Brainsonic, Sodexho, Bouygues Telecom, Microsoft, Adobe, Coca-Cola, Groupama, Sanofi-Aventis, Jenny Craig, Gan, GDF-Suez to mention a few.
Jo discovered the magic of photography as a teenager through her father, but it was not before she moved to Paris that she really started to develop her own unique eye. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and now resides in the creative metropolis of Berlin. Photographer and designer, Joanna aims to provide websites that are not only functional and practical, but also adds an element of artistic beauty to each project she works on.
Originally from Missouri, USA, William has called Paris home since early 2012. He spends his time off mainly how he spends his time on, wandering the outer reaches of this city, from Montmatre to Vincennes, camera in hand, to capture the spontaneous moments that the hidden quarters present to him.
With training in electric music formation, Pierre understands the most contemporary sounds, not to mention world and classical music. His beats, derivative of his environment, are an electric mixture capturing the essence of the moment. Music is an integral part of culture and Pierre builds a journey in which each person may find their own place.


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Hammond History
Hammond, located in Lake County, is a major industrial center of Northwest Indiana. It is named in honor of George Hammond, who established a slaughterhouse there in 1869. The facility was the first industrial establishment in the region. The town's proximity to Lake Michigan greatly enhanced its development and industrial growth.
Hammond began as a small settlement of German farmers, who had arrived as early as 1847. With the establishment of George Hammond's slaughterhouse and beef packaging plant, the settlement grew into a bustling town. The town grew into a city and was incorporated on April 21, 1884. Marcus Towle was the first mayor of the city.
Hammond experienced tremendous growth following its incorporation. The population reached a record high of 111,698 in 1960.
Purdue University operates a branch campus, known as Purdue University Calumet. The city was home to one of the first professional football teams in the United States, the Hammond Professionals.
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How Apple's $1B Bet on Small Sapphire Manufacturing Company Went Bust
Pang Tun Yau November 21, 2014 0 4	13 views
The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were supposed to pack sapphire glass displays. That's pretty much a fact, but one that eventually did not happen due to a rare – and bizarre – misstep from Apple that ultimately cost the company $1 billion and potentially more in lost revenue of what should have been the first consumer-level smartphone with a sapphire glass display.
As detailed in the Wall Street Journal's remarkable behind-the-scenes story, Apple invested a huge amount of money on a little-known sapphire manufacturing company with no track record of large-scale production of what is one of the hardest materials in the world – a move that eventually resulted in a spectacular fallout that involved in the manufacturing company, GT Advanced Technologies Inc, to file for bankruptcy – and no sapphire glass displays on the new iPhone.
The original idea seemed fantastic: the alliance would see the two companies opening a synthetic sapphire manufacturing plant in Arizona that would produce 30 times more sapphire than any current plant in the world currently can. After all, Apple already consumes 25% of the world's supply of sapphire to be equipped in the iPhone's camera lens and Touch ID home button; the company is going to need more – a lot more – sapphire if it were to use this material as the iPhone's display.
In hindsight, the deal seemed like one that smells a little of desperation on Apple's part. For it to drop a huge sum of money on a relatively unknown company with no proven track record is a huge gamble, to say the least. It didn't help either that Apple were intent on making this deal one that meant GT Advanced Technology was selling synthetic sapphire at frustratingly low profit margins.
With a sudden influx of cash on hand (and a looming pressure to perform), GT expanded breakneck speed…but with no proper management of the new labour. What's worse, GT seemed incapable of finding the correct formula to successfully synthesise sapphire in large amounts, leading to plenty of unusable sapphire boules that cracked easily.
This lethal combination led to serious cash flow issues for GT, resulting in the company filing for bankruptcy in a deal that was meant to generate consistent revenues. For Apple, it meant that the headline feature of the new iPhone will have to be delayed indefinitely. No wonder one company blames the other over this debacle.
For the full story, head on to the WSJ piece here.
(Featured Image: Ray Bartkus)
Pang Tun Yau
Writes primarily about mobile-centric technology. Also possibly a Nokia/Apple/Android/Jolla/iOS/Samsung/HTC fanboy.
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Q: CastError: Cast to ObjectId failed for value "id goes here" at path "_id" for model "Article" I'm experiencing something a little strange and was wondering if someone can help me out. I have a MEAN application that is able to retrieve ALL records from MongoDB perfectly but when I try to retrieve just 1 record by id, I'm getting a CastError. I even tried to downgrade my version of Mongo but the problem still persist. Any help would be great. Thanks

var express = require('express');
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var Article = require('../models/article');

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};

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};

[CastError: Cast to ObjectId failed for value "58753da5d192f1aa25ebdd00" at path "_id" for model "Article"]
  message: 'Cast to ObjectId failed for value "58753da5d192f1aa25ebdd00" at path "_id" for model "Article"',
  name: 'CastError',
  stringValue: '"58753da5d192f1aa25ebdd00"',
  kind: 'ObjectId',
  value: '58753da5d192f1aa25ebdd00',
  path: '_id',
  reason: undefined,

A: this seems to be a known bug in the latest version of Mongoose. I'd recommend downgrading to 4.7.2:
https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/issues/4867

A: The problem might be on your view templating engine. make sure the route to the specific id is properly defined.

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Following Britain's golden hat-trick on the final day in Miami the Royal Yachting Association Olympic Manager, Stephen Park, is already eyeing up another haul at the next ISAF World Cup event.
Former world champion and finn sailor Giles Scott, windsurfer Bryony Shaw and the 470 women's pairing of Sophie Weguelin and Eilidh McIntyre claimed gold on Saturday to cap off an 11-medal haul in the World Cup event.
Park struggled to pick out a solitary highlight from a week filled with impressive performances and he is already looking to the next instalment, in Palma.
"Overall it's a great performance from the team in Miami, and we now look forward to the next block of winter training ahead of ISAF Sailing World Cup in Palma in April," said Park.
"Miami is always a great host city and a good light wind venue to measure the progress of our winter training programmes, so it's been a great event from that perspective.


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Memory Crash
Politics of History in and around Ukraine, 1980s–2010s
By Georgiy Kasianov and Georgiy Kasianov
Central European University Press, an imprint of Central European University Press
This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused the past from the final years of the Soviet Union to 2020. Georgiy Kasianov details practices relating to history and memory by a variety of actors, including state institutions, non-governmental organizations, political parties, historians, and local governments He identifies the main political purposes of these practices in the construction of nation and identity, struggles for power, warfare, and international relations.Kasianov considers the Ukrainian case in the context of a global increase in the politics of history and memory, with particular emphasis on a distinctive East-European variety. He pays special attention to the use and abuse of history in relations between Ukraine, Russia and Poland.
Georgiy Kasianov is Head of the Department of Contemporary History and Politics at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is an author, co-author and co-editor of more than twenty books on the history of Ukraine in the 19th–21th centuries. He also specializes on the history of the intelligentsia and history of ideas.
Publisher Central European University Press, an imprint of Central European University Press
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Modern American Apartheid, Insidious and Undeclared
By Garikai Chengu
Theme: Police State & Civil Rights
The infamous era of apartheid in South Africa shares a strikingly parallel path with racial apartheid in present day America. One is globally notorious, the other sophisticated and subtle.
Economic historians increasingly agree that racial economic inequality in America is worse than it was at any period in ancient Rome, or in slaveholding, colonial America during the late 18th century, or at the height of apartheid in South Africa.
South Africa's apartheid regime is remembered as one of the worst crimes against humanity of the 20th century.
Today, America is exhibiting many of the racial excesses of apartheid South Africa: extreme racial income inequality, apartheid schools, a racialised for-profit prison system, institutionally racist police practices, and residential re-segregation.
Residential apartheid is, without question, at the heart of the U.S. system of racial oppression. For almost a century, America has been racially divided into two societies: one, predominantly black and poor, located in the inner cities; the other, largely white and affluent, located in the suburbs. White Americans have kept their residential neighborhoods white since roughly 1920. Initially, by simply murdering African-Americans trying to move in.
Then, the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. Historian Kenneth B. Clark explains how:
"the dark ghetto's invisible walls have been erected by the white society, by those who have power, both to confine those who have no power and to perpetuate their powerlessness. They are social, political, educational, and above all-economic colonies."
American residential apartheid operated through a sophisticated patchwork system of racial non-laws and non-racial laws. Whites looking to keep their neighborhoods white knew that they could not rely on overt racial laws, so they relied on racial non-laws, such as restrictive covenants which restrict people of a certain race from moving into a given neighborhood. Then, you have the non-racial laws, such as zoning and mortgage supports. These laws are technically non-racial in the books, but have often been implemented in racial ways. Martin Luther King Jr. described these laws as camouflaged segregation that form a "system of internal colonialism."
Despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated today through an interlocking set of individual actions, institutional practices, and governmental policies. A Harvard University report on intergenerational mobility in the United States illustrates how one's Zip Code trumps talent when determining a child's future prospects. Despite social mobility and the American dream being nationwide ideals, ultimately, in apartheid America, the geographical and racial happenstance of one's birth is the key determinant of a child's future success.
The residential apartheid system used in South Africa was based on the native reservation system, first used by the American government. At a stroke, the passing of the Natives Land Act on 19 June 1913 saw the majority of South African land reserved for whites, or Europeans. Just 7 percent of agricultural land was set aside on reserves for blacks, despite Africans being 70 percent of the population.
Much like residential apartheid in America today, this Act created a self-fulfilling, downward spiral of poverty and degradation, which white segments of society point at in order to justify ongoing residential re-segregation.
Residential segregation inevitably creates apartheid schools. Six decades after the U.S. Supreme Court determined that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional in the landmark ruling Brown vs. Board of Education, we are witnessing the precipitous re-segregation of America's schools.
Black students are the most likely racial group to attend what researchers call "apartheid schools", which Harvard's Civil Rights Project describes as "virtually all non-white, with higher concentrations of poverty, much lower test scores, less-experienced teachers, and limited resources."
South African anti-apartheid hero Steve Biko once remarked that "the most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." Apartheid in South Africa sought to create apartheid schools and utilize the education system as means of racial control and demobilization by establishing the Bantu Education Act. The Act ensured that black South Africans could not aspire to greatness, and they could be nothing more than cheap fuel for the highly profitable machine of Apartheid.
Impunity for white policemen and vigilantes who kill Blacks is yet another commonality between apartheid South Africa and modern American apartheid. Today, in the free and democratic United States, a black man will be killed every 28 hours by police, security guards or self-appointed vigilantes.
Black South Africans were only viewed as useful by the apartheid regime to the extent that they could provide cheap labour. The regime even enacted "pass laws" which required blacks to produce employment documents for any white person, police officer and 10-year-old white children alike.
One can clearly see parallels between the draconian "pass law" measure and the "stop-and-frisk" policies employed by the New York City Police Department. Latinos and Blacks make up 84 percent of all those stopped, although they make up respectively 29 and 23 percent of New York City's population. Furthermore, statistics show that NYPD officers are far more likely to use physical force against Blacks and Latinos during stops.
The "stop-and-frisk" policy is an excellent example of an ineffective policy that, under the guise of upholding public safety, actively violates the rights of already disempowered communities of color.
The United States right now incarcerates more African-Americans as a percentage than South Africa did at the height of apartheid.
A Senate hearing on the Federal Bureau of Prisons reported that the American prison population hovered around 25,000 throughout the 1900s, until the 1980's when America suddenly experienced a massive increase in the inmate population to over a quarter million. The cause was Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs which intentionally, and disproportionately targeted blacks.
Historian Michelle Alexander illustrates how the drug war was part of a grand and highly successful Republican party strategy of using racially coded political appeals on issues of crime and welfare to attract poor and working-class white voters who were resentful of, and threatened by, desegregation and affirmative action.
Today, statistics show that white youth are more likely to use illegal drugs than black youth. Yet in some states, African Americans comprise eighty to ninety percent of all imprisoned drug offenders. Blacks are arrested for minor drug offenses because it is big business: there is the drug testing industry, prosecutors, police, lawyers, rehabilitation therapists, psychologists, parole officers, etc.
For decades, the African-American crime rate has been falling but black imprisonment rates have consistently soared. Aside from the War on Drugs, the rise in prison population may have another less publicized cause: gradual privatization of the prison industry, with its profits-over-justice motives. If the beds aren't filled, states are required to pay the prison companies for the empty space, which means taxpayers are largely left to deal with the bill that might come from lower crime and imprisonment rates.
The private prison system was designed by the rich and for the rich. The for-profit prison system depends on imprisoning blacks for its survival. Much in the same way the United States was designed.
Some argue that an African American rising to the pinnacle of power in the land of slavery is evidence that American apartheid does not exist. In fact, Mr. Obama is the poster-child of post-racialism: the idea that America is now devoid of racial preference, discrimination, and prejudice. On the contrary, post-racialism is in fact the new racism and a key aspect of American apartheid. Post-racialism pretends that there is equal opportunity while ignoring the institutional and economic racism that infects inner cities and fills prisons. Racial apartheid is stronger now because it operates under the guise that it doesn't exist and that race is no longer an issue in America.
Politically, morally, economically and philosophically, apartheid in America bares a striking resemblance to apartheid in South Africa. However, modern American apartheid is perhaps all the more abhorrent for being insidious and undeclared.
Garikai Chengu is a scholar at Harvard University. Contact him at [email protected]
Copyright © Garikai Chengu, Global Research, 2015
Articles by: Garikai Chengu


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John Henryism
Tonight, as part of last week's Fathers Day gifts, my lads took me to the movies to see The Expendables 2. That, however, is not the point of my comments.
My oldest son, Thomas, was driving. He had Hugh Laurie's album Let Them Talk playing. For those not familiar with Hugh Laurie, or for those who only know him as the actor who plays Dr House in the American TV hospital drama House, he is English, is a writer, actor and a talented muso. Let Them Talk is a collection of blues classics and Laurie plays piano, guitar and sings lead vocals. As an example, see and hear him sing and play Swanee River by clicking on the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-qv87vXQzo
But that is also not the point of my post today. One of the tracks playing was John Henry, or more correctly The Ballad of John Henry. Hear/see Hugh Laurie's version , with Irma Thomas, at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld2prmXsv1Q
That prompted me to tell Thomas that I had prepared a post some time ago about a syndrome known as John Henryism, but that I hadn't gotten around to actually posting it on Bytes. This, in turn, led to us discussing John Henry, so I said that I would post the item as the next Bytes item.
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In looking up something, I don't remember what I was looking up, I became sidetracked by another item. That's one of the problems of the information super highway, becoming distracted by other items of interest, of travelling side roads off the super highway that take you to more and more side roads, diversion upon diversion that impact on time and productivity.
Which seems appropriate to the item which detoured me tonight.
Ever heard of John Henryism? I hadn't, until I came across the term by accident.
Who is John Henry?
John Henry is an American folk hero, the subject of a song written by Woody Guthrie. In the song John Henry, a steel driving man working for the railroad, is to be replaced by a steam powered machine that will in future drive the steel spikes securing the rails. To save his job and those of his fellow workers, John Henry competes against the machine, beating the machine but dying in the process.
Hear the Johnny Cash version at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PI-t_-3fVI&feature=related
Part of the lyrics:
The captain said to John Henry
"Gonna bring that steam drill 'round.
Gonna bring that steam drill out on the job.
Gonna whop that steel on down. Down, Down.
Whop that steel on down."
John Henry told his captain,
"A man ain't nothin' but a man,
But before I let your steam drill beat me down,
I'd die with a hammer in my hand. Lord, Lord.
I'd dies with a hammer in my hand."
John Henry said to his shaker,
"Shaker, why don't you sing?
I'm throwin' thirty pounds from my hips on down.
Just listen to that cold steel ring. Lord, Lord.
Listen to that cold steel ring."
The man that invented the stream drill
Thought he was mighty fine,
But John Henry made fifteen feet;
The steam drill only made nine. Lord, Lord.
The steam drill only made nine.
John Henry hammered in the mountain
His hammer was striking fire.
But he worked so hard, he broke his poor heart.
He laid down his hammer and he died. Lord, Lord.
He laid down his hammer and he died.
Some more stuff about John Henry:
The legend of John Henry embodies a number of symbolic meanings: the strength of the working class man, the struggle of man v machine, the exploitation of African Americans and the heroic individual who refuses to give up.
According to one writer:
"John Henry is a symbol of physical strength and endurance, of exploited labor, of the dignity of a human being against the degradations of the machine age, and of racial pride and solidarity. During World War II his image was used in U.S. government propaganda as a symbol of social tolerance and diversity."
It has been claimed that the John Henry competition against the steam hammer took place during the construction of Big Bend tunnel near Talcott, West Virginia between 1869 and 1871. Talcott holds a yearly festival named for Henry and a statue and memorial plaque have been placed along a highway south of Talcott as it crosses over the Big Bend tunnel:
The John Henry Memorial atop Big Bend Mountain at Talcott, West Virginia
So what is John Henrysim?
The term John Henryism, aka The John Henry Hypothesis, was coined by Sherman James in 1983.
According to one definition, it is a strategy for coping with prolonged exposure to stresses such as social discrimination by expending high levels of effort. This then results in accumulating physiological costs.
A simpler explanation is that it is what happens when you respond to social stresses by working extra hard. If, despite your hard work, those same stresses keep you from succeeding, then the effect can feed back into itself, pushing you to work even harder. It then sets up a negative cycle.
Let's make it even simpler. Each of us have stresses and difficulties in our lives some more than others. Most of us also believe that we have it within ourselves to overcome the stresses and difficulties by hard work and determination.
The problem is that not everyone has the means or resources to carry out that determination. This can then make the person want to try even harder.
Some studies have found that African Americans with a strong desire to improve and overcome difficulties often found themselves frustrated by lower education levels. It was theorised that this then caused medical ailments such as high blood pressure and hypertension. Not all studies have backed this up and the John Henry Hypothesis has its critics as well as its supporters.
Sherman James developed a scale for measuring John Henryism based on rating agreement with a series of statements such as "When things don't go the way I want them to, that just makes me work even harder." Men who score higher on this scale generally have higher blood pressure than men with lower scores. This effect is strongest in those who are poorest.
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What to look for in an investment property
AMID cooler market conditions, the importance of selecting an investment property with plenty of credentials has been amplified. Melbourne experts advise what to look for when investing.
Johanna Leggatt
Herald SunOctober 27, 20187:00am
The importance of choosing an investment property wisely is amplified in the current market. Picture: Ian CurrieSource:Supplied
THERE is no doubt the residential property market has changed.
With banks tightening lending criteria to investors and the market softening in Melbourne and Sydney, purchasers can no longer rely on a runaway market to carry their property portfolio upwards.
"There is very little margin for error," noted chief executive of WBP Group and The Block judge, Greville Pabst. "Selection of the right investment property is critical."
Mr Pabst estimated about five per cent of properties on the market were what he would deem "investment grade".
"People can't afford to make a poor choice, but many people do," he said.
So what makes a high-quality investment?
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Greville Pabst likes properties connected to villages. Picture: Wayne TaylorSource:News Corp Australia
Investment-grade qualities
Mr Pabst said one of the first steps was to research the sale history of not just the suburb, but the property for sale.
"You can get a property report and it shows what the capital growth has been on that property over many years," he said.
"Some properties compound at an annual rate of two or three per cent, while others are up at 10 per cent."
Investment-grade properties don't have to be expensive — a budget of $450,000 could buy a solid one-bedder — but they do have to be in a good suburb. Naturally, the closer to the CBD the better — as long as it is not in the CBD itself.
"I look for suburbs that have a strong connection to a village, such as Yarraville in the inner-west or St Kilda with the nearby Acland St precinct," Mr Pabst said.
"You want to be able to walk down the road for a coffee and to the shops."
But don't just rely on the postcode.
"Some areas of South Yarra, for example, are full of high-rise apartments, and it would be better to buy in a tree-lined street close to the (Royal) Botanic Gardens, such as Walsh or Leopold streets," Mr Pabst said.
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Narrowing the field
Advantage Property Consulting director and buyers' agent, Frank Valentic, has a number of preferences for investment property purchases, but a few of them are non-negotiable.
"Location is everything," he said.
"The property needs to be close to shops and cafes, it needs to be close to public transport and it needs to be close to other amenities, including schools, universities, parks, hospitals and so on."
Mr Valentic also likes to check a property's walkability score online (www.walkscore.com.au), and also looks for properties with some outdoor spaces and — especially in middle-ring suburbs — off-street parking.
"I always like a good orientation, too," he said.
"If your living area faces south, then that is going to be hard to change."
Mr Valentic also advised purchasers not to get hung up on "shiny and new", pointing out that period properties perform well because there is a finite supply of them and people can often add value.
"Look for something with a bit of 'wow factor'," Mr Valentic said.
"Clients of mine often buy an 'ugly duckling' that has good bones, but needs a bit of TLC."
Proximity to transport and cafes is important.Source:News Corp Australia
Apartments versus houses?
There is no clear winner when it comes to buying an investment unit versus buying a house, but apartments do come with a unique set of considerations.
Director of projects at Kay & Burton Peter Kudelka recommended buyers look for boutique apartments rather than large developments.
"Look out for buildings that have high owners' corporation fees for services and amenities that are not necessarily valuable to tenants," he said.
Mr Kudelka also said people should buy apartments with a mix of owner occupiers and tenants in the building.
"You also don't want to buy into a building where all the owners are absentee landlords as they don't necessarily care as much about the upkeep and maintenance of the building as much as the owner occupiers do," he said.
Mr Pabst said buyers should focus on smaller developments — with fewer than 20 apartments — and preference older styles over new.
"Remember, too, that about 60 to 70 per cent of the value of the investment property is in the land, but with newer apartments it's the opposite because you're paying for the newness of the apartment and that depreciates," Mr Pabst said.
"You would be much better buying a two-bedroom Art Deco apartment than a new, shiny apartment in a big complex."
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•Location. It must be close to transport shops and cafes, and other amenities including schools, universities and parks.
•Off-street parking, with a garage as a bonus.
•A high "walk score" (around 70 and above. See www.walkscore.com.au).
•Outdoor area, with entertainment area flowing from indoors.
•Ability to add value through cosmetic upgrades or even subdivision.
•Ample security. Avoid ground floor apartments if you can.
•Good block orientation, with north-facing living is preferred over south-facing.
•Decent amount of size and space. Look for large bedrooms and, ideally, two living areas separated.
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Jeffrey Morrison, M.D. has been an incredible asset to me with my healing journey. He was not only my Functional Medicine doctor for a few years after I had c-diff colitis but he also became a very good friend of mine and I'm beyond grateful for all he has taught me. Dr. Morrison helped me tremendously with the detoxification of heavy metals in my body as a doctor, and as a friend he introduced me to a book that changed my life forever called Letting Go. That book started my journey into literally 'letting go' of pushing myself and trying to fix my body and control everything around me, which is what most of us are doing. It changed the way I looked at myself and the way I was handling my health issues; I wouldn't be where I am today without having read this book. I'm delighted to share a few words from Dr. Morrison with you today and I encourage you to look into his practice at The Morrison Center here in Manhattan if you're looking for a M.D. who understands toxicity, Lyme disease and gut health.
AV: What inspired you to start the Morrison Center?
JM: In 2004, after having practiced with some excellent, very successful, large integrative medicine practices like Dr. Atkins' in New York City, it became obvious to me that there was a need to care for patients on a much more individualized basis. I started The Morrison Center to bridge the gap between excellent integrative medicine and individualized, personalized care.
AV: What don't people realize about your work in Functional/Integrative medicine? What would surprise them?
JM: Some people are surprised to learn that some very simple changes can make a really big impact in overall health. For example: diet truly is the foundation for good health, just like Hippocrates said: "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." It's that simple, and it works, as a foundation.
AV: Talk to us about Detox. It's widely misunderstood and quite necessary for all of us to do on a daily basis these days. What are your favorite ways to detox and why should we detox?
JM: When diet isn't enough to support healing, it's because there's some impediment to the healing process. Detox is really about removing that impediment, whatever it may be, with a holistic perspective: by removing unhealthy foods, unhealthy behaviors, and toxic substances, and replacing them with healthier practices. There are many strategies; at the highest level, many of them are working toward the same end. We often start with an elimination diet, then some type of technique to facilitate the process, like sauna or nutritional IVs.
AV: When I was your patient, you helped me uncover mold and heavy metals. I had no idea those were lurking in my body. What makes these both so dangerous and how do you treat each issue?
JM: Mold affects the body both as an allergen and a toxin; heavy metals also act as an immune irritant and a toxin; they can also disrupt metabolism. The amount of exposure in each individual will have a different outcome: some people can tolerate more, some people can't tolerate much at all, and that's why it's difficult to standardize treatment.
The treatment always starts with avoiding exposure, followed by a program to facilitate the body's natural detoxification processes. Detoxification usually will involve some type of binding agent to remove the toxin itself, and herbs or antioxidants that improve and support the body's organs for detoxification, like Detox Nutrients, Pekana Detox Kit or glutathione.
AV: We're seeing a rise in autoimmune disease, thyroid issues, Candida and other gut issues- do you think this has to do with the amount of stress we're all under between social media, emails, our phones, work and family obligations coupled with more toxins in our environment than ever before?
JM: The balance between having a healthy body, versus having a body that's not able to maintain health, pivots on how many different stresses the body has to manage at one time. Today, we're getting exposed to stresses that our parents and grandparents never had to experience.
While technology has brought so much innovation, we are also exposed to physical and physiologic stress that our bodies are likely having trouble adapting to. Those stresses include: potentially less nutritious foods due to non-organic farming practices, more preservatives in and higher consumption of packaged products, plus electromagnetic stress, the stress of having multiple distractions pulling at our attentions through social media, text messages, emails, as well as a rise in exposure to infections like Lyme disease, chronic viral infections, parasites, and overuse of antibiotics.
Being more mindful of our environment and focusing on personal time, eating healthier foods, exercise, and valuing mindful practices can all help to counterbalance these stresses and keep the body in optimal health.
AV: What is the best piece of advice you've ever received?
JM: Be personally responsible for yourself, because at the end of the day you're truly the only person that will have ultimate responsibility for your actions.
AV: What are some of your favorite ways to unwind, relax and recharge?
JM: For me, moving outside is extremely grounding, whether it's running in the park, doing kung fu, or taking my daughter for a walk — these things help unwind and relax.
AV: You unexpectedly find 15 minutes in your day, what do you do with it?
JM: See how my staff is doing.
JM: Life changing book you've read: The Tao of Pooh.
JM: Favorite meal to eat: Daily Protein shake! Or anything my wife makes.
JM: Number of unread emails: 45.
JM: Favorite app on your phone: The Morrison Health App!
JM: The place you go to relax: The Le Pain in Central Park.
JM: Typical breakfast: Eggs sunny side up with gluten free toast .
JM: A well-dressed man…knows it.
JM: I am…incredibly lucky to work with the people in my practice.
JM: There's a time and place for… dessert.
JM: Before I go to bed…I count my blessings.
JM: In the end…it's all about love. And dark chocolate.


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Has BC Got It Right on COVID-19 Testing?
Critics urge a big increase in testing to curb pandemic; Bonnie Henry says the province's approach is effective.
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'A broad testing of well people in our community, right now, is not what we're going to be doing,' says BC provincial health officer Bonnie Henry. Some question that approach. Photo by Niels Christian Vilmann, EPA.
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Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says no.
But critics like Peter Phillips, the head of the infectious diseases division of the UBC School of Medicine, argue a much larger testing program is needed.
The province has completed tests on 44,639 people in its so far successful effort to slow the spread of the virus. About 2.4 per cent — 1,066 people — have tested positive. Only Saskatchewan and Alberta have conducted more tests on a per-capita basis.
Henry says B.C.'s focused testing approach is effective in identifying and responding to cases.
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"We're focusing on those most likely to have this disease and those most likely to need health care or hospital care," she told reporters this week. That includes health-care workers and people with symptoms in high-risk environments, like seniors' homes.
Health officials can then trace the contacts of people who test positive. "We're talking with people who have this, who have mild enough illness that they're able to stay at home. And for the most part, that is working."
The B.C. approach is based, in part, on the premise that everyone should assume COVID-19 is present in their communities and practise social distancing. Anyone with any symptoms of illness should stay home, officials say.
B.C. is also doing "surveillance testing," Henry said, to understand rates in communities.
"We've been doing that from the beginning," she said. "It's how we picked up some of our first community cases." People being tested for flu or other respiratory viruses are automatically tested for COVID-19 as well.
"We're still doing those tests as well," Henry said. "They have occasionally come up positive, and that leads to an investigation in that area."
Amid reports of a global shortage of chemicals needed for the tests, B.C. is doing about 3,000 tests a day at health authority labs and through LifeLabs, a private company that has long conducted tests for the provincial health-care system.
B.C.'s testing rate is 8,753 per million population, according to Virihealth, a website tracking the virus in Canada. That's behind Alberta and Saskatchewan, but 25 per cent above the 6,978 average for all provinces, and more than twice the Ontario rate. (Testing rates are much higher in the northern territories.)
Henry said this week that even if shortages of testing materials weren't an issue, the province would be taking the same approach.
"We still would not be testing everybody who has very mild illness for a variety of reasons," she said. "Not only because of capacity, because it's a waste of resources for a lot of people, but also because we know this test is not 100 per cent. Early on, and when people have very mild symptoms, it can be falsely negative."
That could result in people failing to self-isolate in the false belief they don't have the virus.
Testing "doesn't change what we're going to tell people," Henry said.
"We need to tell them on a population level, anybody who's sick, especially if you have a fever and a cough, you need to stay away from others no matter what, whether you have COVID or anything else."
The same is true for people coming in from other countries, Henry said. In the early days of the pandemic, travellers returning to the province from places known to have outbreaks were a priority for testing. Now they are being told to self-isolate for 14 days.
"They need to know, and we've talked about this, they need to know that they're at risk of this, and they need to stay home and isolate themselves so they're not passing it onto anybody else. That's their obligation right now."
Much of the outbreak in B.C., especially in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, has been focused in long-term care homes, so much of the province's attention and testing has been concentrated there.
"At this point in our epidemic, the important thing is identifying those chains of transmission and where people are getting sick," Henry said. "That's why the focus is on the health-care system, on health-care workers. But also community transmission."
Testing is warranted in places where clusters have been identified and people have been exposed and may or may not have symptoms, she said.
"But a broad testing of well people in our community, right now, is not what we're going to be doing."
Henry has said the level of testing in B.C. is higher than many other jurisdictions and comparable to the strategies used in Singapore and South Korea.
Widespread testing has been credited with helping slow COVID-19's spread in countries like Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. A lack of testing has been an issue in virus hot spots like Northern Italy, Iran and New York.
The World Health Organization has said testing is one of the most important tools for authorities to accurately track the spread of the virus. "The most effective way to prevent infections and save lives is breaking the chains of transmission. And to do that, you must test and isolate," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
There are critics of the B.C. approach.
UBC's Phillips argued in an email to The Tyee's Crawford Killian that B.C.'s restrictive testing policy "undermines the ability of public health to be successful in containing further spread in the community." Widespread community testing would let health officials identify people with the virus and their contacts and ensure they stayed in isolation, Phillips argued.
COVID-19 Will Stretch, But Not Break, BC's Health System
And an emergency room doctor at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, Sean Wormsbecker, posted a video on YouTube calling for wider testing, including of people with mild symptoms.
Telling people they should presume they're sick and self-isolate for 14 days isn't enough, he said.
"Ten years of clinical practice have taught me that unfortunately patients aren't consistent in following direction," he said. "Often what's heard, no matter how we say it, is that if we're not testing you, we're not really taking you seriously, and that's not the case."
Alan Cassels, the author of Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease, said the key question with testing is whether or not the results will make any difference to treatment or behaviour.
"If the answer is 'no,' you don't test," Cassels said, adding that while individuals might want to know if they're infected, it's better to follow physical distancing advice than to trust a test that is unlikely to be 100-per-cent accurate.
The province's modelling released last week showed that while the number of cases had been rising by 24 per cent a day in the early weeks of the outbreak, that was reduced to 12 per cent a day after the introduction of strict physical distancing measures.
On Thursday the province announced 55 new COVID-19 cases in B.C., bringing the total number of cases in the province to 1,121, about a 5.2-per-cent increase from a day earlier.
Henry has expressed cautious optimism about the trajectory in B.C., but stresses that continued success depends on everyone doing what they can to keep a physical distance of at least two metres from others in public and to stay home when they're sick.
"It's challenging for all of us to not know what's coming in the future, particularly when we hear about shortages and we watch what's going on in the world around us," she said. "We can only continue to watch, continue to prepare, continue to make sure that we're doing everything we can, and to ensure that the rest of our community is doing their part too."
"I know it's challenging to say it over and over again, but we do have a strategy that's based on the best use of the test, with all of the limitations the test has itself."
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Have you dreamed of travelling across this amazing country we live in?
4-H Canada's Club to Club Exchange, offered in partnership with Canadian Heritage, lets you explore Canada's rich history while experiencing all that our country has to offer.
In groups of eight to ten delegates, 4-H members between the ages of 12 and 17 are twinned – paired together – with 4-H'ers from another province. Together with two chaperones, the delegates take part in a reciprocal homestay exchange.
Club to Club exchanges take place during the summer months and typically last seven to ten days.
Groups are matched based on their application, demographics of each group, activities and community involvement, and other considerations.
During their exchange, clubs will co-create a community-focused service project with their partnered Youth Service Leader as part of the Hands to Larger Service program.
Selected groups pay $150 per member and $150 per chaperone.
A $1,500 Club Support Award is available to each group selected for the exchange.
4-H Canada creates experiential learning opportunities that ensure a safe, fun and inclusive environment with the support of caring adults. Club to Club exchanges aim to:
Enhance your knowledge and understanding of Canada
Connect you with 4-H members from another province
Enhance your appreciation of the diversity of the Canadian experience.
What's in it for your club?
You can tell your stories and share your experiences with other 4-H'ers, helping to increase their understanding of Canada's history and their appreciation of how other Canadians live, work and play.
Applications for 2019 Club to Club Exchanges closed January 14, 2019.
Important information for your club
Check out these documents for everything your club needs to know about Club to Club Exchanges
Club to Club Exchange overview
Club to Club Application Sample
Chaperone information
Group project information
Host family information
Club support award information
Club to Club Exchange involvement with Hands to Larger Service
Updates made to the Hands to Larger Service Program for 2019
"During the exchange, I had the opportunity to do things I may never have had the opportunity to do, see new and different parts of Canada and make friendships that were so vital for making this trip as fulfilling as it was." Participant, Club to Club Exchange
See where 4-H clubs travelled in summer 2018 with this interactive map!
Click through the map and learn more about each of the 26 clubs who participated in the Club to Club exchange program.
Anola Northern Lights and Lorette Busy Bees 4-H Clubs
This exchange group consists of Anola Northern Lights and Lorette Busy Bees from the Eastman Area of Manitoba. Both are multi-purpose clubs and have around 40 members combined. Members are very active volunteers in their communities: washing dishes at events, showing a 4-H float at the annual Parade of Lights, caroling, assisting at seniors' residences, and operating a craft table at the Springfield Country Fair. Members love to travel, create diverse connections with other 4-H'ers across Canada, and share new experiences.
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See linked club: East Lacombe 4-H Beef Club
Barlow Creek 4-H Club
Barlow Creek 4-H Club is nestled deep in the heart of British Columbia. Surrounded by pristine wilderness, the club is home to 35 members who enjoy taking part in a wide variety of projects. Barlow Creek is close to many tourist attractions, including Cottonwood Historic Site and Barkerville Historic Town, which made a name for themselves during the Cariboo Gold Rush. The Barlow Creek 4-H Club is part of a 4-H district that is composed of 3 clubs and around 100 members.
See linked club: North Simcoe 4-H Clubs
Battle River 4-H Beef Club
This club's travel exchange group is made up of 3 clubs in the region: Battle River Beef Club, with 6 members; Irma 4-H Beef Club, with 3 members; and Hastings Coulee Beef Club, with 1 member. In addition to beef clubs, members engage in many different projects including horse, crafts, photography and pheasant 4-H. Members are excited to experience all that exchange has to offer – travelling to other regions in Canada, sharing the beauty of their province – from the prairies to the Badlands to the Rocky Mountains – and making new and lasting friendships.
See linked club: Hastings County 4-H Exchange Club
Brandon Area 4-H Clubs
Brandon, Manitoba is home to nearly 50,000 people with several bedroom communities that bring the population to well over 60,000. In the Brandon Zone there are 10 members from 4 different clubs taking part in the exchange, ranging in age from 12 to 17, and 2 chaperones. Members participate in a wide variety of projects in their multipurpose clubs, including fitness, fishing, science in the kitchen, curling, outdoor survival, and a beef club. Members go to different schools, but have found family and friendship in the 4-H program.
See linked club: Ormstown and Howick 4-H Clubs
Challenging Pioneers 4-H Club
Goulds, Newfoundland and Labrador's Challenging Pioneers is a multi-club consisting of 73 members, 16 leaders, and a number of community helpers. The club offers a range of experiences for its members, from cooking to summer wilderness, to calf training and small engine repair. Goulds has a number of dairy farms as well as equine, but the majority of the members are not from farming families, so regular visits to farms are part of the club's list of activities. Members are involved in a host of community involvement initiatives and service projects.
4-H Challenging Pioneers #4HChallengingPioneers
See linked club: Rocky South 4-H Beef Club
Chignecto/Nashwaak Valley 4-H Clubs
The Chignecto/Nashwaak Valley 4-H exchange group consists of 9 members and 2 chaperones from 3 clubs in New Brunswick: 5 members and 1 chaperone come from Chignecto 4-H Club, 3 members and 1 chaperone comes from Nashwaak Valley 4-H Club, and 1 member is from McKee's Mill 4-H Club. Some members are seasoned travellers, while others have never travelled at all. The group is very excited about their plans to show the East Coast to their Alberta twins.
See linked club: Westlock District 4-H Exchange Group
Deep Creek Dairy 4-H Club
The Deep Creek Dairy 4-H Club is composed of youth from 12 to 16 years old who come from rural farms and urban centers. A few members from the Okanagan Shuswap 4-H Lamb Club are participating in the exchange as well. Members enjoy going to local fairs with their projects and participating in community service activities and fundraisers. This part of B.C. is a bountiful area that attracts tourists from all over the world, and club members look forward to sharing their experiences from the Club to Club exchange.
See linked club: Lennox and Addington 4-H Clubs
Drumheller District 4-H
See linked club: Russell County 4-H Clubs
Dundas County 4-H Exchange Group
Dundas County in Ontario is bordered by the St. Lawrence River to the south and the City of Ottawa to the north. The area has many dairy farms and cash crop farms. The county 4-H club has about 80 members who are involved in a variety of projects, including dairy, beef, woodworking, cooking, and crafts/sewing, and the exchange group was formed from these different clubs. Members are looking forward to learning about a different part of Canada and the people who live there, and have been fundraising to showcase Dundas County to visiting partners.
See linked club: Vegreville 4-H Exchange Group
East Lacombe 4-H Beef Club
East Lacombe 4-H Beef Club was established in 1919 and is the longest continuous running 4-H Club in Alberta, celebrating its centennial next year. The club currently has 12 members and 1 Cleaver. Members are very active with steer projects, including 2-year-old and 3-year-old cow calf pairs, market steers, and carcass steers. Eight East Lacombe members will be taking part in the Club to Club Exchange this year, and everyone is looking forward to meeting new 4-H friends!
See linked club: Anola Northern Lights and Lorette Busy Bees 4-H Clubs
Hanna District 4-H Clubs
Ten 4-H youth from the Hanna District have formed an exchange group for the summer of 2018. Seven of the members come from the Dryland Multi 4-H Club, one from East Sounding Creek 4-H Club, one from Hanna Rangeland, and one from Hanna Prairie Riders. Nine of the exchange participants have beef projects, and 1 has a horse project. All exchange participants live in the Special Areas and are excited to show their twins from Wellington County their corner of the world – and can't wait to see theirs!
See linked club: Wellington County 4-H Exchange Club
Hastings County 4-H Exchange Club
The Hastings County Exchange Club is made up of 9 members, all actively involved in different clubs ranging from cooking and baking to showing livestock to outdoor adventures, welding, plowing, small engines, CloverBuds, and more. The exchange club is a new experience, and all group members have been actively involved in planning and preparing for their summer adventures with their Alberta "twins." The group is really excited about meeting new 4-H friends from another province, and learning about how similar, or different 4-H is, between provinces.
See linked club: Battle River 4-H Beef Club
Headingley 4-H Club
This club's exchange group is made up of 10 youth from 3 different clubs and 7 different communities in the Red River Valley and Central Plains areas of Manitoba, which is why the group calls itself the Red River Plains (gumbo) group. Members enjoy life skills projects such as outdoor living, science in the kitchen, woodworking, photography, and small animal care. They also like baseball, hockey, cheerleading, piano, singing, RC'ing, dirt biking, trampolining, outdoor fun, and spending time with family and friends. The youth are very excited about traveling and seeing another part of Canada!
See linked club: Sou'West 4-H Club
Irishtown 4-H Club
The Irishtown 4-H Club has been around for approximately 30 years. Members enjoy a wide variety of projects including scrapbooking and photography, but the club is known mainly for its livestock projects such as goat, beef and draft horse. Irishtown 4-H is a relatively small group of 20 members ranging in ages from 6 to 17. Despite its small size, the group is active in the community and its members love to help others.
See linked club: Springfield Shooting Stars, Steinbach Sizzlers and Homeschool 4-H Clubs
Lennox and Addington 4-H Clubs
See linked club: Deep Creek Dairy 4-H Club
Minnedosa 4-H for Teens
The Minnedosa/Rapid City teens exchange group consists of 4 boys and 5 girls ranging in ages from 12 to 17. Except for the oldest member, this is everyone's first exchange group experience. The club is located in the middle of the prairies in a valley, two hours west of Winnipeg. Minnedosa is a farming community, and the 4-H group's activities consist of multi-purpose and livestock projects, as well as community service projects. Group members are really looking forward to their exchange this summer in P.E.I.
See linked club: Summerside District 4-H Clubs
North Simcoe 4-H Clubs
North Simcoe is a group of boys and girls aged 12 to 16 who believe in the 4-H Motto "Learn to Do by Doing." This group of youth are actively involved in their local communities of Elmvale, Phelpston and Vasey. All group members have participated in a variety of 4-H Clubs including dairy, beef, outdoor living and cooking. This is a unique group, as there are a number of siblings taking part in the Club to Club Exchange.
See linked club: Barlow Creek 4-H Club
Ormstown and Howick 4-H Clubs
This group includes 6 members from Ormstown 4-H Club and 4 members from Howick 4-H Club. These 12 to 17 year olds are all involved in square dancing, while several others also complete combinations of dairy, small animals, public speaking, life skills, mechanics, and judging projects. They are active in their clubs in leadership roles, and in other groups like Guides, Scouts, students' council, and on sports teams. Everyone is a resident of the Chateauguay Valley, a beautiful agricultural region just south of Montreal.
Howick 4-H / 4-H Howick #Ormstown4H
See linked club: Brandon Area 4-H Clubs
Rocky South 4-H Beef Club
Rocky South is a market beef 4-H club with about 20 members. Located in central Alberta, the club has been running for 42 years and plays a significant role in its community. The South Club and the North Club participate in their Achievement Day together, so have joined forces to form the exchange group. Group members participate in the 4-H Canada Club to Club Exchange only every three years, so everyone is very excited to be taking part this year and all are looking forward to making new friends.
#RockySouthBeef
See linked club: Challenging Pioneers 4-H Club
Russell County 4-H Clubs
The 10 participants from Russell 4-H Association live in Russell County/Cumberland Ward of the City of Ottawa. Even though the county is fairly close to the city, there are many dairy farms in the area, with the main cash crops being corn and soybeans. Members enjoy many different projects and clubs, including dairy calf, veterinary, cooking, gardening, small engines, heritage poultry, square dancing, cake decorating, and maple syrup. This is the first time in more than 20 years that Russell 4-H has participated in a club-to-club exchange, so everyone is very excited!
Russell County 4-H Association
See linked club: Drumheller District 4-H
Sou'West 4-H Club
Sou'West 4-H club was founded in 2015 in Barrington and the surrounding areas. There are currently 50 members consisting of 20 Cloverbuds aged 7 to 8, and 30 members aged 9 to 21. Projects include crafts, cake decorating, great outdoors, rabbit, beef, horse, sheep, and dog obedience. Members participate in local agricultural fairs and special community service projects such as parades, community clean-ups, and volunteering with local organizations. This is the club's first time doing an exchange, and members are really looking forward to connecting with other parts of Canada.
See linked club: Headingley 4-H Club
Springfield Shooting Stars, Steinbach Sizzlers and Homeschool 4-H Clubs
This exchange group is made up of three clubs from south eastern Manitoba. The Springfield Shooting Stars, the Steinbach Sizzlers and the Homeschool 4-H multipurpose clubs have joined together for this exciting summer experience. Members are looking forward to connecting with other 4-H'ers across Canada, and are eager to meet new friends and share new experiences.
#MBNB4H2018
See linked club: Irishtown 4-H Club
Summerside District 4-H Clubs
Summerside District is made up of 5 different 4-H clubs: Albany, Kensington, Freetown , Lot 16 , and Evangeline. For the 2018 exchange, there is 1 member from the Freetown 4-H club and 8 members from the Albany 4-H club. The clubs are multi-propose, where members can take any project registered in 4-H PEI. This year 4-H is celebrating its centennial year in PEI, and all clubs in the Summerside District are getting together for one big achievement day to celebrate the occasion!
See linked club: Minnedosa 4-H for Teens
Vegreville 4-H Exchange Group
The Vegreville 4-H Exchange group is made up of 10 4-H members from the Vegreville 4-H Multi Club, Vegreville 4-H Beef club and Friends of 4-H. Members range in age from 12 to 17. Vegreville is a town of about 5,800, people, and the main income in the area is agriculturally based. Participants are evenly split, with half living in town and half living on farms in the area.
See linked club: Dundas County 4-H Exchange Group
Wellington County 4-H Exchange Club
Members of the Wellington County 4-H Exchange Club come from a variety of 4-H backgrounds and have completed a variety of agricultural clubs including beef, dairy, sheep, poultry and veterinary. They have also participated in many other clubs including: potato, cooking, barn quilting, tractor pulling, engineering, Lego, woodworking, square dancing, Go for the Gold, and art. Some members have attended the 4-H Ontario Discovery Days and Youth Adventure Camps. The group is excited about its exchange with the Hanna Alberta Club.
See linked club: Hanna District 4-H Clubs
Westlock District 4-H Exchange Group
This group is based out to the Westlock 4-H District, about 1 hour north of Edmonton. Members come from five different club from the Westlock area. Many members are from beef clubs, with a few taking parts in small animal and life skill projects. The group is looking forward to meeting new friends and seeing a different part of Canada.
#WestlockC2C2018
See linked club: Chignecto/Nashwaak Valley 4-H Clubs
In the case where adequate funding is not achieved, the Club to Club Exchange program is subject to cancellation.
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‹‹ Aug 25 - 31, 2005 ››
By Laura Marrich
Get Your Squawk On--So the inaugural Rocksquawk.com Music Showcase kicks off this weekend with some great local bands at eight locations Downtown. It's our hope that this Saturday's shindig will resonate with local musicians and music supporters alike—you know, turning up the dialogue within our scene and generally rocking all-around. On that note, if you've got something you'd like to say about this event, your band's next gig or anything that's music-related at all, hit up rocksquawk.com and get it out there. Log on, freak out and get your Squawk on!
Music Magnified
The Sweater Club
with Wide Awake and SPOT
By Simon McCormack
Wednesday, August 31; Atomic Cantina (21-and-older), free: Those of you that have ever been in a large-scale school band should be at least somewhat familiar with who I will refer to here as "solo hogs." These are the kids that take every opportunity to jam-out on their instrument; leaving the rest of the band members to wallow in four-note-melody hell. Oregon's own The Sweater Club is composed of six fresh-faced solo hogs that, fortunately for us, are happy to take turns wailing away on their various instruments, just so long as everybody gets a chance to strut their stuff. I'm not sure how the band's songs stay cohesive, but they do so without wasting a drop of any member's skill. Not since Reel Big Fish's Why Do They Rock So Hard? have skyrocketing brass and alt.rock guitar gotten along so well as on The Sweater Club's debut EP, The Exposition. The "Club" sounds a lot like ska/punk/reggae outfit RX Bandits (which makes sense, considering almost every band member cites the Bandits as an influence). The Sweater Club is wise enough, however, to stay away from the pretentious ambient noise that the Bandits seem to have become recently infatuated with. The boys in TSC, by contrast, are only interested in good, clean, new-school-ska fun. That's exactly what they'll bring to the Atomic Cantina this Wednesday when they'll play with Wide Awake and SPOT. Who the hell knows, maybe some fast-paced skanking will even make an appearance.
Jennifer Nelson
Rock, Rock and More Rock: Scenester Rocks Balls
By Jessica Cassyle Carr
After a four-year hiatus filled with masters degrees and other bands, Scenester, comprised of Leonard Apodaca on guitar, Roger Apodaca on bass (both formerly of GoMotorCar) and Luke Cordova (Blunt Society) on drums, is releasing their second album, Formula Rock EP. Leonard Apodaca (who you might remember from the Socyermom Records piece in this week's feature) tells all.
ZoneFest
with ATG, Caustic Lye, Wisdom of the Leech, Desolate, The Ground Beneath, Suspended, Collateral Hate, Lower Than Dirt, Phalcore, Musik Labb, Aphotic Blitz
Saturday, August 27; The Zone parking lot (2501 San Mateo), 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. (all-ages): Sure, Ozzfest is not without its overcommercialized charm, but it seems to me that the festival may not exactly cater to the most devout of rock fans. I mean, lets be honest—how hardcore can you be if you're willing to pay $78.50 plus a service charge for a reserved seat? Not very hardcore, would appear to be the answer. It is with this in mind that I present metal fanatics and rock enthusiasts with an alternative. ZoneFest could easily be considered the "anti-Ozzfest." The free event will feature a heaping helping of hard-rocking local ensembles, including the schizophrenically supercharged sounds of Caustic Lye, the punkish, blues-influenced metal of Wisdom of the Leech and an ass-load more. Plus, who needs $6 Journal Pavilion hot dogs when you can have made-to-order barbecue? Finally, there will be merch tents, ticket giveaways, free hookah rentals and piercing specials all day long. So tell your uppity pal who won't let you forget you missed Ozzfest, that you hope he enjoyed paying almost 80 bucks to see In Flames. Screw him! You're going to a real rock show. Hell, you might even get some sort of body part pierced while you're at it. Rock on!
Juliet Swango
Show Up!
The Dirty Novels CD Release Party
By Captain America
The Dirty Novels are at it again.
No, I don't mean this CD release show (with the usual suspects: raucous Romeo Goes To Hell, lovely Unit 7 Drain, and stomp 'n' roll the Gracchi, plus Cellophane Typewriters—a new one on me, but I hear they're psych/garage).
And no, not the handful of new tunes on the 11-song Stealing Kisses.
Youth Group Skeleton Jar (Epitaph)
Let's face it, it's been a while since good rock music came out of Australia. But the glory days, like those of Men At Work, INXS and most importantly, The Church (yes, they are from Australia), can be relived with Youth Group, honestly one of my favorite new bands. Like its predecessors, Youth Group has cultivated a complex, shimmery, pulsating pop rock sound, reinterpreted to create something that sounds very new and evokes a strong sense of place. The songs, though, are still mostly about relationships, which makes the record good for diffusing fullness of heart.
Flyer on the Wall
Watch with rapt disbelief as Sean McCullough, fabled sweetheart of the Albuquerque scene, plays in two different bands at the same show! Sean will open up tonight's set with Weapons of Mass Destruction, take a quick Tecate break and then return to headline with the Oktober People. Things Fall Apart from Chicago will play somewhere in the middle. That's Tuesday, August 30, at Sol Arts. Cost is $5 and this one's all-ages! Hoot!
EVENT HORIZON ( Friday, Jul 19 )
Dave Attell • stand-up comedy
By Joshua Lee
It is rumored that Dave Attell, the greatest living comedian, only wants to do shows at casinos these days because he can smoke inside. Come see him at The Stage at Santa Ana Star Casino this Friday and Saturday, July 19 and 20 before his lungs rot out and he turns into a pile of yellow goo. The shows are 21 and up and start at 7 and 9:30pm. Doors open at 6 and 8:45pm, respectively. Tickets start at $20 and run up to $45.
Born to Sing
Boyz II Men • soul, R&B • En Vogue • pop, '90s
How's this for a summertime jam sesh guaranteed to get you moving: Boyz II Men and En Vogue are the featured performers at a totally cool concert at Sandia Casino & Resort Amphitheater. They're all getting down to the sound on Friday, July 19 at 7:30pm. If you wanna know more, check out this brief Weekly Alibi-made summary: Boyz II Men remains one of the most potently creative R&B bands of all time. If you haven't heard their tuneage then may we humbly suggest essentially groovy works like "End of the Road" as well as the sweetly soulful if somehow silly "I'll Make Love to You." And En Vogue? Well they rep some of the finest feminist-flavored, positively uplifting R&B ever made, compradres. "Free Your Mind," their totally danceable yet anthemic take on racism from 1992, still holds sway literally and metaphorically. And you'll dig their work with Snoop D O Double G. Tickets for this all-ages galactic gathering range in price from $45 to $65, so go ahead and take a seat.
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