Why count in years of marriage when its the days, one by one, that connects us, and family
Monday, August 30, 2021
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Nine years ago the late Ian Reid @ 'The Real Story,' predicted that President Joe Biden would shut down China's access to Alberta's Oil Sands
.... because of China's
dependency on foreign oil
https://web.archive.org/web/20120112074856/http://therealstory.ca/
"China’s on an oil buying binge. And Canada is where China likes to
shop.
Since 2002 China, through four state owned oil companies, has spent
over $65 billion dollars to purchase oil and gas fields and
production facilities around the world.
Almost 15% of China’s expenditures went towards securing oil from
Canada’s tar sands, according to a joint 2011 report of the
International Energy Agency and the OECD. China now owns
significant stakes in Northern Lights Oil Sands, MEG Energy, Athabasca Oil Sands, Penn West Energy and Syncrude.
China’s buying spree isn’t an accident. It’s a government policy
that’s developed haphazardly since the late 1980’s. China is
determined to ensure that it continue to grow an economy that is
increasingly dependent on energy from oil and gas.
In 2009, China imported 53% of its oil.
By 2035 that’s expected to grow to 82% or
12.8 million barrels each and every day. China’s foreign policy is,
in part, determined by the need to resource that growth. " Snipped
Sunday, May 30, 2021
North Shore Mountains ---->>> Helicopter touch down locations
If the local news media coverage of Fissile Peak rescue didn't quench your thirst for all the details of the NSR in action, then check out Knowledge Network's 5 episodes to see how they use helicopters for long line deliveries of material, rescuers and patients out safely.
May 29, 2021
North Shore News NSR 3 Calls in one day
NSR deployed its Talon helicopter for what turned out to be three incidents in the Seymour Mountain area
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| 10:45 a.m Pump Peak Trail - Back Injury |
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| 11:00 a.m. Mystery Lake Trail - Knee Injury |
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| 11:45 a.m. Elsay Lake Trail - Ankle Injury |
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Locations of the data:
http://geoweb.dnv.org/data/
HELICOPTER LANDING SITES
Point
locations representing helicopter landing sites. These locations are
either natural clearings or man-made landing pads. Mainly located in the
alpine area where emergency access is limited. Used primarily by North
Shore Search and Rescue.
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There are 48 Helicopter landing sites
Cleveland Dam's #45, includes coordinates, so pop all them into your GPS for future reference. Just in case.
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| Bird's eye view from the Lions
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Red Lines are
Trails for Public Use
Trails that are maintained by the DNV, and are
sanctioned for public use. These are known trails on the North Shore,
Bowen Island and in Lions Bay. Most trails have been collected through
GPS survey.
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| Pads and Trails |
Sunday, May 16, 2021
KML file links to Historic Trails of British Columbia: via government Datasets
Search Datasets Trails
generates 68 results
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Narrow the field down
Second Search Trails kml
28 results
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The exact title? One result
This dataset contains spatial and tabular data on
non-archaeological historic trails in B.C. Some of these trails, or
sections of trail, are defined or protected under...
View in BC Gov iMapBC
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
A First Book of Knitting for Children - New - 2020 Edition - Bonnie Gosse and Jill Allerton
A First Book of Knitting for Children
written by Bonnie Gosse and Jill Allerton
with photography by Eric Furman and Dave Gosse
A knitting book with a difference! Rhymes and photos combine to bring a thorough introduction to knit stitch and purl stitch, followed by simple, enticing patterns for animals. The patterns are easy and exciting to make and the completed projects are fun to play with. Further instructions and more complicated patterns follow in the latter half of the book.
Thoroughly revised, combining both the original A First Book of Knitting for Children together with the authors’ follow up title Knitting for children, this book is great for both children and adults, an invaluable resource for anyone learning how to knit. The clear instructions, the interesting patterns and artistic photographs make this book a must for all who have an interest in knitting.
Recommended for all ages!
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| Wriggly Snake is One of 38 patterns in this book |
Contents
Dedication and Acknowledgements
History of Knitting
Yarn
Tools
Making your own wooden knitting needles
Disappearing knot
Disappearing knot verse
Finger knitting
How to begin knitting
Holding the needles
Casting on
Casting on verse
Knit stitch
Knit stitch verse
Knit stitch problems – where they occur and how to correct them
Knitting the latch by mistake
Forgetting to knit the last stitch
Putting your needle in the wrong place
Knitting backwards
Undoing knitting
Undoing a stitch
Undoing stitches verse
Undoing a row
Recovering a dropped stitch
Another way of fixing a dropped stitch
Slipped stitches
Shaping your knitting by decreasing
Shaping your knitting by increasing
Increasing at the beginning of a row
Changing colours
Dividing work to make 2 or more sections
Using a stitch holder or safety pin
Rejoining yarn
Casting off
Casting off verse
Weaving in ends
Sewing up projects
Stuffing projects
Making a pom-pom
Patterns using knit stitch only
Butterfly
Striped ball
Rabbit
Lamb
Lion
Mouse
Pig
Raccoon
Elephant
Doll
Horse
Purl stitch
Purl stitch verse
Stocking stitch
Ribbing
Purl stitch problems – where they occur and how to correct them
A mistake in stocking stitch
Mistakes in ribbing
Forgetting to change the yarn location
Patterns using knit stitch and purl stitch
Cat
Gnome
More skills
Reading a pattern
Abbreviations
More shaping your knitting by decreasing
Decreasing - purlwise (p2tog)
More shaping your knitting by increasing
Increasing in a stitch
Make 1 (m1)
Pass slipped stitch over (psso)
Picking up stitches
Using different colours
Hints
Creating simple stripes
Fair Isle knitting
Simple 2 colour pattern
Dancing men pattern
Knitting in the round
Turn
Wrap and turn (going the wrong way to market on purpose)
Double casting off
Firm casting on
Knit one, slip one (k1,sl1)
The challenge patterns
Leaping cat
Boy with hands in his pockets
Girl with hands in her pockets
Hat with rolled brim
Hat with ribbed brim
Lily the Lamb
Mother Sea Otter
Baby Sea Otter
Wriggly Snake
Coiled Snake
Howling Wolf
Slipper socks in three sizes
Hand dolls
Granny and Grandpa pattern
Clothes for your doll
Pleated skirt
Plain skirt
Granny skirt pattern
Trousers
Jacket or shirt
Granny’s pullover sweater
Hat with rolled brim
Hat with knitted brim
Baseball cap
Grandpa cap or plain hat
Biographies
Wynstones Press
ISBN 9780 946206 87 2
168 pages, colour throughout with numerous photographs and illustrations.
Size 235 x 215 mm, 9½ x 8½ inches.
Knit Stitch Verse
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| In through the front door, |
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| Dance around the back, |
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| Peek through the window, |
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| And OFF jumps Jack |
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Page 26 Knit Stitch problems - Where they occur and how to correct them
If you go through the front door latch as well as the front door, you will be making an extra stitch and your knitting will become wider and wider.
To correct this problem of your knitting becoming wider .....
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Play Episode CBC Review (audio) 2021-04-03
North by Northwest with Sheryl MacKay
"In this episode Bonnie Gosse talks about a book she co-wrote about teaching children to knit ..."
@22:00 to 30:00
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Cleveland Dam 'parking lot' on Cliff Edge
And then there were none....
And before the Drumgate was dropped
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Only in British Columbia: Make a Will Week: October 4-10, 2020 Missed it this year? Can you wait until 2021
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/life-events/death/wills-estates/make-a-will-week
Make a Will Week
October 4-10, 2020, was Make-a-Will Week in British Columbia. Its purpose is to encourage the public to write their will or bring an existing will up-to-date.
Check back in 2021 for confirmation that the next Make-a-Will Week has been proclaimed.
Making a will is now even easier following legislative changes in August of 2020 that allow people who are in different locations to use technology to sign and witness a will. The changes will also soon give electronic wills the same recognition as physical wills.
If you don’t have a will, you’re not alone. According to a 2014 report for BC Notaries, just 55 per cent of British Columbians have a signed, legally valid and up-to-date will.
A will is the best way to ensure that the people, charities and organizations you cherish most receive the benefit of your estate.
If you die without a will, your estate may not be distributed in the way you would have wished and the costs of administering your estate may also be higher.
Having a will helps ensure that important questions for parents – like who will raise your young children if both you and your spouse die – are answered.
The cost to have a will written depends on the complexity of your situation. Ask a notary or lawyer for an estimate. If your situation is straightforward, you may be able to write your own will using a kit from a store or an online service provider. However, obtaining the assistance of a professional is always a good idea.
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| Cold Cold Capilano Lake Reservoir 2020-11-11 |
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Capilano River Cable Pool Fishing, Flagged: "IF YOU DON'T KNOW WETHER IT'S A TROUT OR A SALMON, LET IT GO!"
a castrated ram.
Inside the open Hatchery are the "Thankfully Missed by Fishermen fish":
The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson PC, MP, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard
One other minor detail for the Fisheries Minister to correct forthwith: Metro Vancouver's Capilano River Regional Park has provided flush toilets during the whole of the time of Covid-19, up at Cleveland Dam.
Why are visitors to the Fish Hatchery subjected to Portable Toilets, still.
And
The Hatchery is OPEN and the washrooms inside the building have garbage cans blocking the MEN and WOMEN locked doors. Surely there's enough staff inside the facility to wipe things down each evening/morning. ..... and the soap dispensers in the two portable toilets are DRY, always.
Why is there a double standard?
Monday, July 27, 2020
Metro Vancouver's Capilano River Regional Park modified Covid-19 sign: 'Do Your Part If You ....'
Serious signage
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| May 8, 2020 Cleveland Dam - Capilano Lake |
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Now
Relax, try fishing with time to .....
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| July 27, 2020 Cable Pool @ Hatchery |
.... write poetry
Sunday, July 26, 2020
FAKE NEWS CANADIAN STYLE By Robin Mathews
FAKE NEWS CANADIAN STYLE
By Robin Mathews, July 2020
When the fake news
producing Mainstream Press and Media in Canada want, really, to massage
Canadian brains, they (often) choose, it seems, a U.S. person working in Canada
the one here at McGill University in Montreal.
The U.S. writer, David Shribman, [JUST WATCH THEM] is given
a page of the Globe and Mail [June 20, 2020, p.03] to compare someone (I would
say) he obviously knows very little about “Pierre Elliott Trudeau, with someone he might know a little about” U.S. president
Donald Trump. He finds in Trudeau
someone who acted against an apprehended insurrection showing elegance and
proper behaviour while president Trump, threatening to use the U.S Insurrection
Act, reveals the very opposite.
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| Prime Minister Trudeau |
David Shribman apparently doesn’t know that during Trudeau’s
time at Harvard University (1944-45), more than twenty years before he became
Canada’s prime minister and invoked The War Measures Act, Pierre Trudeau wrote
an essay in which he foreshadowed his later action.
Indeed, Trudeau makes quite clear in his essay that a leader
with power should not worry about legalities and should be willing to use the
full extent of his power to gain his ends. [Read Max and Monique Nemni, Trudeau Transformed, The Shaping of a Statesman, 1944-1965, M&S, 2011]
The Nemnis point out that in his long and serious essay sympathetic to political violence Trudeau sets out (p.33) three criteria. The
method shall be chosen that is best apportioned to the desired end. Secondly: The method shall be applied
implacably. And thirdly: That method
shall be subject to perfect control.
Trudeau writes: 'the best trick of all is to succeed in licking the
opponent at his own game: for cheating is not wicked when the game is to cheat.'
And (p. 34) 'If an action has been
singled out as the most appropriate one in the circumstances, it is sheer
stupidity to begin belly-aching over its illegality.'
That proposition conveniently invalidates any obligation on
the part of the State that might be imposed by adhering to The Rule of
Law.[When a top RCMP officer in Quebec, John Starnes, insisted to a radio
Canada journalist that all the illegal acts of the RCMP in the October Crisis
were ordered from very high up we may
see his remark as historic, especially since the RCMP was taking the brunt of
the censure for having frequently acted outside the law during the period.]
The Globe and Mail writer doesn’t mention that Trudeau was
looking into The War Measures Act months before he employed it. Strangely though, David Shribman reports John English “former Liberal MP and pretty well recognized as a Liberal Scribe“ as
having written an authoritative biography without mentioning the absolutely key work by
Max and Monique Nemni close friends of Trudeau, with complete access to his
papers and determined to tell the truth
as nearly as they were able to do.
We might be quite certain that the ragtag members of the FLQ
were not about to undertake an insurrection and so Trudeau told Irwin Cotler(ex-Liberal MP) that, in effect, one can apprehend an insurrection though an
insurrection is not likely. (Shribman, incidentally, only quotes Liberals for
any serious comments on Trudeau’s activities.)
Of course, one can apprehend anything one wants and Trudeau did
(pressuring Quebec authorities to arrive at the same apprehension in order to
make possible the use of a military and any other available hammer to flatten
what was (at core) a legitimate push for Quebec independence.
The actions suggested in Trudeau’s 1944 Harvard essay were
put into full play in the so-called October Crisis of 1970. David Shribman at
McGill University quotes John English as saying Trudeau’s action was an appropriate response in the period. What else is a Liberal supposed to say, that
Trudeau messed up completely and was faking a crisis he could then use
illegitimate power to end?
David Shribman, I would say, serves the machinery of Fake
News admirably even attractively almost as if he knows what he is writing
about.
But the matter goes very, very much deeper than David
Shribman has the ghost of an idea of perceiving. Madam Laporte attributed her
husband’s murder to the Canadian State not to unidentified members of the FLQ.
One of the doctors assigned to Laporte’s autopsy refused to sign the Report
submitted. And James Cross, British Trade Commissioner (not as Shribman reports
a British diplomat), may have been kidnapped by the Canadian State. If he was not, the RCMP very quickly removed
the occupants of the apartment adjoining the one in which Cross was held, (did
not release him) and watched and bugged all the activities connected to that
address for the whole term of the long so-called kidnap of Cross during which time, of course, the police
forces of Canada (Canadians were told) were vainly searching for Cross and his
kidnappers!
But facts don’t matter a lot in the Shribman article, I
would suggest. The article JUST WATCH THEM isn’t (apparently) about fact or
history. It is, in my opinion, a fake news essay in which a fake reading of
Canadian History is used by a U.S. writer in Canada to write about unappealing
contemporary events in the USA (making P.E. Trudeau look good so that Donald
Trump can be made to look bad.) AND, in the process, the writer [remember this,
in my judgement, is fake news] idealizes a person and his actions which honest
assessment would probably find underhanded, divisive, evilly manipulative, dishonest and even murderous to such an extent that
Donald Trump’s actions in comparison might look say like exercises in boyish vanity.
Maybe assessing and assessment is what Fake News is all
about. Fake news is in its way a kind of
political violence and as Pierre Trudeau wrote the method shall be chosen that
is best apportioned to the desired end.
Contact: Robin Mathews
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