Irwin and Billings, Home for Sale $3,500 Grand Boulevard, North Vancouver City, 100 Years of Service

Since 1906, we’ve been meeting diverse commercial and personal insurance needs on the North Shore, in the Lower Mainland and throughout British Columbia. We’re a family business locally owned and operated by a North Shore resident. At Irwin & Billings, we know our business, we know our clients and we take pride in our freedom to truly offer you independent advice and efficient service. - See more at: http://ibib.ca/#sthash.XDweeFWg.dpuf

Since 1906, we’ve been meeting diverse commercial and personal insurance needs on the North Shore, in the Lower Mainland and throughout British Columbia. We’re a family business locally owned and operated by a North Shore resident. At Irwin & Billings, we know our business, we know our clients and we take pride in our freedom to truly offer you independent advice and efficient service.

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Meanwhile down here in North Hollywood..... 6591 Vineland

Vineland Metro has had 27 homes; three guest parking spots; parking for two cars per each home; Choice of 4 square feet of Astro Turf lawn therefore no lawn to mow which is good because Los Angeles drought rating is EXTREMELY high.   Did we mention the distance between the side by side house roof eaves?  One foot.  Something like East Vancouver homes.... and some places on the North Shore.

Plan

House below is looking at the front door of Building 4

 Sprinklers not necessary, No Water

Building 4

SOLD OUT! Located in North Hollywood, Vineland Metro is an intimate community of just twenty-seven single family homes, within minutes of all Los Angeles has to offer. Get inspired by owning amongst the culture, charm, and energy of the NoHo Arts District! From the mid $500,000s.

Two-Story Single Family Homes
    Approx. 1,629 Square Feet
    Three Bedrooms
    Two and One Half Bathrooms
    Two-Car Attached Garage
    Private Patio
    DESIGNER UPGRADES & FURNITURE INCLUDED!

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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power DWP rebates for turfing turf

The real water guzzlers are the swimming pools which are monitored by Google Earth for City Hall

Q: Does the LADWP provide a discounted water rate for filling my pool?

A:  No. Water usage will be billed according to your metered consumption.
 
You may be eligible for a Sewer Service Charge (SSC) adjustment if you filled your pool during the winter rainy season (typically from October through April). To request an adjustment, contact the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, Bureau of Sanitation at 1-800-540-0952 or fill out and submit a Residential SSC Request for Adjustment.

If you happen to be in Maple Ridge, anytime: Fibres Plus - Basketry, Weaving, Knitting, Spinning

Using the Rick Mercer's line of ... 'If you happen to be in .....' Vernon on September 13th and 14th ...' keeps cropping up as a common thread on this blog promoting unique places in British Columbia.  There are so many small businesses fulfilling the resource needs of hobbyists where all they need is a little bit of publicity.


Vaughn Palmer, in a recent column, mentioned that the BC Legislature calendar is going to be so void of new laws that it will be downright boring.  His headline writer selected:

  A quiet legislature session, knit-picked.   No major policy initiatives expected from B.C. Liberals.  

 Palmer punchline:

 ..... Liberals are deliberately concocting a snooze-fest ...   .... It’s enough to make a fellow take up knitting.

Knitting is fine, and dandy, except that Palmer's job is not to 'knit-pick' but rather 'nit-pick' a Minister who is not accomplished at knowing the difference between right and wrong, knit or nit wit. 

Nit-pick defined:  minute and usually unjustified criticism

Vaughn Palmer's idea of knitting is common hobby within the Legislature halls, both genders.  If he wants to show a bit of flare, not LNG, he could funnel his thoughts to include basket weaving along with knitting to pass the time of day.

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When anyone mentions Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta) there is an immediate vision of the devastating forces of the Mountain Pine Beetle here in British Columbia.

There's an aspect to the Lodgepole Pine that requires artists to use selective harvesting from healthy trees.  The needles.   Not the needles that fall from house-bound dry Christmas trees onto the homes' carpets, nor the ones that carpet the trails on the North Shore.

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Through the creative eyes of Dale Friend at Fibres Plus in Maple Ridge she has a fabulous resource for Basket Weaving and Knitting AND plenty of        Ideas like these photos ........ a thousand words .... and more .....

Vaughn (Arnold) Palmer golf chapeau

Fibres Plus

Basketry  Weaving 

Spinning  Knitting

Books, Supplies, Tools and Equipment

Dale

604-467-1178

Maple Ridge

Yellow Copper Wire Basket on Red Wheels


Did we mention Books?

The plight of Northern BC 184 Wolves being culled needs impact photos, not groomed cameo appearances from Hollywood North

This is the environment where the Caribou, Grizzly and Wolf are free to roam.

and Territorial 

and Territory

and Michael Smyth asks:  "Do we need to kill Wolves......"

What we need to do is tame Man from treading on the animals territory.  Somewhere up there is a photographer, capturing the moments.

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CFI of HNZ and bighorn sheep - Similkameen - Simmons argued that the sheep in Snowy have become accustomed to the training flights over the years and are not stressed as sheep would be experiencing helicopters for the first time. “If you asked the bighorn sheep, how many generations have been listening to helicopters? Much like deer in Penticton, they’re completely used to what they see and hear in their environment.”  

Territorial II

Looking at the bigger picture it's difficult to understand which entity is promoting the wolf cull.  Is it the Oil and Gas resource industry or  BC Hydro's Site C dam builders who see the animals as a threat to their safety?   Both are being serviced by the BC Liberal Government.

Whichever is the culprit, there are scientists out in the fields of Peace River Moberly district beavering away, generating their numerous reports on behalf of the government with all costs being borne by taxpayers.   Helicopters are the workhorses to and from the wilderness areas, to and from the overnight half-pipe shelter accommodations twice/thrice daily, entertainment supplied, FOOD delivered by air, fuel hauled in for the helicopters, travel expenses for the Government to pay, hotels/flights/car rental to the helicopter pads, add in salaries and benefits.

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This is Michael Smyth's idea of what a Wolf looks like in Northern British Columbia.

Marco Musiani photos

 

John Bergenske and Ian McAllister are two conservationists who care deeply about British Columbia’s threatened wildlife.  But when it comes to the government’s decision to shoot up to 184 wolves from helicopters to save endangered caribou herds, they find themselves at odds.  “Killing one species to save another simply doesn’t work,” said McAllister, a renowned wildlife photographer .... - Michael Smyth

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Bob Dylan: Pity the poor immigrant  Caribou MOU signed under duress distress

Mike or Michelle Wiegele?

or

Is Mike Mike and Michelle Michelle?

or

Mike and Michelle?

Shaky: E&N Railway Bridge Footings

 Model Trains: Clubs Metro Vancouver

 
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The Real Thing, but.......

Link UPDATE: 2017-08-27    URL to PDF file  579 Pages

Bridge inspection : Southern Railway of Vancouver Island, BC Canada. Phase 1, Inspection report : bridges from Mile 1.30 to Mile 65.10 and 2 bridges on the Wellcox Spur (28 bridges). --

A Report on Vancouver Island's Southern Railway of British Columbia rail infrastructures provides excellent how-to diy drawings for authentic HO Train bridges.  All they need is a copy of that Report or two, one should be enough to raise the concerns of the communities that lie in the path of the real  E&N Railway line.

Two years ago BNSF had their own problems:

Detailed new photos show state of aging BNSF Bridge in South Surrey as potential recipe for disaster.    -  Laila Yuile's No Strings Attached

Southern Railway of British Columbia  negotiations

E&N Assessment Reports    Four held in trust by MoT if you can find them

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure and the Island Corridor Foundation have released a comprehensive assessment of the condition of the 48 bridges and trestles on the E&N rail corridor between Victoria and Courtenay, including two structures on the Wellcox spur between the main line and the Nanaimo harbour. The railway bridge structures range in date of construction between 1906 and 2010. The objectives of the study were to:

• assess the load carrying capacity of the bridges
• estimate potential rehabilitation/replacement costs required to the bridges to support rail operations to the end of year 2021, with further estimates of bridge rehabilitation/replacement costs to the years 2031 and 2041.

E & N Railway Bridge Inspections 2011
579 Pages

 Get your scale rulers out:

Page 344 Merged with 345
 

Page 578 and 408 of 579

  
Page 374 of 579

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Penticton HNZ Topflight's Chief Flying instructor: "If you asked the bighorn sheep, how many generations have been listening to helicopters?"

There has to be something missing in the dialogue between the Vancouver Sun reporter Larry Pynn and the chief flying instructor Tim Simmons for HNZ Topflight: 

Simmons argued that the sheep in Snowy have become accustomed to the training flights over the years and are not stressed as sheep would be experiencing helicopters for the first time. “If you asked the bighorn sheep, how many generations have been listening to helicopters? Much like deer in Penticton, they’re completely used to what they see and hear in their environment.” 

A Conversation overheard between the CFI of HNZ and a bighorn sheep:

Just Asking:

"When did you first stop paying attention to HNZ helicopters?"  Baaaaaa!

"Aha!  Never!"

"How many Generations ago?"


Charles Darwin would probably be amazed that deer Bambi and sheep lambs have made an evolutionary leap frog bypassing youth and arrived fresh from the womb as Rams and Ewes.  How else to explain their having no knowledge of early life stresses involving helicopters.  Blocked it out from butting heads.


The lifespan of bighorn sheep in British Columbia is 14 years.


BC Conservation Status Report pegs their life span as  ........ 18 years, which is equivalent to 3 generations.



The easier way to look at how much helicopters have been pestering the Bighorn sheep is to count the number of years the machines have been in existence, especially by the BC Forest Service fighting fires.

BCFS

72 years ago the helicopter arrive; 14 year life span of bighorn sheep means that there has been Five Generations listening to Helicopters.

In those same 72 years there has been one generation of humans listening to helicopters, second generation for 36 years, third generation for 7 years and if the chief flying instructor were to talk to us we would say that his aircraft does create stress within our communities, why else would YVR have a noise tracker monitors?  Why indeed would there be a Press release this very morning on excessive noise being monitored on either side of Burrard Inlet?

Enbridge Northern Gateway 'Discrete Geohazards' outnumber Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline ...but

.... but that doesn't mean Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain 'Discrete Geohazards' aka 'Anomaly' or 'Anomalies' pipelines are safer than Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline.

Enbridge GeoHazard List is longer, much longer in detail than  Kinder Morgan.  Has KM skimped on the details and then claiming immunity .... for reasons of security?  Actually KM only provides the Ten Highest GeoHazards, their number may be much higher than Enbridge's 363 Geohazards.

American Society of Mechanincal Engineers  (ASME): 

Pipeline Integrity Analyses for Construction in Mountainous Areas

ratcheting
Exacerbated by complex routing and profile, pipelines constructed in mountainous areas are at risk to develop significant uplift in the soil at bend locations during hydrostatic testing and initial operating cycles. If such uplift displacement accumulates during subsequent operating cycles, a phenomenon known as ratcheting, the pipe may eventually fail by upheaval buckling. 

 http://proceedings.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=2022505

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Enbridge Geohazard List

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 363 Geohazards

Hoult Creek and Upper Kitimat Valley appear to be the most 'difficult' sections for Enbridge

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Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain 

GeoHazard List

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