You are presumed to be honest and responsible without evidence to the contrary beyond a reasonable doubt… on the balance of probablilties you are justified by 51 % likelyhood.
The new star wars movie is coming with a lot of marketing of the images. Big money in that brand. People need to pay for legitimate stuff or pay the price for your crime.
Counterfeit consumer products have a reputation for being lower quality (sometimes not working at all) and may even include toxic elements. This has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, due to automobile and aviation accidents, poisoning, or ceasing to take essential compounds (e.g. in the case a person takes non-working medicine)
Enjoy the excitement of the wakening of all those Jedis.
Rick Blacklaw presents his photos At the Merritt Old Courthouse Gallery Dec /15 photo KDG
A book launch happened on Saturdays a the Court House Gallery , University of Calgary grad Rick and Carol Blacklaw presented In the steps of Alexander Mackenzie. The show goes to the 19th The gallery is open from noon to 6PM Thursday through Saturday.
The Nicola Naturalists are organizing the Merritt Christmas Bird Count. This count has been running since 1995 and is one of thousands held across N America and other parts of the world. The count is on Sunday 20th December 2015 – you can come for the whole day or part of the day. We tally all the species and numbers of birds within a 22 km diameter circle. The area is divided up and groups of birders spend the day looking for both common and rare species.
Source Alan Burger
Here are a few samples of birds within 22 Kilometers of Merritt…
Pipe for oil field File:Photo KDG Will they be the bad guy from Paris?
The Paris meetings have recently affirmed that there is will to change , what is different about this international meeting and others is this;usually the bureaucrats have already done the work for agreements or treaties and the elected are there to announce and confer as well as associate with others that have the confidence of the electorate. This time their is a 90 day time limit for conferring with officials after the fact. The cabinet must take their pledges to the ministries in there nations and come up with plans. Here is some of the alternate methods that BC hydro is adopting in response to the markets here already.
Electricity from independent producers must also be clean and renewable. Projects currently generating electricity for B.C. are found throughout the province, and include: ( BC Hydro)
Biomass: electricity is generated either by burning or by converting biomass to a fuel, which is then used to generate power
Run-of-river: the current of a river is used to generate electricity
Solar: energy from the sun’s rays are converted to electricity using photovoltaic cells
Municipal solid waste: combustion or gasification of waste to generate electricity
Waste heat: when heat is generated as a byproduct of other processes, it can be used to generate electricity
Merritt is in the middle of a green energy project now, how this relates to Paris is unknown however it is always desirable for incoming governments to privatize. ( or in this case create new business) . Hydro says they have 100 projects on the go with the above elements.
Editors note: We think the first method of international agreements is preferable to the Paris format. Less surprises over all. That said it was nice to see all those getting along so well in a troubled world. We hope it sticks.
On this day December 4th 1875
Boss Tweed a New York crooked politician escapes prison later recaptured in Spain.
Merritt has a walk of stars walk and a hall of fame. File Photo KDG
The Chamber is completing its silent auction with a live auction at 5 PM tonight at the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame building 2025 Quilchena Avenue. Two of the fourteen trees decorated for the parade on Friday will be sold by the parade committee.
The Hall of Fame is a progression from the activities around the Walk of Stars and the years of country music festivals in Merritt.:
Sarah Molnar works at a recent Rotary event. Her father is a long time member. Photo KDG
The City of Merritt has had a long presence of the Rotary organization. The local business and professionals a s well as others often partner with the city and others to do projects and have their name on tangible legacy’s including a park and a concrete skateboard park. They have a program that goes overseas to address the disease of polio.
The clubs raise monies internally but sometimes go to the public with events such as radio actions and theme fundraisers.
Rotary meets in Merritt at the Brambles bakery in the 2100 block of Quilchena avenue. It is know as a service organization and its motto is Service above Self.
Tonight there will be the annual Christmas parade in Merritt, the parade will start off the Christmas shopping season and will have a midnight madness open shops after the parade.
Merritt BC is a community of 8000 people in the South Central Interior of British Columbia Canada. Its Chamber of Commerce has had a number of themes over the decades including, A lake a day as long as you stay,The Copper Capital of Canada, The Hub of the Coquihalla Highway System and its most recent The Country Music Capital of Canada. It has the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in the 2000 Block of Quilchena avenue and is the bedroom community of the Douglas Lake Cattle Company, it is also the home of NVIT, a local Community College started by its First Nations citizens over 30 years ago. Merritt’s parade will reflect a lot of that flavor.
Community parade as part of the Country Christmas week to help kick off the festive season.
Parade starts at the Civic Center goes down Chapman Street to Quilchena Avenue, down Quilchena Avenue to Charters Street, down Charters Street to Coutlee Avenue, down Coutlee Avenue to Garcia Street where the parade ends.
The Merritt public library is having a finish the sentence contest. Patrons of the 1691 Garcia street facility can take out three books pile them in a staggered row to make a continuous sentence from the combined titles.
The contestants are then to take a picture of the pile of books and submit it to the library for posting and a vote. There is a prize of a large chocolate basket. Entries are due December 1st.
On this Day: November 25th 1999
The United nations makes an international observance of women’s suffrage.
Telus making its presence known in Merritt. Photo KDG
The Telus bunch working all over this city had a meeting and discussed what they were doing and what to tell people because ” people are asking”. so today one of them said a letter is going out to everyone in town explaining the upgrade. they are also handing out brochures that show that they are bring direct fiber to households, so that you can be “digital right to your digital device” with out analog lines being used to slow speeds down.
They also promote Netflix through Optic to bring thousands of movies to your digital device. They say downloading a full music item will be 5 minutes.
There is information at: telus.com/merritt.
The websites promises 90 percent of Merritt to had 150 Mbp/per second of speed.
Editors note: When it says MBp/s that is Megabytes per second when the b is small it is Megabits . There are 8 bits to a byte. Mega-Bytes is faster service.
On this Day: November 6th 1947
Meet the press debuts on TV.
No its not a horror movie rather its a friend from the past. The onion was and invention of Heinz Lange here in Merritt and a version of it powered a warning light on the hillside leaving Merritt to the north and approaching the airstrip for decades.
A source with the city says that it is Murphy Shewchuck behind it’s construction it is being placed at the entrance to the Kinsman Park on Voght street and a plaque stand is in place ready to receive some acknowledgement.
Murphy Shewchuck is a retired BC Hydro employee and a free-lance writer and photographer. He has written several books on Merritt history and its trails and attractions. He also is published in outdoors magazines. He is a member of the Nicola Naturalists and a principal at the local museum and archives. http://www.murphyshewchuk.com/guidebooks/
Heinz Lange was a high school shop teacher passed away decades ago after a long a productive career here. He immigrated from Germany after the second world war after being on the side not prevailing as a test pilot for the Messerschmitt jet aircraft. Many of us remember him fondly as a teacher who cared and was energetic and positive. His windmill was also deployed in tests to aerate lakes in the area. He is said to have gotten a patent for his invention in the United States.
Reconciliation was his and many others aim here in the Nicola Valley.
We will see if some accounts of 100 megabits per second will stand, for now here is some info on broadband applications we think is accurate. One thing for sure there is a lot of utilities activities in the small central interior City of Merritt.
The upgrade and stitching of Telus fiber optics is in full charge. A line worker said that this community is lucky as we will have the highest speed internet available. “Good for Netflix, digital to the home”. Telus is also installing some new poles on Garcia Street, often phone lines are shared on Hydro poles and are the lower lines about 2 meters lower then power lines.
Below are the Internet download speed recommendations per stream for playing movies and TV shows through Netflix.
•0.5 Megabits per second – Required broadband connection speed
•1.5 Megabits per second – Recommended broadband connection speed
•3.0 Megabits per second – Recommended for SD quality
•5.0 Megabits per second – Recommended for HD quality
•25 Megabits per second – Recommended for Ultra HD quality, source: Netflix
HD Video Quality
Movies and TV shows that are available in high definition will play in 720p or better with a fast enough Internet connection. To watch Netflix in HD, ensure you have an HD plan, then set your video quality setting to High in the Playback Settings for your account.
A source says Telus is providing 7MB/s now and is going to 100 Megs/a second:
stichers on the site maintain it is the highest TELUS will offer meaning 10 megs or 1000 bites a second
What Internet Speeds Are Available?
While there are many rural communities that cannot even reach the 2 Mb/s speed, more of the larger cities, suburbs and urban areas have speeds available of 10 Mb/s and above. It is not limited to broadband/cable internet. In some cases internet speeds nearing 20 Mb/s from a DSL internet connection may be available.
The workers on the project puff the value of the work but it appears that an improvement is coming to this small rural community that will give the choice to those that may want it , higher speeds to watch in particular Netflix films in better definitions. Modems are a concern when matching performance to what is offered. Buyer Beware.
Editors note: David Calloway writes a good explanation of Broadband speeds here: http://broadband.about.com/od/speedissues/a/Broadband-Speeds-Explained.htm
Kevin Griffiths
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