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Respectfully yours

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December 10, 2013

Nelson Mandela (Photo credit: Festival Karsh Ottawa)

With respect to the family, friends , colleagues of Nelson Mandela we offer our condolences to the one who according to US President and guardian of democratic freedom Barack Obama ” has joined the ages”.

A quiet spirit and a pragmatic soul has left us to our own ends we hope that the world will build on his legacy as it is far from perfect and a lesson in starting and allowing others to have a part in liberty. KDG

Today in history: December 10th 1906

Teddy Roosevelt wins the Nobel peace prize, becoming the first American to accomplish it.

Obama heads to South Africa for Mandela memorial (kfwbam.com)
Condolence Book Available At Cabinet Office (bernews.com)
Obama heads to South Africa for Mandela memorial (sfgate.com)
Nelson Mandela dies aged 95 (scotsman.com)
U.S. presidents head to S. Africa for Mandela memorial (kvue.com)
Nelson Mandela funeral: ‘the world is coming’ (brlmuzik.wordpress.com)
Nelson Mandela dies at the age of 95 (video, updated) (al.com)

Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize, President of the United States, South Africa, United States

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Engagement

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July 25, 2013

Harry Lali the unsuccessful incumbant in the May provincial election still has his sign up at his constituency office on Granite Avenue and Garcia street here in Merritt. He moved out of his office some weeks ago however his name and MLA Fraser Nicola still remain on the outside of the building.

Harry spent many years in the legislature representing our riding, he was a cabinet minister in Glen Clarks NDP government. His time and tenure was part of an era here in Merritt that saw great things and many close connections to Canadian governments and world dynamics.

It is to early to say if the era is ended here for us however we see the world as being different and closer. People growing up in the engagement era that Harry had some dealings with are different then the people in the news in the 20th century a very violent and chaotic time.

At some point some one will have to take the sins down. We are confident that the change in the personality of the world through engagement will remain.

Today in history: July 25, 1917

Sir Robert Borden introduces an income tax in Canada lowest rate 4 percent highest rate is 25 percent. It is to be a temporary measure.

‘It’s a whole new world’: Could Turks and Caicos be like a tiny Nunavut or Canada’s 11th province? (news.nationalpost.com)

Tags: Canada, Fraser Nicola, Harry, Harry Lali, Harry Potter, Income taxes in Canada, Politics, Robert Borden

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Premier with a seat.

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July 15, 2013

Today we have a sitting premier in the 85 seat government of British Columbia.Christie Clark won a seat in west Kelowna in a by-election,she carried 63 percent of the vote about the same as the Liberal member that steped aside so that the Premier could be available to the opposition in Question Period during the sitting of the legislature.

A by-election is on for the seat vacated, in the Village of Ashcroft by our Fraser Nicola member Jackie Taggart.

Today in history: July 15, 1916

Pacific Aero Products, later to be called Boeing is established.

Christy Clark decisively wins Westside-Kelowna byelection (theprovince.com)
Premier Christy Clark cruises to victory in Westside-Kelowna byelection (vancouversun.com)
Candidates in West-Kelowna by-election on July 10 (globalnews.ca)
B.C. Premier Christy Clark to run in Kelowna byelection (cbc.ca)
Today’s byelection to decide if B.C. premier wins seat in legislature (ctvnews.ca)

Tags: Ben Stewart, Boeing, British Columbia, Christy Clark, Kelowna, Liberal, Vancouver-Point Grey, Westside-Kelowna

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CF100

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June 13, 2013

There is an airplane at the Princeton Airstrip about 100 kilometers from us in Merritt. It is a CF100 starfighter from the 1950s it saw service in the Korean conflict. The plane had the nickname ” the lead sled “. It is up on a pedestal and bears the number 420.

The United States made a number of these aircraft available to Canada after it canceled it s own Avro Arrow program.

A local was noted for flying his over his home town of Merritt and braking the sound barrier as a hello to his fellows.

Diagrams and paintings of the Avro Arrow craft show up at antique outlets from time to time here. The company A.V. roe was organized in Canada in 1945. Its links to the UK and successes such as the Lancaster bomber the B25 Mitchell made for a considerable fondness for the old world and its way of doing things.

Princeton BC Canada is a colorful resource town on the Similkameen River and a historic haunt of the Train Robber Bill Miner at the beginning of the 20th century.

It hosts Racing Days ( 45 years of horse racing this year) at the end of July and is in close to the Cascade Mountain range.

http://www.princeton.ca/

Today in History: June 13,1898

The Yukon Territory is established with Dawson as its Capital.

Tags: Aviation, Avro Arrow, Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, Canada, Dawson, June, Pounds per square inch, Pressure, Tire, United States, Yukon, Yukon Territory

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Penny for your thoughts

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April 29, 2013

The penny is out of production here , and the last few months a rounding of formula is in effect; to the nearest nickel. When we offered to pay the 3 cents of the dollar 98 for a large coffee at McDonald’s Sunday we were pleasantly given a nickel back. Pennies are not about as they were . And the approximately 2 that would have been made for every Canadian this year is obvious by their absence. However outlets still honour them and an unconfirmed source said that they were able to put a one cent debit transaction through at a local big box that had an add a penny take a penny counter dish at one time.

A counter person agreed that the demise of the penny needs to overcome a lot of poetry and folklore to be complete:

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Put a penny in your shoe for luck

Don’t give a wallet or purse without a cent in it as a gift.

And of course in all respect to the British homeland, Margret Thatcher’s pennies don’t come from heaven they have to be earned here.

Today in History: April 29,2011

The Royal Wedding of William and Kate.

The Penny I Found This Morning. (sallydupre.wordpress.com)
Find a Penny (wordsmithsix.wordpress.com)
Manicues and Pedicures: Pay Pennies, Splurge a Little or Break the Bank?, Thrifty Mom’s Two Cents (everydayfamily.com)
What 10 kids think about the U.S. penny (troyrecord.com)
No More Pennies? (sgibossebusa3000.wordpress.com)
Pennies and Angels (jadedhope87.wordpress.com)
grate penny. (miriaairim.wordpress.com)

Tags: Business, Coin, Investing, Nickel, Penny, Small Cap Stock Research, Stocks and Bonds, Take a penny leave a penny

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TGIF

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April 26, 2013

Its good that it is friday….

Today in History: April 26 ,1994

South Africa holds its first multi racial elections.

Tags: Africa, Friday, Google, Government, John Dramani Mahama, South Africa, tgif, United States

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Media representation

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April 22, 2013

Tomorrow night at 7PM, April 23rd, at the local community college NVIT a film on the representation of women in the media will be presented. In the auditorium at 4155 Belshaw avenue Misrepresentation will be played.
doors open at 6:30 seating is limited to 145 and no food or drinks in the theater: admission 2 dollars ( proceeds to the local women’s shelter.)
A film by Jennifer Siebe Newsom.

Today in History: April 22 1977

Fiber optics is first used to carry phone calls.

Miss Representation (mediathinking003.wordpress.com)
Pacific women political representation not good enough, says Fiame (pacific.scoop.co.nz)
TURLOCK NOW: Women’s representation gets film focus (modbee.com)
Women journalists in Jordan bring women’s rights to the forefront. Representation of women in Indian police force first step towards equality. (psawomenpolitics.wordpress.com)

Tags: Colleges and Universities, Community college, Education, Misrepresentation, NVIT, Pacific Media Centre, Two-Year Colleges, United States

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Rafe Mair

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April 18, 2013

A voice from the past or current personality , Rafe Mair will be speaking here on April 24th. ” hear about rivers, PPs, oil tankers ,salmon and democracy all this in a conclusion of why are hydro bills are going through the roof.

Rafe’s picture on his promo poster shows a grey bearded cane wielding lively moving person, with the cane raised and the left elbow high and ready.

Admission by donation , at the Merritt civic center starting at 7 o’clock. The event also features film maker Damien Gillis.

Today in history: April 18th 1906

Fire and earthquakes destroy San Fransisco

Tags: BBC, Merritt British Columbia, Politics, Rafe, Rafe Mair, San Fransisco

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60 jobs gone

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April 15, 2013

The people at Ardew were informed at 5 o’clock this morning Saturday 13/13 that they were all laid off. The mill was being taken over by Aspen Planners after being acquired by them. The Ardew Mill is old tech without J bar sorter.:*

* Opinion: There will be a net job loss in that sector as Aspen Planners have two mills here before acquiring Ardew. One saw mill one planner mill .

The consolidation sees AP in control of the Weyerhaeuser operation and the Ardew operation , leaving one other lumber producer here; Tolko Industries a private company that also had its start as a family business.

Other small mills include NMV and pine Ideas as specialty lumber manufacturers.

Today in history: April 15th 1923

Insulin becomes generally available for people with diabetes.

Tags: Business, Construction and Maintenance, HTML element, Lumber, Materials and Supplies, Mills, Tolko, Weyerhaeuser, Wood and Plastics, Wood Products

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5000 meters

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February 26, 2013

A motorman from Beaver Drilling gave us a conversation last week. He said he is working on a Double Drilling Rig , in the Rocky Mountain Foothills. For natural gas, his state of the art rig is usually involved in oil exploration. The motorman sowed me a key chain model bit and talked about whip-stocking a method of pulling back in a hole and stopping rotation of the String and hydrological turning the bit and controls a horizontally inclined take off. This makes for a managed drilling platform into a field.

Shale gas production has had a dramatic effect on supplies and the industry suffering is setting its hopes on conversions from high carbon use such as coal and oil to clean natural gas. according to the Horn River News in gas suffering Alberta, June 19th 2012, this may take years, and there are concerns it may not be timely for Alberta if major players go elsewhere.

Editors note: There has been a free fall in gas prices since 2009 do to high production,

Today in History: February 25,1919

Oregon puts a penny tax on gasoline becoming the first US state to levy gasoline.

Today in History: February 26th,1993

The world trade center is attacked killing 6 people in an explosion

Chevron Gets a Sniff of Australian Shale Gas (forbes.com)
Poland Plans to Ease Environmental Rules Hindering Shale Search – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
U.S. rig count for oil and gas and future economic growth (resilience.org)
ONGC drills world’s deepest well by an offshore rig (news.in.msn.com)
Natural gas reserves found in İstanbul (worldbulletin.net)
Bulgaria Energy Minister Boasts Serious Investor Interest in Black Sea Exploration Blocks (novinite.com)
Honda Civic Natural Gas review: Clean and cheap (reviews.cnet.com)
2012 Honda Civic GX: Unsung green hero (reviews.cnet.com)
Traditional Oil Drilling Supports Hundreds in Central Burma (irrawaddy.org)

Tags: Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Associated Press, Business, Drill Rigs, Gallon, Gasoline, Gasoline and diesel usage and pricing, Natural gas, Oregon, Rocky Mountain Foothills, United States, Vicki Berger

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The lady

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February 19, 2013

About a hundred people of this small south central interior British Columbia community watched The Lady last evening at the local college lecture theater. A powerful storytelling of the the fight for democracy in Burma, the film seemed to hush the people as they left the building.”That was a good film” was one of the comments, I saw that 2 years ago at the coast another. However an overall mood of some reverence was very clear.

Red scarfed soldiers selected and given licence to arbitrary kill seemed to be one of the key elements in a muting of unsolicited opinion. The fact that the Military allowed a free election May 1 and only won 10 seats of the 400 some also raised a sence of wonder about delusion and arrogance of unrestrained power.

The president of the group was heard to say that the film was attended by 87 members. Ron Brown was in the group, he was an election official here and supported mandatory voting. The group according to the president all voted in the tear off people’s choice with a unanimous excellent.

Today in history: February 19,1861

Serfdom is abolished in Russia

Burma’s Rights Violations Continue despite Reforms: UN Envoy (irrawaddy.org)
Paramus Sunrise Rotary Hears Charlotte Bennett Schoen Speak About Her Upcoming Trip To Burma/Myanmar (paramuspost.com)
The Lady, Luc Besson (kevingriffiths.wordpress.com)
Four ladies from Burma, navigating freedom where democracy is tentative: Kathleen Parker (oregonlive.com)
Burma: Students Taken By Kachin Army (eurasiareview.com)
The Burmese brides trafficked into China to marry total strangers (metro.co.uk)
VIDEO: ‘Serious rights abuses’ in Burma (bbc.co.uk)

Tags: British Columbia, Burma, Ron Brown, Russia

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Hobiyee

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February 13, 2013

The crescent moon on the bottom of the orb was beautiful to see last night and a source in the first nations community says that is a Hobiyee. She said that the more pronounced the spoon effect of the crescent the better an omen for a good year is.

The word Hobiyee according to the source is a first nation word from a northern area about Kitwanga. Thats the Prince Rupert area of north western British Columbia.

An interpretation of the moon is that it will be agood year, which may be in conflict with the Chinese lunar new year that begins the year of the snake as some see that as not a good year. However some good celebrations are planned by the Niska nation: Say’tKilim-Goot ( one heart, one path, one nation) at Gitwinksihlkw BC, at the TS’oohl memorial center February 22 and 23,2013.

The Niska nation is the first nation group that got a treaty from the Canadian government that includes some self-government and taxation authority some years ago and is being monitored for results.

Dim huxw ga’am niin We will se you again.

Haagwill huwilsim ( take care)

Today in history: February,13 , 1633

Gallio arrives in Rome for his trial in the inquisition.