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Imature bald eagle

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November 29, 2012

Yesterday morning I saw a dead eagle in the back of a pick up. It looked frozen but imagistic even in its fallen spread eagle position. By the time I got up to the conservation office to inquire the owner of the truck had already surrendered the bird. A confirmed source said there was no crime suspected or breach of any regulation. “it starved to death” ,” this time of the year is hard on them” on examination “muscle had been consumed”.

There is a right to sustenance and ceremonial use for eagles by first nations.And its been about 7 years since non FN have been able to get permits to harvest. A confirmed source says about its remains “it will probably go to a local first nations person.”

Editors note: Solders fighting in winter with little food have been autopsied and found to have had shrunken organs consumed to keep all warm blooded creatures at body temperature.

Today in History: November 29,1963

The Warren Commission is begun to investigate the assassination of JFK.

Posthumous book claims Ford knew of CIA coverup in Kennedy assassination (rawstory.com)
Bald Eagle Freed From Hunter’s Trap In Salem, NH (boston.cbslocal.com)
Injured bald eagle recovers, is released at Little Spokane River Natural Area (oregonlive.com)
I went for the eagle, I stayed for the cranes (theradula.blogspot.com)

Tags: Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Bald Eagle, History, Kennedy John Fitzgerald, Lee Harvey Oswald, President, United States, Warren Commission

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Rain

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November 6, 2012

English: Map of Kelly Barnes Dam, Toccoa College and Toccoa City (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

There is serious rain here to-day. That is serious to us. In the 1960s we had less than 10 inches a year. Semi desert. In recent years we have 12 . Still we are part of the Great Eastern Desert Basin, it includes south central BC and eastern Washington State.

Two nights ago we had strong winds always a sign that coastal weather is on its way up. The local police station is under going roof repairs with new sheeting being applied over fading colored metal sheathing.

Editors note:We have no idea the feeling and sence of the east coast after Sandy. But have confidence in the citizens and applaud the decision of the marathon to run and help at the same time.

We feel that unless a piece of plywood is neglected and blows off the police station we are in little danger from the elements. ( thats on the balance of probabilities )

Today in History: November 6, 1977

The Kelly Barnes Dam above Toccoa Bible College in Toccoa Georgia fails killing nearly 40 people.

Toccoa police investigate robbery (independentmail.com)
Heavy rains triggered by tropical storm kill at least 22 people in southern India (vancouverdesi.com)

Tags: British Columbia, Eastern Desert, Great Comet, Great Eastern Desert Basin, Kelly Barnes Dam, Toccoa Georgia, Washington State, World War II

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Pipeline application

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October 31, 2012

There was an information public meeting last night at the Civic Center here. Kinder Morgan was displaying the wares of its pipeline Company Trans Mountain Pipeline Company. The operation is in a process to get permits from the NEP The National Energy Board, that’s the regulator that recommends to The Federal Cabinet on energy matters. The open house was about its activities to twin its 61 year old line from Edmonton to Burnaby. An upgrade its dock facility as well.

The purpose of the evening was for discussions and they say that all statements will be in consideration for its final application for permits.

Editors Note:

Trans Mountain has operated out of Merritt one pumping station with no significant trouble in the 60 years of its delivering oil to the major population center of the Lower Mainland of British Columbia.

A timeline was in the publication material showing where they are now and when construction would start. A full year of discussion remains before the application is submitted and then 2 years of scrutiny with it being in the hands of the regulators.

A pair of consultants also had meetings with city officials and the board of Community Futures Development a high risk lender for economic development and an arms length facilitator of the Federal Government.

The company also delivers refined gasoline products to central BC. PP

Today in history: October 31 1997

A British person au pair Louise Woodward is sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of second degree murder the day before by a Massachusetts jury.

Thousands expected at anti-pipeline protest in B.C. (ctvnews.ca)
Oil pipelines, tankers ‘most pressing’ issue in B.C.: poll (o.canada.com)
Burnaby mayor slams Kinder Morgan and Harper government at town hall (vancouverobserver.com)
Labour, Environmentalists And First Nations ‘Diametrically Opposed’ To Tankers And Pipelines by David P. Ball (zcommunications.org)
B.C. government rethinks pipeline-approval process (theglobeandmail.com)
Burnaby residents pack meeting on pipeline expansion (theprovince.com)
What you need to know about Kinder Morgan and its proposed pipeline expansion (vancouverobserver.com)
Burnaby residents oppose pipeline expansion (cbc.ca)
First Nations aim to stop proposed pipeline expansion (ctvnews.ca)
Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh paddle to protest Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion (theprovince.com)

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Water that is microwaved

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October 30, 2012

The public library is having an open experiment. There are three plants on the counter and they are all treated the same except one is being watered with water that was microwaved. The plants are in their fourth week of the experiment today and they seem about the same all green and lively. The study is a double controlled and blind and is to prove a thesis that microwaved water hurts plants.

The Study runs for 2 months.

You can view the experiment at 1691 Garcia Street on the counter to the right as you come in the door.

Editors: humorous note: if you talk to the plants talk to them all not just one.

Today in history: October 30, 1941

The United States approves a billion dollars of lend lease aid to Canada and Britain.

The Art of Reheating in a Microwave (samsung.com)
How to Clean Your Kitchen Appliances (apartmentguide.com)
Reasons to Limit Your Use of Microwave Ovens (fitsofhealth.com)
The Electromagnetic War On Humanity – (inquiringminds.cc)
Boeing Successfully Tests Electronics-Frying, Microwave Missile (amresolution.com)
Non-lethal microwave-blasting missile knocks out electronics (wired.co.uk)

Tags: Canada, Food, High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, Hurricane Irene, Lend-Lease, Microwave, Microwave oven, United State

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Snow

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October 25, 2012

The flakes are wafting down , around and temperatures require winter ware. The season is pronounced in changing here in Merritt.

This week the crews were about with compressors blowing out water lines till spring , V formations of geese seem normal in the air, more normal than in past years when they were under scrutiny for changing weather/ migration habits.

Opinion:

And the US election is set for a pause of reflection in both countries to evaluate who should be in the chair for the super power that has been responsible for so much in the last century and looking for footing in this.

Today in history: October 25,2004

Cuba bans transactions in the US dollar.

Hurricane Sandy slams into Cuba (cbsnews.com)
Hurricane Sandy Makes Landfall Just West of Santiago De Cuba in Southern Cuba (abcnews.go.com)
Hurricane Sandy Brings Heavy Flooding To Jamaica (news.sky.com)
Hurricane Sandy lashes Cuba, strengthens into category two (panarmenian.net)
Hurricane Sandy growing stronger as it nears Cuba (news.yahoo.com)
Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis (chiefwritingwolf.com)
Making a U-Turn at Cuba (cubiyanqui.com)
Cuba modifies agriculture laws (foxnews.com)
Music from Germany/Bavaria – Die Cuba Boarischen (xworldmusic.wordpress.com)
Smithsonian gets Cuba pilot’s suit from 1962 (sfgate.com)

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Highland Valley Copper

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October 15, 2012

The huge copper mine about 1 hr from Merritt is still expanding. Lyle Forsyth 31 years an employee and a journey man says his base pay rate is 42.50 an hr. They have had construction recently even giving him some overtime opportunities. The mine some years ago applied to the labour board for a variance so crews could work more then 8 hrs a day with out getting overtime this made for a 4 day work week and one less day of driving as well.

Highland Valley Copper took over the Bethlehem, Highmont and Lornex operations making for one mining concern under the Teck Corporation banner. The mine produces copper and molybdenum

Today in history: October 15,1970

An Aeroflot domestic flight is hijacked and diverted to Turkey

Vale kicks off copper production at Zambia mine (mining.com)
Man Electrocuted Trying To Steal Copper From Pole (detroit.cbslocal.com)
Chile’s huge open-pit copper mine goes underground (sacbee.com)
World’s biggest copper mine to make inroads underground (mining.com)
NBN to save up to AU$700m in copper maintenance costs (zdnet.com)

Tags: Copper mine

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TGIF

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October 12, 2012

Its good that it is friday….

Phil Smith a retired supervisor at the local Ministry of Forests was chatting about the Enbridge project today. 700 creeks to cross in his estimation makes for an environmentally challenging project if it is ever approved.

Today in history: October 12,1962

The Russian premier has a shoe pounding incident at the UN General Assembly.

Tags: Bad Day (Daniel Powter song), Enbridge, Government, History, Religion and Spirituality, tgif, Turkey, United States

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Demonstration

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October 4, 2012

There is a couple of people on Voght Street with signs against the Smart Meters that Hydro is installing. One a women about 45 is saying her motivation is because of burying a relative with many brain tumors in the head area around the ear , she says that her relation used cell phones with regularity.

In the 10 odd minutes we talked to her there were no honks from passing traffic.

Today in history: October 4 1957

The Arrow Jet Fighter’s rolled out in ceremony at the Avro plant in Ontario Canada.

Flights of Fancy – Canada and the Avro Arrow (ifiwantedyouropinion.com)
The gynecological case for the Avro Arrow (macleans.ca)
Did Cell Phone Use Call Sheryl Crow’s Brain Tumor? (celebs.gather.com)
Smart meter complaint to be heard by B.C. Human Rights Tribunal (theprovince.com)
The Immune System And Brain Tumors – Potential Breakthrough (medicalnewstoday.com)
Barrow researchers make breakthrough on immune system and brain tumors (esciencenews.com)
How secure are smart meters? (mkronline.com)
Smart meters too toxic to touch (stopsmartmeters.com.au)
Privacy Expert: All Protesters Are Routinely Scanned and ‘Skimmed’ By Drones (musicians4freedom.com)

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22-wmr

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October 1, 2012

A spent casing for this weapon was found on the walk path on Voght . The casing was in the middle of the path and was in an area where vehicles don”t often pull over. Baring some child playing with it we remind you readers that discharging a fire arm in City limits is illegal and a wounded bear can be more dangerous then a healthy one with a clear path of escape.

Today in history: October 1st 331 BC

King Darius the third is defeated by the Macedonians in the battle of Gaugamela.

Top 10 Reasons Alexander The Great Was A Great Commander (roixcroix.wordpress.com)
New Statue Complex Honours Macedonian Heroes (eurasiareview.com)
Macedonian Lustration Again Disputed Before Court (eurasiareview.com)
doing what we say: exposition #123 (brucefong.wordpress.com)
Fight Like a Greek. Lead Like Alexander. Part 1 (michaellemme.wordpress.com)

Tags: .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire, 331 BC, Alexander, Barack Obama, Battle of Gaugamela, Gaugamela, History, Macedonians

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TGIF

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September 28, 2012

English: A Reva i/G-Wiz charging in London, between Covent Garden and the Strand. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

yes try as you might…..

Charging station in use: The charging station to accommodate electric vehicle quick charges was seen to be in use this week, here in Merritt BC

A car with BC Hydro markings was using the single outlet on Voght street.

The out let allows for a 4 hour charge that may get the user up to about 85 kilometers of driving. An overnight charge on regular 120 volt at home will produce the same thing.

The station has been noticeably not in use for the months it has been here.There is talk of other being added soon, this may make it more attractive for use. The stations are GPS enabled for smart billing technologies.

Today in history: September 28,2008

The Falcon 1 is the first private space craft in space.

Flyout of KSC, Farewell Endeavour! (ireport.cnn.com)
NASA injects $1.1bn into private space craft companies (slashgear.com)
EV charging station recharges without wires (reviews.cnet.com)
Study: Almost 5 million charging stations by 2015 (reviews.cnet.com)
Are all-electric vehicles practical? (shopautoweek.com)
Quebec, Ontario creating electric vehicle charging stations (ctvnews.ca)
New site helps, educates California EV owners (reviews.cnet.com)
Station Square adds electric car charging station (triblive.com)
ComEd Wants To Know Where You’re Charging Your Car (forbes.com)
Sharing the plug: the evolving etiquette of charging stations (csmonitor.com)

Tags: BC Hydro, Charging station, Colonization, Dead Space, Electric car, Electric vehicle, Energy, Essays and Manifestos, Falcon, Global Positioning System, GPS, Nissan Leaf, Spacecraft, Technology, Transportation, United States

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More benchs

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September 25, 2012

There are three more benches going in on Voght going up the hill and in front of the RCMP building.

A source with in the city says that council voted recently to install them.The benches are an attractive design with steel wagon wheels for protection and hand rails at each end. The first prototype was build locally and complement the bus shelters about town.

However the first bench installed after this vote is without the wheels and has a stenciled relief of Merritt Inc 1911. the city incorporated to undertake an electricity generation scheme that after supplying power caused the towns insolvency by a relief act of the provincial legislature.

A councilor H. Kroeker was a former building supply owner and a recent emphasis on trades in the high school and college seems to indicate a bent toward the construction of unwanted housing. A home was build for a private owner on Garcia Street using the high schools students and equipment a couple of years ago and they placed a beam and rock center to mark the completion of the trades and transition project.

Today in history: September 25,303

On a trip to preach the Gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens France.

The Uniqueness of Saint Fermin Festival (d105294857364281100.typepad.com)
Amiens: tough autumn for France? (english.ruvr.ru)
The Oldest Running of the Bulls (outsideonline.com)
My Beautiful Garden Bench (gardeningnirvana.wordpress.com)
Man sitting at bus shelter critically injured by car (ocregister.com)

Tags: Amiens, Bench (furniture), Bus stop, Fermin, France, Gospel, Pamplona, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Saint Fermin, San Diego

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TGIF-AGM Nicola Naturalists

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September 21, 2012

Have a great weekend, and visit merit and malice and rate them

Alan Burger and the Naturalists presented their AGM. Last evening at the local college room 001,financial statements ,and newsletters as well as reports all clear and concise.:Opinion

The society bought two Kyac boots last year and acquired 3 GPS mapping units. They accounted for the work and cost of their amphibian mapping count and after adjourning the business meeting went to a members picture contest, where 29 blind slides were shown as each member in the voting bar had three votes to pick a winner. And the winner was Jack Madrigas with a capture of a Great Grey Owl.Jack is the secretary and his wife the treasurer.

The society added two directors to bring the count to 7 and they will decide the executive roles at the first directors meeting. The group have a website.

http://www.nicolanaturalists.ca/

The next event is October the 10th at NVIT. The provincial naturalist president will be showing at the lecture theater.

Today in history: September 21 1991

Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the United States first Female Supreme Court Justice