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.
A moon coming to within 90 percent of its closest approach or 364,740 Kilometers of earth is super moon according to a 1979 definition.The next one is next week On January 21st. The year 2019 will see 3 more, August 1st and 3oth, and September 28th!
January’s moon a blood moon.
Next weeks moon is to be a blood moon where the shadow of the earth gets on the moon when all lined up with the sun and makes an eclipse.
Farmers Almanac take:
Totality will last a bit longer than average: 1 hour and 2 minutes. The eclipse will actually begin when the Moon enters the faint outer portion (called the penumbra) of the Earth’s shadow about an hour before it begins moving into the umbra. The penumbra, however, is all but invisible to the eye until the Moon becomes deeply immersed in it. Sharp-eyed viewers may get their first glimpse of the penumbra as a faint “smudge” on the left part of the Moon’s disk about a half hour after it first enters the penumbral shadow.
Source Farmers Almanac, Joe Rao
On this Day: January 16th 1964
Hello Dolly opens on Broadway to begin a run to nearly 3000 performances.
The Love to Dance Academy has opened at another location from the Olde Court House Gallery . They have moved to a new store front location in down town Merritt. The new localtion is across from the Coldwater Hotel, 1976 Quilchena avenue just down from Carrie Ware and Company Chartered Accountants. They are a few doors down from the orthadontist, Dr Dan Degasso.
Lizette the company principal says it is now their only location.
About the Love to Dance Academy LIZETTE NEL, Program Director RAD Ballet, Merritt Dancing Divas and Line Dance Instructor Lizette is a registered ballet teacher of the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) since 1969.
Lizette has 35 years teaching experience at her own ballet schools in Pretoria and other areas in Gauteng, South Africa, where her students excelled in ballet exams and won many trophies, bursaries and medals in dance competitions and championships.
While living in South Africa she was a lecturer at the University of Pretoria, teaching dance in the Movement Science department. Lizette was also a freelance teacher for examiners’ on tour. Lizette was a Badge Test examiner for the National Society of Dance Teachers (NSDT) and an adjudicator for various dance festivals, dance competitions and dance championships. She was also the organiser and chairperson of the Eisteddfod of the Performing Arts in Pretoria for many years, (an annual 3 week, 3000 entrants event), and served on the RAD regional panel – Northern Gauteng, RSA. Before relocating to Canada, Lizette was involved with most big ballet/dance companies in an effort to assist with survival through advertising, publications and promotions. Lizette has been teaching dance in Merritt since 2012. She loves teaching and believes that dance and movement to music is therapy and the best exercise for body, spirit and soul. Through dance she aims to help each individual reach his or her full potential, no matter what the abilities and challenges may be. Under her directorship the Love To Dance Academy has grown from a small dance studio with 12 ballet students to a dance academy where students of all ages can attend classes in a variety of dance styles, do dance exams and medal tests, participate in dance festivals and dance competitions and have various performance opportunities.
Source Love to Dance.
On this Day: January 15th 1965
The Who releases their first album I Can’t Explain.
Eight people have lost their life’s in bins such as these over time in Canada. Designed to stop theft the action can become a trap to people trying to defeat it.
On this Day: January 11th 1922
Insulin used for the first time in a human patient.
Cold feet? BC Hydro is recommending warm slippers to lesson your demand on heat.
File Photo KDG
Do you have a conflict at home about how high the heat is turned up? How about a desire to lessen your CO2 contribution? When you go to bed is there a proximity to cold feet? BC hydro is recommending soft warm house slippers to help out with energy consumption!
Ongoing 50 dollar offer.
Hydro has an offer to win a 50 dollar credit on your bill by reducing your consumption by 10 percent.
But we’re not here to talk about dad’s, or granddad’s slippers. We’re here to look at the type of slippers that – in this the month of extended Boxing Day savings – can translate into comfort, style and a lowering of the thermostat for energy savings. One tip: If you equip your family with slippers, the timing will be perfect for joining Team Power Smart and starting a 10% Reduction Challenge and a shot at a $50 reward.
A little by the many is a lot..
The utility is also thanking the public for the cooperation during the recent storms and the large disruptions that it caused.
Forestry service building Merritt BC, Canada .Plaque`s for service. File photo KDG
January 17th 2018, Richard Chavez
The Nicola Naturalists are having their January monthly meeting on the 17th at the NVIT lecture theater top of the hill Belshaw avenue in Merritt. Richard Chavez will present Silviculture: More than Just Planting Trees.
Silviculture, the science of trees in the treatment of a forest, is highly relevant to our local forestry-based economy and ecology. Human population increase and changing climate has put pressure on forest resources. Has our understanding and application of silviculture kept pace with these changes? Are our forestry practices keeping up with modern demands? This talk reviews current practices and other factors that challenge foresters, and possible ways to improve forest management. Richard Chavez is an Registered Professional Forester with Aspen Planers. He has a degree in Forest Engineering and a Master of Forestry degree from Yale University. Richard has extensive experience in silviculture, ecology and forest planning in tropical and temperate forests.
Ice conditions can change quickly. File photo: KDG
BJ Moore
The club principals BJ Moore, Paul Komoski , and Linda Heppner are listed on the club website and their Facebook page lists 250- 280-0304 as a contact number. Posters are about from Merritt Printing.
Editors note:
The fishing club has used Mamit lake for their winter derby for numbers of years. They are familiar with the small 2KN2 lake and its conditions. As well as general conditions of the valley. The club has always demonstrated responsibility.
The Club will be having our annual fishing derby on January 13, 2019. It will be held @ Mamit Lake. We will share the poster as soon as it is completed. Tickets will be available for purchase at the event.
LAKE ACCESS From Kamloops ,head south along Highway 5 to Meadow Creek Road (exit 336), and continue to the town of Logan Lake. At the end of this road, you will meet Highway 97c. Turn left (south) here on to the Highway, also known as Mamit Lake Road, and follow for about 12 km. The road wraps around the eastern shore of the lake and is easy to spot. Follow your favourite lakes on the Angler’s Atlas website! Go to your favourite lake pages and click on the “follow” button to be notified of new posts and information on the website.
I am one of Green Marine’s three project managers. We collaborate on all of our projects, but I primarily focus on underwater noise issues, community relations as it relates to environmental sustainability and waste management. For example, this year I am working on an initiative to improve waste management at ports and terminals. We hope to reduce waste by motivating employees to reuse and recycle items, as well as properly dispose of organic matter.
Source Clear Seas.
On this Day: January 4th 1912
The boy scouts are incorporated in the British Empire by the King.
The month of January is shaping up good for sky watchers. One event is a full moon on the 20th – 21st with a lunar eclipse.
Totality, or total coverage of the moon, will begin at 11:41 p.m. ET on January 20 (4:41 UT on January 21) and will last for 62 minutes. The entire 3.5-hour event—including partial eclipses before and after totality—will be visible from the Americas, Greenland, Iceland, western Europe, and western Africa. Sky-watchers in eastern Europe and eastern Africa will witness only the partial eclipse, while people in most of Asia will not see any part of the sky show.
Source :National Geographic
Kamloops start,6:36 PM January 20th,19.6 degrees. Totality begins 8:41 PM, pacific time, altitude 38 degrees.
West of the Behive Cluster
The eclipse will take place in the Cancer Constellation, a little west of the Beehive Cluster,Five hours 12 minutes from start to finish if you include the penumbral events preceding the event.
Done Kamloops time 11: 48 PM, 58.3 degrees altitude.
Nicola Valley Film Society presents The Third Murder January 21st..The local film society will show The Third Murder on January 21st 2019 at the NVIT lecture theater, top of the hill Belshaw avenue ,Merritt BC Ca. The start time is 7:00 pm they ask for no food or drinks in the lecture theater.
The Nicola Valley Film Society is in its 14th year of bringing TIFF circuit films to the Merritt audience. Free parking.
British Columbia has another statutory holiday on Tuesday January 1st 2018. New Years eve is on Monday and remember to make plans to get home safe if there is an office party after work… Spend some quality time with the young and old Tuesday to start the year off with maybe a conversation on the state of animals and marine life in a postive way.
Watch for the ball to drop in times square on a great upcoming year. Peace and understanding we believe will be rich and fulfilling in 2018.
The UBCM is reporting that they want the Mounties to change the uniform that the auxiliaries wear. ” to relect the autority of the position” which would include removing the tag Volunteer.
UBCM’s primary concern is the RCMP decision to prominently display the word “volunteer” on the uniform, and how it does not accurately reflect the authority held by Auxiliaries. A more professional uniform may also help reverse a trend that has seen a number of Auxiliaries leave the RCMP in recent years, coinciding with changes that have limited the scope of the Auxiliary Program.
Source UBCM
No changes to take immediate effect, Cops
The Mounties are not going to immediately implement and change including the volunteer tagging .The National Occupational Health and Safety Committee has reinforced the keeping of the tag. The direction is ackowleged and a recommened consultation periiod of 18 months after some sort of implementaion is talked about.
On this Day: December 27th 1932
Radio city music hall opens as the show plae of America.
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