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Perkins v. Saunders
First page of the opinion Perkins v. Saunders, in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia: With Select Cases, Relating Chiefly to Points of Practice, Decided by the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District, by William Hening and William Munford. Flatbush: I. Riley, 1809.
Perkins v. Saunders, 12 Va. (2 Hen. & M.) 420 (1808),[1] was a brief case were the Court of Appeals analyzed Chancellor Wythe's reliance on commissioners to determine his decrees.
Perkins and Saunders had four suits pending against each other in the High Court of Chancery. Chancellor Wythe consolidated the suits in a hearing and dismissed the cases decreeing that each party should bear their own court costs. In his decree, Wythe relied heavily upon a report given to him by the master commissioner. On this point Perkins appealed to the Court of Appeals. Perkins argued that the commissioner's report was greatly flawed and posed the question to the Court of appeals as to how far the Court could investigate Wythe's reliance on the report of a commissioner.
The Court's Decision
The Court of Appeals affirmed Chancellor Wythe's decision. The Court determined it would investigate of an account directed by the Court of Chancery. The Court also decreed that it would only look into the commissioner's report if a party requested Wythe grant an exception to the report. Even in this instance, the Court determined it would only inquire whether Wythe's granting or rejecting of an exception was equitable or legal.
Wythe's Judicial Career
↑ William Hening & William Munford, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia: with Select Cases, Relating Chiefly to Points of Practice, Decided by the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District (Flatbush, N.Y.: I. Riley, 1809), 2:420.
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Aldridge has double-double as Spurs beat Pelicans 126-114
PETER FINNEY Jr. (Associated Press)
NEW ORLEANS, LA - JANUARY 26: LaMarcus Aldridge #12 of the San Antonio Spurs shoots the ball against the New Orleans Pelicans on January 26, 2019 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Layne Murdoch Jr./NBAE via Getty Images)
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- With a sore left wrist taking away half his offensive game, LaMarcus Aldridge could have been another injured player sitting out.
After testing his wrist in warmups, he decided to play and had a team-high 28 points and 12 rebounds to lead the San Antonio Spurs to a 126-114 victory over the short-handed New Orleans Pelicans on Saturday.
''I wanted to play,'' Aldridge said after getting his 15th double-double of the season. ''We've been up and down - more down - lately, so I just wanted to play and give us a better chance to win.''
pleading with coach Gregg Popovich to let him play, especially with San Antonio's leading scorer, DeMar De Rozan sidelined with a sore knee.
Popovich said he wanted to rest Aldridge because of the injury he sustained in a 122-120 loss at Philadelphia on Wednesday night, but Aldridge insisted on playing.
''He showed a lot of heart,'' Popovich said. ''He took one for the team tonight.''
Rudy Gay had 22 points, including 11 in the third quarter, and 11 rebounds to help San Antonio snap a two-game skid.
Aldridge had 12 points during a decisive spurt in the third quarter as the Spurs used a 25-12 run to extend a three-point halftime lead to 85-69. The Spurs shot 55 percent from the field in the period and outscored the Pelicans 36-28.
New Orleans played without four key injured contributors - Anthony Davis, Julius Randle, Nikola Mirotic and E'Twaun Moore - but the Spurs also had to overcome the absence of leading scorer DeMar DeRozan.
The Spurs took advantage of the depleted Pelicans, finishing with a 51-41 advantage in rebounding.
''We're not feeling sorry for ourselves, but obviously, we're outmanned,'' Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry said. ''But I thought the guys tried to do everything they could. We hung in and hung in and eventually the rebounding part is going to hurt you.''
Aldridge showed few signs of the injury hurting his overall shooting performance, going 12 of 20 from the field, but he said he knew he was limited.
''I couldn't shoot with my left (hand),'' Aldridge said. ''Obviously, I took the one shot left and (Jahlil Okafor) blocked it easy. After that, I learned really quickly I couldn't shoot with my left, so everything was all right.''
When the Spurs pushed their lead to 21 points in the fourth quarter, Aldridge was able sit and ice his wrist on the bench.
''To see what (Aldridge) goes through day in and day out, being tested on both ends of the floor every single game and being a big leader for us - I didn't know he was going to be able to play today,'' Spurs forward Quincy Pondexter said. ''I saw him taping up and getting warmed up and he just told me he wanted to go out there and help us.''
Jrue Holiday had a game-high 29 points to lead the Pelicans, and Jahlil Okafor added 24 points and 15 rebounds.
The Pelicans, who lost their third straight game, battled hard. Okafor went up against Aldridge, scoring 15 points on 7-of-9 shooting and grabbing nine rebounds in the first half. Aldridge led the Spurs with 16 first-half points on 7-of-13 shooting as San Antonio took a 60-57 lead at the half.
Spurs: DeRozan (21.5 ppg) was sidelined with a sore left knee, and coach Gregg Popovich said the rest may be beneficial because DeRozan is suffering from an assortment of ''bumps and bruises.'' ... The Spurs improved to 10-15 on the road.
Pelicans: Saturday was the anniversary of the Achilles injury that ended the season of former Pelicans C DeMarcus Cousins and eventually saw him sign with Golden State. ... F Julius Randle sat out with a sprained right ankle. ... Gentry said his team, which ranked 13th in the Western Conference, will not have ''a pity party'' because of injuries to Davis (sprained left index finger) and Mirotic (sprained right calf). Davis missed his fourth consecutive game - the Pelicans are 1-3 during that stretch - and Mirotic his second. ... Davis injured the finger Jan. 18 but could return next week. ''I still say eventually we'll be healthy enough and have enough guys that we're going to make a run at it,'' Gentry said. ''We've proven when we're healthy that we're pretty good.'' ... Gentry said G Elfrid Payton still is bothered by the left finger he broke in November that caused him to miss 22 games.
Spurs: Host Washington on Sunday night to open a four-game homestand.
Pelicans: Visit Houston on Tuesday night.
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A nephew of the late internationally renowned painter, Thomas Kinkade, Zachary has more than lived up to the artistic tradition, infusing his own phenomenal creativity and visual sense. A graduate of Cornell University, Zachary broadened his horizons, layering in art as an option by entering the Art Center School of Design. This spring-boarded his career and his charming, supernatural style has helped him win numerous local, regional, national and international art competitions.
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Our new Pigeon Forge, Tennessee Gallery is proud to feature Zachary Kinkade Limited Edition paintings. We constantly add to our collection of his amazing works of art.
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Art Brand Studios, parent company of the Thomas Kinkade Company, has announced they will begin publishing new artist, Zachary Thomas Kinkade.
Zachary Thomas Kinkade, the nephew of the late internationally recognized painter, Thomas Kinkade, graduated with honors from Cornell University in 2013, where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in fine art. He continued his studies at Art Center School of Design following in the footsteps of his uncle but in pursuit of his own artistic vision. Over the years Zac has won numerous local, regional, national and international art competitions and recognitions, often times against competitors many years older than himself.
Several of Zac's original black and white sketches have already sold for up to $10,000, and the company has had strong interest among collectors for published Limited Edition works. John Hasting, President of Art Brand Studios says, "Zac is a very talented young artist. Our collectors are excited to see new talent coming from the Kinkade family, and have been looking forward to having access to his artwork."
Zac's father, Patrick Kinkade, is also involved in the company and serves as Chief Creative Officer of the Thomas Kinkade Studios. "While Zac's artistic style is different than my brother's, Zac was very much influenced by him, and has adopted many of the techniques he learned during his studies with Thom. Zac believes that 'high art' in pencil and paint should both evoke emotion in, and tell a story to, the viewer. We are very excited to share his work with the world."
In addition to releasing his own artwork, Zac will be assisting in the Thomas Kinkade Studios as a resident artist. Before his passing, Thomas Kinkade established an atelier of painters and trained them to work in his style and using his techniques. This group of talented individuals, working along with Zac, will continue to create artwork under the Thomas Kinkade Studios brand.
Art Brand Studios will begin publishing Zac's Limited Edition art with his first release, Noah's Ark. This full color painting is a personal interpretation of the classic Bible story and the first in a series of four, each capturing Biblical and literary themes. Zac's Limited Edition artwork will be available for purchase through authorized Thomas Kinkade galleries as well as on the Thomas Kinkade website. Noah's Ark will officially release to the public on August 6th.
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Victorian Christmas Sunset
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Munich Café
The Battle Of Hoth
Obi-Wan's™ Final Battle
A Son's Destiny
Cottage in the Pines
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I hope everyone will like these bhajans.
Here another bhajan of Chandru Atma.
Do someone have heard of Abraham Bhagat?
Lachman dheere chalo mai haar.
Maha mantra hai ye japa kar japa kar.
Can someone upload bhajans of Abraham Bhagat?
In response to your numerous queries, yes I have heard of Abhi Ram Bhagat. Used to be a very popular singer of devotional bhajans several decades ago.
If I am not mistaken, Chandru Atma is/was the brother of C H Atma and a singer too.
Thanks Krishna Ji for these Bhajans.


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Windermere Law 12 students learn about housing and homelessness crisis at Housing Justice Conference
Windermere Secondary Law 12 classes attended their first Housing Conference. Photo by Maya Cindrich
Windermere Secondary's Housing Justice Conference 2017
BY MAYA CINDRICH
On Nov. 20, the Windermere Secondary Law 12 classes attended their very first school-organized Housing Conference of 2017.
Key speakers, such as anti-poverty and social justice activist Jean Swanson, gave detailed presentations about Vancouver's ever-rising homelessness epidemic and what the students as youth, could do to put an end to homeless.
The conference began with a presentation by Jean Swanson, who covered a wide array of topics that tie into Vancouver's massively increasing homelessness population, such as the $41,000 tax decrease on the wealthy since the 1970s, and the decrease in social housing and inadequate funding from the provincial and federal governments.
Jean also pressed the importance of decisions that will affect our future with housing for the better, saying, "If we can get a man to the moon, why can't we end homelessness?" Jeans stated simple facts that would inevitably end homeless such as bringing back higher taxes on the wealthy, providing more social housing opportunities and, of course, gaining rent control.
The second part to the conference consisted of students picking their own presentations to attend, according to their own interests. Going with the housing theme, I was the most interested in the presentation about Tiny Homes and Co-op Housing, given by Samantha Gambling and Fiona Jackson.
With the help of these two women, our group of students learned about all the possible aids to not just lower class homelessness as we see it, but our suffering middle class as well. Samantha gave a detailed presentation of her life as a woman owning and living in an affordable, sustainable and ecofriendly tiny home on wheels, and the challenges and the rewards.
I got to learn about zoning –which is a term that basically means what can be built on a piece of land or lot – that I hadn't known about before. I also got to learn about the eco-friendly alternatives that come with living in a tiny home, for example, "humanure." Samantha showed us a photograph of her toilet that had been altered to spit up solid and liquid waste, where it could then be sterilized in a bin outside for farming purposes. For me, that piece of information was interesting but wasn't the highlight of our time together.
Fiona Jackson, however, gave a presentation on co-op housing and the benefits that come with being a part of a non-profit organization. With her, we got a more thorough look into co-ops. We learned about the democratic and business approach to co-op housing, where everyone "aims to break even." She spoke about the different co-ops in Vancouver, and the ones being built as I'm sitting here typing this. For a short moment she even indulged into the history of co-ops, letting us know that the very first recorded existence of one was in Rochdale England, 1849.
All this brings up the pressing question: is housing a commodity or a human right? Personally, I can give a definitive answer to this question. It would simply be facts against beliefs. I believe it should be seen as a basic human necessity. No one in this world should sleep without a roof over their head, or not have a place to come home to.
Nevertheless, my eyes are still open to the fact that as of now housing is in fact a commodity. Until a real change occurs, whether that be in the form of higher taxes on the wealthy or gaining rent control, housing will continue to be a game of status. A show of sorts. A gamble for the poor, but a game for the wealthy.
Maya Cindrich is a Grade 12 student attending Windermere Secondary. She aims to better her knowledge of our justice system and one day become someone that makes a change, however big or small.
Homelessness addressed at Windermere Housing Justice Conference
At the Windermere Housing Justice Conference held on Nov. 20, guest speaker and activist Jean Swanson proposed that the government introduce a mansion tax. Photo by Veronica Kong
BY VERONICA KONG
The Vancouver Housing crisis has affected many individuals who are currently homeless in Vancouver. So how can we work towards ending homelessness?
At the Windermere Housing Justice Conference held on Nov. 20, Guest speaker and activist Jean Swanson proposed that the government introduce a mansion tax. With this progressive property tax, we could end homelessness in a year. The mansion tax would bring in an extra $174 million annually, which could be used to build 2,138 modular homes for each counted homeless person in Vancouver. The cost of building the modular homes would only cost $160 million, which will take less than one year of revenue from the mansion tax.
There are other ways that we can deal with the housing crisis. Co-op housing and tiny houses can also contribute to ending homelessness.
In co-op housing, the members own the co-op, but the co-op owns the housing. Therefore, rent and other housing factors are voted on between the members. This means that the members work together to keep their housing well-managed and affordable.
Another alternative housing option are tiny houses. These houses are fully functional, customizable and has the capacity to be moved to other locations. The tiny houses are designed and built on the principles of affordability, community and sustainability. The downside to tiny houses is that they are currently not legal in Vancouver.
Homelessness affects many individuals in health and other factors. We should not treat housing as a game for the rich when it causes others to suffer. Housing is a human right and should not be taken away from us.
Veronica Kong is a Law 12 student at Windermere Secondary. She is currently trying to raise awareness on such issues as homelessness and housing justice.
Windermere Secondary hosts housing conference
BY VINCENT WU
"If we can put people on the moon, why can't we end homelessness."
This was an amazing quote by keynote speaker and Order of Canada recipient Jean Swanson at Windermere's Housing Conference on Nov. 20, 2017.
During the brief hour we heard her speak, she discussed the present and future of housing in Vancouver. Did you know in the 1970s over 760 social housing units were built every year, but now the number has decreased to only 11?
Back then welfare was more than enough to be able to survive. Now, welfare only supplies $710 per month, which is not enough to even rent a one-room apartment. One of the main reasons for this was because taxes on the richest one percent have decreased by $41,000 since the 1970s.
To combat this situation, Swanson has lobbied for a mansion tax. This tax would increase property taxes of houses ranging from $5 to 10 million by one percent and houses over $10 million by two percent. This would end homelessness within one year.
The next presenter, 23-year-old co-founder of City Hive Tessica Troung, showed that Vancouver was no longer affordable. In order to save enough money for a 20 percent down payment of a house in 1976, it would take five years. Compared to today, it would take over 25 years. Studies show millennials earn $8,000 less than their parents even though they have more education. Vancouver housing is a real problem that we need to solve.
Vincent Wu is active in the community. He was one of the marketing and promotion managers for Youth Celebrate Canada Day 2017.
Housing: Why you should care and how you can fix it
BY DYLAN LE
Imagine being evicted out of your home and forced to move. Your new neighbourhood doesn't have any grocery stores, Skytrain stations or community centres nearby, but it's the best you can afford. Now let that happen to you again and again, until you're dwindled down to nothing, leaving you homeless.
The situation I just described is that of gentrification. It is a term used to describe affluent people moving in historically less wealthy neighbourhoods. Gentrification is closely associated to capitalism, which is the economic and political system for the private ownership of goods and services with the objective to accumulate more wealth. Capitalism and gentrification are two prime issues that leave many in the Lower Mainland homeless.
Why does gentrification happen and how do landlords profit from it? By evicting your tenants, you can legally raise the price of rent however high you want. How many times can you be evicted, and rent be increased until there is nowhere you can stay?
Capitalism can be found in Vancouver's Chinatown. To cater to the wealthier residents, more and more coffee shops are opening up. However, the majority of locals, especially long-time residents, in Chinatown are less interested in coffee shops and prefer traditional stores. This hurts the culture of Chinatown and the community that the locals have built.
(For more information visit https://chinatownaction.org)
5 responses to Vancouver's housing crisis
Higher taxes for real estate speculators
Limit foreign ownership
Using Public Powers and Assets
Community land trust
Yes in My Backyard
Support shelters being built in your neighbourhood
Support Renters
Encourage new rental investments
Protect renters' rights
Stop home ownership bias
Vote for Housing
Pay attention to the news show support for an affordable housing market.
Become aware of the issues in the housing market and how we can respond to it. We can bring Vancouver's housing crisis to an end.
Housing rally: More action needed to address housing crisis
The November 2017 housing rally was hosted by the Vancouver Tenants Union, Chinatown Action Group and Carnegie Community Action Program. Photo by Jordan Gammon-Fischer
BY JANICE ZENG
The housing rally on Nov. 25, 2017, was a great opportunity to take action in regards to the housing crisis.
When I arrived, a speaker was talking about the purpose of National Housing Day. It is a day on the calendar, but it is not a holiday. Nobody says "Happy National Housing Day," for it is not a day to celebrate. It is a serious day for social justice and action regarding housing.
The speaker talked about how, last year, many people ended up on the streets around Hastings. Many tents were put up, which lead to the police arresting 700 people. Homelessness is not a crime, and jailing people that are already in a difficult living situation is cruel.
After the speakers, it was time to grab a poster and begin the rally. Leading the rally were people wearing ponchos that spell out "10,000 In Social Housing Every Year For BC." Many posters were in Chinese as the situation with Chinatown was a big issue discussed that day.
During the march, we chanted, "Get up, Get down, There's a housing movement in this town," "The people united will never be defeated," "What's our housing strategy? 10,000 homes in BC," "What do we want? Housing! When do we want it? Now! (we also said the same phrase in Chinese)," and "We are ready to fight, housing is a human right."
There was a lot of passion and anger in the people's voices. As we marched, we passed by many homeless people and tents – that just adds volume to what we're advocating for.
We heard more speakers at the end of the march. First up was Jean Swanson and it was very nice to hear her talk again. She is very passionate about housing, she has dissected the recently released national housing strategy. The context of the document is very disappointing, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not taking appropriate actions towards the cause.
Swanson explained that this "housing strategy" is nothing but a re-election strategy for the Liberal party. What I found most upsetting was their definition of affordable. The plan defines affordable as "30% of units having rents at or less than 80% of median market rents, for a minimum of 20 years."
One example that Swanson gave was if the median rent is $2,000 per month, 80% of it would be $1,600. Thus, you would need to make $65,000 a year to afford rent. How is that remotely affordable when the average salary in Vancouver is only $56,000?
Afterwards, we had an activist part of the Chinatown movement come speak. I didn't get to go to the Chinatown workshop, so it was nice getting to learn about it during the rally. The speaker told us about an empty lot and described it as the heart of Chinatown. The lot was the battleground where development plans have been defeated by a coalition of the city's most marginalized people – not just once, but five times. The speaker said that they have won the battle, but they have not officially won until the empty lot can become a home for the most marginalized and hard working people of society.
The final presentation was directed against Justin Trudeau. They prepared a dummy with a printed picture of Trudeau's face attached to it. The speaker displayed a giant poster and began educating Trudeau. She took him back to school about the definition of affordability and the basics of problem solving. The audience had a nice laugh and it was an entertaining way to end the event.
Janice Zeng is a Grade12 student at Windermere Secoundary. She attended the Housing Rally to have her voice heard and hear from fascinating activists.
"Nobody says 'Happy National Housing Day,' for it is not a day to celebrate. It is a serious day for social justice and action regarding housing."
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November 2016 issue of RCC News is here
This issue of the Renfrew-Collingwood Community News is full of the many wonderful people, events and programs happening in our neighbourhood!
Get your latest issue of the RCC News at your local coffee shop, grocery store, library and community centre.
Or click on the cover image to view the new issue.
Remembering (with) Collingwood Legion Branch #48
Toast to Mike McLenaghen
What students say about local homelessness
Reflections on salmon returning to Still Creek
Eating Out in RC: Ananda Bhavan Dosa Villa
Windermere organic gardeners grow fruit, veggies and community
Do you have a local story to tell or an event to share? We'd love to hear about it! Email rccnews-editorial@cnh.bc.ca.
The deadline for the December 2016 issue is November 10. We welcome story submissions from 300 to 400 words long. Accompanying photos must be high resolution in a jpg file at least 1 MB large and include a photo caption and the name of the photographer.
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Collingwood Neighbourhood House says goodbye to devoted volunteer A.J. Wadden
Photo by Sandra Wadden
BY PETER GREENWELL
Adrian Joseph (A.J.) Wadden was one of the longest-serving volunteers of Collingwood Neighbourhood House's Morning Star breakfast program (for people who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness).
A.J. volunteered with us for more than 10 years. He would arrive in the wee hours of the morning to help set up tables and chairs and whatever else needed doing. His assistance was important to us and we appreciated his sense of humour and efforts.
A.J. had a 25-year career as a longshoreman, 10 years as a member of the International Longshore Workers Union (ILWU) Local 500, retiring last year. He had a life-long love of sports and was an avid cyclist and ice skater.
"Everyone on the Morning Star team looked up to A.J.," said Bill McMichael, another of our original Morning Star volunteers. "For over 10 years, he would arrive with the early shift to set up the multipurpose room for a group of 70, doing the work three volunteers took to take down three hours later. No one has ever worked harder or better or smarter than A.J. And still, he remained a gentle and generous man, whose smile brightened the kitchen on even our darkest and rainiest of mornings. He was the best of us."
Terry Taylor, another of our originals, said: "I would sit with A.J. and chat after the set up was ready for the breakfast program. We talked about life and other things. He was always very respectful and courteous to others. He was a soft-spoken man with a delightful sense of humour. I will always remember those chats with great fondness."
A celebration of life service was held for A.J. at the Sunrise Community Centre on Sunday, September 11. The room was filled with Morning Star volunteers, longshore workmates, friends and family and members of his church. Pastor Elsie Quick, Pastor Ernie Culley and A.J.'s wife Sandra spoke about A.J.'s life.
A.J. is survived by his wife Sandra and siblings Marguerite, James, Carl and Vera. The family has asked in lieu of flowers that donations be made to the B.C. Cancer Agency or the Vancouver Hospital Palliative Care Unit in A.J.'smemory.
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Welcoming the Kingsway Continental to the neighbourhood
The Kingsway Continental, formerly the Ramada Inn, is scheduled to open in fall 2013. The City purchased it in November 2012 to turn into non-market housing. A coalition of local service providers is collecting donations for welcoming kits for incoming residents.
BY DEANNA CHENG
Renfrew-Collingwood is gearing up to welcome the Kingsway Continental and its new tenants moving in from the Old Continental this fall. From an open house and community meetings, the City of Vancouver worked with a group of Renfrew-Collingwood service providers, identifying needs and concerns for a smooth transition.
Once the Ramada Inn, located at 3484 Kingsway at Tyne, the building will also house local residents requiring affordable housing as well as, temporarily, residents of BC Housing buildings undergoing renovations.
The committee working with the City includes Collingwood Neighbourhood House (CNH), the Collingwood Community Policing Centre, the Collingwood Business Improvement Association, the Evergreen Community Health Centre and the Renfrew-Collingwood Homelessness Community.
Angela Evans, the executive director of the Collingswood BIA, said, "The tenants were notified at the same time, about seven months ago, so it is not a surprise and people have time to process."
CNH's executive director Jennifer Gray-Grant said, "The neighbourhood's expectation is for the new tenants to live here, get services locally and feel comfortable enough to participate in the community."
Local service providers, residents and youth are putting together welcome kits with shopping bags provided by the Collingwood BIA.
Gray-Grant asks the public to donate everyday necessities such as socks, toothpaste, toothbrushes, razors and shaving cream. These could be dropped off at Collingwood Neighbourhood House (5288 Joyce Street) or the Collingwood Community Policing Centre (5160 Joyce Street).
"The welcome packages will include information on local services and businesses. There will be coupons, socks, toques and toiletries, for example," she said.
According to the City's Kingsway Continental Q-and-A sheet, most of the tenants of the Old Continental (a City-operated non-market housing building in downtown Vancouver that will close) are men over the age of 45, primarily on welfare or receiving a pension. "Many tenants at the Old Continental are living with mental health or addition issues or other medical conditions."
"The Evergreen clinic has said it has the capacity to work with the new residents," notes Gray-Grant. "And here at CNH we provide breakfast for those who are homeless or tentatively housed every Saturday with our Morning Star breakfast-and-shower program. They are welcome to join us."
Gray-Grant also said there are other adult and seniors programs and initiatives available at CNH.
Evans said, "It has been a positive process. To see everyone come together as a community–the businesses, people, associations, volunteers–everyone on every level is committed and on the same page. They're welcoming, not barring anyone. "
She said members of the BIA were asked to contribute next month.
Jennifer Standeven, the City of Vancouver spokesperson for this project, said that, based on the open house event held at the neighbourhood house, she found residents warm and welcoming. Some of them mentioned the possibility of moving to the Kingsway Continental when they get older and want a smaller or more affordable place.
"They see it as a community resource," Standeven said.
Gray-Grant said, "We have the highest number of seniors of any Vancouver neighbourhood. As well as the highest number of youth and second highest number of children."
Having this building available nearby means residents on limited incomes will have one more option for staying within their community of friends and neighbours.
One of the priorities set out by the Metro Vancouver Affordable Housing Strategy is to "increase the supply of modest cost housing." The Kingsway Continental Q-and-A says the hotel has 123 rooms.
"The first priority is housing the tenants from the Old Continental," said Standeven. "The second priority is to support BC Housing while they renovate their old buildings. People will be able to stay temporarily at the Kingsway Continental."
Standeven estimates these members would stay from 12 to 18 months at a time while renovations happen.
"And the third priority is two-fold: to acquire or build social housing across Vancouver and to build community partnerships to support affordable housing across the city. We want neighbourhoods to feel good about this.
"Collingwood has been fabulous because they want to see more social housing in the neighbourhood," she said.
According to the Metro Vancouver Housing Data Book, BC Housing collects data on households that have applied for social housing in Metro Vancouver and there is a wait list. While the waiting list indicates a need for affordable housing, it is not necessarily an accurate measure of the demand.
The book notes, "the number of households in Metro Vancouver waiting for social housing has increased by 35%, from 6,630 in 2009 to 8,955 in 2012."
The City of Vancouver is the municipality with the greatest number of households waiting for social housing at 3,632 households. It is followed by Surrey (1, 305), Burnaby (1,182) and Richmond (599).
There is a possibility of the Collingwood Legion leasing the former pub space on the ground floor; they are currently in the middle of negotiations and nothing is confirmed.
Standeven said, "Once the tenants are settled in, the community will be invited for a welcome, possibly in October."
For information about the welcome kits, please contact CNH at 604-435-0323.
For more information about the Kingsway Continental project, go to http://vancouver.ca/people-programs/kingsway-continental.aspx.
Deanna Cheng is a journalism student at Langara College.
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What if Baltimore had a home for hilarious, never-to-be-seen-again comedy? A place where you can be more than entertained; but where you can also become a part of a community. A place where any night of the week you can catch a show, play board and video games, sip a stimulating beverage, and, most of all, LAUGH! That's what Baltimore Improv Group (BIG) wants to give to our city. Won't you help us create it?
We have already started the legwork, and The BIG Theater will have a soft opening on October 6th. We want to make the space top notch, and we are aiming to raise $25,000 to make it truly a world-class theater experience in Baltimore. Since BIG is a 501(c)3, all donations are tax-deductible.
Baltimore Improv Group was named by readers of The Baltimore City Paper as the best place to see comedy in Baltimore in 2017. We can't wait to become even more spectacular!
Why 1727 North Charles and Station North Arts District?
We've found a fantastic place for our improv theater at 1727 North Charles Street in the center of Baltimore, but you can get lost in this place. Hello, hello hellooo hellloooooo!
We need your help to turn the space from a large echo chamber without the proper theater stuff to a top-notch performance space with lights, sound, a stage, classroom space, and lots of other cool things.
We want people to think of The BIG Theater as a destination for date night, birthdays, or just a place to go when you need a laugh. We want a BIG sign so everyone can easily find us. We want so much visibility that the people who live in the county can't ignore our presence. Also, we want to host birthday parties, special events, and comedy workshops.
You can make all of this happen! The BIG Theater makes all of our dreams come true, and the Station North Arts & Entertainment District perfectly fits our needs. We are so in awe of the art-makers who have made Station North a destination for art, music, and theater -- The Charles Theater, Station North Arts Cafe, The Motor House, Joe Squared, The Wind-Up Space, and more.
Baltimore Improv Group currently serves as one of the largest arts education venues in the area outside of a university space. We teach improvisational comedy to adults and kids and everyone in-between. We teach improv classes to youth through the Young Audiences/Arts For Learning Maryland in the greater Baltimore area and throughout the state of Maryland.
BIG provided high-quality instruction to more than 500 adults, teens, and youth in the 2017 calendar year.
With the new space, we are going to call it The BIG Theater to pay homage to Baltimore Improv Group's name for the past 14 years. Part of this history is building community engagement with affordable arts programming in Baltimore since 2004. We look forward to expanding this mission in the years to come.
The new theater will bring everything under one roof. We won't just have classes and improv shows; we can hold special events, dance parties, burlesque, and other things that you will suggest.
BIG performers smile for the camera!
Improv comedy has taken off like a rocket in the last few years. Baltimore Improv Group already serves as the place to see and perform the best improv comedy in the area. We want to look the part!
What Are the Funding Priorities for the New Space?
For more information, review the materials list. The BIG Theater received a generous $10k donation from Alison and Fred Lohr. At this point, we need to raise $25,000 to reach all of our goals!
In building a new space, new and unexpected costs can emerge. We will use the project update page to communicate any changes or unexpected costs.
If we exceed $25,000, then any additional funding will go towards initiatives that build community engagement. We will be in touch with all backers after the campaign with a survey to vote on the initiative.
You're a star for backing Baltimore Improv Group's new home!
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Hallie Herz from Plan B or Conservatory member Patrick Hampton will write a sonnet or haiku on your Facebook wall and/or Twitter feed!
People at the $250+ levels will also qualify for this gift!
Space is dark. So is the upcoming Stoop Storytelling Series next event. Give at this level, and get a ticket to the next Stoop event on Thursday, October 26th. Multiples are allowed, and increase the pricing for each ticket you want.
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The powers of your gift will help Baltimore Improv Group reach new heights! You also receive the other award levels below this giving level.
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Jonathan Monrore and Marty McGuire from Hostel will feature YOU on an episode of We Have to Ask (wehavetoask.com), a half-hour improvised podcast where each episode is different and can be about nearly anything you like!
Want to get personalized improv tips from The BIG Theater hero Tavish Forsyth? Give at this level, and Tavish will record a personalized video with his top tips to improve your improv game. This level also includes a t-shirt, bumper sticker, website thank you, and a packet of 10 tickets to main stage shows.
Get a video recording of improv tips from the instructors of your choice on the leadership team (Terry Withers, Michael Hartwell, or Mike Harris) or an instructor of your choice from http://www.bigimprov.org/instructors.html. You also get a t-shirt and bumper sticker. We will send a survey at the end of the campaign so you can pick your instructor!
Sit in your own seat on the BIG rocketship! You also receive the other award levels below this giving level.
Name a seat at The BIG Theater!
Baltimore Improv Group members come up with a fun, lighthearted prank or surprise for a friend. This level is good for birthday parties, work events, or just as a general surprise.
You also receive a t-shirt and 10 tickets to BIG mainstage shows. Also, you get to name a seat!
You can name a toilet stall inside one of the BIG bathrooms.
You also receive the other award levels below this giving level.
Catapult The Baltimore Improv Theater into space and beyond! You also receive the other award levels below this giving level.
Go out to dinner with Terry Withers! Talk about anything related to improv, basketball, theater, and anything else at a dinner at Joe Squared. You also get one (1) choice of the $425 or $500 level awards.
This award level also includes a t-shirt, poster, and naming a seat.
Help train future improv superstars! You also receive the other award levels below this giving level.
Name a classroom space at The Baltimore Theater!
Receive two free BIG Adult classes as well as improv tips from an intstructor of your choice. This also includes a tote bag, t-shirt, and 10 passes to BIG shows.
Want members of Unscripted to do a one-act performance at your house, or at a company event? This level also includes your personal or company name in the lobby + a seat in The BIG Theater!
You get two of the $1k+ gift levels of your choosing. As well as a t-shirt, poster, and your name on the front lobby signage.
Make the space yours for an evening! You also receive the other award levels below this giving level.
Rent out the theater for any night for your event.
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THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY: Hitchcock's Surrealist Romance
Posted by Jim Healy
By Amanda McQueen, UW Cinematheque Programmer and Project Assistant
The Trouble With Harry is a bit of an outlier in Alfred Hitchcock's oeuvre. Though ostensibly about the discovery of a dead body, the film is really a droll - if somewhat macabre - romantic comedy, lacking in the suspense typically associated with the director's most celebrated works. Harry was also a commercial failure upon its release in 1955, and this seems to have played a role in the comparative lack of attention the film has received. In more recent years, however, critics have started to reevaluate the film, and rightly so.
Based on a 1949 novella by English writer Trevor Jack Story, The Trouble with Harry tells of a group of townspeople who find a corpse in the woods - that of the titular Harry. Each believing they are in some way responsible for Harry's death, they conspire to hide the body until a solution can be reached. In the midst of the discussions of mortality and murder that ensue, love blossoms and couples are formed. Paramount considered adapting the novella in 1950, but thought the scenario too whimsical and unworldly for an effective screen translation. The story's understated dark humor and romance appealed to Hitchcock, however, and he bought the rights - anonymously, in order to ensure a low price. Hitchcock had a multiple picture deal with Paramount at the time, and though the studio was still skeptical about the property's commercial potential, they were willing to bet on the director's reputation and put up a budget of $1 million.
To write the film, Hitchcock selected his favored screenwriter of the moment, John Michael Hayes. Hayes had just finished Rear Window (1954) and To Catch a Thief (1955), to much acclaim, and would follow up Harry with the remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). (But a disagreement over screen credit on Man severed Hayes' personal and professional relationship with Hitchcock permanently). Hayes' penchant for character development and sharp dialogue made him a good fit for Harry, which is peopled with quipping eccentrics. Moreover, Hitchcock had decided to set the film in a small town in New England in the fall, and this appealed to Hayes, who had grown up in that part of the country. To ensure the authenticity of the desired autumnal foliage, locations were selected in Craftsbury and Morrisville, Vermont, and though Hitchcock wanted to shoot the entire film there - setting up a make-shift sound stage in the American Legion building in Morrisville - uncooperative weather drove the crew back to California, bags of real Vermont leaves in hand.
Upon its release in October of 1955, Harry received mixed reviews; some critics found it slow and strained, others thought it sophisticated and funny. Though it performed decently overseas, it was a flop in America and ultimately did not recoup its costs. At first glance, we might understand why. Harry has no big-name stars and no pre-sold story; it had only Hitchcock's name to market it. And this might not have been a problem, had Harry been something more typical of the Master of Suspense. But as film critic Peter Bradshaw hypothesizes, while audiences expected Agatha Christie, Hitchcock gave them Waiting for Godot.
Aesthetically speaking, The Trouble with Harry has a great deal to recommend it. It features lush VistaVision cinematography by long-term Hitchcock collaborator Robert Burks; solid editing from Paramount veteran Alma Macrorie (nominated for an Oscar for her work on The Bridges at Toko-Ri [1954]); and a jaunty, ostinato-based musical score from Bernard Herrmann. This was the first of seven soundtracks Herrmann did for Hitchcock over the course of their 11-year relationship, and it remained the director's favorite. Harry is also well cast, making good use of stalwart character actors Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock, and Edmund Gwenn, and featuring an early performance from Jerry Mathers - two years before he would become beloved throughout America as Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver. Most notably, though, Harry also marks the screen debut of Shirley MacLaine, who was reportedly cast after associate producer Herbert Coleman and unit production manager Doc Erickson took a break from location scouting to see The Pajama Game on Broadway. As luck would have it, dancer Carol Haney was out sick, and MacLaine, her understudy, was on that night.
It is ultimately the film's tone, however, that has really started to attract some critics back to The Trouble with Harry, ironically, since it was tone that deterred Paramount from adapting Story's novella in the first place and it was the tone that seemed most off-putting to contemporary reviewers and audiences. Harry is fairly frank in its discussion of death and sex - at least by 1955 standards. Certain concessions had to be made to the Production Code Administration, of course, to ensure the film's release: for example, Jennifer's son is illegitimate in the novella but not so in the film, and the film eliminates the novella's rather perverse scene where Harry offers to make love to Jennifer while pretending to be Robert - his dead brother and Jennifer's former lover. Nevertheless, double entendres and allusions abound, and there are explicit discussions about nude portraits and the scandalous double bed. More noteworthy, however, is the way characters discuss their love lives and their potential for murder with the same nonchalance and practicality. Death and sex are completely intertwined in the film and neither seems to be cause for much fuss. Harry's fictional town of Highwater, Vermont thus comes across like a strange dreamscape, populated with witty sleepwalkers. Indeed, it is this eerie, somnambulistic detachment of the characters - their muted responses to things that should be shocking or upsetting - that has sparked comparisons between Harry and surrealist works like Luis Bunuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972).
The Trouble with Harry has been called a pastoral comedy, a fairy tale, and an experiment in "radical, absurdist cinema." However you want to characterize it, it is certainly an unusual, perhaps even dream-like, but ultimately delightful experience. It is also an experience that Hitchcock stood resolutely by. The director blamed his "enemies" – the distributor and exhibitors – for the film's financial failure, and though he was forced to admit that it ultimately proved to be "an expensive self-indulgence," he also insisted that The Trouble with Harry was one of his personal favorites.
A 35mm print of The Trouble with Harry will screen on Sunday, October 19 at 2 p.m. in the auditorium of the Chazen Museum of Art.
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Q: SQL Server 2008 R2 - Running a Stored Procedure against Linked Servers I am trying to create a SQL Job that sits on what I like to call a Maintenance Server where details about all the other server databases sit. So I have a stored procedure to gather all the required data I have and this stored procedure is now in MaintenanceServer.MaintenanceDB.pr_MyProcedure.
Now what i'd like to do this is. I am creating Linked Servers on my MaintenanceServer which points to all the other Servers I'd like to maintain. Next on my list is to be able to run this procedure pr_MyProcedure against all those LinkedServers. I have over 25 servers to maintain and what i want to do is to run the procedure against them and insert the result to my local MaintenanceDB.
Can someone point me to a good way to do this? Also i'd like to hear the drawbacks of this method.
Thanks and Cheers!
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I was also thinking about storing the SP on all the master databases of my other Servers and running them remotely on my Maintenance Server. Then i'll use OPENQUERY() to gather all the results that I need. However, I don't think I want to touch all the master databases on my server list. Please tell me if this would be better than the once I stated above.

A: The nice way to do it is run the SP on the target server, as that's nicely modular. If you want to query the remote server, it's going to be more painful. I'm not sure whether the undocumented sp_foreachdb deals with linked databases, if not you are down to dynamic sql.
As in build a string and call it with Exec(@somesql), that will need to deal with the results itself, as any variables will only be in scope inside the exec.
Personally I'd consider inverting all this. Have each server call it's own SP and the call an SP on the maintenance box to store the results.

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Becky and Becky painting at Apple Festival for Trek Thru Truth
This article originally ran in the Cleveland Daily Banner on October 21, 2018
Trek Thru Truth, the Christian interactive museum, has set up a booth at the 2019 Cleveland Apple Festival and is raising funds through two of its most talented artists, coincidentally both named Becky.
Both of the women have practiced art for over 20 years, and while Becky Fowler started painting in pastels, Becky Pico was more involved with oil paintings; however, both of them cite oil as their go-to for artwork.
The Apple Festival will feature a booth for Trek Thru Truth, with Pico painting on Saturday and Fowler on Sunday. The artists will paint as many art pieces as possible throughout the day, and said they intend to incorporate aspects of the festival into their works.
Fowler met Trek Thru Truth president Doug Caywood through her church, Samples Memorial Baptist, as they are both Sunday school teachers there.
"He just mentioned Trek Thru Truth to me, and as it's grown, he asked if I'd like to be involved, and I said yes," Fowler said.
Pico met Caywood through a mutual friend. She added how she's always excited for any opportunity to move God's kingdom forward. Her first business with the organization came through painting onstage at the Trek Thru Truth Gala, where she said she felt an immense sense of unity throughout the room, despite the differing denominations in attendance.
While Fowler is originally from Cleveland, Pico moved here from Indianapolis because of her husband, who she met on christianmingle.com and who is originally from the area.
"Becky Fowler and I instantly connected on so many things," Pico said.
Both Beckys worked as faux painting artists at one point in the '90s, which is art using decorative paint finishes to replicate the appearance of materials such as marble, wood or stone. Pico said she slowly learned different methods of painting and through God-given talent, went off on her own to craft murals and other commissioned pieces.
The two believe that portrait art is valued more in the South, with wall painting more prevalent in the North. Fowler attributes this to the South's love of history and the use of art as an indicator of current cultural events.
When seeking inspiration for her works, Fowler said conversations with others often give her ideas, as does the Spirit of God.
"I think artists have a tendency to be braggadocios, and this woman prayed over me when she first met me," Fowler said, referring to Pico. "That's the difference between a Christian artist and just an ordinary one."
Pico said she originally only painted what she was tasked with through commissioned works, but once she began painting images from services at her church, Ascension Life, she immediately received inspiration from the Holy Spirit. She added how when she gets an idea, she knows it's from God – if it remains on her mind. She also includes a written description, similar to a devotional, along with her inspired artworks.
Citing the impact art has on people's souls, the two said their pieces sold at the Apple Festival can bring healing, peace or simply delight to buyers. In the past, Pico had painted a piece that she envisioned from a Bible verse. A woman who had just lost her grandson bought the artwork, and later told Pico she felt such peace from the painting that she now purchases them for friends going through tough times.
"This was simply a verse in Psalms that states God collects all our tears," Pico said. "This only goes to better illustrate the power of art, especially when God's hand is on yours."
Fowler and Pico encourage everyone to come check out the Trek Thru Truth booth at the Apple Festival on Saturday and Sunday, and see what they've been inspired to paint on those days. All money raised goes to the Trek Thru Truth program, so not only can you leave with a beautiful painting, but also support a great cause.
For more information, go to Trek Thru Truth's Facebook page, its website www.trekthrutruth.com or call 423-665-9229.


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Whistleblower exposes the rorting in electricity charges
Conflicts of interest abound in the way energy companies charge
Rorting in the power industry about to be laid bare, SMH, October 13, 2014 Michael West Business columnist The government privatisation train is on course for a head-on collision with the parliamentary inquiry into "gold-plating" in the power industry.
At the very time the states are sprucing up their energy companies for sale, further revelations of regulatory rorting will be flowing thick and fast. Gold-plating, or excessive spending on poles and wires, has been shoring up industry returns for the past six years – and driving power bills higher, although demand for electricity actually has been falling.
Now a treasury analyst from Queensland electricity retailer Energex threatens to blow the lid on how the power industry "games the regulator" in unprecedented and gory detail. Cally Wilson walked out of her job at Energex three weeks ago and turned whistleblower, telling the press how her bosses had conspired to push up power prices.She says she was instructed to find a debt rate which would meet management's targets — in other words, a high rate. "Unusually high" were her words.
The higher the WACC (weighted average cost of capital), the higher the return Energex could claim from the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) — and therefore the higher it would charge its customers.
Her allegations of data manipulation are the catalyst for the announcement of the parliamentary inquiry into "gold-plating".
Gold-plating had been exposed in these pages two years ago as the main culprit behind rising energy bills. However, having an insider such as Cally Wilson report in detail – and she has put a swathe of irregular practices before regulators – will lend a new potency to the case for reform.
Data manipulation is by no means confined to Queensland………..
unlike the last inquiry in 2012, the terms of reference are more precise this time and suggest that some in Canberra really are fair dinkum about bringing down energy costs.
In delving into how power companies calculate their costs, the terms of reference reflect the concerns of Sydney University professor of finance David Johnstone aired in Fairfax newspapers last month.
Johnstone revealed how the industry players ran rings around the regulators when it came to seeking approval for their high returns. Specifically, he exposed the DORC (depreciated optimised replacement cost) formula for valuing assets. DORC allows energy companies to value assets at "replacement cost" rather than at their actual cost. The upshot for customers is that they are effectively, in many cases, being billed again for something the public has paid for.
Thanks to DORC, a company is entitled to claim for assets whose costs already have been sunk. A gas pipeline for instance, decades old and already paid for, can be valued at the cost it might take to replace it – a cost David Johnstone says is "imaginary". Further, the number is arrived at with the help of consultants in whose interests it is to come up with a high figure.
Conflicts of interest abound in the way energy companies charge and the DORC formula is one which needs to be overhauled urgently. Such a spectre must haunt state governments though as they try to get the highest sale price for their assets – and energy executives for that matter, anticipating their salaries to multiply post-privatisation.
October 13, 2014 - Posted by	Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, energy


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Dec. 26 - A controversial move by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe generates backlash in the region. Julie Noce reports.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe angered countries in the region Thursday by visiting a controversial shrine that honours Japan's war dead. The Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo is dedicated to those who died in war- as well as Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal. Chinese and South Korean leaders have consistently critised Japanese politicians who visit the shrine. As he was leaving, Abe said he prayed for those who lost their lives and that he didn't mean to offend anyone. (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER, SHINZO ABE, SAYING: "I have absolutely no intention of hurting the feelings of the people of China and Korea from the very beginning. That is the same thinking of all the prime ministers before me who have visited Yasukuni Shrine." Still, the move was not taken lightly. A spokesperson for the South Korean government said it was impossible NOT to express anger over the act and said the shrine beautifies war. And in China, a similar sentiment. The Chinese government condemned Japanese leaders for ruthlessly trampling the feelings of Chinese people, a foreign ministry spokesperson said. We urge Japan to reflect on its' history of aggression. Some political experts say Abe likely chose to visit the shrine now because his high voter ratings could withstand the criticism and that it would help shore up support amongst his conservative base. The visit marks the first time a sitting Japanese prime minister has visited the shrine since 2006.


In 1888, a meeting of Baptists, Anglicans, Presbyterians and Methodists led to the formation of the Lord's Day Alliance of Canada. In 1906, thanks largely to their efforts, a petition with 100,000 signatures was sent to the federal Parliament in Ottawa. The result was the passage, in 1907, of new federal Legislation called the Lord's Day Act. The Lord's Day Act prohibited the sale of any goods on a Sunday. However, no person could be prosecuted under the Act except with the expressed permission of the Attorney General of the Province in which the person was conducting business. So, in the decades after the Lord's Day Act was passed, the Lord's Day Alliance lobbied the government to press charges against various offenders.
The Lord's Day Alliance managed to have a man in Cobourg charged for showing a motion picture on a Sunday. On another occasion, the Alliance prevented an international bowling competition from being completed, because the final game would have ended 1/2 hour past midnight on a Saturday.
In 1953, the City of Toronto declared an 8-day period to be "Jerusalem Week". The purpose of the declaration was to assist in the sale of State of Israel bonds. The Alliance immediately objected, saying that the sale of the bonds during that period would break the law twice because the period contained two Sundays.
On yet another occasion, the Alliance attempted to have Toronto market gardeners convicted for tending to their gardens on Sundays.
The Lord's Day Act effectively permitted the provinces to pass laws which would override the Act. So, in 1975, the Progressive Conservative government of Ontario - responding to the Alliance and other Christian groups attempting to maintain a special status for Christianity - passed the Retail Business Holidays Act. It introduced a prohibition preventing most retail stores from conducting business on Sundays, and on major Christian holy days including Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Christmas.
The pretext for passing the law was that it would provide retail workers with a "common day of pause": a purportedly secular purpose. However, that was a cover-story. The Lord's Day Act was already providing retail workers with a common day of pause. The key difference was that, under the province's Retail Business Holidays Act, a person could be charged and convicted without the requirement of first getting leave from the Attorney General. If the police found a retail store open on a Sunday, or other designated Christian holy day, contrary to the Retail Business Holidays Act, they could immediately lay a charge. And, with increasing frequency, they did.
Several Ontario business people were offended by the law, and opened their stores on prohibited days. The government crushed such people. Toronto furrier Paul Magder was fined hundreds of times for opening his fur store on Sundays. Ultimately, the province bankrupted him. And London book seller Marc Emery spent 4 days in jail for opening his bookstore in contravention of the ban.
Freedom Party of Ontario campaigned against the shopping ban from 1986 through 1992. All other Ontario political parties supported the Progressive Conservatives' ban. However, by 1992, thanks largely to the efforts of Freedom Party, public opinion had shifted. Ontarians wanted to be free to choose whether or not to shop on Sundays. In response, Bob Rae's NDP government (which had campaigned in 1990 on making the ban even tougher) repealed the ban on Sunday shopping, but left the parts of the Retail Business Holidays Act that banned shopping on various other Christian holy days. To this day, it remains illegal to open most retail stores on such holy days as Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
In 2011, Ontarians observe hundreds of religious holy days. The law does not force Ontarians to observe Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh, Hindu and other religious holy days. Just Christian ones. The government should not be in the business of playing favourites with religion. Whether or not you choose to observe a religious holy day should be a matter of personal choice.
A Freedom government will eliminate the Progressive Conservatives' shopping ban. You will no longer be forced by law to observe any religion's holy days.


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By Eric Nierstedt
At Christmas time, the signs of the seasons don't just cover streets and department stores. They also cover our TV sets, as networks produce holiday specials and films galore (one beingBATMAN RETURNS, more on that in a bit), whether it be tried and true fares like CHARLIE BROWN, or newer material like Netflix's THE CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES and the endless parade of Hallmark movies. As you might expect, the newer fares get held to high standards every year, as people can argue for years whether or not it's actually a 'Christmas film.'
There are all sorts of genres for this — is the action classic DIE HARD a holiday film because it happens at Christmas, or is it a thriller with no real ties to the season? Does the horror-comedy GREMLINS fall under the same scrutiny? Do the Hallmark movies count even though they're incredibly predictable and light? Every genre gets this argument, but there's a comic book film in there too — 1992's BATMAN RETURNS.
Image courtesy of Batman.wikia.com
This film was a financial success but has become something of a mixed bag over the years. It's darker than its predecessor and was thought to be too gruesome for children thanks to Danny Devito's portrayal of the Penguin. The tragic and sexualized Catwoman from Michelle Pheiffer didn't help; however, it does hold a unique distinction as it is the only superhero movie set at Christmas. While there are some superhero holiday stories, a big screen adaption hasn't been attempted since. So does BATMAN RETURNS use the holiday to its benefit, or is the setting just a coincidence? For me, the answer is yes; the film is a dark ride, but still very much a Yuletide movie.
And if you don't believe me, here are five reasons why.
5. Christmas is Everywhere in the Film
Image courtesy of filmfad.com
Okay, so I'll fully admit BATMAN RETURNS makes no attempt to boost Christmas spirit in the traditional ways. There's no Santa, no talk of cheer, not even Bruce Wayne having eggnog. However, Christmas acts as the setting for just about everything the film. Gotham is decorated with lights, the characters mention the holiday multiple times, and the start of the action happens at a tree lighting ceremony. So yes, Christmas may not be discussed very heavily, but the holiday image is a constant presence throughout the film. And it's a good thing too, because…
4. The Movie Wouldn't Work at Any Other Time
Remember how I said the film's action really begins at a tree lighting ceremony? Well for those of you that haven't seen it, this is how it starts:
At what other time of year would something like this work? The villains' entrance is perfect; it sets their oddball aesthetic and makes them a stark contrast to the merriment of the times. That's not the only instance of the holiday being crucial either. BATMAN RETURNS heavily uses the Christmas season to build it's story. The kidnapping and eventual murder of the Ice Princess? Wouldn't happen if there wasn't a need for a model to light a tree.
Penguin's birthday and the timeframe for his plan of revenge? All based around Christmas. Even Penguin's mayoral run gets more weight because it's in December and it shows just how much influence Penguin has collected in a short time. Simply put, this movie would not work if it was in July or on Halloween. Christmas is what makes BATMAN RETURNS run, and it just wouldn't be the same without it.
3. The Villain Owns a Department Store Chain
Max Shreck might have been created for the film, but he leaves a solid mark on it. Part of this is the performance given by the great Christopher Walken, but the rest is the marketing of Shreck's industries throughout the film. Nowhere is this more apparent than his department stores, which play host to Catwoman's spree of destruction.
This scene may not seem very Christmas at first, but it does tie into a part of the holidays. This film happened before online shopping, so facing the department store crowd was the only way to get presents. That explains the setting, but there's another meaning as well. Shreck caused Selina Kyle's transformation into Catwoman, so this scene is very much a disgruntled employee getting back at her boss. And as someone that has worked retail at Christmas time, I can tell you the stress does make you fantasize about causing store-wide destruction. So this scene plays up an unseen element of Christmas — the workers that make it happen, and need to let off some steam.
2. It Showcases the Evils of Greed
Image courtesy of roguesportal.com
Speaking of Max Shreck, he also fills the role of Greed in the film. We've all heard about materialism running wild at Christmas, but Shreck does it like no other. His big goal is to get a power plant built that will somehow stockpile energy for him. When he can't get that legally, he tricks the Penguin into running for mayor, then abandons him when things go wrong. And that's still not counting Shreck throwing Selina Kyle out the window when she learns what he's doing. Shreck spends the entire film as a greedy, self-centered, uncaring and unrepentant narcissist. But, Shreck shows everything that's wrong with greed, and his final fate is as much a Christmas victory as George Bailey defeating Old Man Potter.
1. BATMAN RETURNS Is A Counter and Enhancement of the Film's Darkness
Image courtesy of nerdist.com
I've said throughout that BATMAN RETURNS is a dark film. However, that darkness is precisely why it's such a great Christmas film. The lights and trees and everything else seem brighter and more festive because of the darkness surrounding them. They're essential because they act as a counter to everything else in the movie. We need a break from the Batcave and Penguin's lair every so often, and because of that, we're more grateful for the bright lights of Christmas.
The holiday also makes the film darker when necessary. The Penguin's parents toss him into the river at Christmas, and it's even sadder because of the holiday. You may feel that Batman and Catwoman can overcome their problems and get together in the spirit of the season, but they don't. These events become more tragic because Christmas implies a happy ending. Yet the end of the film still holds to that sensibility, as Alfred's small bit of holiday greeting leads into hope for the future. It didn't happen for this film series, but it's a good thought to end on.
A Dark Christmas Ride
BATMAN RETURNS is never going to be at the level of RUDOLPH or FROSTY as holiday viewing. It's a dark film that isn't for kids raised on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, that doesn't mean it fails to capture elements of the holidays. It's a darker viewing that both skewers Christmas and uses it to elevate itself. So if you're an adult comic fan, and you're tired of the same old holiday specials, give this film a try, and try to have a happy season.
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Local unemployment has hit a record high, home prices continue to slide, U.S. automakers are nearing bankruptcy and the chief financial officer of Freddie Mac commits suicide.
It's enough to make almost anyone depressed.
In recent months, the nation's financial woes have gone from bad to worse. And the negative economic news is taking a heavy toll on battle-weary consumers, depressed from hearing about it.
And it's no wonder. Looking for a job in any economic climate is tough. But when most of the news that's presented on TV and in newspapers is negative, forward motion can be tough to achieve.
Consider this: Last week it was announced that Los Angeles County's unemployment rate hit a record 11.4 percent in March, up from 10.8 percent the previous month and well above 6.4 percent a year earlier.
On Wednesday, La Jolla-based MDA DataQuick reported that L.A. County weathered a 37.6 percent increase in mortgage default notices during the first quarter of 2009 compared with the same period a year ago.
More bad news arrived Thursday when General Motors Corp. said it will temporarily close 13 assembly plants in the U.S. and Mexico – some for more than two months – laying off nearly 24,000 workers to pare back a bloated inventory.
And Microsoft Corp. announced Thursday that its quarterly revenue fell from the previous year for the first time in its 23-year history as a public company, while its profit dived 32 percent.
Joseph Priester, a marketing professor at the USC Marshall School of Business, said current economic conditions have even prompted people to change their spending habits – even those with lots of money.
On the flipside, people who have lost their jobs are finding out that unemployment doesn't pay much.
So what's a stressed-out consumer to do?
Plan B might entail drawing upon your family's financial resources or turning to community programs, she said.
Resource centers like Women at Work, a Pasadena-based career and job center, have experienced a sharp rise in clients in recent months.
McCarthy said she's seen a 35 percent to 40 percent increase in the number of people turning to her organization for help during the past two months.
Women at Work offers a variety of services, including a career resource room with computer access, where job seekers can look through thousands of current job openings.
The news is sobering. But some may draw inspiration from an upcoming session that will address how to handle the stress.
A presentation entitled "Managing Stress in Difficult Times" will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. May 2 in Wright Auditorium at the Pasadena Public Library. Pasadena psychologist Dr. Jim Graves will be speaking.
Many people who have jobs are worried that they might not be employed six months from now, Graves said, while others who are close to retirement have their own worries.
Graves said small business owners are also facing challenges.