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Jean McLarty – Obituary
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Document date: 29 November 2017
Digitized by: Ted English
Obituary of Jean McLarty
JEAN McLARTY January 22, 1923 – November 10, 2016 succumbed peacefully to the frailty of her years under the watchful care of the staff at Kensington Gardens, Toronto, where she resided since 2013. Jean grew up at 654 Lakeshore Ave., Hanlan's Point, the daughter of Police Staff Sergeant Mansfield "Mac" McLarty of Puslinch (1878 – 1962) and Lottie (nee McConnell) of Dundalk (1885 – 1963). She was the older sister to Donald (1925 – 1988) and the twins Adam Hume (1926 – 1942) and John Franklin (1926 – 2012). Jean graduated from Jarvis Collegiate in 1939, Victoria College and the Department of Household Sciences in 1945, and the Ontario College of Education in 1946. Jean taught in the Forest Hill Village Schools (1948 – 1956) then as Head of the Home Economics Department at Burnhamthorpe Collegiate (1956 – 1960), Thistletown Collegiate (1960 – 1966) and finally Martingrove Collegiate (1966 – 1980) where she retired as Head of the Family Studies Department. In 2003 the Jean McLarty Volunteer Service Award was first presented in recognition of her 50 years with the Ontario Family Studies Home Economics Educators' Association (1946 – 1996). Jean will be missed by all who remember her, especially those who cared for her these last years. A simple interment will take place in the spring at Park Lawn Cemetery. You are invited to share your memories and photos on Jean's memorial page at: www.facebook.com/groups/JeanMcLarty/
John Franklin McLarty – Obituary
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Date of document: August 1-5, 2012
Obituary of John McLarty
Lawrence Solman, Canada's Uncrowned Amusement King
Posted by Eric Zhelka On 5 August 2016 7 April 2018 Filed under Bios-Obits, Newspaper No Comments
From: The Toronto Star Weekly, November 18, 1926
◊ Profile of the remarkable Toronto-born entrepreneur Lawrence "Lol" Solman (1866-1931), who was managing director of the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Sunnyside Amusement Park, Hanlan's Hotel, Hanlan's Point Amusement Park and the Mutual Street Arena in Toronto; owner of the Toronto Ferry Company and the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball club; and vice-president of Loews Canadian theatres. Born Jewish, he married Emily Hanlan, sister of rower Ned Hanlan, and was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.
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Bill Durnan, Fixture on the Islands
Posted by Edward English On 24 April 2016 12 December 2018 Filed under Bios-Obits, Newspaper No Comments
Fixture on the Toronto Islands – William Arthur "Bill" Durnan
Created by: Toronto Star
By-line: Ashante Infantry
Provenance: From the collection of Ted English, digitized by Eric Zhelka
Notes: Obituary
Bill Durnan Obituary
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Bill Durnan, 87, Fixture on the Islands
Born, Lived, and Worked There
Last of 4 Islands Generation
Ashante Infantry, Obituary Writer
In retrospect, one's childhood often seems idyllic. Bill Durnan recalled his as utopian.
He was born on Hanlan's Point into an Irish family that was among the earliest settlers of the Toronto Islands.
When he was growing up — prior to World War II and the development of the island airport — people flocked to the 10,000-seat Hanlan's Point Stadium, where baseball Keep reading →
Edward "Ed" Durnan, Great Sculler
Posted by Edward English On 24 April 2016 25 November 2018 Filed under Athletics, Bios-Obits, Newspaper No Comments
Death's Call Comes Suddenly To Former Sculling Champion, Edward "Ed" Durnan
Death's Call Comes Suddenly To Former culling Champion
Death's Call Comes Suddenly To Former Sculling Champion
Created by: Toronto Telegram
Beach-loving Burt spawned a canoeing dynasty
Posted by Edward English On 19 March 2016 29 March 2017 Filed under Athletics, Bios-Obits, Newspaper No Comments
Beach-loving Burt spawned a canoeing dynasty Created by: Hamilton Spectator, by-line: Daniel Nolan Date: 2006-03-29 Provenance: From the collection of Ted English, digitized by Eric Zhelka Notes: Obituary
The Forgotten Idol – Ned Hanlan
Posted by Eric Zhelka On 5 March 2016 23 March 2017 Filed under Bios-Obits, Newspaper No Comments
Created by: Maclean's Magazine, byline: Fergus Cronin
Notes: 1880's – "The Boy in Blue"
THE FORGOTTEN IDOL OF THE EIGHTIES
By FERGUS CRONIN
MACLEANS MAGAZINE, JUNE 1, 1953
Ned Hanlan, a chunky Toronto Islander, rose above shady promoters and fixers to bring Canada its first world Title in the days when baseball was a pup CANADIAN in Paris in 1917 was to a friendly Frenchman. "I was in Canada his way to his first big victory; in several of his suspected; and even shortly before his death in 1908 a local storm blew up about whether he should be appointed Toronto's harbor master. hockey and baseball are today. And for betting, it can only be compared to horse racing. Ten and twenty thousand people would turn out to Lake St. Louis, the Welland Canal, Kempenfeldt Bay or the St. John River to watch the giants of those days fight it out with sculls. And Ha f those giants, measured only five feet, eight and three quarter inches and weighed about one hundred and fifty pounds. Known throughout the world as Ned, he became champion sculler of Canada at twenty-two, at twenty-four and at twenty-five, champion of the world. We over him, scarves bearing his picture were the rage, snuffboxes, ties, shirts and belts were sold with Ned's name or picture on them. The second son of John Hanlan, a Kingston boatbuilder who became the first leaseholder on Toronto Island, Ned was born on July 12, 1855. His first attempt with outriggers was made in a novel craft he designed and built himself: a two sharpened at both ends and equipped Amateur championship of Toronto Bay and won. for the next eleven years, until he hit the downgrade at twenty-nine, he took part in about three The sliding seat had made its appearance in racing shells in 1871, allowing the oarsmen to get a longer sweep-in effect, lengthening the arms and the stroke. Hanlan became known as "the father – it in a single-seat shell and mastered its use. – In 1874 Hanlan met and beat Thomas Loudon in a race for the championship of Burlington Bay, as Hamilton Bay was them called. (Loudon was the great-uncle of Thomas R. Loudon. professor at the University of Toronto, who was the Canadian in Paris in 1917, mentioned above.) was launched when two lengths. The same season he won the governor general's medal for a two-mile race at Toronto, and championship of Ontario, his oniy opponent being William McKen. The big regatta on the horizon at that time was to be held in Philadelphia in May 1876, to celebrate the centennial of the Declaration of Independence. McKen had been planning to compete, but decided it looked so good as a money proposition that he teamed up with Hanlan, Ned doing the training and McKen placing bets in the poolrooms at night. Hanlan almost failed to get away from Toronto. He had sold some liquor on the island without a Or hìS arre ? permit and a warrant for his arrest was issued tw days before he was due to leave. Friends he about it, and that night he was hidden in a friend's house e following day police cornered him in the Toronto Rowing managed to lude them, hopped into a skiff an ? ter a just leaving for Lewiston, N.Y. Police spotted him skimming away, but his reputation as an oarsman discouraged pursuit. In the first heat of the centennial race Hanlan. d in the second he defeated the next best oars . By this time the gamblers had lost so heavily they were looking for Hanlan. McKen and Hanlan together and McKen would leave Hanlan in bed at nights while he made the rounds of the taverns, so many mistook McKen for Hanlan. g im and he was taken back to Toronto on a stretcher, suffering from violent poisoning. Hanlan not only won the single sculls at Philadelphia, beating the best oarsmen of America and a couple from England, but he did it in a record time. the bright-eyed, pink-cheeked, curly-haired little fellow tops in the sport He rowed in a blue shirt, and thereafter he always "the Boy in Blue." – Hanlan's triumphant return to Toronto was in direct contrast to his ignominious departure. A huge crowd gathered at the dockside to meet his steamer. Ned ized and seated atop the larg est hook-and-ladder wagon Toronto owned, and Hail to the champion sculler! Toronto's manly son, Who across the line, and on the Tyne Hath famous victories won… For the next eight years the world was Hanlan's oyster. A host of supporters sprang up to form the Hanlan Club, putting up an initial twenty dollars apiece to pay Hanlan's expenses and bet on his races. The charter membership included the U. S. consul, Col. Albert Shaw. Ned t yet the official Canadian champion. Alex Brayley, who had been favored for the Philadelphia race, returned Continued on Years after his crowd. was presentation to Canada and was beaten for the Canadian title by Wallace Ross, of Saint John. Ross then challenged Hanlan to mile event, the usual championship distance in those days. Ross was an eight-to-one favorite when the race took place on Toronto Bay, but HanA return lan won e Rothesay, N.B., the Kennebecasis River, the following has described in detail in many rowing annals. Both men, amid the wildest enthusiasm, struck the water simultaneously . . . At the half-mile mark Ross was pulling a fiery stroke of thirty seven and Hanlan a great sweep thirty-two per minute, with Hanlan a length ahead. With no increase of effort, at the mile mark Hanlan had doubled his lead. as a stroke that must have been wrenching him apart, Hanlan, after seeing that Ross was safe, went over the course… To the Canadian crown Hanlan soon I peak, Hanlan (top, left) could still draw a He's grasping his son Gordon, who n was killed in 1917. of a silver service at City Hall. his next significant race was in Oct. 1878, at Lachine, Que. It was the first of what was to become the famous Courtney-Hanlan series. These races by cracker-barrel oarsmen. Hanlan's honesty but, at least to the his name was later cleared. The first race against Charles E. Courtney, of Union Springs, N.Y., U. S., real. Hanlan won by a mere one and a Windsor Hotel after the race. A lot of money had been won and the following October at Chautauqua Lake, N.Y. Interest in the race became feverish. A grandstand for fifty thousand spectators was erected. An observation train half at afloat promised to follow the race never took place. The morning of the day it was scheduled, Courtney's shell was found sawn in haif. In a book published in 1923 (Courtney and Cornell Rowing, by C.U.P. Young) it was suggested that Hanlan "whose convivial habits were well known" had imbib before the race. His backers became alarmed and tried in vain to have draw, but again Courtney refused and "before the morrow dawned those whose bribe had been spurned were avenged." H. J. P. Good, sport writer for two Toronto papers and an origi ernber of the Hanla of six thousand dollars, the first to go †n Hanlan the third to the best man. In each instance the loser was to receive two thousand out of the purse. "The arrangement," said Good, "was made entirely without the eonsent or knowledge of Hanlan, who, I am willing "Hanlan was then told of the arrangement," said Good, "and his reply was that if he were not allowed to win if he could he couldn't be hauled from the boathouse with a logging chain. Of course the Courtney party got on to the result of his trial row over the course which had been staked the boat was 39 The referee ordered Hanlan over the course on the day of th which he did, with two or three pauses, in 33:56, a time which stands to this day as the fastest for five miles with a turn. The purse was to have been given by the owner of a brewery, but he refused to pay on a "row-over." So the pair met again on the Potomae at Washington in May 1880. In that race Courtney was so far behind at the halfway mark that he dropped out. In a tribute to Hanlan years later, James C. Rice, onetime coach of Columbia University, said: "I know personally that Hanlan was offered thirty thousand dollars to quit in a tempt to bribe him." By 1879 Hanlan had beaten so he went to England. In May he beat John Hawdon for the champion and the followin ed William Elliott, also on . Trains brought speetators by the thousands. The crush of boats on the river made navigation almost impossible. less bet freely in small sums on their champion whom they believed invincible. Lawyer Kerr rhymed: The champions take their stations, Promptly each takes his place In the sight of all the nations Of the Anglo-Saxon race. "Now, three to one," roared Elliott, "That I lead all the way!" And his stalwart arm and lusty form Might feebler foe dismay. But it was Hanlan's craft Toronto that led all the way. He won by ten boat lengths and broke the record for the course by fifty-five seconds. Then from the river's crowded banks, From roof-top, bridge and pier, Thrice thirty thousand lusty throats Sent up a mighty cheer; And many a British city Caught up the wild acclaim, And the western world from Sea to #Sea Resounded with his fame. Another civic reception was arranged home. will give an entertainment at 8 o'clock sharp. An will be presented by the Mayor about 9 o'clock, to which the Champion will Champion will appear with his boat, in full racing costume. Tickets will be sold at 50 cents no reserved seats The scene of the arrival was painted in oils by William Armstrong, and hangs still in the Toronto home of one of Hanlan's daughters, Mrs. C. H. S. Michie. Dated July 15, 1879, it shows five old sidewheelers crowded to the ounded of little boats. On the leading steamer a tiny figure stands on a platform high in the was how the Boy in was still but one feather from the chunky sculler's Triekett, the first Australian to have Interest in the outcome It was scheduled for it at wrote a ian newspaper from Newcastle: This meeting between Trickett and Hanlan will be the even in the rowing annais of the year—if not of the century . . . Triekett's friends spoke of Han lan as a small man – but I reminded them of the r k made by the ferryman near Pittsburgh, that "the more clothes he takes o the bigger he gets," and suggested that when he measured speed with their six-foot-sixer, the little m might look the larger of the two. The odds changed from two-to-one on Trickett to two-to-one on Hanlan as an estimated forty-two thousand masterful spurt. The erowds eheered and the nervy Ned drew near the bank rowing with alternate oars. Twice more Hanlan paused, once his hotel, the Bull's Head, its fellow Hanlan had established himself as later made considerable money performing on the water. One of his best tricks was rowing with only one scull straight across the Thames and back again. d to Toronto via New played the aquatic solo." In Toronto he was accorded another reception by mayor and citizens. The following year, 1881; he rowed on the Thames again, this time against Elias C. Laycock, of Australia, for the Sportsman Challenge Cup, and won it winning it for ail time. It is one of the most impressive cups in sporting history, standing about three feet high. It is still in the p – f Mrs. Michia A Great and Unique Skill Those were great days for the rowing game. The first official race between Y and Harvard was held in 1852, although Oxford and Cambridge had been racing on the Thames since 1829. Fortunes colorfully named Lakes Winnepesaukee, Minnetonka, Quinsagamond and Creve Coeur, the konk River, Lake Couchiching and wnyan Lake. Ned Hanlan rowed and won in them all. In 1880 there were at least a score of regattas were held at least once and sometimes twice a year. Cities like Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa and Montreal sponsored annual regattas. Youngsters asked their parents for gigs, wherries, dinghies or common rowboats is time, rowing was largely a matter of strength; Hanlan add and was at once the master of the me. When he beat Elliott on the Tyne it was seriously suggested that he must have had a propelling machine in his boat. With air-bags and machinery, The miners stoutly held, Or by some secret influence His skiff must be propelled, For never such a sculler Of form so lithe and fine Or such modest mien, had yet been seen On the Thames or the Tyne. Some claim Hanlan was the first real champion of the world—of any v London that there was world-wid representation. Trickett challenged Hanlan in 1892 and they met on May 1 on the Thames with stakes of five hundred pounds. Hanlan won by ne a minute and a half and, after passing the turning sta e spun around an – back of tw – Trickett's last appearance in a firstass match, and who can blame him? Standing on Lake Ontario, this $17,000 statue honors the first world champion Canada ever had. The next challenger was a dour Australian, William Beach, a blacksmith from the village of Dapto, New South r In ra ve gone because, as world champion, he could dictate the locale of the race. But he had not yet been to the southern hemisphere and the adventure appealed to his restless spirit. was written on this side of the world of his defeat by Beach. One report said gram commented, ue to unfavorable climatic politics. Hanlan's Hotel, which he had displayed a huge collection of his trophies and souvenirs. In 1898 he was elected a Toronto alderman, was re-elected once but defeated for a third term. had married Margaret Gordon Sutherland, of Toronto, formerly of Brantford, Ont., in 1877 and they had His wife ? – ur dau rs still living: Mrs. Michie, -Margaret and Aileen Hanlan, of Toronto; and Mrs. Alfred Hafner, of Portland, Me. When Hanlan died on Jan. 4, 1908, at fifty-two, papers in every part of Canada carried editorials about him. ever moved faster than Hanlan was given a civic funeral, and probably ten thousand people filed past his bier. A death mask was taken. Years later "The last outings Ned had with shortly before his th when, on the odd Sunday morning, he'd pile on three or four old sweaters and the 's "gig' a walrus, then, dripping and refreshed, resume. The Boy in Blue never really grew up." Ned Hanlan flashed across the pages of the world's newspapers of seventy five years ago, but mementos will kee his name alive for many years yet. A six-by-ten-foot painting of him hangs a sculler in the world. It National Exhibition, looking over the waters where Ned first learned to row. In 1936 the late Dr. A. R. Carman, Star. wrote of Hanlan that "no citizen of Canada was so well known throughout the English speaking world. And Lawyer Kerr put it in verse: While Ottawa, from storied cliff, Uplifts her crown of towers; While modest merit still shall charm a of ours; So long in distant story, As time rolls on apace, Shall it be told by young and old How Hanlan won the race.
H. James Jim Watt
Posted by Eric Zhelka On 25 February 2016 29 March 2017 Filed under Bios-Obits, Newspaper No Comments
H. James 'Jim' Watt of Watt's Coffee Shop
Created by: Globe and Mail
LIVES LIVED MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2001
H. James Watt Haematologist, oncologist, father, sailor. Born Oct. 24, 1950, in Toronto. Died Sept. 4 in Tuscany, Italy, of cardiac arrest, aged 70.
My sister Martha says that my father wanted to be a physician from the age of 4. I once asked him if he had ever wanted to be anything else and he said, No, I like what I'm doing, and besides I'm good at it. And he was right. Dr. H. James Watt grew up on Toronto Island and attended school in a one-room schoolhouse where he accelerated twice. His parents were of Scottish/English ancestry and owned Watt's Coffee Shop on Centre Island. Little Jimmy, as he was known, grew up peeling potatoes while his mother Dolly baked as many as 30 pies on a summer's morning. As a teenager, Jim Watt was a member of the Island Canoe Club and began paddling competitively, finally winning the Canadian Championships in 1947. He started at Jarvis Collegiate at 11, small and terrified, but by graduation had won 1 the 1947 Optimus Jim Watt Trophy. He also won a scholarship for medical school which he entered at the unprecedented age of 16. In 1953, he opened his first practice on Toronto Island making house calls on a bicycle, charging $2 a visit. When times were tough, his patients paid him with eggs and chickens. His career at St. Joseph's Health Centre in Toronto began in December, 1958. At 28, he was the youngest specialist on staff, specializing in both oncology and hematology. He also founded the oncology/hematology department at the health centre. During his 43-year career, Dr. H. James Watt served as Chief of Staff for six years, Chief of Medicine for 10, and was also an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Toronto from 1978 until his death. I always thought of my father as a doctor of the old school. He had a healing touch. He was kind and compassionate and lent an ear to all who were ill or in trouble. At the dinner table, he loved to discuss bone marrow transplants. He hated suffering, no doubt from having lost his own father at an early age. He rarely lost his temper, but he would become furious if the nurses had refused to give a dying patient morphine. My mother told me that he used to cry whenever his patients died.
For a man who faced death every day, he managed to cheat death more than once. He began having trouble with heart disease in the 1950s, culminating in an extensive bypass operation 18 months ago. He was not without faults, my father. He was impatient and forgetful. He was messier than a small child and way too fond of Scotch. But he loved people and had a great sense of fun. Summers he floated down the Credit River in a tube with his buddies. As an adult, he became a member of the RCYC and crewed on the Bristol Fashion. He travelled the world and Snapped a million badly focused photos. He took adversity in stride. When he was no longer able to sail, he bought a small motorized sail-boat and started the second RCYC, the "remote controlled yacht club," with his friend George Stein.
He was married twice, initially to Janet Newman and, after her death, to Audrey Walsh. He leaves behind four children: Kelly Watt, Martha Watson, Andrew Watt, Cameron Watt, and grandson Robbie Watson.
He wanted to go out with fanfare and so, at the scattering of his ashes on Sept. 18, there was a New Orleans-style funeral procession (complete with jazz band) and a flock of white doves were set free into a blue sky. One week earlier, a memorial had been held for him at the hospital. A woman named Joyce got up to say how she had been diagnosed with cancer several years before, and, being a new arrival to Canada, did not have a health card nor the $28,000 for her treatment. My father treated her for free and saved her life. I have always adored my father but have never been more proud of him than I was in that moment. We will miss him always.
Kelly Watt is James Watt's eldest daughter.
J. O. Ollie McCrimmon – Hound of Cherokee
J. O. 'Ollie' McCrimmon – Hound of Cherokee
John O. "Ollie" McCrimmon, who died Friday, was the final link with Jorious era of Toronto Island after World War I. He was 90.
McCrimmon was one of the founding members of a red-blooded fraternity of young men who set up house on Cherokee Ave., Centre island, with the sole purpose of having a very good time.
The Hounds of Cherokee, as the hellraisers named themselves, became a local legend in the years between 1915 and 1920. They indulged in riotous parties; their wild boat races around the waterways often deteriorated into hand-to-hand combat; and they played endless practical jokes.
Bachelors all
The only ironclad rule recognized by all nine Hounds was a dedication to bachelordom. Ladies were frequent, very welcome guests to their handsome plantation-style wood frame house, but marriage was not a popular topic of discussion.
The moment a Hound fell victim to wedding bells – and all of them eventually did — he had to leave Centre Island and make way for a single man. Their departure from Cherokee Ave., in keeping with the Hounds' cavalier humor, was usually marked with a full-scale "wake".
Residents of the island and the Harbor police eventually became accustomed to the sight of fraternity members swimming to the mainland because they missed the ferry to work after a late-night party. As official historian of the Hounds even after he married, McCrimmon compiled a timeless pictorial and written record of Toronto shrugging off the grim aftermath of war. Born in Woodville, Ont., the son of a farmer, he came to Toronto when he was 16 to take a business course at college. After training he became a store salesman – a job he held until his semi-retirement at 70 – and worked for local firms such as Ellis Brothers and Birks. But McCrimmon's days as a leading light of The Hounds were numbered when he met Sarah Reid at the Dovercourt Rd. Presbyterian Church. They were married in 1916.
Loved farming
He never lost his love for farming and bought a 25-acre plot of land in Willowdale on which he bred chickens. But later he had his greatest success growing strawberries and raspberries on a 10-acre farm at Castleton, starting this second "career" when he was
The McCrimmons had three children, 14 grandchildren and 10 greatgrandchildren. Two years ago McCrimmon, pre-deceased by his wife, left the farm to live at Cummer House, Willowdale. He will be buried tomorrow at Smith Cemetery in Woodville at 1 p.m.
Alan Howard – When cars drove across the ice to the Island
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When cars drove across the ice to the Island
from the Telegram, July 1, 1967
Created by: Alan Howard, the Toronto Telegram Centennial Supplement
ΤΗΕ SΙΧΤΗ Decade 1917-27
the mountain is to the Montrealer, the Island once was to the people of Toronto. In the roaring 20s, those whacky days of prohibition, flag-pole sitters, flappers and Model Ts, Torontonians found their Summer fun at "this great marine resort" (so described in an earlier history) and on the steamers and boats that plied the lake waters. The automobile had made its appearance but city residents, pushing past the 500,000 mark, were still inhibited from overland excursions by the condition of provincial highways. "If you'd ever been in a Model T over a detour — and there were miles of detours — well, it was quite an experience," recalls Alan Howard, 52, curator of the Marine Museum of Upper Canada. Because his father was in charge of the Island Filtration Plant, Alan Howard moved as a tot to the Island in 1918 and lived there until 1959.
Cold trips
"There were about 110 people who lived there all year, spread out in a straggling community from Hanlan's Point to Ward's Island. It was really like a small northern community, far removed from the city.
"There was a single-room school where one teacher taught nine grades. There was a great pot-bellied stove that would get red-hot…a very cosy atmosphere. The 'conveniences', were at the foot of the school yard, which made it a pretty cold trip in winter." There were all the advantages of a small community, yet the "big city" was just a tug trip away. First steamer sailing of the season, early in May, Torontonians acted like "children let out of School." "They all had to get out and take a trip…it didn't matter if it was cloudy or even snowing. Everyone put on his greatcoat and muffler and away they went." Until the opening of the Welland Canal in 1932, Toronto Bay always froze solid during the winter. The elite of Toronto used the islands as a summer base…"the cream Of Toronto
of Bay St.,
When cars drove across the ice
society, the Heintzmans, the Sweatmans…the list of residents used to read like a Who's Who." In winter, they would drive their cars across the ice to inspect their vacation homes. One of the great sports was ice boating, and the Durnan family at Hanlan's Point had boats for hire. "These would be ranged in a great fleet outside the Harbor Commissioner's Building, just west right on the waterfront.
"You'd wrap yourself in a great buffalo robe and away you would go for a quick Spin around the bay. Visiting notables were always taken on such a trip." Alan Howard recalls that if the wind was right, you could cross the Bay in exactly a minute. During the height of the summer, the Island popula
tion would reach about 8,000. And Sunday visitors would Swell this number to vast proportions.
Hanlan's
Hanlan's Point was the great amusement park of Toronto. In order to transport all the picnic-packing travelers, a fleet of ferries would gather, perhaps three in the slip, with another two waiting out in the Bay. There were two roller coasters. And the ferris wheel always paused midturn to offer a view of the city and waterfront. People were so bound to water travel that it was the fashionable thing to go to the CNE by ferry, boarding at the foot of Yonge st. Marathon swims were popular events…Mr. Howard remembers attending the great Wrigley marathon: "One of the swimmers was blind."
ALAN HOWARD
A memory: skating to school
Foster Hewitt was announcing the end of the race from the steamer Macassa. "Well, when the winning swimmer crossed the line, poor Foster was completely drowned out by the great blasts of salute from the Macassa's whistle."
It was Alan Howard's father who helped the city to acquire its reputation for pure drinking water. He conducted a lengthy research program which resulted in the p r o c e s s known as super-chlorination. Toronto was the first city to use it. Since then, it has been adopted by most major cities in the world.
Bec a use Dr. Howard had been reluctant to move to the Island, the city offered all kinds of inducements. This meant that the Howards were the only residents to have their own water pipeline. Islanders would fill their water cans at the Howards' backyard stand-pipe.
Early telephone lines were all party lines and Mr. Howard recalls his father being "beside himself" as he waited for island gossips to get off the line . . . particularly one woman who gave interminable medical counsel over the phone.
Alan Howard graduated from the Island school to the University of Toronto Schools on Bloor st. Before heavy Snow drifted over the ice, he could skate through the Island lagoons, then across the Bay, a total distance of about two miles, change into his boots, and off to school. "I was the envy of every boy in School." There were other delights. Alan Howard's parents were great theatre-goers. Shea's Vaudeville, later to become the Victoria Theatre, at Richmond and Victoria Sts., was the home of vaudeville, with "regulars' like Al Jolson and Jack Benny. One of Benny's standard jokes was to have someone in the third row jump up and say: "Mr. Benny, you know I came clean from Hamilton to see you!" and the comedian would retort: "Nobody ever came clean from Hamilton." to the island
Although Alan Howard was too young to become a patron, there were two burlesque houses, the Star (later the Empire) on Temperance, and the Gaiety on Richmond st. "Everybody tried to go on Monday night to see the unexpurgated version before the police-censors decided what should be eliminated." The coming of talking pictures eventually sounded the death knell of vaudeville. But it took time before filmmakers produced a smooth product. Alan Howard attended the first sound film, The Broadway Melody, at the Belsize Theatre (later the Crest). "At least four times, the speech wasn't synchronized with the action . . . it was uproarious, first you had the lips moving to the accompaniment of utter silence and then out would come the speech in the middle of a dance routine!"


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Mid Michigan Waste Authority grew out of a vision shared by a group of public works directors who were interested in offering or improving their community's curbside solid waste collection services. As the professionals charged with overseeing municipal public services, they knew they could secure better prices and a wider array of services if they joined together to hire a waste hauler. Their idea became a reality in 1991, when the Mid Michigan Waste Authority – then known as the Saginaw Area Solid Waste Management Authority – was formed.
Since then, 34 member communities in the greater Saginaw Valley have joined together to provide their residents with convenient, economical, safe, and environmentally-conscious curbside solid waste collection services. MMWA provides this service to nearly 69,000 residential properties.
Today, the Authority accomplishes its objectives through the efforts of a dedicated staff and an engaged board of trustees. MMWA employs an Administrative Director, Community Engagement Officer, and two Customer Service Representatives, working out of its Community Resource Recovery Center in Saginaw.
While residents will see Waste Management's green trucks collecting their curbside materials, it is the MMWA staff that handles the administration, contract management, education, programming, and customer service needs of the nearly 200,000 residents it serves.
The Authority is committed to educating residents about the benefits of recycling, reuse and waste reduction, and believes that being a strong community partner is the first step in sharing that message. Community outreach efforts include the annual Earth Day Celebration at the Children's Zoo at Celebration Square in Saginaw; free trash and recycling educational presentations to schools in its 34 member communities; presentations to neighborhood associations, community groups, churches, and other organizations; and participation in community events including festivals, farmers' markets, family nights, library programs, parks and recreation activities, and more.
For more information about Mid Michigan Waste Authority's services and programs, please contact MMWA staff at (989) 781-9555 or mwwa@recyclemotion.org.


a slingshot in the face of a raging giant.
a God who redefines our vision of strength.
They can be such giants in our lives, God of Grace. Each day, our fears, our doubts, our worries wash over us, until we come to believe that you do not care for us. There seems to be so much wrong in the world, we are convinced that there is nothing good we can do. The storms of sin and temptation batter at us, and we cower, unable to find the faith to withstand them.
Forgive us, God of Hope. Remind us that if we but open our hearts, you will heal us. If we but listen to your words, we will hear peace and joy. If we but open our lives to you, we can go forth to serve our sisters and brothers, even as we have been served by our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Calm to the waves. Calm to the wind.
Balm to our hearts. Fears at an end.
In stillness, hear his voice.
Participants In Today's Service: Pastor: John Hilley; Liturgist: Mary Ellen Hoffstetter; Musicians: Laura Rosser Kreiselmaier, Summer Praise Band.
Children's Worship: Children's worship helps children ages 3 through 2nd grade explore Bible units through hands on, age appropriate, experiential activities that are designed to engage them while also instilling faith formation. We meet upstairs every Sunday following the Time with Children. If this is your child's first visit, please let us know if there are any food allergies as a snack is served. Today's story is about "The Parting of the Red Sea." Next Week the story picks up with Part 1 of "Wandering in the Wilderness" where our children are introduced to the 10 Commandments.
The flowers today were provided by Rob and Regina Montgomery in celebration of Father's Day.
PYG (high school youth) and 608 (middle school youth) are going on their mission trip to Charleston, SC from Sunday, June 21st to Saturday, June 27th. If you have any questions, please contact Kelly McConnell, Youth Director, at ebpcyouth@comcast.net.
Music in the Grove: What do lawns and Bluegrass, shade and Soul, playground and Gospel, picnics and pianos all have in common? They are all part of a FREE CONCERT event called Music in the Grove hosted right here at EBPC. All church members, preschool families and Brentwood neighbors and friends are invited to bring blankets, chairs, and a picnic and enjoy this fabulous concert event from 3 pm to 6 pm on Saturday, July 25. The concert lineup includes soul/gospel artist Jason Eskridge, bluegrass band Fireball Mail with our very own, newly appointed music director and piano virtuoso Nate Strasser. Picnic baskets are encouraged, and we'll also have Blue Coast Burrito on hand. This promises to be a fantastic event, and we hope all our church and preschool families will come out to support these amazing musicians and our church. We want to showcase our beautiful grounds and our wonderful church family so please let all of your friends and family know about this great event and bring them out for a great afternoon of music, fun and food! We are looking for volunteers to help with this event. Please contact the church office if you are available and interested. For more information about the event and our great musicians, see our website.
EBPC Young Families: Save the Date for our next dinner and gathering on Wednesday, July 1st 5:30-7:00 pm. Details to follow.
Nominate a Hymn for EBPC "Hymn Sing Sunday": Sunday, July 5th will be the annual Hymn Sing Sunday at EBPC. It is a special service largely filled with our voices raised in worship through the hymns of our faith. Please contact Doug at ebpcoffice@comcast.net or Lavona at Lavona.Russell@gmail.com with the name of a hymn you would like to include and whether you would like to share a special memory about the hymn from the pulpit or in the bulletin. Thanks so much for making this a special day for EBPC.
EBPC's Bible Study on the Move: Grab your walking shoes and join us at 7:15 am on Tuesday mornings at River Park for a morning gathering to increase your understanding of the life of Jesus and increase your heart rate at the same time. An EBPC group will meet during the months of June and July to explore the Gospel of Mark while getting to know each other better and get fit at the same time! Meeting place: River Park, the Picnic Pavilion next to the playground and across from the Brentwood Public Library. Meeting time: 7:15 am on June 23rd. Starting at 7:15 am we will gather for 10 minutes and share in a brief opening prayer and read the selected scripture from Mark. John will provide a brief overview of the Scripture passage and people will share insights. Then armed with a discussion question, we will break up into smaller groups (based on one's energy level) to walk or run for 30 minutes on the greenway.
† EBPC youth and chaperones on the mission trip to Charleston, SC.
† We pray for all men, particularly fathers, that they may be equipped to pursue the will of Jesus in the home, workplace, community, and church.
† Prayers for Lily Paris as she continues her treatment for cancer.
† Praise for the hiring of Nate Strasser as our new Music Director.
Cover image: He, Qi. Peace Be Still, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN.


text: Q: Swift - override present and dismiss in UIViewController (modal) in order to run some command every time a view controller is presented or dismissed? I have a floating button that always stays on top. I can't really control much about this button,  except show/hide. Whenever a ViewController is presented as a modal, I want to hide this floating button if it's not already hidden, and when the ViewController is dismissed, I want to show it again. I can control this state with an import and something very simple like Library.show() and Library.hide(). I want to do this only in one place in the code to make sure that it works everywhere now and in the future. Any ideas on how to do this? Any perf or memory considerations?

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This print features the superb NZ designed and build art deco building "Santa Barbara" that still stands in Victoria St, Christchurch. The curves of the building are echoed in the shape of the Morris minor car. There is also a reference that tells you that this painting was completed post-earthquake - note the orange road cone which became a symbol of post quake life here in the South Island's largest city.


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Audio/Video: Rot Ken – "Rollin" (Prod. by JetsonMade)
The Rapid Internet Money/Spaceboy Productions Riser Follows Up His Free Me Project With a Video Single That Celebrates His Future as a Free Man
"His most recent offering "007" is definitely going to have you bobbing your head and realizing why he's beginning to gain some much-deserved traction with his music." – Lyrical Lemonade
"Touting hard-hitting 808s and iridescent ad-libs, Ken's passionate vocals are the star of the show, coming through with waves of self-reflective depth and power to overcome the adversity he faces." – Our Generation Music
The Song + Video:
Blessed with a natural sense of freewheeling melody, Georgia rapper Rot Ken is a leader in his state's new wave. Celebrating his recent release from jail in his own signature style, Ken shares "Rollin," a new video single. Produced by JetsonMade, the new song combines angelic synth arpeggios and dramatic piano with Jetson's trademark trampoline 808s, providing a platform for Ken to pontificate about his environment and air his grievances: "I was locked up in a cell sitting on a double bed/Heard you told 'em 'bout some things, yeah, I heard what you said." The emotional video blends clips of Rot Ken's release–he embraces his family, gets a fresh line-up on his hair–with shots of the 18-year-old artist riding in a luxury van to the studio, where he immediately gets to work. "Rollin" is now available on all platforms.
Though Ken has been away for much of 2022, his presence was still heavily felt. In May, the Internet Money/Spaceboy Productions artist shared Free Me, a 17-track project that showed his range, and demonstrated his singular ability to cut through immersive production with effervescent flows. The Augusta native's project featured underground hits like "Baby Choppa" (1.6 million Spotify streams), "Heartbreak Kid" (1.6 million Spotify streams), and "Beautiful," a collaboration with SoFaygo that racked up over 3.2 million Spotify streams. With additional appearances from Kalan.FrFr, Hunxho, and 21 Lil Harold, the 17-track Free Me project is available everywhere now.
Watch "Rollin": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CDEGUurdOM
Stream "Rollin": https://rotken.lnk.to/rollin
Please contact Michelle or Kevin for more info.
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"Rollin": https://rotken.lnk.to/rollin
Free Me: https://rotken.lnk.to/freeme


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require_relative '../value_set'
require_relative '../basic_instruction'

module DCPU16
  module Instructions
    class Div < BasicInstruction
      def initialize
        @opcode = 0x5
      end

      def execute(emulator)
        b = ValueSet.get emulator, @b, @next_word_b
        a = ValueSet.get emulator, @a, @next_word_a
        a_i = Memory.to_i a
        b_i = Memory.to_i b
        result = Memory.to_bin (a_i / b_i)
        if b_i == 0
          ValueSet.set emulator, @a, @next_word_a, Memory.to_bin(0)
          emulator.overflow = 0
        else
          ValueSet.set emulator, @a, @next_word_a, result
          emulator.overflow = ((a_i >> 16) / b_i) & 0xFFFF
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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Homes for skiers – in pictures
These properties, from Slovenia to Austria and Suffolk, are in pole position for some fun on the slopes
Anna Tims
Wed 14 Dec 2016 02.00 EST Last modified on Wed 14 Dec 2016 05.31 EST
Home: Earl Stonham, near Stowmarket, Suffolk
Yes, it's Suffolk and no, Suffolk is not renowned for mountain slopes or reliable snow cover. However, this 18th-century cottage will be close to Europe's largest indoor ski slope if plans for the Snoasis snow dome go ahead. The idea is to have 258 miles of slope with a drop of 100m ready for 2020. A former smithy and shop in the grounds could be converted into extra living space if the four bedrooms cramp your style. There are gardens front and back, and exposed beams and brickwork within. Offers over £399,999. David Burr, 01359 245245
Away: La Joue du Loup, Hautes-Alpes, France
Local wood was used to build this four-bedroom chalet in 2009 and local logs form the bar area of the kitchen. It's in a cul de sac 500m from the centre of the resort, one of the largest in the southern Alps, from which 100km of pistes fan out. You can experience the mountains from private balconies and terraces facing south, east and west, and in summer you can barbecue in the large garden bordering a wood or hike the mountain path that passes 100m away. Asking price: £375,000. Sextant Properties, 020 7428 4910
Away: Flattach, Austria
Mirrored in a lake and surrounded by forested peaks, this two-bedroom chalet sits at the foot of the Moelltal glacier along with 10 others built in vintage style. From the freestanding bathtub you can survey the mountainscape and après-ski can start in the private spa area and sauna, or with a hot chocolate on the terrace. The Flattach resort has 295 miles of slopes rising above 2,500m and is served by six ski lifts. Asking price: £292,261. Tranio Overseas Property, 020 3608 1267
Away: Veysonnaz, Valais, Switzerland
You can ski straight out from this new apartment on the slopes of Veysonnaz, which forms part of the vast Four Valleys ski area. The pretty village is a smaller neighbour of Verbier, whose packed pistes are within skiing distance. Although it's low-key, it lays claim to the Piste de l'Ours, the most famous of the World Cup ski runs. Full-height windows in the living area look out over the Alps and the Rhone Valley. You only get two bedrooms but a ski locker and underground parking space are included. Guide price: £580,612. Savills, 020 7016 3740
Away: Ukanc, Radovljica, Slovenia
Vogel, a 1,922m-high mountain in the Julian Alps, is home to Slovenia's largest ski resort, and it's a walk to the cable car from this three-bedroom cottage on the shores of Lake Bohinj. Inside, it's the obligatory chalet style of wooden floors and ceilings with a wood-burning stove in the sitting room and two balconies overlooking the mountain. It's down a no-through road, a short stroll from the water's edge, and is surrounded by its own slope of garden. Asking price: £215,380. Tranio Overseas Property, 020 3608 1267


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Натрон (, ) — солёное щелочное озеро в области Аруши на севере Танзании, на границе с Кенией. Озеро находится в рифте Грегори, который является восточной частью Восточно-Африканского рифта. Бассейн озера Натрон охраняется международной Рамсарской конвенцией.

Натрон в основном питается рекой Эвасо Нгиро, берущей начало в местности в Северной Кении, богатой минералами. Озеро имеет глубину не больше трех метров и изменяет береговую линию в зависимости от времени года и уровня воды. Озеро максимум доходит до 57 км в длину и 22 км в ширину. Над озером проходит сезонный ливень в мае-декабре и приносит 800 мм осадков. Температура воды в заболоченных местах может достигать 50 градусов по Цельсию, и в зависимости от уровня воды, щёлочность может достигнуть pH фактора от 9 до 10,5.

Флора и фауна

Озеро Натрон покрыто коркой соли, которая периодически окрашивается в красный и розовый цвет. Это результат жизнедеятельности микроорганизмов, которые живут в озере. Озеро является средой обитания миллионов фламинго. Натрон — основное место размножения малого фламинго, до 75 % всемирной популяции этого вида появляется на свет именно здесь. В озере водится два эндемичных вида щелочной тиляпии — Alcolapia latilabris и Alcolapia ndalalani. Вид Alcolapia alcalica также присутствует в озере, но не является эндемиком.

Экология
Угрозу балансу солёности могут представлять увеличение заиливания притоков водораздела озера Натрон и планируемая гидроэлектростанция на озере Эвасо Нгиро. Хотя планы развития включают строительство плотины в северном конце озера, чтобы содержать пресную воду, угроза растворения солёной части озера всё ещё остается серьёзной. Пока что нет никакой формальной защиты солёной части озера.

Новую угрозу озеру Натрон представляет предложенное развитие завода по производству поташа на его берегах. Завод качал бы воду от озера и извлекал карбонат калия, чтобы преобразовать его в стиральный порошок. Строительство завода обеспечило бы жильём более чем 1000 рабочих завода и угольной электростанции, поставляющей энергию комплексу завода. Кроме того, разработчики могут использовать гибридную артемию, чтобы увеличить эффективность извлечения.

Согласно Крису Мэджину, сотруднику RSPB по Африке, «Шансы малых фламинго на продолжение размножения перед лицом такого погрома на нуле. Такое развитие событий может привести к исчезновению малых фламинго в Восточной Африке». В настоящее время группа, состоящая из пятидесяти восточноафриканских экологов, управляет международной кампанией, имеющей целью остановить запланированное строительство фабрики по производству поташа компании Tata Chemicals Ltd (Индия) и Национальной строительной корпорации Танзании.

В июне 2008 года Tata Chemicals из-за Рамсарской конвенции отказалась возобновлять строительство фабрики.

Из-за уникального биоразнообразия территория «Бассейн озера Натрон» была включена в список заболоченных мест международного значения Рамсарской конвенции 4 июля 2001. Озеро также входит во Всемирный фонд дикой природы региона Восточная Африка.

Посещение
Около озера расположены многочисленные кемпинги, которые также являются основными пунктами восхождения в гору Ол-Доиньо-Ленгаи.

См. также
 Натровая известь

Примечания

Солёные озёра Африки
Озёра Танзании
Бессточные озёра Африки

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Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel
() – miejscowość w Holandii, w prowincji Południowa Holandia, w gminie Zuidplas. Do 31 grudnia 2009 istniała gmina Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, 1 stycznia 2010 została przyłączona do gminy Zuidplas.

Linki zewnętrzne

Miasta w prowincji Holandia Południowa


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Militant Islam Monitor > Articles > The Growing Problem of Islamist Salafism in Holland: Justifying Polygamy
The Growing Problem of Islamist Salafism in Holland: Justifying Polygamy
By Emerson Vermaat
Patrick Pouw is a Dutch journalist who is alarmed about the growing influence of Salafist Islamism in Holland. It is the fastest growing movement and their mosques are always packed with hundreds of worshippers – and not just in Holland. Salafists are ultra-orthodox Muslims who are ideologically close to the allegedly pure "Wahhabi" or Saudi Arabian version of Islam. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is a Salafist Muslim, or a "Salafist Jihadist" rather. Islam experts distinguish between those Salafists who oppose and those who endorse violence. Salafists are also increasingly active in the United States, and what is being said here about Holland may also be applicable to them.
It was in 2007 that Patrick Pouw joined a group of young Salafists in the Dutch city of Utrecht and followed a yearlong Salafist course given by Suhayb Salaam, son of the radical Salafist cleric Ahmed Salaam. Pouw managed to win Suhayb's trust and the trust of his Salafist fellow students, and they usually did not conceal their real views. Pouw recently published a shocking book about what he heard from Suhayb and his students. There is, for example, a wide gap between what they say in public and what they say and believe in private or when they are among themselves. Publicly, Suhayb condemned violence preaching tolerance and "multiculturalism" but when he was lecturing to his pupils in that small classroom in the city of Utrecht he said that those who "betray" Muslims must be beheaded. Such people are "spies" and decapitation is the only proper punishment for them, Pouw heard Salaam say. "I saw how his eyes were cold and full of hatred, just like they were on that other occasion when he called on his students to burn Bibles."
In another lesson Suhayb told his students that Allah had declared war on the infidels. All infidels are enemies of Allah. Muslims must hate the enemies of Allah, they must see them as their own enemies. That is an obligation, Suhayb emphasized. Those unbelievers who oppose Allah and Islam must be utterly detested. And those unbelievers who do not fight against Allah and his prophet, must be hated, too, yet they must be treated with respect. It is up to Islamic scholars to decide on the question who opposes and who does not oppose Allah and Islam. "We must follow their opinion on this issue," Suhayb told his students. After Patrick Pouw had written a summary of what Suhayb had said and handed this text over to him, he (Suhayb) just commented: "Very good." Suhayb was opposed to any attempt to organize a "dialogue" between Muslims and non-Muslims. That is "Haram", forbidden, and dangerous, he said. Do not discuss private matters with unbelievers, Suhayb advised his students. Select your friends with care, create more distance between you and your non-believing friends. Suhayb also said more than once that he distanced himself from any Muslim who lives among the infidels. He advised his students to leave Holland and go to a Muslim country. Yet, he and his father refuse to do so themselves. His father once refused to pay taxes, yet he did not object to receiving Dutch welfare money. Both father and son fled to peaceful and tolerant Holland after they felt persecuted in their home country Syria, and now they advise others to leave the very country that sheltered and protected them. This attitude is typical for the kind of hypocrisy among many Salafist Muslim clerics. They are quick to advise others to do or not to do certain things, yet they rarely set the example themselves.
Concealing your real feelings and views, or "takiyya," is also typical for the behavior and tactics of these fanatics. When Ahmed and his son Suhayb were interviewed on Dutch television, they said quite different things than what Pouw had heard from them privately. On TV they were not talking about hating the infidels or the obligation for Muslims to leave Holland. Instead, they suddenly emphasized "unity in diversity" and "integration."
The same thing happened when Salaam was interviewed by Dutch TV for the second time. The reporter asked him critical questions about Patrick Pouw's new book. "Did you say all these things (to your students)?" the reporter wanted to know. "No, I did not," Salaam said. The reporter then quoted from Salaam's written teaching material which he had used in his own classroom. Salaam quickly and lamely said that this material was not for public consumption.
In one of his lectures Salaam talked about the tactics to ingratiate oneself with opponents. He mentioned the Tilburg city council which he and his father – so he claimed – managed to convince of their views after a long debate. There was only one member of the council who remained critical, Suhayb claimed. Yet, the council later stated publicly that Imam Salaam and his son were "too conservative to integrate fully" (into Dutch society).
In another lecture Suhayb said that unbelievers who are living in an Islamic state have only three options: become a Muslim themselves, pay protection money or leave for another country. If they do not make a choice, the only option left for them is persecution by the Islamic state. When a student asked Suhayb: "Isn't there freedom of religion?" he resolutely replied: "No, there is not." This is the totalitarian mind of Muslim fanatics who publicly preach peace and harmony in the West where they are being sheltered but what they really want is nothing else but to abolish our democracy and freedom replacing it by a Taliban like state.
And for some reason all of them hate the Jews – just like the Nazis once did. "Allah cursed the Jews," Suhayb said in one of his lessons. He referred to an old Islamic text from the "Hadith" (=Islamic tradition) which said that the Jews possessed a lot of knowledge, yet they declined to accept the prophet Mohamed. "The Jews are cursed because they knew the truth, but they did not follow it," Suhayb said. "This is not the case with the Christians who are not cursed. They are just erring." It is not allowed for Muslims to read the Bible or the Torah, Suhayb told his students. It is dangerous, even if you do so with a view to being better able to contest the views of Christians and Jews.
Muslim women who are working in a supermarket are committing a sin, Suhayb said in another lecture. There they sell alcohol and pork. Supermarkets are "places of perdition."
Salafist Muslims like Suhayb do not believe in normal marriages. They do not recognize wedding ceremonies conducted at Town Halls. "The Dutch civil wedding act is invalid because it is not in conformity with Islamic guidelines set out by the prophet," Suhayb told his students. "Brothers and sisters who married this way, must split up immediately, live separately for three months in order to find out if the woman is pregnant and then go to the imam straightaway and arrange an Islamic marriage."
Salafists marry in their own mosques, and they do not object to polygamy – having more than one wife. The Muslim prophet Mohammed himself practiced polygamy, so why should a fanatical Salafist follower of his decline to do so? And the more children the better. Suhayb's father Ahmed Salaam is married to two wives. Patrick Pouw learned that the same Ahmed also conducted the Islamic wedding ceremony for his son Suhayb in his Salafist mosque in the city of Tilburg. (According to the Dutch Intelligence and Security Service AIVD, this very mosque received money from Saudi Arabia.) But Suhayb has another wife, too, in Syria that is. He also has two children there whom he visits regularly. Pouw writes: "Weeks ago he discussed the topic of polygamy in the classroom. 'Of course, it is allowed for Muslims to take a second, third or fourth wife. It is no problem at all, as long as you can financially support them. Did not the prophet Mohammed have more wives?"' "It is the man who decides if he wants to take a second wife," Suhayb said. "Women have no say in these matters." "It is the duty of the wife to be faithful to her husband, not the other way arround." Of course, the Salaams, both father and son, would never say such things on television. There would be an outcry. Polygamy is strictly forbidden in the Netherlands. Yet, a gradual "Islamization" is taking place in Dutch society. You now see lots of veiled women everywhere – even in smaller cities where you did not see them ten years ago. The Amsterdam City Transportation Board recently decided not to celebrate Christmas anymore. It might cause offense to Muslim employees.
Ahmed Salaam's best friend in The Hague is Imam Fawaz Jneid, another hate cleric who also happens to be from Syria. (Fawaz once arrived in Holland as an asylum seeker, now he condemns the very country that shelters him.) Fawaz's Salafist "As Soennah Mosque" is an important center for conducting Islamic wedding ceremonies in accordance with "sharia law." Polygamic relationships are not rejected in principle by a number of Salafist mosques. The Dutch Intelligence and Security Service reported in October 2007 that "there are Salafi mosques which are prepared to 'marry' men who already have wives, and so are legitimizing bigamy and polygamy." These Islamic "marriages" are not recognized by the secular state or the Moroccan consulate. Many Salafists in Holland are second-generation Moroccan immigrants.
Polygamy is also practiced by Muslims and sub-Saharan immigrants in major European cities, especially in Paris, Brussels and London. But it is also on the rise in some American cities, for example in Philadelphia where black Muslims increasingly turn to polygamy. Sub-Saharan immigrants living in the restive "banlieus" or suburbs of Paris widely practice polygamy. Some men from Mali, an African Muslim country, have up to five wives and more than 20 children. Lacking any discipline at home, these these youngsters are often deeply involved in crime and display violent behavior. Polygamy is part of the African value system and culture (see the highly interesting study by Yasuko Hayese and Lao Lee Liaw referred to below).
We already noted that Salafist Islam is highly discriminatory for women. Patrick Pouw reports that Suhayb once said that women were not allowed to travel alone. Traveling without being in the company of a "mahram" (a male family member or husband) is forbidden for women. And if a woman wants to study law, it is preferable for her to study "Islamic law," not the kind of Dutch law that is being taught at universities. Other academic studies such as philosophy, psychology or economics are equally "haram." Women are not allowed to shake hands with men or vice versa. Women must wear the "Niqab," a kind of gloomy long usually black dress which also covers most of the face. These women really look like ghosts.
One of Suhayb's students was Hassan, a former terror suspect. Hassan had received a two months prison sentence. He had previously taken suspicious photos of government buildings in The Hague. He also talked about suicide attacks in at least one phone conversation. When asked by Patrick Pouw why he had talked about such provocative topics, Hassan avoided giving straight answers. Instead, he talked about Islam being "a religion of peace." "This irritated me," Pouw writes. "How could he say this, when in tapped phone conversations he had previously talked about suicide bombings in the very name of his religion?" For some reason, Hassan could get on quite well with Suhayb.
There were two Islamic theologians whom Suhayb liked especially: Ibn Taymiyya (who justified violent jihad) and Mohamed Ibn Abd Al-Wahhab, the founder of the extremely conservative version of Saudi Islam. Osama bin Laden has also been inspired by these two men, but Suhayb criticized bin Laden because the latter wanted a revolution. "We must be more patient," Suhayb explained.
In an Islamic state it is allowed to stone women when they commit adultery and cut off the hands of thieves, Suhayb said. This the kind of primitive state the Taliban once created in Afghanistan.
Salafism is increasingly popular among young Dutch Moroccans, according to the recent Dutch doctoral dissertation "Zoeken naar een 'zuivere' Islam" (Searching for a "Pure" Islam) written by Martijn de Koning, an anthropologist. Salafist movements and "their version of 'pure Islam' gives them (these youngsters, EV) a powerful identity coupled with a feeling of moral superiority," De Koning writes.
Emerson Vermaat is an investigative reporter in the Netherlands specialized in crime and terrorism. His website is: www.emersonvermaat.com
1. Patrick Pouw, Salaam! Een Jaar Onder Orthodoxe Moslims (Amsterdam: Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers, 2008), p. 43, 44 ("The Jews are cursed"), p. 63-65, 171-173 (Hassan), p. 101, 102 ("hating the infidels"), p. 104 ("working in a supermarket", "dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims is haram"), p. 104 ("only Islamic marriage is a valid marriage"), p. 105 ("mahram"), p. 106 ("study Islamic law"), p. 109 ("select your friends with care"), p. 126, 127 ("Muslims who live among the infidels"), p. 128 (TV interview), p. 138 (Tilburg city council), p. 141 ("no religious freedom in an Islamic state"), p. 152 (Bin Laden), p. 200, 201 (Saudi Arabia), p. 203-205 (polygamy), p. 207 ("Do not read the Bible and the Torah"), p. 252 ("eyes full of hatred"), p. 224, 234, 235 (stoning women, cutting off hands).
2. General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), The Radical Dawa in Transition (The Hague: AIVD, October 2007), p. 65.
3. IslamicAwaking.com, November 2006: Philly's Black Muslims Increasingly Turn to Polygamy.
4. Yasuko Hayese and Kao Lee Liaw, Factors on Polygamy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Findings on the Demographic and Health Surveys, in: The Developing Economies, September 1997, Vol, 35, No. 3, p. 293-327.
5. "Pauw & Witteman" (Dutch TV), 17 April 2008 (Salaam's denials).
6. Martijn de Koning, Zoeken naar een "Zuivere Islam". Geloofsbeleving en Identiteitsvorming van Jonge Marokkaans-Nederlandse Moslims (Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2008), p. 317. I do not agree, though, with some of the conclusions drawn by the author who, in my view, shows too much understanding for these youngsters.


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What makes someone or something "woo-woo?" OK, this may not be the question that keeps you up at night. But what would you say is the difference between "woo-woo" and "not-woo-woo?"
If you define "woo-woo" as an idea, belief or believer with no rational base (like, say, most of the recent presidential debates), then is "not-woo-woo" based on rationality? Like quadratic equations, logical behavior and Baruch Spinoza?
California used to be Woo-Woo Capital. Someone once theorized that everything that comes out of California can be traced back to hot tubs and ganja. To which we must admit, there are worse ancestors. Asheville, North Carolina went through a woo-woo phase a few years ago, but lately has found itself grounded more in buskers, tourist money, hotels and drum circles. Hmmmmm. Still sounds woo-woo.
A woman friend of mine likes to visit a psychic every now and then. She's not a woo-woo. She's a business woman. A successfully rational business woman. She says the reason she goes to this psychic is not so she can find out what's coming in her future or what spirits are trying to tell her or even when Mercury will be in retrograde. (Is Mercury ever not in retrograde?)
This wise woman says she goes to a psychic because it reminds her that there is more than one way to look at life. That's it. That's her only reason. However she reflects on her life with its joys, sorrows, mortgages, leaky roof, fabulous friends, estranged lovers, teen-aged children, VISA bills, aging parents, hot dates, extra ten pounds, FaceBook laughs, doctor's appointments, sleep problems, aging issues and whatever else, she constantly wonders if there's another way to see it all.
With all of these concerns free-wheeling through her brain, she says that a trip to the psychic sends it all out to the stars for awhile and allows her mind to rest with another point of view. She says, "An hour with my psychic
gives me perspective."
Even as I write this piece, I have a statue of Pan standing just outside my window. Looking, quite literally, over my shoulder. Awhile back, we had a 250 year-old red oak tree in our yard which had root rot and needed to come down. So, we cut it down to 20 feet and invited master wood-carver, Jack Bailey, to create a life-sized Pan out of it. Pan, the Greek demi-god, half-human/half-goat – that pointy-eared, cloven hoofed, shaggy-legged, horned and horny god of the woodlands sits even now with his pipes about 30 feet from where I work, play, eat and sleep.
And every now and then, I get up, go to the window and look at the old boy and wonder what he's thinking. Sitting there butt naked with his pipes and unshorn legs, he stares back at me. And I know he's just a tree. And I know someone thousands of years ago dreamed him up as a way to make sense of things. But, looking at him, I sometimes feel like he's looking at me and saying, "Yo, preacher man! What you doin' with your life, boy? Get out of that room and come dance with me in the moonlight."
Why do people go to church, synagogue, temple or mosque? Why do people spend money on therapists? Or read the Bible? Or go to concerts and art shows? Or hook-up or have relationships? Or pray or go to yoga? Not really sure. But, maybe, just maybe it's a way of getting perspective. Seeing a bigger picture. Rising above, slipping beneath, or stepping aside of your life just to see it differently.
This brief life we are granted is far too rich, too fertile, too vast to peg it down with jobs and bills and worries. There is such a wide and varied landscape – and so many ways to see the panorama. And when it comes down to it, who cares whether it's woo-woo or not?
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Thank you, Alan. I seem to have lost my original posts.... Where exactly is his usual spot? Thanks again.
> It was on Gregg Hill Road...normal spot, around 10:00 this morning.
>> Heading through Waterbury soon... Any suggestions for finding the Northern Hawk Owl?
>>> Ken Copenhaver and I came across this unusual chickadee at a feeder yesterday while doing our route for the Eastern Franklin CBC. The owner of the property said it's been around for a while. We watched it for quite a while and it fed and acted just like the other chickadees. We wanted to post to see  what others thought and if anyone had come across coloration such as this before. Is it just a leucistic or partially leucistic bird? Here is the link to two photos of the bird that we got.


NEW YORK and TORONTO, July 11, 2018 – Retailers constantly set out to find the next big trend to incorporate in their assortments and draw consumers to stores, especially in the hypercompetitive and disruptive marketplace they serve. Recognizing this, Global Market Development Center (GMDC) has recently formed a strategic partnership with Sampler, a product sampling technology organization, to launch the Retail Tomorrow Trendsetter Panel – a new initiative focused on connecting today's buyers with tomorrow's shoppers.
GMDC is a leading global retail industry trade association of nearly 50 years dedicated to serving its ecosystem of more than 600 retailers, wholesalers, suppliers and service/solution member companies by enabling consumer-facing innovation and retail reimagined. Retail Tomorrow is a GMDC industry initiative that organizes a community of innovators to promote uncommon collaboration between retailers, brands, technology leaders and universities. This unique ecosystem provides executives with the opportunity to connect to innovation, identify emerging technologies, share insights, and discover next-practices focused on enhancing the shopper experience. GMDC's combined member volume represents more than 125,000 retail outlets and more than $500 billion in sales.
Sampler is the global leader in digital product sampling, with operations in 17 countries and millions of members in North America. Leveraging the Sampler platform, brands with trending products will be able to submit their product for review with high-value consumers who shop in stores like Kroger, Dollar General, Albertson's, H-E-B and more. By doing so, retail buyers from these different banners will be able to gain insights on which products are resonating with consumers, all while providing these new emerging products early market feedback that will be invaluable as they go to market.
The Retail Tomorrow Trendsetter Panel will begin with GMDC members identifying the key trends they're looking for, and brands submitting products for review that fit within that trend. Sampler will then distribute trial-sized products to high-value shoppers, along with a digital consumer feedback survey. All consumer insights will be collected in real-time, compiled and published in a report summarizing the top trending products.
Global Market Development Center (GMDC) energizes members and the marketplace by advancing a culture of Connect-Collaborate-Create-Commerce. As the leading GM and HBW trade association, GMDC is dedicated to serving its ecosystem of more than 600 General Merchandise and Health Beauty Wellness retailers, wholesalers, suppliers and service/solution member companies by enabling consumer-facing innovation and retail reimagined. GMDC's combined member volume represents more than 125,000 retail outlets and more than $500 billion in sales. To learn more, visit gmdc.org.
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"While liberalism continues to mutate into new forms, its case against utopia continues to revolve around a fairly stable set of indictments -between something akin to Popper's approach and Fukuyama's diagnosis, between the rationalist and realist rebukes, between the claim that there should be no alternative and the assurance that there is no alternative. Liberalism continues to consider small-scale reformism the only rational and realistic political option. Speculation about alternative futures is, from the perspective of the classic anti-utopian ontology and epistemology, at best naive and at worst dangerous."
"Femisnism is an interesting representative case because feminist projects have long been linked with utopianism. If political realism tends to be associated with a mode of hard-nosed, hard-ball politics, utopianism can be understood -building on this traditional gender logic- as both softhearted and softheaded, or, more precisely, sofheaded because softhearted. This traditional feminization of utopianism is reinforced by its link to feminism's historical investment in denaturalization as a mode of theoretical practice and political intervention. When social relations are stabilized by recourse to claims about their natural basis, analyses that question their value and propose alternatives can easily be dismissed as unrealistic."
"Perhaps more important from the point of view of my argument, the collective effort to get a life can serve as a way both to contest the existing terms of the work society and to struggle to build something new. Seen in this light, the political project of getting a life is both deconstructive and reconstructive, deploying at once negation and affirmation, simultaneously critical and utopian, generating estrangement from the present and provoking a different future. Or, to put it in terms of the concepts around which the book was most broadly organized, it is a project that refuses the existing world of work that is given to us and also demands alternatives. "
"The climactic scene reunites nemo and marlin but also shows dory being swept up into fishing nets. Nemo exhorts dory and all the other fish to 'swim down!' (The advice he had received from Gill),and when they do, the nets break and the fish swim free. In the midst of this muscular scene of proletariat work (the other fish are represented as black and white masses!) dory, the forgetful fish, sings the song 'keep swimming, keep swimming.' Earlier in the film the song signaled her blissful inattentiveness to the important business of the ocean. Here it becomes a queer anthem of revolt."
"I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning."
"I filled a huge garbage bag full of clothes, just to clear a path in the apartment, and left the bag out on the street. A week or so later I go walking into the subway station and there sat an insane person wearing all my clothes."
Leslie: Now is lady time. April: You sound like a tampon commercial.
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Inaugural Red Cedar Film Festival kicks off this week
July 22, 2019 5:05 pm Julia Lopez Local News, Positively Chippewa Valley, Top Stories
Menomonie (WQOW) – The arts scene in the Chippewa Valley is expanding thanks to a new film festival this week in Menomonie.
The Red Cedar Film Festival is the first of its kind in the area and will feature 31 short, full films and documentaries from local and even international artists.
Founder Peter Galante, a film professor at UW-Stout, generated the worldwide interest online.
The venues include the historic Mabel Tainter Theater and the Wilson Park Band Shell where families are encouraged to bring picnics.
"He really was inspired by what's been going on with the music scene in Eau Claire," said UW-Stout Professor Anna McCabe. "So, with the Eaux Claires Festival and how that has really brought people from all over to really enjoy the music culture of Eau Claire. Well, we really want people to come to Menomonie to enjoy film in Menomonie and the arts that we have here."
A jury of film producers and professors will give out nine awards.
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The ordination of these deacons, as they progress on their way towards priestly ordination, is a very significant day in the life of this Seminary. I join in the joy of the future deacons and their families and friends. I join in the joy of the formation staff of Saint Patrick's College and with the parish communities from which the future deacons sprang or where they spent some part of their formation. I join in the joy of their bishops and of the diocesan communities where they will minister: Cork and Ross, Ardagh and Clonmacnoise, Achonry, Glasgow and Dublin.
This ordination day is a significant day in the life of the College. It is a day in which we celebrate the calling of these men to exercise ministry in the Church "in the person of Christ". In the ordained ministry, the presence of Christ as the head of the Church is made visible. The person called to ministry in the Church is thus called to witness Christ through their concrete life.
The life and the purpose of the seminary draws its inspiration from what happens here today and the future ministry as priests to which these men are called within the Church. The life of a seminary should be forward-looking in that sense: a total commitment of each seminarian to prepare himself for the call to ministry and service, not just as an individual, but within the communion of the Church. The seminarian must integrate his life of prayer and study, spiritual formation and personal development into an understanding of a life of service modelled on Jesus, the one who came to serve. Seminary life is never an end in itself. A narrow pre-occupation of what goes on in the day to day life of the seminary is often an unhealthy sign, as it tends inevitably to be inward-looking, self-serving and individualistic, rather than focussing of the self-giving love of Jesus Christ to which the deacon and the priest are called to witness in the communion of God's people.
Next week, I will have the privilege of ordaining a further eight deacons. On that occasion, I will be ordaining the first group of permanent deacons to be ordained in Ireland since the re-institution of the permanent diaconate by the Vatican Council. The rite of ordination to the permanent diaconate and to the daconate as a path towards priestly ordination is identical, with the exception of the commitment to celibacy on the part of those – permanent or transitional – who are not married. There is only one diaconate and your calling as deacons today is not simply transitional; it is not simply an obligatory passing step on your road to priesthood, another box to be ticked on the road to priestly ordination.
Today you will be ordained into the order of deacons and you assume the particular ministry of what a deacon is, for the rest of your life. The Vatican Council spoke of a true diaconal ministry in the Church which is exercised in the liturgical and pastoral life of the Church, in charitable works, but which is strengthened by the imposition of hands which has come down from the apostles.
There is a tendency in our times – due to the fact that for centuries the permanent diaconate and other institutionalised ministries were present in the Latin Church in a limited manner – to look on ministries in a distorted way, asking what can person called to a particular ministry can do, as opposed to others. The lack of the figure of the permanent deacon in the Latin Church had a strange negative effect on the very theology of ministry.
The order of deacons is not about doing things; it is a call to be configured in a special way to Jesus who serves and to represent that Jesus who serves in the life of the Church. That is why your diaconate is not just simply transitional. Your configuration to Jesus who serves becomes part of your identity and is something you must continue to integrate into the way you live always. Without a proper understanding of your configuration as deacons with the Christ who serves you will not fully understand your later ordination to priesthood.
A special dimension of that ministry of service of the deacon is linked to the ministry of the word. In each of the rites of ordination in the Latin Church a special place is given to the Book of the Gospels. The Book of the Gospels is handed to the deacon and to the priest and is held over the head of the bishop at the moment of his anointing.
and practice what you teach".
This mission to interiorize the word of God into your lives is intimately linked with the work of the Spirit in the Church which we celebrate on this Feast of Pentecost. The Spirit accompanies the Church in the task of guiding believers to understand and to make interior in their lives the teaching of Jesus but also to grasp those things which were not fully understood by the disciples when Jesus was still with them.
Our understanding of Jesus and the mystery of salvation is not static. On more than one occasion, Jesus told his disciples that they would not understand what he was teaching, until after after he had died and rose again. When he promises the gift of the Spirit, as we heard in today's Gospel reading, Jesus stresses: "[the Spirit] will lead you to the complete truth" and indeed "he will tell you of the things to come".
There are elements of the truth about the revelation of Jesus which we will come to understand fully only in the way they revealed to us by the Spirit within the life of the Church. This is not to say that they constitute new revelations. The Spirit does not distance himself from the teaching of Jesus but leads us into a fullness of our understanding of the truth: "All he tells you, will be taken from what is mine".
Jesus is no longer present in the Church in the visible form in which he was present during his earthly life. After his resurrection, Jesus already lived in a different relationship with his disciples than before. He no longer lived continually with them. But he was not absent. Still today, the Church does not remain as an orphan. The Spirit is with us, the Spirit of Jesus who will enable us better to understand the truth.
There is a sense in which the fullness of Christ's truth precedes the Church and goes ahead of the life of the Church as challenge. The Spirit is guides this process of coming to the complete truth with the gift of prophecy. Certainly within the early Church the gift of prophecy was perceived as predicting things which were to happen, as we can perceive in the Gospel reading. But as the history of the Church develops the gift of prophecy takes the form more of explaining and interpreting human experience through a deeper understanding of the word of God. As history progressed it becomes evident that the Spirit is present with the Church to provide prophetic understanding of the various situations which the Church encounters.
The gift of prophecy is still present in the Church not in a magical way, but through the ability of individual Christians to penetrate the mystery of Christ presence among us through prayerful reading and interpretation of the word of God.
How does the Spirit work in leading us into the truth? This is a task which is exemplified in the Church in a special way precisely in that ministry of deacons: "Believe what you read, teach what you believe and practice what you teach".
Given for the building up of the Church the ministry of the deacon must be exercised in a way which witnesses to the very nature and structure and mission of the Church, exemplifying what the Church is. "A Church which lives and interprets the scriptures to bring the saving message of Jesus to our world in a spirit of service": that indeed is a wonderful description of the Church we wish to celebrate and showcase with the upcoming Eucharistic Congress. That is the Church which you as deacons are called to exemplify in your lives.
"Glorify the Lord with your life" is a phrase that you as deacons will utter on many occasions as, at the end of Mass, you will send the community of believers out into the world to incarnate the teaching of Jesus in that world. That is also your mission, as through your lives, you witness to the Jesus who serves.


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Human interaction with the marine environment is increasing at a rate at which their management systems cannot keep pace. The land cadastre is deemed to be well established and understood thanks to hundreds of years of development. Meanwhile, as marine technological innovations advance and population density in coastal areas grows; human interaction with the oceans is evolving, making existing systems in place for their management seem outdated. There are parallel survey and adjudication components between land cadastre and the marine environment.
Internationally, marine cadastre initiatives are being researched and implemented to update marine management systems while there is recognition for convergence of land and sea based spatial data infrastructures. This paper explores the need for the development of a seamless cadastre across the land-sea interface for South Africa by assessing the perceptions of stakeholders that deal in land and/or marine environments. The study investigates access to land versus marine spatial data, legal and technical aspects, components and features of a possible marine cadastre.


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The Nutrition Department and Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology celebrated 50 years of UCD Nutrition at the recent ASN meeting in Boston. Current members and alumni of the department and the GGNB program enjoyed socializing and re-connecting with colleagues.
Thank you to Lauren Brink and Riley Hughes for spearheading the event, organizing it and making it a success! It was jointly hosted by the department and GradSAC, and we hope to sponsor something similar in the future.