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Graeme Decarie has a question about the old Bois Franc. Do you know the answer?
December 7, 2014 /35 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto /by Jaan Pill
Bois Franc today. We owe thanks to Tim Hewlings (MCHS '63) for sending along this map. The source is Google Earth.
1907 map. The early map, Tim Hewlings notes, is from: A. R. Pinsoneault, Atlas of the Island and city of Montreal and Ile Bizard, s. l., The Atlas Publishing Co., vers 1907 found on the BANQ website.
We've had some additional recent comments at the following posts:
Graeme Decarie taught grades 7 to 11 for six years. Loved it. Then went back to school for his MA at Acadia & PhD (History) at Queen's
Bob Carswell adds a comment about the caddy shack at the Marlborough golf club. Eric Karbin comments also.
Here are two comments from Mr. Decarie concerning the old Bois Franc road:
First comment:
Back in the haze of memory, I recall an area called Bois Franc where my father would take me hiking. I'm not sure whether that was in the Cartierville-Saraguay area that we were talking of earlier or in Ahuntsic.
Does anybody know?
And I well remember Bob Carswell from my YMCA days when I was assigned to a youth group at Cartierville school. He drove me crazy with constant demands that we play some game called "buck-buck".
Additional comment:
I am hopelessly confused. I've been looking at a recent map of Ahuntsic to Saraguay. And I can't figure it out.
There is a Bois Franc on the map. but it seems to be right on the border of the old airport. And it seems very small. The bois that I hiked in as a kid was much bigger, and a bit further to the north and west. So that small bois may be all that is left of Bois Franc. Or, it may be that a much larger woodland now called bois-de-liesse is a renamed remnant of the old Bois Franc.
A street called Noorduyn runs along what I think was the north end of the airport where the Noorduyn factory was, right at the intersection with Cure Labelle.
Also on Cure Labelle and across the street from Belmont Park, was a great shack selling hot dogs and fries. Loved it.
[End of comments from Graeme Decarie]
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Pete Mearns says:
Mr. Decarie
Way back in the day when we were both younger, I had you for history. On one of your exams you asked for 3 facts about certain historical figures. One of the people you asked about was a man by the name of de Salaberry and as one of the facts about him I wrote there was a street named after him. This was actually a fact but you refused to give me a mark for it. I still think it was mean of you.
However, in regard to your question about Bois Franc. (I guess I know more about streets than history) Back in the late 50's and early 60's, Bois Franc Boulevard was the street that ran parallel to the CN Rail line that went from Montreal to Two Mountains. It was the first street south of the tracks and ran east from Laurentian Boulevard to Filion where it stopped at a field and west from Laurentian parallel to the Canadair Airport runway. It ended just past the runway and there was nothing but bush and field after that. In the early 60's a new subdivision went up just where Bois Franc curved to the north. One of the first streets in that subdivision was Toupin. It ran north of Bois Franc to Gouin Boulevard
That area is so built up and changed now, none of us would recognize it. The number 13 Highway cuts right through the whole place.
Hope this answers your question a bit.
Pete Mearns
Heather Anne Liddell says:
I believe part of the original Bois Franc Road became Keller later on as the area developed.
Also, I believe Henri Bourassa figured in to the most eastern connection as well. Just a vague memory, used to ride my bicycle up there. Then later when in High School (MCHS) used to play softball up in the Noël Parks (one was Noël North the other Noël South). Maybe someone else remembers this?
Eric Karbin says:
I know that Bois Franc was the name of a road that went past the old Cartierville Airport field and factories there like Norduyn. The road went east no further than O'Brien Bd, if that far. In other words, Bois Franc never reached Ahuntsic. At its other end, Bois Franc road may have gone as far west as Pitfield Road. Or connected up with a road with a different name that went to Pitfield Road.
I was looking at an old map recently and noticed a road or area on it called Cote St. Louis OR Bois Franc. The word "OR" actually appeared on the map. The area/road would be in the Cartierville/Saraguay area, about ½ mile south of & parallel to Gouin; and,a few hundred yards south of the CNR tracks that went from Val Royal to A Ma Baie. I'm guessing Bois Franc was the name of an wooded area before it also became the name of a road, although they could have got named "Bois Franc" simultaneously. The road/area would have been a few miles long, east/west.
I used to run along Gouin, from Laurentian to Pitfield Road, then along Pitfield to Bois Franc Road (or the road that extended Bois Franc), then east along the latter roads to Laurentian and then south Gouin. I remember it worked out to a 12 mile run and I ran it in about an hour. I was about 17 years old.
Buck-buck was a very barbaric, dangerous game. I'll let Bob Carswell provide the details.
There were two establishments purveying hot dogs/fries, etc across the street from Belmont. One of these places was a "greasy spoon" called "Philip & Joes". It was very popular with locals back in 1953, being one of the few places in Cartierville that had a TV where hockey fans would go and watch Quebec Minor League hockey games on Sunday afternoons. The other place, across from the entrance to the Park, was known as "Coney Island". One could "dine"seated indoors there or standing at a counter facing the street.
Cure Labelle? That sounds like the name of a road on the other side of the Lachapelle Bridge.
Janet Stockton Barnes says:
I lived on la Rue Bois Franc from 1966 to 1973. On the west side……it came off of Pitfield (which was an exit from #1 freeway, east of that Fairview Shopping Centre?) and Pitfield went north towards Gouin Blvd. and I'm not sure if it went that far north.
The next exit east would be Cote Vertu….and there were farms between the two, with a fruit stand where I could get 2 paper bags of groceries, fruit, veges, and eggs for $3.00….this is about where Cavendish Blvd. now has cut through it all in the opposite direction (north and south) ….and Bois Franc ran east along acreages of old homes and farms, .until a point at a place where my neighbours….(everyone was french, and I had to take their school bus to meet the city bus to get to MCHS), and those neighbours of mine had a little family chicken farm, and that is where it turned north at a complete perpendicular angle…like a T intersection, and you had to turn left and it after a short while turned right on a curve….around the Cartierville airport for cadets……passed Ayerst Labratories, I believe on the left, and then pass a newer subdivision before a larger street (D…something?) with a little mall including a grocery store, where I put coins into a music machine on the counter at a restaurant where I had ice cream floats.
At this street the city buses started…..and on the left side, went past a tavern for men only, and Peter School or somethings for the mentally retarded…..before we said Down's Syndrome….that my mother would bring her German Sheperd to for them to visit with, (the airport buildings were on the right) and it went to that street in which they've changed the name, Laurentian Blvd…..that runs north and south past General Electric, etc., to the Decarie/ #1 TransCanada Hwy loop near Kraft and Weston Bread?.
(Going backwards, here, harder to imagine but, there was a little section about a block long that went straight from the T intersection, or from the perpendicular turn where most people turned left, and this little street section ended, as it hit the airfield…..and that's where I lived…..in the middle of no where, above the Bergeron Animal Hospital with horse barns, stables, corrals and a riding ring.
There were remnant foundations of old homes at the end on the right side where I played and a home on the left side after mine where David and Paul Price lived who were smart handsome light skinned blacks that were A students. My home was 150 years old then, in the 60's! It had thick bay windows facing the brussel sprout fields…..which had bushes every so often separating large sections of lines of veges….and I made little round huts with wooden vege boxes for my "club house" and art room where I sat and did drawings in pencil.
On the animal hospital farm, in which we treated cows, horses, birds, ostriches, deer, lions, flamingo's, monkeys, and cats, and dogs, etc., we had plum, crab and McIntosh Apple trees and rhubard and an acre back yard on 5 acres all together. The vet also made corrals of government land un-used, and it was there untl about '74 when some jerk burned down the barns with the horses in it after my mother moved out and no one was there at night. The government took back all that land which the vet had been renting.
Once I went back and it overgrown nature and hard to find. There were brussell sprout fields, with tractor trails around them, and that is how I decided to change schools…to go to Sir Winston Churchill, because I could bicycle or snowshoe to school easily through the field trails to the raw forest behind the school and through it).
I also had to cross the airfield to get home if my mother didn't pick me up as there were no public buses. Yes, I had to run from an oncoming plane once, and a skunk and went through hip high snow, one leg lift at a time! (I'm 5'10 1/2). The airstrip provided a little break where it was ploughed.
I saw a weasel kill a rabbit in the forest. It was quite a different life from a mile away. Anyway….I'm not computer saavy, so if this isn't posted properly, I'd love a copy…sent to me. I don't often write about the past. Speaking of, Mr. Geoffrion…who worked at the animal hospital….wow!
A little dedicated man worked in the stables for years sometimes more than 12- 16 hrs. a day for $60. a week, walking a mile to the hospital to and from daily, 7 days a week. His wife was in a wheelchair required his home keeping as well to raise 5 boys in a little home.
I eventually took over the kennels and dog/ cat care, as horses was his thing. It enabled me to buy my first saxophone. His boys bought him his first vehicle for his 65th birthday. It was a one speed bicycle. He was the defintion of strong.
These are wonderful descriptions from so many great sources.
A question for Peter, Eric, Heather, and Janet:
Can you create a hand-drawn may to add to your description? Or do you have access to old maps that show the areas you've described?
If you do, would you be able to scan it and send it to me as a PDF or JPEG file? If you can, then I would be able to post the images (I would be using JPEG to post images, but it's easy for me to convert a PDF file to JPEG in the event I receive a PDF file).
It will take time….as I am swamped with work…….and responsibility of more urgent requirement but I could probably send hand drawns and photographs of the barns/ property. Whoops, the 7th paragraph ends with an unnecessary parenthesis half.
I look forward to your map, when time permits. I await a map from you with interest. I know you'll get around to it. As the expression goes: "If you want something done, ask a busy person."
The opening parenthesis starts at the fourth paragraph and the closing parenthesis is at the end of the seventh paragraph. So technically, it works fine. However, if you would prefer to remove the parentheses, or make any other changes, let me know.
In the event you – or anybody else who has posted items at this site – would like to do any copy editing of your text, just send me the corrected version by email at jpill@preservedstories.com or tell me in an email what you want to have changed, and I will correct the text that is in the post. It's a simple process and doesn't take much time.
I beg to differ with Pete Mearns in two respects regarding Bois Franc Road: (1) it was never Bois Franc Boulevard, although later portions of it became known as Henri Bourassa Boulevard; (2) the eastern end of Bois Franc didn't go as far as Filion in the late '50s/early '60s because Filion was then a dead end street, accessible only off Dudemaine; (3) going west along Bois Franc Road in those days, one could reach Pitfield Road: a few hundred yards after passing the Noorduyn factory, Bois Franc turned south (possibly changing its name) for about 1/3 mile and then west again for a mile or so until reaching Pitfield Road [I say possibly because by the mid '70, this section of road with the turns in it was called Bois Franc Road and the road that went parallel to the CNR tracks and past Cartierville Airport field was renamed Henri-Bourassa Blvd.]
I beg to differ with Heather Anne Liddell in one respect: the original Bois Franc Road lay south of the CNR tracks; Keller Blvd lies north of the tracks.
In my recent comment I mentioned an old map. It can be found online at images.banq.qc.ca. The map is entitled "Atlas of the Island and City of Montreal and Ile Bizard". It's from 1907. This map shows a very big area called "Cote Saint Louis OR Du Bois Franc", bounded on the north by River des Prairies, on the south by a road called Cote Saint Louis [which looks like what later became Bois Franc Road] , on the east by a boundary quite close to what later became O'Brien Blvd and on the west partly by what later became Pitfield Road and elsewhere by points further west. This big area shows only one "sub area" – Cartierville in the north east corner.
Janet Stockton Barnes isn't sure Pitfield Road went as far north as Gouin Blvd. I'm sure: I used to cut the grass on the property at the s.w. corner of Gouin & Pitfield.
Laurentian Blvd ran north/south past General Electric? Maybe J.S.B. means past Canadair which was owned by General Dynamics.
I'm having a problem pin pointing exactly where "right in the middle of nowhere above the Bergeron Animal Hospital" was –somewhere on Bois Franc Road just east of Pitfield Road?
There a Barnes Street at the south end of Somerset in Cartierville, near the CNR tracks. I wonder how it got its name.
Marty Stockton says:
Something I remember about Bois Franc Road was the fish market that was a short distance west of Laurentian Blvd. As a youngster I was sent there fairly often to buy fish. It was about 20 minutes from home by bicycle. Halibut one week, haddock the next. During my years at MCHS I had 2 good friends who lived on or near Toupin. Brian Jacobs was one guy and the other buddy was David Tompkins.
The eastern end of Bois Franc Road did in fact go as far east as Filion, on the south side of the CNR tracks. On the north side of the tracks was another section of Filion, on which MCHS was located. In any event, this area is not Ahuntsic.
To round out the picture, I'm keen as mentioned earlier to post some hand-drawn or old-time maps and photos as JPEG files, from anyone who can draw such maps or locate such resources – possibly in family archives in a basement somewhere – related to the story of Bois Franc and the wider story of the communities along the north shore of the Montreal island. One of the things I've been pleased to notice from a Google map is that both Saraguay and Île-Bizard have retained some park areas left over from "The Bush" of the past.
Images complemented by captions – or, infographics, to use a current term – help to bring such stories to life.
Doug Hambley says:
Chemin Bois Franc (Road) originally ran west from Laurentian Blvd to Montee de Liesse, which ran north-south from Gouin Blvd to Sources Road around the back of Dorval (now Trudeau) Airport. In the late 1950s, Canadair extended their runway and Bois Franc was diverted to the north around it. Later when Autoroute 40 was built in the mid 60s there was an exit at Bois Franc. In those days, the area past Canadair was vegetable farms (we call them truck farms here in the US) with stone farmhouses with steep tin roofs. As one might expect where there were farms, there was a vet with a boarding kennel on the original Bois Franc west of Canadair.
[Note from Jaan Pill: Please see comment below (correction re Dorval c.f. Cartierville airport) by Tim Hewlings.]
The Laurentian Autoroute was the border between Cartierville and New Bordeaux, and the tracks was the boundary between Cartierville (City of Montreal) and Ville Saint Laurent.
Northern Electric was on Laurentian Blvd. if I remember correctly.
There were numerous commercial and industrial establishments along Laurentian Blvd. back in the day. The biggest was probably Canadair. Northern Electric may have been nearby as well but, from my frequent travels on the CNR train from Cartierville to downtown , I remember a big Northern Electric building in T.M.R. on the west side of the tracks.
New Bordeaux (or Bordeaux) was originally part of the independent village of Cartierville until it (Bordeaux) became its own municipality in 1898. It may be that the western boundary of New Bordeaux ran north/south along where the Autoroute was built. On the other hand, Cartierville has been described as having its eastern boundary along O'Brien Blvd.
Montee de Liesse could well have run into Bois Franc Road at some point but I don't think it ever reached as far north as Gouin Blvd. Rather, it somehow connected up with Pitfield Road which reached Gouin.
Tim Hewlings says:
I just found the posts about Chemin Bois Franc. Here are my 2 cents worth.
Eric and Doug are correct. Bois Franc became Henri-Bourassa in the 60s sometime, I believe.
Small correction, tho'. The extended runway Doug talked about was at Cartierville airport, not Dorval. As I recall Bois Franc used to end at Chemin St-François, but I could be wrong. It could have been Montée de Liesse or Pitfield. I seem to remember using that route to drive to Pointe Claire in those days.
This was all cut off when Hwys 13 and 40 were built.
There is still a remnant of Chemin Bois Franc between Henri-Bourassa and Autoroute 13, where some of the old farmhouses still exist. (You can find it on Google maps.)
The Northern Electric factory was at the south end of Laurentian Blvd. now Marcel-Laurin, right at the Decarie circle. The building is still there, now owned by Bombardier
The fish market was Gidney's. Had a big sign that read "Homards – Lobsters". I had a friend from Ontario who always called the place Homard's lobsters.
Speaking of restaurants, you must remember the Aladin at the corner of Gouin and Laurentian, just across from the Cartierville train station. We all used to hang out there on Friday nights.
I generally stay away from Wikipedia. However, the following item from a Wikipedia entry about Quebec Autoroute 13 provides information that may help to round out the discussion:
"Boulevard Pitfield derives its name from the origin of the actual route. In the 1920s, the actual route was a Polo Pony Trail leading from the various estates of the Saraguay Village residents to their Polo Fields, now where the area of St. Laurent Blvd and Bois Franc merge. In the late 1930s the path became an unpaved local road. Over the next several decades Saraguay Farms, owned by Mrs. W.C. Pitfield, was paid to clear the road in the winter by the municipality of St. Laurent. The road was developed into a two-lane highway in the 1960s."
Alan McWaters says:
I am writing memoirs about those times and recall a Petit Bois Franc which was connected to the old farmers road. Any recollections?
P.S. My brother was bused to Malcom Cambell before Riverdale was built.
Paul Vinet says:
Petit Bois Franc ran between Pitfield Boulevard and Highway 40. Since Highway 13 was built, it became an extension of Henri Bourassa.
I lived north of Petit Bois Franc at the southwest corner of Pitfield and Gouin. The house and the ones immediately west were owned by the Pitfield family, as was all of the land going south on which there was a farm.
I used to walk to Saraguay to take the bus to Malcolm Campbell high school (after graduating from Cartierville School).
Wonderful to read your message, Paul.
I would be interested to know when you graduated from MCHS. Can you please let me know?
I also attended Cartierville School – for just one year. That was Grade 4. What an impact that one year had on my life. I've talked about that at length. It's something I often think about. It was a beautiful school. There were trees all around. Nearby was the Back River. And a golf course. Oh my gosh, so many memories come back, when I think of those times. For the MCHS Sixties Reunion, held at Old Mill Toronto on Oct. 17, 2015, we made a point of including a foamcore panel featuring a photo by Scott Munro (MCHS 1963), that Scott took a year or so ago, showing the school as it appears now. It's still there.
That's a major achievement. If I have the opportunity, I would like to go back to Quebec for a visit (I live in Long Branch in Toronto), just to have the opportunity to have a walk around the area, including Saraguay. I lived on Lavigne Street in Cartierville. Sometimes, I would walk from Lavigne Street to cartierville School. At other times we would take the bus, during the year I attended Cartierville School.
I also attended Morison School, not that far from Cartierville School; I also look forward to walking around those school grounds.
Barry Stanley says:
I used to live on Petit Bois Franc. At the time, 1950's, I believe Bois Franc ended where the autoroute is now. There was an extension from Bois Franc, called Petit Bios Franc, that ran a short distance north (now the autoroute), then west, then north again and then west again (This part is Now Henri Bourassa). This ended at a sugar shack on the south side. While I lived there the Trans Canada was built in the fields just past the sugar shack. I remember watching it being built when I was about 8. If you go on the section that is now Henri Bourassa, you'll find a farm which I think is still owned by the Goyer's (probable don't have the spelling right). It is beside and across from the industrial units. If they still do, it's probably Mark or Jeremy. They will probably tell you the whole progress of the street.
Wonderful to have the additional information, Barry. I will let Graeme Decarie know about the information that you've shared.
Josephine Morris-Turner says:
I have stumbled on this site topic whilst doing genealogical research. As several posts include references to Bois Franc, a vet and, in the '60s at least, a less built-up area than it probably is today, and with references to the airfield nearby, I'm going to take a long shot chance in asking if anyone can come up with a nugget of long-ago experiences there which might help me to break through a 'brick wall'.
I discovered my late father's birth family last year, and I have become very close with a cousin in the USA. We are trying literally everything we can think of to expand our knowledge of our family and this site and topic MAY just be able to provide us with something useful.
My Great-Uncle Herbert Morris (brother of my Great Grandmother Nancy/Annie Morris who spent some time in Lachine, but returned to Britain) was born in Wales in 1896 but joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in WW1 as a groom/rider.
On returning to Canada he trained to become a Veterinary Dentist and went on to became a well-known dog and race horse breeder in Montreal. He owned the Bois Franc Kennels, 107 St Matthieu, Ville Laurent, and later 1180 Laurentian Boulevard.
His address for a long time from circa 1920 was the Back River Polo Club, so I am deducing that he was maybe a resident dental vet for the horses there…. In 1930, the Montreal Gazette ran an article about Bert (baptised Herbert, but used either Bert, Bertram or even Bertrand as his name!) when one of his two barns went up in smoke.
Bert stated that he had rented the barn to two men sometime earlier, as they wanted to 'make soap'; he said he didn't know what was in it but that the men had scarpered a couple of months earlier! The barn was worth $2000 (Canadian) but the contents of the barn had been worth $45,000 because it had been housing, in fact, an illegal alcohol still!
There were concerns that the fire would spread to the 150 dogs in Bert's other barn, and indeed it did, but over 100 dogs were saved. ( It's at this point that my mind turns to thoughts of puppy farming and running alcohol across the nearby border with Vermont in the Prohibition era…….!)
Bert died in the 1970's, a very long time ago. In May 1942, the Montreal Gazette reported the death of a bush pilot who crashed on the farm of a Joseph Leduc, 50 yards from the stables and kennels of 'horse-owner and dog authority' Bert Morris. It also stated that Bert was an aircraft worker!
In 1925, one of Bert's brothers, Frank, came to Montreal to live. We know where he is buried, in Montreal, but what happened to him in the many years between is a mystery. Although he was a collier in Wales, he put, on his passenger list and immigration details, Bert as his relative at the Back River Polo Club address – and his intended occupation as 'Farming'.
This suggests to me that Bert was either going to have him working with him or was going to find him work in the area. There is a strong story that Frank was something of a boxer who killed his opponent during a fight.
My instinct is telling me that, as there is no record of a Frank Morris in any boxing history records in the UK or Canada, Frank's fights may have been illegal, possibly even bare knuckle, in a barn somewhere and probably in the Montreal area …. maybe one of Bert's aforementioned barns???
My Great Uncle Bert seems to have been, shall we say, an 'interesting' man! I am hoping that someone reading this, may know of some little nugget which will help me in trying to unlock some more of the story of Frank and maybe even Bert.
I appreciate that this is slightly outside the scope of this site and topic, but there is no substitute for people, personal experiences and knowledge. I am interested in the history of the Bois Franc Kennels, Bert Morris as a breeder of race horses, and anything, no matter how small, which may be useful. Thank you for reading this.
My Great-Uncle Herbert Morris (brother of my Great Grandmother Nancy/Annie Morris who spent some time in Lachine, but returned to Britain) was born in Wales in 1896 but joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in WW1 as a groom/rider. On returning to Canada he trained to become a Veterinary Dentist and went on to became a well-known dog and race horse breeder in Montreal.
He owned the Bois Franc Kennels, 107 St Matthieu, Ville Laurent, and later 1180 Laurentian Boulevard. His address for a long time from circa 1920 was the Back River Polo Club, so I am deducing that he was maybe a resident dental vet for the horses there…. In 1930, the Montreal Gazette ran an article about Bert (baptised Herbert, but used either Bert, Bertram or even Bertrand as his name!) when one of his two barns went up in smoke.
There were concerns that the fire would spread to the 150 dogs in Bert's other barn, and indeed it did, but over 100 dogs were saved. ( It's at this point that my mind turns to thoughts of puppy farming and running alcohol across the nearby border with Vermont in the Prohibition era…….!) Bert died in the 1970's, a very long time ago.
In May 1942, the Montreal Gazette reported the death of a bush pilot who, when returning to the Cartierville airfield, crashed on the farm of a Joseph Leduc, 50 yards from the stables and kennels of 'horse-owner and dog authority' Bert Morris. It also stated that Bert was an aircraft worker. In 1925, one of Bert's brothers, Frank, came to Montreal to live. We know where he is buried, in Montreal, but what happened to him in the many years between is a mystery.
Although he was a collier in Wales, he put, on his passenger list and immigration details, Bert as his relative at the Back River Polo Club address – and his intended occupation as 'Farming'. This suggests to me that Bert was either going to have him working with him or was going to find him work in the area. There is a strong story that Frank was also a boxer who killed his opponent during a fight.
My instinct is telling me that, as there is no record of a Frank Morris in any boxing history records in the UK or Canada, Frank's fights may have been illegal, possibly even bare knuckle, in a barn somewhere and probably in the Montreal area …. maybe one of Bert's aforementioned barns??? I am hoping that someone reading this, may know of some little nugget which will help me in trying to unlock some more of the story of Frank and maybe even Bert.
What you have described is wonderful to read, Josephine. Speaking for myself, what you have shared with us is, from my perspective, very much inside (as contested to outside) the scope of this site and topic. From my perspective, all of history – including personal, family, local, national and international, whether many decades or centuries ago or, indeed, five minutes of five seconds ago – is of tremendous interest and value.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Jaan – I don't know why my post came in twice, but life is full of all manner of quirks, which is what makes it so curious!
Believe me, I am no historian in the conventional sense; history lessons at school were an ordeal where the subject was invariably delivered in a dry fashion by equally uninspiring teachers. I loathed and detested it all. However, all bets are off when the human story comes into play.
My passion for genealogy has led me into a vast number of tangents, each leading to other tangents… the result of which is that I am the richer in my breadth of knowledge, with a sense of achievement and an emotional thrill which is hard to put into words. I stumble on things; I look at ancestor addresses on Google Earth and remotely 'walk' through countryside and streets where my relatives would have walked; I peer at maps and photographs of the day and I am there, feeling the sense of it all. It forms a visual picture whilst I am chasing rainbows!
I also am motivated by seemingly small references which I then pursue, even though they are often not particularly relevant and could be regarded as time-wasting, but which then 'grow' my knowledge about all sorts of things. This is the beauty of the internet when it used for positive purposes. I learn from people I will never meet and I am grateful for the crossing of paths. Robert Frost himself, my most favourite poet, loved the essence of paths and the fascinating things revealed along the way!
You have written a response to another poster, referencing the Napoleonic War. In my genealogical work I have also discovered that my Great Great Grandfather, Grandfather to the Herbert and Frank I have mentioned, was born in 1796 and joined the Coldstream Guards in 1817, just 2 years after the Napoleonic War.
He had a regimental service number of just 307 and he would have worn the red jacket, white pants, white crossed chest straps etc. He served for 26 years, his last 4 being in Quebec in the uprisings when Queen Victoria came to power. Prior to that, in England, he was based in London, at the Knightsbridge Barracks or Windsor Castle (I don't think Buckingham Palace was the official residence at the time) and would have been on ceremonial duties for the funerals and/or coronations of her three predecessors – and he was also involved in quelling the Luddite riots.
All of those meant nothing to me at school, but they now have meaning and a resonance. It must have been a miserably cold existence for my G G Gfather and his comrades in the harsh winters of Canada and, as with so many soldiers who had poor accommodation and terrible air circulation, he finally was invalided out due to breathing problems. But oh, what an interesting voyage of discovery for me.
Stumbling on sites such as this, and welding myself to the internet in order to conduct more research in the wee hours of the morning, when my husband has gone to bed and I am able to hit the internet with no interruption, well, I am as compelled as iron filings are to a magnet. I hope that, one day, someone reading my posts will come up with a little gold nugget which will lead me to more of my family's human Canadian story.
Thank you Jaan – what a lovely site is this.
Wonderful to read your message, Josephine. We owe it to Graeme Decarie and Bob Carswell for previously writing about Saraguay and thus providing a setting within which your own comments, at this website, have emerged.
I trust it's okay that I've broken your text (above) into shorter paragraphs, for ease of online reading. I'm always thinking of ways to make it easy for site visitors to read the texts they encounter, at this site.
I've also fixed a typo – you had meant 1817 at one point, and I've made sure (based on contextual cues) that it's 1817 and not 1917 that is referenced in your text (above).
It's interesting how people come across an interest in history. My own interest is based on the fact that a bit of history turned out to be a suitable "hook" around which to build a letter-writing campaign, involving the local community where I live, some years ago.
The aim of the campaign was to save a local school, which otherwise would likely have been sold to a developer. Our campaign brought forward excellent results involving the great work of many people. The school, which had stood empty for some years, is now in active use after it was sold from one school to another – with help (valued at $5.2-million) from the Provincial government.
That's a fairly long story, the school story that I refer to. You can, if so inclined, read the details by doing a search, at the search engine at the top of the page you are now reading, for "Parkview School."
After I learned, around 2011, about the history related to the school (a British colonel had built a log cabin, at the site where the school grounds now stand, in 1797), I began to read widely about history, borrowing hundreds of books since 2011 from the Toronto Public Library. I've also done large numbers of oral history interviews, talking with elderly neighbours.
Before that, I wasn't much interested in history, except perhaps for economic history (starting with Europe around the late medieval times, as I recall) which I had studied (in a mandatory course that, as I recall, pretty much all first-year students were required to take, in those days) at McGill University in the mid-1960s.
It's beautiful to know that your passion for geneology had led you to so many great internet places and experiences. It was of much interest to read of your own family connection to the Napoleonic wars (or Wars). There is so much to learn. I'm pleased you enjoy the website – it's the visitors, such as yourself, who bring it to life.
Aaarrghghgh! My apologies…. My G G Grandfather joined the Coldstream Guards in 1817, not 1917! I'm sure you picked up my finger-trouble!
Given that I make occasional typos myself, I keep an eye out for them and am pleased to correct them, on the rare occasions when they occur.
Graeme Decarie says:
Okay. I'm driven to a piece of the past that all these smart kids DON'T know. At just about the location of MCHS there was a creek called Raimbault Creek. There was a road that came down from TMR, just a dirt road. I would take the bus to TMR – with my rifle – and go down that road to the creek. On the way, I would cross a road that is now in the east end of St. Laurent – and it had a huge crucifix on it.
I used to walk along Raimbault Creek just shooting at odd items. (I never hunted).
And to restore a tone of respect to an elder in this series, did you know that St. Laurent and TMR were made up heavily of Decarie farms? Indeed, virtually ALL of TMR was built on Decarie farms. When a railway was building into Montreal back in the very early 1900s, The only way to get into downtown Montreal was to dig a tunnel under the mountain. So the railway decided to build on all that Decarie land to create the suburb of the future. For many years, it was commonly called Model City.
To get the land, the hired an avocat named Decarie, gave him a huge pile of money, and sent him off in a cart to buy all the farms in one day.
As a further respect-building note, the new Royal Victoria Hospital was built on the first Decarie farm dating to about 1650. All that survived was the basement – so I did a TV spot going down into it before all that land was dug up and carted away.
The street it stands on is, of course, Decarie Blvd.
Take that, Bob Carswell and Pete Mearns.
With reference to my post above, I have been looking at the 1938 Voters Lists for the Côte de Vertu area which includes the Arrondissement Area 128. Not only do I see my Great Uncle Herbert Morris and his wife on it, as 'Cultivator', which is interesting as he was a dental veterinarian and dog/horse breeder at the time, but so too is the farm of Joseph Leduc and his family, site of the aforementioned 1942 aircraft crash which killed bush pilot Gunn.
In addition to this, an Armand Decarie and his wife and their two sons Leopold and Romain are on the list, so, from your fascinating posts, I am deducing that these are/were relatives of your family which owned so much in the area. That being the case, I am wondering if you are able to tell me anything at all, no matter how small, of my ancestor Bert and maybe even his brother Frank.
This is a long shot, I know, but doggedly trying all avenues is paying off as many strands of my recently discovered birth family are coming together. At the very least I am absorbing the feel of life where my ancestor lived; it is becoming extremely 'real'.
Illustrious types, the Decaries!
Well, that's at least in the same general territory (by way, that is, of being of high-end calibre) of my own smarty-pants story about the Polish solder who deserted from Napoleon's fatal march on Moscow in 1812:
After his defeat in Russia (1812), Napoleon Bonaparte lost for a final time at the Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Graeme Decarie has shared the following comment, via email through his Press Secretary – or, rather, through a former MCHS student, namely Jaan Pill:
Ooooooh – I know nothing about that.
All Decaries in North America are related. They're all descended from Jean Decarie who arrived in what is now NDG about 1650.
Lise Gelineau-Grant says:
Fell upon this site while trying to see if I can find the name of the little farm that was on petit Bois Franc that sold fruits and vegetables. It was on the south side of the street. It wasn't called Jasmine. That was the other farm just east of the one I am looking for. Does anyone happen to remember the name of it?
My family actually lived on the corner of Bois Franc and de la Sorbonne for about 62 years. I'm having fun reading everyone's posts.
Bob Carswell writes:
Sorry Jaan, I know nothing about the names of the farms in the area. However, I got to look at the 1907 map and it tells me a lot about the early area from the water to Bois Franc. The Lot 102 would likely be the land owned by old Lady Macdougall who was 90 in the 1950s, eventually broken up to give her son land to the west. (His is the only house that remains but needs work to make it a special place that can actually be used again.)
The north-south road by lot 113 would be Pitfield Blvd. If you follow the map west from there on Gouin the road turns north and goes down to the river at that point….this is the corner where the Amabaie apartment complex was built and the road going north follows the lake to Roxboro with Saraguay Blvd coming off of it which used to be entirely summer cottages but today is built up with beautiful homes.
The straight part of the Gouin Blvd as we knew it that ran east-west from the Amabaie turn to the north right through to Roxboro was a later addition or shortcut to get to Roxboro on a straight road…probably added around the 1930s or 1940s as you did not see older homes on that part of the extension.
The only farm I could identify on the map would be the one that extended north from Martin Avenue which was the farm owned by old man Martin (pronounced in French as Mar-TA). He owned the land right down to the river exactly one field wide as was the French farm custom…..with a road down one side of it for the tractor.
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Q: code behind aspx pages in sharepoint sandbox solution I have a custom aspx page in sharepoint sandboxed solution with the content as shown below?
<%@ Page Language="C#"  MasterPageFile="~masterurl/default.master" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPartPage,Microsoft.SharePoint,Version=14.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server">
    Hi Doug.
    <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label>
</asp:Content>

and the code behind:
namespace Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages
{
    public class SamplePage: System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected global::System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label Label1;

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Label1.Text = "I work just fine.";
        }
    }
}

Here I have changed the namespace to Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages because sandbox solution is not accepting the project assembly "MyAssembly". I deployed the solution. but i cannot see the code behind SamplePage is not executing. An anyone please help me?
Note: I also perform the below action in javascript using which i want to step into the code behind samplepage.cs. But it never calls it.
 $ajax
    ({ type: 'POST', dataType: "html", url: "http://server09/Style%20Library/sample/SamplePage .aspx",

        beforeSend: function (xhr) {
            xhr.setRequestHeader('command', 'ListsNames');
        },
        success: function (content) {
            alert('sharmila');
        }
    });

A: You have to be a bit tricky to include codebehind for your custom pages in sandbox solutions. Here's a little tutorial on how to do it:
http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/Custom-application-pages-in-the-SharePoint-2010-Sandbox.aspx
For example, here's my custom ASPX page:
<%@ Page language="C#"
  MasterPageFile="~masterurl/default.master"
  Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPartPage,Microsoft.SharePoint,Version=14.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"%>
<%@ Register Tagprefix="WebPartPages" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages"
  Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

  <asp:Content ID="Main" ContentPlaceHolderID="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server">
    <WebPartPages:SPUserCodeWebPart
        runat="server"
        Description="Admin"
        Title="Admin"
        AssemblyFullName="$SharePoint.Project.AssemblyFullName$"
        SolutionId="b72e73fe-2ee4-4b0d-9849-d53a3d911fbf"
        ID="adminwp"     TypeFullName="Example.Settings.Settings" >
    </WebPartPages:SPUserCodeWebPart>
</asp:Content>

And here's how I add controls to it through my .cs codebehind file.
namespace Example.Settings
{
    [ToolboxItemAttribute(false)]
    public class Settings : WebPart
    {

        protected override void CreateChildControls()
        {
        Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("
"));
        }
    }
}

make sure you specify the Solution GUID and the path the codebehind.

A: I think something needs to be explained here: having codebehind for aspx pages in sandbox solutions is, as far as I know, impossible. System.Web.UI.Page is not available in sandbox. In fact, when you are referring to it in your code, you're really getting a mockup object. Try using for example - Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript - code will compile, won't throw any exception, but also you won't get any result.
Second issue in your code is that in .aspx file you have line
Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPartPage,Microsoft.SharePoint,Version=14.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
but in your code behind file - you're declaring new class SamplePage which has no relation to above aspx.
Now, as for a workaround, which Rafal pointed out - in your solution you should include standard SharePoint page (as you already have), but instead of any custom labels or such - you should create sandbobx webpart (this webpart shouldn't have any ascx markup though all child controls should be created from code behind), add it in WebPartPages:SPUserCodeWebPart markup and run all managed code from within this webpart.
Please also remember, that referencing to this.Page may not work as expected (for example, Page.FindControl("Label1") might return null), that's why all required controls should be created inside WebPart.

A:
My main requirement is to pass data from client to server side using ajax post call. Now I have custom aspx page with the SPUserCodeWebPart and i need to call the aspx page using ajax method. which should step into the code behind file.I could easily do it in farm solution but i am getting no wherr while trying the same in sandboxed solution. Can you please tell me how can i accomplish this in sandboxed solution?

If you already have your page with SPUserCodeWebPart, then this webpart code behind should trigger normally after your ajax call. You should be able to get your value from Request property. If nothing happens, then maybe showing more code would help. If you have a problem with vs debugger, maybe you're already aware of this, but just in case, please attach to SPUCWorkerProcess instead of w3wp

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I've read all of the collected editions of this series and it's been the first new or relatively new series that I have done that, the first since "Fables" anyways.
I have a synopsis that I'd like a "Flight-esque" artist to look at. It's just synopsis, not a comic script. Haven't been able to write one yet.
Every picture you do tells a story! Amazing!
The Glass Coffin, Little Red Riding Hood, and Hansel and Gretel are my favorites but I love them all!
I could definately see your work accompanying a illustrated version of short stories or full novels, for example Alice in Wonderland!
Uh, huh! Change that to Call of Duty, it doesn't matter which one, and you have me!
Copper never ceases to amaze me.
I'd love to take a stroll through Bolt City some time.
Any chance of Copper becoming a full fledged comic book?
"We all played the game. We all lost."
I was at Amazon and I saw these two titles. What exactly are these two things? I have a general idea about Flight Explorer, but the other one also has Kazu's name on it.
How do I change the time on my profile to Pacific Standard time?


Sometimes I can be pretty bad at keeping track of the last time I posted a recipe. I'll think "oh, it was just a few days ago" or "it must have been last weekend, I can wait a little longer." Usually 'last weekend' seems to be two weeks ago and I guess I still have yet to grasp what a Gregorian day is. Ignore me, I'm probably just making excuses for pure laziness. For example, I'm watching Felicity for the first time on Netflix and the messiness of my hair is starting to rival hers. Actually, dismiss that earlier announcement of laziness and let me plead insanity for losing track of the days. I have the madwoman hair to prove it.
Before I get to the food, I need to talk about this mug. Yes, the children on it are slightly creepy in their frozen exuberant states. No, I didn't buy these. Yes, this pair of soup mugs is one of my more cherished hand-me-downs from my childhood. I can't remember exactly when they slipped from the shelves of my parents house into my kitchen, but I'm going to assume it was sometime during college.
I remember growing up and eating tomato soup from these mugs on snow days as a kid. When I wanted a particularly large cup of cocoa, I would reach for these and hope my mom wouldn't notice. The love scratched spoon lines prove that they've been used for decades and probably will be for many more. Moral of the story, these mugs just make things taste better.
As these kids are showing you, dear readers, this soup is M'm! M'm! Good! Really good. As in sometimes I would sneak a chilled spoonful or two out of the tupperware just to make sure it still tasted awesome. The best part is I made the soup with surplus ingredients from the Super Bowl and some of my pantry staples.
Roasting the carrots and peppers really brings out their sweetness while adding a nice depth of flavor. You'd also be a fool not to throw in some coconut milk too, trust me. When I first served myself a bowl, I realized I had run out of coconut milk. The soup was good, thick and hearty, but it lacked the creaminess factor I was lusting after. I later stirred in a can of light coconut milk and let me tell you, the difference was remarkable. It also doesn't hurt that it added almost another full serving of soup!
Preheat oven to 425°F and line a roasting tray with baking paper. Peel and chop carrots into 1 inch chunks, cut bell peppers into 1 inch squares and place them in the tray. Drizzle over about 2 tablespoons of olive oil, sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper and toss to coat. Bake for about 45 minutes until carrots & peppers are golden and tender. Remove from oven and set aside.
Next, add lentils, curry powder, ginger, and chili powder. Stir and let cook until spices become fragrant, 1-2 minutes. Stir in veggie broth and bring to a boil then reduce to a simmer, cooking until lentils are soft, 10-15 minutes.
Remove from heat and using either an immersion blender or a regular blender, puree until soup is smooth. Return soup back to stove, stir in coconut milk, and heat soup for another two minutes, tasting and adding spices as you like.
Loved it Kmart!! Thanks for posting such a delicious treat!


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AFWERX Announces SameGrain, Inc. Among Top Selected Teams Across the Globe Vying to Build the Base of the Future
ELLICOTT CITY, MD (August, 31, 2020) – AFWERX, the catalyst for fostering innovation within the U.S. Air Force, announced SameGrain as one of the top 92 participating teams selected from across the globe competing to build the Base of the Future Challenge.
The AFWERX Challenge is centered around six topics - Base Security, Installation Resilience, Leveraging Technology for Operational Effectiveness, Reverse Engineering, Culture of Innovation, and Airman and Family Wellbeing. The proposals selected to advance represent innovative solutions ranging from new base security technology and VR training modules to virtual assistants and apps designed for wellness and leadership development.
Located in Maryland, SameGrain is competing in the Empowering Airmen & Family Wellbeing Challengealongside a diverse group of teams - originating from the vast regions of North America, Europe, Australia and other allied countries – representing entrepreneurial startups, small businesses, large enterprises, academic institutions and research labs all vying to build the Base of the Future and modernize the Department of Defense.
"The AFWERX Base of the Future Challenge is critical to our mission of increasing collaboration between large businesses and entrepreneurs to accelerate solutions for the Air Force," stated Mark Rowland of AFWERX. "On behalf of AFWERX and the Department of Defense, we congratulate the teams advancing to the next phase. Their contributions are invaluable and have the potential to create game-changing results across the Air Force enterprise."
The Empowering Airmen & Family Wellbeing Challenge aims to identify, expand and modernize the helping agencies and available resources for Airmen and their families. The Challenge seeks solutions that can provide real-time and actionable information to installation leadership about the specific needs of the military community and can enhance the overall resilience of our warfighters. In turn, administrative leaders are able to provide better care for Airmen and their families.
Built by Internet Pioneers and Data Science PhD's, SameGrain's award winning AI enabled community engagement platform uses deep data and patented technology to privately match individuals for relevant and meaningful connections that can provide much needed 24/7 "stigma free" support, as well as, actionable insights and predictive analytics. The solution proposed for this challenge will incorporate new features to connect users to mentors and supporting programs.
"We are honored to have been selected as an AFWERX Challenge finalist, commented SameGrain's CEO, Eric Eller." "SameGrain has successfully matched military members on our consumer platform for years, therefore this opportunity, along with our Phase II SBIR with Air Force Special Operations Command, will enable us to further expand our privacy focused solutions to foster supportive relationships for Airmen and their families,
The AFWERX Fusion 2020 Showcase recently featured 370 of the participating teams selected from a record breaking 1,500+ submissions received for the Base of the Future Challenge. Throughout the event teams pitched their solutions to a panel of subject matter experts from the relevant sectors of the Air Force. The top 92 selections were identified and invited to further engage with the Air Force during the week of August 31 with the hope of obtaining contracts. For a complete list of participating teams visit fusion.afwerxshowcase.com/.
The Base of the Future theme was inspired by Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, which was decimated by Hurricane Michael, a Category 5 storm that occurred in 2018. For decades, Tyndall had been home to many generations of Airmen and their families. In the storm's aftermath, nearly 500 buildings were destroyed or damaged beyond repair. Fortunately, Congress approved a $3 billion military construction rebuild program, sparking hope that Tyndall would re-emerge stronger than ever before. The aspirational initiative seeks to create a robust installation that will become a universal symbol of innovation and excellence that can scale across the U.S. Air Force. To learn more about the Base of the Future Challenges, click here.
ABOUT SAMEGRAIN
Built by Internet Pioneers and Data Science PhD's, SameGrain's award winning AI enabled community engagement platform uses deep data, patented technology, and unique communication tools to privately match individuals for relevant and meaningful connections, support, and access to resources. In addition, SameGrain anonymizes and aggregates data for actionable insights, predictive analytics, and market reports. The company, which is based in Maryland, also provides matching solutions to meet the specific needs of the military, universities, and commercial enterprises.
ABOUT AFWERX
Established in 2017, AFWERX is a product of the U.S. Air Force, directly envisioned by former Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson. Her vision of AFWERX — to solve some of the toughest challenges that the Air Force faces through innovation and collaboration amongst our nation's top subject matter experts. AFWERX serves as a catalyst to unleash new approaches for the warfighter through a growing ecosystem of innovators. AFWERX and the U.S. Air Force are committed to exploring viable solutions and partnerships to further strengthen the Air Force, which could lead to additional prototyping, R&D, and follow-on production contracts.
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In an unprecedented, bold, and responsible decision, the current board of Embrapa cancelled the evaluation experiments on the transgenic beans and prevented their cultivation and consumption. This transgenic variety was developed by Embrapa and was announced with much hype three years ago.
Colombia, which, along with Peru, is the world's leading producer of cocaine, has used glyphosate for years to eradicate illicit coca.
William Davis, MD, says it's when big agriculture stepped in decades ago to develop a higher-yielding crop. Today's "wheat," he says, isn't even wheat, thanks to some of the most intense crossbreeding efforts ever seen. "The wheat products sold to you today are nothing like the wheat products of our grandmother's age, very different from the wheat of the early 20th Century, and completely transformed from the wheat of the Bible and earlier," he says.
Cornell University, a private New York state-based Ivy League college, is expected to lead a new international effort that "will seek to add a stronger voice for science," according to an article in the school's Cornell Chronicle.
The program, made possible through the Gates Foundation's $5.6 million grant, reportedly seeks to help inform decision-makers an consumers through an online information hub as well as training programs, with the goal of educating on "how (agricultural technology, presumably GMOs) works," as well as the "potential impacts" of agricultural technology.
Will Objectivity Be Included in New Program? Considering Gates' clear bias in favor of GMOs, can we reasonably expect to see any sort of objectivity in Cornell's upcoming program?
Microsoft's former CEO has made record-breaking donations to global health programmes – but an investigation by Andrew Bowman reveals some unpleasant side-effects.
In 2008 the WHO's head of malaria research, Aarata Kochi, accused a Gates Foundation 'cartel' of suppressing diversity of scientific opinion, claiming the organization was 'accountable to no-one other than itself'.
The Foundation itself has employed numerous former Big Pharma figures, leading to accusations of industry bias.
Are Chemical Companies Telling the Truth About How Long to Stay Off of Lawns After Spraying?
As the Post article added, a 2001 study also found that a week after lawn treatment, the notoriously harmful pesticide 2, 4-D was found on all indoor air surfaces after wafting in through various openings in homes. Exposure of the chemical was found to be 10 times higher than the previous week to children, according to the study.
"This really pisses me off... If you want to sell your crap in the United States of America... SHOW YOUR DATA. The days of backroom deals and political payoffs and payouts are over.
It is 2015 and this must stop...we the PEOPLE have had enough!!!
Actions like this that result in death and medical mutations among our children... Hell is too good a place for the corrupt politicians that participate in these games of information manipulation."
Controversy over a new evaluation of glyphosate, the world's most widely used herbicide, lifts the lid on aspects of chemical safety regulation that often remain hidden from public view.
Moms Across America supporters sent Zen Honeycutt to attend Dupont AGM 2015. As You Sow had Zen speak on behalf of a lobbying proxy. Report covers what happened and the surprising result.
Chuck Schumer is going to vote Yes.
Please call his office and say "I'm calling to ask the Senator to vote no on the TPP deal."
The secretary will ask for your zip code and tell you she will pass your message on to the Senator. Takes one minute to do this.
Kirsten Gillibrand is going to vote no but, it's still a good idea to call and make sure she knows what you want her to do.
These people work for us and it's time we let them know that.


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OMG! 19-year-Old Girl Burn Alive By Her Former Boss For Refusing Her Son's Marriage Proposal
A young Pakistani teacher has died after being tortured and set alight by her former boss as punishment for refusing a marriage proposal from his son who was twice her age
A 19-year-old Pakistani girl, Maria Sadaqat who was beaten, had petrol poured over her and was put on fire for refusing a marriage proposal, succumbed to the wounds in hospital after a day of struggling for life.
She was attacked by at least five people including the boy's mother as she returned home from work, the police reported. The woman cried for help, but it took her neighbors a considerable amount of time to respond since her house is located in a remote area. By the time the help came, she had already suffered heavy injuries.
Sadaqat managed to identify two of the attackers, the police said, also adding that one of them worked together with the victim at school.
'She was badly tortured and then burned alive. We brought her to hospital in Islamabad but she succumbed to her wounds today,' Ms Sadaqat's uncle, Abdul Basit, told reporters from outside a burns centre in the capital.
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This project was to support International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group and the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets, to further promote much-needed improvement of standards of Quality and Patient Safety in the health sector in developing countries.
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David von Schinkel, the principal and founder of Race4Health has revealed two of the selected drivers for the five cars from Team Race4Health that will be competing on the Kenya Airways Safari Classic Rally in November. These will be ex-World Rally Champion, Stig Blomqvist and fellow Swede, Richard Göransson, ex-European Touring Car Champion and four times Swedish Touring Car Champion. Both are no strangers to Team Race4Health as they both drove for the team on the 2013 Safari Classic.
Race4Health is a charity that was started in Sweden to link motor sport participation with the raising of funds for good causes and thus give the sport a new, more meaningful direction. It started in a small way by integrating the activities of von Schinkel's Team Tidö with various charities. Then at the end of 2012, at a major event in Stockholm, Team Race4Health launched a project to enter six cars on the Safari Classic of 2013 and link each car with a separate charity. A special web site was created whereby donations could be made direct to the charities. All that was very successful and, as a bonus, Blomqvist very nearly won the rally. He only lost out when he punctured on the very last timed section before the finish in Mombasa.
All this will be in place again for the 2015 event with Team Race4Health hoping to outdo its 2013 efforts when, for instance, they brought medical care to 640,000 people. They have already held a major charity event in Stockholm with Ralph Lauren and plan to do more still in the run-up to the Safari Classic. Meanwhile, Race4Health is seeking out new charitable organisations that will be associated with its five entries.
As in 2013, the cars that the Race4Health drivers will be using on the Safari Classic are Porsche 911s prepared and serviced by Tuthill Porsche from Banbury in England. Viewed by many as the most competitive cars available to crews contesting these tough classic rallies, come November the Race4Health Porsches of Blomqvist and Göransson are likely to be setting the pace over the demanding East African roads.


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We haven't done one since October, and that's way too long. It's the return of the Showcase Tangent! This week the guys bounce from topic to topic with no rhyme or reason, answering your e-mails, and going where the discussion takes us. Flash: Rebirth! The new DC pulp heroes including Doc Savage! Kevin Smith on The Green Hornet! The great Star Trek debate! Dark Avengers! And lots, lots more in this giant-sized episode! In the picks this week, Blake loves the first issue of The Unwritten, Chase loves every issue of The Walking Dead, and Mike has been waiting 15 years to love Power Girl! This week's graphic novel pick: Fallen Angel Vol. 6: Cities of Light and Dark.
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After 73 days, the coconut would finally be his.
"Not to put the cart before the horse, but what are your thoughts on cannibalism?"
"It's a crying shame, his wife went to visit her mother in Australia and forgot to leave directions to the kitchen"
Very hungery fish jumping out of bowl to get food.


2. (Biol.) That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; — distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoölogy, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.
(Pal`in*ge*net"ic) a. Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. - - Pal`in*ge*net"ic*al*ly adv.
1. An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.
2. A retraction; esp., a formal retraction. Sandys.
(Pal`i*no"di*al) a. Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction. J. Q. Adams.
(Pal"i*no*dy) n. See Palinode. [Obs.] Wood.
1. (Fort.) A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.
2. Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
(Zoöl.), a nematoid worm (Strongylus armatus), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in which it produces aneurisms, often fatal.
(Pal`i*sade"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palisaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Palisading.] [Cf. F. palissader.] To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.
(Pal`i*sad"ing) n. (Fort.) A row of palisades set in the ground.
(Pal`i*sa*"do) n.; pl. Palisadoes A palisade. [Obs.] Shak.
(Pal`i*sa"do), v. t. To palisade. [Obs.] Sterne.
(Pal"ish) a. Somewhat pale or wan.
(Pal`is*san"der) n. [F. palissandre.] (Bot.) (a) Violet wood. (b) Rosewood.
(Pal"is*sy) a. Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry.
, glazed pottery like that made by Bernard Palissy; especially, that having figures of fishes, reptiles, etc., in high relief.
(||Pal"kee) n. [Hind. palki; of the same origin as E. palanquin.] A palanquin. Malcom.
(Pall) n. Same as Pawl.


Oct. 22, 2018, around 11 a.m.
Police were called out to the 100 block of E. 24th St. at about 11 a.m. for a shooting.
There, officers found an injured 31-year-old man. He was taken to an undisclosed hospital and is listed in stable condition.
Police did not specify where the victim had been shot.


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Home Reviews DVD REVIEWS – NOV 15, 2007
DVD REVIEWS – NOV 15, 2007
MIKE RESTAINO Nov 15th, 2007 0 Comment
THIS WEEK IN DVD'S – NOV 15, 2007
TV SMACKDOWN
— The Queen Mother —
Gilmore Girls: The Complete Series (Warner)
I can hear you grumbling: What kind of an imbecile would be moved nearly to tears with the arrival of a DVD collection called oh-so-femininely a 'tote'?
Well, poo-poo to all you naysayers – this writer insists a hundred times over that this tote just happens to be one of the year's finest DVD releases.
Gilmore Girls: The Complete Series (Warner) is an exceptional piece of work, a collection of some of the greatest, fastest TV repartee that the medium has ever seen. It's often a tough sell – when I forced my sister to watch the pilot episode, she complained of its stiff theatricality; when she watched three more episodes on her own a few nights later, she became nothing short of addicted to the show (she and I have been known to watch up to 5 episodes in a sitting) – but once you give up trying to resist the series, it welcomes you like a warm blanket.
Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel are (dammit – were – the show went off the air this year) the two coolest ladies on television, and show creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is just about the greatest creative force any TV show has seen. Yeah, the seventh season isn't exactly as full of magic as the first six, but I'll take Gilmore Girls running at 75% power any day of the week over pretty much everything on TV.
This tote – it comes in a lovely white foam packaging that, honestly, made me want to sit up late with the girls, do my nails and talk about boys – houses a Madeline Albright cameo, the recently-deceased Norman Mailer shows up as a B&B patron, and – in the grandest coup television as a format has ever achieved – in the last episode of season six, both Yo La Tengo and (hose me down) Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth pop by to do a number each (Kim and Thurston are even joined by their daughter Coco on bass). This is boob tube Valhalla, people!
Yeah, it's TV melodrama/soap opera at its highest and most histrionic, and in a sane mindset, I might not admit it hits the same heights as, say, Twin Peaks, but I won't lie to you: When Gilmore Girls is on in front of me, it feels like the best TV show of all time.
Just get the tote. GET THE TOTE!
— Grandma's Mystery Stories —
CSI: The Complete Seventh Season (Paramount)
My grandma – an avowed crime story devotee who would very well accept a wedding proposal from Peter Falk as Columbo any day of the week – cares for CSI, but doesn't like how groady it is: She prefers her murders done in classy fashions, with blood but no guts. She's shit out of luck with CSI: The Complete Seventh Season (Paramount), though – this one's a gore-fest. But it's hard to bemoan the series' penchant for splatter when the dramatic end results continue to be so powerful. CSI's seventh season is the kind of TV-on-DVD set that you sit down to watch for an hour or so and end up staying up until three in the morning devouring. Who knows if it's good or not? It's damned addictive.
CSI: Miami: The Complete Fifth Season (Paramount)
CSI: Miami: The Complete Fifth Season (Paramount) is a tad less engaging than the o.g. CSI, but dammit, that Caruso factor is a wildcard. David Caruso – king of the graying-redhead smirk, attacks his performance as Lt. Horatio Caine with the kind of steely-eyed intensity that hardly anyone on the boob tube can pull off without seeming like a bona-fide ham. Yes, Miami's CSI has intriguing murder mysteries and super-cool high-tech crime fighting machines, but it all swirls in a vortex around the meteorological anomaly known as David Caruso. Don't believe me? Check out Come as You Are on this set, where Caruso gets knee-deep into an Iraq war murder situation. You just might think differently.
NCIS: The Complete Fourth Season (Paramount)
And with these CSI behemoths in the room, it's hard not to look down on lesser shows. While there are elements of NCIS: The Complete Fourth Season (Paramount) that work truly well, it just doesn't gel the way CSI does. Mark Harmon's a fine TV actor – handsome, old-fashioned and aggressive, he's nothing if not implicitly likeable – but there's no danger to him, no sense of anxiety that his mystery-solving skills might crack under the weight of his burdened psyche (Caruso seems like he's on the verge of sanity every week – Hell, even William Petersen is on the ledge most of the time). My grandma prefers NCIS to CSI – it's at least a little less bloody – but she'll also be the first to admit that its week-to-week status is just kind of 'eh'.
She'll take Columbo over any of these shows, though, if that tells you anything.
— Old-School Moldy Oldies —
Call me a TGIF-era child of the 90s if you must, but the handful of shows from the late 60s through the 90s that I've sifted through over the last week or so have been tough. Is it a different kind of cheesy sitcom rhetoric? A dissimilar type of storytelling? Who knows….?
Love, American Style: Season 1, Volume 1 (Paramount)
Love, American Style: Season 1, Volume 1 (Paramount) is a downright weird – it's kind of like a hippie/Brady Bunch hybrid about how groovy love is, man. Each episode on this inaugural DVD set of the series has different characters doing different things – it's an anthology series, not a week-by-week comedy – and we follow them falling in love. I found it cute, but without any kind of nostalgic tie to the series, I lost interest pretty quick.
Mission Impossible: The Complete Third Season (Paramount)
Far more intriguing to this viewer's penchant for shoot-em-up mentalities was Mission Impossible: The Complete Third Season (Paramount). Again, I was introduced to this series via the movies – I still stand by de Palma's Mission Impossible as one of the better action movies of the 90s – but when these season-by-season sets of the show started getting released, I found them far more than shtick-y cheese-fests: They're amazing. Peter Graves and his team have some bona fide charisma to them – they're an obvious influence on my beloved A-Team – and while some of the show's pseudo-labyrinthine plot twists seem more like MacGyver lite than anything else, for every bum episode, this set offers four or five keepers. And the video transfers here are astonishing – far better than most any other TV series of its age.
Wild Wild West: The Third Season (Paramount)
Equally retro and cool was Wild Wild West: The Third Season (Paramount), the semi-futuristic western starring Robert Conrad and Ross Martin. Having been appalled by Barry Sonnenfeld's film of the same name a number of years ago, I was worried that the show would be just as tedious and dull, but I guess I've finally learned what everybody else knew all along: The TV show was excellent; the movie was poop. The nifty inventions at the show's center, the camaraderie between Conrad and Martin, the superb western sensibility – it's like a western show for nerds. Count me in.
The Benny Hill MegaSet (A&E)
In the 'WHAT THE HELL?' department, though, lies The Benny Hill MegaSet (A&E). The sexism that Hill was notoriously accused of doesn't worry me so much here – if you watch more than one of these discs, you'll see that the show (like many other satire series) lampoons everyone regardless of physiology or sentiment: The oddity of the thing is what left me scratching my head. He dresses in drag, he dons multiple accents and sensibilities, and – most cringingly – he recycles gags all the time. The same joke appears multiple times on one disc here (and mind you, there are eighteen discs total) – it's quite redundant and unfortunate. And weird – did I already say 'weird'?
Happy Days: The Third Season (Paramount)
Laverne and Shirley: The Third Season (Paramount)
Happy Days: The Third Season (Paramount) didn't bother me too much – there's something boy-next-door/cotton-candy refreshing about the adventures of these white-as-alabaster young suburbanites: It's like American Graffiti, only with a far more intense Leave it to Beaver streak. Laverne and Shirley: The Third Season (Paramount) was a bit dicier – while Penny Marshall's and Cindy Williams' repartee definitely appears as an I Love Lucy of the 70s (in all the best ways), I found the Lenny and Squiggy factor to be too much to handle (for this TGIF alum, it was like having two Urkels in the show instead of one – wow, did it just get cold in here?).
Mork and Mindy: The Third Season (Paramount)
But the truly mystifying TV experience of these old shows is Mork and Mindy: The Third Season (Paramount). Robin Williams is a wonder to behold, to be sure, and Pam Dawber has just the right amount of aw-shucks girlishness to truly make her an exceptional straightman to Williams' zany freak-o. But I'll tell you what – watching this season is equivalent to watching Robin Williams driving 75 in a 25 zone: You can't take your eyes off of it – you really can't believe it's actually happening – but something about it is seriously and clinically INSANE. I'd have to take a break after the third or fourth episode in a row because I felt like Mork and Mindy was beating me over the head with a mallet 26 minutes at a time.
I guess some people like that.
— Modern Times —
The Best of the Colbert Report (Paramount)
Fresh off his attempts to get on the presidential ballot in South Carolina, Comedy Central has released The Best of the Colbert Report (Paramount), a potpourri of ridiculous moments from the comedian's exceptionally loony series. Much of the stuff here is predictably uproarious (his dissection of the term 'truthiness' is just as funny as you've heard from the guys at the office), and even though it's hard to get through in one sitting, there's enough liberal oddity and humor here to keep leftists occupied for hours and hours.
Everybody Loves Raymond: The Complete Series (HBO)
For those with less politically-slanted boob tube interests, there's always Everybody Loves Raymond: The Complete Series (HBO), a collection of all things Romano. Featuring new packaging – it comes in the shape of a house! – and a collectible book, it's simultaneously hard to dislike the show (when it gets rolling, it can be painfully funny) and difficult to recommend it (as funny as it is, it's not exactly the thing that folks might revisit again and again). But leave it to HBO to give the show a lovely package – for anybody with half a heart of love for the family at ELR's center and a wallet full of cash, this set's as nice a compilation as any show's likely to get. If only Who's The Boss? got the same treatment…
The Sopranos: Season Six, Volume II (HBO)
And then there's The Sopranos: Season Six, Volume II (HBO). A must-see coda to the show that will be remembered as half of HBO's grand TV establishment (Sex and the City being the other), these episodes are as challenging as they are devastating, as formally rambunctious as they are endlessly engaging. In order to avoid getting hate mail from those who haven't seen how the show ends, I'll stay away from specifics, but two or three of the last episodes here are among the greatest the series ever offered. One thing's for sure: You'll never listen to Journey the same way again.
And HBO sweetens the deal by offering Blu-ray and HD DVD editions of this final installment, as well. HBO sent ET the HD DVD version, and it's simply stunning. Detail is exceptional, colors are vibrant and punchy, and the show's superb sound design is presented with flair and savvy, enveloping fidelity. It's worth going out to get a high-def player just to get the full experience.
ANIMATION IN HD
Cars (Disney)
Ratatouille (Disney)
Pixar Short Films Vol. 1 (Disney)
Speaking of high-def, though, there's little likelihood you'll get a chance to experience anything quite as beautiful as Disney's new Blu-ray releases of Cars, Ratatouille and Pixar Short Films Vol. 1. And this isn't a back-patting reassurance of the new format, either – while the early Pixar films are presented as well as they can be (with slight inconsistencies), there are simply no ways to describe how crystal clear and crisp these images are. They're simply astonishing.
The only drag is that Ratatouille and Cars are by far the least impressive Pixar films in the company's pantheon, and the Pixar Short Films set is for devoted aficionados only (while adorable, it's unlikely that kids will respond to them the same way they do to, say, Finding Nemo). So with these releases, Disney has announced with exceptional fortitude that Blu-ray really looks that good.
What will seal the deal, though, are some better titles – these three may look like a million bucks, but I say next time they get some releases with more meat on their bones.
MIKE RESTAINO


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If you think that your organization is immune to threats like fraud and embezzlement, you need to catch up with the 21st century.
Your practice isn't as safe as you think, and there are numbers to prove it. According to the Medical Group Management Association, three out of four physicians will suffer some financial loss from employee dishonesty over the lifetime of their practice. Not enough evidence for you? The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) stated that the typical business loses 5% of its revenues each year to fraud, waste and abuse. Medical practices are certainly not exempt from this kind of loss. In fact, many physicians may be susceptible to even higher rates of loss.
What allows for this susceptibility? The unfortunate truth is that physicians' first priority is patient care, as it should be. Often times, such a focus on practicing medicine and providing quality patient care leads to inefficiency and oversight in front-office business operations. Especially for smaller, niche practices – when you entrust day-to-day business and financial operations to one or only a few individuals, it leaves your practice incredibly vulnerable. Bottom line – there should be just as much focus on financials as there is dedicated to patients. Although no practice is 100% safe, there are a few simple protocols that can be made to ensure heightened awareness and prevent financial loss.
1. Segregate duties within the finance function – Make sure that the individual responsible for collecting payments is separate from the individual that deposits them. This is obviously easier said than done for smaller practices. In this case, it's essential that the head of the practice be involved in daily operations as often as possible.
2. Keep all patient financial information digitally stored and encrypted - Never keep patient information (like credit card numbers) written down. IT security and cash controls are crucial.
3. Tie all deposits to your practice software management's daily report – When there's a central database for all deposit information, it provides for easier tracking and simpler day and month-end reconciliations. Include encounters, charges, collections, write-offs, etc.
4. Implement regular or surprise audits and reviews - This not only monitors employee conduct and behavior, it also helps to ensure that receipts are only being generated from the billing system.
5. Make timely bank reconciliations –It's crucial for practices to internally track cash reconciliation and AR on a weekly (or even daily) basis to keep track of what comes in from patients and third-party payers and what they haven't paid. Cash balances from the bank must match what's on the organization's financial records in order for physicians to get the most out of their practice. Reconciliation will not only improve accuracy in financial reporting, but has the potential to uncover fraud as well. It's imperative that each day's bank deposit slip and credit card activity be entered into your accounting software (i.e. QuickBooks or Quicken), using the same date as the deposit slip. Following this process ensures that all collections for both systems agree.
With so many practices lacking sufficient internal controls over cash, a heightened concern for healthcare fraud continues to grow. Prevention is the best offense. Finding the balance between patient and financial care with the proper protocols set in place will not only enable your billing process to run smoothly, but prevent costly fraud as well.
Ed is our resident guru in IT currently serving as our Internal IT Infrastructure Manager. He is tasked with helping keep our ship running smoothly.


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Bill Belichick talks about the difficulty in running Patriots no-huddle offense
By Scott Coleman@scottcoleman55 Oct 11, 2012, 2:35pm PDT
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The New England Patriots have emerged as a team that likes to play at a furious pace on offense. While some teams still prefer to huddle and work their way to the offensive line in a timely manner, Tom Brady and the Pats like to get the ball moving.
As head coach Bill Belichick explained this week as he prepares his team to take on the Seattle Seahawks, the no-huddle offense not only takes a toll on the opposing defense, but also the players on the offensive side of the football. Here is the latest from Doug Farrar of Yahoo! Sports.
"Offensively, the two big things are one, conditioning because you're running plays quicker so your cardiovascular system has to work harder because you're going faster and there is less rest in between plays. Two, you have to think quicker. You don't have much time to think about the play coming out of the huddle and getting to the line, getting set up and all that. You hear the play, you get there, you have to see the defense and make whatever communication you have, blocking calls, play adjustments or whatever it is, and then be ready to go. It just accelerates everything.
The Seahawks are averaging a little more than 17 points-per-game this season, meaning Russell Wilson and co. could be in for a long day if they fall behind early. Given the furious pace at which New England likes to play, Seattle's defense is really going to have to step up if they hope to pull out the victory. Look for plenty of substitutions from coach Pete Carroll as he looks to keep his defense fresh and energized.
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TONY EASTLEY: Donald Rumsfeld termed the phrase 'known unknowns' and his description is apt for information or rather lack of it relating to nanoparticles.
In the absence of labelling for products containing nanoparticles, a guide printed by a lobby group has been the only way for consumers to find out which sunscreens are 'nano-free'.
But new findings from Australia's authority on the size of things have cast doubt on that brochure's claims and it will now be recalled and pulped.
As Simon Lauder reports, the Cancer Council is concerned that the confusion over safety may simply lead some people to abandon sunscreen altogether.
SIMON LAUDER: When they measure just billionths of a metre across, particles of zinc oxide and titanium dioxide rub in much better. But, depending on which scientist you speak to, neither the safety nor the risks of nanoparticle sunscreens have been conclusively proven.
The Federal Government has resisted calls for mandatory labelling and now cautious consumers will lose what little guidance there is on the topic.
The nanotechnology campaigner with Friends of the Earth, Elena McMaster.
ELENA MCMASTER: We've decided to recall the safe sunscreen guides that we have produced this summer until we can revise them based on new information that comes in.
SIMON LAUDER: The decision to withdraw the guide comes after scientists from Australia's National Measurement Institute used a synchrotron to reveal the presence of nano materials in sunscreens which had been marketed as 'nano-free'.
Ms McMaster says The Friends of The Earth now doubts the information in its safe sunscreen guide.
ELENA MCMASTER: What we see with this research is that you know in the absence of government regulation, the nanotech industry is able to more or less make up their own rules about what constitutes a nano material.
SIMON LAUDER: How do you feel about knowing that you've put out information which, as it turns out, may have been inaccurate?
ELENA MCMASTER: Oh look, you know we are obviously probably as shocked as you know people in the industry about the NMI research results. We're - I can't emphasise enough how urgent we think it is that the Government regulates.
SIMON LAUDER: This week the Federal Department of Innovation released the results of an online survey which found that one in four people who have heard about nanoparticle sunscreen have decided to avoid using sunscreen altogether.
The head of the Cancer Council of Australia, Professor Ian Olver, says skin cancer is a known risk while the risks of nanoparticles to human health are still unproven. His advice is don't stop using sunblock.
IAN OLVER: It is always very difficult to prove the negatives. There is a theory in the laboratory that they could cause harm but these nanoparticles have been in some sunscreens for years and there is no documented harm but there is absolute documented harm from getting sunburnt and later getting skin cancer.
SIMON LAUDER: Professor Olver says concerned consumers can work out for themselves which products contain nano materials.
IAN OLVER: Nanoparticle sunscreens don't have to be labelled as such so apart from the fact that the reason that some sunscreens have nanoparticles is it makes them colourless and when you rub in on it disappears.
If people buy that type of sunscreen, they may have nanoparticles in them so they can have some guide as to what type of sun screen they are buying.
SIMON LAUDER: A spokesman for the Innovation and Industry Minister Greg Combet says government agencies are working together to make sure the risks of nanotechnologies are suitably managed.