I have finished the details of organising an event at Fords Dunton Technical Centre for the Racing Puma 15th anniversary meeting being held on Saturday 16th May.
Tickets are £8 each (1 needed per person) and children under 16 are free.
Why is there a charge to attend the event? We need to pay for event insurance, medical cover and a donation to Ford's chosen charity for allowing us to use the ground of their research and development centre in Dunton.
It is open to anyone with an interest in these cars/ Ford/ Boreham etc.
It is a treat to get to hear Peter talk again about his beloved Racing Puma Project, something not to be missed by any Puma enthusiast.
Was a great day, thanks to the organisers and Peter for his time to share his memories again.
Thank you for coming along Kate, always a pleasure to see you and I do apologies I wasn't able to talk with you properly- I had a lot of things going on.
Photos from various sources will be posted soon.
Haven't taken any off my camera yet :-) and there wont be many.
Here's a few. Sorry Kate, I didn't get any pics of your car. You arrived just after I had finished taking them out on the track.
Was expecting to see #453 there. Did that one go down south somewhere?
new owner hasn't even replied to my text to see how it was getting on?
There were also three Magnum Thunders but didn't get a picture of those together, that was rare as well.


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Enviroment, Tourism NEWS
Chile´s National Zoo still growing after 85 years of history
The birth of a baby giraffe, the arrival of a jaguar and a group of lemurs, and a new educational Nursing Center are among the attractions added this year to the Chilean capital´s top wildlife center.
Wednesday 15 December, 2010 | Enviroment, Tourism
Versión en Español Nuevas especies y mejores estructuras tendrá el zoo de Santiago
The Chilean National Zoo in Santiago celebrated its 85th birthday this year in style, with new animals, an updated infrastructure and plans for some exciting projects in the near future.
Home to some 1,000 specimens of 158 different species, the Zoo is situated on the southwestern slopes of Cerro San Cristobal, the largest urban park in Chile.
Rare Bactrian Camels from Mongolia, hippopotamus from central Africa, tigers from India and polar bears from the arctic are among the foreign fauna living at the zoo. Condors, the Humboldt Penguins, Chilean flamingos and the elusive Pudu—the world's smallest deer—are on view as well, representatives of Chile's rich, indigenous wildlife.
In the past year new arrivals have made valuable additions to the zoo. A group of lemurs and a jaguar were added to the zoo's population, as well as a baby giraffe born on the premises. In the coming months, a female camel and two meerkats are to become the newest additions.
Construction of a Nursing Center this year added to the zoo's educational capacity, introducing visitors to the process of bringing new animals to the zoo. For next year plans have been laid down to build a new home for the zoo's white tigers.
Founded in 1925, the National Zoo was the brainchild of Alberto Mackenna, then governor of the Metropolitan Region. At the time, the Zoo cost about US$125 (CP$60,000) for both construction and the purchase of around 70 animals from the zoo in Buenos Aires.
In its early years, the zoo became a favorite pastime for Santiago's elite, drawing crowds in their Sunday best to see exotic species from distant regions of the world. In 1940 one of the zoo's most famous residents, the elephant Fresia, arrived from Rio de Janeiro. Fresia would remain one of the zoo's primary attractions until her death 51 years later in 1991.
Construction of malls and other more contemporary forms of recreation in the 1990s, as well as a series of mishaps in the first half of that decade, began a decline in the zoo's popularity, which lasted until 2003 when the zoo drew in only 600,000 people in the entire year.
Since then, however, the zoo has seen a rapid upswing in popularity thanks to the arrival of new animals and improvement of infrastructure within the park. For 2010, zoo officials predict some 940,000 visits, more than a 50 percent increase in only seven years from the 2003 low point.
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Spanish-Speaking Latina Mothers in the U.S. Are More Likely to Protect Children Against Excessive TV Viewing
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The National Institutes of Health authored and analyzed a survey that addressed the television viewing of young Latino children, which comprises one in five children in the U.S., today. The study was done to examine the correlation between health and viewing habits, and how the primary language spoken at home may affect the outcome of the child's eating habits, weight, and attention/focusing skills.
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Two Americas: A primer for Europeans
On the heels of The Wire becoming a hot ticket on British television, The Guardian asked me for a curtain-raiser on season five — the media season — with a Baltimore dateline in their Sunday edition. By this point, it had become clear that The Wire was something of a phenomenon over there; American dystopia plays better the farther one travels from America, apparently. And too, it had become clear that many viewers in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe were content to believe that The Wire was representative of the urban U.S. in its entirety. Moreover, some of them were expressing a good bit of schadenfreude in this.
So in The Guardian, I tried to walk the line between affirming what I thought was truthful in The Wire and making clear the geographic limitations of the drama. Not sure it worked at all, or that anyone took the point. But in my mind, at least, it boiled down to an interior stance: We can say this shit about ourselves. And at times, we will. But fuck you if you're thinking the worst of us and enjoying it a little too much.
FROM THE U.K. GUARDIAN
BALTIMORE, Md. —- it's been an ordinary week in Maryland's largest city. The August heat broke and one can nearly sleep with a window open; the Orioles are again down in the cellar in the American League East; the city murder rate is a bit behind last year's blood-letting, and if it holds into the fall, politicians and police commanders will compete to claim credit.
The stories in the Baltimore Sun remain fixed on the surface, each of them premised on the givens: schools will open next week and provide more or less the same inferior education as previous years; Johns Hopkins is building its biotech park expansion where the East Baltimore ghetto used to be and the ghetto is migrating due east and north-east; the biotech park will be great for white folk with college degrees, for those with union cards, the factories are still closed and the port is still losing cargo to Norfolk; a shooting here, a cutting there …
All in all, an unremarkable summer.
Save for one lonely headline the other day – something that genuinely intrigues. It's a curious item – a draft report by a local non-profit foundation, a simple statistical study of the difference between Baltimore criminal juries and those of the surrounding, suburban counties.
It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.
The report upset the city's chief prosecutor; she thought its conclusions "politically divisive" and asked the foundation to either amend the draft study or kill it entirely. The press mocked her for this, of course, and rightly so, while on the radio here, white talk-show hosts had fun speculating about why city jurors – read "black people" – won't do their civic duty when it is, in fact, their communities that are so overwhelmed by crime.
Everyone had something to say for a day or two, and of course, after that brief span of time, the entire issue disappeared into the glowing mediafest that was Michael Phelps and his remarkable collection of gold medals. Phelps is from Baltimore, by the way. As he is not wrapped in crime-scene tape, hampered by a budget shortfall or unable to raise his standardised test scores to the national average, we claim the great Olympian with considerable pride. The boy can swim, yes he can.
In any event, the story about the reluctant city juries slipped quickly below the waves in the Beijing pool without anyone ever seriously inquiring into the why of it, much less attempting to do any actual reporting on the matter.
Anomaly noted. Half-assed speculation offered. On to new business.
But here's the thing of which we can all be certain, the thing that fuels all the dramatic arcs of The Wire, in fact: the why is the only thing that actually matters. The who, the what, the when, the where, even the how – every other building block in which journalists and policy planners and political leaders routinely trade – amount to nothing beyond the filler, interchangeable with the facts flung a year ago, a year from now and decades hence.
The why is it. The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.
And in the American city, at the millennium, the why has ceased to exist.
When I read reviews and commentary on The Wire in the British press, I am usually moved to a peculiar and conflicted place. I'm gratified by the incredible amount of verbiage accorded our little drama and I'm delighted to have the fundamental ideas and arguments of the piece discussed seriously.
But at the same time, I'm acutely aware that our dystopian depiction of Baltimore has more appeal the farther one travels from America. The Wire is, of course, dissent of a kind and it is true that there are many of my countrymen who are in fundamental disagreement with the manner in which the nation is being governed and managed. But somehow, it sounds better to my ear when it's my own people talking trash and calling our problems out.
At the same time, it's not just a question of standing, but of nuance as well. I get that we've been the bull in the china shop internationally, that we've been arrogant and tone-deaf in so many arenas for so many years, and now, with the margins of the American empire being pressed, everyone is ready to embrace the requisite number of I-told-you-so moments. Fair enough. We had it coming. But the emotion in all of that sometimes leads the overseas commentary about Baltimore and The Wire toward something that I don't recognise as accurate.
Baltimore is not the inner circle of hell. It is not entirely devoured by a drug economy that serves as its last viable industry. It is not a place in which gangsters routinely fire clip after clip, spraying the streets in daylight ambushes. It is not unlivable, or devoid of humanity, or a reservoir of unmitigated human despair.
I live in Baltimore, in a neighbourhood that is none of these things. I am vested in the city and its future and I can drive you to places in this city that would transform even the most devout Wire fan into a fat, happy tourist. Baltimore's charms are no less plentiful than most American cities.
And yet there are places in Baltimore where The Wire is not at all hyperbole, where all of the depicted tragedy and waste and dysfunction are fixed, certain and constant. And that place is, I might add, about 20 blocks from where I live.
That is the context of The Wire and that is the only context in which Baltimore – and by reasonable extension, urban America – can be fairly regarded. There are two Americas – separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed. Both things are true, and one gets a sense, reading the distant reaction to The Wire, that Europeans are far more ready to be convinced by one vision than the other.
I used to quote Churchill as declaring that a first-rate mind was one that could maintain two opposing ideas at the same time. It certainly sounded Churchillian to me until someone better read pointed out that this notable quote is by F Scott Fitzgerald.
At first this disappoints, because the quote, to me, seems to argue for political nuance, for subtlety and precision in state affairs. For a long while, the literary origin of the credo made no sense.
But then, The Wire.
As with Fitzgerald, we were selling story only. And at all points, when filming our drama, we understood that we were arguing the case of one America to the other. We were not saying everything, showing everything. We focused on the urban dynamic of drugs, crime and race. We argued the fraud of the drug war and offered an elegy for the death of union labour and the working class. We ruminated on the political infrastructure and its inability to reform. We picked a fight over the decline of public education and the lie behind our national claim to equality of opportunity. And lastly, we suggested that in the end, no one in our media culture is paying attention or asking hard questions.
We did not contemplate immigration. We largely ignored sex-based discrimination, feminism and gender issues. We spoke not a word about the pyramid scheme that is the mortgage crisis, or the diminishing consumer class, or the time bomb that all of our China-bought debt might prove to be. Nor did we glory in the healthy sectors of the American economy, in the growth industries of the information age. We did not embrace Brooklyn Heights and West Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and Marin County. Hell, we didn't even rest for more than a day or two in Roland Park or Mount Washington or Towson – those Baltimore neighbourhoods that define a viable, monied America. We spoke to the other part of town, the forgotten place, the one they don't tell many stories about, at least not in the medium of entertainment television. It was a story rooted in truth, but it wasn't the only story or the only truth. Who, but a second-rate mind, would claim otherwise?
Yet in my country, they actually argue the point. While British audiences might believe The Wire to represent more than it does, Americans – many of them, at least – are quick to argue that it doesn't represent everything and is therefore, somehow, not representative of anything at all.
Was the Wire myopic? Should it have been allowed to dwell for five seasons on that in America which is broken and brutal? Was it not obliged, as an act of journalistic equanimity, if not dramatic power, to display portions of the America where human lives are not marginalised and discarded?
Well, there are about 350 television shows about the affluent America, the comfortable America, the viable and cohesive nation where everyone gets what they want if they either work hard or know someone or have a pretty face or cheat like hell. That America is available every night, on every channel in the Comcast package.
For a brief time, there was one television drama about the other America.
Are we really going to debate whether it was one too many?
Which brings us back to this week in Baltimore and that jury report, the one that everyone had something to say about, but no one actually bothered to analyse. The draft study, which tracked jury trials in Baltimore over a one-year period from July 2005, found that jurors in surrounding, predominantly white suburban counties were 30 times more likely to convict defendants of the most serious charge. Overall in the surrounding counties, the acquittal rate was 27%. In the city, it was 43%. And the disinclination of Baltimore juries to convict drug defendants on serious charges was even more pronounced, according to the Baltimore Sun.
The Sun's coverage indicated that the report's author had speculated vaguely as to "population characteristics and socioeconomic factors" being relevant to the statistical variance. The Sun itself provided no additional analysis, reportage, thought or speculation as to why city juries behave as they do.
Again, the why of the thing. The only part that really matters.
Because in my city, we have fought the drug war to the very end of the line, with sergeants becoming lieutenants and majors becoming colonels and city mayors becoming state governors. We have done so for decades, one day into the next, one administration after another, each claiming progress and measuring such in arrest rates, drug seizures, crime stats. And no one asks: why?
No one asks why, with all the arrests and seizures, the availability and purity of narcotics and cocaine has actually increased over the past three decades. No one asks why, with all the law enforcement committed, whole tracts of the city have nonetheless degenerated into free-fire war zones. No one asks why police commanders are routinely able to reduce the rates of robbery, or rape, or assault significantly in any time period prior to an election, while the murder rate – in which the victim can't be obscured or clerically "unfounded" – stays as high as ever. And now, this week, no one asks why men and women from Baltimore, upon being given a chance to strike a blow against disorder and mayhem by convicting those charged criminally, would shirk their responsibility.
Well, here it is, plain as day…
In order to elect Baltimore's mayor as Maryland's governor, crime had to go down. And when that mayor was unable to do so legitimately, through a meaningful deterrent, his police officials did not merely go about cooking their statistics, making robberies and assaults disappear by corrupting the reporting of such incidents, they resorted to something far more disturbing.
For the last years of his administration, Mayor Martin O'Malley ordered the mass arrests of citizens in every struggling Baltimore neighbourhood, from eastside to west. More than 100,000 bodies were dragged to Central Booking in a single year – record rates of arrest for a city with fewer than 700,000 residents. Corner boys, touts, drug slingers, petty criminals – yes, they went in the wagons.
But school teachers, city workers, shopkeepers, delivery boys – they too were jacked up, cuffed and hauled down to Eager Street – hundreds of them a night on the weekends. Some were charged, but few were prosecuted. And in 25,000 such cases, they were later freed from the detention facility without ever going to court; no charges were proffered because, well, no crime had been committed.
I wasn't arrested. Nor was Ed Burns or Dominic West or Aidan Gillen. Nor were my neighbours or the Baltimore Sun's editors or the members of the Maryland Club. But then, we're all white. Among the black members of my cast and crew, it was often impossible to drive from the film set to home at night without being stopped – and in some cases detained or arrested – on nonexistent probable cause and nonexistent charges. The crackdown came wholly in black neighbourhoods and it landed wholly on the backs of black citizens.
And now, just a few years later, comes this document that causes the state's attorney to deny the obvious and leaves everyone else wondering weakly and vaguely as to the why of it. Is it so hard to understand that the same people who had their civil rights cleanly dispatched, who spent nights in jail because police officers lied on them and dragged them off without charge – that these people might be inclined to disbelieve the word of law enforcement in any future criminal case?
In places like West Baltimore, the drug war destroyed every last thing that the drugs themselves left standing – including the credibility of the police deterrent. To elect one man to higher office, an entire city alienated its citizenry and destroyed its juror pool.
Mayor O'Malley is now Governor O'Malley. The police commanders have all been promoted. A daily newspaper that had no stomach for addressing the why a decade ago when it had 400 editors and reporters, a newspaper more consumed with prize submissions and gotcha stories than with complex analysis of its city's problems, now has 220 bodies in its newsroom and is even less capable of the task. And nothing, of course, changes.
Yes, such a scenario is grist for The Wire. We could have easily built half a season out of the collapse of the Baltimore jury pool and the inability of city prosecutors to bring cases into court.
Yet there is also something appalling in the suggestion that a television drama – a presumed entertainment – might be a focal point for a discussion of what has gone wrong in urban America, for why we have become a society that no longer even recognises the depth of our problems, much less works to solve any of them.
But where else is the why even being argued any more? Not in the stunted political discourse of an American election cycle, not in an eviscerated, self-absorbed press, not in any construct to which the empowered America, the comfortable and comforted America, gives its limited attention. To know why city juries won't participate in the drug war any more, to know why they have opted out of our collective dysfunction, you'd have to travel to the other America – to West Fayette Street or Park Heights Avenue or East Madison Street or any other of the forgotten places. And, well, as has already been said, we are separate nations at this point. Few of us ever cross the frontier to hear voices different from our own. ·
· A newspaperman for 13 years, David Simon is the author of Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets, published in the UK by Canongate, as well as an executive producer and writer of HBO's The Wire.
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The regional costs of Venezuela's collapse
By Kenneth Rogoff | Last Updated at September 06 2018 22:13 IST
As Venezuela's great experiment with "Bolivarian" socialism implodes, it is creating a humanitarian and refugee crisis comparable to Europe in 2015. Travelling by bus, boat, and even on foot through treacherous terrain, around one million Venezuelans have fled to Colombia alone, and another two million are estimated to be in other, mostly neighbouring, countries.
There, they often live in desperately unsafe conditions with little food and no medicine, sleeping anywhere they can. So far, there are no United Nations refugee camps, only modest aid from religious organisations and other NGOs. Hunger and disease are rampant.
By and large, Colombia is doing its best to help, providing care to those who show up at hospitals. And its large informal economy is absorbing many refugees as workers. But with a per capita GDP of only around $6,000 (compared to $60,000 for the United States), Colombia's resources are limited. And the government must also urgently reintegrate some 25,000 FARC guerrillas and their families under the terms of the 2016 peace treaty that ended a half-century of brutal civil war.
Colombians have been sympathetic to their neighbours in part because many remember that during the FARC insurgency and related drug wars, Venezuela absorbed hundreds of thousands of Colombian refugees. Moreover, during Venezuela's boom years, when oil prices were high, and the socialist regime had not yet decimated production, several million Colombians were able to find work in Venezuela.
But the recent tsunami of Venezuelan refugees is causing massive problems for Colombia, beyond the direct costs of policing, ensuring urgent medical care, and providing other services. In particular, the influx of Venezuelan labour has put significant downward pressure on wages in Colombia's informal sector (including agriculture, services, and small manufacturing business) — and just when the government was hoping to raise the minimum wage.
The first waves of Venezuelans included many skilled workers (for example, chefs and limousine drivers) who could reasonably hope to find gainful employment quickly. But more recent refugees have been predominantly uneducated and unskilled, complicating the government's efforts to improve the lot of Colombia's own underclass.
The long-term problems may be even more severe, with diseases that were once under control, such as measles and AIDS, running rampant among the refugee population, which intermingles easily with the culturally similar Colombians. More forward-looking Colombian leaders, including the new president, Iván Duque, argue privately that humane and decent treatment of Venezuelan refugees will benefit Colombia in the long run, after the regime falls and Venezuela again becomes one of Colombia's largest trading partners. But no one knows when that will come.
What is known is that after many years of catastrophic economy policy, starting under the late president, Hugo Chávez, and continuing under his successor, Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's regime has squandered an inheritance that includes some of the world's largest proven oil reserves. The country's income has collapsed by a third, inflation is on track to hit one million percent, and millions are starving in a country that ought to be reasonably well off.
One might think there would be a revolution, but so far Maduro has been able to keep the military on the regime's side in part by granting it licence to run a massive drug-trafficking operation that exports cocaine around the world, particularly to Europe and the Middle East. And, unlike oil exports, which are encumbered by massive debts to China and others, the proceeds from the illegal drug exports are by nature unencumbered, except in rare instances of seizure.
Sadly, many on the left around the world (for example, British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn) were willing to turn a blind eye to the brewing disaster, owing, perhaps, to a knee-jerk impulse to defend their socialist brethren. Or, worse, perhaps they actually believed in the chavista economic model.
Altogether too many left-leaning economists (including some who ultimately worked on the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders in the US) were diehard supporters of the Venezuelan regime. There were also opportunistic enablers, including Goldman Sachs (with its ill-considered purchase that propped up Venezuelan bond prices), and some on the right, such as the inauguration committee for US President Donald Trump, which accepted a large donation from Citgo, the US-based subsidiary of Venezuelan oil company Petróleos de Venezuela.
In recent weeks, Maduro has put in place a half-baked plan to stabilise the currency, issuing new bills supposedly backed by the government's cryptocurrency, which is like building a house of cards on a garbage dump. Whether or not the new currency takes root, we can be sure that the Venezuelan military will continue to conduct its operations in $100 bills.
In response to the domestic and regional crises generated by the Maduro regime, the US has put in place severe trade and financial sanctions, and Trump has reportedly floated the idea of invading Venezuela. American military intervention is of course a crazy idea, and even the many Latin American leaders who desperately want to see the regime go would never support it.
But the US can and should greatly step up financial and logistical aid to help neighbouring states deal with the overwhelming refugee problem. And it is not too soon to start planning for reconstruction and repatriation of refugees after Venezuela's brand of socialism — or, more accurately, oil and cocaine clientelism — finally comes to an end.
The writer, a former chief economist of the IMF, is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University
©Project Syndicate, 2018
First Published: Thu,September 06 2018 22:12 IST
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4. In a frying pan, melt the butter and fry the onion, garlic, potato and celery until soft. To this mix, reduce heat slightly and add the chicken cubes and flour and stir thoroughly for about 1 or 2 minutes. Add some of the hot water until you get a thickened watery mixture. Add in the oats, but you don't need to cook it further.
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Former Players Under Nick Saban Getting Good Reviews
By Joel Thorman@JoelThorman Jun 2, 2010, 3:31pm CDT
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We've talked on more than one occasion the advantage of having players from Alabama on the Chiefs team. The defense is highly influenced by Nick Saban, who happens to have an indirect Chiefs connection with his prior work with Bill Belichick and a direct connection with Scott Pioli.
Chiefs second round pick Javier Arenas learned under Saban, a former defensive backs coach himself, as did Arenas' Alabama teammate Kareem Jackson, a first round pick of the Texans.
The word on those two players is that they're well-polished because of the Saban connection. Indeed, Texans coach Gary Kubiak recently talked about how polished Jackson was.
"From a coaching standpoint, this kid's very well coached up. Some of the things that you may have to work on knowing, he already knows them, so (Texans defensive backs coach) David (Gibbs) had a head start with him from that standpoint. But we knew that. That was one of the reasons we were very excited to get him."
(Editor's Note: David Gibbs previously worked for the Chiefs.)
While this isn't directly about Arenas, I think similar words could be used to describe him. The same buzz words, including "coached up", were applied to Arenas in pre-draft talk.
What all this boils down to is that Arenas may see playing time for the Chiefs sooner rather than later.


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Downtown Milton has been making great strides in the past few years to bring new businesses and restaurants to their community. In 2017, Brew Angels Brewery was opened by Sean McCool in the old post office and a new one will be coming this the fall of this year; opened by Nick Holmes and Dallas Cook, across the street.
The new building will have large windows looking into the production floor and indoor and outdoor seating areas. The building currently is under renovation but should be open in time for Oktoberfest.
Brew Angels has been serving Milton since July 4th, 2017 and has gained a following within the community with a little something for everyone.
Brew Angels Brewery was the first brew pub in Milton and features a wide variety of craft beers and an extensive food menu.
"We have featured meals on Friday and Saturday nights and a trivia night on Wednesday. The menu is pretty much pub food," McCool said. "Our beers are a rotating selection, but I try to keep something on tap for everyone.
Looking for Bud Light? You're not going to find it at Brew Angels but McCool and staff can recommend options based on your tastes from their wide selection of draft and bottled beers including their own recipes.
McCool started his business out of a love of making beer and a needed change of pace.
Both breweries are in the heart of downtown Milton and literally across the street from each other. Both were asked what they were looking for when they chose their locations.
"We were looking for a place that had a nice downtown area and Milton fit that perfectly," Holmes said.
McCool said he was looking for something with character, tall ceilings, an industrial feel, and room to grow.
The owners are on good terms and working together to make Milton a more interesting town.
"We're trying to make Milton a destination," Holmes said.


Sea of Galilee is a light teal/aqua jelly with a strong scattered holo and purple iridescent flakies. Swatch is 3 coats with topcoat. Because it is a jelly, it does require more coats in order to avoid visible nail lines. Another option is to layer it over a similar base color. Formula is on the thinner side, but it's not runny, it still has that jelly consistency while being easy to spread, it also self levels nicely. Overall, I was really happy with the polish consistency, since it was just how I like my polishes to be.
I did some nail art to go with the swatch.
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Improving public health care
Taking action to strengthen public health care so all Albertans have access to sustainable and high quality health services.
Status: Bill 65 received royal assent on June 17, 2021.
Bill 46 received royal assent on December 9, 2020.
Bill 30 came into force July 29, 2020 with exceptions.
Ministry responsible: Health
Government is committed to making the health system more efficient and responsive while supporting and protecting patients.
Bill 65, the Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2021 amends 6 pieces of legislation to ensure the health system better serves Albertans, has a more accountable and modern pharmacy system and provides fatality inquiries with facts to help reviews.
Bill 46, the Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2020 updated 4 pieces and repeals 1 piece of health legislation to improve governance and accountability and ensures the health-care system and health professionals meet the health needs of Albertans.
Bill 30, the Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2020 came into force July 29, 2020. It changed 9 pieces of health legislation to strengthen the role of Albertans in our health system, help reduce surgical wait times, and modernize the system so it can be more effective.
Key changes: Bill 65
Bill 65, the Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2021 updates the following:
Pharmacy and Drug Amendment Act
Clarifies the accountability requirements of all pharmacy ownership models to increase compliance with pharmacy legislation, regulations and licensing, helping to ensure the pharmacy system continues to operate safely.
Moves requirements for physical facilities, pharmacy areas and dispensing areas from regulations to standards of practice to be more responsive to changing patient needs and the evolving practice of pharmacy.
Outlines requirements for pharmacy information systems and records handling in standards of practice to enable pharmacies to better manage and safeguard patient records.
Moves requirements for the storage of drugs and supply of drugs kept in a pharmacy from regulations to standards of practice, to ensure the safe storage and adequate supply of drugs.
Adds references to pharmacy technicians working in the pharmacy system to ensure their accountability.
Health Professions Amendment Act (Pharmacy)
Enables pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to continue offering professional pharmacy services supporting animal health, providing Albertans who raise or own animals with additional options to access pharmacy services for animals.
The need to give pharmacists explicit authority to provide services to animals has been prompted by changes made to the Food and Drug Act by the federal government. Upcoming amendments to the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Profession Regulation are required to establish what types of pharmacy services pharmacists and pharmacy technicians are authorized to provide for animals.
Alberta Evidence Amendment Act
Provides judges at fatality inquiries with access to facts from health-system quality assurance committees to support more comprehensive reviews, discussions and effective recommendations.
Crown's Right of Recovery Amendment Act
Limits government's cost exposure to a reasonable amount directly related to its right to recover health-care costs, when it participates in an injured claimant's ultimately unsuccessful lawsuit.
Reduces red tape and allows government to waive late-filing penalties for auto insurers in extraordinary circumstances, such as natural disasters, that prevent them from meeting deadlines to file reports.
Mental Health Amendment Act
Makes minor housekeeping amendments to correct section references.
Revises overly broad wording regarding retention forms to be more specific to what Alberta Health Services can report on.
Deletes unproclaimed sections of the Mental Health Amendment Act, 2020.
Health Facilities Amendment Act
Makes minor housekeeping amendments, including removing outdated references to "local welfare officer" since such positions no longer exist.
Retains reference to "Part 5" in the act so that the government maintains authority for historical cases that arise, such as class action lawsuits.
Ensures the government continues to have the authority to enforce rights under the Crown's Right of Recovery Act, including responding to historical cases.
Bill 46, the Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2020 updated or repeals the following legislation:
Health Professions Act
Establishes the regulatory framework for health care aides to become a regulated profession and held to the same high standards as other health professionals.
Separates regulatory colleges from associations and unions to ensure these colleges always put patients and the public interest first.
Allows for the regulation of multiple professions within a regulatory college to support more effective and efficient governance as well as inter-professional collaboration.
Establishes a public-facing, centralized online registry where Albertans will be able to search for a health provider, rather than having to search multiple websites.
Makes additional amendments to address some administrative housekeeping items.
Health Information Amendment Act
Better enables Alberta Health, Alberta Health Services and other authorized custodians to share electronic health record information for a broader set of authorized purposes to enhance patient-centric care.
ABC Benefits Corporation Act
Changes the name of the ABC Benefits Corporation Act to the Alberta Blue Cross Act to better reflect the public-facing name of the organization.
Health Facilities Act / Hospitals Act
All relevant sections of the Hospitals Act will be moved under the Health Facilities Act, and the outdated Hospitals Act repealed.
A modernized Health Facilities Act will be the one, consolidated act that governs the operations of acute-care facilities in the province, and sets and regulates how acute-care health facilities, including hospitals and chartered surgical facilities, provide safe, high quality care to patients and families.
Bill 30, the Health Statutes Amendment Act (2020) updated or repealed the following legislation:
Health Quality Council of Alberta Amendment Act
Support and strengthen the work of the Health Quality Council of Alberta to focus on person-centred care, in addition to patient safety and health service quality.
Provides clarity that the HQCA reports to the Minister of Health, increasing coordination and accountability.
Health Professions Amendment Act
Changes will increase the number of public members appointed to regulatory college councils, complaint review committees and hearing tribunals to give Albertans a stronger voice and greater role in professional oversight.
The number of public members will increase to 50% of each group's membership up from 25%.
Health Care Protection Amendment Act
Renames the Health Care Protection Act to Health Facilities Act to better reflect the act's role in regulating independently operated health-care facilities that provide services within the publicly funded health system.
Streamlines the review and approval process for chartered surgical facilities, reducing red tape and administrative burden so current and new chartered surgical facilities can provide more publicly funded surgeries and help reduce surgical wait times as part of the Alberta Surgical Wait-Times Initiative.
Alberta Health Care Insurance Amendment Act
Modernizes legislation so physicians have more options in how they are paid, including making it easier for physicians to enter into Alternative Relationship Plans for compensation.
Allows government to contract with a range of organizations to operate medical clinics.
Regional Health Authorities Amendment Act
Clarifies the role and responsibilities of Alberta Health Services as the single health authority in Alberta and Covenant Health as a strategic partner and the largest provider of faith-based health-care services.
Hospitals Amendment Act
Changes the requirements of membership for the Hospital Privileges Appeal Board so that it will be easier to appoint and keep qualified members to review grievances brought forward by medical staff against hospital boards.
Public Health Act
Amendments clarify that COVID-19 quarantine requirements require all international travellers to quarantine for 14 days while the related orders from the Chief Medical Officer of Health are in effect.
Health Governance Transition Act
Repeals the act which helped AHS take over responsibilities for cancer treatment, mental health and addiction services for the province, when the Alberta Mental Health Board, Alberta Cancer Board and the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission were dissolved.
Other legislation is being amended to ensure the Alberta Cancer Foundation continues its role in fundraising to support cancer care, prevention and research across the province.
Provincial Health Authorities of Alberta Act
Repeals the act which is no longer necessary, since nine former regional health authorities, the Alberta Mental Health Board and Alberta Cancer Board were disbanded in 2009 when AHS became the province's single health authority.
Bill 65, the Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2021
The Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2021 received royal assent June 17 and came into force the same day (except sections 1, 3 and 7 which come into force on proclamation) and amends the following legislation:
the Pharmacy and Drug Amendment Act and the Health Professions Amendment Act (Pharmacy) will come into effect after regulation changes are made.
the Alberta Evidence Amendment Act and the Health Facilities Amendment Act will come into force upon proclamation.
the Mental Health Amendment Act and the Crown's Right of Recovery Amendment Act will come into force upon royal assent.
Received royal assent on December 9, 2020 and came into force the same day.
Most amendments came into force upon receiving royal assent on July 29, 2020. Others will come into force upon proclamation and one other came into force April 1, 2021.
Continuing to strengthen health legislation (April 8, 2021)
Updating health legislation to better serve Albertans (November 5, 2020)
Modernizing legislation to improve public health care (July 6, 2020)


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Entertainment Bollywood 06 Jul 2019 No Love, only Aaj Ka ...
No Love, only Aaj Kal
Published Jul 6, 2019, 7:47 am IST
Updated Jul 6, 2019, 7:47 am IST
Due to IPR issues, the sequel's title will be a truncated version of the original.
Kartik Aaryan and Sara Ali Khan
Director Imtiaz Ali would have loved to call his film Love Aaj Kal 2 and so would have producer Dinesh Vijan. But IPR issues pertaining to the original film, which Eros bankrolled, has led to the film being called Aaj Kal. Reliance Entertainment is producing the current film.
"The Kartik Aaryan and Sara Ali Khan film has seriously generated a lot of curiosity when it was called Love Aaj Kal 2 as a working title. Add to the fact that Sara Ali Khan is playing the lead in this and Saif Ali Khan was the hero in Love Aaj Kal. But then, there have been people like Anurag Basu who could not use Life… In A Metro 2 for his current anthology film and had to opt for a title called Ludo. Similar is the case with the third part of ABCD which cannot be called ABCD 3 and hence is being titled Street Dancer 3D. But by creating an initial buzz about the film being a sequel has already gotten the audience interested," says a trade source,
The shooting of the film was completed earlier this week after a long schedule lasting over two months and being filmed in New Delhi, Udaipur, Mumbai and Himachal Pradesh. The film also has Randeep Hooda in a pivotal role.
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Eižens Laube (25. května 1880 Riga – 21. července 1967 Portland) byl lotyšský architekt, teoretik a pedagog.

Od roku 1900 pracoval v ateliéru Konstantīna Pēkšēnse a v roce 1907 promoval na Rižském polytechnickém institutu. Podnikl studijní cesty do Německa a Francie, první světovou válku prožil v Moskvě. Po vyhlášení lotyšské nezávislosti se stal oblíbencem prezidenta Karlise Ulmanise a tvůrcem nové tváře lotyšské metropole, kde uplatnil své národněromantické pojetí architektury s prvky secese a funkcionalismu. Navrhl více než dvě stovky staveb a řídil adaptaci Rižského zámku na sídlo prezidenta. K jeho významným stavbám patří také hotel Ķemeri v Jurmale, obchodní banka na ulici Brivibas v Rize a budova Rižské lotyšské společnosti. Stal se děkanem fakulty architektury na univerzitě v Rize, kde v roce 1930 získal čestný doktorát. Byl předsedou Společnosti lotyšských architektů a zakladatelem odborného časopisu Latvijas Architektūra.

Před postupující Rudou armádou v roce 1944 uprchl do Německa, kde vyučoval na exilové univerzitě v Pinnebergu a podepsal memorandum Lotyšské ústřední rady. Od roku 1950 žil v USA.

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Q: Go-GL "Project" method giving unexpected results Go-GL's Project method is giving me unexpectedly large screen coordinates.
To summarize:
// Screen is 800x600.
projection := mgl32.Perspective(
    mgl32.DegToRad(45), // Field of view (45 degrees).
    800.0 / 600.0,      // Aspect ratio.
    0.1,                // Near Z at 0.1.
    10)                 // Far Z at 10.
camera := mgl32.LookAtV(
    mgl32.Vec3{0, 0.1, 10}, // Camera out on Z and slightly above.
    mgl32.Vec3{0, 0, 0},    // Looking at the origin.
    mgl32.Vec3{0, 1, 0}     // Up is positive Y.
model := mgl32.Ident4()     // Simple model matrix, to avoid confusion.
modelView := camera.Mul4(model) // The model-view matrix (== camera, here).

// Okay, so what does the origin translate to? Expect center-of-screen, with arbitrary-seeming depth.
origin := mgl32.Vec3{0, 0, 0}
screenOrigin := mgl32.Project(origin, modelView, projection, 0, 0, 800, 600)
fmt.Printf("Origin: (%v, %v, %v)", screenOrigin[0], screenOrigin[1], screenOrigin[2])

// What about the point 5 to the right of the origin?
// Expect increased X, but still less than screenWidth.
// Y and Z should be the same as for the origin.
// In my actual program, I drew (-1,-1,-1)-(1,1,1) cube at (5,0,0) and
// it is completely visible in the window.
test := mgl32.Vec3{5, 0, 0}
screenTest := mgl32.Project(test, modelView, projection, 0, 0, 800, 600)
fmt.Printf("Test:   (%v, %v, %v)", screenTest[0], screenTest[1], screenTest[2])

The results?
Origin: (400, 300, 5.500255)
Test:   (4021.32, 300, 5.500255)

4021.32? That's WAY off the screen!
I've pretty much eliminated all the variables I can think of except for the cube rendering I'm using as a hint basicall. My code is based on this, but I moved the camera and the cube: https://github.com/go-gl/examples/tree/master/gl41core-cube
I get the same results if I use (0, 0, 0) as the input vector and translate Ident4() by 5 units in +X (which makes sense).
So what am I doing wrong? Based on the position of the cube I'm drawing, I would expect something like X = 625.

A: Out of curiosity I looked into the source code of mgl32. It seems that the project method is simply wrong:
obj4 := obj.Vec4(1)

vpp := projection.Mul4(modelview).Mul4x1(obj4)
win[0] = float32(initialX) + (float32(width)*(vpp[0]+1))/2
win[1] = float32(initialY) + (float32(height)*(vpp[1]+1))/2
win[2] = (vpp[2] + 1) / 2

As one might notice, the perspective divide is missing after the matrix multiplication, thus the function will not work whenever w != 1.0f.
In the first example, one cannot notice the error since x and y are zero after the matrix multiplication, thus dividing by w does not make a difference (except for z). In the second example, the x coordinate is not zero anymore and the bug gets visible.

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Matt Chandler's Village Church Ends Multisite Era
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America locks up more of its citizens than any other nation. A single mother is arrested and held in jail overnight for driving with a suspended license that she could not afford to renew. A prisoner with mental illness is languishing in solitary confinement. A young man who paid his debt for a...
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He's a classic, worn by Ancient Greeks and Christian saints, as well as musicians and athletes in the modern world.
Then there's the whole spawn-of-Satan angle.
Thanks to Emma for suggesting our Name of the Day: Damian.
The earliest notable Damians included an Ancient Greek scientist and a physician. Saint Damian, a healer, was martyred under Diocletian in the 300s, along with his twin brother Cosmo. The Coptic Orthodox Church lists another Saint Damian dating from the 500s.
Saint Peter Damian served as a Cardinal in the eleventh century, and is considered a Doctor of the Church. Dante meets him in the seventh sphere of Heaven in the Divine Comedy.
USC wide receiver Damian Williams is considered a future NFL superstar.
The name can be found in use from Poland to Ireland and Ecuador to Greece. The meaning comes from the Greek damao – to tame.
But ever since 1976 blockbuster The Omen hit the big screen, this name has an edge.
Damien is actually the French spelling. It isn't clear why screenwriter David Seltzer picked the name, though perhaps the superficial similarities to the word "demon" influenced his choice. It's a creepy flick, and the sinister small fry is downright scary.
Another horror classic from the 1970s also featured the name – the priest charged with saving the soul of Regan in 1973's The Exorcist was Father Damien Karras.
A handful of pop culture references have cemented Damian's reputation as bad news. Batman's bad boy son is called Damian Wayne; a South Park episode had the son of Satan joining the boys' class.
None of this has dulled the name's appeal. In 1977, Damian stood at #210 and Damien at #246. The year after the movie came out, Damien leapt to #161.
It seems unlikely, but after all, The Exorcist boosted Regan, too.
Today Damian stands at #137 and Damien at #182. Both are rising, though the "a" spelling clearly has the edge. As parents move away from two-syllable choices for their sons, Damian fits with popular picks like Adrian, Julian and Sebastian.
So while the horror film connection might give some parents pause, perhaps Damian's biggest shortcoming isn't that your son might be a terror.
It's that there will be too many of them.
I should really learn to do some research before I say things- I've now found that Arthur has already been NOTD. Please disregard the above comment!
I've been away for a while and my blog has been seriously neglected but I just wanted to assure anyone who was wondering that I am not not dead nor incapacitated! Just snowed under with College work. Anyhow, I thought I'd comment on my own NOTD suggestion- I've always liked the name Damien/Damian. I just think it's classy. Although during a conversation with my mum the other day she mentioned that she thought Damien was the worst name to give to a child, so I suppose in lieu of that I should probably give up on it!
If it's all right, I'd like to suggest one more for NOTD. I know it's your husbands name so I would imagine you are already fairly knowledgable about it. In case you haven't guessed, it's Arthur :). Thanks very much!
I think Damian is wonderful, and was both happy and sad when my cousin used Damien for her son, happy because it is so handsome, and sad because I couldn't use it myself! I have a cousin named Damen, but I much prefer Damian. I don't think of the Omen at all, and would not let that association stop me from using it.
It's nice to hear that Damian isn't permanently tainted because of the movie association!
Though honestly, I'm with JNE. Growing up, I couldn't even look at the house in our neighborhood with the half moon windows just like the Amityville Horror. I was convinced I'd see something moving. In broad daylight. As our white station wagon with the maroon vinyl seats trundled by at 25 mph.
I love Damian! Those three-syllable boys' names make me swoon.
So ridiculous! It's like saying every girl named Matilda will be able to move chalk with her mind. Aargh!
Oh, I like Damian. He's snazzy & handsome. But Cosmo's near & dear to my heart and hasn't left my lsts in thre years now. He goes up & down but remains on. So It's Cosmo that grabs me, although Damian's lovely. I think of St. Damian first & foremost, so it never smacks of evil until someone brings up "the Omen" (which was silly but not very scary at all). *sigh* and right there is why I'll never use Damianmsel. Everyone and their third uncle thinks of "The Omen" and it's just not something I want associated with a kid of mine.
So, Damian's lovely, but not for me.
I like Damien better than Damian. As one who tries not to watch horror movies, the connection to "The Omen" was lost on me. He seems like a decent enough guy. I chose him as a name for a character once so he at one point sounded good to me. It's hard to picture him caucasian, though, so not really a choice I'd take for my own use.
While I don't disagree with Allison, I'm one of those people who, no matter what, flashes on evil when I hear the name. It's not that I can't move past that association, but it is my first thought. It's not something I'd choose to use for my own son, though.
I think it's high time Damian gets a better rep. Such a great name shouldn't be saddled with an unfortunate association from one movie. No one would ever suggest Micheal or Jason were evil, even after those characters slashed their way thru dozens of movies. I was very pleased some years ago when Liz Hurley named her son Damian. Damian is timeless, stylish, and a little edgy… one of my very favorite boys' names.
[…] answer to the Duggars: Jeni and Ray Bonnell and their fifteen kids, including newborn son Damian.


I am recording here my unforgettable moments of five different days as these days are interrelated and integral part of my life.
1) 19th Sep 1974. It was on this day that I proposed to Girija. Till then, though I used to go their house, I would never talk to Girija , as she was always busy with her studies. But after seeing her manners and behaviour, I knew she would be an ideal wife .
On that day, I took the courage and asked her whether she would marry me. She was taken aback as she did not expect such a question from me. Not knowing what to say, she just said that she would convey it to her elder sister Ramana ( who was like her mother) . I came back disappointed, not getting a positive reply.
Her sister Ramana , who was not at home when I asked Girija, came to know about this from Girija. Ramana talked to me the next day and told me that she had no objection and that she would talk to her father in a day or two and if he also agrees, then she said that I could talk to my parents.
As for Girija, Ramana told me that she(Girija) had no opinion of herself and that she would agree for the marriage if the elders in both the families had no objection.
After three days, Ramana told me that her father too had no objection. I then immediately wrote a long letter of about 8 pages to our parents giving details about Girija's family and why I wanted to marry her. In the end, I had made it very clear to them that it was only my wish and assured them that if they did not want me to marry her, I would stand by their decision and that I would not go against their wishes.
Within a week or so, I went to Cuddalore and had a frank discussion with our mother and father. Though amma was disappointed , after my talking to her, she seemed to agree with my viewpoint. Appa did not show his disappointment openly , but I know he would also have been disappointed as any parent would have felt.
Soon afterwards, they came to Chennai and ' saw ' Girija. After they saw and talked to her, I could feel that their fears ( on how she would be ), had come down a lot and they were convinced that Girija would make a good daughter in law. They then finalized the marriage after discussions with Girija's father.
2, ) 12th Dec 1975 . It was on this day that Girija and I got married at Thirukkazhukundram , a place ,about 50 Km's from Chennai. The marriage was held at this place because Girija's Mama was living here and he took the major responsibility of conducting Girija's Marriage.
On 11th dec, our family travelled from Cuddalore to Chengalpet in a train and from there took a bus to Thirukkazhukundram. Immediately after lunch, many from the family went to the nearby Mahabalipuram and returned just before the Janvasam started .
On 12th Dec , the muhurtham was after 12 noon and I remember almost all our relatives and friends who had come for the marriage went to see the two eagles that used to come there daily at exactly 1130 am to take the prasadam from a saint.
The marriage went off well , attended by many of our relatives and about 50 colleagues of mine. We returned to Cuddalore on 13th Dec , by bus upto Chengalpet and then by train.
This being the most glorious moment of my life , I thanked God for His blessings and making Girija my wife.
3) 30th Oct 1976 . The day our first darling Sudha was born.
Earlier, when Girija was into her third month's pregnancy, she had bleeding and when we consulted her doctor, she told us that it was an abortion and to avoid further complications, the Dr decided that Girija would have a D&C the next day morning. We were disappointed but prepared ourselves for the next day's operation.
Ramana was then working in a clinic in Mylapore and on that evening, she told the lady doctor ( under whom she was working.) about Girija's proposed operation. That Dr then told Ramana that her athai – Dr Subbulakshmi – was an experienced Gynecologist and advised that we take a second opinion from her immediately. Ramana came back from Mylapore and took me and Girija to Dr Subbulakshmi at Besant Nagar.
After prelimnary checks, the Dr asked us to come to her Hospital at Royapuram the next day morning for some tests. After the tests at Hospital, she confirmed that the baby was fine and that Girija would have a normal delivery. She lashed out at the earlier Dr for her poor diagnosis and assured me that she would take care of Girija till the delivery.
It is still a mystery as to why she had that heavy bleeding , though Dr Subbulakshmi did not rule out the possibility of conception of twins and the abortion of the second baby.
By God's grace, everything went alright since then and on 29th Oct, Girija developed pain at about 7 pm. We admitted her in the nearby Kosha Hospital at Triplicane ( the famous Govt Hospital for women and children ) . Girija's mami's sister was a senior nurse in the delivery ward there and hence admission there.
4 ) 9th June 1980 – The day our second darling Suba was born.
This time the pregnancy period went off smoothly under the care of the same doctor Dr Subbulakshmi . On 9th June , I had gone to a marriage in the morning. Soon after I returned at about 12 30 pm., Girija started having pain. We admitted her in the same ( Kosha ) hospital .
Our second darling Suba was born at 910 pm on the same day. As in the case of Sudha, Girija's mami's sister showed me the baby within ten minutes of birth and I thanked once again the God for His blessings. Another happy moment in our life.
Aval Parandhu Ponale; Ennai Marundhu ponale …….


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Craig and Sandy McCathie
The Fresh Fish Place
Email: sales@portlincolnseafood.com.au
The Fresh Fish Place owners Craig McCathie and Sandy Harder are passionate about delivering the best seafood experience to their visitors.
What began as a family partnership in 1991 has expanded into a vision of grand seafood culinary tourism. The Proper Bay Road business is teeming with seafood experiences that range from fresh seafood and fish and chips, to seafood cooking classes and behind-the-scenes factory tours.
From New Zealand to Cactus
Craig's journey to developing an award-winning seafood wholesale retail business started in the summer of 1982, during a surfing trip from his native New Zealand to Cactus, Penong, South Australia.
"At that time Tracks magazine, a surfing magazine, was what everyone read, and Cactus featured quite frequently in those days," Craig said.
"Cactus had a lot of appeal because it was isolated in a desert. There was great surf and no one else there, because no one in their right mind would live there." Its isolation shared some similarities with parts of the coast near Wellington where he learnt to surf.
Craig's trip around Australia in search of surf was a youthful whim, but the reality was he soon needed money to survive.
Experienced pole fisherman
"I heard about the tuna season, so I came down from Cactus to Port Lincoln and got a job at Port Lincoln Tuna Processors," Craig said.
"I was with a friend, and we decided if we worked at Tuna Processors we would know when the boats were coming in. It was only a matter of a couple of weeks and I got my first job on a tuna boat."
That was on the fishing vessel Bonanza, and Frank Pirrello was the skipper.
"It was a pole boat, and Frank had asked if I poled tuna. I lied and said 'yes' to get the job," he recalled. "So we went out fishing south of Rocky Island, and after I went into the racks to pole tuna for the first time, Frank said, 'You've never poled tuna before, have you?'
"I admitted I hadn't, and he said it was lucky we weren't close to shore because he would have put me overboard to swim. Needless to say, I learnt pretty fast how to pole tuna."
It was a great way to earn a living for a young man in his early 20s.
"Poling tuna in the 80s was a fantastic time. Tuna fishermen from all around the world would converge on Port Lincoln in November, then work hard for a long season.
"Not having much opportunity to spend our pay, at the end of the season we walked away with most of our earnings to play hard in the off season.
"I would then head back to New Zealand to work in the ski areas in the Southern Lakes region, where all the action was.
"I had the most amazing life in the 80s, coming back every season for the tuna until about 1991 when tuna ranching was starting."
A new life closer to shore
Craig had explored other fisheries during some of the off seasons, but it was while orange roughy fishing off Tasmania that he decided to find a safer way to earn a living.
"Having seen a colleague nearly washed overboard in horrendous conditions, I made a life-changing decision to come back to Port Lincoln and buy an inshore fishing licence that I could work daily," he said. "
I purchased a marine-scale fish licence and targeted blue crabs at Port Wakefield and Franklin Harbour, and sand crabs at Coffin Bay."
While it was the end of his deep sea fishing career, it did not provide the lifestyle he had hoped for.
"Lots of it was night work, and to be a successful marine-scale fishermen you have to be on call seven days a week in order to get at least four to five days' fishing to survive.
"It was a great experience, but after 10 years, I had begun to want a change."
Dry land partnership
At the end of 1999 Craig and wife Sandy went into a fish-factory partnership with brother-in-law Mark Carr and Sandy's sister Sharlene.
"We took the plunge, not really knowing it would change our lives," Craig said.
"I am eternally grateful to my brother-in-law, as I feel fishing is a young man's game, and this has opened a whole new world for me.
"It was a leap of faith, but it has been a timely opportunity to stay involved in the fishing industry while learning small-business skills.
"I am now totally immersed in the world of small business – I live it, and breathe it.
"I have 22 employees, and my role is to try to keep a small business going to ensure those people have jobs.
"I have learnt a whole new set of skills. For the first six years I worked from the ground up, from sweeping floors to building up the food service division, but not a lot on the management side. When our partners sold out and we took sole ownership, management was another very steep learning curve."
A vision becomes reality
In 2011 the couple started making plans to expand the retail section of the business.
"From the start we were involved with the Eyre Peninsula Aquaculture & Seafood Trail with our factory tours, and we had realized the potential for growth in the tourism sector in Port Lincoln," Craig said.
"At the time we could see the popularity of reality TV cooking shows, and what we had was a kind of 'perfect storm': emerging culinary tourism, a growing baby- boomer population of Grey Nomads, a new 110-room hotel, Makybe Diva, adventure tourism, shark cage diving and everything else Port Lincoln had to offer acted like forces of nature to drive more and more visitors to Port Lincoln.
"Our vision was to create a retail store with the complete 'Ocean to Plate' seafood experience," Craig said. To accommodate their growing needs, they built a new 180m-square new retail store, upgrading from a 20m area.
A healthy occupation
Craig is most passionate about selling a product that is healthy. "We are dealing with a product that can improve people's well-being.
"I totally believe in our products. Whether it be a fresh fish fillet, a flathead wrap, a cooking class or educating tourists in our factory tours about our seafood industry, we endeavour to provide a great seafood experience."
He is excited to be a part of Eyre Peninsula's food brand, sharing promotion with people who are also passionate about what they do – and in a beautiful part of the country.
And for Craig, Eyre Peninsula's coastline hasn't lost any of the wild ruggedness that first attracted him to Cactus just over three decades ago.
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Suntory the Japanese Whale
The Daily Shot!
Part 3 of 4 on Japanese Whisky
As mentioned in the last Shot!, Shinjirō Torii is one of the two founding fathers of Japanese whisky.
Originally an owner of an import wine business, Torrii's passion for strong booze ultimately lead to him building the first malt whisky distillery, Yamazaki, in 1923. 5 years later the Spirit was ready for the market, making Suntory the first Japanese whisky.
Suntory Distilling Co. was originally called Kotobukiya. The name was changed to Suntory in 1963; a clear homage to the whisky produced at the Yamazaki distillery.
A small ripple in time…World War 2!…caused a disruption in Japan and production stopped for a number of years. In 1946 the whisky returned with a vengeance. By the early 1970's, Suntory added two more distilleries to expand the production variety: Hakushu Distillery, located in the Japanese Southern Alps, and Chita Distillery, located on the Chita Peninsula. Together with the original Yamazaki distillery, this triad produces the sweet juice found on shelves today.
As the Japanese art of distillation was learned in Scotland, there are numerous similarities in Suntory's whisky offerings: Single Malt (Yamazaki), a peated Single Malt (Hukushu), a single grain whisky (Chita), and a blended whisky (Hibiki).
Suntory Whiskies to know…
Yamazaki Single Malt. This is Suntory flagship product…and excellent. It comes in four varieties: 12, 18, 25, and Distiller's Reserve.
Hakushu. A more smoky, peated whisky. Also available in four varieties: 12, 18, 25, and Distiller's Reserve.
Chita. A smooth, Single Grain Whisky.
Hibiki. blended of malt and grain whiskies. 17, 21, 20, Japanese Harmony, and Japanese Harmony Master's Select.
Jim Beam…Hold on What? Are you drunk?! Jim Beam is American as apple pie! In 2014 Suntory purchased Beam Inc. and now owns Jim Beam. Suntory has undertaken a name change to Beam Suntory; making it the third largest spirits producer in the world.
Boom! Another shot of knowledge!
Japanese Whisky, a Fantastic Duo, and Two Master Senseis
Nikka & Sensei Taketsuru