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UpSpring Breastfeeding Products

Breastfeeding can be hard, but there are products available that can make it a little bit easier. I received UpSpring breastfeeding products free to review from Influenster, but all opinions are my own. They sent me Milk Flow Drink Mix, Wellmom Nipple Balm, & Milkscreen.

Milk Flow is a drink mix that contains both fenugreek and blessed thistle to increase milk supply. While I know removal of milk (supply and demand) is the most important factor in maintaining a good milk supply, I'm always up to try anything that could even potentially increase milk supply because you don't want to stop breastfeeding because you dried up before you or your baby is ready to stop. It comes in three flavog-» Chocolate, Citrus, & Berry. I mixed the chocolate with milk and and the other two with water. None of them tasted very good to me, but orange was most tolerable (chocolate and then berry). Fenugreek is such a strong taste, it's just very hard to hide. I did feel like my milk supply was better after drinking it, but it's hard to really tell because I don't pump. I probably would take a pill form over the drink mix, but if I felt like my milk supply was dropping I'd take any form that would help me.

The Wellmom Nipple Balm is made with organic coconut oil and is used to soothe, moisturize, and heal cracked nipples. I really like this as an alternative to lanolin. I felt like it moisturized really well and it's nice to know I don't have to worry about wiping it off before my baby nurses because it is made with clean, pure ingredients. I even used it on my lips like chapstick and it moisturized well.

Milkscreen are test strips that detect alcohol in breast milk. Breast milk is like gold and I don't want to have to throw away anything I pump. If you have had some drinks, these strips can tell you whether you need to pump and dump afterwards or if it is safe to save the milk for later. I think this is great because you don't have to guess when it is safe to feed your baby, you can just test and be sure. They are easy to use and tell your results fast.


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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Fun, in spite of it all.

The Dude and I got to spend most of yesterday together. We're going through some rough stuff right now but in spite of it all we had such a good time together. I promised to talk about some of those - and I need to offset some of the blah that I'm feeling right now anyway.

You might remember when the universe decided to chuck a rock at my windshield. As it turns out, my insurance does NOT cover windshield damage. But, they referred me to a guy who would still fix it for no charge. So I called the guy and scheduled the appointment, and sure enough he does it for free. Can't beat that.

So we drove to Wichita, dropped off the van, and walked to a nearby Chinese restaurant for lunch. I very rarely eat Chinese food - ever since the time that I rang in the New Year by hugging the toilet for about 8 hours after eating some of it. *shudder* But, it was nearby and it was cold, so we didn't want to walk  much farther than that.

The Dude is the King of the Claw Machine - he can't walk past one of those things without putting a couple of quarters into it, and more often than not he walks away with something. I went into the restroom before we left the restaurant, and he handed me this little guy when I walked back out of the door.

While we were in town, we also took both of my sewing machines in to the repair shop. My "new" one just needs to be serviced and adjusted (gee, I wonder why....) and my "old" one needed to be fixed. I had gotten it serviced about a month or so ago, and then just a few days later the tension knob just broke off of it - or so I thought.

We walked into the shop carrying both machines and the repair guy and I were talking about quilting machines and quilt shows as he wrote up my ticket, and I showed him my broken tension knob. He said, "oh, that's not broken!" and started tinkering with it while we talked. After about 10 minutes, he had it reassembled and handed it back to me - at no charge. So instead of being without both of my machines, I'm only missing one of them and I only have to pay to get that one fixed. Score!

From the You Gotta' Love Wichita files.....

I think someone needs to loose their ad agency. Or the ad agency
needs to loose their proofreader.

Thank you so much, local businesses, for clearing your parking lots.
How about doing the same for your sidewalks? I really didn't
appreciate having to climb over 2' high piles of snow to get to where
I needed to go.
I'm still always amazed at how he and I can have such a good time doing even the most mundane stuff. But from what I understand, that's what relationships are supposed to be like so I shouldn't complain. There are some other stories that I could tell about yesterday - but some of them I am going to keep to myself. I need to be able to have some blackmail material just in case the need ever arises.

Tomorrow's agenda: church. oil change. laundry. cleaning.

Excitement. It never stops.

  1. I'm glad you were able to get out and soak up life - that is really important and I am so glad the Dude is right there to walk beside you and to surprise you with claw machine treasures.My kids' dad used to do that too, I seriously still have 5 giant trash bags full in my storage unit. LOL

  2. Sounds like a good day for the both of you.
    Glad your windshield and sewing machine issues worked out!

    Remember: Mundane can be good OR Don't fix it if it isn't broke OR NEVER use the word BORED because usally after that is said you won't be.

    Take care.

    M :)

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Summit Denzong Renaissance Hotel & Spa

Summit Denzong Renaissance Hotel & Spa

Summit Denzong Renaissance Hotel & Spa is very close to M.G. Marg, one of the most important areas of Sikkim. The location is what makes Summit Denzong Renaissance absolutely marvelous – its proximity to some of the most important landmark sightseeing destinations of the capital city. For business or leisure travellers looking for accommodation in close proximity to the centre of the city, Summit Denzong Renaissance is ideal for guests to experience the local living with luxury in this beautiful city. Take a stroll to M.G. Marg or just sit and relax on a bench at this boulevard square, wherein an array of restaurants and bars are located, this is one hotel that is primed to set a new standard in style, service and contemporary elegance.

The hotel offers 70 guestrooms, looking out to the stunning panoramic vistas of the city and the remarkable Kanchenjunga range. Each of the 45 Deluxe rooms, four Suites and 21 Family rooms are designed with contemporary elegance and style combined with the warmth of Sikkimese hospitality to make your stay comfortable and memorable in this mountain state. While each of the 45 deluxe roomsare fully equipped and stylishly decorated, offering the perfect blend of space and luxury, the layout of the rooms, with special emphasis on spaciousness and comfort, ensures you a relaxing stay. While the deluxe rooms are ideal for business travelers, the family rooms are ideal for large families.  But it’s the suite room that’s the piece de resistance. A paragon of outstanding luxury and privacy with breathtaking view of the Kanchenjunga range and the Gangtok city, this is designed for travellers looking for more than luxury. Each of the four Suite room features luxury amenities and facilities with the finest and most chic décor consisting of a classy wooden architecture, graceful living room, an extravagant master bedroom and a lavish bathroom.

Rated among the finest restaurants in Gangtok, the in-house restaurant of this hotel serves the most sumptuous multi–cuisine preparations with the finest of Indian, Continental, and Oriental cuisines to impress all your senses and tantalise your tastebuds. If you are looking for a range of texture, taste, different style and levels of cooking, the highly proficient chefs of the hotel will match up to your expectations. The kitchen of this hotel prides in getting the freshest produce, using local ingredients for some of the delicacies that are served here and even getting organic vegetables and raw material for dishes that are superlative in taste, offering a fabulous experience.

The capital of the state of Sikkim, Gangtok is an attractive tourist destination, reflecting a unique ambience which comes from its happy blend of tradition and modernity. If there are stupas and monasteries, there are also nightclubs and party hangouts. If there are local bazaars that still manage to lure the tourists there are also the glitzy malls. The beautiful hill town, this is one place that many tourists combine along with a visit to Darjeeling because despite all the development, Gangtok is one place that continues to retain its charm and peace with residents who come from a mix of different cultures and ethnicity. Spread over a forested mountain that faces the Kanchenjunga snow peaks, there are many vantage points in and around Gangtok from where you get magnificent views of Kanchenjunga and other Himalayan snow peaks. In fact every spur extending from this hill town offers a setting of a great sight. If M.G. Marg, where the hotel is situated, is the main hub of Gangtok, stretching into an open promenade area of sorts, from Rumtek, a short distance away from Gangtok, the perfect views of the city can be experienced. It is easy to be absorbed in Gangtok what with great view points, monasteries, gompas with awesome architecture, museums, gardens, waterfalls, lakes and pools, adventure activities and so much more.

Summit Denzong Renaissance Hotel & Spa, Kazi Road, Near Power House, Gangtok, Sikkim – 737101

Approximately Rs9000 onwards, exclusive of taxes

Getting there

By Air: The airport nearest to Gangtok is about 124 kilometres away in Bagdogra, West Bengal. From the airport, you can hire a shared taxi or a private vehicle that will get you to Gangtok in a matter of two hours. The drive from Bagdogra to Gangtok is absolutely stunning with gorgeous mountains and River Teesta as your backdrop.

From Bagdogra, you can also take a TSA helicopter to get to Gangtok in just 20 minutes.

By Train: The nearest railway station to Gangtok is about 148 kilometres away in New Jalpaiguri in Siliguri. The station is well-connected to major cities like Kolkata and New Delhi. From New Jalpaiguri you can take a taxi to Gangtok or go to Siliguri Bus Station and catch a state-run bus to Gangtok, which will take you about 5-6 hours.


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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Nature has inviolate principles, Christy Clark does not

A comment left by Lew on an earlier article deserves to be featured.
Here is Christy Clark, the premier of our province, speaking as a radio show host just before leaving to run for leadership of the BC Liberals:
“Ferry fares go up on Friday. It will be the eighth fare hike over the past five years, and this time BC Ferries says it needs to do it to find the money for rising fuel costs, and since the provincial government refuses to chip in, they’re dumping almost all of those new costs on users.

The impact of the new fare increases? Well, according to BC Ferries latest annual report, these unprecedented fares, as they say, could result in a decline in ferry traffic, and that’s a quote. No kidding! And I’m guessing that the fares have finally gotten so high that for every dollar they raise it will actually garner less in revenue. Higher fares mean fewer passengers, so the accountants will have to subtract paying customers from every new dollar they add to ticket prices, and at this rate how long will it be before they abandon the routes where they don’t make any money? How long before the provincial government abandons their responsibility to provide a public service to many of the people who depend on the ferries to travel and ship their goods?

Our transportation minister seems to have an insatiable appetite for funding highways if they require blacktop, and he seems perfectly at peace with providing free ferries on inland lakes in BC, but he doesn’t seem to have the same affection for our maritime highway on the coast.”
The audio clip can be found in the CKNW audio vault for September 24th, 2014 starting at 2:26 pm.

Contrast her comments then with what her transportation minister is now telling the UBCM in the face of their report demonstrating that what radio host Clark said was valid and quite prescient.
“Our government has no plans to roll back any service adjustments that were made,” said Stone. “We have no plans to interfere in the independent process respecting rates, certainly for the rate increase that the B.C. ferry commissioner has set for next year.”
All that I wish to add is an audio clip of Clark's remarks. It is from Mike Eckford's show on CKNW, September 24.

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  1. Is there an "independent process respecting rates" when the process is entirely populated by BC Liberal hacks?

    1. With people like Geoff Plant and a list of people who feed at the public trough, the fare process is certainly independent from the public interest

  2. Norm there is no doubt that a lot of people including myself respect the work you do. The time & effort you dedicate is found in the articles you print.
    But Norm, I still don't get. We have a lady who has spent millions upon millions of dollars to market a person that is not overly intelligent as a Premier of a Province with vast resources & a willing workforce.
    However under her leadership, people have left BC to seek good paying jobs and the others are forced with increased taxes that are disguised as "fees". And for what ? To support a Liberal government that is so wrapped up in itself & it's close friends that are literally laughing all the way to the bank.
    What's it going to take for taxpayers in this Province to actually understand the reality of our growing debt and the incompetent management of tax dollars into losing ventures such as BC Place, the Convention Centre etc ? At times I think the majority of taxpayers are so stupid that they can't see the difference between a Gordon Campbell & a Christy Clark. Yet all they have to do is remind them of "fast ferries" and they go berserk.
    I wish I had the answer Norm because unless taxpayers start shouting enough is enough, the Liberals will continue to rob us blind.

    Guy in Victoria

  3. G in V: Its easy peasy. Look at the commenters. Same people all the time. They are part of the choir and have time to follow the blogs, and to think. The rest of them are too busy working (hopefully), taking the kids to soccer/hockey/dancing etc. to have any more time than to eat and catch the 6 o'clock "News". I don't think the '...taxpayers in this Province actually understand the reality...'. They certainly aren't going to learn it from the "News".
    Meanwhile, Chrispy's off to India on a 'Trade Mission'. What's she got left to trade?
    What happened to the Mt. Polley disaster? All fixed?
    Do we REALLY need Site C?
    Will we REALLY sell some LNG? At a profit?
    Don't hold your breath waiting for taxpayers to start shouting enough is enough. Whether they realize it or not, they had had enough last May, 2013.
    I wish too, that someone had AN answer. For my grandkids sake.

  4. Alex T used to have a counter at his old site, which showed him how many unique IP addresses were watching his site. Is that possible for you on this site, Norm?

    I suspect there are many more that drop by to catch up on the news but are too shy to write their comments. It would be nice to know if there are thousands or tens of thousands reading here — but yes, John: how do we get the attention of the million+ zombies?

    1. I track readership with a couple of services and regular readers number in many tens of thousands.

      I don't post numerous comments because I refuse to provide a platform for trolls, for ad hominen attacks or for uncivil, uniformed or clearly erroneous contributions. Personally, I find many comment forums on the Internet to be unreadable. Some are informative and that allows for better understanding of issues but dross can easily obscure the worthwhile. I wouldn't let someone come into my home and shout insults at others and I won't let it happen on my website either.

    2. Good to know. Thanks, Norm!

  6. I am one who does not comment much but always comes back. I agree with your observation about some other comment forums and stop reading after a while because of the lack of civility. That is unfortunate because I am sure there are valid comments in these long threads but I can only read so many attacking others before I get sick of it. Keep up the great work Norm and I have linked numerous friends to your site for good, factual information and civil discourse in the comments.

  7. Not sure if is me, or a bad link to the CC clip so for those who can’t make it work:
    If you can, listen for the full hour, starting at 2pm, it is disturbing.

    It’s a little reassuring to hear someone in the MSM actually dedicating serious time to this and I hope Mike Eckford is not just doing it because he is from “the coast.”

    The Christy clip is disgusting and an insult to ALL the people of BC. It is a glaring example of why politicians are so despised. What a absolute sham she is.

    Also in that segment are the usual shallow thinking people who believe the ferry system is a “personal water taxi” that the rest of us shouldn’t have to subsidize. I had to laugh at the caller who said he is a contractor who goes to the Gulf Islands to "work for them" and they are all a bunch of elitists who don’t deserve the ferry system. So, without the ferries, how would he like the barge service, how much would he be willing to pay for it and how much does he think he could pass on those elitists?

    I wonder if the shallow thinkers ever stop to think how many times the people from Church House or Quathiaski Cove use the Sea to Sky or Canada Line. They pay for it, just like the rest of us.

    In the 1880s my ancestors landed on the beach near Powell River and became homesteaders and hand loggers. They regularly crossed Malispina Straight, by row boat, to Vananda for supplies. Is this what Christie and the shallow ones would have us return to?

    Coastal BC is where it all began.

  8. Christy Clark is, merely Harper's mouthpiece. Can you imagine Harper permitting Christy to deal with BC's vast resources? Not on your nelly. When Harper paid a visit to Vancouver Island, I knew our ancient forests would be decimated. Sure enough, 400 year old Douglas Firs are being hacked down.

    Not even our parks are safe from government greed. Christy's non-stop lies? 100,000 jobs for BC people and her weary refrain of, families first? China is building their LNG plant near Prince Rupert. BC's ship building contract was given to Poland.

    I thought there was a recall petition, out on Chrisy Clark?

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Friday, October 3, 2014

$6.2 million inducement ended BCR corruption trial

A study¹ in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology examined plea bargaining and innocence. It revealed,
"...that more than half of the innocent participants were willing to falsely admit guilt in return for a benefit. These research findings bring significant new insights to the long-standing debate regarding the extent of plea bargaining’s innocence problem."
A widely accepted standard of law requires that guilty pleas shall not result from improper inducement, such as bribery. A publication by the Public Prosecution Service of Canada states,
"It is important to note that prosecution agencies and law societies across Canada, as well as the Criminal Code, provide some relevant guidance to lawyers working in the criminal justice system. For example, in the Deskbook of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, the chapter concerning plea and sentence discussions and issue resolution indicates that Crown counsel’s approach to resolution discussions must be based on important principles, including fairness, openness and accuracy..."
In the BC Rail political corruption case, we are expected to believe that two separate plea negotiations involved Basi and Virk but that only one needed review by the trial judge. $6.2 million was paid by the Liberal Government to defendants, a move that ended the BC Rail trial "on the eve of what was expected to be explosive testimony by former finance minister Gary Collins."

If Justice Anne MacKenzie did not know about the $6.2 M inducement, the test of fairness and openness was not met. If the judge did know that a substantial payment for the benefit of defendants was a vital element of the plea agreements, it should have been rejected, in accordance with Supreme Court of Canada directions. I believe MacKenzie chose to ignore the cash inducement and accept very lenient terms of sentencing so that the trial could end. Soon after, she was elevated to the B.C. Court of Appeal.

That Basi and Virk walked with a minimum of inconvenience is not particularly bothersome since they were in court as sacrificial lambs following corruption that extended broadly. However, it is entirely inappropriate that their political masters paid no price and now Liberals use control of the legislature to ensure a continued lack of transparency.

This week, NDP MLA Kathy Corrigan, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, made a motion,
"That Mr. David Loukidelis and Mr. Graham Whitmarsh be requested to appear before the committee with respect to additional questions relating to the committee’s continued consideration of the Auditor General’s report titled An Audit of Special Indemnities."
The vote, with NDP MLA Bruce Ralston in the Chair, was predictable, with BC Liberals against and others in favour:
  • - LIB, Maple Ridge-Mission
  • - LIB, Shuswap
  • - LIB, Prince George-Mackenzie
  • - LIB, Port Moody-Coquitlam
  • - LIB, Vancouver-False Creek
  • - LIB, Chilliwack-Hope
  • - LIB, Richmond-Steveston
  • - NDP, Burnaby-Deer Lake
  • - NDP, Vancouver-Point Grey
  • - NDP, Coquitlam-Maillardville
  • - NDP, Vancouver-Hastings
  • - IND, Delta South
Ms. Huntington, a thoughtful and effective independent MLA, said this to the committee,
"Undoubtedly, the Auditor General's office did an enormous amount of work. It was with a narrow question in mind, however. It did not pursue the relationship between the plea bargaining and the lifting of the indemnity — or the indemnity. Thus, it leaves open the questions that are being pursued right now.

"All that being said and my discomfort that this committee would be pursuing it in this manner, I do think there are issues here that have never been explained to the public, which the public is deeply concerned about — always have been and still bring it up if the issue arises in any way, shape or form, at least to me.

"I think there is an issue of transparency here that if we can resolve would be to the benefit of the public. As difficult as the decision has been to me, I will support it — the motion — because I believe the public deserves the transparency that this discussion might provide them."
Lew, a reader and occasional commenter, has been following this issue closely and expressing himself to members of the Legislature. I think his recent correspondence is worth repeating:
"This is written in regard to the September 30, 2014 proceedings of the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts considering the Auditor General Report: An Audit of Special Indemnities. You have all been previously copied on my January 20, 2014 letter to the Auditor General, and I wrote you on July 07, 2014 with further observations and questions, so I will not repeat them here.

"When I wrote him with questions on his report, the Auditor General responded that he was not at liberty to provide any answers except to the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts, within the scope of the audit or his mandate. I therefore forwarded my questions to the Committee with a request that my questions be asked. To this date the questions have not been asked of him, nor of any other persons before the Committee. In addition, several members of the Committee have expressed that they have outstanding questions. This is obviously a very unsatisfactory situation given the public’s right to know.

"This morning [9/30] a motion was moved to take steps to assist in that regard but it was voted down by the BC Liberal members of the Committee.

"To members Corrigan, Huntington, Eby, Simpson, and Robinson, I extend my appreciation for your efforts to date, and a hope that you do not consider this matter over.

"To members Morris, Sullivan, Dalton, Kyllo, Throness, Yap, and Reimer, I would like to say that you have earned my contempt for your actions. My feelings would not be as strong if there were any of you who had answers the questions I have asked. But you do not and none of you appear interested in obtaining or sharing them in any event. That is contrary to your duty both as an MLA and as a Committee member.

"There were two plea deals negotiated in this case.
  • One between defence counsel and the special prosecutor involving pleas and sentencing recommendations, disclosed to the court through a joint submission and a Statement of Facts.
  • And another between defence counsel and the government represented by the Assistant Deputy Attorney General (ADAG) dated October 14, 2010 involving guilty pleas in exchange for release of financial liability, which was not disclosed to either the special prosecutor or the court.
"The Auditor General says in his report auditors were told that the guilty pleas negotiated between defence counsel and the special prosecutor would never have been entered by the defendants but for the prior plea deal (October 14, 2010) between the ADAG and the defendants.

"MLA Morris says, “I think, to David Eby, that assumptions are made that this $6 million was used as an inducement to plead guilty. We don't know the discussions that took place between counsel and the special prosecutor in this case, and they're the ones that negotiated the guilty plea. We will never know what those discussions were all about. As a former police officer, I've been intimately involved in plea bargaining in the past.”

"The discussions between the special prosecutor and defence counsel are not the issue here. The issue is the October 14, 2010 plea deal between the defendants and the ADAG to extinguish the special indemnity agreements by way of an Agreement to Release in exchange for guilty pleas and how that affected the course of justice. And we do in fact know quite a bit about that agreement and the surrounding discussions from the Auditor General’s report.

"Notwithstanding MLA Morris’ reference to the wrong discussions, he has tendered to the Committee his expertise as a police officer with intimate knowledge of plea bargains. Perhaps he would be prepared to assist the Committee’s understanding of how these work in practice by advising:
  • how many plea bargains he witnessed or was a part of that involved securing guilty pleas through cash payments by the Crown to the defendants;
  • the amount of the highest cash payment;
  • whether the court was advised of these payments made in exchange for guilty pleas; and
  • what action he took as a police officer regarding these payments.
"In the event MLA Morris has no plea bargains of this nature to report in his experience, perhaps he could advise the Committee why that would be, whether one of that nature would be illegal, and what the duty of the Committee would be if it discovered through its deliberations on the Basi/Virk indemnities that government officials may have been party to such a plea bargain."
¹Lucian E. Dervan and Vanessa A. Edkins Ph.D., The Innocent Defendant' s Dilemma: An Innovative Empirical Study of Plea Bargaining' s Innocence Problem, 103 J . Crim. L. & Criminology 1 (2013).

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  1. According to the MLA's bio for Mike Morris:

    Before being elected to the British Columbia Legislature, Mike had a 32-year career in the RCMP, retiring in 2005 as the Superintendent for the North District. Mike has also been an adjudicator and mediator with the Health Professions Review Board, has served on the Drug Benefit Council for BC since 2009, and is the Past President of the BC Trappers Association.

  2. A little off topic bit I found it interesting that Hunter Harrison, the president of CP Rail claims that a 7 mile long unused railway track is worth 400 million bucks, but bought BC rail which was a1000 mile long operating railroad with over 1300 employees and tens of thousands of box cars, hundreds of locomotives for 700 million when you factor in the tax write off that came with the sale, oops I mean lease when he was president of of CN Rail, as far as im concerned this is the best description of the screwing the citizens of BC got from Gordon Campbell and the Liberal party of BC with the broken promise about not selling BC Rail!

    1. I believe it was closer to 2400 miles/kilometers long (makes no difference - its a colossal screwing! A point well made about the disparity between BC Rail and the Arbutus line! Maybe $400 would be a more realistic figure). Thanks (I think) Norm, for bringing this up, although Ive long since given up hope of seeing any justice. Maybe it will grate a little on the perpetrators nerves, just a little, to know there are still some of this that remember the scant details of this horrendous affair.

  3. Worthy of mention is the 'removal' of Judge Bennett who was 'seized' by this case but when her rulings 'seemed' to lean toward the defence calling certain witnesses, she was 'promoted' to a higher court position (perhaps against her principles) by pm harper on the recommendation of BC senior prosecutor berardino.

    This most unusual happenstance of judge swapping also occurred in the Alberta trial of Ernst vs Encana when matters were not going Encana's way.

    Also worthy of note is judge McKenzie's predilection of being more than lenient on high profile members of Hell's Angel's drug kingpins.

  4. Thank you Norm for not letting this issue die. The whole scandal surrounding the sale of the BCR and the subsequent cover-up is BC's version of Watergate, except here in BC Nixon would have been re-elected. Same dirty tricks, but no Woodward and Bernstein employed by media like the Washington Post, willing to expose the corrupt in power. Instead, the media here licked boots for advertising handouts and access - and still do. God help us.

    Warren White
    Gordon Head, Victoria.

  5. This is not a trivial matter. If the judge in the BC Rail criminal trial knew about the written offer by the Attorney General’s ministry to release Mr. Basi and Mr. Virk from any and all liability relative to their conduct on the BC Rail matters, including liability for over $6 million ONLY IF they pleaded guilty and kept quiet about it, she was required by section 606 of the Criminal Code of Canada to reject the guilty pleas, because there is no way by legal definition the pleas could be deemed voluntary under those terms. If she did not know, it was because there were actions and a conspiracy including officials of the Attorney General’s ministry to ensure she did not learn of it. Those actions might well rise to obstruction of the natural course of justice.

    The Auditor General’s report clearly lays out all the elements required for what former Attorney General Geoff Plant has publically written could not happen as a matter of law. Mr. Plant says there could be no legal agreement tying the waiver of the $6 million to the guilty pleas. But the Auditor General says there was. His report also clearly establishes the fact that the Assistant Deputy Attorney General made the offer to the defendants in writing through their counsel and stipulated that the Agreement to Release was conditional on the guilty pleas and would not be signed until after the pleas were delivered.

    So, with all the elements of an improper (if not illegal) inducement present through the use of the indemnities reviewed by the Auditor General as currency, what do the BC Liberal members of the committee established to examine the report do? They quash a motion to interview the individuals involved in the deal. That action constitutes a clear dereliction of the Committee’s duty to properly examine the Auditor General’s report. How can the Committee possibly present the Auditor General’s audit report to the Legislature with scores of unanswered questions arising from the report unanswered?

    Despite writing directly to the Auditor General, the Clerk of the Legislature, and every member of the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts individually, none of the questions I have regarding the Auditor General’s audit of the special indemnities relative to Mr. Basi or Mr. Virk were asked of any witness before the Committee, and none of the members of the Committee can or will answer the questions.

    Since reporting to the Legislature means reporting to the citizens of British Columbia, the Committee’s report had better include the fact it is incomplete in the extreme, and the fact that legitimate questions from the public to the Committee were disregarded. Anything less will expose the report as a sham.

  7. BC Liberals and their friends love to bring up the Fast Ferries as an example of the NDP's incompetence — while ignoring their own budgetary excesses on the Port Mann bridge, the Trade and Convention Centre and BC Place (to name a few.)

    Mismanaging tax dollars is bad… but the BC Rail sale/lease and the scandal surrounding it is far worse. It cannot be allowed to just go away — and the sooner it is dealt with, the better, as memories and documents have a habit of fading away over time.

  8. I wrote to all the members of the committee this morning. It's simple, either this is a perversion of justice, or the BCLib members would be anxious to call Whitmarsh and Loukidelis to tell us why it isn't perversion of justice. I have no expectation of any openness or accountability on this file ever. It's over for this one.
    But the actions by the BCLib members of the Pub Acc Committee this week should not be forgotten.

    Thanks Norm for shining a last waning light on it. -- Merv Adey

  9. From a Canada Revenue Agency tax bulletin: "¶ 32. Where personal legal expenses of an employee (or of his or her family) are paid or reimbursed by the employer, the amount paid is a taxable benefit to the employee. "

    Payments of Basi's & Virk's legal expenses should have resulted in millions of dollars of taxable income. Did the Province of British Columbia also agree to pay income taxes for the two.

    Or, did the Province of British Columbia act in any other way to relieve the income tax burdens arising from the plea agreements?

    Given that Basi and Virk were guided by excellent lawyers, it is a certainty that potential income tax liabilities were dealt with specifically.

    It may be that payment of $6.2 million turned into nearly $9 million in ultimate liability. Either that, or the CRA agreed to special treatment of taxes due.

    Government withholds details of financial matters related to the plea agreement for obvious reasons.

  10. David Michael Michaels was determined to be guilty of committing $65M investment fraud after he took advantage of elderly Vancouver Island residents.

    Suppose Michaels paid someone else millions of dollars to take responsibility for the fraud, so that he could walk free and clear.

    Is there any doubt that police and prosecutors would be all over his arrangement, trying to ensure that the real guilty party was punished?

    Why does the justice industry - police, lawyers. judges, Attorney General - abdicate ethical responsibility when offenders are from their own ranks.

  11. Which Escrow Agent received the $6.2 million from the BC Treasury and pass it onto ...not Basi or Virk .... but to ....

  12. I believe Morris from P.G. is ret'd RCMP. Anyone know what the oath to join that crowd says re seeking out truth and justice? Just askin'.

  13. I’ve been thinking about how disconcerting it must be for David Loukidelis and Graham Whitmarsh to have the BC Liberal members of the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts quash a motion that would have given them the opportunity to clear up the issues that affect their reputations.

    After all, as chair of the Law Enforcement Board of Alberta, Mr. Loukidelis must be vexed that someone as legally astute as former Attorney General Geoff Plant is of the opinion that an agreement tying the guilty pleas in the BC Rail trial to the waiver of liability for over $6 million in legal fees would be illegal. And yet the Auditor General says that is precisely what happened under Mr. Loukidelis’ watch. Surely he must be chomping at the bit to clear the air.

    Mr. Whitmarsh must also be anxious to explain his role in signing the backdated Agreement to Release that wiped out the indemnities containing the liability provisions, because that constituted the government’s obligation under the deal that Mr. Plant says could not exist as a matter of law.

    The BC Liberal members of the Committee have done both men a great disservice and I plan to write both with my commiserations and a copy of my questions to the Auditor General and the Committee to see if they wish to clarify the issues. Hopefully many of you will afford them the same opportunity. It’s the least we can do.

    David Loukidelis is currently Chair at the Law Enforcement Board of Alberta. His address is:
    Chair,Law Enforcement Review Board
    Justice and Solicitor General
    1502 Oxford Tower
    10025 - 102A Avenue
    Edmonton, AB T5J 2Z2

    Graham Whitmarsh is currently principal at Tangram 1, and his e-mail is

    According to its website, Tangram Strategies is an independent group of action oriented, outcome focused, problem solvers with deep experience in the major issues facing healthcare, information technology and risk management; an agile team of senior executives who bring exceptional business, crown agency and governmental expertise to solve the most difficult problems, recover critical projects and address the defining challenges of today.

    Of interest are two of his team members. Lynda Cranston, who resigned as CEO of Provincial Health Services Authority, because she approved 118 wage increases that contravened government policy, according to the chairman of the board that employed her. And Jon Schubert, who according to the Globe and Mail announced his resignation as CEO of ICBC after a scathing government audit raised concerns about excessive compensation for managers and Finance Minister Kevin Falcon called the situation at ICBC “unacceptable”.

    1. I suppose that would be the same Whitmarsh who signed the letter firing Roderick MacIsaac, leading to his suicide, and who is $400,000 better off thanks to a very generous severance package paid for by the BC taxpayers.

    2. Indeed, the amount was $461,643. Loyal servants deserve generous rewards.

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Overall: 21 1/4 x 15 x 3 1/2 in. ( 54 x 38.1 x 8.9 cm )
ink inscription: on note glued to reverse: "Family tradition is authority for this wooden Coat of Arms having descended from James Beekman married to Jane Ketteltas and owner of Mount Pleasant his country seat on the East River between 49th and 51st Stree
Carved wooden coat of arms with paint and gilding; central shield with a wavy bend between two roses and a bird's head; helmet atop shield with crest of two wings in flight; foliate rococo carving surrounds shield; all surfaces painted or gilded.
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This coat of arms is said to have hung in the parlor of Mount Pleasant, James Beekman's country house on the East River near 51st Street, built ca. 1763. It may have hung on the chimneybreast now in the Historical Society's collection (1874.8). A complete transcription of the manuscript label on the reverse of the arms is located in the object file.
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Permanent Loan from the Beekman Family Association
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Creative: Tronvig Group


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Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Wellington stopover # 3

 Kawasaki BK118 B2 ZK-HLF2 (c/n 1070) is listed to Helilink Ltd of Auckland. It came under the Westpac Rescue Helicopters banner on 16-01-2004. It is Wellington based as part of the Life Flight organisation. A 1990 model it came to NZ in November of 1995 and initially served as ZK-HZJ2.
 Nice to see some young people in aviation. Here TAW gets a preflight.
 Sounds Air Travel and Tourism Ltd have been in the news recently with the entering into service of their 4th Cessna 208 Caravan.
I spotted three of them at their ops area at Wellington on Monday morning. Above is ZK-SAN2 (c/n 20800360) recently re-registered from ZK-TZR.
Below is the latest addition - newly painted and with upgraded instruments and interior - ZK-SAY2 (c/n 208B0861), previously ZK-MJL.
ZK-PDM was on its tie downs, whilst the 4th Caravan, ZK-SAA, I believe is now undergoing an upgrade.

Wellington stopover # 2

More from the Wellington Aero Club visitation.
Three Piper PA-38-112 Hatchets were in a photographical position.
Above is ZK-JFE (c/n 38-78A0568) joined the Wellington Club on 13-03-2006.
ZK-TAW is c/n 38-78A0716 and arrived in NZ to become ZK-JFD on 28-04-1995 but became ZK-TAW on 08-07-1995 and first joined the Wellington Aero Club in September of 95. It is now on its 4th stint with the Club.
ZK-WAC2 is c/n 38-82A0086. This originally entered our civil register as ZK-WAH on 13-12-1990 being re-registered as WAC on 26-02-2002 and entering Wellington Club service on 01-03-2002.
The Nanchang CJ-6 ZK-MAO (c/n 4432002) joined the NZ register on 21-10-2008 as ZK-JNA4 and was listed to the Wellington Aero Club on 01-08-2009. Its registration was changed to ZK-MAO on 13-10-2009;  and this can be seen in small letters just below the forward canopy.

Below is the seemingly inactive Beech C23 SunDowner 180 ZK-DVB (c/n M-1565). This was a James Aviation import in November of 1974. It has been listed with Wellington Aviation Ltd since 02-11-1994.
Below is a plug for Life Flight. This gets a lot of attention from the kids. It is located on the finger leading down towards the boarding gates.

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

A Wellington stopover # 1

With a couple of hours to kill at Wellington Airport yesterday (29-07-2013) - what better thing to do than to wander across to the Wellington Aero Club.
 Here I got a very warm welcome and the ok to photograph the resident flying machines.
First to fill the lens was the Piper PA-28R-201 Arrow III ZK-EIF (c/n 28R-7837132). This arrived in NZ on 13-03-1978 and became the Airwork demonstrator before going to Nair Aviation at Nelson in late 1979. From April of 1993 it was the Brian Souter and Jim Hoffman machine at Wellington with ownership moving to the Wellington Club on 01-05-1994.
Dropping in across my nose was the Cessna 172N Skyhawk ZK-ELF (c/n 17270851) from Helipro Training Ltd. It is the same vintage as the Arrow above.
The resident Piper PA-28-181 Archer II ZK-FHQ (c/n 28-7790326). As the c/n tells us it is a 1977 model. It joined Brian Souter here in Wellington from 08-02-1993 and the Aero Club from 24-05-1993. It was listed with Warren Larsen on 30-06-2011.
Cessna 172N ZK-FLT (c/n 17271432) seems to have been around for years. This one served its first nine years in OZ before coming over to NZ and taking up the ZK-MJM registration with Flightline Aeronautical College at Ardmore. Three months later it was damaged but was re-built and re-registered as ZK-FLT. It first joined the Club in December of 2007.
As seen and posted by Greybeard on Sunday was the Cessna T206H Turbo Stationair ZK-JWH (c/n T20609073) of Opiki Cropping Ltd. It has all of 100 hours on its tacho.

Sunday, 28 July 2013

Three of a Kind

Production of the venerable Cessna 206 recommenced in 1998 with the 'H' model, in both the normally-aspirated and turbocharged versions (T206H). The number of aircraft produced since has been relatively modest (compared to last century!), with numbers of the T206H running at around 40-50 per year. Three machines have made it here, the first being Nokomai Station's ZK-NOK, registered on 13 June 2005. It was at Fielding in February 2010.

After a significant gap, the next T206H to arrive was BLM Holdings ZK-TDO, first registered on 24 September 2012, and seen here at Masterton on 19 January this year.

And the most recent addition is Opiki Croppings ZK-JWH, which was registered on 21 February this year, and was conveniently parked on the Wellington Aero Club's ramp this afternoon.

Saturday, 27 July 2013

Pietenpol Aircampers of New Zealand

Our next type of 2 seater homebuilt aircraft was the Pietenpol Aircamper.

The Pietenpol Aircamper was designed and flown by Bernard H Pietenpol in 1928, and was developed from his earlier single seat Sky Scout.  Plans for the Aircamper were published in 4 issues of the Flying and Glider Manual in 1932-33.  The 2 seater Aircamper is of wooden construction and has minimal metal fittings.  The 40 HP Ford Model A engine became the standard powerplant in the 1930's.  However in the 1960's Bernie Pietenpol favoured the smoother, more powerful and lighter Chevrolet Corvair conversion.  The Aircamper has flown with over 30 different engines over the years, which must be some kind of record?

Length is 5.39 metres (17 feet 8 inches), but this differs with different powerplants, wingspan is 8.84 metres (29 feet) and the wing area is 145 square feet.  Empty weight is around 277 Kg (610 pounds), again depending on the powerplant, and MAUW is 490 Kg (1,080 pounds) which puts the Aircamper in the Class
2 microlight category.  With all that exposed engine it is not fast, with a top speed of around 100 mph.

Our first Aircamper was Penny and Evan Belworthy's ZK-PRB (c/n AACA/755), which was first registered on 30/3/87, and first flew in December 1988.  It first flew with a Ford Model A conversion, as in the above photo taken at the 1989 AACA flyin at Tairei.  It then had a Ford Cortina motor for a while.  It was re-designated as a Class 2 microlight on 26/9/97.

And finally, the Belworthy's settled on a Toyota Hilux motor as in the above photo of it at the 2011 SAANZ flyin at Ashburton.  Thanks to Blue Bus for the photo.

Next up was ZK-JQN (c/n DP02) which was started by Glen Morgan.  It featured a spring steel undercarriage and a 2 litre Cortina motor.  The partially built project was sold to Donald Palmer of Kaiapoi and was first registered to him on 6/5/05.  It first flew in December 2005 piloted by Evan Belworthy.  It was sold to J Coleman of Christchurch on 21/1/07.  ZK-JQN then came full circle by being purchased by the original builder, Glen Morgan of Greymouth.  It was re-engined with a Toyota Hilux motor as in the above photo taken by Blue Bus, and wheel brakes and a tailwheel were fitted.  It is currently based in Greymouth.

The next Aircamper was the modified Andrew John Fairhall Special ZK-JBF (c/n 001) which was built by Andrew John Fairhall of Blenheim, and was first registered on 16/6/06.  It is based on the Aircamper and has nicely scalloped trailing edges, a spring steel undercarriage and a fully faired Toyota Hilux motor.  It is photo'd above at the 2009 SAANZ flyin at Ashburton.

And finally for now our latest Aircamper is ZK-PAC (c/n 061791 AAD) which was built by Rod Wooller who built the aircraft partly in Australia but finished it off in Auckland.  It was first registered on 29/3/11 and is based at Parakai where the above photo was taken.  Thanks to Rod Wooller for the photo.  Rod advises that it is the long fuselage version and that it is powered by a 184 cubic inch (that's 3 litres) Chevrolet Corvair motor.  ZK-PAC is undergoing its test flying schedule at Parakai.

I am sure we will see more Pietenpol Aircampers on the New Zealand register as it is such a timeless design, and it fits within the Class 2 microlight regulations.  I am aware of at least 3 more being built, one with a Rotec radial motor!

Friday, 26 July 2013

One and the same -

Back on 06-12-2007 Skysales Aviation (NZ) Ltd of Christchurch registered the Robinson Raven I ZK-IHB (c/n 1777).
                                  Photo above shows it on 29-11-2007 outside Skysales hangar.
Ownership was transferred to Brian Hall of Christchurch on 01-01-2008.
On the 17th June it was relisted to Duncan Storrier Holdings Ltd of Ashburton with its registration being changed to ZK-HLY3 on the 18th of this month.
ZK-HLY3 is seen here at Pacific Aircraft Services at Christchurch on 26-07-2013.

Thursday, 25 July 2013

Izardair's new Tecnam P2008 ZK-ZZB

Debbie Evans of Izardair has kindly sent me this photograph of their new Tecnam P2008 ZK-ZZB (c/n 050)
It is one of two registered to Izard Pacific Aviation Ltd of Taupo on 29-05-2013: The other being ZK-ZZD (c/n 056).
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Robinson R66 Turbines c/n 0330 and 0331.

Two Robinson R66 Turbine helicopters have been sitting on their packing crate bases with Flightline at Christchurch. Each base has the helicopters construction number stencilled on it.
Pic above was taken on 27-05-2013.
This week they have been assembled and their respective pending registrations were added today 25-07-2013.
  Above - c/n 0330 becomes ZK-IXS thanks to Neville Williamson, up from Flightline at Dunedin, and Bob Jelley.
The white one is c/n 0331 and is ZK-IXT.
Thanks to Flighline for permission to take photographs in their hangar at Christchurch.

Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Nieuport 24 ZK-MNR.

CMM dropped into Ashburton during the past weekend and captured the Airdrome Aeroplanes Nieuport 24 Replica ZK-MNR (c/n 1642).
                                              An earlier view of MNR can be seen at :-
I have yet to see her with full engine cowlings in place. Maybe one of these days !

Pic below added in response to comment.

Tuesday, 23 July 2013

NASA Boeing 747SP-21 N747A SOFIA.

Colin Boag sent in this pic of the NASA 747SP-21 N747NA c/n 21441 experimental aircraft.
There is a stack of other pics and info available at :-

Oxford Fly In Sunday 21-07-2013.

C.R.A.C. fly in at Oxford on Sunday 21-07-2013.
 There was a fly in at Dave McPhersons airstrip just to the west of Oxford on Sunday.
 The meteorological condition were perfect.
Twelve three axis and four trikes called in.
Pics from Alastair Millar.

Monday, 22 July 2013

Aero Gare Seahawk Amphibian(s) of New Zealand

The Aero Gare Seahawk was a composite biplane amphibian that was designed by Canadian Garry LeGare in 1982.  The design has passed through several owners over the years, but has not been built in great numbers.  We have had only one Seahawk in New Zealand, and I think this will be the only one.

Its length is 5.94 metres (19 feet 6 inches), the wingspan is 8.23 metres (27 feet) and the wing area is 130 square feet.  Empty weight is 408 Kg (900 pounds) and MAUW is 816 Kg (1,800 pounds).  Engines can be from 150 HP to 180 HP, and on a 150 HP O-320, cruise speed is around 140 mph.

ZK-SEA (c/n AACA/175/2) was registered to Ces and Pam Collings, and Bruce Fraser of Christchurch on 13/3/87.  The above photo was taken by Greybeard at the 1999 SAANZ flyin at Ashburton on 6/2/99.  It was sold to ML O'Neil of Christchurch on 9/2/01.

It was noted for sale on Trade Me in 2009, with the above photo taken at Wigram.  It is currently stored in a hangar at Rangiora.  I do not think it has flown much.

Sunday, 21 July 2013

How to Get 2 Helicopters on a Triple Axle Trailer

This is how you do it!

Two Robinson helicopters, being R 44 ZK-HXA of Heliops Southland, and R 22 ZK-IAK privately owned at Hokitika share a triple axle trailer at Ardmore yesterday.  Perhaps when they get back from where they were going, they will be a R 66!

Jodel D.18 ZK-EDR

 The lovely little Jodel D.18 ZK-EDR (c/n 301-4) is now for sale.
 This Continental C75 powered amateur built microlight class 2 was first registered to Russell Woods of Christchurch on 24-08-2011.
It has a Brent Thompson propeller, basic instruments in a lined cockpit.
It has about 40 airframe hours.
If interested give Russell a ring at 03 3597703 for more details.
If you are interested - I wouldn't wait long before checking it out.
I reckon the first to try will buy !
(I will put a chocolate fish on that).

Spitfire Re-Engine at Ardmore 20/7/2013

Warbird Adventure Rides Ltd's Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX ZK-WDQ was in the Avspecs hangar yesterday in the process of having its engine changed, probably as a result of its recent propellor strike while making a precautionary landing at Drury.  Ouch!

That is some serious horsepower in 2 Merlin engines lined up in front of the nose!  The last time there were 2 Merlins at Avspecs they were attached to a Mosquito.

The engine plate of the new engine being installed shows it to be a Packard Built Rolls Royce, model V 1650-266.

ZK-SAY with pod at Nelson

"Cessna185"  has kindly sent in this photograph of the Cessna Caravan ZK-SAY2 with its black cargo pod as seen at Nelson this morning.
Cessna 208B Grand Caravan N861CM (c/n 208B0861) arrived at Kerikeri on 18-03-2007 and took up the ZK-MJL registration on March 30th for Salt Air Ltd of Paihia.
See the two links below for more details.
It was r-registered to ZK-SAY2 on 10-07-2013.

Cessnas at Ardmore

 Here we have three Cessna's as spotted by "Sir Minty" at Ardmore yesterday (20-07-2013).
ZK-ETP is a Cessna T210N Turbo Centurion II with the c/n 21064387.  This one arrived in Auckland on 29-06-1981 and is now the Eddie Cannon-James mount.

Cessna R182 Skylane RG II ZK-ETX is c/n R18201718. It came new to NZ in 1981 and has been listed to Professional Colour Laboratories Ltd since 29-11-1983.

Above we see the Cessna 182T Skylane ZK-SLL (c/n 18281084) which was containered into Ardmore for assembly by Flightline to join our register for Sky Lane Ltd of Papakura on 20-09-2007.

Saturday, 20 July 2013

Ardmore Vans Today 20/7/2013

I went to Ardmore today looking to get new RV 7A ZK-RVD, but it was still in its locked hangar having engine baffling done.

However a real surprise was RV 9A ZK-RVQ which flew in for around 20 minutes before returning to Feilding, and I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.  It was assembled in Feilding and was imported from the USA, and has flown around 30 hours in New Zealand.  It has had a new engine and cowlings installed, and it will be repainted.  It is registered to an Auckland owner.

And local RV 4 ZK-RVN was out for a local flight.  This is the first time I have seen this aircraft outside.


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Julie Logan-Rogers, 84, Syracuse, passed away Saturday, April 29, at Goshen Hospital.
She was born Dec. 6, 1932, in Goshen, to Ralph and Eva (Kessler) Logan.
On Aug. 8, 1954, she married Ernie Rogers, who survives.
Julie was a lifelong area resident. She was a 1950 Goshen High School graduate and attended Ward Belmont College in Nashville, Tennessee.
After moving from Goshen to Syracuse, she lived on Wawasee Lake and finally resided on Syracuse Lake. She worked for many years as a medical secretary. She was a member of the Calvary United Methodist Church.
Julie is survived by her husband, Ernie Rogers; her daughter, Shelly Rogers, and son-in-law, Terry Stump; and her son, Scott Rogers. Also surviving are her sister-in-law, Patsy Logan, and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her daughter and son-in-law, Stacy and Dan List.
A memorial service honoring Julie will take place Saturday, June 3, at 1:30 p.m. at the North Webster American Legion Pavilion with a celebration of life to follow from 2 to 4 p.m.
Arrangements are with Eastlund Funeral Home, Syracuse.
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Nantaba was in labour as she wrote master’s exam

Sitting for an examination is hard and stressful. But sitting for it while in labour, with serious contractions rolling through your body makes an examination almost impossible.

But AGNES NANTABA beat all odds when she turned up for her last university examination, several hours into labour. She shared her story with Prisca Baike.

Friday December 15, 8:30am found Agnes Nantaba at an examination venue in Makerere University, waiting to conclude her semester exams. One thing set her apart from her fellow graduate students: she was in advanced stages of labour.

The class president and her lecturer were aware of her condition and were both worried; possibly thinking she would yell and grunt throughout, but basing on her strength and positive attitude, they let her in.

Agnes Nantaba with her baby

Nantaba’s is a story of bravery, commitment and faith. Listening to her narrate her story last week as she soothed her sleeping newborn baby girl in Gayaza, I could not help but laud her. According to her ultrasound scan, Nantaba’s due date was December 14 this year, which was clearly examination time, but this did not deter her from her academic goals.

She enrolled for a master’s degree in Communication knowing well she was pregnant and would possibly give birth during her exams. Besides a demanding journalism job at The Independent magazine, she is a family woman and mother to an 18-month-old toddler, Malcolm.

Her family and career aside, she decided to enroll for a Communication master’s program, which required her to attend daily evening classes, do the demanding courseworks and extensive research. Hard as all these seem, her major worry was having to miss exams after all the effort.

Which is why, even when baby Melanie decided she was coming out after Nantaba had done three of her papers with one to go, mummy had the last word. And wait, little Melanie did, although she started her process a little earlier, making sure that mama paid well for the choice she made.

The first contraction came as Nantaba read for her last exam of the semester at midnight. When the contractions persisted, coming at 30-minute intervals, she knew this was an onset of labour.

“I can’t say that I read again after that. I was only thinking about how I was going to miss my exam,” Nantaba told The Observer at her home.

By 5:30am, the contractions had started coming at 20-minute intervals. She called her obstetrician, Dr John Bosco Tezita, a specialist at Mulago hospital.

“He told me it was risky,” Nantaba said. “He asked me if we could risk.”

She took the risk, placing her sister on stand-by outside the lecture room as advised by the doctor. He also advised her not to stress too much during the examination and start with the questions she knew well, so that in case of any emergency, she would get some good marks.

Nantaba had known her condition way before she applied and she had been advised by her friend, Harriet Sebaana, an undergraduate journalism lecturer at Makerere University, to start her course unit early.

Her doubts were further cleared when another lecturer, Dr Aisha Nakiwala Sembatya, shared her story during the master’s students’ orientation.

“She said she had two of her children while on the master’s program yet she graduated on time and even went ahead to do her PhD,” she said. Nantaba could do it too.

“Although the paper was for three hours, I planned to write it in two and go to hospital. I ended up using two and a half hours,” Nantaba recalled.

As fellow laboring mothers wailed and pulled at their hair in hospitals around the world, Nantaba was stoically writing an exam, weathering the contractions as they came. She submitted her script ahead of the rest and waddled out of the exam room in excruciating pain. She drove herself to Kawempe hospital’s private wing, where she was confirmed to be in advanced labour.

Five hours later, at 5pm, baby Melanie, weighing in at 3.5kg, was born.

One of her lecturers posted this on the class WhatsApp group: “Congrats to her and welcome to baby girl who survived being named one of the exam papers. May she grow to be a professor and give exams.”

“I still can’t believe I am a mother of these two lovely children,” said Nantaba, who had gone through almost two painful childless years after her traditional marriage ceremony.

Her days of crying upon the sight of her menstrual period are now a distant memory as she gets to enjoy the joy of motherhood in quite adventurous ways.

Nantaba maintains that with faith in God, hope and commitment, anything is possible.

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Behind the Image

21st October 2016
Apologies for the hand drawn red highlighted areas. Hopefully I'll get better at this over time!

For this blog post I'm just going to talk a little bit about composition and why I chose to frame the photograph like this.
I don't necessarily compose photographs with the rule of thirds in mind. Subjects aren't always placed off centre on intersecting lines.
What I do love though is balance and symmetry.
Balance and symmetry can be found everywhere in nature so they are two very easy things to incorporate in to your photographs.
Here's a little run down of the chosen composition of this photograph…

The two things that first stand out in this image are the Milky Way and the line of the wave in the foreground. This wasn't by accident. It took a few exposures before I was happy with the water line in the foreground.
Together they offer the image symmetry. They are the two brightest parts of the photograph and they oppose each other in the frame to give it balance.

I do love a good lead in line! Here the Milky Way, wave line and cliff line all lead the viewer in to the centre of the image where the subject matter is... The core of the Milky Way setting over Black Rock with the tide washing around it.

Part of this evenings plan was to light up some of the shingle on the predominantly black beach. This would highlight some of the brighter rocks, making them shine like stars and mirror the night sky. I used a low power torch to achieve this.

Here's the finished image without the funky red stuff on it!...

Stay tuned for more tips on composing images.

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Photo comment By Charlie Edwards: Awesome shot:) keep the tips coming,its brain food for us aspiring shooters

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Last year, Louie Rehm of Wayne County, Ohio might have made the best decision of his farming career. See for yourself just how much benefit Rehm’s soybeans have seen by putting flood gates in his tiling system.

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6 Well-Known Symbols Whose Meaning We Knew Nothing About.

We surround us daily with thousands of famous symbols without thinking about their origin. Some are well recognizable, others more anonymous. Commonly they have a thought, message they want to convey, perhaps a hazard. A great thing with symbols is that they are made to be as simple to understand as possible. Most often, regardless of language, culture and ethnic background.

The Bluetooth symbol is a bind-rune, which means that it is formed from two runes that are merged together. Runes are the ancient Norse letters that, according to mythology, Odin discovered and gave to gods and humans. Runes have been used for over thousand years (probably a lot longer). They were letters (used to spell things) and symbols (each symbol stood for a specific word or concept).
During the rule of King Harald Blåtand, a historical figure famous for uniting Danish tribes into a single kingdom. Harald was often called “Bluetooth“. But why? Well, Harald was known for his love of blueberries, which left one of his teeth with a permanent blue tint.

Bluetooth technology was designed to unite multiple devices to a single network. The symbol representing this technology is a combination of Scandinavian runes: ”Hagall“ (or “Hagalaz”) which is the analogue of the Latin ”H,“ and ”Bjarkan“ — a rune that equals the Latin letter “B.” These two runes form the initials of Harald Blåtand’s name.

The “power“ (or ”power on”) symbol can be found on practically any device, but few people know about its origins.
As far as the early 1940s, engineers used a binary system for representing specific switches. 1 meant on and 0 meant off. In the following decades, it transformed into a circle with a vertical line running through.

The peace symbol was invented in 1956, during the protests against nuclear weapons. The symbol was a combination of the semaphore signals for the letters “N” and “D”, meaning Nuclear Disarmament.

In the semaphore alphabet, the letter ”N“ is transmitted by holding two flags in an inverted ”V,” and the letter “D” is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down. When you superimpose these signs together, it forms the shape of the peace symbol.

We all associate the love heart with romantic love and affection, and whilst it is not confirmed, a theory suggests that its shape actually derives from silphium, a giant fennel, which was used as birth control by the ancient Greeks and Romans.

It has come to represent the atrocities of the Nazis in World War II, but its actual origins date back millennia. Deriving from the Sanskrit ‘svastika’, meaning good fortune’ or ‘well-being’, it is believed first to have been used in Neolithic Eurasia to represent the movement of the sun through the sky. Even today a similar hooked cross is a sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Odinism and is commonly found on temples or houses in India or Indonesia.

The ampersand symbol, which we use for the symbol of “and” actually has a similar meaning. It represents the Latin conjunction “et“ which equals the English word ”and.“ Such ligature was first invented in Ancient Rome by Tiro, Cicero’s personal secretary.
To speed up writing, Tiro invented (&) which became known as the “Tironian Notes.” The actual word ”ampersand“ is a contraction of the phrase ”And per se and”. I bet you didn’t know that!
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