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November 15, 2021 Author: Philip Moskovic 4 comments
Good morning! We have completed the annual Halifax Examiner November subscription activity. Of course, you can subscribe to any old time, but it will be especially useful if you subscribe in November. Why? Well, it gives the examiner a good idea of how much it can budget for the next year's report. Is there any money to launch that main survey series? Hire another reporter? Extend the coverage of a specific area? If you have been thinking about subscribing but haven't subscribed yet, now is a good time. Please subscribe.
We don't have a doctor's assistant in Nova Scotia, so we can only use stock photos. Photo: National Cancer Institute/Unsplash
In this week's column, Stephen Kimber looks at physician assistants. More specifically: why we don’t use them in Nova Scotia, and the Canadian Association of Physician Assistants (CAPA) issued a press release welcoming “the Nova Scotia government took action today to introduce legislation, which will be officially Introduce PA to Nova Scotia"—the government did not do so at the time.
The New Democratic Party MLA Susan LeBlanc proposed a private membership bill "to establish a framework for the creation of a full-time physician assistant health profession", and the province is in the second year of a three-year pilot project. But other than that? There are no plans to officially use physician assistants.
Physician assistants can take on some of the roles that doctors currently play, such as prescribing prescriptions, monitoring patients after surgery, and conducting routine evaluations. They are widely used in other jurisdictions. Kimber wrote:
Given that physician assistants have been accepted elsewhere as an indispensable participant in the healthcare system, and given that-as I wrote and can still write, maybe even more obvious today-"We have in Nova Scotia The five-alert medical emergency...a shortage of doctors and nurses...the emergency room keeps closing. It's a mess. It's a crisis..."Why should we bother with a three-year pilot project? Why not continue?
I suspect that the answer has more to do with bureaucracy and professional protectionism than with health care or the needs of Nova Scotia.
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Suzanne Rent's grandmother Elizabeth MacDonald (left) and Golden Girls star Betty White (right).
Suzanne Rent gave you a pleasant review this morning. It reflects her grandmother, the golden girl's TV show, and the joys of aging.
Rent introduced us to Elizabeth MacDonald, her 22 grandchildren referred to as "grandmothers" for short:
My grandmother didn't get married until the age of 28. I think this was a rebellious act in the 1940s.
The couple moved to Sydney River and have nine children, including my mother, Jean. My grandmother worked as a caregiver at Cape Breton Hospital for about 18 years, which was called Butterscotch Palace on the island because of its caramel-colored exterior wall paint. You can see the hospital from the window of my grandmother's living room.
I remember my grandmother liked game shows, such as affordable prices, danger, and the wheel of fortune. Of course she also watched the news and the golden girl. She always has Werther's Originals Butterscotch or Scotch Mints next to the rocking chair in front of the TV. She made the best chowders, nanaimo bars and sweet rolls with melted butter on top.
The rent reflects how her grandmother "will not accept anyone's nonsense"-it reminds her of the golden girl and herself:
Recently, when I realized that I was now the age when Rue McClanahan started shooting Golden Girls in 1984, I started to think about all of this. I have to say that when I performed mathematical calculations on this, it surprised me. where did all the time go?
I often joke that when I grow up, I will open a golden girl compound where women my age can live, hang out on the balcony or in the kitchen, eat cheesecake, and talk about our date.
But the biggest revelation is that I never want to go back to the years when I first started watching Golden Girls. This age is much better. I get paid for writing, I ride a horse every week, I have a great kid, and I don’t listen to nonsense.
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At the provincial government's pandemic press conference, I started to notice the Halifax examiner. We are all looking for information and answers, but the questions raised by most of the media present are frustratingly mild. However, whenever it is Tim's turn, he can be assured of a stronger and more investigative approach. When the Halifax examiner's name was read out for the next question, you could see that the Prime Minister and Dr. Strong were visibly stiff. News reports should look like this. There are some tough questions to ask, and there are too few reporters doing this now. When Tim called on the Prime Minister to tell his heartwarming story about a doctor climbing Mount Everest while we were all trapped at home by COVID, it was a turning point. He asked me to go directly to the Halifax Examiner website to subscribe and donate.
The Halifax Examiner has always been my source of local news on important local issues. I appreciate the quality of writing and the lack of fluff and advertising.
Lynn Jones (left) was introduced by El Jones (right) when speaking at the 2021 graduating class of Mount Saint Vincent University last week. Photo: El Jones.
Matthew Bayard reported on Lynn Jones' speech to graduating students at the Mount Saint Vincent Conference last week.
Introduced by Examiner contributor El Jones-she recently received her PhD from Queen's University-Jones talked about the complexity of institutional heritage and the responsibilities that new educators face to students and the community. Bayard wrote:
Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU) was established in 1873 and is one of the few institutions in Canada where women can participate in higher education. At that time women were still not allowed to vote. The mountain continues to develop monasteries, schools, orphanages, and health care facilities throughout Halifax and North America.
"I also know that recently, your principal, Dr. Ramona Lempkin, apologized for the role of Mount Saint Vincent University in the boarding school," Jones said. "This is a stark reminder that for some people, progress is often based on the lives of others."
Lynn Jones was awarded an honorary doctorate by MSVU last year, but of course, due to pandemic restrictions, she was unable to speak to graduates in person.
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DDI's vision for Crystal City, it stated that it will be built somewhere near Ecum Secum, which looks like a Chinese city with a population of 5 million.
Both the Globe and Mail and the New York Times noticed Nova Scotia in their special reports on the weekend, wow, good boy.
Let's start from the earth.
A close-up of the turmoil in the Chinese real estate market opens with the notorious Crystal City plan. If you need to review, Crystal City is an elaborate plan to build replicas of famous landmarks such as the film studio and the Eiffel Tower on the East Coast, so that everyone will always be rich.
Shockingly, none of this happened. The Universal Story brings us to the Crystal City website:
The road to Crystal City is a muddy all-terrain vehicle trail, far from the sea and deep into the woods. However, Neil Partington, who kept the key to unlock the chain at the entrance, did not understand why anyone would want to go there.
In his opinion, this 2,850 acres of land is not of much use. It is difficult to access, humid and remote. When Chinese developer Dongdu International (DDI) started buying this land on the east coast of Nova Scotia in 2014, it announced a grand vision for a resort called Crystal City. He and many other locals wondered why .
"This is just a large piece of useless marshland. Who would want to build a resort on it?" Mr. Partington said that his vegetable farm is backed by this land and can only be accessed through his family's land. "They don't even bother to build a road to get in there."
We were told that the failure of Crystal City "is an early warning signal of the current problems facing other large Chinese real estate companies and their holdings around the world."
Maybe it failed because the plan was completely chaotic, and maybe it was just to suck money from gullible politicians, hoping that the economic development would pay off.
If you have never seen the crazy DDI promotional video for this project, you really must. Here it is.
The voice-over of the video uses a lot of assumptions and slides over the main questions to explain the project:
The stunning natural landscape of Nova Scotia makes it an ideal place to develop film-themed tourism. The combination of these two elements may make it a leading global tourist destination in the future. The website will integrate cultures from all over the world, show civilizations of different periods, and make visitors from Nova Scotia seem to travel to different places in the world.
As Tim Bousquet wrote in 2015:
There is no explanation why people would travel from China to Nova Scotia to see the fake Leaning Tower of Pisa, and they can walk half the distance in better weather to see the real thing.
To this end, we will be committed to investing in the brand building of Nova Scotia by organizing film, TV and music festivals and events to promote Nova Scotia’s status as a film production center globally. We hope to use film as a means to increase the visibility of Nova Scotia. We can emulate this success by inviting well-known film groups to Nova Scotia for fact-finding.
DDI Group plans to purchase cruise ships that will dock at Halifax Port. These cruise ships have nearly 1,000 rooms dedicated to film crews, combining the comfort of a luxury beachfront hotel with beautiful natural scenery, friendly staff and a film production center in preparation.
Yes, this sounds like something that is certain to happen. However, the collapse of the Chinese real estate market was too bad.
We envision that all of these will be strong enough incentives to attract the interest of participants in the film industry. North America has a wealth of technical talents and has technological advantages in many key industries. DDI Group plans to establish a turnkey mechanism to build and develop office buildings, research centers and other supporting infrastructure in Nova Scotia, in exchange for shares in small and medium-sized enterprises at market prices.
Oh well. They will develop "mechanisms" to build and develop office buildings. DDI did purchase an office building in Halifax, but Global Report noted:
Tenant companies quickly complained to the local media about the neglected repairs and stated that DDI allowed the building to deteriorate. The company sold it in June 2020.
This is our 10-year vision of Crystal City: introducing cutting-edge technology, fully integrating Crystal City tourism with high-end residential areas, and creating a new coastal fisherman's wharf.
I like it. Technology "will be introduced" and a new Fisherman's Wharf. Throw the entire duffel bag on the counter, why not?
At the end of the video, we got a text summary of this vision. I added punctuation to make it more readable than the original:
Our vision is a system where factors influence each other. For example: cruise ships bring film crews, movies attract tourists, tourism promotes land development, investors promote high-tech parks, and ultimately drive employment and regional development.
When we consider all these factors as a whole, city leaders can make more reasonable planning decisions, such as creating a more comfortable living environment for residents or creating higher profits for potential investors. Only companies with the vision and appropriate resources can implement the necessary changes. We have taken your needs into consideration and are able to use our deep insight and vast resource network to implement the necessary solutions.
Cruise ship with film crew? Movies attract tourists? Is this somehow leading to a high-tech business park? A lot of assumptions are in progress.
If you believe that anything has happened, I have some marshes on the east coast to sell to you.
Now appearing in an article in The New York Times with the headline "The pandemic has weakened the attractiveness of cities, and urbanites flock to Atlantic Canada."
When you use the phrase "hospitality", you know early on that you are in trouble. This story tells a bunch of metaphors you hear over and over again: Atlantic Canada is picturesque, housing is more affordable, and new immigrants are changing the face of small communities.
I think this writing style led the late PEI poet Milton Acorn to oppose simplicity, saying that Toronto is the most quaint place he has ever been to.
This article focuses on Bonavista, Newfoundland and Labrador (although the word Labrador is not used at all):
Bonavista has a scenic harbour and a lighthouse on a black rock cliff. It’s about three and a half hours’ drive from St. John’s...
"Some people call Bonavista the real Schitt's Creek," [Mayor John] Norman mused, referring to the name of the fictional town in the popular and Emmy-winning Canadian series "Schitt's Creek." The show tells about a wealthy couple and their bisexual sons and daughters of socialites who have gone through difficult times and found an unexpected sense of community in a small town.
We met a couple, communications manager Sam Yuen and architect Derek McCallum, who recently moved to the town from Toronto.
This is what really fascinates me:
The social structure of the town is also changing. Traditional handicraft shops and restaurants serving fish and beer (a starchy local dish made from cod and bread) gradually gave way to designer Haiyan Company and suppliers of cumin kombucha and iceberg soap.
Bonavista was historically influenced by its church and now has a growing LGBTQ community that includes a bisexual mayor and a lesbian police chief, which has inspired some among the minorities Dissatisfaction with the town’s leaning towards social liberalism.
Do you feel that outsiders are bringing all these gentrification changes to the community? All these social changes! But wait, the mayor is gay, he was born in Bonavista.
We met another couple, Stefan Palios and Marty Butler, who moved from Toronto to Windsor, New South Wales:
This year, at least 20 foreigners settled and invested in Windsor. Windsor is a former shipbuilding town with about 5,000 people and is known as the birthplace of ice hockey. The transplantation in Vancouver opened a sign language translation service. A data analyst in Montreal is analyzing the performance of the sports team. Mr. Butler found a job as an organ transplant nurse in the nearby capital of Nova Scotia, Halifax.
Author Matthew Halliday has been posting misunderstandings about immigration to Nova Scotia on Twitter for years. Six years ago, he tried to refute the view that people had fled the province. This was a stubborn idea at the time.
In 2016, he looked at Statistics Canada’s data and pointed out that the number of 18-34 year-old youths obtained from other provinces in Nova Scotia exceeded the number of losses, and we were ahead of Toronto, Montreal and many others in youth retention rates. city.
Now, he is busy pointing out that yes, people are moving here from other provinces, but this trend has been going on for many years and has nothing to do with the pandemic. (In addition, if housing prices are rising from other provinces, how do you explain the soaring housing prices in the country?)
In September of this year, Halliday wrote:
NS has been high immigration for five consecutive years. The story of Ontario people overpaying makes it seem like an epidemic, but it is not.
Then two days ago, quoting the immigration data in the province:
Let me say it again: Canada’s big city migration is not a new, pandemic-driven thing, but a housing cost problem that has occurred for some time.
See also: The influx of people in Atlantic Canada has been happening for six years and is definitely not an epidemic in most cases.
Even the "New York Times" story basically says so much:
Carrie Freestone, an economist at the Royal Bank of Canada, recently wrote a report on the phenomenon of immigration. She said the phenomenon started about five years ago and was “intensified” by the pandemic.
According to Statistics Canada, about 33,000 people from other provinces moved to areas with 2.5 million people in the first half of this year alone, compared to about 18,500 in the same period in 2005.
OK. But 2005 was 16 years ago.
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Olympia Traveler luxury typewriter. Photo: Mr. and Mrs. Old Typewriter's Facebook page
In the early 1980s, after Tim Kewell graduated from high school, he decided that maybe he should learn how to type. So he went to a typing class at night school. "I think if I want to write and have some useful skills, it should be typing." He remembered that the minimum typing speed for entry-level jobs was 40 words per minute. By the end of the course, this is what he can enter. "I don't know what I want to do, but I think I'll be fine if it involves typing," said Covell, a writer, editor and romantic novelist who lives in Halifax.
Like many of us, once the computer appeared, Corvell gave up his typewriter. "When I gave up my last one and switched to a second-hand computer, I didn't have any emotions," he told me. "I'm upgrading to a computer." The typewriter is an outdated tool.
Years later, someone left an old Underwood manual typewriter in the corridor of the basement of the Kewell apartment building. "It just sits there, waiting to be claimed," he said. So he claimed.
Covell continues to write about Underwood and the other typewriters he currently owns on his blog "Tim's Museum of Obsolete Technology". He described the typewriters themselves—their strengths, weaknesses, and designs—and the sometimes complicated company history of the companies that produced them.
Like this, from Covell's post on Olympia Traveler de Luxe:
The earliest models were made in West Germany, but production soon moved to Yugoslavia at the time and was made by a company called UNIS (Udružena Metalna Industrija Sarajevo). UNIS sold these typewriters to the Eastern European market under other brands and various character sets...By the late 1980s, as the company changed, these typewriters were named AEG Oympia.
Olivetti authorized this design to manufacture similar typewriters (Tropical and Roma) in Brazil, while Olympia uses the same casing (but with a simpler and cheaper internal structure) to manufacture Olympiette models. Olympiette is manufactured by Nakajima Corporation of Japan, which manufactures typewriters for various brands. In other words, there are many typewriters outside that look like travelers, but they are not all the same.
He pointed out that Nakajima produced 100,000 typewriters per month in 1983 (some are still produced today).
Covell has no intention of using his typewriter for a lot of writing. He picked up Underwood as a prop for the photo shoot he planned to promote his service.
On his blog, he wrote:
The picture of the laptop is vague—it could mean anything—and the picture of the typewriter says “writing”.
But over the years, he also began to appreciate typewriters in other ways. They are mechanical marvels and can also be used as low-energy, interference-free tools. he told me:
They are well made. The latest typewriter I own is about 40 years old and it works very well... The Olympia Traveller has a gorgeous design and an interesting history. It is very compact and very suitable for size...
Another thing about typewriters-I'm not the rugged outdoor type, but do you know how pickup trucks are shown in commercials and do all these rough things? When you have a manual typewriter, it's kind of like. Even if you never take it out of your room, it is possible to take it out of your room and write that novel in the cabin in the woods. People like to have these possibilities.
In an article published in The New Yorker earlier this year, Ann Patchett described an 8-year-old girl named Charlotte (a friend's daughter) seeing The excitement of Pachter's typewriter:
The child walked into my office and immediately covered her masked mouth with his hand to avoid screaming. I turned on the light. She stared at my typewriter, which was the cheap electric Brother I used to make envelopes and notes.
"You have a typewriter!" Charlotte began to jump around.
"What she really wants is a manual," Megan said. "We have seen a lot, but they have never worked. Once they get old, the keys will stick."
There are two manual typewriters in the closet behind us. One is my grandmother’s little Adler, and the other is Tippa 7 typing in cursive script. She uses it for anything, so that if I were typing on it now, I would feel that I was reading her handwriting. I did not give up Adler. I also own a Hermes 3000, which my mother and stepfather bought me when I was in college. It is the most beautiful typewriter I can imagine. I wrote every college essay, every story. When I was in graduate school, I was sitting in a straight-back chair my friend Lucy bought at an auction in Iowa City on Tuesday night and typing on the kitchen table. Drafting again and again, I violently left until my back was caught, and then I would lie flat on the carpet in the living room for several days. Hermès still has a luggage tag on its handle-Piedmont Airlines. I bring my typewriter home every Christmas, even though it weighs seventeen pounds. This is my love for that machine, so much that I can't imagine being separated from it during the whole vacation.
Pachter is doing death cleanup in Sweden (although she does not use the term)-sorting out property and getting rid of unnecessary things, partly because they will not become a burden to those who remain. Should she give Charlotte a typewriter?
When my daughter Phoebe Ram was about the same age as Charlotte, she was also fascinated by typewriters. A neighbor brought us a small manual, and she kept typing. I asked her about it. She wrote back saying:
The typewriter feels like a mystery. It was left at our door by the neighbor next door, but it's easy for me to pretend that I don't know it and that it was left by someone specifically for me. In any case, I am the only one who is really interested in it. Setting it up feels like a game, and we have to figure out how to play the game without any instructions.
Compared with the thickness of the machine itself, I like the exquisiteness of the ribbon. I try my best to never type anything wrong, because I hate how the backspace key can mess up any mistakes with something that looks like white-out. The font is beautiful.
But in fact, my fascination with typewriters stems from my fascination with Bob Dylan: sitting in front of the typewriter and transcribing the lyrics into the longest ballad of "Desire" from memory, I can pretend to be Dylan, the first Knock them out again.
I still remember when you press the buttons really like their weight...I like the extra push you have to do. I like that thing too much.
Like Covell, I learned to type on the IBM Selectric. I don't want to learn how to type. For the sake of God, there is a computer lab at the bottom of the hall, full of brand new Apple computers! But my father insisted that I type, because it is a useful skill for me. Of course, he was right, although his views were partly motivated by his own life: during World War II, his typing ability meant that he was a clerk in the Royal Air Force in London. One of his jobs is to record the names of pilots who die every night.
Typewriters are used slightly in the installment plan. Advertisement from "Maritime Merchants and Business Review", 1913. Photo: Google News Archive
Covell pointed out that Selectric is not a machine with too much romantic appeal. He didn't, and didn't plan to buy it. He wrote:
I have asked myself if the IBM Selectric typewriter series is really complete if it is missing, but the proprietary ribbons and my inability to repair it with simple hand tools make it unpopular. It is essentially an electronic typewriter, which is not really outdated technology.
For pure romance-as Phoebe said, the extra push of fun, you can't beat a manual machine. In our interview, Kewell said:
The attraction of romance lies in the manual. When you use a manual typewriter, you are completely disconnected from everything there. You might argue that the manual typewriter is the ultimate interference-free writing machine-until you run out of ribbon or paper, both are easily available.
Toronto writer David Hayes is a lifelong typewriter enthusiast. He still owns his mother's Remington 2 portable typewriter in 1928—the machine he learned to type. (The picture in the upper left corner of his website is... guess what? Typewriter.) In a book review for The Globe and Mail in December 2015, Hayes wrote:
Canadian author and cultural critic Darren Wershler-Henry talked about the lingering influence of typewriters in popular culture in his 2005 book "Iron Whim: The Fragmented History of Typing" The attraction to go. "...The typewriter has become a symbol of a non-existent tan era. When people type passionately into the night under the flashing light of a naked light bulb, their sleeves are rolled up, the sling is hanging down, and each new cigarette is lit from the smoldering butt. At the end, I occasionally take out a bottle of bourbon in the drawer at the bottom of the filing cabinet."
Yes, it is true, although typewriters are closer to separating nostalgia from practicality than most long-abandoned products of the 20th century. Still have direct contact with the typewriter. On our computer, the keyboard is still using the QWERTY key arrangement about 140 years ago, and we put the text on a fax that looks like a glowing page. It is a quieter, more versatile and more efficient version of the typewriter.
Covell does not believe that the use of typewriters will recover on a large scale, but he does dream of using them as a "reaction to excessive consumption." He said:
Maybe I don’t need to use a computer every time I record my thoughts... In fact, they will make the same models for ten years or more, people will buy them and use them for decades, once they are If they are manufactured, they will not use any energy-I am not saying that we are going back to typewriters, but we might say that this really needs to be electronic? Must it be new? Maybe there is a place for these old equipment.
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If it is produced by a baby, then it will be very cute. Photo: Pereiro/Wikimedia Commons
There is a moment in "Dune"-in the book and in the new movie-when a character named Stillga comes to meet the new ruler of his planet Arakis. Arrakis, also known as sand dunes, is an arid desert world. Stilgar leads a group of Fremen (primarily inspired by Bedouins) who have lived on Arrakis for centuries and developed clever ways to adapt to the environment.
Here is how this book describes the moments after Stilgar met Duke Leto Atreides:
The Freemans stared at the Duke, then slowly lifted his veil, revealing a slender nose and lips with black beards. He deliberately bent down at the end of the table and spit on its polished surface.
Terrible insult, right? But wait. When the Duke’s men jumped up, the Duke’s swordsman Duncan Idaho shouted: "Wait a minute!"
In the sudden energetic silence, Idaho said: "We thank you, Steele, for giving you the moisture in your body. We accept it in the spirit of giving it."
Suddenly, vomiting on the table has a completely different meaning. In a world where every drop is carefully hoarded, this is a deep respect for wastewater. (By the way, Frank Herbert wrote about a million words using only a typewriter in his six Dune books.)
I thought of this scene while reading an excerpt about saliva in the book "The Magical Body," written by Frank Gonzalez-Crussi, a retired professor of pathology.
He wrote that saliva has always been regarded as a medicine for blindness, a poison that can kill toxic organisms, and according to 19th-century texts, it "can dissolve all kinds of viscous body fluids and wonderful condensate."
In the Greek culture where I partly grew up, spitting is a way of defending against the evil eye. Complimenting someone (usually a child) may attract evil eyes and may have disastrous consequences. solution? Spit immediately after the compliment, thereby distracting. I have never seen anyone really spit when doing this. This is a ritualized spitting sound and action, done three times.
The Evil Eye published in 1895 had a chapter on spitting and described the practice:
Among the ancient Greeks and Romans, "the most common treatment for unpleasant eyesight is spitting... Old women are used to spit on the child's chest to avoid evil eyes: this is done three times— -Three times is a sacred number.
Today, most of us think that saliva is disgusting or dirty. The carrier of disease. Nova Scotia Baseball's 2020 summer rematch plan includes a ban on spitting. During the first wave of the epidemic, I seem to remember that Tim Bousquet asked Dr. Robert Strang, Chief Health Officer of Nova Scotia, whether spitting was related to the spread of COVID-19 (Strang said it was not).
In stark contrast to the miracles imagined by the ancients in their saliva and the current high respect for it by medical science, the recent attitude of the Western public is a kind of neglect, if not complete contempt. Saliva is combined with offensive, vulgar or rude thoughts. Spit on someone's face is generally considered a serious insult, an expression of hatred and disdain. It is generally considered impolite to spit in public, although this is not always the case. The fact that saliva is constantly produced must have made some people feel that they need to get rid of some saliva through a strong jet, no matter where they are...
In the West, health and biomedical considerations are the main factors to stop the spitting habit. Tuberculosis is a scourge that destroyed European populations throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. A large number of scientific studies and international expert meetings have concluded that by reducing the risk of airborne bacteria transmission, the elimination of floor spitting and general spitting in public places will delay the development of tuberculosis. In the United States, the American Lung Association has carried out a veritable "crisis" against spitting. The children in the school were given a list of 19 rules to follow, all of which sounded the ban on avoiding spitting in a different tone: "1.-Don't spit. 2.-Don't let others spit. .... 19.-Finally, and the first point, don't spit." The Boy Scout Brigade distributed notices and fixed posters with anti-spitting slogans. The sport was still active in the 1940s.
I don't have any deep conclusions from which to draw. When people like Gonzalez-Crussi look at secular phenomena like spitting and dig deeper into their history and cultural assumptions surrounding them, I'm just grateful.
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Take a selfie at the Peggy Bay Observation Deck. Photo: Philip Moskovic
Most of the time, my "Peggy's Cove" Google Newsletter will send me American horse racing results. (There is a horse called Page Bay.) But occasionally it will show up some interesting and related things, such as this article on the New Page Bay Observation Deck by the "Architecture Daily".
It is essentially an introduction to the project by architect Omar Gandhi, explaining its scope and materials, as well as some thinking behind the design. It addresses some of the concerns raised by the platform (yes, the plan does consider rising sea levels and strong waves).
Building any type of structure in these environments has its challenges. In order to minimize the risk of the new infrastructure, we performed extensive wave modeling to ensure that we placed the main components at a high level to prevent strong waves from hitting the coastline. The location also takes into account the future impact of sea level rise on Peggy Bay.
One thing I didn't notice when I was there:
The guardrail is a mixture of open nets that allow wind to pass through and uninterrupted views, while solid parts provide wind protection at specific parts along the way.
One criticism I've read (I don't remember where-it may appear in the reviewer's comments) is that although the deck is accessible, it does not provide any place to sit. This will affect its accessibility. But it seems that the seat is on the way:
The observation deck provides an opportunity for everyone to experience the lighthouse and unique terrain from the elevated and protected areas, thereby opening up the use of the site to a wider audience. Seats will be provided to support people who may move at different speeds or who wish to enjoy the view for a long time.
The other night I had an interesting conversation with someone who grew up in Peggy Bay and still lives there. He said he realized that most of his neighbors who didn't like the deck actually had no problem with the platform itself-it was an interruption in construction and changes. Now that the construction is over, it won't be long before this platform no longer represents change, so he thinks that people who don't like it now may come back.
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Commission of Police Commissioners (Monday, 12:30 noon, City Hall)-live broadcast is not possible
Halifax and Western Community Council (Tuesday, 6pm, City Hall)-also broadcast live
Department of Veterans Affairs (Tuesday, 2pm, Government Building One)—
A picture is worth a thousand words (Monday, 12:30 pm)-Pantelis Andreou will give a speech through Teams
In health science, statistical methods are used extensively to interpret health-related data. Usually, the results are presented in the form of a table with p-values attached.
In contrast, data illustrations in k-dimensional space are often used to develop and best understand statistical methods. For example, a simple least squares linear regression is a straight line through a scatter plot of the result and the explanatory variable, which minimizes the sum of squared residuals. Looking at the scatter plot that overlaps the regression line can tell us other information that was not captured in the regression's ANOVA summary statistics.
Statistical software packages have made progress in helping to interpret data, interpret results, assess goodness of fit, choose "better" models, and help knowledge translation of results.
In this seminar, clinical trials using epidural pump settings and programmed intermittent epidural injections to improve labor analgesia were introduced. The visualization of the analysis results helps to make complex response surface method statistical procedures easy to understand. Explore the application of similar technologies in investigations.
Monomial ideal with simple free resolution (Monday, 3:30 pm, Chase Building Room 319)-Suresh Eswarathasan will explain
For more than one hundred years, the minimum free resolution of hierarchical modules has been an attractive object in commutative algebra. The idea of associating free resolution with a finite generation module was proposed by David Hilbert (1890), with the purpose of studying the characteristics of the module through the free resolution structure of the module. However, in most cases, determining the minimum free resolution is complicated, even if it is practically impossible to use algebraic computer programs. Therefore, the general shape of the prediction resolution plays an important role because it reveals some good information about the module itself.
In this lecture, we focus on the analysis of quadratic monomial ideals and use some combination tools. We use the following properties to characterize these ideals, that is, most of the steps of analysis are in the simplest form.
Waves of Change Training: Basic Bystander Intervention (Tuesday, 3pm, Workshop 7, Arts and Administration Building)-hosted by King's Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Officer Jordan Roberts, this training module introduces participants to school sexual violence issues. Participants will learn about the laws and sexual violence in Nova Scotia. Participants will also understand the concept of bystander intervention and teach various intervention techniques. This training is free and open to all members of the King's community, and snacks will be provided!
Positive changes in public welfare: Live broadcast of Michener Prize winners (Tuesday, 6:30 pm, Alumni Hall, New Academic Building)-also broadcast live on YouTube.
The Michener Prize is the highest award for public service journalism in Canada, and King’s College Halifax is pleased to host an intimate dialogue with the recent Michener Prize winner to understand the real and immediate changes their stories have brought about . In a world full of false accusations, systemic racism, cyber predators, and unfair treatment of our most vulnerable groups, these journalists have captured the core of the story and made positive changes for the public good. Join the ranks of Canada’s top journalists and learn behind-the-scenes on how they did this. feature:
Kenneth Jackson and Karen Crozier – APTN
Casey Tomlinson-Globe and Mail
Gabrielle Ducharme and Caroline Touzin – La Presse
A mask and vaccination certificate are required.
Halifax 06:00: Tropic Hope, container ship, arriving at Pier 41 from St. Croix, Virgin Islands 06:00: MOL Emissary, container ship, arriving at Fairview Cove from Antwerp, Belgium 12:30: East Coast, tanker 13:00: Contship Leo container ship, arrives at Pier 41 from New York. 15:00: MOL Maestro, container ship, arrives at Fairview Cove from Colombo, Sri Lanka. 16:00: MOL Emissary sets sail for the port of Florida State University. Everglades 16:30: Tropic Hope sails to Palm Beach, Florida 20:00: Bulk cargo ship Thunder Bay arrives from PEI Charlottetown to Gold Bond 22:30: Contship Leo sails to Kingston, Jamaica
Cape Breton 07:00: Bulk cargo ship Thunder Bay from Charlottetown from north to south across the causeway to Halifax 13:00: Paul A. Desgagnes, tanker, sailing from Government Wharf (Sydney) 19:00 at sea: Bay Bulk Carrier Saint Paul sails from south to north on its way from Halifax to Montreal
Reading the "New York Times" story reminded me of the classic Codco "Outport Lesbian". The first time I saw it was a movie shown in a small bar.
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I want to know how Frank Herbert would say that we choose the way we respond to Covid-19.
Great question Phil-Milton Acorn, Chinese nonsense, Bonavista, I still look for inspiration from my old Underwood because it is so beautiful.
Many years ago, I gave my old brother a manual typewriter to a medical mission in South America-because I never typed badly and it was easier to correct mistakes on the computer keyboard. Regarding spitting: 1. In the early 1960s, the local health department (we used to go there for jabs) had super polished floors and no spitting signs. My thoughts at the time-who would want it? 2. Thirty years later, my essay on spitting won the runner-up in the writing competition. These signs left a deep impression!
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Halifax indie rock quartet No, It's Fine released its second popular project in the form of a full-length album I Promise-the first was a cover collection that dropped in March. Mastermind Cailen Alcorn Pygott visits The Golden Palm, talks with Cancon, words and melody (he uses a lot of words), and the influence of the Philadelphia scene on his band. In addition, we heard two new tracks, hey—have you heard that Sarah Hammer has finally returned to town? !
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In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally killed behind an apartment building in Dartmouth. In 1999, Glen Assoun was convicted of murder. He served 17 years in prison, but firmly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was completely acquitted.
Halifax Examiner founder and investigative reporter Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for more than five years. Now Bousquet is telling this story as the host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series "Uncovered: The Big Wrong".
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