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My apologies for the slow posting.
We’re spending the weekend on an out of town family visit, and between activities and locking myself out of the blog (password wasn’t saved on this new laptop) I’ve been unable to post until now, (finally got in on Lance’s account) I may get things rectified later today, may not. So, if things remain quiet here — that’s why! Enjoy your weekend!
Kate

21 Replies to “Blog Notes”

  2. No problem. Enjoy your time but hope you are not in Alberta where it is snowing quite hard! Bedding plants all over the house!

  3. Don’t sweat it Kate. There’s a part of me that’s glad I didn’t have to read about some perv on a bus this weekend.

  4. Just use Joe Biden’s password for everything, Kate:
    password
    Or is it “1234”?

  5. Merchant seaman Simon Lamont-Brown, 50, was bedridden in a hospice and near death from lung cancer before he was given the breakthrough treatment.
    He said it was like a Lazarus effect “because I just rose from the dead”.
    The drug has few side effects because it harnesses the body’s own immune system to fight tumours.
    http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/672595/Miracle-cancer-drug-saves-man-given-two-weeks-to-live
    However it will not be provided on the NHS because it costs too much.

  6. “However it will not be provided on the NHS because it costs too much.”
    Of course not! You die, you’re of the rolls and count as a budget cut. More money for the system:read the bonus for the worker and raises for management. Ya just gotta start thinking(?) like a thiefen,lying,unscrupulous,amoral bureaucrat.

  8. No worries on the posting frequency Kate, God bless you and yours, and have a good Victoria Day. You’ve certainly earned some time off, considering the hours involved and the (lack of) pay you get for them.
    I hope you’re not getting snowed on like we are in parts of Alberta. Just God, or mother nature, proving to us once again that it’s foolishness to do gardening before the snows of the Victoria Day long weekend.

  9. The problem with socialized medicine is that all treatments become political decisions. with private medicine, they remain medical and economic ones.
    In Ontario, recently the Ontario government cut off some monies for autistic kids over 5, but not for under 5. Whether the parents get funding depends upon how yell they shout and effective their PR is. I personally am skeptical of this particular case because the mother in this case says that her elder child received the same support now denied to her younger one.
    However, the rights and wrongs of this particular case are not important here, it is the political nature of the provision of medical treatment is in a state monopoly.

  11. While you’ve got snow, it’s been raining here in Edmonton. It started Thursday night, but it’s been almost continuous since Friday evening. The moisture is most welcome as it was quite dry–the grass was half brown before the rain started but it’s nearly completely green now.

  12. Kate and Lance, have a great rest of the long weekend.
    Typing here on a lap top in a motel room in Dryden, On.
    B, hopefully that rain ,moves into all parts of Saskabush.

  13. Just thank God you’re not in India, where it’s 50°C !! That’s 122° F., or as my late Dad always said, ”On the old thermometer.” Can you imagine??
    Speaking of the old thermometer. A bit of trivia on the Fahrenheit thermometer that was named after Gabriel Fahrenheit (24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736) a Dutch-Polish physicist. His parents were German.
    1: Fahrenheit allegedly set the 0 (zero) mark as the coldest temperature he recorded during the winter of 1708-09 in his hometown of Danzig, (now Gdańsk, Poland) ) (There is a lot of speculation on that topic, some say that he used a brine solution of ice, water and ammonium chloride to determine zero. However later experiments would reveal that NH4Cl could only yield -3°C. with the equipment that was available at that time the thermometer was proposed, in 1724.) I’ll go with shivering in Danzig.
    2: The Fahrenheit thermometer is still used (officially) in the United States, the Bahamas, Belize, the Cayman Islands, and Palau.
    3: On a Fahrenheit thermometer, the freezing point (32°) and the boiling point (212°) are exactly 180°apart.
    4: Gabriel Fahrenheit set the temperature of the human body at 96° on his original scale, however that number was later elevated to 98° on his revised scale.
    5: Absolute zero Fahrenheit (total absence of heat) is described at −459.67 °F or 0° Rankine.
    6: Fahrenheit was a glassblower by trade, he manufactured mercury thermometers, altimeters and barometers.

  17. Exactly!! It was what Trudeau intended to do that mattered. This wasn’t a leader asserting his authority – this was a little emperor stamping his foot because things weren’t going his way fast enough.
    JT believes he’s The Dauphin of New France, Canada’s Sun King with a vision to remake Canada as his father intended.

  21. Has math become this difficult? “Cyclonic storm Roanu ravages, inundates Bangladesh coastal districts, dozens killed.”
    The storm, styled Roanu, made landfall with a wind speed of 62km per hour around 1:30pm on Saturday, having already killed at least six in the morning. It weakened to a land depression and crossed the coast around 5pm, causing heavy rain and flooding a large area. It also destroyed a huge number of houses and uprooted trees. Severe power cuts were also reported.”
    62km per hour winds? Windy, yes but hardly deadly. Nobody caught this obvious error?
    http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2016/05/22/cyclonic-storm-roanu-ravages-inundates-bangladesh-coastal-districts-dozens-killed

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