NiftyNiall

September 2011

2011-09-09T17:31:00.000-07:00

A interesting short video titled "Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance" about KIVA

Changing faces with a smile
Two charities who work with cleft palate:

Operation Smile
Smile train

An 8 minute slideshow in HD of the Riverview Tree Festival, as seen through my eyes. Enjoy !

Silly season has started ! Municipal elections in November;

PHOTOS: Should this hospital be in Coquitlam? City wants Columbian moved

Move Royal Columbian Hospital to Riverview?

Related to health care:
Community Living B.C. cuts cause pain

Doctor Henry Marsh

2011-08-31T07:24:00.000-07:00

A must see documentary is "The English Surgeon" about Dr. Henry Thomas Marsh a neurosurgeon, who primarily works for the NHS in the UK.
See the Q&A with director Geoffrey Smith, and also a speech by Henry Marsh focusing on the problems of the medical systems in the Ukraine, but he also mentions many other countries for comparison.

To view the Full length video of The English Surgeon, click HERE.

Smack the Pony

2011-08-21T23:03:00.000-07:00

Smack the Pony - Dating Agency Videos One - Two - Three - Four - Five - Six

And more !
Sorry For Your Loss
Amor Extraño
Water bottle envy
Tutu
Call Centre
Make-Up

Argentina judiciary orders that the website leakymails be blocked.
In the process millions of Google Blogs are also blocked.
Some background about leakymails Here and Here.

August 2011

2011-08-01T20:20:00.000-07:00

Happy August the first.! A holiday here in Canada clouded in mystery; here in British Columbia; they call it BC Day, but other parts of the country add their own twists and turns to it. Officially it is a Civic Holiday, but its roots go back to Emancipation Day. I am now totally confused as much as you probably are by now, I think, I need a Shrink.

Too many talking heads, warping the meanings of holidays. And speaking of talking heads;
Over three nights at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood in December 1983, Jonathan Demme filmed Talking Heads' - Stop making sense.

PsychoKiller

Heaven

Thank You for Sending me an Angel

Found a Job (Live at Entermedia Theatre, 1978) (Not in the show, but released with the album; originally in the album; "more songs about buildings and food")

Slippery People

Cities

Burning down the house

Life During Wartime

Making Flippy Floppy (from the "Talking in tongues" album) (Not in the show, but included in the album)

Swamp

What A Day That Was

This must be the place

Once in a lifetime

Big business/ i zimba

Genius of Love

Girlfriend is Better

Take Me To The River

Crosseyed and Painless (Live in Rome 1980, version) (Not in the show, but included in the album)

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A little opera? anyone? A moving encore

A cute video about the Tooth Fairy by Izabela Melamed

Baby duck feeding the carp in a pond, cuteness !!

Removing a fishing net from a whale: Saving Valentina

One-man Bands: One - Two - Three - Four - Five

Jewelweed; Impatiens capensis; is a local introduced invasive plant.

But I found out that it is also useful as a bug repellent, and helps to greatly reduce the skin irritation from Poison Ivy; which thankfully, is extremely rare here in B.C. One - Two - Three - Four - Five - Six - Seven

May gleanings

2011-05-08T13:44:00.000-07:00

At one time there was a lead-zinc mining operation at Pine Point in the Northwest Territories which operated from 1962-1988, a one-company town was built which at its peak contained 1,200 residents. At the end of mining some homes were moved, but most of the town was totally destroyed. A former resident has a website Pine Point Revisited , which inspired some artists to create Welcome to Pine Point, an interactive and artistic documentary, produced by the National Film Board(NFB).

Politics can be ruthless, especially on the web. Jane Corwin registered her own site using the com domain; but forgot to register the org domain. So guess what?
somebody registered the org domain and created a parody website, mimicking the official website. Great fun!

Jerry Seinfeld has his own website, a strange place indeed.!

A blog from a teacher; SHIT MY STUDENTS WRITE

In the beginning the world existed in black and white. After that, it became enriched with colors. Forests, rivers, animals, flowers. YouTube video

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This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves.
Leafsnap contains beautiful high-resolution images of leaves, flowers, fruit, petiole, seeds, and bark. Leafsnap currently includes the trees of New York City and Washington, D.C., and will soon grow to include the trees of the entire continental United States. ( This could become a very useful tool ! )

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Arvind Gupta makes toys mostly from recycled materials, let your inner child come alive !
Have a peek at his website, or some of the over 1000 videos at Youtube, then you can listen to his talk at TED; Arvind Gupta: Turning trash into toys for learning

Some comedy; Bin Laden obituary
A Desperate Plea from Your Son's Teacher
I'm Sticking with Gaddafi

An interesting mapping application that maps the streets with your given name; (although it does seem to find surnames too !) Where The Streets Have Your Name (still a bit short in its database though ! )
And a similar application that maps where people in the world have your surname. Public profiler

Jonathan Winters and Robin Williams with David Letterman
Jonathan Winters "The Stick" Apr 1964 Jack Paar
Johnathan Winters- part 1 --- part 2
Dean Martin and Jonathan Winters

Tubular Bells

2011-04-16T12:20:00.000-07:00

Some nostalgia !

Mike Oldfield and friends ( Steve Hillage, Pierre Moerlen, Mick Taylor... ) play Tubular Bells live
Part one - 8:41 min.
Part two - 8:56 min.
Part three - 7:31 min.

The Orchestra Tubular Bells Part 1 The Exorcist, with conductor, Joe Hisaishi & New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra.

The original soundtrack version of Tubular Bells from the Exorcist movie was created by Robert Miles. Mike Oldfield is the original composer of the music, which has been covered by various artists through the years.

And have a look at this time-lapse photography video named "The Mountain" shot near El Teide, which is located on Tenerife, in the very beautiful Canary Islands. Also by the same photographer "The Aurora"

Web finds

2011-03-05T17:24:00.000-08:00

Buildings and Monuments; Stowe Landscape Gardens
A ballroom under a lake

Muppet theatre, a labor of love.

Tsunami before and after pictures.

online geiger counter in Tokyo,(using a USA mirror, to keep the traffic down from the main site)

Japan earthquake swarm animation map

A huge slow to download PDF, about the; The orphan Tsunami of 1700

Some information about the local threats from Tsunami's:
Animated Tsunami Model - Medium Resolution, from the DFO, of the southern portion of the Georgia Strait.
The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN)

Some stunning photographs of the Nyiragongo Crater, and by the same photographer; Kawah Ijen volcano

O Teste do Medo - Apenas uma menina num corredor de hotel, (The Test of Fear - Just a girl in a hotel corridor). A funny short video, about our frequently unfounded fears.

And a interesting Tropical Island Infinite Photo, from National Geographic.

Vancouver Archives, has an awesome collection of W.J. Moore panoramic photographs on a Flickr page, devoted to them.

Run of River and a Woodturner

2011-01-24T15:07:00.000-08:00

A cute little Vimeo video : Small Hydro Power created by the; Hydropower Reform Coalition
Maurice Franklin, 91 years young, woodturner, from Spitalfieldslife.com
Spitalfield is part of east London, in the UK.
Enjoy!

Santa's family tree

2010-12-22T05:46:00.000-08:00

click image, and watch it grow!

Let it dough, let it dough, let it dough

A Christmas comic

Threat level

2010-11-02T04:15:00.000-07:00

The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats, and have therefore raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved". Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or even "A Bit Cross". The English have not been "A Bit Cross" since the blitz in 1940, when tea supplies nearly ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from "Tiresome" to "A Bloody Nuisance". The last time the British issued a "Bloody Nuisance" warning level was in 1588, when threatened by the Spanish Armada.

The Scots have raised their threat level from "Pissed Off" to "Let's get the Bastards". They don't have any other levels. This is the reason they have been used on the front line of the British army for the last 300 years.

The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from "Run" to "Hide". The only two higher levels in France are "Collaborate" and "Surrender". The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively paralyzing the country's military capability.

Italy has increased the alert level from "Shout Loudly and Excitedly" to "Elaborate Military Posturing". Two more levels remain: "Ineffective Combat Operations" and "Change Sides".

The Germans have increased their alert state from "Disdainful Arrogance" to "Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs". They also have two higher levels: "Invade a Neighbour" and "Lose".

Belgians, on the other hand, are all on holiday as usual; the only threat they are worried about is NATO pulling out of Brussels.

The Spanish are all excited to see their new submarines ready to deploy. These beautifully designed subs have glass bottoms so the new Spanish navy can get a really good look at the old Spanish navy.

Americans meanwhile, and as usual, are carrying out pre-emptive strikes on all of their allies "just in case".

Canada doesn't have any alert levels.

New Zealand has raised its security levels - from "baaa" to "BAAAA". Due to continuing defence cutbacks, New Zealand has only one more level of escalation, which is "I hope Australia will come and rescue us".

Australia, meanwhile, has raised its security level from "No worries" to "She'll be right, mate". Three more escalation levels remain: "Crikey!", "I think we'll need to cancel the barbie this weekend" and "The barbie is cancelled". So far no situation has ever warranted use of the final escalation level.

Railway ride videos; Plaza Constitution to Glew

2010-09-03T09:02:00.000-07:00

Youtube videos, of the train ride from the Plaza Constitucion to Glew, which is part of the Roca train system in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

These videos were created by Youtube user: barilonet enjoy the ride!

Plaza Constitucion - Hipolito Yrigoyen a; primer_video

Hipolito Yrigoyen - Avellaneda

Avellaneda - Gerli

Gerli - Lanus

Lanus - Escalada

Escalada - Banfield

Banfield - Lomas

Lomas - Temperley

Temperley - Adrogue

Adrogue - Burzaco

Burzaco - Longchamps

Longchamps - Glew

Glew

Guernica

Alejandro Korn; is the end of the line.

Buenos Aires, railway system map

The magic of Music

2010-08-15T11:38:00.000-07:00

My uncle, Kevin's son; Darryn is involved in a band.
Brightkicks
Brightkicks on Myspace and Brightkicks on Facebook

My dear friend Patricia Gaspar, she also has a new website; Patricialovesart and has a son Nicolas who is also involved in a band named. Loop
Loop also have a Facebook page.
And a blog (In Rioplatense Spanish)
Let the music play on....

Riverview Hospital

2008-01-14T21:13:00.000-08:00

Coquitlam council in the coming weeks, will designate the Riverview Hospital lands as a heritage site, giving them a slight bit of leeway in the plans that the present government has to place in excess of 10,000 people on the property, by selling it off to market housing. Something that was not in the cards as far as Coquitlam council was concerned.
Download the PDF document, that outlines why it should be included HERE.
Articles in the local Wednesday, January 23, 2008 newspapers. The NOW
And the, Tri-City News
Now we go for Provincial and Federal heritage designation.

The debates continue.....

A start at a real Web log

2007-08-28T23:12:00.000-07:00

Links to many of my interests, along with many pictures will be placed here, in this digital parking lot,(read: Server) in space. I am a long time community volunteer, especially in the areas of the environment,(Fish &Tree hugger) and social change, lived in the Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam areas for most of my life,(since 1968). Just by wandering around the numerous blogs and websites that I have created you can get a sense of what I am about.
My favourite quote "Hypocrisy is the lubricant of political intercourse", which was stated in the British parliament, by a distant relative many years ago. Something that politicians continue to do to this day. The last few years I have been very active volunteering my time to save the Riverview Hospital site, for who it was intended, also volunteering with the patients themselves many of whom have fascinating stories to tell, and skills that many of us "Normal" folks do not have. They show great insights into what it is all about.......