THE LIFE OF IVA MAE PORTER BROWNING
Chapter 1 – EARLY CHILDHOOD
I was born on December 28, 1940 in the Dee Memorial Hospital in Ogden, Utah to wonderful parents, Glendon C and Mildred Hope Bushnell Porter. My parents, older brother, Hal, and I lived in Ogden until I was about a year and a half, then we moved to Sunset, Utah where my folks bought some property by the highway, and south of the Sunset church.
They first built a basement home, and later built on the upstairs. The basement home had a door which came in from the west. You came into the living room and then a large, narrow kitchen which had the small bathroom right in the same area as the kitchen. There was a small window above the sink which looked out at the highway. There were two bedrooms, one off the living room and one off the front of the kitchen. Then there was the furnace room and off from it was a long, very narrow fruit/vegetable area. It just had a cubby hole to get into it and there were spiders and cobwebs and I didn’t like to go there, but Mom asked me to go get a bottle of fruit, etc., at times and so I had to. We lived in that basement home from the time I was 1 ˝ years old until I was about six. Dad had a contractor build our nice brick home on top of the basement home, and we thought it was so beautiful. Bryce was just a little guy, about two years old, when we moved upstairs. He was excited that he could stand by the windows in the front room and be able to look out and see the cars, trucks and buses go by as we were living by a main highway.
My brother, Hal is 18 months older than I, born on the 2nd of June 1939. Bryce is about 4 years younger; he was born April 23, 1944. Mom was worried, after I was born, that Dad might have to fight in the 2nd World War so she put off having more children until this time. Dad was able to stay at the Arsenal and work on defense equipment there - much to their relief. On the 23rd of February 1948, Terry Glen was born. Georgia was born 2 ˝ years later on the 8th of September so she is almost 11years younger than I, but boy was I ever excited when she was born as I had wanted a sister for many years. Georgia was named after Grandpa Bushnell as his name was George. They just took out the “e” and put “ia”, making it Georgia. Georgia and I shared the bedroom upstairs. At first Hal and I had bunkbeds, Hal slept on the top and I slept on the bottom on. We also had Bryce in a crib in that room. As Hal got older, he got a room downstairs and I shared the upstairs bedroom with Bryce and Terry. Bryce & I were on the bunkbeds and Terry in the crib. Later, the boys had bedrooms downstairs and Georgia & I shared the upstairs bedroom, we had a double bed at that time. While she was young, when I would go to school, she would get into my jewelry and other stuff and I didn’t like that. When we were older, and I was dating or babysitting, and I would come home and go to get in bed, Georgia would be on my side. I would roll her over and during the night, she would roll back and forth and swing her arms and legs over me, so she wasn’t a very good bed partner at that time. When I got married, Georgia was my pretty little flower girl. It was fun inviting my siblings to our home to stay for a night, weekend or longer after we were married. Kim Byron is the youngest, and is sixteen years younger, born on the 7th of September 1957. He was just a little guy when Ken and I got married.
I am very blessed to have been born to two such wonderful parents, who loved me and all their children and taught us the gospel both by word and by example. They were faithful, good honorable people. Mom was usually a very happy person and people loved to be around her. She had many friends and she was on the phone a lot because friends and family would call her as they loved to talk to her. She would cheer them up if they were discouraged or sad and if they had good news, they wanted to tell her. Mom didn’t gossip, but just loved to visit with people, they made her happy and she made them happy.
Dad was a hard-working, loving and kind father. He loved our mother, which was a great blessing. He loved the Lord and served Him the best of his ability and was very generous in his tithing, fast offerings and other church donations. Dad had a sense of humor, which I loved also. I loved to see and hear him laugh. He would call us kids silly names instead of our given names at times, and when we would say “DAD!”, he would laugh and laugh.  He could look us each in the eye and say something like “Do you have Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain?” The way dad would look at you and the way he would say it, made you give yourself away and then we would have to give the card to him and he would laugh. In my mind, I can still see him doing that. He also played Panjandrum with us and after us kids were all married and moved out, he and mom would play it before going to bed many nights. I will tell more about Mom & Dad later.
I was named after my two grandmothers, Iva for my Grandmother Bushnell. and Mae for my Grandmother Porter. Her real name was Mary Elizabeth, but she went by "May", since she was named after her mother, Mary Elizabeth Clark Robinson. I feel very grateful to be named after these two special grandmothers who were loving, righteous women and who endured to the end despite many trials and challenges in their lives.
I have just a few experiences I would like to insert here of my years as a young child. These were impressed on my mind so much that I remember them after all these years
“Lost in Salt Lake City” When I was only two or three years old, I was Christmas shopping with my parents and older brother, Hal in Salt Lake City. It was snowing and I had on my new little red coat and bonnet. I became so involved in looking in the windows at all the neat toys, that the next thing I knew I couldn't find my family. I started crying and a nice lady took my hand and led me into the nearest store and explained to the manager that I was lost. The manager told her they would keep me there until my parents came after me. He then sat me up on the counter and gave me a lollipop and also a windmill to play with. I was enjoying myself when my father came in looking very worried and asked if they had seen a little girl in a red coat and bonnet. The clerk pointed over at me, and my daddy got a big smile on his face, came and grabbed me up and hugged me tight. I remember this experience, plus I heard the story when I was older, and they also told me of how worried they were. They had looked up and down the streets calling my name and asking people if they had seen me. Finally, Mom & Dad split up each looking in a different direction and agreed to meet in front of the information building on temple square. Dad said they had looked and looked and finally he went there to see if Mom had found me. He said as he approached her, and they both saw that neither of them had me, Mom began to cry and said her and Hal had been praying that Dad would have found me. Dad said he would go back and ask in the stores. They all prayed. We all thanked Heavenly Father afterwards, that I was found and that I was safe. My dad wrote me a letter while we were living in Arizona, one of the few letters I received from him, but it meant a lot to me. He told of this experience and I will quote from his letter...(I can’t find it)......................but I do remember what he told me. He said he went into the store named Kreses and asked one of the clerks if they had seen a little girl in a red coat and bonnet. The man smiled and said “yes, she is right over here.” Dad said he was so relieved, he picked me up and kept hugging me while he was crying. When mom & Hal saw dad coming down the sidewalk carrying me, they were so happy and relieved.
I had terrible ear aches from the time I was tiny until I had my tonsils out when I was about 4 or 5 years old. I remember waking up many times at night and my sweet Mom warming some ear drops or oil in a teaspoon on the stove, dropping it in my ear then putting cotton in and cuddling me up on her lap in the rocking chair. She would rock me while singing many songs until I fell back to sleep. The ones I remember most were "This Little Piggy Went To Market" and "Rock-a-bye and don't you cry and we will go to Grannies". I sang these to my little ones and now I do so to my grandchildren.
I remember when I got my tonsils out; it was done on our kitchen table while we were living in our basement home. Doctor Tanner used to make “home calls” back then. I think I was about 4 or 5 years old. Just before the doctor was to give me the ether, I remember Hal coming in and saying "Ha, Ha, we're going to have cake and ice cream and you can't have any". He was always a tease while we were growing up. He remarked after we were both married that he didn't know how I had survived our childhood as he was so mean to me. He said he was bored and didn't have anything better to do than tease and torment me, and he did plenty of that. Thank goodness we grew up and became good friends, when we reached our later teens and started dating.
Mom sang many songs as she worked around the house, cleaning, fixing meals, etc. Some were funny - "When I was born my Ma and Pa", "Two Little Girlies", "Slide down My Rain barrel" and "Has Anybody Seen My Kitty". (I will add the words of these songs separately.) Mom sang and whistled a lot which made for a happy home.
Mom & Dad both loved to sing and we children felt they had beautiful voices (at least I did) Many times as we'd go for a ride or come home from Morgan, when we would go visit Grandpa & Grandma Porter or go on vacations, they'd sing "Be Sure It's True When You Say I Love You", "I Love You Truly", "Cruising Down the River On A Sunday Afternoon", "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp", Someone's in the Kitchen With Dina", "Sweet Ivory Soap", "Let Me Call You Lizzy", You Are My Sunshine" and many more. As I think about it now (Nov. 1993 with my wonderful Dad gone) I can picture and almost hear him and Mom singing these songs and dad laughing as they would sing "Sweet Ivory Soap" or "Let Me Call You Lizzy".
One thing I did which I'm certainly not proud of involved our neighbors on the south of us. It was while we were living in the basement house (before the top floor was added) so I would have had to be only 4 or 5 years of age. I played with one of the girls. I remember going to her home and she would ask her mother if we could have cookies, candy, etc. I remember wishing we had lots of goodies like they did. One day I was especially hungry for some sweets or snacks - so I went over to her house hoping her Mom would give us some. No one was home. I tried the door and it was unlocked. I knew better than to go in someone else's home when they were not there, but I wanted something good to eat, so (like Goldilocks - my experience reminds me of Goldilocks & the Three Bears) I went in. I knew where they kept the cookies, crackers, etc., so I got a chair and climbed up on the counter and got into the top cupboard. I had just filled my pockets when I heard their car drive in. I knew they would see me whether I went out the front door or the side door as you could see either door from their driveway. I knew I couldn't hide in their house or I would be found - so I just bolted out the back door leaving the chair up to the counter and the cupboard doors open. I ran over home and into my bedroom and was really scared as I knew they had seen me. I didn't have to wait very long until a knock came to the door and Mom answered it. She soon came and found me and asked me what I had been doing at the neighbors while they were gone. I confessed and really got a strong talking to about honesty, etc. I was grounded for a long time. I was really ashamed of myself and learned a valuable lesson. I never did anything like that again, but I still wasn't as honest as I should have been as I remember going through my Mom's purse and my dad's coat pockets once in a while seeing if they had any change so I could go to the corner gas station and get some treats. I guess that’s why I always wanted to give our children an allowance, when they were young, because I knew how I felt and I didn't want our children to be tempted to be dishonest. When they had ways to earn money, they didn't always receive an allowance, but in the meantime, we tried to give them one.
Back in those days we didn’t have the many convenience appliances like we do today. They hadn’t invented the automatic washer & dryer, so mom had a Dexter washer with twin tubs and a wringer which had a handle and you would put an article of clothes on the one side and start turning the handle and the clothes would go through between two round wooden cylinders (looked like big rolling pins) and fall into the next tub. Mom would put Tide & bleach in the washer which had an agitator that went back and forth when you pushed the lever. This did work with an electric motor. Mom would put bluing in the last tub. We had a “wash house” in back of our house, which was a shed. It had one little electric bulb in the middle, but it seemed really dark and creepy out there. It seems like it had a dirt floor and I remember lots of spiders, etc., so I didn’t like being there, but I was the oldest daughter and I was expected to help with everything a woman does. I felt picked on, as my brothers did practically nothing, but I learned a lot which made me a better mother and homemaker. After the clothes had been in the washer for a length of time, Mom or I would stop the agitator, take out the clothes one by one and take them through the wringer into the first rinse tub. We would swish them around in that tub and take them through the wringer into the second tub with the bluing. The bluing was to make the white clothes whiter. We would them take them through the wringer and they would drop into a basket. Mom made starch to starch Dad’s collars on his white shirts, etc. Then Mom & I would take the clothes outside to the clothes lines and hang them on the lines with clothes pins. In the winter, this was difficult as our fingers would get so cold hanging these wet clothes on the lines. They wouldn’t get completely dry, in the winter, unless there was a good breeze and so we would gather them up in the late afternoon, take them into the house and drape them over the chairs, or on anything we could find, for them to dry. We didn’t have permanent press clothes, they were all cotton and we used to iron practically everything. So, Mondays were wash days and Tuesdays were ironing days. On Monday afternoons, we would sprinkle the clothing that was to be ironed. Sometimes you had a bottle with a top which had holes in it, otherwise you just used a pan of water and used your hand to sprinkle water on the clothes. You would them roll them up and put them into the basket, and put a folded bath towel over the basket. If it was winter and the clothes did not get dry, you didn’t have to sprinkle them very much. We didn’t have steam irons, so that’s why we needed to sprinkle and roll them up to iron the next day, as they needed to be damp. I didn’t enjoy ironing. We didn’t iron sheets, towels, underwear or socks, but practically everything else. It took most of the day. I was surely glad when permanent press clothes came out. I don't mind pressing clothes sometimes, but I dislike ironing like we used to have to do then. Later on, Mom got a "Mangle Ironer". It was a machine with a roller. You could easily iron pillow cases, handkerchiefs, table cloths, etc., but it was a little tricky to do shirts, blouses and dresses, but we did what we could of them and then used the other iron to do the rest. We thought that was great when we got it. After I was married and living in Mesa, Arizona, we bought a "Mangle Ironer" also - until the permanent-press clothes came out. Of course, when I was old enough to go to school, then mom would do most of these jobs, except for the summers. However, it was usually my job to fold the clothes when I got home from school on Mondays. We didn’t have paper diapers in those days and since I was the 2nd of 6 children, there were lots of cloth diapers to wash and fold. I also remember washing the dirty diapers out in the toilet a lot and then putting them into a bucket with a lid to wait until Monday to wash. On Mondays, Mom usually cooked beans for supper as it was easy and could cook for several hours while we were doing the laundry.
When I was a young girl, probably six or seven, an older man, a grandpa - Mr. William Boren, moved into our ward. He lived alone. I later found out he was divorced. He was active in the church and worked at Hill Air Force Base.   He'd take us to the circus, Lagoon and other fun places. He'd buy us candy and other treats.  I seemed to be his favorite as he would always buy me the nicest and most expensive items. For example, one year for Christmas he gave me and my friends a bike. Theirs were smaller, cheaper bikes, but mine was a Swinn. It had lights, a horn and was a larger, nicer one. Another year he gave us watches. He gave them Cinderella watches, but he gave me a beautiful woman’s watch. He told me the reason he did this was because he knew I appreciated it more and that I would take better care of the things he gave me than the other girls would. When I was sick, he'd bring me comic books, pop and ice cream, (usually a quart) and sometimes cookies. I was always really excited, but this caused Hal to be jealous. I don't blame him. It would have been hard for him when I was always getting nice presents or treats or being taken to special places where children love to go and he wasn't invited or given gifts. Bryce was a lot younger so he didn't understand too much about it so I don't believe it affected him too much. I didn't always get to go because dad sometimes didn't approve and didn't know whether to trust him that much. Some people in the ward gossiped about him and said he was probably a "dirty old man". This hurt and upset him as he wasn't that way at all. He was a gentle, kind, good man. He just preferred little girls and enjoyed doing things for them and making them happy since his own family was a source of unhappiness. He was like a grandpa to us and we, at least I, grew to love him like one. I never remember him ever doing or saying anything out of line. Later, his health began to fail and he was retired and went to live with one of his daughters. He came to visit me after I was married, and I was thrilled to see him. Mom always felt he was a kind elderly man and appreciated the kindness he showed me. Mr. Boren gave me a beautiful green parakeet. We kept the cage door open and it would fly around the house & land on your shoulder or head. One day my friend, Patsy Morris, was at my house and we were making cookies. All of a sudden, Patsy started screaming and jumping up and down and waving her hands frantically. I looked over at her and my Parakeet had landed on Patsy’s head and scared her to pieces. I started laughing, but she didn’t think it was funny. When she started screaming and jumping up and down, it scared the bird and he flew back in his cage. Patsy hadn’t known that the parakeet could get out of its cage. He would fly around sometimes and land on the wall can opener and you could lean over and he would give you a kiss on the cheek - cute bird.
I had a friend, Anna Mae Bodily, who lived in Clinton. Her Mom had died and she had two older brothers and the father never remarried. Sometimes Mom would let me go to her house after Elementary School and play for an hour or so and then walk home. One day after I got there, she wanted to show me her puppies.  They were weaned. I made such a fuss over them that she asked if I would like one. I certainly did so I called Mom and she said I could have one. I brought it home with me that day in my coat pocket. It was that little. I named her “Skippy”. I took good care of her and I loved her so much. All the family loved her. When she came I heat we tried to keep her inside as there were large dogs roaming around outside all the time. Well, one time she got out and a big dog mated her. She had a hard time delivering her puppy as it was large. It was a brown and one mutt, but we loved it too. We named it “Brownie”. We had Skippy spaded after that. . We had about three years, I think, when she was out one morning and up by the highway and we heard a noise and ran outside and a car hurried off.  Mom & Dad were so upset that someone would do that, and I was heartbroken as I loved my little dog. I don’t remember how long we had Brownie when we found out that he had been picked up and was in the pound. We called the pound and they said we could come get him, but when we got there, he wasn’t there. They said that he had escaped over the chain fence, but we think they had already put him to sleep, so just told us that. We were sad about that too. The reason why he was in the pound was because of some bad neighbors, who lived in Lyman’s back apartments (close to the park). The man taught his kids to steal people’s fruit off their trees and other things. They stole fruit from Grandpa, and he caught them and took them to their parent’s home and the dad got mad at them and said “I taught you not to get caught.” The man would walk past our house to get to the corner store and buy his beer and cigarettes, and if Brownie was outside, he would run towards him barking and growling as he didn’t like him. I think animals have an instinct when people are bad, because Brownie didn’t bark at other people passing by. Anyway, we’re sure that this man turned Brownie in.
Grandma Bushnell had a beautiful yellow canary. I loved listening to her canary sing. Sometimes it sang so loud that if she had other people there, they couldn’t hear each other talk, so she would put a cover over the cage and it would quiet down. Since I loved that canary, she gave it to me after Ken and I were married and living in our home in Ogden. Grandma had a feather mattress and sometimes, when Grandpa was away for the night, like when he took one of my brothers with him to Meadow when he was asked to sing, Grandma had me sleep with her. She was always nervous about being alone in her home, and I loved spending the night with her and sleeping in that soft feather mattress. One day I asked her if when she died, if she would will her mattress to me. She did, but Ken didn’t want it, so I didn’t get it. I wasn’t too happy with him.
I started babysitting from the time I was 10 years old, and made $.25 an hour, and then I did have money to be able to spend on myself and I liked that. I babysat some for people in Lyman’s back apartments. They were down at the end of their property, close by where the park is now. They were cheap apartments so all kinds of people lived there. I remember babysitting one time and after I got the children to sleep, I saw a hugh spider and it ran so fast across the floor. I was very afraid of it so I sat the rest of the night on the couch, with my feet up on the couch, watching for it to reappear, but hoping it wouldn’t, until the couple got home. Another time after the children were in bed, I saw a man outside, staring at me through the window. They didn’t have blinds on that front window. Thank goodness I had the door locked, but it still made me very nervous. I ran into the other room and was relieved when the people got home. I remember other times I would hear all kinds of strange noises and I could imagine someone walking around in the house and I knew the children were asleep. I was very nervous. I think it was just the sounds of the furnace.
I babysat until I was 15 when I got a job as a carhop at an A & W Drive-in in Clearfield. I didn't like carhopping so the next summer I applied at the Arctic Circle in Roy and got the job. Delgarn Smith was the owner. He was really strict. He only had old fashioned cash registers at the two counters. We were to help all the customers as they walked up to the counter. We were to keep the orders in our heads, figure them up in our heads and get the orders out in the order they came in. It was hard, especially at first, but I liked the job. I liked the girls & guys I worked with. They were from Weber High so it was easy for me to get them to trade with me so I could go to the activities, games and dances at Davis, because Weber activities were usually on different nights. I could even get them to trade with me when I had dates as there were so many of them who wanted me to trade with them. It was also fun flirting with the cute guys who came there. I worked there until I was married.
Selling tomatoes & cucumbers in front of our home. Dad had leased some land from his brother, Uncle Verle, one summer and grew tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables and he had us kids put our card table out in front, under the shade of our tree, by the highway with a sign, scales, muffin tins with change, etc. It was kind of fun and we made pretty good money.
For my schooling, I went to Clinton Elementary, North Davis Jr. High, and graduated from Davis High in Kaysville, Utah in 1959. I also graduated from Seminary.
We rode a school bus to Clinton Elementary, but it was only a mile from my house to the school so sometimes when I had to come home for dentist appointments or other reasons, Mom would call to excuse me and I would walk home. I enjoyed walking home as there was a ditch by the side of the road and in the middle of it was a cement division about six inches wide - so I liked to walk it and pretend I was a tightrope walker. There was one place about halfway home that made me nervous. It was an old deserted house with trees around it. It looked really scary and I had heard tales that a witch lives in it - so I would walk on the other side of the road just before I got to that place and I walked or ran really fast past it and was greatly relieved when I came to other houses and knew I could go to them for help if the witch started chasing me. (Oh boy, children's fantasies)
I liked Clinton Elementary and had many friends who I grew up with, and boyfriends too, which made it fun. I can remember (I think it was in the 5th grade) that I had two boyfriends who would write and pass notes to me saying "Do you like me more than Dan?" and Dan would say "Do you like me better than John?" I would write back saying I liked them both the same. We played softball, especially during my 6th grade and I usually played 2nd base. I also played "Jacks" a lot and got pretty good at it. Pat & I played it a lot at our homes and we played with a group of girls during recess in elementary school. I still like playing "Jacks and am still pretty good at it. I have taught it to my children. We also played "hop scotch" & "jump rope".
We had ward shows on Monday nights. They were paid for out of the monthly "budget" check every active family paid. We had a budget card which we showed to get into the movies which were held in the cultural hall. They had Walt Disney and other good family shows. Of course, in those days, most of the movies were good. The mutual youth (now called Young Men and Young Women) would bake goodies and make popcorn and have drinks to sell to earn money for their organizations. Usually, just the kids went to the shows and not the adults as it was too noisy and the adults didn't enjoy them. I remember Jimmy Petersen wanting to "take me" to the ward shows and asking me on the school bus if I would go with him and sit with him. Usually, I would sit with my girlfriends and sometimes my brothers & sister. Those movies were something we looked forward to each week.
Since I lived up by the highway and my other friends lived in subdivisions further west, I didn't get to play with them as much as I would have liked, and as much as they played with each other. Another reason was Mom had me helping with the housework, meals, laundry, tending children, etc., so I didn't have as much extra time to play. Saturdays were really busy cleaning the house and going grocery shopping - so when I was younger I didn't get to play much on Saturdays either. On Sundays, after the dinner dishes were over, Mom would let me go play with my friends. We were not allowed to play softball or go to the park, however, as it was Sunday. Many times, she asked me to take Bryce along (when I was about 8 - 12 years old) and Georgia from the time I was about 12 - 15) My friend, Patsy, just had one brother and he was older than her, so she didn’t always like me bringing Bryce with me. I remember one incident when I was riding Georgia behind me on my bike to go down to Patsy Morris's house. Georgia was about 2 or 3 years old. I put her on behind and took off. As I rounded a corner in the housing project where Patsy lived, Georgia's foot got caught in the spokes, she screamed and I quickly stopped the bike, but her poor little foot and leg were caught and were bleeding. A neighbor saw what had happened so he ran over to help me. Finally, we got her leg out and he took us home in his car where Georgia could be bandaged up.
One day I was down to my friend, Margie Martin's house. We were twirling around on a homemade merry-go-round. All of a sudden, a board, that was propped up to hold up her mother's clothes lines, fell and hit me on the head. It didn't seem to hurt too bad so I didn't think too much about it until Margie noticed my head was bleeding. The board had a nail in it and it went into the top of my head. It began to bleed quite a bit and I got scared and started running for home.  She told me I shouldn't run when I was bleeding or it could make it worse. Mom put antiseptic on it and bandaged it, but felt it would be alright and not need stitches or tetanus shot as I had recently had one. It healed, but for several years whenever I parted my hair differently it would hurt.
This picture shows my friends. (From left to right) Joann Hill, Bonnie Draper, Marian Nishamoto, Patsy Morris and Margie Martin. Grandma Bushnell was our teacher. That was special. I wasn’t in this picture because I was home sick.
Mom didn’t learn to drive until I was a teenager so dad either drove us places or we rode the bus. The bus stop was across the street. I can remember standing at the bus stop with Mom and riding the bus to Ogden to go shopping. I remember, when I was a little girl, walking with Mom as we shopped and I had a hard time keeping up with her as she walked so fast. Now I have to slow down, when I walk with her, as she can’t walk very fast now that she is older. But, I still enjoy walking with her and being with her. Mom would spoil me sometimes, especially when I was a teenager and we went to Samuel’s sale. She would be excited when I would try on clothes that looked cute on me, and say “let’s get it for you”. I knew that was a sacrifice as my parents didn’t have much money. Throughout my life, she has always liked to give me clothes and other things as well. In fact, I rarely left Mom’s house without something in my arms that she had given me. Sometimes it was clothes, sometimes bread or cookies, fruit or vegetables or maybe some stew she had made. Many times it was something for Ken or the children too. Sometimes it was a “treasure” she got at a garage sale or a box of cereal she got at the “Canned Foods” store. Now that she is gone (today’s date 4/28/2000) I don’t want to go to the “Canned Foods” store because I took her to that store often, and it brings back all those memories, and makes me sad as I miss her.
This is a picture of me and my friends as we graduated from Primary. Pat Kleitches, my best friend, is the tall girl on the left, Patsy Morris is the short girl next to Pat, Joann Hill is on back row, then Margie Martin, then our teacher, Phyllis Martin. I am on the front next to Patsy Morris. I don’t remember the girl next to me as she didn’t live in Sunset very long. Bonnie Draper is next to her.
In the summer before the third grade a new friend, Patricia Kleitches (Pat) moved in three houses away from me. Actually, they moved into a duplex apartment that one of our neighbors owned behind her home. Pat was an only child and we became fast friends. She was tall and I was a lot shorter than her, but we really enjoyed each other. She wasn't a member of the church, but her parents let her attend church with me. They were not very good parents. Her mother had Pat do most of the housework, and always the dishes. If Pat left any water spots on a glass or any food on a dish, etc., her mother would make her wash and dry all the dishes over again. Her mother would run her fingers over the top of the stove and if there was any grease on it, she would make her scrub it all over again. Many times, we had something planned so Pat would hurry to get them done, and her mother would make her do them again, thus making us late or canceling our plans. I was nervous when I went to her house because her mother was so nervous that I might break something or bring dirt into the house, etc. Her dad didn't like our church and was always confronting me with things like: "How come your church tells your people you can't smoke or drink? When I would explain, he'd say "well I work with some of your people and they sure smoke and drink, step out on their wives, swear, take the Lord's name in vain, etc., etc., etc. He was a character. I wondered, over the years, if maybe Pat's parents had had to get married and so they blamed Pat, as they sure were not very good to her. For Christmas they would buy each other lots of nice clothes, shoes, appliances for Hazel, (her Mom) guns, etc., for Robert/Bob (her dad), but they would hardly buy Pat anything at all, and what they did buy her was usually from the Deseret Industries or other thrift stores. They wouldn't give her the money to join sports or clubs at school or do extracurricular things. One thing they did do for her though was to let her take accordion lessons with me and they bought her a nice accordion. Two of our other friends, Margie & Joanne took these lessons with us too. Pat became the most proficient on it.
Pat's parents did invite me to go fishing a couple of times with them, and Pat and I had fun. Her parents weren't all bad, but I sure appreciated my parents when I would be around hers. Her mother yelled at her a lot. Her Mom was quite sickly (probably why she was so temperamental) so was in the hospital quite a bit. One day when we were teenagers, Pat said "I hate my dad".  She said "Mae, if your dad did to you what my dad does to me, you would hate your dad too."  Boy that blew me away. I had never heard much of sexual abuse at that time - so I was shocked.
When I was growing up, Mom needed my help with cleaning house, laundry, meals, tending the younger children, etc. I didn't think it was fair that my brothers didn't have to help. Dad had grown up on a farm and thought boys should do outside work and girls should help their mothers and do the inside work. The problem with that was - I only had one sister and she was almost 11 years younger than I and I had four brothers. They only had the lawns to mow in the summer and the chickens to feed. Sometimes they had to help weed the garden, but I did too.  He would say "work harder slave". He'd laugh and say, "I can go play with friends, or do anything I want, but you have to stay here and work, work, work - work harder slave." Sometimes I'd get so upset and tell him to get the heck out of here - to go to his friends then. One time I got so angry that I threw a glass at him. (Sure glad he ducked) I got in trouble for that. I am thankful that even though I complained and thought it was unfair then, I am thankful I was taught the value of work. My mom & dad used a “switch” which they kept on the top of the top cupboard by the door. Whenever they asked us to do something and we didn’t do it or complained or were fighting with each other, they would get the “switch” (small, long tree branch) down and threaten to use it on us. I don’t remember them using it on me, but I think they did on Hal a time or two. I remember Mom counting to five as a means of getting us to do things also.
Our family went on a vacation a few times while I was growing up. We usually went to Southern Utah - Bryce's Canyon, Zion’s, or to visit relatives who lived in southern Utah. It was great. I enjoyed these trips very much and loved doing things and going places with the family. I had 2 cousins who were close to my age – Joyce was 6 months younger and lived in Fillmore and Koye was 6 months older and lived in Henryville. Koye would get to come up sometimes in the summer and stay with Grandpa and Grandma and we had lots of fun together and became good friends. I was also able to stay at Joyce’s home for a week some summers and we had lots of fun together and became good friends. Whenever we had a family reunion, us three cousins loved it so we could be together again.
I remember stopping at Brown's Ice Cream Store in Ogden where Dad would buy us an ice cream cone for a treat when we were coming back from visiting our grandparents in Richville, Morgan County, or when we were in Ogden for other reasons. I usually choose Green Pineapple. That was my favorite. After the soft ice cream came in and we had drive-ins, we sometimes stopped at the Arctic Circle in Roy for an ice cream cone.
We went on picnics up Weber canyon sometimes. Those were always great times. Sometimes, in the summer, Mom would have us kids set up a card table out on the front lawn and we would have a picnic supper out there. When I was younger I liked it, but when I was a teenager, I was embarrassed that cars passing by would see us and think that was strange, and maybe some of my friends would be in those cars. We didn’t have lawn in back of the house, just buildings, a garden, fruit trees and before Sunset City bought some of dad’s property to make the Sunset Park, we had chickens and a cow back there.
Sunday church was different back then. First, the men and Aaronic Priesthood young men would go to Priesthood Meeting at 8:00 am. Sunday School started at 10 a.m. and was for everyone. We had opening exercises first which consisted of opening song, prayer, 2 two and a half minute talks by the youth, and music time when the chorister would teach us a new hymn or go over some of the other hymns with us. We would then separate for class. Sacrament Meeting was at 5 or 7 PM. In those days the parents sat with their young children, but the older children and teenagers sat with their friends. They changed this a few years later and asked parents to have all their children sit with them. I’m sure this is because they could see the older children and teenagers were not paying attention to the speakers, they were whispering to each other and goofing off. Many times, when my brothers and sister were young, Mom would have either Hal or I or both of us stay home and tend the younger children. Later on, parents were asked not to do this either as they told the parents that even if you think you’re not getting much out of the meetings because your babies & younger children are acting up, they need to be there with you to learn how to be reverent. Mom didn’t usually go to Sunday School, instead she would stay home and cook our wonderful Sunday dinner for us, so it would be ready shortly after we got home from Sunday School. Mom would make roast beef, potatoes, brown gravy, vegetable (peas, beans or corn), Jell-O salad with fruit in, and a delicious cake. Sometimes it had 7-minute frosting on, other times Carmel, chocolate or white.


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The eight signs of a heart attack you get just a month before having one
These are the tell-tale sign you need to be aware of - and they could save a life
by Katie Timms, Sophie BarleyA heart attack is both frightening and devastating - whether you've suffered one yourself or you've experienced the shock of a loved one having one.
A heart attack is a serious medical emergency that needs immediate medical attention - but there are symptoms and warning signs you can look out for to help prevent one.
If you suffer a heart attack, medically known as a myocardial infarction, it can be fatal.
It's when the supply of blood to the heart is suddenly blocked, usually by a blood clot, and the lack of blood to the heart may seriously damage the heart muscle, which is life-threatening.
Below are eight warning signs to look out for that may appear a month before a heart attack from Brightside.
If you are worried about having any of the following symptoms, speak to your GP or phone the NHS on 111 to speak to healthcare professionals about an urgent medical concern.
If you are suffering a medical emergency, dial 999 immediately.
These are the warning signs.
Fatigue
Fatigue affects 70 per cent of women, and if it is not something you normally suffer with, it can be one of the main symptoms that indicates an impending heart attack.
Whilst men have reported this symptom, it is most likely to affect women, according to Brightside .
Fatigue can be described as extreme tiredness, lack of energy and motivation, both physically and mentally, and it increases by the end of the day.
It can make simple tasks such as making a bed or showering exhausting.
Abdominal pain
Abdominal pain is diagnosed in 50 per cent of cases of a heart attack.
Empty or full stomach nausea, feeling bloated or having an upset stomach are the most common symptoms, and are likely to occur in both men and women.
Abdominal pains before a heart attack have an episodic nature, easing and then returning for short periods of time. Physical tension might worsen upset stomach pains.
Insomnia
Insomnia affects 50 per cent of women and can also include a high level of anxiety or absentmindedness.
Symptoms include difficulty initiating sleep, difficulty maintaining sleep, and early-morning awakening.
Shortness of breath
This symptom is diagnosed in 40 per cent of cases and is a strong feeling of being unable to draw a deep breath.
It often occurs among both men and women for up to 6 months prior to having a heart attack. It’s usually a warning sign of a medical condition.
Hair loss
Hair loss as a symptom of a heart problem affects men over 50.
It can be considered a visible indicator of heart disease, and baldness can also be associated with an increased level of the hormone cortisol.
Irregular heartbeat
This symptom occurs with no influence of external factors.
Skipped beats or arrhythmias are often accompanied by a panic attack and anxiety, especially among women.
It appears unexpectedly and reveals itself differently: arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat) or tachycardia (increased heart rate).
Physical exercises might give an extra stimulus to the increase of heart rate, especially in cases with atherosclerosis disease.
Some people report that the irregular heartbeat lasts for 1-2 minutes. If it doesn't fade you may feel dizziness or extreme fatigue.
If you are suffering this symptom speak to a GP immediately or call 111.
Excessive sweating
Unusual or excessive sweating is an early warning sign of a heart attack.
It might occur at any time of the day or night. This symptom affects women more often and is usually confused with the hot flashes or night sweats typical of menopause.
It is described as flu-like symptoms, clammy skin, or sweatiness occurring regardless of air temperature or physical exertion. Sweating seems to be more excessive at night; the bedsheets might be damp by morning.
Chest pain
Men and women experience chest pains in different intensities and forms.
In men, this symptom refers to the most important early signs of an impending heart attack that should not be ignored. On the other hand, it affects only 30 per cent of women.
Chest pain can expand to uncomfortable sensations in one or both arms (more often the left one), the lower jaw, neck, shoulders, or stomach.
It may have a permanent or temporary character.
If you are suffering this symptom, speak to your GP immediately or call 111 for advice.
For more information, visit Brightside, here.
What the NHS advise
If you think you, or someone you are with, is suffering from a heart attack, after dialling 999 it may help to chew and then swallow a tablet of aspirin - as long as the person having the suspected heart attack is not allergic to the tablet.
The aspirin helps to thin the blood and reduce the risk of a heart attack.
Read about treating heart attacks here.
Symptoms of a heart attack can include:
- chest pain – the chest can feel like it's being pressed or squeezed by a heavy object, and pain can radiate from the chest to the jaw, neck, arms and back
- shortness of breath
- feeling weak and/or lightheaded
- overwhelming feeling of anxiety
It's important to stress that not everyone experiences severe chest pain; the pain can often be mild and mistaken for indigestion .
It's the combination of symptoms that's important in determining whether a person is having a heart attack, and not the severity of chest pain.
Preventing a heart attack
There are five main steps you can take to reduce your risk of having a heart attack (or having another heart attack):
- Smokers should quit smoking
- Lose weight if you're overweight or obese
- Take regular exercise – adults should do at least 150 minutes (2 hours and 30 minutes) of moderate-intensity aerobic activity each week, unless advised otherwise by the doctor in charge of your care
- Eat a low-fat, high-fibre diet , including whole grains and plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables (at least five portions a day)
- Moderate your alcohol consumption
Read about how to prevent a heart attack.


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SERIAL MOM A film review by Frank Maloney Copyright 1994 Frank Maloney
SERIAL MOM is a film directed and written by John Waters. The cast includes Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake, Traci Lords, Suzanne Somers, Patricia Hearst, and Mink Stole. Rated R for violence. (Also rough language.)
SERIAL MOM is both a return and a departure for John Waters, the insightful auteur of bad taste, whose string of midnight classics began with MULTIPLE MANIACS, reached a climax of a sort in PINK FLAMINGOES, and continued with FEMALE TROUBLES and DESPERATE LIVING. Starting with the 1981 film POLYESTER, famous for its scratch 'n' sniff Odorama cards if nothing else, Waters moved out of the midnight ghetto; he has since followed with the musicals HAIRSPRAY and CRY-BABY. These latter-day Waters films have their charms, but they lack the over-the-top grossness and vision of the midnight days. So to that extent SERIAL MOM represents something of a return to offensiveness and truth-telling. On the other hand, Waters has never had the services of such a well-known actress as he had in the person of Kathleen Turner.
Turner has found her metier in SERIAL MOM. I have the feeling that lately she has been struggling to find a niche for herself as a middle-aged woman in an industry that often thinks women are over the hill and unemployable after 30. Turner tried the hard-boiled detective in V. I. WARSHAWSKY and the spy with a child care problem in UNDERCOVER BLUES, but basically she hasn't had a hit since 1989's WAR OF THE ROSES. Of course, we always knew she was a talented comedienne; ROMANCING THE STONE established that. And as the title character in SERIAL MOM she is perfect, unfailingly funny, and as deadly a wielder of black comedy as she is of pokers and legs of lamb. She is the last word in the out of control, self-controlled control freak who insists that everyone play by her rules. She never loses her cool or her confidence. She knows with an unshakeable surety that one does not wear white shoes after Labor Day and that the seat belt law must be obeyed. She lives in the perfect world of the upper middle class suburb; she oversees the perfect family. Nothing must be tolerated to threaten that perfection. She makes no effort to cover her crimes and she gets away with them. After all, she is right. Anyone who refuses to rewind her rental tapes deserves to die; anyone ought to be able to see that. Turner never breaks character, never once retreats from the smug savagery and the complacent campiness of her role. In the hands of a lesser actor, the part could have been career suicide. For Kathleen Turner, it is likely to be a career revivifier.
As for Waters, nobody does it better, and it is a genuine pleasure to have him back behind the camera producing a mainstream version of his 70s masterpieces. Waters is a film maker of extraordinary vision and clarity. He *sees* America in a way very few do; he makes us laugh at its viciousness, it violence, its hypocrisy; what else can we do? And he translates his black vision into films no one else could make, despite his many imitators who content to go for the gag but not the content.
And he continues to give us the pleasure of his company of unique actors. We cannot have Divine any longer, but there are still Ricki Lake, Traci Lords, Mink Stole, and a further collection of wonderful faces and bodies that have nothing to do with Hollywood. In this regard (and others), Waters is America's equivalent of that other great, gay film maker and visionary Pedro Almodovar, and for me that is high praise indeed.
I recommend SERIAL MOM most highly. Pay what you must; it will be worth it.
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Report on the DB2 course
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Like the previous post, this one also aims at showing the matter we saw during the three-week intensive course of database 1.
That way, the next teacher coming from Madrid or whatsoever may know from where will he have to start.
I had to teach this course to the third year students. But they almost didn't have any practise so far!
So, I've oriented to course to a more practical one.
Eventually, the name of the course doesn't really reflect its content very well.
As a matter of fact a DB2 course should talk about triggers, concurrent queries, rollback strategies, stocked procedures, ...).
First I was not really confident with my knowledge in these matters (and moreover I didn't have books on those topics with me).
And second, as I already said, they had a lack of practise. Therefore, it would be more correct to call that course "Database applications", or even better "Web-oriented database applications".
Indeed, the first week we saw the general architecture of a web application using a database.
Then how to convert a Entity-Relation diagram to a relational diagram (in order to deploy the database).
Then, an introduction to the HTML language in order to let them develop their own formulaires from scratch to interact with the database.
I've intentionally limited the introduction to the simplest balises: italic, bold, underlined, font, hr lines, ordered and unordered lists, links, and last but not least forms.
After that, we saw the PHP script language. It was quite difficult to teach them that since they almost don't have any programming experience.
So, I had to explain them what's a variable, what's an array, and so on!
But at the end of the course, they saw not only variables and arrays, but also if-conditions, for and while loops, how to use data provided by the user through an HML form and how PHP can interact with a MySQL Server (!!!). I think it's quite impressive in that period of time (especially since they had to learn everything from the very beginning!!!).
For the exam, they had to write a HTML form to add a new journalist (given the same E-R diagram than the one for the DB1 exam) and a PHP script to handle the answer differently according to the sex of the journalist specified in the formulaire.
It also had to show as many candles as the age of the journalist. Thus, using a for-loop. Here is the correction:
The expected result, the HTML form and the PHP script.
They also had to prepare their own project by group of three. Each week had its own mini-report;
- Week 1: The entity-relation diagram of their database
- Week 2: The relational diagram of their database plus examples of interesting queries and a HTML formulaire regarding their application.
- Week 3: Setting the database in a MySQL server using PHPMyAdmin, and the PHP script to handle the formulaire and interact with their datatase
Only two groups had a working web application. But the others were really near.
We didn't have time to let them present their work though.
We can say they now have a good overview of all the components of such an application.
But we saw each of these in a really short fashion.
It may be interesting to go deeper in the subjects such as HTML and PHP.


Federal Government Reels Out Benefits Of Border Closure
by Emmanuel EgobiambuThe Federal Government has noted that the closure of the country’s land borders has helped in improving security among other things.
Concise News reports that the Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed said this on Monday at Seme, a border town between Nigeria and the Benin Republic.
He was among the Federal Government delegation on inspection and assessment of the effect of the border closure.
Speaking during the inspection, the Minister noted that over 296 illegal immigrants had been arrested due to the border closure.
“In the area of security, the ongoing exercise has recorded a number of seizures and arrests that would have had grave security consequences,” he said.
“Some items seized include; 38,743-50kg bags of parboiled foreign rice, 514 vehicles, 1,012 drums filled with PMS, 5,400 Jerri cans of vegetable oil, 346 motorcycles, 10, 553 Jerri cans of PMS and 136 bags of NPK fertilizer used for making explosives.
“The estimated values of the apprehended items is about ₦3,5 billion.”
This is as he added: “Our series of interactions and engagements with Rice Miller Association of Nigeria since the commencement of this exercise, has shown that the border closure has enhanced more production and milling of Nigerian rice.
“Patronage of Nigerian rice has increased and farmers are expanding their farms as well as engaging more hands.
“The border exercise has also curbed the diversion of petroleum products from Nigeria to neighbouring countries.
“Furthermore, the border closure has impacted positively on revenue generation of the Federal Government which in turn will be used to build more infrastructure and develop critical sectors of the nation’s economy.”
According to him, “the arms and ammunition these terrorists and criminal elements were using no longer gain access into the country.
“In addition, the drugs which affect the health and the wellbeing of Nigerians have equally been reduced.”


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lexico is one of the first projects I made when learning about web development. It was a great way to practice my HTML, CSS, Javascript, and design skills as a beginner.
I got the idea after listening to a bunch of songs with repetitive lyrics and getting curious about the word choice used.
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Large RNN model is common but it is infeasible to
Consider the ClueWeb dataset [1], the vocabulary contains over 10M words. Then, the size of the input embedding matrix will be ~40GB. And consider the output embedding matrix and those weights between hidden layers, the RNN model will be >80GB, which is much exceeding the capacity of current GPU (8GB).
Consider the Figure 1., the left table is the traditional representation of each vocabulary. The middle table is the proposed two-component representation [2] for each vocabulary. The right one shows how each vocabulary shares two components: a row vector and a column vector.
Using two-component representation to a vocabulary of unique words, only vectors are needed. Therefore, the proposed method only requires vectors to represent a vocabulary is far less than required by existing approaches.
The architecture of the proposed RNN model is shown in Figure 2 Left. The RNN model now needs to model two components for a single hidden layer: row and column , leading to a more complex model.


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Sven Mislintat's comments on Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang offer Arsenal hope amid Barcelona links
Barcelona are reportedly eyeing a move for the Arsenal striker
by Andy HaBarcelona are eyeing a January move for Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang according to reports.
With Arsenal struggling to keep pace in the race for a Champions League spot and Aubameyang yet to commit his future to the club, the La Liga have been linked with a bid for the forward.
Aubameyang, who was appointed as the new Arsenal captain to replace Granit Xhaka, has been linked with a move to Spain as both Real Madrid and Barcelona look to bolster their attacking options.
And according to outlet El Chiringuito , the Gabon forward is on Barcelona's radar as a potential replacement for Luis Suarez as the Uruguayan approaches the latter stages of his career.
Barca's summer signing Antoine Griezmann is also struggling for form, which could push head coach Ernesto Valverde to contemplate a January move for Aubameyang.
But former Arsenal transfer chief Sven Mislintat previously suggested his selfless attitude might not be a good fit at Real Madrid or Barcelona.
Speaking to The Athletic, he said: "He is one, possibly the only one, of these extraordinary top, top, top strikers who is an absolute team player.
"A striker like Neymar or (Sergio) Aguero, for example, would never give a penalty to Pepe to score his first goal. It’s vice versa — ‘Come on, I will take this penalty kick, nobody else!’ Auba gave the chance to Pepe.
"His instinct was, ‘Let’s score and let’s go forward together.’ He takes care about his team-mates.
“Since he joined Arsenal, he played where he was asked and needed, and so he helped especially Lacazette to adapt to the Premier League.
"Maybe this attitude costs him to play for clubs like Real Madrid or Barcelona but maybe they made a mistake not to go for him. I like his mindset. It is good for a team’s atmosphere."


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Driving Retail Innovation With Digital Technology, DTC Models
by PYMNTSWrench is serving as a mobile source of mechanics – and saving consumers a trip to the auto repair shop. In retail, the Flat Tummy Instagram brand was able to make an effective algorithm that could accurately predict the effect an influencer would have on pushing its line of teas. And Nike recently announced it will no longer sell its wares on Amazon, following an increasing eCommerce trend where firms sell directly to consumers instead. All this, Today in Data.
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500,000: Number of Instagram followers Flat Tummy had on its own in 2015.
2017: The year Nike launched a limited program to sell with Amazon.
30 percent: Approximate share of yearly sales that Nike’s DTC business pulls in.
$20M: Approximate amount of new funding that Wrench recently raised.
1.7M: Number of followers Flat Tummy has on Instagram today.


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The process under consideration is an evaporation plant for a student lab at the Process Control Laboratory (AST) of the University of Dortmund that evaporates a water sodium chloride mixture so that a higher concentrated solution is produced. The task of the students is to learn how to program the process control system. A picture of the batch plant is shown in the figure below.
The flow sheet diagram is shown in the next figure.
Pure water from tank B1 and concentrated sodium chloride solution from tank B2 are mixed in a mixing tank B3. After buffering in tank B4 the mixture flows to the evaporator B5. Here the water sodium chloride mixture is evaporated until the desired concentration is reached. The steam is condensed in the condenser K1 and cooled afterwards in the cooling tank B6. The concentrated solution is also led to a cooling tank B7. The cooled fluids are pumped back to the charging vessels by the pumps P1 and P2. Be-tween the tanks several valves are present that are regulated by a central control system.
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Throughout my life I have been always held much interest in Mind expanding substances. I have tried LSD and shrooms before and had wonderful experiences. Due to lack of these 'treats' in the local market I began exploring different substances that might be more accessible. After researching and finding surprisingly many options I decided that I would give Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seeds. I read as much as possible and finally me and a few friends ordered a pack of seeds.
After anxiously awaiting our package it finally arrived on a Friday (couldnt have been more perfect). We all gathered up at our usually hang out place and I told everyone what they might expect form these seeds and told them as much as I knew. After giving them a stern warning about possible side effects we began to scrape the brown husks off of the seeds. This took quite awhile for some of us. I was the first to finish. I looked at the small pile of seeds in my hand and after a final thought of reassurance I threw them into my mouth. I began to chew. My first thought was 'Oh my god these things are rock hard!'. After awhile I was able to grind them up in my mouth. I kept the not too-bad tasting stuff in my mouth for a good ten minutes. I finally swallowed the stuff and slammed it down with some sprite. I looked at all my friends who were watching me to see how I was reacting. I kept a cool face through out the process and I think they all got some confidence after watching me do it.
After my friends consumed there amount of seeds we sat around playing video games and listened to some Ben Harper and Pink Floyd. After fifteen minutes of consuming the seeds one of my friends proceeded to puke quite violently. Then one after another every one started to puke. I did not.  I have a tough stomache I guess. After this great 'purge' from everyone we resumed playing video games. After an Hour and a half or so I began to notice a slight Buzz similar to a light marijuana buzz. I asked my company if they too were experiencing this and they all said they were feeling something. Then we all decided to run to the store and get some supplies.  I felt drunk! Not so much physically but I was so giddy. I was having a good time. Everyone else appeared to be having just as much fun as I was. I also noted that all were grinning ear to ear. We went to the store and came back with out incident.
When we came back it was about three hours since we ingested the seeds. I was sure we should be feeling more than what we were by this time. After we all sat down and began to mellow out I knew I was definitely feeling something. I have never been so happy in my life! Whimsical thoughts danced in and out of my brain. Then without warning everyone almost simultaniously burst into a fit of laughter. I looked at my friend sitting next to me and his eyes were pure black. I couldnt even tell the color of his eyes. A good sign. Then we all mellowed out again and Soon we were all in the grips of quite a pleasant trip. Not so much visualy was going on but It was a trip. The only way I can describe it is that it was a body trip. It was merely an experience beyond words. In dark places I kept seeing patterning on multiple planes just waving around. We all just kept in our own little world, interaction wasnt really going on.
As the night went on we all tried to sleep once it was getting pretty late. No one could sleep. It was as if I had totally forgotten how. My mind was racing out of control. So much information was flowing into my head. I just couldnt keep up or stop it. After tossing and turning I closed my eyes and then once I opened them it was One o'clock in the afternoon the next day. I was amazed. I ccouldnt remember any dreams. It simply felt like I had closed my eyes for a mere second. I looked up and all of my friends were sleeping. After everyone woke up we all tried to interpret our trips. No one could explain theres. It was so much of an experience that it just couldnt be explained with words. The only thing I have heard from my friends is that it was life changing. I feel the same way. I walked away from that evening with a new respect for life, family and friends. I also felt closer to my group of friends then i ever had before; a feeling that is absolutly incredible.
Just do your homework and prepare yourself for anything. I dont think any of my friends had anywhere near the same experience. Set and setting are very important factor to this substance. I have used these seeds many times after this experience. I find them to be most therapeutic. In the end. I think I have found what I was looking for and I still dont even know what it is but I know i found it. See you on the Darkside of the Moon. Peace.
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Bulkley River and Morice River Watershed Groups Fish Passage Restoration Planning
Version 0.1.2
2021-04-21
Acknowledgement
The Bulkley River and Morice River watersheds are within Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan territory.
Modern civilization has a long journey ahead to acknowledge and address the historic and ongoing impacts of colonialism that have resulted in harm to the ecosystems in Northern British Columbia. That harm naturally extends to the cultures and livelihoods of those that have lived in harmony with the Yintahk/Laxyip (land) for many thousands of years.
The Skeena Fisheries Commission honoured us when they put us in touch with their members in the fall of 2019 and hosted a forum for us to give a presentation about our project in the spring of 2020. Thank you for having the patience to listen to our story which is a story you told us. Thank you Stu Barnes, Ryneld Starr, Allison Oliver, and the rest of the teams.
Mike Risdale, David de Wit, Walter Joseph and Dallas Nikal from the Office of Wet’suwet’en (and the Witset First Nation) were incredibly generous with our team, provided a letter of support for the project, allowed us into their territory and shared some of their timeless knowledge of the Yintahk. This continues to open our eyes to incredibly wise perspectives. Misiyh.
The Gitskan Watershed Authority had the grace to share their past fish passage work with us and provide valuable input into our study plan. Ham i yaa Alecia Fernando and the rest of the teams.
Thank you to Kenny Rabnett for all the great work over the years that fed much of the background information for this report as well as for taking the time to answer questions and provide encouragement in 2017.
The contribution of all the Bulkley River watershed fish passage working group members has been wonderful. Thank you Maureen Luggi, Jesse Stoeppler, Bill Blackwater, Brian Williams, Gordon Sebastian, Sean Staplin, Elaine Sampson and the rest of the current as well as future members.
We are very grateful for the financial support of the the Habitat Conservation Trust Fund, the Provincial Fish Passage Remediation Program and the Canadian Wildlife Federation. Thank you.
Our fish passage connection to the watersheds began with the trust of Craig Mount, Richard Thompson, Dave Maloney and the rest of the British Columbia Fish Passage Technical Working group through a 2017 project commissioned by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy (MoE). Thank you.
Much gratitude to Simon Norris from Hillcrest Geographics and Craig Mount from MoE for leveraging decades of hard work and ongoing investments towards the database management, GIS, modeling and mapping that has been absolutely essential to this work since the beginning.
We feel privileged to benefit from a great amount of hard work and meaningful investments of the Canadian Wildlife Federation towards the open source tools we use and develop for the analysis of study area streams/watersheds/landscapes/climates. We also recognize that CWF’s work to coordinate the Bulkley River Fish Passage Working Group is one more massive step towards actionable plans. Thank you Nick LaPointe, David Browne, Betty Rebellato, Nick Mazany-Wright, Sarah Sra, Olivia Baudet, Alex Laudadio, Sami Kurani, Nick O’Hanley and Dave Hillary.
Thank you to David Wilford, Glen Buhr, Greg Tamblyn, Robyn Vaniderstine, Jesse Fraser, Chris Schell, Kenji Miyazaki, Dean Peard, Brian Kolman, Megan Peloso, Troy Larden, Beth Eagles and Julie Sheppard from FLNRORD for your insight, advise, and assistance. Among the manyu other things you have done for us, helping us tie our project to some of the numerous initiatives in your areas has been invaluable.
Thank you to Ron Ptolemy from MoE for enlightening discussions regarding the fish density modelling work he has been developing over many years.
Thank you to Karla Graf from CN Rail and Kathryn Graham from the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MoTi) for reviewing target sites, providing insight/background for individual crossings, for providing letters of support for the project and for their continuous encouragement.
Thank you so much to Steve Page, Darren Loverin, Ron Donnelly, Tom Bosch, Mark Dewit, Visti Mosumgaard and Miro Kosalko from the FLNRORD northern engineering and forestry team for sharing their experience, knowledge and know-how related to road engineering in their regions.
Thank you to the crew at DFO who put us in touch with the powers and places that be, attended numerous meetings while providing support and encouragement. Thank you Sandra Devcic, Peter Dekoning, Lana Miller and Natalie Newman.
Thank you to Don Morgan from MoE, Lars Reese-Hanson from FLNRORD, Mike Risdale from the Office of Wet’suwet’en, Jesse Fraser from FLNRORD (and many others) for sharing their work with watershed status indicators and efforts/systems of the Environmental Stewardship Initiative. Thank you also for introducing us to amazing places in the Owen Creek watershed. Whoa. Thank you.
Thank you to the crew at Eclipse Geomatics for all your help since 2017 and your invaluable curating of important knowledge and technology. Thank you Johanna Pfalz, Lizzy Hoffman and Ekaterina Daviel.
Thank you to Marc Gaboury for making space to discuss his work with Wet’suwet’en First Nation and Mike Smith (LGL Limited) to prescribe/implement fish passage restoration works and a series of other innovative restoration prescriptions within the upper Bulkley River.
We are extremely glad that Jonathan Van Barneveld, Forester - FLNRORD hunts waterfalls and is very very good at it. His input was monstrous for connectivity planning in the watershed. Thank you.
Michael Price is busy enough to undertake huge amounts of research with enormous depth yet found the time to attend our meetings and explore options for collaboration. Thank you.
Ian Sharpe helps coordinate incredible stewardship programs (Morice Watershed Monitoring Trust) of great importance and authors wonderful documents (including one that inspired this report’s acknowledgment section - Upper Bulkley and Morice Water and Salmon Sustainability Views - 2019) yet also finds the time to return phone calls, share details of local initiatives and provide encouragement.
Cindy Verbeek from the Upper Bulkley Streamkeepers took time off from running the Canfor Buck Creek hatchery and from building the new Watershed Stewardship Centre in Houston to tour us on some key sites in the field, fill us in on important Upper Bulkley River context and to vouch for us with the kind and generous local land owner - Roger Groot. Thank you.
Thank you to Matt Sear and Dave Ripmeester from Pacific Inland Resources as well as Jesse Ahtiainen, Kevin Skarda and Vince Ross from Canadian Forest Products Ltd. You saved us a ton of field work by taking the time for meetings, answering emails and sharing your valuable information.
Thank you Jeff Anderson from Geomorphic Consulting for helping us see a bigger picture.
Our gratitude to Phil MacDonald from BC Timber Sales, Matt Hawkins from MoTI and Steve Page from FLNRORD for sharing their experience to help advise on how to devise tools to estimate costs for remedial works.
Thank you to Lee Hesketh from British Columbia Cattlemen’s Association for some encouraging conversations about a promising future for salmon in our agriculturally modified landscapes.
Thanks so much to Living Lakes for finding the space for Kyle Prince to team up on the project. We all know he is about as good as it gets in the field and a certified riot to work with. Thank you Kat Hartwig, Raegan Malinson and the rest of the teams.
Thank you to Joe Thorley from Poisson Consulting Ltd. The probability of better advise is negligible.
Many thanks to John DeGagne and Marc Steynen from SERNbc for their guidance, insight and encouragement for numerous aspects of the project.
Field work for the project was completed by Allan Irvine, R.P.Bio. and Kyle Prince, P.Biol. Hard work, good times, cold water and open sky. Misiyh. Ham i yaa. Thank you.
There are many others to which we owe our gratitude and please accept our apologies for leaving people out. It has been a great journey catching up to you all and we are so thankful for everyone willing to help. Please reach out if we did not include you or others yet since the acknowledgment is well deserved.
Fish passage is a wonderful example of how all things are connected and interdependent. The barriers that divide will eventually fall once we understand together where, how and why they stand between.
Dzïn scudïlh’iy misiyh. Hami yaa nee loosim.


The initial inspiration for this game came from work I recently did
on the Robotic Mining Club's GUI for seeing where a robot was in a
field of specified size. This involved finding the x,y coordinates
of the robot's top left corner, properly rotating it to match the
angle received from telemetry, making sure the robot stayed within
the bounds of the field, and drawing fading tracks behind the robot
for its previous locations. At the start of working on this GUI I had
no experience whatsoever programming in JavaScript or even really
using HTML or CSS. That project initiated a steep learning curve for
me that I decided to continue by basing this project off of some of
the code I had struggled with behind it. Therefore, this project can
be broken up into 3 main parts; the animation and controls, the arena
specific setup, and the physics engine.
I am no artist and
I hadn't really considered the difficulty in designing all of the
artwork for this project before hand. However, the artwork proved to
be a critical piece that aided the organization of the code powering it.
The two key components of the artwork are the passive background and
the interacting objects in the foreground. The background is drawn
on a separate HTML5 Canvas that is placed in z-space behind the main
canvas and only "interacts" with anything else in the environment by
moving at a slower pace than the foreground when the ninja reaches the
edge of the screen. Due to this, I created one large SVG image in Adobe
Illustrator to encompass the background. The foreground however is more
complex. Each object interacts with the ninja by checking for contact through
an collision detection function I created as part of the physics engine. Due to this,
each object had to be drawn separately and a rectangular bounding box around
the object is used to determine its bounds and whether any object collided with it.
In this way the animation of the ninja moving and maintaining contact with
the surface of the building is simply an illusion as the image source changes
(gifs aren't natively supported by JS in HTML5 Canvases so I used whats known
as a sprite sheet to manually switch the image shown after a certain amount of time)
if the left or right movement keys are pressed, but the length and width of
the object remains the same.
The next critical part of this project was level specific functionality.
My original idea for this game included it having 4 or 5 levels displaying
physics ideas such as spring force through a bungee jumping level, conservation
of momentum through a ninja on ice level, and various other things such as shooting
ninja stars or arrows at a target with added difficulties (all of which may
later come if I continue working on this project after). Due to this original
plan, my code is factored to support multiple levels and a single function with
object declarations is all that would be required to add more levels (I estimate
each additional level would take about 5ish hours). For the first level,
the office building, target, and ninja were all declared as new interacting
objects in the scene and the background was declared as a passive interacting
object. Then, things like a line connecting the ninja to the target were added
and the level's physics panel was created to contain certain pieces of information
depending on where the ninja was in the environment (ex. distance to
edge disappears if the ninja passes the right edge of the building in the x direction).
The last critical part of Physics of Ninja's was the physics engine itself. I originally
aimed at creating something known as a precision physics engine which calculates the interactions
and physics of everything in the scene based the newtonian forces applied by different
things in a scene. I created a 200 lines of code working beta of this type of
engine, however it proved to surpass the scope of this project by being too cumbersome,
slow, and complex to correctly handle a realtime environment. After realizing this,
I created a realtime physics engine which is based off of real physics (namely kinematics)
principles, but also utilizes shortcuts such as stopping the downward force
of gravity if an object is in contact with a surface, calculating interactions
through a bounding box instead of live edges of objects, and only checking
for interactions between objects when it is explicity told too in the main
program (if x,y of ninja are near x,y of object, check for contact). Although the
game physics uses shortcuts, I wanted all physics to accurately be shown
on the physics panel so I also created simulated x and y coordinates and velocities
that represented where the objects were in their environment instead of just
on screen. Besides displaying to the physics panel, this also allowed
me to use what I called a Pseudo Camera that made the ninja stop and the
background move instead if it came within 50 px of the edge of canvas.
Note: the animation above is actually a demonstration of the realtime physics engine
working with a randomly generated acceleration due to gravity and changing circles.


Send smtp mail with an image included : a small but interesting code fragment
Back over at codeproject an interesting article has been posted : how to send mail over smtp including an attached image.
This is the code :
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
mail.From = new MailAddress("prashant@gmail.com");
mail.To.Add("you@gmail.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "Mail From Prashant Lavate";
//first we create the Plain Text part
AlternateView plainView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString("This is my text , viewable by those clients that don't support html", null, "text/plain");
//then we create the Html part
//to embed images, we need to use the prefix 'cid' in the img src value
//the cid value will map to the Content-Id of a Linked resource.
//thus  will map to a LinkedResource with a ContentId of 'companylogo'
AlternateView htmlView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString("Here is an embedded image.", null, "text/html");
//create the LinkedResource (embedded image)
LinkedResource logo = new LinkedResource( "c:\\temp\\prashant.gif" );
logo.ContentId = "logo";
//add the LinkedResource to the appropriate view
htmlView.LinkedResources.Add(logo);
//add the views
mail.AlternateViews.Add(plainView);
mail.AlternateViews.Add(htmlView);
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("<IP_ADDRESS>"); //specify the mail server address
smtp.Send(mail);Remember to set the Language of your code snippet using the Language dropdown.


Buddy App provides a unique opportunity for people to get together and experience what life has to offer. Doesn't matter where you come from and it doesn't matter what you do, Buddy up and go see the world.
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I'm focused on my career right now and don't want to date, but I still want to be able to do the things that are easier done with someone. I love hiking, and BuddyApp lets me team up with others who enjoy my stress-busting, mountain-hopping pace.
I've always loved cars, and thought I'd join a club once the kids were out of the house, but then I kept finding reasons not to go. Then I realized I just don't like going places I don't know, especially on my own. With BuddyApp, I was able to connect with someone who went to a lot of car shows and meetups, and who was happy to show me the ropes. Sometimes, you just need that first push.
I'm a video gamer and don't know many people IRL. Thanks to Buddy App, I have been able to get out of my comfort zone and go to amazing activities with people who accept that I'm a bit awkward in social situations, and make me feel welcome.
I'm a new mom in a new city. My husband works long hours, my family are on the other side of the country and I am the first of my friends to have a baby. So I was feeling very isolated and was spending all my time at home with the baby. BuddyApp helped me find local moms who were happy to show me around town. They made me feel more at home and comfortable here.