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dearly beloved mother of Ian, loving sister to Betty & Joyce.
A Memorial Service will be held at St Mark's Anglican Church, corner of Rosemount Ave & Warne St, Pennant Hills on Thursday 16th August commencing at 1.30pm.
In lieu of flowers donation to Vision Australia would be appreciated, envelopes available at the Church.
Heartfelt thanks to the wonderful staff at Woodlands - Cherrybrook.
Can you be vegetarian and obese?
There are more Australian vegetarians than ever - more than 2.4 million, according to new research from Roy Morgan. But the same research tells us that there are also more obese people than ever - just under 6 million.
Aaron wanted to know whether there is a correlation between these figures. Does vegetarianism help you lose weight? Is it possible to be both overweight and a vegetarian? What effect does a plant-based diet have on your body?
He spoke to Patrice Jones, PhD candidate and food scientist at the University of Newcastle, about these questions and more.
10mins 35secs Does vegetarianism help you lose weight?
SAN JUAN LA LAGUNA, Guatemala — Merchants clad in bright, indigenous patterns greeted a boatload of tourists arriving on the shore of Lake Atitlán. But as some of the travelers disembarked, they directed their gaze at an incongruous pair.
They were a mother and daughter, dressed in black from head to toe, members of Lev Tahor, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish fringe group that has settled in this Guatemalan village of less than 10,000 people after fleeing Canada earlier this year. The municipality estimates that about 100 members live there.
In the 1980s a fiery young anti-Zionist rabbi from Jerusalem founded Lev Tahor, which means “pure heart” in Hebrew. Today the community numbers in the low hundreds and comprises about 45 families living primarily in Guatemala, Israel, the U.S. and Canada. The group interprets Jewish Scriptures literally and aims to “go...
Women often marry by age 16, and children are home-schooled to avoid secular subjects. These practices have put the group at odds with local laws where they reside.
Most Lev Tahor members lived in Quebec until the provincial government opened a child abuse lawsuit against the group in 2013. The court ordered 14 children into foster care after child protection services documented cases of child abuse and neglect. Members fled to Ontario and appealed the decision, which they eventua...
According to their Toronto-based lawyer Guidy Mamman, members chose Guatemala in part because they could all enter legally.
“There are few countries that will accept a sizable group like this,” he said, adding that Guatemala was a last-minute decision and may not be their permanent home.
Needing a place to practice their austere interpretation of Judaism, Lev Tahore members sought refuge in the Guatemalan highlands. However, friction with their neighbors has drawn national attention to the sect’s presence.
“Most of the town wants them to leave,” said Vice Mayor Domingo Gusman Ujpan as he rattled off a list of problems the group has brought to the overwhelmingly Mayan — and Christian — town. He said that Lev Tahor women scold their local counterparts for not having more children, as they say God commands, and that members...
In May several young men — uncompensated taxi drivers, according to Ujpan — threw rocks at Lev Tahor homes, shattering their windows. He said residents submitted a petition, with 300 signatures, asking the mayor to force the sect out of the town.
Friends of the insular community, however, said the allegations are false.
Misael Santos and Jonathan Lima, two Guatemalans who converted to Judaism, said tourism to the village may have even increased since members arrived because they draw Jewish visitors.
They said anti-Semitism and a fear of the unfamiliar are behind the town’s effort to force out the community.
Some townspeople ran ads on local radio stations disparaging the group. Others gathered evidence to try to prove members were in Guatemala illegally and that they were abusing their children.
Lima and Santos helped the group settle in San Juan la Laguna after a rabbi from the area introduced them to the first Lev Tahor family that arrived in Guatemala in late 2013. They share meals with Lev Tahor members, and their families play together. They said the sect’s children are healthy and well educated.
However they said the continued harassment might prevent Lev Tahor from staying.
Regardless of the local tensions, Lev Tahor members in Guatemala may need to leave the country sooner than anticipated. Julio Saguel, a lawyer at the Guatemalan attorney general’s department of child and adolescent rights, confirmed it has opened a neglect case against Lev Tahor for its failure to send children to scho...
Retirees should strive to make their nest eggs last. Here are five stocks facing potential complications you might consequently want to avoid in retirement.
Things won’t go better with Coke in the coming years, suggested The Motley Fool. It listed the soda giant in August 2015 as one of “2 Dividend Stocks Retirees Should Avoid.” U.S. soda sales have declined over the past decade, while that trend threatens to go global, The Motley Fool said. The stock’s price per share was...
The Motley Fool in August 2015 listed this retail giant as one of “2 Dividend Stocks Retirees Should Avoid.” Wal-Mart recently saw its market capitalization surpassed by Amazon, The Motley Fool noted. It suggested that was a “powerful sign of what’s to come.” The Fool concluded: “Wal-Mart came to dominance through an u...
Kiplinger in August 2015 listed GlaxoSmithKline as a “stock to avoid.” It added: “The British pharmaceuticals giant is beginning to face stiff generic competition for its blockbuster respiratory drug, Advair, which accounts for 16 percent of sales; other respiratory therapies and a promising vaccine business have been ...
Investors at times become too enthusiastic about companies or sectors and bid prices “into the stratosphere,” said Kiplinger. It added, “Sometimes, this passion fuels a bubble that bursts, as it did for tech stocks in early 2000 and homebuilder stocks in early 2007.” Kiplinger said a good way to protect against such oc...
Kiplinger also suggested avoiding investment in Automatic Data Processing as part of its recommended strategy of protecting against the bursting of stock market bubbles by shunning stocks that trade at more than the overall market’s average P/E. The stock’s price per share was $78.41 as of Aug. 28, 2015, according to M...
A look at the NDPQ candidates in the West Island.
Every election campaign has its frontrunners.
So far, the polling numbers for the Quebec elections indicate that the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) is topping the list, with the Quebec Liberals sitting in near second and the Parti Québecois struggling in a distant third.
In the West Island, the Quebec Liberals have dominated at the polls for decades. So much so, that it is understandable that some West Island voters may not be aware that there are smaller parties with candidates on the campaign trail.
Running in its first provincial election is the New Democratic Party of Quebec. The NDPQ was registered in 2014 and is not affiliated with the federal party. A previous incarnation which functioned as a provincial wing of the federal party existed from 1963 to 1991.
Jacques-Cartier candidate France Séguin grew up in Pointe-Claire. She has travelled the world and holds a master’s degree in International Development from the University of Ottawa. Séguin applied her socio-economic expertise during 25 years spent in Africa and South America working in the public, private and instituti...
Nelligan candidate Leslie Eric Murphy is a software developer in the health-care industry. He is now a resident of Pierrefonds, but was living in Ste-Geneviève when the historic floods hit the region in 2017. His rented home flooded and he was forced to relocate.
With the campaign underway, Murphy has been going door to door and listening to frustrated flood victims who found the government aid-application process impossible to navigate.
“During the flooding, the government press conferences did not reflect what was happening on the ground,” Murphy said.
He said people are asking about what happens if the flooding occurs again.
Recent interruption of service and reduced service on the Deux-Montagnes commuter line caused by the construction of the REM (light-rail) network is also a hot topic in the riding Murphy said.
And he said people are not happy with the budget cuts experienced at the Medistat Clinic in Pierrefonds.
“The clinic has been told to send patients to a super clinic. But then the super clinic is full,” Murphy said.
Robert-Baldwin candidate Luca Brown lives in Pierrefonds and is a political science student at McGill University. During the summer, fellow NDPQ candidate Séguin saw him give a presentation on food security during a event organized by the social-outreach organization Table de quartier sud de l’Ouest-de-l’Île. Following...
“I had already been involved with the federal NDP, so the offer seemed like a natural extension of my interest in politics and in social justice,” Brown said.
Marquette candidate John Symon lives in Lachine and works as a translator and author. He is a community activist and environmentalist who opposes the REM, saying it is a prohibitively expensive project which will not serve the residential areas in either Lachine or Dorval. He said the arrival of the REM will signal the...
Serbia's top-ranked male tennis player Novak Djokovic will lead the national team in the Davis Cup quarter-final against Spain.
Besides world number 2 Djokovic and Zimonjic, who is world doubles number 56, the Serbian team includes world number 38 Viktor Troicki and world number 85 Dusan Lajovic.
The Spanish team, five-time Davis Cup winners, will arrive here without their best player, Rafael Nadal.
The tie will be played in Belgrade, April 7-9.
The Big Three U.S. automakers, Ford Motor (NYSE:F), General Motors (NYSE:GM) and Chrysler Group, all posted stronger April sales as demand for pickup trucks gained steam.
The industry has seen demand for cars rebound in the U.S., fueling recent earnings while the European car market continues to lag behind. Ford recently reported a 15% gain in first-quarter profit on record performance in North America. The region also helped GM record a larger fourth-quarter profit, while Chrysler’s fi...
Trucks are especially garnering more demand, due in part to the recent turnaround in housing construction. New housing starts climbed last month to their higher level since 2008.
Sales of Ford’s F-series pickup trucks jumped 24% to 59,030. The company said Wednesday during a conference call with reporters that pickup truck sales are up 20% in the first four months of the year, outpacing other vehicle segments three-fold.
Overall, new-vehicle sales jumped 18% in April, which had 25 selling days, compared to 24 selling days in the year-earlier month., beating an estimate from car shopping website Edmunds.com for 16% growth. Ford sold 212,584 vehicles, up from 180,350 a year ago but down 10% from March's total of 236,160.
Ford’s namesake brand recorded an 18% sales improvement, while sales at its luxury brand, Lincoln, increased 21%. Car sales across all brands climbed 21% amid sales growth from Ford’s Fusion and Escape models of 24% and 52%, respectively. Sales of trucks and utility vehicles both rose 16%.
General Motors also said demand for pickup trucks in April was stronger year-over-year, as sales of its Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra were up 23% to 53,603.
GM’s overall sales grew 11% to 237,646, driven by strong performance at all four brands. The results, which met Edmunds’s forecast, were up from 213,387 a year earlier but 3.4% below March sales of 245,950.
Chevrolet sales were up 11%, and GMC sales grew 6.7%. Higher-end brands Buick and Cadillac posted gains of 11% and 34%, respectively.
“We’re very optimistic because GM’s market share is growing, the economy continues to move forward and important car and truck launches are just getting underway,” McNeil said in a statement.
Chrysler’s U.S. auto sales increased 11% on a 49% surge in Ram pickup sales. Overall sales totaled 156,698 vehicles, down 8.7% month-to-month. The car maker’s overall April sales met expectations from Edmunds.
Dodge sold 31,409 Ram pickups last month, boosting the brand’s sales by 18%. Chrysler’s namesake brand posted a 13% decline, while Jeep saw a 1.9% increase.
Meanwhile, Japanese automaker Toyota (NYSE:TM) said sales slipped 1.1% to 176,160, missing an expected increase of 3.3%. Last year, Toyota reclaimed the No. 1 spot among global automakers, and in February, the company reported earnings growth of 23% and boosted its full-year outlook on stronger demand for its sedans an...
Honda Motor (NYSE:HMC) fell short of expectations but recorded a 7.4% gain to 130,999 vehicles on strong sales of its CR-V. Edmunds forecasted sales growth of 8.6%.
Volkswagen’s namesake brand reported U.S. vehicle sales of 33,644 in April, down 10%. Nissan Motor recorded sales that were 23% higher at 87,847.
Shares of Ford were trading 9 cents lower at $13.52 in afternoon trading, while GM’s stock was down 29 cents at $30.55.
Toyota shares fell 1.8% to $114.20. Shares of Honda were down 1.6% at $39.35.
Students walk to their buses outside Bryant Middle School in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. Rep. Stephen Handy, R-Layton, is sponsoring a bill to replace old diesel school buses with a clean fuel fleet. The bill, which has passed in the past but not gotten funding, could potentially get funded with money fro...
SALT LAKE CITY — Advocates are recommending a 19-point proposal to Utah leaders if they want to get serious about conquering the state's nagging pollution problem, including an outright ban on all two-stroke, gas-powered lawn equipment, statewide emissions testing for vehicles, and tighter industry controls.
The groups that include HEAL Utah, Physicians for a Healthy Environment, Utah Moms for Clean Air and Western Resource Advocates held a news conference Tuesday to detail their blueprint for action, which also calls for shuttering plans to divert water from the Bear River to meet future water supply demands.
Such a diversion, they argue, would add to the Great Salt Lake's already staggering challenges of historically low lake levels and exposed lake beds, which fill the air with wind-whipped dust during storms.
"Too often we hear policymakers say that there is little we can do to address dangerous air pollution," said Ashley Soltysiak, HEAL Utah policy director. "In fact, there are common-sense policy proposals that we can and must embrace to ensure that Utah thrives for decades to come."
The proposal, which comes in advance of a clean air rally at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Utah Capitol, is divided into three broad categories of vehicles, buildings and industry, with overall recommendations aimed at boosting funding for the state's regulatory agency dealing with pollution issues.
"The biggest barrier to clean air in Utah is political will and courage. Our ‘Clean Air, No Excuses’ rally is one way to apply political pressure to legislators who want to keep their heads in the smog, while also offering support to those awesome legislators willing to uphold their civic oath to protect the families o...
• Renew the electric vehicle tax credit, which expires unless Utah lawmakers act.
• Adopt the latest building codes to boost energy efficiency of homes.
• Put additional money and other resources into enforcing existing wood-burning bans, and adopt policies that limit burning of solid fuels in restaurants and other businesses.
• Beef up Utah's fugitive dust rule, which needs to be revamped because of pollution problems caused from gravel pits and industrial activity.
• Require daily monitoring by "big polluters" and impose 24-hour limits to prevent short-term spikes in pollution.
Denni Cawley, executive director of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, said advocates plan to discuss many aspects of the blueprint with the Utah Legislature's clean air caucus and hope the ideas gain momentum.
"It is always good to be optimistic, but there are always challenges," she said. "I think that we may have enough strength from the voices from the community, especially with the rally, that legislators may adopt a good number of these proposals."
It’s been six months since Ronan Farrow helped bring down Harvey Weinstein in his bombshell exposé for the New Yorker, which ignited a cultural reckoning and propelled the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements. What’s been the most gratifying aspect of the whole experience for the 30-year-old journalist was the follow-up conv...
“I feel honored to have been a part of the moment where the dam finally broke,” Farrow told Variety at the Point Foundation’s annual gala in New York on Monday. He was on hand to receive the organization’s prestigious Courage Award for his vital work in advocating and empowering the LGBTQ community.
Thanks to the brave women who came forward, many of Hollywood’s elite have quickly broken all ties with alleged perpetrators — canceling their movies and TV shows, axing development deals, and firing them from jobs. However, Farrow’s father, Woody Allen — who has been accused of sexual assault, but not criminally charg...
As Hollywood takes a stand against the culture of sexual harassment and abuse in the entertainment industry, Farrow is not sure whether his father will ever be completely shunned from Hollywood and suffer the same fate as others accused of sexual misconduct, but he is optimistic that others will no longer get a pass fo...
When asked if director Bryan Singer, who was accused in a lawsuit last December of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy at a party more than a decade ago, and R&B singer R. Kelly, who was accused of sexually abusing a girl since she was 14, should both be held liable for their allegedly inappropriate behavior, Farrow ...
At the dinner, Farrow accepted his award, as did Point Impact Award recipient Laura Benanti. “Empire” star Jussie Smollett performed at the gala.
“KEEP YOUR TINY HANDS OFF OUR Rights!"
Other signs decried Mr. Trump’s stand on such issues as abortion, health care, diversity and climate change.
Demonstrators march up Fifth Avenue during a women’s march, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, in New York.
"GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS"
Demonstrations took place outside the U.S. -- from London, Paris and Berlin to Prague, Sydney and beyond.
In this picture, protesters carrying banners take part in the Women’s March on London, as they stand in Trafalgar Square on Jan. 21, 2017. The march formed part of the worldwide day of action.
A sign reading “DUMB BLONDE” is seen in Trafalgar Square, in central London, Britain on Jan. 21, 2017.
"I am woman. Hear me ROAR"
A protest placard lays by a lion at the foot of Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square during the Women’s March on London, in central London, Britain Jan. 21, 2017.
"ORANGE is the new BLAH!"
Protesters take part in the Women’s March on London, as they walk from the American Embassy to Trafalgar Square, in central London, Britain Jan. 21, 2017.

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