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Bill was born July 23 1918 in Sifton Township, Ont. and lived there until he moved to Fort Frances in 1968. He worked briefly at Silver & Kercher before working at Hammond Landscaping Ltd., where he worked for more than 25 years until his retirement. |
Bill was a self-educated man, having attended only one day of formal schooling his entire life. It was due to his hard work, diligence, and eagerness that Bill succeeded in all he set out to do. He impressed all who knew him with his straight-forward, trustworthy and genuine manner. |
He was well-liked by his co-workers, and was a favourite uncle to several generations of children. Bill loved to be in the country, working in the fields, with his beloved dogs always in tow. |
Bill was predeceased by his parents, Robert and Sarah Dunsmore; brothers, Thomas and Robert Dunsmore; and sisters, Mary Jewell and Nellie Dunsmore. |
Bill is survived by his sisters, Susan Williamson of Fort Frances, Ont.; numerous nieces and nephews; and lifelong friend, Art Hammond and wife, Nioma, and their family of Fort Frances. |
Funeral services will be held Thursday, Dec. 18, 1997 at 2 p.m. at Green Funeral Home in Fort Frances. Rev. Earl Swanson will officiate, with interment in Riverview Cemetery in Fort Frances. |
Pallbearers will be Phil Williamson, Calvin Williamson, Edward Jewell, Walter Engelman, Daryl Eyolfson, and Art Hammond. |
In memoriam donations may be made to the charity of your choice. |
Cincinnati Stock Exchange (NSX). InvestorGuide.com. WebFinance, Inc. http://www.investorguide.com/definition/cincinnati-stock-exchange-nsx.html (access:April 14, 2019). |
Talk about getting kicked while you’re down. Already, the biodiesel industry has seen its margins squeezed since petroleum prices plummeted last fall. Now, the news coming out of Brussels earlier this week is that the European Union plans to slap punitive tariffs on imports of U.S. biodiesel for six months. The $400-$5... |
Seattle-based Imperium Renewables has felt the pain of the industry. The biodiesel refiner has canceled its planned initial public offering, laid off employees, and halted plans to build a biodiesel plant in Hawaii. |
The so-called crush spread provides insight. It’s the difference between the price of soy oil, what manufacturers process into biodiesel, and the going price for the fuel on the market. In November last year, with the industry already under pressure, that spread was at 81 cents per gallon. By late February, it had sunk... |
The blender’s subsidy is at the heart of the EU’s punitive tariff. The subsidy gives a $1 per gallon tax credit to outfits that blend biodiesel into petroleum diesel usually in quantities between 1 percent and 10 percent. The EU governing body argues, rightly, that it gives U.S. biodiesel exporters an unfair advantage.... |
So U.S. biodiesel manufacturers have done the only thing they could: slow production. Rick Kment, a biofuels analyst with market researcher DTN, said U.S. biodiesel production is down to between 25 percent and 30 percent of capacity. A large portion of the plants aren’t standalone biodiesel producers — they also crush ... |
The industry will continue to struggle as long as petroleum prices remain low and feedstock prices high. But that hasn’t stopped die-hard biodiesel supporters from believing in the industry. “Biodiesel is a movement now,” said Steve Bash, the founder of California-based Sacramento Biofuels Network, which buys biodiesel... |
1) Allowing them to export biodiesel to Europe after being paid a dollar a gallon by fellow citizen’s taxes undercuts the argument that biofuels are subsidized to enhance our energy independence. You want to use half as much oil? Drive a car that gets double America’s average mileage. |
2) This summer, local biodiesel distributors in Seattle lost half of their business because B-99 was selling for $6 a gallon. Oil prices were at record highs and the biofuel industry was still losing its shirt. The argument was that the high price of oil had driven up the cost of food (the feedstock for biofuels). |
They lose money when oil is at record lows and lose money when it is at record highs, even with a dollar a gallon blending subsidy and massive agriculture subsidies for their feedstock. |
This is what happens when you allow government to pick our losers for us. |
Missing from the discussion is the fact that biodiesel made from food grown on arable land competes with food processors for the same stock and the half dozen science studies from last year all showing that these fuels produce more GHG than regular diesel for various reasons. |
What is not to love about this dumb idea that we can replace the gas in our gas hogs with food? |
To understand the story behind today’s recipe, it is necessary to go back to one of the most fascinating periods of English history – the Restoration. In 1660, Charles II came back from exile in France to reclaim the throne and put an end to the commonwealth that had ruled since the execution of his father in 1649. |
After the stifling paranoia of Puritan rule, the Restoration saw an outburst of creativity. The Royal Society was formed, coffee houses were taking off, bawdy comedies filled the formerly empty stages (and, for the first time, even women took part). |
Iranian documentary filmmaker Shiva Sanjari is known for her documentary Here the Seats are Vacant, about the first woman filmmaker of Iran. The movie was shown at the 13th International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) Asian Women’s Film Festival. |
How did you come into documentary filmmaking? |
I come from a visual arts background where I contentedly painted and made sculptures for ten years. But few years after my graduation, I was diagnosed with tuberculosis and was bedridden for six months. When I got better, I didn’t have the physical power to paint or sculpt. It was at that time when I thought of getting... |
What is your movie Here the Seats Are Vacant about? |
My film is about Shahrzad (stage name), a young woman in the pre-Iranian revolution days, who was sold by her father. It’s the story of her rise and fall where she first struggled as a cabaret dancer and then become an award-winning actress, a great author, and one of the first female directors of that era. |
I was born after the Iranian revolution and didn’t know anything about Shahrzad. She had become a semi-fictional figure by then. No one knew about her whereabouts or whether she is alive or not. I heard a lot about her from my grandmother. She advised me to make a film on her. Also, I wanted people to know her story an... |
The movie’s title is very unique. |
People were excited to see the performances of Shahrzad back then, be it in the cabaret or in the movie theatre. But now, her life has shifted from the starry audiences to a small village, with no association with her past and her identity concealed. This shows the metamorphoses of her life, from fame to the world of o... |
Is there any discrepancy in the number of male and female filmmakers in Iran? |
Yes, there is a slight discrepancy but the reason is not patriarchal inequality. The reason for the lesser number of female filmmakers in Iran is something else. I believe when art becomes an inseparable part of one’s life. For women filmmakers, it is difficult to shoot on outdoor locations for many days, supervise wor... |
Every country has its own culture. How do you try to make your film universally referential? |
Talking globally, I would say that humans experience the same emotions of joy, gloom, betrayal, ecstasy, jealousy, vengeance, so on and so forth. An Iranian would laugh the same way as an Indian. The situations that lead emotions may be different from one country to another; but the emotions serve the real catharsis in... |
LONDON (AP) — The third child of Prince William and wife Kate was christened Monday at a royal chapel. |
The service for Prince Louis was attended by guests including Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, and newlyweds Prince Harry and Meghan. |
Louis’s siblings Prince George, 4, and Princess Charlotte, 3, also watched the ceremony at The Chapel Royal in St. James’s Palace. |
Kate’s parents and siblings were also there, including her sister Pippa Middleton, who is pregnant. Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip didn’t attend. |
Louis was dressed in a cream, frilly lace royal christening gown — a replica of the intricate robe made for Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter in 1841. |
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby welcomed the royals at the entrance to the chapel. |
The royal couple also named six close friends and family members to be godparents to Prince Louis, who was born in April. |
South Korea-born short-track skater Ahn Hyun-Soo, who moved to Russia just over a year ago to pursue his athletic career, hopes to bring his adopted country its first Olympic medal in the sport at next year’s Winter Games in Sochi. |
“I know how important these games are for Russia,” the 27-year-old, one of the biggest names in his sport and the winner of three Olympic gold medals for his native country at the 2006 Turin Games, said in an interview. |
Ahn is one of a large number of world-class athletes who have been recruited by Russia in its attempt to top the medals table on home soil next February. |
While some have criticized him for switching his allegiance, Ahn, now known as Viktor after changing his name when he acquired Russian citizenship at the end of 2011, said he merely wanted to prolong his career. |
“Money was not the main factor in my decision. I wouldn’t do it just for the money,” he said through an interpreter. |
Ahn said he had encountered problems with South Korean sports officials following his triumph in Turin. |
“I’ve had some tough times mentally. Maybe there was some jealousy in the team. I also had a serious knee injury, which forced me to miss most of the 2008-09 season,” he said. |
After failing to win a place on South Korea’s 2010 Olympic team, the Seoul native knew it was time for a drastic change in his life. |
Russia’s skating chief, Alexei Kravtsov, said he received an e-mail from Ahn’s father asking if his son could train with the Russian team. |
Ahn, who lives in a dormitory for athletes on the outskirts of Moscow, said he could easily adapt to almost any environment. |
“Of course, it’s a different country — food, culture. But I don’t mind some difficulty living here. Even the cold doesn’t bother me that much,” he said. |
Russia has one of the largest budgets in speedskating thanks to solid funding from the state as well as private sponsors. |
While he declined to give exact figures, Russian media put the cost of running the team at hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. |
Siberia-born Tatyana Borodulina, another top skater with Olympic experience who was lured back to Russia to compete in Sochi, did not hide the fact that money was important. |
The 28-year-old competed for Australia at the 2010 Games in Vancouver but decided to return home the following year for a last shot at an Olympic medal. She represented Russia at the 2006 Olympics before moving to Australia. |
“I think it’s great,” Borodulina said this month after signing a sponsorship deal with electronics giant Samsung. |
Ahn has won 20 world titles over distances ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 meters, as well as relays, but he is now focused solely on next February’s Olympics. |
“I know how difficult it is to win an Olympic medal, let alone gold, so I’ll be more than happy just to get on a podium in Sochi,” he said. |
The other day on one of the Facebook pages I follow there was a little brush up when someone asserted there were no Zen masters in North America. He was someone who it appears had studied for some years in Japan. And, I think he meant there were no officially recognized Zen masters in the Rinzai tradition in North Amer... |
This set me to thinking about various things. First, how its true, we in the West do not have any Zen masters of that institutional rank. A couple visit. None reside here. And, here is a truth: I believe they bring a quality of presence that is unique. There is something wondrous to be found within a lifetime commitmen... |
And, then, there’s a so what? |
While I believe there is a quality one finds in Shike teachers, both Soto and Rinzai, that is unique, the rank is also basically institutional. And, beyond that another important question: is a lifetime within a cloister the only way to prepare a Zen teacher? Or, and, this is pushing the matter even harder: Is a lifeti... |
Challenging and potentially deeply rich questions. At least I find. Now, I have little doubt there are some basic requirements for someone who wishes to represent the Zen way as a teacher. Without which I just don’t see how they can use the word “Zen” for what they teach in any honest way. |
But, what an institution can require makes what I would call a journeyman, a genuine practitioner of the way. And, people who have adequate preparation to help people practice Zen. And, mastery, well, that’s something beyond the ability of any institution to designate except in the most nominal sense. Said, I hope it i... |
And, with that I’m fascinated with what is emerging here in the West, especially as I can see it in North America. Here the cloister is no longer assumed. And, in fact, nearly impossible to live. The very cloisters that exist here are precarious institutions, none that I can think of can in fact guarantee a lifetime ho... |
And, I can’t say this is a bad thing. The practice isn’t to crush us, but to see through the mystery, to learn to live with the dual truths of form and emptiness. |
In the Soto tradition there are now minimum times within the cloister being discussed. Some say at least two ango, ninety day residential training periods, which match the Japanese Sotoshu requirements. Among the many other expectations. Among many other expectations. Some say one ango, some, and with caveats this incl... |
Of course the deal is seeing through. Recently I saw on Facebook a sculpture. From the side it was a large human head. But straight on it was just slices of metal, almost invisible. And that’s almost it. From one angle the mess of the world. From the other emptiness. But, not quite like the sculpture, in this case both... |
Form and emptiness. Not one. Not two. |
But, I have lived long enough into the Zen way to see several forms of expression that look authentic, that seem to have transformed lives. What I’m witnessing are individuals who train in these various ways who emerge first and foremost as mature practitioners of the ancient and present way. And, some among them are b... |
And. And. Among that great cloud of witnesses to our way are some who may deserve the title of master. |
Rich and complicated times, these. |
That said, I also find myself thinking of that koan collected in the Blue Cliff Record. You know, the real matter. The thing that the masters are all about. |
Huangbo is one of the great teachers from the mythic origins of the Zen way during the Tang dynasty. It’s uncertain when he was born, but he died in 850. He was a successor to the great Baizhang Huaihai and his most renowned successor was Linji Yixuan who is considered the founder of the Linji or, in Japanese the Rinza... |
Beyond being enormously tall very little more is known about him. The collection of his teachings, the Ch’uan-hsin Fa-yao, unlike other traditional collections contains no biographical details beyond those that can be inferred from the recorded dharma encounters. |
What we have are his teachings. And, well, his successors, particularly as they flow through and become Rinzai Zen. And this case is a delicious example. |
So, he is berating an assembly of monastics. The tradition in those days was between the formal training periods they would wander from monastery to monastery, meeting masters of the way, encountering peers, and, of course that occasional tea lady who might shake the foundations. He was reminding them of a hard truth. ... |
And seeing through. Seeing both sides of the sculpture. And, realizing they are the same thing. Exactly the same thing. And not exactly. Not one. Not two. |
And the proof of the pudding is how you meet someone in the grocery store. |
When we talk about masters and teachers and all of that, like the leading paragraphs of this little reflection, we might forget what its all about. And, with that some of the basic promises of the way. One is that we all have what it takes. We need only to stop, to sit down, to shut up, and to notice. Then the ten thou... |
And good old Huangbo calls us to that. “Don’t you realize in all of the Americas there isn’t a single Zen master?” Could he be telling us about institutional titles? Could he be tellings us about the quality of North or South American Zen? |
Or could the invitation be somewhere else? |
So long as we have self and other, so long as there is a master and a student, so long as the heart is divided, what do we have? |
We’re all at the edge of falling into awakening. Every moment. With every breath. In ancient China. In medieval Japan. In our contemporary California. Time flows. Time dances. Then. Now. Future. |
Let go of it all. Just for a moment. Don’t worry, it will return. |
But, in this moment, can you find that place where there is no master, there is no teacher? And, of course, no student? |
Huangbo slaps his stick in his hand. He glowers, all seven feet of him. |
Anyone who already has their back up, suspecting yet another cliched story about a fun-loving dad who cures his careerist daughter of her workaholic ways to find love, laughter and true happiness can rest assured. Admittedly, it’s not always clear where Maren Ade, who wrote and directed “Toni Erdmann,” stands on Winfri... |
Still, Toni quickly grows as tiresome for spectators as he does for the long-suffering daughter he continually undermines in the name of making a deeper connection. At two hours and 40 minutes, the film sags and bags unnecessarily, especially when it tacks on an epilogue that feels gratuitous and too obvious. |
But the movie is worth its sloggiest moments – and its frequently off-putting title character – for Hüller’s fearless performance, which is a revelation of pathos, humor and keen, sharp-eyed focus. Throughout “Toni Erdmann,” Ines grows steadily more sympathetic as she navigates the emotional and psychological mixed mes... |
“Toni Erdmann,” it turns out, is Hüller’s movie all the way, with her character not just matching wits with the bumptious, often irritating father, but ultimately coming into her own with the genuine feeling he seems determined to deflect. She triumphs, not because of funny costumes or fakery, but precisely because she... |
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It’s tempting to say it’s the sort of movie Cecil B. DeMille might have made 50 years ago, but that’s not quite true. DeMille would have circumvented the PR nightmare of 16-year-old star Keisha Castle-Hughes’ (Whale Rider) unmarried pregnancy with a well-worded morality clause in her contract. But more, he would never ... |
There’s an irony that the old showman DeMille would have produced a livelier film than the one delivered by “edgy” Hardwicke. The closest she comes to her much touted edginess here is in the utterly pointless framing device of beginning and ending the movie with the “slaughter of the innocents,” and in portraying the c... |
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