tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86111140450137750192024-03-14T02:22:03.777-04:00John Dykeman Blogaimless ramblings of a humble gentleman from Montreal. Urban Gardening, Travel, Flight, Art, ScienceJohn Dykemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503618131563300512noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611114045013775019.post-50521966055548420912019-06-23T21:34:00.000-04:002019-06-23T21:36:08.046-04:00Baby Shower<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John Dykemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503618131563300512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611114045013775019.post-44449415267655530082017-12-21T23:25:00.000-05:002018-03-17T17:48:17.718-04:00https://www.facebook.com/SWLSB/videos/vb.103110896416101/1630244290369413/?type=2&theater<br />
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<br />John Dykemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503618131563300512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611114045013775019.post-3211273441112844782017-07-31T22:49:00.000-04:002017-07-31T22:49:00.629-04:00Granddogs in gardenDogs love being around people and make good subjects for photographs.<br />
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<br />John Dykemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503618131563300512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611114045013775019.post-10986226492934098542017-06-20T20:48:00.005-04:002017-06-20T20:48:47.721-04:00Wild columbine flowers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John Dykemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503618131563300512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611114045013775019.post-42920776593778834232017-06-20T20:46:00.002-04:002017-07-31T22:33:50.462-04:00Garden 2017: new year, new garden, new challenges<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here we are in a new year, with hope and esprit for growth, flourishing of crops and flowers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">May, June, to October are all growing seasons in Cold Canada, but during this time, things happen: fruit trees, vegetable gardens, wild and tame flowers abound. Can't hold this back so embrace and engage. Make it so , Number One as Jean-Luc Picard would say (that confident, irascible Captain of the Enterprise V 2 from the 1980's : the revival of the Star Trek franchise which was started in 1967,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Basta ja....enough talk!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Garden space is limited as is sunshine with Tree Creep: constant horizontal growth of the main maple tree in the backyard space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">House limits some light especially in later months as sun descends in its elliptic travel. A large locust tree, also increasing its horizontal and vertical spread (both up and down) are limiting light in a garden space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well: Tomatoes, Zucchinis, Bell Peppers are major items.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some space for Kentucky Wonder climbing bean stalks (my late dad's favourite, Dr Captain Dykeman)...he would approve. He was born on a farm in New Brunswick and with a grade 9 education, rose to become a Medical Doctor (family care) in Richmond , QC . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So: on to the garden items. </span><br />
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<br />John Dykemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503618131563300512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611114045013775019.post-135996745930051372016-10-31T20:02:00.001-04:002017-07-12T07:13:35.398-04:00Loyalist Roots (from USA to Canada 200 years ago)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dykeman FAMILY in North America are descended from Jan Dijckman of Harlem NY (Manhattan). He was a farmer with land at the upper end of Manhattan Island. One of his descendants decided not to stay in what was to become the United States of America, but rather, to stay loyal to the British Crown under George III after 1783. In popular culture, this family is mentioned in Mad Men (TV show) where one character, Peter Dyckman Campbell, is said to have descended.<br />
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The descendant that moved to what is now Canada (at the time it was The Colony of Nova Scotia) in about 1786.<br />
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Garrett Dyckman (changed to Dykeman as he moved to 'Canada') lived the remainder of his life in his new adopted country. This Loyalist (United Empire Loyalist offically, or UEL) was given a tract of land which he was able to farm in what is now close to the Saint John River. This is s wide gentle river, which has no cataracts between north of Fredericton (now the capital of New Brunswick) to one at Saint John which is at tide water. The cataract at Saint John can be traversed at high tide as Bay of Fundy tides are amoung the highest in the world: enough to carry small personal boats with no issue if properly timed.<br />
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Entry of his entry from the Find A Grave website:<br />
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White Plains<br />
Westchester County<br />
New York, USA</td></tr>
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Gagetown<br />
New Brunswick, Canada</td></tr>
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Son of Jacob Dyckman and Rebecca Dyckman nee Vermilye.<br />
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Tradition says he changed his name from Gerrit Dyckman to appear less foreign to the English-domnated colonial New York society.<br />
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Following the Revolutionary War, in 1783 Garret emigrated with his wife and family to the British Colony of Nova Scotia. On April 20, 1784 they were granted Lot no. 66 in Parr Town (now Saint John, NB)<br />
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Soon thereafter, on August 16, 1784, the Colony of New Brunswick was created by partition. On January 20, 1787, the Dykemans were granted Lot no. 9 containing 150 acres on Jemseg Creek, Parish of Waterborough, Queen's County, New Brunswick, where they settled to farm.<br />
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He has been called "The grandfather of all the Loyalist Dykemans"<br />
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<a class="NoUnderline12point" href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=87061671" style="color: #552255; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Eunice Ann <i>Hatfield</i> Dykeman (1746 - 1808)</a><br />
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Children:<br />
<a class="NoUnderline12point" href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=131774962" style="color: #552255; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Gilbert Hatfield Dykeman (1769 - 1851)</a>*<br />
<a class="NoUnderline12point" href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=112186308" style="color: #552255; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Moses A. Dykeman (1772 - 1850)</a>*<br />
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<span class="minus1" style="font-size: 11px;">*<span class="fakeLink" style="color: #000088; text-decoration: underline;" title="">Calculated relationship</span></span></td></tr>
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Gagetown<br />
Queens County<br />
New Brunswick, Canada<br />
Plot: In the shade of a large pine tree<br />
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The Children of Garrett are buried at the Dykeman family cemetary in Jemseg, NB on the ancestral Dykeman family farm.</div>
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John Dykemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503618131563300512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611114045013775019.post-64532781241328562362016-10-23T01:44:00.001-04:002016-12-05T23:35:04.241-05:00Garden (End of Season) 2016Canada is not a hot country but from May to end October it is frost free in many areas including Southern Quebec. This provides an ample opportunity to grow many different legumes, maize, root vegetables as well. Fruit is limited to pears, apples and grapes in local area. Peaches, apricots and more common variety of grapes are not hardy enough for the cold winters (-30C usually once or twice a winter). Vegatables grown from seed such as tomatoes, squash, pumpkin types grow well in the warm summer days.<br />
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Garden plants are a beauty of minor details which can be captured on film (or electronic film). Here below are some of the captured images:<br />
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<br />John Dykemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503618131563300512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611114045013775019.post-56343196716226629152016-07-28T11:36:00.001-04:002016-07-28T11:36:28.506-04:00Mayan Garden in Canada<div style="text-align: center;">
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A few years ago it became fashionable to plant the 'Three Sisters', a method of inter cropping developed by the Mayan's to produce all three of their staple crops on one plot of land.</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Montreal Canada is not a tropical zone for agriculture, having winters that can approach arctic temperatures of -40F (-40C), but blessed with summers that are frost free from early May to mid October. The months from May to September are the prime time for agriculture, as October time is not ideal for plants. In late summer, early autumn, the temperatures at night are becoming colder which produces dampness. This favours insects and rot, so as a consequence, the plants tend to become diseased and cease to be productive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Montreal summers are warm to hot (10-20 days of 30+C (high 80's+F), with good sunshine and ample rainfall (usually). The southern Quebec region is between 45 and 47 in latitude, resulting in days having sunrise before 5am (Daylight Savings time) and sunset after 8 pm. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><i><u>Georges Goursat</u></i> was born and raised in an upper-middle-class family from Perigueux. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> The wealth inherited from his father at the age of 21</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">allowed him to sustain a gilded youth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">After the war, Goursat came back to the kind of caricatures that made him famous. In 1919, he published <i>Le Grand Monde à l'envers</i> (High Society upside down).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bonnelle121_27-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sem_(artist)#cite_note-Bonnelle121-27" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">]</a></sup>Around 1923, he published 3 almums under the general title of <i>Le Nouveau Monde</i> (The New World).</span><span style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">In 1923, he was made an officer of the </span><i style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Légion d'honneur</i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">.</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> In 1929, he was severely impoverished by the economic crisis. </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">After a heart attack in 1933,</span><span style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;">m</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">he died in 1934.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">Our immigrant ancestor to England, Airard Fitz Stephen was born probably about 1036 and was in command of the ship Mora in the fleet conveying the Norman forces to England in 1066 for the Battle of Hastings. 1 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">A son of Airard Fitz Stephen was Thomas Fitz Stephen who died 1120 in the wreck of the White Ship or Blanche Nef, of which he was in Command. It was said to have been the finest ship in the Norman navy. While Dante Gabriel Rossetti is perhaps better known for his somewhat naughty poem entitled "Jenny", he also wrote the "Ballad of the White Ship"2 which is historically accurate. An abstract from it follows: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">"The rowers made good cheer without check; </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">The lords and ladies obeyed his beck; </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">The night was light and they danced on the deck. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">But at midnight's stroke they cleared the bay. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">And the White Ship furrowed the water-way. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">As white as a lily glimmered she </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">Like a ship's fair ghost upon the sea. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">And under the winter star's still throng </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">From brown throats, white throats, merry and strong. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">The knights and ladies raised a song; </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">A song, - nay a shriek that rent the sky </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">Of three hundred living that now must die. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">An instant shriek that sprang to the shock </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">As the ship's keel felt the sunken rock. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">Pale Fitz-Stephen stood by the helm </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">`Mid all those folk that the waves must whelm; </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">A great King's heir for the waves to whelm, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">And the helpless pilot pale at the helm! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">With prayers in vain and curses in vain, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">The White Ship sundered on the mid-main, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">And what were men and what was a ship </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">Were toys and splinters in the sea's grip. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">He clutched the yard with panting stare, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">And we looked and knew Fitz-Stephen there. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">He clung, and `What of the prince?' quoth he, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">`Lost, lost' we cried. He cried, `Woe on me!' </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">And loosed his hold and sank through the sea." </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">-(Dante Gabriel Rossetti) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;">1 Strickland's Queens of England, I, 116; Taylor's Mss. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6d4f28; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2 The Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 192 et seq. </span></span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6d4f28; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The invasion by William the Conquerer in 1066AD was carried out by sea crossing, led by Thomas FitzStephen's father Stephen FitzAirard, who captained the MORA, lead ship in the invasion. In the Bayeaux Tapestry, it is the boat with the light standard afixed to the main mast. (far right in the image below).</span></span><br />
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Quebec City in Canada (Province of Quebec) is one of the oldest continually settled European colonies in North America (outside of Mexico). This town has been fought over for centuries and was French for about 1.5 centuries. In 1763 the Treaty of Paris ceded this part of North America to English Empire (French decided to keep Martinique and Guadeloupe since the sugar trade (powered by African Slaves) was more lucrative.) The French also keep St. Pierre and Miquelon because of access to rich fishing grounds on the Grand Banks. To the French, Quebec was 'quelques arpents de neiges' (several acres of snow) according to the French philosopher Voltaire (Cogno, ergo sum) (I think, therefore I am) was his famous revelation. Obviously he didn't think much of Quebec, otherwise he would have argued to keep it.....since it also was access to MidWest US up to and including Minnesota. Quebec has maintained its distinct French identity thru the centuries partly because of the Quebec Act by Lord Dorchester which allowed the King's subjects in British North America to maintain their religion (primarily if not exclusively Roman Catholic) and language, and manner of laws (based on Civil Law, making it the only jurisdiction in North America (other than Louisiana or Louisiane, which was also French, but sold to US by Napoleon to raise money for wars with the British Empire).</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cannons to fight off the French, or English or Americans. In the background (the green ....appears Cap Diamant (Cape Diamond) which occupies the highest point above the Fleuve St Laurent (St Lawrence River....a Fleuve is a major river that empties to the sea: there is tide water in Quebec City of up to 10 feet upon occasion)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This site contains the Fortress of Quebec, a British styled redoubt, fortress that is fortified with earthen and stone perimeter into which is built the quarters for small army contingent, including a dwelling for the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, the Viceroy representative of the Queen of Canada (presently Queen Elizabeth II).</span></b></div>
<br />John Dykemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503618131563300512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611114045013775019.post-21419122609150415822015-10-04T15:52:00.003-04:002015-10-04T15:52:27.128-04:00Autumn in Canada<h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Farmer's field in a suburb of Montreal provides good content for illustrating this concept.</span></h3>
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END OF GARDEN; ROT AND FINALITY.John Dykemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503618131563300512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611114045013775019.post-23898397587029158962014-10-25T20:37:00.001-04:002014-12-13T15:37:02.049-05:00cat scratching toilet paper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is an account of some successes<br />
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and some not so success over several years, but starting with this year's bounty.<br />
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Selection of space:<br />
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Garden has 3 8 foot x 8 foot plots, with clearance from 12 foot hedge by 6 feet on two sides. Additional plot space is 2 x 8 ft, plus another 4 x 12 foot, and a 6 x 12 foot plot. <br />
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So, total, is 64 x 3, + 48 + 16 + 72 sq ft. (metric sizes will follow) to roughly 300 sq ft. total size.<br />
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South facing lot (encircled by 12 foot hedge, and large sunshine drinking maple tree compete for sunlight) with 10 hours of sunlight on most of the main sections (8 x8 plots).<br />
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Tomatoes are taking about 45%, beans (climbing and bush), 30%, zucchini 10% and rest is some peas, beets, basil and rhubarb.<br />
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The total yield of this current planting will be 30 zuchinni, 4 bushels of tomatoes, 1 1/2 bushels of beans, and some peas (2-4 dinners total) and beets (marginal). The sheer amount of tomatoes (mostly Beafsteak, 20% roma), zucchini, and beans means there is for a 2 month span, 5x more than a family of 5 adults (sometimes 6) can consume during that time. Luckily tomatoes, zucchini squash and string beans can be cooked in a chili stew or pasta sauce and be stored.<br />
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Note that this Blog entry is a work in progress and will grow every week....<br />
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My background is Chemistry (MSc, BSc Honours) with considerable background in the infrared spectrometer sector, having worked at Bomem (now ABB) of Québec City which continue to produce high quality infrared spectrometers. Bomem, in the past, was a major contributor to supplying specialized spectrometers for study of ozone layer, both wing borne, in U2 high altitude aircraft (NASA owned and operated) and high resolution land based units at South Pole and at near North Pole, also for study of atmospheric gases (including CFC radicals, which are ozone layer scavengers) and other high altitude gases.<br />
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As such some of this background will support these fundamental arguments, so that, perhaps, some folks will start to understand the concept of 'greenhouse gases' and how it could (could, but most probably will) cause or accelerate global climate change. This is not to promote a cause from either side, just a simple, but from scientific principles, explain what the heck is greenhouse gas effect, and why should we care.<br />
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<u>What are Greenhouse Gases, and How it all Works.</u></h2>
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Climate change can be brought about by changes in the gases in the atmosphere. There is a mixture of gases in the atmosphere, mostly being nitrogen (N2, that is two identical atoms of nitrogen, bonded together in triple bond) and O2, oxygen molecule also with two identical atoms (O, or Oxygen), bonded together.<br />
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Both form symetrical diatomic (two atoms) molecule (a collection of 2 or more atoms...two being the simplest). They do not absorb energy in the infrared region (heat) and are therefore not considered to be contributing to the 'greenhouse' effect.<br />
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CO2 (carbon dioxide, three atoms), water (H2O), and methane (CH4) are all molecules that can exhibit vibrational motions, which are those that absorb infrared. This happens when the molecule has a dipole moment, which means they can have an asymmetry in their look, due to the stretching, wagging, scissoring vibration movements that can occur. Molecules are not rigid (well, maybe at absolute zero or 0K, -273.15C.) and so have this property of absorbing energy in the infrared region (which is from 1000nm and higher until microwave region).<br />
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CO2 sources are plants (at night, during day they use 'breath' CO2 and 'drink' water from soil to make sugar (chlorophyll does that, using sunlight), and liberates O2. Sugars are basic building block to make cellulose, which forms cell wall of plants, and imparts rigidity. Cellulose is for all intents and purposes, a polymeric form of sugar (which appear in different forms).<br />
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CO2 levels (concentrations) continue to rise and fall, but trend is upwards (to higher atmospheric concentrations, see below chart) so that now it has surpassed (for now) 400ppm in atmosphere. This is somewhat out of date, now we are 2014 (at time of writing). There is a correlation between atmospheric concentation of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, or so this chart is implying, so that for every 50ppm more of CO2, average worldwide temperature rise +0.5C. This is average, in entire world. Arctic is running above the average (+2-3C higher decade over decade) and other parts of world less, so this all contributes to an average. The old story about averages is 'two hands; one is in an heated oven (say, 500Kelvin, or 225C), one is in liquid nitrogen (77K, or about -210 C), and on the average, 15 C, its pretty comfortable',<br />
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<br />John Dykemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503618131563300512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611114045013775019.post-35814264101761019452014-05-06T23:00:00.002-04:002015-01-12T19:53:03.440-05:00Baker Field Columbia and Dyckman family in Manhattan<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Baker Field of Columbia University is at the northern tip of Manhattan Island, in New York City.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This land was previously part of the Dyckman farmland and estate, centered on the mansion, Mon Désir (My Desire) which was in the middle of this land. The topography here is flat, and only 30 feet (10 meters) above the Hudson (to the west), and Spuyten Duyvil (north) and East River. To the south, it is the highlands of Inwood Heights. This was also at one time, part of the Dyckman family farm holdings and it is where the Dyckman House (last Dutch style farmhouse on Manhattan Island) is situated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Baker Field area was sold at the turn of the last century to Columbia University for $700,000 which was obviously not a huge sum for such a valuable piece of property. However, Columbia didn't develop the land as a real estate venture, but preferred to keep this holding as a wide open area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Mon Désir mansion was kept as a place to house visiting teams and as equipment storage for up to the 1950's, but was razed to make way for more purpose built batiments. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">See the evolution of Spuyten Duyvil region over the centuries, as the channel was straightened to allow for ship travel. At the same time it was widened and dredged . The municipal borders remained the same so the northmost part of Manhattan, now part of the mainland, (Marble Hill) is still technically part of Manhattan. A bridge (called Farmer's or Dyckman Bridge) spanning the East River at one time is now a roadway (see middle panel). </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Spuyten Duyvel showing the marshland, and bridges (Farmers and Kingsbridge, which was Philipse toll bridge) Philipse Manor started directly north and was run with iron hand by Frederik Philipse, using slaves to build a feudal farming enterprise (of which Philipse was lord and master)</span></b>.</div>
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John Dykemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503618131563300512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611114045013775019.post-47286938849255858042014-04-11T22:53:00.002-04:002014-04-15T00:09:58.373-04:00one of the prettiest songs you'll ever hear....our late Jesse <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uKGWpqnS8E" target="_blank">Jesse Winchester Sham-a-ling-dong ding</a></b><br />
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More about Jesse Winchester (amazing songwriter / singer).<br />
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https://music.yahoo.com/blogs/music-news/remembering-jesse-winchester-165957116.html?bcmt=comments-postbox<br />
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