Double Daisies

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Byline

Image copyright Foto Fransen

Friday music – See the girl with red dress on

Posted on July 31, 2010 by NJN Network

The genius of Ray Charles from Brazil 1963. One more time baby one more time. What’d I say

Senior Islanders with Disabilities need your support

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Stephen Pate

Minister’s office wants two letters is support of nomination of Disabled for Award

Minister Janice Sherry needs 2 letters to support disabled nomination

Rules are rules and the Minister’s office has asked us to provide two letter of support for our nomination 0f 8,940 Island Seniors with Disabilities for the Island Seniors of the Year Award.

We are asking for public support.

A letter of support should state why you think Senior Islanders with Disabilities should get the award but not be more than 3 pages. One page would probably do it.

The letter of support would contain the persons being nominated for the Award (8,980 Senior Islanders with Disabilities), a brief statement of your reasons and their contribution to PEI, your name and address. Continue reading →

Jets Overhead Sure Sign

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Stephen Pate

Antonia sends greetings and tour info

Sure Sign from Q interview March 2010

Happy Summertime Greetings, everyone!

The weather couldn’t be more perfect and gorgeous, everyone is feeling healthy and supple, and there is music in the air. We are thrilled to be a part of the Hornby Island Festival, and can’t wait to take the stage this Sunday, August 1st, at Olsen’s Farm – a stunning, sweeping, piece of land that sits on the southwest tip of the most achingly beautiful of all the Gulf Islands in Canada. This is one of Canada’s magic spots – it shimmers in the air, the push and pull of the warm ocean water, the yellow cliffs throbbing, and the forest singing all night long with a thousand swaying branches and shaking leaves. It is also the island where we recorded much of No Nations.
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PEI Senior Islanders of the Year 2010 Nominee

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Stephen Pate

Disability Alert nominates the 8,980 Senior Islanders with Disabilities who are unknown to Minister Sherry

Forgotten seniors with disabilities (image: Stratford Meals on Wheels)

Dear Honorable Janice Sherry, Minister of Community Services, Seniors and Labour,

We, that is Disability Alert, wish to nominate for PEI Senior Islanders of the Year Award the 8,980 Islanders who are 65 years of age and older living with disabilities. Continue reading →

Bob Dylan Bootleg # 9 due in October 2010

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Stephen Pate

Bob Dylan

Isis Magazine -

The next Bootleg Series release, Volume 9, will will indeed be “a set of non-live recordings, well-known to collectors”, as stated. Although based on “The Witmark Demos”, sources say it will include some Leeds demo recordings as well. There are said to be 47 tracks. There is no information as to the packaging for this release.

Bob Dylan Mono box set

Each album in “The 8-CD set of Dylan’s earliest albums in mono” will have a paper sleeve and the set will be in a slipcase, with a booklet, including liner notes by Greil Marcus. The albums will be from “Bob Dylan” to “John Wesley Harding” and it is believed that all are being freshly mastered for this release, using first issue copies of the mono LPs for reference, in order to ensure that they get the sound to match that on the albums when they were first released. Back at that time, albums were principally mixed for mono release, with less care and attention being paid to the stereo mixes, and many collectors prefer the mono versions. None have been issued officially on CD in mono before, although mono bootleg CDs are not unknown. Continue reading →

Sir Paul McCartney performs at White House

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Stephen Pate

Winning George Gershwin Prize and charming everyone

There is some amazing television this summer on PBS. Last night’s performance at the White House featuring Paul McCartney was one of the best.

Dave Grohl singing Band on the Run (the intro is weak but wait until Dave starts rocking!)

As a Canadian I keep asking myself: why can’t our public broadcaster give us more quality programming like PBS?

McCartney was receiving the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song and performed many of his hits, along with musical friends Dave Grohl, Jack White, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, EmmyLou Harris and others. You have to sing for your supper when at the White House apparently.
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Will nude beach at Blooming Point be Bare Island ?

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Stephen Pate

CBC discovers new island at western end of Blooming Point but fails to tell the back story

"Bare Island" off Blooming Point beach (photo: CBC, Kevin Yarr, Pat Martel)

CBC has been reporting a new island was created when a channel developed at Blooming Point. Story and reader comments failed to clarify if island was created on the nude section of the beach or not.

A new island is always an exciting event. The CBC story and photo gallery give us excellent waterside and aerial views of the new island created from Blooming Point.

The winter tides created the island by pushing a channel through the sand dunes into Tracadie Bay.

The obvious question to Islanders is: what happened to the sunbathers? Are they stranded on an island? If so, that will create a new water taxi service for some enterprising person. Is the water taxi operator nude or does he/she dress/undress in the channel? Continue reading →

Brookvale gets mountain bike trail

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Byline

Only one word – cool

Tourism and Culture Minister, Robert Vessey, MLA Valerie Docherty and Executive Director of Cycling PEI, Mike Connolly.

Tourism and Culture Minister, Robert Vessey, teamed up for the official launch of the new “Brookvale Mountain Bike Park” with local MLA Valerie Docherty and Executive Director of Cycling PEI, Mike Connolly. The new bike park will operate on Saturdays until the end of August from 12 noon until 4 p.m. The cost of the lift ticket is $10 and all riders must be members of Cycling PEI. Memberships, both full and single day, will be available on site. (Text from Province of PEI)

L’ouverture officielle du Brookvale Mountain Bike Park a eu lieu aujourd’hui, en présence du ministre du Tourisme et de la Culture, Robert Vessey; du directeur technique de Cycling PEI, Duncan Sturz (assis); du coordonnateur d’activités de Cycling PEI, Steve Flanagan; du directeur général de Cycling PEI, Mike Connolly; et de la députée locale, Valerie Docherty. Le parcours de descente du nouveau parc sera ouvert les samedis, de 12 h à 16 h, jusqu’à la fin du mois d’août. Il en coûte 10 $ pour un billet de remonte-pente. Tous les cyclistes doivent être membres de Cycling PEI. Il sera possible de devenir membre sur place, à long terme ou pour une seule journée.

Now can we have a cycle path connecting National Park, Provincial Parks and the towns and cities of PEI?

Anniversary of ADA brings presidential order to hire more disabled workers

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Byline

Less than 1% of the US Federal workforce have disabilities

Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) speaks at an event to mark the American With Disabilities Act's 20th anniversary. The House also voted this week to make the Internet and television more accessible. (Alex Brandon/associated Press)

By Lisa Rein Washington Post

As the country marks the 20th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act this week, the Obama administration and Congress are taking steps to give the disabled greater access to federal jobs and technology.

Under a new executive order from President Obama, federal agencies will step up efforts to hire 100,000 disabled employees over the next five years. Ten years ago this month, President Bill Clinton laid out the same goal in a similar order, Obama wrote in Monday’s order, but “few steps were taken to implement [the order] in subsequent years.”

According to a report released this week by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, workers with targeted disabilities — including deafness, blindness, missing extremities, mental retardation and partial or complete paralysis — represent less than 1 percent of the federal workforce.

The order directs the Office of Personnel Management, in consultation with the Labor Department, the EEOC and the Office of Management and Budget, to design strategies within 60 days for recruiting and hiring disabled workers. Personnel managers at government agencies must be trained in employing the disabled. Agencies will then be required to develop plans for recruiting and keeping the workers. Continue reading →