Dec 30 2024 - First Name Goldy

 

There's a full-page spread in the Globe and Mail promoting boards to accept members who have disabilities.  The panel of recruiting members included a person with the first name Goldy.  And it was a man and not a woman.  This was a name more popular at the turn of the century - between 1891 and 1908.  It is an English or Scottish name with English being Golden and Scottish being Goldie.  So somewhere along the line Goldy is also a variant.   Are there more feminine baby boy names than Goldy?  Here's a starting list: Mackie Osha Belindo Emlin Gidi Jano Eilo Kusa I wouldn't have known that these were names.  What about the most popular non-binary baby names: Rowan River Brooks Quinn Ryder Zion Sage  Here are a few that are considered unique non-binary baby names:  Egypt  Denim  Bronx  Chale  Jalin  Dandelion  Do you want an edgy non-binary baby name:  Jett  Aspen  Briar  Opal  Sloan  It moves on to "Cute" and then "More".  All this from the bump HERE.  It makes me think of the crazy animals in a carousel.

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Sep 9 2024 - Speeding Tickets

 

When it comes to speeding tickets, Australia is way ahead of us.   There's an article that says they have point-to-point speed cameras that keep track of heavy vehicles and track the average speed between two points to give out speeding tickets.  These cameras prevent motorists from momentarily slowing down where a mobile traffic camera only records a vehicle's speed at the time it passes the camera.   Doesn't that make our photo radar cameras seem quaint now. They are going to apply this tracking to all cars and on two trial locations in NSW.  They say the intention is reduce road deaths.  Studies show that point-to-point cameras work in reducing fatalities.   I see one article says that India has the highest level of road deaths - 40%.  According to WHO, if you lived in Guinea, the mortality rate is 37.45 per 100,000 inhabitants.That's the highest in the world according to WHO, as is the African continent. Then the Middle East, then Asia, and the rest of us after that.   In the U.S. it is quite high - 14.2, Italy is 5.0,  Canada is 4.7, Australia is 4.5, the Netherlands is 3.4.  Norway has the point-to-point system and it is the lowest in the world at 1.5.   These might be older numbers as it looks like Iceland is now the safest country at 2.1, then Norway, Switzerland and Sweden all at 2.2.  Norway is also ranked as the strictest country for driving rules.   Our Grimsby photo radar camera was last lying on the ground, having been vandalized.  If we have such a violent response to this, I wonder what would happen with point-to-point cameras.  I hadn't thought of Canadians as this feisty.

A beautiful carousel in Minneapolis a few years ago.

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Itchy Brain

Pain and itch have very different behavioral response patterns. Pain evokes a withdrawal reflex, which leads to retraction and therefore a reaction trying to protect an endangered part of the body. Itch in contrast creates a scratch reflex, which draws one to the affected skin site. Itch generates stimulus of a foreign object underneath or upon the skin and also the urge to remove it. For example, responding to a local itch sensation is an effective way to remove insects from one's skin. With this definition, we should find all kinds of things to buy.  Itch.io is a site to buy games and more games.  Here's the latest twitter feed:  "Frozen dirt: short arcade-style touhou fangame". Itchcode.com - it is a safe, online learning environment with video lessons for your students.  What about learning to work at Itch.  itch-recruitment.   Here's auntieitch.com - it is drug-free, herbal free, with fast itch relief.  Scratchyouritch.com - in this episode of Scratch Your Itch, we interview Trevor Ragan.  Trevor is the founder of TrainUgly.com and creates viral videos around learning and mindset. Thisisitch.com is a creative production company, specializing in ideas and content production for broadcast and corporate films. There's 10yearitch.com - looking to travel to India? Zenstoptheitch.com.au - contains 100% natural mineral salt potassium Alum Slate in distilled Australia water. Answertheitch.com - chemical allergies to things like Thiuram Mix is something most have never heard of.  And our itching joke:   When Juan told me he was scratching himself during a questionnaire, I was surprised. After all, nobody expects the Spanish in-quiz itching. I found this carousel in Sacramento at the Galleria Mall across the street.  Isn't this amazing with its turquoise walls and light above?  And what about the cat that has caught a red herring!

What Everest Throws Up!

The hindustantimes headline is incredible and macabre proof of climate change: "Melting glaciers throw up bodies of dead climbers on Mount Everest" The article from the Indo Asian News Service in Kathmandu says this is the result of melting glaciers and snow - bodies of climbers on and around the world's highest peak are being found.  Did you know that more than 200 mountaineers have died on the peak since 1922? That's when the first deaths were recorded. There wasn't much else in the article - the headline seemed to be the news. The sources quoted in the article had the surname "Sherpa".  And I thought I knew a sherpa was a job. Initially it is a group of people who migrated to Nepal from Eastern Tibet.  And it is a job description on a formal trekking crew - this is separate from the ethnic Sherpas.  In the article on Sherpas, there is a picture of three men.  The caption is: "Pemba Dorje Sherpa (center), Nima Gyalzen Sherpa (left) and Phurba Tenzing Sherpa (right). Many Sherpas are named after the day of the week." There it is again, people with the surname Sherpa.  And there's more to their names than I could imagine.    "When a Sherpa is not a Dorje Lhakpa, he is a Lhakpa Dorje. Moreover, the Sherpa custom of naming children after the days of the week leads to too many Pasang Sherpas, Pemba Sherpas, and Phurba Sherpas," wrote Thamal. "Many Sherpas are named after the day of the week. Pasang is Friday, Pemba is Saturday. This custom places the child under the protection of that day's deity. Many Sherpa children also receive a virtue name such as Lhamo which means "beautiful," or Gyaltshen which means "courageous speech." On top of this there are a bunch of commonly used names such as Tenzing (meaning steadiness and support) from the scriptures of Tibetan Buddhism.  Here is a list of Sherpa names: www.sherpakyidug.org." All this information comes from CNN travel - Sherpafacts. I have been continuing on the Lakeshore Living series.  This one is a work in progress - I want to get the Port Dalhousie carousel into the series.

Port Dalhousie Carousel

Port Dalhousie has an extensive sandy beach with lots of space.  It was full of sunbathers and picnickers yesterday.  Nearby, the historic carousel was busy with children and adults on the animal rides. Here's more this amazing carousel from http://www.stcatharines.ca/en/experiencein/lakesideparkcarousel.asp "The smiles and laughter which the Lakeside Park Carousel inspire are a century-old tradition! For 5 cents a ride, you can experience the carousel's magic and its wonderful ability to bring out the child in all of us. The carousel is a timeless tradition connecting our past, present and future generations. The Lakeside Carousel is a Charles I.D. Looff original, carved between 1898 and 1905 in Brooklyn, New York. The beautifully restored animals were carved by Looff's factory workers, including Marcus Charles Illions, who later went on to become a famed carousel-maker in his own right. Relocated in 1921, the carousel came to St. Catharines from its earlier home at an amusement park in Scarborough now part of the City of Toronto. It was purchased for the amusement park flourishing in Port Dalhousie, which had 58 attractions. In those days, more than a quarter million people crossed the lake in steamships to visit Port Dalhousie on weekends. The carousel has 68 animals, including horses, lions, camels, goats and giraffes, and four chariots. The accompanying music is played by an antique Frati band organ which uses a system of paper music rolls to serenade riders. Each animal has been hand carved and the horses still have real horsehair tails. The carousel animals have all been carefully restored by the Friends of the Carousel, who continue with annual maintenance and repair work to keep the carousel in sound working order. The Lakeside Park Carousel is one of approximately 350 antique hand carved carousels still operating in North America - only nine of which are in Canada - and is considered fairly unique in size. The original Looff lion on the Lakeside Park Carousel is one of five existing Looff lions in all of North America and it is the only one that has its head turned to watch onlookers as it circles by. The second lion on the Carousel was carved in 2004 by the Friends of the Carousel to replace the original lion that was stolen in the 70s."