Another good day of accomplishment with the back patio ready for winter. Still a couple of tasks, covering the air conditioner today and sweeping up the leaves on the front patio and laneway. Raking will be the next but gradually. I am not in a rush. It looked like a good frost last night so it will be time to cut the plants down. Pull up the weeds in the gardens and let that lay to rot on the ground for goodness. Lots to do out there and will put in maybe one to two hours per day. That is good for an 80 year old I think plus I have a lot of other things that I want to do.
Reviewed cross over points for Chromosomes 22, 21 and 20 and made a couple of small changes. I refined the methodology somewhat and found that worked very well and was quicker. I am reviewing all of the matches in each chromosome and putting "too small" samples into a folder within the folder of matches for that particular chromosome. It will trim it up. I have so many matches for each chromosome. Living DNA results allowed me to fine tune some of the cross over points with respect to results from 23 and Me, Ancestry tests taken into Gedmatch, My Heritage and FT DNA. I also worked on Chromosome 17 and did it completely. Chromosome 16 is the next one to verify as it too has been set up. I still have to review Chromosome 19 and may start with that today and then move to 16 reviewing the crossover points with the collected data. The small discrepancies spotted have now pretty much been resolved. Part of that is the points chosen by the different companies and these will likely be somewhat fluid around the crossover points in some cases. Although they appear to be fairly rare now.
I discovered during a search that Family Search has put the original Siderfin book up so must be speedy and send them the new one and the companion book. I have meant to do it for quite a while but it just didn't seem to happen so will get that done today hopefully as well. Family Search has this all online now and I just finished submitting the corrected copy and the companion book. Publishing is an interesting idea and really easy with a Creative Commons License but also time consuming if I have to do more than just submit it and accept on line conditions. It is a free download from my website.
I need to work on the Family Albums as well; got away from that for a bit so will try to get back to that tomorrow. Probably I should dedicate time to that and that would keep me working on it solidly instead of like a guilt trip for not doing it!
Salmon, mashed potatoes and peas for dinner last night. It was really quite excellent but a lot of work for sure. The salmon was cooked to perfection and today I will do a salmon salad, potato salad and peas once again although I could do brussel sprouts a real favourite of mine.
Already the 10th of October, one third of the way through the month pretty much but winter is definitely headed our way. Snow for the prairies and that dampens down any remaining fires.
I very much prefer an eastern pipeline to Ontario (there is a pipeline to the west coast and it isn't fully utilized) and perhaps there could be a station that sends it south and east. Ontario needs to refine its own and save the money on that. If we are going to lose a portion of the American car industries that are here in Ontario we need to compensate for that making work for those workers and saving on the cost of buying our own oil back. One can not see the picture that is emerging yet with the car industries although jobs are moving south. The reality remains that if the cars are not made here in sufficient numbers by the American companies we will buy Canadian made something else. The American car manufacturers had a good system that worked for them and I realize that part of that was our health care system which made it cheaper for them to employ people here than in the United States keeping down their employee costs (our dollar is lower as well now making it cheaper to employ Canadians but that happened at the time of the Stock Market crash in 2008 and the dollar remains low compared to the American dollar). However the tariff has changed all of that for the American car makers.
At 41 million we are a huge consumer base plus we buy a lot of cars; this is a very large country and you can not really get anywhere unless you have a car. The cities have lots of transport but once outside it is limited and you need a car. Once the highway is twinned across Northern Ontario there will be a huge change in how traffic flows across Canada and it is already occurring in spite of the two lane road from Renfrew to the Manitoba border (there are some lengths that are twinned in that distance). A huge length to cover but if Ontario simply concentrates on building that road they could have it done much sooner - it has taken a decade to go from Arnprior to Renfrew which is maybe 25 kilometres. Somewhat ridiculous and it doesn't matter which government is in power in Ontario. Increasing roads in Toronto is a mistake; increasing population particularly in Toronto (and it is always by immigration) is a mistake. We do not need a huge number of immigrants; we do not need to pick skilled workers from other countries. We need to employ/train our own and the mindset has to change in our public schools directing children towards jobs that are needed. We need to employ those children from our schools and not create situations where they have to go elsewhere to get a job. We lose all that talent and it has been going on since my husband graduated with his PhD in Chemistry back in 1970. None of his classmates got a tenure track job in Canada - somewhat ridiculous at the time. Canadians should always get the first crack at the jobs.
I do realize that "fresh ideas" from elsewhere are good in an academic situation but we do not need more than a few here and there (the presence of too many Palestinians and Palestinian supporters in our universities came through pretty clearly at the time of the barbaric attach by Hamas on Israel (Hamas being the government of the Palestinians and the Palestinians cheered that in Gaza and here I am unhappy to say)). The demonstrations were eventually put down but the destruction of university property even if was just the lawn (our universities are publicly owned and supported by the government) was costly and irresponsible (they did not clean up their mess at that time and should have been made to at least do that) - it should never happen again like that. Hate language is illegal in this country and we experienced too much of that at that time that was not prosecuted and should have been and still could be. It is very important and an absolute necessity to primarily employ Canadians that have come up through our education system (which must necessarily be free of people in a teaching position who commit to ideas that are not historically accurate). Plus the Palestinians (Muslim community) could have brought many many of those children here (instead of inflicting their views on us by barricading our universities and destroying public property) and forcing us to watch what happens to the children when one country invades another and that country retaliates.
Prayers continuing for the hostages still held in a barbaric fashion by Hamas two years later and their safe return to their loving families.
Tea drank and must do my solitaire puzzles. Beautiful sun today but it was minus 2 degrees celsius when I started this blog; up to minus 1 degrees celsius now
I see the Nobel Peace Prize went to the Leader of the Opposition in Venezuela (except she actually won the election but the present government refused to give up power so is basically a dictatorship). Congratulations to her.
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