We just visited Cathers Lake in Nanaimo. We see a lot of houses built around the lake and we wondered if it is safe to swim in? There are lots of row boats and docks with the houses. Just want to know if it is clean enough to swim in.
Thanks.
I want to start off by stating this should not be noteworthy at all and I don't want to suggest in any manner that those who are not born here are not worthy of being an MLA. Rather, I just want to highlight double standards.
In late 2019 during question period, Brad Cathers told Sandy Silver in an off-mic comment to "go back to Antigonish" during a feisty exchange (https://www.whitehorsestar.com/News/cathers-comment-to-premier-riles-liberals). As expected, this was not well received.
Why am I bringing this up? I'm fairly certain Brad Cathers is originally from Ontario. Yes, he was raised here, but I believe he was not born here.
If you are critiquing someone to go back where they are from, but you yourself were not born here as well; you can see the hypocrisy.
I would not be looking into this, or even writing about it, if Cathers did not use this as a point of criticism for others. Again, this should not be noteworthy and it truly does not matter where someone is from.
My reasoning for thinking this:
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Nowhere in any of Brad's campaign materials does it mention he was born and raised here, which is something that is often explicitly highlighted. Closest reference to his origins states he "has lived in the electoral district of Lake Laberge since 1983".
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Cathers references his experience prior to being an MLA as part owner of the outdoor company "Cathers Wilderness Adventures". On their company about us page, it states the family started guiding canoe trips in northern Ontario in 1975 and then moved to a cabin on Lake Laberge in 1983.
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Brad states he is 43 years old. This means he was approximately born in 1978.
Reading in between the lines from these three points suggests that he was born in Ontario and grew up in the territory once he was five.
If you are talking with him, please ask him for his thoughts about this and the Antigonish comment.
Hello everyone. I've got an issue that I haven't been able to solve so I'm turning to the community for help. Here's my objective. I'm attempting to recreate an interior real estate photo to virtually stage with CG furniture. Once done, I in theory would set the room as a shadow catcher and render out just the furniture and shadows. Doing this in practice works okay expect for a very obvious bug that I can't get around. Once I set the room as a shadow catcher in the object properties, additional light seemingly passes through what should be a solid wall to cast unrealistic shadows across the floor and all realistic bounce light shadows from the window are seemingly gone.
Here's a visual example of what I'm talking about https://imgur.com/a/8XxyQ0j. The first image has the correct shadows that I want, but the room is still rendered. Note I only want the furniture and shadows. The second image is when the room is set to shadow catcher which produces incorrect shadows. It's almost like the exterior sun is passing through what should be the wall and is casting long dark shadows across the floor.
I've tried blocking the sun with a plane outside the room, but this also casts dark shadows across the shadow catcher. I've tried compositing just the shadow data from the rendered layer, but all light bounces within the room is considered a shadow since the sun originates outside. The only way I've been able to "properly" render out the furniture and shadows is by faking bounce light with an area light inside the room, which doesn't look good and defeats the purpose of recreating the existing sunlight to light the entire room.
Is there any way to get around this inherent bug in the built in shadow catcher function?
Edit: Misspelled "Catcher" in the title. Well, too late now!
I've had ambitions to become a reader for years having convinced my Dad at the age of 70 to become an avid reader for the remainder of his life. I had started a couple Willa Cather books in the past 10 years but found them unexciting and never went far before putting them down.
O Pioneers is a wonderful book. Willa Cather, in spite of having written this book around a century ago, is not overly romantic or sentimental. It's both a window into the past and into the present.
I'm a little upset by her sympathetic treatment of Frank. If anyone is familiar with the book can you share your thoughts. I suppose he was forced into farming by his father in law and it didn't suit him. Marie on the other hand is treated less sympathetically.
It appears I'm well on my way to becoming a reader. I don't think my Dad read this book. It was another Nebraska based book Old Jules that got dad started.
On December 7th 1873 Willa Cather was born. She is best known for writing My Antonia.
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The only trend I could find is that the main characters in these stories seek for happiness in a selfish way and dont find it within themselves instead they rely on things like money or drugs or sex to bring them happiness. However, I cant figure out how to connect that to Lydia Davisβs story since she never says the murder was a way for the house to find happiness, it made both houses very unhappy. Now I'm back at square 1 looking for the trend the professor intends for us to find.
I just finished βCatcher in the Ryeβ by Salinger (with the bias/precondition of reading it to find connections with Banana Fish) and I discovered several parallels between the two. Because I read it with a biased POV some of these parallels are likely misinterpretations of the novel; but otherwise they share (along with βA Perfect Day for Bananafish) a strong theme of preserving innocence.
-Overall: Holden Caulfield and Ash aim to protect the innocence of another person: Holden wishes to keep Phoebe innocent (this is my interpretation, as when referring to her he says things like βCertain things they should stay the way they areβ and in the end, watching her go around the carousel seemed like a way of forever maintaining her childlike innocence), while Ash tries to keep Eiji innocent by keeping him away from guns/violence.
Smaller parallels (although some of these mayβve been coincidental):
-this quote by Holden: βWhen I was really drunk, I started that stupid business with the bullet in my guts again. I was the only guy at the bar with a bullet in their guts. I kept putting my hand under my jacket, on my stomach and all, to keep the blood from dripping all over the place. I didn't want anybody to know I was even wounded. I was concealing the fact that I was a wounded sonuvabitch. β Holden was likely talking about being hurt mentally but I couldnβt help but visualize Ash here (but with a stab wound instead).
-Mr. Antolini, Holdenβs former teacher, talks about how he sees Holden βI can very clearly see you dying nobly, one way or another, for some highly unworthy cause." This reminded me of Ash, although the βcauseβ referred to by Mr. Antolini mayβve likely been something else. He also talked to Holden about being one of the unfortunate men who was going to end up in βa special kind of fall, a horrible kind...[He] isnβt permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling.β I thought he was referring to something else other than future/fate here, as he follows with talking about how these men βwere looking for something their own environment couldnβt supply them with.β However, several pages later, while walking and crossing a street, Holden expresses fearfully how βEvery time I came to the end of a block and stepped off the goddam curb, I had this feeling that I'd never get to the other side of the street. I thought I'd just go down, down, down, and nobody'd ever see me again.β This first made me wonder if it had any relati
... keep reading on reddit β‘I'm looking for a novel set in Western Europe(Germany, France, London, Scotland, Spain..etc) about a young man who goes and explores around his city. In America we have "Catcher in the Rye" where Holden explore the city and even talks to cab riders.
In Europe, I was reading Demian and it reminded me a bit about Catcher, expect with more philosophical themes about and it seemed like the war affected him more directly.
What I'm looking for:
1-Story about young man.
2-Exploring Western Europe. Walking around the cities, interacting with people, giving us an "intimate look" of Western European life.
3- Any period between 1920s to the present day.
4-Bildungsroman, coming of age story.
5- Preferably slice of life, I'm interested in everyday people not in crime...etc.
Excited to hear from you guys!
