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Going Home Soon Photos/Pupdate at 7 weeks of age on Jan 28th!
​Toddler Photos/Pupdate at 5 weeks of age on Jan 14th!
These beautiful babes are crawling around their pen with surprising speed! Mommy Sadie is a natural- she checks her babies often but is beginning to spend more time away from them (which is normal and healthy as they start to wean). They are beginning to eat "puppy cereal" and doing well on solids. They have been introduced to the potty grid, and while they don't have perfect aim yet, they are on track! Puppies had their first bath this week as well.
Eyes Open Photos/Pupdate on December 31st (3 weeks of age)!
 Sadie is feeding them often... they are growing by leaps and bounds. Their eyes are open and they are beginning to toddle actively about their whelping box. We are excited to hopefully introduce them to the toddler pen this week.
Welcome to the world, precious babies! Sadie had 6 beautiful babies. Mom and pups are doing well, every pup nursed immediately and was a healthy birth weight. They are all growing at a normal and are thriving!Sarawak Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Dr Abang Johari Tun Openg (center) at the launching of Sarawak Pay. With him is Tan Sri Dr James Jemut Masing (right) dan Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah (left).
KUCHING: The state government has launched Sarawak Pay, a mobile app that allows cashless payment of bills and selected retailers in the state.
Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg said this was part of Sarawak's efforts to introduce a digital economy and prepare for the future.
"We have to match the aspirations of our young people. We must leave a legacy for them and enable them to embrace global economic growth.
"To do this, we have no option but to embrace technology to develop the state and give a better future to Sarawakians," he said when launching the app at the State Legislative Assembly here on Wednesday.
Abang Johari said Sarawak Pay, which enables payment through electronic wallet (e-wallet), credit card or online banking, would pave the way for new ways of doing business transactions.
"The e-wallet is going to be a new form of payment. We want to enable the new generation of Sarawakians to embrace financial technology," he added.
Sarawak Pay has a "scan and pay" feature that facilitates payment by scanning a QR code on a bill or displayed by a retailer.
Hotel and 14 outlets at Riverside Majestic Hotel.
Next year, the state government will expand the "scan and pay" feature to all government agencies, other utility bills and local retailers.
Author and journalist Catherine Kemp decided to tell her grandmother’s story.
We Ain’t Got No Drink, Pa Hilda Kemp A Little Girl’s Struggle to Survive in the Slums of 1920s South East London. This book is true story written by Cathryn Kemp with the voice of her matriarchal Nan in her head.
‘We Ain’t Got No Drink, Pa’ by Hilda Kemp. Cathryn Kemp channels the voice of her grandmother Hilda who struggled to survive a harsh upbringing in 1920’s East London. Hilda’s Bermondsey was a place of drunkeness and casual violence. Cathryn tells Josephine why she chose to share her grandmother’s story in this way.
The majority of people are aware of humanity’s less-than-hygienic history. Between fabricating eyebrows from the skin of a mouse, a British monarch’s belief that a bath would be detrimental to his health, the Romans’ use of lye (An ash and urine mixture) to wash clothes and taking more than 300,000 years to invent toilet paper, we’ve had far from a sterile track record.
What most people are not aware of, are the smells involved with such methods of ‘Hygiene’. The following list is a collection of delightful aromas from a period that coincided with the Romantic Era, but they are not nearly as charming. Brace yourself—It’s Georgian England.
The word ‘Perfume’ comes from the Latin for ‘To scent by smoking’. The first perfumes were used to protect against the plague, as it was believed that disease could be prevented by ‘Purifying the air and warding off bad odours’. By the second half of 18th century, Otto of Rose had become the most popular perfume. It was concocted by heating rose petals and water in a copper still, and then extracting the oil from the mixture.
The Otto of Rose’s popularity was largely owed to the horror of prior perfumes. Civet was a perfume extracted from a gland near the anus of the civet cat. Seemingly Georgians began to feel that the wearing of substances removed from a cat’s bum was rather ungentlemanly.
During Georgian England, there was an utter explosion of social life. In the 17th century, men often congregated to smoke their pipes in coffee houses, but by the 1700s tobacco had earned itself an unsavoury connotation. The Georgians believed that women could not tolerate tobacco smoke which led to allegations of women leaving their husbands if they refused to part with their pipes. Puffing a pipe in public was also regarded as being impolite.
As a replacement, Georgians began to snuff; the snorting of finely ground tobacco up one’s nostril. While this was fashionable, some believed it to be abhorrent. There were a number of unpleasant side-effects that went along with it; coughing, grunting and spitting. The main benefit was that it didn’t invade other people’s personal space, as a wafting cloud of tobacco smoke would. That said, people gathered at church were reported as being disgruntled by the noises produced by those snuffing during mass!
Marketplaces in Georgian England were very different to the supermarkets of today. There were no food safety standards, packaging or use-by dates, so ‘Caveat Emptor’ (‘Let the buyer beware’) applied. Purchasing gone-off food could cause disease and could offend your house guests. To prevent this, household manuscripts were printed to inform Georgians how to test their food. Meat and fish were tested by sniffing; if they had a ‘slimy’ smell, they should be avoided.
Pheasants were examined around the neck to check that they didn’t have a ‘tainted’ smell. Butter also needed to be checked before purchase, but buyers were warned to bring their own knife to test, as a merchant could simply offer the best piece of the stick.
Billingsgate women, who sold fish, were notorious for being sweaty and angry at their customers. For some, testing their goods appeared insulting. It suggested that they were seen as not trustworthy. Because of this, some Georgians wouldn’t be cod dead participating in such practices.
Although this smell may indeed seem like a rather strange proposal, the smell of paint is one that is regularly referenced in Georgian diaries. Because redecorating was not a common occurrence, this smell was a memorable one. Georgian paints were concocted from a mixture of linseed oil and turpentine, and as a result they had a particularly noticeable and pungent odor.
Bernardino Ramazzini was an Italian physician who first suggested that the ingredients used in paint production often led to producers losing their sense of smell. In fact, he was so engrossed in smells that he believed that someone should write, ‘A natural and physical history of odors’!
The smell of ammonia is one that is particularly difficult to mistake. The substance itself is composed of a combination of hydrogen and nitrogen, most commonly found in fermenting urine.
This smell provokes our trigeminal nerve—A type of nerve associated with facial expressions. The Georgians became obsessed with nerves. A person with sensitive nerves was held to a higher regard in society. Women were believed to be particularly disposed to anxiety. Ammonia was used to ‘Revive the senses’. Georgian novels and dramas even depicted heroines sniffing corked bottles of ammonia! Georgians later believed that smelling salts could be used to revive people who had been drowned or asphyxiated.
However ammonia was not the only maddening technique that was tested—One method even involved pumping a tobacco smoke emena up one’s rear end—Indeed an unpleasant wake-up call.
The Industrial Revolution occurred at the same time as Georgian England. At this time, there was massive urbanization. There was an opening opportunity for townspeople to purchase exotic ingredients and to create more sophisticated sweets. Marzipan became a particular favorite. Crafted from almonds, sugar and rose water, they were easily made and not unaffordable. Marzipan sweets were generally eaten at the end of a meal, and they had a distinct almond-like smell.
While they were delicious treats, marzipan was also used in sculpture—Including making people, animals and castle—A decidedly fashionable model. The creations were then left at the centre of the dining table, and became a hallmark of Georgian decoration.
The Georgians may have used marzipan in sculpture, but the real