Artist Alice Sinclair and her husband Len stand next to her winning painting of a family truck at the Taieri Art Group Exhibition in Mosgiel two weeks ago. Photo supplied.

Alice Sinclair painted an old Karrier truck that had been a part of her family for 57 years, and won the award for best Taieri painting in the Taieri Art Group Exhibition two weeks ago.

The truck was one of the first bought by Mrs Sinclair's husband Len and his brother Ray in 1957, as part of their local contracting business.

The painting clearly showed the truck's original paintwork with ''R and L Sinclair Contractors, Mosgiel'' written on the door.

''It's a well-known truck,'' Mrs Sinclair said.

It was used to cart logs, firewood and gravel from Outram to Dunedin airport.

Local farmers also used it to cart hay and Mrs Sinclair had even driven it herself.

''It was used everywhere.''

The truck is no longer in its prime and lies dormant in long grass behind the Sinclairs' home.

Mrs Sinclair said they hoped to have it restored at some point, but she was not sure when.

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PATERSON The citys Historic Preservation Commission has named various individuals, businesses and organizations as recipients of its annual awards.

The Good Graces Award went to Alpine Painting & Sandblasting Contractors for their leadership and generous donations of resources and professional expertise to help the community in repainting Patersons field of dreams, Hinchliffe Stadium, a National, State and Municipal Historic Landmark.

Scott Seale won the Stewardship Award for a Paterson Historic Commercial Building for his efforts to maintain and preserve the historic character of his historic commercial building.

Related Management will be honored with the Stewardship Award for a Paterson Historic Industrial Building for the companys preservation of the Essex and Phoenix Mills building in the 1st Ward.

The Passaic County Board of Chosen Freeholders will be recognized for the Restoration of Lambert Tower with the Stewardship Award for Outstanding Public Project in Historic Restoration/Rehabilitation.

The Commission will also honor The Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson for its rehabilitation of St. Michaels Church with the Stewardship Award for Rehabilitation of a Paterson Historic Ecclesiastical Building.

The preservation commissions annual awards dinner is scheduled for Wed., Oct. 29 at 6:30 pm at the Hamilton & Ward Steakhouse in the Center City Mall. Tickets are $65 per person, for a buffet dinner and dessert. Profits realized from the event will be dedicated to the Historic Markers Fund administered by the Commission.

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LEDs are in the news of course, because the trio of researchers that invented the blue-light variety just won the Nobel Prize in physics. Their work has led to LEDs that are bright enough to use in regular lighting applications but use far less energy and last much longer. In this new effort, the research pair suggests that there is a side-effect of LED lighting that might cause ecological problems.

Modern street lights are generally sodium vapor lampsthey're more efficient than most other pre-LED lighting and emit yellow rather than white light. Insects, as we all know are attracted to light, white or yellow, but it seems they are even more attracted to blue light, and that's the kind of light that is generated by LED bulbsthey only look white because of a phosphor coating that stretches much of the light into a longer wavelength. We may not be able to see the blue light, but bugs can.

To find out just how much more attractive moths, flies, etc., find LEDs (as compared to sodium vapor lamps) the researchers set sticky paper next to both types of lights out in a field for a period of time at night, then collected the results and counted how many specimens they'd captured. They found that the paper next to the LEDs had approximately 48 percent more bugs than those next to traditional lighting. This could be a problem they suggest because it could mean LEDs are interfering with food webs or drawing more flying critters into urban areasin one extreme example they note putting LED lights at seaports could contribute to the spread of invasive species such as gypsy moths.

The researchers also tried the same experiment using different LED brands and types and with different filters but found the results remained the samethe bugs came at all of them in hordes.

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More information: Ecological Applications. Volume 24, Issue 7 (October 2014). DOI: 10.1890/14-0468.1

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(MENAFN - Arab News) The female Filipino domestic helper who was allegedly scalded by her employer in May this year is now facing a case of slander filed by her sponsor resulting in a delay in the repatriation of the domestic help.

In his letter to Blas F. Ople Policy Center Philippine Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ezzedin Tago said the employer and his mother had filed a 'qadf' saying that Fahima had falsely accused them of scalding her with hot water. He said the prosecutor had dismissed the public rights case against the employer's mother for throwing hot water on her maid.

According to the envoy Fahima had already received monetary compensation from the Philippines and Saudi recruitment agencies. However this new development has led to a delay in her repatriation.

Tago said that Fahima is in good health but there are several developments in her case. 'I have asked for a full assessment of the case from the GPH (Government of the Philippines) hired lawyer' Ambassador Tago added. He said that before he went on leave he had met with the MFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Undersecretary for Consular Affairs specifically to represent Fahima's case.

Referring to another case of a Filipino minor Fatima who was apparently recruited through a Philippine agency involved in human trafficking the envoy said that the child had already been repatriated to the Philippines on Aug. 14. Fatima had managed to seek shelter at the PH-rented shelter Bahay Kalinga in Riyadh.

Meanwhile an anti-human trafficking Filipino group has appealed for help to repatriate and obtain justice for a 13-year-old Filipino who was allegedly being maltreated by her employer in Riyadh as she was unfit for household chores.

The young Filipino from Sarangani Province in Mindanao arrived in Riyadh on April 20 this year to work with a family here. Subsequently the family members unhappy with her work began to abuse her physically with beatings.

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An American doctor and a North Carolina missionary working with Ebola victims were the first to bring the deadly virus to the United States when they contracted the virus in Liberia and were flown home for treatment.

Now, a Dallas nurse has set a similar milestone, becoming the first person known to have contracted the disease inside the U.S. She was wearing the proscribed protective gear -- gloves, mask and shield -- while recently caring for Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan at a Dallas hospital. Duncan died last week.

While the Texas nurse remains in isolation, a nurse in Spain who contracted the virus after treating a patient in that country is struggling for her life.

There are so many caregivers who've become patients. At least 416 health care workers have contracted Ebola, and at least 233 have died, the World Health Organization reports. In Liberia, the worst-affected country, the virus has killed more than 100 medical workers.

Since the Ebola outbreak began -- the worst the world has seen -- doctors and nurses have described working conditions no one should endure.

Every single move they make in treating a patient must be perfect. One slip-up -- a torn glove or the smallest splat of infected fluid that gets on them -- could cost them their lives.

One provider in West Africa spoke of waking up every morning with a sore throat from constantly breathing in the fumes from chlorine that must be constantly sprayed to kill the virus that is capable of thriving not just in living organisms but on surfaces for some time if conditions are right.

Health care workers battle not just a disease but rumors among patients in Africa that Ebola is a myth the government is perpetrating. In a profession that already demands much emotionally and physically, these caregivers are pushed to the edge in both respects. They have lost friends, colleagues and patients.

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