Retrospection.

A few post ago I asked if anyone could pick out a deficiency on the NMC stair way’s [it applies to both stair wells]; one anonymous commenter suggested the gap in the vertical rails posed a potential hazard.
While that was the one I had in mind it is a valid point. If a young child was left unattended and was playing around and they tried squeeze through the vertical rails a fall and injury could result.

The deficiency I was thinking of is where the top level hand rail comes down and intersects with the bottom level rail. There is supposed to be a gap of about 5 inches between the rails where they intersect to allow ones hand to move up and down without impediment.

What we have is a gap of about ½” From a casual un-scientific test my fingers got caught in that little gap, actually more like pinched, and one day while descending the stairs I put my hand on the rail out of natural habit, my fingers received a little nip at the point in question. So from my point of view the new owners may have a liability issue on their hands. I wonder what other parties will have to say about it???????

A few post ago I asked if anyone could pick out a deficiency on the NMC stair way’s [it applies to both stair wells]; one anonymous commenter suggested the gap in the vertical rails posed a potential hazard.
While that was the one I had in mind it is a valid point. If a young child was left unattended and was playing around and they tried squeeze through the vertical rails a fall and injury could result.

The deficiency I was thinking of is where the top level hand rail comes down and intersects with the bottom level rail. There is supposed to be a gap of about 5 inches between the rails where they intersect to allow ones hand to move up and down without impediment.

What we have is a gap of about ½” From a casual un-scientific test my fingers got caught in that little gap, actually more like pinched, and one day while descending the stairs I put my hand on the rail out of natural habit, my fingers received a little nip at the point in question. So from my point of view the new owners may have a liability issue on their hands. I wonder what other parties will have to say about it???????

In another post I was speculating what Autonomy would translate like from English Inuktitut and back again to English.
Well the good folk at CKOK have come up with the following; it is fairly straight forward, unlike some other sayings, words and phrases.

Autonomy to Inuktitut translates to Namminik govamaKalinnik, meaning self government. Or Namminik aulatsimik, meaning running our own government or affairs.

We are into another sunny crystal clear relatively pollution free day. Getting up to the mid – teens, a warming trend seems to be setting in, one still worries about what the weather spirits have in store for us vis a vis snowy March, or will it be April.

Only one puppy left for new ownership, the little white female. Have three out there but two are waiting for shipment to new owners.