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A photo provided by the Canadian Taxpayers Association shows the marbled kitchen.

Former Red River College president Stephanie Forsyth is being called out onto the carpet by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) over surplus marble kitchen countertops that were installed in her home.

The taxpayer watchdog released documents this morning indicating that Forsyth received the marble marked for disposal from the colleges Patterson GlobalFoods Institute (PGI) building, and had the stone installed in her former Wellington Crescent home.

This afternoon, RRC issued a statement in which it said only that newly-appointed board of governors chair Lloyd Schreyer will review the matter "in order to make recommendations regarding appropriate actions based on the findings of the investigation."

The house has now been sold and Forsyth has moved away from the city.

"If the former president had taken a few scraps of old plywood, no one would care," CTF prairie director Colin Craig said in a statement. "But were talking about expensive marble and photos suggest it could be a sizeable amount. The college should have sold off the material."

The CTF obtained emails regarding the transfer of goods through a freedom of information request. Correspondence between top-level RRC staff shows that the school was aware of the marble countertop matter months ago.

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WARNING: this is a really long post that is not very interesting to most people unless you want to know about how we stained and cut an undermount sink for our butcher block countertops. If you don't want to read all of that, just scroll down to the bottom to see my countertops in all of their beautifulness.

We chose the Numerar 1 1/2" beech butcher block countertops.

In the old house we had the Pronomen 1 1/4" , which I would have gone with this time as well, but they didn't have any in stock. With the old kitchen, we didn't stain the countertops. I just applied about many coats of Tung Oil to the countertops and kept the natural beech color. But in this kitchen, I wanted the countertops to be darker.

We started by measuring the length of countertop we needed and cut off the excess.

can you tell the wood is a little lighter now that the finish is off?

Next it was time to cut the hole for the sink. Since we were going with an undermount sink, we weren't sure if we wanted to cut the hole since there was no room for a mistake. I called around to several cabinet shops to see what they would charge, all said around $300 not including formatting and sanding the hole. So needless to say, we did it ourselves.

I bought an undermount sink on clearance for $60, originally $290 so that was a great deal. But I wanted to double check just to make sure the template that was included in the clearance sink was the correct one, well it wasn't. So we just put the sink on the underside of the countertop and made our own template first tracing the outside of the sink and the tracing the inside of the sink by sticking our hands through the drain hole. Make sure you look under your cabinets to measure where the sink should go and don't go off of your old countertops. We had some wood pieces inside our cabinets we wouldn't have know about if we had not looked, also if we had gotten the cabinet shop to cut the hole, they would have cut it wrong since the wouldn't have measured off of our cabinets.

Measure then check your measurements. Repeat about 5 times until your paranoid husband is happy and your dog gives you the side eye.

After we got the sink drawn off where we wanted it, it was time to cut. Eric used a circular saw to cut the straight parts and a jigsaw to cut the rounded corners. We had known that it would be a pretty rough cut job with the jigsaw so I bought Eric a belt sander for our "anniversary" to sand the sink hole with. A belt sander is a must have for this project. It was only $70, which is still a lot cheaper than the $300 (our lowest quote) for someone else to cut the hole. He used the belt sander to smooth everything out and then finished it up hand sanding with 220 grit sandpaper. I was so excited, I guess I didn't take pictures.

After the sink hole was cut and smoothed out, I went over the countertops with a tack cloth to get all of the additional dust off. The I applied a wood conditioner. This is a very important step, as it will help the stain have an even appearance with all of the different cuts of the butcher block. After the wood conditioner dried, I went back over the countertop with 220 grit sandpaper to get all of the raised grain sanded off, and the used a tack cloth. Then it was time to stain. We used Minwax Special Walnut #224. I read to use an oil based stain, but we already had this so I took the risk. So far so good. I put on 2 coats of stain.

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The quickest, most objective answer to the question What is Sile Stone? is that Sile Stone is natural stone surface made out of quartz (4th hardest mineral in nature) that has been ground up, engineered with additional colors and materials, and then pressed back together with tons of pressure to create a countertop or surface that delivers a consistent look, feel, and quality.

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Sile Stone Quartz has unparalleled durability and strength. It is made of Natural Quartz, which is the 4th hardest mineral found in nature. The only natural minerals harder than quartz are diamond, sapphire and topaz. Sile Stone countertops are made of a hard, dense and non-porous material that is consistent throughout its composition, making it more reliable than any other natural stone.

Sile stone is National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) approved and GREENGUARD-certified to be safe for the kitchen indoor environment, which makes it a cleaner and safer than other surfaces. Sile stone countertops are the only surfaces made with built-in antimicrobial protection that safely fights the growth of microbes such as odor causing bacteria, mold, and mildew for the life of the product. This makes Silestone countertops and surfaces easier to clean, and they stay cleaner between cleanings.

Common household accidents such as a dropped knife, a fallen piece of glass or errant scissors will not scratch Silestone because only materials as hard as, or harder than Silestone will scratch it. Beware: no surface is indestructible.

Because Silestone is non-porous, most spills stay on the surface and are easy to clean with soapy water or a mild household cleaners.

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Despite being four years old, this 60-second spot for a brand of kitchen countertops is still some of the best, most realistic 3D I've ever seen. It's not only the perfect produce falling in slow motionit's everything. The fruit, the tomatoes, the bits of quartz, the stones, the gas, the vitroceramic. Everything.

According to the creator of the spotAlex Romanthey didn't have the budget to film this in real life, even while it is actually possible to do most of it with real objects and film. That option would have been too expensive to produce with this level of perfection:

Realism was my main goal here. I firstly thought of shooting some live-action but after studying carefully the budget and deadline I realized that CGI was the only way I could do it. The most important part for me was to deliver a beautiful and very visual commercial and keep the viewer focused on the commercial itself, not the fact that it was a CG piece: the photorealism was the only option I had to achieve this.

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