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Debates of April 18th, 1997
House of Commons Hansard #159 of the 35th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was taxes.
- Privilege
- Income Tax Budget Amendments Act, 1996
- Small Business
- Manitoba Flood
- Infrastructure Program
- Vistajet
- Infrastructure Program
- Fisheries
- Government Expenditures
- Quebec Maple Syrup Industry
- Progressive Conservative Party
- Lester B. Pearson
- Deputy Premier Of Quebec
- Senator Pietro Rizzuto
- National Volunteer Week
- Banff National Park
- Newspapers
- National Unity
- Member For Surrey North
- Ottawa Youth Orchestra
- Member For Calgary Centre
- Linguistic School Boards
- Immigration
- Tobacco
- Pay Equity
- Government Expenditures
- Satellite Dishes
- Taxation
- Canadian Cultural Institutions
- Interest Rates
- Agriculture
- Culture
- Taxation
- Peacekeeping
- Taxation
- The Liberals
- Poverty
- Infrastructure
- Petitions
- Questions On The Order Paper
- Income Tax Budget Amendments Act, 1996
- Criminal Code
Oral Question Period
11:55 a.m.
Paul Martin Minister of Finance
Mr. Speaker, the numbers are very clear. There are 850,000 new jobs that have been created by the private sector since we have taken office. The hon. member says I have misquoted from their budget.
Let me quote exactly from false start: "The federal government contributes about $3.5 billion each year to provincial welfare programs through the transfer payment known as the Canada health and social transfer. A Reform government will eliminate these payments". That is a direct quote; 3.5 billion out of the pockets of those who need it most. That is not a misquote, that is what Reformers would do.
Oral Question Period
April 18th, 1997 / 11:55 a.m.
John Cannis Scarborough Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
We are all quite aware of Canada's longstanding tradition of peacekeeping initiatives. Canada's contributions throughout the globe are second to none. One such initiative was the participation of Canadian troops in UN peacekeeping operations in Cyprus.
I would like to ask the minister today to inform the House of any new developments with respect to Canada's role in Cyprus that may help bring a just and peaceful solution.
Oral Question Period
11:55 a.m.
Winnipeg South Centre
Lloyd Axworthy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member from Scarborough Centre and the members from Don Valley East and Saint-Denis who have worked actively over the last several months to develop an initiative for Canada to assist in the reconciliation of the problems in Cyprus.
I am pleased to announce today that we have established a special ambassador, Mr. Michael Bell, to be the envoy for Canada in Cyprus and to work closely with the United Nations and to work with other countries. We think it is at the right moment with the proposed admission into the European Union. We hope that Canada continues to play the constructive balanced role that we played during peacekeeping in Cyprus. Now we can provide a constructive political and diplomatic initiative. If we can do that, we can help bring peace and demilitarization to that country and to that land which so desperately needs it. I am very pleased that we have been able to make that announcement today.
Oral Question Period
11:55 a.m.
Maurice Godin Châteauguay, QC
Mr. Speaker, my question is directed to the President of the Treasury Board.
One of the recommendations of the Bloc Quebecois on tax reform concerned the Governor General's salary of $97,400 on which he does not pay a cent of income tax. Of course, the Minister of Finance did nothing about this.
Although all taxpayers must do their fair share to help the Minister of Finance fight the deficit and even the Queen of England now pays income tax, what justification does the minister have for the fact that her representative in Canada, with a salary of $97,400, does not?
Oral Question Period
11:55 a.m.
Marcel Massé President of the Treasury Board and Minister responsible for Infrastructure
Mr. Speaker, accountants could go on about this at length. Is it better to pay him the salary of a Deputy Minister, around $140,000 or $150,000, so that he will have a net income of $97,000, or to pay him his salary tax free, because technically, the Crown cannot tax the Crown? That is a choice accountants have to make, and one way or another, it will not have much of an impact on the future of this country.
The Liberals
Oral Question Period
11:55 a.m.
Ted White North Vancouver, BC
Mr. Speaker, just like the old line patronage ridden parties before it, this government is digging deep into the taxpayer trough so that it can hand out hundreds of millions of dollars of other people's money to last minute pre-election goodies for Liberal ridings.
If we add the cost of the election to the cost of the handouts and the cost of the MP pensions for the 30 or so Liberals who are deserting a sinking ship, Canadians are probably going to be out about $1 billion for this folly.
Other than being an excuse to shower Liberal ridings with largesse, could the government please explain the purpose of the upcoming early June election.
The Liberals
Oral Question Period
Windsor West
Herb Gray Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Solicitor General of Canada
Mr. Speaker, there has been no election call as yet, except perhaps in the minds of the Reform Party.
Could the Reform Party please explain why its leader is not around here and is out campaigning across the country every day? Could the Reform Party explain why it is distributing copies of its false start program all over the country?
The Liberals
Oral Question Period
The Speaker
We are all aware it is getting close to the end, but we should not mention who is here and who is not.
Oral Question Period
Simon de Jong Regina—Qu'Appelle, SK
Mr. Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister of Human Resources Development. A Statistics Canada study shows that poor children are three times more likely to be in remedial classes than children from the richest families.
Since the government was elected the number of children living in poverty have increased while the transfer payments to provinces for social support programs and education have been slashed. The opportunity of getting out of the poverty cycle has been reduced.
Is this an example of the new Liberalism that oversees the entrenchment of a permanent underclass?
Oral Question Period
Kenora—Rainy River
Bob Nault Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Human Resources Development
Mr. Speaker, the member should be aware it is obvious that child poverty is the number one issue on the minds of all Canadians.
Therefore the agreement that we made with the provinces and the new child tax credit are intended to help alleviate the concern of all Canadians. To suggest that somehow any member of Parliament on any side of the House would not see this as a major challenge is quite disgusting, to say the least.
We are trying as governments to deal with child poverty. They are not interested on all sides of the House in having any underclass in our country.
That is the NDP philosophy. That is why people do not vote for the NDP. It tries to split people into interest groups. We try to deal with Canadians overall.
Oral Question Period
David Collenette Don Valley East, ON
Mr. Speaker, my question is for the President of the Treasury Board.
The Canada infrastructure program created tens of thousands of jobs across Ontario. As we approach round two the Ontario government has proposed to exclude municipalities from the project approval process. To add insult to injury, it is rumoured that the amount of money to be allocated to the greater Toronto area is disproportionately low.
Will the President of the Treasury Board guarantee that before the program goes ahead with Ontario the municipalities will be given a meaningful role?
Oral Question Period
Marcel Massé President of the Treasury Board and Minister responsible for Infrastructure
Mr. Speaker, in early February I indicated to Minister Eves of Ontario that we were ready to have an agreement on the basis of the current guidelines.
Mr. Eves then proposed an approach where the province of Ontario selected all the projects and subsequently presented the federal partner with a list. This is a very substantial change from the current guidelines where the municipalities had the responsibility to identify and select the projects.
I cannot in good conscience agree the municipalities which pay one-third of the cost of the program would have no voice in deciding where the projects are.
It is true, according to the current list developed by Ontario that has not been fully revised by federal officials in particular, that the counties of Muskoka, Haliburton and Parry Sound received disproportionately high benefits relative to population. Coincidentally and to our great surprise, this is Minister Eves' riding.
Oral Question Period
The Speaker
I am glad you two members are getting close together.
Routine Proceedings
12:05 p.m.
Mac Harb Ottawa Centre, ON
Madam Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36, I would like to present a petition signed by many constituents in the Ottawa area.
They call on the House of Commons to ask the federal government to enact a national infrastructure program to help the country to rebuild its national highway system.
Routine Proceedings
12:05 p.m.
Jake Hoeppner Lisgar—Marquette, MB
Madam Speaker, I have three petitions to present. The first one contains 51 names.
The petitioners call upon Parliament to recognize the fundamental right of individuals to pursue family life free from undue interference from the state and to recognize the fundamental right and responsibility of parents to direct the upbringing of their children.
I fully support the petitioners.


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Campbell, John W(ood), Jr.
John W(ood) Campbell, Jr. 1910–1971
(Also wrote under pseudonyms of Don A. Stuart, Karl Van Campen, and Arthur McCann) American science fiction novelist, short story writer, essayist, and editor.
Campbell has been called perhaps the single greatest influence on modern science fiction, both as a writer and as editor of Astounding Science Fiction, one of the most honored magazines in the genre. Campbell's "space operas" were considered to equal, and ultimately to surpass, the achievements of E. E. Smith, the most popular science fiction pulp writer of the 1930s. Many of these early stories touted the beneficence of machines as facilitators for human achievement. This preoccupation with "hardware" was faulted for stressing an impersonal, technocratic elitism over concern for humankind as a whole. Campbell eventually moved away from his highly popular but largely one-dimensional super-weapon tales to stories which concentrated upon and promoted the benefits of scientific ideas and technological inventiveness.
Campbell's reputation was built upon such action-invention stories as the "Arcot, Morey and Wade" series, including The Black Star Passes (1953), Islands of Space (1957), and Invaders from the Infinite (1961), and the "Penton and Blake" tales in The Planeteers (1966). Although The Mightiest Machine (1947) and The Moon Is Hell (1951) were noted for their technical advances in realism, Campbell also wrote mood pieces published under the name Don A. Stuart. Among these are some of his most respected works: "Twilight" (1934), "Night" (1935), and "Who Goes There?" (1938). This last is considered a classic of science fiction and it has been filmed twice, as The Thing from Another World and The Thing. A departure from previous work in its attention to plotting and characterization, "Who Goes There?" is among the last pieces of fiction Campbell wrote. Works published later, including the stories in The Incredible Planet (1949), a collection of his "Aarn Munro" series, and the posthumous The Space Beyond (1976), are thought to have been written in the early 1930s.
In 1937 Campbell became editor of Astounding Stories, later titled Astounding Science Fiction and then Analog. He retained this position for 34 years. Astounding was the leading science fiction magazine until the 1950s and, despite diminished significance in light of the challenges from new magazines, it remained respected and influential. The magazine won eight Hugo Awards under Campbell's leadership. Its prominence was due to Campbell's insistence on continual improvements in the content and physical quality of the publication. Campbell assembled a group of writers and shaped their work with many of his own story ideas and suggestions for stylistic refinement. Although, as E. F. Bleiler remarked, Campbell was sometimes considered "arrogant, dictatorial, and condescending," he was also respected for the help he offered his writers and the careful attention he gave to all submissions. Under his tutelage, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, A. E. van Vogt, Theodore Sturgeon, Lester del Rey, and many others were given a showcase.
Campbell's principal writings after he became editor of Astounding were his frequently controversial editorials. He wrote of nearly every sociological subject from a scientific viewpoint. His own background in science often prompted hypotheses which engendered long-running dialogues between Campbell and his readers, some of whom were scientists. Many of these writings are included in Collected Editorials from Analog (1966). As his interest in various kinds of pseudoscience increased, most notably his strident defense of L. Ron Hubbard's "dianetics", his credibility with readers became strained.
Although Campbell's place in science fiction as a writer has been variously assessed in recent years, he is credited with the initial advancement of science fiction into a position of increased acceptance and respect as a literary genre.
(See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 21-22; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 29-32, rev. ed. [obituary]; Contemporary Authors Permanent Series, Vol. 2; and Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 8.)
Sam Moskowitz
There is a school of thought that holds that the dramatic Orson Welles War of the Worlds scare, on the evening of October 30, 1938, provided the real basis of the science fiction magazine boom of that period. That the program may have helped give impetus to the spate of new publications is quite possible, but that it inspired them is impossible, since four new magazines … had been publicly announced as forthcoming before the date of the program.
Until wartime paper shortages curtailed publishers' optimism … [fifteen additional science-fiction magazines] would be added to the list. By contrast, before the boom there had been but four magazines in publication, and one of them was predominantly supernatural…. (p. 336)
The demands of this widening market naturally attracted to the field many authors who had never written science fiction, as well as lured back others who had been absent for a long period. Most important, it encouraged the development of new talent, writers destined to remake the form of science fiction.
The key figure in this process is John W. Campbell, editor of Astounding Science-Fiction. Campbell … had become the editor of Astounding Stories in 1937. Though only twenty-eight, he was regarded then as one of the half-dozen greatest living writers of science fiction. He had established his first reputation by composing great super-science epics which...
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Sam Moskowitz
Campbell was a true giant in popularity among those authors who had grown out of the science-fiction magazines. The Mightiest Machine … epitomized the type of story that had created his followng. Mighty spaceships move at speeds faster than light from star system to star system, warping themselves through another dimension at the whim of Aarn Munro, a mental and physical superman, descendant of earthmen raised on the surface of the planet Jupiter. He custom-contrives universe-shaking energy weapons to combat alien fleets in universe-wide battles. Like Edward E. Smith, Campbell was undeniably a literary Houdini in the mind-staggering art, convincingly manipulating stupendous forces on a cosmic scale.
Time was running out on macrocosmic spectaculars like The Mightiest Machine; changes were occurring in plotting and writing science fiction that were to make the story a period piece before it was completed; yet its impact was so profound on a youthful Englishman, Arthur C. Clarke, that nearly twenty years later he would use a race similar to [Campbell's villains] … in his greatest critical success, Childhood's End….
Notwithstanding, Campbell's major contribution in both storytelling and influence was yet to come. More than is true of most writers, his early life and background shaped the direction he would take in specific plot ideas as well as in method. (p. 28)
[As a student of physics and chemistry at MIT, Campbell's reading tastes instinctively gravitated toward science fiction.] When science-fiction authors' imaginations showed signs of breaking out of the confines of the solar system, Campbell was enthralled. Smith's The Skylark of Space established a lifelong admiration for that author and an immediate desire to emulate.
Stemming from his awareness that science-fiction authors frequently made obvious scientific errors, his first writing attempt, a short story called Invaders from the Infinite, was aimed at correcting one of the more widespread misconceptions: that there would be a problem in heating an interplanetary ship in space. The story, sent to AMAZING STORIES, was accepted. Elated, Campbell pounded out a longer story, When the Atoms Failed, and that, too, was accepted. His enthusiasm waned, however, as the months passed and neither story appeared…. Campbell decided to visit T. O'Conor Sloane, the editor who had been in correspondence with him, and straighten out the matter. (pp. 31-2)
[Sloane] made the embryonic author at home and then owned up to the fact that the manuscript of Invaders from the Infinite had been lost….
Well, his career would have to be launched with When the Atoms Failed…. (p. 32)
Sloane more than made up for the disappointment by carrying an illustration for When the Atoms Failed on the cover of the issue in which it appeared and beginning the blurb of the story: "Our new author, who is a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shows marvelous ability at combining science with romance, evolving a piece of fiction of real scientific and literary value."
The story did contain original ideas. First, though the idea of thinking brains in robots had been used frequently before, the concept of a stationary supercalculator, like today's Univac, hd not appeared in the magazines. Scientists in science fiction, never sissies, previously disdained to use even an adding machine in whipping together mathematical concepts destined to change the very shape of the cosmos. Not so Steven Waterson, Campbell's hero, who, improving on the Integraph, an electrical machine capable of calculus in use at MIT in 1930, built himself a pre-space-age electronic "brain" to aid in his problems.
Secondly, it delved into the greater power to be derived from material energy—the actual destruction of matter—as opposed to atomic energy. This knowledge enables Steven Waterson to defeat a group of invading Martians, force the nations of the earth to scrap all their weapons, and set himself up as "president" of the planet. (pp. 32-3)
[The Metal Horde, a sequel to When the Atoms Failed,] attempted to show what would happen if calculators were refined to the point where they could reason. Scientist Steven Waterson, in the course of the story, defeats and destroys a thinking machine … that has traveled through space for 1600 years accompanied by a brood of obedient mechanicals intent upon setting up a world of machines on Earth.
Elements of J. Schossel's The Second Swarm … are apparent in this story and in The Voice of the Void…. This novelette tells of a ten-billion-year-old civilization on Earth, confronted by the final cooling of the sun, which utilizes "phase velocity" as a means of going faster than light and escaping to another system. (pp. 33-4)
Utilizing this principle, earth ships, in an attempt to colonize planets around the star Betelguese, fight a series of battles with sentient force-creatures in that system. Though mindless, the force creatures adapt to a series of ever-more-potent weapons and give the earth men quite a tussle before they are exterminated. (p. 34)
The names (Arcot, Wade, and Morey) of a group of characters in Piracy Preferred … provided the label for a major series that was to catapult Campbell to the top rank among science-fiction writers. In the world of 2126, a super criminal, Wade, with the technology to make his high-speed rocket ship invisible, uses a gas that will penetrate metal and temporarily paralyze all who come in contact with it, for his antisocial activities. He puckishly leaves shock certificates for Piracy, Inc., in the amount of the money he steals.
A team of young geniuses—Richard Arcot, a physicist; William Morey, mathematician and son of the president of Transcontinental Airways—in company with John Fuller, a design engineer, chase the pirate into an orbital trap around the earth. The culprit is permitted to join the group instead of being punished. (pp. 34-5)
The group, in a ship powered by a new discovery which causes all molecules to move in the same direction and uses the power derived from the heat so created, takes off for the planet Venus in Solarite…. There they find two warring races and side with one against the other, employing Wade's invisibility device and paralyzing gas in the process. When the enemy fathoms the secret of invisibility and uses it against them, pellets of radium paint are employed to locate them, whereupon they are finished off with a molecular-motion weapon….
[In 1930 The Black Star Passes] focused attention on Campbell and launched him on his first high wave of popularity, which was to challenge that of E. E. Smith. (p. 35)
In The Black Star Passes, an ancient race of hydrogen-breathing creatures living on a planet circling a vagrant dead star sweeps close to our solar system and decides to transfer to a fresh planet, Earth. In thousands of words of thrilling action (and many thousand dull words of scientific gobbldy-gook) they are defeated by the team of Arcot, Wade, Morey, and Fuller and retire to their retreating star. However, the battle has instilled them with new spirit and they are determined that the next star they pass they will conquer.
The Islands of Space … [1931] was Campbell's first full-length novel and he let out all the stops. Exceeding the speed of light by bending the curvature of space, Arcot, Wade, and Morey in their good ship Ancient Mariner tour a succession of worlds, finding new wonders and challenges on each. Finally, lost in an infinity of light, they seek to find a race that can guide them, and in the process they help decide a war on a world ten-million light years away from earth.
The novel that followed, Invaders from the Infinite … [1932], represented the apex of approval for Campbell's super-science stories. This time, a tremendous ship manned by canines that have risen high on the evolutionary ladder lands on Earth to seek help against a universal menace. In the ne plus ultra of intergalactic ships, Thought, Arcot, Wade, and Morey search the far-flung star clusters for an answer to the danger, finally discovering it after as pyrotechnic a series of space battles as has ever appeared in science fiction. Especially gripping is one episode illustrating the power of suggestion on the course of...
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Damon Knight
In the pantheon of magazine science fiction there is no more complex and puzzling figure than that of John Campbell, and certainly none odder. Under his own name,… he wrote gadgety, fast-moving, cosmic-scaled science fiction in the E. E. Smith tradition, and became, after Smith himself, its acknowledged master; as "Don A. Stuart," he began a one-man literary revival which eventually made that tradition obsolete. As editor of Astounding, he forced the magazine through a series of metamorphoses…. More clearly than anyone, Campbell saw that the field was growing up and would only be handicapped by the symbols of its pulpwood infancy; he deliberately built up a readership among practicing scientists and...
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Theodore Sturgeon
John W. Campbell Jr., escaped from MIT and, a fine traditional sf writer himself (and for a time, as Don A. Stuart, a superb fantasist), took over the editorial chair of Astounding Science Fiction thirty years ago. In less than a couple of years he attracted to himself and the magazine (the same thing, really) a nucleus of extraordinary writers. A few had been around for a while—Simak, Leinster, Lieber; the others he discovered or invented or, it sometimes seems, manufactured. Pratt and deCamp, L. Ron Hubbard …, van Vogt, del Rey, Heinlein, Hamilton—Campbell, through these men, created what has been called a Golden Age of sf.
He was a superb and provocative teacher of science and of...
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Richard Lupoff
An illuminating moment in the schism between the science fiction establishment and its foes came about in 1967 and 1968, when the science fiction community, like the rest of American society, engaged in loud debate over the Vietnam war. Starting at the Milford Conference in August 1967 (an annual science fiction writers' workshop) the proposal was made that science fiction writers express themselves on the issue of the war. (p. 26)
The final result was not one but two statements, which appeared as paid advertisements in 1968 issues of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Galaxy Science Fiction. An examination of the signers of the two statements is illuminating as to the...
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Richard Hodgens
[The essay from which this excerpt is taken was originally published in a different form in Film Quarterly, Winter 1959.]
[The Thing from Another World, a 1951 film released in the United States as The Thing,] was based on a short novel by John W. Campbell, Jr.,… [entitled] "Who Goes There?" The story is regarded as one of the most original and effective science fiction stories, subspecies "horror." Its premise is convincing, its development logical, its characterization intelligent, and its suspense considerable. Of these qualities the film retained one or two minutes of suspense. The story and the film are poles apart. Probably for timely interest, the Thing...
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LESTER del REY
Back in the very early days of science fiction, everyone knew it was impossible to make a living in the field. There were only two SF magazines being published…. Furthermore, no science fiction books were being published; so once a story appeared in a magazine, there would be no further income from it.
Writing science fiction was a hobby, not a career, and nobody questioned that obvious fact—nobody but John W. Campbell! Against all logic, he not only determined to make science fiction his life's work, but he succeeded. It took three careers to achieve his goal, during which he became almost single-handedly the creator of modern science fiction. And eventually, others with less genius or...
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Dan Miller
In the pantheon of science fiction, Campbell ranks slightly higher than a deity, yet most readers new to SF know little of the basis for his reputation. This definitive collection of short fiction [The Best of John W. Campbell] is a partial remedy…. The anthology shows Campbell's growth from a writer of competent pot boilers into a mature craftsman of a sophistication and professionalism seldom found in early science fiction. Highlights include "Twilight," everybody's idea of an SF classic; "Forgetfulness," about the evolution of knowledge; and "Who Goes There?," a suspense-horror story considered one of the best SF novellas of all time. The celebration of Campbell's other achievements—as editor of...
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Algis Budrys
It's becoming increasingly obvious that we need a long, objective look at John W. Campbell, Jr. But we're not likely to get one.
When he was alive, Campbell was mind-numbingly complex but greatly influential because he could be seen taking major actions which could be labelled simply. Between 1932 and 1938 he made himself the co-equal of E. E. Smith among fabulists of technological optimism. "Superscience fiction" realized its full potential at his hands, and created a body of readers who, some years later, would include writers who sincerely believed that SF was technological in basis.
At the very same time, he was incubating "Don A. Stuart," who, beginning with the short story,...
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Algis Budrys
[Recently,] Roger Elwood walked into a bookstore and was introduced to an old friend of John Campbell's…. [During the course of the conversation] it developed there were three hitherto unheard-of, unpublished, forty-year-old JWC, Jr. novellas. The guess was they had probably been intended for Hugo Gernsback and shelved when Campbell was hired by Astounding….
The novellas are Marooned, All, and The Space Beyond. They are now out, under a nice Sternback astronomical painting, as The Space Beyond,… and represent the most important SF event ever made available for … [the price]. (p. 27)
The writing is pure pre-Stuart Campbell, right down to the...
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Jack P. Rawlins
[The essay from which this excerpt is taken was originally presented as a lecture at the Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy at the University of California, Riverside, in 1980.]
[In trying to determine the relationship between fantasy and science fiction, fantasy] honors the emotive side of the self, what I call the nighttime perspective. The extreme alternative is literature devoted to the exercise of the daytime powers of the intellect. Here my quintessential specimen is John Campbell's "Who Goes There?" The dramatic situation is much like that of [The Invasion of the] Body Snatchers, but the art teaches us a very different response. Again, an alien thing capable of...
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Thomas J. Remington
Introspection is a bug-bear that affects most genres of popular culture once the purveyors and consumers of the genre begin to take themselves seriously. Usually this introspection takes as its points of departure attempts to define historically just exactly what the genre is; then through the establishment of rules for inclusion and exclusion it tries to demarcate those practitioners who belong (or don't belong) in the genre.
Science Fiction has been experiencing such growing pains for some time now…. (pp. 58-9)
The clearest example is Astounding Science Fiction: July, 1939, a facsimile reprint of "the first 'great' issue" of that classic SF pulp "produced under the...
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Hoyer Is Supporting The Constitution
To the Readers' Forum:
A writer expressed surprise that a county legislator (a minister by day) raises questions about prayers before public legislature meetings. Objections have been raised nationwide on church-state separation grounds. Legislator Hoyer is upholding his oath to support the Constitution.
Church-state separation has a distinguished lineage. Article VI bans religious tests, supported by the First Amendment's anti-establishment clause. The team of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison articulated the importance of this key component to our liberal democracy. Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists, with the metaphorical wall makes this perfectly clear. Roger Williams allowed Rhode Islanders to worship as they deemed appropriate.
In Mark 12:17, Jesus said to the Pharisees: "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesars and to god the things that are God's."
Legislator Hoyer follows in the footsteps of Alabama's John Buchanan (Republican/Southern Baptist), who was the first President of People of the American Way and Pennsylvania's Bob Edgar (Democrat/United Methodist) who is a past president of the National Council of Churches.
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The practice of dermatology is as unique as you are. As a board certified dermatologist, my staff and I have the training and the experience not only to help you feel better, but to help you look better as well. We consider this an honor and a privilege.
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Bernanke's Nonexistent Junk Bond Revival: Street Whispers
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) - Conventional wisdom would have it that the loose policy of the Federal Reserve is pushing investors into risky assets such as junk bonds, driving down yields and giving cash-strapped corporations incentive to take advantage of low rates to lever up their balance sheets.
On the surface, the data supports such logic.
Junk bond issuance is on pace to shatter records in 2012, according to data from Dealogic, as highly-levered companies tap investors for some of the cheapest debt financings in history. The trend isn't expected to end anytime soon.
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke has signaled to markets the central bank won't raise short-term interest rates until mid-2015. The Fed's mortgage bond buying program - otherwise known as QE3 - is also forecast to remain in place long after inflation rises above current levels.
But, Wall Street investment banks and investors should be weary of misreading those surface trends heading into 2013. A closer look at the data signals corporations are far from gorging on record cheap debt and Ben Bernanke's oft-cited easy money may be more a of mirage in explaining low yields and booming junk bond markets.
In fact, for Wall Street players like Goldman Sachs (GS) , Morgan Stanley (MS) , JPMorgan(JPM) , Bank of America (BAC) and Citigroup (C) , a different read on present-day issuance records may signal a looming market bust.
Junk bond issuance is hitting new records because corporations are refinancing debts to simultaneously extend maturities and take advantage of today's low rates.
Records aren't being set because new companies are entering the market to add to their debt pile. There's a big difference between companies refinancing and those that are levering-up, even if the distinction isn't borne out in data, which shows over $322 billion in junk issuance as of Nov. 28, a 12.6% increase from the previous record annual pace set in 2010.
Consider the biggest junk issuers in November, such as Clear Channel (CCMO) , Sprint Nextel (S) , E*Trade Financial (ETFC) , Terex(TEX) and Clean Harbors (CLH) . Four of those tapped junk markets in billion-dollar sized issues simply to finance into new debts yielding between 4% and 7%, while extinguishing bonds carrying higher rates. Only Clean Harbors was in the market to add to its debt load, in a financing for a $1.25 billion late October acquisition of recycling specialist Safety Kleen .
November wasn't an aberration. The same dynamics have been present in junk bond markets since the market bottom in 2009... and that should scare some people.
As issuance data shows a record year for junk bonds markets, a screen of balance sheets across the S&P 500 Index and Russell 2000 Index shows companies are keeping debt levels relatively unchanged this year and a trend of deleveraging since the financial crisis.


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AgustaWestland Philadelphia Branches Out to Produce AW169
Manufacturing at the 275,000-square-foot facility to begin in May 2014, with initial deliveries in 2015 and ramp up to 20 aircraft per year in 2017.
The North American arm of AgustaWestland uncovered plans Tuesday to produce the AW169 at its sprawling U.S. manufacturing complex at Northeast Philadelphia Airport (PNE), becoming a second location to the OEM's plant in Vergiate, Italy. (The company also lists its facility in Yeovil, UK as "playing a major role" in the AW169 program). The announcement was part of a facility tour led by AgustaWestland Philadelphia CEO William Hunt and AgustaWestland North America Chairman and CEO R. Scott Rettig. Also on hand were various plant managers and representatives from Maryland State Police, an AW139 operator. The event featured a demo flight aboard a Pratt & Whitney PT6C-67C powered AW139 in the paint scheme of Helicopters New Zealand (HNZ).


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by Anton Shilov
Chief executive officer of Nvidia said in an interview that in the future personal computers will become much more powerful and should be considered as workstations by today's standards. However, computers for casual operations will, by contrast, be rather underpowered devices. In other words, performance lag between fully-fledged PCs and netbooks will get bigger over time.
"I believe that the personal computers as we know it, will become a "workstation". For example, our PC will become our workstation – we'll be working at that station. Most families will have a multi-media workstation. But our "personal" computers for accessing the Internet or casual computing will likely just be a web based device, 4G with 20MB/s Internet connectivity will allow you to do everything with it," said Jen-Hsun Huang in an interview with T-Break web-site.
Not only Mr. Huang, but other semiconductor industry experts foresee that in the future personal computers will sacrifice performance for portability. Such trend seems rather strange today, considering the fact that many smartphones now tend to trade battery life for performance and feature-set. Nevertheless, with the advent of cloud computing everything may change drastically.
The head of Nvidia seems to be a strong believer in futuristic computers from fantastic movies as well as cloud computing. According to him, the future is just around the corner.
"In twenty years, it will be Tegra on your handheld device and Tesla on a server. There will be millions and millions of Teslas all over the world rendering for everybody. […] [PC of the future] could either be a large or small tablet, just a sheet of glass so thin and possibly translucent with a camera to augment the image in front of you with computer graphics. That kind of future is not only a certainty, it is practically here," Mr. Huang explained.


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How Foodies Can Win the Super Bowl Without Playing
In Las Vegas, uberfan and celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse has lowered the lights and turned up the heat to create the ultimate fan experience at Lagasse's Stadium with plenty of kicked-up game-day bar food and drink favorites, smiling Stadium Girls, flatscreen TVs and the comfiest seats around. Just steps from Las Vegas Boulevard in front of The Palazzo, this is tailgating done Vegas style. Game Day dishes include Cheesy Beer with warm, soft pretzels, Emeril's Steak Bam'wich and Spice-rubbed Baby Back Ribs. With more than 100 HD TVs, including a 9-foot-by-16-foot main TV, fans of the game need never worry about missing the action. For those looking to make a few friendly wagers, The Palazzo's race and sports book lies inside the venue, and the interactive pocketcasino mobile device lets fans bet on the action as it happens.
Minus5 Ice Bar at Mandalay Place is kicking off the Super Bowl in style with drink specials and prime game-watching at the coolest bar in town. In addition to the ice bar, guests are invited to visit the Minus5 Lodge Bar for unbeatable access to on-air games. Featuring 10 state-of-the-art high-definition televisions, including a 72-inch LED and a super-sized projector screen, guests can enjoy prime viewing from any seat in the house.
For the best in all-you-can-eat buffets with open bars, you can indulge in buffalo wings, chili garlic wings, sliders, pulled-pork sliders, crab cakes, crunchy potatoes, a fry trio, assorted flatbreads and build-your-own nachos and hot dog stations at The Pub at Monte Carlo. The Sporting House Bar & Grill buffet in New York City includes hot dogs and bratwurst with all the fixings, baked beans and riblets, chili and corn bread, buffalo wings and chicken tenders with dipping sauces, caesar and house salads, crudites and build-your-own nachos and baked potato stations. Look to the Luxor for Public House 's game day buffet, featuring jalapeno poppers, battered artichokes, kettle chips with dip, burger sliders, sausage and peppers, chicken wings and home-style mac 'n' cheese.
In New York, inspired by their favorite dive bars and honky-tonks, chef Dale Talde and partners John Bush and David Massoni opened Pork Slope -- a casual Brooklyn roadhouse where the spirit is one of no pretension and good, down-home hospitality. The restaurant features a wide selection of mostly American whiskeys, bourbon and rye, a rotating cast of beers from the bar's 25 taps, more than 20 ice-cold canned beers and three wines. The focus might be pork, but the menu also includes such favorites as fried chicken, chili con carne, shrimp po' boys and griddled burgers. "Pork Slope is the perfect place to watch the game ... with three TVs, a billiard table and an awesome crowd," Talde says "We've got the real-deal football food."


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Here is the choice:
Playing against Randy Moss, going back to Oakland. I am severly outmanned (had no business making the playoffs and got lucky to win my division) so I need to make every perfect choice to even have a shot.
Do I start Cassell, in case Moss destroys Oakland.
Or McNabb versus Da Browns?
The problem I have is, that corner from Oakland could shut Moss down and neither he nor Cassell have big games. East coast teams have not fared well out West this year.
Or, McNabb could have a ho hum game as Brian Westbrook racks up a couple hundie on the Browns.
Like I said. I have to make the right choice. What does the forum think?


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The Golden Age of Whaling
Category: KidsCategory: TeensCategory: Music
Location: Curtis Gallery
In the 1800's, New London, CT was the 3rd largest whaling port in the United States. Through participatory stories and songs, Tom Callinan, the first CT State Troubadour, takes audiences of all ages on a voyage through the days of wooden ships and iron men. Tom's powerful presentation of sea chanteys (work songs) is punctuated by the primal sound of the bodhran (traditional Celtic frame drum).
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Youngsville Area News In Brief
'Charles Wesley'
at Y'ville UM
The Youngsville First United Methodist Church will host "Charles Wesley" aka Larry Homitsky during the morning worship service June 9 at 9 a.m. Mr. Homitsky is well known for his impersonations of both Charles and John Wesley.
While John Wesley was most eminent in the founding of Methodism in England in the 1700's, Charles Wesley was a most outstanding poet and writer of Bible-centered hymns. Most protestant hymnals contain many of his 7,000 hymns, one of which is "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing", that we all sing at Christmas.
Visitors are welcome to attend this service to enjoy Morning Worship led by "Charles Wesley", followed by a time of fellowship. The congregation will gather at the front of the church to welcome "Charles" as he arrives on his horse.
Outreach dinner
The monthly outreach dinner at St. Francis Episcopal Church will be Tuesday, June 11th, from 4pm to 6pm. Our picnic menu will be sweet Italian sausage sandwiches with peppers and onions, pasta salad, and an ice cream bar. Donations appreciated.
Love INC volunteer
Love INC (In the Name of Christ) of the Brokenstraw Valley board of directors has thanked Norma Dey for her dedication and service during the past 4 years. Norma was instrumental in the development of the affiliation and served on the board the past two years. Norma was the secretary & led the personal committee in the hiring of our new Executive Director. She will be missed as a leader and a friend as she retires.
Otterbein VBS
From Monday, June 17, to Friday, June 21, from 6-8:30 p.m. preschoolers to 6th grade, the Pittsfield Otterbein UM Church will hold Kingdom Rock Vacation Bible School. Participans will sing, dance, learn about God's love, and make new friends. For more information, contact: Angie Bojaczko, Children's Director, at Pittsfield Otterbein UMC. Phone 436-7379
Y'ville UM Bible School
Youngsville First United Methodist Church 2013 Vacation Bible School will be held June 24 – 28 each evening from 6 to 8:45 p.m. The closing program will be Friday, June 28, at 8:30 P.M. All children ages 3 through those who have finished Grade 6 are welcome.
The theme is everywhere fun fair: where God's world comes together. This is a Bible-based interactive program that gives children a chance to discover God's love. God's love welcomes all people and the lessons guide children to love and serve God and be neighbors to all.
The Bible lessons will be about Sarah and Abraham, a generous widow, the Good Samaritan, Zacchaeus, and God's welcoming love to everyone. There will be a featured country in each lesson including Japan, Zimbabwe, United Kingdom, Australia, and Mexico.
Included in each evening will be Bible time, discovery time, crafts, music, recreation, and, of course, snacks related to the lesson. Questions: contact Jane Balling 814 563-4029.Jane Balling 563-4029
Volleyball Boosters
The Youngsville Volleyball Team will have a car wash on Saturday, June 22, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at NAPA in Youngsville. Also, they will have a bake sale; everything is by donation.
Baccalaureate Service
The Youngsville High School, The Class of 2013, Baccalaureate Service was held on Sunday.
The YHS Orchestra performed and was accompanied by Shelly Teska on the piano and the Director Cynthia Scheid. The
Speakers were Rev. John Gerber, Dr. Darrell Jaskolka, principal, Rev. Seth McClymonds, Rev. Kathy Thompson and Rev. Rick Hamrick. The Senior Chior also sang and was directed by Christina Montgomery.
Head Start Spring
program and graduates
The Youngsville Head Start held its Spring Program on Tuesday, May 28. The program was held at the Youngsville High School Auditorium with many family members and friends attending. The children performed and sang "Tiny Tim", "Five Little Fish" "Ravioli" with special guest Mackenzie Pence performing and finished with "Down on Grandpa's Farm". The following students graduated Head Start and will begin Kindergarten next Fall: Dylan B.;
Mia B; Conner G; Hailey G; Alex H.; Joseph K.; Rachael L.; Conner M.; Graeme M.; Hailey P.; Loupeeta S.; Hailey V.; and Shayna Y. The following students will be returning to Head Start in the Fall: Sierra B.; Prezley C.; Derrick C.; Abby C.: Justin K.; Anna O. and Cody P. The staff congratulates each student and wishes them a great and safe summer.
Story hour
Youngsville Library's "Stories & Songs with Sara" Program is a story hour program for children ages 3-6 years. Children listen to stories, sing songs, and make crafts. This program will be held at the library on Tuesdays: June 11, June 18, and June 25 from 1 – 2 p.m. and again on Wednesday, July 10, also 1 -2 p.m.
Although pre-registration is encouraged to ensure that there are enough crafting supplies for all the participants, "walk-ins" are welcomed. Children are not required to sign-up for each of the four dates when registering. Library business hours are Monday and Tuesday, noon – 7:30 p.m ., Wednesday, 10 a.m. -5 p.m., and Friday, noon-4 p.m.
Registration is open for Youngsville Library's 8th Annual Summer "Super Reader" Program, open to all students from Kindergarten (completed) through 12th grade (completed). Sign up with a parent/adult sponsor during library business hours. You read independently (not at the library) and at your own pace. You can read your own books or books that you borrow from the library. Read as much as you want or as little as you want, but the more you read, the more chances you have to win prizes, fair passes, gift-cards, and more.
This year's K-12 "Super Reader" program runs from Monday, June 10, – Wednesday, July 17. The sooner you register and receive your reading logs, the better your chances of completing all six reading log levels (S-U-P-E-R & Reader). Those who complete the highest lever (Reader) will receive a bonus prize, a T-shirt, and 10 extra "raffle ticket chances" for chances to win "Super Reader" prizes such as Dairy Queen and Wal-Mart gift cards, Super Soaker, candy, and fair passes. More details and a reading log are provided when you register at the Youngsville Library. Questions: 563-7670 (Mon. & Tue. Noon- 7:30; Wed. 10-5; Fri. Noon-4)
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Blair Learn to Swim Program will be held with three classes daily at 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
The cost is $20 per child per session.
Session I will run June 17- June 28; sign Up – June 10-14, 5 p.m.-6 p.m., June 15 and 16, 2013:12 p.m.-1 p.m. Session II – July 8 – July 19, sign Up – July 1-5, 5 p.m.-6p.m., July 6 and 7, 12 p.m.-1p.m.; Session III – July 22- August 1, Sign Up – July 15-19: 5 p.m.-6 p.m., July 20 and 21, 12 p.m.-1 p.m.
Swimmer-cise at BVSP is starting Monday, June 10. The classes will be held Monday through Thursday, 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. The cost for residents of Youngsville Borough, Brokenstraw and Pittsfield Townships is $45 and for non-residents the cost is $55 for the season. Single classes are $6 each. For Season Pass contact the Youngsville Borough office at 563-4604.


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Teachers support their unions, but they're open to reform ideas, according to a new Education Sector survey, Trending Toward Reform.
Teachers think evaluations are improving. In 2011, 78 percent said their most recent evaluation was done carefully and taken seriously by their school administration.
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Teachers are warming to the idea that assessing student knowledge growth may be a good way to measure teacher effectiveness, with 54 percent of 2011 teachers agreeing. This compares with 49 percent in 2007.
Teachers are still opposed to including student test scores as one component of differentiated pay, with just 35 percent supporting that idea.
Teachers do support differentiated pay for teachers who work in tough neighborhoods with low-performing schools (83 percent support). Teachers also support differentiated pay for teachers who have earned National Board of Professional Teaching Standards certification or for those who teach hard-to-fill subjects.
Few teachers want to eliminate tenure — only a third would be willing to trade tenure for a $5,000 bonus — but most agree it shouldn't protect bad teachers, notes the Hechinger Report.
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Posted 07 October 2011 - 01:59 PM
I have an old photo I'm working with. Part of the photo (the pertinent people) are right in the sun - it's not hideous or unusable but i'm wondering if there is a way in Photoshop (CS5) to just edit that part of the photo. When I adjust brightness, etc., it affects the whole photo and that doesn't work. Any suggestions appreciated!!
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Posted 07 October 2011 - 03:21 PM
Not familiar with that program but you could always duplicate it (as a new layer), adjust the new layer to your liking and then erase the parts that were over-adjusted. Then merge the layers.
Posted 07 October 2011 - 03:43 PM
That's a really good suggestion Becky! There almost always is more than one way to do things in the graphics programs. I know in PSE you can do a selection and do adjustments on what's selected. If you use the selection method, you'd probably want to make your selection with the polygonal lasso tool and a pretty large amount of feathering. Becky's way is probably faster.
Posted 07 October 2011 - 04:12 PM
Wow, I learn so much reading these threads! Thanks for the question and great answers!
Posted 07 October 2011 - 04:35 PM
I usually duplicate the photo and do the adjustment to the top layer and mask out the parts I don't need. Kind of the same as what Becky said, but if you use a mask, it isn't permanent like the eraser. Makes it a lot easier to change.
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Posted 07 October 2011 - 05:08 PM
I've done it both ways that have been mentioned. The masking seems to be the most forgiving, because you can use a hard brush in the central area, then go to a very soft brush for the outer edges. Sometimes, I like the effect that I get when I make a selection like Becky and Pat have suggested, but there's another selection method that I really like to use at times. Make a loose extraction by using the quick selection tool with a bit of a feather, on a duplicate of the photo, then invert the selection and delete the outer portion of the photo. Now, go to the first layer photo and using the filter, gaussian blurr, add some blur to it. 15 might be nice, but it's something that you can play with. When I have a photo that I don't really like the background to, I use this technique and get a bokeh effect that I really like. I know that there are also other things that you can do, but had to mention one of my faves. I hope that I've been clear enough, but if not, just mention it and I'll give more detail. Have a scrappin' good day! :-)
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Posted 07 October 2011 - 05:13 PM
Great suggestions! I really don't know how to use masks, and I need to make that my next thing to learn. I always forget about it until someone mentions it. I tend to automatically revert to my base learning curve from when I was using nothing but PSP7 for making 100x100 icons/avatars for Live Journal!
Posted 08 October 2011 - 08:04 AM
wow, such great ideas i never thought to try. i just need to take it a little further now and see which works for this photo. thanks for chiming in, everyone!!
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About a year ago, we got a phone call from a reader in the town of Welch, in the northeast corner of Oklahoma. It was Gary Graham calling to tell us about his '53 F-100, undergoing a complete frame-off teardown and buildup. The truck was still very much "in progress" at the time, but the enthusiasm was already noticeable in Gary's voice. Since our first conversation, the Ford has been finished.
The framerails were modified with a Chrysler front end, but the pickup is Ford powered. The engine compartment houses a no-nonsense four-barrel-fed 429 backed by a C6 transmission equipped with a shift kit. The interior was completely updated with two-tone leather-wrapped high-back seats, aftermarket steering wheel and tilt column, Vintage Air A/C, and power windows. Exterior modifications include the removal of handles, locks, and brightwork, one-piece tinted sideglass, and that hard-to-miss silver and blue two-tone paint.
Gary's come a long way with his fine '53. The only place left to go is the road and we figure Gary's got a few trips planned.
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Microsoft Corp. said officially that starting from the next software update for Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console it would prohibit usage of "unauthorized" storage devices on the system.
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Hi everyone. I've been an active member of WPCentral since 2010 using a Samsung Focus on WP7. Windows Phone 8 got some stuff right but other stuff it was more of the "it's coming soon" routine. Additionally, Google isn't playing nice with WP users. Based on the aforementioned, I decided to put WP on hiatus and try iOS so I got an iPhone 5 last night.
Right now I'm still digesting the whole Apple ID stuff, wondering if one account or more is better (have other iOS devices at home). Also trying to figure the easiest way to carry my Windows Phone contacts to iCloud. I want to keep it simple so my goal is to have my Calendar and Contacts on iCloud without relying on my Yahoo Mail or Hotmail info. That could mean I have to type the stuff manually but hopefully I can import it in some way.
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Do you have outlook? And a way to get your contacts in there. This is one of the easiest ways to transfer everything.
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There are a couple of really good threads that will walk you through moving your stuff to iCloud - really easy if they're currently in Google.
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I had a problem with very bad shaking at speed. Patrick picked up the car at the agreed time and confirmed the diagnosis was the passenger side front caliper causing the breaks to stick after warming up. Kept me updated with every development, which I really liked. Quoted me a price to replace the relevant parts, including brake service, and sorted the issue the same day. The car drives like new now. Patrick knows his stuff, is very customer focused, and I would recommend him to absolutely anyone. He'll be the first person I call when I have any future issues. A credit to his trade. Thanks.
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- MOWINS Reports: Two new reports have been posted to the Crystal website in WIC Reports – Local Agency.
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CM-0010-02 Prenatals Due Report - The Prenatals Due Report is an interactive Crystal report. It lists all prenatal women for a particular agency or site with due date, address and phone number, sorted by due date.
Breast Pump Inventory Report - The Breast Pump Issuance report is an Excel spreadsheet listing all breast pumps that are currently issued to participants for all agencies. This report is sorted by agency number and includes the serial number of the pump, participant's state WIC ID and household ID numbers and the date the pump was issued. This report can be useful for staff to follow-up with participants who have received a breast pump, to insure they are still using the pump.
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QINHUANGDAO, China(AP) Midfielders Aya Miyama and Homare Sawa scored second-half goals Wednesday to rally Japan to a 2-2 draw with New Zealand in their opening match of the women's football competition.
New Zealand, making its Olympic debut in the event, took the lead in the 33rd minute when forward Alexandra Riley slipped past defender Miyuki Yanagit and sent a low ball across to Kirsty Yallop, who calmly tapped it in.
South African referee Deidre Mitchell then awarded a penalty kick after players tumbled in the box on a New Zealand corner kick in the 57th minute, and forward Amber Hearn converted the ensuing penalty.
``Today, we didn't perform very well,'' New Zealand coach John Herdman said. ``I'm dissatisfied because when you're 2-0 up, you expect three points.''
In many ways, New Zealand was lucky to come away with one point.
Japan dominated possession throughout the match and created a handful of solid scoring opportunities, but struggled to crack New Zealand goalkeeper Jenny Bindon for most of the match.
Japan's first opportunity came in the 18th minute, when forwards Shinobu Ohno and Yuki Nagasato worked a nifty give-and-go. Ohno ran onto in the ball in the box, but pushed her low, right-footed shot just past the far post.
Six minutes later, Mizuho Sakaguchi found room at the top of the area after a scramble in the box to fire a right-footed drive right at Bindon.
Japan should have taken the lead in the 33rd, when Ohno latched onto a long-ball and raced in alone on goal. But Bindon quickly stepped out to cut down the angle pushed Ohno's left-footed shot wide with her finger tips.
Forced to continue pushing forward, Japan finally pulled one back in the 73rd after Mitchell awarded another penalty kick after Abby Erceg pushed Mizuho Sakaguchi in the area. Miyama slotted the ensuing penalty just inside the right post and past a diving Bindon.
``In the first half we didn't perform very well,'' Japan coach Norio Sasaki said through a translator. ``The penalty gave us a lot of encouragement and cheered the team up.''
Japan continued to push forward in the final 20 minutes in search of an equalizer, and got it on a brilliant goal from captain Sawa in the 86th.
Miyama curled a free kick in from the right side that Sawa jumped up and knocked with her right foot just inside the near post.
``They have problems finishing, and we knew they would need 10 chances to score three goals,'' Herdman said.
But the New Zealand coach acknowledged that his team wore down as the game dragged on and Japan found its rhythm in the attack.
``You could see the writing on the wall,'' he said.
New Zealand was lucky to hang on for the hard-earned draw.
In the game's closing minutes, Ohno knocked a volley from 10 meters (yards) onto the bar, and minutes later midfielder Mizuho Sakaguchi headed a cross from Miyama just wide.
Japan plays the United States next in Group G, while New Zealand takes on Norway.