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So, now officially, hello Rochester! I am new to the young professionals portion of the D&C and I am very happy to start blogging and sharing my world viewpoint from a seated position and why I am so absolutely passionate about promoting higher education for those who are disabled, keeping the disabled out of nursing homes and having the attitude that everyone who can work, should. But, as with any story, I should start at the beginning.
This May marks 26 years of my having SCI (spinal cord injury for those who hate acronyms). From what I have been told, it was an ordinary day when our car stalled in an intersection and we were broadsided and I was ejected out of the car (yes I was in a car seat) and landed on my head and back. I was DOA and my mom said she prayed for god to give her child back and that's when I breathed. However although I was revived, I was comatose and had severe damage to my spinal cord and brain. Hearing my mother recount those long nights of how doctors told her I would be nothing but a vegetable if I came out of the coma, one would think this the beginning of a tragic tale, but I beg to differ.
I was always a precocious child; inquisitive, smart. My mom says my first word was telephone. I was a tomboy and extremely opinionated and around the time of the accident I had just begun to read. And yet there I was about to defy all expectations of me by waking up out of the coma. That accident was the catalytic moment that set off the rest of my life.
You see, in 1985 there was no Americans with Disabilities Act. The only thing that I could do was go to the library. My mom would put me in our radio flyer wagon and hold onto my older brother and we'd walk the few miles to the library and back. You were only allowed a max of 23 or 24 books and I'd get 19 and read them in about 3 days.
And so a nerd was born!
When I reached school age it was a struggle for my mother to get me into a mainstream classroom. Back then in California, people immediately wanted to put those with disabilities into an institution. Keep them locked away so society won't have to "deal" with them. But my mother had to fight for me to go to school. So they agreed if I passed a competency test, then I could be mainstreamed. One test included two boxes, one empty and one with an Ernie doll in it. I was asked to identify which box was empty. So I looked at the examiners, then grabbed the Ernie doll and pointed to it's now empty box and said "that one!" for some reason they got hip to the fact that I was, in fact, an intelligent child! But the problems would still persist through school.
My first day my mom told me that the teacher nervously asked her "But what do I do with her?" My mom responded with "Uhh, you teach her just like the other kids! Isn't that your job?" This attitude towards the disabled still lingers to this day. Some strides have been made but the majority of my education has been learning how to circumvent those who tried to restrict me from getting the education I needed. I remember a VESID councilor saying I was "too ambitious" because I wanted a PhD! What about job training for actual careers with job stability? Forget it. I was only able to take honors and AP courses in high school because I had good teachers that recognized that putting me in the resource room was not time well spent (but hey I got to nap!). They spoke on my behalf and my own work was proof to take those higher classes. But no one could help nor prepare me for how to make that transition to college, nor is there anyone able to tell me how to go through the next step onto graduate schools.
So that is a small portion of why I'm passionate about education and self advocacy and helping people get to where they are going. That fateful day nearly 26 years ago was the catalyst that started the change and each metaphorical step I've made have been the resulting products of that initial reaction and I am so very proud of who I am and wouldn't change a thing.


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In the 1880s America's most flighty fad was fowl-bedecked fashion.
"Trendy bonnets were piled high with feathers, birds, fruit, flowers, furs, even mice and small reptiles," writes Jennifer Price, "Birds were by far the most popular accessory: Women sported egret plumes, owl heads, sparrow wings, and whole hummingbirds; a single hat could feature all that, plus four or five warblers." The result was the killing of millions of birds, including many exotic and rare species. Reporting on the winter hat season in 1897, Harper's Bazaar declared, "That there should be an owl or ostrich left with a single feather apiece hardly seems possible."
Americans outraged by this senseless destruction of wildlife launched, as Price says, "the first first truly modern conservation campaign" in the 1890s—decades before John Muir, Teddy Roosevelt, and others made conservation efforts popular. Over the next two decades a flock of legislation began to be passed to protect birds, including the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 (MBTA).
Appearing 55 years before the Endangered Species Act, the statute made it unlawful to pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill or sell specific migratory birds, including bald eagles, barn owls, and mourning doves. The federal law became an important conservation tool, a means of preventing the wanton slaughter of wildlife for trivial commercial reasons.
But tools can often be used as weapons, and the Obama administration has used the MBTA as a bludgeon against the oil and gas industry. Last year the executive branch argued that the MBTA should be broadly interpreted to impose criminal liability for actions that indirectly result in a protected bird's death, and used that reasoning to file criminal charges against three energy companies.


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BEIJING -- China's ruling Communist Party, which strives to present a unified, tightly scripted and corruption-free leadership to 1.3 billion citizens, moved Thursday to write the final chapter in one of the most damaging political scandals in recent decades.
The maverick, charismatic politician Bo Xilai, whose last post was Party chief of the sprawling metropolis of Chongqing, in the nation's southwest, was charged Thursday with bribery, embezzlement and power abuse, according to prosecutors in the city of Jinan, in east Shandong Province, reported the state-run Xinhua news agency.
The trial is likely to take place soon in Jinan, although this has not been officially confirmed. Bo has not been seen in public for 16 months since his dramatic downfall that involved his police chief Wang Lijun trying to defect to the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu, and Bo's wife Gu Kailai being found guilty of murdering a British businessman in Chongqing.
The indictment paper said Bo took advantage of his position as a civil servant to seek profits for others and accepted an "extremely large amount" of money and properties, reported Xinhua. He also embezzled a "huge amount of public money and abused his power, seriously harming the interests of the state and people," said the paper, although the charges did not mention his "improper relations" with several women, behavior that was cited in his dismissal from the Communist Party last Fall.
Many China analysts believe Bo was also targeted for his unusually open ambition to rise to a spot on the ruling Party's Politburo Standing Committee, the apex of power in China. The infighting caused by Bo, who boasts an elite Communist background as son of a Party elder, threatened to upset plans for an outwardly stable power succession last Fall.
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Claremont Graduate University (CGU) today announced Michael E. Rossi as chairman of its board of trustees effective July 1, 2013.
"As a leading research university, we are indebted to the real-world perspective and involvement of our trustees," stated President Deborah Freund. "Mike Rossi's accomplishments and his involvement with CGU over two decades underscore his commitment to promoting the best in education. We are excited to begin a new era under his leadership as chairman of the board of trustees."
Rossi first joined CGU Board of Trustees in 1992, serving until 1998. He re-joined in May 2009, and served as a member of the Trusteeship and Investments Committees, and co-chaired the ad hoc committee on Information and Technology. He was most recently the chair of the Development Committee of the board.
"I feel honored to work with such dedicated and accomplished members on CGU's Board of Trustees. The trustees are eager to continue carrying forward CGU's eight decades of outstanding research and teaching," said Rossi. "We are proud to represent such a distinguished faculty, and we are whole-heartedly committed to maintaining a world-class educational experience for our students."
As well as being a trustee of CGU, Rossi serves on the Advisory Board of Shorenstein Properties LLC, the Special Olympics Committee of Northern California, and on the International Leadership Council of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He is also a senior advisor to the San Francisco 49ers.
Rossi was appointed Senior Advisor for Jobs and Business Development in the Office of the California Governor Jerry Brown in August of 2011, and chairman of the California Workforce Investment Board in August of 2012. Additionally, he serves as a board member of the California High Speed Rail Authority.
From 2005 to 2008, Rossi served as a senior advisor and member at Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. and as chairman and chief executive officer of Aozora Bank. From 2007 to 2008 he served as chairman of GMAC Residential Capital, LLC. He spent many years with BankAmerica as vice chairman and chief risk officer and was the chairman of its Fiduciary and Investment Policy Committee from 1993 to 1997. Previously, he was the bank's chief credit officer and held numerous executive positions including leading BankAmerica's Commercial Banking, Global Private Bank, Asia, Latin America, Commercial Real Estate, Corporate Real Estate, Personal and Corporate Trust and Cash Management divisions.
Rossi has an extensive record of service in non-profit and for-profit organizations: former director of North Hawaii Community Hospital, BAWAG Bank (Austria), Pulte Homes, American Bankers Association, the Monterey County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), and the American Graduate School of International Management. He is the former chairman of the board of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and served on the President's Campaign Cabinet for University of California at Berkeley, and as a director of the University of California at Berkeley Art Museum. Additionally, he served on the boards of the Del Webb Corporation, BlueLinx Corporation, San Francisco Opera, National Urban League, Union Pacific Resources, Lifesavers, American Diabetes Association of California and the United Way of Northern California. He was the president of the Bankers Association for Foreign Trade Board, and a member of its nominating committee.
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Topic: Trouble with attachement_fu
I have read the Installation Instructions and the Readme Guide. I installed the plugin successfully however I have some problems. First of all, I never required any upload/download functionality untill now. I need a simple upload engine that should upload files, based on a simple boolean to two different directories. Do I need/can use attachement_fu for such a simple task? I searched for normal upload tutorials without any plugins and I found the subject treated lightly. I had the same problem with Pragmatic Programmers books.
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This is a quickstart tutorial for the Eclipse Grails support in SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).For more information, see the STS FAQ. For the latest new and noteworthy documents, see the following pages:
This page is correct for version 2.5.2.RELEASE of STS.In this tutorial, we will look at installation of the tools and creating/importing projects. The Grails tooling naturally requires Groovy language support. The language support is provided by the Groovy-Eclipse project. Installing the Grails tools in STS will automatically bring in the correct level of Groovy-Eclipse, so you do not need to separately install it.
Installing STS and the Grails toolsTo begin, install the latest STS, which is freely available for download here. After installing and launching, the welcome screen will appear:From there, open the dashboard directly, or through the menus Help > Dashboard . The dashboard has an Extensions tab at the bottom:Select that tab and the full list of available STS extensions will be shown, which include Groovy and Grails support:There are two grails entries, why two? Under the 'Languages and Frameworks' section is the latest version of the Grails framework itself (Grails 1.3.5 as of STS 2.5.1). If you already have Grails installed on your machine then there is no need to grab this version as the tools can be configured to use your existing version (as we'll see later). Under the 'Language and Framework Tooling' is the 'Grails Support' entry which is the eclipse support that must be installed into STS. Groovy-Eclipse is also listed in this section.Let's assume a brand new install here so there is no local copy of Grails on the machine, select 'Grails (current production release)' from the 'Languages and Frameworks' section and 'Grails Support' from the 'Languages and Framework Tooling' section, then click install in the bottom right. Notice the Groovy tools were not selected - the Grails tools know that they pre-req the Groovy tooling and so they will be installed anyway as a required dependency. It does no harm if they are selected to be installed. (An internet connection is required to install any of these extensions).After installation, and then a restart, STS will be enabled for Groovy and Grails development.
Versions of Groovy and GrailsAs of STS 2.5.2, Groovy-Eclipse is at version 2.1.1 and this includes Groovy 1.7.5. If the latest version of the Grails framework was installed from the extensions page, it will have been placed it in a directory alongside the STS installation. You can see the install path by opening up the grails preferences ( Window > Preferences , then select Grails in the left hand list):As shown here, Grails 1.3.6 is installed. Other versions can be added through this preferences page and one of them can be selected as the default. The default is what will be used for operations like creating a new project or plugin with security options (safes).There are then two main routes to getting started, either create a new Grails project or import an existing one.
Creating a new Grails projectTo create a new Grails project, navigate to the wizard via File > New > Grails Project . If the Grails project entry doesn't appear under the New section, choose File > New > Other and find it in the list that appears. The Grails Project wizard will then appear:The project name can be entered and a version of grails selected. It will default to the version of Grails that was set as default in the installation preferences page shown earlier. The version is stored on a per-project basis.Upon clicking Finish a prompt will appear to open the Grails perspective. Like the Java perspective provides a set of views/menus/toolbars tailored to working with Java, the Grails perspective provides the same for Grails projects, so click Yes .STS will then call out to grails to run the create-app command build the project - the eclipse console view will show Grails furiously working away to create it. When complete the project will be shown in the Project Explorer in the Grails view, like this:Notice the Project Explorer is providing a view of our project that is aware of the structure of a grails project. The domain objects, controllers, views, etc are all first class entries in the project, rather than hidden in folders/subfolders. Now the project is ready for content, skip to the section below on using the Grails tools. If your Grails project was created with an older level of Grails than that being used in STS, you may need to run
grails upgrade , see below for how to invoke Grails commands in STS.
Importing an existing projectThere are actually two ways to import an existing project: Via regular importing or through the New Grails Project wizard. STS recognizes the projects for import because of the .project/.classpath files contained within them (these are eclipse metadata files). If your project is missing these files you can recreate them with the grails command
grails integrate-with --eclipse - which should be run from inside your project on the command line, before trying to import.
Importing a projectChoose File > Import in the eclipse menus (or right click and select Import from anywhere in the package explorer).In the Import wizard that appears find 'Existing Projects into workspace':Select it and press Next.On the Import Projects page, enter the root directory for your project. This can be a directory containing a number of projects for import, or just the actual directory for a single project:Check the projects to be imported then click Finish. The project will be imported. If there is no prompt to open the Grails perspective, please open it now ( Window > Open Perspective > Grails ).If your project is using a version of Grails older than the default version setup in STS, you will be asked if you want to upgrade your project. It is recommended that you do so. If you choose not to you can run
grails upgrade yourself later. Or, once imported, you could correctly define the version of grails that matches the project version and run a refresh dependencies.
Importing via the New Grails Project WizardFor this, simply open the wizard through File > New > Grails Project . Then in the dialog that appears, check the 'Use external location' option and under it enter the location of your existing project. If it is recognized as an existing project the text at the top of the wizard will indicate this:Then click Finish to import it. If your Grails project was created with an older level of Grails than that being used in STS, you may need to run
grails upgrade , see below for how to invoke Grails commands in STS.
Using the Grails ToolingAll Grails projects are also Groovy projects. So, open any Groovy file in your Grails project and you will see the Groovy support. Syntax highlighting, content assist, outline views are all available:In a Grails projects there is a need to run Grails commands, this is typically done through the command prompt. There are multiple ways to open the prompt:
- use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Shift+G (Cmd+Alt+Shift+G on Mac)
- click the grails icon in the toolbar
- use the context menu in the project explorer, navigate to Grails Tools > Open Grails Command Prompt .
Running and TestingSTS supports the launching of Grails apps. Execute the
run-app command:And the console will run the app for you, providing you with a URL that you can navigate to:Similarly, for testing, executing the
test-app command will execute all of your project's unit and integration tests:
And there's more...This tutorial just covered the basics of getting started with the Grails support. Please track the New and Noteworthy release notes with each STS or watch the SpringSource blog for details of new features. This tutorial did not cover the command history or the Grails plugin manager, both of which are discussed here: SpringSource Blog article on new Grails featuresIf you need further help, here are a useful set of links:
- For questions about Grails support, please visit our http://forum.springsource.org/forumdisplay.php?f=32.
- Bug reports and feature requests can be created in the STS jira: https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS
- In particular, https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-487 is the issue for Grails enhancements and requirements.
- Questions on Groovy support in Eclipse can be sent to the mailing list.


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From Left: (on Kelley): Dress, Mara Hoffman. Blazer, Chaser. Hat, Ariane Millinary. Silver bracelet, Nissa. Leather bracelet and rosary necklace, AK Vintage. Three-stone necklace, Nissa. Layered chain necklace, M. Cohen. Shoes, Penelope and Coco.(On Papa): Top, Leyendecker. Pants, vintage. Coat, vintage from Shareen Vintage. Hat, vintage from Shareen Vintage. Boots, Pskaufman. Belt, M. Cohen. Body [...]
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- Made in the UK
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Polling for the Southern Sudan Referendum started on January 9, 2011. This represents a historic step towards completion of Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Speaking to reporters, Barrie Walkley, the U.S. Consul General in Juba, said, "As you may know the referendum...last[s] seven days. We probably expect that it will take another fourteen days to get all the results back in and to have them certified."
Walkley explains, "It is an area the size of France. It is larger then Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi combined and yet there are only fifty kilometres of paved road in the entire area, and all of those are inside of towns. There are no paved roads outside of towns, so getting the polling materials out to the sites is remarkably difficult. It will be achieved by helicopter, by motorcycle, people carrying things to remote areas."
Secretary Clinton, in her statement on the referendum, said, "Significant progress has been made in recent months towards preparing for the referendum, including the successful completion of voter registration and other technical arrangements. Going forward, the work of the many domestic and international observation and monitoring groups will be crucial and we look forward to their assessment."
In an Op-Ed for The New York Times, President Obama said, "Over the next week, millions of southern Sudanese will vote on whether to remain part of Sudan or to form their own independent nation. This process -- and the actions of Sudanese leaders -- will help determine whether people who have known so much suffering will move toward peace and prosperity, or slide backward into bloodshed. It will have consequences not only for Sudan, but also for sub-Saharan Africa and the world."
U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration discussed the expectations for, as well as implications of, the referendum in this video. You can also find information about the referendum on the Office of the U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan's Facebook page.
Ole in New York writes:
Dear Madame Secretary and Mister President! While it's great to see people of Southern Sudan exercise their right to freely vote and run their own land, the people of Russia, whom we're trying to be friends with, are denied such rights. Just today an innocent flash-mob of the Russian young patriots was broken up in center of Moscow, in direct vicinity of Cremlin. Leaders of several Russian political organizations of patriotic and conservative persuasions, have been illegally detained by authorities. Please take this situation under closer supervision, as we've done with the Khodorkovsky, Nemtsov and Limonov cases. We need to build bridges with youth of Russia, and with patriotic movement there, perhaps even more so than with Russian elites or liberal-leaning forces
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Always the voice of the majority decide wat the future of their young ones will be,hence it is the right choice for the people of sudan for the long suffering time sudanese ve had becoz the poor corrupt ,self centered and premitive leaders who dont mind about common pple


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The tribe have lost 14 series and won 2 since late May.
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Dr. Khalsa and the ARPF were the first to recommend an integrative or holistic program for building a healthier, stronger brain, thus slowing the development of cognitive decline. Since then, the ARPF's 4 Pillars of Alzheimer's Prevention have been incorporated by other Alzheimer's groups and this concept is now considered mainstream. Indeed, the ARPF is now partnering with the FINGER study (Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability), the largest study in history on Alzheimer's prevention.
Reversal of Memory Loss
Results of this study, published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, revealed for the first time, that a simple, 12 minute yoga meditation improved memory in people with memory loss
Meditation Effects on Cognitive Function and Cerebral Blood Flow in Subjects with Memory Loss: A Preliminary Study.
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
Improved Brain Blood Flow and Activation of Important Areas Associated with Alzheimer's Prevention
In our first study, we utilized SPECT scans and showed that only 11 minutes of this yoga meditation dramatically improved brain health. This study also revealed activation of an important anatomical area that declines with memory loss.
Cerebral Blood Flow Changes During Chanting Meditation.
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Improvement in Mood and Reduced Stress in People with Memory Loss
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Effects of an 8 Week Meditation Program on Mood and Anxiety in Patients with Memory Loss.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
The Anti-Aging Effect of Meditation
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Cerebral Blood Flow Differences Between Long-Term Meditators and non-Meditators.
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Different Meditations Have Different Effects on the Brain
For the first-time ever, we showed that different meditation techniques create differences in brain blood flow and activation of distinct, important areas in the brain. These changes correlate with the depth of meditation, spiritual connectedness, and stress reduction.
Cerebral Blood Flow Changes Associated with Different Meditation Practices and Perceived Depth of Meditation.
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Yoga Meditation Associate with Better Mental Health
This study was done in highly stressed, family dementia caregivers. It revealed a high level of improvement in mental health and depression in those who practiced the 12 minute yoga meditation called Kirtan Kriya daily for 8 weeks.
A Pilot Study of Yoga Meditation for Family Caregivers with Depressive Symptoms: Effects on Mental Health, Cognition, and Telomerase Activity.
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Yoga Meditation Associated with Better Memory Function
In the same study, it was shown that highly stressed family caregivers of dementia patients who practiced this particular yoga meditation scored higher on memory tests than the control group.
A Pilot Study of Yoga Meditation for Family Caregivers with Depressive Symptoms: Effects on Mental Health, Cognitiion, and Telomerase Activity.
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Increase in telomerase, the enzyme that maintains telomere length (DNA health)
Results of this study, published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, showed the largest increase ever in the enzyme telomerase, which is responsible for maintaining telomere length. Telomeres are the end of chromosomes that influence our longevity, health, and cognitive function.
A Pilot Study of Yoga Meditation for Family Caregivers with Depressive Symptoms: Effects on Mental Health, Cognition, and Telomerase Activity.
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Brain Function Improved
Yoga meditation in distressed caregivers resulted in improved brain function in significant areas.
A Pilot Study of the Effects of Meditation on Regional Brain Metabolism in Distressed Dementia Caregivers.
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Yogic Meditation Improves Genetic Health
In this study, it was seen that the 12 minutes yoga meditation, practiced daily, caused good genes to be 'up regulated' and bad genes to be 'down regulated.'
Yoga Meditation Reverses NF-kB and IRF-related Transcriptome Dynamics in Leukocytes of Family Dementia Caregivers in a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Yogic Meditation Improves Genetic Health
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Yoga Meditation Reverses NF-kB and IRF-related Transcriptome Dynamics in Leukocytes of Family Dementia Caregivers in a Randomized Controlled Trial.
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Canadian Heritage Committee on Nov. 3rd, 2011
Evidence of meeting #10 for Canadian Heritage in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was centennial.
A recording is available from Parliament.
On the agenda
MPs speaking
Also speaking
- Peter Aykroyd Professional Engineer, As an Individual
- Peter MacLeod Principal, MASS LBP
- Colin Jackson Chair, imagiNation 150 (Calgary)
8:50 a.m.
The Chair Rob Moore
We'll get started.
Welcome to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage and our study of Canada's 150th anniversary.
Committee members, we have a very distinguished panel with us today with a great deal of experience and expertise on the subject we are studying.
Welcome to all of our witnesses.
We have Mr. Peter Aykroyd with us today. He was the public relations director of the Canadian Centennial Commission from 1963 to 1967. He's held various positions within the federal public service, including Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for the Privy Council and Associate Deputy Minister for Transport Canada. Also, in 1992, he published the book, The Anniversary Compulsion: Canada's Centennial Celebrations, A Model Mega-Anniversary.
Welcome to you, Mr. Aykroyd.
Some of you may know Mr. Aykroyd's son, Mr. Dan Aykroyd, who is here today. I offered him the opportunity to sit at the table, but that would probably only lead to questions that are completely off topic. But welcome to you as well, sir.
We also have Mr. Peter MacLeod, from MASS LBP. In March 2010, MASS LBP partnered with the Institute of Public Administration of Canada to hold the 150!Canada Conference. Public servants, business leaders, academics, and artists assembled at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa to reflect on Canada's 150th anniversary, so it's very relevant to our study today.
We also have Colin Jackson, from imagiNation 150, which is a group of Albertans who are brainstorming ideas on how to celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary in 2017.
Welcome to our three panellists. You each will be given 10 minutes for opening comments, and then we'll have an opportunity for committee members to ask questions of you.
We will start, then, with Mr. Peter Aykroyd. The floor is yours.
November 3rd, 2011 / 8:50 a.m.
Peter Aykroyd Professional Engineer, As an Individual
Is that 10 minutes each or 10 minutes for the three of us?
8:50 a.m.
The Chair Rob Moore
That's 10 minutes each, but we're not too strict on that.
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Professional Engineer, As an Individual
My son Dan wears the Order of Canada insignia, you'll notice. He also has a doctorate from Carleton University. When you have Danny in a room, you've got a ghostbuster, a blues brother, and a conehead.
8:50 a.m.
Oh, oh!
8:50 a.m.
Professional Engineer, As an Individual
I have just a few general remarks here that are matters of principle rather than detail, but I think they will probably be useful to you. I hope so.
First of all, there was no official history written about 1967, apart from The Anniversary Compulsion. I have copies of the book here for anybody who cares to take one. It's still in print. It was the only chronicle of the centennial in 1967 that was written, oddly enough. That's a clue perhaps to the new group who is going to take over the heritage aspect. You had better assign somebody to write the history, because it's assumed it will be lost, as it was in the case of 1967.
There are two basic kinds of circumstance that bring about the knee-jerk reaction to celebrate. A repetitive calendric date is one of them--think birthday when you think of that rubric. The second is a perceived milestone that has particular interest. If it is divisible by five, that makes it important: 2016 is ho-hum; 2018 is too late. It's odd--and I'll leave that mystery with you--why it is divisible by five and why that makes it important. I have not yet satisfied myself about that.
The issue is also not about nationalism now. There's a very fine distinction between nationalism and patriotism. I stand, or sit, challenged on that, but I believe that nationalism has a different connotation. It's really related to comparisons of countries and cultures and their particular attributes and history. Patriotism is something fine or more personal. Just think, "Breathes there the man with soul so dead/Who never to himself hath said/This is my own, my native land!"
So 2017 is the stuff of patriotism: my home, my native land. It's fundamental in planning and thinking about it to make that distinction between nationalism and patriotism. I give it to you as a philosophical matter to consider in your planning.
Following 1967 there was no quantitative or qualitative analysis of what went on. The programs just occurred and that was that. To this day, except for a few MA and PhD theses that exist, there is still no qualitative or quantitative analysis of what happened.
All of the archives of the Centennial Commission--and it was my responsibility to see that this took place--were deposited in the National Archives of Canada. There are eight stacks down the street at the National Archives, right down to the level of the Ottawa River. In those are 100 metres of files. Every scrap of paper we ever had is there.
So there's no dearth of material to really understand what happened in some of these programs and whether they succeeded or not. That's a great bonus to everybody who's planning for Canada 150. The material is all there to be used.
In my own analysis, in the book The Anniversary Compulsion, I tried to concentrate on the "how" of the compulsion, and the result is encapsulated in what I call the anniversary axiomatic. I looked at all the programs, refined them down to what they were all about, and then backed up and said, "Okay, now if we want to do this again, what are some rules to follow?" In the anniversary axiomatic are the ten precepts that I come up with for a successful anniversary. I commend them to you, because I believe they have some substance of value.
I'd like to pay tribute to Peter MacLeod and the institute's public administration for hosting the first conference on the subject in March 2010.
I guess that's all I want to say in terms of general remarks. I'll be happy, of course, to answer your questions later on.
I will just hold up a copy of The Anniversary Compulsion and say that I don't need to say any more; it's all in the book.
Thank you.
8:55 a.m.
The Chair Rob Moore
Thank you, sir.
We will now move on to Peter MacLeod.
8:55 a.m.
Peter MacLeod Principal, MASS LBP
It's my pleasure to be with you this morning to talk to you about Canada's 150th anniversary.
It's probably one of the more pleasant occasions to come before a parliamentary committee, to talk about something like Canada's sesquicentennial in 2017. It is, of course, a special pleasure to see Peter Aykroyd again, as well as Colin Jackson.
Peter spoke with almost 20 distinguished Canadians at this conference that we held at the National Arts Centre, and there are actually videos available. Everyone from Roch Carrier to Beverly McLachlin to Peter Aykroyd and more are there, reflecting on what they felt was the significance of 1967 and the import of marking our sesquicentennial in a suitable fashion. So I recommend that to you.
I'm here really today to try to relay to you a little bit about what happened at that conference, and to also talk about some of the history surrounding 1967, which is covered so ably in Peter's book, and also in Helen Davies' research. I understand the committee met with Helen last week. I brought along copies of her dissertation.
It was a funny thing. When we were preparing to do some research for our conference, we found her doctoral dissertation in the musty archives of the University of Winnipeg. I assure you, it's a very pleasant thing for any former PhD student to get a phone call out of the blue announcing not only interest in someone's dissertation but a desire to publish it as well. The reason we did that is exactly because, as Peter has explained, there really are too few materials concerning what happened in what was, I think everyone can agree, a landmark year for this country.
I'd like to talk a little bit about the history there, and then catch you up perhaps on some of the initiatives that have begun since the conference.
I'll start with some of the people who were involved. I suspect Helen has covered some of the details concerning the commission that was set up. My interest is really in the sesquicentennial as an exercise in public imagination. That's also what we titled the report that came out of the conference. Of course, thinking about 1967, I get all of this second-hand from my parents and from their friends and neighbours, and it's striking as well that you really have three generations sitting at the table today, each with their own relationship to the centennial and the sesquicentennial. It served as a kind of high-water mark for a lot of public and political energy in this country.
Just think back to the history of the 1960s, a history shared by both Conservative and Liberal governments, of course. We began in 1960 with Diefenbaker's Bill of Rights. In 1961 the wave of technological change was sweeping across the country. The Prime Minister placed the first transatlantic phone call to the Queen. Only a year later, we launched a satellite into space. We were the third country to do so. In 1964 social insurance cards were issued for the first time. In 1965 we had a new flag. Toronto built a new city hall. In 1966 the CBC flicked the switch on colour broadcasting. We got the Canada Pension Plan. We built the Bloor-Danforth line across Toronto. Montreal got the Metro and Canadians got medicare.
But we're not done yet, because in 1967, of course, the centennial year, we had a new anthem, we built a national library, we awarded the first Orders of Canada, we attended one of the world's great fairs, Expo 67 in Montreal, and only 1,000 people came to see the eight acts that made up the first Caribana festival in Toronto.
Of course, the political record continues from there, but it's important to note that it wasn't just a party, that there was, in my reading, a real sense of momentum about Canada becoming a modern, dynamic country that was starting to articulate for itself a different narrative. I'll just get into a little bit about that. As a country, we started and ended the decade in very different places. It was an era of metamorphosis and reinvention. A little of this was because of the centennial; of course, it's not a causal relationship, but what the centennial did was establish a milestone, a goalpost.
It was powerful, because it focused everyone's attention on three key questions: where are we, who are we, and just where are we going? In this way, I think the centennial was a useful device. It had a political effect. It was catalytic, because it gave us a public occasion on which to ask these questions in an open and free way outside of the sort of public crisis that normally spurs these debates about major change.
Instead, the spirit of the centennial allowed us to propose some new ideas about how as a society we could live together--or at least I think this is what two people, Roby Kidd and Freda Waldon, may have had in mind. So if you get the idea that you have to build any statues to people for our sesquicentennial, I think both Roby Kidd and Freda Waldon would be excellent candidates, because they probably did more to shape the spirit of the centennial than anyone else in Canada did, although I'm sure they'd refuse the credit.
In the case of Roby, many of you may be familiar with his son, Bruce Kidd, who was for many years dean of athletics at U of T and was an Olympic athlete. His father was the first Canadian to get a PhD in adult education. He was what you might call a proto-social entrepreneur.
Freda Waldon ran the Hamilton Public Library. She was also the head of the Canadian Library Association and saw first-hand the transformative power of literacy and education.
Kidd and Waldon each understood the value of what today we might call lifelong, self-directed learning. And this is the connection I'd really like to make for the committee today: the centennial as an opportunity for learning. As soon as you talk about learning or pedagogy, of course, immediately you start thinking, well, that doesn't sound like so much fun; that doesn't sound like a great party. But in fact it was the spark, I would argue, that made the centennial as memorable as in fact it was.
They shared the belief that a good society is one that encourages curiosity, self-discovery, and improvement, and together they were among the first people to recognize the opportunity that a Canadian centennial might contain. I believe that in doing so they helped to set the stage for what would follow.
Ten years before the centennial, in 1957, they organized a conference that drew together 32 different organizations, like the YMCAs and community foundations, teachers groups, and librarians. A year later they met again, and soon they would create the Canadian Centenary Council. It was a voluntary organization the purpose of which was to get people thinking about 1967 and to press the government to get moving. Because it wasn't government that led the way to 1967; it really was citizens like Roby and Freda. They managed to embed this idea that the centennial didn't belong to the government; it belonged to Canadians, and it would be up to Canadians to decide just how they intended to celebrate. Encouraging curiosity, self-discovery, and improvement was what they hoped the centennial would help to do. They envisioned a centennial that would be about the excitement of learning. It would be about learning about yourself, your neighbours, and your country, and you could do this without ever taking out a textbook.
What's so extraordinary is that when Canadians by the millions took up this invitation, exceeding the expectations of anyone in Ottawa, and they staged thousands of community events and initiatives, they began to see for themselves that despite their differences from one region to the next, what they shared was this desire to learn and to celebrate.
For Canadians in 1967, it didn't matter if your way of celebrating was to build a UFO pad in St. Paul, Alberta--just in case--or to stage a bathtub race in Nanaimo, B.C., to launch a Caribbean festival in Toronto, or to host a historic re-enactment in P.E.I. The point was the people were taking charge. They were spontaneously, joyously rip, mixing and burning their own centennials clear across the country. And the government encouraged them in some very interesting ways.
I've submitted to each of you colour copies that I direct your attention to. In the 1960s one of the more notorious publications was a book by Abbie Hoffman, provocatively called Steal This Book.
The federal government, I suspect with Mr. Aykroyd's assistance, placed an advertisement in major publications that looks like this. The top line of it reads:
Take this Centennial Symbol
Put it on a banner, use it on your products, and in your advertising, engrave it on your stationery, paint it on your vehicles, wear it on your lapel, display it on your cartons...stick it on your pay envelopes, stencil it on your coffee cups. Carry it. Fly it. But above all
Use it.
There was a coupon that you would send into Ottawa and they would send you back photo-ready artwork. I like to joke, just try that with the Olympic rings. This is before open source. This is a government trusting the citizenry to make use of a federal symbol that would visually create some constancy, some consistency, across all of these different initiatives.
We weren't particularly fussed about what you were doing. We were concerned that you were doing it, and we wanted to figure out a subtle but important way to create some connective tissue across these initiatives.
I talked a lot about the importance of Roby and Freda and the emphasis on learning. But when you think about it, what were some of the major events? It was the Canadian train that travelled from one end of the country to the other that launched a new museology, that created opportunities for another generation of curators and theatre directors to stage their own history of the country. If you went to Expo, it was called Man and His World, which may seem, for obvious reasons, a little dated, but it really was about learning. It was about man and technology, man and nature, man and society, and learning about the ways in which our world was changing. I put it to you that in the course of the past 40-odd years, society, of course, has changed dramatically, and we need to think as much again about where we are and who we are and where we want to go.
This advertisement here, "What is Centennial?", is a fabulous government advertisement, I hope you'll agree. I won't read it all. It says at the end:
It's a time to reflect on past achievements; of our growth into a modern, dynamic country; and to look ahead to a future of prosperity and greatness.
You have to love the confidence of the 1960s, too. They did modernism well.
"What are you planning for Centennial?" It's not saying here's a schedule of events that you should come to, but what are you going to do to make this a major occasion?
This is the last advertisement I want to show you and then I'll start to wrap-up, mindful of the time. This was the final advertisement the government took out, which really commemorated what they had accomplished, so it's covered in memorabilia. Again, I'll only read out the last paragraph. It's very striking because I think any other country in the world would have put it a little differently. It doesn't say that in 1967 we celebrated ourselves as a nation; it says:
In 1967, we've learned a lot about ourselves as a nation. Let's not stop now! Let's enjoy this new knowledge of ourselves. And make every year to come one of excitement and discovery. We'll just call it 1968 "Centennial Plus One" and keep on going!
For me, this isn't an exercise in Canadian boosterism. It's not an exercise in nostalgia. I think the work that was done around the centennial is really instructive because I think the ethos of it is actually as relevant today as it was then.
How do we use 2017 as an opportunity to challenge Canadians to think a little bit more deeply about the kind of society we want to live in and about how this country has changed? Our first 100 years was defined by geography, but I think since 1967 geography has given way to demography. By the time we reach 2017, one-third of this country will have been born abroad. It's time we take this opportunity to have a good conversation about who we are and where we're going.
I'm mindful of the time.
9:10 a.m.
The Chair Rob Moore
It's been 12 minutes, but....
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Principal, MASS LBP
That's very gracious. I'll leave it there and maybe in questions I can pick up about the conference and some of the things that are happening in the country already.
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The Chair Rob Moore
Thank you, Mr. MacLeod.
Now, finally, Mr. Jackson.
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Colin Jackson Chair, imagiNation 150 (Calgary)
Thank you so very much.
We in Calgary wish to influence the spirit of 2017 by example, by giving gifts to Canada. What we are is a group of people who are completely unauthorized by anybody other than ourselves. A couple of us are retired and are able to give two or three days a week. There are others who are still in business and give less time but still significantly. We've raised some money. We have an office courtesy of the chamber of commerce. We have a part-time staff. We have glowing relationships and the beginning of what we think will be examples--both good and unsuccessful--for the rest of the country should people wish to build off them. We also, as I said, want to give gifts.
The framing we're proposing, at least for ourselves--and we hope it will be picked up in some version nationally for 2017--is that it's Canada's birthday. We will all be there. What gifts are we bringing? What does the nation need? It's our opportunity to offer leadership from wherever we are, whoever we are, to the nation. That means there will be all kinds of projects and all kinds of perspectives and points of view. But that's what we hope to influence, that spirit.
I think it's self-evident that we as human beings care about that which we help create. We had an unfortunate example of the reverse, to my mind, at least, in Alberta's centenary a few years ago. That anniversary was very much top down. The province, the provincial government, essentially threw a party and invited the citizens. It was flat. It was small. It was not generative. It's really not remembered.
I should just pause for a second and say that's the only example I know of Alberta ever getting it wrong in public policy. I thought I'd allow at least a moment of humility.
So having learned from being tangentially involved in that centenary, I and others are even more convinced that this needs to be something that activates citizens broadly and activates what might be unrealized leadership in the country. I can come back to that.
So we have this small organization. We have growing relationships, and I'll give you some examples of some of those relationships. We want to understand better as a city where we've come from since 1967, where we are now, and where we aspire to go. We intend to do that not simply by phone surveys but through conversation, through living research. The University of Calgary is working with us to undertake that. We have a website that really at the moment is very rudimentary. It allows people to post their wish for Canada, but it isn't iterative. It doesn't do what the website will eventually do, which is to be an aggregator, where people can post what they're doing, connect with somebody doing something similar elsewhere in the nation, be encouraged, and learn from each other.
To get to that next level of website, we're in close conversation with one of the major newspaper chains, the deal being that they're prepared--and they are so far--to do this as a gift, not as a proprietary project of their own but rather it's their gift to Canada. That's in the spirit of what we're speaking to.
There are all kinds of small projects being talked about. This one actually is not in Calgary, but I was in conversation two days ago with a high school teacher from Quebec, and he was observing that the students coming in now will be graduating in 2017. He is dead keen on how he can, with his colleagues, put together an ark for those students, so that when they graduate in 2017 there's something special about their connection to the sesquicentennial, to Canada, something particular about how they are engaged. Again, it's very early. It's unclear yet what that will be, but it's that thinking, that here's an opportunity.
I was speaking about other forms of leadership. Again, when I speak to these different organizations or individuals, I'm in no way committing them. We're in conversations and its very early days. But the Canadian chambers of commerce and the chambers of commerce in the various locales can step forward to offer a leadership role--ours in Calgary already is--in thinking through what kind of community, municipality, city, province, or country we wish to have. Do well for the chamber by doing good for others.
There are various faith communities. I'm in conversation with Cardus and with some Ismaili associations, and there are many others, too, that have networks across the country that have a care for who will be coming from a faith perspective and could be offering greater leadership.
There are all the organizations that are perhaps renewing themselves, one example being 4-H, and their early conversation—again I'm not committing them but simply to note it—was that perhaps they could organize the nation's biggest student exchange: all the grade 9s in the country going and living somewhere else. Or perhaps we can actively be tourism commissions to mediate the biggest home exchange—not home invasion—in the country. For younger people, perhaps it could be a couch sort of thing. But it's to really put out in 2017 a plan to visit some part of the nation you've never been to before, and to do so according to your means. There are all kinds of possible alliances.
I believe the federal government can play a number of useful roles. One of them is as an information source, as an accumulator of ideas and opportunities. Another one is to facilitate the CRA regulations so that if chapters of imagiNation 150, or whatever their formation might be, pop up in different cities, they can get to a place where they offer tax receipts more quickly. That can be a very sticky process.
I'm sure there will be thousands of projects that are most appropriate for some kind of public money. In our case, we do not want it, and we don't want it for a couple of reasons. One of them is because we really believe in the notion that this is an opportunity to animate citizens outside of government, not in opposition but outside of government. Part of it is that we hope to reframe some of the political conversation we have now, not toward what is government going to do for me, and will you fix my pothole or repair my tax bill, but rather that we as citizens more frequently ask the question, what can we, Madam Mayor, Mr. MP, do to facilitate you being the best public policy maker that's possible for all of us? In other words, trying to turn that conversation from government as a service to government as ours. If we're going to be part of that advocacy, then we shouldn't be recipients of public money. But there are all kinds of projects, from war memorials to field houses, to concert halls, to student exchanges, that would be very appropriate for consideration in that regard.
Other networks that I think we might be able to activate are the Orders of Canada. We've had conversations with a number of Order of Canada recipients, and I think they will all tell you that of course they're deeply honoured to be recognized, but nothing is ever asked of them once they've been recognized. This may be a very appropriate way of engaging recipients of the Order of Canada.
I've had some conversations with past Governors General and with current Lieutenant Governors, and there are roles that could be played there in their unique position within our structures of government.
There's much more, but I thought that would be at least a beginning.
Thank you so much for inviting me here. It's a pleasure to be with you.
Thank you.
9:20 a.m.
The Chair Rob Moore
Thank you to our panel, Mr. Aykroyd, Mr. MacLeod, and Mr. Jackson. They were very informative presentations.
At this point we move to our question and answer round. Each member who asks a question in the first round is allowed seven minutes, and that's seven minutes for the question and answer exchange. Then we move our way around the table.
We're starting off with Mr. Brown.
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Gord Brown Leeds—Grenville, ON
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you to our witnesses for being here today.
The more I hear about 2017, the more excited I get. I was a grade 2 student in Toronto in 1967 and I vaguely remember it as an exciting time. I was too young to really appreciate what was happening at the time, but I'm delighted that we have our witnesses here today, especially you, Mr. Aykroyd, who was so intimately involved in those 1967 celebrations. I'm looking forward to reading your book.
Mr. Aykroyd, I think we really want to take advantage of having you here today. Maybe you can give us a little snippet of some of the highlights that you remember, and hopefully all of us will read your book so that we committee members can benefit from your experience.
I'll turn it over to you, and maybe you can tell us a little bit about the highlights you remember that we will read about in your book.
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Professional Engineer, As an Individual
You've opened up the whole field by opening the gate, and I can't swing back and forth on the gate; I have to get into the field, and it's too big a field. I don't know that I can answer your question that satisfactorily.
I had something, however, that I didn't say in my opening remarks that maybe you don't even touch.... Mr. Speaker, members of Parliament were not involved in the proceedings of the centennial very much, except that we had these little pins on cards, which we gave out to people. We printed them by the millions, and you heard about them in this ad.
Judy LaMarsh was the minister responsible for the Centennial Commission, and she said that the best conduit for giving things out to the public was via the members of Parliament. Imagine. We bureaucrats didn't even stop to think about that, to realize how fundamental that is, and of course that was the answer. So by the millions we brought the boxes up to the House of Commons here and they all disappeared. They ended up in constituencies all over Canada. Distributed by whom? By the members of Parliament.
That's just a little fact, I suppose you'd say, to encourage you to be involved from the beginning.


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The Closure of a Public Library
The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners considers any municipality that closes its main public library or ceases offering library service to the public for any reason other than the undertaking of a project to improve library services (such as construction, automation preparation or inventory) or the occurrence of a natural catastrophe (including a limited emergency closing due to illness or death) to be, as of the date of that termination of service, no longer a certified participant in the State Aid to Public Libraries program.
The Commissioners will confirm the municipality's loss of certification at their next regularly scheduled Board meeting.
Once the municipality has lost certification, it cannot be recertified as meeting the minimum standards of public library service for State Aid to Public Libraries (as set forth in MGL c.78, s. 19A and 19B, 605 CMR 4.0, and current budget language) until the municipality's library has been meeting the standards for one complete fiscal year (July 1 through June 30) and proper application for State Aid to Public Libraries is made to the Board of Library Commissioners.
Initial Approval of Policy: March 5, 1993
FY2013 Approval Date: October 7, 2010
State Aid Policies are approved annually


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"We didn't take no fancy rock-star airplane [to get here]. [Pause.] All right, all right, we did take a fancy rock-star airplane. But we thought about driving. "
How NOT to Buy a Business Jet
Buying a business jet can be a smart move, but you can make lots of mistakes on the road to ownership. Here are eight of the most common blunders, plus advice on how to avoid them.
1. Buying a business jet the way you'd purchase a car.
An aircraft transaction normally takes weeks or even months, noted Jay Mesinger, president and CEO of J. Mesinger Corporate Jet Sales. "You can't just walk into a dealer and walk out a few hours later with your airplane," he said. "It's a complicated process that involves a lot of decisions, and it's more than just what airplane to buy and whether it's new or preowned."
Barrett Knudsen, an aviation attorney at the Oklahoma City law firm of McAfee & Taft, said there are plenty of legal issues to ponder. For example, "What ownership structure works best for your intended operations? Do you plan to use the aircraft solely for business? The list goes on and on, and there are pitfalls associated with failing to consider each question."
2. Focusing more on purchase price than operating costs.
While some early-generation business jets can currently be purchased for well under $1 million, the low acquisition cost often belies the enormous expense of operating these aircraft, warned David Wyndham, president of aviation-data supplier Conklin and de Decker.
"First-generation jet engines consume a lot of fuel, and older aircraft can require intensive maintenance, especially unscheduled maintenance," he said. "Some spare parts may be next to impossible to buy new or come at high prices." He cited the Learjet 25D, which you can buy preowned for about $240,000 but which Conklin estimates would cost $1,020,000 annually to operate for 300 hours per year. Fixed costs—two pilots, hangar, insurance, training and so on—would add another $300,000 per year, Wyndham said. "At $1.3 million, the annual operating budget would be five and a half times the acquisition cost!"
3. Buying more or less airplane than you need.
While your friend loves his Gulfstream GV, that model isn't for you if you're planning on flying one- or two-hour trips. Buying more airplane than you need will mean unnecessarily high operating costs, noted Mesinger. Buying less airplane than you need will also create problems, including not having enough room for your cargo/passenger loads and/or having to make time-eating fuel stops on flights that exceed the airplane's range. Buy a model that fits your typical mission profile, and if you have an occasional trip that exceeds its capabilities, use charter to meet this need.
4. Expecting an aircraft to appreciate in value.
Though some models did in fact appreciate from 2003 until 2008, consider this part of the unsustainable economic bubble that burst in late 2008. Kevin O'Leary, president at aircraft broker Jet Advisors, said that buyers should expect their aircraft to depreciate at least 5 percent each year. "In no case should anyone expect their aircraft to go up in value," he added.
5. Overlooking sales-tax implications.
When it comes to tax analysis, hire a specialist. As a general rule, sales tax applies based on the jurisdiction where the aircraft was delivered at closing, said Knudsen. Some states have exemptions, but some of the exemptions have limitations, such as flying the aircraft out of state within a certain number of days. And if your aircraft is being managed, make sure the managing company charges and collects federal excise tax. If it doesn't, you as the owner will be on the hook when the IRS comes calling. And, if you plan on flying your jet internationally, especially in Europe, don't forget to consider value-added taxes.
6. Setting up a company solely to operate the aircraft.
Many aircraft purchasers consider setting up a special-purpose company to own the aircraft as a way of reducing liability exposure to the parent, noted Knudsen of McAfee & Taft. This company then receives capital contributions or other funding from external sources to operate the aircraft. "While that may work for many types of assets, it can be a trap for aircraft," he said. "You could be assessed fines and penalties, pilots' licenses could be revoked and insurance coverage could be denied." [See "The Flight Department Company Trap" in BJT's June/July 2013 issue.—Ed.]
7. Buying an aircraft sight unseen.
Mark Cuban gained attention for purchasing his Gulfstream V online, but he didn't do so without having it properly inspected. Have a thorough pre-buy inspection performed by a trusted shop (factory-authorized facilities are usually best) to make sure maintenance documentation is in order, no major maintenance issues exist and no inspections are coming due.
8. Going it alone.
Aircraft purchases are complicated. Proceed without professional assistance and you'll likely end up wasting more money than they would have spent on consultants. Get help.
Your Letters
What our readers had to say
Regarding "How Not to Buy a Business Jet" [2013 Buyers' Guide] Inspections are only as good as the person/people doing them. Factory-authorized facilities are good and should be able to ensure all items/inspections/bulletins are up to date, but at the end of the day it comes down to the person crawling in, over and around your future purchase. The buyer needs to find a qualified individual who knows the model and is willing to get dirty to verify the condition of your purchase. "Factory authorized" by no means guarantees quality of visual inspection. If you can afford the plane, you can afford a little extra to have it inspected.
Chris Coombs (posted on bjtonline.com)
Inspections are only as good as the person/people doing them. Factory-authorized facilties are good and should be able to ensure all items/inspections/bulletins are up to date but the end of the day it comes down to the person crawling in over and around your future purchase. The buyer needs to find a qualified individual who knows the model and is willing to get dirty to verify the condition of your purchase. Factory authorized by no means guarantees quality of visual inspection. If you can afford the plane you can afford a little extra to have it inspected. I always like to think of a TV commercial "you can pay me now or you can pay me later" with inference being I can find it now and you can have the seller pay for the fix or you can bring it to me later and I guarantee I'll find it and you'll be paying me for the fix.
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I have a "new to me" Larrivee LCJ10-K (all Koa) built in 1998
It came with an older Fishman natural passive pick up. I just had an LR Baggs Anthem installed (the full Anthem, not the SL).
I am using an LR Baggs Acoustic Reference Amplifier that I just recently purchased.
After I got the Larrivee back from my guitar tech, with the Anthem system installed, I tried it out with the LR Baggs amplifier - and had some problems. When I plugged the guitar into the amp, I got a low hum - like a "bass rolloff". I tried my other guitars in the amp, using the same cable (Monster Acoustic cable) and there is NO HUM. The odd thing is that if I touched the endpin of the guitar - the hum would stop. Also, if I touched the metal handle of the amp, the hum would stop.
i called LR Baggs and they thought there was a problem with the Anthem system - so they sent me a complete new system. So, back to the tech who uninstalled the old Anthem system and reinstalled the new Anthem system - and THE PROBLEM has not changed!
It is hard to describe in words what I am talking about - but when all the other guitars are plugged in - there is no noise, no hum. When I plug in the Larrivee with Anthem system, there is this low hum- and it is frustrating - especially when both the Anthem and the Acoustic Reference Amplifier are pretty expensive and there should not be this kind of issue.
Anyone out there have any suggestions, any ideas? Since this is the second Anthem system, I don't think that is the issue. The amp is brand new as well.
I am frustrated.


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Mary V. Sheffer
ESCANABA – Mary V. Sheffer, 83, 817 N. 20th St., Escanaba, passed away early Friday morning, April 19, 2013, at Christian Park Health Care Center.
She was born on Aug. 8, 1929, in Escanaba, daughter of Bennett and Yvonne (Potvin) McCauley. Mary graduated from Escanaba High School, class of 1947.
On Aug. 18, 1948, the former Mary McCauley married Frank "Bud" Sheffer at St. Patrick's Church in Escanaba. He preceded her in death.
Mary was a member of St. Thomas the Apostle Church for 56 years. She was actively involved in the Ladies Guild, RCIA, St. Marie Goretti Circle, and was a sacristan for many years.
She was involved with Compassionate Friends Support Group. Mary enjoyed sewing, crocheting, knitting, playing cards, calligraphy, listening to music, watching animal planet and volunteering.
Mary was employed for American Greeting Card Company for a few years.
Among survivors include her three daughters, Bonnie Cowell, Debra (Jim) Jankowski, and Kim Sheffer, all of Escanaba; son-in-law, Timothy Schomin of Texas; seven grandchildren, Brianne Jankowski, Sarah (Nick) Singer, Victoria Jankowski, Meghan (Nick) Mullin, Andrew (Katie) Schomin, Bethany Schomin and David Schomin; three great-grandchildren, Kelly and Andrew "Drew" Schomin and Connor Mullin; three sisters, Rita Dubord of Escanaba, Flossie Benard of Powers, Lois (Jerry) Ravet of Green Bay; and many nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents and husband, Mary was preceded in death by her daughter, Robin Diane Schomin.
Visitation will be on Thursday, April 25, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Crawford Funeral Home in Escanaba. Parish prayers will conclude the visitation at 7 p.m. The Mass of Christian
Burial will follow on Friday at 11 a.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle Church with Rev. Rick Courier and Rev. Emmett Norden concelebrating.
The Crawford Funeral Homes are assisting the Sheffer family with arrangements.


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Welcome to Graduate Medical Education at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Montefiore Medical Center – Circa. 1884
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each of which sponsors its own residency programs. Together there are more than 150 accredited programs and approximately 2500 residents and fellows in training in the Einstein system.
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Restaurants can breed some nasty stuff! We investigate the germiest places often found in eateries.
You�re settling into your booth at your favorite restaurant, hungry for a juicy hamburger with fries. Germs are probably the last thing on your mind, but they�re lurking all around you: On the seat where 20 others have sat before you that day; on the grimy menu pages; on the surface of tabletop where Mama changed Junior�s diaper. Although we�d rather not think about it, restaurants are teeming with appetite-squashing germs. In most cases, though, these germs are not a cause for concern, says Aileen M. Marty, M.D., Professor of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine:��What matters is how nasty the germ is and what amount you are exposed to.� For most intestinal bacteria the infectious dose is in the thousands.� Certain populations are especially vulnerable to restaurant germs, including immunocompromised individuals such as the very young, the elderly and those with underlying diseases such as HIV/AIDS. �But even having a cold may make you more susceptible to germs,� Marty notes. Genes play a role too: �An organism may grow better in one person than another,� she adds. RELATED: The Grossest Spot in Your Office Still, there�s no need to cancel dinner reservations, says Kelly Reynolds, Ph.D., MSPH, Associate Professor of Environmental Health Science, University of Arizona College of Public Health in Tucson: �What�s important is minimizing your risk of illness by taking precautions like washing your hands and not putting them in your mouth.� In fact, to some extent, exposure to germs protects us, says Marty: �Microbes such as gut bacteria help keep our immune system alert and in balance.� Still, for the squeamish�or the immune compromised�here is a list of restaurants� germiest spots and the ways to lessen your risk of exposure and potential for illness. Seats: �The top spot for germs is your seat,� says Reynolds. �Everyone puts their hands on them, and kids� diapers leak. Seats either don�t get sanitized or they are wiped by rags that spread germs rather than sanitize. You can expect a lot of fecal bacteria on restaurant seats.� Solution: �Wash your hands or use a hand sanitizer right before you eat if you�ve touched anything that the general population has used,� she says. Ketchup bottles. Servers refill them, but it�s unlikely they get wiped down with antibiotic spray. The same goes for any jarred table condiment�salt, pepper, sugar. Solution: �Wipe down the sides of the bottle with a napkin or hold it with a napkin,� suggests Marty. That can cut the levels of bacteria you�re exposed to. Glasses. �The rims of glasses are a top site for germs because waiters often carry them with their fingers inside the glasses,� says Reynolds. Solution: �Avoid the glass by using a straw.� �Or gently say to the waiter, �I�m a germaphobe. Can I have a new glass?� suggests Reynolds. Soap Dispensers.� �If your hands are contaminated with fecal bacteria and then you touch the soap dispenser, it�s now contaminated as well,� says Marty. Solution: Put the soap on a paper towel first so you don�t have to touch the dispensers, suggests Marty.� If you do touch one, wash your hands with soap and scrub them off with a paper towel. �That will reduce the bacterial load,� she says. Lemon Slices.� A 2007 study in The Journal of Environmental Health done at Passaic Country Community College found that 69.7 percent of lemon slices from restaurants carried various microorganisms such as E. coli�bacteria that can cause severe food poisoning�and other fecal bacteria. �Lemons get handled with bare hands,� says Reynolds. �And the containers they are in are not frequently sanitized, so there�s lot of opportunity for contamination.� Solution: �Squeeze the lemon juice into your glass but then chuck the rind, says Reynolds.� Or skip the lemon altogether. The Buffet.� �Buffets are ripe for transmission of germs, especially if the food is just kept warm,� says Reynolds.� �That�s the perfect temperature for bacteria like E. coli, salmonella, and norovirus, all major causes of gastrointestinal upset, to grow.� Bacteria can thrive between 41-140 degrees F.� To kill bacteria, the temperature has to be at least 165 degrees F. Solution: ��Avoid buffets,� says Reynolds.� �When you read about outbreaks of food-borne illnesses, many are from buffets.� The Daily Special. �The chef could be offering a new recipe�or getting rid of old meat and produce, says Reynolds: �I once asked for the soup of the day and was told they threw it out because it went bad.� Solution: � You have to ask, �Are the ingredients fresh today?�� says Reynolds. The bottom line? While you shouldn�t go through life as a germophobic (a little dose of germs is healthy, after all), you also shouldn�t blindly trust that all public venues�including your go-to lunch eatery�get a clean bill of health.Brought to you by: Spry Living


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Perfecting Your Palette
Innovative tools for sampling hues
Selecting paint colors that complement your decor and enhance the appearance of your rooms can be a daunting task. If the idea of straying from soft white or basic beige gives you pause, hesitate no more. A wide assortment of product samples, oversized color cards, interactive websites, home retailer–created paint lines, and personal color coaches now exist to help you identify just the right tints for your abode.
Sample Sizes
While some people relish the prospect of sorting through hundreds of tiny paint chips and cards to find a few perfect shades, most folks dread the thought. A few years ago, small color blocks on a strip, or preselected palettes in manufacturers' brochures, were the rule; only a couple of brands offered samples of paint that consumers could try out at home. And forget about getting a tester in a custom color: The gallon can was often the smallest size available.
This scenario has changed dramatically. A broad range of paint manufacturers, from bargain brands to premium labels, now offer 2- to 4-ounce sample pots and pouches for nominal cost. Although European companies such as Farrow & Ball and Fine Paints of Europe led the way with this trend, popular domestic brands have joined them, including Ace Paint, American Tradition, Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams, California Paints, Pratt & Lambert, Devine Paints, Pittsburgh Paints, True Value, and Behr.
With these testers in hand, homeowners can apply the chosen colors on a wall or on pieces of foam core board, then live with the hues before taking the plunge. Since natural and artificial light and furnishings influence the look of a color, at-home sampling helps consumers more accurately gauge how a shade will appear in their own houses. If a hue proves unappealing, customers can try another without repainting the whole room or blowing their budget.
In the Cards
Although not as accurate as actual paint, color cards, which are more generously sized than chips, can also ease hue anxieties. Instead of the 1-by-2-inch chip-on-a-strip, consumers can find a selection of Glidden colors on 3¾-by-6-inch sticky-back sheets; these can be repositioned on a wall to test the shades in different rooms and times of day. Martha Stewart Signature paints, available through Sherwin-Williams, and Pratt & Lambert both offer heavyweight 3-by-5-inch color cards with a punch-out center. Place the peephole over fabrics, floors, and trim to see how the shade would play into its future surroundings. Further evolving the color card, Devine Paints provides 8-by-10-inch sheets covered in real, spray-painted hues, and also offers groupings made with hand-applied daubs of paint. The company claims using actual paint on the cards gives the customer a more accurate perception of the color that comes out of the can.
Web Resources
Easy-to-use tools enabling online experimentation and color selection are increasingly available on manufacturers' websites. Several companies, including Pittsburgh Paints and Ace Paints, have created online multiple-choice quizzes that reveal your color affinities and create a personalized palette gleaned from their offerings. Others, such as Glidden, Sherwin-Williams, and Valspar, which makes American Tradition paints, have online virtual painter programs that allow you to select a room from their library of images, then preview it in any of their hues or color combinations.
On Benjamin Moore's website, consumers can access the free Makeover Program, where interior designers are "on call" to help with color decisions. Within seven to 10 business days of filling out an online questionnaire and sending in a picture of your project, you will receive from the company product recommendations, color cards, and suggested complementary hues for adjoining rooms.
Easy Coordinates
If you're craving a one-stop shop for a completely color-coordinated decor, you'll appreciate the new paint ranges from furnishing companies like Pottery Barn. The home retailer has worked with Benjamin Moore for years to create companion paint colors for its catalog pages and store vignettes. This fall, the brands have begun offering consumers nearly two dozen of these shades, which are formulated to complement Pottery Barn's furniture, textiles, and accessories. Each season, 20 to 24 new hues will be introduced; shoppers can pick up fan decks of the colors at either company's stores. Similar programs are available at Restoration Hardware, which offers an eponymous collection of two dozen hues of latex paint at its stores and online, and at The Silk Trading Company, which carries its own line of over 45 organic, milk-based paints designed to correspond with the retailer's draperies and lighting.
Call in an Expert
If color coordination isn't the solution, perhaps a color pro is. These specialists range from individuals with degrees in art, design, and color theory to interior designers who provide color advice as a distinct offering of their full-service businesses; for a fee, these professionals visit your home and work with you to construct a palette.
Peggy Fortuna, a Pound Ridge, New York–based color consultant, begins the selection process by conversing with her client. "I start with the customer's likes and dislikes, then walk through the rooms, making note of the furnishings and decor," she says. From there she lays out a suggested palette, showing how the hues will progress through the house. She leaves color cards that the customer can tape to a wall and view in different lights before making a final decision. "It's a good idea to let others in a household see the choices, so they can weigh in," says Fortuna.
Fees for color consulting services vary, with some experts charging by the hour and others according to the scope of the job; advice on a single room will require less work—and be less expensive—than a whole-house makeover. Many paint departments of large hardware and home centers, as well as full-service paint stores, will provide contact information for local consultants. As with any contractor, be sure to check references before you hire anyone.
When it comes to selecting your home's color scheme, you've got help aplenty. No matter how you begin, be it with sample jars, oversized cards, your computer keyboard, a home retailer's palette, or an outside pro, nowadays you have an expanded support system for coloring your world.