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by gotribe31 » Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:07 pm
by Cerebral_DownTime » Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:21 pm
by leadpipe » Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:32 pm
by Bigfist » Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:45 pm
by skatingtripods » Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:54 pm
by peeker643 » Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:01 pm
skatingtripods wrote:I'm just disappointed that he didn't fire one into the Rockies dugout at Jim Tracy's head for making him go out and pitch on the night he was traded last year.
by Cerebral_DownTime » Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:03 pm
by peeker643 » Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:08 pm
by Adverb Harry » Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:37 pm
by justmebd » Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:57 pm
by Cerebral_DownTime » Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:17 pm
by skatingtripods » Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:23 pm
Cerebral_DownTime wrote:Was what MPH was his fastball hitting during his all star year?
by peeker643 » Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:23 pm
by e0y2e3 » Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:53 am
by ChoccoIndians » Tue Apr 03, 2012 2:25 am
by gotribe31 » Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:13 am
by pup » Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:38 am
gotribe31 wrote:Velocity doesn't mean nearly as much to me as stuff. The reason he was so unhittable that year wasn't that he was throwing 2 lousy MPH harder, it was because his 2-seamer had late, nasty movement. He starter throwing more 4-seamers last year, and the pitch is much straighter and easier to hit.He (and everyone else) needs to ignore the damn radar gun and focus on making the right pitch to the right spot, regardless of how fast it is. If you're going to look at PitchFX, use the horizontal movement decrease as the reason for his ineffectiveness, not the velocity decrease.
by leadpipe » Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:42 am
by peeker643 » Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:24 am
by gotribe31 » Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:49 am
by andrew6586 » Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:00 pm
by pup » Tue Apr 03, 2012 1:19 pm
gotribe31 wrote:In 2009 his FB avg was 96.0. In 2011 it was 93.9. In 2009 his FB horizontal movement averaged 6.6. In 2011 it was 4.5.If you want to argue that it was the 2.1 MPH that made the difference, fine. But stop throwing around numbers like "97 to 91," because that isn't what we're talking about. Personally, I'd rather see the movement go back up to what it was than the velocity. He can be an effective pitcher with good movement and a velo drop. He cannot be an effective pitcher with better velo and no movement. ML hitters are not shitting themselves with fear over a straight as an arrow 96 MPH fastball. I don't think any of us know what is actually wrong with him, whether it is purely physical, mental, or a combination of both. We can all agree that he's not the same pitcher he was in the first half of 2010. Pup, I agree that the velo drop has caused him to throw more 4-seamers which in turn makes his fastball move less. I'm just saying that if his velo is down anyway, he might as well keep throwing his 2-seamer because he clearly isn't blowing the 4-seamer by everyone.
by skatingtripods » Tue Apr 03, 2012 2:35 pm
peeker643 wrote:Justify all day boys, but it looks like one front office got played like a guitar in this deal. And it wasn't Dan O'Dowd's.
by Adverb Harry » Tue Apr 03, 2012 3:24 pm
by Bigfist » Tue Apr 03, 2012 3:51 pm
by skatingtripods » Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:16 pm
Adverb Harry wrote:However, Ubaldo wasn't pitching well--not for over a year. That's way enough of a sample size to have given the Tribe concern and wonder if he was worth our top two prospects, extremely valuable commodities on the trade market. However, it doesn't matter what they become--they could both get run over by the team bus tomorrow--that will not change the value they had last year at the trading deadline, value that is now gone. Gambling them away on a downward-trending head case was not a good investment. An impact bat (how nice would that be?) or another top arm who didn't come with so many question marks would have been much wiser.
Again, I'm hoping and rooting for this guy to turn it around. He has to, or we're screwed. There's still lots of time for him to improve, and I'm hoping the coaches and other front office guys figure out the secret. But geez...it wasn't a smart move at all. When you go all in on a guy, you have to be dead certain he's THE guy, and there's no way they could have been sure he was anything more than an expensive reclamation project. (And if they didn't see him that way, there's really a problem in the front office.)
by peeker643 » Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:58 pm
skatingtripods wrote:peeker643 wrote:Justify all day boys, but it looks like one front office got played like a guitar in this deal. And it wasn't Dan O'Dowd's.Ridiculous to say that after less than half a season and one Spring Training.Alex White's already been shunned to the bullpen and got lit up like Clark Griswold's house during his couple months in Colorado last year.Pomeranz made the rotation, but he's still a question mark at the big league level. Still lacks a third pitch. Not many starters make a living off two pitches.I'm willing to give Jimenez some time. He got hurt last Spring and it affected him all year. How do we know that he's not just holding back? I'll ignore the shit with Colorado. It got overblown based on comments that both guys made and Ubaldo hit Tulo. Whatever. It's not like we face them this season.Does it show some immaturity and selfishness? It does. But, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for a few months. It's unfair to judge him after two months and a Spring Training. Pretty big life change leaving the Rockies org. New team, injuries, trying too hard to perform at his 2010 level and putting pressure on himself. He clearly doesn't handle his emotions well.April's big. If he starts well, he could be a very good #2. If he doesn't, the snowball could keep rolling.But it's really impossible to call this trade a win for Colorado until White and Pomeranz actually do something other than being highly touted names.
by Cerebral_DownTime » Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:05 pm
by motherscratcher » Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:19 pm
by Bigfist » Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:56 pm
by pup » Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:03 am
Bigfist wrote:Obviously, Tracy's comments were ridiculous..there have been far worse intentional beanings in the history of baseball. But just as ridiculous were Jimenez's comments that the beaning was unintentional. I believe the suspension of five games is appropriate and neither too harsh nor too light.
by Dnthateonthepronk » Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:42 am
leadpipe wrote:Hopefully he's suspended until he can get out of the low nineties.
by Kingpin74 » Wed Apr 04, 2012 5:00 pm
by skatingtripods » Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:47 pm
Kingpin74 wrote:White and Pomeranz may not pan out but I think it needs to be judged by what their value was last year. Couldn't we have acquired a Gio Gonzalez type in the offseason if we dangled those two? I'd much rather have him than Ubaldo at this point, and I think he's under club control for longer. After seeing what we got in return for Cliff Lee, I have to think that we could have had a Rolls Royce starting pitcher if we were patient enough, not one with giant question marks from the get go. I know the Ubaldo deal had some buzz and was instant gratification, but we were already fading and very injured in last year's pennant race when the deal was made.
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NMU football: Wildcats survive comeback by Findlay in 41-31 GLIAC victory
By MATT WELLENS
Journal Sports Editor
MARQUETTE – The goal of the Northern Michigan University defense heading into the 2013 season was to make more big plays than it gave up.
It did that Saturday, but not by much.
The Wildcats turned three of their four takeaways into touchdowns, but nearly allowed Findlay to rally from a four-touchdown deficit in a 41-31 season-opening win at the Superior Dome in front of an announced crowd of 2,327.
Northern (1-0 overall, 1-0 in GLIAC) took advantage of a fumble recovery and interception in the first half to jump out to a 31-10 halftime lead, then parlayed a second fumble recovery into another touchdown to move up 38-10 with 3:30 to go in the third quarter.
The Oilers (1-1 overall, 0-1 in GLIAC) rallied to pull within seven points with 9:22 remaining, but a 29-yard Jon Linkenheimer field goal and an interception by sophomore safety Levi Perry with 2:56 to play secured the win for Northern.
"It was exactly what we didn't want to happen," NMU senior linebacker Morgan Stenz said about the close call. "We went into the locker room and said as a team, 'If we can do it in one quarter, they can.' The old cliche."
Northern junior defensive end Trever Kruzel forced the first turnover of the afternoon, a fumble that resulted in a three-play, 28-yard scoring drive that was capped by a 10-yard TD run by sophomore Wyatt Jurasin out of Ishpeming High School, giving Northern a 17-7 lead.
A 6-yard run by redshirt freshman Keon Collier put NMU up 24-7 with 3:51 to play, and an interception by NMU senior cornerback Brandon Parson followed to give the 'Cats another chance to score before the half.
Wildcats senior quarterback Cody Scepaniak led the Wildcats on a 7-play, 55-yard drive that only lasted 55 seconds. A leaping 23-yard TD catch by junior transfer wide receiver Marcus Tucker put NMU up 31-7 at halftime.
"As an offensive player, you feel so good if your defense can get that many turnovers in a game," Scepaniak said. "I feel we're good as an offense to score, but when the defense is always giving us momentum with turnovers and big plays, that's huge."
Findlay put together a 12-play, 77-yard drive that resulted in a field goal to start the second half, and had a 9-play, 74-yard drive going on its second possession of the third quarter until NMU recovered a fumble forced by sophomore linebacker Loran Jaddou at Northern's 15.
On the very next play, NMU senior wide receiver Christian Jessie took a short pass from Scepaniak and went 85 yards to the end zone to make it 38-10.
"Christian Jessie is a threat anytime he touches the ball," NMU head coach Chris Ostrowsky said. "We'll ensure we try to get him the ball in space as much as possible.
"Cody at this point knows the offense as well as anybody on the field. He understands how to use the components within the offense to be successful.
"That's a scary combination when you have a big strong kid that understands where the ball should go."
Findlay reeled the Wildcats back in by scoring on its next three possessions, putting together a 10-play, 79-yard drive and a 7-play, 89-yard march to pull within two scores with 12:26 left.
Both drives were fueled by big plays for Findlay, with a 42-yard completion highlighting the 79-yard drive and two completions of over 30 yards aiding the 89-yard drive.
"In the first half, it felt like we arrived," Stenz said. "We were just dominating. Then, the second half, when things go bad, they can go bad on both sides of the ball."
The Wildcats offense aided Findlay's comeback when a quick pass from Scepaniak to Jessie was intercepted at the NMU 37. That turnover led to a 5-yard TD run by Findlay's Demetrius Trapps to cut the Wildcats' once 28-point lead to seven.
Northern went back up by two scores following a 10-play, 62-yard drive that resulted in two field goal attempts by Linkenheimer as his original 19-yarder was taken off the scoreboard because of a holding call before the 29-yarder went through smoothly.
Perry then picked off Findlay quarterback Verlon Reed – a transfer from Ohio State – at the NMU 17 with 2:56 to play, and while the Wildcats were unable to turn the final UF turnover into points, the offense did burn another 1:43 off the clock.
It left the Oilers with only 1:13 to get a touchdown and field goal, but the drive fell apart at the NMU 40 after Reed was tackled for a measly 1-yard gain on second down, sacked by Wildcats redshirt freshman Adam Williams on third down and hurried into an incompletion on fourth and 15.
"Last year, the first couple games a jump ball just wouldn't go our way. If a ball was in the air, the other team got it," Stenz said. "This year, our receivers are making huge plays and our DBs are knocking the ball down.
"We had a little rough patch in there, but as soon as we got it together and got our system figured out, we started closing those gaps and getting after the quarterback."
Notes: Scepaniak finished 22 of 35 passing for 320 yards, two touchdowns and one interception. He also led NMU in rushing with 95 yards on 18 carries, including a touchdown. … Jurasin gained 82 yards on 20 carries with a TD. … Jessie led NMU in receiving, making 10 catches for 189 yards and a TD. Tucker had four catches for 65 yards and a TD. … NMU was called for 11 penalties for 105 yards, including back-to-back pass interference calls at the end of the first half that resulted in two untimed downs for Findlay. … Despite outgaining Findlay at halftime in total yards, 293-152, Findlay's offense won in the end, 592-507.

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Debates of Nov. 30th, 2011
House of Commons Hansard #57 of the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was yea.
- Question Period
- YOUCAN Youth Service
- Employment
- Lifetime Business Achievement Award
- Prostate Cancer
- Israel
- "Bécik jaune" Bicycle Project
- Essar Steel Algoma
- Prostate Cancer
- Santa Fund Telethon
- Emergency Preparedness
- Catherine Lamontagne
- Violence against Women
- Persons with Disabilities
- Infrastructure
- Justice
- Taxation
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Harmonized Sales Tax
- The Environment
- Justice
- Employment Insurance
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Natural Resources
- Foreign Affairs
- Infrastructure
- The Economy
- Foreign Affairs
- Canada-U.S. Relations
- National Defence
- The Environment
- Air Canada
- Firearms Registry
- Canada Post
- The Environment
- Financial Literacy Leader Act
- Interparliamentary Delegations
- Committees of the House
- ALS Month Act
- Income Tax Act
- Canada Elections Act
- Excise Tax Act
- Canada National Parks Act
- Employment Insurance Act
- Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act
- Department of Peace Act
- Committees of the House
- Petitions
- Questions Passed as Orders for Returns
- Request for Emergency Debate
- Safe Streets and Communities Act
- Employment Insurance Act
2:05 p.m.
The Speaker Andrew Scheer
It being Wednesday, we will now have the singing of the national anthem led by the hon. member for Rivière-du-Nord.
[Members sang the national anthem]
YOUCAN Youth Service
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Laurie Hawn Edmonton Centre, AB
Mr. Speaker, recently I had the pleasure of announcing funding for and visiting an organization in Edmonton called YOUCAN Youth Service.
YOUCAN Youth Service helps young people with barriers to employment and education overcome those barriers and achieve their full potential. I met dedicated staff and volunteers who spend countless hours unselfishly working to give young people facing challenges an opportunity to discover who they can be. I met young people at various stages of turning their lives around. They realized that they do matter and that they do have people who care about their futures.
I participated in a discussion circle, where everyone has a chance to speak openly and honestly. A rock is passed around the circle and the holder of the rock has the floor while everyone listens attentively. What a quaint notion. As the keeper of the parliamentary rock, Mr. Speaker, perhaps it is an idea that you might consider for adoption in this place.
I want to thank and pay tribute to organizations like YOUCAN Youth Service and people like Kyle who make a tremendous difference in the lives of young Canadians. I also want to recognize young Canadians, like Candy, who seize the opportunity and turn their lives around.
I would encourage all of us to be the rock for a young person who needs our help.
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Irene Mathyssen London—Fanshawe, ON
Mr. Speaker, London is my community. Despite suggestions from a member opposite to the contrary, I am proud of my city and I am especially proud of the people of London for their show of resiliency, determination and optimism when faced with some very difficult challenges. However, pride in one's city does not mean that we can ignore reality.
My city has been hit hard by the economic downturn. Jobs have been lost. In southwestern Ontario, 10,000 jobs have been lost in the last five years, most in the manufacturing sector. Families are hurting and we cannot sugar-coat the issues faced by so many in my riding. London has an unemployment rate of 9.1%. There is a proposal to open a satellite welfare office in the east end. We need a federal government focused on job creation, not tax cuts; jobs in energy conservation, transit, alternative energy and green manufacturing. The people of London matter and deserve no less.
Lifetime Business Achievement Award
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Cheryl Gallant Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize well-known Pembroke businessman and community supporter, Gerry Binhammer. Mr. Binhammer has been named 2011 Upper Ottawa Valley Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Business Achievement Award winner. While Gerry is well known in the Pembroke business community as the successful owner-operator of the Malcolm, Deavitt and Binhammer Funeral Home, it is his community work for which Gerry is an honoured member in my area and how I am most aware of his stellar performance.
Active in his community as a member of Kiwanis International, the Masonic Lodge and Ottawa Valley Tunis Shrine Club, Gerry is a firm believer in helping youth. In addition to his work with service clubs, he has made major financial gifts to Algonquin College, Pembroke Regional Hospital and Miramichi Lodge. Through his generosity, nine students each year from local high schools are eligible for $1,000 bursaries for academic achievement to assist with their post-secondary education. It is people like Gerry Binhammer who give the Upper Ottawa Valley its reputation as a kind, caring, wonderful place to live.
I congratulate Gerry on his outstanding achievement.
Prostate Cancer
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Justin Trudeau Papineau, QC
Mr. Speaker, today marks the last day of movember and as our moustaches have grown, so has the popularity of this great campaign. Here in the House the three teams, the "New DeMOcrats", the "Strong, Stable Conservative MOjority" and we "Li-Bros", have together raised over $50,000. All together, 245,000 Canadians grew moustaches and made Canada by far the number one country in the world, with over $32 million raised. Movember is a good way to bring attention to men's health issues, but more needs to be done.
As Dr. Larry Goldenberg said, "A man is more than just a penis and a prostate". Dr. Goldenberg said that men's health needs to be about more, too. Men have shorter life expectancies, almost five years less. Heart disease, suicide, liver disease and diabetes are all more prevalent among men. Dr. Goldenberg has taken the first steps in proposing a Canadian institute of male health. We need a national body separate from government that would be entirely focused on men's health that could co-ordinate research activities, education campaigns and other initiatives.
Just as Canada leads in movember, so too can we all lead here in Canada with the Canadian institute of male health.
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Mark Adler York Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, I was outraged yesterday when I heard that Katyusha rockets were once again fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel. The Lebanese government must uphold its responsibilities to prevent threats to innocent lives and the resulting terror that this rocket fire indiscriminately puts upon all residents.
Despite the presence of UNIFIL, this is the eighth rocket attack on Israel since the 2006 ceasefire agreement. I call on the Lebanese government to maintain control and order in its country and to ensure the safety of its neighbours and internationally protected persons on both sides of the border.
"Bécik jaune" Bicycle Project
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Francine Raynault Joliette, QC
Mr. Speaker, I would like to talk about a wonderful initiative undertaken by the youth centre in Notre-Dame-des-Prairies, in my riding of Joliette.
Three years ago, leaders at this organization launched the "Bécik jaune" project. This project makes a fleet of community bicycles available free of charge to people in the greater Joliette area.
This innovative project is very worthwhile. It gives people access to a safe means of transportation, combats social isolation and increases physical activity. Furthermore, this project gives potential school dropouts a chance to build self-esteem by maintaining the bikes. It also helps protect the environment by providing an alternative to driving and by reducing greenhouse gases as well as the amount of waste produced.
This project tackles some current societal challenges and deserves all the support we can give it.
Essar Steel Algoma
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Bryan Hayes Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise in the House today to express my gratitude for the generosity of Essar Steel Algoma.
Yesterday, Essar created a community investment fund of $5 million to help support community development in Sault Ste. Marie. This is a great example of how our government's low-tax policy is helping corporations to invest in their local communities. I am proud to be part of a government that encourages job creation and economic growth, instead of penalizing productivity through high corporate taxes.
Hard work in the private sector is the backbone of this country. The CEO of Essar put it best when he said:
Our community's ability to attract and retain qualified professionals and highly skilled personnel is dependent upon the city's economic vitality and social fabric.
Essar put its money where its mouth is and invested in the community of Sault Ste. Marie. We thank Essar Steel Algoma for leading the way in job creation, corporate responsibility and unbridled generosity. Sault Ste. Marie is grateful for its presence and activity in our community.
Prostate Cancer
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
James Bezan Selkirk—Interlake, MB
Mr. Speaker, this is movember, and men across the country gave their upper lips for the worthy cause of growing a moustache in support of prostate cancer awareness and men's health. Many stylish and full mos were grown, and some not so much, but it was all done in good fun and for a worthy cause.
Last year over 100,000 men from Canada alone participated in movember and raised over $22 million. This year we have already surpassed $32 million. Worldwide, since its inception, movember has raised over $200 million to fund awareness and research and to assist those living with prostate cancer.
I am proud to say that this year I was able to participate in the noble efforts of the movember campaign. I, along with colleagues on both sides of the House, and Canadian men nationwide, made a valiant effort to raise awareness for prostate cancer.
Over 25,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. One in seven will develop the disease in their lifetime. I want to remind men to get their prostates checked, and I ask all women to encourage the men in their lives to visit their doctors.
Santa Fund Telethon
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Claude Gravelle Nickel Belt, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to shout a loud Christmas cheer for the Sturgeon Falls volunteer firefighters and their successful Santa Fund Telethon last weekend.
Over $37,000 was raised during the West Nipissing telethon. This is an amazing figure, a community of 14,000 raising $37,000 in seven hours.
I would like to congratulate chief Richard Savage and his team of firefighters, as well as the group of over 200 exceptional volunteers, for their participation in the telethon.
Hats off, as well, to all the individuals, businesses and charities that donated and made the telethon and toy drive such a success. It is the best result in over 15 years. This means that over 400 families in need will enjoy Christmas.
Merry Christmas to the families, the children, the firefighters and to you, the excellent community of West Nipissing. You make us proud.
Emergency Preparedness
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Jim Hillyer Lethbridge, AB
Mr. Speaker, on Sunday, 14 fire departments rallied together to contain 2 raging wild fires near Lethbridge that were fuelled by hurricane-force winds.
The firefighters were assisted by the police, disaster services, several Hutterite colonies and other community volunteers.
Providence must also be acknowledged. The fires raged for over 12 hours, spread as wide as 9 kilometres, over 40 kilometres long. One fire came to the edge of the city, but not a single home or building was burned.
As I toured the south fire with local authorities, we saw that it was nothing short of miraculous the number of times the fire suddenly shifted direction before it would have consumed a home or a building, a group of animals or a community.
Finally, many local emergency preparedness plans were executed, and others were ready to be put into action. In addition to praising first responders, I call on individuals, families, communities and their leaders across the country to put an emergency preparedness plan in place.
Catherine Lamontagne
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Pierre Jacob Brome—Missisquoi, QC
Mr. Speaker, today, I would like to congratulate a Quebecker in my riding who is one of the 2011 recipients of the Activité nationale de reconnaissance de la participation citoyenne award, a citizenship award given out by the Government of Quebec. Catherine Lamontagne from the Forum Jeunesse Montérégie Est was given the award for her dynamic devotion to the community of Bromont. She is the chair of the Bromont family advisory committee and she helped to set up its Carrefour familial or family centre, which provides drop-in daycare services and networking activities for young families in the area. Through Ms. Lamontagne's leadership, Bromont's Carrefour familial received the 2011 municipal and family action award in recognition of the various services it provides.
Congratulations to this young Quebecker who is helping families in her community.
Violence against Women
Statements By Members
November 30th, 2011 / 2:15 p.m.
Peter Braid Kitchener—Waterloo, ON
Mr. Speaker, Canada is actively participating in the worldwide 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign.
Violence against women affects us all. It destroys families and weakens the fabric of our society. It takes a heavy toll on our communities and on our economy.
Since 2007, Status of Women Canada has approved more than $39 million in funding for projects designed specifically to help end violence against women and girls. These projects involve countless hours of dedicated work on the ground in communities. In many cases they are helping prevent violence and abuse and in others they are helping women deal or cope with its consequences.
Status of Women Canada's support for community-based projects has nearly doubled since 2007, to almost $19 million a year, its highest level ever.
Persons with Disabilities
Statements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Bob Rae Toronto Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, one-quarter of the global population is directly affected by disability. Ensuring that the world we live in is disability inclusive and free from barriers which prevent full participation in all aspects of our society is not only an issue of basic human rights, but also one of citizenship.
To mark the upcoming International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the Liberal Party of Canada is proud to announce changes that make the Liberal Party's websites more accessible to individuals with physical disabilities. These changes have been made in full partnership with eSSENTIAL Accessibility Inc., a Canadian company committed to making online environments instantly accessible to people with physical disabilities.
When we eliminate barriers to information, people are able to participate more fully in social, civic and economic life, and reach their full potential. Our party will continue working with people with physical disabilities to improve their ability to communicate in an inclusive, accessible manner.
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The snap-n-learn caterpillar is really cute! The kids love building different length caterpillars, and they can make patterns with the colours.The only con I would say is that it comes with a Yellow head but no yellow body pieces, so they can't be built entirely in the same colour. Not sure if they mix the pieces up per container. It is still a great toy and I would recommend it to anyone.
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Skip to comments.Anonymous Warns of Insurrection in America Due to Obamas Gun Grab
Posted on 01/20/2013 1:51:38 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
The international hacktivist group Anonymous today warned of insurrection in America as the government controls and twists the narrative on gun-related incidents.
Known for the Guy Fawkes masks worn at protests, Anonymous has styled itself as an anti-authority crusader against government corruption and lack of transparency, and supported the Occupy protests. And now the hackers are stepping into the gun control debate, warning in a lengthy message today that throughout history authoritarian governments have used gun violence as an excuse to take peoples firearms and control there population.
Obama has been working hard to try and ban semi-automatic weapons and shotguns while at the same time increasing the weapons and firepower that police and government agencies have. Within minutes of the Connecticut shooting, politicians were on the state run media saying it was time to get rid of the guns and they will be talking about it for weeks to come, Anonymous wrote on its blog. The Obama administration and his government funded media have been promoting this idea for months. Everytime there is a shooting performed by a crazy person the media talks about it non-stop for weeks or months. But when there is an illegal or unlawful shooting by police that does not fit Obamas agenda the story is barely mentioned.
Anonymous notes that not only do police shootings barely get any attention, but cases where slaying are committed without guns or where guns are used to save lives also fly under the radar.
Mr. Obama the 2nd amendment of the US Constitution does not talk about an army, that is covered elsewhere in the constitution. It does talk about a well regulated militia which is made of civilians with their own weapons. The second amendment of the US Constitution does not talk about protecting government or government resources, but it does talk about being necessary for the security of a free state. The second amendment of the US constitution does not say a single word about hunting or sport. But it does say The peoples right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
To the American people, as many laws have been banning firearms in cities such as Chicago, New York, and Washington D.C have been implemented and as the courts get them, they are now being overthrown as being unconstitutional. Even if they were not ruled on, they are an infringement to your second amendment rights and you have no obligation to obey it and the courts have no obligation to enforce it.
In a section directly addressing Obama, Anonymous warns there will be no further tolerance of any act to infringe on the Constitution, confiscate weapons or control gun ownership, or enter into any treaty that would do the same.
Any action taken by you to attempt to perform those acts or similar acts as interpreted by the American people or any attempt by you to skirt your responsibility to the true office of the presidency will be viewed by many people as your willfull act of insurrection and treason, Anonymous continues. The group then goes on to detail how Obama could be removed, by military force if necessary.
One wonders how Anonymous might use its hacking skills that have perpetually confounded the government and big business to step in on the side of gun-rights proponents.
Wow this is a surprise. I always thought of them as more of a lib group.
Oh oh. The left is eating it's own on this one.
Oh no. What now? What now? LOL.
I was just wondering where anonymous would fall on this. Whatever their politics, they're a good group to have on your side.
OWS types and Tea Partiers worked together after Sandy in assisting the people of Staten Island and the Rockaways. While I hold no truck with their marxism, they seem not to be the regimented drones of communists and they have a genuine distrust for big institutions. At a time when we may need any ally, I would not write them off.
They could be sensing that civil war is coming too.
I don't quite know how to digest this either. They don't make idle threats, and they definitely have a problem with authority. I guess the zero wandered into their sights this time.
and a bad group to have on the side of your enemy - just ask Israel
I always thought they were anarchists. Wasn't really sure.
PJ's source is now saying this is fake - http://anonrelations.net/wearesorry-856/
drones - kill lists - attempts to censor the internet....that seems to have ticked them off
I wonder if some other group isn't co-opting Anonymous' name and notoriety on this. Gun rights don't seem to fit their usual objectives. I'm not sold on Anonymous' part in this.
We should have known. The "real" Anonymous are probably fake "anarchists" who support a totalitarian state 100%.
occupy? all leftists, statists, or anarchists. if the're touting gun rights, it's most likely a false flag operation.
There have been three so-called Anonymous clips in the past three months, all of which have been debunked as hoaxes by posers passing themselves off as Anonymous.
Anonymous has a vastly different agenda than whats portrayed here. They are pro-homosexual but anti-pedophile, allied with the Occutards, harbor a particular hatred of Scientologists, and want unrestricted downloads of movies and music files (in other words, they want free stuff).
Criticizing Dear Leader and Socialism, and supporting those eeeeevil guns, is not their MO in the least. This is most likely another hoax.
Anonymous disclaims this as a hoax, not truly from Anonymous.
It's a shame. If they had any sense they'd embrace it for real.
That's great, just as long as all of the degenerate morons that voted for him are dealt with as well.
Look around, the enemy is standing right next to you.
Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
It's getting hard for anyone to feel comfortable with a heavily armed government and a disarmed citizenry. Left, right or in between. I don't think I would side with Anonymous but if they want to take out totalitarians in positions of power I'm not going to get in their way.
Some groups are so far left they are basically right.
Well on this they are a "lib"erty group.
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then.
You say that like it is a bad thing. "Anarchy" translates from ancient languages to "being without a ruler" in today's vernacular.
Wouldn't they (PJ) have the ability to take it off their server and post an apology THERE?
Windflier posted the link to the video earlier. I viewed the entire video. They definitely lay out a clear case showing that Obama has committed treason against the Constitution. They seem supremely p*ssed.
It's a bizarre world in which Anonymous stands up more strongly for the Constitution than our girly leaders such as Boehner.
If by anarchist you mean the core of anonymous values their individuality and personal freedom; then yeah.
Must be fake. The author needs to "occupy" a dictionary.
I read comments about this video that stated that those who stated it isn't from Anonymous are lying. There was a link (credible? ) that has Anonymous stating it's valid.
My gut now tells me it's NOT from Anonymous.
Still, whoever made it presents a damning case against Obama -- lol.
What I was thinking.
We'll see.
Anybody have an idea how you "join" Anon? I think that would be an interesting thing to do. Any ideas?
All the degenerate's need is a sock puppet on TV telling them to jump off a cliff and problem solved.
They see Big Business and Big Finance as the enemy. We see Big Govt and Big Labor s the enemy. this admin has connected all the Bigs into one entity. I call it Fascism. Remember the old slogan "They came for the Communists but I wasn't a communist..."
Personally I can't fault them about Free Stuff over the internet. Nothing on the internet is truly secure. Use it at your own risk.
Anything you post is just like leaving it on the side of road and expecting it to be there later.
I was thinking more of the saying 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend.'
I would say that that statement is false. The enemy of your enemy may very well be your enemy as soon as you have both disposed of the first.
If you bring past, present and future into it then every statement is false.
Biggirl - Some "seriously lib" friends of mine have also been anticipating a civil war.
And these lib friends are all gun owners!
I guess if you anticipate a civil war, better get yourself armed in advance for your safety and security.
Uncle Sugar has gotten too big, too expensive, too intrusive, too controlling, too irresponsible, too powerful.
The founding fathers of this country never meant for this to be.
Ain't it though?
I've nearly come to the conclusion that we patriots are all on our own. Very few elected reps on the Republican side are vociferously standing up for our God-given rights and the Constitution. That they refuse to stand as the vanguard of freedom, means that they're abdicating what standing they do have, to the states and the people.
I think we all know what that will lead to.
Watch for whitehouse.gov and atf.gov going down on a weekly basis.
I never said it was a bad thing, because I really wasn't sure what an anarchist really stands for. Sorry if my one sentence threw you off.
Thanks Michael, I really wasn't sure what they stood for.
No, but if you want to leave the group, there's a twelve step program known as "Anonymous Anonymous".
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This is a great product for kids to learn in a fun way the world around them. Being a great Geography subject enthusiast at school, I liked the talking globe as soon as I saw it and bought it as a gift for my nieces who are aged 3 and 7.When I was going over with the quiz with them on the talking globe, I did like to have had one of the features be improved on this product. We do have these questions being asked by the quiz master. I like the way the questions are composed .But, I would like options that are being given are explicitly given a number either (1 or 2) as the options . For example Some thing like " Which is the largest continent on the Globe" "Option 1 ASIA Option 2 AUSTRALIA". The current formatting of the same question on your current product is as below " Which is the largest continent on the Globe" "ASIA AUSTRALIA". The reason I would like to see this change is when a child is paying attention to the question and trying to figure out the answer and ends up picking the correct choice, they are not able to connect the correct answer they picked to either number 1 option or number 2 option.I do think making this change would benefit the learning of the child.Thank you again for making a great learning product like talking globe.Sincerely,Madhu
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from Irvine, CA
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My daughter got the Educational Insights Geosafari Talking Globe Jr. for her 6th birthday. Although the product was working, the join around the center of the globe (where the top half and bottom half come together) were not aligned properly when it was assembled. This has left a gap in places along the seam where the equator tape line that covers the join is not connected and has gone inside the seam. Some parts of the globe were not smooth either, a bit bubbly.This was very disappointing. We decided to return it. I would like to purchase another one as my daughter really liked it but I'm frightened to get the same poor quality. The more I read reviews about it and the more skeptical I am.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Missing some words!
By LostInWI
from wisconsin
Key locations like "north America" are missing from the voice. Questions come out like: ........is circled in red, true or false? Where the dots should be a name like north America. About 10% of questions are missing a few words. New batteries don' help.
Merchant response: Sounds like your world has stopped spinning! This Talking Globe Jr is not working correctly. Please look for an email from us to fix/replace it for you.
Learning Geography Is Fun
By Working Mom
from Wisconsin
We got this globe for my daughter for Christmas and she has had a lot of fun with it. She is only six now and some of it is beyond her, but the beauty of it is it will be something she will learn from for a long time. It has two different levels of play with true and false questions. It is very easy to operate and understand. She has enjoyed playing against mom and dad who enjoy it as well. It is a great gift idea!
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GeoSafari Talking Globe Jr.
By no nickname.. Just Stephanie
from Reckendorf Village, Germany
About Me Education Oriented, Educator, Parent, Thrifty
I have used this product in the classroom and I found it to be very intellectually stimulating! I was very excited about this product for my children, then I started to read other reviews for it, so now I'm not so sure that I want to plunk our hard-earned military dollars on this almost 100 dollar item... I hear that if one SHOULD get an answer wrong, the globe will just TELL it's wrong, not WHAT you got wrong, so you'll have to do a little more outside research, IF you or your children care to... [...]
Merchant response: Hi Just Stephanie! Thank you for sharing your concerns about Talking Globe Jr. The quizzes in this product feature several levels of difficulty and most are multiple choice, designed to help kids select the right response. If they are still having trouble, there is a "help" button that provides hints. However, we know how tight a Mom's time is and will take your comments to heart!


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Wannabe! The Spice Girls Reunite For New Musicial
Spice Girls. Photo: GettyImages.com
We are not sure if you still have to get with their friend if you "Wannabe" their lover, but the Spice Girls have reunited.
The girl group made an appearance with everyone to announce "Viva Forever" and they looked great! Emma Bunton Baby Spice, Melanie Chisolm Sporty Spice, Melanie Brown Scary Spice, Geri Halliwell Ginger Spice, and Victoria Beckham Posh Spice.
The big moment took place in London. Although we don't have full details about the musical, it was nice to have a 90's flashback where for a moment in time, these girls were the biggest thing on the planet.
What is/was your favorite Spice Girl?-DocFB


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The Creators Project: How did Fool's Gold first come together?
A-Trak: I had an indie hip-hop label with my brother Dave [Dave 1 of Chromeo] called Audio Research. Then my brother started Chromeo and starting touring, and I got the Kanye gig. We were just doing a lot of stuff and not really putting out records. Around 2005 or so, the music that I was playing as a DJ was gravitating more toward this whole movement in the Northeast in the States, where a bunch of the DJs were playing a mishmash of different genres—everything that was club-friendly and uptempo.
Is this when the group began?
A-Trak: Around this time I met Nick Catchdubs and we forged this friendship that was based around sharing music and talking about music. We had a lot of questions, like, "Why is this guy working with this producer? He should work with this other guy!" and "What if this record had artwork by this guy?" What ended up being the catalyst was when I started making music with Kid Sister, which was also when I started experimenting with my own production. Pretty quickly we had this single of hers that was ready to be pressed up. But we didn't know which label to release it on. That's when we decided to start this label together. I knew Josh from that same scene of doing parties in New York. Josh would design some of the artwork for the parties, and I had already hired him to redo my website. When Nick and I started the label, it was a no-brainer to have Josh come in and be the in-house art director.
It must be nice working with an in-house artist. You know his work will always been consistent and unified.
A-trak: Completely, that was the whole idea of having Josh be a part of the company. We knew what we were going to get. We were going to have these covers that would really pop. And now, when we sign new acts, they're like, "Do we get to do a cover with Dust La Rock? Oh cool!"
Do you tackle a website with the same philosophy you use to design record covers?
Dust La Rock: I am traditionally a designer of websites, not a programmer. So while I have to keep the functionality, navigation, and all the technical stuff in mind, I just have fun with it. When I did the first site for Alain he just said, "People know I like animals." That's what I got and I just ran with it. I just created these little worlds. One was the ice world, one was a safari. Some of them had these little weird, psychedelic, and surreal elements to them. It just worked.


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Topic: Messy method
I am having some trouble refactoring a method that is causing a huge performance hit. The method takes an array of traits and an array of objects and works out the average of each trait in that object.
The problem is that the method iterates over the array of objects and also the array of traits. The objects array can be quite large so I have been trying to find a way to achieve the same result with no looping through either array.
One solution I thought of was to carry out an SQL query of the form:
BlupData.find_by_sql("SELECT #{trait_col} FROM cattle c, blupdata b" +
"WHERE c.cattleid IN(#{cattle_ids}) AND c.cattleid = b.animalid")
However I still have to loop over the array to find all the id's and the query does look rather messy. Is there a better way to do this?


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Topic: Design Tips for sites heavy on tabular data
I'm a programmer; I write code. Graphic design is decidedly NOT one of my talents. But, like many of you other programmers out there, I don't have the luxury of a designer at my disposal so the task of putting together a user interface falls to me.
Despite being bad at it, web page design techniques are actually a pretty interesting topic to me. I've read a ton of stuff out there on that there intraweb on the subject. I've looked at countless layout templates and always try to quantify to myself what exactly appeals to me when I come across a web site with a design I like.
But I've got a problem: The knowledge I've absorbed is almost never applicable to my own projects. You see, when you come across those design sites they nearly always focus on how to present paragraphs of text. They show you blogs, news sites, etc. My two primary web application projects don't fit that mold. Each page of my application is typically presenting tabular data. I'm talking at least 6-7 columns of data wide. Mostly numeric. The blocks of text in these pages are typically limited to brief blurbs describing what you're seeing the table.
I haven't found anything out there that talks about effective ways of presenting stuff like this. Anything that gives actual design examples of such. Something I can look at to get ideas and inspiration and *cough*steal*cough*.
So I appeal to you. Have you come across anything like I'm looking for? Do you have your own tips, tricks, and techniques that you'd like to share? I would love to hear them because I'm sick of looking at my hard work and feeling like I'm back in 1998.


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Section of Oregon Road collapses near Deer Park
DEER PARK, Wash. - Heavy rain, mixed with run off combined to sweep at least one road into a creek in Deer Park Friday.
Residents say a section of Oregon Road, approximately 25-foot in length, between Grove and Spotted roads, collapsed sometime overnight.
At the site where the road collapsed is a warning sign for "Abrupt Lane Edge" which is a little bit of an understatement. Residents in the neighborhood were on scene around 2 a.m. checking on the conditions of the roadway.deer park road collapse video
Spokane County says they are going to repair the road however they're going to have to wait until the rain stops and things dry up a little bit. The ground right now is so saturated right now if they try to make repairs now they'll just be shoveling mud.
That may mean repairs won't start until Monday, meaning residents will have to take about a mile and a half detour around the road collapse.


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Saturday, February 9, 2008
At the church we used to attend in Chicago, before we moved to Seattle, we were given a test in our membership class to suss out our spiritual gifts, which for the uninitiated in Christianese are gifts of character and ability that the Holy Spirit has bestowed on believers. I wasn't sure even then what I thought of this concept of determining spiritual gifts -- filling in the exhaustive multiple-choice quiz felt a little self-indulgent (for instance, here's a newfangled online one that proclaims that it takes an hour to complete), more like the personality profile of eHarmony than a spiritual discernment process. (Well, I'm imagining the eHarmony thing -- no, that's not how I met Sam.) Here are a couple other examples, in case you're curious to take your own evaluation. The gifts themselves are listed various places in the New Testament letters, and include such qualities as wisdom, prophecy, speaking in tongues, healing, teaching, administration, etc. Well, I'm imagining you've stopped reading unless you're already interested in these types of things, so I'll stop explaining it and just move on.
So, anyhow, my top three gifts came back as faith, giving, and (a made up one of) creative communication. That last one is not listed anywhere in the Bible, but it seemed appropriate to the quiz makers, and I can certainly see it as a gift from God for the purpose of strengthening the church, since it mostly means I like to sing, write, and generally be all artsy for God. Ok, so I agreed with the giving (meaning that once upon a time I was generous, a subject for another post) and the creative communication dealio.
But I felt totally gypped that one my spaces for gifts, and my top one at that, was taken up by the completely useless gift faith. (Hey, is "gypped" an offensive term? Maybe I should stop using it in case. Well, here, I'll make up an ethnic slur against my very white people: The supermarket clerk totally finned me the other day. I don't know what it means, but it sounds bad, right?)
I had been hoping one of my gifts would be prophecy, so I could tell people I was a prophetess. (It sounded cool.) But here one of my spots was taken up with this dead wood. What kind of a gift was faith? Didn't all of us taking this quiz have faith, or we wouldn't be in a church membership class to begin with? I checked with Sam, and sure enough, his first gift was faith as well. I began to think the test was rigged.
But then we met with the other students of our membership class and found that faith was an uncommon result. I still felt like it should be a no-brainer quality of a Christian, but I decided to be grateful to have it so easily and accept that this was my gift. For life, I thought.
It turns out gifts can be taken back, even by the Spirit. (And I know "Indian giver" is offensive, so I won't even go there. What's up with that term, anyway? And, while I'm on the subject, is there a different term for "Indian summer," a phenomenon I really do appreciate, global warming concerns notwithstanding? Oh, thank you, Wikipedia, I'm now calling it "Saint Martin's Summer." Just to extend this detour further, I love that the caption for the top picture is "An Indian summer day." I guess we'll have to take your word for it, caption writer, since pictures can't really show us what temperature it is.)
And, we're back.
I don't know where the ease of believing went to, but now doubt is far simpler for me than trusting. Questions I once would have answered "Always" to such as "I hold fast to my personal belief in the truth even in the presence of ridicule, apparent failure, or pain" or "I am totally convinced God will fulfill his word even if He is not doing so yet" I now have difficulty even considering. I mean that literally -- it's painful for me even to contemplate my lack of faith, since it's been my identity my whole life long.
I feel like I've become too rational, too skeptical and scientific, too "prove it" about everything. But the rational, scientific part of me says how can I be too skeptical? And, anyway, how can I turn my mind off and become someone less thinking, less analytical?
I loved the first time I read Augustine's words: "Wherever we taste the truth, God is there." But the five thousandth time tasting truth, I begin to wonder if it is indeed God flavoring it.
I want to believe. But I don't want to be mired in immaturity like the 7-year-old me who decided to revert to believing in Santa Claus for just one more year because it just felt so good, and because all my friends were doing it. There's faith for the wrong reasons in a nutshell.
Come on, Holy Spirit, give it back. Give it to me so I can go back to being unwavering and certain, so I can have that comforting "well, duh," attitude about my religion.
If I can't have my faith in Christianity, I can't even rest on some flowery "spirituality" thing like some people enjoy. The people who say that we're all one and the divine is in all of us, blah, blah. Because if the core of what I believe isn't true, then none of it is, and faith is a nonsense word. Then we're just molecules stuck together at random, controlled by evolution and existing until, one by one, and eventually planet by planet, we just don't anymore, except that our molecules separate out and mix with something else. And that's just too depressing and narrow to live with.
Pursuing faith is hard work. I liked when it was something I could take for granted, even though the definition of that is that I never appreciated it when I had it so good.
P.S. For my Washington state readers (yes, just you, Sam), go to your caucus at 1 p.m. today! Be all democratic and such. (I can have faith in some things.)
3 comments:
- Kate Wicker said...
Oh, Hobo Mama. This is so beautifully honest. I've been going through a bout of spiritual dryness myself. Your words "I want to believe" resonated within me. As I'm grappling with faith questions, I keep coming back to wanting to believe. Like you, I don't want to believe for the wrong reasons. Then again, I keep thinking that sometimes all we can do is cling to our faith even when it's hard to hold onto - like a handful of sand - and know that it can really do no harm to believe.
You're in my prayers.
- September 22, 2008 at 4:01 AM
- Hobo Mama said...
Thank you, Kate! I appreciate your own experience and your generous thoughts. I was scared to share my doubts with anyone -- even with myself at first, and then with my husband. I was afraid of being condemned, I guess, and it really does help (as it always does) to know that I'm not alone.
My husband said something wise along these lines -- that having doubt makes the faith real. That without doubt, it's not really a choice to believe but just mindlessness. I'm reading and searching and hoping to hang on. I feel like God's not letting me go, so that's a good thing.
- September 23, 2008 at 5:55 PM
- Cindy said...
Wow, thanks for your honesty! I feel the same way at times. I think it makes SO much sense in the Bible when it says to have faith like a child. Just about any child will believe anything you tell them. They take you at your word! Over the course of years and decades, we see all the evil in the world and wonder where God is in all of it, and it's understandable that we lose some of our faith.
A good friend of mine just casually mentioned something to me about a year ago that really changed my perspective on the world. I'll try to say it like she did.....
This is Satan's world right now. God is here and in control, but Satan has so much power here right now. Sometimes things won't happen like they are supposed to (we were discussing natural, unassisted birth that didn't work out the way I'd hoped) and we may never understand why. We need to remember that we are living in a fallen world. *It is only by the grace of God that anything good ever happens.* So we should thank Him for every little tiny bit of good, focus on that, and pray about/for everything else.
Okay, that is completley paraphrased! LOL! But the part about anything good that happens is only by the grace of God, well that really spoke to me. It's opposite of what most people think. Most people say "Why did God allow this or that to happen?" In actuality, "this or that" is going to happen because we live in a fallen, sinful, imperfect world. The world is broken so it just doesn't work right. It's not God's fault! God's grace alone brings us all the good we have in our lives!
I feel like I'm rambling! I hope you can make sense out of that! I'll be praying for you. :)
- November 5, 2008 at 8:33 PM