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Spring 2001
Volume 5 Number 3
by Kent Annan
"The figure at the top expresses joy and freedom that is every child's right. The Year of the Child theme beneath it supports [the child], allows it to see farther and reach higher, rising above any risks and dangers that may be present. The star connotes Christ's nativity. The child is also a 'star person'…."
The Presbyterian Church (USA)'s logo for its Year of the Child (July 2000–May 2001), described above, illustrates why Princeton Seminary's Center of Continuing Education, in cooperation with Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey, sponsored a conference in March titled "Whoever Welcomes This Child: Advocacy for Children in the Church and World," which was supported in part by a grant from the Griffith Theological Research Foundation at Columbia Theological Seminary.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, fellow at the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard Divinity School, founder and chair of the National Parenting Association, and mother of four (ages 3, 16, 20, and 23), kicked off the event with a keynote address to approximately sixty people that challenged the way American society cares for its parents—and thereby its children. The title of her most recent book, The War against Parents, coauthored with Cornel West, makes her take on the current climate clear.
What war? Hewlett began her lecture showing slides of art done by children—art that shows how hard many find childhood today. She then vividly recounted the stories of parents struggling to get by. Ranging from bad to horrific, she told of how families are squeezed by the pressures of violence in the culture, by the time crunch ("there are now six million American families where two adults hold four jobs to keep the show on the road"), by the lack of money, by the lack of special seating on buses and subways for pregnant women or parents with small children, etc. Parents, who have a difficult role under the best of circumstances, feel like they are under attack from all sides. "It's not surprising that parents are incredibly demoralized in America today," she says. "They feel beset by the economy, by government, and by that box sitting in their living room which, after all, is informing the values of their children.
"So the time is right to forge a collaboration between a parent's movement and religion," says Hewlett, who attends a Unitarian church.
She thinks churches can offer two crucial elements to this parenting movement that seeks to improve the conditions of parents throughout the country: spiritual language and involvement in social activism. "[Parents] need a way of enriching the meaning of the task at hand because it's so very hard to be a good parent in this market-driven society," she says of this task that, "to do well," costs parents an average of seventeen hours per week and $250,000 by the time a child reaches age eighteen. Churches understand "the joy and significance of developing a human soul"; parents need this encouragement and the parenting movement needs this "spiritual heft." Churches can also help profoundly by motivating their many members to social activism on behalf of parents—such as, for example, getting behind the "ultimate nonpartisan struggle" of ensuring paid parental leave for all parents.
Why would churches want a parent's movement? "It enables religious communities to come through with what they all…promise"—to love and care for children and their parents, says Hewlett. Families in the pews desperately need this support and encouragement, and this issue is "enormously relevant" to them. The second reason, like the first, is that supporting parents, both in and outside the church, is a needed ministry, especially by "those less privileged in the surrounding community."
"Hewlett turned my thoughts around," said Mary Anne Fowlkes, professor of childhood education at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia, who had traveled from Virginia for the conference. "She was very provocative. I sat there kind of numb. I teach children's ministry, and I try to provide separate opportunities for parents and children. But maybe we need to be working with churches to bring children and parents together."
The conference's second day began with worship led by Freda Gardner, moderator of the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s 211th General Assembly and professor emerita at Princeton Seminary. Wearing a Year of the Child stole, Gardner led about twenty-five attendees in a confession of sin that included: "We confess that in our rush for results and answers, we forget to listen to the children, the young people, and the parents struggling in poverty and violent communities."
Her sermon, "Come As a Child," wove together Christ's calling children to himself, adults' responsibility for children, and the message that adults, too, are called to approach Christ as children. She spoke of the grace and clarity that children, with an insightful word or an unexpected act, bring to the world—as when a young child looked at a woman crouching and laying her hand on the head of a dirty, disheveled man who had fallen on the sidewalk and said, "That's Jesus, right?" She also told of how children struggle, reciting a litany of heartrending statistics—every twenty-five seconds a baby is born in America to an unwed mother, every three minutes a child is arrested for drug abuse, every four hours a child or young person under the age of twenty commits suicide. "Dare we come as those children come [to Jesus]?" she asked. "As they are…wise, wistful, damaged, anxious, ashamed? Unless you come as one of these…."
After the sermon a bowl of crayons, pieces of chalk, pencils, Band-Aids, pennies, and pens was passed around. Each person took one and then held up the appropriate item when a certain prayer was said: while a prayer was said for teachers, those holding chalk raised their pieces; Band-Aids were lifted when sick children (and parents worrying because of no healthcare) were prayed for.
Worship was followed by morning and afternoon workshops: "Children in Worship," "The Spiritual Life of Children and Families," "Welcoming the Grieving Child," "Working with Preschool Children," and "Preteens: Who Are They and How Do We Minister to Them?"
Brad Wigger, associate professor of Christian education at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, led "The Spiritual Life of Children and Families." He explained: "People think of spirituality as peace, calm, serenity. Now enter children. Once you have a baby, it's a mess. Order is disrupted."
So what happens when the spiritual ideal of the desert fathers and mothers caught up in the raptures of uninterrupted meditation gets lost under the pile of diapers, empty baby food jars, and Tonka trucks?
Closing his workshop that included stories, discussion, and a video by Robert Coles, Wigger suggested that the answer may come from new practices as well as from a new understanding of the spiritual ideal. "What elements are in a church bulletin?" he asked. Then he suggested that those same elements—of gathering, praise, confession and forgiveness, fellowship, prayer, Scripture, music, etc.—can be part of family life.
This doesn't necessarily mean adding more tasks for parents to do. It may just mean families need to "think more symbolically about home life" to understand how God is at work in the chaos. Wigger's invitation was "to reimagine our everyday lives liturgically." For example, the benediction occurs when parents says "God bless you" as their child falls asleep. Or a "good morning" song can serve as a call to worship. Prayer and Scripture reading can happen at the end of a family dinner.
The spiritual life is worth talking about at home, he said in closing, even though "most parents are more scared to talk about God than about sex."
Carol Wehrheim, PTS visiting lecturer in Christian education, member and sixth-grade teacher at Nassau Presbyterian Church, and the Association of Presbyterian Church Educator's Educator of the Year for 2001, taught the workshop on preteens, a group needing instruction in both issues.
Her workshop was a lively exchange among twelve people "who were curious and questioning about who these middle schoolers are." Clearly there is much anxiety about the preteen years—on the part of kids, parents, and those who work with kids. But Wehrheim's research has made her hopeful: "There are three important groups in the lives of preteens: peers, parents, and other adult friends. The church has the wonderful opportunity to provide number three!"
During these crucial years, says Wehrheim (citing author Laura Sessions Stepp), preteens have three key questions: First, am I competent? Second, am I loved and am I loving? Third, am I normal? "How they answer these questions at this time," she says, "echoes throughout their lives."
The importance of childhood and parenthood echoed throughout the conference.
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Kasie Enman Gets Ready for U.S. Mountain Running Team Qualifiers - Page 2
What is your running background?
I started running competitively in high school, running for what was a nationally ranked school at the time—Manchester Central High School in New Hampshire. So, I was exposed to a higher level of competition at meets like the Penn Relays and National Championships right from the beginning, and training and competing in cross country, indoor and outdoor track year round. I was never the best on our team, never won any individual titles, but was fortunate to always be part of strong teams.
That continued in college when I ran for Middlebury, where we took home the NCAA cross-country team title my senior year. Post-collegiately I kept at it and found the most success in cross country and on the roads, particularly at the marathon distance. I am not someone who tends to have major breakthroughs. I just keep plugging away, doing a little more each year in training and getting a little faster each year in races. I had prided myself on PR'ing in at least one distance every year up until I got pregnant with my daughter in 2010. Now, I'm working to start up that streak again.
How did you go from cross country and road racing to mountain racing?
It's hard to say when I first started mountain running. I started doing real hilly trail running when I moved to Vermont for college and particularly when I moved to Huntington in 2002. Technically, my first mountain race was part of a super-fun multi-sport relay called Tuckerman's Inferno. I was the sole female on our team and ran the "hike" leg up the Tuckerman's mountain trail into the ski bowl. I did that race a few times and remember being proud one year because I had the fastest time up, beating all the men.
I wasn't exposed to the mountain-race scene, as I know it today, until a few years later when I went to a couple of the USATF-New England Mountain Goat series races in 2007 during a period when I experienced a bout of plantar fasciitis that was fairly debilitating unless I was going uphill. That led me to try Mount Washington, Loon and Mount Ascutney Hill Climb for the first time. After having some success at those races, someone mentioned that there was a U.S. Mountain Running Team that you could qualify for and go to a World Mountain Running Championship in cool places like Italy. I have always had the travel bug, so that was enough to pique my interest. From there, [USMRT manager] Paul Kirsch played a huge role in encouraging me to get more involved in the sport and I haven't looked back since becoming a part of it all.
Do you still do other types of racing?
Yes, cross country is probably my next favorite and I still have a goal of getting on a World Team for that someday. I have also qualified for the past two Olympic Trials Marathons and focus part of each year on marathon training. Additionally, I have goals in all the shorter road-racing distances and even dabble with the track occasionally. My goal is to be the female version of Max King. Seriously, though, I need the variety and I think it's a big part of what allows me to be competitive on the mountains. Having said that, a technical trail race is where I feel the most natural, like that's what I was designed to do.
It seems like the USMRT is getting harder to qualify for. Why do you think that is?
Very true. I think Nancy Hobbs, Richard Bolt, Paul Kirsch and Ellen Miller—the stellar USMRT managers—have done a fantastic job of raising awareness of mountain running, taking advantage of social media and building relationships. I might not have gotten into mountain running if it weren't for the encouragement of that foursome. With their hard work building the team at the junior and senior level and the recent legitimizing of the U.S. and World Championships by USATF and IAAF, more and more athletes are giving it a try.
I hope that our crew coming home with two individual medals last year has played a part in bringing the best talent in the sport. I'm hoping, whether or not I make the team this year, that both the men's and women's teams come home with team and individual medals this year. With this year's deep field at Loon, we'll have our strongest team yet this year, and the men's team is impressive, especially when you consider who was left behind.
What are your goals and expectations for the USMRT qualifier and for the World Championship?
I expect to have to work my butt off and really be on at Loon to make the top four. If that happens, I'll start thinking about Worlds. One advantage I have is that I have raced Loon a number of times and always had a really positive experience. I'll try to use my knowledge of the course to run a smart race.

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Hakluyt, Richard
Richard Hakluyt c. 1552–1616
English editor, geographer, and translator.
As a translator and editor, Hakluyt played an important role in the dissemination of navigational and topographical information which encouraged English explorers to set out on voyages of discovery and conquest during the sixteenth century. His Voyages (1598-1600) constitutes a unique record of European exploration that provides insight into Elizabethan thought preceding England's colonial expansion. A founding member of the Virginia Company, Hakluyt was also instrumental in the establishment of a permanent English colony in North America.
Biographical Information
Hakluyt was born in London, the second of five children, to Margery and Richard Hakluyt of Hereford-shire. At the age of five, following the death of his father, Hakluyt was taken in by his cousin and guardian—also named Richard Hakluyt—then a student in the Middle Temple, and later a lawyer much involved in international exploration and mercantilism. The elder Hakluyt first sparked his younger cousin's interest in geography by showing him a map, then drawing the young scholar's attention to the 23rd and 24th verses of the 107th Psalm of the Bible, which states: "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep" (King James translation). Subsequently, a dual interest in exploration and religion was to characterize Hakluyt's entire career as both geographer and cleric. Following his schooling at Westminster, Hakluyt was admitted to Christ Church College, Oxford University, where he was a contemporary of Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Philip Sidney. He received his B.A. 1574 and an M.A. in 1577; he was ordained in 1580, and in 1583 he was appointed chaplain to Sir Edward Stafford, the English ambassador to Paris. In Paris, Hakluyt became familiar with French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese narratives of exploration, and while translating the voyage narratives of Antonio Galvano and Ferdinando de Soto, he became determined to promote English exploratory seafaring. In 1582 he published his first collection of voyage narratives, Divers Voyages Touching the Discouerie of America (1582), and followed this with A Discourse on Western Planting (1584). Hakluyt's career as a cleric sustained his scholarship, and his literary endeavors brought royal preferment in the form of clerical appointments. Elizabeth's pleasure with Hakluyt's Discourse on Western Planting resulted in his appointment as a prebendary of Bristol, a major port city, in 1584. In 1590, following the publication of his most important work, The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589), he was granted the rectory of Witheringsett-cum-Brockford, in Suffolk. Here he prepared a new enlarged edition of the Principall Navigations, and worked with Raleigh to publicize and encourage investment in the Virginia Company. In 1602 Hakluyt received a prebend at Westminster, and the following year he was appointed Archdeacon. During the last four years of his life, Hakluyt was rector of Gedney, Lincolnshire. He died on November 23, 1616.
Major Works
Hakluyt's Divers Voyages Touching the Discouerie of America presented legal argument for England's claim on American land, accounts by Giovanni da Verrazano and Giovanni Battista Ramusio with maps by John Lok describing the east coast of North America, and practical advice for potential explorers. His next work, A Discourse on Western Planting (1584) gained the attention of Queen Elizabeth I. Designed to persuade the Queen to support American colonization, it was intended as a private court document with the title, "A Particular Discourse Concerning the Great Necessity and Manifold Commodities That Are Likely to Grow to This Realm of England by the Western Discoveries Lately Attempted." Finally published in 1877, it provides the most direct evidence of Hakluyt's own thoughts on the links between economics and geography, and the likely material benefits of English colonization of North America.
Hakluyt is best known as the editor of The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589; enlarged edition, 1598-1600). The enlarged edition of this work, reprinted in 1908 as Hakluyt's Voyages, included such new exploration chronicles as the voyages of Sir John Hawkins, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Martin Frobisher, and Sir Francis Drake. Blending the romance and wonder of travel with the sparse, restrained style of the sailor witness, Hakluyt's Voyages was Hakluyt's magnum opus, and remains his most celebrated work. Although Hakluyt's motives were strongly patriotic, he also acknowledged and translated many foreign narratives, including René de Laudonnière's A Notable Historie Containing Foure Voyages Made by Certayne French Captaynes unto Florida (1587), Antonio Galvano's The Discoverie of the World from Their First Originall unto the Yeere of Our Lord 1555 (1601), and Ferdinando de Soto's Virginia Richly Valued, by the Description of the Maine Land of Florida, her Next Neighbour (1609).
Critical Reception
Hakluyt's industrious and painstaking scholarship brought him substantial royal favor, the friendship of Raleigh and Sidney, and the patronage of Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's secretary of state. While Hakluyt's Voyages was used as both a practical guide by explorers and as a spur to motivate the next generation of adventurers, Hakluyt also contributed a significant literary influence: Shakespeare's Othello, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest all make reference to Hakluyt's Voyages, as does Milton's Paradise Lost. Hakluyt's reputation as an editor grew markedly after his death, when readers were disappointed with the comparatively lackluster editing of his successor and literary executor Samuel Purchas. In the eighteenth century, the practical value of Hakluyt's Voyages diminished as English geographical knowledge became more refined, but the literary quality of his endeavors found new favor. His reputation received a considerable boost in 1846 with the founding of The Hakluyt Society, which has continued to publish accounts of exploratory travel. In the modern era, critics such as Clennell Wilkinson have found the appeal of Hakluyt's Voyages to lie in the documentary flavor of its "true stories." Virginia Woolf emphasized the influence of Hakluyt's editions on the English language, and detected in Hakluyt's Voyages a new, self-conscious literary mode. More recently, the descriptive language of Hakluyt's narratives has been analyzed from a postcolonial perspective, with critics such as Emily C. Bartels providing a re-assessment of the Elizabethan colonial mind.
Principal Works
Divers Voyages Touching the Discouerie of America, and the ilands adiacent vnto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterwards by the Frenchmen and Britons (travel essays) 1582
A Notable Historie Containing Foure Voyages Made by Certayne French Captaynes unto Florida [translator] (travel essay) 1587
De orbe novo Petri Martyris Anglerii Mediolanensis [editor] (travel essay) 1587
The Principall Navigations, Volages and Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or over-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the Earth, at Any Time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres (travel essays) 1589; revised and enlarged, 1598-1600; also published as Hakluyt's Voyages 1908
The Discoveries of the World from Their First Originall unto to Yeere of Our Lord 1555 [editor and translator] (travel essays) 1601
Virginia Richly Valued, by the Description of the Maine Land of Florida, Her Next Neighbour [translator] (travel essay)
A Discourse on Western Planting, Written in the Year 1584 (essay) 1877
Virginia Woolf (essay date 1925)
SOURCE: "The Elizabethan Lumber Room," in Collected Essays, Vol. I. Harourt, Brace & Company, 1966, pp. 46-53.
[Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an influential modern British novelist and essayist associated with the Bloomsbury Group. In the following review essay, originally published in The Common Reader (1925), Woolf detects Hakluyt's influence on the English language, arguing that the "extravagance" and "hyperbole" of Elizabethan literature stems from the Elizabethan passion for discovery that was promoted by Hakluyt's publications.]
These magnificent volumes [Hakluyt's Voyages] are not often, perhaps, read through. Part of their charm consists in...
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Clennell Wilkinson (essay date 1927)
SOURCE: "Hakluyt," in The London Mercury, Vol. XVII, No. 97, November, 1927, pp. 62-9.
[In the following laudatory essay, Wilkinson provides an overview of Hakluyt's life and work and considers his qualities as an editor. Wilkinson suggests that the strength of The Principal Voyages lies in Hakluyt's artless editing and his skill at finding the romance in true stories.]
I think it was Mr. Hilaire Belloc who once divided funny stories into two classes—those which are funny simply because they are funny, and those which are funny because they are true. He might have gone further and applied his theory to stories of all sorts. Even then he would not have reached...
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James A. Williamson (essay date 1928)
SOURCE: An introduction to Richard Hakluyt and the English Voyages, by George Bruner Parks, edited by James A. Williamson, American Geographical Society, 1928, pp. xi-xvii.
[In the following excerpt, Williamson places Hakluyt's English Voyages in a historical context. Williamson considers Hakluyt the major historian of Elizabethan colonial expansion, and finds in his work crucial evidence of the "ideas and outlook of the Elizabethans. "]
The Elizabethan age was not spacious, as we are sometimes told, but narrow and needy. It was a time of industrious study of man and nature as well as of books, and its adventures were undertaken not from swashbuckling zest but...
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James A. Williamson (essay date 1946)
SOURCE: "Richard Hakluyt," in Richard Hakluyt & His Successors: A Volume Issued to Commemorate the Centenary of the Hakluyt Society, edited by Edward Lynam, The Hakluyt Society, 1946, pp. 9-46.
[In the following excerpt, Williamson describes the conditions that prompted English maritime expansion and considers Hakluyt's role as a publicist and "master mind" behind Elizabethan colonial enterprise.]
That Hakluyt was consciously a publicist and a historian as well as a geographer may be seen from his own words. In his dedication of a publication to Raleigh in 1587 he remarks that 'geography is the eye of history', in a context which leaves no doubt that history is the...
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W. Nelson Francis (essay date 1955)
SOURCE: "Hakluyt's Voyages: An Epic of Discovery," in The William and Mary Quarterly, third series, Vol. XII, No. 3, July, 1955, pp. 447-55.
[In the following essay, Francis notes the commercial and patriotic origins of English seafaring in the late sixteenth century. Providing a brief sketch of a typical voyage from The Principal Voyages, Francis praises Hakluyt's restrained editorial style and his industrious scholarship.]
In an age when tales of strange voyages are reasserting their age-old fascination, when any strange craft from Heyerdahl's primitive balsa raft to Beebe's super-scientific bathysphere is almost sure to produce a best seller, an older...
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Christopher Hill (essay date 1965)
SOURCE: "Ralegh—Science, History, and Politics," in Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 154-62.
[Hill is an important Marxist historian whose work focuses on the English Civil War. In the following excerpt, Hill considers Hakluyt's work as publicist and foreign policy propagandist for Sir Walter Ralegh.]
Ralegh's foreign policy was not his private affair, but was the policy of a whole group, whose main publicists were the two Richard Hakluyts. Ralegh was intimately connected with them. The younger Hakluyt's Discourse of Western Planting was written in 1584 'at the request and direction of Ralegh', to whom...
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David B. Quinn and Alison M. Quinn (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: An introduction to Virginia Voyages from Hakluyt, edited by David B. Quinn and Alison M. Quinn, Oxford University Press, London, 1973, pp. vii-xvii.
[In the following essay, the critics provide an overview of Hakluyt's career and chronicle his involvement, along with that of Grenvilie and Ralegh, in the discovery and settlement of North America.]
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Peter Vansittart (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: "Hakluyt's Emporium," in The Times Educational Supplement, No. 3404, September 25, 1981, p. 25.
[In the following review essay, Vansittart provides a vivid sampling of Hakluyt's narratives of discovery, and considers their place in the English literary tradition.]
Geographer, linguist, historian, Richard Hakluyt was also Archdeacon of Westminster, diplomat, and busy advocate of Elizabethan sea-power, overseas trade, colonial enterprise. Often considered chiefly as a maritime narrative … [Hakluyt's Voyages] is an anthology of both land and sea travels, from eye-witnesses of most varied classes, ranks, occupations, involving Raleigh (as author), Humphrey...
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Emily C. Bartels (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Imperialist Beginnings: Richard Hakluyt and the Construction of Africa," in Criticism, Vol. XXXIV, No. 4, Fall, 1992, pp. 517-38.
[In the following essay, Bartels provides a close textual analysis of the accounts of voyages to Africa in The Principal Navigations. With particular reference to descriptions of Moors and Negroes, Bartels detects and discusses an implicit "strategy of representation" in the narratives and in Hakluyt's editorial policy.]
In 1589, when Richard Hakluyt produced his first edition of the Principal Navigations, England was a long way from securing an empire or articulating an imperialist policy. Despite some forty years of...
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Further Reading
Review of The Principal Navigations, by Richard Hakluyt. The Athenaeum, No. 3979 (30 January 1904): 137-8.
Review of two volumes of The Principal Navigations which finds in Hakluyt's literary style an echo of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Jones, John Winter. Introduction to Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent. London: The Hakluyt Society, MDCCCL, 171 p.
A wide-ranging introduction to Hakluyt's first major work. Addresses the French exploration of Florida, includes Hakluyt letters, dedicatory...
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Topic: Best Rails-based cms to integrate with Rails App
I have browsed the homepages of several cms's that are built on Rails.
I realize that "best" is a subjective term and depends on what your goals are.
for me it's about the ease of seemlessly integrating a Rails App with the content pages.
For example creating a site with several pages of cms managed text, and then application functionality like a forum or shopping cart which uses the same layout as the content only pages.
I am not clear on whether Radiant uses Rails or is just built on Ruby.
Here are some of the examples I've seen:
The description on the casein page looks like what I am looking for:
"Casein is designed to be completely decoupled from the front-end. Therefore it may be added to new or existing Rails projects, ..."
If anyone had experience with integrating application functionality into one or more of the above, please share you impressions. thanks.


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Charges dropped against man police said bit an officer
MONONA, Wis. - A Monona man accused of biting a police officer had some of the charges against him dismissed in court.
The incident happened around 6 p.m. on Oct. 22 in the 4700 block of Wallace Avenue in Monona.
According to police, Anthony Celley, 30, of Monona was driving down Wallace Avenue when police pulled him over. Monona police made the stop after Madison police asked them to check an address for a suspect in a hit and run crash.
Police said when the car was stopped, Celley left the car and wouldn't follow orders from the police officer, which led to a physical struggle. The officer called for backup, according to police, but Celley continued to resist officers.
Police said Celley was handcuffed and put in a squad car, but caused damage to the car and bit an officer in the process.
Celley pleaded guilty to bail jumping and disorderly conduct March 1. Charges of criminal damage to property, resisting an officer and battery to an officer were dismissed.


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Iron sharpens iron: constructive input makes a good idea even better; focus on increased human capability – a key outcome of good social innovation – and celebrate (re)iteration as necessary and solid due diligence.
Know yourself: good ideas are plentiful, but solid execution is rare... so where do you fit best in working toward systemic change and solving complex social problems? (Driving one piece of a potential solution is better than owning a big idea that sits undeveloped.)
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (62 votes).
In short: Mud & Hills. Tie your shoes on tight. Bring a towel.Date of review: February 15, 2014
In short: Mud, Hills & lots of smilesIn full: A great event and a must do for me each year. This year's race was held on very muddy terrain which definitiely slowed me down but was great fun. The galump down the hill from the windmill, across the field, hay bails was seriously soft. Even in innocuous looking field you would sink into the ground above your ankles. A great event and really fun to run.The farm tanker water spray was definitely required this year to wash all the mud off before returning to the car.Date of review: February 28, 2013
In short: Great muddy, hilly race.Date of review: February 20, 2013
In short: Brilliantly organised, for anyone who loves very muddy hills!Date of review: February 18, 2013
In short: A great mixed terrain event. Challenging enough to test most levels of runner but not so tough that it destroys you!Date of review: February 17, 2013
In short: Great fun, friendly multiterrain with a ruddy great hill in it.In full: My first Parbold Hill and I didn't know the course - but what a beauty.Thanks to Skem and Parbold Harriers for organising such a friendly, fun, challenging race.The offroad sections were more cross-country than trail as it was so muddy. This race has it all: a brutal climb or several, stiles, cow fields, mud, mud, mud, haybale fence crossings, a stream... And helpful marshalls not afraid to give orders at the more breakneck bits. Ace! I'll be back.Date of review: February 16, 2013
In short: If you like mud and hills, this is Valhalla!In full: Challenging multi-terrain (though mostly trails and fields) race with brutal hills, fast descents, technical sections, and lots and lots of mud. Impeccably organised in beautiful scenery, and a total bargain to boot.Date of review: February 16, 2013
In short: Good hill training and a test for ankle strength!Date of review: February 16, 2012
In short: Hilly and muddy, but well worth it.In full: This is a fantastic race. As long as you're prepared for mud and hills (and ice this year), you'll love it. The scenery is fabulous and it's well marshaled.My only complaint is that the course too often becomes bottle-necked. This happened getting out of the starting field this year, then there are reasonably lengthy queues getting over stiles and some of the track later on is single file only.But, I forgive all of that because the course and how it makes you feel (at the end!) is superb. Not a fast course, but a very worthwhile one.Date of review: February 15, 2012
In short: Love this race... great funDate of review: February 13, 2012
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Skip to comments.1% vs 99% ZOT
Posted on 12/09/2011 8:35:26 PM PST by TheDailyChange
I got a real bad feeling the 2nd Civil War may be coming soon. While the (1% millionaires and billionaires) continue to print Trillions of dollars and run off at the mouth on the radio and television while continuing to run the world by establishing themselves as the FEW WHO CONTROL THE MASSES) it has all the elements for a bad outcome.
As a conservative who has given much thought to what all is going on, it has become abundantly all too clear that the objective of the 1% Democrats and Republicans who are OWNED and DIRECTED by HUGE CORPORATIONS is to have all of the hard working good hearted Americans quarrel amongst ourselves trying to make us take sides while they, the 1% go on vacationing, buying beautiful homes, imposing more regulations and partying like it's 1999, all the while laughing at us who are caught up in the BS that is coming from them!
Until Americans from all walks of life decide that quarreling amongst ourselves is a waste of time and decide to band together for the greater good which is saving America and it's citizens from the enemy, it will be then and only then that you will free yourself, your friends and family from tyranny.
Collectivism. Bad idea.
That's deep.
Workers of the World Unite!! Where have I heard that before? Have you read Marx?
If I were the 1% living in American right now under Zero? I'd pull every dime and move to like Australia until an actual American was in office who got it (meaning gave a damn about the Constitution).
If I were the 1% living in American right now under Zero? I'd pull every dime and move to like Australia until an actual American was in office who got it (meaning gave a damn about the Constitution).
It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.- Ayn Rand
I would rather stand with the 1% than the self proclaimed 99% Occupy movement.
There is an obvious agenda by politicians, Parties and MSM of keeping the sheep quarreling and politically divided because they profit and benefit from it.
If we were all sitting around singing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo9AH4vG2wA and were a united United States, the MSM would not be getting the massive revenue from the eyeballs and ears on political shows and political advertising from the Parties. The pols would have nothing to differentiate themselves. Think about it. The political divide of the masses is no accident and is there for a purpose and starts at the media.
i find it funny how many libtards try to sell their commie views by prefacing them with 'as a conservative'... like that will make me ignore everything else that follows
the 1% are successful. yes, by definition. the 99% are less so, by varying degrees.
our country was founding on the principle of redistribution of wealth. the rich 1% would want something done, someone in the 99% would do it... and the 1% would redistribute their wealth to the 99% ... of course, it's always been known as wages.
today, the slack ass crack heads that claim to represent the entire 99% (*cough* 20% more like) want the redistribution... without all that pesky work stuff
how about shove it up your ass and die. why don't these crack heads do society a favor and recycle themselves?
i've had enough and won't feed them anymore
Often, I'm forced to deal with amateur idiots. It's nice to meet a professional like you!
IBTZ. Class warfare troll.
Here kitty kitty...
Regarding how I referenced "greater good" which is saving America and it's citizens from the enemy should have been obvious to you. Nonetheless, I do thank you for your observation your position and where you stand regarding America and it's citizens is perfectly clear.
It isn't my money. It is none of my business. No one owes me anything. I am not poor because someone else is rich. Only I control my life.
Funny, the thought crossed my mind too.
Yep, I stand for freedom, including the freedom for 1% to be 1% and the 99% to have the opportunity to achieve being the 1% through their own efforts, not the redistributive efforts of the force of government.
With all due respect, I am not a crack head or a loser. I am born and raised patriotic American. I am willing to work and work hard for what I earn. However, being lumped in with the real losers who just want to usurp America's resources and collect a paycheck, does NOT define me.
...and what is up with your tagline?
I gotta say, Wesley Mouch would be proud.
Ok, perhaps my perspective is incorrect. Please Old Lady teach me thy ways of heightened enlightenment as you see them today.
>"being lumped in with the real losers who just want to usurp Americas resources and collect a paycheck, does NOT define me"<
Honest to goodness, I have absolutely no idea WTH you are talking about. Usurp America's resources? HUH?
I generally oppose all redistribution wealth bottom up, and top down.
If someone has a great idea and has the guts and competence to put a big bet on it, and gets rich I'm happy. That's capitalism. Today there is too much crony capitalism where the big bets have have been made and lost, and the middle class taxpayers get stuck with the bill on a US credit card and it has been going on for some time. This kind of capitalism is rampant in the USA. If we don't break out of that corrupt mold of payoffs and paybacks that goes with it, I'm not confident at all of where the USA is headed.
Few major businesses open their doors without being on the government dole with taxpayer money, or some kind of special credits. It's based on favoritism because it is based upon connections.
Business used to be about getting private funding and reaping the rewards (or loss). Today the bigger the business the more taxpayer money they get. This policy started in earnest with the so-called redevelopment dollars and progressed to billion dollar stadiums covered by taxpayers forced to pay up for bribes or lose the business or teams. Sometimes they even throw out private property owners under eminent domain so that someone else profits.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Consider if only for a moment that you are be able to see something differently and that it may also have some validity to it.
Well explain it to us Einstein.
Many freepers will pooh pooh you as a socialist/communist, but I do agree with you overall. Problem is when the ruling elites starts to push change in a rapid and chaotic fashion and does not let the working person rest or have respite. The working classes in society will breakdown. Free trade, globalism and corporate control of gov have produce vast wealth, lower prices for goods and etc, but it also disrupted families and income growth of working people. Most worker income grew in a saber saw pattern. Workers change jobs every 3 to 5 years, layoff new career layoff pattern. Each time he gets a new job, it is in a slightly different field and he must start at a lower salary and must prove himself. Just when he makes progress the company will lay him off and restart the cycle. Yes he will make more money but in a up and down fashion till he is in his mid 40's. Then he is considered old and not marketable unless he is willing to settle for his final job at 1/3 less salary then last job. At this stage in life he is struggling to put his kids thru college and taking care of aging parents. Eventually all this up and down instability will break him down. He no longer view gov and corporate America favorably as he watches the ones on top never get laid off or go thru what he is. More hurtful is the ones on top gets bonuses and salary increases even when the company is losing money and laying him off. The meltdown on Wall Street is the final straw as the American public learn of all the reckless leveraging and lying in the mortgage business. Now the working American must lose their jobs because of it and worst stuck with the tax bill to bail out corporate America. Rebellion? The seeds are laid, all it needs is a spark if things do not get better. Unfortunately many freepers still have great faith and trust in corporate America. I guess things must get worst before they learn. Some don't even understand that people can be pushed so far before they push back. Gov and corporate America is like a boat in the ocean where the people are the water. If a boat creates too much waves, the ocean will sink the boat.
I busted my ass since the time I was 6 to make the right decisions (military, grad college, get good job, get married, etc.) striving to make it into that 1% you talk about. I haven't yet made it, but it's good to strive, even better to make it there. Those people who make it are, by and large, good, deserving people.
For you to denigrate them is not good. It makes you look pretty dumb and, especially, very envious!
You're definitely one of the 1%. I saw a bunch of you One Percenters trying to "occupy" DC Thursday, marching in a noisy but compact little mob, pretty much ignored by everyone except the police who were trying to keep the mob as compact as possible.
And why do I call you the One Percenters? Because you and your redistributionist ilk don't even represent that much of the population. Most of us work for a living and don't expect everything to be handed to us on a silver platter like you do.
BTW, you should have paid attention in school. The word "its" when used as a possessive does not have an apostrophe. The word "it's" (note the apostrophe) means "it is". You have made that mistake many times.
There used to be a corporate America and those were the days when we could legitimately say when business did well America does well. That ain't the case today. Business is doing well but the USA isn't.
Today these corporations have less loyalty to America than they do to China. Now that China etc. have taken our economy, courtesy of decades of traitors in Congress and the White House, they have a market for more than rickshaws and rice. Courtesy of our trade policies and our stolen economy they compete for our energy, where 30 years ago they didn't. Thanks DC.
I can see some bad stuff happening in the USA too unless the politicians start looking at the "greater good" instead of only their personal bank accounts. Their job is to defend the USA.... its economy and borders, and I don't see them doing either.
Despite inclusion of a few nuggets of truth here and there (i.e. "Free trade, globalism and corporate control of gov have produce vast wealth, lower prices for goods and etc, but it also disrupted families and income growth of working people."), what you have posted is basically a load of crap.
When you start talking about "ruling elites" you reveal too much of yourself. You also sell yourself short. Don't expect too much sympathy around here.
Thank you for your insight and perspective. Spot on!
I am so saddened about all the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs, etc. In all too many ways policies coming out of Washington DC more often than not end up hurting America and Americans. If the so-called PATRIOTIC AMERICAN politician really wanted to fix this country and make her great again, they could and would. They don't want to. There is too much $$$$ to make for themselves by being liars and deceivers rather than statesmen. In the beginning the politicians would go to Washington and conduct meetings for the "Greater Good" of America and Americans and then go back to their jobs as farmers, doctors,etc.
Now, it is all about becoming a CAREER POLITICIAN, that is BS if I may say so.
Go occupy somewhere else.
Thank you for using your expansive intelligence to further the conversation in a constructive manner.
My apologies for not being so damned educated as you in your writing skills. However, there are many educated idiots and perhaps you may be one of them in more ways than one.
P.S. I am NOT a One Percenter, just a person who looks both ways and considers possibilities on both sides. Why don't you give it a try sometime.
That is quite frankly the most brilliant description/analysis of the entire situation.
Basically, you are bemoaning the fact that money has influence. However, not everyone with money have the same interests. The "corporations" is a misnomer. Corporations compete. Individuals compete - unless there is no freedom.
I am not convinced that our political parties are closed to the influence of individuals. I am convinced that most people are lazy and impatient and want to blame others for the complex problems we face and look for the simplistic answers provided by those who would diminish our freedom.
Oh, I tried looking around and expanding my horizons a long time ago.
Ceasing to be a vapid liberal was the result. Didn't you see my screen name?
P.S. You most definitely ARE a One Percenter, if you think that the purpose of millionaires and billionaires is to be slaves so that you and your ilk can live and have everything you want without ever having to get out and work for it. If *I* want a millionaire's money, I get it honestly by doing a job the millionaire wants done.
You said >>> if you think that the purpose of millionaires and billionaires is to be slaves so that you and your ilk can live and have everything you want without ever having to get out and work for it.
>>> I never said the purpose of millionaires and billionaires was to be slaves so they could give me everything without me having to work and earn my own way! They already are SLAVES and OWNED by MASSIVE CORPORATIONS and together their party rocks on as they continue to p!ss on America and everyday hard working Americans trying to put food on the table.
I do my best despite trying circumstances.
This one got really big.
I like Thomas Sowell alot. You should listen to him more and talk less. Maybe your circumstances under trying conditions could improve.
I like that picture, but you are too late. ;-) IATZ!
So the concept of ruling elite is BS. Let me see, if I run my business into the ground, do I get a bailout from gov? I am too small to save, but wait, Wall Street is too big to fail!!! Why? Are their mothers better then mine and yours?? If I drove drunk and high on pills into the anti truck bomb barriers of the US Capital at 3:00 AM in the morning. The cops would drag my ass out of the car, weapons cocked and a boot on my neck. But if I am a Congressman from RI, the supervisor of the cops would tell his men to stand down and I get a ride back to my home. If I were a community bank President and I took money out of my customer accounts and an audit caught the discrepencies, a SWAT team would hit my office and home and every computer and file would be seized. But if you can host a $ 35000 per dish fund raiser for the POTUS, and ran your company into the ground and customer funds were missing. The gov take their time dealing with you while everyone else would be dragged down to the station for questioning. Elites don't exist. Read the news are you blind??!!!!
I hate it when the bottom of my foot gets an itch.
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House of Commons Hansard #66 of the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was young.
- Question Period
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- Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
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- St. Paul, Alberta
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Environthon Team
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Guy Lauzon Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
Mr. Speaker, as the proud member of Parliament for Stormont--Dundas--South Glengarry, I am thrilled to stand in the House today to congratulate a group of students from my local community.
Today, the North Dundas District High School's students council and environthon team from Chesterville have joined me on the Hill for the day.
Just recently, the school's environthon team won its local challenge and then placed second in the Ontario provincial finals in southwestern Ontario, making a strong showing and filling their school full of pride and school spirit.
I am so proud of these students and our community is fortunate to have youth like them representing us.
A special thanks also goes to their mentors and coaches, including Mike Deighton, who joins us here today as well.
I congratulate Mike and these great students and I wish them all the best in their journeys ahead.
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2 p.m.
Sukh Dhaliwal Newton—North Delta, BC
Mr. Speaker, this week across the country, events are planned to call attention to the 25th anniversary of a difficult and dark chapter in India's history when a military assault was launched on the holiest Sikh shrine, the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
We can take this opportunity to reflect upon how, in the development of any country, democracy and human rights are always a work in progress in the development of any country and difficult challenges arise when ideals around nationhood collide, even in Canada, as we know. We can also affirm that dialogue is essential.
We can also affirm that dialogue is essential. Here in Canada, we are very fortunate and proud that we have enshrined freedom of speech within our Constitution.
Through a dialogue, there is always hope for real resolutions, for peace and a better future for all.
Children's Bridge Foundation
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2:05 p.m.
Ed Holder London West, ON
Mr. Speaker, the Parliament Hill fundraiser for the Children's Bridge Foundation, in association with Embrace-an-Orphanage, is done.
Parliamentarians were challenged to a goat-selling contest and last Wednesday we gathered to see which political party accumulated the largest herd.
The keynote speaker was my good friend, the member for London North Centre. His passion for Africa was evident. He brought a sensitive, personal message to a very special evening.
As members know, the party selling the most goats was honoured with naming the ceremonial goat. I am pleased to advise that our Conservative Party, under the dynamic direction of our House leader and his amazing team, earned the privilege of naming rights. We chose the name Hope.
This name embodies the emotions of the evening. All members from all parties have hope for a better life for these kids at the Nazareth Children's Center in Ethiopia: hope for providing nutrition and education programming for 750 children who will be served; and hope in knowing that through members' efforts they helped raised over $100,000 to make that difference.
Finally, let me thank all members of the House for giving hope to these children.
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2:05 p.m.
Yves Lessard Chambly—Borduas, QC
Mr. Speaker, as part of their social awareness course last year, some students of Ozias Leduc secondary school in Mont-Saint-Hilaire in my riding decided to raise the awareness of their fellow students about the exploitation of children in developing countries, especially children in forced labour.
To do so, they collected hundreds of clothing labels to check country of origin. Most items turned out to have been made in developing countries.
I accompanied two of those students, David Legrand and Nicolas Boily-Sauvé, to the Hill today to hand these labels over to the Prime Minister and to share with him their objections to imported clothing made by children.
This is one of the reasons the Bloc Québécois is opposed to the free trade agreements with Peru and Colombia, since they contain no measures to make businesses accountable.
It is regrettable as well that the Liberals are backing the Conservatives on this and plan to support the two agreements.
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2:05 p.m.
Phil McColeman Brant, ON
Mr. Speaker, this week is National Access Awareness Week.
As the parent of a 22-year-old, intellectually disabled son, this week reminds us all of the very real challenges faced by persons with disabilities and the importance of improving access so that these very special people can fully participate in all aspects of Canadian life.
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During this week, I encourage all Canadians to do their share to help persons with disabilities get the access they need to more fully participate in all aspects of Canadian life.
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2:05 p.m.
Carolyn Bennett St. Paul's, ON
Mr. Speaker, this morning, I was honoured to attend Senator Keon's breakfast to address the appalling lack of progress on the fifth millennium development goal: improving maternal health.
The Mothers and Midwives CAMpaign has brought together some of Canada's finest, including Bridget Lynch, president of the International Confederation of Midwives; Maureen McTeer, Canadian chair of the White Ribbon Alliance; Dr. Andre Lalonde, executive vice-president of the SOGC; and, Dorothy Shaw, president of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
We were fortunate to be joined, via video conference, by British undersecretary of state, the truly inspiring Ivan Lewis. Together, we agreed on the need to focus on MDG 5 at the upcoming G8. One of the best indicators of health systems is maternal mortality. Shockingly, 500,000 women die every year and one every minute.
In Sierra Leone, the risk of a woman dying as the result of a pregnancy is one in eight. In Canada, we need to help our aboriginal people. We need to do this together and we need to do it now.
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2:10 p.m.
Colin Carrie Oshawa, ON
Mr. Speaker, Liberal hypocrisy continues. On his blog, the Liberal leader's senior adviser disagreed with the government's decision to protect Canadian auto jobs. He wrote:
...sell off entities which actually make you money, and then buy shares in companies which are total, unmitigated disasters. Could someone remind me, again, why Canada doesn't need an election right now?
Do Ontario Liberals agree with their leader's top strategist that providing support to GM and Chrysler is a waste and a total unmitigated disaster? Does the Liberal leader agree with his top strategist?
This decision is the right one for my riding, and Oshawa is grateful for the action the Conservative government is taking to protect the future of Canada's auto sector. This shows again that the Liberals are out of touch with the economy and how to protect Canadian jobs during these tough economic times.
When in B.C., the Liberal leader criticized the auto sector, something he dared not do in Ontario. Now, his most trusted campaign strategist is letting Ontarians know what his leader truly thinks of the auto industry. The Liberal leader should come clean. Ontario's auto industry needs action, not lip service.
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Jean Crowder Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC
Mr. Speaker, today thousands of people gathered in Ottawa to protest the government's lack of action to protect forestry jobs.
CEP is seeking loan guarantees for forestry companies so they can continue to operate during this financial downturn, not a bailout but a loan guarantee, money that will be paid back to Canadians. CEP is also asking for protection for retirees' pensions. Too many workers are seeing their pensions disappear when companies go under.
However, the issue that has affected my riding the most is the tax credits that U.S. forestry companies receive that make it more affordable to buy logs in B.C. and ship them to the U.S. for processing. It is a blow every time a truck loaded with logs leaves my riding, which will keep mills open and jobs healthy in the U.S. but not in the communities where the logs are harvested.
Finally, it is the workers of today that need help from the government. Our industry has been in transition for years and many workers have exhausted their severance and EI. Workers and their families deserve better. That is why the NDP political staff and CEP Local 232 stand together with their brothers and sisters to demand action from the government.
Coalition Against Anti-Semitism
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Scott Reid Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to announce the launch of the Canadian parliamentary coalition against anti-Semitism.
Canada is founded upon a shared set of values and anti-Semitism is an affront to these values. As such, anti-Semitism is an attack upon the fabric of our tolerant, free, open and democratic society. It is an attack on all Canadians, Jews and non-Jews alike. It is the oldest and most persistent form of hatred and the template upon which so many other forms of hatred are based.
This announcement is intended to signal that in this country legislators of all parties are deeply concerned about what seems to be a rising international tide of renewed anti-Semitism on a scale not seen before in my lifetime.
Today we begin a nationwide inquiry into anti-Semitism. I invite all members of Parliament to support this initiative and the struggle against the oldest and most enduring form of hatred.
Forestry Industry
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Robert Vincent Shefford, QC
Mr. Speaker, today, thousands of forestry workers from Quebec and Canada are in Ottawa to ask the Conservative government to accept its responsibility and help the industry, which is in crisis.
Workers from several regions have come here to tell us that they, along with everyone else, are tired of dealing with the repercussions of this crisis. Forestry workers and communities feel that the government does not respect them, and they are right, because never before has a government shown such contempt for an industrial sector. It certainly does not harbour such scorn for the auto sector.
Forestry workers have every reason to be angry. They deserve a real plan to help their industry. Conservative members, particularly the two ministers from the Saguenay—Lac-St-Jean region who were elected because they promised to save the industry, have been dragging their feet for too long. People will not forget.
Hunger Awareness Day
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Anthony Rota Nipissing—Timiskaming, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to highlight National Hunger Awareness Day.
National Hunger Awareness Day, co-ordinated by Food Banks Canada, is a call to Canadians to take action to ensure that we no longer need food banks in this country. Every month, food banks help more than 700,000 Canadians, 37% of them children. Seniors, the disabled and even people working full time who are unable to make ends meet are among those who turn to food banks.
This year in my riding there are a series of activities under way to bring awareness to hunger in our communities. In particular, I would like to recognize workers involved with the Cobalt, Coleman, Latchford and Area Food Bank for its excellent work in promoting National Hunger Awareness Day.
I would ask all hon. members and Canadians from coast to coast to coast to join me in recognizing the importance of National Hunger Awareness Day and strive toward a day when no Canadian, young or old, has to go hungry.
Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
Statements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Jacques Gourde Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, QC
Mr. Speaker, in a moment of inspiration, will the Leader of the Opposition write a book about how he will increase taxes given that he is not answering the question?
Has it been forgotten that, in this country's recent history, the Liberals' greatest expertise has been in increasing taxes? Or is this Liberal leader even more intent than his predecessors on increasing taxes?
Canadians have not forgotten that Liberals are taxers and spenders who do not look after taxpayers' hard-earned money. They like to help out their pals and want to control everything from Ottawa. They want power at all costs.
My fellow citizens are worried because the Liberal leader is not telling us who will be paying for these new taxes.
At least weather vanes only point in one direction at a time.
Medical Isotopes
Oral Questions
2:15 p.m.
Michael Ignatieff Leader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, every day in Canada 5,000 heart and cancer patients depend on isotopes produced at Chalk River, but by this week's end Ontario's isotope supply may shrink to 10% of need. There are isotope shortages in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
Chalk River will be shut down, perhaps indefinitely. The government has known about this problem since November 2007. The question is why does the government pretend it has a plan when it does not have any isotopes?
Medical Isotopes
Oral Questions
2:15 p.m.
Calgary Southwest
Stephen Harper Prime Minister
Mr. Speaker, as the House knows, the shutdown of the reactor at Chalk River has been unexpected.
That said, our government and the company have been working with isotope suppliers around the world to attempt to manage this situation. Of course we are also in communication with the medical community on how best to address this.
The fact of the matter is that the reactor had to be shut down for safety reasons, and those safety reasons must be paramount.
Medical Isotopes
Oral Questions
2:15 p.m.
Michael Ignatieff Leader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, the government is simply trying to buy time here.
The truth is there are no alternative supplies of isotopes, no adequate alternative supply of isotopes, just as there was not when Chalk River was shut down 18 months ago. The world's two major reactors in the Netherlands and South Africa do not have the capacity to make up the shortfall, and both will be shut down for maintenance next month.
When will the government get up and tell us the truth and come up with a plan to deal with its own incompetence?


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The Flash just blew up the entire DC Universe in the Season 2 finale. Once again, Barry (Grant Gustin) returned to the night his mother, Nora (Michelle Harrison), died, only this time he didn't back down. Barry stopped Reverse-Flash (Matt Letscher) a… Read more


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2 Lubbock Texas where he was spotted last night!
3 and the heart is NOLA where Rob hopefully is heading right??
So to NOLA it is?
hmmm! I believe his show in Houston is on Nov. 9th not Sept. 11th ;-)ReplyDelete
LINDA: of course i did the same thing in google maps hahahahhaa last stop NEW ORLEANS! its so obvious! THANK GOD HE IS NOT SURROUNDED BY PAPZ and only by us fans! He must be happy, awwwwww going to see his kristen!ReplyDelete
LMAO is it?? Let me go check!! ha! !ReplyDelete
You're right :( Its the 9th of nov. Darn it! Oh well i guess still its on my bday so i still shall go but no ROB:(ReplyDelete
I love that Rob and his mates are on a road trip. I bet they are having a ball being together driving across country. I would definitely say that he is on his way to Kristen. Lord, I would love to have just ten minutes with this man.ReplyDelete
Isn't he the cutest though?? I mean so romantic going to see his love. Gaahhhhh he is the PERFECT edward after all. *sighs* I love him even more:)ReplyDelete
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Seriously, there's a few references there - Martin Luther, the Everly Brothers, etc.
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GM Sales Rise 5%, Ford Gains 2% as Auto Industry Closes Strong Year
DETROIT ( TheStreet) -- The Detroit Three topped off 2012 with sales gains as Chrysler sales rose 10%, GM (GM) sales rose 5% and Ford (F) sales rose 2%.
On the Ford sales call, Ford analyst Erich Merkle said overall industry vehicle sales likely rose 10% to 12% during the month, while full-year light vehicle sales totaled about 14.5 million units. Small cars pulled back in December to 21% of the industry, but accounted for 22% of industry sales for the full year, up from 19% a year earlier.
Full-size pickups had their best month in December, accounting for 13% of industry sales. For the full year, pickup truck sales accounted for 11.5% of industry sales, relatively consistent with the previous two years.
Ford said its December sales total of 214,222 was its best December since 2006. "Ford finished 2012 strong, with retail sales showing improved strength as more customers returned to dealer showrooms," said Ken Czubay, Ford vice president, U.S. marketing, sales and service, in a prepared statement.
Fusion sales fell 11% to 19,283, enabling Focus to be the brand's best-selling car as sales rose 58% to 22,604. Fiesta sales rose 53% to 5,612. Escape sales fell 21% to 20,131. F Series sales rose 1% to 68,787. Lincoln sales lost 12%.
GM said its December sales were the best in five years, with 245,733 vehicles sold. GM said retail volume was up 38% from November, about double the industry's estimated increase, while "incentive spending was competitive with industry-wide levels, according to J.D. Power PIN estimates, and remains below many Asian and domestic competitors."
"All four GM brands increased their sales year over year in December and we were strong across the board in cars, crossovers and pickup trucks," said Kurt McNeil, vice president of U.S. sales operations, in a prepared statement. Additionally, in December, GM became the first U.S. automaker to sell more than 1 million vehicles in a single year that get an EPA-estimated 30 mpg or better on the highway.
Chevrolet sales rose 3.7% to 167,091, as Cruze sales rose 27% to 21,230 and Volt sales rose 72% to 2,633.. But Malibu sales fell back 11% to 11,630 and Traverse sales fell 20% to 7,430. Buick sales rose 10%, Cadillac sales rose 12% and GMC sales rose 4.7%. The new Cadillac ATS sold 2,979 units while the new Verano sold 4,820 units.
Chrysler said its 10% December gain concluded a year when sales rose 21% to 1.65 million vehicles, the highest in five years. Chrysler sold 152,367 vehicles in December and its market share grew to 11.2%, up from 10.5% in 2011.
Experts are predicting a December light-vehicle sales increase between 10% and 14%. For the full year, sales should rise about 13.5%. "December will be the icing on the cake for 2012 -- it's a strong close for a year that had significant auto sales growth throughout," said Edmunds.com analyst Jessica Caldwell, in a prepared statement.


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Sports Entertainment might seem like a relatively new idea, but long before Vince McMahon was shamelessly ruining the sport of kings, Memphis was mixing pop culture and pro wrestling. Somehow the crew in Memphis usually managed to make it work better than they do today, but this clip of Adam West showing up AS BATMAN is pretty sureal. Check out the full story as we take a look at Batman versus Jerry Lawler
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Accessible Entrance
All Meadowood entrances are accessible entrances.
Accessible Parking
Handicapped accessible parking is available.
AED (Automatic External Defibrillator)
Located in the Security Office and one of the Security vehicles.
Announcing is available at the Security Office.
Baby Changing Station
Located near Mall Office, Men's Macy's and Food Court One Family Restroom.
Bike Racks
Bike Racks are available for day use only. No overnight usage permitted.
Children's Play Area
A play area is available in front of JCPenney for all children under 42" with required adult supervision at all times.
Coca-Cola Vending
Coca-Cola machines are located throughout the center.
Directories (Mall Map)
Their are FOUR (4) stand alone directories located throughout the mall and handheld directories available at Security, Mall Management, and Guest Services.
Drinking Fountain
Their are drinking fountains located throughout the shopping center for your convenience.
Easter Bunny
Easter Bunny hops to Meadowood Mall beginning March up until the day before Easter. Hours and pricing vary. Please visit the set in Center Court to learn more.
EV (Electric Vehicle) Charging Stations
EV charging station, electric recharging point, charging point and EVSE (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment) are an important part of supporting plug-in electric vehicles, including all-electric cars, neighborhood electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.
Family Restrooms
The family restroom is located in the Food Court Bathroom area.
Food Court
Food Court located near the Sear's wing of the mall. Ranging from Pizza Rebblica to Santa Cruz Sushi.
Foreign Currency Online Ordering with Travelex
Order your travel money online for convenient home delivery. Did you know that some Simon center locations also include retail Travelex stores for your convenience. Travelex is the world's largest retail foreign currency exchange specialist, with over 1000 stores around the world. We can provide you with over 75 foreign currencies as well as a Cash Passport that can be pre-loaded with either Pounds or Euros and includes chip & PIN technology, a must when traveling in Europe. To get started, visit Travelex now.
Handicapped Accessible Restrooms
All four mall restrooms are handicapped accessible.
Lost and Found
Our Lost and Found is located at Guest Services.
Mall Walking
Doors open at 7am for mall walkers.
Management Office
The Mall Management Office is located down the hall from Mira Day Spa next to the Security Office.
Mobile Device Charging Stations
You can charge your phone while you are shopping. Conveniently located Device Charging Stations allow visitors to charge their phones, tablets, and other communication devices while enjoying the mall. The Charging Station features comfortable seating - and is the perfect spot to rest and recharge!
Mobile Shopper Club™
Simon's way to keep its customers up to date with all of the latest going-ons at Meadowood Mall.
Nursing Mothers Lounge
Located at the Food Court Restroom area. This room features a private area for nursing mothers while also providing a comfortable environment.
4,600 parking spaces.
Public Transportation
The Bus Depot is located in front of Dotty's and cabs can be hailed in front of Lady's Macy's
Their are four locations throughout the center for guests.
Retailer Gift Cards
Retailer gift cards can be obtained for purchase at the Simon Guest Services Desk.
Santa arrives at Meadowood Mall early November and stays through Christmas Eve until he has to catch his sleigh to deliver his presents. Hours and pricing vary. Please visit the set in Center Court to learn more.
Security & Police Substation
The Security Office is located down the hall from Mira Day Spa next to the Mall Management Office.
Simon Giftcard®
Give the gift of shopping with a Simon Giftcard, available at Simon Guest Services® in denominations ranging from $20 to $500. There are no fees after purchase and the funds do not expire. The Simon Giftcard can be used anywhere Visa or American Express are accepted. See cardholder agreement for complete terms and conditions.
Simon Guest Services
Our Guest Services staff is available to help make your shopping experience easy and enjoyable.
Simon Kidgits Club
The Simon Kidgits® Club is here! Sign your child up for free today either online at kidgits.simon.com or in-center at the Simon Guest Services booth or the Simon Management Office. Simon Kidgits Club members receive access to exclusive events, in-center prizes, store discounts and fun birthday emails. So join the club, and join the fun now.
Simon Mobile App
The Simon Mobile App can help you find your favorite stores, dining and entertainment options at the Simon shopping center nearest you. You'll also be able to check out the latest deals, news and events available at your favorite center right from your smartphone or tablet. And there are many more features designed to enhance your shopping experience including mall maps, gift card balance check and more. Download the free app from your favorite app store.
Smoking Area
Meadowood Mall has a designated smoking patio located near the outside of the Food Court for customers to utilize.
Soft Seating
Soft seating is located throughout the mall for patrons to use while taking a quick break in between their shopping endeavors.
All Simon Malls, Mills and Premium Outlets in the U.S. have achieved the national 'StormReady' designation by the National Weather Service. This designation recognizes Simon centers' preparedness to handle all types of severe and potentially life-threatening weather situations.
Available for a fee. Stations located in the Food Court and by Regis Hair Stylist.
SYF Coin Wishing Wells

The SYF Coin Wishing Wells bring in funds for Simon Youth Foundation (SYF) programs. The SYF helps provide economical, educational and career development opportunities to local youth. All of the proceeds collected from the SYF Coin Wishing Well go to the Simon Youth Foundation.

Wheelchairs (Complimentary)
Complimentary at Guest Services - Must leave an important piece of identification.
Wireless (Wi-Fi) Internet
We offer free wireless internet to our shoppers at this Simon mall. Any shopper with a Wi-Fi enabled laptop, tablet or smartphone can easily log onto the Wi-Fi network. All shoppers have to do is open their web browser or select "Simon WiFi" (the SSID name) from their available list of wireless networks to get to the Simon Malls Wi-Fi landing page. All shoppers that choose to use the Wi-Fi network at this mall must agree to Simon Wi-Fi Terms & Conditions of Use prior to using this free service. If there are any issues or questions, shoppers and tenants should contact the Wi-Fi network technical support hotline at (888) 726-5930 for assistance.
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Jerry Polaski
POLASKI, Jerry 55, of St. Clair died Monday, May 6, 2013.
He is survived by his wife Jayne; his son, Devin (Nicole) of Oak Park; mother Blanche Polaski of Posen; four brothers, Michael (Darlene) of Posen, Tom (Helen) of Milan, Joe of Mt. Morris and Ken (Mandy) of Rogers City; four sisters, Pat (John) Santini of Jackson, Marge (Ted) Gostinger of Port Huron, Marian (Mike) Smith of Presque Isle and Barb (Steve) Conard of Port Huron; and many nieces and nephews.
A memorial gathering will be held Monday, May 13, at Young Funeral Home in St. Clair from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. with a rosary at 7 p.m.
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Q&A with Pretzel City Sport's Ron Horn
Why run trail races at night?
I was looking to direct something more gonzo. A lot of our members [of the Pagoda Pacers] had run ultras that required you to run all night and it sounded like a heck of a good time. A few years ago, we debuted the Dark and Dirty.
Why "Pretzel City Sports?"
We have five or six major pretzel manufacturers here in Reading, so in June 1996, Pretzel City Sports was born along with our logo, "Events with a twist."
What do you think has caused the rapid growth in trail racing?
It is the type of running we did as kids, with varied stride lengths and lots of adventure. I never run a trail course and fail to see something new. I consider trail runners the "Grateful Dead followers" of the running community. They are there for the entire experience, not just for the race itself.
What's PCS's 2011 focus?
We are working on growing our Bouncing Buns Clothing Optional 7K Trail race this year. In 2010 we had 56 people, 80 percent of which were in some state of undress.
What is your favorite race?
The Mount Penn Mudfest 15K. It is the first one I created, and has so many funny aspects--the margarita stop, the raw egg run, the hidden Easter eggs along the trail. With a cap of 825 runners it remains, in it's 17th year, the third largest trail run in the United States and the largest east of Pikes Peak.


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The Friends of the Lehigh University Libraries are dedicated to the provision of high quality library services for the Lehigh community. Lehigh Friends appreciate the cultural enrichment uniquely embodied in a comprehensive research library.
What are the benefits? Friends receive invitations to events. They get to know new people in the university and the community with an interest in libraries and learning. Through publications such as the LTS News, they stay abreast of new developments at the libraries.
The Friends sponsor lectures, receptions and have generated support for special acquisitions, digital scholarship, technology, and collaborative space. The current Friends' organization began in the 1970s, described in the History of the Friends. Today, it is led by a Board that includes community leaders, alumni, faculty and staff listed below. Become a Friends member by giving today!
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Media Watch | Save The Whale Again! Full Scale Whaling About To Start
Contributing Monkie Julia Ocean
Topics of Interest japan, sea shepherd, whale hunt, whaling
Published on February 24, 2009
Section Green Report / Media
Comment 1
Just when we thought the world had finally grown wiser, we see this headline "Save the whale (again): Secret plan to lift hunting ban". The world is going insane. First the economic melt down and now a complete mental meltdown.
(The Independent) By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
Twenty years ago, commercial whaling was outlawed. But hush-hush meetings between officials have paved the way for its return
Governments are preparing to breach the worldwide whaling ban, legitimising commercial killing of the giant creatures for the first time in more than 20 years. Continue Reading / See Additional Photos


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Sides reflect on deal in murder case
BLUE EARTH – Brian Daniel Freeman could have spent the rest of his life in prison, but the deal he accepted this week gives him a definitive end date, says his attorney, Scott Cutcher, chief public defender for the Fifth District.
"If he would have gone to trial and was found guilty of first-degree murder, he dies in prison," Cutcher said. "This way, there's a definite out date."
Freeman, 30, of Ceylon, faced 11 counts related to a home invasion in Blue Earth Feb. 20 but agreed to plead guilty to four, said Cutcher, including one count of second-degree murder in the death of Christopher Fulmer, 37, of Blue Earth, and three counts of first-degree assault in the attacks on Freeman's wife, Candice, and her two teena daughters. He is accused of causing head injuries to all four with a hammer.
The other charges were dismissed, Cutcher said.
Freeman will be formally sentenced March 11.
He received 336 months for the second-degree murder charge, said Troy Timmerman, prosecuting attorney for Faribault County, and 86 months each for the three first-degree assault charges for a total of 49 years. Freeman will serve the time consecutively.
With good behavior and credit for the year he has already served, Freeman could be out in 32 years, Cutcher said.
"He was OK with it," Cutcher said of Freeman. "We came to an agreement that everyone could live with."
Cutcher, who was planning to mount a "heat of passion" defense when the case went to trial in late March, said it was difficult to get a read on how it could have gone for his client.
"Had we won with the heat of passion, he still goes to prison," he said. "A victory would be 15 to 20 years in prison."
But he knows it might have gone the other way for Freeman.
"The biggest problem from the defense perspective was the two step-daughters struck with the hammer. That would have been difficult with the jury," Cutcher acknowledged.
Timmerman said everyone working on the case did an "excellent job," but he knew going to trial was taking a chance.
"If he had not been found guilty of murder in the first, he could have gotten less [than he did]," Timmerman said. "This deal gives him a guaranteed out date and we're certain he'll serve 33 years."
Timmerman said he has been asked about the deal being a "plea bargain," but said, "This is more of a case of a settlement."
Timmerman said the victims and their families were consulted about the deal.
"They were all on board with it," he said. "Pretty much everyone agreed this would be a good resolution: satisfy the victims, have Mr. Freeman incarcerated for 33 years, public is protected, and law enforcement is happy."