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Horses, Boots & VowsPosted Saturday, February 18, 2012, at 11:24 PM
Zach Zumstein did the auctioneering for our auctions while we were there.
He also did the 'announcing' that our wedding was about to start.
Have you heard of Buck Brannaman? If you haven't, I'm sure you've heard of the movie/book "The Horse Whisperer" ? Buck is who the "Horse Whisperer" is modeled after. And in the last year,
"Buck, The Movie" came out. It is a documentary on Buck Brannaman from childhood to now. In fact, many/most of you HAVE seen him, many many years ago (now that I think of it, and I challenge you to figure out where/how) He was mentored many years by Mountain Home's own Ray Hunt. Anyway, I am honored that he officiated my wedding.
Frank Lamb gave me away, and we are waiting for Ceremony to start
I did mention that this wedding was in the main arena, in front of hundreds, right? Well, yep, it was.... can you say "Dry throat"?
Below are a lot of people that we care deeply about.
From left to right
horseback is Wade Black, Frank Lamb, Buck Brannaman, Carolyn Hunt, Trina Campbell,
Jaton Lord, Wayne's Best Man
ah, Yes, There are the Women who stood with me. Sharon and Carolyn. Thank goodness for them!
Here comes the bride, with Frank Lamb, and horseback is Reata Brannaman, swingin' her rope encouragingly
Wayne & Jaton have realized they are in the wrong spots, so doing a dance to have me marry the right man!
I LOVE that I got to wear a wedding dress with some of my favorite boots. And I even had white ones for the occasion!
Frank hands me off to Wayne, and Buck takes his place as minister.
Seriously, this is so cool. Buck officiates our wedding in a pair of leggings that we was wearing moments before horseback.
I am wearing a bracelet that Jaton made for me a couple years ago, while he was bed ridden after breaking his neck in a horse crash. I also have hidden on myself, a gift that Sharon will eventually give to her grand daughter. And my own momento of the sister that I lost. (who I'm sure was with me) The necklace I'm wearing is a first gift from Wayne a couple years ago. Everything has it's place.
This is a "One of a Kind" Wedding
Suddenly, Carolyn shoves a microphone in my hand. I was NOT anticipating that. I don't choke up over much, and to my surprise, I had to start over and mentally shake myself. I'll let you guess if Wayne choked up or not.
Carolyn's voice came to me from a fog "That's enough!"
In my Father's 'stead, Frank Lamb gave Wayne a 'talkin' to' about "You better take care of her" He will get another one too!
If you don't have a friend like this, you are missing out. Sharon and Jim didn't really have the time for this, but they came anyway. This was Sunday about 4-5, and Jim had to work the next morning. It's a 10:00 drive from Vegas to Mountain Home. They left around 7-8. You do the math. These are friends forever.
Good friends
Rather than 'walking off into the Sunset" We go walking down a tunnel!
With Sharon is my friend Charlene, who I met in Fort Worth, Texas 3 years ago. I love making friends around the states!
We are upstairs now, back having normal fun. I just decided to keep my dress on. The lady in the vest is Betty Staley. This is the first trip that I've met her, and I am soooooo lucky and happy that I did. She does dressage riding at it's finest. I've seen good, and I've seen better. Only on television have I seen as wonderful as she is. And she is such a warm and friendly person. I plan to see more of her, without question. If you are interested in dressage at all, or art in many forms, check out
You won't be sorry
I've learned to never meet a stranger. A non stranger came up to me and said, "You two HAVE to have a cake!" This new friend brought us a cake!
These photos were taken by Jim Kilburn.... thank you so much for coming, and for helping in so many ways.
Is it terribly vain to have a blog about myself? Well, yes, I suppose so, but I'm so excited to have had this weekend.... a true plethora of adventures and experiences!
We mostly stayed in the facility where we were.
South Point Hotel/Equestrian Even Center
but we did go "Walk the strip" a bit. Fun, but don't need to really do that much again. but who knows.... another time!
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What a nice wedding. I met the "Horse Whisperer" a few years ago. He came to KC for a clinic and my son and I had volunteered as helpers.
We had been involved in handicapped children learning to ride.
It was very interesting.
Anyway, I love your dress and boots. Wayne cleans up pretty nice too.
-- Posted by KH Gal on Tue, Feb 7, 2012, at 2:10 PM
Awesome Bonnie. We think he's pretty cool ourselves.
Thanks....I was happy with my dress. I'd had it for awhile, waiting to see when I was going to wear it. And yes, Wayne is so handsome, he takes my breath away!
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Tue, Feb 7, 2012, at 2:28 PM
I have never met two people that belonged together as much as you and Wayne. I am honored and lucky to count both of you as my friends. Congradulations to two of the finest people I know.
-- Posted by gfhorses on Wed, Feb 8, 2012, at 8:25 AM
He is an amazing man. Amazing horseman. But really, every time I watch the documentary, I think, if only everyone would take these practices, and raise their children like this! I've always said, that I raised my children much the same as I trained my horses. I always have had gentle and respectful horses, and I am so proud of my children for the adults they are. I wish it was mandatory for every teacher and school administrator to watch the film more than once. I can NOT stress how serious I am!
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Wed, Feb 8, 2012, at 9:58 AM
Jessie and Wayne train horses the same way that Buck does. I know it works not only for my own horse but for me as well. I have been riding for years but the way I am being re-taught by both of them is just amazing.
-- Posted by gfhorses on Wed, Feb 8, 2012, at 11:09 AM
Well, thank you Kelley, but I only wish I trained something like Buck, and his mentor Ray Hunt. It's a goal anyway
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Wed, Feb 8, 2012, at 11:19 AM
Looks like you had a very nice wedding. You look very lovely in your dress and boots and your hair was gorgeous... Wayne didn't look to shabby either. lol! He looked very handsome in his attire.
I have never heard of Buck guess I will have to look for a book of his.
Congrats and Best Wishes for the two of you. May you be blessed with a wonderful life together for many years to come.
-- Posted by MsMarylin on Wed, Feb 8, 2012, at 11:34 AM
Marylin, his book is called "the Faraway Horse" ... but the DVD is at Walmart, and it's different from the book. Also, if you have netflix, you can get it there. Neither is expensive.... he isn't in it for money.
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Wed, Feb 8, 2012, at 11:49 AM
I want to add to this blog, that almost all of the people in these photos, and thus very key to the event "A Legacy of Legends" are locals. If not Mountain Home, then Idaho. The only ones not from Idaho, are Buck himself and his daughter Reata. They are living in Sheridan, Wyoming. Oh, and also, Betty Staley, is not from Idaho.
But both Buck and Betty will be the FIRST to tell you, they wouldn't be a fraction of what they are, without having had Ray Hunt in their life. And they are serious about it. Buck talks about this in his documentary, and it's Betty who narrates most of that documentary. Ray learned from Bill and Tom Dorrance. And Ray says he never learned a fraction of what he knew Tom knew. And Buck will say the same, and the same about Ray. Wayne spent years learning with Ray, and he says the same. I know without doubt that I don't know a tenth of a fraction of what any of them know. Can you imagine the magnitude of the change those men made for horses and people's lives? Not just the equestrian part, but in the life of a person. To really do what these guys do, you have to reach deep inside yourself, to find something that you've never used before. I could go on forever! Ray Hunt is probably the most famous Horseman in the World still, though he died 3 years ago.
These events that we put on are for his most devoted students to come and pay their tribute to him, and to try to keep the Legend of Tom, Bill, and Ray going on. It's a site to behold, to see the folks in the bleachers spell bound.... and hear the whispers of excitement. These folks come from all over the world, literally. I've got close friends now from Australia, England, Dubai and most states around the country. There is a scholarship program intact now, so that more can continue to learn, though the Legends are gone.
I am/was/will be always in awe that I get to be a part of such a thing.
I urge you all ALL OF YOU! At least watch the documentary, and see if it somehow makes something in your head click, and equates in some way in your life. I will sit with you, if you say not, and watch it again, and be in disbelief, if you don't believe it. I believe it that much!
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Wed, Feb 8, 2012, at 12:05 PM
And also Thanks Marylin.... yep, Wayne is one handsome man
I had my hair done at a salon there in the hotel. The girl was wonderful, and after a couple hours of pampering and a couple stout drinks, I actually could have just slept! But I had the courage to go out and say my vows! Yay!
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Wed, Feb 8, 2012, at 12:10 PM
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 19, 2012) – Top-seeds Jen Kessy and April Ross won the women's title on Saturday at the National Volleyball League event at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md.
On the men's side, top-seeded Phil Dalhausser (Ormond Beach, Fla.) and Todd Rogers (Santa Barbara, Calif.) were upset in the final by No. 10-seeded Ryan Doherty (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Casey Patterson (Van Nuys, Calif.).
Doherty and Patterson needed 1 hour and 12 minutes to defeat Dalhausser and Rogers, 23-21, 19-21, 15-13.
Until the final, Dalhausser did not drop a set in the tournament, defeating Brad Keenan (Westminster, Calif.) and John Mayer (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), 21-18, 21-14 in 45 minutes in the semifinals.
Doherty and Patterson lost in the second round to Keenan and Meyer and had to win three consolation matches to reach the semifinals, where they beat Billy Allen (Fallbrook, Calif.) and Russ Marchewka (San Diego, Calif.), 21-17, 21-13 in 40 minutes.
On the women's side, Kessy (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) and Ross (Costa Mesa, Calif.) defeated No. 2-seeded Jenny Kropp (Grand Island, Neb.) and Whitney Pavlik (Laguna Beach, Calif.) in the final, 21-13, 21-16 in 44 minutes.
Kessy and Ross reached the finals by defeating No. 8 Jessica Gysin (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Priscilla Lima (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) in the semis, 21-8, 21-16 in 34 minutes. Kropp and Pavlik defeated No. 10 Raquel Ferreira (Minas Geras, Brazil) and Christal Engle (Puyallup, Wash.), 21-11, 21-14 in 41 minutes.
NVL events are sanctioned by USA Volleyball and players who compete receive a USA Volleyball national ranking.
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Topic: Console. How to simulate an Object / Data returned from external API
im doing some stuff in the console to simulate some code in production that takes a callback from a call to an API and then does some stuff with the data..
its all pretty standard stuff but i'm trying to simulate the data object that the server returns in my code and i'm not having luck.
basically, all i want to do is end up with some kind of object that i can assign custom parameter / value pairs to that i can access via dot syntax such as this:
myObject.thing = value
as this is the format of the data that the API returns..
Is there a way i can instantiate some kind of anonymous object in the console, assign the values myself, then use that to run through my code?


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Official *What did you get in the mail today?* Thread!!!
Got my two packages of plain teabags from DavidsTEA. Very exciting! At least it came with some samples. I'm trying to remember what they were. Copabanana was one, and then there was a black one and a green one. Pretty specific, eh?
I received two pouches of S'Mores Genmaicha from 52 Teas today!
A wealth of tea today! Swap (which was really a giveaway) from TastyBrew – adagio yerba mate, pu erh poe, white cucumber, and white peach. Thank you TastyBrew! Also a green tea sampler from Den's Tea. Also an order of Extra Sleepy Bear from New Mexico Tea Company, with a sample of Starlight Sleep. AND my partner just got back from Taiwan and brought me some Gyokuro tea in very pretty tins.
Life is good.
Fun mail day! I got my order from Butiki that had 2 huge bags (Caramel Vanilla Assam & Maple Oolong) and a variety of smaller bags. Yum!! The aroma in my mailbox was to die for.
Also got my order from 52teas with s'mores & marshmallow genmaicha and a pouch I don't remember ordering (but looks like I paid for), the caramel apple oolong. Bonus!
Argh, FINALLY it's Monday. The mail's moving again. :D (Weekends are horrid when expecting a parcel. In fact, they're horrid in general. I always work on them, and they're the busiest most stressful workdays of the week. Boooo)
Butiki arrived :D
6oz Premium Taiwanese Assam
2oz Premium Taiwanese Assam Upgrade
1oz Cantaloupe&Cream
1/2oz Watermelon Xylophone (first time, very excited :D)
1oz Mi Xian Black (had as a sample a little while ago)
1/2 Citrus Dream (first time trying)
Requested samples Genmaicha, and Organic Jasmine Pearls. Stacy also very generously added three additional samples for me! :) Huangshan Mao Feng, Organic Ancient Bi Luo Chum, and Peppermint Patty.
Thanks Stacy! Just wish I didn't get off work so late in the evening, I want to sit and drink them ALL, ha. :)
uh… well my joint order with Kittenna/Raritea/Indigobloom from Della Terra arrived… good thing i have a whole saturday to try and catch up to dinosara lol
I got my Butiki order yesterday with my brand new, amazing gaiwan! And I got some teas too, of course:
Premium Taiwanese Assam
Blueberry Purple Tea
Pineapple Cilantro Cream
Tamarind Pop
I also got samples of the Grapefruit Dragon and Pistachio Ice cream teas. I'm having a hard time deciding where to start!
Got an order from Simpson and Vail which included some nice flavored teas, and a catalog. The catalog was trouble. Today I placed an order for their cat handle mug (actually one for me and one for a gift). :)
My zentealife order is here! Yay! I got three very generous samples with it as well, of their vanilla black tea, cream caramel rooibos and juicy blueberry fruit tea! Super excited to try all the new teas :D


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Gas-price surge
The Columbus Dispatch - February 24, 2014 11:27 AM
Since I wrote on Feb. 13 about how gasoline prices rarely rise on the weekend, prices have spiked in the two following weekends.
And, as the story said, prices also spiked the previous weekend, leading to a highly unusual three consecutive weeks of weekend price surges.
What gives?
"For every one of these three, a hike on Saturday has been preceded by a spike in wholesale prices on Friday," said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy.com.
And that almost never happens.
DeHaan was co-author of the report that showed Ohio gasoline prices tend to be lowest on weekends and highest early in the work week. The findings were based on years of pricing data.
"I was joking with colleagues that somebody wanted to spite me," he said.
As I'm writing this, central Ohio's average price is $3.577, according to the site.
This is the time of year when drivers can expect prices to rise. He expects a peak of $3.70 to $3.90 in mid-March to early April.
One of the factors to watch is whether Midwestern fuel refineries go offline for maintenance. This can lead to short-term reductions in supply that push prices higher.


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County To Benefit From Buffalo Billion Plan
AMHERST – Although Buffalo is receiving $1 billion to develop the city, Chautauqua County will be seeing some benefits of the money.
Last year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo committed $1 billion to economic excellence in the Buffalo area, in order to set a new growth direction for jobs and growth in the regional economy. Last week, the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council presented six initiatives to the governor.
Jamestown Mayor Sam Teresi and Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edward are each on the Regional Economic Development Council. According to Teresi, the council includes the mayors of the three largest cities in Western New York Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Jamestown as well as the top elected official from Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany, Erie and Niagara counties.
"With the involvement of the Regional Economic Development Council and with leadership of folks on the ground and from the city of Buffalo and Erie County, they're putting together a strategy to apply for and receive funding through a variety of state agencies for major transformation economic development projects for Buffalo and its metropolitan area," Teresi said.
The council made several recommendations for investable initiatives. It recommended a Buffalo Center for Manufacturing Initiative, which would include a state-of-the-art facility to support the region's manufacturing center. It would be a shared services enterprise that provides support in commercializing applied research, developing more efficient operational processes, enabling entry into new markets and up-skilling the existing workforce.
Additionally, the council recommended a Buffalo Science Productivity and Research Catalyzer to help bring breakthrough health care innovations to the market. It would support researchers in developing translational research, acquiring patents and licensing those patents or developing them into businesses.
There would be a Buffalo Niagara Tourism Program to leverage the tourism assets in Niagara Falls and the city of Buffalo through a more coordinated and sophisticated marketing strategy; investments and increased programming in the Niagara State Park; investments in other regional tourism assets and amenities; and the creation of regional offerings.
Another recommendation is for a Buffalo Skills Partnership, which would be a skills broker with initial investments in Rapid Right Skilling and Say Yes. The partnership would make Buffalo's workforce system the most flexible, diverse and responsive in the nation by aligning education and training behind the skills employers need to expand and workers need for job success.
It also introduces a Buffalo Breakthrough Business Challenge, which is a business plan competition to catalyze the region's entrepreneurial ecosystem. Winners would receive initial funding, incubator space, mentorship and introductions to leading venture capital firms.
Finally, the plan includes a Better Buffalo Fund to make targeted investments through a dedicated fund to support high impact economic and community development projects.
A competition would determine the best investments, based on overall strategic fit, impact, proven capacity to execution and commitment of additional funds.
"Those sectors that the Buffalo Billion-dollar plan is trying to focus on are the educational sector, growing the health care industry and these are already areas of strength and areas that are showing potential already," Teresi said.
Last week's meeting was attended by Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy, who heard a detailed update from the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council.
"We analyzed the projects that had been approved for late 2011 and their progress," Edwards said. "We have reviewed the progress on projects we had approved and the state had funded through 2012. We did a very detailed analysis of where they were in their process."
The Buffalo Billion plan will go directly to the Buffalo region. However, according to Teresi and Edwards, the impact of the initiative will also positively affect Chautauqua County.
"Even though we're not eligible for any of those earmarked funds here, the thought is that in Jamestown and Chautauqua County and Olean and Cattaraugus County, it ultimately works to our favor, and it has benefit to us to have a strong, growing, revitalized Buffalo-Niagara region," Teresi said. '"Nobody will deny that Jamestown and Chautauqua County are definitely in the orbit of the Buffalo-Niagara region from a variety of standpoints. Our portion of Western New York cannot grow to its potential if the heart of the region is dying on the vine. We are supportive of this."
Edwards agreed, saying that as the Buffalo economy continues to grow, so does the economy in Chautauqua County.
"As Buffalo and Niagara Falls become more vibrant, as the Western New York economy grows, we grow along with it," he said. "There are a significant number of people that travel to Buffalo to work. There are businesses that people own that live here that are actually in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, and vice versa. A lot of people have second homes here in Chautauqua County. Certainly, people ski down here. As the economy grows up there, it grows for all of us. So, we have a very significant reason to remain involved in all of that."


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How the Rich Are Traveling in 2013
SAN DIEGO (MainStreet) -- Meet the wealthy U.S. travelers of 2013:
They have household incomes of more than $250,000 a year.
Their top international travel interests or world dream destinations are Western Europe and Hawaii, followed by the Caribbean and Canada.
They're returning to the use of traditional travel agents to book travel, instead of reliance on Internet-based travel sites.
Oh, and they are more determined than ever not to overpay for their travel experience.
"They are tougher customers now," says Peter Yesawich, vice chairman of MMGY Global, a travel and hospitality marketing company. "In 2005 or 2006, they didn't mind overpaying. Now they still want a five-star experience, but they don't want a five-star price. It's a different psychology, more demanding."
These and other data points are part of a recent report from MMGY, Portrait of American Travelers, which provides comprehensive insights into the emerging travel habits, preferences and intentions of wealthy and affluent U.S. travelers.
(Among the 2,500 households making up the survey participants, about 800 have a household income of more than $125,000 annually and are categorized as "affluent." Approximately 400 of the participants have a minimum household income of $250,000 and are referred to as the "wealthy" travelers by Yesawich. The average income of those surveyed was about $400,000, says Yesawich.)
With its more recent presentation to a gathering of luxury travel advisers and suppliers at a conference in Miami, the report is in its 23rd year of being produced.
"The horizon line is very bright. Affluents are the leading the charge in terms of recovery of the travel business," says Yesawich, giving the overall message of this year's report. "Demand for luxury experiences is up dramatically, and I don't see anything that suggests we would see a reversal of this trend."
"The appetite for travel has grown dramatically in the aftermath of recession," Yesawich adds. "A couple of years ago they were restrained in their behavior."
About 65% of the wealthy travelers surveyed said they intend to travel the same amount this year as in 2012, while about 19% intend to travel more.


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Content 101 | The 3 C's of Content Marketing Strategy
Did you know that teachers are the ultimate content marketers? It's true! They generate squillions of activities, assignments, and assessments in order to move their students toward that noble but slightly nebulous goal of "learning." Their payoff is not in dollars but the very tangible benefits of an educated populace.
More than once in my teaching career, I had the arduous task of designing an entire course from scratch with nothing but the Ohio Academic Standards to guide me. I had a flashback to that past life this week as we sat down to plan Innogage's content strategy for the coming year.
If you feel like your online content marketing is a bit haphazard when it comes to form and/or function, maybe it's time to sit down and plan a little. As a teacher (and, further back, a student), I found that the keys to maximizing learning were context, cohesion and consistency:
- Context: I could never assume that my students knew the necessary background information for the day's lesson, so I always built in a small primer or recap to jog everyone's memory. I also did pre-assessments to gauge exactly what they did already know. When planning content, it helps to look back on what topics you have been publishing on to help determine what you want to add or improve. Gauge which topics garner the most comments and questions. Write the occasional "beginner's" post, or publish it as a static page for new visitors to browse through and get a quick feel for your area of expertise.
- Cohesion: It's hard for the brain to jump from topic to topic, and this is true for both you as the content creator and for the consumers of your content. Identify your primary topics, and pick one to explore in depth for a whole week or month. Place your topics in a logical order, or better yet, draw out the connections between all the topics. (A riff on the teacher favorite concept mapping.) This ensures that 1) You are always producing content relevant to your mission statement; 2) You always have a way to transition your readers from one topic to another. Reference the previous day or week's content. (Extra credit: internal linking boosts your SEO!) Link to other content providers discussing the same topic, perhaps from a different role or industry.
- Consistency: As a teacher, I was careful to establish rules and routines for the classroom. Hardbound rules may not be that important for producing content, but routines will certainly streamline that process. Decide when and how often you will publish your blog posts, newsletters, or white papers. Establish a set of formats that you can adapt to any subject. When paired with your list of content themes, this eliminates some of the "What do I write?!" angst by multiplying the amount of content you can generate on a particular topic. You may even go so far as to design templates for each format to make it easier on your content producers.
These are three of the general principles that guided my teaching practice and can give strength and shape to your content marketing strategy. Stay tuned for a more detailed explanation of how we planned our own content strategy using some of the planning practices favored by educators everywhere.
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President Obama Takes Middle Class Hostage: Opinion
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- President Obama has taken the middle class hostage in a thinly veiled bid to hike their taxes.
Having refused to work with Congress to reduce spending by $1.2 trillion over 10 years, as he agreed to do when drafting the Budget Act of 2011, the President must now implement $85 billion in across-the-board cuts to defense and nonentitlement government spending.
House Republicans have offered to ease burdens on the public -- by increasing administration flexibility in implementing those cuts in the continuing resolution to keep the government funded past March 27 -- but the president wants no part in that.
Instead, he campaigns across the country, painting the dire consequences sequestration will impose if new revenues are not raised, as he proposes, by limiting tax deductions benefiting the wealthy. That is a cynical ploy -- Mr. Obama talks like President Truman but taxes like King George.
Taxes imposed at his insistence on Jan. 1 eliminated 80% of the benefits of tax deductions -- mortgage interest, state income taxes, local property levies, and the like -- for wealthier households. Any substantial gains from further tightening deductions must come from similarly limiting their use by middle-class taxpayers.
The majority of the $150 billion in additional revenue obtained on Jan. 1 was extracted from working-poor and middle-class families when the government allowed the temporary reduction in the social security tax rate to expire. What's more, federal revenues' share of GDP will now substantially exceed its average for the last 40 years.
And the president is unwilling to acknowledge that government spending is flying out of control. Over the last five years, outlays are up $1 trillion -- three times the amount required by inflation -- and revenues are short because high taxes and burdensome regulations are choking economic growth and job creation.
Instead, the president threatens furloughed meat inspectors, food shortages and streets without police. His cabinet secretaries threaten three-hour waits at airport security, reduced embassy protection and border patrols, and the list goes on...
Appropriation legislation does limit the president's ability to allocate cuts among departments. However, even without additional legislation, he has considerable discretion in allocating the 10% spending cuts within departments, but the president has refused to entertain options that would limit the pain in his pursuit of higher taxes.
For example, the Agriculture Department has one of the largest staffs of economists in the world. Surely, safe food is more important than yet another dull research paper. Military bands could stand down to maintain Marine guards at embassies.
Repeatedly, the President has exclaimed that if Congressional Republicans don't cooperate, spending cuts now could derail the hard-won recovery. It puzzles why he believes $85 billion in spending cuts could make such a difference, when avoiding those cuts through higher taxes would not.


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Our smaller, faster-paced world is changing the security landscape, and these changes will bring with them new challenges and evolutions in current threats. To respond to these changes, we must adapt instruments of statecraft to bring to bear the networks, technologies and human potential of our increasingly inter-dependent and interconnected world.
Last summer, the U.S. Department of State challenged the American public, "garage tinkerers and technologists...gadget entrepreneurs and students," to come up with innovative ideas to support U.S. arms control and nonproliferation efforts.
Arms control diplomacy, usually considered the arcane specialty of nerdy and secretive scientists, began at the height of the Cold War, but it's now happening in the open and it's changing fast. With the explosion in information technologies, the State Department believes there are plenty of ideas out there to make arms control more transparent.
On Monday, March 4, 2013, at 1:30 p.m. EST, Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller will announce the winners of the Department of State's Innovation in Arms Control Challenge during a Google+ Hangout and reveal their creative new ideas to the world. C-NET's senior writer Daniel Terdiman will moderate the discussion. They will discuss how innovative technology can be used in helping to protect the globe from the risks posed by WMDs.
You can watch the Hangout on the State Department's Google+ Home page or YouTube channel. You can participate in the discussion by submitting questions on the Department of State's Google+ page or on Twitter using the hashtag #AskState, and continue the conversation with @Gottemoeller on Twitter.
Ashim C. in India writes:
Arms control is important. But arms build up cannot be wished away so long as threat perceptions of nations exist and conflict resolving resolutions of international community remain ineffective.
Take India for example. Today itself Indian budget has proposed an outlay of US$ 37.7 billion out of which close to US $ 17 billions shall be spent on purchase of new defense equipments. This seems fully justified given the reality that because of an old and redundant 1948 UNSC resolution for plebiscite Pakistan is able to keep alive the Kashmir issue denying provisions of India independence act as passed by British Parliament, which gave former ruler of Jammu & Kashmir the right to remain independent or accede to either India or Pakistan. How can Pakistan base it claims denying provisions of an act, which created the state of Pakistan itself. If plebiscite and refrendum is so important, Pakistan should have insisted for a referendum on an All India basis in undevided India before accepting the Independence Act of British parliament. Then Pakistan ceded part of occupied Kashmir to China, the world knows now has a habit making territorial claims based on conjectures of history. It is well known that how fragile was Central Authority of China generally for most part of it's history and how much defacto control it had over territories along himalaya. Just because in distant past some local cheiftain might have paid nominal tributaries to the so called Chinese Emperor does not justify Chinese territorial claims anywhere along Himalaya.
International community has a responsibility to change all these and declare by another UNSC resolution irrelevance of the earlier resolution on Kashmir just because inluenced by pacific intention Indian Government refereed the Kashmir dispute to UNO without doubting mischievious role of UNO and some of it's members - specifically British Government which knew every word of what has been said hereabove and yet failed to mention the inalienable right of Prince of Kashmir to accede to India and thus created a permant problem, which is now breeding terrorism and intolerance in this part of the world.
In this backdrop how can anyone ask say India to opt for disarmament when India is threatened terrorism from Pakistan and policies of aggrandisememt by China ?
But nothing at the same time alter the fact that a poor country like India ought to be able to devote all it's resources for positive progress of it's people.
On the other hand there are surplus millitary strength, whose development and maintainence is a huge drain for US economy. It has an imperative need to earn as much value as possible out of it's investments in it's armament so far.
US diplomacy should consider sharing it's millitary might by offering them on lease so that defense expenditure of poor developing countries like India and Pakistan in South Asia can be brought down to the very minimum. The saving can be diverted for social and economic development to improve lives of their people. Countries like India and Pakistan can in return lend their human resources for peacekeeping wherever required to save all developed countries from domestic criticism on policies of strategic engagements involving their own people. This is a win win situation for all. A small but easy beginning could be a unilateral suo moto declaration by US and it's allies that they would intervene if ever their strategic partners are attacked. This would be a real "one small step a giaint feat forward" for US diplomacy.
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Archaeological and Bioarchaeological Field School
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POHANSKO — A Great Moravian Enclosure and Elite Settlement
Hosted by College of DuPage in conjunction with Masaryk University-Brno
Apply NOW — The Field School is on for 2015!
2015 Dates: June 21 through July 24, approximately five weeks in Europe
2015 Cost: $2,699 plus six semester credits (with an option for nine). Tuition is the same whether in or out of state: approximately $140 per semester hour. College of DuPage is fully accredited and we have transferred these courses to numerous state and private institutions. Up to nine credit hours of study will be available, pending final approval of the field logistics and permits. These will be a required course in field archaeology and a laboratory in field archaeology. Students must enroll in the field and lab archaeology components. Interested students can also take a course in bioarchaeology.
*** Bioarchaeology We have access to numerous archaeologically excavated sets of human remains from the site. Dr. Michael Dietz will conduct a course in the fundamentals of bioarchaeology, based on the analysis of human skeletal remains.
Cost Includes....
Approximately five weeks in Europe, room, board (Three meals per day, five days a week, weekends on your own), transportation with the field school in the Czech Republic, admissions to museums and exhibitions with the field school, access to required equipment, and miscellaneous access fees to power grids and the like. Because of the economic situation in Europe and student feedback, more free time will be provided in place of field trips, although some trips will still take place. Field trips typically include Asparn (Austria), Dolni Vestonice, Mikulcice, Modra and Sedlec (Czech Republic), Trenčín and/or Nitra and Cachtice, (Slovak Republic),* although students are also free to travel on their own or in small groups on the weekends.
Airfare or other means of transport to and from the site is not included in the cost. Students will meet at our excavation location near Breclav, Czech Republic (easily accessible by rail) by the start date and will complete their trip there at the end of the program. Students will likely find it much more affordable to travel on their own using student discount rates or other personal discounts. However, once the project director has established his airfare, this will be made public and students are welcome to book travel on the same routes and carriers as the project staff. Please contact Dr. Dietz for the specific details.
All instruction is carried out in English by experienced archaeologists led by Dr. John Staeck, a veteran of more than 25 field seasons, and Dr. Michael Dietz, an experienced bioarchaeologist with field work both in the Czech Republic and Peru. There is a maximum of a 8:1 student to doctoral level faculty and we strive to maintain an overall ratio of no more than 6:1 student to faculty. We work side-by-side with our students and emphasize excavations as learning experiences rather than as a means to conduct research cheaply. Our goals center on training students in the fundamentals of archaeological excavation and field laboratory procedures as well as on learning about the past (and present) in general.
* These are day trips. Transportation and admissions to destinations are included, although students are responsible for their own food and any additional fees associated with individual side trips or activities.
[Aerial view of Pohansko, arrows showing points of previous and current excavation.]
The archaeology faculty and staff of College of DuPage and Masaryk University (Brno) invite you to join our joint excavations at this exceptional site in the southeastern corner of the Czech Republic. Located near Breclav, just one km north of the Austrian border, 65 km southeast of Brno, and approximately 80 km northeast of Vienna, Austria, Pohansko straddles major communication and transportation routes into Moravia and hence access through central Europe and into the Baltic. This route, known in earlier times as the Amber Road, served as a main avenue of communication and trade from the classical world to Germanic and Slavic peoples of the north.
Pohansko itself is a two-kilometer earthen enclosure once faced with stone (exterior) and wooden ramparts (interior). Dating to the 9th century AD, this site was a major center of Great Moravia and appears in Carolingian, Byzantine, and Germanic references. Saints Cyril (aka Constantine the Scholar) and Methodius are both known to have visited the site and historical records document at least five major military campaigns launched by the Germanic kingdoms against their Great Moravian rivals at Pohansko.
Excavations have thus far focused on the structure of the wall and the "acropolis" where the royal or leading lineage lived alongside its stone church. Two pagan shrines have also been identified in the enclosure dating to just after the fall of Pohansko at the end of the 9th century. Current research focuses on a series of undisturbed, planned and regular plots just outside the main enclosure that may have belonged to the warrior and crafting elite of the site. In addition to these elements a distinct craft district and approximately 400 burials have been identified within the enclosure. Significantly, most of this site remains unexcavated and at the heart of a major research program directed by our host, Dr. Jiří Machacek of Masaryk University (Brno).
This year teams of Czech and American students will continue a combined sequence of excavations adjacent to the main portion of the site in order to further assess the range of activities and social statuses present in this important center. A variety of methods will be taught, including excavation procedures, mapping using laser levels and total stations (laser theodolites supported by onboard computers), feature excavation, field photography, and materials recording. A possibility exists that a series of well-preserved, extended burials may also be encountered associated with domestic structures. These will be excavated and subjected to preliminary forensic analysis at the research station pending remaining excavation time and the condition of the remains. It is important to note, though, that no one can predict exactly what will be encountered so some variation in precisely what occurs is likely.
Lead Faculty and Researchers:
Dr. John Staeck, Director and Principal Faculty Member, College of DuPage, Czech American Archaeological Field School
Dr. Michael Dietz, Assistant Director, College of DuPage, Czech American Archaeological Field School
Mr. Matthew Shaw, Field Supervisor, University of Missouri, Czech
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Jordan's Engagement Photoshoot
Happy Monday! How was your weekend? Mine was busyyyyyy lol once again. Friday I had Atlanta Fashion Week...did about 12 models or so? LOL. That was definitely an experience. Saturday I did a mother and daughter photoshoot and Sunday a male model shoot. Whew! Luckily this just gives me more material for my blog entries! This weekend I finally picked up the clear DVD rack from the container store to house my MAC palettes. Seeing it on Nessa's page really put me over, lol. I had to get it! I only have 3 slots for palettes left. I put my container store lipgloss holder on top and they look so cute together since they're both clear and match perfectly. I also went to the art store Utrecht and picked up some new clear pencil cases for my traincase. I'm a sucker for organizational tools! Anywho, back to the makeup, he he.
A few weeks ago I was able to do makeup on a bride-to-be for her engagement photos. Jordan was referred to me by another client on whom I did the makeup for a boudoir photoshoot. Word of mouth is definitely the best form of advertisement.
Jordan wanted a very natural look. In her shoot she would wear a nice sundress and shoot by The Fountains in downtown Atlanta. In terms of makeup, I wanted Jaimie to look like herself but more polished. She was experiencing some acne breakouts at the time but we were able to cover them right up with my Cinema Secrets foundation. You can't even tell in the photos. Flawless skin = makeup + great lightning. She was a wonderful client. We definitely connected over our talk about her upcoming wedding.
We're working out the details for her bridal makeup, I can't wait!
Photography by Shannon
14 comments:
- iamgrape1119 said...
WOW! She looks gorgeous! You did an AWESOME job!! they look so sweet together!
- July 28, 2008 at 9:47 AM
- xoxo Jaimie said...
They do look great, such a cute couple, I like her natural look.
- July 28, 2008 at 9:54 AM
- Nic Nic said...
The bride to be is just gorgeous! they looks really sweet together :)
- July 28, 2008 at 9:57 AM
- Yellow Fever said...
Wow ren! She looks awesome! I'm glad to hear you connected with her-i find it hard to come up with things to chat about when i'm doing makeup!
- July 28, 2008 at 10:33 AM
- Wes said...
Great work girl... You're very versatile!
- July 28, 2008 at 10:35 AM
- MakeupByRenRen said...
iamgrape1119: awww thanks :) natural looks aren't really my forte, lol
jaimie: thanks girl, you know how i feel about those natural looks!
nic nic: yup i can't wait to do her bridal makeup!
yellow fever: i think it helps to just ask them questions...like if they're getting married ask about wedding questions, they love to talk about that stuff!
wes: thanks chica!
- July 28, 2008 at 11:11 AM
- Vanessa said...
So pretty, she is naturally gorgeous so im glad it shows!
- July 28, 2008 at 12:31 PM
- Ethereal Prey said...
tell me more about this cinema secrets foundation...did u put any make up on the guy? :P
- July 28, 2008 at 1:12 PM
- Tammy M said...
She looks great! Great couple...
I watched your video about packing your traincase...My hubby wants to get me a pro traincase for my bday...where did you get yours???
I have a smaller one I use now, but it doesn't have wheels and I hate to lug it around...
- July 28, 2008 at 3:41 PM
- Product Junkie Diva said...
so natural..you are awesome Renren.
- July 28, 2008 at 5:08 PM
- Christiana Divine @ Memoirs of A Shopping Addict said...
aww. how cute, this is really sweet. you did a great job as usual sis. :D
- July 28, 2008 at 6:37 PM
- Joey said...
Preetty! She looks so natural but polished. Great job, Ren Ren (:
- July 28, 2008 at 8:03 PM
- Askmewhats said...
Girl...i am so happy for you..you are VERY VERY busy..but it's a good kind of busy!!! Keep it up girl!
- July 28, 2008 at 9:09 PM
- Mrs. Lynne, MakeupFix.net said...
so pretty! what a happy couple... oh, new love :)
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WHITEHALL, Wis. (WKBT) - 'Tis the season for longer lines and jam packed carts - but Whitehall resident Diane Pischke's cart literally runneth over. But there's only one thing on Diane's list. Lots and lots of pajamas. "It came to me one day with the holidays it would be nice to have needy children have a warm pair of pajamas for Christmas."
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Deb Suchla is the Trempealeau County director of Human Resources and says this donation is so appreciated by the people who receive them. "It's families that have struggled for a long time, families that have recently struggled that don't know how to ask for help. It's such a variety of families that are benefiting because of what Pajama Grandma has done."
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Religious Freedom
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Ottawa West—Nepean
John Baird Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Speaker, let me thank the member for Brandon—Souris for his leadership in this regard. Protecting and promoting religious freedom is an important part of Canada's principled foreign policy. We are speaking up around the world, at the United Nations, and every other corner of the world for religious freedoms. Whenever there are more religious freedoms, there are better human rights, and more freedoms which we strongly believe are important.
I was pleased to see more than 100 people of different faiths come to Ottawa to offer their advice and suggestions on the establishment of an office of religious freedom, something we committed to do in the Speech from the Throne. We will listen and then we will act on a path to religious freedom.
Sales Tax harmonization
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Chris Charlton Hamilton Mountain, ON
Mr. Speaker, perhaps the finance minister was unaware before he decided to endorse him, but the Ontario PC leader is actually running against one of the Prime Minister's key economic policies, the HST. Mr. Hudak called the HST a bad deal, a punishing tax grab that will kill jobs and hurt families.
Will the Conservatives help out their good buddy Mr. Hudak, acknowledge the HST was an unfair tax grab, and finally agree to exempt hydro and home heating from the HST?
Sales Tax harmonization
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Saint Boniface
Shelly Glover Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance
Mr. Speaker, as we have said many times in this place, provincial taxation is a provincial responsibility and changes to provincial taxation are exclusive decisions of the provincial government. Provinces have full independence to make decisions on sales tax matters and out of respect for the elected provincial legislatures or assemblies, and we are going to hear about those in the next couple of days, Parliament has agreed to facilitate such provincial decisions.
Flooding in Montérégie
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Jean-François Fortin Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, QC
Mr. Speaker, on June 6, the Prime Minister went to Montérégie himself and promised a new mitigation plan to help flooding victims. This plan will also help victims of the high tides in the Gaspé. But so far, the people of Montérégie and the Gaspé have not seen any semblance of a mitigation plan or a single penny of the money promised by this government. People cannot wait any longer.
Can the Prime Minister tell us when and how he plans to give financial aid to the victims through the new measures he has promised?
Flooding in Montérégie
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Denis Lebel Minister of Transport
Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a correction. The Prime Minister stated how important it was that the government respect provincial jurisdictions. When something happens in a province, it is first up to the province to compensate the people, and then the federal government reimburses the province. The mitigation plan is for the entire country, in order to protect the entire area surrounding the flood zone. It is not, as the member stated, an aid program.
Procedure and House Affairs
Committees of the House
Routine Proceedings
October 3rd, 2011 / 3 p.m.
Joe Preston Elgin—Middlesex—London, ON
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Orders 104 and 114 I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the third report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs regarding the membership of committees of the House. If the House gives its consent, I intend to move concurrence in the third report later today.
Canada Labour Code
Routine Proceedings
3 p.m.
Alexandre Boulerice Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, QC
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-307, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (pregnant or nursing employees).
Mr. Speaker, it is with great joy and pride that I rise today in this House to introduce a bill that meets the needs of the workers' movement across the country and responds to the demands of many women's groups. The purpose of this bill, which is completely reasonable, is to correct a great injustice—the differential treatment of female workers subject to the Quebec Labour Code or other provincial labour codes and those working in organizations under federal jurisdiction, who are subject to the Canada Labour Code.
The Canada Labour Code does not include the true right to preventive withdrawal for pregnant or nursing women. This bill seeks to correct this injustice and give all female workers across the country access to the compensation provided for in the provincial legislation so that they can withdraw in health if their work threatens their health and safety or that of their unborn child.
The Canada Labour Code currently provides only for unpaid leave. In other words, it puts the health and safety of certain women or certain fetuses at risk by forcing women to stay at work too long because they do not have the financial means to withdraw in order to protect their health and safety and that of their child.
Since I trust that all members of this House care about the health of women and their unborn children and that they want to stand up for families, I expect nothing less than unanimous support for this bill.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Newfoundland and Labrador Fishery Rebuilding Act
Routine Proceedings
3:05 p.m.
Ryan Cleary St. John's South—Mount Pearl, NL
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-308, An Act respecting a Commission of Inquiry into the development and implementation of a national fishery rebuilding strategy for fish stocks off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Mr. Speaker, I am proud today to present my private member's bill to the House of Commons. The bill's short title is the Newfoundland and Labrador fishery rebuilding act. It has been almost 20 years since John Crosbie, then federal minister of fisheries and oceans, shut down the northern cod fishery off Newfoundland's northeast coast and Labrador. It is 19 years and 4 months later and the commercial groundfish fisheries off Newfoundland and Labrador have seen little, if any, recovery. Most fisheries are in desperate shape.
Five years after Confederation in 1954, we handed over responsibility of our fisheries to the Government of Canada. I would describe our fisheries as Confederation's greatest failure, a national embarrassment, a national shame. A commission of inquiry is not about pointing fingers of blame, but pointing the way forward with a recovery plan, with a blueprint for the future.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Preventing Persons from Concealing Their Identity during Riots and Unlawful Assemblies Act
Routine Proceedings
3:05 p.m.
Blake Richards Wild Rose, AB
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-309, An Act to amend the Criminal code (concealment of identity).
Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise today in the House to introduce my private member's bill, the preventing persons from concealing their identity during riots and unlawful assemblies act. This act would amend the Criminal Code to make it an offence to wear a mask or other disguise to conceal one's identity while taking part in a riot or unlawful assembly.
This would give the tool to police to first, hopefully prevent these kinds of things from getting out of hand; and, second, if and when they do, it would give them another tool to punish those who were involved in these kinds of things and ensure they do not get too far out of hand.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Criminal Code
Routine Proceedings
3:05 p.m.
Joy Smith Kildonan—St. Paul, MB
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-310, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (trafficking in persons).
Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to introduce another bill that would support my last bill, Bill C-268, a human trafficking bill. If trafficking is committed by a person outside Canada, by a Canadian or a permanent resident, they can be prosecuted in Canada.
Also, the second amendment would enhance the current definition of exploitation in the trafficking in persons offence, giving specific examples.
The rising crime of human trafficking is still very much something about which to be concerned. I know 10 years ago when my son was in the ICE unit, he taught me a lot about what happened with the trafficking of victims. I began working with victims.
It is imperative that all members on this side of the House support this kind of private member's bill that would do something to help the victims of the heinous crime.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Importation of Intoxicating Liquors Act
Routine Proceedings
3:10 p.m.
Dan Albas Okanagan—Coquihalla, BC
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-311, An Act to amend the Importation of Intoxicating Liquors Act (interprovincial importation of wine for personal use).
Mr. Speaker, in the year 1928 a prohibition era law was passed and to this day makes it illegal to bring a bottle of wine from one province to another.
Canadians are a law-abiding people who like to follow the law and many share a passion for our great Canadian wines. This passion for wine, along with the hard work of many Canadian families, have resulted in wineries now being located in every province across our great nation.
My bill proposes an amendment to the Importation of Intoxicating Liquors Act. This amendment would create a personal exemption from the act. This personal exemption would allow individuals to either directly import, send, take, or transport or cause to be imported, sent, taken or transported wine only for personal consumption. This is not for resale or for other commercial use in quantities as permitted by the province in question.
I would like to recognize the member for Kelowna—Lake Country for his ongoing work on this subject. I would also like to thank the many small wineries in my riding of Okanagan—Coquihalla for their invaluable assistance in bringing this matter forward.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Democratic Representation Act
Routine Proceedings
3:10 p.m.
Jean Rousseau Compton—Stanstead, QC
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-312, An Act to amend the Constitution Act, 1867 (democratic representation).
Mr. Speaker, I am very proud to introduce my bill, which would amend the rules in the Constitution Act, 1867, for readjusting the number of members of the House of Commons and the representation of the provinces in that House. For decades, the provinces of British Columbia, Ontario and Alberta have been growing quickly, and therefore they are seriously under-represented in the House. This could be the case for a long time if nothing is done. However, despite repeated promises to restore democratic fairness in the country, the Conservatives are dragging their feet. During the last parliament, Bill C-12 was never called for debate by the government. When the government refuses to take action, the New Democrat official opposition rises to the occasion.
In doing so, the NDP is giving a real meaning to the formal recognition of the Quebec nation by the House on November 27, 2006, by proposing protection for Quebec's political weight, as unanimously called for by the Quebec National Assembly. My bill provides for a minimum representation with respect to the number of members for the province of Quebec.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Food and Drugs Act
Routine Proceedings
3:10 p.m.
Patricia Davidson Sarnia—Lambton, ON
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-313, An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act (non-corrective cosmetic contact lenses).
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to introduce my bill, an act to amend the Food and Drugs Act. I also want to thank my colleague, the member for Scarborough Centre, for seconding this bill.
The bill would deem non-corrective contact lenses to be a class II medical device. Those who were in the House prior to this session will know that my Motion No. 409 started this work. The bill would continue that work. I look forward to the same unanimous consent as in the last sitting.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Breast Density Awareness Act
Routine Proceedings
3:10 p.m.
Patrick Brown Barrie, ON
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-314, An Act respecting the awareness of screening among women with dense breast tissue.
Mr. Speaker, this enactment would require the Government of Canada to encourage the use of existing initiatives in order to increase the awareness of women about the implications of dense breast tissue for breast cancer screening and to assist health care providers in making well-informed decisions regarding screening.
According to the Canadian Cancer Society, in 2011 it is expected that over 23,000 Canadian females will be diagnosed with breast cancer, of which, regrettably, over 5,000 will pass away.
The Government of Canada can certainly play an effective role in the adoption of effective early detection screening practices. Targeting dense tissue is one of the means by which we can make a tangible difference.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Canada Labour Code
Routine Proceedings
3:15 p.m.
Robert Aubin Trois-Rivières, QC
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-315, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (French language).
Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise today to introduce a private member's bill to harmonize the language requirements that apply to federal businesses operating in Quebec with those in force in that province.
Although we must admit that the Conservatives were the ones to recognize Quebec as a nation, there is no denying that this concept has turned out to be nothing more than an empty gesture. This bill, however, would recognize the culture, language and rights of thousands of workers in Quebec on a daily basis.
This bill represents a step towards tangible recognition of Quebec as a nation within Canada, without taking anything away from the country's other provinces and territories. This clearly demonstrates the NDP's approach and its desire to move Canada forward by implementing asymmetrical federalism in which everyone feels that they have a voice and are being respected.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed.)


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