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Posted on May 2, 2012
What: Local and Family History Orientation (free)
Where: The Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton, Chicago
When: 9:30 am
Who: Matt Rutherford
More information: http://www.newberry.org/programs-genealogists
This free orientation will introduce novices to the basics of research with an informal orientation. No reservations are necessary.
Stay at the Newberry to research for awhile before you attend the next event or head to Harwood Heights to learn about house history.
What: Genealogy "Speed Dating"
Where: Chicago Genealogical Society, Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton, Chicago
When: 1:30 pm
Who: Matt Rutherford
More information: http://www.newberry.org/programs-genealogists
Come and participate in an exciting and fun new program. Bring your "brick wall" research questions and you will have an opportunity to ask an expert. You will only have a limited time for each question. SPEED is the key, so be clear and specific with your questions. Participate and also learn from other members as they get helpon their "brick walls". It will be an interactive and enjoyable program.
What: Unlocking the Doors to Your Home's Past
Where: Eisenhower Public Library, 4613 N. Oketo, Harwood Heights, IL
When: 2:00 pm
Who: Grace Dumelle
More information: http://eisenhowerlibrary.org/
Satisfy your curiosity about your own home or one in the family. Learn techniques for dating a residence, discovering the architect, and unearthing old photos and plans. You can also find out who lived there, what they did for a living, and other fascinating tidbits, just as genealogist Grace DuMelle has done for many clients. Her presentation is geared to the Harwood Heights area. Copies of her book, Finding Your Chicago Ancestors, will be available for signing and purchase.


text: Hugh Ramsay wrote to his father from his Paris studio on 24 December 1901, describing the subject for this work as a 'mountain shepherd': 'I am painting a brigand or something. Supposed to be an Italian Mountain Shepherd, but looks more like a gnome or hobgoblin. He's a little nuggety dwarf like fierce little cuss, so I keep me 'verolver' in my hip pocket, ready. It's awfully interesting both the man and the costume. I've nearly finished'. (Fullerton, 1988)

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Chapter 15
Great dissension arises at Antioch concerning circumcision—The Apostles at Jerusalem decide the issue—Paul chooses Silas as his companion.
1 And certain men which came down from Judæa taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be
2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and
3 And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the
4 And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the
6 ¶And the
7 And when there had been much
8 And God, which
9 And put no
10 Now therefore why
11 But we believe that through the
12 ¶Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
13 ¶And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the
15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
16 After this I will return, and will build again the
17 That the
19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
20 But that we write unto them, that they
21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being
22 Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
23 And they
24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be
25 It seemed good unto us, being assembled with
26 Men that have
27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.
28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
29 That ye abstain from meats offered to
30 So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:
31 Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the
32 And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.
33 And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles.
34 Notwithstanding it pleased
35 Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
36 ¶And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and
37 And Barnabas determined to take with them
38 But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
39 And the
40 And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.
41 And he went through Syria and Cilicia,


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As a follow-up to his truly groundbreaking Days To Come EP, Santa Barbara's Seven Lions rounds off an astounding year with yet another enlightening work of art, a remix of Delerium's "Days Turn Into Nights." Seven Lions has proven again and again that his deep knowledge of electronic music production allows for his art to remain eclectic without deviating from his own extraordinary brand of emotive bass music.
With this remix, he draws the listener in by tastefully weaving vocals in and out of carefully constructed basslines, glittering melodies, soaring pads, and glitch accents, all supported by a strong mid-tempo backbone. Seven Lions continues to exemplify his unrelenting passion and breathtaking yet powerful style. Enjoy the new remix, but before doing so, here are a few words from the mastermind himself:
"This is the release of my new remix of Delerium – Days Turn Into Nights. Delerium has been a huge influience on me, long before I even got into EDM. Really excited to share this one with you!"


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Directing Rhythm of the Heart
The cardiology team at The Nebraska Medical Center, leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias, helps an Iowa family live with a rare, genetic heart condition that had been taking the lives of their family one by one.
For nearly 25 years, a mysterious and rampant malady spread through the Smith family in the small farming community of Bronson, Iowa.
One by one, Bob Smith lost a sister, a brother and several cousins. All of them died suddenly and without explanation. First, in 1966, his 22-year-old pregnant sister collapsed in an elevator and died. Two years later, his eight-year-old cousin died in his sleep. This was followed by the death of the boy's 13-year-old sister, who also died in her sleep several years later. Then in 1982, Bob's youngest brother collapsed while the two were bowling. He was resuscitated but fell into a coma and died three days later. "It was devastating," says Bob's wife, Debra. "He was very young when Bob and I married and spent a lot of time with us. He was like our own son."
All the while, the Smiths were busy building a family of their own and at the time of Bob's brother's death, they had four seemingly healthy boys. Silently, Debra worried, would her boys suffer the same fate? What was this unexplainable syndrome that was taking the lives of their loved ones? Was it a brain or heart problem, the family wondered. They called and wrote to doctors, but all of them rejected their theories.
In the meantime, Debra kept a watchful eye over her boys, always counting them to ensure they were all there — when the boys took showers, when they left for school and when they came home. "One of my prayers every Sunday was asking God not to take one of my children," says Debra.
Then, in 1987, there was a break in the Smith family mystery. Bob's cousin, a sibling of the two young children who had died in their sleep, suffered a series of fainting spells. Her husband took her to the hospital where she was diagnosed with a genetic heart disorder called long QT syndrome, associated with sudden and unexpected fainting, seizures or death. The QT refers to the interval time recorded on an EKG in which the heart is at rest. In individuals with long QT, the QT interval is prolonged, which can cause the heart to go into arrhythmia. When this occurs, the heart is unable to effectively pump blood to the body and can result in cardiac arrest or sudden death.
While the diagnosis came as a relief to the Smith family, it also presented a new set of fears. Long QT was a congenital and hereditary disorder that carried a 50 percent risk of inheritance. The Smiths now had five boys of their own who ranged in age from 4 to 15 years old.
The Smiths acted quickly, and within a week, Bob and their five boys underwent diagnostic tests at a hospital in nearby Sioux City, Iowa. The results were difficult to swallow. Bob and four of his five boys were diagnosed with long QT. "Up until then, we had no idea that they carried the gene," says Debra. "The worst part of it, they still didn't know an awful lot about the disease. The doctors didn't even know how to treat it."
But what they did tell the Smiths was unsettling. "Without treatment, there was an 80 percent death rate before the age of 25," recalls Debra. "The doctors in Sioux City called Dr. Moss in New York to find out what to do."
Arthur Moss, MD, is a professor of cardiology at Rochester University in New York and was one of the leading experts in long QT at the time. Over the years, cardiologists at The Nebraska Medical Center have jointly published manuscripts with Dr. Moss, have partnered with him in a National Institutes for Health (NIH) grant and continue to partner with him on research and patient care.
Dr. Moss recommended the boys begin taking beta blockers — the standard of care for long QT then. The family returned to their farmhouse in Bronson, Iowa, determined to resume their lives as they were before long QT.
For 10 years, the boys lived with no problems, while Mom quietly worried. "The boys all slept upstairs and Bob and I had a bedroom on the first floor," recalls Debra. "In the morning, they would file downstairs one by one to take turns taking their showers.
"I remember lying in bed counting each boy as he came down the stairs until I had counted all five.
"Occasionally, the boys would complain that one of the brothers wouldn't get up. I would go into a panic and run upstairs to check. I'd tell the other boys — stay downstairs. I didn't know what I was going to find and I didn't want them to experience that."
Aside from living with the fear of the unknown, the heart condition did not slow down the Smith boys. "They were all very active and athletic boys," says Debra. "They were not ones to sit in front of the TV all day. All of the boys wrestled and all but one of the boys wrestled on the varsity team at Bronson High School all four years of high school."
Then in 1997, Debra's worst fears began to come to fruition. Her youngest son, 13-year-old Gavin, suffered a fainting spell. A pacemaker was put in by their cardiologist in Iowa City. Seven months later, 17-year-old Austin went into cardiac arrest during wrestling practice. His coach initiated CPR. Austin had to be resuscitated twice before the ambulance arrived. His doctors recommended he have an internal cardiac defibrillator (ICD) implanted and referred the family to John Windle, MD, electrophysiologist at The Nebraska Medical Center.
Dr. Windle, professor and chief of Cardiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and medical director of Cardiovascular Services, is among a team of six electrophysiologists in the electrophysiology section of cardiology at UNMC.
Electrophysiology is the science of diagnosing and treating the electrical activities of the heart and deals primarily with arrhythmias. Dr. Windle explains it by dividing the function of the heart into three mechanisms: pumping, plumbing and electrical. Heart failure specialists deal with the pumping, interventional cardiologists deal with the plumbing and electrophysiologists deal with the electrical system.
The electrophysiology program at The Nebraska Medical Center is the largest and the most experienced program in the region with a range of specialized expertise that allows the department to diagnose and treat all types of arrhythmias and genetic conditions. "We get referrals from across the state and throughout the region," says Dr. Windle. "In many cases, we get patients who no one else knows how to help."
Dr. Windle completed medical school and residency at UNMC and completed his cardiology and electrophysiology fellowships at the University of Indiana in Indianapolis. When Dr. Windle joined the medical staff at UNMC in 1985, he became the first adult electrophysiologist in the state. He joined partner John Kugler, MD, the state's first pediatric electrophysiologist. Before Dr. Windle came, Dr. Kugler had been running the electrophysiology program on his own since 1979.
Dr. Windle says he welcomed the opportunity to come back to The Nebraska Medical Center. "The hospital was very supportive of the program, and I liked the idea that there was a lot of opportunity for both research and clinical practice."
At the time, the field of electrophysiology was still in its early infancy. With both a pediatric and adult physiologist on board, the UNMC program grew quickly. Since then, the electrophysiology department has added four electrophysiologists: Arthur Easley, MD; Dan Anderson, MD; and John Scherschel, MD. They specialize in complex diagnostic mapping of arrhythmias and surgical ablations. Also on staff is Chris Erickson, MD, who runs the Genetic and Arrhythmia Clinic with Dr. Windle.
"We have more than 100 years of electrophysiology experience among our staff that provides a balance between a broad general knowledge of the field with specialization in various areas," says Dr. Windle. Members of the department pride themselves in providing research to advance the field, as well as providing the latest technology and treatments from genetic identification to advanced diagnostic techniques and treatment modalities.
Over the last 25 years, advances in the field of electrophysiology have been numerous and significant. "The mortality rate after the first life-threatening arrhythmia episode is 90 percent," says Dr. Windle. "Back then (25 years ago), we usually saw people after they had experienced a life-threatening event. Even then, we didn't have good strategies to treat them if they survived. Our goal today is to find people at risk for life-threatening arrhythmias before they experience a life-threatening arrhythmia."
The introduction of anti-arrhythmia drugs, surgical ablation surgery and the development of implantable cardiac defibrillators has reduced the mortality rate for arrhythmia patients significantly. In the early 1980s when most patients received little or no treatment, patients had a 50-50 chance of surviving a year, explains Dr. Windle. In the 1990s, five-year survival for individuals who received treatment increased to 50 percent. Today five-year survival rates are 80 percent or more.
Identifying those at greatest risk for life-threatening arrhythmias is one of our biggest challenges, says Dr. Windle. Symptoms of arrhythmia can vary from no symptoms at all to a slight feeling of a skipped or fluttering heartbeat to fainting, shortness of breath and dizziness. Some people can live for years with an arrhythmia condition and not know it.
The creation of the Genetics and Arrhythmias Clinic at UNMC in 2003, the only one of its kind in the Midwest, is helping physicians identify high-risk patients. Dr. Erickson, who is director of the Genetics and Arrhythmia Clinic, specializes in pediatric and adult electrophysiology, genetics and adult congenital heart disease. Dr. Erickson attended medical school and completed a pediatric residency at UNMC. He completed a pediatric cardiology fellowship at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston and an electrophysiology fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital. From 1990 - 2001, he practiced electrophysiology at Arkansas Children's Hospital and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences before he joined the staff at UNMC and Children's Hospital & Medical Center.
The Genetics and Arrhythmia Clinic is held on Fridays at either The Nebraska Medical Center or Children's Hospital & Medical Center. The clinic provides screening and treatment for patients and families with genetically-based arrhythmias and most cardiomyopathies. Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle often associated with other heart function problems such as arrhythmias. Some of the most life-threatening arrhythmia conditions involve those that are inherited or genetically-based, says Dr. Erickson. These include cardiomyopathies and channelopathies, including long QT syndrome. These individuals may or may not have symptoms, and rarely the first symptom is sudden death.
"We're finding that some individuals are either being diagnosed with a condition they don't have or are missing a condition they do have and are therefore not receiving appropriate treatment," says Dr. Erickson. "Even when they are diagnosed correctly, in many cases other family members are not being tested and treated. Early identification is very important in these genetic conditions. If a parent has one of these conditions, his or her siblings or children have a 50 percent chance of inheriting the same genetic variant — often producing the same disease. With no treatment, a few will not make it past childhood."
Molecular genetic testing is performed by taking a blood sample, which allows doctors to identify genetic defects associated with these conditions. With this information, Dr. Erickson and his staff can confirm the exact diagnosis, test other family members for the genetic defect, assess the risk of sudden death, implement appropriate treatment measures and make appropriate lifestyle restrictions when necessary, says Dr. Erickson.
Long QT syndrome is one of those conditions in which early diagnosis is crucial. The risk of sudden death among teens is considerably higher than in older adults. In addition, long QT syndrome is believed to be responsible for up to 10 percent of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) deaths, says Dr. Erickson. If we know a parent has this condition, we can start genetic testing of these babies as soon as they are born and, in special cases, even prenatally. If we find they have one of the genes, we can start them on medications or even put in a pacemaker. One baby identified with a severe case of long QT started medication and had a pacemaker put in at two weeks of age, he says.
"Molecular genetics has made a huge impact on our ability to understand channelopathies and cardiomyopathies and appropriately diagnose families with inherited heart conditions," says Dr. Erickson. "It eventually will play a large part in identifying and treating these disorders in the future. However, molecular genetics will never replace the importance of a thorough clinical evaluation by someone familiar with these uncommon conditions. It is possible for a patient to have a positive genetic test based off a similar genetic 'variant' found in a relative with a cardiac disease but not have the same or any cardiac condition. This is where combining the clinical evaluation with molecular genetics is vital."
Having physicians with expertise in both pediatric and adult electrophysiology and genetics, offers another advantage to patients that allows for greater continuity of care and a multi-disciplinary approach. The Genetics and Arrhythmia Clinic can assess an entire family, establish a pedigree and follow both the children and adults through their lifetime with the same doctors, which ultimately improves care, notes Dr. Erickson.
Dr. Kugler is one of those staff members. Dr. Kugler generally begins following patients as babies or children and continues to see them through adulthood.
Trained in pediatric electrophysiology, Dr. Kugler was one of the first 10 trained pediatric electrophysiologists in the country, and he was the first in the region when he came to UNMC in 1979. He attended medical school and completed a residency at UNMC. That was followed by a pediatric cardiology fellowship and electrophysiology fellowship at Baylor Texas Children's Hospital.
Dr. Kugler was first exposed to the field of electrophysiology by one of the early pioneers in the field, electrophysiologist Paul Gillette, MD, who practiced at Baylor Texas.
"It was a frontier area at the time," says Dr. Kugler. "Dr. Gillette piqued my interest in this field and I became his first fellow."
As the only electrophysiologist in the region when he joined the UNMC staff, Dr. Kugler quickly began seeing a steady stream of both pediatric and adult cases until the arrival of Dr. Windle six years later. With Dr. Windle on board, Dr. Kugler returned his focus to pediatric electrophysiology and congenital heart disease. Many of the young patients he follows have been patients he has been seeing since birth or early childhood. "At one time, many of these patients didn't make it to adulthood," he says. "But with advances in surgery, medications and heart assist devices, many are now living well into adulthood."
Unfortunately, many congenital heart disease patients enter adulthood with complex complications that have developed over the years due to their disease. Dr. Kugler specializes in managing their condition and providing specialized care and treatment therapies throughout their lifetime. "We can also diagnose some conditions intrauterine and provide interventions even before the baby is born," he says. Dr. Kugler and seven pediatric cardiologists are supported by cardiothoracic surgeons Kim Duncan, MD, and James Hammel, MD, who perform congenital heart disease surgeries to repair congenital heart defects.
When the Smith family came to Dr. Windle, he and his team had been implanting internal cardiac defibrillators for 10 years.
In 1987, the electrophysiology team was the first to implant a defibrillator in a Nebraska patient. "The introduction of defibrillators in treating heart conditions and the subsequent advancements in the technology have been huge," says Dr. Windle.
A defibrillator works by responding to abnormal life-threatening arrhythmias. Once the defibrillator detects an abnormal arrhythmia, it sends an electronic signal to the heart, which shocks the heart into returning to a normal heart rhythm again. "It is like a rescue squad for the heart 24 hours, seven days a week," says Dr. Windle.
"As soon as I met Dr. Windle, I knew this was a man I understood and respected," says Debra. "We felt very secure in his hands."
Dr. Windle performed the defibrillator surgery on Austin. Shortly thereafter, doctors recommended that Austin stop wrestling for fear that the wires might break during a match and cause electrocution.
"It was heartbreaking for Austin when he got the news," recalls Debra. "But there was nothing we could do."
Austin's younger brother, Gavin, on the other hand, was allowed to continue wrestling because he had a pacemaker rather than a defibrillator, which posed less risk for complications. During his senior year, Gavin was recognized for achieving 100 wins with an implantable pacemaker.
It was one of the few silver linings for the Smith family over the next few years. In December 2005, the Smith's second son, Brandon, had a cardiac incident that left him unconscious on the basement floor. The Smiths returned to The Nebraska Medical Center where Dr. Erickson implanted a defibrillator. Soon after, it was decided that all of the boys needed a defibrillator, including their oldest son, Jason. Jason's three children were also genetically tested and two of the three were found to carry the long QT gene. Both his 6-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter received defibrillators.
"The surgeries never got easier," says Debra. "The worst part was when they had to put them in a rhythm and then shock them back."
Bob, who is now 58, has never received a defibrillator. "They said that men over 40 who had never had any problems probably didn't need a defibrillator," says Debra.
Today the boys still return to The Nebraska Medical Center for care. "They were given the choice to be seen by a doctor in Sioux City or stay with Dr. Windle and none of them even batted an eye," says Debra. "They just don't feel comfortable going anywhere else. It's a scary thing to live with. So you really need to feel comfortable with your doctor and feel that you are receiving the best care possible."
"We've always been very happy with the care we've received at The Nebraska Medical Center," says Jason. "They really seem to care. And when there have been problems with our children, Dr. Erickson always follows up with us by phone, sometimes several times, to make sure they are okay."
For the most part, their sons' lives have been fairly normal. "There are a few things they can't do, like working on their cars" (a car's magnetic fields could disrupt the function of the pacemaker), but other than that, they seem to be doing just about everything else they want to do," says Debra. Four of the sons are married and have produced 10 grandchildren. Just two of the grandchildren have been diagnosed with long QT.
When genetic testing became available in the mid-90s, the Smiths had their blood tests sent to a lab in Rochester, N.Y. It took two years to get the results, but it confirmed what they already knew — four of five of the boys have genetic long QT. Since the initial genetic studies, they have now been able to trace long QT syndrome to Bob's sister, his father and his grandmother, says Smith. Additional testing reveals that it may even extend back to several generations in Germany.
Debra says she still keeps a watchful eye on her sons but not to the extent she used to. All of the boys but Gavin (who still lives at home) are now married and have built homes within seeing distance of the Smith's farmhouse on their 72-acre corn and soybean farm. "We've always been a close-knit family, but I think this heart condition strengthened the bond between all of us even more," says Debra. "We all watch over each other and help each other out."
Atrial fibrillation the most common arrhythmia
With our growing elderly population, arrhythmia is a condition that is on the rise. Each year, arrhythmias affect approximately 3.5 percent of the population or more than 4 million primarily older Americans each year. For some individuals, arrhythmias will never present a problem. However, for others, unmanaged arrhythmias can lead to cardiac complications or even cardiac death. Treatment of arrhythmias is usually required only if the arrhythmia is causing significant symptoms such as shortness of breath or fainting or if it's putting a patient at risk for more serious cardiac complications.
Atrial fibrillation is the most common form of arrhythmia and occurs in about 1 percent of the population over 60 years old and in as many as one in 20 people over 80. It is also the most difficult to treat, as the arrhythmia is more erratic and often occurs from multiple sources in the heart. The Nebraska Medical Center's electrophysiology department treats approximately 300 patients a year with
atrial fibrillation.
Advanced electrical mapping equipment used at The Nebraska Medical Center has had a significant impact on doctors' ability to determine the origin of complex arrhythmias like atrial fibrillation. The 3-D mapping system literally provides doctors a multi-dimensional visual map of the heart, allowing them to pinpoint the origin of an arrhythmia with more precision than ever before.
The 3-D mapping can record some 3,000 points of electrical activity within the heart as opposed to finding these one step at a time, producing a success rate of 90 to 100 percent.
Once the origin of the arrhythmia has been pinpointed, the first line of treatment normally involves medications. If these are not effective, doctors can treat the arrhythmia using one of two surgical techniques -- cryoablation or radiofrequency catheter ablation. These techniques can eliminate arrhythmia in many individuals by destroying the small spot of heart tissue responsible for the arrhythmia.
The Nebraska Medical Center has been a leader in these surgery options, each of which offers its own unique benefits. The procedures are performed by Drs. Kugler, Erickson, Easley, Anderson and Scherschel.
Radiofrequency catheter ablation uses heat to burn tissue near the source of the arrhythmia and is the preferred procedure when larger areas need to be burned. "This procedure provides another option for individuals with severe, uncontrollable symptoms that have not responded to medications," says Dr. Kugler. "It has a 75 to 98 percent success rate, depending on the age and general health of the patient."
Cryoablation uses a freezing method, as opposed to heat, to disable arrhythmias and provides more precision in treating the lesion. This freezing technique, also called cryotherapy, preserves normal electrical conduction by freezing tissue or heart pathways that interfere with the normal distribution of the heart's electrical impulses. Unlike radiofrequency catheter ablation, if the technique does not appear to be producing positive results, the cardiologist can stop the process early and reevaluate the source of the arrhythmia without permanent effect on the heart.
Arrhythmias that cannot be treated with these methods may be candidates for a pacemaker or an implantable cardiac defibrillator.
Genetics holds the future to the treatment of arrhythmia, says Dr. Windle. "I think we are going to see more tailored medications and treatments that are specific to a patient's genetic abnormality." Dr. Windle says that he expects The Nebraska Medical Center, which is participating in national studies for genetics and medications, to play an increasing role in those advancements.
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Dr. Mairéad MacSweeney - Co Director
In my research I examine the impact of altered sensory and language experience on brain development. I do this by conducting studies with people born profoundly deaf. For example, we have shown that parts of the brain normally used to process sound, can be used to process visual information in people who are born deaf. My research examining how the brain processes language has focussed on sign language, speechreading, and reading of written English. Advances in this field are not only of theoretical interest, but are likely to also have important practical implications for the education of deaf children.
You can find out more about my research group and link to publications here.
Current funding: Wellcome Trust, ESRC
Direct contact: 020 7679 1157 E-mail: Dr. Mairéad


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This remarkable profile drawing of an unknown Light Horse veteran was drawn in Sydney after Lambert's return to Australia. Lambert brilliantly modelled the head to capture the texture of the man's skin, his tense muscle structure and down-turned mouth, his shiny forehead and almost bald head. Lambert gave the subject living presence.
There is, as the Sydney Morning Herald critic reported on 10 September 1925, 'strength and expression in every line', giving the head, as the same critic observed on 26 November 1930, a 'massive power'.
Andrew Sayers has observed that 'Lambert's pencil drawings were to be highly influential in Australia after his return in 1921', especially among students in Sydney, who idolised him. His enthusiasm for 'drawing for drawing's sake' was particularly significant for these students (Sayers 1989, pp.126, 150). Later artists have also admired his remarkable ability, with Douglas Dundas commenting that the modelling and textures in this superb drawing are 'searched out to the last degree', 'a feat which only those who draw can appreciate' (AGNSWQ 1965).
The drawing was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales at the New South Wales Society of Artists exhibition in 1925.


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Outside the window of my office, I see a beautiful river called the Jones Falls as it winds through the city of Baltimore to the Chesapeake Bay. Above this river is an elevated expressway, so I also see the fetid runoff that drains from eight lanes of asphalt into the water below. A few blocks from here, several roads have been decimated as construction crews attempt to repair 100-year-old sewer pipes. And this isn't unique to where I live. Stormwater management and failing infrastructure are national concerns, the latter causing a $3.1 trillion loss in U.S. gross domestic product, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. That's $3,100 per household.
Susannah C. Drake, AIA, principal of Brooklyn, N.Y.–based Dlandstudio, has built her practice around these pressing issues. Take the Gowanus Canal, a 2-mile-long waterway in Brooklyn. The canal was declared an U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site several years ago and is considered one of the most polluted waterways in the country. It's exactly the kind of design challenge that Drake loves to tackle. "A city is an incredibly complex and interesting system, and I like to think holistically about a problem," she says.
Drake's unconventional path out of architecture school inspired her to establish this niche. A licensed architect and a licensed landscape architect, she graduated with master's degrees in both disciplines from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. "When I first got out of Harvard I had three Ivy League degrees and I couldn't get a job," Drake says (she attended Dartmouth College as an undergraduate). "People asked me: 'What do you want to do? Do you want to be an architect or a landscape architect?' They were forcing me to choose. And I thought, 'This is wrong!' "
In 2005, Drake founded Dlandstudio, which now has eight employees from a mix of backgrounds. (Over the years, she's employed staff with expertise in the fine arts, astronomy, religion, biology, and graphic design.) "I thought I could figure out a way to work across disciplines and create a design think tank within practice," she says. "I wanted to make a lot of changes to the standard way of operating within the urban world."
Consider the firm's vision for the Gowanus Canal Sponge Park, which provides a system of open space designed to absorb and remediate stormwater. Here, wetlands act like sponges, with plants and engineered soils leaching heavy metals and toxins out of contaminated water. But the plan is more than just environmental. It integrates hydrology, ecology, land use, and cultural preservation. Sponge Park includes community amenities, like a green walking path and the Pilot Street-End Sponge Park that leads to the canal off 2nd Street. The street-end park will create a much-needed public space while using things like bioswales to mitigate polluted runoff.
The complexity of Drake's multilayered design is matched only by the complexity of the politics underpinning the project. Multiple agencies—federal, regional, and local—maintain ownership of the Gowanus Canal, and Drake has worked for years with all of them on developing this plan. "There are 200 permits that we have to get for any project on the waterfront, and that's even before you get to construction," she says.
Indeed, her firm's work is as much about politics as it is about design research and development. "Designers don't always operate with the consideration of the way the political system operates, or even the way the electoral system operates," Drake says. "The political process involves figuring out the agendas of all these agencies and how my project actually helps them. That's when you can start to get things done."
This fall, construction will finally begin on Sponge Park. "We're going to have the first street-end bioswale in New York City," Drake says. The intention is for this street-end park system to become a prototype that can be used on other streets throughout the city.
Dlandstudio has another prototype project now underway in New York, this one targeting stormwater runoff from raised highways. Called Highway Outfall Landscape Detention (HOLD) System, this modular prototype has been installed at three sites in Flushing Bay and the Bronx. The ultimate goal, Drake says, is to export the system to other cities. The firm has a patent pending for the HOLD system as well as for Sponge Park, and has trademarked both names as a way of creating a potential revenue stream. "It's so the pain and suffering that I've gone through can have some economic reward," Drake says.
Dlandstudio has also tackled the issue of rising sea levels, collaborating with New York's Architecture Research Office (ARO) for the Museum of Modern Art's "Rising Currents" exhibit in 2010. Their proposal, called "A New Urban Ground," suggests a way to revamp the hardscape of a city to manage rising coastal waterways. The firms proposed an adaptable system of porous green streets capable of draining precipitation, as well as allowing an influx of water to come in, but then get out, quickly. Fiberoptic cables and other hardware that currently live beneath the streetscape would be moved below sidewalks and placed inside underwater vaults accessible via hatches. "That releases the street to become a permeable open space," Drake says.
Stephen Cassell, AIA, principal at ARO, reached out to Drake for the exhibit because he had heard about Sponge Park. "Susannah is good at throwing lots of ideas out on the table, some direct evolutions of what you're working on at the time, others complete right turns. It's a creative process that allows you to reframe the way you think of things," Cassell says. "She's among a vanguard of designers doing lots of fruitful thinking about the complexities of the city. In 10 years, as the results of that thinking trickle down, it's really going to change the way we perceive and use cities."
Though our aging infrastructure may seem like an intractable issue, Drake notes that there is already money in the pipeline to repair our roadways, bridges, and sanitation systems. The trick is to leverage those funds by expanding our definition of infrastructure. "Infrastructure today is way beyond thinking about the physical thing. Think instead about the economic value of the real estate," she says.
By example, she points to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE), which already has some federal funds allocated for its repair. Her project, BQGreen, proposes a way to reknit the communities divided by construction of the BQE by making the highway an ecologically productive spine that supports new recreation spaces as well as infrastructural improvements. The road would become a public amenity for everyone, not just for drivers. "It makes no sense for a transit corridor to be only about transit when it's running through some of the most expensive real estate in the world," Drake says. "So don't just solve one very specific problem. Think holistically."


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Skip to comments.Middle School Girls Forced to Ask Classmates for Lesbian Kiss During Anti-Bullying Presentation
Posted on 04/23/2013 11:25:09 AM PDT by NYer
Red Hook, New York – A recent anti-bullying presentation at a middle school in New York that focused on homosexuality and gender identity has angered parents after their daughters have come home to tell them they were forced to ask another girl for a kiss.
According to reports, the session occurred last week at Linden Avenue Middle School in Red Hook, New York, near Poughkeepsie. A group of students from Bard College led two workshops for the youth, separated by gender.
During the workshop for girls, the 13 and 14-year-olds were told to ask one another for a kiss. They were also taught words such as "pansexual" and "genderqueer."
Parent Mandy Coon told reporters that her daughter was very uncomfortable with the exercise.
She told me, Mom, we all get teased and picked on enough; now Im going to be called a lesbian because I had to ask another girl if I could kiss her, she lamented. "They also picked two girls to stand in front of the class and pretend they were lesbians on a date."
Coon stated that she was especially irate over the matter because parents were given no warning about the presentations, nor an opportunity to opt out. She is also dismayed that college students were granted the right to come into the classroom and encourage her daughter to be sexually active.
"I am furious, she declared. I am her parent. Where does anyone get the right to tell her that its okay for her to have sex?
The school is overstepping its bounds in not notifying parents first and giving us the choice, another parent remarked. I thought it was very inappropriate. That kind of instruction is best left up to the parents.
According to reports, during the workshop for the adolescent boys, the students were counseled to keep a condom in their pocket at all times, and were taught how to identify a woman who is a "slut."
I was absolutely furious really furious, an anonymous parent told reporter Todd Starnes. "These are just kids. Im dumbfounded that they found this class was appropriate.
However, both the school principal and the district superintendent are defending the workshops, and are advising that they will schedule more. Superintendent Paul Finch told The Poughkeepsie Journal that the presentation was "focused on improving culture, relationships, communication and self-perceptions."
"[We] may require more notification to parents" in the future, he said, contending that the sessions are required under the state Dignity for All Students Act, which prohibits harassment and bullying in the classroom.
He advised that Principal Katie Zahedi and guidance counselors at the school worked with Bard students to plan the workshops. Likewise, Mark Primoff, a spokesman for Bard College, said that students had volunteered to give the presentation after the school invited the institution of higher learning to participate in the workshops.
Zahedi asserts that the sessions were rather about saying no to unwanted advances as opposed to encouraging homosexual acts.
In planning the discussion, we made it clear that absolutely no discussion of any sexual acts is appropriate to middle school, and they used the examples of a kiss," she wrote in an online forum for parents. It was a separate activity for boys and girls and ultimately about respect and safety.
However, parents remain livid over the matter. A public meeting was held this week for residents to express their concerns.
It is not known whether girls actually had to kiss one another, or if the exercise stopped at the request.
Good thing these things never seem to happen in my school district or we'd have some more national breaking news events when I caught up with the perps.
The Greeks made Socrates drink Hemlock for what?
wonder if the objecting parents can file child porn charges against the teacher since the object of the so called lesson was for their gradification?
'and were taught how to identify a woman who is a slut.'
But... all boys/men know the definition of "slut". It's a female who has sex, but won't have sex with YOU.
Is this a true statement?
Zahedi asserts that the sessions were rather about saying no to unwanted advances as opposed to encouraging homosexual acts.
In planning the discussion, we made it clear that absolutely no discussion of any sexual acts is appropriate to middle school, and they used the examples of a kiss, she wrote in an online forum for parents. It was a separate activity for boys and girls and ultimately about respect and safety.
Sounds like the Bard presenters were the bullies here.
wonder if the objecting parents can file child porn charges against the teacher since the object of the so called lesson was for their gradification?
I'd be capping some teachers' kneecaps. Time to pull out the bat cape and start dealing with this scum on their own turf...
And, undoubtedly, some pervert teacher was required to watch.
Child abuse. Put some people in prison and put them on the list of child sexual predators for life.
Unfortunately.. they're in one of those states in which most people sullenly obey the wishes of the "authorities," because they know best...
Somehow, I don't see this happening in a Southern state.
This 'grooming' would be illegal and a major news event if it was done by a Republican congressperson.
I don't see anything here that says Principal Katie Zahedi set a good example by being forced to kiss female members of her staff.
Amazing... their kids are being forced to perform perverted acts, and the parents are too fearful to be identified. They just fearfully complain to a reporter, rather than gather together and make some noise with that school and the district that governs it.
That legislation's name is an early contender for Non-Sequitur of the Year.
You know when I was young I would have just told them no. My daughter was the same way. What is wrong with all these kids that they just give in so easily and do as they are told?
My daughter knew that even if she got in trouble at school and it was for something that she or I believed strongly about, that I would back her to the hilt and take a trip down to the school in a heartbeat. Matter of fact her friends used to giggle about it and go....wait til your mom hears. lol
This country's days are numbered...
How more obvious can it be- they are RECRUITING right under the parents' noses!
The administrators and teachers at every school my daughter attended knew me. They also knew if they saw me marching down the hall that someone was gonna get it.
They, like their parents, have been directed to submit to the notion the authorities know what's best, and are not to be questioned... ever.
"Send out your visitors so that we can have sex with them!"
ka CHOW!
This is a government school. Why are people so shocked?
Fricken nation of sheep.
Where is Dean Swift when we need him!
William Flax
So would I. Followed shortly by beating the crap out of them. No change now that I am old.
Why isn't it known or is it just not being reported? These sessions are child abuse and parents should be filing police reports to bring charges against the school officials and presenters involved.
What are we supposed to do when the same-sex asks for a kissin in the brave new Obama 'anything goes but dont offend gays' world?
Allowing "college kids" - no more than high School kids that just graduated and "THINK" they know everything and have the public freedom to introduce this crap on junior high students...should have NEVER been left alone - let alone allowed to present this until it was reviewed by ADULTS....but then again, some so-called adult thought this crap was appropriate....everything is getting way out of control...
Standing up in front of a bunch of junior teens and giving a speech is one thing - participation in what appears to be some type of immature sex game is another. The parents need to file complaints and seek civil suits against the school board, superintendent, principal, and the teacher(s) that set this stupid program up & seek out the college reps that taught this to their students...they all need to resign or be fired! Then a message would be sent loud and clear!
Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) Signer of the Declaration of Independence & Father of Public Schools
Bears repeating... loudly!
Yeah, because when you hand your children over to strange teachers to be raised, the first thing that should happen is that your kids are asked to pretend-sin...to learn a lesson.
I completely agree.
In a just society this program should involve jail time for those responsible.
You just tell your kid not to do anything that makes them the least bit uncomfortable and back them up and let the school know that your kid has the right to refuse to do anything they don't want to do regarding sex education.
I just love these satire articles.
Of course it's known. Everybody there was a witness or a participant. Why isn't it being reported?
If I had a daughter in this so called "school", I'd be down there kicking some @$$ right now.
I am pretty certain that Katie is very practiced at kissing other females. I wonder how many of her students she's already molested.
Who else but a homosexual would be so blatantly recruiting in a middle school?
Notice that the entire "anti-bullying" thing was about sex!
The Second Law of Homosexulaity:
To the mentally healthy (heterosexual), sex is something you do.
To the mentally diseased ('homosexual'), sex is everything you are.
Sexual abuse of children. Someone should be hanged.
We are close to SHTF time.....you can smell it in the air.
Uh ... seems you are not .... new Lefty/Prog rules:
"So part of it, we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities".
A few years ago a 6 year old boy was expelled for kissing a girl on the cheek.
Obviously the school authorities are biased and hate boys.
And that is exactly how I handled government schools when mine was a kid. I got a Vice Principal fired once because I raised so much heck. Started with her and went straight up the ladder to the top. A month later she was gone.
My daughter got suspended for a week under their 'rules'. I told her and them that was fine if that was the rule but what followed after was completely unacceptable. I never let teachers/admin, etc. intimidate me. They were no better or smarter in my view and I would tell them so. I also could back it up with a much more rigorous education than they had. They backed up pretty quick when I walked in.
Private school... Made the jump 2 years ago and haven't looked back. People are telling us the things that now go on after we left. Yikes.
Mom, we all get teased and picked on enough; now Im going to be called a lesbian because I had to ask another girl if I could kiss her, This is their ultimate goal however that you will not be teased but accepted and the normal people will be teased and ostracized. This is in progress now.
"Send out your visitors so that we can have sex with them!
Keerful what Ya ask for! Those were Bardies, after all.
Bard has devolved over the years, as have most educational centers in America. I speak from a limited experience, as the Bardie I dated was a dance major (ballet) and an exception to the blond stereotype. She was even rather conservative, though she was a bit unusual in that aspect, even than.
Since then, devolution has occurred.
However, at least they were not instructing safe sex with animals. Speaking of sex with animals - what would a Bardie say about sex with a Muslim?
Questions, questions . . . . .
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"With all thy getting, get understanding."
For people who profess their desire to get the depressed housing market back on its feet the Obama Administration has been singularly inept. Despite numerous programs to allegedly help people keep their homes and prop up housing prices, the housing crisis continues, and home building is at a fraction of its levels before the bubble that began a little more than a decade ago. Here are things Washington would do if it were genuinely serious about alleviating this crisis:
– Order
– The Administration claims it wants to make it easier for repossessed or unoccupied houses to be turned into rentals. Good idea. But Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac both severely restrict the number of houses an entrepreneur can acquire for that purpose: ten at Fannie, four at Freddie. Remove the restrictions entirely. If someone is willing to risk capital to buy a lot of houses to rent out, by all means let them. It's their money at stake, not the taxpayers'.
– Dust off an innovation used more than 20 years ago, when the real estate market in Texas and elsewhere collapsed during the savings-and-loan crisis: Let homeowners who can't make their mortgage payments have the option–if they qualify–of signing a five-year lease on the house. Monthly payments would be lower, and there would also be less likelihood of abandoned houses depressing neighborhood property values. The lessees would have the option after five years of buying their houses at a discount or moving on.
– Drop the damaging lawsuits Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac filed against banks for alleged wrongdoing in underwriting packages of mortgages during the housing mania more than five years ago. This was less a crime than multitudinous stupidity. Let banks focus on the future instead of spending their efforts and capital on fighting government shakedowns. If banks are to be held criminally liable for what happened, then the biggest culprits of all– the easy-money Federal Reserve and the government-sanctioned monopolies, Fannie and Freddie–should be headed (pun intended) for the guillotine.
– At the same time urge the courts not to upend the settlement
– Stop the Federal Housing Administration from guaranteeing mortgages with ultralow down payments and other questionable underwriting practices. The FHA is well on its way to joining Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as a big financial disaster.
Here They Go Again
When it comes to taxes, Germany and France are still wearing dunce caps. Under their prodding the European Commission has unveiled a plan to create a financial transaction tax: Buy or sell stocks, bonds or derivatives and you'll pay tribute to the EU. Proponents say the cash is needed to pay for past bank bailouts and perhaps future ones.
If Paris and Berlin weren't existing in a bubble, policymakers there would quickly realize that the securities business will move to more hospitable climates. The Obama Administration told European finance ministers that such an exaction would not be imposed in the U.S. But so hungry are these policymakers that the negative consequences have sailed over their heads. Even the opposition of Britain and Sweden couldn't stop this latest tax juggernaut.
There's another warped idea at work here–the notion that such a levy will make securities more stable in price because it will crimp the style of in-and-out speculators. Vain politicians refuse to accept that it was their easy money, easy spending, high taxes and suffocating regulations that have made their economies as vibrant as a stagnant swamp.
If the U.S. would only repeal Sarbanes-Oxley and a new President in 2013 follow through with a stable-dollar policy and tax simplification, our nation would once again become the undisputed capital market center of the world.
Misleading "Market"
The other day the Wall Street Journal ran an analysis of actual trades that make up the credit-default-swap market. Quotes of prices of these swaps are treated by market participants, credit-rating agencies and even governments–like stock market indexes for equity markets–as an accurate barometer of the creditworthiness of countries and companies.
Too often, though, it appears that the thin CDS market is being used to create a market direction and influence bond ratings rather than insure an investor against default. Some observers believe this kind of market distortion abounded during the crisis of 2008 to create bear raids against certain insurance companies and large retailers. Now they seem to be an instrument creating havoc on the sovereign debt of troubled countries such as Spain and Italy. Yet, as the WSJ noted, "actual trades in these widely cited derivatives are few and far between–and the quotes that market observers bandy about often aren't based on actual trades at all."
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Study of guitar performance skills based on the music of Jeff Beck. Concentration on intonation, tone production, transcription skills, and a variety of techniques both conventional and unorthodox.
Study and performance of the guitar playing style of Jim Hall through recordings and transcriptions. Students will explore Jim Hall's conceptual approaches to rhythm, melody, and harmony.
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Debates of May 1st, 2002
House of Commons Hansard #180 of the 37th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was students.
- Immigration
- Sutherland Cup
- Albert Béchard
- Centre d'action bénévole de Saint-Hubert
- Sylvain Lelièvre
- Agriculture
- Technological Innovation
- Sylvain Lelièvre
- Look Good Feel Better
- National Defence
- Responsible Fishing Awards
- Refugees
- International Workers Day
- Research and Development
- Transportation
- Ethics Counsellor
- Public Safety Act
- Workplace Safety
- Public Safety Act
- Leadership Campaigns
- Immigration
- Leadership Campaigns
- Canada Labour Code
- Leadership Campaigns
- Government Expenditures
- Nuclear Waste
- Terrorism
- National Defence
- Ethics Counsellor
- Wind Energy
- Ethics Counsellor
- Research and Development
- Ethics Counsellor
- Book Industry
- Leadership Campaigns
- Microbreweries
- Airline Industry
- Terrorism
- Excise Tax, 2001
- Government Response to Petitions
- Committees of the House
- Terrorism
- Committees of the House
- Medically Unnecessary Abortion Referendum Act
- Right to Work Act
- Patent Act
- User Fees Act
- Criminal Code
- Corrections and Conditional Release Act
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Question No. 128
- Question No. 129
- Motions for Papers
- Public Safety Act, 2002
- Tax Credit
2 p.m.
The Speaker
As is our practice on Wednesday we will now sing O Canada, and we will be led by the hon. member for St. John's West.
[Editor's Note: Members sang the national anthem]
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Stockwell Day Okanagan—Coquihalla, BC
Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Foreign Affairs appropriately acknowledges the role of our embassies in foreign lands in doing all they can to limit the possibilities of terrorists getting into Canada. It is therefore completely unacceptable that the Canadian government is giving ultimate decision making authority to local employees of our immigration offices overseas to select who gets into the country and who gets visas.
Canadians should be concerned when we hear reports of alarming rates of bribery and smuggling involving some of our embassy employees overseas. It damages our reputation as a country and the reputation of the many excellent embassy employees at home and abroad. Four out of every five employees at our embassy immigration offices overseas are local hires. While hiring locally is appropriate, the ultimate decision as to who is eligible to enter Canada must be left in the hands of Canadians citizens.
Sutherland Cup
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Roger Gallaway Sarnia—Lambton, ON
Mr. Speaker, hockey is everywhere these days. As we slowly slide toward the end of spring it is a great national preoccupation. No matter what one does or where one goes the game cannot be avoided.
With that fact in mind I am pleased to inform the House that the Sutherland Cup, representative of Ontario Junior B supremacy, was decided and ended last night in the old Sarnia arena in my riding. For the players and coaches of the Sarnia Blast, game seven of the final series against Elmira allowed them to truly be number one in the province.
First presented in 1919, the Sutherland Cup, named after pioneer hockey coach Tom Sutherland, is dedicated as a memorial to our young men who died in the first great war. On this the 83rd year of the Sutherland Cup presentation I congratulate players, coaches and fans of this Sarnia team for a championship year. They have achieved a win and become part of Sutherland Cup history and the heritage of our national preoccupation: hockey.
Albert Béchard
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Georges Farrah Bonaventure—Gaspé—Îles-De-La-Madeleine—Pabok, QC
Mr. Speaker, we were saddened to hear of the death of Albert Béchard, notary, which occurred on Sunday, April 28.
Albert Béchard sat in this House from 1962 to 1972 as the member for Bonaventure, and from 1972 to 1979 as the member for Bonaventure and Îles-de-la-Madeleine.
He chaired several of the House standing committees and was as well chairman of the committees of the whole.
From July 1966 to April 1968, he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Secretary of State of Canada, and from 1970 to 1972 Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.
This was a great Canadian who defended the interests of his province in the Parliament of Canada. Albert loved his native Gaspé, and after his retirement spent five months of the year there at Carleton.
To his wife Lucette and his children, Carl and Pierre, I extend my most sincere personal condolences as well as those of the people of the Îles de la Madeleine and the Gaspé.
Centre d'action bénévole de Saint-Hubert
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Yolande Thibeault Saint-Lambert, QC
Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate the Centre d'action bénévole de Saint Hubert, in the riding of Saint-Bruno--Saint-Hubert, which encourages exchanges between organizations and business people.
Last Tuesday evening, a meeting was held in order to encourage exchanges and co-operation between the various organizations and th business community in Saint-Hubert. They took advantage of this opportunity to issue an official invitation to take part in Volunteer Week from May 1 to 5.
Rollande DiLalla, honourary Volunteer Week chairperson, and Henriette Lemire, director of the centre, are already delighted with the prospects for exchanges and partnerships.
My congratulations to these people of Saint-Hubert. I encourage everyone to take part in Volunteer Week.
Sylvain Lelièvre
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Carole-Marie Allard Laval East, QC
Mr. Speaker, we were shocked to learn of the death of Sylvain Lelièvre.
An accomplished artist, he had won the hearts of Quebecers. A creator, writer, lyricist, pianist and educator, he told Quebec's story as few have.
I still recall the lyrics of a song of his, Petit matin , that I used to hum:
Petit matin sans horizon Petit café, fumée d'usines Je r'garde le derrière des maisons Les femmes sont à leur cuisine
Thank you, Sylvain Lelièvre. In your own quiet but distinctive way, you have left your mark on our culture. What you have created has become a part of our history.
Mr. Speaker, my colleagues join with me in offering our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Sylvain Lelièvre. Together, we mourn his passing.
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Carol Skelton Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar, SK
Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government and the agriculture minister do not understand what is happening outside their comfortable offices, limos and jets. Last week's announcement by the agriculture minister that $21 million will be spent for a soil conservation advertising campaign is insulting.
Advertising the benefits of soil conservation to people who already know about it is a waste. Farmers and ranchers are among the finest conservationists in the country and do not need the government wasting millions of dollars to tell them something they already know. While farmers and ranchers face unbelievable hardship due to weather conditions, foreign subsidies and low return on their products the government is funding awareness programs.
The minister needs some awareness. Agriculturalists need reliable safety net programs, open access to marketing, drought relief programs and help in fighting foreign subsidies. The government's lack of priorities and vision for agriculture is incomprehensible.
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2:05 p.m.
Nick Discepola Vaudreuil—Soulanges, QC
Mr. Speaker, today I wish to tell the House about the incredible support provided by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation toward the creation of a unique Canadian research and development laboratory in Varennes, Quebec.
Thanks to this funding of over $5.8 million, Canada now has a state-of-the-art nanotechnology research infrastructure. The scientific and technological spinoffs from this initiative will have a significant impact in the telecommunications, biomedical, aerospace and intelligent transport sectors.
This is something tangible that the Government of Canada has done to develop a unique Canadian network of excellence with a number of universities and research centres. For the people of the riding of Verchères--Les-Patriotes, it is one more example of the contribution the federal government is making to the development of excellence in the regions and of our commitment to put Canada right up there with world leaders in technological innovation.
Sylvain Lelièvre
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2:05 p.m.
Pierre Paquette Joliette, QC
Mr. Speaker, I am grief stricken today because one of my classmates from the Collège Maisonneuve died prematurely yesterday. Sylvain Lelièvre was a singer, songwriter, composer, and poet who started his career at the age of 15 by writing his first poems and composing his first songs, which led to him winning the grand prize of the 1963 "Chansons sur mesure" international competition.
A poet who chronicled everyday life, over the years, Sylvain Lelièvre gave us masterpieces such as Marie-Hélène , Petit Matin and Lettre de Toronto . He was awarded a Félix for best songwriter in 1994 for his album entitled Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait de nos rêves? , and the 2001 Félix for anthology/re-release/compilation of the year.
In addition to his work as an artist and teacher, Sylvain Lelièvre was a staunch advocate for songwriters' royalties. He believed strongly in developing and encouraging new talent. I remember him saying, in jest, "I have been considered new talent for 30 years now".
His voice, his lyrics and his piano playing will remain etched in our memories forever. Hats off to a virtuoso who never had the pretensions to be one.
Look Good Feel Better
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2:10 p.m.
Beth Phinney Hamilton Mountain, ON
Mr. Speaker, last week was National Volunteer Week in Canada, a chance to recognize and honour those individuals whose contributions make our communities better places to live. Many volunteer organizations took this opportunity to honour their volunteers and highlight the good work they are doing.
Look Good Feel Better was one group in Hamilton which did exactly that. Celebrating its 10th anniversary nationally and 7 years of service locally, Look Good Feel Better provides a unique service to women in the acute stages of cancer therapy. Volunteer hair and wig specialists and cosmeticians give women practical advice and demonstrations on how to manage the appearance effects of radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Since 1992 Look Good Feel Better has assisted over 350,000 women suffering from cancer. The program operates on the philosophy that looking good on the outside can help cancer sufferers feel better on the inside.
On behalf of all the women they have helped and the residents of Hamilton Mountain, I thank the group and its volunteers for their time and service.
National Defence
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2:10 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Leon Benoit Lakeland, AB
Mr. Speaker, plans for a review of Canada's defence policy are long overdue. It has been nearly a decade since the last white paper and our Canadian forces are in crisis. It is alarming that whatever is being done is occurring in secret despite the defence minister's promise that MPs, senators and ordinary Canadians would be involved. Even the House of Commons defence committee has no indication of what its involvement will be. This is completely unacceptable.
We do not need another unaccountable review process run by the Prime Minister's Office which reaches conclusions that are predetermined. That is not what we need. I call on the government to fully engage parliament and produce a full white paper by the spring of 2003. This white paper must include a specific commitment of money to carry out the plan, starting with an immediate $2 billion added to the defence budget.
The defence minister promised a new defence review. Canadians expect a new defence policy and they expect to be involved in the process.
Responsible Fishing Awards
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2:10 p.m.
Wayne Easter Malpeque, PE
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to acknowledge and congratulate the winners of the Roméo-LeBlanc National Awards for Responsible Fishing.
This award recognizes four Canadian fishermen who have contributed to the development and promotion of responsible fishing practices from coast to coast to coast. It is individual fishermen who are most aware of the need to manage fisheries in a responsible manner. This award gives them the recognition they deserve.
The 2002 recipients are: Allen Gordon, Arctic laureate; Gary McLeod, Atlantic laureate; Milford Purdy, freshwater laureate; and Jake Fraser, Pacific laureate and recipient of the Roméo-LeBlanc Medal. These fishermen, finding better innovative methods of fishing, are role models for a younger generation who will be looking to Canada's great ocean resources for their future.
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2:10 p.m.
Judy Wasylycia-Leis Winnipeg North Centre, MB
Mr. Speaker, the true Liberal position on refugees has now been exposed. It is not pretty and it has inflicted untold damage on Canada's international humanitarian reputation.
On Monday, the government unilaterally dropped the vital refugee appeal provisions in the new Immigration Act, leaving refugee claimants worse off and at greater risk than under the old act. Next, it was totally ineffective in defending refugees from being equated with terrorism, allowing them to be scapegoated for its own incompetence in running our immigration program.
Government cuts and understaffing, not refugees, are responsible for backlogs and enforcement problems, but the scapegoating did not end there. Instead of showing that a hearing is the only fair way to determine if a refugee claim is valid, the Liberals joined the Alliance chorus to turn refugees away point blank as queue jumping opportunists, an unpardonable smear against all those refugees who have fled here and need our protection.
The Liberal government apparently prefers to join with the Alliance in a frenzy of refugee bashing instead of owning up to its own incompetence. Liberals like to talk the talk. It is time for them to walk the walk.
International Workers Day
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2:10 p.m.
Paul Crête Kamouraska—Rivière-Du-Loup—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC
Mr. Speaker, it being May Day, a day dedicated to workers, the Bloc Quebecois is asking the federal government to grant pregnant or nursing women under federal jurisdiction the same rights granted to women in Quebec. We have been talking about this for ten years now. The time has come to take action.
The government should also take advantage of today to announce that it will stop treating a woman who has a child as a woman who has lost her job, and to finally contribute to Quebec's parental leave program.
I also urge the government to admit that it is mistaken in refusing to eliminate the provisions of a collective agreement that discriminates against new members of the workforce and by continuing to tolerate scabs.
I remind the government that employment equity must be seen as something from which everyone benefits, and that we cannot afford to avoid it.
I salute the workers who are shaping our society. Our thoughts are also with those who have been deprived of this basic right. They deserve better than this federal government's inaction.
Research and Development
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2:15 p.m.
Peter Adams Peterborough, ON
Mr. Speaker, I congratulate NSERC and SSHRC on following through on their commitments to strengthen northern research. The announcement of six university chairs for northern research, representing a $6 million investment, is a major step in the right direction.
I also congratulate the universities receiving the chairs, McGill, Carleton, Wilfrid Laurier, Laval, Manitoba and Alberta, along with the recipients themselves. I am pleased that the research spans the physical, life and social sciences.
The NSERC-SSHRC task force on the state of northern research also proposed scholarships, strategic research projects, partnerships between universities and northern communities, and new equipment and infrastructure to reinvigorate northern research in Canada.
I hope this first step means that we are well on the way to systematically strengthening northern research. This is a polar country. We need strong northern science and it should be one of our special contributions to global research.


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Do You Recognize These Annoying Food Habits?
by Brenda Alesii
posted Aug 26 2011 12:00AM
I had the "Today Show" on as I was getting ready for work the other day. My ears perked up when I heard them talking about annoying lunch habits of co-workers.
It got me thinking about places I've worked and the irritating things that some of us do on a regular basis. Hmmm, it also has me wondering if I am guilty of some of the most common infractions as well.
For the past few weeks, I have been eating an apple every afternoon at my desk. Do my robust, crunchy bites annoy the other people around me in cube city? I tend to time my bites when it's noisy in the office so as not to disturb anyone. I am cognizant of any noise and gross sounds but have been in situations in previous work places where the habits of others are sometimes cringe-inducing and downright disgusting.
Some of the examples cited in the show and in blogs include noisy eaters who insist on chewing and talking with their mouths full. Thanks, but I'd rather not see your masticated lunch flailing around in your mouth. Lip smackers are a close relative of this gross custom.
Have you run into people who insist on re-heating seafood, popcorn, cabbage, and spicy aromatic foods in the microwave? At another workplace, I remember smelling salmon from morning to night one week as the odor permeated the entire first floor. In another situation, the whole office had to evacuate the building after someone insisted on burning popcorn yet again.
Another habit that drives me up the wall? The slurpers, who noisily consume their liquids, whether it's soup, coffee, pop, water or whatever beverage they're loudly swallowing. A little decorum here, please.
Leaving food, crumbs and wrappers and boxes for others to clean up is another pet peeve, but that is a column unto itself. Same goes for dry food left in dishes in cups in the sink.
What a way to lose an appetite!
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Since the inception of the Internet, we've been told time and time again to be careful what we view online, what we download, and to be wary of suspect email attachments. We've also been told many times to make sure our firewalls are turned on, and to have our anti-virus programs installed and up to date.
However, there are new threats that are coming out of the woodwork, dubbed "rootkits" that cannot be stopped, removed or detected by conventional methods. In fact, a majority of these rootkits slip by undetected by major anti-virus programs and even Windows itself. This is because the malware installs deep into the core (kernel) of the Windows operating system (all versions, including 2000 and XP), and effectively conceals the processes and related files from the user.
Ironically, it wasn't a stereotypical hacker that brought this technological threat to the limelight. Rather, it was a large, well known commercial entity, namely Sony BMG.
Sony was among many members of the recording industry interested in the technology, but was the first to actually implement it. Their restrictive copy protection software, often referred to as XCP (Extensible Copy Protection), uses rootkit software to conceal its presence from the consumer, major anti-virus vendors and Windows itself.
Sony adopted the technology to protect its audio-related assets from piracy, and made it a part of its DRM (Digital Rights Management) strategy. XCP, which installs silently without the user's knowledge or consent, attempts to thwart illegal copies of BMG audio CDs. If the software thinks the consumer is trying to illegally copy a Sony audio disc, it will block communication to stop the copy from being made.
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Additionally, the XCP software also reportedly creates a concealed back door that allows Sony to make remote modifications or changes to XCP installations. Sadly, this "hole" has opened up infected computers to a host of new viruses which use the same rootkit software to access and conceal their malicious activity.
Unfortunately, the XCP software does not include an uninstaller. If the XCP software is manually deleted, it will make CD/DVD drive(s) entirely dis-functional. At the time of this writing, the only way the software can be completely removed is to reinstall Windows.
Sony has reportedly distributed the elusive copy protection software on about 20 different albums which have been distributed all over the world, but unconfirmed reports from various consumers indicate it could have been distributed on many other CDs as well. Some reports claim nearly a half million PCs are infected as a result. A large majority of those users appear to be in the United States.
In light of multiple lawsuits and major public outcry, Sony has offered a CD exchange program (for unprotected discs), temporarily suspended the distribution of their XCP software, and have provided software patches (which claim to uninstall) that deactivate XCP to alleviate some of the CD/DVD problems that the software has caused.
The threat isn't limited to audio CDs, however. Copies of the popular DVD movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" distributed in Germany also reportedly contained similar, "silent-installing" anti-piracy software, which cause similar problems.
Moreover, these copy-protected CD/DVDs may not play in standard CD/DVD players. Potential incompatibility has been a big concern among consumers.
At a minimum, these events illustrate how disruptive and destructive rootkit technology can be, especially if the multimedia industry at large decides to pursue it. Fortunately, Microsoft has promised to add rootkit detection support to their upcoming anti-spyware software, and they've promised to make security a bigger priority in their upcoming operating system, Windows Vista, which is slated for release in late 2006.
For the mean time, the best defense you have is common sense. Be aware what you put into your computer, turn off auto-play, and follow traditional security practices (don't open fishy email attachments, don't run questionable programs, run Windows Update frequently and make sure your firewall is on).
Reports have indicated, thankfully, that these copy-protected discs are labeled on the cases as copy protected. If you already own a Sony copy-protected disc, you should contact Sony and ask for a replacement. For now, buyers should beware of buying discs that are marked as copy protected.
If you think your PC might be infected with Sony BMG's XCP software, you should go to your favorite search engine (i.e. "Google," "Yahoo," etc) and search for "Sony BMG DRM."
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