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While discussing Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos' win over the New York Jets on Thursday, a friend said that it has become politically correct to bash Christians, and that Tebow has made him care about the Broncos. He roots for Tebow because of the Christian bashers — and he's not a religious zealot.
It got me thinking he might be right about bashing Christians being the newest sport. Would people bash Tebow if he was a Muslim or a Jew? Hmmm, those religious seem to be "off limits."
What do you think?
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If you thought today's Google Doodle looked a little creepy or kooky or even mysterious and spooky, you would be right. The cartoonist who created The Addams Family has been honored with a Google Doodle on what would have been his 100th birthday. His "kooky" and macarbe cartoons began appearing in the New Yorker magazine in 1932 with the Addams making their debut in 1938. In celebrating Charles Addams, the Google logo has undergone a grayscale transformation, featuring the seven main characters of the Addams Family.
From left to right, Morticia and Gomez dance in front of the "G." Cousin It holds the first o, while the second hides behind the Addams' Mansion. Wednesday is holding the rope of a lower-cased g-shaped guillotine, in which Pugsley's head rests. The tall butler, Lurch, holds the 'L', while Uncle Fester munches on the 'E'.
Born January 7, 1912, in Westfield, New Jersey, Addams spent most of his life in Northeast United States – attending Colgate and the University of Pennsylvania, which now has a fine arts building named after him. Addams was a distant relative of the two US presidents bearing the different spelling of his last name. While he started contributing artwork to the New Yorker in 1933 at the age of 21, the first Addams Family comic was published as a single-frame cartoon in 1938. By 1940, he was published regularly in the New Yorker, where he continued to be published for over 60 years until he died in September 1988.
Charles Addams was known for his dark morbid humor. His work was, and is, very popular and beyond the TV series, movies and Broadway musical, they are referenced by Alfred Hitchcock in North By Northwest and Addams collaborated with sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury. Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday and Pugsley were given names when the television show was first developed. He drew over 1300 cartoons during his career and published a number of books.
The Addams Family and their dark humor became his legacy. Most of us are familiar with the 1960s TV series. While only on the air for two seasons, the episodes continue airing with regularity on cable stations, fueled by nostalgia and popularity. The Addams family was featured as a recurring set of characters on the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. They received their own animated series in the 70s and again in the early 90s.
The characters were turned into a full-length feature movie in 1991, which did so well it spawned a sequel just two years later. In May 2010, the Addams Family took to Broadway, where it enjoyed nearly two full years, closing just seven days ago.
Now the Addams Family gets the next honored medium, the Google Doodle. The popularity of the doodle already has charles addams in the top-10 searches. The Charles Addams Foundation website has also been largely overloaded and unreachable this morning, as well.
Do you like it? After some of the Doodles from last year, should it have been more interactive? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below!
Frank Watson also contributed to this post.
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- Words by Ms Alice Rawsthorn, design critic, International Herald Tribune
On Le Corbusier's first visit to New York, to open an exhibition of his architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in October 1935, he was so enthralled by the skyscrapers - by the Empire State Building especially - that he told a friend: "I wanted to lie down on my back there on the sidewalk, and gaze towards the top forever."
Then in his late forties, Le Corbusier was in the vanguard of the "rads versus trads" battle in design: idolised by fellow radicals, and loathed by conservative "trads". This summer, nearly 50 years after his death, MoMA is to honour him with another, far larger exhibition, opening on 15 June, which should seal his reputation as the most influential architect of the modern age.
Just as contemporary art would not be the same without Mr Marcel Duchamp, literature without Mr James Joyce, or fashion without Mr Yves Saint Laurent, our built environment - from houses and schools to towns and cities - would be very different if not for Le Corbusier. But why?
Like most other visionaries who revolutionised their fields, Le Corbusier was blessed not only with exceptional talent, but great timing. He began his career in the early 1900s when the availability of electricity, telephones, aeroplanes and cars was transforming millions of people's lives. Every aspect of society needed to be rethought, including architecture, a challenge that Le Corbusier relished. "The time is ripe for construction," he wrote, "not foolery."
How can Le Corbusier be held responsible for the design crimes of his imitators, when his own work was so inspiring?
His first design project was himself. Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris in 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a sleepy Swiss watch-making town, he began his career there before moving to Paris in 1917. He promptly rechristened himself "Le Corbusier" by adopting his maternal grandfather's surname, and took to wearing the horn-rimmed glasses that became his trademark. Equally adept at moulding perceptions of his work, he tinkered with photographs of his buildings (often using his glasses as props) and wrote so prolifically that other architects were as familiar with his thinking as his appearance. His mediagenic successors, from Mr Rem Koolhaas to Ms Zaha Hadid, have since adopted similar strategies to cultivate equally distinctive identities.
But Le Corbusier's true legacy is his architecture. During the 1920s, he pioneered the "machine aesthetic", or International Style, by applying newly developed materials and construction techniques, often discovered in other fields, such as the automotive and aerospace industries, to produce geometric, white-walled structures such as the elegant Villa Savoye and his other "purist villas" in and around Paris.
From the late 1930s onwards, he began combining concrete with natural materials such as wood and stone to create a robust organic style of architecture dubbed "brutalism". These experiments culminated in post-war gems such as the Notre Dame du Haut chapel at Ronchamp in eastern France and Chandigarh, the "City Beautiful" that he designed in northern India, whose majestic concrete buildings were surrounded by greenery.
Modern Visions
"Evocation of sunset"
Le Corbusier, no date. Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris. © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris/FLC
"The Parthenon, Athens"
Le Corbusier, 1911. Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris. © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris/FLC
Competition project for the League of Nations, Geneva
Le Corbusier, 1927. Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur, ETH Zürich
"Villa Le Lac, Corseaux"
Le Corbusier, 1923-24. Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris. © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris/FLC
Model of the Villa Savoye, poissy
Le Corbusier, 1928-31. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris/FLC
In the machine aesthetic and brutalism, Le Corbusier defined the dominant architectural styles of the 20th century. Other architects attempted them too, but rarely with such aplomb. Technocratic though he was, Le Corbusier also understood the sensual aspects of architecture, doubtless because he was an accomplished painter. He imbued his buildings with a cinematic quality by orchestrating the experience of being there so skilfully that anyone encountering them will see something seductive wherever they look.
Even so, Le Corbusier has proved as contentious since his death as he was during his life, not least by being blamed for the dreary state of post-war architecture. How can he be held responsible for the design crimes of his imitators, when his own work was so inspiring?
Take his mass housing project, the Unité d'Habitation in Marseille, whose subtly sculpted concrete is enlivened by light, colour, texture and greenery, just like Chandigarh. As the German architect Mr Walter Gropius said at the opening party: "Any architect who does not find this building beautiful had better lay down his pencil."
Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes runs from 15 June to 23 September 2013 at MoMa, New York. moma.org


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Modeling and simulation center pleads for additional funding
- April 10, 2008
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Old Dominion University officials begged Gov. Timothy M. Kaine on Wednesday to restore state funds for its Modeling & Simulation Center during the center's 10th birthday celebration, The Virginian-Pilot reported.
The General Assembly cut $1 million from the $4 million Kaine proposed in its two-year budget. In the previous two-year budget cycle, the center received $8 million. Kaine told the center on Wednesday that his staff was exploring ways to restore the funding. ODU officials have said without the additional $1 million, it would have to cut 12 to 15 research positions at the center.
Virginia Business covered the state's growing modeling and simulation industry in its cover story in May 2006.


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We have a choice of what comes into our room whether it's positive or negative. As the teacher, we set the tone. We are the filter as to what gets through to our students and impacts our days, positively or negatively. We must treat every student with respect every day for the entire school year. We all know that learners who are treated with respect will, in turn, treat others with respect. This creates a positive culture where students feel open to exploring new ideas and trying new things.
Parents send us their best kids. I laughed when he said this, but as I pondered it, I realized that it is absolutely true. Those kids are the best the parents have. It is our job to nurture, educate, and give them the best that we've got. Making excuses does not help anyone. It's a waste of energy.We know that students don't have a choice in where they live, their socioeconomic level, or their family situation. Our job is not to judge them, but work with each of them, nuturing their talents, finding their challenges, and empowering them with the ability to be successful people who can make a difference in this world.
Great teachers are intentionalists. In a great teacher's classroom nothing happens randomly. Great teachers plan and guide students into correct behaviors instead of fighting those discipline fires that will continue to pop up throughout the year. They understand that they have the ability to respond to something or not to respond, remembering what is best for each of the students within our classrooms. In a great teacher's classroom, the students don't know how to push their teacher's buttons because they've never seen their teacher's buttons. It's easy for us to pulled into the "reality show" mentality where using sarcasm, insults, and outrageous behavior is acceptable. However, it is our job to make sure students know that being a teacher is an honorable career. We are professionals who carefully and intentionally make educated decisions for ourselves and for them.
Here's the good news: what teachers do matters. The bad news: what teachers do matters EVERY day. We never know what will stick with our students, good or bad. Sometimes a flippant response to one of them can stick in their minds for the rest of their lives (some time I'll have to write about why I became a teacher). We all have those days where we are exhausted, stressed, sick, or feeling blue. However, we need to remember that everything we say and do in the classroom has an audience. What we do matters. One comment or action can really impact our students positively or negatively. We are the professionals. We need to remember it's not about us...it's about them.
I know at this time of year, in spite of being exhausted, all of us are planning for our next group of students. I hope that these bits of wisdom help you (as they've helped me) to focus on what's most important...our students.


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Hey, remember the 80s? Remember the over-moussed hair, the bright primary-colored clothes, and the bloopy synth music? The salad days of MTV and Miami Vice? Remember Olivia Newton-John? Remember Men at Work?
Good. Keep those images in your mind.
Now add a healthy dose of mad science, a dollop of pre-code horror comics'* carnage and general disdain for logic, a dash of homoeroticism, and a villain straight out of Mad Max's The Wall, and you're almost in the brainspace to appreciate this New Zealand-produced mad movie from 1984, David Blyth's frankly mindfuckling Death Warmed Up.
*of the sort provided gratis daily by the inestimable Karswell over at MMMMMovies buddy site, The Horrors of It All! Check 'em out!
After some brightly colored collage-style credits, we open on young Michael Tucker (Michael Hurst) running like mad through a forest in full daylight. Dressed only in an AC/DC-approved school uniform, Mike seems dazzled by the sunlight falling through the branches of the trees as he keeps the knees pumping high, as if some fearful beast doth close behind him tread. Where has he been? What's he running from? These questions remain tantalizingly unanswered: within seconds the pastoral paradise gives way to a metropolitan cityscape, but Michael doesn't slow down for an instant--he sprints down the urban avenues right up the stairs of a local hospital, where the nurses seem to know him and don't think it at all odd that the sweaty schoolboy has burst in as if crossing the finish line at the Sydney Olympics.
After a short elevator ride Mike finds his way to the neurosurgery department, where his father, Professor Tucker (David Weatherley) is having a heated discussion with colleague Dr. Archer Howell (the wonderfully evil Gary Day). It appears some vaguely defined experiments of Howell's cross Tucker's ethical lines, something to do with immortality through brain surgery (?). The frank exchange of views gives way to fisticuffs, as Dr. Howell throws his puny partner against the wall and threatens bodily harm if the funding is cut off. When Howell sees Michael spying on them, the horrified youngster flees the scene.
Not fast enough, though, as a couple of dimly lit corridors over Dr. Howell catches up with him. Noticing the young man is sweaty and out of breath, the doctor--in the most menacing voice possible--suggests that Mike take a quick shower in the surgeons' locker room to "freshen up." Having just witnessed this same man roughing up his dear old dad, Micheal readily agrees!
It's here that we get our first dose of homoeroticism in the flick (if you don't count the hospital's extremely phallic edifice--which I do), as the fit young man takes a very gratuitous, red-lit shower, throwing his head back and opening his mouth for the gentle spray in the way Linnea Quigley and others have made a career of. This boy *really* enjoys his showers--so much so that he doesn't notice the wicked Dr. Howell sneaking up on him with a syringe the size of a billy-club, which he uses to PENETRATE Mike's taut buttocks and pump them full of his mysterious SCIENCE JUICE. Gripping Michael firmly from behind, the doctor drags him off into the shadows. Doubtless for a perfectly innocent purpose.
Anyone who remembers the early days of MTV should get a warm fuzzy feeling of nostalgia from Blyth's visual style here--impossibly bright colors, glowing red and blue gels, and copious Venetian blind-shadows are the order of the day. The periodic synthesizer stings out of nowhere only add to the feeling that any moment Simon Le Bon and Murray Head are going to step out from behind a pillar and get the party started right. (Unfortunately, this NEVER happens.)
Later that evening Ma and Pa Tucker are undressing after a formal evening out, watching a news report on Dr. Howell's research. "He's MAD!" the professor exclaims, obviously still reeling from his office ass-whupping. Mrs. Tucker, clad in what looks like a cross between an old-fashioned slip and a Merry Widow, pulls herself away from her floor-to-ceiling closet full of shoes long enough to comfort her husband with some hot MILF action.
Meanwhile Dr. Howell is driving his obviously altered new friend back home after whatever sordid tryst followed the fade-to-black. He deposits Mike at Chez Tucker then scarpers, an evil gleam in his eye. Mike stumbles across the front lawn, cradling a shotgun.
Of course Michael creeps upstairs, interrupts his parents' first sex in years, and proceeds to go all DeFeo on them in one of the films' many excellent gore scenes. Dad gets several squibs and stark splatter, and Mom even gets a shotgun blast to the gut, right in front of her precious shoe-stash. Not sated with murdering his parents, Mike blasts the table lamp on his way out--it's always the innocents who get hurt.
Seven years later Michael is released from the world's smallest padded cell and put back out in the world, his hair gone bleached-blond from the trauma. In the intervening years Dr. Howell has taken his work to the corporate sector, founding TransCranial Applications Incorporated and purchasing a private island where he is governor and god. We get some pretty good mad science action here, as Dr. Howell performs graphic brain surgery on a hapless patient while nurses with dead eyes and mesh surgical masks stand by to assist. If you look at the expressionless cadre of medical women here and start singing "Addicted to Love," well, I won't stop you.
Blaming the Doctor's butt-juice injection for his parents' deaths, Michael rounds up his girlfriend and two other mates and sets out for revenge. The first part of the revenge plan involves getting to the island on one of the rustiest ferries imaginable. While Mike and his Olivia Newton-John-channeling girlfriend Sandy (Margaret Umbers) talk to the captain, their friends Lucas and Jeannie decide to have sex on the hood of their car. When they see a couple of Mad Max rejects getting an eyefull they retire to the relative privacy of the backseat of the same car, where Jeannie shucks out of her top and gives us some female nudity, for a change.
It's here that the movie takes its *really* hard left turn, as a hunchbacked mutant in a Devo-esque jumpsuit interrupts the lovers in flagrante de Pinto. Moments later Lucas retaliates by pissing on the baddies' van, leading to some harsh threats from their leader Spider (David Letch, subscribing to the Bob Geldof/Jess Franco's Faceless school of "shaved eyebrows == MORE EVIL" thought). A ferry brawl ensues, followed by a Mad Max-ish car chase on the mainland. Our protagonists ditch the bad guys in an actual ditch, and our story can get on its way.
Or so you would think. After an odd scene where Dr. Howell and a henchman stop into a local convenience store to buy pineapples from an incredibly offensive Indian ethnic stereotype (obviously a Kiwi "comic" in brown-face), we join Mike and his mates at a beach where they've stopped for a picnic. If you're hoping for hott bathing suit shots here, you won't be disappointed:
near oral-sex from his girlfriend, Mike decides it's time to get his friends moving to some WWII tunnels he wants to explore on the island, for some reason. Meanwhile, the good Dr. Howell is performing more surgery on the mutant from the ferry, who is suffering some rather nasty side-effects from the TransCranial Application he received. Unfortunately for him, he didn't read the the fine print that read "WARNING: May Cause Drowsiness, Retardation, Spontaneous Scoliosis, and ASPLODING HEAD SYNDROME." Of course some side-effects there's no getting to the other side of.
In the tunnels under the island, the baddies catch up with our heroes again, this time on motorcycles! There's a long chase through the tunnels--and I mean LONG, several minutes too long, really--and Jeannie is clubbed by a passing cyclist just before they escape. Enraged, Lucas goes back in, grabs a length of pipe, and succeeds in impaling one of the bikers on it--though it magically changes to a piece of rebar once it pierces the mutant's back. Versitile material, that.
Spider takes his mortally wounded friend to Dr. Howell, and the doc expresses his unconcern by shoving Spider's eyebrowless face right into his friend's exposed intestines! Harsh, but fair. A bit put out over this, Spider retaliates by going down to the basement of the clinic and releasing a roomful of slavering mutants to wreak havoc through the hospital.
It's not long before the clinic and most of the island is in flames, and Mike finds himself face-to-face with his nemesis and ready to get some answers about Howell's motivations. No dice--Howell is a mad scientist of the pre-code horror comics mode, doing these horrible things because he's EEEVIL, and he CAN. As to what he hopes to accomplish--apparently it's destruction for destruction's sake:
"I had a vision! There are HUNDREDS out there who've undergone the process...it's only a matter of hours before they all start to melt down! But there are others out there who HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED!"
No arguing with that logic. When Mike gets the upper hand with a carelessly unsecured scalpel the size of a butcher knife, the Doc plays his trump card: "You must realize that I must survive if this is to be stopped! Only I can make you well again!"
Unimpressed, Mike gets very stabby indeed on the good doctor, pinning him against the wall and THRUSTING his PENETRATING BLADE into Howell's EXPOSED FLESH, AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, until THE FLUIDS HIT THE FLOOR AND...say, is it hot in here?
It all leads to a non-confrontation with spider and a bleakish non-ending that makes about as much sense as a set of Ronnie James Dio lyrics, but fortunately is just as much fun.
I had a blast with Death Warmed Up, but I should warn viewers that it's not without its problems. A lot of the driving and chase scenes seem to take place in real time, which slows the movie down considerably, especially against the frantic pace of many of the other scenes. The acting and dialogue are as over the top as comic book speech bubbles, which can be good or bad depending on your point of view. There are a few really out-of-nowhere video wipes that pull you right out of the film, and at least one scene where the actors are upstaged by a boom mike. But for someone like me, that's just gravy on the chips, baby.
That said, the gore is good and goopy, the plot is wilder than it needed to be (in a good way) and the wacky homoerotic undertones (in addition to the MASSIVE SYRINGES and PIPE IMPALEMENT, the guards at the clinic use MAGNIFICENT CATTLE PRODS to keep the inmates in line) and Mad Max/80s Music Video sensibilities all push the scales in the movie's favor. If you're looking for Oscar bait, look away--but if you're looking for FUN, you could do a lot worse.
A bit of an oddity and a TOTAL product of its times, Death Warmed Up is worth at least one viewing by Mad Movie fans, and thus gets an easy 2 Thumbs Up. Grab a few beers, fix up a plate of Vegemite sandwiches, put your legwarmers up on the table, and enjoy.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Death Warmed Up (1984): or, Trepanation Island
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 12:21 PM
Labels: '80s, 2-3 thumbs, Boom Mike Cameo, Exploding Head, Mad Science
5 comments:
- slizwiz said...
I love Death Warmed Up! It was one of those "where have you been all my life?" moments when I finally found it. This begs for a widescreen super deluxe edition.
- January 16, 2009 at 1:46 PM
- Tenebrous Kate said...
I have a great affection for the deliberately wacky, surrealist films of the 80s like "Forbidden Zone" and "Dr. Caligari," but this movie seems to have the added flavor of being played as a straight (erm--so to speak) shock-flick! I've GOT to slap my eyeballs on this movie ASAP.
Also--+10 for the Murray Head reference, and +1,000,000 for the "Faceless" one ;)
- January 16, 2009 at 1:58 PM
- Karswell said...
This appears to be yet another gem I've missed despite the fact I know I saw that box cover a thousand times at the rental shop back in da day. I'm going for it!
>a dollop of pre-code horror comics'*
Thanks for the plug!
>*a dash of homoeroticism
And another plug... tickles...
- January 16, 2009 at 5:25 PM
- Jay Amabile said...
the boom mic makes an appearance? Was it uncredited? I'll definitely look to get a hold of this one. Shlocky '80s horror is my favorite.
- January 22, 2009 at 11:28 AM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Jay--thanks for stopping by!
Yes, the Boom Mic's cameo can be seen in the 3rd photo on this review. Its appearance is brief, but importat--I really think the movie would not have worked without it!
This is available on the Mill Creek "Nightmare Worlds" 50 movie set. I've sung the praises of Mill Creek's public domain offerings a lot on the site--at $20, even if most of them are bad, you still come out ahead. ;) Happy viewing!
- January 22, 2009 at 1:09 PM


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January 17, 2006
Dr. Phil sheds light on a pair of extreme neurological disorders: Tourette syndrome and Asperger's syndrome. Widely misunderstood, these disorders take a toll not only on the person who has them, but on the person's family and loved ones. Learn about the symptoms and also some revolutionary treatments that are giving hope to people who suffer from them.Disorder in the Family
Meet a couple whose son was diagnosed with Asperger's at age 3. See how they have come to deal with their son's erratic behavior, and why the disorder has driven a wedge between them.
Find out what Rich has been hiding from Karen.
Should They Fear Him?
Alex, 15, talks about his experience with Asperger's and how it affects his relationships with family members and friends at school.
"I'll just feel my whole body shaking at times."
No Offense Intended
Craig lives with Tourette syndrome and can't control his physical tics or keep from constantly uttering obscenities — literally hundreds of times a day.
Find out how Craig's disorder has led to public altercations.
Amy's Love
Craig and Amy are engaged and have decided they want to have children. Will their kids go through life with tics like their father? And Dr. Phil shares a method of treating the disorder that Craig has never tried.
"I've never once in my life been sorry I was born."


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I have the latest 6.3 version of Madsonic installed on my SynoNAS ...
Since today, some icons diseppeared on the left panel .. like the settings boutons ..
On the top-left, I only have
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Bottom part of left-panel is correct ...
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What's A Food System?
A healthy food system is one that can feed its community now and in the future.
What are the pieces?It takes more than just growing nutritious foods. It takes more than just preserving the environment. There are many pieces to resolve the food system puzzle:
Sustainable Agriculture & Organics
Local Foods
Cooking & Nutrition
Food Justice
School Gardens
Urban & Community Gardens
Composting & Used Oil
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Find out what's wrong with our current food system, and why and how to use this info...
NOTE: Due to the continuous evolution of the SF Bay Area food movement, we are no longer tracking individual organizations focused in each area below. Nonetheless, many of the organizations listed are still around and doing great work.
Sustainable Agriculture & OrganicsThese organizations work to educate and empower the community about farming itself in the long-term: fresh foods, abundant supply, successful farmers, healthy soil, healthy eco-systems, and/or bio-diversity. This also includes organics and anti-GMO efforts.
Community outreach
Californians for GE-Free Agriculture, Ctr. for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA), Chefs Collaborative, Community Food Security Coalition, CA Food & Justice Coalition (CFJC), Ecology Ctr., Grown in Marin, Hunters Point Family (HPF), Husbandry Inst. and Meat Matters: Ask for Change, Marin Agricultural Education Alliance (MAEA), Marin Organic, Occidental Arts & Ecology Ctr. (OAEC), Om Organics, People's Grocery, Pie Ranch, Seafood Watch, Slide Ranch, Slow Food, Sustainable Agriculture Education (SAGE), Wise Food Ways
Farmer/producer outreach
Agricultural & Land-Based Training Assoc. (ALBA), Bay Area Seed Interchange Library (BASIL), CA Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF), CA Farm Link, Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), Eco-Farm, Inst. for Fisheries Resources, Marin Organic, Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture (MESA), UC Cooperative Extension
Local Foods"Buying Local" is now just as popular (or even more than) organics. Today, we can buy just about anything, at any time, from anywhere on the planet. This may be convenient, but it comes with a cost: weakened local economies, significant fossil fuel pollution, and lower quality, homogeneous varieties. These organizations promote buying locally as a way to keep money circulating within communities, provide fresh foods, and retain the cultural heritage of regional foods. (Farmers markets also promote local foods; see the Distribution section for more info.)
Eat Local Challenge, CAFF Buy Fresh Buy Local, Locavores, Marin Organic, Neighborhood Fruit, Om Organics, Slow Food
Cooking & NutritionEnvironmentally-friendly farming means more variety and an emphasis on diverse, seasonal produce. These organizations offer cooking and nutrition education -- to provide essential food and nutrition skills for the general community, or as a means to combat the acute food crisis in lower-income communities. (Some of these organizations are also in the Food Justice section.)
The Bread Project, CA Nutrition Network, Ctr. for EcoLiteracy, CHEFS Program (pictured), Freshtopia, From the Garden to the Table, Hunters Point Family (HPF), Next Course, Om Organics' What's In Season, People's Grocery, SF Dept. of Public Health, Nutrition, SF Head Start Nutrition Program, School Lunch Initiative, Prevention Inst., UC Cooperative Extension
DistributionOur existing prevalent food system already has issues effectively distributing healthy foods to lower-income and elderly people. With the local, organic food movement, there are even more obstacles to efficiently connect suppliers and buyers. These organizations are working to create more efficient regional distribution channels, so everyone in the community can access healthy, fresh foods.
Community Food Security Coalition (toolkit for Farm-to-School programs);
FarmsReach (wholesale inventory & ordering tool)
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Delivery Programs
Fresh, affordable, organic produce from local farmers delivered to your home, office, or a drop-off point in your neighborhood. (Learn more and find farms…)
Farmers Markets
Alemany Market, City Slicker Farms, CUESA, Ecology Ctr. markets, Marin Farmers Market Assoc., Mo Better Food, Pacific Coast Farmers Market Assoc., Urban Village (Find more farmers markets…)
Food Banks, Pantries, Kitchens
Congregation Emanu-El, Garden Project, Glide Memorial Church, Haight Ashbury Food Program, Hunters Point Family (HPF), St. Anthony Foundation, St. Gregory's Food Pantry, SF Food Bank (Find another food bank...)
Food Delivery Programs
CAFF Growers Collaborative (to institutions), Food Runners (to shelters & neighborhood programs; pictured above), Marin Ag Institute's Farm-to-Fork (to institutions), Marin Organic (to schools), Meals on Wheels SF (to elderly), People's Grocery (to schools), Produce to the People (to food pantries & kitchens), SF Food Bank (to lower-income & elderly), SF Glean (to food banks & pantries), SF Summer Lunch (to children)
We do have several conventional distributors focusing on local, sustainable foods. (Find a local distributor…)
Food Justice"Food Justice" means the right of every person to have access to fresh, nutritious food. These organizations educate, organize, and foster new social relations around food to change eating and distribution patterns. Their work is typically focused on lower incomes, elderly, homeless, or others lacking access to fresh, wholesome foods. (Food Banks, Food Pantries, and Food Delivery Programs are also considered Food Justice; see the Distribution section for more info.)
Education Programs
The Bread Project, CA Nutrition Network, CHEFS Program, City Slicker Farms (pictured), Garden Project, Hunters Point Family (HPF), Mo Better Food, Next Course, People's Grocery, Produce to the People, St. Anthony Farm, SF Dept. of Public Health, Nutrition
Food Business Assistance
La Cocina
Food Stamps, Food Coupons
CA Farmers Market EBT Program, CA Food Stamps Program (county listings), SF Food Stamp Program
Research Organizations
Community Food Security Coalition, CA Food & Justice Coalition (CFJC), Food First, Prevention Inst., SF Food Systems
School GardensSchool gardens provide an environment in which students can learn about the relationship between plants and people, gaining a better understanding of how nature sustains life. Students learn where our food comes from, how it's grown, and how it gets from garden to plate. These organizations operate school gardens and educate children about agriculture and ecology.
Berkeley Community Gardening Collaborative, Collective Roots, Ctr. for EcoLiteracy, Rethinking School Lunch, Edible Schoolyard (pictured), Garden for the Environment, People's Grocery, Planting Justice, SF Green Schoolyard Alliance, School Lunch Initiative, Urban Sprouts
Urban & Community GardensMany neighborhood residents are coming together to form community gardens in vacant lots, or even on rooftops. These gardens are a great way to get adults and children involved in their neighborhood, while they gain hands-on knowledge about nutritious foods. Through community-based food production, these organizations create local jobs, promote good health, and emphasize the importance of a self-sufficient food system.
Alameda Point Collaborative (APE), Berkeley Community Gardening Collaborative, City Slicker Farms, Collective Roots, Common Ground Garden Supply & Education Ctr., Double Rock Garden, Garden for the Environment, The Garden Project, Graze the Roof, Peah Garden, People's Grocery, Plant SF, Planting Justice, Produce to the People, Quesada Gardens Initiative, San Francisco Garden Resource Organization (SF GRO) Directory
Composting & Used OilEach day, these recycling companies collect tons of food scraps and yard trimmings and transform them into nutritious compost. The compost is then used by Bay Area farmers to grow vegetables, which are sold back to consumers -- essentially closing the loop.
Biodiesel and vegetable-oil vehicle companies also pick up used restaurant cooking oil to be converted to green fuels.
Berkeley Public Works Composting Info, Golden Gate Recycling, SF Recycling, and Sunset Scavenger Co., Marin County Public Works Recycling Info, Nor-Cal Waste Systems (with Alta Environmental Services, Inc., Feather River Organics, Inc., Jepson Prairie Organics, South Valley Organics, Inc.), SF Dept. of Environment Composting Info, StopWaste.org Composting Resources
Used Oil
SF GreaseCycle (SF City free used oil pickup program); Got Grease: 888-269-3115; Health Fuel in SF, Ben Jordan: email@example.com; Plant Drive in East Bay, Craig Reece: email@example.com
Land Conservation & Sustainable Land DevelopmentSupplying the community with healthy food requires healthy soil and farmland that continues to be used for farming, not development. These organizations work to integrate appropriate land use, building design, and conservation & construction strategies to ensure we can supply foods now and in the future.
Agricultural & Land-Based Training Assoc. (ALBA), American Farmland Trust, Bay Area Open Space Council, Brentwood Agricultural Land Trust, CA Inst. for Rural Studies (CIRS), CA Rangeland Trust, Committee for Green Foothills, Greenbelt Alliance, Inst. for Fisheries Resources (sustainable aquaculture), Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT), Northcoast Regional Land Trust, Monterey Bay Aquarium (sustainable aquaculture), Sustainable Agriculture Education (SAGE), UC Inst. of Urban & Regional Development
Farm Workers RightsDue to the low wages and difficult working conditions that prevail in agriculture, the labor force is almost entirely foreign born. Rural areas are afflicted lands of toxic contamination, hunger, illiteracy, and exploitation. There is an interrelationship between production, worker, and environment. These organizations work to address immigration reform, immigrant civic participation, labor law enforcement, rural health, pesticide use, and water policy.
Agricultural & Land-Based Training Assoc. (ALBA), Binational Ctr. for the Dev. of Indigenous Communities, CA Inst. for Rural Studies (CIRS), CA Rural Health Policy Council, CA Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, Central Vly. Partnership for Citizenship, Citizenship Project, Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights, UC Agriculture & Natural Resources (ANR): Farmworker Food Security
Policy Makers n ShakersThese organizations and government offices work to influence food policy in any of the areas above to create a safe, secure food supply for years to come.
Ag Futures Alliance, Berkeley Food Policy Council, CA Coalition for Food & Farming, CA Food Policy Advocates, Community Food Security Coalition, CA Food & Justice Coalition (CFJC), Food First, Inst. for Fisheries Resources, Marin Food Systems Project, The Oakland Institute, Oakland Public Works Agency, Prevention Inst., Roots of Change: Vivid Picture, SF Board of Supervisors Food Security Task Force, SF Food Systems: Food Alliance, SF Dept. of Environment, SF Dept. of Public Health, SF Interagency Healthy & Sustainable Food Working Group – new!, Sustainable Agriculture Education (SAGE)
Media & PRThese Bay Area (free!) publications and PR firms help spread the word about local, sustainable food businesses and issues.
Bay Area Naturally, Common Ground, Edible East Bay, Edible San Francisco, Haven B Media, Terrain Quarterly
And, your online portal: Om Organics
Additions, Corrections?We did our best to create a comprehensive Bay Area list, but you can see from the LARGE number of organizations, they're not easy to track. Please let us know if we forgot anyone! Note: Some organizations fall under more than one category.
What's wrong with our current system?We're at a point where the prevalence of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, genetically-modified organisms, industrial agriculture, and global food distribution has created a pretty dysfunctional system that cannot provide for future generations.
Our foods have toxins and/or toxic residues, soil fertility is decreasing, chemical runoff contaminates fresh water and creates dead zones in the ocean, farmland is converted to urban sprawl developments, farm workers are underpaid and/or treated unfairly, food transport contributes significant fossil fuel pollution... Our personal health and environment suffer.
And then there are economic and access issues. Processed, junk food is so cheap that healthy, farm-fresh food has become a luxury item. Many people have been raised on basic, commoditized foods (think broccoli, carrots, baked potatoes...) that they don't even know how to shop for or cook diverse fruits and vegetables. Others may want to buy local, organic foods but don't have geographic or financial access. Wholesalers share this access problem where they lack the simple tools to track availability and place orders.
Sounds pretty dismal, doesn't it.
Why and how to use this info?WHY: A) You like to eat. B) You'd like to eat tomorrow. C) With so many areas, we know there's at least ONE that interests you. Or, if you already work in the world of foods, we hope you discover some new allies. Collaboration and cooperation for the future!
HOW: Pick a topic that interests you. Click on an organization name and check out what they're doing about it. For those you like, sign up for their newsletter, contact them to get involved, or make a donation to help their work. However you'd like to help or just learn...
Many thanks to Rebecca Harkinson for her research and writing contributions!
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Monday, May 25, 2015
Quebec back in the NDP fold?
The Liberals slipped four points to 25%, while the Conservatives dropped four points to 15%. The Bloc Québécois was down even further, by five points to 13%, and the Greens were up two points to 5%.
Undecideds numbered 10% of the entire sample, with an additional 7% that either gave no response to this question or said they would not vote.
The last time that CROP recorded a shift larger than this 11-point jump was between March and April 2013, when Justin Trudeau became Liberal leader (the party doubled its support from 19% to 38% at the time). And while CROP has generally had the NDP a little higher than other polling firms, it hasn't had the New Democrats this high in Quebec since June 2012 - in fact, no one has.
The Liberal score seems well within the norm for polls lately. The Conservatives at 15% and the Bloc at 13% is lower than what we've seen in most recent polls, but CROP has often had these two parties lower than the consensus (and the Bloc at 13% on several occasions).
Nevertheless, these numbers are remarkable. If repeated on election day, the New Democrats would likely win between 57 and 62 seats. The Liberals would take between 11 and 15, the Conservatives between four and six, and the Bloc would be shut out.
The shift in voting intentions has occurred primarily among francophones. The NDP is up 13 points among these voters to 47%, their best score since April 2012. The last time the party was consistently polling around that level was in the fall of 2011.
The Liberals were down slightly to 20%, while the Bloc was down seven points to just 15%. That is their lowest score since the 2011 election. The Conservatives were also down, putting them in a tie with the Bloc among francophones.
The Liberals also tumbled among non-francophones from 58% to just 46%. The party has not polled this low among non-francophones under Justin Trudeau. But no one party is taking advantage, with the NDP at 24%, the Conservatives at 14%, and the Greens at 9%. The Liberals would still likely sweep the majority-non-francophone ridings at these levels of support.
The NDP was up a little in and around Montreal, but overall the numbers were relatively stable. On the island, the NDP was narrowly ahead with 38% to 35% for the Liberals and 13% for the Bloc. Around Montreal, the NDP's lead was larger: 41% to 29% for the Liberals and 12% for the Conservatives.
There was more interesting movement in the rest of the province. The Conservatives lost the lead in Quebec City for the first time since November, with 34% support. By comparison, in the last four polls the party had been consistently growing, from 37% to 38%, to 41%, and finally to 42% in April. This may be a sign that the Tory surge in Quebec has abated. The New Democrats were in front instead, with 39%. The Liberals were at 18%.
The Liberals dropped significantly in the regions of Quebec, falling to just 18% support. The NDP moved dramatically into the lead with 46%, while the Bloc only managed 16% support in this region (where both of its current MPs are located). But the drop for the Liberals is what is noteworthy - it is their worst result since April 2012. To put it into context, the Liberals averaged 36% in the 'regions of Quebec' in earlier CROP polls conducted in 2014 and 2015.
On who would make the best prime minister, Thomas Mulcair was first with 37%. That was up 11 points from last month, and his best result since before Justin Trudeau was added to the list. At 16%, this is Trudeau's lowest score as leader in a CROP poll. Stephen Harper's 14% was typical.
If these numbers hold, the New Democrats would be very well placed to supplant the Liberals as the most viable alternative to the Conservatives in the rest of the country. A dozen seats or so for the Liberals in Quebec would be disastrous for their national ambitions.
But we should not get ahead of ourselves. Polling in Quebec is suddenly looking a little volatile. Yes, the NDP's 42% is not dissimilar from the 36% EKOS gave the party in its May 6-12 poll, or the 38% Forum awarded the NDP in its May 12-13 poll. But the most recent EKOS survey pegged the NDP at just 29% in Quebec. The sample was smaller, at under half of CROP's, but even so the respective margins of error (theoretical or otherwise) do not bridge the gap. Quebec is a province to watch closely yet again.
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Interesting differences between Francophones and Non-Francophones ??ReplyDeleteReplies
Those differences are pretty much as they have always been. What's most interesting is the drop in support for the Liberals among non-Francophones.Delete
In other words, the difference between Francophone and non-Francophone is a little less distinct.Delete
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It's this way because of the separation issue. The Liberals (both provincially and federally) are seen as the big "no" supporters and defenders and so get the bulk of those supporters behind them. Anglophones didn't have much of a choice as, in the past, the CPC and NDP were non-factors in Québec. With the NDP now making inroads (and having done so last time), it would be interesting to see if that super-majority is going to erode and start voting more freely (as the LPC vote is mostly a forced vote than a true vote).Delete
Also, the non-francophones include a lot of immigrants and, while I can't explain it very well, the big majority of immigrants are LPC supporters. Maybe it has to do with first generations arriving under Trudeau father and multiculturalism and then under Chrétien who gave them citizenship for the referendum or any other reason (immigrants are mostly no supporters, so the previous argument still holds), but what is certain, it's that the LPC wins a lot of their support. I don't see that changing for the next election though with the Trudeau legacy at the forefront.
I can see the NDP winning between 55 and 65 seats easily. I don't believe PKP's election as PQ leader will have much of an impact for the fall federal election. He is just starting as leader and his plan to promote separation won't be in full effect by that time, so mostly, it will have to ride on Mario Beaulieu. He seems to be making a few blunders here and there, so while I can't judge him very will as we don't see him much, I also don't think he'll be able to convince a lot of people from turning back to protest vote. I also think that people in Québec, even separatists, are tired of protest voting and not having a voice in government, and that is why they turned to the NDP, which they felt represented them best amongst the federal parties.
Thierry, that seems like a good analysis all round. I also think PKP is a very divisive character - he'll polarise rather than unite...Delete
I wouldn't be surprised in 2018, if he has a good plan, for PKP to win an easy majority and start a referendum process. I believe he already has a plan in his mind that he'll try to execute and, using his connections (he may not be in charge of his media anymore, but he's most likely still very friendly with the people in place) and his resume, to push forward a convincing separatist agenda. Unlike Marois, who was divise and whose resume, while diverse, was not all successful, he can point towards his companies which are now major corporations for his economic success. Unlike Boisclair, who wasn't really well known, he is a very recognizable figure. And to begin you're better off being known and not like and try to sway people your way than to not be known and try to sway people who don't even recognize you. Of course, it all depends on the plan he has, but somehow, I can't see him becoming the leader of the PQ if he didn't have something solid behind him.Delete
With these numbers, my model gives:ReplyDelete
With 59 seats, the NDP would already be at a third of a majority. If the rest of Canada wants to vote Anything But Harper, concentrating behind the NDP would make sense. The LPC probably doesn't feel too good about this, and I'm wondering if it's going to change its strategy (amongst other things, stop focusing on Trudeau in its ads and more on the ideas as he doesn't connect that well with Quebecers).Replies
There are not that many Conservative-NDP or Liberal-NDP seats, far more Conservative-Liberal seats. I don't think backing the NDP is a good way to displace the Tories, more likely backing the NDP will cause the Tories to win far more of the Conservative-Liberals seats, if anything backing the NDP is a way to ensure a second strong stable Conservative majority Government!Delete
You say that as if ridings cannot elect MPs from parties they have not before. Now I admit the status quo if the most likely, but it is dangerous to always assume it is how things will be.Delete
Capilano Dunbar, way to spout the Liberal Party official line. In the last election, the NDP finished second in more than 2/3 of ridings. That means, by definition, that in the last election there were more Conservative-NDP races than there were Conservative-Liberal races. In a true three party environment, its also not nearly as predictable which parties will be truly competitive in a seat.Delete
In any event, people should vote for what they want, not what they don't. If that means voting Liberal in a no-hope riding, voting NDP in a no-hope riding or voting Rhino (in any riding) they should do it.
First of all the NDP came second in only 121 ridings-not two-thirds so your logic doesn't add up! Secondlt, I'm not a Liberal but, thanks for coming out-I'm spouting logic, if that is the Liberal party line so be it. Everyone and their Grandma knows in the West maybe you vote NDP but, in the East Liberal, way to go Mulcair-you've cemented a split left and another strong stable Conservative Majority Government!
Not with the number as they are now.Delete
If things stay stable the Conservatives will not have anywhere near a majority and even a plurality is a toss up.
The idea that the left (which it's not because the LPC isn't left or progressive) is now split and that will some how deliver another CPC majority is foolish. The CPC isn't going to snake up the middle and win anything with only 30% support.
Capilano Dunbar - He meant 2/3 of the ridings the Tories won. The NDP finished second to the Tories twice as often as the Liberals managed it. To defeat Tories it makes more sense to vote NDP.Delete
If the NDP starts to consistently poll ahead of the Liberals across the country and the narrative starts to sink in that Trudeau is not going anywhere - I think a lot of that vestigial Liberal support among non-francophone Quebecers could start to melt even more. Keep in mind that Tom Mulcair is himself an anglo-Quebecer who used to be a top figure in Alliance Quebec which defends the rights of anglophones in Quebec...if the NDP can even get within single digits of the Liberals in the non-franco population it would probably re-elect almost every NDP MP in a riding with a large non-francophone element with the possible exception of Pierrefonds-DollardReplyDeleteReplies
The Liberal "vestigial support" in Quebec has very little to do with Justin and even less with the narrative that it is "time to get rid of Harper". The Liberal party is the party of Quebec Anglophones, support for the Liberals has much more to do with language rights (something the NDP routinely ignores if not down right hostile toward Anglophones) than its ability to form or influence Government.Delete
Recent Quebec anglophone near-unanimous Liberal support comes from the 70s and 80s. Nonfrancophones in Quebec were big P.E. Trudeau supporters due to his very strong anti-sovereignty stances. In the pre-Bloc era, the Conservatives and NDP saw sovereigntists as potential voters in Quebec. Eg., Mulroney put Lucien Bouchard and Marcel Masse in the cabinet, while the 1980s NDP was tiny and leaned pro-sovereignty (today's Quebec Solidaire is a direct descendent of the 1980's Quebec NDP, which split off from the federal party).Delete
Dunbar, the notion that the NDP is hostile towards anglophones is absurd and baseless. Or an example of windbaggery.Delete
So, going forward, the Grits collapse in Quebec, leading Ontario voters who can't abide the Tories to move to the NDP to head that possibility off. What could we have then? Discuss.ReplyDeleteReplies
It'd be an interesting scenario. I don't think it's completely out of the question to see an NDP majority, given the way things have been trending, but I'd be surprised. More likely, and maybe more interesting, is a situation where the NDP win slightly more seats than the Tories, but still in Minority territory. Since the Liberals have been much more of a centre-right party under Trudeau, how would that play out?Delete
I think Trudeau would try to pretend that he hadn't said those things you perceive as centre-right.Delete
If Trudeau told his caucus he was going to voluntarily let Harper continue to govern after the last 9 years, he might not leave the room alive.Delete
I think the more likely scenario in an NPD plurality is that Trudeau does nothing and lets the the NDP govern on a case by case bases. He would be hoping that they'll slip up and he can bring down the government and take his chances in the following election.Delete
No sure that will be a good idea however, as the NDP could propose a very progressive agenda or force MMP hoping the Tories and Grits bring them down. That way they can go to the people and say look we tried but the liberals have shown their true blue colours and side with the Tories against us.
The Liberal caucus under Martin, Bill Graham, Dion, Ignatiev, Rae and now Trudeau have voted with the Government on important and significant Government legislation, most recently Bill C-51. Do you really think your statement above accurate? It seems to me more wishful New Democrat thinking,k the NDP only way to power is to piggyback on the Liberals-ain't going to happen Brian! Liberals know power sharing with the Dippers is as good as signing their own death warrant!
Yes, it is accurate. If anyone thinks the Liberals are going to prop up Stephen Harper when he loses his majority now that the Bloc is not providing a 50-seat impediment, when Stephen Harper has explicitly stated that his goal is to destroy the Liberal Party and has done his level best to carry out that mission over the last 9 years in the most antagonistic way possible, when they can side with the NDP instead and set about electoral reform, which is in their long-term interests too and the Conservatives will never touch in a million years, what they know about politics couldn't fill a shot glass. They don't need to form a coalition, they can dictate the terms of their support to the NDP if the NDP is ahead in the seat count, and the NDP isn't exactly going to slap their hand away in the face of the prospect of forming the first NDP federal government ever. You can't bring the government down every 2 weeks in a minority situation so yes, that's life and a lot of bills get passed without no votes by the opposition in a minority when the government turns them into confidence votes, and the Liberals made a strategic miscalculation on C-51 that I don't like either, but I'm not deluded enough into thinking that means they have more in common with the Conservatives. Come on.Delete
Brian, when I read comments such as yours I can't help think how difficult negotiations can be. If we assume Trudeau is dealing with a hung Parliament then walking away may be the prudent move-better to use what political capital you have on a safer bet or a more determinant one.Delete
Trudeau does not have to make a deal with the New Democrats-Many Dippers would like to think that is Trudeau's only option post-election but, many possibilities remain open including a coalition with the Tories. Even if Trudeau finds himself (in the admittedly at present unlikely situation of a Liberal plurality) NDP support may not be essential or required for Justin to govern. Even if Mulcair manages to pull off a plurality himself, Trudeau is still in the driver's seat: What if Trudeau demands the prime ministership as the price for cooperation? Are New Democrats really going to pass up a once-in-several-lifetimes-opportunity to be in Government? Or worse what if Trudeau doesn't want to play the NDP game at all?
Negotiations are difficult: This is why B.C. still has about 100 unsettled First nations land claims.
It is as much in the NDP's interests to destroy the Liberal Party as it is in the CPC's interests to do so.Delete
The current debate negotiations looks very much like Mulcair and Harper are working together to disadvantage Trudeau.
Ira, in this instance, is correct, it is in the interest of the NDP that the LPC disappeared. However I think the reasons are different.Delete
I think the Tories are trying to destroy the Liberal for three reasons; first is ideological, the CPC wants to supplant the LPC as the nation's natural governing party; second is political, if the LPC dies off the thinking is the blue liberals and red Tories would be inclined to vote CPC to stop a left-wing NDP. Lastly is personal, I think there is real animosity for the LPC, especially from western MPs who feel they were shut of government for so long due to eastern politicking.
For the NDP getting rid of the liberal is a mix of personal and political; many of us Dippers view the LPC and Tories (what ever name they wear) as one and the same. The Liberal have painted themselves as the progressive center/center-left party especially since 1993, when in reality they have been just as Conservative as the CPC. The death of the Liberal party would give Canadians a real choice between right and left policies, in contrast the last 35 years where the LPC has muddied the water as they tried to play at both end. I do think there is something very personal in that for the NDP but not as personal as the Tories need to destroy the LPC.
As Capilano Dunbar points out the Liberals have propped up every Conservative ministry since, 2006-there is absolutely no reason to suggest post-election 2015 Liberals will try a different tact! After the election the make-up of the Liberal caucus may make it impossible for them to prop-up a minority Tory ministry but, as of yet we don't have that information.
I'm afraid you've fallen for Dipper propaganda and as we saw with the coalition coup d'etat fiasco New Democrats don't have the slightest clue how Government formation works in theory or practice.
Eric, explain me why Nanos (with a smaller sample and older data) has the same weight than the last EKOS in your estimations of percentage and seats for federal parties?ReplyDelete
Ira, just FYI, I posted a lengthy reply to your comments about "the individual" and "group decisions" in the previous thread.ReplyDelete
As for how things might go in a minority situation with the Liberals in third, I would put nothing past them, so long as it meant they got some share of power. Brian, Trudeau could let Harper continue to govern - but it would probably require a formal coalition (which I doubt Harper could bring himself to).
As for jim's scenario, if there was 40%+ support for the NDP in Québec (especially if still increasing) and growing support for them in the West (a clear lead in BC, growth across the Prairies), then I could easily see Ontario Liberal voters swing NDP. It would then entirely depend on how far the swing goes: As the NDP gain on the Liberals, the Conservatives win more seats. At par, which the minority goes swings. If the NDP and Liberals switched numbers, the NDP would win a majority. The part of what makes it interesting that a swing could be starting now. We're far enough out that it could dissipate, of course. But we're also far enough out that it could swing far enough to get to majority territory.Replies
- Anonymous26 May, 2015 15:51
The CPC will do best in the GTA if they can equalise NDP and LPC support. Achieving that could get them another majority.Delete
A careful titration is required because if the NDP runs well ahead of the LPC in the GTA, Mulcair's the next PM.
I read a long time ago that Stephan Harper's long term goal was the squeeze the Liberals out, and basically have a two party system in Canada between the NDP and Conservatives. I wonder if that's why he tends to be harder on the Liberals than the NDP?Delete
National support for the federal New Democrats appears to have shifted to the next level: a consistant upward trend, surpassing the CPC and LPC. The ever-critical Debates, only 11 to 15 weeks away, will determine the % of soft support and undecideds that moves to the federal New Democrats. E-day will, of courseReplyDeleteReplies
... produce the final evidence of this trend toward support for a New Democrat federal majority government.Delete
This number of seats will range from 169 to 184 and could quite possibly top 200
seats, istm. (The post-debate period will make it easier to identify a new range, of course.)
Quebec will elect a majority of New Democrat seats, although PKP agitation, if any, could have a bearing on this number. The range here will be 53 to 65 seats, istm.
Cheers :)
Did you update your overall projection with this poll?
Justin has been absent on the local scene in Montreal and Quebec. he hasn't been on French language TV much at all for weeks or even over a month.ReplyDelete
I understand his strategy of not getting too over exposed but his lack of exposure now is benefiting Mulcair locally.
Trudeau has to adopt a more aggressive push on selling himself and his ideas or else Mulcair will fill the empty void in Quebec.Replies
Trudeau was clear when he became leader that he wouldn't let Harper define him the way Dion and Ignatieff has let Harper define them.Delete
But Trudeau's in danger of letting Mulcair define him, which is probably just as bad.
That's assuming Ira, that Mulcair has the same blind hatred of the Liberals that Harper has and of course the answer is NO !!Delete
Defeat the Liberals yes, destroy completely ? No !! Mulcair ain't the same warped mind as Harper !
Peter Meldrum,Delete
How do you know what Mulcair thinks? Just because he was a provincial Liberal doesn't mean he has sympathy for the federal party!
Interesting piece in today's Toronto Star by Chantal Hebert to the effect that Quebec is ignoring the Liberals in favour of the NDP except in the Anglo Montreal ridings !! Interesting !!ReplyDelete
I think Phil it is more than a Justin idea though. Seems to me the Liberals are maintaining a quite low profile across the country. I suspect that once the Writ is dropped they will come on gangbusters !!ReplyDelete
Just in case you haven't seen this recent Insights West poll from 4 battleground BC ridings.ReplyDelete
Except Fur Burnaby-North-Seymour where the GPC if much stronger than my model projects, using the aggregate, I am pretty close to those numbers. I wuold call that reassuring (especially after the disaster that was the Alberta election for my model).Delete
" IRA " .... It is fair to say that the Leader of he Official Oppostion Tom Mulcair has succeeded in defining third party novice leader Justin Trudeau with the effective observation :ReplyDelete
- being 'Prime Minister is not an Entry Level job.'
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I think Mulcair's efforts on that front have been quite effective. I also think they were made more so by the early CPC attack ads.
While the CPC ads didn't seem to convince anyone, they framed the debate about Justin Trudeau. And then Mulcair came along and took advantage of that playing field.
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While it is good that you know what you are not, it is equally important to remember who you are...Ideal Rational Agent (from your Blog
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Gaining ground: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell leads Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes in the Bluegrass Poll for the first time, and National Journal has several important takeaways for the closely watched race. Among them: that McConnell is gaining ground, even though his lead is just two points. He trailed Grimes by four points in February and one point in May. Further, Grimes is winning women voters by just a single percentage point. To win in November she likely needs to win more women. The poll is sponsored by four media organizations in Kentucky.
Inversion vote coming in fall? The Washington Post reports Senate Democrats hope to hold a vote on closing the corporate tax inversion loophole in the fall. "Mainly," writes the Post's liberal blogger Greg Sargent, "because they see an outside shot at some Republican cooperation and want to get something done, but also because it would be good politics if Republicans block it." Sargent says it's uncertain if Democrats will be able to stage a vote on reining in inversions in the fall, since other items like reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank and government funding will take up time. "But if they do stage a vote," he writes, "and Republicans nix it – you can expect that to figure into the Dem argument heading into Election Day."
Go ahead, hate me: Arizona Sen. John McCain says it's a "true badge of honor" to be featured as an enemy in propaganda by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The Republican said in a statement: "I was proud to be sanctioned by [Russian President] Vladimir Putin earlier this year, but to be targeted by ISIL as the 'enemy' and 'crusader' is a true badge of honor." Politico has more on McCain and ISIL, which he calls "the most dangerous Islamic extremist terrorist group in the world."
Climate case: The White House is issuing a report Tuesday that argues for quick action to fight climate change. The Wall Street Journal says the report finds economic costs to address climate change rise by 40% in each decade in which there is a delay in enacting policies to cut carbon emissions. The report is meant to help build the Obama administration's case for the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed carbon rule for power plants. Public hearings on the rule begin Tuesday.
Grover goes west: Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist is headed to this year's Burning Man festival, in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. There's no word via his Twitter feed about what exactly he'll be doing there, but as Slate says, his pilgrimage makes sense. "He's a libertarian anti-tax crusader. Burning Man is a libertarian utopia. Why wouldn't he want to see some of his ideals in action?" Slate asks.
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What do you do when there is a movement in a kata that does not make sense to you? Here is what I do (not in any order).
- Ask my sensei what it means.
- Ask my Karate friends in other styles what it means.
- Check out meanings in books, videos, DVDs, etc.
- Think about similar movements in our system in other kata or drills.
- Think about similar movements in other martial arts.
- Sleep on it.
My point is that our appreciation of movements grows as we do. Don't dismiss a movement too early, particularly when you have only trained for a few years. Give it time.
A movement might not look like a takedown, unless you realize that you are holding the attackers ears!
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My current research is focused on the design of front-end electronics for radiation detectors and is carried out at the RED Integrated Circuits Department of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. SLAC has been designing state-of-the-art detectors for particle physics, astrophysics and photon science. To enable pump probe experiments at synchrotron facilities, SLAC is designing a hybrid pixel detector configured as a dual gate photon counter with multiple thresholds named cPix2. In pump probe experiments matter is probed under different exited states by means of a laser beam (pump).
The pixel architecture (Fig. 1) is composed by a fast shaper-less charge preamplifier that integrates the input charge generated in a silicon sensor by x-ray photons, a multi-threshold comparator detecting the arrival of the incoming events and two gates (counters) counting them under two possible excitation conditions (pump on, pump off). Within the project my actual research goal is to study and optimize architecture for the charge preamplifier and its reset system and to implement the dual counters.
The charge amplifier design presents several challenges as it requires to process signals in 48ns with minimum noise and power consumption. Gain needs to be sufficient to extract the full charge from the sensor. Area is limited by the maximum pixel size of 100x100 um2. The counters occupy almost half of the pixel area.
Because of these specification aspects like limited pixel area, low-noise, and low-power are critical for this project.


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Cameron Rast, on game: "We did some really good things tonight and we got in behind them a number of times. We had a couple of shots off the post and their goalkeeper made some very nice saves. Sometimes that is the difference in the game. They had a couple of dangerous moments, but I think that we did enough to win it. Unfortunately, we were lacking that final finishing touch."
Rast, on shutout: "I am happy with keeping them off the scoresheet. Sometimes when you dominate the game, a mistake here or there can lead to a loss. We played hard and did not give them many dangerous opportunities. We did not let them run at us and we kept the play in front of us tonight so I am pleased with that."
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Thursday, June 29, 2006
Bernstein to Be ABC Sideline Reporter
Sideline reporter Bonnie Bernstein, formerly of CBS, is returning to ABC and ESPN. Part of Bernstein's duties will be to work ABC's weekly college football telecasts. That opening was created by the departure of Sam Ryan, who left to sign with New York's Channel 2 and CBS. Bernstein, 35, left CBS earlier this year, saying she wanted to pursue other interests. She was with ABC and ESPN from 1995-98 before departing for CBS. Bernstein's first assignment will be Sunday night's ESPN telecast of the Yankees-Mets game. Bernstein's time at CBS will be remembered for her interview of Roy Williams, then the basketball coach at Kansas, after a bitter loss to Syracuse in the 2003 NCAA tournament title game. Bernstein's questions about his interest in the opening at North Carolina drew a sharp response from Williams, who eventually took the Tar Heel job.
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Batted .420 in his lone year as a Bulldog ... Hit eight home runs with 49 RBI and scored 44 runs ... Also stole 15 bases ... Named the league's MVP, was a First Team All-America selection and won a California Silver Slugger award ... Led the team to the conference title ... Bulldogs lost in state title game ... Coached by Doug Williams.
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Sweden Cuts Back on Eurovision Extravaganza
Sweden says it will spend about half what Azerbaijan did in hosting the Eurovision song contest this year. Less lighting, less glitz and more attention back on the music. WSJ's Frances Robinson reports. Photo: Getty Images
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Brandon Mennonite Church (Brandon, Colorado, USA)
The Brandon Mennonite Church, sometimes referred to as a preaching point, was located in a small eastern Colorado farming community that had developed along the Missouri Pacific Railroad some 85 miles northeast of La Junta during the late 1880s. The congregation was formally established and received into the Kansas-Nebraska Mennonite Conference in 1911. Jacob A. Heatwole, an ordained Virginia Mennonite Conference minister who had moved to Fairmount (present-day Swink), Colorado, in 1907, and would be ordained as a Bishop in the Kansas-Nebraska Mennonite Conference at La Junta in 1919, served as a visiting minister to the small Brandon congregation during 1910-14. The congregation, which was listed in the Mennonite Yearbook 1913-18 with 18 members, remained under the pastoral care of the La Junta ministers during its brief tenure. By 1919 the congregation was no longer listed in the Mennonite Yearbook.
Unrau, Harlan D. In Pursuit of Land, Health and Mission: A History of Mennonites in the Mountain States Region. Printed in Canada by Blitzprint Inc. 2007.
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Vol. 1, p. 405 by Melvin Gingerich
Brandon, Colorado was a preaching point (Mennonite Church) under the Kansas-Nebraska Conference, and was listed in the Mennonite Yearbook 1913-1918 with 18 members.
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Unrau, Harlan D. "Brandon Mennonite Church (Brandon, Colorado, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. December 2011. Web. 20 Feb 2019. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Brandon_Mennonite_Church_(Brandon,_Colorado,_USA)&oldid=75953.
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Unrau, Harlan D. (December 2011). Brandon Mennonite Church (Brandon, Colorado, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 20 February 2019, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Brandon_Mennonite_Church_(Brandon,_Colorado,_USA)&oldid=75953.
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