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It being Wednesday, we will now have the singing of the national anthem led by the hon. member for Abbotsford.
[Members sang the national anthem]
House of Commons Hansard #64 of the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was hunting.
2:05 p.m.
The Speaker Liberal Peter Milliken
It being Wednesday, we will now have the singing of the national anthem led by the hon. member for Abbotsford.
[Members sang the national anthem]
Forestry IndustryStatements By Members
June 16th, 2010 / 2:05 p.m.
Steven Blaney Conservative Lévis—Bellechasse, QC
Mr. Speaker, our friends in Alberta have the oil sands, but Quebec has a renewable resource that is worth even more: forest biomass, Quebec's green gold.
This was made quite clear at the second edition of the Symposium Énergie 2010 in Lac-Etchemin last May, which was attended by more than 150 people. Produced locally, this bioenergy stimulates the local economy and helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
We have abundant quantities of this resource, we have the equipment, there is a demand for energy from our institutions and homes, and we have the technical expertise.
Our Minister of State for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec and the member for Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean announced in April that the federal government would provide $100 million to support Quebec communities affected by the forestry crisis and to strengthen its forest economies.
The time has come for our institutions to switch to biomass and to contribute to sustainable development.
I would like to take this opportunity, on behalf of all my colleagues, to salute all those across the country who earn a living from the forest and its many by-products. Their work benefits us all, and they do us proud.
Wound Prevention and ManagementStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Carolyn Bennett Liberal St. Paul's, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to mark June as Canadian Wound Prevention and Management Awareness Month.
This month promotes awareness of the importance of evidence-based wound prevention and management for all Canadians.
I would also like to highlight the excellent work of Dr. Gary Sibbald at the wound care centre of the Women's College Hospital in Toronto.
More than five million Canadians are at high risk of pressure ulcers, leg ulcers and diabetic foot ulcers. Of these, 26% suffer from a preventable wound and 3,750 Canadians with diabetes had a limb amputated as a result of foot ulcers in 2008, and 51% of those have a high risk of a second limb amputated in the next five years.
A new self-management tool, called "Diabetes, Healthy Feet and You", was recently developed by the Canadian Association of Wound Care. It is already published in French and English, and will be soon available in at least a dozen more languages to ensure that all Canadians can learn about the importance of foot care in the maintenance of their health.
Agri-FoodStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Claude DeBellefeuille Bloc Beauharnois—Salaberry, QC
Mr. Speaker, in April the Agri-Food Export Gala was held in Montreal as part of the international food trade show. During this event, Veg Pro International, a company in my riding, won the Canadian Export Business Award.
Established in 1952, this family-run business in Sherrington employs more than 500 people annually and is a Quebec leader in market gardening. Its produce is grown in Quebec from May to November and in Florida during the winter.
Along with this prestigious award, Veg Pro also won the 2010 Best New Product award at the Canadian Produce Marketing Association's convention and trade show in Vancouver in May. It won this award for its "Fresh Attitude" ready-to-eat salads.
This industry recognition highlights the innovation and export approach of a market gardening company that has distinguished itself in a highly competitive market. Given my ongoing interest over the past years in Quebec market gardening companies, it is understandable that I am immensely proud of Veg Pro International's success.
Hi Neighbour FestivalStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Jim Maloway NDP Elmwood—Transcona, MB
Mr. Speaker, on Saturday, June 5, it was my pleasure to participate in the annual Hi Neighbour Festival and parade in Transcona and to celebrate its 45th anniversary. It was also an opportunity to celebrate the new home of the festival's committee mascot, Hi Neighbour Sam.
Hi Neighbour Sam is an 11-foot statue that was commissioned in 1968 and built by local artist, Giorgio Barone, one of the many workers who helped build the national railway system and moved here to establish the historic Canadian Railway settlement of Transcona.
Hi Neighbour Sam now commands the center boulevard of Regent Avenue, greeting citizens as they cross the traditional boundary of Plessis Road into what was once the official town of Transcona.
Congratulations to the people of Transcona and to the members of the Transcona Business Improvement Zone who led the search for Hi Neighbour Sam's new home and for their good work in organizing a wonderful Hi Neighbour Festival.
Natural DisastersStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Dave Van Kesteren Conservative Chatham-Kent—Essex, ON
Mr. Speaker, in the early morning of Sunday, June 6, a category F2 tornado ripped through the community of Leamington, Ontario, leaving behind structural damage and a cleanup estimated in the millions of dollars. Thankfully, not a single loss of life nor injury was reported.
What has transpired in the days following is a community pulling together, neighbours helping neighbours, municipal employees and volunteers working around the clock, churches and organizations preparing meals and places to sleep.
I am also proud to say that our government has taken swift action to offer assistance where possible.
I would also like to commend Mayor John Adams, the administration, police and fire departments, as well as the entire emergency response team for their first-class handling of this disaster.
Finally and most importantly, to the residents of Leamington, the resilience they have shown through these tough days makes it an honour and a privilege to serve as their federal representative.
Polish CommunityStatements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Andrew Kania Liberal Brampton West, ON
Mr. Speaker, as you know, I am a proud first generation Polish Canadian.
On June 13, I was honoured to welcome to both my riding of Brampton West and the church of St. Eugene de Mazenod, His Eminence Jozef Cardinal Glemp of Poland, His Grace Thomas Collins, the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland, Mayor Susan Fennell, my Liberal colleagues the MP for Etobicoke Centre and former MP Jesse Flis, and other dignitaries.
We celebrated the laying of the cornerstone at the building site of our new church. This cornerstone is an actual piece of St. Peter's tomb in Rome and was blessed by Pope John Paul II, adding to the significance of the occasion.
I would like to express my congratulations and thanks to everyone involved in making the building of this church, of which I am a proud member, a success.
Special recognition must go to Father Provincial Janusz Blazejak and the Pastor of St. Eugene de Mazenod, Father Adam Filas. Without their dedication, this project would never have happened.
I would also like to wish both Father Adam Filas and Father Andrzej Sowa, the Pastor of St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish, congratulations on the 20th anniversary of their ordination, which also took place this past Sunday.
ParliamentStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Leon Benoit Conservative Vegreville—Wainwright, AB
Mr. Speaker, Parliament has been damaged recently by certain members of the opposition who ignore the truth and make over-the-top statements.
As well, many members of our national media routinely inaccurately report because they will not take the time to seek out the truth.
This irresponsible treatment of serious issues may score cheap political points, but it also lowers unfairly the public's view of Parliament and parliamentarians, even those who diligently work on behalf of their constituents.
Would it not be better if the opposition criticized government based on truth and reality? Would it not be better if more of our national media did their homework and improved the accuracy of their reporting?
This inappropriate behaviour on the part of the opposition and the media hurts Parliament and hurts democracy in Canada, all for the sake of cheap political points.
Sad and it is just plain wrong.
Lebanese Presence in MontrealStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Maria Mourani Bloc Ahuntsic, QC
Mr. Speaker, on June 18, a sculpture commemorating the arrival of the first Lebanese people in Montreal will be unveiled in Marcelin-Wilson Park in my riding. The piece, conceived by Gilles Mihalcean, highlights the human qualities that motivated these immigrants to seek a new land.
The artist incorporated dalet, one of the 22 letters of the Phoenician alphabet, which was used by ancient ancestors of modern-day Lebanese people. He also included a Phoenician boat and a Lebanese cedar, which are symbols linked to Lebanese identity.
They have come so far since the end of the 19th century. People of Lebanese origin have integrated themselves into and put their talents to work for their adopted society. They have helped their families prosper in peace by working as merchants, artists, firefighters, police officers, judges, clerks and more. These men and women—over 130,000 of them—have enriched Montreal and Quebec and helped create the city and province as we know them today.
This glorious, deeply rooted, beautiful and fragrant cedar will forever bring joy to the lives of people in Montreal and Quebec.
PardonsStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Gerald Keddy Conservative South Shore—St. Margaret's, NS
Mr. Speaker, on Monday the parliamentary secretary asked for unanimous consent to pass Bill C-23 to ensure this legislation applies to criminals, such as Karla Homolka who becomes eligible for a pardon this summer. Our party has sought to fix the pardon system. On Monday, the opposition parties, led by the NDP, sought to ensure that it remains broken a little while longer.
Let me be very clear, victims cannot wait any longer. This legislation is needed to ensure other notorious criminals do not receive pardons. It is urgent to pass this legislation before the summer. There is overwhelming support for this legislation among Canadians and victims' advocates. Canadians want a justice system that puts the rights of victims and law-abiding citizens ahead of the rights of criminals.
Why will the NDP not allow the bill to be passed at all stages and give unanimous consent? We call on the opposition parties to support speedy passage at all stages of this urgently needed legislation. When we ask again, do not say no.
Public ServiceStatements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Mauril Bélanger Liberal Ottawa—Vanier, ON
Mr. Speaker, no government can succeed in the implementation of its agenda and legislation without a dedicated public service. Canadians have in the federal public service a tremendous force for public good. Our country has and continues to enjoy the benefits of a professional, honest, loyal and efficient public service.
National Public Service Week is the annual occasion when its best and brightest are appreciated for their dedication above and beyond the call of duty.
The public service is a tremendous source of know-how that is largely responsible for Canada's success. During National Public Service Week, we would like to underscore the fundamental role played by the public service in the past, present and future.
The test of all new governments is to quickly learn to work with the public service in a respectful, open and trusting manner. In this respect, the current government is too often unsuccessful.
Sponsorship ProgramStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Bernard Généreux Conservative Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup, QC
Mr. Speaker, the RCMP has again today revealed illegal activities directly related to the sponsorship scandal. This morning the Montreal daily La Presse revealed that, in 1997, one of the heads of Groupe Everest paid for cosmetic surgeries for the spouse of Chuck Guité, the former senior official responsible for the sponsorship program, in the hopes of obtaining more federal government contracts.
This is merely the most recent bribe brought to light concerning the now infamous Liberal scandal.
The sponsorship scandal cost Canadian taxpayers millions of dollars, money that could have served our country well. This is unacceptable.
The leader of the Liberal Party wants to raise taxes, and I have to wonder if what he really wants is to line the pockets of his party cronies.
I would also like to ask the Liberal leader to tell us what happened to the $40 million still missing from government coffers.
Status of WomenStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Irene Mathyssen NDP London—Fanshawe, ON
Mr. Speaker, this year marks the 40th anniversary of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. After 40 years we still have not implemented many of the recommendations. In fact, we have a government that is turning back the clock.
While the government claims to be concerned with women's equality, let us take a look at what it has done. It has cut funding to Status of Women Canada; closed 12 of 16 Status of Women regional offices; ended independent research and advocacy; abandoned the court challenges program; nullified pay equity; jeopardized the reproductive health of women; denied funding to countless advocacy and equality-seeking organizations; and on and on.
Today, the Standing Committee on the Status of Women will table its report on the study conducted on maternal and child health. With the G8 and G20 summits just around the corner, I hope the government will take note of the recommendations in the report and take this opportunity to make an essential change in the lives of women and children in the developing world.
The government has had ample opportunities. It is time for it to listen to Canadian women and to take action.
Liberal Party of CanadaStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Kevin Sorenson Conservative Crowfoot, AB
Mr. Speaker, every time the Liberal Party thinks Canadians have forgotten the sponsorship scandal, its seedy past keeps coming up.
Today, we learned of bribes of cash and cosmetic surgery in order to ensure government contracts. However, no amount of plastic surgery can repair the damage done to Canada by the Liberals' sponsorship scandal.
Until the Liberal Party repays the remaining $39 million stolen during the sponsorship scandal, these stories will continue to haunt it. Until the Liberals repay the stolen money, we will continue to remind them that it was taxpayers' money that was abused.
No matter what the Liberals think, new members, new staff, new leaders, or even a new coalition will not change the fact that the Liberal Party spent 13 years in government nurturing a culture of entitlement that has been rejected by Canadians.
Canadians will not be bribed. It has been too long. When will the Liberal leader instruct his party to repay the money stolen in the sponsorship scandal?
Aid AgencyStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Josée Beaudin Bloc Saint-Lambert, QC
Mr. Speaker, today I want to pay tribute to an organization in my riding, La Mosaïque.
La Mosaïque, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, is an aid agency that currently has 400 volunteers and offers more than 30 very diverse services and activities to a wide-ranging client base in the greater Longueuil community.
Support services, community kitchen, assistance with food, education and clothing are a few of the services offered by this community volunteer centre, whose mission is to strengthen the social fabric of greater Longueuil.
I want to congratulate the founder and now municipal councillor, Monique Brisson, the director general, Danielle Lavigne, and, of course, the entire team and the many volunteers. I also want to recognize the winners of the poetry contest, "Des mots en partage", organized as part of the 25th anniversary events for La Mosaïque to acknowledge the volunteers.
I wish this organization 25 more years of success.
G8 and G20 SummitsStatements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Rodger Cuzner Liberal Cape Breton—Canso, NS
Mr. Speaker, the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton; the Calgary Saddledome; the Richmond speed skating oval: what do these places have in common? They are all real legacy projects that have remained after Canada hosted major world events. Not only were they related to those events, they were actually completed in time to welcome the participants to the event.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about the pork-barrel spending for the G8 summit.
How about the $2 million in park improvements in Port Severn, which is 135 kilometres from the summit site? It would be nice if it had some grass. What about the G8 washrooms in Baysville, which is 30 kilometres away? People are calling it "30 kilometres of grief for a little bit of relief". What about my favourite legacy project, the restoration of the bridge to Kearney, which is 42 kilometres away, that has not even been started yet? The summit starts in nine days. The boys may want to get somebody on that.
What Canadians know is that even though the lake is fake, the misuse and abuse of their money is real.
Leader of the Liberal PartyStatements By Members
2:20 p.m.
Andrew Saxton Conservative North Vancouver, BC
Mr. Speaker, in another example of the Liberal leader blaming Canada, this week the Liberal leader compared our free and democratic Canada to a communist dictatorship in Cuba, but he was not finished there. Yesterday, the Liberal leader called on China to criticize Canada's human rights record. It is clear. Given the chance, the Liberal leader's strategy is to blame Canada.
While the world faced the global economic recession, he talked down Canada's efforts. While his members called our soldiers war criminals, he sat silently. He has even said he is embarrassed Canada is hosting—
Leader of the Liberal PartyStatements By Members
2:20 p.m.
The Speaker Liberal Peter Milliken
The member knows that personal attacks are not permitted, as Standing Order 31 states.
G8 and G20 SummitsOral Questions
2:20 p.m.
Etobicoke—Lakeshore Ontario
Michael Ignatieff LiberalLeader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, I do not know what the G8 has turned into. What incoherence and hypocrisy. Just as the government is turning its back on Africa, it dares to invite African leaders. What hypocrisy.
How can the Prime Minister explain his incoherent summit planning and his hypocritical foreign policy?
G8 and G20 SummitsOral Questions
2:20 p.m.
Calgary Southwest Alberta
Stephen Harper ConservativePrime Minister
Mr. Speaker, on the contrary, Africa is very important to this government. More than half our development budget goes to that continent. Canada leads other countries in terms of keeping its promises to Africa. That is why we are carrying on the tradition of inviting African leaders to the G8 summit. Frankly, I am surprised that the Liberal Party is against that.
G8 and G20 SummitsOral Questions
2:20 p.m.
Etobicoke—Lakeshore Ontario
Michael Ignatieff LiberalLeader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, they are going to cut funding for Africa. They are going to cut aid for African countries. They do not have the courage even to admit it to the African leaders who are coming to Toronto.
It is also a question of the government changing the venue at the last minute, splurging on decorations, inviting half the guest list with 10 days left, and the Prime Minister is going to shut down the entire neighbourhood. A bake sale would not be run like this. A children's birthday party would not be planned like this. Canadians have to pay the bill.
How is the Prime Minister going to explain to Canadians that he has lost control of Canada's summit?
G8 and G20 SummitsOral Questions
2:20 p.m.
Calgary Southwest Alberta
Stephen Harper ConservativePrime Minister
Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Party seems extremely angry that Canada is leading the world right now in terms of the economy, not just through chairmanship of the G8 and G20, but also, obviously, through the strong performance of the Canadian economy, some of the strongest job creation in the advanced world, the lowest debts, the lowest taxes, the strongest banking system, the strongest balance sheets.
The Liberal Party should be cheering Canada instead of insulting it.
G8 and G20 SummitsOral Questions
2:20 p.m.
Etobicoke—Lakeshore Ontario
Michael Ignatieff LiberalLeader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, we always cheer Canada, but we cannot cheer $1.3 billion in waste.
The Prime Minister has not only lost control of the costs, he has lost control of the agenda. He wanted to talk about women's rights, but he is not providing any protection for women's rights overseas. He wanted to talk about the economy, but there is no progress on banking reform. He started calling climate change a sideshow and then was forced to put it back on the agenda. Anyone looking at this would think this is chaos.
How can the Prime Minister explain that Canada has lost control of its own summit?
G8 and G20 SummitsOral Questions
2:25 p.m.
Calgary Southwest Alberta
Stephen Harper ConservativePrime Minister
Mr. Speaker, that sounds to me more like a leader who is losing control of his own party.
The fact is this government identified child and maternal health as a major development priority at the G8. That initiative has been warmly embraced not just by our G8 partners but by others around the world.
If we talk about things like the banking system, Canada has the leading banking system. Canada is the model to which many are looking in terms of financial--
G8 and G20 SummitsOral Questions
2:25 p.m.
The Speaker Liberal Peter Milliken
Order. The hon. member for Ajax--Pickering.


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text: No wonder this dude is looking so smug nowadays…word on the street is that Jigga is about to make himself a $44 million when he sells a 50% stake of his Las Vegas 40/40 club to the Las Vegas Sands Corp which owns a slew of hotels across the world including The Venetian in Vegas. Looks like Jay is cashing in his chips…wonder what he will be up to next. The deal would give the Sands Corp the right to build 40/40 in London and throughout Europe, where Jay was looking to spread his wings too next.


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HOLIDAY MOVIE REVIEWS / Passion gets a bad rap and Aniston's ditzy act gets old in Rob Reiner's play-it-safe homily 'Rumor Has It'
Rumor Has It: Romantic comedy. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Mark Ruffalo, Shirley MacLaine and Kevin Costner. Directed by Rob Reiner. (PG-13. 100 minutes. Opens Sunday at Bay Area theaters.)
Director Rob Reiner's crusade to destroy movie romance began in 1989 with "When Harry Met Sally ..." a film whose subtle message was that the best thing a beautiful woman like Meg Ryan could aspire to was Billy Crystal. Ten years later, he made "The Story of Us," about the horrors of marriage, and followed that up with "Alex & Emma," which extolled the joys of bland domesticity over passion. But he was just warming up for "Rumor Has It," in which he repeats his anti-passion message and actually makes Jennifer Aniston appear unattractive for long stretches of screen time.
The movie has that fatal triptych that is becoming Reiner's romantic-comedy signature: drippy sentiment, zany scenes that trivialize the characters and a horror of adventure. In a Reiner movie, if the protagonist has the choice between an exciting life partner and a comfortable life partner, the movie will always come down on the side of the comfortable, which might make sense in life terms, but in dramatic terms is death. Even the chaste films of the '30s and '40s had more faith in impulse and instinct. Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford almost always took a chance, and Olivia de Havilland usually ended up with Errol Flynn.
It's a wonder that Aniston is able to survive her first scene. She is on a plane with her fiance (Mark Ruffalo), looking hangdog and talking like a fool. She insists they have sex in the airplane bathroom, and after a bit of unsuccessful fumbling, she bursts into Lucy Ricardo-type tears, whining about how she doesn't know what he sees in her. This is precisely what the audience is wondering, and precisely what the audience did not at all wonder while watching "Derailed," in which Aniston played a femme fatale. She's 36, and the statute of limitations has run out on Aniston's playing immature women with only two brain cells to rub together. She's attractive and mature enough to do better. It's time.
The fictional story derives from a real-life rumor that the family depicted in the 1967 film "The Graduate" was based on a real Pasadena family. Aniston plays Sarah, a daughter of that family, who, as the story begins, is on her way home for her sister's wedding. Sarah is a mess, emotionally needy and engaged to a man she's not sure she wants to marry.
In the "Graduate" mythology, Sarah is the daughter of the Katharine Ross character, who, in this movie's construct, ultimately left the Dustin Hoffman character and returned home to marry the other guy. (Years later, she died.) After a conversation with her bawdy, caustic grandmother (Shirley MacLaine as the Mrs. Robinson prototype), Sarah gets the idea that she might not be the daughter of the man she calls her father, after all, but rather that she might be the daughter of the Dustin Hoffman character. By 1997, the year in which the movie is set, this fellow has grown from a loser into a rich Internet big shot -- at least he didn't go into plastics. As played by Kevin Costner, he's also a lot younger, taller and better looking than might be expected.
Sarah's search for Daddy is a search for meaning, and the scenes between Aniston and Costner have a current of felt emotion that elevates the film. She is looking for guidance, for a future, while he looks at Sarah and remembers her mother and an idyllic interlude from his youth. Sad longing, the accumulated regrets of a lifetime and a dignity wide enough to feel these emotions, acknowledge them and express them without getting lost in them -- these are things that Costner can do well, perhaps better than anyone else onscreen.
Aniston is charming, of course, and once she gets past the hideous introductory scene, she is able to make Sarah into an appealing woman with a stumbling sort of intelligence. But I'd love to see an Aniston movie that didn't depend on her charm for its survival. "Derailed" was like that, not a particularly strong movie, but a step forward. This is treading water. Similarly treading water is MacLaine as the tough old dame. One of these days, some screenwriter is going to shock the world by writing a nice old lady role into a picture. They're very underrepresented.
Yet, needless to say, "Rumor Has It" fails as a successor to "The Graduate." It fails artistically but also philosophically, in that it rebuts the spirit of the earlier film, while offering nothing attractive in its place. In "The Graduate," stock tips were a punch line; here, they're the Holy Grail. In "The Graduate" passion was a guide; here it's a detour. Maybe it only makes sense. Maybe people are getting married later and wiser today, skipping the disastrous first marriage to Zelda and moving straight into the relationship with Sheilah Graham, as it were.
Still, this is not doing our love stories any good.
-- Advisory: Sexual situations and the side of Jennifer Aniston's right breast, as glimpsed for one provocative second.
To hear Mick LaSalle talk about movies, download his podcasts at sfgate.com/blogs/podcasts.


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I'm no crime scene analyst, but if you're going to spray paint an ugly racial slur on your own house and thrust your small town into the national spotlight, you should probably make sure to ditch the spray cans before the FBI shows up.
Here's another tip: reaction to news that the graffiti may have been a self-perpetrated hoax reveals much about our views on race in general. And some of them aren't pretty.
Last month in Lunenburg, someone spray-painted the N-word on the home of a biracial 13-year-old who played for the high school football team. Teammates were suspected and the season was canceled. The media descended and residents rallied around the family.
But folks may have rallied around the wrong people, after police announced that the boy's mother is the sole suspect.
No arrests have been made, but police say Andrea Brazier offered conflicting stories and is no longer cooperating with investigators. Cans of spray paint were seized from the home, and the FBI suggested that Brazier was tearfully pushing for the probe to end because she was the culprit.
"Andrea stated 'OK,' " according to an affidavit. "Andrea just kept answering 'OK' and that she wanted everything to end and that we did not understand."
Well, she got that right. What would possess a person to cause such upheaval? If the graffiti was painted because authorities hadn't acted on complaints that her son was being harassed, shame on her. Because rather than draw attention to bigotry, the incident created a forum for racists and deniers to slink out of the woodwork.
In hindsight, amateur sleuths note that the graffiti was sprayed only on the foundation of the house, which implies it was done by either a remarkably considerate vandal, or a dwarf. And now, those delighted rather than dismayed that the event may have been staged are engaged in the told-you-so dance, as though anyone who believed it in the first place is a "politically correct" dupe who voted for Barack Obama.
"I have no sympathy for anyone in this "fambly.'..." reads a post on the Boston Herald's website. "The wost(sic) thing out of all of this is the 'mutha' will probably get a slap on the wrist by claiming some made up disorder ...welcome to O'Blamer's America."
A conservative website called Moonbattery.com dubbed the good people of Lunenburg "dewy-eyed fools" for initially supporting the family.
"Since the whole paradigm of white male Christian heterosexual oppressors is a falsehood top to bottom, the oppression needs to be fabricated," reads the blog, which, in a separate entry, refers to Trayvon Martin as a "vicious lowlife."
That's no coincidence, of course. Just as reaction to the Martin case fell largely along ideological lines, so, too, does Lunenburg. Rather than bemoan the alleged actions of a badly misguided mother, the racists are using the incident to advance the ludicrous claim that racism in America is a liberal fiction.
I don't envy the authorities in Lunenburg, who took the unusual step of pointing the finger at Brazier but not arresting her. How would they prove it was her, and not her husband? Can a person be charged with vandalizing her own property or committing a hate crime against her own child? Did she ever file a police report, let alone a false one?
She may or may not be charged. But if Brazier is responsible for the graffiti, she insulted legitimate victims of racism, caused untold damage to her family and her town, and provided handy ammunition to the haters. Those crimes aren't listed in the books, but they're the worst of all.
Contact Dianne Williamson at email@example.com


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There's something about the Looking For Dungeon Tool that makes me feel like I'm getting back to my roots. It's kind of like going back in time to roam the prairie with my wild ancestors–complete with mountains of buffalo dung. It's ancient. Primal. This is healing as I haven't seen it in many many moons. I'm telling you, it has been a VERY long time since so many things have been "my fault".
Yes, that's right: My fault. Because, somehow, every failure on the part of a random instance group is the healer's fault. The tank dies… healer's fault. The DPS die… healer's fault. A tree falls in China… healer's fault. Don't get me wrong; there are shitty healers out there. Gods bless them, they provide countless hours of entertainment for me and Jov. But there are a lot of things that can go wrong in a pug that are NOT the healers fault. Perhaps:
- An undergeared tank.
- An undergeared shitty tank.
- Overzealous dps.
- People standing in shit.
- Pulling when the healer is drinking or low on mana.
- Pulling when the healer is afk.
Let me give you a tip: If you're struggling through an instance and you've been through more than one healer… you're not just having a string of bad luck. Someone in your party is a moron. Maybe several someones. Maybe… maybe it's you.
Haha! Yeah, not likely. You're reading World of Snarkcraft, which puts you ahead of most of the slack-jawed mutants in LFG. Therefore, my enlightened brethren, remain alert for signs of healer abuse and vigilant in the preservation of healers' sanity. After all, it's only a matter of time before they burn out and roll a pure dps class. Make it your goal to stave off the inevitable while you can.


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By: Donna Amaral-Phillips
Extension Professor
University of Kentucky
[email protected]
Monitor corn crop and chop for silage when it reaches the proper moisture level. Although corn silage may have small ears and/or lack of full kernel development, feeding programs can be built around this forage. This crop will be lower in energy and additional energy will need to be added to the diet in the form of corn grain, grain by-products and/or fat supplements.
Test for nitrates after the crop has fermented for 3-4 weeks and before feeding. Ensiling silage (with proper fermentation) can reduce nitrate levels by approximately 50%.
Do not feed corn silage as green chop if drought stressed. Crop may be high in nitrates and cause abortions and death in cattle.
Test for nitrates before feeding corn as green chop or before harvesting crops that accumulate nitrates. Collect 5 to 10 random plants per field, chop the material, place a representative sample in a plastic bag and place on ice and hand-deliver to a testing laboratory. If the sample is shipped overnight to the testing lab, the sample should be frozen and shipped with an ice pack. Your local extension agent may have test strips or a meter to get a preliminary value of the nitrate content.
Nitrates can accumulate in other forages: Besides corn, nitrates can accumulate in johnsongrass, millet, sorghum, sudangrass, sorghum-sudangrass hybrids, and some weeds. These crops should be checked for nitrates before grazing, green chopping, or harvesting for stored feed.
Feeding options: Start by taking an inventory of forages you have on hand and test each to determine its quality. Develop a plan for its most economical use within your dairy operation.
Allocate best quality forages to early lactation cows and highest producing cows through the next feeding year. Lower quality forages can be fed to dry cows, older heifers, and later lactation cows.
Purchase standing corn from neighbors that raised corn for grain that lacks adequate kernel development and ear size.
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Beat the Streak Report: Sunday, Aug. 24
Pick of the day
- 14-for-23 (.609 AVG) career vs. PHI RHP Joe Blanton
- .375 AVG in August
Yesterday's pick, results
Carlos Beltran (NYM), 0-for-3
Top 5 current leaders
1. pupway10 (Jose Reyes)
2. halfogre (Milton Bradley)
3. damayr (Jose Reyes)
4. spalaniappan0209 (Chipper Jones)
5. bosbball (Albert Pujols)
BTS season leader: Robert Paradise, 48
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56
Yesterday's results
An outstanding 39-game hit streak by eduneversaydie came to a close yesterday when Dustin Pedroia went 0-for-3 against Toronto. Though eduneversaydie fell short of the 40-game mark, his run tied competitor 3059s36 for the season's second-highest mark. The hitless performance also ended Pedroia's personal streak at nine.
Two other Top 5 competitors were also eliminated from play, including second-place bruinscup72 and fifth-place kbarnett10, both of whom chose Ichiro Suzuki (0-for-4).
With eduneversaydie and bruinscup72 out of the running, pupway 10 became the new BTS leader at 32 games thanks to Jose Reyes, who went 2-for-4 vs. Houston. Reyes also pushed damayr into third place at 30 games. Seizing hold of the second spot at 31 games was halfogre, who benefited from a 1-for-3 showing from Milton Bradley.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players:
1. Dustin Pedroia (BOS): 6.8%, 0-for-3
2. Carlos Beltran (NYM) 6.0%, 0-for-3
3. Josh Hamilton (TEX): 5.7%, 0-for-4
4. Ichiro Suzuki (SEA): 4.7%, 0-for-4
5. Jose Reyes (NYM): 3.9%, 2-for-4
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wow only 50 people left to make a run at 57
and only 72 can make a run at 56
502 can still tie for the season high
how crazy is this????
Even though there are only 35 days left in the regular season, you reall should count 37 to be safe, because there is always the chance that 3 teams tie for a playoff spot and those games still count for picks as well.
For reference, see last year's tiebreaker between the Rockies and Padres.
In 2006, if there was a tie, that tiebreaking day would have given the 2nd place BTS competitor a chance to tie for the lead, and a 3-way tie would have allowed him to win the contest.
But the Dodgers scored 7 runs in the bottom of the 9th inning to win the NL West.


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Montessori education information from a Montessori teacher and Mom. Personal art work and journal entries about my life as a busy Mom of three sons ranging in age from 7 years to 21 years. My hope: To create a place where parenting questions can be answered and conversations as well as ideas shared.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Ways to Display Children's Art
I am always trying new ways to showcase my student's art...
My new favorite is the hanging yarn. I don't have a photo to show, but another fun way is to tape the art on the inside of the shelf (at child's eye level) so that as they reach for a tray they are greeted by their own masterpieces!
Any other ideas?
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- Melissa A. said...
I work at a mainstream preschool, and for my pre-k class, we've found a simple way to display their artwork. We just add some sticky tack to the back of a painted or decorated spring-type clothespin. These can be placed at the child's level, and they can even chose which of their masterpieces is displayed. They could also be in charge of changing their artwork when necessary, and the clothespins also promote fine motor development.
- February 13, 2009 at 5:03 PM
- Clemencia said...
thanks so much for the idea on how to display our children's art. love it!
- February 14, 2009 at 9:29 PM
I love the idea of the clothes pins with double sided sticky tape. The only thing I worried about is the paint on the wall coming off in the future.
I was hoping to read some ideas on using cork board squares on a wall as a means for displaying art.
- March 4, 2009 at 5:08 PM
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I would like to share my Montessori art curriculum with you. Please see.
Then you will have more projects to display!
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Lonnie Dean Hunter of Mitchell Sentenced to Possessing Firearm as Felon
SIOUX FALLS - A Mitchell man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for possessing a firearm while a felon.
U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson announced Wednesday that 53-year-old Lonnie Dean Hunter was sentenced to two years and three months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm. His sentence must be followed by one year of supervised release.
Prosecutors say that on Dec. 3, 2011, Hunter possessed a bolt-action rifle. He is prohibited from possessing firearms because he was previously convicted of a felony.
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An Open Letter To 'Gossip Girl' Writers: Why Chuck & Blair Are Meant For Each Other
Royalty shmoyalty… 'Gossip Girl' writers lets get rid of Prince Louis and get back to the real King and Queen — Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf!
Dear Gossip Girl writers — In the words of the heartsick man in Love Actually: "Enough. Enough now." It's time to stop messing with Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf. Chuck made a good point that Louis waited far longer for Blair than Chuck ever did when he was standing on the Empire State building, but the truth is, Louis has nothing on Chuck. Do you hear me? NOTHING!
I've compiled a list for the top five reasons why Blair and Chuck are meant to be together. I've asked a few loyal Chair fans to help me. (Thank you guys!! Sorry I couldn't put every singe person's reason but I think this is the gist of it.) Writers — please see below, and act accordingly:
1) Blair and Chuck truly know each other, in every way possible, and love each other anyway. They are completely accepting of one another's faults. As @ladynetdoma puts it, they are "all-forgiving". Even Blair's mother Eleanor agrees: "She found a partner-in-crime in Charles, certainly."
2) They are each cunning, smart, and manipulative and together they are, as @SunnySabry says, "a force to be reckoned with". "You don't get nearly enough credit for your wit." – Chuck to Blair.
3) They put each other's happiness above their own. Chuck and Blair have proven this countless times, the last instance was the season finale last year when Chuck told Blair to stay with Louis. Precious! This happened before too, "Why did you just do that Chuck?" -S "Because I love her,and I cant make her happy." -C (via @BoomBoomBangx)
4) They are an unlikely pair, and when they first hooked up I didn't fully know what to think of it. It was unexpected, but amazing. "Because somehow two wrongs make one twisted right." – Serena (via @jazy736)
5) "They are the king and queen in Gossip Girl's game of chess, and everyone else is a pawn." (Josh Schwartz' words reworded by @lucreziareigns)
The list can go on and on … as I'm sure the Chairleaders will show you in their comments below. So please, just put Prince Louis down, gently now, and step away slowly with your hands in the air. We won't hurt you, so long as you surrender.
Lorena O'Neil
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In the closed system setting I will show how to obtain extremely accurate adiabatic QC by proper choice of the interpolation between the initial and final Hamiltonians. Namely, given an analytic interpolation whose first N initial and final time derivatives vanish, the error can be made to be smaller than 1/N^N, with an evolution time which scales as N and the square of the norm of the time-derivative of the Hamiltonian, divided by the cube of the gap (joint work with Ali Rezakhani and Alioscia Hamma). In the open system setting I will describe a method for protecting adiabatic QC by use of a hybrid encoding-dynamical decoupling scheme. This strategy can be used to protect spin-based universal adiabatic QC against arbitrary 1-local noise using only global magnetic fields. By combining error bounds for the closed and open system settings, I will show that in principle the method is scalable to arbitrarily large computations. References: Closed system case: arXiv:0808.2697 Open system case: Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 160506 (2008)


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During National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (February 24-March 2, 2013), registered dietitian Amy Jones shares information on celiac disease and eating disorders.
By Amy Jones, MS, RD, LD
Maddie is 16 years old and is worried about her weight. She'd like to lose at least 10 pounds. It seems like all her friends are on diets. She also has bloating and diarrhea after she eats. Her mom takes her to the doctor who diagnoses Maddie with celiac disease. She is told to go on the gluten-free diet. Suddenly Maddie is even more concerned about what she is eating. She finds she is spending almost all her time thinking about food and weight. Is this a healthy way to live?
In the U.S., an estimated 20 million women and 10 million men develop an eating disorder (i.e. anorexia, bulimia) at some point in their life. And even more people struggle with extreme dissatisfaction with their bodies, and exhibit disordered eating behaviors and attitudes. We know that eating disorders have many causes and triggers, including genetics, media pressures to be thin, frequent dieting, and low self-esteem. Research also shows that having a chronic medical condition (like celiac disease) may also increase your risk of an eating disorder.1
There has been a lot of research on the relationship between Type 1 diabetes and eating disorders (for example, people with Type 1 diabetes intentionally not using insulin properly as a method to help control weight). But much less has been written about the direct relationship between celiac disease and eating disorders. In 2007, Dr. Daniel Leffler and his colleagues at The Celiac Center at BIDMC reviewed 10 case reports of patients who were diagnosed with celiac disease and had a history of or a current eating disorder.2 For many of these patients, it was difficult to remain compliant on the gluten-free diet for fear of weight gain. A 2008 study published by Dr. Karwautz and colleagues found that teens diagnosed with celiac disease were at an increased risk for eating disorders, possibly because of the increased focus on food that the gluten-free diet requires, which then led to extreme preoccupation with food.3 The gluten-free diet can also lead to unwanted weight gain, and this too, can be a risk factor in the development of disordered eating behaviors.
While it is normal to feel some anxiety about food and eating, especially on the gluten-free diet, it is important to be aware that the risk of eating disorders may be higher in those with celiac disease.
According to Dr. Leffler (personal communication, February 26, 2013): "Celiac disease can exacerbate, precipitate or otherwise complicate eating disorders. Healthcare providers specializing in eating disorders should keep celiac disease in mind, especially if their patients have a history or family history of autoimmune diseases."
So, what are the signs and symptoms of eating disorders that you may notice in yourself or in a loved one? From the National Eating Disorders Association:
Warning signs of anorexia nervosa:
Warning signs of bulimia nervosa:
Warning signs of eating disorders not otherwise specified (EDNOS)
Eating disorders require professional help; they do not get better on their own. If you suspect a loved one has an eating disorder or is exhibiting behaviors that concern you, set a time to talk about your concerns with them. Share specific instances when you were concerned about their eating behaviors, indicating that these behaviors could indicate a problem that needs attention. Ask them to consider talking with their doctor, dietitian or counselor about their concerns. Try to avoid saying things like "You just need to eat," or "You are not acting responsibly." Use "I" statements, like "I am concerned because you are refusing to eat dinner." Continue to be supportive, even if your loved one doesn't want to admit there is a problem. Remind them that you care and will be there for them now and in the future.
February 24th-March 2nd is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. For more information, visit the NEDA website at www.nedawareness.org. To access the NEDA Information and Helpline (available 9am-5pm EST, M-F, call 1-800- 931-2237.
About Amy Jones, MS, RD, LD
Amy Jones, MS, RD, LD, has been a dietitian for more than 11 years. She facilitates the Logan County Celiac Support Group in Bellefontaine (which she founded in May 2010) and also consults one-on-one with those with celiac disease and gluten intolerance.
In 2011, Amy was honored to be named one of "10 Dedicated Dietitians Who are Making a Difference" by Today's Dietitian magazine. She has completed additional training in celiac at the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center. She also completed the GREAT dietitian training program from the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness.
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Congratulations to our Southern editor, John Jeremiah Sullivan, who's been honored with the James Beard Foundation's MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award for his essay "I Placed a Jar in Tennessee."
The James Beard Foundation awards are presented "for excellence in cuisine, culinary writing, and culinary education." "I Placed a Jar in Tennessee" appeared in the Winter 2013 issue of Lucky Peach; it tells the story of Kevin West, who has recently discovered, or perhaps rekindled, a family passion for home-preserving and pickling. If the title strikes you as familiar but unplaceable, fear not, for I have done your googling for you—it refers to Wallace Stevens's famous poem "Anecdote of the Jar," first published in 1919:
I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.
The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.
It took dominion every where.
The jar was gray and bare.
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When I went to get my driver's license renewed, our local motor-vehicle bureau was packed. The line inched along for almost an hour until the man ahead of me finally got his license. He inspected his photo for a moment and commented to the clerk, "I was standing in line so long, I ended up looking pretty grouchy in this picture."
The woman beside him peered over his shoulder, then reassured him, "It's okay. That's how you're going to look when the cops pull you over, anyway."
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Top chef teaches pasta at Meat House, Roslyn
Top Cheftestant Nikki Cascone will be helping The Meat House in Roslyn celebrate its first anniversary with two pasta-making classes, the first on Thursday, the second on Saturday.
Cascone, who was eliminated in the ninth episode of Top Chef's fourth season, was praised by host Padma Lakshimi as a "human pasta machine." At the Meat House she will demonstrate how to mix, knead, roll and shape three types of fresh pasta — semolina, whole wheat and buckwheat — and then prepare a pasta dish for all participants to sample.
The price of the class is $65 / person. The first is on Feb. 28 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., the second on March 2 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Space is limited and reservations are required. The Meat House is at 1085 Northern Blvd., Roslyn, 516-307-9880.


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WASHINGTON � Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein left a White House meeting and said lawmakers are risking the economic recovery if they don't raise the federal debt ceiling.
Blankfein was among a group of financial-industry executives including JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon and Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, who met with President Obama on Wednesday, the second day of a partial government shutdown. Democrats and Republicans are deadlocked on spending legislation and already are battling over raising the U.S. debt limit, which is required by later this month to avoid a default.
"There's a consensus that we shouldn't do anything that hurts this recovery," Blankfein said as he left the White House. "They shouldn't use the threat of causing the U.S. to fail on its obligations to repay its debt as a cudgel."
The meeting, set up by the Financial Services Forum, a Washington-based trade group representing CEOs for the largest Wall Street banks, was part of an effort by the Obama administration to leverage the business community's clout in breaking the stalemate. Administration officials said pressure from the business community was effective in past fiscal fights.
"The financial community is in an excellent position to educate the public about the consequences to every-day folks in the event we default," said Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to the president.
The group met earlier with the No. 2 and No. 3 House Republicans, Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia and Kevin McCarthy of California.
Blankfein said the executives were "apolitical" and not taking sides on the underlying political issues, including Republican demands that the president's health-care law be stripped of funding or delayed as the price of a deal.
Those arguments, he said, shouldn't be connected to taking action to make sure the government can pay its bills.
"There's precedent for a government shutdown; there's no precedent for default," he said. "We really haven't seen this before and I'm not anxious to be part of the process to witness this."
Moynihan said the goal of the executives was to make sure "people understand the seriousness of the situation."
Even as the government remains shut down, raising the government's $16.7 trillion debt limit has become the focal point for White House officials and the business community.
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew reiterated in a letter to lawmakers on Tuesday that the U.S. will hit the debt ceiling no later than Oct. 17 and urged them to increase the nation's borrowing authority "immediately."
As he arrived at the White House, Dimon said he hoped an agreement will be reached before the debt-ceiling deadline.
"We just want solutions," Dimon said. "I think if people do the right things, America can grow aggressively and grow rapidly. That's what we should be looking for."
Gene Sperling, the director of Obama's National Economic Council, said Tuesday there was a "false sense of complacency among some in the market that somehow things will always be solved at midnight."
Market participants need to realize that "unless sensible people in the Republican Party are willing to take back control of their party, that there is a much more serious risk of a very negative economic and financial event," Sperling said at a Bloomberg luncheon in Washington.
The executives may have some financial clout with congressional Republicans. The securities and investment industry was a top source of campaign cash for House Republican leaders in the 2012 election cycle as they lobbied against new regulations.
The industry contributed $1.4 million to House Speaker John Boehner's campaign in the 2012 cycle compared with $180,600 in the 2008 elections, according to data compiled by the Washington-based Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit research group. Cantor received $908,900 from the industry compared with $222,000 in 2008.
Obama has had a sometimes rocky relationship with the industry. He has repeatedly blamed "reckless and irresponsible" risk-taking at financial institutions for precipitating the banking crisis triggered by the Sept. 15, 2008, bankruptcy filing by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
In 2009, he criticized "fat-cat bankers" who continued receiving bonuses and were fighting his effort to impose tougher regulation on the industry.
The White House listed other meeting attendeees:
Robert Benmosche, CEO of the American International; Michael Corbat, CEO of Citigroup; Douglas Flint, chairman of HSBC Holdings; James Gorman, CEO of Morgan Stanley; Gerald Hassell, CEO Bank of New York Mellon; Jay Hooley, CEO of State Street; Anshu Jain, Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank; Abigail Johnson, president of Fidelity Investments; John Rogers, executive vice president of Goldman Sachs; Keith Sherin, CEO of General Electric Capital; John Stumpf, CEO of Wells Fargo & Co., and Rob Nichols, CEO of the Financial Services Forum.
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I have always wanted to live in New York. The "Big Apple," the "City that Never Sleeps," the place where you can get "Mugged by an Old Lady," has always seemed somewhat magical to me. Like my Eastern European ancestors before me, I have always thought of moving to the biggest city in the Golden Medina -- a place where the streets are paved with gold...and sewer rats. But alas, as a Canadian living in Toronto with a day job and no family in the entire state of New York, I was resigned to the fact that this dream would probably never become a reality.
But in a strange twist of fate, corporate America recently provided me with a fortuitous opportunity. The Canadian company for which I had been working, announced that it had been bought by a large American conglomerate. Along with my entire department, I was being laid off! My first thought was to call in Michael Moore to shove his microphone into the face of the new CEO and accuse him of being the devil incarnate, but I soon realized that this could actually be a positive development. Maybe now was the time to move to New York?
Admittedly, the prospect of moving to a new city with no friends or family was somewhat daunting. I wish I had a Cousin Larry, like Balki Bartacamous from Perfect Strangers to greet me when I arrived in New York, someone to do the "dance of joy" with, someone to have innocent misunderstandings with and then resolve them within thirty minutes -- but alas, we all have to play the cards that we are dealt.
The prospect of moving to a new city with no friends or family was somewhat daunting. I wish I had a Cousin Larry, like Balki Bartacamous from Perfect Strangers to greet me.
Before leaving Canada, I practiced my singing of the Star Spangled Banner, the pledge of allegiance, and I visited a speech therapist to help me eliminate the "outs and abouts," from my vocabulary. I was psyched and ready to take on the big city. If I could make it there, I could make it anywhere.
I wanted to arrive via Ellis Island and sign in like the immigrants of yesteryear but I think you have to arrive by boat for that -- and the only boats traveling between Canada and New York this time of year carry things like lumber, not passengers. So I settled for an Air Canada flight to LaGuardia instead. I've been to New York before, but somehow when I arrived this time it was different. This time I was a dreamer and...an illegal alien! Would I have to make a run for it? Pay some old Portuguese lady with a mole to marry me just so I could get a green card? Of course I could also just file for a visitor's visa...
My cabbie dropped me off at my apartment which I had sub-letted only a week earlier via the Internet. As I brought my bags to the curb I spotted Ryan Seacrest -- wow, my first celebrity sighting. I walked up to him and burst out into my best rendition of the star spangled banner -- just as I had practiced earlier. I needed a job -- maybe I was destined to be the next American Idol. With a look of shock and disgust, Seacrest laughed and continued about his business. My first job interview in New York, and my first rejection.
Within a few days of my arrival, I had converted the local Starbucks into my own home office. I had a table that overlooked the window so I could watch the people walking by. Or were they watching me? I started to wonder if this is what zoo animals felt like.
From this perch I began spending my days trying to find a job. The Starbucks barista, Carrie, was friendly enough and is making my stay enjoyable -- but I'm beginning to think that all this Starbucks coffee is burning a hole in my lower intestine. Note to self: potential class action. See, I am becoming American already!
After my first few weeks in the Big Apple I have noticed a few things:
- There are A LOT of people who talk to themselves in New York. In a city with so many people to talk to I haven't figured out why people insist on talking (out loud) to themselves;
- The world could be coming to an end – that, according to the guy at the corner of 86th and Broadway;
- New Yorkers like to eat while standing. Hot dogs, pizza, and falafel may not be consumed while seated. Maybe the reason why New Yorkers often times appear so irritable is actually due to the indigestion.
An integral part of my stay in New York thus far has been attending daily prayers at the local synagogue. What's amazing about moving to a new city is how welcoming the Jewish people are to a fellow Jew. Immediately when I arrived at shul, the Rabbi noticed a new face and came to welcome me. He invited me over for a Shabbat meal and genuinely offered his assistance with anything I needed. Not only the Rabbi, but the rest of the congregation was equally hospitable. There is something special about being Jewish and about the bond we have with one another.
What's amazing about moving to a new city is how welcoming the Jewish people are to a fellow Jew.
In retrospect, my concerns about not having a Cousin Larry to greet me at the airport in New York City were unfounded – because I appear to have something better -- a whole city of Cousin Larrys that are ready and willing to welcome me to my new home. True, not every Jewish person in New York has been as excited to see me as I have been to see them, but the rabbi, synagogue and Jewish community at large have gone out of their way to make me feel comfortable.
I have come to realize that this is really the essence of the Jewish people -- we are all one family. It doesn't matter if we are Canadian or American, gainfully employed or loiterers at Starbucks, we are all Jews, and so, are all connected to one another. Thinking about the Eastern European Jews who immigrated to America at the turn of the century, they probably learned a similar lesson. In some ways reliving their journey at the turn of the Millenium, I came to New York in pursuit of the American Dream, but learned a lesson about the Jewish Reality.


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Anglo-Bahraini racer Menasheh Idafar produced the stand-out performance during the penultimate round of the Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International Series at Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit today, Sunday, 9th October, with a truly remarkable drive from 19th on the grid to fourth place.
Starting the first of the day's two races on the 10th row of the grid by virtue of his finishing position during round 28 on Saturday afternoon, the T-Sport driver took the decision to change to treaded tyres on the grid due to the track surface being incredibly slippery after earlier rain.
Proving to be the perfect call, Menasheh made a sensational start and rocketed up the order with some brilliantly brave overtaking around the outside of Copse Corner and quickly scythed his way through into the top five before deposing the slick-tyre shod car of 2011 British F3 Champion Felipe Nasr for fourth position.
Lapping as the quickest driver during the early stages, the 20-year-old continued to produce very impressive times throughout and consolidated fourth place very comfortably to finish just over four seconds shy of the podium – a truly remarkable performance. Menasheh was actually the third best placed championship regular with race winner Alexander Sims making a one-off outing.
"I made a really good start and just went around the outside of all of them", said Menasheh, "Before I knew it, I was in fourth place – it was amazing! On the lap out of the pits I thought it looked like it was going to dry fast but the places where you needed to accelerate you just couldn't, so we went with the wets and it was definitely the right call."
In round 30, the final race of the championship, Menasheh lined-up 18th on the grid and after an action-packed opening lap he made his way up the order impressively into 13th position but slipped to 14th on lap three after almost locking wheels with Fahmi Ilyas at the exit of Brooklands.
On lap 11 he regained 13th when Jack Harvey was handed a drive-through penalty and although shuffled back a position on lap 14, he again benefitted when Scott Pye also received a penalty four laps from the finish and so moved back once again into 13th place which he held to the flag.
Primary school competition winners cheer-on Idafar and T-Sport…
Menasheh and the T-Sport team had some extra support for the final weekend of the season with a group of lucky competition winners from St Matthias Primary School in Malvern, Worcestershire, attending the event as special guests.
Following an educational visit to the school back in May, during which pupils were set a challenge of designing a racing buggy, 12 youngsters were selected to have produced the best work. Along with the prize of visiting the home of the British Grand Prix to watch Menasheh in action, they also had the chance to see their own names on the livery of his Dallara-Volkswagen.
Having been close to adding a fourth podium to his season's tally today, the 2010 National Class Champion ended his first year in the headline International Class of British F3 in 14th position overall, just three points shy of the top 12.
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Mixed conditions at Silverstone today, Friday, 7th October, made for a tricky start to the final event of the Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International Series with T-Sport's Menasheh Idafar having to settle for an uncharacteristic 18th best time – having been unable to profit from a run on new tyres.
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A culture clash theme anchors a couple of viral cosplay videos commissioned by Ubisoft Netherlands, showing Connor Kenway coming to grips with the new world. The first is above, here's the second. There's a choose-your-own-adventure outcome at the end, each outcome neither much surprising nor terribly violent. The costume and settings still form a nice setup and visual punchline. Enjoy.
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text: By Brian Winter BRASILIA, March 4 (Reuters) - The conversations with Brazil's top business leaders often last two hours, and up to four. President Dilma Rousseff asks detailed questions but otherwise listens intently, staring back with an inscrutable frown that occasionally unnerves her guests. There is talk of investments, and the need for shared prosperity - a favorite topic of Rousseff's. But in these meetings, the conversation inevitably comes back to the severe bottlenecks that have brought the economy back to earth after a historic boom last decade. "Brazil needs to focus now on issues like productivity and reducing costs, because that's the only way we can grow in a sustainable fashion," said Marcelo Odebrecht, who runs a global conglomerate that bears his family's name. "I think we've realized that, and the president is moving in that direction," he said in an interview. "That's her focus - looking at these obstacles, and getting Brazil growing again." The meetings, which have intensified in recent weeks, are a critical part of Rousseff's efforts to convince Brazilian executives to start investing again and help lift the economy following two straight years of disappointing growth. The chats with well-known figures such as Odebrecht and mining and energy tycoon Eike Batista come as Rousseff, a Marxist guerrilla in the 1970s who evolved into a pragmatic leftist, struggles with a perception that she is unfriendly or even hostile toward the private sector. Just past the halfway point of her four-year term, the 65-year-old daughter of a Bulgarian aristocrat has indisputably made many enemies in the business world. She has condemned banks for charging high interest rates, intervened heavily in Brazil's exchange rate, and undertaken contentious reforms such as a cut in electricity rates that wiped billions of dollars from the market value of foreign and locally owned companies. Rousseff has said all her decisions respected existing contracts and laws, and were necessary to try to return Brazil's economy to its glory days of fast growth in the late 2000s. Her ability to convince business leaders that's true will be key to the rest of her presidency. Without a rebound in investment, which has steadily fallen since Rousseff has been in office, Brazil will not have the resources to address supply-side bottlenecks in infrastructure and labor that caused the economy to grow just 0.9 percent in 2012. A persistent economic slump could, in turn, endanger Rousseff's expected bid for re-election next year. Reuters spoke with several ministers, presidential aides and business leaders who have participated in the meetings, trying to determine why executives have generally not yet heeded Rousseff's call to take risks and let their "animal spirits" flourish - a reference to a term used by the British economist John Maynard Keynes, one of her favorite historical figures. Business leaders say that Rousseff seems receptive to their feedback and focused on the right problems. But she is also not shy about defending her strong belief that the state must try to shape the economy so that all Brazilians can prosper. That philosophy has guided Brazil for the past 10 years under Workers' Party rule, and helped make it one of the few countries where inequality fell as the economy grew. Yet it may also explain why some of her decisions have backfired, some say. "She always challenges these guys - You have to think as a business, but you have to think about Brazil too," said Trade and Industry Minister Fernando Pimentel, one of Rousseff's closest aides, who sits in on some of the meetings. "You want to earn money, that's natural. But how is everybody going to earn money? How will everybody get better? It can't get better just for one group, only for you," Pimentel said in an interview. A VERY POPULAR LEADER Since taking office on New Year's Day in 2011, Brazil's first woman president has earned mostly high marks from voters. Her personal approval rating has hovered in the high-70s, thanks largely to record-low unemployment levels that have been sustained despite the lackluster economic growth. By cracking down on corruption and embracing some free-market policies such as the privatization of airports and highways, Rousseff has moved beyond the shadow of her popular predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who plucked the career civil servant from relative obscurity and helped her win her first-ever campaign - for the presidency - in 2010. In a region characterized by charismatic leaders such as Lula and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Rousseff stands out for being gray - or intimidating, depending on the beholder. Aides say she detests ceremonial aspects of the presidency, eschewing dinners and the schmoozing with congressmen and foreign visitors that Lula excelled at. She rarely gives news conferences, and she abandoned Twitter almost immediately after she won the election. "Let's chat more often in 2011," her most recent tweet says. Yet, for the most part, Brazilians see these as the signs of a serious, hard-working leader. Especially among the poor, whose lives have improved dramatically in the past decade, Rousseff is seen as a kind of stern benefactor - the "mother of Brazil," as Lula baptized her in 2010. In the corporate suites of Sao Paulo, the country's business and financial capital, executives tend to take a dimmer view. While virtually no one accuses Rousseff of being a hard leftist in the vein of Chavez or Bolivia's Evo Morales, many say she has taken too heavy-handed a role in managing Brazil's $2.2 trillion economy - and scared off some investors who never quite know what she'll do next. "I think most investors understand she's not reintroducing old-style socialist ideas. That's not what this is about," said Paulo Vieira da Cunha, a former deputy governor at Brazil's central bank who is now a partner at Tandem Global Partners, a hedge fund in New York. "What it is about is her belief in central planning, in an active industrial policy, where the government makes critical decisions," he said. "That's not unique to Brazil, by the way ... But it has bothered some people." A HEAVY HAND Indeed, there is no big economic sector that Rousseff hasn't touched in a meaningful way in the past two years. Brazil's banking industry was turned upside down by the central bank's surprise decision, starting in Rousseff's eighth month in office, to slash its benchmark interest rate, which has since fallen from 12.5 percent to an all-time low of 7.25 percent. Rousseff publicly shamed private-sector banks for not cutting their lending rates fast enough to match the benchmark's declines, calling their actions "inadmissible." Meanwhile, monthly inflation hit its highest level in almost eight years in January, leading some investors to say the cuts went too far. Rousseff has also been personally involved in the management of the exchange rate, which has oscillated between 1.52 and 2.13 per dollar during her term. The government has tried to alternately strengthen or weaken the currency in unpredictable ways, playing havoc with companies' business plans. Even the business world's favorite policy tactic - cutting taxes - has generated uncertainty under Rousseff. Instead of announcing an across-the-board cut, Rousseff has moved sector-by-sector, implementing targeted tax reductions of sometimes uncertain duration for industries like autos or home appliances. Her government has made more than two dozen separate announcements of stimulus packages. Finally, Rousseff has made some decisions that openly work against the interests of private capital. They include forcing state-run oil giant Petrobras to import gasoline and sell it at a loss, a policy that has jeopardized the company's investment plans and contributed to a 30 percent decline in its publicly traded shares since she took office. All told, Brazil's main stock index has tumbled 20 percent during Rousseff's presidency - compared to an 18 percent gain in Mexican shares and a 20 percent rise in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the United States during the same period. The Eurasia Group, a think-tank, said in a note in February that the government's policies and poor communication have led to "a credibility problem with the private sector." The result: Investment fell 4 percent in 2012, and now stands at just 18.1 percent of gross domestic product. That gives Brazil the lowest such ratio among big Latin American economies, well behind the rates of 28 percent or so in Peru, Colombia and Chile. As a result, some among Rousseff's economic team fear Brazil's potential economic growth rate may be capped at a mediocre 3 percent or so for years to come. TRYING HER BEST? Inside the Palacio do Planalto, Rousseff's modernist palace on the high plains of central Brazil, one word best describes the reaction to the way some investors are behaving: bewilderment. To hear her ministers and aides tell it, Rousseff has spent much of her presidency explicitly catering to Brazil's business community. In fact, many of the policies for which she has been most criticized were the results of feedback she received from executives, they say. There is truth to that. In a keynote speech in 2010 prior to the presidential campaign, Armando Monteiro Neto, then the head of Brazil's main industrial lobby group CNI, cited taxes, interest rates, an overvalued real, and high input costs such as electricity as the economy's main problems. Rousseff has made faster progress on all those issues than any economist or political analyst predicted, although some initiatives - including her recent plan to force electricity costs down - have caused heavy losses for certain companies. "I think she's done what business people have asked for, and with a certain speed," said Luiza Helena Trajano Rodrigues, the chief executive of retailer Magazine Luiza and another executive who has met frequently with Rousseff. "Some of the criticism seems a little strange," Rodrigues said in an interview. "She's done a lot of difficult things." Despite being elected primarily as a figure of continuity, Rousseff has made some pro-business moves that were unthinkable under Lula, who rose in politics as a labor union leader. She stood up to criticism from the left wing of her Workers' Party to privatize airports in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere. She also moved to cut pension benefits for incoming government workers - a decision that will help shore up Brazil's finances, which she has maintained in orderly shape. One interpretation of Brazil's struggles is that after the last decade's boom lifted some 30 million people from poverty, the policies that worked under Lula had run their course. Namely, there was no more room to grow the economy by expanding consumer credit - the main engine of growth from 2007 to 2010. So it has fallen to Rousseff to make tough structural reforms that could eventually open up a new era of economic growth - but have generated uncertainty in the short term. The minister, Pimentel, who has known Rousseff for four decades, said the dire global economy also caused her to become more reformist around the one-year mark of her presidency. "She clearly saw the bottlenecks that the Brazilian economy had, and has," he said. "She knew we couldn't put off facing these bottlenecks because in a world totally convulsed by the European crisis, we could risk totally losing our competitiveness." SHARING THE WEALTH Racing to prevent such a scenario, Rousseff has thrown open her doors to a variety of business leaders from finance, steel, aviation and elsewhere - and has won over some executives who were skeptical of her. She is mostly listening for new policy ideas and trying to gauge the economy's health. But she is also not shy about asking her guests to part with their money. For example, in a Jan. 10 meeting with Odebrecht, she asked him to consider investing in upcoming airport concessions, an aide said. In a Jan. 16 sit-down with Batista, whose holdings include oil company OGX, Rousseff urged him to participate in a major round of oil auctions later this year. Rousseff has also gathered two dozen or so top executives at a time for regular "CEO forums" inside the palace, with the next pow-wow scheduled for March 19. Still, giving executives face time has been no guarantee of convincing them to invest. Rousseff's closest contact in the business world is arguably Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter, a 76-year-old steel magnate whom she appointed to lead the Chamber of Management and Competitiveness, another nexus between government and the private sector. Gerdau is often in Brasilia, and sat down with Rousseff for four hours in one meeting in January. Yet on Feb. 21, the company which he chairs - Gerdau SA , the world's No. 2 maker of steel for builders - said it was cutting its five-year investment plan by 17 percent. It said it slashed capital spending by 24 percent in the fourth quarter alone, and attributed its decisions to "uncertainties hurting the global economy." A spokeswoman for Gerdau did not respond to multiple requests for an interview. The malaise in Brazil's private sector explains why Rousseff may be vulnerable to a more market-friendly candidate, such as PSDB party Senator Aecio Neves or Pernambuco state Governor Eduardo Campos, in next year's election. Yet polls indicate that, for now, Rousseff is popular enough to win easily. Meanwhile, an unexpected 0.5 percent rise in Brazil's overall investment in the fourth quarter of 2012 suggests that some business leaders, too, may be coming around. Odebrecht, who after meeting Rousseff said his company would invest $8.5 billion this year, up a third from 2012, said executives may learn to live over time with some discomfort. "People may argue - 'Oh, I would have done this a different way,'" he said. "But the concepts and intentions, I think it's tough to criticize her. What she's doing is right for Brazil."


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The Fraud From Basel
Despite every major US bank being declared by regulators as "well capitalized" prior to the financial crisis, we still found ourselves watching the government plow hundreds of billions of capital into said banks. How can this be? The answer is quite simple: we were lied to. Maybe that's a little harsh, after all these banks did meet the regulatory definition of "well capitalized". But when push came to shove, market participants rightly ignored regulatory capital. After all you cannot use things like "deferred tax losses" to pay your bills with.
It is hard to improve upon Martin Wolf's observation in today's Financial Times: "This amount of equity is far below levels markets would impose if investors did not continue to expect governments to bail out creditors in a crisis." This point is best illustrated by the trend in bank capital over the last 100 years. Back when banks were actually subject to market forces and were not explicitly subjected to government capital standards, they held significantly more capital. In 1900 the average US bank capital ratio was close to 25%, now it's closer to 5%. The trend is unmistakable: the more government has regulated bank capital, the less capital banks have ended up holding.
Despite the claims of the banking industry, what the bank regulators have just delivered with "Basel III" is simply another fraud upon the public and investors. Any framework that continues to treat say Greek or Fannie Mae debt as largely risk‐free is a sham.
The real solution is to first end the various government bailouts, guarantees and subsidies behind the banking system, subjecting bank creditors to actual losses, while also abandoning the charade that is capital regulation. Sadly politicians (see the Dodd‐Frank Act) and regulators continue to simply tweak a flawed and morally bankrupt system.


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This is both a city and the main UI hub. Players will be able to visit different buildings to access all the aspects of the initial Factions portion of the game, from play modes to character building and upgrading areas. You can see here such buildings as the Trophy Tower, Proving Grounds, Weavers Hut, Quarters, Mead House and the main building which is of course the Great Hall. Off in the distance is the ancient and ever looming fort, Ridgehorn. The sigil on the front gate of the city speaks to it's relationship with the cold northern ocean which is accessed by fjords.
As everything in The Banner Saga, the city will evolve as the story unfolds.


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MoCCA Art Fest and Hanley's pics!Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
What a fun weekend! The signing at Jim Hanley's was great (I love that store) and it was wonderful seeing all the other cartoonists as usual. Kudos to Ivan Velez for getting another cool event together! Then the MOCCA Art Fest, which is pretty much the main comix event of the year in my opinion. Great crowd, as usual, and so many talented folks! My minis were popular and I got a lot of positive feedback on Tough Love. All the touring has paid off, people have really been noticing the write-ups I've been getting as well as the great job on distribution Manic D Press does. I've gotten reports of Tough Love sighted in bookstores everywhere! Here are some pics from Hanleys and one of Alison Bechdel and I at MoCCA. It's been so great talking with her at the events I've attended the past year. This has been a very special year for comics and Fun Home is a big part of that! Also, the anthology Life Meter 2 that Matt and I are in sold out on Saturday! Woo-hoo! It's got so many great people in it and is helmed by Zack Giallongo, Dave Roman, Stephanie Yue. Awesome people all-around!


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Long Beach >> Arraignment was postponed a second time Friday for a 79-year-old man charged with torching the San Pedro Elks Lodge last month as new evidence — another surveillance video — surfaced in the case.
Nick Pecarich, a retired longshoreman who marked his latest birthday in county jail Sunday, appeared at the brief proceeding shackled and sporting a gray beard and a yellow jail scrubs top that his attorney said designates inmates requiring mental health attention.
Deputy District Attorney Sean Carney, who is prosecuting the case, said the video submitted Friday is one of many pieces of evidence in the case. The defense had yet to view the video, prompting Judge Laura Laesecke to grant the request to continue the arraignment to June 18 in Long Beach Superior Court.
Pecarich remained behind the courtroom's glass partition during the proceeding and shrugged when asked by the judge if he was satisfied with the continuance date.
"If there's nothing better," he said in a heavy Croatian accent.
"Is that a yes?" she asked him.
"Yes," he replied.
Outside the courtroom, defense attorney Anthony Falangetti said discussions are ongoing with prosecutors over the defendant's mental state and whether some kind of dementia or other mental issue may have played a role in his alleged actions.
"There's a lot of discussion about that," Falangetti said.
A spate of accusations, including vandalism and personal threats, was heaped on Pecarich in the weeks and days leading up to the early-morning April 15 fire that destroyed the San Pedro Elks Lodge at 1748 Cumbre Drive. Investigators later determined that the fire was deliberately set, causing an estimated $3.2 million in damage to the building.
Pecarich was a member of the lodge but reportedly had a falling out with the organization not long before the fire.
Initially arrested in connection with vandalism incidents that left many of his neighbors terrified of him, Pecarich was admitted to County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and then Kaiser Permanente in San Gabriel — under his private insurance — for mental health assessments. He was arrested in the arson case on April 29 at the San Gabriel hospital and later charged with the crime. He is being held at the county's Twin Towers jail on $675,000 bail.
Pecarich, his attorney said, "is a person who had never been arrested and had no record" when he seemed to suddenly embark on the string of property crimes that included ramming neighbors' parked cars and breaking out a glass wall at a nearby coffee shop where he had been a regular.
He is charged with arson, grand theft of personal property, second-degree commercial burglary, auto theft and vandalism. Pecarich's original May 9 arraignment also was postponed.
Several San Pedro residents have taken out restraining orders against Pecarich. The judge on Friday repeated her earlier admonition to the defendant to have no contact with those named in the court orders should he make bail.
"Do you understand?" she asked.
"Yes," he said.
In addition to forensic evidence in the case, prosecutors reportedly have a surveillance video of Pecarich's car, a black Honda Ridgeline, allegedly leaving the Elks parking lot shortly before the fire was reported about 2:40 a.m. April 15, according to sources.
Other surveillance video allegedly caught him filling up a gas can at the Chevron station at 29421 S. Western Ave., at Crestwood Drive, in Rancho Palos Verdes just 15 minutes before the blaze. Pecarich was a regular at the station, where he also bought a lighter at the transaction window that night, according to the station owner.
The source of the video submitted into evidence Friday was not disclosed.