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In other related news, a van carrying Baxter swine flu vaccinations crashed in Austria yesterday. There are now unconfirmed reports that the vaccinations carried "live" flu viruses. This is still unconfirmed, so may be just a rumor.
Originally posted by cluedup
Obama bought shares in Baxter
In 2005, Barack Obama bought more than $50,000 worth of stock in a biotech concern that was starting to develop a drug to treat avian flu, whose major investors included some of his biggest political donors.
What are Obama's investments in biotech companies apparently developing the "bird" and "swine" flu vaccine?
July 19, 2009 at 9:06 pm
George W. Bush announced the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza at the United Nations General Assembly on September 14, 2005, placing the US under UN and WHO law in the event of a pandemic "emergency".
Earlier that year, in April, 2005, Barack Obama introduced the first comprehensive bill to deal with the bird flu threat, the Avian act. According to reports, Obama made significant investments in biotech companies involved in the development of bird and swine flu.
Obama's ties to Baxter in addition to Chicago HQ
February 22, 2005
"Less than two months after ascending to the United States Senate, Barack Obama bought more than $50,000 worth of stock in two speculative companies whose major investors included some of his biggest political donors.
One of the companies was a biotech concern that was starting to develop a drug to treat avian flu. In March 2005, two weeks after buying about $5,000 of its shares, Mr. Obama took the lead in a legislative push for more federal spending to battle the disease."
"But he put $50,000 to $100,000 into an account at UBS, which his aides say was recommended to him by a wealthy friend, George W. Haywood, who was also a major investor in both Skyterra and AVI BioPharma, public securities filings show."
"Within two weeks of his purchase of the biotech stock that Feb. 22, Mr. Obama initiated what he has called "one of my top priorities since arriving in the Senate," a push to increase federal financing to fight avian flu."
"His first step came on March 4, 2005, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved his request for $25 million to help contain the disease in Asia; the full Senate later approved that measure. And in April 2005, he introduced a bill calling for more research on avian flu drugs and urging the government to increase its stockpiles of antiviral medicines.
Mr. Obama repeated this call in a letter that Aug. 9 to Michael O. Levitt, the health and human services secretary. And in September 2005, Mr. Obama and Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, succeeded in amending another bill to provide $3.8 billion for battling the flu.
Meanwhile, the drug company in which he invested, AVI BioPharma, had been working to develop its own medicine to treat avian flu victims. In a conference call with Wall Street analysts on March 8, 2005, the company's chairman, Denis R. Burger, said the firm was "aggressively going forward" with its avian flu research and hoped to work with federal agencies on it."
April 28, 2005
"Senator Obama introduces the AVIAN Act (S. 969). Senator Obama introduces the first comprehensive bill to address the threat of an avian influenza pandemic."
Obama warns of a flu pandemic in 2005
June 6, 2005
"Grounding a Pandemic
By BARACK OBAMA and RICHARD LUGAR"
"It is essential for the international community, led by the United States, to take decisive action to prevent a pandemic."
"So what should we do? Recently, the World Health Organization called for more money and attention to be devoted to effective preventive action, appealing for $100 million."
"Accelerating research into avian flu vaccines and antiviral drugs."
"Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois, is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, is its chairman."
Seems Obama and bird flu have quite a history!
Originally posted by Greenblaz
While I can't view the video (I am at work). Can we verify that what she is saying is actually what is written in the subtitles?? Not seeing this video is really making me think "outside the box" and I want to cover ALL the angles.
Sorry if this has been brought up already.
Originally posted by malcr
Originally posted by AllexxisF1
Wow a voice of reason! I was beginning to think the paranoids had taken over ATS again. Read the New Scientist this week for some informed Flu commentary instead of the hysterical nonsense that is posted here. I find it difficult to tell the difference between the excessive bulls..t here and that in certain tabloids.
I mean some of the paranoid rantings are soooooo illogical how can you possible believe it?
Granted the drug companies are not nice people out to make a buck in preference to healing folks BUT bottom line : the MORE people there are the MORE money they make. Depopulation reduces income!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The contract that the French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot sealed with pharmaceutical companies to supply the "swine flu" jab was made public last week following a freedom of information request - but with key figures blanked out by tipp ex on the grounds of the need to safeguard the commercial and industrial secrets of Novartis, Baxter, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi.
Originally posted by Finalized
Seems to me that this Baxter tainted vaccine was suppose to KICK OFF the pandemic and their plans got thwarted.
Instead of changing the plan, they changed the rule book and definition of pandemic so they could keep the plan in place, thus the disconnect and confusion around what is actually going on.... my $0.02.


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A Progressive Epiphany Rev Dr Durrell Watkins Epiphany Sunday 2014 Today is the last day of Christmas, a 12 season lasting from December 25th to January 5th. Tomorrow is the feast of the Epiphany, and our readings today are the texts for that Feast Day. In years past, when Matthew's epiphany story has come 'round […]
A Progressive Epiphany
Rev Dr Durrell Watkins
Epiphany Sunday 2014
Today is the last day of Christmas, a 12 season lasting from December 25th to January 5th. Tomorrow is the feast of the Epiphany, and our readings today are the texts for that Feast Day.
In years past, when Matthew's epiphany story has come 'round again, I have pointed out the significance of the three gifts the magi are said to have offered the holly family: gold, incense, and myrrh, each symbolizing states of consciousness.
Gold represents abundance thinking.
Incense represents prayer.
Myrrh, used medicinally in various cultures, represents healing.
To discover God within us, to realize that right where we are, God is, and where God is all good is possible is to also discover that we have amazing gifts that we can enjoy and that we can share to help our world.
A mentality of abundance and generosity, a life of prayer, and a profound hope that healing is always possible are among those great treasures.
In previous years when discussing this passage I have also delighted in sharing another observation: that the magi are Persians, Zoroastrian priests. They weren't Christians (there were no Christians yet in the world) and they weren't Jewish. But religion is a social institution, created by and for humans. God is bigger than our religions and is not limited by their various dogmas, doctrines and traditions.
And so these Eastern priests from another religion discover the gift of God among us, within us. We can be faithful within our religious framework while respecting others who are faithful within theirs. We don't need them to be wrong for us to be OK.
But this year, I want to offer another spin on epiphany.
Epiphany means "appearance" and refers to a striking realization, a dramatic breakthrough.
The epiphany story, then, calls us to search for our own divine encounters and to celebrate them with the gifts we have to share.
Here is an epiphany of mine that I have devoted more than two decades of ministry so far to sharing:
Progressive Christianity isn't something new.
I love that we are a progressive faith community, but as different as they may be from the fundamentalism some of us came out of, it isn't new in the history of our faith…We are a DIFFERENT kind of church from many other churches today, but progressive faith is actually rooted in antiquity and may be among the oldest schools of Christian thought!
We see in our own bible stories of Jesus challenging systems of privilege to be more inclusive of those his society routinely ignored, or worst, condemned: women, children, prostitutes, lepers, the poor, Samaritans, Canaanites…even the story of the magi today show us people beyond a particular tradition discovering sacredness in their own context.
Practicing THEIR faith they found the sign that led them to a personal encounter with divine light. Rather than being a barrier or a wedge that divides people of different faiths, Jesus actually shows the way of universal spirituality, of divine omnipresence that embraces, holds, and nourishes all people.
Perhaps people came to see Jesus as a son of God because he spent his life seeing them as sons and daughters of God.
In the Book of Acts, we see Paul visiting a woman named Lydia, a woman leader of a women's community. These independent women who lived without men actually supported Paul's ministry. Paul's ministry benefited from the support of strong, independent women.
Paul, also in Acts, visits Mytilene, which is interesting because Mytilene was the capital of Lesbos. OMG I love the bible!
Also, in the book of Acts Luke tells us that Paul quotes a pagan Greek poet to make the point that it is in God that we all live, and move, and have our being. We are always in God, of God, never separate from God. The idea that all people have sacred value and all people can have personal experiences of the omnipresence isn't some new age invention, it is a message as old as our bible.
And in the years that followed bible days, the progressive messages kept coming.
Just a hundred years after Matthew's gospel was written, a man named Origen was born. Origen was a universalist, who unlike me he believed in demons, he also believed that divine grace was bigger than the diabolical and that ultimately, even the demons would be reconciled to God. A divine love that never gives up on anyone, even the demonic…that was a teaching of an early Christian theologian.
Of course, by the 6th century, his teachings were condemned by the institutional church that had a lot invested in an us vs them system, but very early on, there were Christians teaching that God's love embraced all souls unconditionally.
In the 300s a same-gender loving couple, Sergius & Bacchus, were martyred for their Christian faith. They never doubted that their shared love was an expression of God's love. They were faithful to their love of God and to their loving commitment to each other until their last breath.
In the 400s, there was a theologian named Pelagius. His nemesis, Augustine, came up with the notion of original sin, but Pelagius didn't buy it. Pelagius said that we are not innately depraved, our origins are not sinful.
We can make poor choices but we can also make good ones, and our seeming imperfection is due to our not having evolved yet to where we are meant to be. We are at least potentially good, and we can always grow into deeper expressions of our goodness.
Also in the 400s there was an anonymous writer who borrowed the name of a companion of the Apostle Paul, Dionysus. Because Dionysus was his nom de plume, we now call him Pseudo-Dionysus. Pseudo-Dionysus stressed the idea of divine omnipresence (there's not a spot where God is not).
In the 800s there was a Christian teacher called Eriugena who translated the works of Pseudo-Dionysus and was so influenced by them that he then taught that the divine Nature embraces everything, that nothing and no one is beyond God's presence. Indeed, Eriugena insisted that God is actually in all life as the essence of all life, that all things that exist are manifestation of God.
In the 1300s a guy we call Meister Eckhart said that God is the innermost part of each and everything. He was a Christian academic, but he also studied Jewish and Muslim literature. He thought no one held the exclusive rights to truth and God could speak through any tradition.
Later in that same century was a Christian mystic named Julian. She lived in a turbulent time, but her theology was outrageously optimistic. While the plague and peasant revolts were shaking her world, she insisted that God's love embraced all people.
In the 14th century she called God both Father and Mother. MCC has used inclusive language since 1981 and most mainline Protestant seminaries use inclusive language today, but Julian beat all of us to it by knowing in the middle ages that God is beyond and part of every gender expression.
She also insisted that God was all-loving with no wrath at all.
And so, even when appearances suggested devastation, Julian used an affirmation to express faith in a Truth beyond current facts. Her now famous affirmation was, "all shall be well, all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well."
In the 1600s Quaker founder George Fox would say that there was an Inward Light, that of God in every person.
In the 1800s Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson would declare, speaking for all of us, "I am part and parcel of God."
And 20th Protestant theologian Paul Tillich understood God as the "ground of being." He said, "the power of being…works through [even] those who have no name for It, not even the name 'God.'" A God who lives in and through us even when we have more questions than answers about It…that was the God of arguably the most significant theologian of the last century!
Many of us are survivors of narrow, myopic, and even hostile fundamentalist churches. The good news is that fundamentalism is not the only expression of Christianity nor has it ever been. There have always been progressive thinkers, teachers, practitioners, healers, and leaders among us.
There have always been faithful visionaries who believed to follow Jesus was to have a progressive understanding of spirituality, who believed that following Jesus meant learning that God is the source and substance of our lives, present in our hearts and in our loving relationships and in our thinking and in our sharing and in our searching.
There have always been those who held a vision of Jesus as one calling us to believe in our sacred value, in the goodness of life, and in the ability to have hope even when conditions seem hopeless.
There have ALWAYS been progressives among us, calling us to wider visions and more joyous understandings. Some of us even believe Jesus must have been such a progressive; that's what must have made him so attractive to the hurting and so dangerous to the privileged.
This time of epiphany can be transformational.
Those who have insisted that God hates gays, that God hates non-Christians, that most Christians aren't really Christians, that God doesn't regard women as highly as men, that God opposes science, that God hates pluralism and diversity, that basically God hates what every small-minded bigot hates will be so surprised to learn that there have always been women in religious leadership, there have always been Gay people of faith, there have always been Christians who respected and loved non-Christians, and there have always been people who thought the Christian message was that God is everywhere, embracing everybody, an no one is ever beyond the reach of God's love.
We are the remnant of faithful Christians who have been here since bible days. But this message is new to some people, and as we share it, lives will be transformed.
Let's make this a year of transformation, where we share more boldly than ever our progressive, positive, practical spirituality that can change and even save lives. Let's support this message, mission, and ministry with time, talent, and treasure and make sure that more people than ever before know that right where they are, God is, and that means that all good is possible for them. And this is the good news. Amen.
© Durrell Watkins 2014
All shall be well…
All shall be well…
And all manner of things shall be well.
Thank you, God!


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"Give me a rule without any exceptions and I shall regard it as my God."
– Me while in the shower
There is no rule without an exception. Rules and laws that don't have exceptions are boring. Almost everything is governed by some laws or rules, games are (both digital and analog), society, school, cars, nature, gravity, the government and many many more things.
I am mostly coming at this from a game perspective. Because what I have experienced is that most rules become a lot more interesting when there are exceptions or ways to break it.
For example: In Dota 2, when someone uses a Black King Bar (BKB) they become impervious to magic damage and they cannot be targeted by magic abilities. But if the hero Lina has Aghanim's Scepter she can target the player using BKB with her ultimate ability and she will deal damage. (You could probably argue that she is not technically breaking any rule since her damage type is changed to a valid type and therefore should be able to damage a BKB user.)
Another example is in Monopoly. Normally you are only allowed to move forward when you roll the dice. But if you land on certain spaces you can get cards that move you forward. These exceptions or "breakings" shake things up and often creates, but not always, more interesting interactions in a game. This is a very good thing, since interactions are one of the building stones of games. If there would have been no way to interact with a BKB user than the item would be "boring" since the number of interactions would be diminishingly few. Interaction is what separates games from other media. And a law/rule that you cannot interact with is not a law/rule as much as it is a fact you have to abide to.
Even in real life we have exceptions. The police are allowed to carry guns; the common populace is not (in many parts of the world, not all parts of it). This is probably not because someone thought it would create interesting interactions between society, life and authority, but to help the law enforcement enforce the laws. But just like in games, what is interesting is how the "players" (those who have to follow the laws) can and will work around the limits created by laws, but also how they will exploit weaknesses in laws and society. Some the workarounds are illegal and/or downright immoral, despite that, people will always try to interact with rules/laws and use them to their advantage. It is a good thing that they do that, since it helps us to see what might be wrong or need fixing with a rule/law. It makes sure that the "playfield" (read laws) keeps changing along with the world and society it is supposed to reflect and uphold.
There is no rule without an exception.


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Chair Multimediacomfortable seat with multimedia capabilities," Emila said. As a result, this chair is formed from hard plastic shell with soft foam insert to provide comfort needed to allow users to enjoy their media. The insert can be covered with leather or fabric in many patterns. It has four adjustable telescoping legs to give the position of the best seats.FreshHome-Design
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Tête à Tête kicks off tomorrow in London, running until 13th August. I've long wanted to experience the festival, probably the UK's liveliest forum for new opera, so am today heading to London for the first two days of the proceedings. The five operas I will be seeing give a fairly good idea of the sort of the range and relevance the festival offers.
Things kick off on Tuesday with Dr Ferret's Bad Medicine Roadshow. Inspired by Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children, it tells 'several stories of Matilda, whose lies ignited a terrible fire, Henry King who ate too much string, and George, a little boy who causes lot of trouble…' There then follows Litugie, a work that explores the story of the Virgin Mary in the realisation of a concept that actually began with Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. The final work on the first day, is ID, Please, which addressed themes of immigration, identity and xenophobia in the age of Brexit and Trump. On Wednesday 26th is Pterodactyls of Ptexas, an electronic opera set in the Wild West. It features 'trigger-happy cowgirls, gyrating dinosaurs, and saloon brawls.' Then there is The United Kingdom of Earth: A Brexit Opera. I'm hoping that this might provide me with some light relief from the stresses of being British and living on the continent in uncertain times.
If these operas entice, then there is still time to get tickets for them. Alternatively, do take a look at the rest of the programme, which is stuffed full of similar delights. Also I should make mention of two pre-festival events that can be experienced today. There is Belongings, which is inspired by items of luggage carried by railway passengers and will receive its premiere on the Caledonian Sleeper as it makes its journey from Aberdeen to Eston Station tonight. There will also be pop-up performances of the work throughout the festival. Road Memoir, finally, is a free twelve episode podcast opera available today. It follows the story of a woman forced to flee her home, turning from citizen to refugee.
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Published: June 29th, 2015 at 6:56 pm ET
Marshall Islands Journal, Jul 18, 2014 (emphasis added): Seawater check for radioactivity… the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visited the Marshall Islands earlier this month to train local officials to sample seawater for radioactive cesium… the IAEA Project [is] called "Marine benchmark study on the possible impact of the Fukushima radioactive releases in the Asia-Pacific Region."… During a field exercise on July 2, two sets of seawater samples were collected… The samples were collected on filter cartridges coated with chemicals that will bond to the cesium element… This is the start of monitoring Marshall Islands seawater for cesium radioactivity which will be carried out every three months…
IAEA Board of Governors Meeting, Ambassador Glyn Davies, Permanent U.S. Representative to the IAEA, 2011: Today the Secretariat has presented to us a new Technical Cooperation project entitled "Marine benchmark study on the possible impact of the Fukushima radioactive releases in the Asia-Pacific Region."… Member States in the region are understandably concerned for the safety of their marine environments. The IAEA has unique expertise to offer in helping them to assess how recent events in Japan may affect their food and water resources… The United States fully supports this project… While the Secretariat has demonstrated admirable flexibility and agility in assembling this project quickly to meet an urgent need, we recognize… extra-budgetary resources are required… My delegation is pleased to announce that the United States will immediately make available $400,000 for this new regional, Fukushima-related project… We hope this contribution will allow the project to move forward without delay…
IAEA Technical Cooperation Programme 2011–15: Marine benchmark study on the possible impact of the Fukushima radioactive releases in the Asia-Pacific Region… this radioactive contamination could be transported and circulated through the Pacific Ocean… Member States have expressed concern about the possible impact of these releases on their coastal zones… An urgent and harmonised regional approach is essential… The area potentially affected may encompass much of the Pacific Ocean, which covers one third of the area of the globe.
IAEA Coordinated Research Activities in 2014–2015 (pdf): Benchmark Ocean Models for the Dispersion and Radiological Impact of Released Radionuclides from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant – The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant released huge amounts of radioactive substances into the Pacific Ocean. These radionuclides will be transferred and dispersed over the Pacific Ocean during the next years. There are a number of different ocean dispersion models to predict the dispersion of pollutants… and uptake in biota and to assess the potential radiation exposure to humans and the environment… The predictions can be used for recommendations for the Pacific Member States for measures with regard to seafood consumption or export or import of marine food…
IAEA Coordinated Research Activities in 2015 (pdf): Benchmark Ocean Models for the Dispersion and Radiological Impact of Radionuclides Released from Nuclear Power Plants in Emergency Situations… These radionuclides are being dispersed and transferred through the ocean, and numerous studies of these processes have been carried out… to predict the behaviour of the radionuclides and, further on, to estimate doses to biota and human populations… The Fukushima discharges will be used as a benchmark study for the Pacific Ocean. The simulated data will be compared with actual measurement results…
See also: Paper: IAEA to monitor radioactive substances 7,000 km from Fukushima
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- Japan TV: Failure at Fukushima — Cement not stopping highly contaminated nuclear waste from flowing out of reactor buildings — IAEA: Radioactive releases from plant into ocean "a challenging issue" — Officials: Don't know what to do next, or how this will affect whole 'decommissioning' project (VIDEO) February 11, 2015
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IN the new Richard Reeves book on President Kennedy there is some intriguing detail on the role in high presidential councils of Edward R. Murrow.
Mr. Murrow was the famous broadcaster who, in the Kennedy administration, was director of the United States Information Agency (USIA), the agency charged with furthering and explaining American foreign policy in countries abroad.
Murrow was among the small group of advisers offering the president counsel on such issues as the Berlin crisis, getting rid of Castro, Vietnam, civil rights problems at home, and the international consequences of resuming nuclear testing. Murrow was in on National Security Council meetings, making recommendations on foreign policy, sometimes expressing dissent and warning of likely negative reaction.
That's the proper role for the president's top adviser on what is now called ``public diplomacy,'' or the art of rallying public support abroad for American foreign policies. As someone in government information work once said: ``If you're going to be in on the landing, you've got to be in on the takeoff.''
It is a role that directors of USIA have not filled since the Kennedy administration. It is a role that President Clinton should revive. If it was important in Mr. Kennedy's day for the president to have the USIA director at his side, it is even more so today, when every foreign crisis is live on CNN and public reaction is instant worldwide.
``Public diplomacy'' is entering a new phase. New technology and the advent of the information age makes the communication of words and ideas more critical than ever. Economic realities require that this be done with fewer resources.
The world is no longer locked in cold- war confrontation, but it is faced with new and puzzling challenges.
As the United States seeks to contribute to the resolution of a wide variety of problems, its enemies still strive to thwart American purpose, to twist American motives and goals. While American military resolve must always be firm, it is much better to vanquish such foes with the persuasive and peaceful weapons of communication.
Mr. Clinton's USIA director, Joseph Duffey, is positioning his agency for its new role. With his budget cut, he must eliminate the magazines the agency so effectively published in a string of languages around the world. There will be no more of the big USIA-sponsored exhibitions abroad that displayed American life to many millions. There will be a shift away from the traditional overseas libraries.
In their place will come a new electronic network to send data down the unfolding information highway to computerized users the world over.
In this vision for the future there is inexpensive international teleconferencing among world leaders, and the press, as well as electronic classrooms and cultural exchanges.
Mr. Duffey, a former president of American University, has a particular interest in exchange programs - political, professional, scholarly, and artistic. One of the strengths of USIA is that it tells the American story dispassionately, regardless of who sits in the White House.
Duffey must avoid the temptation of some in the Reagan administration to politicize the exchange program. The Americans that the USIA sends abroad should represent the entire political spectrum - liberal, moderate, conservative.
Plans for reorganizing the agency seem more sophisticated than the reorganization of the last Democratic administration under President Carter. Some in the Carter administration seemed self-conscious almost to the point of embarrassment about America's role in the world. Thus, the USIA was renamed the International Communications Agency and embarked on a woolly exploration of foreign cultures which muddied the government's message. Cross-cultural sensitivity is fine, but recent history has shown that the ideals America promotes often work.
As a leaner USIA embraces new technologies and concepts to fulfill a mission of great significance, it deserves support and recognition from the highest levels of government.


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BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Center Matt Gordon has signed with the Mississippi Surge for the 2013-14 season.
"I'm looking forward to be heading back down to the coast for a second season," Gordon said. "I'm excited to be included in the list of returning players as I feel we have built a solid nucleus moving forward. I hope to help the team in any way I can during this championship run."
The Perth, Ontario, Canada native registered eight goals and 11 assists last season. Despite being limited to just 26 games because of a hand injury, Gordon's 19 points were still good enough for sixth on the team in scoring.
"We're really excited to have Matt back," Surge head coach Jeff Bes said. "He only got in 26 games but every game he played in, he was one of our top players. His hand injury has healed to 100 percent.
"Matt can play in any role. He can be a defensive player on the penalty kill but he can also help out on the power play."
Gordon also received the Surge's team award for community service last season. As a result, Bes has tabbed him to help lead the team's future efforts to give back to the coast.
"He's going to spearhead our community efforts this season," Bes said. "He's very creative, a hard worker, and a leader on and off the ice."
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Capacitance SensingThursday, August 4, 2011 by darco
Update: After building out a few more boards and doing some additional testing, it seems as though things aren't quite as bad as I originally portrayed them in this post—the boards I made may still be usable as designed, albeit with a few quirks. However, I will be incorporating the design changes outlined below into the project for future devices to improve the consistency and performance.
After building out a few of the soil moisture sensor boards, I'm starting to think I may have been a bit hasty in ordering forty of them. The biggest problem I'm running into is noise. Lots of noise. Practically unfilterable noise, the nature of which is entirely dependent on material the sensor is embedded in. It is as if the sensing plane is acting like a large antenna, picking up all sorts of crap.
Some noise is actually a good thing, because it acts as a dither. allows me to super sample the capacitance and get a filtered result that is of a higher resolution than that of a single sample. Without any noise supersampling would not yield any better results.
But this kind of noise is on a whole different level. About the only thing these sensors (as currently designed) are good for at the moment is as a touch sensor... Which happens to be exactly what the capacitive circuit I borrowed from the QTouch guidelines was originally intended for.
I am not an electrical engineer, so when the QTouch sensor design guide said on page 2-1 that the measurement circuit was capable of measuring capacitance down to a few femto-farads, I believed it—even though the circuit made no sense to me (See figure above). Initial testing seemed to indicate that the method did work to some degree, so I went with it. I now see that was a mistake; I should have trusted my instincts more.
This is not to say that my original capacitance sensing circuit (which simply discharged a capacitor thru a known resistance) was any better. Looking back at it, I think that it would likely be just as susceptible to noise as the QTouch design.
In order to keep moving forward with this project, I've come up with an entirely different circuit that should hopefully prove to be far less noisy than the previous methods:
The circuit actually works in the way that I originally imagined how the QTouch sensing circuit would work. What we do is charge up the capacitor we want to measure using a pulse, and then wait a little bit for this charge to distribute to the holding capacitor. We calculate the capacitance of the target by counting the number of pulses it takes before the sensing pin goes high.
While we end up operating this circuit in close to the same way as the QTouch method, the results are interpreted a bit differently. For example with the previous capacitance measurement fewer pulses meant less capacitance and more pulses meant more capacitance. In this circuit however the opposite is true: fewer pulses means more capacitance, and more pulses means less.
There are three things I really like about this circuit:
- It effectively has a built-in low-pass filter, so it should be less prone to noise.
- It doesn't increase the part count.
- There are upper and lower bounds on the capacitance reading, whereas with the previous method there was no upper bound on the number of pulses required to measure a capacitance.
Unfortunately the resulting pulse count does not have a linear relationship with the actual capacitance. This means that some sort of compensation (via a look-up table or other methods) will have to be performed to get a linear output.
New sensor orientation
Since I'm going to be re-designing the board yet again, I might as well make a few more radical changes, right?
One of the problems with this sensor is the fact that the electrodes are not only parallel, but they are also co-linear to each other. Ideally a capacitor is made like a sandwich: two electrodes with a dielectric between them.
While the "ideal" case might not be such a good idea in this case, I think I may have come up with a compromise: have two circuit boards that slide together so that the electrodes are oriented 90° from each other. I took a Dremel to two of the boards to start to put together a prototype:
As an added bonus, this sensor should be significantly more sturdy than the previous single-board design, while being more sensitive. Of course, it could just not work at all. We'll see.


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From Enid, Oklahoma, USA:
I am a fifty-two year old non-insulin dependent diabetic. I am in reasonably good condition other than the diabetes. Lately I have been experiencing some circulation problems in my legs and feet, lower arms and hands and around my mouth. Could you recommend any exercises designed specifically to improve circulation?
You mentioned that you have been experiencing some circulation problems, however, you did not give me any information on some of the symptoms you have been experiencing.
The first thing that comes to mind is what is called peripheral neuropathy, or nerve disease. Damage to the nerves due to diabetes comes in two ways. One kind is damage to nerves that control involuntary processes, such as heart rate and digestion. This is called autonomic neuropathy. The other kind is damage to nerves in areas away from the central nervous system, such as the hands, arms, feet and legs. Peripheral neuropathy is nerve damage to the extremities. If you have Peripheral neuropathy, you may have pain, tingling, and numbness where the nerve damage is.
Damage to the blood vessels in the legs and feet can lead to poor circulation. Poor circulation can make your feet feel cold and look blue and swollen. Exercise will not help cure peripheral neuropathy, but the effect of regular exercise will help maintain strength, flexibility, and circulation to the damaged areas. A combination of controlled blood glucose levels and exercise may help relieve the discomfort. Keep in mind the relief may take weeks to months.
Exercises recommended for individuals with circulation problems/neuropathy and loss of sensation include the following non-weight bearing exercises:
Try to avoid sitting with your legs crossed, which can interfere with blood flow. Always check with your physician before you start any new exercise program.
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Still image projected from the inside of a house onto one of the house's front windows. Seyðisfjörður, Iceland for the List í Ljósi 2017 (Light Festival 2017)
Image content: Digital collage of found image of refugee mother and son wrapped in an emergency blanket over Seyðisfjörður's skyline
Ph: Hrefna Björg Gylfadottir
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List í Ljosi 2017 (Light Festival, 2017). Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
List í Ljosi2017 (Light Festival, 2017). Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Promotional image of video stills for exhibition of works made in Iceland, during an art residency in Spring 2017.
This project was developed after reading "Independent People" by Halldór Laxness, which is considered the quintessential Icelandic work of literature. All the pieces in this installation respond to an excerpt of this novel -a conversation that the two main characters have at the beginning of the book.
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View of (in process) installation for exhibition of works made in Iceland during Spring 2017
Looped four-channel video, rocks, sound, clay
Detail of line of miniature clay-made Icelandic sheep
Intervention at The Hollows Art Space's basement in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Washing machine, clothes dryer, plastic bucket, spray paint, looped video projection, water, plastic detergent spoon, tiles, and sound
Intervention at The Hollows Art Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Installation of paper cutout design for bathroom ceiling
GraftArt exhibition "Apartment 2" in Brooklyn, NYC
Installation of paper cutout design for bathroom ceiling (detail)
(Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are)
Handmade ceramic tiles, plaster, looped single-channel video
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Handmade ceramic tiles, additive effect.
What is a tile without the others? Is it still a tile?
Plaster molds
Ceramic tiles, birch bark, and other in-process elements at the artist's studio
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Legs over greenscreen
Video duration: 2m 38s
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Observers in Australia are curious to see if a new climate report released by the government this week can accomplish what activists and scientists have so far been unable to achieve: getting the media to accurately report the connection between the nation's extreme weather and the impact of human-cased global warming.
As The Guardian's Jessica Aldridge points out, of the "800 articles published on the heatwave over a period of five days in January, fewer than 10 also discussed global warming."
The report, Angry Summer (pdf), published Monday by the Australian government's Climate Commission states that the 123 extreme weather records broken in the 90 day period examined by the report "were all influenced to some extent by a climate that is fundamentally shifting."
According to the report, Australia's "angry summer" includes the hottest summer since record-keeping began in 1910, the hottest day for Australia as a whole ever recorded, and the hottest seven consecutive days ever recorded.
"...all extreme weather events are now occurring in a climate system that is warmer and moister than it was 50 years ago."
"Australia has always been… a land of extremes," the report writes. Citing record-breaking heat, severe brushfires, extreme rainfall and floods, and tornadoes, the authors conclude that "all extreme weather events are now occurring in a climate system that is warmer and moister than it was 50 years ago. This influences the nature, impact and intensity of extreme weather events."
Aldridge writes that this "unequivocal" acknowledgement by government advisers "should make the link harder to ignore in future."
"Australia's angry summer shows that climate change is already adversely affecting Australians. The significant impacts of extreme weather on people, property, communities and the environment highlight the serious consequences of failing to adequately address climate change," said report author Professor Will Steffen.
Climate Progress summarizes some of the commissions findings on the severity and influencing factors in the extreme weather events:
- Record-Breaking Heat: Australia has only seen 21 days in 102 years in which the average maximum temperature for the whole country exceeded 39 degrees Celsius, and eight of them hit this summer. [...] Even the small shift in Australia's average temperature of 0.9 degrees Celsius that's occurred since 1910 can have profound effects on the severity and frequency of hot weather, as it alters the distribution of extreme weather's likelihood.
- Brush fires: As many as 40 brush fires tore through Tasmania this summer, destroying around 25,000 hectares of land, 200 properties, and 21 businesses. Other rashes of fires hit New South Wales and Victoria. Climate change can leave soil and plant life drier while extending the life of the fire season.[...]
- Heavy rain and flooding: Unusually heavy rains triggered severe flooding in areas of New South Wales and Queensland this summer, breaking many daily rainfall records throughout the area. The most impressive was the one-day rainfall averaged over the Burnett catchment, which beat out the previous record by almost 70 percent. By raising ocean and air temperatures, climate change increases evaporation and moisture content in the air, resulting in heavier individual rainfalls even as overall precipitation goes down in many areas.
"The decisions we make this decade will largely determine the severity of climate change and its influence on extreme events for our grandchildren," the report concludes. "In Australia and around the world we need to urgently invest in clean energy sources and take other measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. This is the critical decade to get on with the job."


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Head Jewelry of Europe
Comparative Analysis of Head Jewelry of Europe and Central Asia
Late 19th - Early 20th Centuries
19th century France played an important role as a center of high European culture, which was greatly influenced by other ethnic traditions. The many influences in the art of French jewelers in the late 19th - early 20th centuries are discussed in the work of Peter Hinks (19th Century Jewelry, London, 1975), Gere Charlotte (American and European Jewelry, Crown, 1975), Burges Frederick (Antique Jewelry and Trinkets, London, N.Y., 1919), and many others.
Analyzing the art of jewelry of France of this period, many researchers point out the Eastern influences. Along with Indian and Japanese elements, we would like to highlight strong influence of Central Asia, proven by the comparative analysis of head jewelry of Europe and Central Asia.
The author was compelled to write this article after conducting an analysis of a tiara that belonged to Josephine, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. As a result of this analysis, it was established that this kind of head jewelry was popular in England, Vienna and St. Petersburg (The Belle Époque of French Jewelry, 1850 - 1910).
From the ancient times, frontal (forehead) adornments indicated the wearer's social standing. This type of adornments was often used as part of a wedding ensemble. The use of diadems in the ancient period has been illustrated not only by the original findings, such as a plate depicting geese from the Oxus treasure (2nd century A.D.) located in British museum in London and found in the late 19th century on the territory of Central Asia (south of Tadzhikistan, Dalton O. , 1964), but also in the written sources.
The Tillya-tepe diadem, discovered in Tsar's necropolis on the territory of modern Afghanistan, was fashioned out of finest gold (Sarianidi V., Bactrian Gold, L., 1985). In the ancient era, northern Afghanistanwas part of a common territory with southern regions of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.
We suggest that Central Asian diadems called Tillya-kosh (Tilla-Kosh) represented one of the types of frontal adornments and were made in the traditional style of similar articles on Tillya tepe.
It is possible that this type of head adornment merged the features of frontal fillets and gold flower garlands favored by different peoples in the ancient period (FakhretdinovaD., Yuvelirnoe iskusstvo Uzbekistana, Tashkent, 1988, p. 97).
It seems appropriate to mention the images of gods and celestial musicians that appear in the Eastern paintings, ceramics, sculpture, and reliefs (reliefs of Ayrtama, ceramics of Dilberdzhin, etc.).
Each adornment reflected historical and cultural changes characteristic for each given era.
Scientists and ethnographers studying Central Asia -- Sukhareva O., Borozna N., Chvyr L. -- described the Tillya-kosh frontal adornment as an open-work diadem decorated with precious or semi-precious stones, and later with colored glass.
Made in the shape of "gold eyebrows" - tillya-kosh (Tadzhik., Uzb.), the diadem is typical for such regions as Samarkand, Tashkent, and Ura-Tyube. Earlier researcher A. Shishov (Sarty, Sb. materialov dlya statistiki Syrdaryinskoj oblasti, tX1, Tashkent, 1904) offered the following description of the diadem: "The Tillya-kosh diadem consists of massive silver plates cut in the shape of curved eyebrows, heart-shaped pendants are attached below, a thinner plate is soldered along the upper edge, forming a beautiful complex pattern."
In D. Fahretdinova's monograph (1988), the author gives a detailed analysis of the imagery of the wedding diadem of Tillya-kosh, which symbolizes purity and virginity.
The design of the Tillya-kosh diadem was replicated by French jewelers of firms such as "Maison Cartier,""Maison Choumet'" (Maison Choumet is a large clan of jewelers from Schwabisch Hall popular in Paris for more than two hundred fifty years), as well as early works of Bapst (founded in 1725, Bapst began to make crowns in1788).
Thanks to the detailed analysis of diadems, we know that French jewelers tended to preserve the upper part of Tillya-kosh; however, the familiar to us row of turquoise that symbolized both the celestial sphere and water element) was frequently substituted for diamonds popular in Europe in that time period. According to The Continuum Encyclopedia Of Symbols (Udo Becker, N.Y. 1994, p.83), diamonds symbolize cleanliness, spirituality and constancy. In India, for example, diamond is a symbol of immortality -- Buddha's throne is made out of diamonds. Europeans believed that diamond had healing powers, could protect from poisoning, drive away wild animals, witches, and ghosts. Diamond could also make its wearer invisible and assist men in pursuing women. During Renaissance, diamonds symbolized courage and audacity.
Paying most of the attention to the decorative effects, French made considerable changes to the inner symbolism of the diadems of Central Asia that were based on Buddhism and traditional skills of Indian jewelers of this era. However, the connection between the two schools of jewelry making is evident.
In the French diadem, the center is an open torn circle, rather than a semi-circle.
Smooth transition and secure design characterize the Central-Asian diadem: its basic shape was made in advance and stored as a gold plate, a kind of skeleton design. This allowed for static design, as opposed to the tense and edgy, "flight-like," rhythm and the rippling ornaments of the French crown.
Shifting accents -- for example, moving a large, semantically significant inset into the center of the French crown – was done primarily for the sake of balance of the overall composition, without delving into the essence of the image. In our opinion, French masters cared mostly about the ornamental function of their objects, versus the jewelers of Central Asia, who emphasized the symbolic nature of each item, according to ancient traditions.
By the 18th century, the art of jewelers of Central Asia reflected the subtly veiled and easily recognizable images, especially with the arrival of Islam, the new religion that came to replace Buddhism.
It is known that in the early Middle Ages, Buddhist deity was worshipped in Central Asia along with local religions. This has been proven by archaeological discoveries of Buddhist monuments – monasteries of Kara-tepe (Stavisky B., Kara-tepe), Ajina-tepe (Litvinsky B., Zeymal B., Ajina-tepe, 1971), Chevipol (Mullokandov, Raskopki v Katlonskoj oblasti) -- in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
Other evidence in favor of Buddhist influence on the art of jewelry is related to the Indian jewelers' work and residence in Central Asia.
In the above-mentioned work of D. Fahretdinova, the author points to the zoomorphic astral motives in the upper part of diadems' composition. "A single line indicates a supple body that retains flexibility of an animal; the tail is coiled, front and rear paws are visible" (99, 1988).
Preliminary studies show that the upper part of the diadem contains images of specific animals. The images form a composition, where the actual images are masked by colorful insets. The animal images are easily read from the underside of the plate.
Islam, the new religion, forced jewelers into searching for new implementations of old designs in order to erase the meaning of traditional plots. Esthetically revised symbols turned into non-readable, abstract, decorative format, which now appeared simply as a complicated ornament.
In our opinion, the upper part of the diadem is a heraldic composition depicting lions, monkeys and a turtle. Choosing these particular animals is not incidental: the images follow a certain basic idea, namely, a lion, a monkey and a turtle in the Buddhist Pantheon (Mify narodov mira, M. 1980, volume 1, book 2, 1982). Here we see the three faces of Buddha: "Peacock, turtle, stallion, ox, elephant and lion serve as zoomorphic symbols, different Buddhas and boddhisatvas."
In the Buddhist world, the legends of Buddha Shakyamuni's past births in the shape of monkeys, birds, or deer are widely spread (Mify, p. 577).
Buddha's many reincarnations in the image of a lion are well known. While lionesses were considered symbols of motherhood and known as companions of the Goddess Mother, lions, in turn, were closely linked with female deities. In folk medicine, for instance, lion is known as a symbol of witchcraft and health.
Another hypostasis of monkey is associated with the Divine Hanuman, the son of Vayu, the God of the Wind, or Maruti and Ajanta the Monkey.
Originated in India, the cult of Hanuman and monkeys spread throughout East Asia over to China. One of Hanuman's special powers is being able to fly.
Thus, the diadem in question depicts not only Buddha's hypostases, but two worlds -- heaven and earth. The underwater world is represented below by attaching temple pendants in the shape of fish or dolphin, as well as by the so-called lotus-shaped "brows." The monkey's feet are placed on the Buddha's wheel. The trefoil-patterned crowns on the heads of monkeys and lions emphasize the divine affiliation of the animals.
The double-row pendants, short, decorated with pearls or white beads, symbolized water and may have represented astral symbols connected with fertility. Long seed-shaped pendants are also related to soil – we suggest barley, the first grain used as food by humans. The diadem in question was used in wedding ensembles as a symbol of fertility.
As has been mentioned earlier, the existence of Buddhist characters in art is not accidental. Fairly complex and conservative in its technical characteristics, the art of jewelry making retained the Buddhist images up until today. In the beginning of the 18th century many Indian jewelers lived and worked on the territory of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, thus incorporating the elements of their culture and religion into their craft. However, having to produce jewelry for the local population, forced the jewelers to carefully encrypt and conceal the traditional elements of Buddhist art passed on from generation to generation.
Thanks to the relatively open integration of the two cultures, unique examples of jewelry greatly benefitted people in both cultures.
The Tillya-kosh diadem was worn over a scull-cap, covered with a headscarf. Hooked chains were positioned in the center of the diadem and attached to the headscarf. Braided cotton threads were tied on the back.
The jewelry masters did not deviate from the traditional canon even when the true meaning of the symbols was lost.
Detailed analysis shows that the French masters replaced the triple-line rhythm with a sort of stylized wings, as a symbol of the higher world, the highest authority. However, the composition is balanced by introducing a new element, a lotus flower. In Buddhism and Hinduism, as well as in Islam, a crown decorated by a lotus flower usually symbolized the victory of spirit over flesh (Udo Becker, N.Y., 1994, p. 75)
Finally, a stylized flower completes the central part of the diadem - again, the Sun justifiably represents supreme authority in Josephine's tiara. Note that in the Tillya-kosh diadem a hidden image of Buddha ends in a trefoil decoration, which itself is shaped as a separate tiara.
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What we did in Door County....
And I loved it.
You see, like much of the country, Wisconsin is getting hit with this crappy really really really hot weather.
And I don't like crappy really really really hot weather, especially while carrying around a 5+ pound child in my belly. It's not called an "oven" for no reason.
Prior to arriving at our place, we weren't sure if the central air worked or not. We never really had a reason to use the a/c since we acquired the place a couple years ago; but, we made a call and "Tom" came out to take a look. An hour later and a bill we have yet to see, we are sitting in the coldest central air I've ever felt.
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We took a couple day-trips up one side of the peninsula and down the other. Stopped at "off the beaten path" restaurants and had a grand time.
On the 4th, Sturgeon Bay was the place to be for the fireworks. So, we headed up there, laid out our blanket and prepped for an awesome show, along with about 500 other people.
And then the announcement came that the fireworks were to be cancelled due to a storm rolling in.
Bum to the er.
It did end up storming-we got caught up in it on the drive back to our place, hail and all.
So we missed out on fireworks this year. Oh well. The kids didn't seem to mind and I still got my kettle corn fix for the week, so it's all good.
One of the things on our list to do was the Door County Fireboat Cruise. London, of all kids, has been the most excited about it. So, we did that today. It's an hour and a half boat tour down the canal (between the Bay and Lake Michigan).
Some photos from the little boat trip:
Tomorrow starts the last couple days we'll be here. My lovely mother in law is joining us, giving the hubster and I a chance to escape the children for a few hours tomorrow night for some much-needed adult time/dinner.
I'll do a 35 week post in a day or two, but everything is going well. Jachym and I are doing great. :)
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Looks fun! I'm glad to hear you're chillin' and that you get to so so in frigid temps.ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see that 35 week belly pic!
I just saw your ticker...31 days??? WOWEE!!ReplyDelete
we are talking about going up there for my bro's grad present and all renting a house on the water for like a week. i can't wait to take my hubby up there...still hasn't been. did you guys eat at the restaurant w/the goats on top?? :)ReplyDelete
I bet the boat trip was fun for the kids. They are growing like beautiful flowers (I won't say weeds, they are too adorable to be weeds.)ReplyDelete
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Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2004-406
|Ottawa, 10 September 2004
Blackburn Radio Inc.
Wingham, Ontario
Application 2003-0795-1
Public Hearing in the National Capital Region
7 June 2004
English-language FM radio station in Wingham
In this decision, the Commission approves an application to operate a new English-language FM radio station in Wingham, Ontario.
The application
|The Commission received an application by Blackburn Radio Inc. (Blackburn) to operate an English-language FM radio programming undertaking in Wingham, Ontario. The station would operate at 94.5 MHz (channel 233C1) with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 21,200 watts.
|Blackburn currently operates CKNX and CKNX-FM in Wingham. The applicant indicated that the proposed FM station would offer a hybrid Adult Rock format blending Classic Rock and New Rock music that would complement the Country and Adult Contemporary formats currently offered on CKNX and CKNX-FM respectively.
|The applicant indicated that all of the proposed station's programming would be locally produced with the exception of up to 4.5 hours per week of specialty and syndicated programming. Spoken word programming would consist of regularly scheduled local news and information packages focussing on local and regional stories of interest to the communities of mid-western Ontario.
|Under the plan developed by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) for contributions by radio licensees to Canadian talent development, a radio licensee serving a community the size of Wingham would normally be expected to contribute a minimum of $400 in each broadcast year to eligible third parties for the development of Canadian musical and other artistic talent. The applicant confirmed that it would participate in the CAB plan.
|In addition, the applicant made a commitment to contribute $7,500 in each broadcast year to the direct funding of Canadian talent development that would be over and above the amount required under the CAB plan. Of that amount, the applicant proposed to contribute $5,000 annually to FACTOR and $2,500 to support the Ontario Open Country Singing Contest.
|The Commission received five interventions in support of this application. Two of the supporting interventions included a total of 74 letters supporting Blackburn's proposal.
The Commission's analysis and determination
|The Commission notes that approval of this application would provide residents of Wingham and a large surrounding area with access to a third local radio service. While the new station would share news gathering resources with Blackburn's existing radio stations CKNX and CKNX-FM, the Commission notes the applicant's assurances that the new FM station would have its own dedicated news editor and that all newscasts produced by the new FM station would be different from those broadcast on CKNX and CKNX-FM.
|In light of the above, the Commission approves the application Blackburn Radio Inc. to operate an English-language FM radio programming undertaking in Wingham, Ontario. The station will operate at 94.5 MHz (channel 233C1) with an ERP of 21,200 watts.
|The licence will expire on 31 August 2011, and will be subject to the conditions set outin New licence form for commercial radio stations, Public Notice CRTC 1999-137, 24 August 1999. The licence will also be subject to the following condition of licence:
In addition to the contributions required under the Canadian Association of Broadcaster's Distribution Guidelines for Canadian Talent Development, the licensee shall contribute a minimum of $5,000 in each broadcast year to FACTOR and a minimum of $2,500 in each broadcast year to other eligible Canadian talent development initiatives.
|The Commission reminds the applicant that all direct cost expenditures related to Canadian talent development must comply with the criteria set out in An FM policy for the nineties, Public Notice CRTC 1990-111, 17 December 1990, which describes initiatives generally accepted by the Commission.
Issuance of the licence
|The Department of Industry (the Department) has advised the Commission that, while this application is conditionally technically acceptable, it will only issue a broadcasting certificate when it has determined that the proposed technical parameters will not create any unacceptable interference with aeronautical NAV/COM services.
|The Commission reminds the applicant that, pursuant to section 22(1) of the Broadcasting Act, no licence may be issued until the Department notifies the Commission that its technical requirements have been met, and that a broadcasting certificate will be issued.
|Furthermore, the licence for this undertaking will be issued once the applicant has informed the Commission in writing that it is prepared to commence operations. The undertaking must be operational at the earliest possible date and in any event no later than 24 months from the date of this decision, unless a request for an extension of time is approved by the Commission before 10 September 2006. In order to ensure that such a request is processed in a timely manner, it should be submitted at least 60 days before this date.
Employment equity
|Because the applicant is subject to the Employment Equity Act and files reports concerning employment equity with the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development, its employment equity practices are not examined by the Commission.
|Secretary General
|This decision is to be appended to the licence. It is available in alternative format upon request, and may also be examined at the following Internet site: www.crtc.gc.ca
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An activity for frustrated people with money and no self control.
I have friends who call this foreplay.
How much for Liberals? Conservatives? Politicians?
(And if some reader fails to comprehend the sarcasm/satire inherent in that series of questions, they need to re-read it ... until they DO see it ...)
I don't think this business would do well in Washington. Everything there is already broken.
If only rain lamps hadn't gone out of style years ago...
I prefer blowing up stuff on the ranch, thanks.
This is gonna save a lot of wear and tear on my POS car.
I will buy the entire Northeast franchise. We have a lot of hostility up here.
I could go for a GW-Bush pinata, and when it broke open, all the money I lost when he crashed our economy would come out, that would be awesome.
Oh And Fck You GW and all your cowboy-thieves, Rummy. Darth Cheney, etc.
I felt the same way, billb, until I saw his recent oil paintings.
Then I wanted TWO pinatas.
Dubya's paintings filled me with pity. He's so lost in this world of sober people. He should have had a quiet four years and retired while he still had his marbles, and instead he had to deal with 9-11 and slicks like Cheney and Rove.
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